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Minnesota ’Sodomy’ Law
RUled Unconstitutional
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minnesota’ s law thatprohibits
oral sex and other intimacy betweenconsenting adults
is unconstitutional, a state district courtjudge has ruled.
~udgeDelila Pierce said the law, which had been on the
books since the 1800s, is unconstitutional because it
violates the right of privacy guaranteed by the Minnesota
Constitution.
The Minnesota Civil Liberties Union (MnCLU) and
the American Civil Liberties Union’s National Lesbian
& Gay Rights Project had filed a lawsuit last.summer
challenging the sodomy statute on behalf of a cross
section of Minnesotans.
Although the state court ruling should prevent the
sodomy law from being enforced anywhere in Minnesota,
the MnCLU is asking the court to technically
classify the case as a class action. MnCLU attorney
Teresa Nelson said that would lea~ "absolutely no
uncertainty" see Sodomy, p.ll
Global AIDS Goals
Debated at United Nations
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Delegates from over 100
countries began debating a plan recently calling for
tough new targets to combat AIDS worldwide, including
the spending of up to $10 billion a year by 2005 in
developing countries. The delegates opened five days
of negotiations on a declaration U.N. members are
expected to approve at the General Assembly special
session on HIV/AIDS in New York next month.
"This is a global problem that needs global actionand
a global response," said Australia’s U.N. Ambassador
Penny Wensley. ’-’We know it can be done, but it cannotbe
done unless there is a massive infusion of resources
and a mobilization of political will."
The draft declaration endorses the goal set last Sep-"
tember by some 150 world leaders at the U.N. Millennium
Snmmit ofhalting and starting toreverse the HIV/
AIDS epidemic by 2015. The document was drafted by
Wensley and Ibra Deguene Ka, the U.N. ambassador
from Senegal, who are co-chairing preparations for the
U.N. meeting June 25-27.
The declaration, if adopted, would commit U.N.
members to meeting a series of interim targets over the
next 15 years.
Among these proposed targets are the following:
- Governments should develop national strategies
"and financing plans see Global, p. 2
¯
Pride 2001 F ,atures N.ew
Parade Route, Bigger Fest,val
Interfaith Service Rescheduled
¯¯ TULSA (TFN)-Organizers of the 2001 Pride events areworking
frantically to finish last minute details for the parade and festival
¯
and associated events which they believe will be better than any
: before. And as happens, at least one event has been rescheduled:
¯ the Interfaith service is now at 7pr~_.on Wednesday, June 6, still ¯
at Sharp Chapel at the University of Tulsa, just off of 1 lth St. at
¯ College Ave.
¯ Greg Gatewood, spokesman forTulsaOklahomans forHuman
Rights (TOHR) notes also that the black-tie optional Gala Dinner
at the Tulsa Country Club on Friday, June 8th will have dancing
after the dinner as well as a silent and also brief live auction.
: Tickets are still available at the Center, 743-4297.
¯ Organizers also want to emphas:ze the change in Parade
location and time. It will begin at 3pm at 15th near Utica
¯ continuing along Cherry St. to Boston and along 18th to the
: Festival in Veterans’ Park as in the past. see Pride, p. 9
SGe.rvin.gaL.esyb.ian..,.___j,, Bisexual + Transgendered Tulsans, Our Families +Fji=~nd~
¯ Phelps’ Protest Raises $
for Gay/Straight Students
The 2001 Diversity Festival will feature booths & entertaiment.
¯ Vermont House Tries to
Revise Civil Union Legislation
¯ by Ross Sneyd, Associated Press Writer ¯
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - The Vermont House passed a recip-
: rocal partnership bill that would repeal civil umons even as it
: endorses same-sex relationships. The bill, which would confer
¯ mamage benefits on all couples who cannot otherwise marry,
¯ passed 72-69. Civil unions applied only to Gay and Lesbian
¯ couples, but the replacement reciprocal partnerships would ap- ¯
ply to same-sex couples and to pairs of blood relatives.
: The debate on final passage was marked by sharp exchanges
¯ over homosexuality. Ironically, it required many people who ¯
find homosexuality morally repugnant to endorse relationships
¯
between two men and two women. "It’s difficult because it still
¯ gives the same benefits to same-sex individuals, couples as the
¯ traditional marriage couple," said Rep. Nancy Sheltra, R-Derby,
: one of the leading opponents of civil unions. She voted for the
¯ bill.
¯ The state Senate will get thebill next, but leaders have said they
¯ don’t intend to address it. And Gov. Howard Dean has said he ¯
would not sign any legislation changing the civil unions law.
¯ The bill accomplished some of the goals of civil unions
¯ opponents; though,because couples no longerwouldbe required ¯
¯ tohave theirunions certified byAjudge, clergymember orjustice
of the peace in the same way that marriages are solemnized. It
¯ also would require the reciprocal partnerships licenses would be
¯ issued by the Health Depa],’tment instead of by individual town
¯ clerks, as civil unions and marriages are.
"We see this as a step in the right direction," said the Rev. Craig
i
Bensen °fCamb,ri,d~e, a leader in theanti-civil uni°n gr°upTake
it to the People. It s a bill that makes sense only in the world
definedbyBaker." Tha~’ s the 1999 Vermont Supreme Court case
that declared Vermont s marriage statutes unconstitutional becauseGay
and Lesbian couples were denied the benefits that flow
from marriage. To comply with the ruling, the Legislature last
year adopted civil unions. That’s a legal structure that parallels
mamage but remained separate and distinct, see Unions, p. 2
¯ TULSA (TFN) - Making lemonade out of lemons,
young and older supporters ofGay/Straight Alliances
in Oklahoma and new Jenks graduate, Kevin Barker,
¯
¯ gathered at the LGBT Community Center onMay 21 torespondpositively to a graduationprotestbyWichita
¯ anti-Gay preacher Fred Phelps and his clan. Phelps
¯ targeted Jenks High School because the school’s
adminstration, after someprodding andin response to
¯ fedcral law, allowed the formation of the Gay/Straight
¯ Alliance. ¯
In a widely distributed e-mail, Barker wrote, "my
: response to this is aimed to take a negative situation
¯ andmakeitapositiveone. Iloveusingkindness tokill
¯ hatred so here is what I wouldlike to do." Barker then
¯ proposed that supporters make a pledge to donate a ¯ sum for each hour that Phelps protested. The more his
¯ crew was there, the more would be raised for the
¯ Jenks GSA via the Oklahoma chapter of GLSEN
(Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network).
see Jenks, p. 9
Gill Foundation to Give
TOHR $40,000 Grant
Kevin Barker. Jenks Class of 2001, Kerry Lewis of
TOHR and Karin Weldin ofSoulforce at the Center.
TULSA (TFN)-TulsaOklahomans forHumanRights
(TOHR) has announced that the Denver-based Gill
Foundation has awarded one of its Fast Track grants
toTOHRfor $40,000 for operating andprogramming
expenses over a three-year period. The grant also
includes technical assistance support. TOHR is one
of only three organizations in the nation to receive the
grant.
~llae grant will help to ensure TOHR’s financial
stability, increase the effectiveness of its programs,
and continue its work of more than 20 years in
educating the public about issues affectingTulsa’s
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual &Transgender communities.
TOHR is Oklahoma’s oldest civil rights organization
dedicated to acheiving equality for the Gay,
Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender communities.
TOHR’s largest program is the operation ofthe Tulsa
Gay, Lesbian, Bi &Transgender Community Center,
2114 S. Memorial Road.
The Gill Foundation was established in 1994 by
Tim Gill, founder and former chairman and chief
technology officer of Quark, Inc., a Denver-based
computer software company. Tim Gill and the Gill
Foundation have provided more than $21 million to
hundreds of organizations and programs serving
LGBT communities and people living with HIV/
AIDS.
Through the Gay and Lesbian Fund for Coloradol
the foundation funds Colorado nonprofits in the areas
of: social justice; children, youth and families; leadership
development; arts and culture and public broadcasting.
In addition, the foundation operates the OutGiving
Department which provides technical assistance and
other resources see Gill, p. 9
Tulsa Clubs & Restaurants
*Bamboo Lounge, 7204 E. Pine
*CW’ s, 1737 S. Memorial
*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. I5th
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585-3405
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834-4234
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584-1308
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Tulsa Businesses, Services, & Professionals
Assoc. in Med. & Mental Health, 2325 S. H~rvard 743-1000
Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 8620 E: 71 250-5034
Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 5231 E. 41 665-4580
Body Piercing by Nicole, 2722 E. 15 712-1122
*Borders Books & Music, 2740 E. 21 712-9955
*Borders Books & Music, 8015 S. Yale 494-2665
Brookside Jewelry, 4649 S. Peoria 743-5272
*CD Warehouse, 3807c S. Peoria 746-0313
*Cheap Thrills, 2640 E. 1 lth 295-5868
Cherry St. Psychotherapy, 1515 S. Lewis 581-0902, 743-4117
Community Cleaning, Kerby Baker 622-0700
Tim Daniel, Attorney 352-9504, 800-742-9468
*Deco to Disco, 3212 E. 15th 749-3620
Doghouse on Brookside, 3311 S. Peoria 744-5556
*Elite Books & Videos, 821 S. Sheridan 838-8503
Encompass Travel, 13161H N. Memorial 369-8555
Ross Edward Salon 584-0337, 712-9379
Events Unlimited, 507 S. Main 592-0460
Horal Design Studio, 3404 S. Peoria 744-9595
Four Star Import Automotive, 9906 E..:55th PI. 610-0880
Cathy Furlong, Ph.D., 1980 Utica Sq. Med. Ctr. 628-3709
Gay & Lesbian Affordable Daycare 808-8026
*Gloria Jean’s Gourmet Coffee, 1758 E. 21st 742-1460
Leanne M. Gross, Insurance & financial plaiming 459-9349
Mark T. Hamby, Attorney 744-7440
*Sandra J. Hill, MS, Psychotherapy, 2865 E. Skelly 745-1-111
*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
*Living ArtSpace, 308 South 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
Ralnbowz 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.
Chamber 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 587-1314
*Community of Hope Church, 2545 S. Yale 747-6300
*Community Unitarian-Universalist Congregation 749-0595
Council Oak Men’s Chorale 748-3888
*Delaware Playhouse, 1511 S. Delaware 712- ~1511
918.583 1248, fax: 583.4615
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Publisher + Editor: Tom Neal
Writers + contributors: James Christjohn, Karin.Gregory, Barry
Hensley, J.-P. Legrandbouche, Lament Lindstrom, Esther
Rothbluml Mary Schepers, Hughston Walkinshaw
Member of The Associated Press
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Additional copies are available by calling 583-1248.
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Episcopalians, POB 701475, 74170-1475 355-3140
*Fellowship Congreg. Church, 2900 S. Harvard 747-7777
*Free Spirit Women’ s Center, call for location &info: 587-4669
Friend For A Friend, POB 52344, 74152 747-6827
Friends in Unity Social Org., POB 8542, 74101 582-0438
*Tulsa C.A.R.E.S., 3507 E. Admiral 834-4194
HOPE, HIV Outreach, Prevention, Education 834-8378
*HouseoftheHolySpiritMinstries,1517S. Memorial 224-4754
*MCC United, 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
*OSU-Tulsa
PFLAG, 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
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*TNAAPP (Native American men), Indian Health Care 582-7225
Tulsa County Health Department, 4616 E. 15 595-4105
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T.U.L.S.A. Tulsa Uniform/Leather Seekers Assoc. 298-0827
*Tulsa City Hall, Ground Floor Vestibule
*Tulsa Community College Campuses
*Tulsa Gay Community Center, 21st &Memorial 7434297
Unity Churchof 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 50!-253-7457
DeVito’s Restaurant, 5 Center St. 501-253-6807
Emerald Rainbow, 45 &l/2 Spring St. 501-253-5445
MCC of the Living Spring 501-253-9337
Geek to Go!, PC Specialist, POB 429 501-253-2776
Old Jailhouse Lodging, 15 Montgomery 501-253-5332
Positive Idea Marketing Plans 501-624-6646
~rhite Light, 1 Center St. 501-253-4074
JOPLIN, MISSOURI
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* is where you can find T’~N. Not all are Gay-owned but all are Gay-friendly,
to combat HIV/AIDS by 2003. The plans
should involve thebusiness sector, grassroots
groups and people living with HIV/AIDS.
- Countries most affected by HIV should
adopt by 2003 a set oftime targets to achieve
the goal of reducing HIV prevalence among
young men and women aged 15-24 by 25%
by 2005. HIV prevalence in the same age
group should be reducedby 25% worldwide
by 2010.
- A wide range of measures to prevent
AIDS - including information and education
- should be available by 2005 in all
countries, taking account of "local circumstances,
ethnic and cultural values."
- The number of infants infected with
HIV should be reduced by 20% by 2005 and
by 50% by. 2010 by providing treatment to
expectantmothers who are infected with the
HIV virus.
- By 2003, countries should develop national
programs to increase the availability
9f drugs to treat HIV infections by addressmg
issues such as pricing, and by 2005 they
shouldmakeprogress in implementing comprehensive
health care programs.
Theproposed draft also calls for countries
to initiate programs to identify groups most
vulnerable to AIDS by 2003, to implement
programs for AIDS orphans by 2005, and to
adopt legislation by 2005 protecting the
rights of people living with HIV/AIDS.
Last month, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi
Annan called for an annual war chest of $7
billion to $10 billion to fight the pandemic.
The draft proposal calls for reaching this
overall target incrementally by 2005, with
money coming from national budgets, international
donors, and private assistance.
Judiciary Committee Chairwoman Peg
Fiery devised reciprocal partnerships as a
¯ .way to comply with the Baker ruling but
." also to alter some of the moral objections to
¯¯ civil unions. She also argued that there are
other committed, loving "family units" that
¯
deserved the same benefits that same-sex
"_ couples were granted last year.
¯ Gay and Lesbian Vermonters, though,
¯ said the bill was an insult because it sought
-" to equate their committed relationships to
: those they have with a mother, sibling, aunt
.. or uncle. The relationships are significantly
¯ different, they said. "Last year we crafted a
¯
Ve.rmo,,nt compromise and we called it civil
¯ umon, said Rep. William Lippert, D-
¯ Hinesburg, one of two openly Gay lawmak-
¯ ers. "What we have before us today is not
just an expansion, as proclaimed, it in fact
¯ uhdoes that Vermont compromise called
civil union. You cannot escape that."
: Civil unions opponents were intent on
¯ scaling back the law, if not repealing it
¯ altogether. They reluctantly decided it was
impossible to repeal it outright and not provide
a replacement, though, because the
SupremeCourtmadeclear itprobably would
¯ grant Gay and Lesbian couples marriage
licenses in the absence of an alternative.
: Republicans won their majority in the
House largely on the strength of opposition
to the civil unions law. But Democrats re-
" tained control of the Senate.
by Matthew W. Holloway
The Gay community is not a happy one.
Homosexuals are often crippled in their
emotional stability byboth the outer forces
of oppression, hate and violence; as well
as the inner forces of depression,
doubt, self loathing
and loneliness. It is
mainly due to this crippling
emotional legacy that homosexuals
have developed
the well-deserved reputation
for drug use, mental
illness, and promiscuity.
Thesepattems, as once was
believed, are not an unavoidable
side effect ofhomosexuality;
they are, in
fact, not due at all to the
fact that one is a homosexual,
they are more related
to membership, either
claimed orexpressod, in the
much touted but rarely defined
"Gay community".
Oneofthe primary drives
of people is to align themselves into communities
of people. This is done for many
reasons, but one of the most influential
reasons is to give people smaller packets
Of society that they can deal with, and to
organize that society so that each can understand
it. These communities take many
forms, such as religions, governments, and
smaller sub-social communities.
In many situations these communities
of people serve a shorter term purpose,
such as the strength of African-American
commtmity in the 1960’s. The reason for
organizing very strong but temporary communities
such as these is to battle agmnst
some exterior force. It has been said that
people is at his strongest when he is united
in the face of some common evil, and this
is true. We unite ourselves into conmmnities
in order to battle against some outside
force.
The Gay community was originally organized
after this fashion, but the homosexual
battle for acceptance and equality
"... If the Gay
eommunlty does not
drastleally change it’s
image in the next ten
years from a eommunlty
united only by a shared
sexual preference to a
group of people with more
in common, with a
genuine uniting for~e,
then there will be no real
vletory in the struggle
against oppression
that we all share...."
has been a much longer
and harder one than that of
the African-American
community of the 1960’s.
In order for the Gay commuuity
to survxve as a social
group it must be
changed from the temporary,
constantly embattled,
and exclusive community
to a more functional and
longer lasting model.
If the Gay community
is not able ’to change satisfactorily
into a more stable
and permanentcommunity
it will do long term permanent
damage to the campaign
in this country for
Gay civil rights, ff the Gay
community does not drastically
change it’s image in the next ten
years from a community united only by a
shared sexual preference to a group of
people withmoreincommon, with a genuine
uniting force, then there will be no real
victory in the struggle against oppression
that we all share.
We must provide a world free of the
oppression to the many children who constantly
realize their own sexualities and
reach out for support. Will we be there for
them in the next ten years? Are we there
for them now? It is our duty to provide
these youngpeople with a stable and happy
commtmity that they will be happy and
content to join.
Matthew W. Holloway will attend Tulsa
Community College this fall, majoring tn
English.
Our GLBT Pride week is fast approaching
and many members of ourGLBT community
ask: "why. even get involved?" I’ll
tell you why...
To celebrate your own diversity as a
unique individual and to be proud who you
are! To unite us as a stronger community.
To meet others in the community who
wouldn;t meet otherwise. TO LEARN.
During themonthofJune, I tend to come
out to more people and feel better about
not hiding that I am a lesbian and I am
proud. Being "out" is not a requirement to
attend the Pride events, so those of you
who struggle with that need not won’y. I
want you to consider going to at least one
Pride event, you’ll be glad you did!
It seems tomethat people fear what they
have not experienced or what.they do not
understand. "Fear of the unknown" rings
so true with this one. I-have found that
most people have had a strong feeling for
a member of the same sex at some point in
their life (if they are honest enough to
admit it). Whether or not they choose to
labd that attraction as a sexual feeling or
not has a lot to do with many factors;
cultural, religious, & the comml~tity they
live in.
Often people do not know what to label
these feelings. They mav not have any
exposure to homosexualit~ except through
the media, which basically portrays a homosexual
as a deviant person to be feared,
- or a comedian! The news does the best
job of all at slapping anegative view our
way. Anytime a homosexual is in thenews
it is because they .have been involved in
some bizarre love triangle or are trying to
adopt a child. In either case, the homosexual
looks like a pervert, pedophile, you
name it. I think thatmost people are either,
a strong,heterosexual or a strong homosexual.
Of course, this makes for very
interesting "water cooler’, discussions.
Somepeople fall somewherein the middle,
and depending on their life circumstances,
at some point act on it or not.
So now you are thinking what point in
all this?Actually, I will let youin on a little
secret.., people, humanbeings, menAND
women want to be loved. Some feel that
can happen in a relationship with awoman
and some feel that can happen in a rdationship
with a man.
see Divine, p. 11
I spent a lovely evening recently at the
Tulsa Philharmonic and followed that by
meeting some friends at a favorite Gay
watering hole and was amazed at the conversations
that I overheard. "Have you
seenhimlately... ? Oh gift,
she is packing on the
pounds! Must be lonely."
Khother one went like this:
"ThatQueenhas morerolls
than Pillsbury." And then a
little later: "Ooh Mary. .
he looks like the Michelin
Man on a bad hair day."
Fascinating.
At first, I dismissed this
behavioras abunchofhateful
queens with nothing
better to do than talk, but
my observations actually
bring up a much larger (no
pun intended) issue: Why
are Gay men so crazed
about weight?
It is true that welivein an
in.credibly image-conscious
society where looking good is paramount,
but the obsession with staying thin
is especially pervasive with Gay men. On
a recent trip to Toronto, I caught the great
film "Parting Glances", and my point was
driven home when a hefty character made
the statement that "I may have co~umitted
the gay Cardinal Sin of being overweight
but I still have a lot to offer someone."
Being overweight can’t be a sin, can it? In
Gay society, you bet it is and the consequences
can be devastating.
I recently came out of a year-long rela-
¯tionship with a ~nan who was mmfiacal
about weight - mine. I am a healthy 37
year old man who is 5’ 11" mad a solid 180
pounds and I work out regularly. Like any
person, I have been known to gain a few ¯
pounds afler sphtrging on some great meals.
At first, my Ex put me on display as if to
say "’Look what I" ve caught," but when the
scale neared 190 the adoring cormnents
turued nasty. "You are getting a double
chin!" he barked at me one morning "mad
I won’t have a fat boyfriend." Ouch. Was
I not the same personjust because I gained
7 pounds? I tried going to the gym more
and eating less but my weight continued to
fluctuate. I told my Ex that the topic ofmy
weight was offlimi ts but this did not work.
In public, he was the perfect boyfriend. In
private, he was critical and cold. I became
frightened at losing my Partner. Then I
became bulimic.
It happened slowly at first. I popped a
couple of laxatives before going to bed as
if they were an herbal supplement. Our
relationship seemed to improve as I became
thinner. So two laxatives became
four, eight, ten... I finally quit counting.
When we went out, friends would comment
on how great I looked now that my
waist was 29 inches and shrinking. I was
told that I looked a decade younger. People
were amazed that I could eat and drink
whatever I wanted and still lose weight. It
should have felt great...but if they only
knew.
The relationship ended between Christmas
and New Year’ s. Upon learning ofmy
bulimia, my Ex left a terse note onmy door
"... In our group of six.
there were four Gay men,
two of whom I knew. We
were at once frightened
and outraged that our
partners, friends, and Gay
brothers could not accept
us for who we are. Give us
the AIDS epidemie to
fight or mobilize us
against hate and we’ll join
together as One,
but God forbid if any
of us are chunky . . .
stating that he wmated nothing further tc
with someone who had a selfish, sic"- ~ ~g
disorder. Charming.
"’I’ll show him," I said and I decided to
losemore weight. Two weeks later I was in
The GAP wanting some
new jeans but they had
nothing for aman with a 26
inch waist. There were
whispers among people
that I had Cancer or AIDS.
In reality, I was fooling
Mother Nature and soon
she fought back. First my
personality began to
change. Gone was the self
confident, easy-going man
I was and in my place was
afrightened, obsessive, and
vicious Mr. Hyde. I backed
out of an important promotion
at work, fearing that I
would fail I brought new
definition to the term "lean
and mean."
Then I rushed to the
doctor one day in agony with stomach
pains and he told me that I was suffering
from malnutrition and had lesions on my
colon. IfI continued to abuse laxatives, the
doctor said, I would indeed have a new
Partner: a colostomy bag. And that was if
I lived. I was frightened that if my condition
were exposed, I would be treated with
the same disgust that my Ex displayed. So
I went to Bulimics Anonymous.
In our group of six, there were four Gay
men, two of whom ! knew. We were a~
once frightened and outraged that our partners.
friends, and Gay brothers could nol
accept us as we are. Give us the AIDS
epidemic to fight or mobilize us against
hate and we’ll join together as One, bul
God forbid if any of us are chunky - then
we are "dmnaged goods."
I learned that bulimia is not about weight:
it is about control. In my case, I was tryiug
to balm~ce a career, a relationship, graduate
school, AND stay in shape. I was not
expected to gmn any weight. Sometlfing
had to give. I also lemned to share my
experience with others. I leaned on three
people: a parent, my personal trainer, and
a close friend - ironically all of whom are
heterosexual. They were completely supportive.
My trainer did get angry with me
for not trusting him to help me out of this
darkness and then he put his arms around
me and held me while I cried in disbelief
that this understanding and compassion
seems virtually non-existent in the Gay
connntmity.
Fortunately, I had recovered. It was not
easy. My hair turned gray for a time and I
had severe skin eruptions as I leached the
chemicals out of my body. My digestive
system is extremely sensitive and will
remain so for the rest of my life. But my
weight is stable and I amhappy withmy 32
inch waist. Most important, I know that I
am a good person no matter what my
weight and any man is lucky to have me.
And my Ex ? I saw him recently. He
walked by and refused to speak to me. As
I looked at this man who had become a
stranger, I noticed that he had indeed put
on some weight... - anonymous
Memorial to Gay
Soldiers Dedicated.
CATHEDRAL CITY, Calif. (AP) - A Gay veterans
group unveiled a monument to remember Gay service
members killed in combat. The recent ceremony was
attended by veterans in tmiform, the mother of a Navy
serviceman beaten to death at age 23 for being Gay, -"
and a color guard carrying the rainbow banner that _"
symbolizes Gay pride. ¯
The activists who pushed for the monument in this :
desert city just south of Palm Springs say it is the first ¯
of its kind. "It’s a turn-of-the-century event," said¯"
Dennis Palt, a former Air Force staff sergeant who
served in Vxemam. I had hope for this but you could "
have never thought this would becomea reality in the "
1970s, 1980s or ’90s. It’ s fabulous."
Hawaii Passes Hate
Crimes Bill
HONOLULU (AP) - Gov. BenCayetano said that he
will sign the "hate crimes" bill passed.by this year’ s
Legislature. It gives longer sentences for crimes motivated
by the victim’ s race, religion, disability, ethnicity,
national origin or sexual orientation.
Cayetano said while he has concerns about making
distinctions between various kinds of victims, in this
casehefeels there’ s a statement tube made. He said his
decision was "close call" because he doesn’ t believe
Hawaii has a problem with hate crimes - yet.
The hate crimes bill was supported by Gay and
Lesbian groups and several civil rights groups, including
the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission. It was opposed
by the Public Defender’s Office, the Honolulu
Police Department. and several religion-based groups.
Disciples Church Adds
Partner Benefits
Man Adopts Gay Partner "
SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP)-A Montgomery County ¯
man has adopted his Gay partner. Chief Circuit Judge "
DeLawrence Beard approved the petition of the 60-
year-old adopter and the 65-year-old adoptee, Beard’s :
law clerk, Tracy Silverman, confirmed.
The men’s lawyer, James Shrybman, said that since "
the men can’t legally marry, they sought the adoption ",
to guaranteefamily rights regarding e~.ch o,th.err s ,me.dical
care andfuneral arrangements, and to clarity c~mms
of survivorship and inheritance Shrybman would not
identify the men, citing their desire for privacy. Their
adoption records in court are sealed. The lawyer said
the Silver Spring couple have lived together at least 32
years.
Shrybman said they considered forging some sort of
domestic partner contract, but felt it wouldn’t have
provided the family relationship recognized by law
and might not withstand challenges by other claimants.
"They chose to proceed to have the court put its
~mprimatur on their relationship and this is the only
one that was open to them," Shrybman said. The
adoptee’s parents are both dead, he said.
Other Gay couples have attempted such adoptions,
with varying degrees of success, m recent years, said
David Buckel, senior staff attorney with the Lambda
Legal Defense and Education Fund, a national Gay
civil-rights organization based in New York.
"’At present, same-sex couples throughout the nation
are denied the freedom to marry, which would bring
the greatest array of protections for their family," he
said. "’When you are a couple and you can’t get
roamed, you kind of reach out for whatever alternaayes
there are, and it sounds like these gentlemen have
found a helpful alternative in the state of Maryla_~.d."
A bill to diminate sex discrimination in mamage
was introducedin the 2000 General Assembly but was
blocked in committee. Baltimore city, Takoma Park
and Montgomery County offer domestic partnership
benefits to their employees.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -The 831,000-member Christian
Church (Disciples of Christ) has become one of the
first mainline Protestant denominations to authorize
medical coverage for domestic partners of unmarried
employees.
The decision was announced by the church pension
fund, which had discussed the issue for five years and
agreed to consider coverage if July’ s national General
Assembly approved it. But the denomination’s General
Board said last month the pension fund should
decide, not the national meeting. The coverage, which
could start as soon as January, doesn’ t extend to pensions.
Group Condemns
i Disney Gay Days ¯
¯ ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - The president of a Christian
group is asking that Disney officials denounce "Gay
¯ Days," the annual gathering of Gays and Lesbians at
¯ Orlando’ s theme parks.
¯ Martin Mawyer, president of the Forest, Va.-based
~ Christian Action Network, sent a letter to Disney
¯ chairman Michael Eisner also asking Disney officials
¯ to warn families about the event. He asked that signs be .
¯ posted and that other visitors to be able to get refunds
¯ if they Want. "After all, these families made plans to
¯ attend a theme park, not ahomosexual event," Mawyer
¯ said in the letter.
Disney and the other Orlando theme parks don’t
sponsor Gay Days but many of the week’s events, are
¯ held on the theme park resort’s property as well as
: Universal Studios, SeaWofld and Tampa Bay Busch
Gardens.
"Our policy is to be hospitable to everyone who
comes to our resort, to welcome everyone as a guest
and to treat everyone with respect," said Disney spokeswoman
Rena Callahan. "Mr. Mawyer is w~elcome to
visit Walt Disney World any day and we will wdcome
him as a guest as well."
Gay Days started out as a single day in 1991 when
then-Orlando resident Doug Swallow and friends from
a Gay computer bulletin board service informally
decided to get together at the Magic Kingdom. Since
then, Gay Days has become a multi-day event that
starts June 1 this year. It is expected to attract as many
as 100,000 Gays and Lesbians and dozens of parties in
local clubs and venues.
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Lesbian Kiss Gets
Yearbook Censored
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - Dozens of Boulder High
School students locked lips outside the school to protest
a decision to withdraw a photo of a same-sex kiss
from the yearbook. Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Straight
students were encouraged to kiss one another, and
about 150 people turned out at the protest. It lasted
about an hour.
Students had claimed discrimination after the picture
of two girls kissing was yankedfrom the yearbook.
The picturewas to be included in a feature called"First
Kiss" along w;th those ofheterosexual couples kissing.
Yearbook adviser Ruth Palmer said the parents of the
two girls would have to give permission for the photo
to run. When she didn’t hear back from them, she took
the photo out.
Student Rachel Stanley said that decision showed a
double standard because photos of male-female kisses
were allowed to run without parental approval. "A lot
more needs to be done to open people’s eyes about the
problems facing kids" with different sexual backgrounds,
Stanley said as students behind her hugged
and kissed. "It has to start somewhere and maybe this
is it."
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Louisiana Senate Kills
Anti-discrimination Bill
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Legislation outlawing
employment discrimination against Gays was defeated
in the Louisiana Senate after a polite but sometimes
emotional debate. "If we fail today we’ll be back again
in the next session," the bill’ s sponsor, state Sen. Don
Cravins, said just before the 14-21 vote against the
measure.
Cravins’ bill would have outlawed discrimination in
hiring, firing or promoting anyone on the basis of
"actual or perceived sexual orientation." Cravins said
some lawmakers supported the idea but admitted to
him they could not vote for it because it would cost
them political support.
While Senate committee debate included views from
religious opponents of the bill, opposition on the floor
centered around the practicality of the bill.
State Sen. Bill Jones said the bill was unworkable
since it created a protected class and proving someone
is a member of that class would be based solely on that
person’s claim.
Lutheran Bishop Resigns
Over Gay Ordination
LOS ANGELES (AP)- Southern California’s ranking
Lutheran bishop says the church has asked him to
resign for participating in last month’ s ordination of a
Lesbian in Minnesota in defiance of church law.
Bishop Paul W. Egertson, whose sonis Gay, said he
has decided whether to comply with the request, which
comesjust months before his term expires Aug. 31. He
was not seeking re-election.
Presiding Bishop H. George Anderson asked
Egertson before the ceremony to reconsiderhis participation,
said John Brooks, a spokesman for the Chicago-
based Evangelical. Lutheran Church in America.
Brooks would not confirm that the bishop had asked
Egertson to resign.
Rev. Paul Tidemann of St. Paul-Reformation
Lutheran Church said he is not surprised by the decision.
Anita Hill, the pastor who Egertson ordained,
now serves at St. Paul-Reformation with Tidemann. "I
think that the ELCA is doing what it feels it has to do
given the policy that it has," Tidemann said. "Every:
body is in a bit of a difficult spot because the church has
not decided to change that policy ""
Egertson, 65, became bishop of the Southern California
(West) Synod in 1995. The synod includes 140
churches, 275 ministers and nearly 46,000 baptized
members.
Egei’tson became the church’ s first active bishop to
participate in the ordination of a Lesbian when he took
part in the ceremony for Hill. Egcrtson said he was
conscience-bound to defy the church by joining in
Hill’ s ordination. "I can no longer advocate this cause
with credibility from a posihon of personal safety,"
Egertson wrote Anderson at the time.
Somechurch leaders were concerned aboutEgertson
whenhe was elected bishop in 1995 because he said he
had earlier joined in blessing same-sex couples. For
that reason, Egertson said, he promised in writing to
resign if he ever felt he must defy church law as a
matter ofconscience. He said Anderson has now asked
him to follow through.
The Saint Paul Area Synod would not comment on
Egertson because "responsibility for this matter rests
with our churchwide leadership," said spokeswoman
Beth Helgen.
But the Saint Paul Area Synod is considering disciplinary
action against St. Paul-Reformation. Bishop
Mark Hanson and the Saint Paul Area Synod Council
could decide to expel the congregation from the ELCA.
Helgen said she expected the synod to make a decision
soon, but there is no deadline for the announcement.
Religious Leader
Opposes Partner Benefits
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - The executive director of
the Christian Civic League of Maine has begun taking
steps to prohibit all state and local governments from
providing domestic partnership benefits. Michael Heath
filed a petition with the Secretary of State’s office to
force an election on the issue.
ff Heath’s petition is approved and he meets the
requirements necessary to land the issue on the November
2002 ballot, voters will also decide whether or
not to overturn a decision by the Portland City Council
to establish a registry of same-sex and opposite-sex
unmarried couples.
Heath’s referendum would also prohibit the state
university*system from providing benefits to the domestic
partners of their employees, and would take
away health insurance from the domestic parmers of
employees who already have them.
"We are praying and thinking about it and talking
with folks who have concerns about this, about domestic
partnership and the agenda of the Gay movement
here in Maineand throughout the country," Heath said.
The Secretary of State’s office is reviewing the
petition and is expected to respond by June 4. Heath
will then be able to collect signatures- he needs 42,101
- to place the question on the ballot.
The state has made significant strides in recognizing
stone-sex couples in recent months. Earlier this year,
the State Employee Health Commission approved
granting health insurance beuefits to Gay and unmarried
heterosexual partners of state employees.
On Monday, the Portland City Council made history
by unanimously supporting the creation of a registry,
which will recognizedomes tic partners as families and
afford them many of the same rights and privileges as
husbands and wives The university systeln and the
City of Portland have offered the benefits for some
time, and the ordinance City Councilors in the city
approved on Monday would require any recipient of
city funds to offer the benefits to employees.
A bill is also in the state Legislature that would
require health insurance companies to offer domestic
partner benefits if they offer coverage to the spouses of
plan-covered Legislature members. The measure was
approved by the House of Representatives and is
headed to the Senate for a final vote.
Karen Gcraghty, a Portland city councilor who cosponsored
the city’s ordinance, said she and others
knew that Heath had filed the petition, and are taking
steps to keep a ballot question from passing. "This is
about denying peoples’ access to health care," she
said. "This is about inequity in the workplace.’"
Heath has been successful with statewide referendnms
oncivil rights issues for Gays. In February, 1998,
voters overturned a statewide anti,discrimination law
that the Legislaturehad passed. Last November, voters
again turned down such a law.
Portland Eases Ban on
Military Recruiting
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - The Portland school board
has loosenedamilitary recrmting ban that was prompted
by the military’ s "don’ t ask, don’ t tell" policy toward
Gays. In a unanimous vote, the board decided teachers
and counselors can refer students to recruiters offcampus
only if students are told that the military
prohibits Gays who disclose or act on their orientation.
The decision is a compromise between Gay civilrights
activists who opposed military recruitment in
schools and recruiters, who said the armed forces offer
opportunities for students who aren’ t college-bound.
Abrams wrote the district’ s ban on military recruitment,
which was put into place in 1995. The board had
pushed various plans in recent weeks to give students
more access to the military in school.
Powell Will Lobby
for More AIDS $
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - Secretary of
State Colin Powell says his four-nation
tour of Africa has pu.t human faces on the
AIDS epidemic sweeping the continent,
and he’ll use the experience to lobby for
more U.S. aid.
"I can go back and make a case in
Washington of the need for more resources,"
Powell said. "I hope I can convey
the passion of what I have seen" when
he reports back to President Bush. Powell
was wrapping up an African gour that also
.tookhim to Mali, South Africa and Kenya.
He was next headed to Budapest, Hungary,
for NATO meetings.
The secretary visited AIDS outreach
. centers in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, and
Kampala, the Ugandan capital. He said he
was deeply moved by heating the experiences
of AIDS victims in both places, and
watching Africans trying to come to grips
with the disease ttL~ough song, dance and
skits. "You don’t really get a full appreciation
until you see the people who are
sla’icken," Powell said.
In Nairobi, Patricia Ochieng, 33, told
Powell it had been nearly 10 years since
she’d tested positive with HIV, the virus
that causes AIDS. Since then, both her 4-
year-old son and her husband have died of
the disease, she said, and"I kept dying day
by day. All my dreams were gone."
The Bush administration announced
earlier this month it was contributing an
ilfitial $200 million to a global $7 billion
fund to combat AIDS. That’s on top of
about $460 million the United States had
earlier committed to fighting AIDS.
In Kampala, Powell announced $50
millionin aid over five years to helpUganda
expand a prevention program. The programhas
sharpl) cut Uganda s HIV-AIDS
rate from nearly 30% to about 10%.
On his travels through Africa, Powell
has said repeatedly that he would work to
get additional U.S. support for AIDS prevention,
research and trealanent programs.
"Even though there are wars in other
parts of the world, even though there’s a
crisis in the Middle. East, even though
people are dying in these conflicts around
the world, there’s no war more serious,
there’s no war causing more death or destruction,
there’s no war on the face Of the
earth that is more grave than the war in
sub-Saharan Africa against HIV-AIDS,"
he said. More than 25 million people on
the continent are infected with HIV.
Teens Want
Complete Sex Info
CHICAGO (AP) - Take a look at some of
the spicy novds aimed at readers as young
as 12. Tune in any number of TV shows
popular with young viewers and try finding
the characters who haven’t had sex.
Ever hear the "Thong Song" or the recent
No. 1 "It Wasn’t Me," a tune about a
couple getting caught "banging on the
bathroomfloor"?Many dementary school
students have.
Officially - from President George W.
Bush on down - young people are being
told to just say ’no’ to sex. Yet they are
bombarded with images that, they say,
make the mantra difficult to take seriously.
Frustrated with mixed messages,
many teens say the)’ would make better
choices for themselves if they had more
information about sex - and less hype.
"How can you expect teens to be abstinent
when all they see is sex?" asks DeVoia
Stewart, 16. "It’s a little hypocritical."
Through the 1990s, biennial surveys
from the federal Centers for Disease Control
andPreventionfound fewerhigh school
students saying they had had sexual intercourse
- from just over 54.1% in 1991 to
49.9% in 1999. The number of teen-age
mothers giving birthalso dropped, although
there are still about a million teen pregnancies
each year.
But health officials say sexually transmitted
diseases are a big concern for teens
- among them HIV, chlamydia, herpes,
gonorrhea and human papilloma virus,
which can develop into cervical cancer.
They also say that, instead of intercourse,
someteens are having otherkinds ofsexual
contact, like oral sex, that can easily spread
disease.
The statistics have only heightened the
debate about what to tell young people
about sex, evenamongyoungpeople themselves.
"In my school, there are people
who adamantly preach about waiting for
sex, and there are also people who love to
recount their own racy experiences," says
Alessa Thomas, 16.
For adults, part of the debate is whether
to distribute condoms and other forms of
birth control to teens. This spring, Planned
Parenthood distributed "prom Survival
Kits," including condoms, to students in
Minneapolis and other cities.
About the same time, a health board in
northern Kentucky decided to change its
sex .education curriculum to "abstinence
only," seeing any talk of safer sex or
condom distribution as lessons in "how
to." "We’re talking about young people
who can’t remember to bring their homework
to school or set their alarm dock -
and yet we want them to remember to use
acondomevery time they engage in sexual
intercourse?" says Addia Wuchner, who
oversees the board’s haman sexuality committee.
But many young people say they should
be trusted to handle more information -
the more, the better. Christopher Batu, 20,
agrees that abstinence education is important,
but he still wishes he had knownmore
about "the reality of what could happen"
because of sex when he was younger. He
says "sex isn’ t evil," but it carries a load of
responsibility with it.
The hunger for accurate, frank informa~
tion has prompted some teens to educate
themselves. Some efforts are official, including
SEX, ETC., a sexuality and health
newsletter and Web site sponsored by
Rutgers University that is written by teens
for teens.
Other teens say they get their information
from sources such as drDrew.com, a
healthWeb sitefor 14- to 24-year-olds that
answers questions ranging from "What is
considered safe sex?" to "What can I do to
helpmyboyfriend last longer during sex?"
Thomas says she doesn’t go to adults
because "I am afraid they will judge me."
Still, a report released this month shows
that many young people want more infor-
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Town Hall Meeting
June 5th, 2pm
Topics:
Update on the Epidemic, Janice Nicklas
Testing Positive, Living with HIV, Tommy Chesbro
Knowing Your HIV Status, Ebony Skillens
Diversity In New HIV Cases, Kristi Frisbie
HIV Treatment in Tulsa,
Damon Baker, DO, & Don Eberly
Care Needs of PLWAs, Sharon Thoele
How Tulsans Can Help, Janice Nicklas
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The Tulsa City County
Library System
is proud to
Embrace Diverst
honoring Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgendered
Oklahomans with the following events:
Saturday, June 2. 2pm. Maxwell Park Library
"Coming Out in Tulsa Area High Schools"
Dr. Doug Gronberg, English teacher at Booker T. Washington High School,
moderates a panel discussion by high school students in Gay/Straight Alliances.
Monday, June 4. 7pm. Central Library
"Council Oak Men’s Chorale"
Monday, June 4. 7pm. Helmerich Library
"Family Law Issues Affecting the Gay COmmuaity"
Panel discussion with IJnda Lacey, TU College of Law, moderating.
Thursday, June 7. 7pm. Central Library
"Diversity Film Festival"
Harvey.Fierstein and Matthew Broderick star in "Torch Song Trilogy."
Saturday, June 9. 12 Noon. Central Library
"Diversity Film Festival"
"Out Of the Past" documents the struggles of Kelli Peterson, who started a Gay’/
Straight alliance in her Salt Lake City school in 1996.
Thursday, June 14. 7pm. Central Library
"Diversity Film Festival"
’°Trevor": Winner of the 1994 Academy Award for best live action short.
"If These Walls Could Talk": Stories about Lesbian couples in three deeades.
"Bubbeh .Lee and Me": A Gay man’s visit with his 87 year old grandmother.
Tuesday, June 19.2pm. West Regional Library
Book Discussion: "Deliver Us From Evie"
Thursday, June 21. lpm. Broken Arrow Library
Book Disa~ssion:"Fried Green Tomatoes"
Thursday, June 21. 7pm. Brookside Library
AIDS Memorial Quilt Project
Vale Bode, director of Education and Outreach for the Tulsa Area chapter of
the NAMES project, discusses the AIDS Memorial Quilt.
Please call 596-7977 or your local branch library if you have questions or
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marion from adults about sex.
The survey of 12- to 17-year-olds by the
fkaiser Family Foundation found that48%
wanted more information about sexual
health from their doctor and 42% from
their health class teachers. A third wanted
more discussxons with their parents.
"This is difficuh stuffto talk to yourkids
about, but youhave to do it-kids want you
to doit," says Margaret Anderson, a senior
program manager for the Academy for
Educational Development, a nonprofit
group that uses fe,~Ieta]and privatefuhding
to help-community organizations develop
sex education and other programs.
Jonathan Olinger, 18, agrees. He says
that his parents’ first talk with him about
sex was awkward but that it _opened the
door to other questions. "We listen to our
parents a lot more than they realize," he
says.
Glaxo Lowering
AIDS Drugs Costs
NAIROBI,- Kenya (AP)~_-. Glaxo
SmithKline will expand a program tod-e--
liver low-cost AIDS drugs in Kenya to
include -aid organizations andl~ge employee
health programs, the marketing
director in Kenya said at the end of May.
Dr. William Kiarie said the company’s
drugs would be offered at a no-profit price,
90% cheaper than the retail price charged
in North America and Europe. Glaxo
Kenya already Offers the drugs at the discounted
pnee to government hospitals.
"It is not a new program, it is just new in
the way it is being implemented," Kiarie
said. "What we are talking about is implementing
the price reductions and expanding
that to more groups of people."
Glaxo, along with other multinational
pharmaceutical companies, has come under
increasing pressure to lower the prices
of antiretroviral drugs that treat HIV, the
virus that causes AIDS. More than 26
million people in Africa have HIV, but
most live on less than $1 a day.
Glaxo’s discount will bring the price of
treatment down to $2 a day, Kiarie said.
Only about 1,000 of the 2.1 million
Kenyans infected with HIV are being
treated with antiretrovirals now, Kiarie
said. But even at the lower price, this
numberwill only expand to between 20,000
and 30,000, he added.
"As an industry, we have to lower the
prices," Kiarie Said. "But this will not be
enough. If we want a significant increase
in access to antiretroviral drugs, we have
to look for other funding and infrastructure
buildup." Kiarie refused to discuss
specific drugs or what the exact prices
would be.
Indra Van Gisbergen, an attorney working
with the Kenyan CoalitiOn for Access
to Essential Medicines, said the offer was
nothing that hadn’t been promised by the
pharmaceutical companies before and that
the lack of details was disturbing.
"Glaxo is misleading the public on the
-prices by hiding all the conditions that
come with the price," Van Gisbergen said.
"In order to get those pnces you have to
sign a contract that hasa very funny paragraph
about agreeing with the company."
Van Gisbergensaid Glaxo has refused
to show AIDS activists copies of the contract,
but she had obtained one copy. She
said Glaxo’s announcement was timed to
influence a bill in Kenya’s parliament that
would allow the government to override
patents and allow the importation of lowpriced,
generic AIDS drugs. "This announeement
should not be used as an’ excuse
not to pass the bill and allow generic
drugs into Kenya," Van Gisbergen said.
HIV Clinic Targets
Rural Poor
GREENWOOD, Miss. (AP) - qlae fight
against HIV disease is being stepped up in
Greenwood, Leflore County and the rest
of the Delta.
To Dr. Hamza O. Brimah of Greenwood,
director of the program, it’s about
time. "I have a growing base of padents
who are living with HIV," said Brimah,
40. "Back in 1997, when the Magnolia
Medical Clinic opened, we had barely 10
patients. Today, we’ve seen almost 200."
A $1 million grant provided by the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services
will be spread over three years and
provide primary care services for !owincome
individuals living with HIV, he
said.
Called the Magnoli~ Medical Clinic/
Greenwood Leflore Hospital HIV Program,
the project covers a nine-county
region that runs west to Washington
County, south to Holmes County and north
to Coahoma County.
The grant has two goals, Brimah said.
The first is to improve the quality of care
provided to the HIV patient. One way is to
upgrade patient referrals to other primarycare
services, such as dental care, mental
health care and women’s health care.-
The other is improving access to care.
"Werealize that there are still many people
who are not in care," Brimah said. For
every person living with HIV, he said,
there are nine or 10 who aren’t aware that
they have it. "What we’re trying to do is
encourage people to get tested, to access
care by being able to provide them with
transportation and to pay for their clinic
visits," Brimati said.
Testing and treatments, if necessary, are
provided at no cost for low-income individuals.
Treatment for AIDS and HIV has
improved significantly over the past five
years.
"In the past, there used to be complex
regimens, which meant several pills that
had lots of side effects that differ from the
more recent treatment options," Brimah
said. One improvement is a new pill that
has to be taken only twice a day. "That’s a
long way from the time when patients had
to take upwards of 30 pills a day," Brimah
said. "The cost has remained about the
Average treatment costs for HIV patients
are around $1,000 per month. Drugs
also have been developed that can reduce
the transmission of HIV from mother to
baby. "We encourage all pregnant women
to get HIV tested," Brimah said. "It is
possible to reduce the chances that the
baby will be born with HIV disease."
AIDS and HIV cases have leveled off
nationwide, but the number of rural cases
has risen slightly, Brimah said.
by TFN staff
James Christjohn, TFN’s most excellent
entertainment editor, is taking much
needed time offforgoodbehavior (editor’s
note: is that what that’s called now?). He
is gearing upfor the Stevie Nicks tour. The
high priestess of rock and roll STEVIE
NICKS will embark on an extensive concert
tour this summer
with an itinerary that
will take her across the
United States.
Nicks will perfonfi
material from her new
CD TROUBLE IN
SHANGRI-LA which
entered the Billboard
albtun charts at No. 5
and has remained a Top
2Ohit for the last three
weeks. She" will also
cover material from her
previous solo albums as
well as her hits as a
member of Fleetwood
Mac.
Billboard Magazine
hailed Nicks’ new album as "this years
comeback equivalent to Carlos Santana
and her strongest material since her landmark
Bdla Donna." Check local venues
for on sale dates and ticket prices.
The tour dates are as follows, being the
closest to Tulsa She gets: August 3 Dallas,
TX Smirnoff Music Center; August 4
Houston, TX Cynthia Woods Mitchell
Pavilion; August 28 Banner Springs, KS
Sandstone Amphitheatre; August 29 St.
Louis, MO Riverport Amphitheatre. -
But meanwhile in Tulsa, there’s things
happening. From June 6th to July 1, Light
Opera Oklahoma (LOOK) will be prov!ding
the best in light, summer entertmnment
with, as always, some Gilbert &
Sullivan, the Mikado, Herbert’s Naughty
Marietta and Lerner & Lowe’s My Fair
Lady, based, of course on George Bernard
Shaw’s Pygmalion.
LOOK is also presenting a one woman
"Carmen" which feature Julie Goell as a
cleaning lady who entertains hersdf by
performing scenes from the Bizet opera.
And Broadway and film .veteran Lynette
Bennett will reprise the career of Jeanette
McDonald in a show Bennett wrote. For
times and dates on all these performance,
call 583-5398 or see their website: www.
webtek.com/gilbertsullivan
Down at the Performing Arts Center,
American Theatre Company will close
their season with Wit, the riveting tale of
Dr. Vivian Bearing, a professor of 17th
century English poetJohn Donne. Bearing
has cancer and the play addresses her
struggle with the disease and is full of
allusions to Donne’s work. Tulsa theatre
veteran Lisa Wilson stars in the, production
directed by Ken Spence. Call the
PAC, 596-2525, for times and prices.
Also there. Theatre Tulsa will present
the Cotton Patch Gospel which recounts
the life and times of Jesus Christ as set in
the hills of Georgia. It’s been characterized
as "a story for intellectuals who are
closet hillbillies..." This, of course, describe~
so many that we know... This is
Philbrook’s award winning lawns.
likdy to be good despite this description.
¯
Again call 596-2525.
¯¯ Put on your radar Tulsa’s annual
SummerStage Festival which will present
¯
a number of plays during July and into
¯ early August. Call thePAC at 596-2525 or
log on to www.tulpac.com
¯ Now over at Philbrook, they’re notcoming
up daisies and dandelions
in the lawn. In
fact, the museum has
won an award from
Briggs and Stratton
(yes, that’s right, the
lawn mower engine
manufactorers) for having
one of the top ten
lawns in the US. Others
who’ve won the award
include Graceland, the
Alamo, and this year,
the Biltmore Estate and
the Hemingway Home
in Key West. All the
work at Philbrook is
done by only four
people according to
¯ grounds supervisor, Ralph Bendel.
¯ And one ofTulsa’ s summer traditions is
film and theatre on the lawn at Philbrook.
¯ Keep reading this column for further in-
¯. formauon.
Also at Philbrook is a show opening
¯ June 10 of the glass artistry of West Coas!
¯ artist William Morris. Morris’ work is ¯
reflective of his interest in archeology and
¯ ancient pagan cultures. Morris lives near
Seattle where he was master glassblower
to world renowned artist Dale Chihuly.
Morris’ work is in the collections of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Louvre
and the Victoria and Albert Museum in
¯ London as well as theLos Angeles County ¯
Museum.
¯ Philbrook is at 2727 S. Rockford Rd., is
¯ open Tues. - Sat. 10-5pm, Sun. 11-Spin
¯ and till 8pm on Thurs. Admission at the ¯
grounds, Museum Shop and la Villa res-
¯ taurant is alway free and more information
¯ is available at www.philbrook.org
". Don’t" forget that Tulsa CiU-County
¯ Library is presenting a variety of Diversity
¯ programnfing during the month of June.
¯ Central Library will host the Council
Oak Men’ s Chorale on Monday, June 4 at
¯ 7pro. The Chorale will perform a variety
¯ of vocal selections.
¯ On Thursday, June 7 at 7pm, Central ¯
will begifl its "Diversity Film. Festival"
¯ with Harvey Fierstein and Matthew
¯ Broderickin"TorchSongTrilogy," which
¯ was adapted from the Tony Award win-
. ning Broadway hit. The musical numbers
¯ are a hoot, and Anne Bancroft chews the
: scenery nicely.
¯ Next will be "Out of the Past" docu- ¯
menting the struggles of Kelli Peterson,
¯ who started a Gay/Straight alliance in her
¯ Salt Lake City school in 1996. Her fight ¯
became a statewide battle that brought
¯ national attention. This film is scheduled
¯ for Saturday, June 9 at 12 Noon.
Thursday, June 14 (7pm) will see
" "Trevor": Winner of the 1994 Academy
¯ Award for best live action short. This
¯ highly acclaimed, see arts, p. 9
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touching, funny film addresses issues of
sexual identity and compassion and, "If
These Wails Could Taik" a trio of stories
about Lesbian couples in three different
decades.
The last film that evening will be
"Bubbeh Lee and Me": about a Gay man’ s
visit with his 87 year old grandmother in a
Florida retirement community.
Pleasecall 596-7977 or yourlocal branch
library if you have questions or need more
information.
GLSEN is the sponsor of Student Pride
USA, the organization that helped me to
get our Gay Straight Alliance started, and
GLSEN in Oklahoma provided assistance
to Barker as well.
Phelps, aiso adisbarred attorney, didnot
attend the protest himself but members of
his congregation, most of whom are also
related to him did picket near Orai Roberts
University’s Mabee Center.
Barker, in remarks made to supporters
at the Center, noted that in response to ’the
protest a number of his classmates, many
unknown to him, offered .him words of
support and encouragement.
Barker aiso notedthat as afundraiser the
incident was highly successful, raising
several thousand dollars for Gay/Straight
student organizing in Oklahoma.
to supportthe conmaunities it serves. The
Gill Foundation and OutGiving Department
are headquartered in Denver, Colorado.
The Gay and Lesbian Fundfor Colorado
is based in Colorado Springs.
The Festival will feature booths with pride
merchandise, food, beverages as well as a
variety of entertainment, from singers to
femaieimpersonators,maybe a comedian,
grrrl bands, the Council Oak Mens Choraie
and "surprises." The opemng ceremonies
for the Festivai will be held at
4:30pm. The Festivai is scheduled to continue
until dark.
Tulsa Transit shuttles will begin at noon
at Veterans’ Park to take people to several
stops aiong the parade route.
Volunteers are encouraged to help carry
the 120 foot long rainbow flag, Oklahoma’ s
largest. Entries into the parade are still
possible but the entry fee has now gone to
$50, profit and non-profit alike.
At the Gaia Dinner, TOHR will present
its Community Hero awards to four individuals
as well as recognize some of the
organization’ s donors, and the TOHR Volunteer
of the Year.
And on June 16th, Borders Books &
Music will haveaTOHRbenefit day where
a percentage of purchases will be donated
by the store to TOHR. Cail the Center at
743-4297 for more information.
Viewpoint: Study ¢:
Gay to Straight Bias ¯
by Wayne Besen
The Human Rights Campaign
What do John Paulk, Jeremy Marks
Wade Richards have in conm~on ? ~I
were ail high profile"ex-Gays" who c:~ v.
out of the closet in the past year - c:
Paulk’s case, was photographed at a ~ y
bar in Washington. If there is one kn~:.
fact about "ex-Gays," it is that one camaot
aiways take their stories of "change" at
face vaiue.
In light of the double lives of prominent
"ex-Gays," it seems questionable to conduct
a"scientific" study on whetherpeople
can "change" their sexual orientation - if it
is based solely on their testimonies. Yet
this is exactly what psychologist Dr. Robert
Spitzer did. Moreover, many ofhis 200
subjects wereinvolvedupon the referral of
several virulently anti-Gay political groups.
Themostobvious flaw in Spitzer’ s study
was the clear role played by these groups.
The "ex-Gay" ministries referred 43% of
the subjl~cts to Spitzer. The anti-Gay National
Association for the Research and
Therapy of Homosexuaiity referred 23%.
"His sampling method was totally inadequate,"
Dr. Lawrence Hartmann, a professorat
Harvard and alongtime researcher
on homosexuality told Newsday. A year
ago, the Human Rights Campaign urged
Spitzer in a letter to use objective physical
measures in determining whether his subjects
were still attracted to the same sex.
Why did he decline? Spitzer and others
claim that the new study shows that sexuai
orientation in "highly motivated" people
may be changeable.
But the results show quite the opposite.
Even though study participants were a
hand-selected sample of activists - with
78% having spoken out publicly about
~onver~ion therapy - only .17% of the men
and55%ofthe womencharacterized themselves
as 100% heterosexual after at least
five years of therapy. Additionaily, 56%
of the men and 18% of the women still said
they fantasized about the same sex.
Anti-Gay activists have long claimed
that tens of thousands of people have gone
from Gay to straight. But after a review of
the most "’successful" 200 cases, it is clear
that the failure rate of conversion therapy
is high. This is why Spitzer acknowledged
having "great difficulty" in finding nonreligious
therapists able to refer clients
whom had successfully changed their
sexual orientation.
Another study by Ariel Shidlo and
Michael Schroeder, represents a more realistic
picture of conversion therapy efforts.
TheNew York psychologists studied
202 subjects who tried to change their
sexual orientation, and found that 97%
failed to change in any meaningful way.
And of the 3% who claimed to have fully
changed, all but one work as "conversion"
counselors.
Until society is freefrom anti-Gay prejudice,
people will feel compelled or be
coerced into attempting to change. While
new research on this controversial subject
is welcome, Spitzer’s study does not further
enhance the current debate. It only
offers a view that is long on right-wing
influence and short of objective data.
by Lamont Lindstrom
Here is a childhoodmemory: Iamriding
the bus to school - fifth grade, I think. I’m
relaxed, looking about here-and-there: At
other kids, out the window, at myself refleeted
in the window, and
- oh my god! - I’m wearing
a yellow shirt! And it’s
Queersday! Thursday, that
is. I can’t anymore remember
all the indignities, but
friends and enemies used
hands and tongues to reprimand
me for breaking one
of the sacred rules of
schoolyard society: Only
queers would wear yellow
on Thursday.
We followed a complicated
and often cruel kid
culture full of beliefs, rituals,
and regulations. These
rules starkly delineated the
normal from the abnormal,
the acceptable from the
forbidden. Many focused
on appearance. Boys cross
their legs at the knee, gifts
at the ankle. Boys carry
books at the side, girls
complicated and often
cruel kid culture furl of
beliefs, rltuals, and
regulations... Many
focused on appearance.
Woe was he, or she, who
failed to monitor the
body... It is an easy
guess that playground
taboos refleet children’s
attempts to grapple with
gender... [trying to fit]
ourselves into an adult
world of maseuline
and feminine...’"
cuddled in front. Boys do not stand with
hands on hips akimbo. Woe was he, or she,
who failed to monitor the body.
Schoolyard surveillance was. painstaking
if sometimes quirky. Be cai~ful not to
wear a shirt with a little loop in the middle
of tim shoulders. Playground police’would
rip off these fruit-loops just as they did the
fagtags on Polo shirts. And when I made it
to high school, the heavy question was
which ear to pierce. Boys who pierced
their right ears were likely fags. Left, we
all knew, was right.
Folklorists have recorded many similar
elements of kid lore around America.
Queersday still exists, although the day in
question differs from place to place, as..
does the tabooed color (yellow or green in
some towns, and redin others) Itis aneasy
guess that playground taboos reflect
children’s attempts to grapple with gender.
All of us experienced the challenge of
fitting ourselves into an adult world of
masculine and feminine. We had to be
boys or gifts. Anything in-between was
to(~ upsetting to contemplate. It could imply
that those vital categories, male and
female, weren’t as solid as we needed to
believe they were. Rather than doubt our
categories, we witch-huntedfags and dykes
- failed boys and inadequate gifts.
Folklorists al so collect elaborated, adult
versions of schoolyard culture Jan
Brunvand, for one, has published a series
of collections of urban legends. These are
stories, presented as the truth, that circulate
by word-of-mouth and, increasingly,
over the Internet. (Several excellent
websites, including www.urbanlegends.
corn andwww.snopes2.com, track
new legends and also maintain story archives.)
Just as playgroundfolklorereflects kids’
gender anxieties, we can suppose that urban
legends similarly express areas of
ambiguity and disquiet in everyday American
life.
Accounts of Kentucky-fried rats, for
example, are plentiful: couple goes to fastfood
chicken joint, drives through, buys a
bucket, and chows down. Wife says, "Gee
honey, my chicken tastes
funny !" Husband turns on
light and both are shocked
to see thatWifehas chewed
through hunk of rat, tail
still hangs from the breading.
Couple rushes io lawyer
and sues chicken joint
for XXXX dollars.
A pervasive feature of
contemporary American
life is that we eat food
cooked by strangers (and
poorly paid strangers, at
that). The rat story, and
many similar, reflect and
express the anxieties that
fast food engenders.
Similarly, stories of
poodles in the macrowave
shadow worries about technology
we neither understand
nor completely control:
old lady who on rainy
days dries her toy poodle in
her oven gets new microwave as a gift.
Next time dog gets wet she pops it into the
microwave. Poodle explodes.
Computer virus hoaxes, or stories of
people having cybersex with someone who
mrus out to beMom or Dad, reflect similar
alarms about complex technology.
Many Americans also are worried and
disquieted by homosexuality. Not surprisingly,
their anxiety has sparked a genre of
Gay-themed urban legends. But notably,
there are not that many of these.
Snopes.com archives ouly five, and all
date back several decades or more. The
hoary legend of the horrified college student
puzzled by rectal pain who discovers
his roommate has been drugging him
nightly to have his way with hirn can be
traced back, in one form or another, to the
1880s.
Also decades old is the legend of the
rock star (Elton John, David Bowie, Mick
Jagger, Jon Bon Jovi, Li’l Kim, Britney
Spears, etc. etc.) who is rushed to hospital
after collapsing on stage to have [insert
your number here] gallons of semen
pumped from stomach.
Three other Gay-themed legends were
all first collected back in the 1980s: (!)
Guy goes home with woman who, playfully
it seems, ties him up. But then Batman
(or other masked person) emerges from
closet to leap his bones; (2) a movie will
-soon be released portraying Jesus as Gay;
and, perhaps the most notorious, (3) closeted
cdebrity has trouble with his gerbil.
But several newer legends have surfaced
that reflect fear of AIDS: AIDS
Mary or AIDS Harry - the trick who
disappears after writing "welcome to the
world ofAIDS" on your bathroom mirror;
and stories of AIDS-infected needles left
sticking out of theater seats or public telephone
change return slots.
We can hope that the decline of Gaythemed
urban legends see Studies, p. 11
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NOW... you are thinking, no way.., itis
about sex. Thanks to the media, we tend
to be an incredibly sexual society. Well
okay, sexuality has some to do with it too,
but it is only an expression of the feeling of
acceptance and security they feel in the
relationship.
What kind of behavior should be "socially
acceptable" for GLBT people? Or
better yet, what would the heterosexual
society find acceptable behavior?
"MEN will refrain from hugging, kissing,
or holding hands in public; firm handshakes
only. WOMEN will be permitted
to hug, and to kiss each other on the cheek.
ANY public expression of sexual or romantic
interest in members of the same
gender will be unacceptable. WOMEN
will shop in the Women’s Department at
Sears; men in the Men’s Department.
EACH woman will find aman to live with,
change her last name to match his, and
maintain their home. CHILDREN will be
optional, but encouraged."
So, how many heterosexuals do YOU
know that follow this .code of conduct? So
if we all acted that way, they’d love us..
yeah right. Whoever believes that, I would
strongly suggest to get out of your
"CandyLand" world of beliefs. But what’ s
so great about their rules that we should be
asking for permission to assimilate? Rules,
if they are not clear should be questioned
and changed, if need be.
Those rules say that men must be Men
and womenmust be Women (and children
are the property of biological parents).
They say that everyone should conform to
a standard code of conduct, dress, and
even beliefs. People who don’t conform
may (or may not) be tolerated, but will
never be treated like equals. As for sex..
the rules are both silly and oppressive, and
they’re observed with such hypocrisy it
isn’t funny. Can we say Neanderthal...?
I’m positive that these social standards,
right out of?Father Knows Best," refers to
are a limiting set of nfles: this is acceptable,
that is not. But for me, one of the
benefits ofbeing LesbianAND outspoken
has been that it made me question those
rules.., and ultimately reject those that
didn’t make sense. Don’t ask me to go
back to them; I’d rather go forward.
Rather than a rigid rule book, why don’t
we instead outline something positive to
aspire to? After all, if we must negotiate,
I’d rather do it from a position of strength.
.. of pride in the example we have to offer,
not one of shame and embarrassment.
Here is my revised, socially accepting
behavior for EVERYONE: "WE will accept
others, regardless of the way they
look, dress, talk, or act. WE will support
people’ s right to do whatever they want in
their bedrooms, regardless of whether we
want to do it ourselves. WEwill be honest
about who we are, rather than pretending
to be what others want us to be.WEwill let
people believe things we don’t bdieve,
and express opinions we don’t share. WE
will never negotiate away the righ( to be
whoever we are."
PS: Go visit a nursing home and make a
friend... STOP the abuse and neglect of
the elderly.
that the law cannot be enforced statewide.
"This is a good day for privacy and
fairness in Minnesota," said Charles
Samuelson, executive director of the
MnCLU. "By inviting the governmentinto
every bedroom in the state, this law was
dearly unconstitutional - which is why
the court struck it down."
Gov. Jesse Ventura agreed, his spokesman
said. "It’s consistent with the
governor’s philosophy that there are some
things the government has no business
making laws about," said John Wodele.
"He sees this as a welcome decision."
Rep. Phyllis Kahn, DFL-Mirmeapolis,
has tried unsucessfully more than once to
repeal the provision through legislative
channels. She had a bill ready again this
year, but never introduced it because she
was waiting to see the outcome of the court
case. "I obviously thinkit is terrific," Kahn
said of the ruling. "I always thought that
law was unconstitutional."
Tom Prichard, president of the Minnesota
Family Council, disagreed. "This is
another case of blatant judicial activism
where a judge decides to make the law
rather than interpret it," Prichard said. He
said the issue should be decided by the
Legislature.
Matt Coles, director of the ACLU’s
Lesbian and Gay Rights Project, says 35
states, including Minnesota, havehad their
sodomy laws either repealed by legislatures
or struck down by the courts. In
1961, all 50 states had sodomy laws on the
books. "One more down, 15 to go," Coles
said after hearing about ’the Minnesota
j.udge’s decision. "We absolutely are gomg
to stay with it."
Minnesota’s taw prohibits oral and anal
sex between any adults, including married
couples and disabled people who cannot
engage in any other form of intimacy.
Penalties include up to a year injail and up
to $3,000 in fines.
For years, efforts to repeal the law in the
state Legislature were unsuccessful.
Although sodomy laws are rarely enforced,
Coles says they can be used against
proponents ofdomesticpartners ordinances
and other issues sought by Gays and Les-
- bians. ’The people who want to keep the
(sodomy) law onthe book, there’ s amethod
to their madness," Coles said. "The existence
of these laws are used to generally
delegitimize Gays and Lesbians in public
debate."
indicates dissipation of public anxieties
about homosexuality - the gradual
mainstreaming of Gay. But wait! Have
you heard about-Yahoo! shutting down the
porno sites? Have you heard that Rock
Hudson and Jim Nabors were married?
lsa Oklahomans for Human Rights
presents
Celeb
Diversi-ty
ti 2001
Saturday, June 2, 2001
TOHR Follies 2001
"Hollywood TimeWarp"
~..:Avondale Studio & Theatre (the old Delaware Playhouse)
1511 So. Delaware Ave., 8pm
Reception immediately following.
Tickets: $15.00, At the Door: $20.00
The Pride Store @ Tulsa GLBT
Community Center; 2114 S Memorial
or by calling 918.743.4297 or toll
free (outside Tulsa) at 866.335.9074
Wednesday, June 6, 2001
Tulsa Interfaith Service
Sponsored by TU BLGT Alliance, Sharp Chapel, TU, 3pm
Monday, June 4, 2001
Council Oak Men s Chorale Concert.
Presented by Tulsa City/County Library
"Diversity in Song"
Aaronson Auditorium, Central Librarym 3rd.& Denver, 7pm
Monday, June 4, 2001
Family Law Panel
Presented by Tulsa City/County Library
Law Professor Linda Lacey& an expert panel
Helmerich Library, 91st and Yale, 7pm
Tuesday, June 5, 2001
APt Exhibit: ,"Embracing Art"
IAll Souls Unitarian Church, 2952 S. Peoria Avenue, 6-gpm
Thursday, June 7, 2001
GLBT Film Festival
Sponsored by Tulsa City/County Library
AaronsonAuditofium, Central Library, 3rd and Denver, 7pm
Friday, June 8, 2001
TOHR Diversity Gala
Benefiting TOHR and Diversity Celebration 2001
"Embrace Diversity" Parents of Hate Crime Victims:
Speakers and Parade Grand Marshalls:
Gabi Clayton, Olympia, WA,
Dorothy Holman, Chicago,
Don Sinclair, Houston, TX,
Carolyn Wagner, Fayetteville, AR
"Community Hero" Awards presentation honoring
those in the local GLBT community.
Tulsa Country Club, 701 N. Yukon Dr., 7pm, reception &
silent auction, 8pm dinner, $100/ea. $1,000 table of eight.
Sponsorships available. Reserved seating available by calling
918.743.4297 or 866.335.9074
Saturday, June 9, 2001
The Pride Parade
Cherry Street (15th Street) to Boston Avenue to
18th Street to Veterans .Park
Stags at 3pm, Float/marchers begin assembling at lpm.
No entries after 2:45pro
Featuring:Entries from across the region
Community Heroes, Oklahoma’s largest Pride Flag
Diversity Festival
Sponsored by: Bud Light & Eastern Oklahoma Beverages
Veterans’ Park, 1875 So. Boulder Ave., 3pm
Featuring Entertainment, Speakers, and¯ more.
Sunday, June 10, 2001
Women’s Tea Dance
Women only dance, DJ, and live entertainment by Melanie
Fry, pipe & cigar patio, unplugged music circle, and more.
Greenwood Cultural Center, 322 N. Greenwood, 3-Tpm
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Gay Students Start
LGBT Scholarships
NORMAN, Ok - The Oklahoma Lambda Intercollegiate
Coalition (OLIC) has announced the creation of
the Oklahoma Lambda Youth Scholarship which they
claim is the first such program in Oklahoma. The
Coalition is an umbrella network of Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual, and Transgender student groups from Oklahoma
colleges and universities.
According to OLIC spokespersons, Kent Doss of the
University ofOklahoma andMandy Whitten, the President
of University of Central Oklahoma Gay Alliance
for Tolerance and Equality (GATE), the purpose of the
scholarship is to promote pride in youth activism and
foster leadership at Oklahoma college campuses.
Oklahoma high-school graduates who intend to remainin
the state throughout their college careers will be
eligible for the $1,000 award. Applicants will be selected
according see OLIC, p. 3
Tulsa ChamberAdds
"Sexual Orientation"
TULSA - The Tulsa Metro Chamber, which recently
changed i ts namefrom the MetropolitanTnlsaChamber
of Commerce, also has revised its non-discrimination
policies to add the term "sexual orientation" to more
traditional statues like race, religion, age, national origin,
sex (gender), etc.
According to Michael Hightower, media spokesperson
for the organization, the .addition of "sexual orientation"
waspart ofacomprehensivereview ofChamber’s
internal policies. The Bank of Oklahoma’s Human
Resources Dept. conducted this effort for the Chamber.
This revision is part of a trend on the part of businesses
to attract employees by committing to fair hiring
practices. According to the Human Rights Campaign, a
Washington based civil right group, 494 of the Fortune
500 companies have added "sexual orientation" to their
policies. Anumberof majorTulsaemployers,including
American Airlines, Kimberly-Clark, AEP/PSO, Dollar/
Thrifty Auto Group, and others have done the same.
Kerry Lewis, president-elect of Tulsa/Oklahomans
for Human Rights (TOHR) expressed surprise and
applauded this Chamber move. TFN publisher Tom
Neal noted "as one of the few openly Gay members of
the Chamber, I am really proud to.see the organization
welcome us. We need to support them in return."
DIRECTORY P. 2
EDITORIAL P. 3
US & WORLD NEWS P, 4
HEALTH NEWS P. 6
ENTERTAINMENT P. 8
GAY STUDIES P. 10
¯ Serving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual + Transgendered Tulsans, Our Families + Friends
TMM’s Exclusion of
i oGfayDs iDscelriibmerinataetiAocnt ¯ Pastor Says "Sexual Orientation" Was ¯
Added But TMM Board Never Told
¯ TULSA - While the incident, a KKK visit, to which a local ¯
"diversity" statement sought io i’~spond is well past, the state-
" merit continues to brew controversy. Tulsa Metropolitan Minis-
" try, an "interfaith" religious organization issued a statement
-.¯ which defined Tulsa’s "diversity" as being composed of race,
religion andethnicity, without mentioning sexual orientation.
¯ Earlier, it appeared that the failure to mention "sexual orienta-
¯ tion"mighthavebeenanoversightbasedontheKKK’ s historical ¯
¯ attacks primarily on Jews and Blacks. However, in a return call
to the Tulsa Family News, the Rev. Russell Bennett of Fellowship
Congregational Church, UnitedChurch of Christ, stated that
¯ he participated in themeeting to draft the statement, and specifically
he called for the inclusion of "sexual orientation" in the
: statement. Bennett noted that he heard no objections to his
¯ request, and he said that he expected that "sexual orientation"
¯ would be included.
: Perry Simons, executive director of the Jewish Federation
¯ attended the meeting at Fellowship Congregational Church with
: Nancy Day of the National Conference for Community and
Justice, Dr. Sandra Rana, representing Tulsa’s Muslim commu-
: nity, the Rev. Clark Shackleford of Sand Springs, as well as
¯ Bennett. Andwhile Simmons says he does notrememberBennett
." calling for adding "sexual orientation," Simons says he feels he
¯ shouldhave raised theissue. Simons noted that Dr. Rana took the
¯ notes of what he described as a "stream of consciousness"
¯ discussion.
; However, the Rev. Radford Rader of College Hill Presbyterian
¯ and a-member of the T!VIM executive boardstated that the
¯ executive board never saw a version see TMM, p. 11
Michigan Elects First Gay Rep.
¯ LANSING, Mich. (AP)- Newly dected state House Rep: Chris ¯
Kolb heads to Lansing in January as the state’s first openly Gay
." lawmaker, but he said he has a lot more he wants to tackle than
¯ simply civil rights for Gay-people. Kolb, 42, admits his role is
; important, but it’s not his only focus. "I don’t wear it on my
: sleeve. I am who I am, but I don’t bring itinto every discussion,"
¯ he said of his sexual orientation. "It’s not my one and only ¯
crusade in life."
: The election of Kolb, a Democrat from Ann Arbor, puts
¯ Michigan among 22 states that have an openly Gay man or ¯
Lesbianin their legislatures. TheAnnArborcity councilman first
¯ got interested in politics after receiving his bachelor’s degree in
.. natural resources from the University of Michigan in 1982. He
¯ started with local government, distributing campaign literature
¯ and knocking on doors for candidates. After serving as aprecinct
¯ captain and secretary of the local Democratic Party, he won an
¯ open seat on theAnnArbor City Councilin 1993. Eventually, he ¯
became mayor pro-tern.
2 " Working on the Democratic-controlled council with former
." Ann Arbor Mayor Ingrid Sheldon, a Republican, has already
¯ helped Kolb learn to forge bipartisan alliances, a key skill in the
¯" state Legislature. Sheldon admits she and Kolb were competitors,
but said he never made his sexual orientation an issue. "You
¯ do not think ofhimas being the stereotypical Gay person inAnn
Arbor," Sheldon said. "He’S a regular person the way you or I
." would want to be relating to a person."
Kolb said he will work at improving the state of civil and
human rights in Michigan,but he’s also interested in tackling
¯ education and environmental issues. He wants to work on legislation
that would make it illegal in Michigan to fire employees
¯ based on their sexual orientation, something already prohibited
¯ in 11 states. "I’mnotkiddingmyself as to howfar theLegislature
will be able to be moved," he said. "But civil and human rights
: are along struggle."
¯ Kolb will be one of 14 new Democrats and seven Republicans
¯ to begin their first two-year state House terms inJanuary. He will
be seated across the aisle see Michigan, p. 3
I TOHR Celebrates
20 Years of Se.rvice
Only MCC Is Older ,n State
¯ TULSA- Itwas a different world then. Therewas no ¯
Will and Grace, few Gay or Lesbian images in print
¯ or on the airwaves, HIV was not yet discovered, and
¯ what was later called AIDS was just beginning to be
seen in New York City and San Francisco. The
¯ Stonewall Riots had only ocurred 10 years before,
¯ Gay people were still subject to arrests and harass-
" ment in most of the US, and world.
¯ In Oklahoma City, community activists began a
group calledOklahomans forHumanRights (TOHR).
¯ Tnlsans joined that group and then formed a Tulsa
; branch. This group lead by three Tulsa attorneys,
¯ Dennis Neill, Bob Inglish andMikeGreen and others ¯
later created Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights,
¯ Oklahoma’s 2nd oldest organization after Tulsa’s
¯ Metropolitan Community Church United.
¯ Twenty years later, the world has changed. Tulsa
¯
has support groups in the public schools for Lesbian
¯ and Gay young adults, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and
Transgenderedpeople are verymuchvisibleinAmeri-
¯" can media and society butTOHRis still here provid-
¯ ing community services as at the beginning with all
volunteer, staffing and not that many dollars.
¯ Longtime TOHRmember and former boardmere- ¯
ber Jonathan Stanley remembers being a member as
¯ early as 1980 or 1981, adding that he recalls Bob
¯ Inglish as president and meeting in a small upstairs
¯ room in Stonehorse, a building now known as the ¯
Consortium. A particularly vivid memory of those
¯ early days was the controversy whenTOHR rented a
¯ city pool for an event and cityofficials had the pool
¯ drained because Gay p_eopl_e_had, used. it..This was in
the very early days of AIDS when the disease was
associated exclusively with Gay men and little was
known about HIV transmission.
¯ During these years,TOHRhas provided a commu-
¯ uity information telephone line, civil rights advo-
¯ cacy, anonymous HIV anti-body testing (eventually
¯ with paid staff and HIV education outreach workers
¯ - a program which has spun off as the H.O.P.E.
¯ Testing Clinic), and for the last several years, a
¯ community center. The Center was in the Brookside
¯ neighborhood was first known as the Pride Center
¯ and featured a 5x8’ flag which flew over the building ¯
until it was repeatedly stolen. Now the Center is
¯ known as theTulsa Gay Community Services Center
: and has relocated to 21st & Memorial (2114 So.
¯ Memorial), ironically sharing a wall with one of ¯
Tulsa’s oldest Lesbian bars, TNT’s.
," However, TOHR president Greg Gatewood and
; the proposed new officers, Kerry Lewis, president,
¯ 1st v.p. Vance Reed, 2nd v.p. Don Glass, secretary ¯
Curtis Evans, and treasurer Beth Persac, are hoping
¯ the current location will be a short-term one. TOHR
¯ has announced a capital raising campaign, the Pyramid
Project, to purchase a permanent commtmity
." center.
." According to Gatewood, the Project has in hand ox
: in pledges and grants, $65,000 of their goal ot
¯ $250,000. And the organization has set up legal
restrictions such that all gifts to the Pyramid Projec!
¯ arerestricted to that useonly. Also, thoserules (whicl:
¯ were reviewed by outside legal counsel and CPA’s" ¯
restrict overhead expenditures to a maximum of
¯ and all labor for the project is volunteer.
: Gatewood notes that the organization is setting uI
web sites for TOHR and the Pyramid Projec
¯ (www.tohr.org and www.pyramidproject.org) whicl
¯ they expect to be available in mid-December.
." To celebrate the 20th anniversary of TOHR, th~
¯ group will hold a Holiday reception and silent auctiol
: on Dec. 10th from 4-7pm, see TOHR, p.
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Publisher + Editor: Tom Neal
Writers + contributors: James Christjohn, Karin Gregory, Barry
Hensley, J.-P. Legrandbouche, Lamont Lindstrom, Esther
Rothblum. Mary Schepers, Hughston Walkinshaw
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*OSU-Tuls~
seefrom anumber oflawmal~ers who signed
a letter earlier this year asking the state
Department of Education to invesugate
Grand Haven High School for allowing Gay
speakers to talk to students about being Gay
during "Diversity Days."
House Speaker-elect Rick Johnson, RLeRoy,
and~GOP Rep. Valde Garcia ;o_.[
DeWitt were two. of the nine. staie House
members who signed the iletter. Both,say,
they wi!l not have_any problems worki,r~g
with Kolb. The House will retain its 58-52
Republican majority when the new session
starts. "I don’t agree with the philosophies
of the Democratic Party, but that doesn’t
mean I don’t work with Democrats," Garcia
said. "Just because I don’t approve of his
lifestyle doesn’t mean I can’t work with
him."
¯
Kolb’s experience in government and
: ability to handle himself well even when
! others disagree with him will help him in
¯ Lansing, said Jeffrey Montgomery, executive
director of the Detroit-based Gay rights
¯ group Triangle Foundation. "He’s been
¯ aroundmany,many,,ch~lenging situations,"
.: Montgomery said. He s going to be able to
: handle ahar;dful ofignorantlegislators very
¯ easily."
¯ While Kolb believes the media makes a
¯ bigger deal about his election than anyone
: else, he knows his role~is important. He says
¯ the ultimate benefit of his election is as an
¯ example to members of the Gay community.
"Any young person, regardless of their
; sexual orientation, whohears about this will
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;.... Tiii~ii CommUnityCoil~ge Campuse~
~ *TulsaGay Community Center, 21st & Memorial 743-4297
; Unity Church of Clirigtianity,3355 s. Jamestown 749-8833
"BARTLESVILLE
"-B~fl~svill~Piibllc Library, 600S=. Johnstone 918-337-5353
TAHLEQUAH ..........
¯ Stonewall League, call for information: 918-456-7900
49-490t ¯ "’ realiz.e..that ~ere’s a world of opportunity,"
587 76?4.... he said..,~oo often, that s not the message
our community and others hear." . - , _.
749-4195
584-2325
425-7882
492-7140
582-3088
583-7171
¯ Tahlequah Unitarian-Universalist Church
¯ ~Country AIDS Coalition, POB 1570
¯ EUREKA SPRINGS, ARKANSAS ¯
Autumn Breeze Restaurant, Hwy. 23
¯
Jim & Breut’s Bistro, 173 S. Main
¯ DeVito’s Restaurant, 5 Center St.
¯ Emerald Raiiabow,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.
¯
JOPLIN, MISSOURI
¯ Spirit of Christ MCC, 2639 E. 32, Ste. U1.34
918-456-7900
918-453-9360
501-253-7734
501-253-7457
501-253-6807
501-253-5445
501-253-9337
501-253-2776
501-253-5332
501-624-6646
501-253-6001
501-253-4074
417-623-4696
* is where you can find TFN. Notall are Gay-owned butall are Gay-friendly.
Memorabilia from the years will be on display
as well as auction items from artists and
¯ merchants such as Antiquaries inTulsa, P.S.
, Gordon, DavidHoot, T.A. Lorton, Kathleen
¯ Pendergrass, Rand’s Art & Antiques, Mary
¯
Schepers and others. Curt & Marj’s Cater-
" ing will offer refreshments as may other
¯ Tulsa restaurants.
¯" On Dec. 1 lth, TOHR and PFLAG, Par-
¯
cuts, Families and Friends of Lesbians and
¯ Gays will hold their annual joint Holiday
potluck dinner at the Center at 7pm. The
: entree will be provided as will soft drinks
." and tableware. Attendees should bring veg-
¯ etables, salads and desserts and may call ¯
743-4297. to know which of those to bring..
¯ Gatewood also notes that planning for
¯ next year’s Diversity Celebration 2001,
¯ which includes the Parade, a post-parade ¯
¯ Festival and ablack-tie dinnerwill continue
a mid-January meeting. The precise date
¯ will be announced later, t 7pro. The entree-
¯. will be provided as will soft drinks and
tableware. Attendees should bring veg-
¯ etables, salads and desserts and may call the
¯ Center at 743-4297 for which of those to
¯ bring.
Gatewood ~so notes that planning for
¯ next year’s Diversity Celebration 2001,
." which includes the Parade, a post-parade
¯ Festival and ablack-tie dinner will continue
~ a mid-January meeting¯ The precise date
¯ will be announced later.
World AIDS Day
by Chris Labonte, semorpolicy advocate
Human Rights Campaign
As we commemorate the first World AIDS Day of the
21st Century,itis important to bothcelebrate our achievements
over HIV and AIDS and work vigorously to ensure
there will be continued success in thcfuture. With success
in treatments, we risk the danger of resting on our laurels.
Instead,:we :mus~ rededicate ourselves to building upon
these victories anff creating a future without HIV and
AIDS. ~People with the diseas~e live longer and healthier
lives yet the number of those’whbar¢ newly infected in
our country each year remains steady at 40,000.
The.new barrier to treatment andprevention is complacency.
It comes from a variety of places and appears in
many forms. New highly active antiretroviral therapies
have contributed to the welcome steep decline in AIDS
deaths in our nation. Media and advertising campaigns
for these therapies signal that one can live and should live
a robust and long life - you can go rock climbing, ski
down the highest mountain, and continue to do fulfilling
work. While all of this is true, they fail to mention that
these therapies require years of medication, multiple
dtses of pills each day - sometimes with possible side
effects- and all at a great expense.
This somewhat slanted view of our treatment success
may contribute to our prevention failure. Although gay
¯ and bisexual men hage made strides in reducing the
percentage of HIV infections attributed to male-to-male
sexual contact, men who have sex with men still account
for approximately 40percent ofnew infections each year.
By not recognizing the tree costs ofHIV infection, young
gay and bisexual men are engaging in risky behavior;
such as intentional unprotected anal andoral sex.Arecent
study suggests that the more optimistic memwere about
the new treatments, the less likely they were to use safe
sex precautions or limit their number of sexual parmers.
Moreover, existing health ~disparities among commm
nitieS of color tuake treatments particularly out.of reach
for them. For the first time, the numbek Of gay men fromcommunities
of color - African Americans, Latinos,
Asian Pacific-Islanders, Native American. and others -
outnumber the number of white gay and bisexual men in
new AIDS cases, according to the Centers for Disease
Control, the federal agency :primarily responsible for
prevention of HIV/AIDS. Prevention is also particularly
concerning with communities of color, where young gay
and bisexual men of color are often confronted with both
homophobia and racism. We must address this situation
immediately and offer prevention strategies targeted to
the unique needs of gay and bisexual men of color so they
¯ can also benefit from treatments available to others. We
also cannot ignore strategies that we know have been
successful in reducing HIV transmission in the past. Far
too often, policy makers ignore proven science to score
political points at the expense of peoples’ lives. Needle
exchange programs and abstinence are two of the most
vivid examples: Successful risk reduction programs also
save money on future treatment costs.
The CDC has set forth an ambitious goal to reduce new
HIV infections inour nation. In addition, the independent
and science-based Institute ofMedicine recently released
areport, "No Time to Lose," that supported the use of cost
effective methods of reducing HIV transmission, including
needle, exchange programs. A recent study from .the
Heury.J. Kaiser Family Eotmda_tign~f.o_und that p.arents
think schools should have more comprehensive sexual
education curriculum and cover topics that are not generally
covered, such as sexual orientation. Effective prevention
methods deserve support - both financial and
political support-from Congress, the administration, the
public health community, and other impacted communities.
We must strive to continue to find even better
treatments, furthe~ reduce the number HIV infections,
provide additional assistance to nations around the globe
and develop a vaccine within a reasonable time frame.
These goals are attainable. In a nation as wealthy and
creative as ours, we should expect nothing less.
¯ Tulsa Metropolitan Ministry: Gay People Need Not Exist
¯ by Tom Neal, editor &publisher ¯ committee process and edited out that inclusion. Because
It might come as quite a surprise to you to learn that there " of their and their organization’s past involvement in acts
are no Gay people in Tulsa. There are no Gay bars, no Gay " of anti-Gay discrimination, it looks like Dr. Sandra Rana
churches, no Gay households, no Gay parents, no Gay kids ¯ and Nancy Day of the National Conference for Commu-
- you get the idea. : nity and Justice wereresponsible.TMM’s executive board
At least that’s the message that Tulsa Metropolitan " never saw an inclusive version.
Ministry (TMM) is putting out. While"cel- This does not excuse the executive
ebrating" Tulsa’s "diversity" specifically,
claiming to "... support each other’s right
to live and prosper in this great community.
¯ ." TMM. somehow managed t3 "disappear"
Gay Tulsans.
Wehave long known that some groups in
TMM are deeply prejudiced against Lesbian
and Gay persons. Usually these people
are identified as Tulsa’S Muslim community,
some of Tulsa’s Black churches and
Tulsa’s Orthodox Christian commumty.
No matter how repugnant their views are
to us, morally and theologically, wehave to
¯ support their constitutional right to hold
: those views. But usually their objections
are to.-us having those basic civil rights
protections which they enjoy themsdves.
They want for it-to continue to be legal for
us to be firedfrom ourjobs, or thrown out of
our homes or have our children taken from
us. They have objected to characterizing
assaults on us as hate crimes, even if the
"... apologlsts for
TMM ma~e the
excuse that Gay
Tulsans have
to be sold out in order
to appease the Muslims,
or the Blaeh
churches
or the Orthodox.
Gay people are ashed,
again and again, year
after year, to go along
because some good
comes out of it..."
board. In this city, and in this time, it is
very hard not to know that Gay and Lesbian
people exist. But their oversight lacks
the malice of deliberate exclusion.
Many apologists for TMM make the
excuse that Gay Tulsans have to be sold
out in order to appease the Muslims, or the
Black churches or the Orthodox. Gay
people are asked, again and again, year
after year, to go along because some good
comes out of it.
But this statement goes too far. It demands
that we collaborate in the denial of
our own existence. And those.who sign it
knowing better, knowing thatTMM’s "diversity"
statement is profoundly a lie, are
no less collaborators with evil than those
who kept silent in the face of Nazi horrors.
TMMhas long tolerated a double standard.
Gay people are asked to recognize
that Tulsa Muslims and others are "funda-
¯ mentalists" and we are asked to tolerate
same act is a hate crime when they are the target.
: Butthey hadn’t before soughtto deny our very existence.
This is largely a symbolic act but in some ways, it is more
~ powerful than the others. Even when our fundamental civil
¯ rights are denied, we are atleast acknowledged as existing.
¯ Ironically, part Of the impetus for this "diversity" statement
was a visit by a particularly virulent part.of the Klu-
Klux Klan. Traditionally, theKKK’s principle targets have
b~nJews andBlacks.But as Gay and Lesbian people have
become more visible, we have been included very explicitly
in Klan hatred. This Klan visit was-no.exception. And
while the Klan did not forget us, Tulsds "do-gooder"
hypocrites pretend that we don’t exist.
Now not all of TMM’s members take this position.
Russell Bennett of Fellowship Congregational Church
sought to add sexual¯ orientation to TMM’s "diversity"
statement. But ina deeply disturbing and shameful action,
one or two commi ttee members appear to have violated the
to three equally weighted categories; community leadership,
scholastic merit, and financial need.
This year,the scholarship selection committee is .comprised
of a student representative from five of OLIC
campus organizations, and five OklahomaGLBT community
leaders..The chair-person of this year, selectiOn committee
is Whitten. The organizers add that applications will
be available Dec. 1st from our OLIC organizations, at the
Oklahoma City and Tulsa Gay Commlmity Centers and
online at www.geocides.’com/okolic/. Applications will be
due on Feb. 15,2001 and the winners will be announced in
late March.
Also, the Oklahoma ]mmbda IntercJall:egiate C0aii~0~
hold a fundraising reception in Tulsa Oli December 2’ls(
from7 - 10pm at thehome ofRick and Susan Doss in Tulsa.
Funds raised by this event will be used for the Oklahoma
Lambda Youth Scholarship. RSVP to 405-325-4452. A
donation of $25 is suggested.
The goals of the Oklahoma Lambda Intercollegiate
Coalition are:
I. Raising awareness of GLBT youth ~ssues within our
community, schools, and society;
II. Sharing information and resources in an effort to
provide the best possible programming for sponsoring
organizations;
their bias agaanst us even as Muslims, Jews, Christians,
and. Unitarians somehow manage to respect each other.
White supremacist groups, like the Christian Identity
movement and .others who use theology much like the
Muslims do to justify their prejudice, are not welcomed
into.TMM. Buta special place is carved outfor anti,Gay
prejudice,
It is finally too much. And it is time that good people
who know better stand up for their neighbors and friends
and families, ff this means that Tulsa cannot support its
real diversity, then at least we’ll be telling .the truth.
Muslim Tulsans might have to acknowledge that they
cannot object to anti-Muslim bias while oppressing Gay
Tulsans. Black Tulsans ought to know better..And Jewish
Tulsans mightneed to do for Gay people what was done
for them by non-Jews in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s,which is
to be vocally and visibly advocates for civil rights.
It’s time now for this change.
¯ III. Supporting a Queer youth movement to impact the
: politics of our state and nation;
¯ IV. Providing resources to the Oklahoma GLBT youth
¯ community including political and health education, a ¯
safe social environment, and an opportunity to cultivate
: leadership skills, and;
¯ V. Fostering the conception and growth of new GLBT
: student groupsacross Oklahoma.
¯ For more information, contact, Oklahoma Lambda In-
¯- tercollegiateCoalition 900Asp,OMU, P,m. 363,Box 169,
Norman OK 37019-4058 or telephone to.405-325-4452.
¯ www.geocities.com]okolic
i Stout Wins Okla.Mr.Leather
: T.U.L.S. A~ (Tulsa Uniform Leather Seekers Associa-
¯ .ti.’9fa):held the annual Oklahoma Mr. Leather contest
"! ~ O.cto~b_dr 20-22 at the Silver S’t~tr in Tulsa. Four Contestants
from the state competed in c~ate~ories that included inter,
view, streetwear, physique and full leather image. Seven
judges from the US and Canada judged the contestants.
International Mr. Leather 2000 Mike Taylor was among
the distinguished panel. Contestants were Jason Pelkey of
Tulsa, Jim Stout of Ramona, Stephen Scott of OKC-Mr.
Sooner State Leather 2000, and Mark Goins of Tulsa-Mr.
Tulsa Leather 2000.
The weekend event began with a tour of the local clubs
and Tulsa’s Gay Community Services Center. The interviews
were Saturday morning and the rest of the contest
was held that night. Stephen Scott was first runner-up.
Scout Troop Defies
National Anti-Gay Ban
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A second Rhode Island
Scout troop is defying the national organization’s ban
on homosexuals, Members, leaders, and parents from
Boy ScoutTroop 28 have sentaletterto the Narragansett
Council of Boy-Scouts saying they will ignore the
policy. The troopjoins Cub Scout Pack 88, which sent
a similar letter, The Providence Journal reported.
~
.The national policy is root~,in a 1910 oath that Says
Scofi~- ~’.st ke~p~el~s-~ ,.ni0ralty straigl~t:~’iThe
’ !. b~via’g tlplldld~y!th~ Siipr~aid CourtthisS~er,but
’"about ~:d~ozen~ trbb~ ~at~oflwlde have stud thaiwill
The leaders of Pack 28 said the words "morally
straight" have nothing to do with sexual orientation.
....’The oath didnotmean to banhomosextmls but to keep
.....on the straight and narrow and do what is right," said
Y"Allen M. Dennison, an assistant scoutmaster with
Troop 28, who has four sons in Scouting. Our assessment
of whatis right is that everyone be included, and
" that includes Gay leaders and Gay Scouts."
..... The Narragansett Council will forward the letter
fromTroop28to theBoy Scouts ofAmericaheadquar-
’ ters in Irving~ Texas, as it did with the letter from Pack
88, said state ¢o,.u~,ci! Spokesman David Preston.
Pack 88hash theard from the national Boy Scouts
regarding its status and calls to the Boy Scouts of
America were not returned. Officially, troops that
" ignore Scouting rule~ Will have their charter revoked.
To date, however, the Boy.Scouts of America has not
revoked thecharter of a troop or council for ignoring
.the banon Gays.
The ban made news inRhode Island last year, when
a 16-year-old Eagle Scout filed a complaint with the
Rhode Island Human Rights Commission saying he
was denied a job at a Scout camp because he is Gay.
Maryland Can Ban "
Anti-Gay Discrimination
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Gov. Parris Glendening~s
:plan to add Gays to Maryland’s anti-discrimination
law likely would not violate the First Amendment
guarantee of free exercise of religion, according to the
state attorney general’s office.
Assistant Attomey General Kathryn M. Rowe issued
the four-page legal opinion this week at the
request of-Delegate Sandy,I. Rosenberg, who is expected
to use it to counter religious-based arguments
-.. against the proposed legislation. "I did this so we
would have a:.iegal opinion on the matter instead of
rhetoric that is not precise," Rosenberg said. "In an
- issue as emotional as .this, everybody should do their
best not to misstate the law."
Rosenberg asked for the opinion after a representative
of the Diocese ofWilmington testified against the
governor’s plan at a public heating in Salisbury.The
diocese includes Maryland’s Eastern Shore.
The hearing was conducted by a commission ereated
by the governor to solicit testimony about discrimination
against Gays, Lesbians, bisexuals and
transsexuals "The teaching o.f the Catholic Church and
societal tradition does not accept homosexuality as a
legitimate lifestyle," the diocese said in a position
paper presented at the hearing.
Thepositionpaper alSO said the proposed legislation
"significantly and Wrongfully encroaches (on) the
First Amendment, free-exercise rights of religious
institutionsand ofpersons whose actions are dri-ven by
their religious beliefs."
In her opinion, Rowe said there wasprecedent for
laws with "the incidental effect of burdening certain
religious practices" - as long as the laws do not single
out one religion. There is also precedent suggesting
that the hiring of ministers would be exempt from the
proposed bill, Rowe said.
: Navy Ends Harrassment
: of Former Seaman ¯
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP)-A former midshipman who
: resigned from the U.S. Naval Academy amid accusa-
¯ tious ofhomosexuality won’thave to repay the govem-
~ ment for his education, the Navy has ruled/The deci-
¯ sion means that Tommie Watkins, 25, will not have to
." reimburse the Navy the $86,000 that covered his train-
. ing and tuition, plus interest.
i
Watkins, president of his classand an aspiring Navy
~ ~pil0t; ~s~id bewas pres’sured to. resign ~and did so
~ ~ beeau~e he feared ht~mophobia ’would preve~t him
~- fromreceiviffga fair trial:’After leaving, he acknowl-
-" edged being Gay. Officer trainees who drop out or are
¯ expelled during theirjtmior or senior years are required
¯ by Pentagon policy to repay the government for their
¯ education, either ~in cash or through enlisted service.
¯ The Navy’s Board of Correction of Naval Records
." said last year that he was a victim 6f,"error and
¯ injustice," and recommended the academy waive the
." payment. That decision was overruled in March by
." Carolyn Becraft, the assistant secretary ofthe Navy for
¯ manpower. Watkins sued, and on the day of the dead-
: line for the Navy to respond, his lawyer got word of the
: reversal.
." Watkins, who works in Miami as the project director
¯¯ for an AIDS and HIV ministry, called the decision
¯ "long overdue and totally justified." "It’s kind of
ironic, because the Navy says its core values are honor,
¯ courage and commitment," he said. "It seems like I had
_. to exhibit those qualities to win this case.’"
¯ Officials from the Naval Academy declined to com-
." ment on the decision.
¯ Iowa Order Banning Anti-
Gay Bias to Be Reviewed
¯ DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - It’s up to a Polk County
¯ district ,judge to rule on the legality-, of Gov. Tom ¯
Vilsack s’ci~il-rights order. District Judge Glenn Pille
heard lawyers’ arguments about the order during a
¯ recent hearing.
¯ Vilsack issued an executive order in September
1999, forbidding discrimination against Gays, Lesbi-
¯ ans and Transexuals in state government employment.
: The move sparked a legislative debate. Conservative
¯ legislators were particularly angry that the order ap- ¯
plies to Transsexuals. A majority of lawmakers voted
¯ to repeal the order, but Vilsack vetoed the legislation.
¯ Twenty-three legislators led by Republican Senate
¯ Majority Leader Stewart Iverson, challenged the order
¯
in a lawsuit filed in July. They said that Vilsack
¯ overstepped his authority and thathe, in effect, rewrote
¯ the law. ¯
Vilsack has said he is carrying out a state law
¯ providing equal opportunity in state employment to all
: persons. Iowa Deputy Attorney General Julie Pottorff
¯ represented Vilsack at the hearing. She said the dispute
¯ is a legal question, and that Vilsack acted within his
¯ auth6rity ensuring that legal protections apply to all
¯ executive branch employees. ’°-l’his is no more than a ¯
¯ political disagreement," Portorff told Pille.
Des Moines lawyer Mark McCormick is represent-
" ing the legislators and a former state employee. He
¯ argued at the hearing that the order infringes on the ¯
constitutional separation of powers and said "The
¯ governor has no power by- ~xecutive order to create
~ ¯ law." -
: Vatican in Tizzy About
¯ "Fake Marriages"
¯ VATICAN CITY (AP) - The Vatican has blasted
¯ lawmakers for givinglegal recognition to so-called"de
~ facto" unions - including those between Gays - and
¯ said attempts to allow adoption by Gays were "a great
danger." A 77-page document made public in Novem-~
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ber by The Pontifical Council for the Family was built
heavily around similar denunciations over the last few
years by Pope JohnPattl II.
Italian Gay groups, stung over the summer by the
Vatican’s moves to try to block Gay pride events in
Rome, denounced the latest pronouncement on homosexual
unions.
The Vatican’s council on family matters also presented
a proposal to make sex crimes against children,
including "sex tourism" exploitation, crimes against
humanity. But .the bulk of the positions ,pr.esented.
hammered away at unions betwb.en Gays as well as
legal recognition for.~tmm.arried hetgcosexual~couple~.
While not citing any particular, .country, thd .,Vatica.n,.
spoke of ’~great concern" aboutlawiiaakers’ efforts "in
many countries with an ancient Christian tradition" to
give legal status to unmarried couples.
Earlier this month, Germany.granted legal recognition
to Gay couples, following similar moves.ove~ the
1~ decade by other Western European countries.
" De facto unions ~e the result.of private behavior
andshoul’d remain 0ni~e pri~at~ 1,ev_el ," . the Vatican
said. It described as a ~erious sign, of.the-contempo,~
rary br0~tkd0wn in the s0dal an~ ~oral.conscilence,
political eftbrts tO give institutionalstatus to delfacto
couples. It Said attempts to legalize thead0ption of
children by Gay. ~Q~ple,s .added ’!an elemen_t.of ~reat
danger." - ..
NY Town offers: Benefits
GREENBURGH, N.Y. (AP) -The Gr.eenburgh Town
Board voted un’aJaim6u~ly" tO ’offer health-be]aefits to
same-sex domestic partners 0f municipal workers.
"We want to treat all our employees as if they’re
valuable to us," said Supervisor Paul.Feiner.
New Yoj~k ~stiite,. Ne~: Yori~ City;._a~nd/~Ve’stchester
CounU,.plus several ~orporation~,~.rpv.id¢~sach:benefits
to homosexual couples. Of Westchester s-municipalities,
only. Eastchester has..acted before
Greenburgh.
Under the measure;, which goesinto effect JnJanu-
..ary, an uumarried,.town, employee who.says-in an
affidhvit that he or she has hadan exclusive relationship
for a year can extend medical.and dental coverage
to\the partner. - " . )_
Phelps at Phillips Exeter
EXET.ER, N.H. (AP) - An anti-Gay ch~ch group
opposed to Phillips ExeterAcadem~~ s p0!~gy .alirwing
homosexuals to be dorm parents protested outside the
school recently, v~aving.signs with messages .that included:
’q’hank GodforA!DS." About adoZenfol!owers
of the Rev. Fred Phelps of the Westboro B.aptist
Church of Topeka~ Kan., ~rrivedat ~eS~hob’i~r’rund
noon after making similar demonstrations in’Ve~ont
and Maine earlier.
The, ,church members, oppose a measure Phillips
Exeter truste~.,S approved in May that al!0ws.Gay and
,,I~,.sbian faculty and staff to serve as dormitory parents.
’ it’s destroying the fabric0fthis nation~ the~r~ls/.hat
this nation ,does have," s,aid Sam Pheligs~Roper’~ the
Rev.Phelps grandson.".It saslippeDi~lopestraightto
hell and that’s where this.country is’headed. This is a
ing match toward the end, when a group of University
of New Hampshire students arrived to denounce the
church group.
"Relax! It’sjust sex," one student shouted. "I preach
God’s word." "You preach hate." But that’s an accusation
Phelps’ followers don’t deny. They maintain
that God hates homosexuals and will destroy any
society that condones homosexual behavior. ’q’he
Christian belief is rooted not only in the love of God,
but also the hate of God. You can’t have one without
,the. 9~er.,’~’. . .Pt!_dps-Roper said. "That is definitive.
Th,e~ is~no.question, that Gq~t!ha,t~s, p~9..p!e.]’, ,,
-~~W.~[bggQ Baptist ,O~,ur..ch ~s. ~gu,t 2Pq i~im~ers.
. They have picketed~a~ ~e fun~91s of. homosexuals,
including that of Matthew Shepard,.a Gay man.who
was brutally beaten and tortured in Wyoming in Octo~
ber 1998. "He’s in hall. And everyone else who.lives
daat lifestyle will likely be in he!! with him unle{s.they
repent," Phelps-Roper said. "Of ~.course, he could.have
repented, but there’ s a snowball’, s, chance of tha~;happening."
_.
¯ The Rev. Phelps did not attend, the demonstr.a_.tion.
~ His grandson said Phelps,:was .geeded back at his
¯¯ c,,h.t~h tominister But Phe!ps~Roper.saidthe growing
acceptance of homosexualit~ made,:their message to
¯ iEx~ter all the more importan.t. ’;7~..’s.isimportant ~tuff.
¯ This is a ,matter of life and ~death,’:etemRy h~-re,"
phelps-Roper said. "When G.0~as said something is
: ~.abomination, you don’t mes~.~ith it."
¯ Representatives of 14 churches from the region
¯ j6i]aekl the university students.i0PPosing Phdps? fol-
19wers. They said that thoug~flaey:don’t all agree on
¯ the moral status of homosexu~fity, they univers~ally
oppose Phelps’ message.
."While we recognize their, right, to express their
p,ersonal views freely concermngAcademy policy and
: ~e subjectin general, we take,~.trong exception to/heir
¯ rhe.t.ori9and signs denigrati.ng0~r~eighbors,,, the,Rev’
¯
¯ DanielWeaver of theExeterUnitedMethodistChurch
said: ~’We wholcheartedly agree:thathatr’ed, expressed
¯ or implied, as well as the adVo~icy br promotion of
¯ haff~lis anathema. It is certaird:y notitt the spirit of the
¯ v0~b~dsOf Jesus, ’Love your°neiIgl~bor~ as yourself."’
¯ Accused Murderers of
" Gay Man to Stand Trial
FAIRMONT, W.Va. (AP) =T.w,o,teen-agers will stand
: trial ear)y next year for the murder of a Gay black man
from.Marion County, a judg.e., ruled~ in November.
: David Allen Parker, whose lawyers may argue a di-
: minished .capacity defense;,is ser~ to stand trial in
¯ Becldey on Jan. 16. His co-defendarit, Jared Wilson.
¯ will l!0t be tried until February...... ¯
Par~er, 18, ofGrantTownan~tWilson, 18, ofFairview
: ar~’charged with first-degree.murder in the July 4
° beating death of Arthur "J.R." Warren. Police say the
teens pummeled the 26-year,old acquaintance with
: their fists and feet, then ran over him four times with
] Parker’s car to disguise his injuries as a hit-and-run.
¯ The assault allegedly began after ~Warren told others
¯" about a sexual relationshiphe claimed to have had with
: Parker.
~ Circuit Judge Rodney Merrifield said he will likely
message that they need." ¯ rule within 10 days whetherjurors at thetrials will hear
~ ~..m,,d~nts, at .tl],e neari~y,22Q=ye~o!d pri~vate ,high : the teens’ confessions. Defenselawyers argue sheriff’s
Schorl: apparently ~v~r~fi t irit~Stc;d~j~"h~g it~ ¯ deputies inappropriately obtained the statements the
Many students and faculty members_wore x~row- :, gtay, 9.t" Lhe_.murd,er,;an accusatton, the deputies have
colored pins, a symbol of support for homosexuals ¯ denied on the Witness ;/arid
Judy Quirm, spokeswoman for Phillips Exeter, said " Prosecutors say Warren’s DNA showed up in evithe
school’s roughly ’1,000 students decided not to
attend the~demonstration; and instead .-organized a
diversity celebration in another part of the campus.
"The values of inclusion and diversity have been
hallmarks of Phillips Exeter Academy since its formding,"
she said in a written statement. "The fact an
objection to these principles is what brings this group
to Exeter is indeed regrettable "
The otherwise peacefifl protest erupted into a shout-
: dence samples taken from the interior, exterior and
: undercarriage of Parker’s car, as well as on wood
: paneling and molding from the house where the bea~-
¯ ing began.
: Parker’s attorneys, Rebecca Tate and Stephen Fitz.
¯ also asked the judge for a delay so they could hire ~.,
~ expert to study their client for a possible diminished
o capacity defense strategy.
Bayer Seeks New
AIDS Treatments
BERLIN (AP) - Bayer AG, Germany’s
biggest drugmaker, said Tuesday it will
join the search fornew AIDS treatments as
part of a shakeup of its drug research
activities: The Leverkusen-based company,
best-known for developing aspirin,
will look for substances effective against
resistant viruses, said Wol,fgang Hartwig,
head of research in’Bayer s pharmaceuti- :
cal busine.ss group. The company declined
to specify:how muchit will invest in AIDS
research. In 2000, it budgeted a total of 1
billion euros ($845 million) for research
and development.
Bayer said it expects to identify the first
substances suitable for precliuical HIV
testing within two years. Pharmaceutical
research will in the future be focused on 13
fields, including seeking new treatments
in urology, Alzheimer’s dementia and
Parkinson’ s disease. Bayer saidit will stop
its research activities for osteoporosis, fibrosis
of the liver and stroke.
Key Protein in
AIDS. Virus Found
WASHINGTON (AP) - A protein that
does housekeeping chores inside cells plays
a key role in spreading the AIDS virus to
other cells of the body, researchers report.
In studies appearing in the Proceedings of
the National AcademyofSciences (PNAS),
researchers say that _HIV, the AIDS’virus,
uses a group of proteins, called
proteasomes, to assemble new viral partitles
and to spread those new particles.to
uninfected cells.
Ulrich Schubert of the National Institute
of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
(NIAID) said test tube studies show that
blocking the action of the proteasome proteins
can reduce the spread of HIV infection
by about 98%. Schubert, the first
author of one study in PNAS, cautioned
that the research was conducted only in
test tubes and it is not known if the
proteasome inkibitors would work against
HIV in humans. "We would never inject
this drug into an HIV-infected person because
we do not know what would happen,"
said Schubert.
Theproteasome inhibitors will be tested
in monkeys before any human tests are
considered, and those animal studies could
take months, he said.
Dr. Jonathan W. Yewdell, a NIAID researcher
and a co-author of the study, said
that althoughinhibitingproteasome shows
promise as a strategy for treating HIV, "it
is possible that it may not have any effect
at all." He said the proteasome function is
essential for healthy cells and that a drug
thatblocks thatfunction could affect every
cell in the body. "It is possible that the
HIV-infectedcells will be more sensitive
or that there are effects against the virus
before" the healthy cells are affected, said
Yewdell.
Yewdell and Schubert said cancer researchers
are experimenting with
proteasome inhibitors for the treatment of
prostate cancer and early studies have
shown no side effects in cancer patients.
The drug, however, has not been used in
HIV-infected patients, they said.
Proteasome’s job inside the cell is to
identify and destroy old or unneeded proteins.
Another PNAS study, by researchers
at Pennsylvania State University, suggests
that amolecule calledubiquitinplays
akeyroleinhow viruses use theproteasome
function in a cell to make new viral partitles.
Still another PNAS study, by researchers
from the Dana-Farber Caneer Institute,
Harvard Medical School and the University
of Padua in Italy, also demonstrates
that ubiquitin plays a role in HIV particle
formation.
HIV spreads its infection inside thebody
by forcing white blood cells, called CD4s,
to make new viral particles. These partitles
are released from the cells and can
then infect other cells, spreading the infection
throughout the body.
The final part of this virus-making proeess
is called budding. During budding, a
new viral particle wraps itself in a membrane
from the surface of the infected cell
and completes its development. When the
budding process is completed, the virus
particle is released and can then attach to
an uninfected CD4 cell and continue to
spread the infection.
The researchers found that HIV uses the
proteasome molecules, particularly
ubiquitin, to complete the assembly of a
new viral particle at the cell membrane.
When the pro.teasome action is blocked,
HIV particle formation is crippled, they
found.
"Inhibiting proteasome causes fewer
viruses to detach from the cell and what
viru~ is madeis notas good," saidYewdell.
Proteasome is most active in the budding
phase of making a new HIV viral
particle. It is different from protease, an
enzyme that helps the HIV virus assemble
precursor proteins into active proteins.
Some HIV drugs, called protease inhibitors,
work by blocking the action of the
protease enzyme.
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¯ Leftover Medicines
Help in Haiti + More
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - The jar of
AIDS medications that Moses Alicea
plucked from among pill bottles and vials
spilled across the table were bound for the
dump - worthless in the United States. But
in Haiti, where the lifesaving drugs will be
sent, they are priceless. The medications -
about $20,000 worth of protease inhibitors
that can suppress HIV and prevent
progression of AIDS - will be sent to the
Western Hemisphere’s poorest nation to
help people who would otherwise never
receive the treatment.
At the root of the salvage effort is the
vast gulfbetween availability of the medications
in affluentcountries tike the United
States and developing countries like Haiti.
"This is importantbecause there’s peqple
living with HIV who can’t get the meds
like we do," said Alicea, 36, who gave his
ownleftoverAIDS medications. "ffI can’t
use them, somebody else can. There’s alot
of stuffoutthere that’ sjustbeing dumped."
Some 95% of the more than 33 million
people with HIV and AIDS in the world
are in poor countries, according to the
World Health Orgamzation. In those regions,
the so-called drug "cocktails" -
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q P Medical Excellence-Compassi’onate Care
whichcan costupwardof $20,000 per year
in the United States -are about 30 times
the average monthly income and far out of
reach for most people, according to the
group Doctors Without Borders.
The issue of global drug acess has becomeheated.
Protesters doggedVice President
A1 Gore last year about drug prices in
Africa, and the issue is apriority for institutions
like the World Health Organization
that are trying to combat the disease.
Clients of the group Cambridge -Cares
About AIDS are collecting the drugs from
friends and family members - even from
their own medicine cabinets. Most of the
donated drugs are left over when a person
with AIDS switches drug regimens because
of debilitating sitle effects. Since
last December, the group has delivered
some $200,000 worth of medications to
Parmers in Health, a Boston-based organization
with a clinic in Haiti which distributes
them to people with AIDS and HIV.
Partners in Health executive director
Dr. Jim Yong Kim said between 50 and
100 people in Haiti are regularly receiving
the medications gathered by the Cambridge
group. But there’s an enormous
unmet need that this effort cannot even
begin to solve without global attention -
and a global solution- to the drug crisis, he
said. "This is now an absolute disaster and
an absolute crisis," Kim said. "It’s a moral
problem, but it’s also an economic and
political problem.’"
TheWorld Health Organizationhas protocols
for donated drugs. But the organization
does not have separate guidelines for
AIDS medications, which generally involve
complex daily regimens of 15 to 20
different pills that require close medical
supervision. And the medication supply
must be consistent, because interrupting
the regimen can result in the HIV virus
becoming resistant to treatment.
Only a handful of groups send unused
AIDS drugs overseas. Kim said agencies
like his are "writing the book" on salvaging
AIDS drugs. There is no agency overseeing
the practice, no way of knowing
how common it is or whether groups are
adhering to WHO guidelines for drug donations,
according to Michael R. Reich,
acting chair of the Department of Populationand
International Health at the Harvard
School of Public Health.
But he said that while donations will
never fill the need for drugs in poor countries,
this effort highlights the problem.
"Troubling questions arise from gaps in
access," he said. "Haiti is a country with
extraordinary needs for good drugs, and
donations provide a mechanism for trying
to address the gap."
James Russo, spokesman for the Partnership
for Quality Medical Donations, an
organization composed of drug companies
and non-govemmen.tal organizations
thatTdistribute free drugs o~¢erseas, said it
is a"perfecfly reasonable and understandable
and decent thing to do."
Such donations may not technically be
legal, because the recipient is not the person
for whom the drugs were prescribed,
he said. But if the drugs are properly used
and distributed, thenpublichealthbenefits
override such legal issues. "The fact that it
needs doing is, to me, a tragic observation
about the state of public health policy," he
said. "Nothing but good can come from
¯ something like this."
¯ Sitting beside Alicea, Katherine Gaynes,
: 54, takes a thick marker and strikes from a
¯ bottle the name of the original patient, the
¯¯ doctor who made the prescription and the
pharmacy that filled it so the pills cannot
¯
be traced back to the original recipient.
¯ She said the huge overseas need for medications
frustrates her, but she’s glad she’s
¯
been able to do some good. "If the rest of
¯ the world doesn’t get better, then it doesn’t
; get better for us," she said. .
¯ Rise in HIV in Gays
And Natives Feared
¯ TORONTO (AP) - New numbers on HIV
infections in Canada point to a worrying
: trend away from safe sex in some segments
of the Gay community and a steep
¯ increase of infections among FirstNations
¯ people. The number of new infections
¯ amongmenwho have sex withmenjumped
¯ by 30% from 1996 to 1999, according to
¯ the latest report on HIV and AIDS preva-
¯ lence issued by Health Canada. The hum-
: ber of new infections among Aboriginal
¯ Peoples rose 91% over the same period.
: Some headway hadbeen made over that
: time in cutting the number ofnew cases of
_" HIV infection among injected drug users,
¯ the report said, noting the number of new
: cases declined 27% last year over 1996.
¯ "But no sooner did we do that than Gay
: men are starting to rebound again," Chris
¯ Archibald, Health Canada’s chief of HIV/
¯
AIDS epidemiology and surveillance, said
: from Ottawa on Thursday.
¯ Before 1996, Health Canada reported a
¯ steady drop in the number of new cases of
¯ HIV among Gay men, the population most
ravaged by HIV and AIDS. Gay men accounted
formore than 80% ofnew cases in
: 1981-83; by 1996, they made up less than
¯ a third (30%) of new cases of HIV infection.
Archibald said the upward trend has
¯ VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -
." A group of health-care advocates and in-
. jection drug users is aiming to make
Vancouver the first city in North America
to offer addicts a safe site to inject drugs.
¯ Whether the facility is a"hole in the wall"
¯ or a comprehensive health center will be
." determined by funding, says the Harm
." ReductionActionSociety, whichreleased
¯ its pilot project proposal last month.
." The society would like to have support
¯ from all levels, "but let’s get this straight,
we are going to do it," said board member
Dean Wilson. "One way or another, there
¯
will be such a facility or facilities," said
Ross Harvey, the executive director of the
¯ B.C. Peoples with AIDS Society.
The society would like to have a facility
¯
open before Valentine’s Day. The group,
¯ formed earlier this year, recently sent con-
¯. sultants to Frankfurt,Germany,where they
visited five sites set up in 1994. The city
¯
released proposal recently that included a
¯ safe-sites proposal,butMayorPhilipOwen
¯ rejected the idea, saying it would be a
magnet for drug addicts.
¯ also been reportedin the United States and
." the Netherlands.
Vancouver Looks
At Injection Site
sung. And the lyrics aren’t too bad, either.
He’s been performing since he was 6,
and appeared in the film "Latin Boys Go
To Hall" singing a song
"... Siegfried and Roy
have never been involved
..m ~r~ming
an.i.~.ii.a.lk. i"n the’ ir h,2ves.
They mold things around
the personality
of their animals."
And maybe, if the rest of.
us learned’ thattriek -
love ~hOUt
the ne~ for~.e~ntrol -
we’d h~ve better
ofhis owncomposition.
He’ s played some ofthe
most resi~ected venues
in NYC to critical acdaini.
’ ~
He ~is also named
by HXmagazine as one
of the ten hottest menin
NY. Judging from the
press photos, I’ll second
that. He’s currently
working with song-
.writer DesmondChilde,
knowi~ for being a
’ hitwriter forRickyMar-
.... ~ tin,Ch~,.and Ma~10nna.
He’il surprise you.
YOu’.dnever .guess he
was anice.Jewish bpy
relationships as well . frOmNew York - he~s ---got: that ~0ul sound
by Jim Christjohn, entertainment editor
Merry Yule and Winter Solstice, everyone!
This year has moved fast - hard to
believe we’ll be starting
a new millennium
soon. Hope everyone
h~ a ha~pp.y hoR.day.
~. ~- ~l~a ’frijOl, ~-Jim~
’ Brf~l~iffa~ ~rbtflrh~:t~o
Tut~d D~em6~r~5~il fdt
a a romantic ,evening bf
musicandfun. Ifyou’ve
?iaot seen his show be-
7~ore, .or
~ ing, it s well worfla it.
i?And he’s:iher~ ~ith
¯" ~onny oshioiia,’W~Ch
~’should
7~I’11 miss John Trbnes, a
i, family m.-..~~m~l~ ,~ho
~’ was here~th
year, but"J~bgt Doimy
does a grea~jdb ~i~the
songs. Ji~ can~take a
huge thOt~.~d make
. it seem
" room, and :he’s gOkgcous to boot - very
handsom~],~,Sf;.~tl~6~:~;i~uals are as good as
’the musi.~;.ye~, ~I,know...you really
" didn’t exp~t ~e t
without .mgn,ti.0~ngl something like that,
did you?.~tf!~y!~mmended; especially
as an earl~’. Yule gift for that sigfiffieant
other. 596~7111:fo fix.
If yo~J;~:i’6bidiag for nifty gffties of an
entertaiifi~ s0~t,’I have a few recomme,n,-
dations: Fir~ oifth~’list is "Chicken Run’,
just outOgDVD~dVHS. TheDVDis the
preferencehe~e, due to the fun extras they
threw ina~d the".claance to see the film as
it was preSgntetion screen, instead of only
half the.p.ivRtr¢fformatted to fit your TV)
on the VHS version. There’s two documentaries
9n ..tal.ent and how they made.
those chickens ttm; and it’s fun to see thecast
men~!~erswfiose ,v,oices you hear. And
it is so eff.~ecti~e.you I1 never eat chicken
pot pies again:-’ Favorite line: Ging,er
Chickefi,.:~.’.fig’ to explain why they re
having ~toi~i~aS escaping the chicken
farm/pfi~on"~to g doubting member of the
flock, says’ Do’you know what the problem
is? ~[]ie:fe~i~S.. aren’t just ’round the
farm, they’reuphe~e-in yourheads !" The
other chick~ep!ies,"Aw, give it up, ducks.
There’s.amillion toone chance we’ll ever
get out of her,e:, Ginger, mustering up thelast
bit of hope she has (All done with the
eyes), rep!iles, "Well . . there’s still a
chance then." And then there’s Nick and
Fletcher, a pair of rats who have a rather
mteresturg relataonship... And that s al
I’ll say about that, except I am surprised at.
a: c"ertai.n::’a:c"t.lw.?s~t2m. :t~o:,w~n; w;~ho~ di¯ dN, O""T"~fi.1re
~ff a s~i-ies:.6fl6tters aboi~t Gay i~dople"
being represented as rats... Even though
they’re really cute rats, in that rat-like
way, and help the chickens to escape.
A new artiste on the Gay scene, Ari
Gold, has a new CD out, and unlike many
artists capitalizing on the "I’m Gay and
out, so even if I suck, you should still buy
my stuff", it’s actually a really good CD,
filled with dance grooves and soulful ballads
that are slickly produced and well
down. He deserves our
Support, because he dell,v~rs.the goo~s:
Mostpr6moCDsfrom Gayarfists ’end
UPas coastdts 6tmini-frisb.ees. This one’s
akeeper. Great for dancing and romanc¯
ing, I give-it fivesnaps. He’ sgot awebsite:
WWW.ARIGOLD.COM
¯ For those~vith.cabl~;~the’Americanized
¯ ,)ersion of the British series "Queer as
~ ’ .F01k" begins airing On Sh0w~me Decem-
~ her 3rd. For.those Without c,],,ble, fihd a
¯ ’ friend that has ~it,; The~iow delivers a
:" Slice of.gffy life~th~t’ ~ ~corn~ellitag, ~pto-
,)ocative, and unlike any showyou’ll see.
For 22 riveting episodes, these unforgettable
men.andw0in~nr~veal tfiemselves -
i:eally reveal themselves - as no TV characters
ever have." Well,Iknow some folk,-
who are queer, who~ve seenthe original
British series, and if it’ s kept intact and not
Americanized todeath, it sh.ould be good.
: Happyw~ffChing!
.... " Open now is a duo offeline proportions
¯ ."in "Siegfried and Roy: The Magic Box."
i Now, I wonder if .we get to find out just
.*. :Who has that’magi box? "Siegfried and
: ’Roy: The Mhgic B6~" i~an’iMAX biopic
¯ ~Which includes’their Las V~gas a~t~ well
¯ as abiographical storyin-azstory ofhow
.’- the two men met .-as-boys in war-tom
¯ Germany, combining a love of magic,
’ ~animals, and each other to become the
." "world’S greatestillu~R~nistS."
¯ Anthony Hopkins Narrates the story of
¯ the two boys who meet on a cruise ship ¯
(oh, the fodder for puns that provides) and
~ form "a differen,,t kind of i~agic act using
¯ exotic .snimals, .: an~" als0 ~"forni ~an~ .ex-
¯ -ty.~me|y lohg ~erm ~-ela~o~s~i~. oli, the
~° :jokbs that come tomind. So much material
¯ to work with, so little space.
¯ Actually, they have my admiration and
¯ all due respect. To work and live together ¯
as long as they have and not to have killed
" each other in the process, and to have
¯ remained together, is no easy task. I have
¯ heardthem speakofthat, andhow attimes,
. you just wanna kill your parmer, but un-
" derneath it all is the love that keeps you
¯ working together - see Amuse, p. 10
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GEls, have you ever had that Gay male
friend who does everything with you? A
Will to your Grace?AJack to your Karen?
The oneman-for some of you, theONLY
man - to whom you’d tell your secrets?
Who is warm, caring, loving,
a great listener, and in
many cases,has betterfashion.
sense than you? The
one man you can talk to all
night long? That guy who
will, even across the miles,
allow you to cry on his
shoulder about your girlfriend?
And you still remember
your own tearstained
shoulders from
when he knocked on your
door at 3 a.m. Most ofus, if
we’re lucky, have a guy
who would be the perfect
partnerforapolitically correct"
family value" couple
if he became a woman and
we became a man.
ButI’m nottalking about
him here. This is another Gay man who
possesses none ofthe abovequalities. Sure,
he can be a nice guy- whenhe wants to be.
And he DOES have better fashion sense
than I, although that’s no stretch. Butwhile
I embracedmy.Gayness before embracing
another woman, he did his embracing, and
whatever rise (eeeewww!) earl~, on, and
never really learned to enjoy being Gay.
"How sad," you might say. Don’t feel
sorry for him. Especially when you find
out where I’m spending my days lately.
Great house, DirecTV, MUCH cleaner
thanmy place, and the perfect party home.
I had become - how shall I say? - financially
non-existent and couldn’t pay my
rent (sounds like a musical, doesn’t it?).
My friend - let’s call him Vincent - offered
to put me up in his house for a few
months. OK, let’s talk realism. He was
looking for someone to help him with the
house payments. I would get oneroom and
a bathroom, as opposed to my car. Most
people in my situation wouldjump at this
arrangement. Although it .would save me
$400, the cost in psycffiatric visits overmy
lifetime would soon absorb the savings.
Let’s just say that we were the other"Odd
Couple." Picture a much more obsessive/
compulsive, anal retentive Felix Unger,
who is also emotionally constipated, and
you have Vincent. You’re not where I am
now, and I hope you never are. Let me tell
you how I got here through a progression
of nightly entries.
¯DAY ONE - Got to Vincent’s house
about 10:45 tonight after work. I can already
tell our work schedules are going to
conflict as he made a great show of"having"
to be up this late. This was HIS idea,
remember. He showed me the alarm system.
God, it feels like Fort Knox in here,
motion detectors and all. He also gave me
an extra key and garage door opener. It all
feels so official. This IS just a trial run,
after all. I’m relegated immediatdy to my
room, as small as a nun’s cell. He said I
could have one piece of furniture, but
there’s no room for anything else. i’ve
¯ been calling and calling my girlffien.: all
: night, getting nothing but a busy sig:m!
: That makes me anxious and frightenex~, se
: I tall Vincent what’s going on, hoping to
¯¯ get some sympathy. While I try to hug ¯ : : ~, : :, "ra.m,.~.com.p~,.a~ps.....Oh
"...G~gr~|s,. ,halve you no," in’d very pugquttbhe
of voi~qe; his~us~tml t0ne. He e erMd Gay pU s n< "ar0 a.me
male friend whodoes VERY gingerlg: try’ing to
everythln~ with you?
A Will to
your Grace?
A Jack to
your Karen?
The one man - for
some of you, the
ONLY man - to
whom you’d tell
your secrets?.. ?’
much me as little as possible,
as if I’m a Lesbian
leper. After he leaves, I get
into the closet (I thought
I’d left that for good!) so as
not to wake him, and call
my friend Jim. He gives
me a bigger hug over the
phone from Tulsa than I
got from Vincent. I pull
out my CD player and listen
to Melissa Etheridge
(who else?). Somehow it
makes me feel dominant.
DAY TWO - After dedaring
thatmy alarm woke
him from the other side of the house, he
leaves. Now I can walk aroundlike I want.
Ooops! I forget that he leaves the kitchen
blinds open. Well, his neighbors will just
be confused. They thooght they were living
near a Gay man!.Oa my way to work,
I find my girlfriend has called to let me
know she’s all right, which should put me
at ease, but the thought of having to live
with Vincent depresses me. It already feels
like I’m giving upmy life to live according
to his schedule. WhenI arrive at his house,
I’m in less than a pleasant mood. Anger
sets in when I realize that I forgot to tape
"Will and Grace." It doesn’t help that
Vincent goes on andon abouthow this was
the funniest episode he’s ever seen. "Did
youtapeit?" I askhopefully, already knowing
the answer. "No, I was home to watch
it," he says, cleaning up the kitchen in a
"don’t youdaremake amess" way. Selfish
bastard! This further proves my point that
when a man asks you into his life, for
whatever reason, he really means, "I want
to live my life as I always have, with no
compromises. You’ll just be around when
andif I need you." NowonderI’m Gay! He
woulddrive Pat Buchanan’s wife to Lesbianism.
I pop my popcorn (the only thing
I’ve had since noon today), and the only
thing allowed to me. I once again listen to
Melissa, who has a strangeway ofempowering
me. I fall asleep, dreaming of using
a stun gun on Vincent repeatedly.
DAY THREE-Today’s finally Friday,
and I might be allowed to watch some TV
tonight. I’m fine all day until I enter
Vincent’s abode. We’re eating pizza, and
he’s buying, an obvious splurge. But we
disagree on TV programming, so he
watches something in his room while I
have the living room all to myself to watch
a Beatles special. I’ve figured out one
thing - never trust anyone who hates the
Beatles. It’s positively UnAmerican! Another
night of silence until he comes into
the living room to switch channels so he
can watch the news. seeLesbian,p.11
by Lamont Lindstrom
"Gifts make slaves just as whips make
dogs," or so says one bit of Native American
wisdom. Keep this in mind during the
upcoming holiday orgy of giving and receiving.
Grits aremorethan
just tokens of affection.
They are’als0 ~gminde~s of
obligati’On ahdl du~. Giging
is politiCak ~Pd]~h~ps~ I
give you a present because
°I like you. Butifyou accept
mypresent,you also accept
that you are indebted to me
- at least until you can pay
me back.
Ihad, once, a studentfrom
Saudi Arabia whose father
was in the rug trade. "I’m
contacting my father," he
told me near the end of the
term. "I’d like to give you a
carpet." Oh no, I thought,
visions of Baluchis and
Kilims dancing inmy head.
How amI going to g~vehim
the "D" that he deserves?
Luckily, he presented me
with a cheap synthetic
prayer rug decorated,with
garish neon cameIs, worth
only a few dollars down at
yourlocal bazaar. I wasn’t that muchii~’his
debt after all, and I graded him down with
a lighter heart.
l~erhaps we all have had an experience
of over-receiving. Somebody g~ves us
something that is waytoo much. What can
he have in mind? What does he want in
return?A pesky acquaintance surprises us
with afine leatherjacket. But what does he
expect?A closer friendship?A date? Need
we give it up?
The fancy anthropological word for gift
giving is "reciprodty." I give something
to you, and you give something back to
me. Such exchange can be balanced or
imbalanced. Either way,. this says something
about power. If we engage in prolonged,
imbalanced gift giving, we find
ourselves in an enduring relationship of
inequality. Those fine presents have made
us into dogs and slaves.
Parents, for instance, give a lot more to
children thanchildren giveto parents. This
exchangeimbalancefuels parental authority.
Few morns and dads hand their children,
on their 18th birthdays, a bill for
$186,000. Ratherthan reciprocating the
exact dollar cost of raising us, we repay
parents in obedience. "As long as you live
inMYhouse, you’ll do what I say!" Those
gifts come with strings. .
To avoid, obligfiroh~ we must balance
gift giving. Only balanced exchange cre:
ates equality. If some one gives us a holiday
present, we feel pressured togive a
present in return. Failure to reciprocate
means either that we don’tmind shouldering
this debt and its obligations, or that we
want to break things off altogether. Does
morn send out the family’ s holiday cards?
What does she do when someone fails to
reciprocate? Cross him off the list!
Sometimes exchangeimbalancepersists
¯ for years, however. My dentist sends me a
¯ Christmas card annually. Butdo I sendone
¯ back? Nope. In this case, I amrude enough
¯ to take without giving. But I understand
¯" the deal implied by this imbalanced exchange~
I take my mouth
around to his office every
six months.
My friends in the South
Pacific go to huge efforts
to raise and give away pigs
just to get their neighbors’
pigs in return. If would be
far easier for all villagers
to eat their own pigs. But
what of us? .We are madcap
enough to enrich the
Post Office every December
by mailing, around a
blizzard of Christmas
cards. I send out about 60
each year, and in return I
receive 60 back. But if I
really am so desperate for
cards to clutterupmymantelpiece,
why don’t I just
keep those that I buy? I’d
save a 10t on postage that
way.
My island friends are
fanatic giftbalancers. They
keep exact records of how
] many pigs, baskets, and mats they receive
¯¯ so that they can give the same in return.
Butthey sometimes over-give- just alittle.
¯ This iitfleextra gift, which al~O must be
"... Perhaps we all
~have had an experhne¢
of over-reeelvlng.
Somebody gives us
something that is way
too much. What can
he have in mind?
What does he want in
return? A peshy
aeq~intanee surp~ses
us ~th a fine l~ther
~aeket. But w~t
does he expect?
A closer friendship?
A ~te? Need we
give it up... ?"
repaid at some point, keeps the :relationship
moving along.
Balanced exchanges celebrate the fact that
we are still investing in the relationship.
Youremain important to me. Butif I amto
stay your equal, I need to give you about
what you give me. I am embarrassed if I
return too little OR ff I return too much.
Imbalance in either direction implies either
that I don’t care about us as much as
you do, or that I am trying to obligate you.
Given the importance of exchange balance,
it is perverse that we remove price
tags and wrap presents. It’s a bit of a game.
We see through these pretenses that "it’s
the thought that counts." As experienced
givers, we are pretty good at striking a
balance despite the absence ofprice tags or
the concealment of gift-wrap. When a
friend drops off a gaily-wrapped present
for you, shake that box! Make a mistake in
what you give back and it could be the
doghouse for you!
Lamont Lindstrom teaches anthropology
at the University of Tulsa.
and frommurdering each other. They have
also managed to survive a business that
chews you up and spits you out.
It’s easy to makejokes at their expense,
but you know, there is a magic there, that
they’ve been able to survive that business
- andremain together, whenI’m sure there
were many times it wouldhavebeenmuch
easier to split under the pressure.
see Amuse, p. 11
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To nurture our faith, we gather for
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Trusting in a living~ loving God,
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This without saying a word to me. After -
seeing how the candidates STILL can’t "
decide this election, I put on my pajamas. "
That’s all, I swear. When I come out at ¯
9:20, the TV is turned off, along with the ¯
lights. My dorm mother has declared my
curfew. One thought goes through my "
head - I’m going to kill him; I’m going to ¯
kill him; I’m going to kill him. Big kitchen
knives flash through my mind. I go to bed "
at 9:20, again listening to Melissa. She’s "
giving me the wrong kind of strength, :
think.
DAY FOUR- This is the last day, but I "
have to spend it with HIM. I see my stu- ¯
dents at my Saturday class, knowing this :
will probably be the last time I teachi I’ve ¯
made up my mind as I arrive at Vincent’s. "
He ignores me, as usual, while he watches ¯
gymnastics on TV, laughing for some tea- ¯
son. Hewon’t laugh forlong. Even though ~
I hate the color and look bffd in it, orange :
jumpsuits will be my style for the next 20
years. Hey, they let you write,letters~in ¯
prison. Ev~nLestian~olumns, I veheard. :
"Goodbye Vincent!" 5" by Karin Gregor
#2238769480, Cell BlockH ¯
ofthe"diversity" statement whichincluded :
"sexual orientation," saying he wouldhave :
noticed its inclusion. ¯
In response,’sev~al ~gregation have
commi~ted to re=examining their endorse:
ment of the document? College Hill Pres- ¯
byterian Church and’ Fellowship Congre- "
gational Church will’bring the.issue back
to theirgov.ernmg boards. ,Andsomemere- "
bers of MCC~United, Tulsa s Metropoli: ¯
tan Community Church, members of
predominatelyLesbianand Gay denomi- "
nation, are concerned about their church’s ¯
endorsement of a statement which does
not acknowledge the existence of Lesbian -"
and Gay persons. :
The welcoming committee of Community
Unitarian-Universalist Congregation ¯
has drafted a letter to TMM saying, "we
erred in our endorsement of this state- "
ment"because thefailure toinclude sexual ¯
orientation is in conflictwith the values of ¯
the congregation and the letter further says ,"
that they wilt not endorse any future state- "
ments which are not inclusive. ¯
Other groups such as Holland Hall ¯
School, the Episcopal Diocese of Okla: "
homa, and the Eastern Oklahoma :
Presbytery -: Presbyterian Church USA, ¯
have been asked to explain their support :
for a statement which is not compatible .
with their policies. In the case of the Episcopal
Diocese and. Holland Hall School, :
staff and religious leaders were not sure if ¯
the organization’s names had been used "
with permission. ¯
Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights :
(TOHR), the state’s oldest civil rights or- ¯
ganization has discussed the issue at a "
recentboardandmembershipmeeting and
president, Greg Gatewood stated that he ¯
would seek a meeting with Rana and Day :
to request an explanation of the exclusion
of "sexual orientation" from the state- ¯
ment. Further action on the part of the
organization will vary depending on their
responses.
Other congregations which signed the
"diversity" statement, like the city’s Episcopal
parishes and its Unitarian-Universalists
congregations, all of whom have
histories of being fair to Lesbian and Gay
Tulsans are also being asked to consider
withdrawing their support for the statement
because of the failure to include
"sexual orientation."
And they’ve remained incredibly successful
throughout the years andups anddowns
that showbiz life provides. Living with
someone 5 years is a major feat, much less
working with them as well. And even in
relative anonymity, it’s hard enough. To
have survived and remain together as long
as they have - 43 years - is a major feat.
FYI, Royis 5 years younger thanSiegfried.
About the biographical aspects of the
film, Roy says "It’s ~way~ a difficult step
to open yourself up beeauge ~ou make
yourself very vulnerabl~. That fneans you
have to let your guard down andeveryone
has access to you." Scary iild~gd. The
cameras were allowed full access to the
home and grounds of theirestate’. He goes
on to say "I have to say;~it’s~ been pretty
good to do it. It goes way badk" to when I
was a boy. I had a catching smile, but in
reality I was a loner. I wa~ n0t too good
with people. As a mattel: offact, I didn’t
trustinpeople. I trustedmy animals more."
I can relate to that.
The interesting thing is that,-aozording
to producer Bernie Yuman,’"Roy has a
bond with these animals whereby there’s
no force. Force createsforce. There’s alot
of love. There’s a lot of.voice intonation
and camaraderie - and a lot of meat - but
affection and conditioning, Roy’s never
trained an animal, and Siegfried and Roy
have never been involved.in, training ammalsin
their lives. Theymoldthings around
the personality of their animals." And
maybe, if the rest of us learned that tricklove
without the need for control - we’d
have longer lasting relationships .as well.
Food for thought. And so, for all the nasty
S&Rjokes I could make, I find I reallyjust
have too much respect for what they’ve
accomplished to make them.
In the film, you get behind the scenes
visits to their home - which is like designer
overkill, given their taste_~or opulence.
And you get to see their private
wildlife sanctuary, where they live with
and raise the white tigers used in the act.
Their love of the animals is evident.
It’s filmed in 3-D, so you’ll be able to
see Siegfried and Roy up close and personal.
Numerous digital techniques were
used to recreate the Europe of their childhoods.
As for the magic shots, they were
specifically filmed uncut as master shots,
so that the audience would no that no
camera tricks were used. Andrew Dunlap,
who plays young Roy, was also in the all
male version of "Importance of Being
Earnest," which was interesting to note.
Also playing is Fantasia 2000 and 3D
Mania: Encounter in the 3rd Dimension;
71st and Highway 169.
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Gay Couple Murdered In
California; Senate Passes
TwoAnti-Hate Crimes Bills
HAPPY VALLEY, Calif. (AP) - In this tiny, largely
conservative farming community, Gary Matson and
Winfield Mowder were accepted. It didn’t matter that
they were Gay. They gained respect through their
community Work. They helped create alocal children’s
museum, and Matson helped establish the 20-year-old
Redding Farmer’s Market.
Now tWO brothers who Eave been linked to a series of
arson fires at Sacramento synagogues are accused of
killing the couple, police said. Authorities said one of
the alleged gunmen, Benjamin Matthew Williams,
sometimes sold vegetables andherbs atM~son’s ~narket.
"It’s beyond words that the farmers market may be
the connectionbetween the victims and thekillers," said
Margaret Jensen, who tends a market stall stocked with
squash and onions. "If they burned the synagogues, too,
that takes it to a level that is just staggering from
someplace we think of as a small community."
The bodies of Matson, 50, and Mowder, 40, were
discovered July I at theirhomeinHappy Valley, a small
community just outside of Redding in northern
California. They had been shot in their bed.
Afew days later, after one of the victims’ credit cards
was used, police staked out aYuba City business where
the creditcardpurchasewas to be delivered, andarrested
the Williams brothers. The brothers were both armed
and one was wearing a bulletproof vest, police said.
Yuba City is about 120 miles southeast of Redding.
see Hate, p. 10
Council Oak Mens Chorale
Presents August Concert
Other UpcomingEvents: Feast + AIDS Walk
TULSA-TheCouncil Oak Men’sChorale, Tulsa’s Gay
men’s singing organization will present a concert,
Brothers Forever on August 27 & 28 at 8pro in the John
Williams Theatre at Tulsa’s Performing Arts-Center.
COMC will be joined in concert by Positive Voices of
Dallas, Texas. Areception willfollow theperformances
and tickets, $12, are available through the Performing
Arts Center box office at 596-7111 or 800-364-7111
(outside of Tulsa).
Also, coming up is the annual Feast for Friends, a
ftmdraiser .for-THE NAM-ES~ PROJECT-,. the. AIDS
Memorial .Quilt. In the event, organizations and
individuals join each other for private dinners at which
theattendees donate to supportTHENAMES PROJECT
and then all of the various dinner groupS’ come together
for entertainment’and dessert at 8:30pro at the Southern
Hills Marriott. For more information, call 748-3111.
Later in October, the annual AIDS Walk will be held
on October 2nd. For more information, call 579-9593.
DIRECTORY/LETTERS P. 2
EDITORIAL P. 3
US & WORLD NEWS P. 4
HEALTH NEWS P. 6
ENTERTAINMENT . P. 8
COMMUNITY CALENDAR P. 9
READ ALL ABOUT IT P. 11
DYKE PSYCHE P. 12
GAY STUDIES P. 13
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° TOHR Center News: President
"Resigns; $5k Grant Received
TOHR&Community CenterformerpresidentSteve
Horn (right) and with hisfriend Phil at Pride ’99.
TULSA - Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights, Inc. (TOHR),
Oklahoma’s oldest non-religions Gay and parentorganization of
the Tulsa Gay Community Services Center has experienced a
change in leadership. Board president Steve Horn resigned in
July in order to take anew job in Dallas. Horn had been employed
with CFS. Upon his resignation, TOHR vice president, Greg
Gatewood became president.
Gatewood praised Horn for his leadership and noted that the
change in leadership would not affect any of the programs that
TOHRand the Center had planned. He noted that for August, the
¯ organization had calle~,,a work day at the,,C.enter on 8/8 at noon,
a planning meeting for MilleniumPride, the Parade and Picuic Next Gay Community ’ for 2000 on 8112 at 7:30 and acommunity potluck with a"Cajun"
" theme for 8/21at Tpm. Meeting Called for 9/14 Other significant news for the Center was the receipt of a
" $5,000 grant for general operating expenses from the Gill TULSA -. With about 40 people attending,
° Foundation. Center volunteer of the year, Tim Gillean, was representing most of Tulsa Lesbian and Gay, and
¯ responsible for writing the grant application~ New president HIV related groups, the first community wide
¯ Gatewood emphasized that while the grant would help the Center meeting in several years brought together young
:. develop a small emergency reserve, see TOHR, p. 14 and not so young, Gay and non-Gay, political and
non-partisan groups. Therepresentattves spent over
two hours discussing their group’s goals and what ¯ NGLTF Starts Family Program common ground they may have.
: VeteranAttorney Paula Ettelbrick to Lead Initiative WashingtonHigh School’sGay-StraightAlliance
and TU’s BLGT Alliance were there along with
¯ JULY 26, 1999--The Policy Institute of the National Gay and most of the Gay-friendly religaons groups in the
¯ Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) today announced creation of a city. Cimarron Alliance and Tulsa Oklahomans for
° Family Policy program to secure inclusive definitions of family Human Rights also attended with RAIN, the
¯ in national, state and local policy contexts. The Family Policy Regional AIDS Interfaith Network, and HOPE,
¯ Program will engage in research, policy analysis, coalition HIV Outreach, Prevention and Education as well.
building, strategy development and collaborative work with a Under the facilitation of Marty Newman and
¯ wide range of family-focused organizations to ensure that the DennisNeill(who’dissuedthecallforthemeeting)
¯ needsofGay, Lesbian~BisexualandTransgender(GLBT)families a number of possible community goals were
¯ are considered and protected, identified: to replace the Tulsa Community AIDS
"We are in the midst of a revolution in family creation within Partnership funding (which is due to end soon),
¯ GLBT communities, but ironically, and inaccurately, our relocate the Community Center when its lease
¯ movement is characterized as being anti-family," said NGLTF ends, ~o-ordinatecommtmity fundraisingandeven:s
: Executive Director Kerr3, Lobel. "This Program at NGLTF’s to better support various organizations, and where
Policy Institute takes aim at the myths that persist about our appropriate, do political and civil fights related
families and will formulate a genuinel y pro-family public policy work. see Aleetin~, ~. 1]
agenda from the vantage point of GLBT people’s lives."
TheFamilyPolicyprogramatthePolicyInstituteisfundedby Saint Jerome to Host major gifts from several parents., including Seattle City
Councilwoman and philanthropist Tina Podlodowski, and Ordination Ceremony
California-based donors Jennifer and Kathy Levinson through a
TULSA - The Parish Church of Saint Jerome will
gift from the Lesbian Equity Foundation of Silicon Valley.
welcome clergy and lay leaders of the Evangelical
Urvashi Vaid, director of the Policy Institute announced that
AnglicanChurchinAmericafromacross thenation
nationally known Lesbian attorney and family advocate, Paula
for the denomination’s annual ordination
Ettelbrick, has been hired to direct the Family Policy Program.
ceremonies. The RightReverendCraig Bettendoff,
Ettelbrickha~ worked onlocal, state and national family policy presiding bishop will ordai~ or receive candidates
issues for the past 13 years. She is former legal director of
duringtheregularworshipservicesofSaintJerome
Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund, where she developed on Sunday, August 8th at llam. The weekend
the group’s.emphasis on family advocacy and founded the
eventsbeginatlpmonSaturday,August7thandan
Family RelatioushipslProject. She served as publicpolicy director
Evensong service will be held that day at 6pro with
for the National Center for Lesbian Rights.
dinner to follow.
Since 1994, Ettelbrick has been legislative counsel for the
Candidatesfortbediaconatewillbepresentfrom
Fan.pire State Pride Agenda, where she is credited with helping North Carolina, Arkansas, Illinois, and Oklahoma.
wm passage of New York City’s comprehensive domestic
BishopBettendorfwillalsoordaintothe presbytery,
. partnership policy and drafting innovative municipal and state
¯ pro-GLBT family laws.
candidates fromNew Mexico,New York, Colorado,
¯ California and Florida. ¯ Ettelbrick and her partner, Suzanne Goldberg, have a two-year All events are open to the public. For more
¯ old son and are expecting another child in September. She has
information, call Father Rick Hollingsworth at the
¯ taught law for 10 years and currently teaches a course on
Parish Church of Saint Jerome, 582-3088.
." sexua!i~ty and the_law atNewYorkUni versity Law School and the
¯ UniversityofMichiganLawSchool.Earlierthisyear, Ettelbrick ¯ Served as the National Coordinator of the highly successful Tulsa C.A.R.E.S Gets
""EqualityBegiusatHome"campaigu, spousoredbyNGLTFand Phili.p Morris Grant ¯ tbe Federation ofStatewideLGBTPolitical Orgamzations, which
: encompassed 350 rallies and other events in all 50 states plus : TULSA -Tulsa C.A.R.E.S., Tulsa’s Center for
: Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia last March. ¯ AIDS Resources, Education and Support, formerly
and observed that Ettelbnck s experase will be invaluable to known as the HIV Resource Consortium, has
: .thenational GLBTmovement’s efforts to organizearoundfamily : received a grant of $15,000 to its food pantry from
¯ issues. She pointed out that as of June of 1999, almost 50 anti- : the Philip Morris Companies, Inc.
: GLBTfamilybillshadbeenfiledinstatelegislaturesthroughout ¯ Stephen C. Parrish, senior vice president for
: the country. "This nationwide mobilization against our families : corporate affairs came toTulsathelastweekofJuly
¯ comes directly from the anti-Gay religious fight and its think " to announce the award to the Tulsa Area United
¯ tanks," Vaid said. "It is an effective strategy because the GLBT : Way agency. According to comments reported by
¯ political movement at the state level remains understaffed and ¯ The TulsaWorM,executivedirector, SharonThoele,
¯ underfunded." " indicated that the grant word be matched by
The NGLTF Family Policy program will pursue three major " $15,000 from another philanthropic organization
" objectives: first, to provide the data and arguments that can " and wonldhelp purchase afreezer and refrigerator.
¯ enable activists to secure inclusive definitions of family in ¯ The award was oneof38 given to organizations in
- national, state and local policy frameworks see NGLTF, p. 3 " 24 states, and the only Oklahoma award.
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Zoning Concerns
On the eve of the August 10 bond
election for street improvements, I find
myself in the awkward position of being
asked to vote ’yes’ while some of my
basic property rights are under the threat
of seizure. Againstmy very vocal protests,
the Tulsa Metropolitan Area Planning
Commission (TMAPC) recently voted to
’downzone’ myhomefrom amulti-family
to a single-family category. I purchased
my house with the intention of adding a
rental .unit in the future for supplemental
income, and I wish to retain the existing
zoning designation.
Currently, I have theright to build eleven
apartments on my property. If the zoning
is changed, I will have the right to one
single-family dwelling. This constitutes
an obvious taking of my development
rights without fair compensation, and I
resent the TMAPCIs insistence on
rezoning without my consent.
Doesn’t theTMAPChave enough to do
without tinkering with the privateproperty
of a taxpayer who is satisfied with the
existing zoning? The ’planners’ should
attend to their business of more efficient
metropolitan planning by allowing
residential infill development in the
downtownneighborhoods. Then,perhaps
we would not be faced with multi-million
dollar bond elections to support hundreds
of miles of streets and utilities sprawling
across such a sparsely populated city.
-Sincerely, Paul Uttinger, Tulsa
TITLE VII. Earlier this month, another
Eastern Districtjudgehadrejected aclaim
that harassment aimed at gays is covered
under the federal anti-discrimination
statute, Title VII ofthe Civil Rights Act of
1964. In rejecting the suit of a Gay postal
worker who claimed he was subjected to
a hostile work environment, Judge
Leonard B. Wexler ruled in Simonton v.
Runyon, that discrimination based t~pon
sexual orientation did not fall within Title
VII’s ban of "sex" discrimination.
However, Judge Spatt ruled in Qninnv.~
Nassau County Police Department, No.
97-3310, that there is no such similar
limitation upon a claim framed.directly
upon the Equal Protection clause in the
U.S. Constitution.
Title VH specifically enumerates five
types of discrimination that it bans, and
the list does not include discrimination
basedupon sexual orientation, Judge Spatt
pointed out. In contrast, he wrote~-the
Supreme Court in Romer recognized that
homosexuals are directly protected trader
the Equal Protection Clause from
"invidious and irrational discriminationbased
on sexual orientation."
Chris P. Termini, of McCabe, Collins,
McGeogh & Fowler, represented Nassau
County. Two individual defendants were
separately represented by Ronald J.
Morelli, of Mulholland, Minion & Roe,
and Alan J. Reardon. Susan Fitzgerald;of
Leeds & Morelli, also represented Mr.
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In many parts of the United States, Gay, lesbian, " running for any office in this party." While I had good
bisexual and transgendered (GLBT) persons have
achieved an equal status in the communities in whichthey
live. But not in Oklahoma. Not yet. The Democratic
National Committee (DNC) recognizes GLBT persons.
But not the Oklahoma Democratic Party (ODP). Not yet.
In 1998 the DNC
adopted a policy
requiring each state
to nameGLBT
delegates to the
National Democratic
Conventions. The
DNC has recognized
that the majority of
GLBT persons, like
the majority of
straight persons, are
caring and
responsible citizens
entitled to an equal,
not special but equal,
presence in the DNC.
The ODP, once
moving towards
inclusion of GLBT
persons, now under
new party leadership,
rejects or ignores that DNC policy.
Much has been accomplished in Oklahoma for which
GLBT persons should all be proud. Moving a hate crimes
bill from a legislative committee to the House floor for
debateis somewhatmiraculous, considering the prevailing
Oklahoma attitudes only a few years ago when the
Oklahoma City Council rejected and terminated the
HumanRights Commission. Whathas been accomplished
can be attributed to the efforts of GLBT and affiliated
political organizations such as OGLPC (Oklahoma Gay
& Lesbian Political Committee), The Cimarron Alliance
Group, TOHR (Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights),
PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) with
the support of the NAACP and various labor and faith
organizations. Although these organizations are the heroes
in the efforts to date, they are not adequate for what is yet
to be accomplished. These organizations focus on issues
and review candidates from a non-partisan perspective.
What is missing in Oklahoma is the partisan participation
of GLBT persons, open partisan participation within the
major parties, not unlike the women’s organizations and
other caucuses.
Straights raise families; GLBT persons care for the
community in which those families live. Just look at who
we are. We are present in every profession and job
category as wall as present or have been present in every
elected office level, whether we admit it publicly or.not.
Throughout recorded history GLBT persons have often
been the movers and shakers for communities, the caregivers,
the compassionate, the artists, even leaders of
historical fame. Themajority ofus as GLBT persons have
the same expectations and dedication to our communities
as the majority of straights among whom we live and
work with side by side. But you would not know that if
youJistened to partisan leaders in both major Oklahoma
parties.
As a congressional candidate for Congress from
Oklahoma’s Sixth District in 1996 and again in 1998, I
made many friends with Democrats. I know and have
good contacts with Democrat. leaders in each of the 24
counties comprising the Sixth District. That is an asset
that I believe valuable as a party worker. I let it be known
that I wanted to serve as the District Secretary when the
incumbent indicated the day before the convention that
he would not run for re-election.
Without detailing the series of events leading up to the
conclusion of my attempt to place my name in line for
District Secretary, the man who became District Chair at
that April conventionblockedmefromrunning for office.
During a fifteen-minute conversation with him prior to
the Convention, hemade it clear that he and other elected
officials in the Sixth District did not want me to run for
any office. He would not say it was because I am Gay but
his remarks left me with only that justification for his
statement, "I am running for chair to keep you from
~ support among delegates I had contacted in that 24-hour
¯ period leading up to convention, I knew that it would be
." difficult to fnnction as a team. I did not seek the nomination
¯ during the convention. There was no caucus to turn to for
¯ support.
A quotation from the May 25 Daily
Oklahoman interview with the newly elected
ODP Chair, Mike Mass, speaks to my
concern as a Gay person:
"Mass said he thinks the party under Hall
has eottoned too much to what he calls
splinter groups¯ He and Hall were both at a
funetlon, and a Gay and lesbian advocate
asked Mass what he was going to do to help
the Gay eommunlty. ’Nothing,’ Mass replied.
Mass thinks the party has tended to make a
big deal about such groups."
Even amore glaring
concern for GLBT
persons is the election
of a new state chair
for the ODP during
its May 15 convention.
Representative
Mike Mass, a very
vocal opponent ofthe
hate crimes bill in the
legislature, was
elected by a two-vote
margin in an election
fraught with fraud.
(I am leading a
challenge of that
election for the
purpose of restoring
integrity to the ODP.
A petition calling for
a new election was
signed by more than
¯¯ 200 co-signors and filed with the DNC ou June 9.) ~
quotation from the May 25 Daily Oklahoman interview
with the newly elected ODP Chair, Mike Mass, speaks to
¯ my concern as a Gay person: ¯
"Mass said he thinks the party under Hall has cottoned
¯ too much to what he calls splinter groups. He and Hall
¯ were both at a function, and a Gay and lesbian advocate
¯ asked Mass what he was going to do to help the Gay ¯
community. ’Nothing,’ Mass replied. Mass thinks the
¯ party has tended to make a big deal about such groups."
¯ If therewas apartisan presenceofGLBTpersons in the ¯
ODP, or at least the acknowledgment of the DNC’s
¯ directive to include GLBT persons as delegates, this
¯ archaic attitude would be a relic of the past instead of
¯ facing us for the future in the ODP.
¯ There are national part~san organizations for both the
Democratic and Republican parties - The Log Cabin
¯ Republicans and the National Stonewall Democratic
¯ Federation (NSDF). GLBT persons in Oklahoma need
that partisan identification so that they can have a"seat at
¯ the table" when partisan political decisions are made.
: The NSDF was organized at Kansas City in May 1998
¯ for the purpose of mobilizing GLBT persons through a ¯
national grassroots network of GLBT Democratic clubs.
¯ There are GLBT Democratic clubs that are joined with
¯ their state Democratic party. Colorado and Michigan
¯ both have a federated GLBT Democratic dub within ¯ their State Democratic parties. GLBT Oklahomans need
¯ that presence in our state party. An Oklahoma Stonewall
¯ Democratic Club must be organized. I am a recently ¯
¯ electedregional director for theNSDFandurgeinterested persons to check out the website at
www.stonewalldemocrats.org or contact me by e-mail,
paulb@pldi.net.
The mere thought of a public GLBT presence in the
Oklahoma Republican Party (ORP) is breath-taldng. But
itcan midmustbe Created. WhenthoseGLBTRepnhlicafs
who have been supporting their party in the background
with contributions and party activismmake their presence
known to the ORP, then there is an opportunity for
inclusion in ORP policy making. Republican Oklahoma
GLBT persons should connect with the National Log
Cabin Republicans and establish an OklahomaLog Cabin
Republican Club.
Wemust do this. Wemust orgamze a partisan presence
of GLBT persons in each of Oklahoma’s major parties.
That is the Gay agenda that I am aware of- to be treated
as an equal in civic life as we continue to hold ourselves
to the same standards of responsibility and caring as
expected of straights. Wemust ask for a place at the table.
Editor’s note: I agree with Paul Barby but Would even
speak more strongly. We must demand our place at the
table and must challeng~ bigots like Mike Mass. We
might also question some of our "friends"like Tulsa
Democrat Sally Frasier who helpedgetMass "elected."
by Tom Neal, editor andpublisher
By now, Steve Hornis probably getting settled down in
his new home in Dallas. Steve, until his recentjob related
move, was in the middle of his second term as president
of the board ofTulsaOklahomans for Human Rights, Inc.
(TOHR) - the parent organization of Tulsa’s Gay
community center (the awkwardly renamed Tulsa Gay
Community Services Center).
Tulsa has been
fortunate in
havln~ a number
of dedleated
volunteers to our
Lesbian and Gay
eommunltles
(and BI and
Transgendered)
over many years.
Unfortunately,
we haven’t really
done a very ~ood
job of
reeognlzlng or
thanklng them
for their work.
Tulsa has been fortunate in
having a number of dedicated
~,olunteers to our Lesbian and
Gay communities (and Bi and
Transgendered) over many
years. Unfortunately, we
haven’t really done a very good
job of recognizing or thanking
them for their work. We use
themandthen ignore them when
we’re not actually vilifying
them. There are, of course, a
few exceptions, individuals who
repeatedly receive recognition
but many more don’t.
So I’d like to be one to clearly
thank Steve Horn for his
dedication to TOHR. Steve
became president just after I
served, inheriting the same big
mess with TOHR’s HIV testing
programs that I and several
previous TOHR presidents had
inherited. And while he and I
would still disagree profoundly
about how those issues were resolved, i.e. the separation
of the testing clinic into a stand-alone organization, his
work as a whole was great. He continued and expanded
onalegacy ofvolunteerism andleadership that’s continued
for nearly 20 years with TOHR. see Horn, p. ]4
Legal Win: Bias Against
Gays Unconstitutional
Editor’s note: the ruling noted below has greatpotential
for judicial remedies for anti-Gay bias in the United
States. Traditionally, many civil rights advances in this
country have come through court decisions and this
shows promise for fair treatment for Lesbian and Gay
citizens.- TN
by Daniel Wise, New York Law Journal, July 6, 1999
In a ruling believed to be one of first impression, a
federal judge in Uniondale has found discrimination
against homosexuals in an employment context to be
actionable as an Equal Protection violation.
Eastern District Judge Arthur D. Spatt issued the ruling
in upholding a $380,000 verdict that ajury awarded two
weeks ago to a former Nassau County police officer who
claimed he had been hounded out of his job by his fellow
officers and supervisors after they learned he was Gay.
The officer, James M. Quinn, resigned after enduring
nine years of taunts that included the prominent posting
in his stationhouse of cartoons labeling him a child
molester, a transvestite and a sadomasochist. "
"Judge Spatt is the first judge to explicitly recognize
that. discrimination based- upon, sexual- orientation .can
give rise to a hostile work environment claim under the
Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution," said
Mr. Quima’s lawyer, Frederic Ostrove, ofLeeds &Morelli
in Carle Place.
In concluding that harassment based upon an animus
against homosexuals was actionable lmder the Equal
Protection clause, Judge Spatt relied heavily upon a 1996
U.S. Supreme Court ruling, Romer v. Evans, 517 U.S.
620. Thatruling struck down an amendment to ColOrado’s
constitution that prohibited Gays and Lesbians from
obtaining any legal protections -legislative orjudicial -
from discrimination.
The Supreme Courtin Romerconcluded that the statute
withdrawing legal protection from homosexuals could
not stand because it was motivated by "irrational fear and
prejudice," Judge Spatt pointed out.
Similaxly, thejudge reasoned, thehatecampaignagainst
Mr. Quinn had been motivated "by irrational fear and
prejudice towards homosexuals." see Ruling, p. 2
Gay Conversion Group
Holds Convention
WHEATON, Ill. (AP) - Exodus International, a :
Seattle-based organization that claims homosexuals
can be converted to change their sexual behavior,
openedits annual conference as protesters sang gospels
softly nearby.
"A whole new chapter has opened up," said Bob
Davies, executive director of Exodus. "For the first
time in our 23 year history, the body of Christ has
gotten behind this ministry."
About 1,200 people attended the rally, the biggest
attendance, since the group began in 1976. Leaders
attributed the large turnout to a nationwide ad
campaignpromoting conversionfromhomosexuality,
As the group clapped inside, the Rev. Bradley
Mickelson of the Metropolitan Community Church
of the Incarnation in Oak Park, Ill., led a quiet march
of 50 people outside. "We need to be a voice for
people who think they’re living in sin, to tell them
how to be liberated and free," said Mickelson, whose
Chicago-area church is open to homosexuals.
Exodus International burst.into public notice a year
ago with full-page ads m major newspapers
proclaiming its belief that Gays and Lesbians can
change. Conservative groups such as the Christian
Coalitionhelped pay for the.campaign. Exodus teaches
that"freedomfromhomosexuality is possible through -.
repentance and faith in Jesus Christ" and seeks to
provide hdp for "men and women who desire to
overcome their homosexuality."
The conference, a mixture of training workshops
and inspirational rallies, is meeting at Wheaten
College, a prominent Evangelical Protestant school,
but is not sponsored by the college.
Cynthia Marquardt, member of the Oak Park
congregation, said sexual conversion is impossible
and that Exodus’ message contributes to -violence
against Gays and Lesbians. "Exodus has a right to
their message, and we will continue to proclaim that
God loves us just as we are," she said,
Exodus is afederation of 131 independentministries
located in 38 states and the District of Columbia, plus
several overseas affiliates. Theorganizationis staffed
by people from a var~,ety of Christian denominations.
Manyofthegroup sleaders saytheyusedtobeGay
or Lesbian and merely offer options to people that
want them. Exodus is closely aligned with
Homosexuals Anonymous, a twelve-step movement
patterned after Alcoholics Anonymous, and with the
National Association for Research and Therapy of
Homosexuality,madeup ofpsychological counselors
who work for change through "reparative therapy."
Both the American Psychiatric Association and
American Psychological Associationhave denounced
Christian-based reparative therapy, saying it doesn’t
work and can cause psychological damage.
Phelps to Protest
in Vermont
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP)- Members of a church that
organized a picket outside the funeral of a murdered
University of Wyoming student last year plan a
protest on the lawn of the Vermont Statehouse next
week.
The Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kans.,
plans to have a dozen people in Montpelier on Aug.
3 to picket against Gay marriage, said Shirley Phelps-
Roper, a church a!!orney and dangh,ter of founder the
Rev.FredPhelps. Whenthenation smilitant, activist
fags brag about a place - watch out!" said an
announcement distributed by the church. "Well,
they’re bragging about Vermont from sea to shining
sea. They think Vermont will soon allow filthy fag
beasts to marry each other."
The Vermont Supreme Court is considering a
lawsuit seeking to overturn the state’ s refusal to issue
mamage licenses to same-sex couples. Some legal
experts have predicted that Vermont could become
the first state to legalize such marriages.
Phelps-Roper said a dozen members of her church
would spend the weekend in Ottawa and Montreal,
protesting a decision on domestic partnership by the
Canada Supreme Court and then picketing the
Montreal Gay pride parade. The group then will
travel to Vermont, slie said.
The church is virulently anti-Gay and pickets
frequently. In October, it picketed-outside the funeral
~fMatthew Shepard, who authorities say was killed in
part because he was Gay.
Oregon Anti-Gay
Marriage Bill Dies
SALEM, Ore. (AP) - A watered-down proposal that
began as a ban on Gay marriages failed in the Senate
last month. The proposed ballot measure would have
asked voters only whether the Legis!~ture sh.ould
have the power to define What cbiastitutes a marnage.
As passedby the House, the proposal definedmarriage
as atmionbetweenmanand woman. Sen. Neil Bryant,
R-Bend, said the measure as reworked by the Senate
set a middle ground in the dispute, but foes argued the
revised measure would accomplish nothing.
The proposal stemmed from an Oregon Court of
Appeals ruling that employers cannot discriminate
against homosexuals and must provide benefits to
same-sex partners ofgovernmentworkers. Supporters
of the anti-Gay mamage measure contended that the
court decision opened the door for legalization of Gay
marriages.
Alabama Passes
Gay-Friendly Law
MONTGOMERY, AIa. (AP) - The Alabama
Legislature is drawing praise from the National Gay
and LesbianTaskForcefor passing domestic violence
legislation that could make Alabama the first state to
cover homosexual couples. In its legislative update
July 16, the task force listed the Alabama domestic
violence legislation as one of the "highlights" of
legislative sessmns nationwide.
Butthe sponsor of thelegislation, state Rep. Yvo,,n~e
Kennedy, D-Mobile, said, "That’s way off base. At
issue is a bill passed on the Legislature’s final day
June 9, when dozens of bills were flying through the
House and Senate with little or no discussion. Gov.
Don Siegelman signed the bill imo law June 19.
Ms. Kennedy and Carol Gundlach, executive
director of the Alabama Coalition Against Domestic
Violence, said the purpose of the legislation was raise
the cost of a marriage license by $15 to provide more
funding for shelters for domestic abuse victims and to
broaden domestic abuse laws to cover more than
spouses. The legislation expands domestic abuselaws
to cover violence "occurring amongfamily, household,
dating, or engagement relationships.’"
The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, a
Washington-based group that works to eliminate
prejudice and violence againstGaypersons, is focusing
eta the word "household" in the new Alabama law.
"You couldhave two peoplein a same-sex relationship
and that’s a household," said David Elliott,
communications director for the task force.
The task force’s legislative report said Alabama
"’became the first state to enact a bill expanding the
state’s definition of domestic violence to potentially
includeGay, Lesbian, bisexual and transsexual people
under Alabama’ s domestic violence law." But Elliott
concededit will probably take acourt case to determine
whether the task force’s view is correct.
Ms. Kennedy, who sponsored the bill for the
Coalition Against Domestic Violence, said the new
law is silent about sexual orientation. But she said
homosexual couples were never mentioned in any of
the legislative debate on the bill.
Ms. Gundlach said the language was copied from
Alabama’s 1989 warrantless arrest law. That law
allows police to make assault arrests without an arrest
warrant when an assault occurs between two people
living together. She said she has heard of cases where
police used the law to make arrests involving
homosexual relationships that turned violent. ’q’hat’ s
just common sense. People in homosexual
relationships can and do assault each other and the
victim needs protection," she said. But she said the
xndusion of"household" in the 1989taw and the 1999
law does not legitimize homosexual rdationships
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the new law was supposed to apply to couples who
could get married, but chose not to. "Whether you
could extend that to people who couldn’t get married
if they wanted to, I don’t know," he said. He agreed
with the task force’s spokesman that it would take a
court case to find out.
While the legislative update from the National Gay
and Lesbian Task Force complimented Alabama on
the domestic violence legislation, the state Legislature
camein forcriticismfor refusing to expandAlabama’ s
hate crimes law to cover sexual orientation despite
the Feb. 19 beating death of Billy Jack Gaither of
Sylacauga. ButAlabama was not alone. Twenty other
state legislatures turned back similar ~.egislation, the
task force noted.
Gay Couple Appeals
Adoption Ruling
ERIE, Pa. (AP) -Twomenhope an appeals court will
allow them to become adoptive parents and help
defineparental rights forGay couples in Pennsylvania.
The couple has asked the state Superior Court to
overturn a decision by Erie County Judge Shad
Connelly, who nded las t month that state law dictates
that only one man can be the legal parent of the two
children. Lower court judges have differed on the
issue, and appeals courts have not made a definitive
decision. Connelly said the Legislature should
specifically sanction Gay marriages before judges
can allow Gay couples to adopt.
The children, an 8-year-old boy and a 7-year-old
gift, were adopted by one of the men and raised since
infancy by the couple. The man who does not have
legal custody said he wants to be officially named a
parent in case his partner dies. "The children have
been and will continue to live with their family
regardless of the court’s action," said Karen Engro, a
la~vyer for the couple. "ff the adoption is granted,
everyone wins. Bydenying it, everyone loses."
The men, who are 43 and 42 years old, have been
together for 18 years and are identified only by their
initials in court records. They have asked reporters
not to use theirnames to protect the children’s privacy.
Another lawyer for the couple, Chris Biancheria,
said other Common Pleas Court judges in the state
have granted "second parent" adoptions for Gay
couples. She said a Superior Court ruling in favor of
the adoption could help establish guidelines for lower
courts. "It would mean that these type of adoptions
would have to be granted in every county," she said.
She said Connelly, in ruling against the adoption,
ignored the Legislature’s stipulation that all adoptions
be consideredin light of "the children’ s best interests."
In his ruling, Counelly wrote that the "best interest"
issue was irrelevant because the request was illegal to
begin with. "Because the Legislature has not seen fit
to specifically sanction such adoptions-as this, this
court is not empowered to grant the petitaon for
adoption," he wrote.
High School Gay-Straight
Alliance Recognized
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) - West High School on
Thursday formally recognized a support group for
Gay and Lesbian pupils. The action, in a formal letter,
gives theWestHighGay/Straight Alliance recognition
retroactive to April 1. The letter follows the school
board’s narrow margin approval ofthe dublast week,
10 weeks after several current and former pupils filed
suit over Principal Robert Baines’ decision not to
recognize the group without school board approval.
Jennifer Levi, a lawyer from Gay & Lesbian
Advocates & Defenders, a Boston nonprofit
representing thepupils, said Thursday the recognition
"is a great day for the students at Manchester High
School West." The lawsuit charged the principal
discriminatedagainstthe group under the Equal Access
Act because no other student association has been
required to get school board approval to use school
facilities.
Supporters of the Gay Straight Alliance say it
offers support and acceptance to pupils ~ho are Gay,
Lesbian or bisexual in an often hostile environment.
Italso helps educate others abouto~fensive stereotypes
and acceptance of differences.
Court Rejects Ex’s
Visitation Appeal
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Despite pleas by Gay
civil-rights groups, the state SupremeCourthas turaed
down an appeal by an Alameda County woman who
sought the right to visit two children she helped raise
with her Lesbian partner. An appellate court ruled in
April that the woman, Kathleen C., had no parental
rights because she was not the biological mother, and
because there was no evidence that the children were
being harmed by living with their biological mother.
The state’s high court denied review of the case in
July. Only lustices Stanley Mosk and Janice Rogers
Brown voted to grant a hearing, two short of the
needed majority. The appellate ruling is now binding
on trial courts statewide.
The case was closely watched by Gay civil-rights
groups, who wanted California to follow a handful of
court rul!ngs in other states that have granted parental
rights to former members of same-sex couples.
Kathleen and her partner, Lisa W., started living
together in February 1985, when Lisa’s daughter was
almost 3. They had a child together by artificial
insemination in 1987 and separated in 1990. Kathleen
was allowed to visit the children onalternateweekend
until November 1994, when Lisa cut off visitation.
Kathleen argued that she should be considered the
children’s "de facto parent," one who develops a
parent-like relationship by providing daily care,
affection and concern over a long period.
An appellate court in New Jersey ruled this March
that a woman who had helped her .Lesbian partner
raise two children was a "psychological parent"
entitled to visitation. Courts in Wisconsin and
Pennsylvaniahave also granted limited parental rights
to former members of Lesbian couples.
ButAlamedaCounty Superior CourtJudge Roderic
Duncan ruled against Kathleen C. and was upheld by
the 1st District Court of Appeal.
Kathleen had shown the characteristics of a "de
facto parent," but there is no legal authority to grant
a non-parent visitation rights "’over the objection of
the biological parent and in the absence ofany showing
of detrimentto the child," said the opinionby Presiding
Justice Daniel Hanlon. The ruling means Kathleen
cannot see the children until they turn 18. They are
now 17 and 12.
The state Supreme Court appeal drew support from
the National Center for Lesbian Rights, the Youth
La~v Center, the American Civil Liberties Union and
other advocacy groups.
The appdlate ntling "leaves the two children...
locked in the embrace of but one of their mothers,
denied by her - and by the courts of this state - any
contact with the other woman they call ’Morn,’ "said
E. Elizabeth Summers, alawyer for Kathleen, in court
papers. She acknowledged that a Lesbian partner can
get parental rights by adopting the child with her
partner, but said not all California counties, or judges
in the same county, allow adoptions by same-sex
couples.
Mormans Lose Members
Over Anti-Gay Stance
SALT LAKECITY (AP) - The Mormon church says
it regrets a protest by dozens of dissident members
trying to quit the church because of its campaign in
California against Gay. marriages. The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issued a statement
saying it was defending the "traditional family" by
pushing for a California ballot initiative that seeks to
preempt legalized same-gender marriages.
The dissidents say the church crossed a line from
religion to politics by asking its 740,000 California
members to "do all you can" to assure passage of the
initiative.
Church spokesman Dale Bills said, "we regret that
any member would ask to have his or her name
removed from our records because the church has
joined a coalition in California to oppose samegender
marriage."
New Test Catches
HIV Quicker
RICHMOND,Va. (AP)-Theagency that
collects most blood donations in central
Virginiais still usingtwo standard tests to
screen blood for the AIDS virus, four
months afterfederal healthofficials urged
blood baul~ to use a new test. The new
test, called Nucleic Acid Testing; was
recommended by the Food and Drug
Administration on March 3. NAT may
significantly reduce the time thatHIV can
avoid detection in current blood tests.
¯
reaching," MethodistHealth Care System
¯
president Peter Butler said.
: Science Advances,
i Prejudice Remains ¯
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - T.J.
¯
contracted the virus that causes AIDS 18
: years ago. He says nothing’s changed.
¯ "Wall, almost nothing," "he said. "A lot
: has changed in medicine, but very little
: has changed in stigma and prejudice." So
¯
little that he feels obliged to use T.J.
¯ instead of his real name.
TheFl’)A’sreq°mmendati°n~et"w°° i ,,~’li~eitl arural’~rea~
w~s~.~f_5,re ~iPetet~b~gman; William good iqtca, (o use my name, he said. T.J.
C C~ippy ¥6tmg~" tmderwent:V~seular~ ~ hdped form the Long Term ~Survivors
surgeryat~MedicalColleg~ofVirginia : Group for people living with AIDS in
Hospitals in Richmond..Young said he : Oklahoma. It has about 200 members.
contracted HIV from a blood transfusion
he received during the surgery.
Virginia Blood Services, the regional
blood bank., last week acknowledged that
a unit of blood it sent toMCV may have
been tainted with HIV. The unidentified
donor tested negative when theblood was
given but later tested posluve.
The NAT procedure is not yet required
because it is experimental and there are
questions abouL how to implement it
nationwide But FDA spo,k,eswoman
Len0re Gelb said the test will’ help close
the window" when. HIV cannot, be
detected.
Virginia Blood Services has used the
test for another virus, hepatitis C~"since
April 15 as part of a study, said
spokeswoman Laura Cameron. She said
the procedure would be used to test blood
when it is licensed by the FDA, which is
awaiting results .of NAT experiments
around the country.
Atthe timeYoung contendshe received
the taintedblood, only afew blood centers
had the technology to implement the ne.w
test for AIDS, said Dr; Celso Bianco, the
president of America s Blood Centers¯
"Even if the (NAT) test worked, it would
not have benefited this recipient," Bianco
said.
The new test detects HIV at very small
concentrations even before the body
produces antibodies to the virus. Blood
banks now use a test that spots antibodies
to HIV and another that finds a protein
attached to the virus.
In a study published this month in the
medical journal Transfusion, scientists
studying an HIV-infected chimpanzee
discovered that the new test narrowed the
detection window by three weeks. They
also found that blood from the HIVinfected
chimp did not infect another
animal until the virus concentration was
detectable using the new test.
New Medical Center
HOUSTON (AP) - A new cell and gene
research center here could revolutionize
therapy for many illnesses, including
cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes
and AIDS, say doctors. Formation of the
International Center for Cell and Gene
Therapy, a collaboration by Baylo,r
College of Medicine, Texas Children s
Hospital andTheMethodist Hospital, was
announced this morning. Officials said
the center will be the first in the world to
combine basic science mid clinical
research with pediatric and adult celland-
gene-therapy transplant facilities.
Creation ofthe center was prompted by
new understanding of the molecular basis
ofdisease and theneedfornovel strategies
for cell and gene therapy.-"We realize the
medical possibilities are endless and the
potential impact on patients is far-
: "We’ve had members burned out of their
¯
home and run out of town," he said. "One
¯ family just recently moved to the city
¯ (from a natal community) because they
¯ couldn’t take it anymore. The mother has
AIDS." T.J. said the quality and length of
life for people living with AIDS has
¯ improved because of medical advances,
¯ but there is still a long way to go. "People
~ have started believing thatit’s over. It’s a
¯ long way from being over," he said.
Pam Cross, director of the Regional
AIDS Interfaith Network, agreed that the
¯ much of the general public remains
¯ ignorant of the disease. "People have ¯
¯ become quite complacent. They’ve taken
good news from headlines and TV about
¯ medical advances," she said. "They think
it’ s a cure for HIV and there’ s not. "We’re
~ not seeing a drop. Nationwide, we still
have 40,000 people a y,e,ar becoming
¯ infected with this disease.
T.J., who got AIDS from a Gay
; relationship, fits into the Centers for
~ Disease Co~,trol and Prevention"Pre- 1987
: Definition. That definition refers .to the,
Original list of"oppormnistic infect|ons.
In other words,he got the virus that causes
AIDS before AIDS had a name.
In Oklahoma, there have been 5,441
reported HIV/AIDS cases, according to
theOklahomaState Departmentof Health,
which began tracking the disease in 1982.
Figures show no confirmed heterosexual
¯ cases were recorded the first four years
records were kept, but in the past four
¯ years about 10% of overall cases have
¯ been heterosexual. ¯ ’t ¯ Ms. Cross said documented cases don
¯
fully represent the amount of people who
¯ have the disease. "If they’re anonymous, ¯
¯ there’s noway oftellinghowmany people
have it. I’ve heard estimates that cases
¯ could be as many as 10 times higher (than
¯ what is documented)," Ms. Cross said. ¯
’qqaere are alot of people that don’t know
~ theDyorne"iJnofhecntseodn,, ashe19s-myea. r survivor of
¯ AIDS, said he thinks the biggest reason ¯
¯ for increase in heterosexual cases is
ignorance andalackofAIDS educationin
¯ Oklahoma. "There’s still a lot of that ’It
~ can’ thappenhere’ attitude.I don’ t see the
¯ education taking place that I see in
~ California," saidJohnson,41, whois G.ay.
¯ "The schools there have a curriculum that
¯ involves HIV prevention. There is not the
¯ samecommumtyawarenesshere, hesaid.
¯
Shelly Hickman, spokeswoman f.o,r .,file
i state Department of Education, sam m.e
¯ state requires that schools have a certain
: amount of AIDS education curriculum,
¯ but much of it is left up to the schools¯
¯ ’‘There is some discretion on how it is
~ taughtandwhenitis taught," Ms. Hickman
¯ said."Weareinfavoroflocal communities
~ that they use what’s best for them."
¯ Peggy, who would not use her real
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name, said the state doesn’t do enough to
protect future generations from getting
.AIDS. "People think this diseaseis starting
to go away," she said. "This is afact oflife
- we have to protect our future and give
them the information they need to protect
themselves. How can we do that if we
have to be careful about what words we
say or don’t say in this state? "This
generation is not like generations in the
past. We can’t treat our youth like we did
three or four generations ago. They’re
having sex younger and younger."
Peggy said she got HIV from her late
husband when’he got it from a blood
transfusion in the mid-80’s. She said she
and herhusband hid their disease from the
community toprotecttheir children. "Until
society accepts this disease and is able to
talk about it, it will go on and on," she
said. "Heterosexual people are afraid to
¯¯ country can import lower-cost drugs
without infringing on patents.
¯ The issue of African access to AIDS
¯ drugs has taken on a political dimension ¯
recently. Gore has been caught in a fight
¯ between AIDS activists seeking cheap
¯ generic drugs for South African AIDS ¯
victims of the disease and U.S. laws
: intended to protect drug companies from
¯ having theirpatents violated abroad. Gore
: has saidhedoesnotopposeSouthAfrica’s
¯ attempts to produce or obtain generic
¯ AIDS medicines as long as those efforts ¯
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¯
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¯ government unspecified power to obtain
¯ cheaper AIDS drugs. About 40 ¯
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be tested because they’re afraid they’ll be :
labeled as Gay. So then they go and ~x;e :
it to someone else and the cycle goes on.r’ ¯
Congress Hears
¯African Appeal
WASHINGTON (AP)-AnAIDS patient
from Malawi asked Congress for help in
settling trade-disputes that could deprive
poor African countries such as her own of
vital drugs.
Chatinkah Nkhoma, 37, believes she
would be dead now had she stayed in
Lilongwe, Malawi’s capital, where the
drugs she needs either are tmavailable or
cost too much. Millions of other Africans
are not as lucky, said Nkhoma, who came
to the United States as a graduate student.
~’I’m their voice. I’m here to cry for help,"
Nkhoma testified tearfully before the
HouseGovernmentReform subcommittee
oncriminaljustice, drug policy andhuman
resources.
The government did act in response:
Vice President Gore on Monday
announced a new $100 million proposal
to help Africa stop the spread of AIDS.
Nkhoma also appealed to lawmakers to
¯ reject arguments that the drags may cause
more harm than good in poor nations
unable to ensure AIDS patients adhere to
strict drug regimens. Experts have said
that people who do not take the drugs as
prescribed actually may become sicker or
devdop drug-resistant strains of theAIDS
virus.
AIDS deaths in the United States have
declinedbecause ofadvances in treatment,
but they remain on the increase in Africa,
where it is the leading cause of death.
Trade disputes have developed over
some countries’ efforts to reduce the cost
ofimporting AIDS drugs, withsomeblame
directed at pharmaceutical companies.
"What happens to countries who.., do
not purchase their AIDS drugs from drug
companies, instead looking to. buy them
through cheaper sellers, often times other
countries? Under direct pressure from the
pharmaceuticalindustry, they arepunished
bythe UnitedStates," Rep. Bernie Sanders,
I-Vt., said in a written statement. He said
thesecountries couldlose theirpreferential
tariff treatment "all because the
pharmaceutical companies do not wish to
lose any of their tremendous profits."
Joe Papovich, an assistant U.S. trade
representative, said the Clinton
administration believe it can resolve the
disputes, which involve drug companies’
efforts to protect their patents and help
recoup research costs. He said the
administration is working with South
Africa, where 45% of the military is
infected with the AIDS virus, so that
More Die From
: AIDSThan War
: NAIROBI, Kenya(AP)-AIDS killed 1:4
: million people in eastern .and southern
," Africa last year, overtaking armed
¯ conflicts as the No. 1 killer in the region,
," the U.N~ Children’s Fund said recently.
: Theepidemic, whichhas hit this portion
¯ of the African continent harder than
: anywhere else in the world, has left 6
: million children orphaned in eastern aud
¯ southern Africa, amounting to70% of the
¯ world’s AIDS orphans, said UNICEF ¯
DeputyExecutiveDirectorStephenLewis.
¯ 48% of the world’s AIDS cases are in this
¯ region, Lewis said during the release of
¯ UNICEF’s annual report on AIDS. It ¯
called for emergency action to curb the
¯ spread of AIDS in Africa.
¯ "Fundamentally,AIDS is spreading and
¯ stifling the economic and social
" infrastructure of the entire continent. It is
¯ killing the most productive age group,"
¯ Lewis said. "It is doubling and tripling
¯ infant mortality rates. It is returning life
-" .expectancy to the levels of 1960s." "It is
: the modern incarnationof the Dante’s
¯ Inferno," Lewis said. "Neaier has Africa
¯ faced such a plague."
~ Worldwide, some 16,000 people daily
" are infected.by HIV, the virus that causes
¯ AIDS, and there are 8.2 million AIDS
: orphans, most in sub-Saharan Africa, the
" report said. The report warned that AIDS
: could increase infant mortality in eastem
¯ and southern Africa by 75% and double
: the death rate of children under fivein the
¯ region in the next decade. "Thenumber of
: orphans in Africa constitute nothing less
¯ thananemergencyrequiring an emergency
: response," the report said.
¯ In Uganda, some 1.1 million children
¯ under 15 - or 11% of the country’s child
¯ population-have lost one or both parents ¯
to AIDS, the highest number of AIDS
¯ orphans in the world. In the developed
¯ wodd, that figure is at 1%. ¯
Especially important was educating
¯
people on prevention and on building
¯ tolerance in the region, where AIDS
¯ victims arefrequently shamedinto silence.
¯" Men, more than women, were intolerant
¯ of the disease, often refusing to be tested
: or to support wives stricken with AIDS,
¯ Lewis said.
: Lewis attacked Western nations for not
: financing the fight against the scourge in
¯ Africa. "It is morally indefensible," Lewis
~ said, "That the West is prepared to spend
: upwards of $40 billion to fight war in the
¯ Balkans then to engage in the economic
¯ restoration ofKosovo, andless than 1% of
: that to save the lives of tens of millions of
¯ women, children and men in .adriea."
by James Christjohn
Well, Just saw the new Muppets in
Space (MIS). It only served to make me
nostalgic for the days when Jim Henson
was at the helm of Muppetland. His son,
Brian, strives to follow in his footsteps
and for the most parts does a pretty good
job, but for whatever
reasons, the muppets
justseem to be puppets
now, not beings with
personalities.
In MIS, the plot
focuses on Gonzo,
who doesn’t know
what he is. Neither
does anyone else.
Turns out, he’s an
"alien from outer space
that.got left behind on
a mzsslon many years
ago, and now his
family is looking for
him. This could have
been the setup for a
really tinny "Pigs in
Space" type romp,
taking on all the big
space films, like Star
Wars, Close Encounters, Star Trek, etc.
And, while it has a few cute moments,
it fizzles like booster rockets with a furl
leak. I was really hoping it wout~d be good,
so it is with heavy heart I ~rite this.
Missing are the cameos that populated the
first three muppet films to such success,
the rapid fire jokes, and the witty
commentary on society that was the secret
weapon of the muppet minds. This is not
to say that you won’t find a few chuckles
in the film, which is worth seeing at the
dollar movie.
Especially relevant - and attention
getting - are the bits where Gonzo is
telling the gang that"I didn’ t choose to be
this way, I was’born this way." There are
other moments like that as well, which
indicates more of an overt Gay sensibility
to the film that one might suspect. These
moments are what makes the film worth
seeing.The pacing is-off on most of the
jokes - many of which absolutely depend
on the perfect timing to be funny rather
than misfires.
The ending leaves one wishing formore
- morebuildup,more climax, betterjokes.
It is kind ofperfunctory, and at no time do
the muppets sing any of the songs except
for one perfunctory number, and it’s an
oldie everyone will recognize, mainly
because it was overplayed in the 80’ s way
toe much. It was obviously thrown in at
the last minute, probably as a result of a
production meeting wherein someone said,
"But we HAVEto have a muppet musical
number! It’s expected!", and someone
else said,"Well... OK. I guess so. What’ll
we do?" "How about some old song from
the 80’s that everyone knows? That way
we won’t have to pay for songwriters?"
That, too, was disappointing, for one who
remembers the Muppet Movie for the
music as wall as the dream of one little
green frog to "make millions of people
happy."
Switching hats here, I thought I’d cross
over into TFN Book reviewer Barry
Hensley’s territory and make a
recommendation for "Queer Astrology
for Men" by Jill Dearman. Ms. Dearman
writes in a humorous style, which can
seem light until you read - really read -
whatshe’ s writing. (Shemustbea"sadge"
- Saggitarian) It makes the more
~ challenging aspects of the signs a little
¯ easier to take, and makes one aware of
¯ them without alienating or antagonizing,
¯ except in a good natured, "just kidding"
" kinda way. She’s been writing
¯ professionally aboutastrology for 9 years,
and has studied astrology since childhood,
and she does seem to
One of my favorite
numbers was the
"Jadhouse Tango",
wherein a bunch of
murderesses explain
why "they done it".
I think anyone who’s
been in a relationship
could probably
identify with many of
the reasons.
know her stuff.
As an astrologer
(Gemini MoonAstrological
Services, see
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I am always on the
lookout for new and
informative
information on
astrology, especially
pertaining to Gay and
Lesbian folk This
book fits the bill quite
nicely and accurately,
Informally written,
it is an overview of
the sun sign..(themost
basic part of one’s
personality. Of
course, for a really
accuratepicture, afull
interpretation or birthchart is necessary;
since the other planets can mitigate/
amplify the sun sign’s qualities in any
given person.) As such, it is scarily on the
target.
As a Sagittarius, I found that section
(sometimes unfortunately) to be dead-on:
And having spent more than my share of
time around Leas, I read that section as an
objective "test" of the accuracy of the
writing, and again, it was quite right. So,
if you’re looking for a quick overview of
someone’s personality, and what makes
them tick, tiffs would be one of the better
book.
For a more complete picture, if you
know the person’s moon sign and rising
sign, I would recommend reading those
sections as well. Sun: basic ego quirks and
personality; rising sign or ascendant: how
they appear to others (Which explains
why a sun sign appears to be something
else entirely, emphasis on the "seems".);
and moon sign: emotions and the
subconscious - the way someone filters/
expresses emotional tendencies. Or, in
the case of one Leo I know, not.
It’ s a worthy addition to thebookshelves
of anyone curions about what makes
people tick, psychology, or mateshopping.
And, as a former total skeptic
and a psychology major, I can say give it
arty; you’llbe surprised. Forget the overly
general newspaper tidbits (especially the
Tulsa World -"Sagittarius: Today you’ll
have a day" just doesn’t cut it with me),
and go for the real stuff. This is a good
start,
If you can, check out "Chicago", at the
PAC throughAugust 1 st. The Kander and
Ebb musical starring Sandy Duncan is
worth seeing. The men and women are all
gorgeous, and the staging is perfect. The
story of the "sensationalization" of two
murders for publicity’s sake is certainly
timely. Ms. Duncan is gorgeous and turns
in a great performance, and the dancing
alone is worth seeing.
One of my favorite numbers was the
"Jailhouse Tango", wherein a bunch of
murderesses explain why "they done it",
I thinkanyonewho’s beenin arelationship
could probably identify with many of the
reasons.
see Arts, p. 11
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reviewed by Barry Hensley
Tulsa City-Couniy Library
For a short time, in 1997, the worldwas
mesmerized’by the odd and frightening
story of Andrew Cnnanart, as he went on
a killing spree across several
states, ending.with themurder Indiana’s
of fashion designer Gianni ¯ ". ~ "
Versace in Miami. This
¯recounting of Cunanan’s
interesting life and horrifying
death makes fascinating, ff
difficult, reading.
Growing up in a lower
middle class family,Cunanan
learned early in life to
embellish tte truth to make
him seem more important. He
studied the.finer things in life
beginning as a child, and by -
high school, dazzled his
teachers with his knowledge
andtaste, andwonrespectfrom
other students with his sharp
wit, easy’ demeanor and
exceedingly good looks.
As he eased into gay life in " sentence at
California, Cnnanan learned thathe couldeasilymanipulate ~’- 39~0 words!
otherpeopleinto situations that
were advantageous to him. He had a few
seim-serious relationships and even had a
sugar daddy at one point. The two people
he was serious about, David Madson and
JeffTrail, each soonrealized thatCunanan
was a fraud. To get away from him, they
each left the state, ironically both ending
up in Minnesota.
As Cunanan’s friends deserted him,
with no job and low on funds, he went to
Minnesota, hoping one of his old
boyfriends wouldinvitehim to stay awhile
- untilhe wasbackonhis feet. BothMadson
and Trail, who barely knew each other,
were simply hoping that he wouldstay for
acoupleofdays andleave. Whenitbecame
gravcst sin,
and the thing
that makes
the book so
hard to read,
is his highly
approach to
sentence
structure.
I do kd
The brothers were being held in lieu of
$150,000 bail on charges of receiving
stolen property after authorities said they
found awallet, credit card, driver’s license
and Social Security card belonging to
Matson.
Federal and local authorities said the
brothers also were being investigated in
connection with the Sacramento
synagogue fires onJune 18 that caused $1
million in damage..
TheWilliams brothers livedinamodest,
wood-frame house in Redding, where
investigators said they found material
espousing white supremacist beliefs.
Amongthematerial foundwas literature
from the Illinois-based World Church of
the Creator, according to news reports. A
former member of the church, Benjamin
Smith, killed himself last week after a
two-state shooting spree targeting
minorities inTndianaand ~linois thatkill~.~
two men and wonnded nine others.
Also found in the house was alist of32
prominent Jewish and civic leaders in
Sacramento, and FBI special agent James
Maddock said protection was ordered for
those individuals. Officials also urged
Reddin~’s only Jewish congregation,
Temple Beth Israel, to increase secun y.
ii
evident that no offers were forthcoming,
Cunanan tttmed bitter and surly. After a
minor betrayal by Jeff Trail, Cunanan
snapped, bludgeoning Trail to death with
a hammer. And so began his killing spree
which also included Madson, an elderly
friend in Chicago, an unlucky
cemetery worker whose truck
Cunanan needed, and finally,
Versace.
Author Gary Indiana did a
lotofresearch butmuch of the
book revolves around what
Cunanan was thinking, how
he formulated his plans, and
conversations between
Cunanan and his victims.
Since all of the participants
are dead, Indiana is simply
making up. a good story,, With
events that may ormay not be
true.But, Indiana’s gravestsin,
and the thing that makes the
book so hard to read, is his
highly unusual approach to
sentence structure. I clocked
one sentence at 320 words!
Frustrations aside, this
is an interesting story, and
there are some fairly good
photographs to help put faces
¯ with names. There is an unseemly photo
." Of Ctmanan’s bloody corpse, after his
¯ suicide, which is better suited to a tabloid
~ thanarespectablebook. Ctmananwas ful!
¯ of contradictions; smart but doing stupid
¯" things, sweet yet mean to those around
him, and;mostofall,complex yetshallow.
¯ His is a warning to materialistic social
". climbers that there is more to life than
superficial appearances, and if you take
¯ things too seriously, you can wind up
: hurting yourself and those you love.
¯ Check for Three Month Fever at your
: local branch library, or call the Readers
: Services departmentatthe Central Library,
¯ at 596-7966.
i Anti-Hate Crimes Legislation
: Advances in Senate
¯ WASHINGTON - The Senate has taken
i a ,strong stand against the rising tide of
hate violence in America by adding the
¯
Hate Crimds Prevention Act to the
¯ Commerce, Justice and State appro-
¯ priations bill, both the Human Rights
"_ Campaiguandthe National Gay&Lesbian
¯
Task Force asserted recently.
¯ "The Senate took a dramatic step
¯ forward in making this nation a safer ¯
place for all Americans," HRC Executive
: Director Elizabeth Birch said a day after
¯ the Senate added hate crimes language to
¯ the appropriationsmeasure. "We appla.ud ¯
this responsibleeffort to stem the growing
: trend of hate crimes in our country."
¯ ’q’his is the first concrete action taken
¯ by either chamber since America buried
¯" Matthew Shepard, James Byrd Jr., Billy
~ .Jack Gaither, and many transgendered
: people whose names and faces do not
make the newspapers," said Kerry Lobel,
¯ executive director of the National Gay
¯ and Lesbian Task Force.
_" "It is a good first step. But we have a
¯ long way to go and we must now mm to
¯ the House and tell our representatives
: how critically important this legislation
¯ is. In short, we must keep up the heat." ¯
Theamendmentapprovedby the Senate
: see Hate, p, 14
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recommend that yougo get itnow. As one
of the few artists I’ve heard that sounds as
good live as She does on her studio
recordings, this is a standout collection of
live performances that showcase her
talents to a tee. A DVD/videotape is to be
released soon of-the performances
captured on this CD, with extra songs. If
you didn’t get to see her inOKC, I can tell
you that this is the next best thing.
Also, for those who have missed the
regular "Stevie" updates, Ms. Nicks’
album is nearly completed, with an
October release date,
The most concrete action taken,
however, was acommitmenttomeetagain
as a group on Sept. 14, at the TulSa Gay
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HUman Rights Campaign Fears Religious
Liberty Bill May Threaten Civil Rights
WASHINGTON - The House passed the ¯ discriminate on the basis of sext~A
~::i.: Religi~us Liberty ProtectionAct (RLPA) : orientation.
last month and defeated a substitute bill
that would have closed a dangerous
loophole in RLPA that could threaten
civil fights ff not remedied in the Senate,
according to theHaman Rights Campaign.
"In its current form, this bill poses a
grave threat to civil rights laws throughout
thecountry," saidHRCExecutive Director
Elizabeth Birch "In an unconscionable
vote~.the U.S. House of Repre.sentatives
has indicated its willingness, to trample onthb
civil rigllts ofwomen, people of color,.
people with disabilities and Gay and
Lesbian Americans."
"While we support the intentions of the
Religious Liberties Protection Act, it is
shameful that the House rejected an
alternative bill that would have protected
civil rights," said HRC Political Director
Winnie Stachelberg.
A substitute bill sponsored by Jerrold
Nadler, D-N.Y., was defeated in theHouse
190 to 234 after an hour-long debate. The
Nadler bill would have clarified RLPAby
preventing an individual from using
religious beliefs to undermine local or
state civil rights statutes. Without the
Nadlerbill, which was necessary forHRC
support, the Rep. Charles Canady0 R-Fla.,
sponsored Religious Liberty Protection
Act-a bill designed to safeguard religious
expression- passed the House306 to 118.
RLPA would prohibit any state or local
law from placing a "substantial burden"
on a "person’s religious exercise" even if.
the rule is not designed to infringe on a
person’s religious beliefs. The problem
is; the bill currently does not clarify
whether state andlocal anti-discrirhination
laws can be ignored by a person who
claims that these laws violate his or her
religious beliefs.
"We cannot support legislation that
might threatenanti:discrimination statutes
thatprotect Gay andlesbianAmericans in
11 states and 101 municipalities," said
Stachelberg.
Thefollowing is an excerpt of a letter
that was sent by HRC executive director
Elizabeth Birch to our allies who are
supporting the RLPA without civil rights
protection.
The- Human Rights Campaign is proud
to have the support of a broad-based
coalition ofreligious organizations in the
struggle for Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual
equality. However, in light of the position
many such organizations took on last
week’s House vote in support of the
Religious Liberty ProtectionAct(RLPA),
I wouldlike to share withyou our thoughts
on RLPA. First, we believe the intent of
this legislation is a worthy one - religious
freedom is an important righL But, as
currently drafted, this bill is flawed.
We strongly believe support for this
legislation, as currently drafted, is not
consistent with support for Gay and
Lesbian rights....
Like you, the Human Rights Campaign
strongly supports the principle of
protecting the free exercise of one’s
personal religious beliefs that serve as the
foundation for RLPA. Just as strongly, we
believe that Lesbian, Gay and bisexual
Americans shouldnotface discrimination
at work, at home or in their communities
because of their sexual orientation. It is
clear from statements made by members
of the coalition supporting RLPA that
they believe individual landlords and
employers should be allowed to
’_ Unfortunately, the question
¯ answered during last week’s debate <~n
: RLPA is, in my mind, the most import~zt
: one: what religious liberty fights wo~.! d
¯ be lost or weakened by the inclusion of a
: civilrights provision?Formembers of the
¯ coalition supporting this bill who profc.qs
¯ a desire to resolve this impasse in good
: faith, I find the rejection of this provision
¯ completely bafflin.g....:
¯" " Our ~ concern! ls:.com~pou,n,ded by
statements made by (he bill’.s chief:
¯ sponsor, Congressman Charles Canady,
~ and one of the leading members of your
¯ coalition, Steve McFartand, of the ¯
¯ Christian Legal Society. During
Saturday’s broadcast of the CSPAN
" program Washington Journal, Canady
¯ said"I believe there are contexts in which
: this bill could result in a claimant who is
¯ defending agmnst the application of a
¯ local Gay rights ordinance to raise a claim
that would be successful - I think this law
would trump the Gay rights ordinance."
¯ Mr. McFarland also acknowledged this
." intended use of RLPA in response to a
¯ question fromCongressman Jerry Nadler ¯
during his congressional testimony on
¯ RLPA before the House Judiciary
¯ Committee.’s Subcommittee on the
¯ Constitution on May 12, 1999. I am sure
¯
you can understand why such statements
¯ do little to dispel the very real fear that
¯ some intend to use RLPA as a sword to ¯
strike down the civil rights of others in the
¯ name of religious liberty. Whether it is
; your intent or not, opposition to a civil
¯ rights exemption ts support for
¯ discriminationbased onsexual orientation
" - a position in direct opposition to the
¯ principles that are the foundation of the
Employment Non-Discrimination Act.
: We are particularly passionate about
: the need for a civil rights provision in
¯ RLPA because of the lack of any federal
laws prohibiting employment
." discrimination on the basis of sexual
; orientation. The eleven state laws and
¯ nearly 200local laws are the few and very
: hard fought civil rights protections
] availableforGay and Lesbian Americans.
: Many of those laws took fifteen years or
¯ more of struggle by the local community
¯ to pass....
The Religious Liberty Protection Act,
.~ as currently drafted, will put more
¯ Americans at risk of discrimination, not ¯
fewer. Enacting this legislation without
: stating clearly in the bill that RLPA does
¯ not provide a defense to non-compliance
¯ with stateor local anti-discriminationlaws ¯
undercuts those laws ....
¯ To allow RLPA as a defense against
: discrimination is to defend religious
¯ practices that do real and definable harm ¯
to others. From our perspective, your
¯ opposition to the civil rights provision
." means you are defending the right of a
¯ religious individual, who chooses to be a
: landlord or employer, to impose their
¯ religious beliefs on a Gay or Lesbian
¯ American by denying them a job or a
: place to live because of their sexual
: orientation. To find ourselves in this
: disagreement with you, our long-time
¯ allies, deeply saddens and angers us... ¯
We ask you to join with us as this bill
." moves forward to strongly encourage the
: Senate to include a civil rights provision
¯ and enact areligious liberty protection act
: for all Americans.
¯ - Elizabeth Birch, Executive Director
byEsther Rothblum, Ph.D.
Giventhenumberandrange ofresearch
projects about Lesbians in recent years, it
is easy to forget how challenging it was to
survey Lesbians even a decade ago. In the
1980’ s, Caitlin Ryan and Judy Bradford
conducted @hat became the National
Lesbian Health Care Survey. This study
eventually resulted in 1,925 completed
questionnaires from Lesbians in all 50
U.S. states. It figured prominently in the
recent Institute of Medicine
Report of the National
Academy of Sciences. Even
today, there are Lesbians
(including me!) who
remember completing a
questionnaire for this study
15 years ago. I recently asked
Caiflin and Judy to describe
the "herstory" and process
of conducting the National
Lesbian Health Care Survey
in the mid- 1980s.
In the late 1970s, Caitlin suggested
forminganational organization thatwould
be multi-disciplinary, focus on Lesbian
- and Gay health issues, and sponsor
research and education. She began to talk
with other Lesbians about the need for a
survey. There was no av~i~lable
information on how Lesbians
conceptualize Lesbian health. She was
also interested in how stigma affected
health, mental health, self care, and access
to care.
Sheapplied for agrant though thenewly
formed National Lesbian and Gay Health
Foundation and hired a research
consultant, Dot Parkel, who was a
sociologist and survey researcher. Dot’s
role was to help design the study and to
develop drafts of the questionnaire, using
the input Caitlin had received from many
Lesbians.
Caitlin told me: "I remember talking
with a researcher who was herself a
closeted Lesbian, who sat down with me
and basically told me that I could not
possibly do a study like this. She just felt
that it was not feasible. And, of course,
therewas no such thing as arepresentadve
sample. I saw this womanrecently and we
laughed about her earlier skepticism. She
said, ’I told you that you couldn’t do and
you went out and did it.’ "
Judy got started by attending the
Intemational Lesbian and Gay Health and
AIDS Conference atNew YorkUniversity
with a good friend, a man who was in her
class in graduate school. They were both
interested in AIDS research, which was
just getting started then. EverywhereJudy
looked- and she went to a lot of sessions
at the conference - there were mostly
men. Then she noticed in the Conference
program a scheduled time for a women’ s
group meeting. It turned out to be an
orgamzing meeting for the National
Lesbian Health Care Survey, and Caitlin
was facilitating the group. When Judy
said she was a graduate student and
described a little of what she was doing,
she suddenly became co-investigator and
was responsible for data analysis and
preparing the survey report.
One of the things Caitlin had been very
concerned about was inclusion. So many
of the early studies, and even those
conducted today, have shown very highly
educated samples of Lesbians. Shewanted
¯ . . it is easy
to forget how
challenging it
was to survey
Lesbians even
a decade ago.
: to include women of color and women of
¯ diffeient economic backgrounds and not
¯ have language be a barrier. So she talked
with people about how to ask clinical
¯ questions in a non-clinical way. Caitlin
¯ said: "I talked with women bus drivers,
day laborers, women who had been
¯ recently diagnosed withcancer, about their
¯ experiences and how we should ask these ¯
questions. All of that helped frame how
¯
we would shape a questionnaire."
She elicited
suggestions about language
in a series of focus groups
that took place in several
different parts ofthe country.
They pre-tested the
questxonna]re at several
Lesbian and Gay
conferences and with
individuals around the
country. They would ask the
womenin the focus group to
fill out the questionnaire, and
¯ then they would sit around and talk about
¯ it alittlebit, and hearwhat people thought ¯
of it to make it more accessible. After
" several go-arounds using that process,
: they finalized the questionnaire.
¯ SinceCaitlinhaddone the early Lesbian ¯
andGayhealth organizing, shehad alarge
¯ address baseofpeopleall overthecountry
who were willing to help distribute the
¯ quesdounaires. They set up a distribution ¯
plan that was kind of an unusual approach
¯ tO snowball sampling. The methodology
¯ was intended to get the questionnaires out ¯
as broadly as possible to people all over
the country, including Alaska; They were
concernedwithgetting the survey to underrepresented
populations that hadn’t been
sampled before, so they made a
commitment to getting it to Lesbians in
the military, Lesbians living on Indian
reservations, and Lesbians in prison.
They also. tried reaching non-English
speaking women and they tried to reach
Lesbians of color in a variety of ways,
including having Lesbians of color give it
out to their networks around the country.
The National Coalition of Black Lesbians
and Gays sent a mailing about the survey
and how important it was and how to
participate. The Wisconsin Governor’s
Task Force sent out mailings that went all
over the state of Wisconsin. The National
Organization of Women sent out
information abeut the survey, and
information about it was published in a
variety of Lesbian and Gay newsletters.
The survey went out in the fall of 1984
and by early 1985 they had received
surveys back from 1,925 Lesbians from
every U.S. state. It was a wonderful
experience for them,hearing from somany
Lesbians across the country, and had the
sense of a national movement. There was
an electric energy - everyone had a great
sense of how important the survey was.
Of course, a major issue was how to
obtain money to fund data entry and data
analysis. The early 1980s was not a time
for funding Lesbian projects. Once the
struggles for funding were over (though
the study was funded on a shoestring),
Judy sent the questionnaires out to the
Virginia State Prison, where all the lab’s
data entry was done at that time. She told
¯ me: "The questionnaires did not arrive ¯
back. When our project manager called
¯
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For years and years I used to gethaircuts
athome. Mona, spouse, roommates,lovers
- whoever was handy with scissors - had
a whack at my head. The result varied but
the price was right. So I was a latecomer
to theworld of barbers, professional haircutters,
hairdressers, and stylists. Thefirst
time I paid someone for a haircut I was
nervous. I was 40 years old but had never
been inside a salon. That chair, the sink,
those weird tools - it all reminded me of
the dentist. However, I soon learned to
appreciate hairdressers’ skills and also
the pleasure of a shampoo and an
occasional head massage.
But I was still worried when I moved to
Japan for seven months. My hair grew
faster than I could learn Japanese. I riffled
desperately throughmyratty oldJapanese
"useful phrases for tourists" looking for
haircut vocabulary. I had the book in my
pocket when I picked a shop at random
from the scores of salons in downtown
Kagoshima.
Lucky for me, the stylist and owner had
trained with Vidal Sassoon in London.
And he remembered enough English to
understand roughly how I wanted my
hair. He had an army of assistants, too,
who shampooed me and got me ready for
the cut. (They would drape a cloth over
my eyes while working on me - I wasn’t
sure if this was to keep out the suds, or
spare me the rude view of their nostril
hair.) The shampoo always finished with
a beautifully relaxing head massage - a
standard service in Japanese salons.
I have just finished reading an analysis
of hair styling written by anthropologist
Grant McCracken: Big Hair: A Journey
into the Transformation of Self.
McCracken interviewed both stylists and
customers about the transforming powers
of hair. He suggests that we Americans
get new hairstyles in order to recreate and
change ourselves. When we reach a point
in life where we need a change, we redo
our hair. Or when the boyfriend dumps
you, a new buzz cut and goatee can help
relieve the pain.
A few years ago there was a weird
outbreak of ponytails among my 40-
something straight-guy friends
Something about hitting the Big 40 made
these aging friends cultivate their long,
graying locks. Perhaps they figured this
was the last chance before it all fell off
anyway.
Psychologists from Freudondownhave
commented on the sexual meaning of
hair. Delilah cuts away Samson’s
hewas told ,they wouldn’ t code the surveys.
I got another company to.do it and the
same thing happened. Finally when it
came to the third company I was told that
the data entry staff were afraid to touch
the questionnaires for fear of getting
AIDS !"
Over the years, wherever Judy and
Caitlin are, they continue to nm into
Lesbians who participated in the survey,
and who want to talk about the impact that
it had on them. Many women wrote pages
of material in addition to the answers they
gave to the items on the questiormaire.
For published results of the National
Lesbian Health Care Survey, see:
1. Bradford, J.B., & Ryan, C. (1991).
Who we are: Health concerns ofmiddle-
¯ manhood by fleecing his curls. Though ¯ nowadays- thanks to Michael Jordan and
¯¯ others - the bald knob is equally sexy.
Whether one goes for flowing ponytail or
¯
smooth, shiny scalp, the pointis that when
¯ life gets messy or gloomy, we run to our ¯
barber.
¯ In Kagoshima, someof themoreelegant
¯ salon assistants had dyed their black
¯ Japanese hair blond and I wondered if ¯
they were Gay. But then I felt guilty for
¯ thinking stereotypically. All hair stylists,
¯" of course, are not Gay. Warren Beatty in
Shampoo.testified to that. Still, Gay men
¯ have, been deeply involved in the
¯ emergence of today’s hair industry.
¯ McCracken reviews some of the giants of
¯ 20th century hair styling: Ernest Adler, ¯
Alexandre, and Antoine - the 1950s
forerunners of Sassoon - and many of
¯ these men dearly were Gay. ¯
Furthermore, theAmerican marketplace
¯ feeds off cultural creativity generated
~ within local, often otherwise unap¯
preciated communities. It steals hiphop
stylefromurbanstreets;itborrows stylistic
¯ developments in language, dress, and hair
from Gay men and women. The long hair
¯ of the 1960s and the cropped hair of the
¯ 1990s both largely originated in Gay
circles.
The combination ofhomosexuality and
¯ personal service is not unusual across the
¯ world. Many of the small town beauty
¯ salons springing up in the Philippines and
elsewhere, for example, are established
¯ by Gay men.
¯o It may be that culturally ambiguous
¯ homosexuality-whichstands bothoutside
and between the categorical opposition
betw.eenmal,e andfemale-makes personal
service easier. If the server is somehow
outside the arena ofordinary heterosexual
gender competition and dalliance, then
his touch is easier to bear. It is not news
that. map.y Gay men provide personal
service m restaurants, hotels, hospitals,
rest homes, as well as in hair salons.
Next time you need a new you, do
something about that hair. It may be that
developments in genetics and cloning one
day will replace plastic surgery to allow
us effortlessly to remake ourselves:
Perhaps change our skin color, orbuy new
orange eyeballs, or a bigger set ofpecs, or
trade in our ears or more personal body
parts. But until that day comes, we’ve got
our hair. You can redo with a new do.
Which renfinds me. It’s about time for
a haircut.
Lamont Lindstrom, Ph.D. teaches
anthropology at the University of Tulsa.
agedLesbians. In B. Sang, J. Warshow, &
A.J. Smith (Eds.) Lesbians atmidlife: The
creative transition (pp. 147-163). San
Fransisco, CA: Spinsters Book Company.
2. Bradford, J.B., Ryan, C.,&Rothblum,
E.D. (1994). National Lesbian Health Care
Survey: Implications for mental health
care. Journal of Consulting and Clinical
Psychology, 62, 228-242.
3. Ryan, C., & Bradford, J. (1993). The
NationalLesbian Health Care Survey: An
Overview. In D. Garnets & D.C. Kimmel
(Eds.) Psychological perspectives on
Lesbian and Gay male experiences. New
York: Columbia University Press.
Esther Rothblum is Professor of
Psychology at the University of Vermont
and Editor of the Journal of Lesbian
Studies. She can be reached atJohn Dewey
Hail, University of Vermont, Burlington,
VT. E-mail: esther.rothblum@uvm.edu.
and to effectively refute the anti-family
policies of the right-wing; second, to
actively build an effective and
collaborative national pro-GLBT family
network among GLBT and mainstream
organizations working on family issues;
and third, to educate the general public
about the value and values of GLBT
families.
Ettelbrick will assist NGLTF in
articulating a voice in policy debates that
have a great impact on GLBT families,
including debates on adoption, coparenting,
foster Care, alternative
insemination and recognition of "broader
family support networks. In addition,
NGLTF will raise GLBT perspectives in
debates that have traditionally excluded
consideration of GLBT perspectiyes.
Examples include definitions of family in
Social Security reform proposals~ the
Older Americans Act and immigration
policy.
Noted Vaid, "A number of legal and
advocacy groups do excellent work in the
arena of family issues, but no group
currently coordinates the efforts of our
movement in this area so that
collaboratively we can muster the
resources weneedto changefamily policy.
In addition, there is no national research
center for policy development and policy
analysis ~n family issues. With GLBT
families facing attack on so maiiy fronts,
the need for a coordinated national
approach has never been greater."
Announcement of the Family Policy
Programis partofalong-term commitmenl
on the part of the NGLTF Policy Institute
toGLBTFamilies. Beginning in the 1980s,
NGLTFhousedthefirstnational Families
Project. Throughout the 1990"s, the Task
Force worked actively on a number of
family issues. Last year, NGLTF
organized "Celebrating Our Families," a
15-city national tour to raise the visibility
of GLBT family issues and to organize
against attacks by right wing groups. In
1999, the Policy Institute published The
Domestic Partnership Organizing Manual
to help employees and citizens around the
country mobilize to obtain important
benefits for their families.
Founded in 1973, the National Gay and
Lesbian Task Force works to
elimiinateprejudice, violence andinjustice
against Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual
andTransgenderedpeople at thelocal, state
and national level. As part of abroader
social justice movement for freedom,
justice and equality, NGLTF iscreating a
world that respects and celebrates the
diversity ofhumanexpression andidentity
where all people may fully participate in
society.
For example, if anyone had suggested
that in the third year after weheld the first
Pride March (all 65 brave souls - likely
more non-Gay than Gay) that we would
have hnndreds at the Pride Parade and
Picnic of this year with no less than
Congressman Barney Frank as grand
marshal. While the principal credit for
that goes to Mitchell Savage and Ric
Martin and many others, it was nndcr
Steve’s leadership that these people came
together.
Andjustkeeping theCommunityCenter
afloat is no little task. While the Center
continues to serve many. groups and
members of the community, it still needs
broader support. Air conditioning has to
be paid for (air conditioning repairs have
to be paid for) as well as rent and other
expenses.
I would suggest that the greatest way in
which we can honor Steve Horn - and
those who served before him as well - is
to continue to support the work he did: to
help keep our community center open, to
improve it; maybe one day, even to help
build our own building - imagine.
would expand federal authority to
prosecute hate crimes. Currently, federal
officials canouly intervene if a victim is
engaged in a federally protected act such
as attempting to vote, go to school or serve
onajury. Federal officials catmotintervene
at all in hate crimes based on disability,
sexual orientation or gender.
The Senate also passed a watered-down
amendmentby Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah,
that does not cover sexual orientation,
disability or genderand wouldonly expand
federal jurisdiction to hate crimes
committed after the crossing of state lines.
"The Hatch amendment fails to
recognize that no one should be a target
for bias-motivated violence," Lobd said.
"Hate crimes legislation that doesn’t cover
sexual orientation, disability and gender
is a farce."
The Hate Crimes Prevention Act has
been a top. legislative priority of both
organizations and passage of the
amendment culminates months of
work."With strong administrationbacking
and bipartisan support in both houses of
Congress, we expect to be in a strong
position in the conference committee to
ensure final passage of the Hate Crimes
Prevention Act," Winnie Stachelberg,
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The Hate Crimes Prevention Act has
strong supportfrom President Clinton and
the administration has made passage a
priority. Rep. Henry Hyde, R-Ill., has
scheduled a hearing on the measure in the
House Judiciary Committee on Aug. 4.
HCPA currently has morethan 180House
cosponsors from both parties.
theneed for individuals in the community
¯ to support the Center remained.
According to Tracey Conaty,
"- spokespersonfor the Gill Foundation,Tim
, Gill, software developer of Quark,
established the Fmmdation in 1994 as a
: catalyst for and’to provide resources for
: communities in pursuit of justice and
¯" equality. The foundation also seeks to
buildawareness ofthe contributions which
: Gay men and Lesbians make to American
¯ society. Since its inception, Tim Gill and
¯ the Gill Foundation have provided nearly
$13 million to hundreds of community
¯ organizations.
Gatewoodalso mentioned several other
¯" events at the Center. On Sept. 25th, the
¯ Centerwill host aFeast for Friends dinner
in support of THE NAMES PROJECT.
¯ And in Oct. the Center will present a
¯ National Coming Out Day Festival and ¯
¯ Fair. This event will include a mini film
festival as well beginning on Oct. 8th.
: More information will be available as the
¯ event approaches.
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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
::WORLD AIDS DAY
DIRECTORY/t.ETFERS P. 2/3
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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*Interurban Restaurant, 717 S. Houston
*Jason’ s Dell, 15th & Peoria
*Lola’s, 2630 E. 15th
*Polo Grill, 2038 Utica Square
*St. Michael’s Alley Restaurant, 3324-L E
*Silver Star Saloon, 1565 Sheridan
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Barry Hensley, J.-P. Legrandbouche, Lament Lindstrom
Esther Rothblum, Mary Schepers, Adam West
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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-
¯ bers, or be hand delivered. 200 word let-
" ters are preferred. Letters to other publi=m
¯ 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
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For Some, Less
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BOSTON (AP) -Women, minorities and
heterosexuals with AIDS are less likely
than others to get a new and effective
treatment, andignorance of the procedure
may be one of the reasons, according to a
new study, The situation maybe particularly
bad for women, who, according to
another report, may be more susceptible
than men to HIV, the virus that causes
AIDS.
The reports were given at the "AIDS at
the Millennium" conference sponsored
by the Massachusetts Medical Society
and Lemuel Shattuck Hospital. A study
by Dr. Valerie Stone of the Brown University
School of Medicine found that
nearly three-quarters ofMassachusetts and
Rhode Island men with AIDS got the
three-drug, protease inhibitors treatment,
but only half the afflictedwomendid. The
study also found that 75% of whites with
AIDS got the multi-drug, or "cocktail"
treatment, but only 58% of blacks and
50%ofHlspanics did. Half ofheterosexuals
withAIDS were being treated with the
drugs, compared with 81% of Gays and
61% of those who contracted the disease
through drug injections. The study was
made at five sites, including community
health centers and teaching hospitals.
Protease inhibitors given in combinations
have improved and prolonged the
lives of many AIDS victims. New biological
evidence suggests women may be
more susceptible to HIV than men, said
Dr. Deborah Cotton, director of AIDS
clinical research at Boston Medical Cem
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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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phill’ s is a classic diner. Blue plate specials.
Biscuits andgravy. Basichamburgers
and fries. Chicken fried steak. Homemade
cinnamon rolls that sell out almost
every morning. Sirloin steak and egg
breakfasts. And, unlike other popular diners
in Tulsa, Phill’ s hash’ t succumbed to
being trendy. It’ s still a neighborhood
place,marketing mostlyby wordofmouth.
But, you have to remember that this is
a low key kind of place. Vinyl banquettes
havethe occasional tapepatch. Sodafountain
bar stools face a functioning service
area. Glasses are plastic. Dinnerware is
mismatched - and includes the sundry
remnants of an IHOP going out of bnsi~
heSS sale. There is nothing pretentious
about this place.
On a recent visit, we decided to have
the grilled liver and onions, which, with a
simple Iceberg salad, two,~egetables (cho-
Two-thirds of U.S. volunteers will re-
¯ sen from the chalkboard), and a basketful
: of-freshly baked dinner rolls, only cost
: $4.99. Theliver, an easy meat to over-
. e~ok, was nicely done, and our only corn-
: plaint was that we got a few onions from
¯ the outside stem-end of the bulb which
were a bit papery. Our
companion opted for
the chicken fried steak,
which cost just a little
moreat $5.69. His steak
filled the plate, and the
aroma was wonderful.
Phill’s recipe includes
abitmore than a hint of
garlic, and the steak
was very satisfying.
: The green beans with bacon were heavily
¯ seasoned with black pepper, and that is
¯ almostatrademarkcharacteristicofPhill’s
: food. He likes things to have seasoning.
¯¯ Somemay not like things so "spicy," but,
with his tendency to use exotic ingredi-
." ents like salt, pepper, butter, onions, gar-
¯ lic, and bacon, we find the spicing charm-
: ing - kind of like visiting a friend’s
: mother’s house for supper.
Another great time to visit Phill’ s is for
¯" a late breakfast on a Saturday or Sunday
’. morning. The chalkboard specials almost
: alwayshaveanmterestmg *orunch food,
¯ ~uch asMalibu French toast (French toast ¯
with orange marmalade), an avocado,
¯
bacon, and cheddar cheese omelette, and,
¯ for those who like corned beef, a hefty
, serving of eggs and hash. Prices vary,
generally in the $4-5 range. Huge, fluffy
¯ hotcakes are also apopularmorningitem,
: with one ample cake going for $1.29, and
¯ two for $2.29. If you really think you can ¯
eat it all, they also have a triple stack for
." $3.29 (but eating like that is not going to
¯ help youfitinthosenew bicycling shorts).
¯ And, in the best Southerntradition, one ¯
can also order a brealffast side order of
¯ sliced tomatoes forjust99 cents. After all,
¯ it isn’ t breakfast without tonaatoes.
¯ Whenthe autunm weatherbegins to get ¯
more of a nip in the air, we’ 11 be looking
¯ forward to several other Phill’s staples.
¯ especially his homemade Irish stew and
his pinto beans with ham. A big bowl of
¯
one of these ($1.99 cup, $2.99 bowl) and
¯ a basketful of his cornbread is more than
¯ enough to refuel on a chilly afternoon.
." Phill’ s slogan is, "home of good food."
: Go to Phill’ s. You’ II feel at home. Andthe
¯ food certainly is good.
: I Editor’s note: Mary Schepers. our Do-
"I It-Yourself-Dyke is taking this month
: 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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¯ Andnow’sespeciallythetimeforthoseof
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: Some of you who’ ve been fortunate to
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White House Meeting on
Hate Crimes Set for Nov.
COLORADOSPRINGS, Colo. (AP)-Inameeting that
will bring together the victims of hate crimes, law
enforcement officials, educators and commlmity and
religions leaders, President Clinton in November will
convene the first White House Conference on Hate
Crimes. Clinton announced his plans in a videOtaped
message for the annual meeting of the Northwest Coalition
Against Malicions Harassment, a six-state organization
that promotes equality and justice.
’q’hanks for the work you do to overcome the forces
ofhatredand division that are still at large inour society.
In America, we are manypeople, but one nation, bound
together by shared values. As we become an increasingly
diverse society, our yery future depends upon
finding new ways to come together across the lines that
divide us," Clinton said. "Because I share your commltment,
on Nov. 10, I’m convening the first ever White
HomeConferenceonHate Crimes," thepresidentadded.
The Seattle-based coalition monitors snspected hate
groups in Washington, Idaho, Montana., Colorado,
Wyoming and Oregon. The group’s 1 lth annual meeting,
billed as "Facing the Fear Together," included
keynote speakers Democratic Partystrategist Celinda
Lake, Columbia University African-American scholar
Manning Marable, and-Mexican-American feminist
and lesbian walter Gloria Anzaldua. see Confpage 3
Catholic Bishops Advise
Support for Gay Kids
NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. Catholic bishops are advisin~
parents of gay children to put love and support for their
sons and daughters before church doctrine that condemns
homosexual activity. In a groundbreaking pastoral
letter, the bishops say homosexual orientation is not
freely chosen and parents must not reject their .gay
children in a society full ofrejection anddiscrimination.
"All in all, it is essential to recall one basic truth. God
loves every person as a umque individual. Sexual identity
helps to define the unique person we are," the
bishops say. "God does not love someone any less
simply because he or she is homosexual."
The document, tided "Always Our Children," was
approved by the Administrative Board of the National
Conference of CatholicBishops. Themounting turmoil
and pain felt by Catholics tom between church teaching
and love for their gay children prompted several bishops
to request guidance from the bishops’ Committee
on Marriage and Family. The committee began studying
the conflict in 1992. Five years later, the bishops in
their letter describe parents who suffer guilt, shame and
loneliness because their children are gay and report that
"a shocking number" of homosexual youth are rejected
by their families and end up on the streets. The parental
rejection, along with the other pressures facedby young
gays and lesbians, place them at greater risk of drug
abuse and suicide, the bishops said. see Bishops, p. 3
DIRECTORWLETrERS P. 2
EDITORIALS P. 3
US & WORLD NEWS . P. 4
HEALTH NEWS P. 6
ENTERTAINMENT NOTES P. 8
COMMUNITY CALENDAR P. 9
BOOK REVIEW & GARDEN COLUMN P. 10
RESTAURANT REVIEW P. 11
i Serving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual + Transgendered Tulsans, Our Families + Friends
Tulsa’s Largest Circulation CommunityPaperAvailable In More Than 65 City Location.~
Interview: NGLTF’s Lobel i NGLTE TOHR o.tai
¯ .... to Hold Me,ebng
on Hate Cr mes
National Gay & Lesbian Task Force ex-
: ecutive director Kerry Lobel says that one
¯ of the best tools she brought to DC isthe ~
: "Arkansas test." That is~she asks her staff::
¯ to see their efforts will really work well for
: people in places like Oklahoma- and like
¯ Arkansast where Lobel spent more than a
: decade at The Womens’ Project which
¯ focnsedonissues ofrace, genderand sexual
: orientation. Lobel came to the South from
¯ So. California (where she was the first open Lesbian to run for
: office in Santa Monica) because of her-. admiration. -for- the
: remarkable women working in the Southern civil rights move-
, ment. Part of the perspective she brings to IX2 is the experience i of.d.oing good work,but of being ignored or undervalued by East
or westlcoast organizations,which she suggests is not an experi-
¯ ence umque to Arkansas.
: . ,Ask~ed abe,ut where she perceives the national Gay community
." to oe xrom tier current, Lebel says that the "center of gravity’s
¯. shifted" from the national increasingly to state and local - and
.. that’s why NGLTF’s coming to Tulsa. Lobel adds, however, that
¯ even’in DC also there is an unprecedented level of cooperation.
PFLAG Joins No Hate Coalit!on
i Tulsa Pol,ce NoW Reporting
: Hate Crimes; Incidents on Rise
¯
..TULS_A. ~At the last quarterly meeting(Sept. 22) ofTulsa’s Say
No to Hate Coalition, Lesbian and Gay advocates both gained
¯ allies and made progress in getting the Coalition to recognize the
¯ seriousness of hate crimes against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and
¯ Transgendered persons. PFLAG, represented by national board
: members, Nancy McDonald and Kelly Kirby, and Tulsa chapter
board member, Tim Gillean, joined Tulsa Oklahomans for Hu-
: man Rights (TOHR) as members of the Coalition.
: . A TOHR spokesperson noted that PFLAG’s particilmtion had
¯ immediate benefit to.Gay issues. In prior meetings;Coalition
: members had exhibited significant reluctanceto include the
; phrase; sexual 6rientafion in Coalition brochureS, see Hate~p: 13
¯ AIDS Walk- O tob r 26th-
: TULSA - Veteran’s Park will again~ the site for this year’s
¯ AIDS Walk. The fifthWalk for Life to:be held will begin at noon
¯ on. Sun.,Oct.26thattheparkat21stStreet&Boulder. Theevent
¯ rinses funds that go organizations and= agencies that provide
direct care and education about HIV/AIDS issues. Walkers are
¯ encouraged to picnic before the event begins at lpm.
: Funds from this year’s event will go to the Tulsa Community
¯ AIDS. Partnership which means that. all that is raised will be
: increased by 50% with matching dollars from the NationalAIDS
: Fund. Walkers raise funds by asking..fliends, neighbors and
¯ others to pledge a donation for those who participate.
¯ Co-chair Michael Brungardt notes, ,this truly is a grassroots
: event.., by walking.... we are making a change in the lives of
¯¯ . .. people affected by this disease." Walk for Life’s organizers
also note that the effort is run entirelyby volunteers and thus there
: areno administrative costs. For moreinformation, call 579-9583.
NOW State Conference ¯ The Tulsa Chapter of the National Organization for Women
¯ will host the Oklahoma State NOW Convention, The Future is ¯
¯ NOW on Saturday, November 1st from 10 - 7pm at All Souls
Unitarian Church, 2965 S. Peoria in Tulsa.
¯" At least 100 feminist activists out of the 600 state NOW
: members from across the Oklahoma are expected to attend this
¯ annual event. Twelve hour-long workshops on feminist thought
: and action will be offered, in the areas., of domestic violence,
: getting women elected to public office~._AiDS awareness, semi-
¯ tivity trainingforhealingracial tension, women’s spirituality and
¯ eco-feminism among others.
: The Silkwood Award for outstanding feminist action will be
: presented to one or more courageous Oklahomans.
¯ Fabulons prizes will begiven away at the conference. Booths/
: tables will be available for rent @ $10for.allied organizations or
: $20 for businesses. A silent auction will be held. If you have a
¯ product or service you could donate, call 365-5658. ¯
The price to attend the day-long ~vent will be $30, pre-paid, or
: $35 at the door. Lunch is included. Any interested person is
: welco.m~e to join us for this inspiring and informative event. For
¯ more information: call 365-5658.
¯ TULSA, OK - Tulsa has been selected as one of
: severalsitesinthecenteroftheUS fora"townhall"
¯ meeting on hate crimes by the National Gay &
: Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF), one0f the oldest
¯ andlargestnational community organizations. The ¯
meeting will be held in the Gallery of the Alan
o." Chapman Activity Center at the University ofTulsa,
: 5th Place & Gary at 7:30 pm on Tuesday, Oct. 21.
¯ Information gathered at the town hall will be
: taken by NGLTF to the first national summit on
¯" hate crimes which Pres. Clinton will convene in
: November in Washington, DC.
¯ Executive director Kerry Lobel will come to
Tulsaafter holding similar events in Kansas and in
: Oklahoma City before ending in Little Rock. Tulsa
"¯ Oklahomans for Human Rights was contacted by
NGLTF to initiate the Oklahoma visit and on the
: recommendationofTOHR, NGLTFaddedanOlda_
¯" homa City event to the schedule.
¯ Lobel will speak about the state of the nation
¯ regarding hate crimes, local attorney and activist, i Bill I-tinkle, will speak about the issues from his
perspectiveas co-president ofPFLAG,Tulsa chap-
" ter and as amember oftheAmerican Civil Liberties
: Union (ACLU) national board of directors and the
: Oklahoma board of directors:They will be joined
¯ by a representative of the National Organization
: for Women, Tulsa chapter. TOHR president, Tom
: Neal, will introduce and moderate the event, and
: the Reverend William Chester McCall, III, Church
¯ of the Restoration and TOHR board member will
: provide the invocation.
¯ Other community organizations which have i joinedTOHRin sponsoring Or assisting with these
events are: ........
All Souls Unitarian Church, see NGLTF, page 13
: Names Project Quilt.
¯ THENAMES PROJECT will again bring to Tulsa
: apordon ofthe AIDS Memorial Quilt. The display,
¯ Together We Remember, will at Expo Square Pa- ¯
vilion on the Tulsa Fairgrounds from Oct. 17 to
¯ Oct. 20. Opening ceremonies will be at 7 pm on
¯ Oct. 17th.Oct. 18, hours are 10to7pmandon Sun.,
: from 11 to 8 pro. Closing ceremonies will be held
¯ on Sunday at 7:30 pm. However, the display will
¯ remain up on OCt. 2Oso that school and private
: tours can be accommodated. Volunteers are still
¯ needed. For more information, call 748-3111.
i Coming Soon
¯ Ahalaya Benefit,
: Our House Bazaar
i
Diilard Sings for
RAIN, Getting on.
With ¥ ur Life +
Mixner in OKC
¯ Book signings willbeheldto benefit the Ahalaya
: Project, a Native American HIV/AIDS care orga-
: nization on OCt. 6, Novel Idea 71st, from 6-Spm
: and on Oct. 7, from 3:30-6pm, at D.J.’s, "the
.. world’s smallest department store" at 1105 So.
¯ Peoria, according to Jaequeline Triplett-Lund of
: Ahalaya
: The book, "Spider Spins a Story" features leg-
, ends and stories from a wide variety of Native
: Americantraditions in which aspideris areoccuring
: theme. Cherokee, Navajo, see Soon, page 3
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*Gold Coast Coffee House, 3509 S. Peoria
*JJ’ S Country &Western Dance Club, 6328 S. Peoria
*Lola’s, 2630 E. 15th
*The Palate Cafe & Catering, 3324G E. 31st
*St. Michael’s Alley Restaurant, 3324-L E. 31st
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*Silver-Star Saloon, t565 Sheridan ..... 834-4234 ¯
*Renegades/Rainbow Room, 1649 S. Main 585-3405 ’.
*TNT’s, 2114 S. Memorial 66020856
*Tool Box, 1338 E. 3rd 584q308
*Interurban Restaurant, 717 S. Houston 585-3134 .
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*Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 8620 E. 71
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*Bo~ders Books & MUSIC, 2740 E. 21
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Publishor + Editor: Tom Neal
Entsrtainrn~nt Writer + Mac Guru: James Christj0hn
Writors + eontributore: Leanne~-ross, Barry Hensley, Jean-Pierre
Legrandbouche, Lamont Lin~gom, Judy McCormick
Msmbor o! The Associated Press
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PFLAG’s McDonald to The Blade
I want to thank The Washington Blade
for its interest in a recent meeting of the
Parents, Families and Friends ofLesbians
and Gays (PFLAG) national board of directors.
PFLAG is very proud ofitstremendons
success in the last four years. Our membership
has quadrupled to 70,000, the
number of local chapters has doubled and
our annual budget has more than doubled.
It is no surprise that the board has-reaf-.
f’mned its support of PFLAG’ s executive
director, Sandra Gillis, given the
organization’ s exceptional performance.
¯ Iwantto share withyouthesuccesses in
: the last year alone, of which we are most
: proud:
¯ * Our Project Open Mind has changed
i
sixcommunities forever. ImagineaCatholic
school auditorium filled frith students
andfaculty1istening toPFLAGtalkabout
¯ the devasiating effects of hate speech on
i ga,y youth;
-
PFLAG’ s action at the local and na-
: tional levds has prompted the first-ever
¯i in schools under the auspicesofTitle IX; federal investigation of anti-gay violence
¯ PFLAG was the only Gay-identified
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: group represented at President Clinton’ s
¯- Summit for America’ s Future, The invi-
: tation speaks to PFLAG’ s coming of age
: as a national family voice.
PFLAGappreciates the dedicated mem-
¯ bers of the 400 chapters who are on the ¯
front lines - changing their communities.
We, who are devoted to advancing social
." change, face a daunting task, It’s often
¯ hard to reflect on our success when there
: is so much more to do.
". Last week, The Blade reported on a
¯ PFLAG board meeting where difficult
¯ issues were deliberated. A few people
: decided tomake selectedportions ofthose
: deliberations public.
David Kauskey, CountryClub Barbering
*Ken’S Flowe’r~, 1635.E. i5
Kelly Kirby, CPA, ~B 14011, 74159
langley Agency & S~n, 1316 E. 36th PI.
Laredo CrOssing, 1519E.115th
*Living ArtSpace, 19E.I Brady
*Midtown Tlieate~, 3 i~"E. 3
Mingo Valley Flowers~.9720c E. 31
*Mohawk Music, 615~.E 51 Place
*Novel Idea Bookstore,.51st & Harvard
David A. Paddock, CP~; 4308 S. Peoria, Ste. 633
*Peace of Mind Bookstore, 1401 E. 15
The Pride Store, 1307E. 38, 2rid floor
Puppy Pause II, llth & Mingo
Rainbowz on the River B÷B, POB 696, 74101
Richard’ s Carpet Cleaning
582-~018 :~.: O~RYAN, support group for 18-24LGBT young adults : For example, The Blade reported on an
74%0236 "~.~~ O RYAN, Jr. support group for 14-17 LGBT youth .....independent study" commissioned by
599~g070 ;"St.Aidan’sEpiscop~lChurch,4045N.Cincinnati 425-7882 : the board. At the meeting~ PFLAG’s
747;5466 ::::St. Jerome’s Parish Church, 3841 S. Peoria 742-6227 ¯ board deemed the study biased and its
749-.5533 : i~ *Shanti Hotline & HIV/AIDS Services 74%7898
585~355 :~" Trinity Episcopal Chuich, 501 S. Cincinnati 582-4i28
585~i:-234 . Tulsa County Health Department,4616 E. 15 595-4105
58423112 ~ Confidential HIV Testing - by appt. on Thursdays ouly
663-5934 ,: Tulsa Olda. for Human Rights, c/o The Pride Center 743-4297
664~2951 ¯ T.U.L.S.A. Tulsa Uniform/Leather Seekers Assoc. 838-1222
747-6711
747-7672
583-1090
743-4297
838-7626
747-5932
834-0617
¯
*Tulsa City Hall, Ground Floor Vestibule
¯ *Tulsa Community College Campuses
¯ *Rogers University (formerly UCT)
¯ BARTLESVILLE
¯ *Bartlesville Public Library, 600 S. Johnstone
NORMAN
918-337-5353
¯ results meaningless.
: In addition, saying that PFLAG chap-
: ters are Withholding dues in"protest is a
¯ gross distorlion. Sixtypercentofchapters
¯ responded to the first invoice for dues.
: The final deadline for dues is September
¯ 30, 1997.
¯" To clarify, PFLAG strives tO represent
¯ its membership on theboard. One third of
¯ the board are regional directors. Of the
: remaining fourteen members, ten are ac-
: tive members of their local chapters. In
¯ addition to direct participation at thelocal ¯
level, the board devotes significant time
~ to hearing from members at their quar-
¯ terly meetings.
¯ We know that many people have had
". contact with PFLAG members and lead-
" ers in their local communities. This out-
" reach and the lives we’ ve touched are the
¯ heart and soul of PFLAG. Our record ¯
over the last four years speaks for itself.
". - Nancy McDonald, president
¯ Parents. Families and Friends ¯
ofLesbians and Gays, Inc.
Scott Robison’ s Prescriptions, see ad for 3 locations, 743-2351
Teri Schutt, Rex Realtors 834-7921, 747-4746
ChristopherSpradling, attorney, 616 S. Main, #308 582-7748
*Scribner’ s Bookstore, 1942 Utica Square 749-6301
*Sedona H~alth-Foods, 8220 S. Harvard 481-0201
*Sophronia’ s Antiques, 1515 E. 15 592-2887
*Tickled Pink, 3340 S. Peoria 697-0017
*Tlizza’s Pots, 1448 S. Delaware . 743-7687
*Tulsa Book Exchange, 3749 S. Peoria 742-2007
*Tulsa Comedy Club, 6906 S. Lewis 481-0558
Fred Welch, LCSW, Counseling 743-1733
*Whittier News Stand, 1 N. Lewis 592-0767
Tulsa Organizations, Churches, & U niversities
AIDS Walk Tulsa, POB 1071,74101-1071 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
*CommunityofHopeUnitedMethodist, 1703 E. 2rid 585-1800
*Community Unitarian-Universalist Congregation 749-0595
*ChurchoftheRestorationUU, 1314N.Greenwood 587-1314
¯ *Borders Books & Music, 300 Norman Center 405-573-4907
OKLAHOMA CITY
¯ *Borders Books &Music, 3209NWExpressway 405-848-2667
¯ TAHLEQUAH
: *Stonewall League, call for information: 918-456-7900
¯ *Tahlequah Unitarian-Universalist Church 918-456-7900
." *Green Country AIDS Coalition, POB 1570 918-458-0467
¯ NSU School of Optometry, 1001 N. Grand
¯ HIVtesting every other Tues. 5:30-8:30, call for date
: EUREKA SPRINGS, ARKANSAS
¯ *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 ¯
¯ Kings Hi-Way Inn, 62 Kings Hi-way Positive Idea Marketing Plans
¯ Sparky’ s, Hwy. 62 East
¯ FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS
¯ *Edna’ s, 9 S. School Ave.
501-253-7457
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501-253-9337
501-253-2776
800-231-1442
501-624-6646
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but welcome Lesbian/Gay/Bi & Trans communities.
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Family OfFaith~ Metropolitan Community "Church of Even rain Could not stop Tulsh* Urag D~,d~ fr~m their~, ~: ~HOPEstaffthanked Concessio~ owners Kirk and Tbrry
Tulsa celebrated its fifth anniversary last month. Pic- fundraising efforts for Tulsa Oklahomans for Human attheCarwash.DivasincludedCourtneyFarrell, Porsche
tured here are some Family ofFaith’s members. Rights" HOPE&Pride Centerprograms andOurHouse. Lynn, VeronicaDevore, StacyMarieandKellyMcKinzie.
by Tom Neal, editor andpublisher
As the only Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Transgendered publication
that serves specifically Tulsa (as opposed to
those with regional aspirations), Tulsa Family News
typically limits our editorial comments to issues more
directly relevant to our communities. However, the Tulsa
Project dection, scheduled for Oct. 14, merits some
comment. The Tulsa Project, if somehow you’ve missed
the media saturation campaign is a plan to raise taxes to
build sports facilities, and more parking and some housing
in downtown Tulsa.
Some of you may know that I have a degrees in art
histoxy as well as architecture and was employed in
architectural practices for a number Of years, in Los
Angeles, Tulsa and Dallas. And given that background, I
am inclined to support urban redevelopment plans like
the Tulsa Project - reinvestmentin our future is necessary.
And there are parts of the Tulsa Project which seem
to make a lot of sense.
But the troubling aspects ofTheTulsa Project arereal[y
an echo of the profound problems with our city’s leadership.
Those promoting this project are the usual smug and
somewhat smarmy, self-appointed rite where, to steal an
old phrase, the Savages talkonly to Lortons, who talkonly
to Helmerichs - who, of course, talk only to God. Tl~s
rite are the people who talk about how Tulsa is such a
wonderful place (whichitis for peoplelike them) butwho
really have not done what they could to address Tulsa’s
problems withhostility to its minority citizens, especially
around issues of race, class & sexual orientation.
The misgivings about the Tulsa Project have as much
to do with questions about the trustworthiness of the
people promoting it as it does with the Project’s own
merits. Nor does it help that the Tulsa Project has yet to
receive really fair and even-handed examination of its
merits, and possible faults, in the mainstream press. The
Tulsa Wormhas now written a few articles that could be
called balanced but.much ofits coverage has been shame,
lessly promotional.
I also have to wonder if the all or nothing approach
imposed on the voters was the best choice - as opposed
to trusting voters to pick and chose the best parts of the
program. Especially, as a designer and student of architecture/
urban planning, I have to question the absence of
any serious discussion about public transit as part of an
urban redevelopment plan. ,
Of course, public transit is hardly of interest, to Tulsa s
ruling rite or the likely mostly middle-class users of the
new facilities. In fact, I was quite shocked to learn from
a prominent member of our city government that Tulsa
could have a 24 hour, "grid" public transit system for
about what the city contributes to the TulSa Zoo. Although
a zoo is worthy enough, it speaks poorly of a city
that it Values ahandful ofexotic animals morehighly than
providing its poorer, disabled, or elderly citizens with
adequate means of getting to services and jobs. But then
bus riders don~t have wealthypatrons donating large
sums - I guess the Helmerich bus or bus stopjnst doesn’t
have the same cachet as a zoo building.
As editor of Tulsa Family News, I cannot recommend
for, or against, The Tulsa Project but I do encourage
Lesbian and Gay citizens to consider the issue carefully,
and to vote. I’ll probably decide at the polling place.
Organizers saiditwas heldin Coloradobecausemembers
have seen a growth in the number of.hate groups in the
state.
"More than ever, we know we’ll be strengthened when
wehonor the.dignity and use the talents of all our people,
regardless of race, or religious faith, national origin or
sexual orientation, gender or disability," Clinton told the
coalition in his taped message. "We know that thousands
of hate crimes are still committed each year... As a
nation, we must stand against all crimes of hate. Wemust
move closer to the day when acts of bigotry and injustice
areno longer a stain onour community or our conscience.
We must fight the fear together and I thank you for your
courage and your commitment," Clinton said.
¯ Cheyenne, Ki~,.w.ar_Achomawi, !_~kota, Hopi, Zuui, and
others are represented in the 14Stories collected and
¯ edited under the pseudonym, Joe Max. Editors, Kelly
¯ Bennett & Ronia Davidson will sign the books. The
books sell for $16.95 and all sales will benefit Ahalaya.
: The book also showcases a number of Tulsa and
¯ Eastern Oklahoma storytellers, writers and artists. Benjzmin
Harjoe created the illustrations and Wilburn Hill
whois Muscogee Creek, Archie Mason, Jr. who is Osage,
~ Robert Annesley and Shan Goshorn are among the con-
" tributors.
¯ TheAhalaya Project is aNativeAmerican agency that
provides case management for Native Americans living
¯ with HIV or AIDS in state of Oklahoma. Ahalaya is part
¯ of a national Native American network of I-IIV/AIDS
: service organizations that grew out of Ahalaya. Ahalaya
¯ began in 1991, and in 1994 spread to other states. For
: more information,.call the Ahalaya Project at 742-8136.
¯ Our House, a drop-in center for PLWA’s will hold a
: BaTzar fnndraiser at 1114 S. Quaker, Info: 584-7960.
~ Ernestine Dillard, the diva who caught .the nation’s
¯ attention when she sang at the OKC bombing memorial
¯ service will perform to benefit RAIN, Regional Inter-
" faith AIDS Network. RAIN teams, typically from local
: churches, provide critical care for PLWA’s. The 6:30pro
¯ concert is free on Oct. 19th at All Soul’s Church at 30th
¯ & Peoria but donations are welcomed. Info: 749-4195. ¯
The HIV Resource Consortium, Legal Services of
¯ Eastern Oklahoma andOurHouse will present Getting
¯ on With Your Life - a Back to Work and School Work-
" shop from 10- 3pro at theTulsaCounty BarAssociation, ¯
1446 So. Boston on Tues. Oct. 28th, RSVP: 584-4259
~ and if transportation is needed, call 741-3596. This is
¯ made possible through a grant from Tulsa Community ¯
¯ AIDS Partnership. Lunch is provided. Last butnotleast, Cimarron Alli~mce Group, with the
¯. Victory Fund, will present David Mixner, "friend of
¯ Bill’s" and former political advisor to the President, on
"- Oct. 18thinOklahomaCity.Mixnerwilldobooksignings ¯ atBames &Nobleat 12:30andatBordersat2 pro. Hewill
¯ also attend a private cocktail party for members of The
¯ Victory Fund and Cimarron as well as a dinner. Those
: interested in attending the dinner may call Cimarron at
: 405-840-2223. Cimarron Alliance Group is an Okla-
¯ homa political action committee focused on equal rights
: for all. The Victory Fund helps to elect I_g,sbian and Gay
: candidates in state and local elections across the US.
Why the form of a pastoral letter from the church’s
spiritual leaders?"Primarily to get them to accept the fact
that their son or daughter is gay or lesbian, and that their
child was not damned forever," Bishop Joseph Imesch of
Joliet, 111., chairman of the Committee on Pastoral Pracflees,
said. The U.S. bishops’ letter in no way abandons
traditional Catholic doctrine. It states that genital sexual
activity between same-sex partners is "immoral" and that
the letter is not tobe understood "as an endorsement of
what some would call a homosexual lifestyle."
The bishops urge parents to "do everything possible to
continue demonstrating love for your~ child." That includes
remaining open to the possibility that even after
counseling, a child may still be "struggling to... accept a
basic homosexual orientation." The doiSument also encourages
priests to welcome homosexuhls into parishes,
to help establish or promote support groups forparents of
gay children and to let people know from the pnlpit and
elsewhere that they are willing to talk about homosexual
issues. When they lead chaste lives, homosexuals should
be given leadership opportunities in the chu~.ch, the
bishops, said. -
"Generally, homosexual orientation is e,x,i~r]en~ as
a given, not as something freely~chosen," th~ bi~liops
said. "By itself, therefore, a homosexual orien.tation cani
not be considered sinful, for morality presume~ the free-
. dom to choose?’ Imesch, head of the Past0rai’-l:~adtices
~ committee, said the churchis nowhere near even disenss-
¯ ing whether it could ever consider homosexual acts
: morally acee,,,ptable. In the meantime, however,, gay men
¯ andlesbians ’stillneedtobeacceptedaspeople;"h~ said.
: ’q~,¢e judgment part is left to the Lord,"
q’his is another milestone on America’s journey ~o-
] wardcommonground wherefaith, family andfairness go
~ together," Elizabeth Birch, Executive Director of the
¯ national Gay organization, theHuman Rights Campaign,
¯ said in response. Birch noted HRC’s disagreement with
¯ some aspects of the letter -- most notably its unrealistic
_" call for celibacy; she said that gay people should be able
: to live-full and complete lives. "This is yet another
¯ expression fromreligious leaders that faith asks fairness ¯
of us all. Whatever their disagreements over other gay
¯ issues, they are recognizing that discrimination against
¯ gay people is fundamentally un-Christian," said Birch.
: Kerry Lobel of the National Gay &LesbianTask Force
: (NGLTF) also commented, "I welcome the open
: acknowledgement by the Bishops that a person’s ~exual
¯ orientation should not be the basis of discrimination or
¯ injustice... I reject their notion, however, that our
¯ behavior is immoral. We call on the Church to end its
¯ mixed message and recognize and affirm the loving
: relationships we have which cannot be separated from
: sexual expression."
¯ Charles Cox, Executive Director of Dignity/USA, an
i
organization for Lesbian and Gay Catholics echoed
NGLTF’s message, saying, "This pastoral letter is a
: positive step and we commend the bishops for their
¯ improved sensitivity to the issues whi ch confront parents
: and their lesbian and gay children, but all is not perfect.
¯ .. The-most serious fault we find with the letter is the ¯
incomplete explanation and view it provides regarding
: chastity. Dignity believes that expressions of love, in-
. cluding sexual intimacy between two individuals of the
: same sex, can be morally acceptable."
Clinton to Speak to HRC
WASHINGTON (AP)- President Clinton will be the
keynote speaker Nov. 8 at a gal~t dinner of the Human
Rights Campaign, the largestnational gay and lesbian
political organization, officials said today. "President
Clinton’s participation at this event will be historic,"
said Elizabeth Birch, executive director of the organization.
"The president’s attendance will mark the
first time a sitting president has participated at a gay
and lesbian civil rights event."
WhiteHouseofficials confmnedthatClintonwould
attend. The dinner, in Washington, falls two days
before a White House conference on hate crimes.
Clinton spoke at a Human Rights Campaign event in
May 1992 before he was elected president. Last year
he provided a videotaped me.ssage a Human Rights
.Campaign convention designed tO promote volunteer
involvement on behalf of candidates supportive of
equal rights for gays and lesbians
Was Goethe Gay?
BERLIN (AP) - He celebrated the feminine in verse
and courted some ofEurope’ s mostbeautiful women.
But was Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, one of the
giants of world literature, secretly homosexual? A
new "erotic Goethe biography" by German historian
and journalist Karl Hugo Pruys posits that the poet,
novelist and playwright most famous for his "Faust"
drama was at heart not a ladies’ man.
"The Tiger’s Caresses," which appeared in bookstores
last week, has already caused something of a
stir, and not just in literary circles. The country’s
most-read newspaper, the Bild am Sonntag tabloid,
devoted a whole page to the question: "Was Goethe
Gay. The answer, says Pruys, is to be foundin some
2,500 letters to; from and about Goethe, who married
late in life, fathered one child-and died in 1832.
"I wanted to write abookabout thelove thatGoethe
felt, aboutlovein general in Goethe’ s life," Pruys said
in an interview.i"Then I got onto a trail dominated by
homosexuality?’ For example, a letter written by Dr.
Johann Georg Zimmerman, in which he describes his
young friend: "To me, Goethe’s caresses are like the
caresses of a tiger. One always feels under his hugs
the dagger in the pocket."
Or Goethe’s own letters to philosopher Friedrich
Heinrich Jacobi, who Pruys says was probably
Goethe’s first lover. "You felt that it was bliss for me
to be the object of your love," the 25-year-old Goethe
wrote to "dear Fritz" on Aug. 21, 1774. It ends with
a warning - "Don’t let my letter be seen[" - more
proof, Pruys says, of their secret passion.
No one can say for sure if they ever slept together,
"but for me, the letters show the possibility that there
was a physical relationship," Pruys said. Prnys, a
former spokesman for the conservative Christian
Democratic Union, describes his current book, which
comes out in English next year, as "a labor of love."
But his colleagues at the Goethe Society in Weimar
were not impressed.-
"Complete nonsense," says Lothar Ehrlich, a literature
professor and Goethe expert. Previous researchers
have established that Goethe’s celebrated
courtships with the opposite sex were most likely
unconsummated until he was nearly 40, Ehrlich concedes.
"He shied away from intimate contact and
didn’t want to be tied down," Ehrlich says. Ehrlich
and other scholars say Prnys simply misunderstands
.die "S_tm-m und Drang" (storm and stress) spirit of the
umes, when young, intellectual dandies expressed
strong, even erotic emotion toward each other. "But
these relationships were of a purely spiritual nature,"
Ehdich says. "It had absolutely nothing to do with
physical love."
Pruys, however, says the letters point to something
more than that. The Goethe Society, he says, "simply
doesn’t like to see their idol as aman who persisted in
this ambiguous sexual behavior." Goethe, of course,
would hardly be the first gay literary giant. Walt
Whitman celebrated it, Thomas Mann suppressed it,
Oscar Wilde went to jail for it. Speculation persists
even about Shakespeare, wlio dedicated his sonnets
to "Mr. W.H." Goethe Society President Werner
Keller says Goethe’s sex life is irrelevant to appreciating
his work, which every schoolchild here reads
from an early age.
¯ _ "It’s not greater if he’s hetero(sexual), nor diminished
through homosexuality," Keller says. ’’Those
," are all categories expressed, today by our sex-ob-
¯¯ sessed s,ociety, and I have only contempt for such a
society. Pruys says he fe~s*~|oser to Goethe after
¯ uncovering the "masquerade" of heterosexual prow-
: ess surrounding him. "An unbelievable amount has
¯ been written, but they all copy each other," lie says. "I
¯
hope that, after so long a time, we can finally get to
¯ know him better."
Gay’s Home Bombed
¯ ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) - An apparent fire bomb
was thrown at the home of a gay man who spoke in
¯
favor of domestic partner benefits at anAlamedaCity
" Council meetii~g. ~Police are investigating theinci-
¯ dent as a possible hate crime, Police Chief Burny
¯
Matthews said Thursday. No one was hurt, and the
¯ bottle, which had a burning rag stuffed into it, broke
: on the sidewalk. "We are investigating, and we have
¯ no suspects at this time," he said. ’’There was no
: accelerant in the bottle."
¯" Ben Felix, the apparent target, said there was a
¯ burned spot in his yard along with the smell of ¯
turpentine. Felix said he was so shaken he removed a
¯
gay pride rainbow flag from the front of his house.
"My housemate has a 6-year-old son, and I thought
¯ protection of the child was more’ important than the ¯
flag," Felix said.
¯ He also said the house had been egged the previous
¯" weekend while he was out of town. "With the egging
and now this, I can’t help but think it was aimed at
¯
me," he said. "I feel like the atmosphere in Alameda
¯ is getting darker and darker."
: City Council member Tony Daysog condemned
¯ the incident. I don t think this represents Alameda,
¯
he said. "City officials should take a firm stand on
: behalf of civil rights, and make sure nothing like this
¯ happens again." ¯
Last week the city council voted to extend dental
¯
benefits, as well as funeral and sickleave, to domestic
¯ partners of city employees. Felix spoke at the meet-
. ing, his first time addressing the council, and con-
" demned anti-gay rhetoric by other speakers.
Mom Can Keep Daughter
¯ LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -Ajudge who disagrees with
¯ granting a woman custody of her daughter after the
¯ woman had a homosexual relationship is imposing
hismorals onthefamily,saidthedirectorofNebraska’s
: American Civil Liberties Union.
¯ Matt LeMieux criticized the dissenting opinion of
¯ state Court of Appeals Judge Edward Harmon, who
¯
said since homosexuality is against theparents’ moral
¯ code as Catholics, that conduct will impair the girl’s
moral training and the father should be given custody.
Hannon’s colleagues on the court did not agree.
¯ Nor did LeMieux. "He’s imposing his morals on
¯ thesefolks," LeMieux said. That wouldbetheeqmvalent,
LeMieux said, of a judge saying the children of
: a pro-choice Catholic family could be taken away
: because thefamily’ s lifestyle conflicts with the teach_
¯ ings Of the religion.
¯ The court ruled 2-1 Tuesday to allow Carol
¯ Hassenstab to retain custody ofher 11-year-old daugh-
¯ ter. The court upheld a lower court’s ruling denying.
." Thomas Hassenstab’s requestfor custody ofthe child.
¯ Hassenstab cited concems about what effect Carol’s
¯
homosexuality would have on their daughter.
¯ The woman’s attorney, Edith Peebles, said "there
.. was never any showing that the childhad any adverse
¯ impact from the mother’s relationship."
¯ In his dissent, Hannon said Jacqueline Hassenstab
: eventually will be taught at school and home that her
¯ mother’s conduct was morally wrong. "With regard
to this family’s moral code, Carol has obviously set a
¯ horrible example,"Hannon wrote. "Therecord shows
: Carol’ s conduct will necessarily impair Jacqueline’ s
¯ moral training," he wrote. "Therefore, it is in ¯
Jacqueline’ s best interests that custody be modified."
¯ The majority ruling said that because there is no
¯ evidence of any harmful effect, there is no evidence ¯
¯ that itis in the child’s best interests to change enstody.
The girl also told the trial judge inhis chambers that
¯ she wanted to remain with her mother: When the
.. couple divorced, the mother received custody.
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Ellen Update
NEW YORK (AP) - "Ellen" is ~neither a cure for
cancer nor, as its fi..eragst..critics have charged, a
cancer good people fi~gd protection from. Inste~td,
with its fifth-season opener, "Ellen" has earned the
right to be judged as neither more nor less than a TV
series. Notarighteous crusade, nota video Gomorrah,
"Ellen" emerges as a sitcom that, after years of trialand-
error, mayfinally have found its Way- a way that
happens to distinguish it as the first TV series in
history with a gay lead.
"You sure look happy," a past boyfriend tells Ellen
Morgan after learning she’s come out as a lesbian.
"Yes," she quips in her goofy-deadpan fashion, "and
thebest part about it is, it’s taken five strokes off my
golf game?’ But she really does look happy .in the
season premiere tiffed "Guys or Dolls." Moreover,
star Ellen DeGeneres finally looks happy in the role
she’s been grappling with, unsuccessfully until now,
ever since "Ellen" premiered in March 1994. In sum,
"Ellen" has not so much "come out" as come in -
come into its own, at long last, as a funny, newly
grounded sitcom.
Of course, it ended last season not so much a TV
series as a lightning rod in a storm of public outbursts
over homosexuality. For months before, the show
and its star had been building toward that tndy mustsee-
TV moment when Ellen Morgan blurted "I’m
gay" over an ai’ rportpubli"c-address system. Thunderous
media coverage leading to that season finale
included a Time cover story where DeGeneres confirmed
that §he, too, was gay.
Thus had "Ellen" ridden a wave of controversy
that, in ram, drove a wider debate about being gay,
culminating in publicity overkill at a feverish pitch:
By "Ellen’s" Mr-time April 30, many viewers were as
weary of the whole thing as they were incapable of
talking about anything else. But even carrying all that
freight, the so-called "Puppy Episode" was generally
recognized as being genuinely funny (and would win
the Emmy for best-written comedy script). Then,
rather quickly, it was over. The world turned to the
next thing.
But whither "Ellen"? Come fall, could it pick up
where it left off so spectacularly in the spring?
DeGeneres, for one, didn’t seem to know, and apparently
wasn’t sure she even wanted to find out. She was
quoted as saying she hoped her series wouldn’t be
back. Then, to no one’ s surprise (surely least of all her
own), it was renewed. And now available evidence
suggests that, rather than reaching an end, "Ellen" has
scored a rebirth. "Guys or Dolls" positions "Ellen"
for the first time as a senes for us to watch faithfully,
or, at least, to keep our eye on.
In this episode, Ellen has run into her old boyfriend
Dan, who, learning that she’s gay, naturally frets that
he is somehow accountable forher sexual orientation.
"Well, no," she saucily assures him, "not unless you
played Catwoman on ’Batman." ""
Finding they still enjoy each other’s company, Dan
and Ellen pal around. Then a friendly good-night kiss
turns into somethingmorethanfriendly. Ellen, alarmed
that her hard-won self-realization is coming undone,
confides to her gay friend Peter her unexpected pull
in Dan’s direction. "You have to follow your heart,
and it will lead you to the truth of the matter," Peter
counsels, before tripping into his own disclosure: He
once had a liaison with a woman.
"You didn’t!" "Oh, Ellen," he hastens to explain, "I
was in college!. It was a crazy time! Devo was hot!"
The episode concludes in an amusing encounter with
Dan, as Ellen satisfies herself that she feels affection,
but no sexual spark, for this man - or any other. "I’m
gay, I’m a gay woman," she tells him. "and kissing
boys kind of violates the whole spirit of the thing."
Be true to yourself and be honest with others.
There, we have the episode’s message. Daring?
Groundbreaking? Shocking? Scandalous? On the
contrary. This "Ellen" vouches for some pretty oldfashioned
values. It’s funny how that works.
In & Out Rakes It In!
LOS ANGELES (AP) - "In and Out," a comedy
about a teacher whose life is turned upside down
when he is declared to be gay by a former student, was
the top film over the summer’s final weekend. The
¯ film starring Kevin Klin~ earned an estimated $15.3
¯ million. "InandOut"played on 1,992 screens and had
." the highest per-screen average of any weekend film.,
¯ according to figures released by Exhibitor Relations ¯ Co. Inc. "I think it’sbroadened alot of people’s
: opinions on these topics. Maybe five years ago you
¯ ouldn tseeafilmlikethis, saidRobertBucksbaum, ¯
publisher of the industry newsletter Reel Source. "If
¯
you’ve got a funny picture it’s going to do well no
¯ matter what," added Art Rockwell, Yeager Capital
.. Markets analyst.
¯ P-town Due
: Visitor From Hell
: - PROVINCETOWN~ Mass. (AP) -T~wnofficials are
-bristling at a letter from ~ fundamentalist Kansas
church whose members say they intend to travel to
Cape Cod to protest pro-gay sentiments in a school
educational program. The Westboro Baptist Church
in Topeka outlined the protest plans in the letter,
faxed to the school system, announcing that its members
would travel across the country to protest the
town’s new Anti-Bias School andCommunity ProJect,
a system-wide educational project encouraging tolerance
towards gays and lesbians.
The Rev. Fred Phelps, head of the 200-member
church said he learned of the program from a Washington
Times article headlined: "Provincetown
preschoolers to learn ABC’s of being gay." An antihomosexual
activist, Phelps said approximately 25
.church members are planning to fly to Provincetown
~n October. "We will probably spend a day or two
picketing with signs," said Phelps, 67. "Every time
the gays have a big event, we go."For the past several
years, the church has spent more than $250,000
annually on travel expenses related to anti-gay protests
around the country, Phelps said.
Although the church distributes inflammatory
materials referring to gays as "sodomites" and "oererts
and members have been photographed at rallies
holding signs reading "No .Fags in Heaven" and
"AIDS Cures Fags," Phelps said the church has
peaceful intentions. "I hope to be able.to peacefully
and safely preach the message f truth, said ~Phelps
Town officials said they are drafting.,~.r_.e~sponse to
Phelps which disputes the facts of the article, while
affirming the church’s right to protest. "What they
on t findis aprogram where preschoolers are taught
the ABCs of being gay," Town Manager Keith
Bergman told the Cape Cod Times. "What they will
find is a community equipping itself with the tools to
combat racism, sexism, classism, homophobia and
all kinds of prejudice."
Jeannine Cfistina, the town’s Parent Teacher Association
president, said she believed the town would
rally against and-gay picketers. "I know they are a
very angry hateful group,.sa.ldC.nst.ma,.ale.sblanand
mother of a young daughter. "I think the town will
show its solidarity and that we aren’t interested in
what they have to say," she said,
The anti-bias project, started in March, is intended
to train teachers and students to handle issues of race,
gender, religion and other differences, Cfistina said.
,although Provincetown has attracted unwelcome
attention since launching the project, nearly 150
schools across the state already have such programs
in place.
Bob Parlin, a history teacher at Newton South High
School and a trainer with the state Department of
Education’ s Safer Schools program, saidhe has given
hundreds of training seminars on making schools
safer by teaching tolerance. "That’s what was so
unusual about the reaction," Parlin said. "The
(Provincetown) program is not that different or unusual."
Provincetown teachers and administrators
held a meeting Tuesday to discuss the possibility of a
protest and its implications for student safety.
The Times article also caught the attention of the
Christian Broadcast Network, which sent a crew to
Provincetown last week to cover the controversy.
CBN is part of televangelist and Christian Coalition
supporter Pat Robertson’s Family Channel. CBN
correspondent Randall Brooks distanced her network
from Phelps’ group, "There are a lot ofpeople who do
things in the name of Christ who are not Christ-like."
J
Vaccine to-be Tried
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A 52-year-old
grandmother participating in a new national
test of two possible AIDS vpccines
admits she has butterflies in her stbmach.
Gwen Robertson, a recovering’ heroin
addict whose boyfriend is HIV-positive,
is among 420 uninfected people, ineludhag30
in Philadelphia, recruited for a trial
sponsored by the National Institutes of
Health, The Philadelphia Inquirer re-
Twelvecities are taking partin the trial,
the latest effort in a lengthy search for a
vaccine for HIV, the humanimmunodefi~
ciency virus, which causes AIDS. The
study involves injections with two different
vaccines, one in each arm, The Inquirer
said. Researchers hope to know
within a year whether the vaccines are
safe and whether they show enoughpromise
to move ahead with tests involving
about 10,000 subjects.
’q’his is the first step in a long process,"
said David Metzger, a researcher at the
Risk Assessment Project at the Hospital
.of the University of Pennsylvania, which
*s overseeing the trial in Philadelphia.
Onevaccine testedinPhiladelphia,manufactured
by Pasteur Merieux Connaught
of France, is made with genetically engineered
copies of threeHIV genes and is
injected with a live canary pox virus,
whichis fatal to birds butnothumans. The
second vaccine is an improved version of
earlier vaccines made with a genetically
engineered HIV protein. Neither contains
the live virus, so testsubjects cannot contract
the disease from the vaccines. Both
vaccines have .been tested in other trials,
but this study targets people at high-risk
for contracting the AIDS virus.
New Drugs Fail for
1/2 of Patients
TORONTO (AP) - Widely heralded new
AIDS treatments that seemed to stop the
virus’ advance and revive patients from
near death are now beginning to fail in
about halfof all those treated, doctors said
Monday. The disappointing reports suggest
the tough virus is coming back after
being knocked briefly into submission,
just as many experts feared it would.
"Over the past year, we had a honeymoon
period," said Dr. Steven Decks.
"The epidemic will likely split in two, and
for half the people we will need new
therapeutic options." Decks presenteddata
from the University of California at San
Francisco’s large public AIDS clinic at
San Francisco General Hospital.
Prescriptions of so-called three-drug
cocktails -two olderAIDS drugs plus one
of the new class of medicines called proteaseinhibitors
- have dearly revolutionized
AIDS care. In many places, more
than 90 percent of AIDS patients are taking
these combinations, and typically
people start on them as soon as they learn
they are infected, even before they get
sick. Patients whose disease-fighting T
cells were ravaged by HIV have gotten
out ofbed, regained normal lives andeven
gone back to work. However, many worded
from the start that the virus would
eventually grow resistant to the protease
inhibitors and resume its insidious destruction.
Thelatest data, presented Monday at an
infectious disease conference sponsored
by the American Society of Microbiology,
suggests this is indeed happening
regularly. Decks and colleagues reviewed
the records of 136 HIV-infected people
¯ whostartedonproteaseinhibitors inMarch
." 1996, when Crixivan and Norvir, the first
¯ two powerful protease inhibitors, came
¯
on the market.
~¯ Most patients responded
Their virus levels dropped so low
¯
could not be found on standard tests. But
¯ since then, the virus has returned to de-
: tectable levels in 53 percent. Although
: this is ominous, no one knows exactly
¯ what it means. "All of our’ failures’ are
¯ clinically feeling very well," said Decks.
: "It’s very important to understand we
¯ have no idea of the prognosis of people
¯" who have resistant v,rus."" Decks said
: other large AIDS clinics are having simi-
! lar experiences., although his is the first to
¯ present the data publicly.
¯ "There is a whole mixture of explana-
." tions" for the failures, said Dr. David Ha
¯ of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research
.- Centerin New York City. Ha said that for
¯ peoplewhohadrelatively lowvirus 1.evels ¯
when they started taking the drugs and
: had not used other AIDS medicines, fail-
, ure almost always means they did not take
: their pills on schedule. Even missing a
: few doses can ruin thetreatment.
¯ Decks said Iris" data are far different
¯ from the carefully controlled drug experi-
¯ merits sponsoredby pharmaceutical cam-
: panics to demonstrate the medicines’ po-
¯ tential. These studies show far more en-
¯ couraging results. Among the longest- ¯
running of these is a study of 28 patients
i who have been taking Crixivan,~and
: 3TC. Dr. Roy Guliek of New York Uni-
¯ versity said Monday that after almost two
: years, the virus is still undetectable in 22
: of them, or 79 percent. Decks Said real-
. world experience is not as promising as
¯ the trials because patients in the studies
: are less sick to start with and more highly
¯ motivated to scrupulously follow their
¯ drug regimens. Also presented was the ¯
first large study of the use of protease
¯ inhibitors in children. Just over half ap-
¯ peared to be responding well after three
months of therapy.
:- First Combo Pills
¯
WASHINGTON (AP) - The first combi-
¯ nation pill for AIDS therapy could allow
¯ patients to cut six tablets a day from their
¯ complicated drug regimen. Glaxo
". Wdlcome announced Monday that the
¯" Food and Drug Administration has approved
Combivir, combining two of the
¯ most common AIDS medicines - AZT
." and 3TC - into one tablet.
¯ Powerful anti-HIV drug cocktails often
¯ requirepatients to take asmany as 20 pills
aday at precisetimes. Combivir wouldlet
¯ patients take two tablets a day instead of
¯ the up to eight pills required when taking
¯, AZT and 3TC separately, the FDA said.
¯
The drug will be on pharmacy shelves by
¯ mid-October, and the annual wholesale
¯ price of $5,240 will be similar toAZTand
¯ 3TC taken separately.
: Also, the government proposed new
: guidelines for treating HIV infection in
infants and children and recommend the
¯ same three-drug cocktails for kids that
-" adults get. Pediatricians have been nnsure
¯ of how to treat young HIV patients. The
¯ government has approved pediatric for-
: mulations for only twoofthemost power-
: ful AIDS drugs, called protease inhibi-
¯ tars, and many pediatricians give their
¯" smallest patients just a combination of
: two older AIDS drugs.
¯" The Department of Health and Human
¯ Services’ proposed guidelines say most
infected infants can be diagnosed by 6
: months ofage, and that full therapy should
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start immediately because the virus worsens
more. rapidly in children. The guidelines
explain doses for different age
groups, and suggest how to mix those
drugs that don’ t come in liquid versions
so that children can swallow them, said
HHS’ AIDS chief Dr. Eric Goosby. The
government will accept comments on the
child guidelines through Oct. 30, before
taking final action.
Selenium Critical
for HIV Treatment
MIAMI (AP) ~-.Researehers~saydaey have
increasing evide~._ce, fl~a~t a deficiency 0f
the mineral sdcnium can have~a.dramatic
effect onthe survival rate ofHIV-infected
patients. Themineral, foundinmanyfoods
but especially whole grains, seafood and
liver, plays a key role in maintaining a
healthyimmune system, scientists believe.
A study at the Center for Disease Preven-.
tion at the University of Miami’ s School
of Medicine.showed that HIV-infected
patients with a deficiency of selenium
were almost 20 times more likely to die of
causes related to HIV.
The study of 125HIV-infectedmenand
women, published Tuesday in the Journal
ofAcquired Immune D’eficiency Syndrome,
demonstrated that~ selenium plays
a critical role in the progression of AIDS.
While other nutrients such as vitamins A,
B 12 and zinc affect survival, deficiencies
in those nutrients produce a much lower
risk of mortality, the study found. Selenium
has also been shown to play a key
role in fighting cancer. The Miami study
lasted for 3 1/2 years and measured nutritional
factors every 6 months.
"It is known that nutritional deficiencies
develop in the course of HIV infection,"
said the leader of the research,
MariannaBaum, assistant dean oftheUM
School of Medicine. "Sometimes that
occurs because of the lack of appetite,
sometimes people eat, but don’t absorb
nutrients." But she said those suffering
from infections like the HIV virus have
"increased requirements for some nutrients,
especially antioxidants, that cleanse
some toxic elements in the bloodstream
and the liver." Research in recent years
has indicated that HIV infection actually
depletes the body’s supply of selenium.
In another study noted in the same issue
o.f the Journal ofAIDS, Will Taylor, as socaate
professor at the University of Geor-
~a College of Pharmacy, said that a previous
study in 1994 predicted a link between
selenium and HIV progression. In
thenew Georgia report, researchers show
that anew protein ofHIV has the potential
to incorporate selenium, which could be a
factor in selenium depletion in HIV-infected
patients. The key new finding is
that the Georgia study showed this new
protein of HIV matches a known type of
selenium-containing protein. That supports
theories on the link between selenium
depletion and HIV, Taylor said.
’q’here is evidence that dietary selenium
levels have declined in the modern diet,"
Taylor said, noting a 1997 British study
that showed selenium in the British diet
had declined by half over a 20-year period.
He said the selenium deficiency in
the diet is causedby a shortage in the soils
that could be causedby acid rainandother
factors. Based on the Miami research,
Baum’s team is developing a study to
determinewhether seleniumtreatmentcan
slow disease progression and improve
survival over time in HIV-infected persons.
¯ ing a powerful cocktail of AIDS drugs
¯ called protease inhibitors.
¯ Brought back from the brink of death,
¯ McDonald, 3fl.,.i_s~l.an.ni.u.g for~a f_uL0xe he
"’ ffe.v’e~’thought he iw0uld have. Dreams of
¯ going to medical,school arereal again and
¯ his living will is tucked away in a drawer.
: There’ s only one problem - the cocktailis
¯ nora cure. The virus still lurks inhis body. ¯
AIDS advocates are alarmedby what they
¯ say is a growing public belief that the
¯ treatment cures AIDS.
¯ "People think the AIDS epidemic is
." over," McDonald said. "That’ sscary be-
_" cause it’ s not." The more people believe
¯ that, the more risks they may take - risks
¯ that could lead to a resurgence in the
¯ number of HIV cases. "We are a take-apill
society. People seem to think the
¯ drugs are a cure. I’in constantly amazed at
the level of ignorance. HIV never leaves
¯ the body," said Randall Russell, director
¯ of AIDS Task Force of Alabama.
¯ While the first-ever drop in the number
of new AIDS cases was reported this
¯ month, health offiCials say they do not
¯ have comprehensi#e information on the
¯ rate of HIV infection. The latest figures ¯
available, covering 1987 to 1992, show
: there were about 40,000 to 80,000 new
: HIV infections a year. All states report
¯ AIDS cases and deaths to.the Centers for
¯
Disease Control and Prevention, but only
¯ 30 count HIV infection, too.
¯ "Youngerpeople think theycanpartici- ¯
pateinrisky behavior again: They haveno
: fear,.smdM.cDo.nald,w.hogaves speeches
: to school and businesses for the Colum-
¯ bus AIDS Task Force. "Heterosexuals
: still think this is a Gay disease and not as
: their disease, too."
: Education about AIDS is more impor-
¯ tant than ever, said Daniel Zingale, direc-
: tor of AIDS Action, a national organiza-
." tion that represents 2,000 AIDS groups.
." "It’ll be a tragedy if people start walking
¯ away from prevention," he said. ’q’he
: worst is not over. The drugs aren’t a cure
: anddon’tworkformanypeople." Zingale
." said protease inhibitors fail for at least 30
¯ percent of patients who take them. The
¯
cost - $10,000 to $15,000 per year - is
¯ prohibitive.
: And it’s not easy to take so many pills.
¯ McDonald downs a total of 98 pills at. 10
; different times aday. Some require food,
: while others don’t. The side effects in-
,. dude diarrhea, heartburn and nausea.
: Another question is how long the drug
¯ cocktail will be effective. Russell said
," some patients show no sign of HIV for a
¯ year or two. But then for some unknown
: reason, the virus and infections return,
¯ killing them.
: McDonald knows all about that. "I still
¯ live with the fear in the back of mymind
i that tomorrow’I~could become sick again.
¯ That the virus will grow again," he said.
," "For the past 12 years, I have watched all
¯ my goals crumble in front of my eyes. I
: was on my way to osteopathic school but
didn’t gobecanse ofmyimpending death:
i
Now that I have hope, I’m thinking of
going to nursing school. I just have to
: make sure I don’t overdo it."
¯¯ Treatment. Success
Hinders Prevention
¯ COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The killer in
: Michael McDonald’s body is silent. The
¯ AIDS-infected man has lived with the ¯
deadly HIV virus for 12.years. A year ago
: his viral load, the measure of HIV in the
¯ blood, was more than I million. Today, ¯
it’s undetectable. The reason is simple:
: McDonald is one of 150,000 people takby
James Christjohn : the foodstuffs - and it was incredibly
Well, I have some rants and raves to ¯ distracting.Totopitalloff,hethenchewed
share with you. First, arave: ff youmissed : with his mouth open, making rather loud
RomeoandJulian,er, Juliet,youmissed " smacking noises. Tom, who will usually
a fabulous show! I am not a ballet fan per ¯ put up with such nonsense, finally leaned
se, butIwasreallyawedby TulsaBallet’s . over and asked him not to cat during the
production. Usually, narrative Ballet sim- " performance. To his credit, he did stop.
ply doesn’t work for me - the dance is ¯ Meanwhile, the girl behindmespentmost
grcat, but the story is lost, or the " of the her knuckles
suffers at the hands of and biting her Lee
the flashy choreogra- Press-on fingernails
phy. Butthis balletwas (audiblymakingaloud
beautifully choreo- clacking noise) when
graphed, and the nar- she wasn’t scratching
rative was very wall her nylon hos.e loudly
done. You could al- with same. I refrained
most hear Shakes- fromeommenting,bepeare’
s lines, thedane- cause Iprobablywould
ers "told" the story so have been thrown out
well. I was astounded, with what I felt like
Choreographer saying. Most of the
Michael Smuincreated time, I was simply asanexcellenteveningof
JamesRosenquist’sGiflWrappedDoll
tonished that manners
entertainment, and seemed such a thing 0f
communicated the
#16, refers to the horror of the AIDS the past. I was raised
epidemic in Philbrook Museum’s exstory
exceptionally hibit: Still Life: The Object in Ameri- to be considerate of
well. I have taken others who are watchcan
Art 1915-1995: Selections from enough Dance to be ing and trying tohear a
able to appreciate just the Metropolitan Museum of Art. performance.
how easy the dancers make their move- ¯ At Tulsa Ballet’s Romeo & Juliet, the
ments look. These folks were amazing. ¯ gentlemanbehindus was alsoeatingfood,
In particular, this production’.s " crinkling the wrapper loudly and chewing
Mercutio, Jiang Qui, stole the show. His ." with his mouth open. He made the first
movements were inhumanly precise, and gendemanseemmannerlyincomparison.
I felt rather sorry for one dancer who did ~ Perhaps the PAC should make an ana
duet with. him - Jiang made everyone ¯ nouncement (since no one seems to be
around him look clumsy, and they were ¯ tcaching their kids basic manners anyall
excellent dancers. Romeo, Andrew more) that people are not to cat drink or
Allagree, andJuliet, IrinaUshakova, spoke makeunwarrantednoiseor tohavelengthy
Shakespeare eloo~uentl,y through their discourses while productions are in
movements. The nurse, danced by ~ progress. It’soneofthereasonsldon’tgo
MosceleneLarkin, proved suitably comi- " to films much anymore. People trcat them
cal, AndJuliet’ s father,TimSnyder, made ¯ as they do a video at home - it’s "OK" to
for a very dashing and handsome Daddy. " talk over, during and loudly while it is
Oh, the temptation to write some bawdy " playing. It is a sad commentary on modbits
are profoundly strong, but I shall ¯ ern society. OK, I’m done. Just rememrefrain..,
a bit. Some very handsome men ¯ ber, if you sit next to me, don’t make any
and beautiful women are in the Tulsa " noise durin~theproduction.I’ll behappy
Ballet’s employ, and totalkdulingintermiseven
if you don’t like sion;orafterwards,but
ballet per se, you’ll ap- during a performance
preciate the view. And ofany kinditis rude to
oh, yes, thereis thecul- thepeoplearoundyou,
tural enhancement and to the pedormers
thingas well. Although as well, to disrupt the
for sheer aesthetic, I’m " performance or
really looking forward people’s enjoyment of
to the next production it in any fashion.
on October 17, 18, & Upcoming events:
19. Comprised of 2 A benefit for the
ballets - the all-male, American Theatre
half-nu,de "Troy Company,"AnEven-
Games , which is a ing with Joyce Martel
spoof ofhyper-mascu- Robert Reed is the handsome, new
Under The Stars" will
linity, and the all fe~ ExeentiveDirectorofthePhilharmonic be held in Manion
male "Concerto Park, 3003 E. 56th
Barocco" - the evenings should provide " Street on October 4 at 7 pin. Dinner and
something for everyone. There’s even a ," the show will be $50.00 apiece or $400.00
mixed couples thing call "Prawn Watch- ¯ to reserve a table. To reserve a space, call
ing’.ThatoneI’mduMousabout.There’s " 747-9494. Shouldbeafunevening, espenoreal
description, otherthaneveryoneis ," cially if the temperatures hold.
dressed in 50’s drag. Sounds ominous. ¯ For more hbme-grown artistes, check
Butcultural. " out the Living Arts of Tulsa’s (LAOT)
Now: A rant. Why is it that people feel " exhibits at 19 E. Brady Avenue, 585-
that it is appropriate in a formal thcatre, to ¯ 1234. (Lovethatnumber!) InOctober, we
cat food with incredibly noisy wrappers ," have the exhibit, "Mud Drawings", by
and with their mouths open, to boot? The : Texan David Nakabayashi, through Oct.
last two events we attended at the PAC ¯ 23. On the 11, get the rhythm of the
were practically ruined by such boors. At ¯ Pridelands going with the Urban Tribal
theOperaGala, thegenflemansittingnext " Drumming.C~rele at 7pro. On the 17th,
toTomapparently stashedamonth’s worth " Steve Liggett speaks about the Day of the
of food in his jacket. Throughout the per- : Dead, Oaxaca; acelebrationtohonorthose
formance, he would reach into his jacket, ¯ ancestors who have passed on.
looking rather like Napoleon, andunwrap : see Arts, page 12
Afda November 8, 13, & 15
1997
Dreamkeepers
March 7, 12, & 14, 1998
Hansel & Gretel sc. so Spcc,a 3:
November 28, 29, & 30, 1997
For the best seats in the house order your season tickets today~
Single tickets also on sale now
Call 587-4811 to substribe. Or buy your tickets online at
www.webtek.com/tulsaopera/
MercedesEIlington
Butterfly
May 2, 7, & 9, 1998
TULSA~~;PERA
T tJ L S & PHILHARMONIC
Sophisticated Ellington
Symphony + Swing
Oct. 1.0 & 11, 8 pm
Tulsa Performing Arts Center
Chapman Music Hall
Call 747-PHIL (7445)
Take a musical journey through Duke
Ellington’s life with a full-leng ht
symphonic program hosted .by his granddaughter.
The presentation is comprised
of 2 vocalists and 4 remarkable dancers.
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This beautifully decorated Brookside home and gardens is centrally
located just minutes from downtown, universities, museums and
Tulsa’s best shopping and entertainment. Guests may breakfast on
the deck overlooking the garden or enjoy the comfortable living room
or den. Evening meals available with advanced notice.
Ballets of the sexes. In Troy Game, the men of the Company dance to exhaustion
m a grueling tongue-in-cheek look at male hyper-masculinity in times of conflict.
You’ll never think of ballet as only "pretW ’n pink" again. In perfect contrast,
Concerto Barocco features the women of the Company and Balanchine
choreography that "makes the music seen and the dance heard." Finally, Prawnwatching
explores relationships using contemporary and classical techniques --
in short skirts and blue ieans!
Troy Game, Friday & Saturday, October 17 & 18, 8em
Sunday, October 19. 3pm
For Ti©kets, call: Tulsa Ballet Ticket Office 149-6006
or tne PAC: 1-800-364-7111. 596-7111; Carson Attractions: 584-2000
All shows at the Performing Arts Center, 3rd & Cincinnati
Sponsored By
Soprano
Ernestine Dillard
in concert
to benefit
RAIN
Regional AIDS Interfaith Network
Sunday, October 19, 6:30 pm
All Soul’s Unitarian Church
2952 South Peoria,
free admission, donations accepted
I~". SUNDAYS
Bless the Lord At All Times Christian Center
Sunday School - 9:45am, Service - 11 am, 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815
Community of Hope (United Methodist), Service - 6pro, 1703 E. 2nd, 585-1800
Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation
Service - 11am, 1703 E. 2nd, 749-0595
Church of the Restoration Unitarian Universalist
Service - 11am, 1314 No. Greenwood, 587-1314
Family of Faith Metropolitan Community Church
Service, 11 am, 5451-E S. Mingo, 622-1441
Metropolitan Community Church of Greater Tulsa
Service, 10:45am, 1623 North Maplewood, Info: 838-1715
University of Tulsa Bisexuai/Lesbian/Gay/Transgendered Alliance
Sundays at 6:30 pro, Meets at the Canterbury Ctr., 5th & Evanston, 583-9780
~ MONDAYS
HIV Testing Clinic, Free & anonymous tesdng. No appointment required.
Walk in testing: 7-8:30pm Results: 7-gpm, Info: 742-2927
PFLAG, Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians & Gays
2nd Mon/each too. 6:30pm, Fellowship Congregational Church, i900 S. Harvard
Gay & Lesbian Book Discussion Group, Borders Bookstore
1st Mon/ea. mo., 7:30pm, 2740 E. 21st, 712-9955
Sept: Gary Reed’s Pryor Rendering, October .to be announced
Mixed Volleyball, 6:30pm, HelmeriCh Park, 71st & Riverside, 587-6557
Monday Night Football, 8 pro, Pride Center, Renfro Room, 1307 E. 38th, 2nd fl.
~TUESDAYS
HIV+ Support Group, HIV Resource Consortium 1:30 pm
4154 S. Harvard, Ste. H-l, Info: Wanda @ 749-4194
Shanti-Tulsa, Inc. HIV/AIDS Support Group, and Friends & Family HIV/AIDS
Support Group - 7 pm, Locations, call: 749-7898
Rainbow Business Guild
Business & professional networking group, 10/21, 7;30 pm,
NGLTF!TOHR Hate Crimes Town Hall, TU Chapman Ctr.
PrimeTimers, mens group, 10/21.7:30 pm, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th
Coming Out Support Group (TOHR/HOPE)
10/7 & 10/21, 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 OfFaithMCCPraise/Prayer-6:30pro, Choix-7:30,5451-E S. Mingo. 622-1441
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 inf0: 595-7632.
Lambda A-A, 7 pro, 1307 E. 38th, 2nd ft.
Ellen Watch Party, 8:30 pro, Pride Center, Renfro Room, 1307 E. 38th, 2nd ft.
l~" THURSDAYS
HOPE, HIV Outreach, Prevention, Education
Anonymous HIV Testing, Testing: 7 - 8:30pm, Results: 7 - 9pro, Info: 742-2927
Oklahoma Rainbow Young Adult Network (O’RYAN)
Support/social group for 18-24’s, call Red Rock Mental Health at 584-2325
Tulsa Family Chorale,Weekly practice - 9:30pro, Lola’s; 2630 E. 15th
From Our Hearts to Our House, 1 lpm, 3rd Thurs/each too. Lola’s, 2630 E. 15th
Substance Abuse Support Group for persons with HIV/AIDS 4154 S~ Harvard,
Ste. G, 3-4:30pm, Iufo: 749-4194
~ FRIDAYS
SafeHaven, YoungAdults Social Group, 1 st Fri/eachmo. 8pm, Pride Ctr., 1307 E. 38th
Community Coffee House ,10/10 & Community Movie Night, 10/24
7 pro, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th, info: 743-4297
~ SATURDAYS
St. Jerome’s Church, Mass - 6 pm Garden Chapel, 3841 S. Peoria, Info: 742-6227
_-Narcotics Anonymous, 11 pm, Community of Hope,1703 E. 2nd, Info: 585-1800
Lambda A-A, 6 pro, 1307 E. 38th, 2nd ft.
~ OTHER GROUPS
T.U.L.S.A. Tulsa Uniform & Leather Seekers Association, info: 838~1222
Womens Supper Club,.Call for info: 584-2978
OK Spoke Club, Gay & Lesbian Bike Organization. Long ride,10/4, 7 am. Short
ride, 10/15, 6:30 pro. Long fide, 10/18, 7 am. All rides start at Ziegler Park Recreation
Center, 3903 W. 4th St. Members of the Spoke Club get access to the Club’s
hot line for updates on rides. Info: POB 9165, Tulsa 74157
lfyour event or organization is not listed, please let ~s
Call 583-1248 orfax 583-4615.
READ ALL ABOUT IT
reviewed by Barry Hensley
Tulsa City-County Library
In 1988, psychologist and author Betty
Berzonwrote PermanentPartners, thefirst
book dedicated to helping Gays and Lesbians
create long-term relationships. Her
new book, Intimacy Dance,
builds 0n the~darlie~ title and
presents a series of topics that
impact relationships. This is
an important subject and is
dealt withhere in alogical and
easily readable way.
There are a handful of specific
areas that seem to be the
most difficult for couples to
overcome, including money,
different approaches to sex,
coping with aging and stress
from the outside world.
Berzon approaches these topics
sensibly and uses many
firsthand experiences to illustrate
her points. As a psychotherapist,
she tends to heavily
that it does work for some couples, and
even includes a shortlist of suggestions to
consider w-hen trying to make an open
relationship work: "no sex with mutual
friends," "sexual encounters are always
verbally shared with the lover," "sex is
permissable only whenoneis outof town,"
fine ofthe
major stumblln~
blocks in lon~-
term relationshlps
is thelnabflity
to see one’s
partner as an
imperfect ~rson.
~Ve tend to fall in
love with someone
and enter a
relationship with
a fantasy...
etc. She saves the most impb~
t ’fbr l~asi! ?alloutside
sex must follow safer sex
guidelines."
Berzon points out that one
of the major stumbling blocks
in long-term relationships is
the inability to see one’ s partner
as an imperfect person.
We tend to fall in love with
someone and enter a relationship
with a fantasy about that
person, andwhenreal life takes
over and that partner doesn’t
always act according to our
wishes, we are disappointed
and confused. The fact is, of
course, that we are all imperfect
partners, "flawed and inexamine
and aa.,~yze topics from their
psychological aspects, but, because ofher
writing style, thi~.is interesting and adds
another dimension to this book. This is
more than a collection of Dear Abby colunms!
One of the big topics is monogamy vs
"open relationships." While acknowledging
that different sexual arrangements
work in different relationships, Berzon
indicates that "with some exceptions, I
believe sexually exclusive partnerships
work best for most people.., even though
a couple may have an open relationship,
that doesn’ t mean both partners are having
an equally swell time in their pursuit
of outside sex. Though they usually deny
it, partners do tend to keep score." She
does explore nonmonogamy with the idea
consistent, often too sdf-absorbed and
capable of inflicting injury on those we
love, inadvertently and otherwise."
The bottom line for both Gay and Lesbian
relationships is that open communication
is the key. Most people communicate
poorly, which complicates the extremely
important avenues of inform,--
tion and understanding. Striving to commtmicate
toward a common goal takes
years and many couples g~ve up too soon.
Nobody said it would be easy! Keep your
eyes on the prize! Ifa stable, permanent
relationshipis the desired result, this book
will help you get there.
Check for Intimacy. Dance and other
similar rifles ofinterest at yourlocal branch
library, or call Readers Services at 596-
7966.
by Judy McCormick
Let’s talk about weed control. I am
seeing alot of crabgrass control in various
stores I frequent. Putting crabgrass prevention
down in the fall is totally useless.
Crabgrass only returns from seed, a hard
freeze will kill existing plants, if we have
enough warm weather to germinate crabgrass
seeds, the next freeze will kill them.
Apply crabgrass control in the spring, the
ideal time being immediately after the last
freeze. When will that be you say? Norreally
, the middle of March is a good
time. Balan, the most popular ~rabgrass
control, stays in the soil 6 to 8 weeks. Ifthe
forsythia is blooming (that bush that has
yellow blooms and blooms before anything
else) you have probably waited too
long.
The early spring weeds that aggravate
people are henbit and chickweed. These
weeds germinatein the fall, probablyright
about now, and stay short and mostly
invisible all winter." There are weed and
grass prevention products you can put
down in your flower beds now that will
keep the weeding downnext spring. Then
you put your mulch down on top of it and
your spring preparation will be greatly
reduced. Don’ t use these products in bells
where yousow flower seeds, yourflowers
: are just weed seeds to these products.
¯ These different products have different
¯ watering requirements. You need to read
¯ the instructions on the labd (oh, no, not
¯¯ instruction reading!) On some of these, if
you just dampen it down, it won’t get
: down into the soil far enough. If the little
: seed is below the product, it can germi-
¯ hate and come up through your weed
¯ prevention. At which time it will stick its
: tongue out at you and give you aresound-
¯ ing raspberry.
." Right now I am thinking about planting
¯ pansies. First of all, I just love the plant
-: and secondly one of the advantages to our.
weather in Oklahoma (in case you didn’ t
: know, there are some disadvantages)is
¯ that we will get warm spells throughout
: the winter and the little pansies I have
¯ planted will bloom for me. This is a very
: big deal to me. Then in the really early
¯ spring, before we can safely plant annu-
¯ als, my pansies are looking spectacular. I
" also want my yard to look different just
: because I am easily bored and the season
: has changed. I don’t do this all over my
¯ yard (I’m not completely crazy), just a
: few select spots. It’s feeling great out
: there guys. Go yeforth & garden!
: Judy McCormickformerly owned and
¯ ran Cox Nursery.
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Nov. 6-9th, Call for Details!
United Methodist
Community
of
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community that
seeks, values ana
welcomes all
people...
to act a the
living body of
Christ by
seeking justice,
compassion and
liberation...
1703 East 2nd,
918-585-1800
Worship each
Sunday at 6. pm
by Jean-Pierre Legrandbouche
...~, ~.Soine ofoureatin" anddrinkin’ buddies
will go to a restaurant, fred a dish they
like, and then order the same food, over
andover, every time they go there. Notus.
We prefer the adventure of trying everything
on the menu, and the variety of
selecting different entrees on different
occasions. If our waiter should happen to
remember a previous visit and suggest a
rclinqlia~nead/seaamtpslionmg, einthvianrgiadbilfyfe, rwenet.wEixllcdeep-t
¯at Phill’s.
Wehavethe waitresses wel!
trainedbynow,and theyknow
that any time we come in after
10 a.m.,they’dbetterputaside
a slice of the coconut creme
pie for us, because we always
eat a piece whenever we’re in
forluncheon. This coconutpie
is wonderful. Made from
scratch- none of that coconut-
flavored vanilla pudding
stuff- with a classic creme
patissede-style recipe, it’s
lovinglypouredinto adreamy,
flakey, flavorful, lard pastry
shell, and topped with clouds
of real whipped cream. It’s
not a snooty coconut tart from
aNew York City bistro cooked by a cook
with a bad French accent. It’s just a plain
old piece of good old Oklahoma pie.
Phill’s Diner, located just east of
Harvard on 32rid Street, serves up a lot of
plain old good Oklahoma cooking. In
fact, it’s such a classic, that when we’re
entertaining out-of-town performing artists
in for a gig with the Phil or the Ballet
or the Opera; and they want some "Oklahoma
food," this is where we end up.
Only open for brealffast and lunch,
Phill’s is a classic diner. Blue plate spe-
Phill’s Diner,
~10 East 32nd
6-2 l~m d~aily
Cash, Visa,
Mastereard.
No ehe~ks.
Aleohoh none.
Se~.rate
smokin~ ~nd
Atm~phere:
C~I
Inex~nsive.
rials. Biscuits and gragy. Basic hamburgers
and fries. Chicken fried steak. Home-
: l!lade cinnamon rolls thatsell out almost
¯ every morning. Sirloin steak and egg
: breakfasts. And, unlike other popular din-
: ers in Tulsa, Phill’s hasn’t succumbed to
being trendy. It’s still a neighborhood
place,marketing mostlybywordofmouth.
But, you have .to remember that this is
alow key kind o~ place. Vinyl banquettes
havetheoccasional tapepatch. Sodafountain
bar stools face a functioning service
area. Glasses are.plastic. Dinnerware
is mismatched - and
includes the sundry remnants
of anIHOP going out of business
sale. Thereis nothingpretentious
about this place.
On a recent visit, we decided
to have the grilled liver
and onions, which, with a
simple Iceberg salad, two vegetables
(chosenfrom thechalkboard),
and a basketful of
freshlybakeddinnerrolls, only
cost $4.99. The liver, an easy
meat to overcook, was nicely
done, and our only complaint
was that we got a few onions
Rating: A llst from the outside stem-end of
the bulb which were a bit
i
papery. Our compamon opted for the
chicken fried steak, which costjust alittle
: more at $5.69. His steak f’dled the plate,
¯ and the aroma was wonderful. Phill’s ¯
recipe includes a bit more 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
: almostatrademarkcharacteristic ofPhill’ s
: food. He likes things to have seasoning.
: Some may not like things so "spicy," but,
¯ with his tendency to use exotic ingredi-
: ents like salt, pepper, see Phill’s,page 13
EUREKA SPRINGS, AR- Eureka
Springs’ recently formed Diversity Cooperative,
along with several members of
the Gay/Lesbian community, are holding
the First Annual Eureka Springs Diversity
Celebration on November 6, 7, 8 &9.
The Co-op was created topromote Eureka
Springs to alternative communities
nationwide, and there are already over
100 members, consisting of both businesses
and individuals, who wish to welcome
everyone to Eureka Springs regardless
of race, creed or sexual orientation.
Their intention is to market what they
consider two of Eureka Springs’ most
important commodities, the diversity of
its people and the attitude of acceptance
found there.
The Eureka Springs Diversity Cooperative
is inviting the LesBiGay commuuity-
at-large to their town for some fun
and relaxation. Eureka Springs is a quiet
mountain town nestled in the Ozarks, not
like Key West or San Francisco, but a
great place to get away from the stress of
thebig city, feel safe, and enjoy thebeauty
surrounding you. With its diverse commtmity,
exquisite restaurants, quaint and
unique shops, excellentlodgingfadlities,
fine art galleries, beautiful Victorian tour
homes, antiques galore, and massage
therapists.abounding, Eureka Springs is a
delightful village that people return to
again and again.
Anumberofactivities arebeing planned
: including several benefit-dances, historic
: walking tours, receptions, a pool touma-
¯ ment, and a canoe float on the White
: River.Agallery walkonThursdayevening
: willkick off thefour-day celebration, and
: a tea dance and drag show will culminate
¯ theeventSundayafternoon.Theweekend
: will also coincide with Eureka’s Annual
¯ Food and Wine Fest. And there will be
: plenty of time to shop!!
¯ Weekend Schedule
¯ THURSDAY, NOV. 6
"- 6 - 9pro, Out and About Gallery Walk
¯ 8:15-10:30pm,Mud StreetExpressoCafe
¯ - Live music & readings
: 9- lam, FamilyuightatCenterSt. South
FRIDAY, NOV. 7
10:30.- Noon, E.S. HistorieWalking Tour
: (free) Meet in Basin Park, BYO water.
: Noon - 5pro, Pool Tournament at Inga’s
: Vunderbar, 75 S. Main St.
: 4-6pm, Tours atThe Gables TourHome
¯ - 44 Prospect Ave. (discount for Coop) ¯
8 - Midnight, M.C.C. Dance at The Barn
: onHolidayisland. Smoke-freedancefloor
¯ (smokingareaonpremises) BYOL,$3.00
: BenefitforMCC &MCC R.A.I.N: Team.
SATURDAY, NOV. 8
: 10:30- Noon, E.S. HistoricWalkingTour
¯ Meet at Sweet Springs next to Rogue’s
: Manor-at 124 Spring St. BYO water.
: i 1 - 2pm, Canoe Float on the White River
: (brown bag lunch) $25.00 per canoe ($25
per couple, $12.50 per single) Call (50.1)
: 253-6154.
Onthe 18& 19,
clay figures workshop, and on the 25 &
26, A pi,ma,~, and suger skulls workshop.
On the 30, Altared Spaces" will be on
display.
Philbrook Museum of Art continues
topresent"Sti11Life: TheObjectinAmerican
Art 1915-1995: Selections from the
MetropolitanMuseum ofArt". Inanimate
objects on parade. I wonder if they all
come to life a la Disney when everyone
leaves the museum. Check it out.
RobertAlanReed hasjoined the Tulsa
Philharmonic as Executive Director. A
musician as well as one who can get the
donations it takes to keep an orchestra
performing, Mr, Reed has the in-depth
knowledge 6fall aspects of an orchestra’s
artistic needs. An extremely personable
and approachablegentleman,wewelcome
Mr. Reed to the city ofTulsa. This follows
the installation of Kenneth Jean as the
new Music Director. Can’t wait to see
what they cook up!
In the meantime, catch Sophisticated
Ellington: Symphony and Swing, amusical
portait of Duke Ellington’s life with
a full-length symphonic program hosted
byhis granddaughter, Mercedes Rllington.
This presentation is comprised of two
vocalists and four remarkable dancers.
Tulsa Philharmonic will present 2 performances,
Oct. 10and 11 at8pm. Call the
PAC for tickets at 596-7111. Bernadette
Peters arrives in Nov. for a trip into the
musical woods. Should be fun.
. Speaking of the Philharmonic (Nice
seque, eh?), the orchestra’s "Bravo
Broadway" with Randal Keith, Baritone;
Michael McGuire, Tenor; and Jan
Horvath, Streisandwaunabee (seriously!)
was a disappointment. To be quite blunt,
the symphony was the best part of this
performance. Pity they weren’t soloing.
OKC- Members of the TulsaArea Prime
Timers (TAPT), a chapter of the Prime
Timers WorldwideOrganization withover
40 chapters across the globe, enjoyed their
three-day weekend this past Labor Dayat
the Habana Inn, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
They greeted over 120 attendees
from other chapters for this fifth annual
gathering.
Woody Baldwin and his lifemate, Sean
O’Neill, Austin, Texas, attendedthe event.
These men are accredited for the creation
of the idea of an organization dedicated to
.the mature gay, bi-sexual, or straight male
in which they could enjoy a safe and
comfortable environment for socializing
and exchanging information. Since its
inception twelve years ago, the organization
has rocketed in popularity. The chapter
in Palm Springs,CAboasts over 1,000
members!
The "Habana Weekend Getaway" was
created by the Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas
Chapter when they chose to "do something
different for the holiday". When the
Tulsa Chapter chme into being, they were
invited to join in the festivities. The invitation
was extended to the chapters in San
Antonio and Houston. Word of mouth
spread the news of the event further and
further. This year attendees came from
such diverse locations as Mexico City,
Canada, and from the four corners of the
United States, all seeking a quality, leisure
time socializing with other members.
The first half of the show was comprised
of dated and cloying Rodgers & "
Hammerstein tunes. The sound system!
sound operator utilized by the singers was
absolutely horrible.
The second bit was filled with Andrew
LloydWebberrepertoire. Most ofthecast
had .been in Webber productions. Randal
was m the touring company of" Phantom...",
playing the titlerole as well as one
ofthe theatremanagers. Michael McGuire
was the original Enjoiras in Les Miz,
receivingaTonyforhis portrayal. Horvath
was one of the original "Cats". Her main
problem, as far as I was concerned was
that she had spent a few too many hours
watching Streisandfilms. Shecontinually
did Streisand Mugging- making the same
spastic head shaking movements while
.speaking, evenmovingherjaw while singrng
in the same manner as Streisand. And
I’m sorry, but how could anyone buy
theseguys singing"Thereis Nothing Like
a Dame"? McGuire was pretty, especially
when he swished across the stage at the
last bow. I kept straining to listen to the
symphony, as they had the most talent.
Onahappiernote, Iamlooking forward
to Nov. 5th, and my trip to Dallas to see
Fleetwood Mac at Starplex. Reviews of
their current tour are in, and it looks like
it’ll be a great show. Their new album,
"The Dance" is on sale at Borders, so
check it out. They’ve never sounded better.
Andif you’ve never heard them (hard
to imagine, but there are more folks out
therewho think Stevie Nicks is amanthan
I care to imagine), "Dance"’ ts a great
introduction to thegroup’s catalog ofwork.
: It is not a secret that these guys know
¯ .how to put together a party! First and
: foremost, they insist on a limited struc-
¯ tured schedule so members can enjoy the
¯
many different options available. Various
[ attending chapters sponsor separate events
like: "Early Bird Coffee & Pastries,
¯ Poolside"; "Picnic At The Pool"; "An
Evening At Gusher’s Restaurant"; or the
: very popular "Evening Hospitality Room".
¯¯ In addition there are numerous other options
such as sight-seeing; antique shop-
: ping; flea-marketing etc. Those members
¯ with vehicles generously provide needed
¯ (ransportation to others. The main focus ¯
of this annual gathering is to provide
¯ quality and accessibility to many enjoy-
" able options and as inexpensively as can
¯ be done.
¯ TAPT meets at 7 pro, every third Tues.,
: at the Pride Center and offers an open
¯ invitation to those persons over the age of ¯
21 who would like information concern-
-" ingour chapter. Information aboutTAPT
[ is located at the Pride Center in Tulsa and
¯ listed elsewhere in this publication.
¯ TAPT is actively involved in a current
¯ project at the Pride Center which is to
: install new floor coverings in the Neal-
¯ Padgett Room. They heartily challenge ¯
"any and all" area gay and lesbian groups
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The town hall.meeting is free. For more
information, call 743-4297; Prior to the
town hall meeting, there will be a reception
for Ms. Lobel from 5:30-7 pm. This
event is a fundraiser to benefit NGLTF
and TOHR/HOPE/the Pride Center. A
$10 donation is suggested and hors
d’oeuvres and other refreshmentswill be
served. For an invitation, call 743-4297.
With the combined efforts of TOHR &
PFLAG,Coalitionmembers dropped their
objections to more inclusive language.
Furthermore, since TOHR’s name is not
clear in being a LeSbian and Gay organization,
Nancy McDonald pointed out that
the additionof PFLAG’s full name will
help reinforce that hate crimes against
Lesbian and Gay citizens are also part of
the Coalition’s mission.
At the same meeting, the Tulsa Police
Dept. whichis amember of the Coalition,
reported that they have begun voluntarily
to report hate crimes based on sexual
orientation (actual or perceived) to the
Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation
(OSBI). This had been soughtbycommunity
activists for number of years. OSBI
had stated its willingness to forward any
numbers it receives to federal authorities..
However, the initial information gathering
must take place by the local law enforcement
agency.
In contrast to this news, which activists
are hailing, Tulsa has recently experienced
several hate crimes ranging from
the bearing of two Gay men in the
Brookside area to other crimes of malicious
intimidation ofvarious seriousness.
The case of the two men involved an
unprovoked assault without other motive
(although the incident took place at an
ATM, robbery was not a morive). After
one of the men was asked if he was a "f-
--ing faggot," he was assaulted. Both he
and his companion, who went to his aid,
had to go to receive emergency medical
care. Ironically, the assailants who were
three men, agedfi20/20 & 21, were arrestedin
aGaydublaterthesameevening.
The victim reported also thattheir assailants
were particularly large men.
Tulsa Police at the Coalition meeting
were familiar with this incident and said
they had logged it as a hate crime.
by Lamont Lindstrom ,
Eddie Murphy (the "nutty Samaritan," ¯
-somebody called him) made the news ¯
recently by giving a transvestite a ride in
his ToyotaLandCruiser. Trudging through
that West Hollywood night without ¯
wheels, clearly she was a charity case.
We can appreciate Mr. Murphy’ s corn- ¯
passion and magnanimtty. Many of us
didn’t notice, perhaps, that the 20-year- "
old object ofhis good deed was identified
as Atisone Seiuli. And Atisone is a fine ¯
old Samoan name. :
Here indeed is a sign of American :
multiculturalism - this brief encounter ¯
between a millionaire African-American
actor and a Samoan working boy along :
the darkened streets of post-modem LA. ¯
While the press identified Atisone as a ¯
"transvestite," she also is afa’afafine, or :
a man who acts like a woman. .
There is a long tradition of "female" ¯
men throughout the Polynesian islands - ¯
mahu in Tahiti and Hawai’i, faka leiti :
( ’lady’ )inTonga, andSamoa’ sfa "afafine. "_
Once these men would have lived quietly :
inisland villages, takingmalelovers. Many ¯
were skilled at weaving and other femi- ¯
nine craft and some specialized in mas- ."
sage and the healing arts. ¯
Nowadays, many fa’a ratine have
moved to socially less confined Pacific :
towns and port eiries. And as Islanders :
have migrated overseas to Sydney, ¯
Auckland, Honolulu, and Los Angeles, ¯
they have brought their transvestite tradi- "
tions along with them. :
In the Pacific, as inmany places around ¯
the world with customary cross-dressing, :
there now is an opposition - even a com- "
petition - between local tradition and an ¯
expanding global "Gay culture" gener- ¯
ated mostly in North America and Europe.
Cross.-dressingboys inSamoaorTonga ¯
can variously identify themselves as ei- ¯
ther fa’a ratine or Gay or both. Each of "
these labels is associated with a certain .
personal style and gender identity. One
popular Western import to Polynesia is
the drag show, especially drag contests
that determine the crowning of "Miss
Tonga" or"Miss Apia" (the capital city of
Western Samoa). These shows parallel,
and parody, women’ s beauty contests -
also recent imports from the West.
butter, onions, garlic, and bacon, we find
the spicing charming - 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
always haveaninteresting"brunch" food,
such as Malibu 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
hot cakes are also apopularmomingitem,
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~o
help youfitinthosenew bicycling shorts).
And, in the best Southern tradition, one
can also order a breakfast side order of
.sliced tomatoes forjust99 cents. After all,
it isn’ t breakfast without tomatoes.
As the autunm weather beginsto get
One summer, my friend Niko Videotaped
one of these contests in Tongatabu
following around a gang of raucousfaka
leiti who competed vigorously in both
Western and island dress. He Wanted to
understand how Tonga has become increasingly
"gay" - the Westernization of
its older, traditional practices of crossdressing
and homosexuality.
I’ ve only known one fa’a fafine - a
sweet guy who had an office next to mine
at Canterbury University in Christchurch,
New Zealand. Vailoa was 43 and softly
plump; although not nearly as much as his
straightbrothers and sisters. (Somephysical
anthropologists believe that one-time
seafaring Polynesians possess a "thrifty
gene"- the ability to put offalot ofweight
quickly.
Whatever, all those humpy muscles of
20-something island boys usually melt
down into butter by their 30s.) Clearly,
though, Vailoa had once been beautiful.
Anexcellent seamstress,hehadsupported
himself by fixing sewing machines.
Now, he was back at university for a
degree in Pacific Studies. His lofty goal
was to return to Samoato help educate the
young. But one frosty, morning, Vailoa
was found dead in a city park beat. (Beat
is New Zealandish for cruisy public toilet.)
Always sho~of cash, Vailoa often
walked the five miles between university
and his small room in the city center,
passing through alargepublicgreen space.
The official story was heart attack. This
is entirely possible. Young, male, educated
Pacific migrants die ofheart disease
in alarming numbers. But, sitting in the
church at his funeral surrounded by several
hundred of Vailoa’ s friends and relatives,
I prayed that he might have died of
pleasure: glory, glory, gloryholeia, amen.
The funeral was fantastic. Two enormous
choirs of solid Polynesians singing
19th-century Congregationalist hymns in
high .Samoan; stodgy university professors
m gloomy gown and mortarboard;
and, at the back, a small cluster of, a little
nervous, tattooed, buzz=headed, ~hite
guys all geared-up in black leather. Anymore,
you see, New Zealand is just as
multicultural and post-modern as West
Hollywood.
Lamont Lindstrom is a professor of
anthropology-at the University of Tulsa.
more of a nip in the air, we’ll 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’ 11 feel athome. And the
food is certainly good.
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4 - 7pro, Woman’s Work - Artventure
10 - 2am, Benefit Dance at Center St. So.
$3 benefit for local youth programs.
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5th Annual
Walkfor Life
Sunday, October 26th
Veteran’s Park, 21st Street & Boulder
BYO Picnic at noon.
Warm-up at 1 pm, kick-off at 1" 15 pm
Funds. from this year’s event will go to
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VIOLENCE: A TOWN MEETING WITH THE
NATIONAL GAY AND I~SK~AN T~SK FORC~
and ~A OKLA~OMANS FOR ~UMAN RIGHTS
How do we stop anti-gay
violence? In November,
President Clinton is hosting
a national summit on hate
crimes. The National Gay
and Lesbian Task Force and
the Oklahoma Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual, and Transgender
community will hold its own
town forum on anti-gay
violence. Joie us for a
presentation on the state of
hate crimes in the nation
and in Oklahoma and a
discussion on strategies for
stopping the violence. You
will be also be invited to
share your own experience
with anti-gay violence.
NGLTF will deliver these
stories to Piesident Clinton.
Please don’t miss this
opportunity to help make
Oklahoma safe for ALL of us.
FEATURING
Kerry Label
Executive Director, National Gay and
Lesbian Task Force
Tom Neal
Tulsa OHahomans for Human Rights
Bill Hinkle-
ACLU & PFLAG, Tulsa
National Organization for Women,
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And YOU!
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Dec. 15, 1996- Jan. 14, 1997, v. 4, #1
Serving Tulsa’s Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual & Trans Communities
Dr. Elders Urges Black
Churches to Fight AIDS
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP)- Black churches must join
forces to educate their communities about the dangers
of AIDs and the need to practice safe sex, Dr. Joycelyn
Elders said Saturday.
Elders, the former surgeon general:, told a gathering at
Mount Carmel Baptist Church that one out of every 350
black men is infected with the HIV virus, compared to
one of every 800 white men and one of every 650
Hispanic men. Among women, one of every 1,000
black women is infected, compared to one of every
15,000 white women, she said.
New medicines and treatments have nearly turned the
deadlyvirus into more of a chronic disease people can
live with for years, Elders said, but the numbers will
keep g~owing unless youfig people are educated. Beside~
education, Elders emphasized the use ofcondoms
and providing dean needles to drug addicts as deterrents
to transmitting the disease.
She applauded four teen-age girls who told the group
they took vows of abstinence, but said 70% of those
vows are broken by the time high school is finished.
’I’he vows ofabstinence are broken far more easily than
the latex condom is," Elders said. "When I was your
surgeon general, I tl~ink you remember people would
call me th~ condomqueen. Well, I Want you to know, I
put the crown on my head and sleep in it:"
see Elders, page3
:HAWAII HONEYMOON? ¯ HONOLULU (AP) - Joseph Melillo believes waiting six years
¯ to get ,m,arried is long enough. "That’s an awfully long engage-
¯ ment," Melillo said.Wednesday ~p~r~0judge put on hold the first ruling inAmericanhistory that all’~ws g~y marriages. Melillo and
¯ his partner, Pat Lagon, will have to wait at least another year: The
¯ staywill remainineffectuntil arulingby the state’s highestcourt. ¯
That court ruled in 1993 that Hawaii’s ban is unconstitutional
¯
unless the state could, show a compelling government interest in
¯ preventing gay mamages.
¯ In. issuing the stay to his own ruling, Circuit Judge Kevin
Chang said there would be confusion if gay couples got married
¯ and then the high court overturned his decision. "We kind of
¯ expected it, but we’re not happy with it," said Melillo, who sued
¯ the state along with Lagon and two lesbian couples.
Chang said Tuesday that the state had failed to show any
¯ compelling state interest in denying gay couples the right to
¯ marry, and he ordered the state to begin issuing themlicenses. It
was the first such ruling by a judge in the United States.
¯ The dispute prompted passage of a federal law signed by
¯ President Clinton that says the federal government will not
¯ recognize gay marriages and allows states to refuse to recognize ¯
such unions licensed in other.states. In addition,16 states have
’ passed laws denying recognition of gay marriages.
¯ DeputyAttorney General Rick Eichor sought the stay, arguing
¯ that allowing couples to marry immediately would undermine
the state’s case. "If hundreds, or even thousands, of gay mar-
" riages take place, the Supreme Court probably won’t even hear
¯ the appeal," he said. Eichor also argued that the three gay couples
who sued for the right to marry would suffer no real harm if their
: right to marry were delayed.
Dan Foley, the lawyer who represented the couples, said he
¯ found that argument incredulous. He said his clients already had
suffered from delays in the case. "I hope it won’t take long to
¯ convince the Supreme Court that Judge Chang’s ruling was i correct," Melillo said.
And nearly two months before the opening of the state Legis-
¯" lature, same-sex marriage already has become an issue.
: Newly-elected Rep. Bob McDermott on Thursday called for
¯ Senate President Norman Mizuguchi to replace Matt Matsunaga
¯ and Avery Chumbley as co-chairs of the Senate Judiciary Corn-
: mittee. Matsunaga and Chumbley both opposed a constitutional
¯ amendment banning same-sex, marriages. Matsunaga, who won
re-dection despit~e being targeted for his stand on the issue, says
: the matter should be left to the courts.
," McDermott said heis concerned .that legislation prohibiting
¯ same-sex marriage will not be given a fair hearing in the Senate
¯ Judiciary Committee. Samer~ex marriage was a factor in
McDermott’s ouster of Democrat Len Pepper in the Nov. 5
: general election, see next column
¯ US & World Reaction: Arkansas
¯ LHTLE ROCK (AP) - Moving to follow a new
federal law, lawmakers filed legislation Friday that
¯ would ban same-sex marriages in Arkansas. The
¯ measure was among the first bills pre-filed in the
: House to be ,introduced in the Arkansas General
Assembly that convenes Jan. 13.
¯ Arkansas family law defines marriage as a civil
¯ contract between consenting parties. A provision
relating to issuing a marriage license to under age
¯
persons contain age requirements for the male and
¯ female, the only reference to gender. The proposed
¯ bill would declare that "marriage shall be only
: between a man and a woman" and would void
¯ marriage betweenpeople of the same sex. The state
¯ wouldnotrecognize same-sex marriages performed
out of state by people who move to Arkansas.
"What (gays) do in the privacy of their own
¯ bedroom is their business, but I don’t feel like it’s
: something that I want to recognize as being legal
¯ and right" said the lead sponsor, Rep. Doug Kidd,
: D-Benton. "The state of Arkansas should not rec-
¯ ognize that as a marriage."
¯ Dehra Bailey of the Arkansas Gay and Lesbian
¯ Task Force said the state’s homosexual community ¯
Was not surprised by Kidd’s bill and would fight it
: as a matterof social justice. She said homosexuals
¯ "absolutely" have a moral right to marry. Ms.
¯ Bailey said. "Whether or not a person chooses marriage to sanction their relationships, all people
¯ should have that right."
¯ Colorado
¯ DENVER (AP) - A Colorado state lawmaker has
¯ announced plans to reintroduce a bill in the 1997 ¯
Legislature that wouldbanrecognition of same-sex
marriages in Colorado.
¯ The announcement by Rep. Marilyn Musgrave, ¯
¯ R-Fort Morgan, came just a day after a Hawaiian
court ruled that state must issue marriage licenses
¯ to same-sex couples. The same bill was approved
last yearby the Colorado Legislature, but vetoedby
: Gov. Roy Romer. The Hawaii ruling still must be
appealed. But that doesn’t matter to Musgrave.
¯ Musgrave’s bill banning same:sex~ marriages
¯ was appr0vedinbothho~es earlierthis yearlarge.ly
¯ on a partisan=line vote with most Democrats in ¯
Opposition. Gov: Roy Romer-vetoed it in March,
¯ saying it was unnecessary because Colorado law
didnotrecognizesuchmarfiages, see Hawaii, p. 8
Murderer Gets 50 Years ¯ Evergreen SpiritAwardsGiven " Coming Soon! PONTIAC, Mich..(AP) - The man convicted of killing " TULSA - The AIDS. Coalition. of Tulsa presented its 1996 *
Evergreen SpiritAwards recognizing individuals fortheir contributions
to HIV/AIDS care. The organization recognized Amy
Graham and Nancy Nelson of the American Red Cross, Jack
Arnold of Tulsa Public Schools, Anne Kozak and Jean Derry of
the Oklahoma State Dept. of Health, Claudette Peterson of
HOPE, Patti Handyof Associates in Medical & Mental Health,
Sharon Thoele of the HIV Resource Consortium with Spirit
Awards. The Richard Shackelford Award went to Derrick Davis
of FUSO and the Truman Geren Award went to the late RF
Renfro. These awards were presented by Phil Wiley. The award
to RF Renfro will hang in the Renfro Room inThe Pride Center.
HIVRC Records Turned
¯ Holiday services will be held at Saint Jerome at ¯
11:30 on Christmas Eve with Mass at midnight.
: Family of Faith and Greater Tulsa MCCs will join
¯ together for a candlelight service at Family ofFaith
¯ at 1 lpm. Also Community of Hope United Meth- ¯
¯ odist will hold its candlelight service at llpm.
Ongoing till mid-January, Community of Hope
: will offer a grief support group that meets on
¯ Tuesdays from6-8pm. Forinfo. call Leslie Peurose
¯" at 585-1800 or Bob Hulsey at 749-4194.
"- RAIN, the Regional AIDS Interfaith Network
: will provide volunteer training on Jan. 13-15 from
¯ 5:30- 9pmatHarvardAve. ChristianChurch,5502 ¯
S. Harvard. $25 with some scholarships available.
¯ Registration by Jan. 10. Call Stephen or Kathy at
i Over On Nov. 20- More 749-4195 for info. Another training will beat
¯ Conners State College.in the Classroom Building ¯
Documents to. Follow #210onJan.24-25.Registrationisrequiredby Jan. :21.CallStephenorKathyat749-4195orPhiTheta
¯ TULSA-The H-IV Resource Consortium (HIVRC) provided its ¯ Kappa in Warner at 918-463-6302 for info.
¯ minutes to Tulsa Family News’ attorney on Nov. 20 and has ,
: - agreed to provide accesstoother public documents this month as "
INSIDE
: well as agreeing to futherinterviews with counsel for theHIVRC :
¯¯ - and Tulsa Family Newspresent. ¯ ¯ . .
TFN publisher, Tom Neal, appl,auded the agency fo~ its coop- :
EDITORIAL/LETTERS/DIRECTORY P. 2-3
" eration. "It has ialways been Tb2q s hope that the agency could " NEWS .... P. 4
HEALTH P. 6
provideexplanatiousfortheallegatiousofthepersonslivingwith HIV/AIDS & THE LAW P. 10
AIDS (PLWA’s)," Neal added. ,We hope that the problems ¯ BOOK REVIEW P. 10
really just turn out to be communications difficulties rather than : EUREKA SPRINGS P. 11
anything more serious. We expect to provide followup coverage : RESTAURANT REVIEW P. 12
next month." , CLASSIFIEDS P. 14-15
a gay admirer who revealed a crush on him on "The
Jenny Jones Show" will serve at least 20 years in prison
before he is eligible for parole, lawyers said. Judge
Francis X. O’Brien on Wednesday sentenced Jonathan
Schmitz to 25 to 50 years for murdering ScottAmedure.
DefenselawyerJames Burdick saidhe’ll appeal. Schmitz
shot the 32-year-old Amedure to death three days after
they attended the show’s taping on March 6, 1995. The
show was not aired at the time but was played in court
and televised as part of trial coverage.
Amedure’s family said Schmitz, 26, Should spend his
life in prison to make up for each day they will. spend
withoutAmedure. "Thereisn’taday that goes by where
I don’t mourn for my sonrs life," Amedure’s mother,
Patricia Graves, told O’Brien. "I hope every time he
opens his eyes he will See Scott’ s body as he lay dying.~’
AllynSchmitz, Schmitz’s father, said thejudge didn t
consider thedamageto his son’s psychefrom appearing
on the show. Witnesses said Schmitz believed he was
going to meet a woman.admirer on the show and was
humiliated when the admirer turned out to be a man..
"He was the guy who .,. was basically hauledinto (an)
... imraoral,.sexual-perverted thing that totally devastated
him mentally to the point-that he couldn’t even
function anymore."
Schmitz had been fighting alcoholism, .depression
and a thyroid condition when the show’s producers
¯ambushed him.., the defense said. "I don’t disagree
with counsel that you are suffering some medical illness,"
O’Brien told Schmitz. But, he added, "You still
have to be accountable to society."
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Publisher + Editor: Tom Neal
Entertainment Writer + Mac Guru:
James Christjohn
Writers +.contributors:
Phyl Bbler-Sehmid~ Barry Hensley
Jean-Pierre Legrandbouche
Steven Scott, Gerald Miller,
Lance Bfittain, Kent Lewis
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are protected by US copyright 1996 by Tulsa Family News and may not be
reproduced either in whole or in part without written permission from the publisher.
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by Tom Neal
age, were a recovering alcoholic, or simply didn’t know where
any of these places were, you were out of luck. Because of
significantly different editorial and advertising policies, from
T.H.sa Family News.(TFN) has my .a,pp~re-
." ciauon, support and gratitude forit s Oc-
¯ tober article focusing upon failures of
: Tulsa’s HIV Resource Consortium
-" (HIVRC) and for following up with both
: ’pro’ and’con’ responses appearing in the
¯ November issue¯
: However, I also applaud any and every_
: one who word volunteer themsdves to
i public oversight by serving on any Board
of Directors of any service group such as
the HIVRC.
This is the first issueofour fourthyear. During these years., our Also, HIVRC’s salaried Director,
goal has been to bring the Tulsa Lesbian, Gay, Bi & Trams
communities (and our families andfriends, and any other inter~
ested readers out there), the best community newspaper we can
achieve. We strive for fair and accurate reporting. We strive to
cover all of our very, very diverse communities. That means we
are a newspaper for "’bar" people, the wealthy and well-connected,
drag divas and leather folk - in short, for all. We are a
newspaper for those who are way out of the closet, as well as for
those still hiding.
¯ One of the tl~ngs which has helped to make us a paper for all
ts our accessibility across the city. Prior to TFN, if you wanted a
Gay newspaper (albeit one from out of town), your options were
to go to an "erotic" bookstore,, a dub, or one or two other
locations. There’s nothing wxong with these establishments (and
we’re very grateful that they welcome us) but if youwere under
." ,OtherP..,~in,the, ragion (policies now being imitated in Okla_ i SharonThoe.le, certainlyhasmydeserved
¯ nomat:~ty),TulsaFamilyNewsiswelcomeandavailableaeross .appreciation for even attemptingto per-
." the city, in locations accessible to many more people. Havinga ¯ form the undo,ubtedly impossible tasks of
¯ paper available and visible is progress for a community that has i Serving Tulsa s PLWA’s and HIV with
: ~forced traditionally to be hidden.
¯ complete satisfaction to all. It will.never : sprogressh not come ily. For door w:eopened,. ! happen.
: tac~ ano msenmmauon mtrying to get the paper in moreplaces; ! ...IfI dneverbeen amemberofaboardof
: in trying to get more advertising, and in trying to buy basic : ddinryecotofrsth,neoerxepveenredxitpuerreieonfcepdumbleidcifausncdrus-,
¯" services for the newspaper. We also continue to face diserimina_ :. then I might be somewhat less under-
: lion from.some in our commRuity. ¯
¯ ¯ standingof the feelings of theboardmem-. Itisnotaneasyjob.NorisitweHpaid.Manyofthefolkswh~se . bersor~eservicegroup,sadmlnistrator
¯ work you see in this paper donate their efforts. Certainly, as : when an "outsider’ brings them to task as
: publisher.and editor, I could go out and get a job doing almost : TFN’s publisher has done.
:. anything else andmake bettermoney- and actually get benefits, i ~ But, whomevermaybe connected with
_" not to mention major stress reduction, see Editorial, page3 : HIVRC who may be fceling insecure and
¯ unappreciated due the criticism (whether
: justified or not) there are those Tulsan’s
Tulsa Organizations, Churches, & Universities : who feel much, much worse- every day
¯ ¯ - those persons living with AIDS/HIV ¯ AIDS Walk Tulsa, POB "1071, 74101-1071 579-9593 .. and those of us who love them and are ¯ Black&White;Inc. POB 14001,Tulsa74159 583-7314 . scared to death oflosing them ¯
*Bless The ¯Lord... Christian Center, 2627b E. 11 628-0594 ¯ : :B,-,_/_L/_G___Alli_’,,.an,ee, U~v.°..fTulsaCanterburyCtr. Nevertheless, simply stated, it is public 583-9780 i money that HIVRC is spending, andtax_ ." ~.Alapmml ~maent t.lr.,University of Tulsa, 5th P1. & Florence . payers and benefactors can reasonably
¯" *CommunityofHopeUnitedMethodist, 1703~ 2rid 585-1800 "
~ C_ommunityUnitarian-UniversalistCongragation 749-0595 i expeetaccouhtabilityofservicesandmost
: Dignity/Integrity-Lesbian/Gay Catholics/Episcopal. 298-4648 : certainly to be given access to public
: *Family of Faith MCC, 5451-E So. Mingo 622-1441 . information upon request. It is both un-
¯ :~ello_ws.l~.’p_Congreg.-Church, 2900-S. Harvard necessary and unfortunate that such a
747:7777 : .simple matter had to become a public ¯ rree~pmtWomeusCenter, callf0rlocation&info: 587-4669 ¯ ;¯ Friend For A Friend, POB 52344, 74152 ¯ ~ssue at all. But, if that’s what takes then ¯ 747-6827 ¯. so be it! Tulsa needs a responsive AIDS Friends in Unity SocialOrg. (African-American mens group) . consortium, or none at all.
POB 8542, 74101, call cJo HOPE @ 712.1600. : I have no doubt that TFN’s focus upon
: HOPE, HIV Outreach, Prevention, Education, 1307 E.38, 2ndfl. ¯
¯ and inquiry ofHIVRC is fullyjustified if
d~12-1600’ HOPE Anonymous HIV Testing Site, 742-2927 ¯
: In--.’an Health Care, Save the Nation 584-4983 "
the newspaper is to fulfill its own ¯ sibility to it’s readers. And, TFN’s pub- . Interfaith AIDS Ministries 438-2437, 800-284-2437 : lisher has proven his commitment to the
: *MCC of Greater Tulsa,. 1623 N. Maplewood 838-1715 ¯
." *HIVResourceCtr.,4154S. Harvard, Ste. H_l 749-4194 : .cbosmenminunTiutlys..at.hlrohuagvheonuetvtehrehtaidmtehehoechcaas-
.." NHAMEHSouPsRe,O1J1E1C4l1S".,4Q.1u5a4koSe.rHarvuard, Ste.r
: PFLAG , POB 52800, 74152 584-7960748-311I .: Slon to.talk with Mr. Neal about such ¯ 749-4901." matters,bu[disappointmentswithHIVRC Planned Parenthood, 1007 S Peoria ~o~,.-,~,,, ¯ were being-publicly expressed long be-
*The Pride Center,- 1307 E "38, 2nd floor,
~’~ i fore TFN beg.an its ~,s_tribution in Tulsa.
¯*~R.A.I.N..R~Onal AIDS Interfaith Network 749-4-195-: s----~ -~ ’ :’ g : ~nsmer commencing
Rainbow Business Guild; POB 41067415~ r.~iT~: ¯ ¯ om.~ ~aamagegontro~ measures as soon as
.S~,JerOm_e’s Catholic Church, 3841 ~. Pe~ia, ~:~ i .fPo°rS~le’ -by:pr°vidin,g the,m!nutes in.a ~hanti Hotline & HIV/AIDS Services 749 "moe ¯ ’, un~.gnt ~n),~nn.e_r; acknowledging inad-
.Tu.ls.a O.k.la..fo.r H. uman Ri.ghr.s.. POB 2687, 74101. _ ..74-3--.4.2.9.7 .." ~".~.eq...ua.c~es ot the Consortium in the past; lecnmcmus ~ , . . ~~, : "~ ,, 584_~ar~o e,- ~mu, comini’.".u.ng" -to i"mprove m-.e.s.lm.a.uo" n
TULSA Tuls .... :"~: ...... :.. ! ,-,,,o ~. "m the future. :She, other memberS of the
: ..... a. um~orm/Leamer ~eeKers AssoC.’" 838-1222 ~,.: ~ . . - .... ~
¯ :, ..~oard, the HIVRC Director and the
Tulsa Clubs & Restaurant~
*Bamboo Lounge, 7204 E Pine
*Concessions, 3340 S. Peoria
*Lola’s, 2630E 15th
*GoldCoast Coffee House, 3509 S. Peoria
*Ground Floor Cafe, 51st & Harvard
*St. Michael’s Alley Restaurant, 3324-L ~ 31st
*Silver Star Saloon; 1565 Sheridan
*Samson & Delilah, 10 E. Fifth
*Renegades/Rainbow Room, 1649 S. Main
*TNT’s, 2114 S. Memorial
*Tool Box, 1338 E. 3rd -
*InterurbanRestaurant, 717 S. Houston
832-1269
744-689(
749-1563
749-4511
749-567~
745-9998
834-4234
585-2221
-585-3405
584-130~
585-313,
Tulsa Businesaes,lServices, & Professionals
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
*Borders Books & Music, 274OE. 21 712-9955
Brookside Jewelry, 4649 So. Peoria 743-527~
*CreativeColleetion, 1521 E. 15 592-1521
Cherry Street Psychotherapy Associates
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 ."
744-5556i
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665-659 .
622-3636
838-8503
743-9994
690-2974.
744~0102
744-7440
Doghouse on Brookside, 3311 S. Peoria
Don Carlton Mitsubishi, 46th & Memorial
Don Carlton Honda, 4141 S. Memorial.
*Elite Books &Videos,821 S. Sheridan
Express Pools &.Spas, 6310 S. Peoria.
Foxlinx, Computer Consultation
Leatme M. Gross, Financial Planning
Mark T. Hamby, Attorney, .
*Sandra J. Hill, MS; Psychotherapy, 2865 E Skelly
Imaginations, Lincoln Plaza, 15th& Peoria
*International Tours
Ken’s Flowers, 1635 E. 15
Kelly Kirby, CPA, POB 140H, 74159i -
Lean Ann Macomber, Real~.r Associate
*Midtown Theater,319 E, 3
Mingo Valley Flowers, 9720c E. 31st ¯.
*Mohawk Music, 6157 E 51. PI
*Novel Idea Bookstore, 5.1st & Harvard
David A. Paddock, CPA, 4308 S Peoria, Ste~ 633
Pet Pride, Dog & Cat Grooming
The Pride Store, 1307 E. 38, 2nd floor.
Puppy Pause II, llth & Mingo
*Ross Edward Salon, 1438 &Boston 584-0337
*Seribner’s Bookstore, 1942 Utica Square 749-6301
Scott Robison’s Prescriptions, see ad for 3 locations 743-2351
Southwest Viatical 747-3322, 800-305-6384
Kellie J. Watts, attorney 493-1959
Fred Welch, LCSW, Counseling 743-1733
745-1111
584-~1606
341-6866
599-8070’
747-5466’
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584-3112
663~593"4
664-2951
747-6711
747-7672
584-7554
743-4297
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: *Univ.ersity Center at Tulsa
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: AutumnBreeze Restaurant, Hwy 23 South 501=253-7734
: Beaver Dam Store, 1/2 mi~ N. of Dam Hwy. 187.506253-6154
: *Jim&Brent’s’Bistro, 173 S. Main 501-253-7457 ¯ DeVit&s Restaurant, 5 Center St. -501=253-6807. ¯" *Emerald-Rainbow, 45 &U2 Spring St.
¯" Geek ~oGo!,PC Speciali_sL POB 429 501-25325445
501.-253-2-776
i King’sHi-Way,96Kings.IJighway,Hwy.62W 800-231.-.1442
¯ MCC of the Living Spring - :501-253-9337 ¯ McClung Realtors -- ¯ 501:253-9682
Positive Idea Marketing Hans
i Rock CottageGardens. 501-253:2401 50i-253-8659, 800-624-6646
¯ Sparky’s, Hwy. 62 East " 50L253-6001
¯: The Woods, 50 Wall St. 501-253-8281
¯ OKLAHOMA CITY
Face Beautiful Day Spa, 7.108-D2 N. Western 405~840-3223
".’ *Tulsa CityHalL Cafetei’ia Vestibule, ~round Pltor
: ¯ HIVRC staffcan then regain ourgratitude -
: ’ and~e~peci. Anyless risks theloss to all of-
. ¯ .us of any value HIVRC does indeed pro-. .
" vide ifan alreadyangry Tulsa politicos of: -
¯ ,.’Conservative’ persuasion seizes the op- : :
portunity fo eliminate it like TCAA.
¯ In any case, itseems tomethatHIVRC’s:
: aftempts tointimida~, to silence, to make~"
¯ threats oflawsnit and/or exercise policies "
: ofstone-.walling requests for information--
:" doesn’t serve anyone ~ and is certainly
: not in the best interests of an already
under-funded Consortium. Weall have to
take our lumps occasional.lyand then go
on - it justgoes with the job. Most frequently,
we grow a little in the process.
- Vernon L. Jones, Tulsa
ForUnto Us a child tsbbrnl
:Midnight .M s
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Celebrate the birth of Our Lord in the liturgical
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tt i~,not, thej~c[g~"ents ~fme~ which .open or Shut fhe.G~tes ofHeaven. St. Jerome
.. :However, this -doesn’t mean that
the agency is perfect nor that it should be
. : REi HiVRC Covaraga .... -above all scrutiny or criticism -as it
~ ! am Writing~in*egard tO your coverage seems yowimpty. .
ofthep£obleniswiththeHIVRC.Iwantto We’re ihclined’:to believe thai those
thattk’~’~bry0~r continued efforts to " working at the:HIVRCare likely under-
’expose p~Oblen]s’with the ageixcy so that ,. paid t~bugh lye don’t have any proof of
they:will.be cor~ectegl~ While at_ the Pride " ~hatl yet. TFNalsa knows other Tulsans
Ce~ter rec~ntly~ i 0v~rheard .one of the " who do equallycr~tica! workfor Pers.ons
people involved refer to your ego as your : Living with AIDS at even lower sa~qries
reasonforpfintingthe~le~;soi U~tl’ei~ : : thdn some oftl~.f~ht ~e_.,_.H....l=V~R~.~Sh~i~lv.
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eoflsiderable resistance from certain fac- . valued tn our soctely as otl~er worr.
tibns.
¯ As for TFN’s response to letters, it is
"I am~nOt directly inv01y~l" oraffe~(ed ¯ - - . see Esli~ck, page 12
~by thi~ issue, ~o I have nothing Of imp0tt
{3contribute. I an~ writing primarily io iet
y0ii know thatyour conviction reassures .
me that if it was an issue that directly ¯
affected me; you would be just as thorbtigh
in your coverageand I thankyou for
- name Withheld by request
-HIVRe Director Responds
Your recent diatribe against the. HIVRC
i~s board ofdirectors, and exectrfive director-
appears wholly without factual basis..
¯(Spacefor.your"editorial’? ~omments sure
Thework I and our writers do isalabor of
¯ love. It’s done because we care that this
¯ r community get a qualitynewspaper.. .
As we beginout fourth year, we plextge
¯" that we will continue to improve Tulsa
Family News. We will, .to paraphrase
"..~ MotherJones, comfort the afflicted and at
:. least, ,challenge (if not-afflict) the ~.om-
¯ fortable. We will try to look at.all parts of
.:.-the’communities. We will- cOntinue tO
-tO appear in letters’withwhichyou are not : write both about- the suecesses in-out
to me "our ~ _commumuesasweatways~ave,anuaoout
time Would be mueh obettet’ spent inan-.~ .me ~auures as .were
i effort to unite rather than diwdeTulsa s o ¯ - ff Y’ou ’think. .w.e n.e.ed.towrite about a¯n
" .’-" ~.....-’"- *....mber ’ issue; let us know. Youcan contact us wa
of the board of directors of ttIV.RC, I can
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s¯ tatemth eq ¯ ~’ " " ..... OU ---~ ~ ~ " "~....... :’~ ^--. of this If you hke what we redomg,.or if y
or-ani~atibus [xiO activitids or to thwart " aon t, memetus ~now.
2.h0urintefview shouldb;- pr g . . :
~f that- I-meimits [sid] nst llke she does " rather you &lit your letters for length than
for us to do so.
- - ho~g~ave anything;else, to d0. - .- ."
- ~ .’,: .The staff and volunteerso[ the.HIVRC ¯
.~ :at_e~ d.espit.e’ your,90rfim~n’t~ a ~oup nodf :
" extremely dedicated,. overworked, . an .~ ~
~md~rpaidindi~idfials trying t0 do~th~ beast° :
job ~ey can wi.thfimited resources against .~
~ ~m d~,e~’whelnfing situation. I should thi~-:
ttm.ty0gand ev-~e~9thern~ember 0fTulsa’s :
-gay and .iesbian comm.uni.ty would be ¯
th~lkful that tl~is group o.f perpl~ are out
there trying to.secure every ounce, of as- ;
sistance to fight.the effects of this disease ;
for those in need of that assistance. "-
I would grant, you that the staff and "
volunteers are .all hummi’ and therefore :
subj.ect to mistakes. I also~ believe that :
when any ofthem makes a-mistake that it :
would-be corrected without prejudice or .
vindictiveness towards the one who corn- "
. plained. A tremendous need for services
~xists that is.impossible to meet with
existing resources. I would assume you
would be wall aware of the.gap between
needand the resources available and consider
the possibility’that some of the corn-
;plaints .you have .heard would be from
individuals thatjust do not think they are
getting enough of those resources.
As a professional investigator it appears
t0me that you,are woefull~ short of
"making your c,~se I believe ~ou could
better useyour time and newspap,er lob-
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~i~ut mastUrbation;as an element
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. Elders pointed" fo her willingfiegg °to,,
speakabout "unmentionables,’r’Which
evenmallyTgot her,dismissed. "I Saidt felt
masturbation Was a normal part ofhuman
sexualityLthat90 percent ofmen masturbate,
80 percent of women, masturbate
and the rest lie," Elders said.
Elders denied shehadencouraged teaching
masturbation, as was Widely reported,
but had only acknowledged it as a means
: of-prdventing unsafe sex..;’Nobody needs
¯ to teach.anybod3i thehow to," she said.
¯ "God taught u.~ how-to]’
: She Said black churches were initially
~ resistant to takeonthebattleagainstAIDS’
¯" because some- found immorality within
the .disease.. She recalled one Church in
: 1981which wrote in its bulletin that be- ¯
cause the dis ease Was mainly among
¯ white men, there was no need to worry.
¯ She also criticized the polidcs involved
in not distributing dean needles to drug
:
addicts, whichshe said is proven to reduce
the’ transmission of the virus that
¯ eaUsesAiDS. ButElders saidshehas seen
¯ andtopromotetmj’tY andharmonyamong ¯ ,aturnaround fimong churches andindeed,
Tulsa’s ~ay’ahd:lesbian cdmmunity. Af- : some positive things that have come from
terall, ~ie niune Of thi.’s paper-is Tulsa ¯ th,e,~sease’... " ’ i .... .-’
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I’ve Seen.around anything else in-this
¯ . . - - country~" Elders said. "Maybe it’s going
is getting the "fUll cooperatiqn of. the " . to take this disease to make us come to our
- agent. Regarding you~" 6ther comments,
¯
:[don "tth)nkTFNhasever’suggdstbdthat
knees and begin to deal with real prob-
. lems and real. people."
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military has two different policies - and that violates
the Consttufion’s equal protection mandates, according
~to a lawyer for six,~hom,osexuals currently
serving in the armed forces. %Ve d like aplay-by-the
rules policy for everyone," said Beatrice Dohrn, after
arguments Monday before U.S. District Judge Eugene
Nickerson: "(Military officials) have admitted
that lesbians or gay men are no more likely to violate
the rules than anyone else."
Dohm, an attorney with the Lambda Legal Defense
and Education Fund, and Matt Coles, lesbian and gay
fights project director for the American Civil Liber:
ties Union, are representing the anonymous homosexuals
in their challenge ofthe military’s "don’t ask,
don’t tall" policy.
Last year, Nickerson declared the"don’t ask, don’t
tell" policy unconstitutional. But on July 1, a threejudge
panel of the 2ud U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
sent the case backfor review, saying itdisagreed with
the judge’s conclusion that the policy violated the
First Amendment’s free.speech protections.
"It is plain to u~ that governmental restrictions on
speech that would run afoul of theConsdtution ff
imposed in ci,~ilianlife can pass constitutional muster
in the-military context," the appeals court said.
Justice Department attorney Mark. T. Quinlivan
defended the current policy, telling Nickerson "the
military does not have to take ’the risk" that sexual
tension might result if an open policy toward homosexuals
is permitted to exist.
He said testimony in Congress by Colin Powell and
Norman Schwartzkopf- both retired Army generals
- as well as others, found that the sexual tension could
have "a degrading impact on unit cohesion."
Sexual tensionbetween heterosexuals is prevented,
Quiulivan said, because troops are kept in segregated
housing by gender, creating what he called "a buffer
zone." Alluding to recent mihtary scandals involving
¯heterosexual men allegedlyabusing women, Dohrn
said, "The government’s obsession on.focusing on
sexual tension really belies a rather liberal policy
toward Sexual behavior. ’ROmantic relationships are
allowed to go on.’"
Nickerson, who .asked mmaerous questions of ~e
attorneys during Monday’s.50-minute hearing; did
not immediately rule on thecase. He asked lawyers
for both sides to.provide additional evidence.
The New York case is one of several around the
nation challenging the policy, which the Clinton
administration adopted-in 1993 as a compromise
between.the Views of gay-rights advocates and those
taffy opposed to homosexuals inthe military.
The policy survived its first Supreme Court test last
month when the court rejected the appeal of a former
Navy officer dismissed for declaring his homosexuality,
The justices rejected former Lt. Paul
Thomasson’s argument that the policy is unlawful
discrimination and violates homosexual servicemembers’
free-speech rights.
Gay Man Wins School
Harassment Case .
EAU CLAIRE, Wis, (AP) ~ ’Because he is gay,
Jamie Nabozny was regularly spaton andbeaten up "
in school, subjected tea mock rape and kicked in the "
belly so many times he needed surgery. :
OnWednesday, the 21 :year:old Nabozny accepted
a $900,00Oout-of~court settlement, ending the first "
federal trial ofaschool districtfornotprot~,cting agay ~:
student from harassment. - ¯
Nabozny says the settlement will help gay youths "
in the future. "I think this will send a-very clear "
message to school districts," lie said Wednesday. "It "
is time it’s stopped.".
The agreement cameaday after afederal courtjury ¯
found that three school administrators violated-his ¯
rights, although it found the district as a whole was
not guilty of discrimination. -
The verdict marked the first" time .school officials "
have ever .been held liable for anti-gay violence
against a student, said Peg Byron, public education
director for theLambdaLegal Defense andEducation
Fund, a-gay-fights organization that represented
¯ nounced by Byron andTimothy Yanacheck, an attor-
¯ ney who defended the district on behalf of Wausau
¯
Nabozny claimed in,.~is,,lawsuit ’that the abuse
¯ ranged from name-calliilg to being shoved, beaten,
~ spat upon and even having his head pushedin a urinal
¯ and being urinated upon. The harassment started
: whenheentered Ashland MiddleSchool in 1988 until
: he dropped out of Ashland High School as ajumor in
¯ 1-993.
¯ Nabozny’s lawyers used Grande’s testimony in an ¯
effort to show tlmt school officials weren’t consistent
¯ in punishing students for harassing others. Grande
: was suspended for violations such as calling his
¯ girlfriend names, yet he was never punished for ¯
tormenting Nabozny. His parents said they had many
¯ meetings with school officials only to see their son
¯ suffer further abuse: ¯
¯ The jury ruled against. Ashland Middle School
Principal. Mary Podlesny and two. administrators at
: Ashland High School,Principal William Davis and
¯¯ Assistant Principal Thomas Blauert: Timothy
Yanacheck, an attorney who defended the district on
¯ behalfofWausau Insurance, said they were "hurt and
: disappointed" by the ruling.-"Despite the verdict,
¯ they continue to believe that they responded appro- ¯
priately to the plaintiffbased on the limited iuforma-
¯ tion that they hadavailable at thetime,"-Yanacheck
¯ said. -
: -Nabozny earned a general equivalency degree in ¯
Minneapolis after leaving the Ashland schools, al-
¯ though he said Wednesday he hopes to still get some
¯ sort of real high school degree so he can hold an
¯ unOfficial graduati"on ceremony,
¯ Homoseximls have paid a high ,p,~ce in abuse, Lambdaattorney PatriCia’Logu~ said. Now the tables
¯ have turned, and it is prejudicethat h~ proved so ¯
costly," she said.
¯ Yanacheck said the ruling sends a me~sage to
¯
school @nistmtors across the country about legal
liability where they migh~ not now suspect that they
have any. ’.’School administrators are sympathetic to
¯ kids whoar~harassed by Other kids in school. But for
¯ themost part that’smisbehavior that school adminis¯
trato~s cannot 15revent or control," he sai&
The case went to trial afte~ theTth U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals in Chicago ruled last summer that
¯ Nabozny did-have enough evidence-to take the dis¯
trict to court, overturning a lower court decision. Lambda is a New York City-based civil rights orga-
¯ nization that represents gays, lesbians and people
with HIV.
: Gay Alumni Fund
¯ Lesbian &Gay Studies
¯ CHAPEL HILL, N.C. & MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A
¯: $200,000 bequest by,a UNC-Chapel Hill alumnus is
: providing the university’s first courses that focus
¯ primarily on gay andlesbian the.mes; .
The new.courses were made possible by a bequest
¯ from Charles Williamson, a 1968:graduate of the
School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hi!l.:Williamson;..’~ ,-S.an: F_ranci.~~cO
physician, died of AIDS ifi. 1.992 H~e ,lef~ UNC.rCH
¯ half.of his estate, with specificin~truc.tions on.h0w it
should beus.ed. .... . , - ~ . ¯- ,
AlSO, ~e University of.Minnesota has.receivbxt a
$500,000 .gift .to support ._the development of.gay,
lesbian, bisexual and transgender~studies: The.endowment
will help create .the. Steven 4-. Schochet
Endrwed Center for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and
Transgender Studies and Campus Life.
Schochet, a retired computer consultant, created
the.fund,to.enco~age "a moreih.umane cultur.eY for
gay, lesbian; bisexual and transgendered unigersity
students, facult3~ and staff, he sai.d. - .-
"Back Whdn I wasin cbllege, th~ecampus climate
was hostile tO gay-men,"~he said..’q2tis is my way bf
ensuring th~itthings contmue.t0-get better for GLBT
¯ " .people 0ncampu~." -~ ’. - " . .
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Even if you test HIV negative,
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DETROIT (AP) - A Gay man paralyzed in a gaybashing
attack as a security ~d~sto0d by won a $10
million judgment from Pihl~t~s Sec’ffrity and Investigation,
the gnard?s employer. Sean McBride, 28,
was shot six times and beaten outside his apartment
building in Jamlary 1994 by three men who had
taunted him for being gay. His lawyer, Carol
McNeilage, said the 20-year-old female security
guard watched as. McBride was harassed several
times during a half-hour period, and eventaughed at
some of the insults.
A spokesman for Pinkerton’s, Dereek Andrade,
said the company would appeal Thurs.day’~s.v,erdict.
"Our position has been and remains that tanrerton
acted appropriately and could nothave prevented the
incident from occurring," he said.
McBride testified he first encountered the three
men in the apartment building lobby as he returned
from work, then passed them twice more when he
went out for a snack. Each time, the men swore and
shouted slurs at him. When McBride realized he had
forgotten part of his snack, he went back through the
lobby. The men followed him outside and attacked
him.
One of the three.attackers was never caught. A
second was convicted of assault and firearms charges
and sentenced to up to four years in prison. The third,
a juvenile at the time, pleaded no contest to assault
and firearms charges and will remain in custody until
he turns 21 in July.
Topeka Anti-Bias Group
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Leaders hailed a year of what
they called solid accomplishments by a groupformed
in the fall of 1995 to combat the picketing of anti-gay
crusader Fred W. Phelps.
Concerned Citizens for Topeka Friday re-retted
as president during its first annual meeting former
Secretary of State Jack Brier, who s,ai,,d, the organization
has provided the capital citY with thepromise of
a better tomorrow" in fighting "bigotry and hatred."
Re-elected with Brier was Topeka banker. Frank
Sabatiui, a former president of the state Board of
Regents, as chairman of the board. Other officers are
Roy Menninger, vice chairman; Jane and Otto
Schnellbacher, vice presidents; John Rosenberg, secretary;
Bill Hemmen, treasurer, and Randy Austin,
president-elect.
"A common goal brought us togem"’ er," Brier told
about 60 people attending the annual meeting at
Washburn Law School. "Fighting bigotry and hatred
is not a spectator sport... It’s because there are a
thousand of us standing up and confronting these
problems that we have succeeded..I thimk., we c.an
stand a little taller now and say there ~s nothing to be
History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal
Righnts." ,
Hooker s, controversial study published in 1957
was dtled, The Adjustment of the Male Overt Homosexual."
During a three-year study prompted by
herfriendship to a gay student, Hooker used grant
money from the National Institute of Mental Health
to prove a hypothesis that was shocking to prevailing
thinking. Hooker’s theory was that there was little
statistical difference between the psychological test
results of heterosexuals and homosexuals.
¯ Hooker’s research andher leadership of theNIMH ¯
¯ Task Force on Homosexuality, led to the removal of
homosexuality as a psychological ,disorder from the~
: American Psychiatric Association s Diagnostic ana
¯ Statistical Manual III inDecember 1974. In 1992, the
: American Psychological Association awarded her its
¯ prestigious Lifetime Achievement award.
: Biased dudge Removed
¯ MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - An Etowah County
¯ judge will appeal an appeals court order that he step
aside in a lesbian mother’s divorce case. The Ala-
¯ bama Court of Civil Appeals ruled Tuesday that
¯ Circuit Court JudgeRoy Moore should allow another
¯ judge to take over the case. ¯
The woman, Susan Scott Borden, argued Moore’s
overt Christianity makes him a poor choice to preside
in the case. But Moore’s lawyer, Stewart Roth of the
Montgomery-based American Center for Law and
Justice, blasted the decision. "I believe this sounds a
warning to everymanandwomanwho sits on abench
in Alabama to not discuss their religious bdiefs, not
to discuss their views and not to stand up in church
and share their beliefs because it can come back to
haunt you," he said.
Moore had twice rejected requests to step aside
filed by Mrs. Borden, who is trying to regain custody
of her two children from her husband, James Christopher.
Borden. Mrs. Borden rimmed Moore s fai
wouldkeep himfrompresiding fairly and thathemay
be prejudiced against her lawyer, Janice Hart of
W~rior, because of her prior American Civil Liberties
Union work. Ms. Hart said she does not expect the
case will be reassigned to a judge more amenable to
her client’s views, but said she does expect they will
¯
be fair.
¯ In a January ruling that gave temporary custody to ¯
¯ the childrens’ father, Moore said he "strongly feels
that the minor children will be detrimentally affected
¯ by the present lifestyle of (Mrs. Borden) who has
¯ engaged in a homosexual relationship during her
¯ marriage forbidden both by the laws of the state of
¯
Alabama and the laws of nature."
:: -Gay Student 6roup
. Wed. Service 6:30 pm-,..Wed. 7:30 pm Choir Practice.
.... Thurs: 7:30 pm odePendency Support Group
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Thegroup,whichhasenlisted l:007membersin, : May Lose Funding
firstyear andplmis furtherefforts;has wonreversai oI ¯
apolicepoliey ofnotarresdngPhelpsandhis bandof : MADISON, ,Wis. (AP~ - Three students .who o_bpicketers;-
gotten the City. Council and Shawnee -~ jected~to the use of fee money to fund groups tot
County BoardofCommissioners to adopt ordinances :- homosexuals and environmentalists hav~ wgn ~fo~
limiting picketing, and provided legal assistance to : eral court ruling in their favor. U_.S. Di,s,m,.,,ct.c.o ,,
people who had trouble with Phelps.
, JudgeJohnShabazruledinfavorof three. Christian
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-o~’i~l~.~iogical goals vio’lates students~ con~
~fitufionalfightsdespite.the’."viewpointneutral!’way
inwhichfees aredistributedtO studentgroups, Shabaz
said.
imon¢xum,tX.: :.,: ate.~-ofStudents.RogerHoward,Buttlaejuage:s....." " ’-:
ResearcherDies .:., ....: decision..could reduce the number and.diVersity’of-- ....
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SANTA.MONICA,- Calif,-(AP) - Evelyn.Gentry .:-_ Pete Anderson~ the attorney: who-representext me
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died;affiendsaidThursday.Shewas~v-tiooKerm ¯ ~aid he had.not had-a chance to:rewew:51aaoaz,s.
. MondayatherSantaM0ni’cahomeofnaturalcauses, :’ decisionortalktotheuuiversity~slawyers~Hedidn~t
said documentary filmmaker David Ha~,g,l,_~d, w.~ : know whether the universitywould appeal.
in 1993 produced the Oscar-nominated-t_;nang~ g ¯
Nobel Winner:AIDS
Vaccine in 10.Years
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (Ap) - A ’winher
of this year’s Nobel Prize in medicine
predicted Saturday that within 10 years
there will be a vaccine sharply slowing
the outbreak of full-blown AIDS in in:
fected people.
Rolf M. Zinkernagelalso said the vaccine
.he envisioned would vastly reduce
chances that an HIV-infeeted person
would transfer the virus to other people’.
But 7inkemagel said it would not completely
eliminate chances of contracting
¯ tional Institute of Dental Research.
: "I like to think of it as a scientific
¯ kibbutz, a place where science is appreci-
: ,ated and nurtured for its own rewards,"
: said Dr. Edmund C. Tramont, a longtime..
¯¯ friend of Gallo who asked the scientist
about starting a new laboratory in Balti-
"- more:
¯ The institute,which will be part of the
: i UniversityofMaryland.system, will fo-
:~ .ens most of its work on AIDS research.
But Gallo said he was:interested in other
: viruses as well, including minor, leuke-
¯ mia, hepatitis.and papilloma virtmes.
: If AIDS ~reeedes a~ a human threat, Jeffrey A; : Beal,-MDthe
infection. -~ . - .~ . : Galld: said ;.the institti,.te: would shift its
’ Zinkemagel, a SWiss researcher, spoke : empha~!s."Ithinkacritlealmassofpeople
at a news conference with co=winner.Pc- ¯ working on virology is nice to have,"
ter C. Doherty~.an Australian wh0.is a :~ Gallosaid. ~’YOuwantt0bringabunchof
professorinthe Department o,f Immmiol- : people t~ge~er Who do basic’re~arch
ogy at the St; Jude’sChildren s Research : witl~ elinlcal ~tpl~fiCafions;~,ith~ all kinds
HospitalinMemphis,Tenn:Thetwoman ¯ "bfdiseaseSinnnnd:" : ~ ....
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inthe 19"10s..’~. ~. ~::: .... o.~ ’, ,~ . "’iuti0ns;whiehisentrenchedas’aninferna-
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~p!e.tely from,an,. :infected :-.~tdte is still~gfumi~h~lwi~,l,M) equipperson,"
-Zink~a;said~" ::.,-W* wil! : :.~t;:Whi~.:~ exI~..ts:_W~tia~-
nOt~be ablereadily toprevent the inftmtion : m~tei2.SQ. ’,~’m~loyee;S! Wi~::sev~ral
completdy, and wewill not-be ~able: to .:years~ !I:,I77,9~..., i. i .". .; ii.?, "
~control the vtrus completely. He sal
vaccine would only greatly delay the Outbreak
of the AIDS, which ravages the
.b~,~y’s natural ability to ward offdisease.
~ ~’ ’I would think.that within the next 10
years, wewill have sdmething reasonable
in :termsof thistype: of:vaccine,"~hesaid.
--At presenL~ the incubation period of
: ~A~IDS.,-can._ b~~ l~0:: ye~s ::or.longer,
7:~nkemagel said.thatany vaccine wbuld
keep the viral infection in:check~s0 that
full[blown AtDSwouldtake between 20
tO4Oyearsto develop., ~ "’
’:- Dohetty saidanew cl’affsof.._d~zg,.S called.
prOtease inhibitors,now :l~ng used to
manage AIDS in wealthy Western countries,
are tooexpensivefor vietimsin poor
and developing nations.He said that ’qt’s
very hard to know" how successful the
AIDS vaccine research will be. "But, of
course, a vaeca’ ne is the only possibility
forcontrollingA~IDS worldwide,"Doherty
Gallo AIDS
Research Center
BALTIMORE (AP) - Months behind
schedule and eagerly anticipated, a premiere
research center rtm by renowned
AIDS researcherDoctorRobertGallo.was
opened in late November in Baltimore.
The Institute of Human Virology Was
dedicated with.two days of. lectures featuring
a lineup of Sci~fitific luminaries,
with four Nobe!laureates: Dr. David Baltimore,
Dr. Manfred Eigen, Sir Aaron
King and Dr. Hamilton O. Smith. The
opening follows twoyears of courtship by
state offieials to lure theprestigious Gallo,
a co-discoverer of.the AIDS virus, to
Baltimore from the federal National CancerInstitutein
Bethesda, whereheworked
for 30 years. Gov. Parris Glendening and
Mayor Kurt Schmoke have promised $12
million over the next three years to launch
the center.
Gallowill be joined at theinsdmte by
other prominent scientists ~dubbecL’Mae
Dream-Team of AIDS research" :by
Glendening. They are epidemio!ogist
William Blattuer, formerly with .the National
Cancer Imtimte, clinicianRobert
Redfield,who headed the cancerresearch
program atWaiter ReedArmy Institute of
Research and Dr. Joseph L,Bryant; who
headed the animal program at-the Nai
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i ~:,Mil, fOr-AIDSCare
i .OKLAHOMA CITY (AP.) ~- A group of
. :dO~tors at the Universfty of Okiahbma
:, ~ Health SciencesCenterh~been,awarded
:.. a $1.5 million gr..~t .to provide services
- !.::.;forindigent;pedpie with~HIVand ~AIDS.
¯...;t.,~:<~Dr:, Ronald A., Greenfield,: professor
: :a9.d’chief ofthe’center’:s.otlegeofMedi-
, e~ne,.was awarded.the’three,year grant to
:o implement the program.-He. Said the goal
: ~ in:tke:first yearis to provide comprehen-
............. care services~to a
¯ mlmmum of 200 indigent, and. lowAn-
:~ come people living withHIV and AIDS.
: :- ,"Some ofthese patients workbutdo not
¯ -earn enough to afford health insurance.
~ -This. grant .will help cover the costs, of
~. providing medical .care to people who
: "desperately need it," he said Friday, The
: , proposed program seeks.to help people in
¯ the Oklahoma City at.ca and surrounding
: .-counties. 12-06-96
i Doc Says HIVDrugs
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¯" MILWAUKEE (AP)-Aph;sician using
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¯ the government should make pharmaceu-
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¯ tients of all ages, not justadults who can
pay more for them. Two Milwaukee-area
:. children about 8 years old began receiv-
¯ ing protease inhibitors amonth ago with
, the help Of pediatric AIDS physician Pc-
¯ ter Havens: A third child traveled to the
National Institutes of Health (NIH)’ in
Bethesda, Md., the only placein the coun-
¯ try studying such drugs for children~
¯ Protease inhibitors are a new class of
: AIDS drugs. Pharmacelitieal companies
;. have obtained-licenses: to.use them only
’. for adults. ’q3rug companie~ need to work
:. to develop .drugs for .use .in-children as
: wellas adults,"-~Havens said. ,I~ey don’t
¯ because there’s nomoney jnit." Havens
: -said he- contacted.NIH -researchers. and
: .then ~prescribed treatment, for the two
¯ -Milwaukee-area .boys with indinavir,
~- brandname Crixivan. ~
¯ "By calling the people Who.have been
: doing these (clinical) trials, wehave been
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able to approximate the doses," he said.
Heblames drug manufacturers for having
no prior information about dosage, metabolism
or the effects on patients who
may not be adhlts, but could use the protease
inhibito~s.
Havens said the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration should require pharmaceutical
companies to test products on all
age groups and have information available
on dosage and effectiveness before
the product goes on the market.
: plied will be able to participate in the
¯ program and that no one at this time will
have to be placed on a waiting l.is,t,~" Ron
: Cates, acting health director, said tnurs-
: day. At first, the agency thought it would
: have only .enough money to cover the
¯ estimated $10,000 anmlal costs for "/5 ¯ people. But additional federal money ini
creased that to 132 people. -.
The department received 89 apphca-
: lions frompeoplewhodon’treeeiveMed-
¯ icaidassistance don’thaveprivateinsur-
¯ ance, earn less-than $14~19 a year and
: had a physician’s referral. -Kentu.cky A!DS i Department spokeswoman Nanci
~atul
Gonder said officials today would go :. Vaccine T a i through the formality of a lottery - draw.- I.VXINGTON~Ky.(AP)’K n kyp - : ing.nfimbers’andassigningth.emtoea.cla
tients will particil~ate in testing, of a new : applicant - because agency rm~ reqmre
Vaccine thdt mightkeeppegp_le whohav.e . it. .The state came up with the idea for
HW from developing AIDS. Abouto~J ~ lottery when it f’LrSt thOUght therewasn t
patients ate being recruited by doC_t.o~s.to : .enough money to. cover all appficants.
takepart in tes(~ng o.f th_e,v~.~cc’,mo,,at ~he :’ Health.officialssaidthey feltit Was.the
Uni¢ersi~ of Kentucky M.e~.~,~1.~r~. falrestwaytoparce!0utthefunds. Butthe
They ~wifi b¢~ ~ai-t qf a nati~nwi.d~.^s,~ y i lottery idea was criticized by many, ininvoicing
3,000..~en..tsata~.t~.ut~s,x.w~,’i ._ cludingDavidPeters,directorof~e,,.,AIDS
~ Half will ~v,e .,the v,accme,. W~cn . .~j,~ of theOzarks~’in SpringfiekL~ .
~willl~ agailablein Kentueky,0nly atUK, ~:~ ~- ’I,mthrilledw~menot~going to do this
~ andhalf will get an~utd,ty bgo~" ~t.ey. but . lottery, It wouldhave beena poor way to
~ novadcifie.Dr.RidmrdGre~nberg~~d~r.ec- ~ vrovidehealthcare,"Peterssaid.’L-’hoostot
of the Kentucky AIDS Consortium, ~ ~ng people basedon a lotte~ really isn’t
-saidTuesday thathe .and0ther~s,ear.fihers ¯. looking.at, those_ who ha,~e- the critical
~:were"franghfwithSkepticism.ye.tlaopp.- ~ needfirst.... . ’
ful that the Vaccinemightwork, atieastin ¯ , Gonder. said..the appficants can start
"~ alimited way: : ~" " " ’ ¯ : receivin~ the ~ov,emment~paid-medica-
¯ ...Thecousortiumismadeupof.do~..t.orsat i ~o--~onM~ondayTTheirphysi~’ianwill write
,UK and the University of, I~oms,ville, as.. thepreseriptio~and the p.h"m-ma.cist will
, v~ell ,as physicians fromother, parts: ot ! sendthebillditectly to the Health Depart-
Kentucky,. Greenberg i,s an associa..te P.~ . ment; Ther~g43 openings-w.ill.be
:-.fessor of-internal medicine at the.oh . filledonafirst-come, firS.t£set~,ebasxstor
,medical school. ’‘i’ don’t :Want anybody ! as longas the moneylasts. .....
,.goingawaythinkingit’sg6ing,towork,": . : Sinee.this is the first time the state has
Oreenbergsaidatonepointduringameet- offered financial assistance for protease
ing withreporters;atthe_UKeeuter.’Buthe ¯ inhibitors,; it’~S not -dear, whether the
later added, ~,‘ifit ,works, it will prevent : $10,000~ annual:imit will,be enough t~
AIDS in H1V ,patients. They would not ¯ cover the costs. ’We arelooking to see if
’develop AIDS:~ ’ ~- " thisisanappropriateeapforthe~program.
It’s the first such clinical study everin i Thecapcouldberaisedandwearetalldng
Kentucky, where more than 2,100 AIDS to phai-maeeuti,ca~l,~ companies about getcases
have beenreported sin~ce reco~ tin~ discounts,’ Gondersaid.
keeping began in 1982. Greenberg sat ~eters said he would prefer a medi.cal
the vaccine willnot Cure HIV-thehuman review board to determine.who gets me
immunodeficiencyvirusthatcausesAIDS, new medication and would like to :see
He said the most he could hope for at the income limits raised for individuals. He
end of the three-year study would be that also said the state needs to spend more
the health of HIV patients getting the money on AIDS treatment. He said the
vaccine would not have deteriorated, protease inhibitors, while not a cure-all,
So far the vaccine has been tested on are welcome news for people withHIV or
small numbers of people, and those stud- AIDS. ’‘it really is lifesaving treatment.
ies have indicated some increase in the We can look at it more as a manageable
body’s immune response to the virus. It critical illness than a death sentence,"
~as developedin 1987 by Dr. Jonas Salk. Peters said.
"it is an uninfecting viral materi~; ~t~at
hopefully i.. will boost immunity. :.i.ne. ~Man Sues Over material, he said, is "an absolutely killed
form of the (HIV) virus." Status Disclosure Patients eligible for the study must be
generally healthy, with no "AIDSMiDLAND,
Texas(AP)-Amanstricken
def’mining illnesses" except for Kaposi’s with the virus that causes AIDS is suing
sarcoma, which is a cancer tumor that " Memorial Hospital and Medical Center
develops among people with HIV. ¯ for alledgedly revealing his condition.
FreddieLeeHawkinsJr. alsohas filedsuit
Missouri Has $ for : against diandCounV.ospi al s=ct
and Angola Shaw, a nurse at the hospital. HIV/AIDS Drugs ¯ .aw suing for over ,000 in ¯
punitive and actual damages.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - The ¯ After testing positive for H_IV on May
Missouri Department of Health says it " 13, he coutends in his lawsult that friends
willbeabletoprovidepotentiallifesaving ¯ and relatives of Ms. Shaw began calling,
new AIDS treatmentforallofthosesigned : expressing condolences because he was
up to get the g0vernment-paid mediea- : "dying of AIDS."
tion. The department will have $1.3 rail- Hawkins accuses Ms. Shaw of rev.eal~
lion in state and federal funds to pay for i ing his conditio~ Whenword got out that
the new drugs, known as protease inhibi- hehadthedisease, Hawkins claims helost
tots, which are used in combination with i manyfriendsandwas unabletofindwork.
older medication. ¯ Hospital officials declined to comment
’’We’re very pleased that all who ap- ¯ on the matter.
But a few months later, President
Clinton signed the Defense of Marriage
Act (DOMA) giving states the ~iuthority
not to recognize same-sex marriages that
are performed legally in other states.
Romer has indicated he likely would sign
a bill that was in line with the federal
legislation, and his spokesman, Jim Carpenter,
said Wednesday that the governor
still felt that way.
Mississi ppi
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - People who
want to outlaw same-sex marriages in
Mississippi are monitoring a court ruling
in Hawaii.
Gov. Kirk Fordice has signed an executive
order banning same-sex marriages,
but family activists say the orderfrom this
summer cannot withstand a legal challenge.
State Sen. Dean Kirby, R-Pearl,
plans to push abill in the state Legislature
to outlaw the marriages. "I just can’t believe
the state should recognize same-sex
marriages," Kirby said.
Massachusetts
BOSTON (AP) - Gov. William F. Weld
said he would veto any Massachusetts
proposal to ban gay marriages.
Weld, however, said that if Hawaii’s
decision to grant the licenses is upheld by
its own Supreme Court, Massachusetts
would have no choice but to offer gay
couples married in Hawaii the same legal
rights and obligations it extends to straight
couples.
Wisconsin
MADISON,-Wis. (AP) - State Rep.
Tammy Baldwin, D-Madison, said
Wednesday that she will introduce a bill
¯ to recognize same-sex.marriages in Wis-
: consxn. "This is a simple matter of fair-
¯ ness, justice and equal rights," Baldwin
said. Sen. ScottFitzgerald, R-Juneau, said
¯ he will propose a constitutional amend-
" ment declm-ing marriage in Wisconsin
¯ be the union of one man and one woman.
Alabama
¯ MONTGOMERY,Ala. (AP) - State Sen.
Bill Armistead, R-Columbiana, said
Wednesday he has a "marriage protection"
bill ready for consideration when
¯ the Legislature convenes Feb. 4. It would
make Alabama the 17th state to ban same-
" sex marriages. Gov. Fob James signed an
executive order saying gay marriages are
notrecognized as validin the states. When
¯ James signed the executive order in Au-
: gust, he said same-sex marriages violate
¯ public policy and God’s law.
.. Nebraska
¯ OMAHA,Neb. (AP)-Acourtdecisionin
Hawaii allowing same-sex marriages may
¯ lead to legal ramifications for Nebraska,
¯ according to the state attorney general.
¯ Nebraska has no legislation that recog-
: nizes or refuses to recognize gay mar-
" riages performed in other states. "We still
¯ need action from the State Legislature,"
¯ said Stenberg, who in March pushed un- ¯
successfullyforalaw topreventsame-sex
¯ couples married in other states from hav-
¯ ing their marriages recognized there..
¯ Montana
HELENA (AP) -A Republican legislator
says the Hawaii court decision under-
. scores the need for alaw prohibiting them
¯ in Montana. Rep. Bill Boharski, R-
¯ Kalispell has drafted a bill for the next ¯
Legislature to ban gay marriage, saying
¯
the Hawaii decision proves "states will
¯ recognize homosexual marriage."
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Ijust got backfrom Borders Books and
Music,andletmetell you,itis awondrous
place. A book, music, and video lover’s
delight. And on top of that, for the first
time in TFN’s history with booksdlers,
were were wdcome to place papers there
from the first time we spoke with them. In
almost all other media venues, we have
had trouble with local management, having
to contact corporate
headquarters,who then said , I just got
"Of course you’re wel- Borders
¯¯ ! bigger, better pieces in "Return of the "
Jedi"in March. "
¯ However, at this year’s Defcon (the "
¯ Tulsa science-fiction/fantasy convention), ¯
: I had the chance to ask Star Wars author, :
¯ Kevin Anderson and Lucasfilm spokes- "
." person, SteveSansweet, aboutthe chances ¯
¯ of seeing gay characters in the new films
¯ TherespousefromAnderson: "NO! There "
won’t be any gay charac- ¯
lmck from ters in the Star Wars urn- "
Boobs& verse because Lucas "
doesn’twantany sexuality ¯
in the series." ¯
Excuse me? I pointed
out that in "Return" Leia "
ran about kissing almost "
everyonebutthe Wookiee, ¯
and in the novels, she and
Han Solo are married and
have children! Certainly ¯
that didn’thappen without :
some kind of sex! The response
was a muffled re- "
ply, and I explained that "
the question was more one ¯
of relationships that just a "
simple matter of sexuality. :
I, at the risk of having
my idea plagiarized, sug- ¯
gested my own story to
AndersOn: ThatHancomes "
out of the closet, divorces _"
Leia, who really loved
¯ Chewbacca anyway, professes his love ¯
¯ for the still single (and not dating anyone : ¯
ofanysex/species)LukeSkywalker.They "
decide to run amok in the galaxy fighting
prejudice everywhere, with C3PO and "
R2D2 starting "Droids for Gay Rights" "
groups allover thegalaxy. ContactGeorge ¯
Lucas at Lucasfilm, POB 2009, San ¯
Rafael, CA 94912-2009, Phone: (415) ¯
662-1700, to register .your thoughts. ¯
May the Force be with you!
In the meantime, go see MARS ATTACKS!,
a great new camp space film -"
fromTim Burton. Atleast he hires openly "
gay production designers, as detailed in ¯
the Advocate article onWynn Thomas in ¯
the magazine’s current issue (# 723). ."
Tulsa World regularly does so where ap- ".
propriate. And unlike The World, which ".
restricts letters to 200words, TFNran the ¯
letters criticalofour coverage essentially :
withoutany editingfor length. Becauseo "
those letters’ length, TFN responded at :
the relevant points rather than at the end, ¯
TFN is happy to help make ourreaders
aware of the inadequacies ofHIV/AIDS
commonjournalisticpractice to respond
editorially. Likelyyou’ve noticed thatThe
come!", andthenhadto deal
with the hassles of local
management and an unfriendly
attitude. Infaet,one
bookstore still is refusing
us a spot in their store,
though they allow almost
all the other local papers.
~<-Theresa Lynch, General
Manager, and the staff at
Bordershavebeenmostgracious
and wdeoming, and
it was interesting to note
thatmany ofthe store’s first
day customers were members
of the Tulsa Gay community.
In fact, it looked
likewew~eatapartyrather
than a bookstore, as many
folks as we saw who we
knew. Borders has a nondiscrimination
clause on
Music, & let me tell
you, it is a wondrous
place. A book, music, &
video lover’s delight.
Theresa Lynch... and
tire staff at Borders
]rave been most gracious
& welcoming, & it was
interesting to note that
many d tLe store’s
day customers were
members d the Tulsa
Gay community. In
fact, it looked like we
were at a party rather
than a bookstore...
their employment applications that indudes
sexual orientation as well. Butdon’t
bother applying, I’mfirst on the list! TFN
welcomes Borders and encourages all of
our readers to. patronize their business.
Their sections on gay studies and fiction
arewell stockedandwell rounded. Tell’em
we sent
If you are avoiding your dysfunctional
~anily this year, Icanrecommendacouple
of videos to watch withfriends and family
of choosing. Smart Saves His Family was
an excellent portrayal of such madness as
those of us from this background deal
with. It is less acomedy andmore adrama
with eomedic moments. The studio marketed
it as a eomedy, whichparts of it are
but the film flopped largely due to the
expectation that it would be a laugh a
minute. I came away from this film with a
soft spot in my heart for Smart Smalley,
and the "Smart Within" myself, as well as
an insight that we are all struggling on our
own paths, doing the best we can with
what we’ve got. And a few laughs.
"Home For The Holidays", Jodie Fospaean
to dysfunctional holidays, was
tan%ther enjoyable film to hole up .with; in
much the same vain, with a lovely moral
to boot. I do think Robert Downey, Junior
was annoying, however. Get gay men to
play gay men.
by Jep~n-,Bierre Legrandbouche
TFN Food Critic
It’s hohday time! Sugarplum.~ andfrnitcakes
and egg hog and office parties and
big family dinners and all sorts of low
calorie opportunities abound! And, of
course, even though they aren’t prepared
this way the rest of the year, all of the
recipes must be made with lots of real
butter and ofhcavy cream.
December is a perfect
time to turn to the rather
healthier and lighter foods
of Asia. Counterbalancing
all those rich, Western European
artery doggers, Oriental
recipes are traditionally
lightonthemeat,heavy
on the vegetables, have
plenty of variety, and overfiow
with great flavors.
Now, toomuchoily stir-fry
can defeat the purpose, so
therestauranthas to bechosen
carefully for the skill
andartistry ofthechef. And,
Tulsa is blessed to have a
particularly f’mechefatKim
Long, a Vietnamese and
Chinese restaurant in far
southeast Tulsa, which is
probably the best in town.
Located in a shopping
center which includes the
." fluence in the sauces and presentation.
¯ The French were, formany years prior to ¯
American involvement, colonial over-
" lords, and brought French culture to the
¯ East.Agood example ofthe Frenchinflu-
: ence is the ever popular Vietnamese iced
: coffee, a strong, distinctive roast brewed
¯ with an individual drip container, and
-" served with .weetened condensed milk
8146 So. Memorial
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infamous Ocean Club at 81st and Memohal,
Kim Long is a huge restaurant which
took over the location of the former
southside attempt of Tulsa’s historic
Louisiane. Thedecorhas notbeenchanged
much, so there is a open and casual ambiance
to the multi-tiered and multi-roomed
establishment, yet it still maintains a nice
restaurant feel. None of those little lanterns
hang around, and the place is quiet,
even on busy nights.
All of the standard Chinese-American
foods are offered, and done well. But, so
many traditional Chinese regional dishes,
.especially fromHnnanandSzechuanpmv-
~nces, appear on the large menu, that it
would take a diner months to sample
every dish. Prices for the Chinese foods
are qnitereasonablefor a restaurant ofthis
quality, and only slightly more than one
would expect to pay in a Chinese. fastfood
type place. Most of the standard
chicken, beef, and pork dishes hover
around the $7 mark, and-seafood dishes
are $9 or $10: These names will all be
familar--cashew chicken, kung pao beef,
shredded pork with garlic sance, shrimp
with lobster sauce.
We highly recommend that the more
¯ adventurous diner order from the list Of
Chinese specialties. Prices areabithigher,
: ranging from $8.55 to $12.95, but the
over ice.
ThedassicBdChhGi6,
$5.95, is a bowl of
vermicelli noodles topped
with chopped eggrolls,
grilled beef, pork, and
chicken,andmounds oflettuce,
cucumbers, and bean
sprouts, all topped with
chopped peanuts. A small
bowl of fish sauce accompanies
the dish as a condiment,
andtheknowing epicure
will dump the sauce
into thebowl andmix all of
the contents around with
the chopsticks. Pho Diic
BiSt is a delicious Hanoi
style soup with slices of
rare steak, beeftendon, and
meatballs. Thesmall bowl,
$4.95, is agoodfirstcourse,
and the large bowl, $5.95,
is almost big enough for a
meal by itself. We also like
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at Movies 8 before it passedfrom sight: A ..... tance that our state governmentcontrib- - ¯ extra dollar or two. The. Red Rose-Sealwonderful
English film. (made for ~the. : utes..However, the HIVRCshould still be : lops are an excellent Choice,. with~lots of
¯ the G~ Xho Xht, which at $6.95, is a
: chicken dish flavored with the pungent
: spiciness oflemon grass, accompaniedby
¯ steamed rice and a bowl of.onion soup.
: Another delicious example of Vietnam-
: ese flavors is in the B6 Tfii Chanh, $7.95,
¯ - which is a combination of thinly sliced
beef cooked in lime juice and flavored
with mint leaves, onions, and peanuts.
The truly brave will try L~uTh[ip CAm,
ahugeundertaking for two ormore, where
plate after plate of different vegetables,
shaved beef, shrimp, crab legs, andsquid
are brought to the table, raw. A large pot
of boiling soup stock is placed in the
middle of the table, and the diners use
their chopsticks to select and cook their
own dinner in the stock, sort of like a
French fondue. It’s a $22.95 investment~
but well worth the fun. Just as a matter of
etiquette, when eating With chopsticks;
one uses the smaller ends of the sticks to
convey foods to the mouth. However,
when working with a common bowl or
pot, one. switches the ends and uses the
largerends ofthesticks to bring foodfrom
the common pot to the plate.
If all of these individual dishes aren’t
wonderful enough, this place .has prob-
: ably.the best Asian buffet in this part of
¯ the state. A steal at only $6.95 per person,
: a full range of salads, soups, desserts,
: condiments, .and.countess Chinese .and
¯ : Vietnamese dishes are featured. Entrees
¯ are rotated, and not thesame.old things
UK’s progressive Channel 4) about two
-.- " high s~ho~l boys falling in 10ve;it,was :a
" real treat tO see such a realistically positive
andinnocent film. It was wellwritten.
~ and r well’ dixected.-Hopefnlly it.will be
available on video or:at a Film Festival
.... ., near us~soon:. I highly.recommend it~
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METROSTARNEWS.COM "WE DELIVER DIVERSITY"
Church Visits Oklahoma Again
By Victor Gorin
APRIL 1, 2009
Hi ary Clinton will[ fight for gay
rights worl[dwide
By Rex Wockner
Mr. andMrs. Kevin Sherwood with bikergroup protesting Fred Phelps demonstrators atMoore High School. Gorin photo
MOORE, OK __ Spreading their ukual rants of far out
homophobia, members of Fred Phelps Westboro Baptist
Church ofTopeka, Kansas came to protest near the Oklahoma
State Capitol as well as Moore High School March 2.
Few in the GLBT or fair minded community are not familiar
with this church, as they have been protesting with infamous
"God Hates Fags" signs along with other similar sentiments
nationwide and abroad for over a decade. They gained
national attention in 1998 when they picketed Matthew
ShepardS funeral in Laramie,Wyoming with infamous
signs, some stating "Matthew is in Hell". Rarely’ missing an
opportunity to present their viewpoint, they have picketed
funerals of those who have died ofAIDS, and staged protests
against governments who have granted rights or tal~en any
action they perceive as "fag enabling." More recently their
skewed logic went even further when they picketed funerals of
American soldiers, incredulously promoting the concept that
God is punishing America with the deaths of soldiers because
our nation is too tolerant of homosexuals. Understandably
this has raised anger with countless patriotic Americans,
especially those in the military; veterans and their families &
friends.
Although the Westboro group had been to Oklahoma
before, they returned again to protest against the Oklahoma
Legislature for permitting a gay pastor, the Reverend Scott
Jones- Cathedral of Hope UCC, to lead a Prayer for the Day
at the invitation of State Representative A1 McAffrey. This
protest drew a small crowd with TV & press coverage coverage
at N.W. 23rd and Sante Fe, before the Phelps clan moved on
........... Continued See BAPTlST Page-9
in
, Clinton
Wockner by Rex
Meeting with young people at the European Parliament in
Brussels on March 6, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
promised to fight for gay rights on the world stage.
At a question-and-answer session, Clinton called on Maxim
Anmeghichean, programs director for the European Region
of the International Lesbian, Gay~ Bisexual, Trans and Intersex
Association, after commenting on his "I Love Hillaw" T-shirt.
Anmeghichean said: "My name is Max. I am from Moldova,
and I am a gay rights activist. In seven countries in the world
homosexuals are sentenced to death and many more to prison.
A lot of gay men arotmd the world die because of the HIV/
AIDS policies that the Bush administration had that did not
allow to spend money on prevention for men who have sex
with men. How do you see the foreign policy of the United
States changing in the coming years in the field of human
rights mad in partictdar sexual rights and gay and lesbian
rights?"
........... Continued See HILLARY Page-8
2 April 2009
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Busy year ahead £or Sooner State Rodeo
By Michael W. Sasser
E~oto: fim Grubb, 7~m Dickmann, Don George, V¢7ll Hughes, &Scou"
Gouard hosting a spaghel~i dinner to benefit St. Jerome’s Church.
TULSA, OK __ With a new executive
board elected in February, events already
under its belt and a slate of others scheduled
for the remainder of the year, the Sooner
State Rodeo AssociaOon has a bustling 2009
ahead.
"Our overall objective is to bring a
rodeo back to Tulsa and to have one on a
regular basis," said Tim Dickman, newly
elected president. In addition to Dickman,
Kevin George, Darin Steward, Kevin
Murphy, Don George and Bob "West were
elected vice president, tre~asurer, recording
secretary, corresponding secretary and trustee
respectively in February.
"We want to remind people we’re still
here, we’re still active and we are starting
a new campaign to get people interested.
Dickanau said.
A spaghetti dinner at St. Jerome’s Church
and a club night at Mavericks drew the
community~ attention and attracted several
new members.
Key events ahead are also expected
to garner notice and new members. The
Associatioffs next general membership
meeting is slated for Sunday, April 5th at
St. Jerome’s Church in Brady Heights, and
the general public is invited to attend. On
April 24th at 9 pm at Mavericks, the Sooner
State Royalty Roundup season kicks offwith
a lead-in to the f~l 2009 competition. Past
’Royalty competitors will be on hand as well
as those from other Associations.
"We have the whole year m get
contestants, but this event and others ~ve
will have throughout
the year help people
raise the money they
need to in order to
compete and to get
some experience
beforehand," Dickman
said.
The Sooner State
¯ Rodeo Association is
hosting its 3rd ka~nual
Spring Blowout Barrel
Race on Saturday,
May 2nd at a site to be
determined by the end
of March.
New membership
and renewed energy
and interest in the
Association are keys to a
successful 2009.
"XWe need
the community’s
involvement,
bars’ involvement
and participants’
involvement to bring
a rodeo back to
Tulsa," Dickrnan said.
"It’s going to be an
exciting year and we
invite everyone in the
commun!ty to join in."
For more information, call (918) 577-0030
or wvo~c.soonerstaterodeo.com
KENTUCKY DERBY
PARTY AT PHOENIX
RISING MAY 2
By Victor Gorin
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK __ Looking for
some after May Day fun? On Saturday May 2
Phoenix Rising will host the 3rd annual
Kentuc~- Derby ParD; where you can enjoy
food with friends, wet your whistle at the
cash bar and enjoy the thrill of the Kentucky
Derby on the big screen.
Originally organized by a group of friends
who love equestrian sport, the first party had
around 65 people, the next about 80, and
they are hoping for a bigger crowd this year to
experience the fun. As one of the organizers
Max Paty puts it, "Last year it vcent from
dead quiet when the race started, and then
they just went crazy when the horses came
down the home stretch, and it was really
exciting!" It’s a free event with complimentary
snacks and a cash bar, and everyone is invited,
including out of towners who happen to be
in OKC that day. It’s a great way to celebrate
that event with your friends while meeting
nev¢ ones.
OKEQart gallery opens
new exhibit featuring
artist Krysta Hamilton
TULSA, OK (PR) __ The Dennis Ik Neill
Equality Center art gallery will host its
monthly First Thursday meet-the-artist
reception from 6-gpm, Thursday, April 2,
2009, for the opening of the new exhibit
showing the paintings of artist, g-,Tsta
Hamilton.
The exhibit will remain up through the
month ofApril, and can be viewed Monday
thru Saturday from 3-9pm. The Dennis R.
Neill Equality Center is located at 621 E. 4th
St., in downtown Tulsa. More info can be
found on the web at okeq.org.
7his monthly event is hosted by Oklahoman’s
for EqualiO, (OkEq): OkEq seeks equal rights
for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Tmnsgender
(LGBT) individuals andfamilies through
advocacy, education, programs, alliances, and
the operation ofthe Dennis R. Neill EqualiO,
Cente~
4 April 2009
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anna Pa ge Miss Gay Oklahoma Heartland 200
By Victor Gorin
Pageant co-ownerJames Walke~ Adrienne Fische~ Alanna Paige, Anita
Ryde~ and other co-owner Mark Christensen. Gorin photo
O~IOMA CITY, OK__ On February
20 Manna Paige captured the title of Miss
Gay Oklahoma Heartland for 2009, with
Anita Ryder ( currently also Miss Oklahoma
Gay Rodeo Association) winning first
alternate. As a preliminary contest for the
Miss Gay Oldahoma America Pageant, they
will go on to compete for that title. It was a
festive evening at Angles as the current
A1 Mc rey
O ahoma County
Medalion Dinner.
reigning Miss Gay Oklahoma Heartland
Adrienne Fischer passed on that tide (
she is also the current reigning Miss Gay
Oklahoma) to Miss Paige.
Pictured above are pageant co-owner James
VCalker, Adrienne Fischer, Manna Paige,
Anita Ryder & other pageant co-owner
Mark Christensen
By Victor Gorin
A NEW KING GETS
CRO’WNED!
By Victor Gorin
Judy Calhoun celebrates her birthday at the
annual Oklahoma County Democratic Patty_
Medallion Dinn~ well wished by AIMcAfl~ey
and Ieshia who led herfriends in song. Gorin
photo.
OYA~S,HOMA CITY, OK__ State
Representative A1 McAffrey was the Master
of Ceremonies for the Oklahoma Count),
Democratic Party February 20. This is an
annual event for the Party that is not only
for fellowship, but also strengthening plans
and resolve for the future. Represented at this
event were both the Oklahoma Stonewall
Democrats and the Oklahoma Gay and
Lesbian Political Caucus.
Count3; Conventions will be held April 4,
Congressional House District Conventions
May 2, with the State Convention May 16
in Oklahoma City. To become involved or
register to vote, go to ww,v.okdemocrats.
org, or call State Party Headquarters (405)
427-3366, and in Tulsa call Tulsa County
Headquarters (918-742 2457).
2nd alternate Amadeus Ka~nii York- Texas,
IGng Richard Cranium oflndiana , and Ist
alternate Owen McCord ofGeorgia.
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK__ Oklahoma City
again hosted the National Mr.Gay US ofA
MI contest at Angles dates September 11-
15. Emceed by the vivacious Amaya Mann,
the competition began with 31 qualified
contestants, narrowed down to 14 finalists for
the finale March 15.
Passing on his tide was the reigning King
from 2008 Xander Kinidy ofTennessee,
whose mother was present at the event.
Capturing the tides for 2009 are 2nd
Alternate Amadeus Karmanii York ofTexas,
1st Alternate Owen McCord of Georgia,
and the new king, Richard Cranium of
Indiana.
6 @et~oSTAR April 2009
Wockner News Service
ANALYSIS: California
Supremes hear Prop 8
challenge
Tl~e California Supreme Court on March
5 held its hearing in the case challenging
Proposition 8, the voter-passed constitutional
amendment that re-banned same-sex marriage
-- and the hearing was an apparent disaster
t’or the gay side¯
The justices constantly interrupted the gay
side’s lawyers with aggressive questions, but
let pro-Prop-8 attorney Ken Starr speak
mostly unimpeded.
~ae justices seemed fixated on the fact that
California’s domestic-partnership law gives
gay Couples the same rights as a marriage, and
the), downplayed the fact that they had ruled
that separate isn’t equal in their May 2008
decision that legalized same-sex marriage.
The justices seemed enamored of the notion
that the people can do almost whatever they
want via the ballot-box amendment process
-- including repealing freedom of speech,
banning gay adoption and pretty much
anything else.
The justices all but laughed out of the
chamber state Attorney General Jerry
Browffs nove! "inalienable rights" natural-law
argument against Prop 8.
"~e
just an amendment
or instead a constitutional revision. A
revision has to start in the Legislature or at a
constitutional convention; it can’t start with
people collecting voter signatures, as Prop 8
did.
On that key question, the gay side appears
doomed as well, because court precedent
on the issue does not favor the gay side’s
arguments. Only a couple of the justices
appeared possibly open to the idea of
expanding their notion ofwhat constitutes a
constitutional revision.
On the case’s other big question -- whether
the 18,000 couples who married in California
between June and November 2008 will end
up un-married if the court upholds Prop 8
-- a majority of the justices seemed opposed
to viewing Prop 8 as rettoactive, despite
its rather plain wording: "Only marriage
between a man and a woman is valid or
recognized in California."
At one point, the justices had a bit of
Clintonian fun ruminating on "what the
meaning of the word ’is’ is" in Prop 8.
Kenneth Starr came across at the hearing as
smart, confident, well-spoken and quick on
his feet. None of the gay side’s lawyers did as
well. But, in fairness, they were hardly able
to get a word in edgewise because of constant
interruptions from the justices.
Media and blogger analysts were unanimous
in concluding that the court is going to
uphold Prop 8.
That would leave the gay side with two
options: Return to the California ballot with
a proactive initiative to attempt to undo Prop
8. Or take it to,the U.S. Supreme Court,
using the court s ruling in the Colorado
Amendment 2 case as a precedent. In that
case, the high court struck dovin a state
constitutional amendment that prohibited
Colorado governments from protecting
gay people in anti-discrimination laws. The
justices said government cannot irrationally
single out~one group of people for disfavored
treatment.
Both of these "next step" options are
considered risky moves.
The court must issue its ruling by early June.
Dolly Parton: ’I am not
gay
Country-music legend Dolly Parton is
straight, she told CNN’s Larry King on Feb.
21.
"I am not ga~" Parton said. "I have been
accused of that. But I have been happily
married for 42 years to the same man. And
he’s not the least bit, you know, threatened
by the fact that I may be gay. And he knows
have a lot of friends. But I love everybody. It
doesn’t matter to me."
Part0n said gay people like her because she’s
authentic.
"I think the gay people have always liked
me because I have always been mysel[ I’m
not intimidated by ho~v people perceive me,
I don’t judge nor criticize people," she said.
"I think that’s another reason they at least
know that I’m sympathetic. I think all people
have a right to be who they are. We’re all
God’s children and God should be the one to
judge, not other people. So I have a lot of gay
friends, lesbian friends."
’Milk’ gays the Oscars
The Academy Awards offered some gayerthan-
usual moments Feb. 22 as the movie
Milk snagged two Oscars.
Accepting the award for best actor, for his
portrayal of gay icon Harvey Milk, actor Sean
Penn said: "You commie, homo-loving sons
of guns.... For those who saw the signs of
hatred as our cars drove in tonight, I think
that it is a good time for those who voted
for the ban against gay marriage to sit and
reflect, and anticipate their great shame and
the shame in their grandchildren’s eyes if they
continue that way of support. We’ve got to
have equal rights for everyone."
And openly gay Dustin Lance Black,
accepting the trophy for original screenplay,
gave a shout-out to gay kids.
"When I was 13 years old, my beatitiful
mother and my father moved me from a
conservative Mormon home in San Antonio,
Tex., to California, and I heard the story of
Harvey Milk," Black said. ’~md it gave me
hope. It gave me the hope to live my life. It
gave me the hope one day I could live my life
openly as who I am and that maybe even I
could fall in love and one day get married.
"If Harvey had not been taken from us 30
years ago, I think he’d want me to say to all
of the gay and lesbian kids out there tonight
who have been told that they are ’less than’ by
: or by their
you are beautiful, wonderful
creatures ofvalue and that no matter what
~yone ~eils you, God does love you, ~d
that veiT SO0n~ I promise you; ~ou ~ill have
equal rights federally across this great nation
of ours."
In Singapore, where gay sex is illegal,
MediaCorp TV deleted portions of Black’s
and Penn’s speeches from its rebroadcast of
the awards.
MediaCorp/Channel 5 censorship manager
David Christie said the broadcast "would
have been in serious breach of the MDA
(Media Development Authority) Programme
Code if such controversial content was not
editorially managed."
"The code explicitly disallows content that
sympathizes with, promotes or normalizes
such a lifestyle from being broadcast," he said.
The Asian satellite
TV service STAR also
censored the two men’s
speeches, dropping the
audio each time the
word "gay" or "lesbian"
was uttered.
STAR beams into
more than 50 countries
to some 300 million
viewers.
Utah senator demoted
for anti-gay remarks
Utah state Sen. Chris Buttars was ousted from
two committees by Republican leaders Feb.
20 after he made homophobic remarks to a
documentary maker.
Buttars spoke in January to TV reporter Reed
Cowan, who is making a documentary on the
¯ Mormon church’s involvement in the passage
of California’s Proposition 8.
The senator’s comments included:
"Homosexuality will always be a sexual
perversion. And you say that around here now
and everybody goes nuts. But I don’t care....
They’re mean. They want to talk about being
nice, they’re the meanest buggers I’ve ever
seen.... It’s just like the Moslems. Moslems
are good people and their religion is anti-war.
But it’s been taken over by the radical side....
What is the morals of a gay person? You can’t
answer that because anything goes.... They’re
probably the greatest threat to America going
down I know of. ... q]aey want superiority.
It’s the beginning of the end. Oh, it’s worse
than that. Sure. Sodom and Gomorrah was
localized. This is worldwide."
According to Salt Lake City’s KTVX, ~vhich
broke the story: "Buttars also talks about a
certain type of reported gay sex!~al activity
which he claims is taking place. But ABC
4 does not consider that appropriate for its
news content
Students at George Mason University in
Fairfax County, Va., elected a gay drag queen
as homecoming queen Feb. 14.
Senior Ryan Allen, who ran for the honor as
Reann Ballslee, beat out two women for the
crown.
"It was just for fun," Allen told the
Washington Post. "In the larger scheme of
things, winning says so much about the
university. X~[e’re one of the most diverse
campuses in the country, and... ,ve celebrate
that."
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Gay New Yorkers protest
sex-shop arrests
Several dozen gay N~v ~rkers protested near Mayor
Mict§ael Bloomberg~ mansion Feb. 14 over what
they say are bogus arrests ofg~y men in adult video
arcades. Photo byJoe Jervis
Several dozen gay New ¥orkers protested near
Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s mansion Feb.
14 over what they say are bogus arrests of gay
men in adult video arcades.
The activists claim undercover police o~cers
have been hitting on gay men, then, after the
men agree to have sex, leading them outside,
offering them money, and arresting them for
prostitution, whether they accept the money
or not.
At least 50 men have been victims of the
sting, the activists said.
The motive for the arrests is to create a
pretense for shutting down the shops, the
activists said.
~e arrests have been condemned by openly
lesbian City Council Speaker Christine
Quinn and openly gay state Sen. Tom Duane,
among others.
Hawaii House passes
civil-union bill
Hawaii’s House of Representatives passed a
civil-union bill Feb. 12 by a vote of 33-17.
The measure now advances to the Senate
Judiciary Committee, where its fate is
unpredictable.
Republican Gov. Linda Lingle has not taken a
position on the legislation.
The proposal would grant civil-union couples
all the state-level benefits, protections and
responsibilities of marriage.
Hawaii presendy has a reciprocal-beneficiaries
law that grants registered same-sex couples
limited spousal rights. Similar limited laws are
in place in Maine and Washington.
Five states -- California, New Hampshire,
New Jersey, Oregon, and Vermont -- and
Washington, D.C., have full civil-union laws
that grant all state-level spousal rights.
Massachusetts and Connecticut let gay
couples marry, and New York recognizes
same-sex marriages from states and countries
that permit them.
Tt~e other countries that let gay couples
marry are Belgium, Canada, the Netherlands,
Norway, South Africa and Spain.
Beau poses nude
Beau Breedtove, the 21-year-old man who
had sex with Portland, Ore., Mayor Sam
Adams just after Breedlove turned 18, has
posed nude for the May issue of the gay porn
magazine Unzipped.
The revelation of the aNair nearly ended
Adams’ career earlier this year. Adams was 42
years old at the time of the brief relationship
and, when asked about it during his mayoral
campaign, had denied it happened. Nae men
claim to still be ftiends.
"Beau Breedlove was extremely professional
at his first erotic photo shoot in Los Ba~geles
this past weekend," Unzipped online editor
Sean Carnage told Advocate.corn Feb. 18.
"He came to L.A. to prove that the Portland
scandal does not define his sexuality. The
photos portray the real Beau -- a confident
and extremely handsome young man who is
openly sensual, openly sexual and has nothing
to hide."
"We had some trouble getting them into
this house because of some, what I believe to
be, antiquated rules here, but they are here,
minus tiaras and sashes," New Democratic
Party legislator Spencer Herbert said as he
introduced the foursome to fellow legislators.
Legislative sergeant-at:arms Gary Lenz
explained that "protocol" prohibits headgear
and certain other items inside the chamber, to
maintain "dignity."
Larry amer: Lincoln
and Washington were
gay
Veteran gay and MDS activist, author
and playwright Larry Kramer says he has
evidence that Abraham Lincoln and George
Washington were gay.
Colorado senator in antigay
rant
Colorado state Sen. Scott Renfroe, R-Greeley,
unleashed a six-minute anti-gay diatribe on
the floor of the Senate Feb. 23 during debate
on a bill to allow gay state employees to share
health benefits ~vith their partners.
Speaking to the Montreal newspaper Hour
on March 5, Kramer said he will reveal the
details in a book he’s writing, The American
People: A History.
He equated gay sex with murder and adultery
and seemingly suggested that people ~vho
engage in gay sex commit ’,detestable" acts ....
been wntten or stud.........
"It’s a monster book," Kramer said. "It’s an
attempt to put us (gay people) back in history
from the beginning. No history book ever
recorded anything about us, and researching
this book I found out that both Lincoln and
George Washington were gay.... I have stuff
that will go beyond anything that has ever
Renfroe said: "Homosexuality is seen as a
violation of this natural creative order, and
it is an offense to God.... Leviticus 18:22 ’
says: ’You shall not lie witha man as one lies
with a female. It is an abomination.’ Leviticus
20:13 says, ’If there is a man who lies with
a male as those who lie with a ,voman, both
of them have committed a detestable act,
and they shall surely be put to death.’ ...
When we create laws that goes (sic)against
what biblically we are supposed to stand for,
I think we are agreeing, or allowing to go
forward, a sin which should not be treated
by government as something that is legal.
... We are taking sins and making them to
be legally OK, and that is ,vrong. That is an
abomination.... And I’m not saying that this
is the only sin that’s out there. Obviously, we
have sin. We have murder, we have all sorts
of sins. We have adultery. And we don’t make
laws making those leg~A.... All sin is equa!.
That sin there is as equal to any other sin
that’s in the Bible."
The bill passed.
Drag r?yalty stripped
ofregaha be sergeant-atarlns
Mr. and Miss Gay Vancouver XXIX, along
with the Emperor and Empress V of Surrey,
were allowed to enter the Canadian province
of British Columbia’s Legislative Assembly
only after removing their tiaras, crowns and
sashes, The Vancouver Sun reported March 2.
Clinton responded: "Human rights is and
will always be one of the pillars of our foreign
policy. And in particular, the persecution
and discrimination against gays and lesbians
is something that we take very seriously. It
is terribly unfortunate, as you just recited,
that, you lmow, right now in unfortunately
many places in the world violence against
gays and lesbians, certainly discrimination
and prejudice, are not just occurring but
condoned and protected, and we would hope
that over the next few years we could have
some influence in trying to change those
attitudes."
Clinton continued: "Specifically, with
respect to HIV/AIDS, we have made a very
big treatment commitment, as some of you
know, through our program called PEPFAR.
And it is an important part of the American
approach toward trying to deal with the HIV/
MDS pandemic. But we haven’t done enough
on prevention, and we haven’t done enough
on outreach or testing. We’re beginning to,
and under our administration we will do
much more. And I can only hope that we
all live long enough -- certainly I hope I live
long enough; I think you all will -- to see the
end to this kind of discriminatory treatment,
and recognition that human rights are the
inalienable right of every person no matter
who that person loves, and that’s what we
should be trying to achieve."
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Sonja Martinez Receives
the Richard May Award
Sofia Martinez (Center) with her niece Jessica
Martinez-Brooks and her sister and artist
Bernadette Martinez. Pressphom
OK_LAHOMA CITY, OK (PR) _The
Oklahoma MDS Care Fund celebrated its
Seventeenth Bmnual "Red Tie Night" at the
Cox Communications Center February 28,
2009. The "Red Tie Night" brings together
man), individuals and corporations to raise as
much as one million dollars in a single night
through various donations, auctions and
generosity of many Oklahomans. The goal
of the event is to raise money tbr education,
direct services and research to fight HIV/
AIDS throughout the State of Oklahoma.
One of the highlights of a very eventful
evening was the presentation of the Richard
May Award to Sonja Martinez. Sonja is
the daughter ofJesse and ka~ita Martinez of
Oldahoma City.
The Richard May Award was established by
the Oklahoma MDS Care Fund to honor
Richard May, a founder of the organization
who passed away in March, 2000. The
premise of the Richard May Award is that it
is to be given annually in recognition of an
individual who has given, in an exceptional
way, of their time and talents to promote
education, research and service regarding
HIV/AIDS. The recipient should exemplify
quiet strength and compassion, never seeking
recognition, which was the spirit of Richard
May.
Sonja has an annual Christmas Benefit to
raise money for those with HIV/AIDS and
this next year will be her nineteenth annual
benefit. The benefit is held at the COPA
bev;veen Thanksgiving and Christmas every
year.
Sonja accepted the award by saying: "~is
award is a very big honor and I thank you
so much. I would like to accept this award
on behalf of all the dubs and entertainers
in the Gay Community who do benefits
all year around. I would also like to thank:
Barbara and Jackie Cooper, Rick Moses, John
Beebe, Tony Sinclair and Dee Goodwin; my
family vcho have supported me and loved me
unconditionally. And the Red Tie, thank
you for all that you do."
Christian,
I623 N. iVlaplewood Tulsa, OK
www,mcctuls org
Oklahoma City, OK
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Kansas City’s Heartland
Men’s Chorus rills
OKC Crowd
By Victor Gorin
CharlesJohnson presents director Dn Joseph
Nadeau with a plaquej~om the City ofthe
Village thanking themfor theirpe,formance.
Gorin photo
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK __ Oklahoma
City was treated to a grand performance by
the Heartland Men’s Chorus March 3 when
the played to a large crowd at the Village
Christian Church. N~e Chorus, which began
in 1986, has performed extensively in the
Missouri/Kansas area, and also throughout
the United States and abroad. Featuring
an eclectic mix of men’s choral music
encompassing several music styles, the chorus
was won acclaim and respecf froma wide
City
has
were recognized by the City
( suburban community of OKC), and this
concert, which was their OKC debut, would
also benefit the BritVil Food Bank.
Bringing their songs to Oklahoma, they
presented their concept concert, "And Justice
for All." Beginning xvith a number from
the musical South Pacifici "You’ve got to be
Cargfully Taught/Children will Listen", which
depicted racism, they ,;vent through a series
of selections accompanied by readings and
accompanying pictures which portrayed the
struggles of blacks, women, and the more
recent activism of title GLBT community.
Highlights included activist classics "We Shall
Overcome" & ’Tkin’t gonna let nobody Turn
me Round, but also included the comic relief
of"Color of Colorado," a campy classic from
the off Broadway musical "When Pigs FI~’
that portrays how vital the GLBT community
really is to America. Closing with "I will
stand with You," they left the audience with
not only a call for unity but hope for a better
tomorrow.
Under the direction of Dr. Joseph Nadeau,
they performed the following day for
the American Choral Directors National
Convention which also took place in
Oklahoma City. They held the distinction of
being one of only 2 gay men’s choruses to be
invited to perform for that conference in the
group’s 50 year history.
to Moore Oklahoma for another protest at
Moore High School.
Although their reasoning for picking out
Moore High School for a protest site was
unknown, their website did promise "We
will picket you hypocrites and we continue
to THANK GOD for the tornados that
keep kicking Oklahoma’s backside.’Moore
High School dismissed classes 15 minutes
early for those students wishing to avoid the
protest, but many stayed to tal~e part in what
’turned out to be a major counter protest.
That protest, organized by Chelsea Marlett
( daughter ofRon Marlett, ~vho ran against
Sally Kern in the State Legislative race 2008)
not only brought out many from the GLBT
community, but also many others to form a
diverse crowd of around 2000 that included
civil libertarians, yeterans groups, and just
plain folks young and old. Undoubtedly the
most spectacular counter protesters were the
bikers, xvho rode repeatedly past the Phelps
clan revving their engines to the crowd’s
applause.
Jeannie and other Moore High School students
protest Phelps group. Gorin photo
As one of them put it, Kevin Sherwood stated
"I fought for our country for people to be
able to live their lives they way they want. I
fought so they ( the Phelps group) can say
what they want to say, but we get the same
rights. What upset me more than anything
else is that they came here to scare kids. But
apparently most of them ain’t all that scared!"
Living proof of that was Jeannie, a student of
Moore High School,who after some colorful
outbursts about her opinion of the Phelps
clan, had this to say" God loves all of us,
we’re all equal, gays lesbians, it doesn’t matter
God loves us all."
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10 ~oSTAR April 2009
British PM opposes Prop8
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown
opposes Proposition 8, the California ballot
measure that last November re-banned samesex
marriage after the state Supreme Court
had legalized it.
"This Proposition 8, this attempt to undo
the good that has been done, this attempt to
create divorces among 18,000 people who
were perfectly legally brought together in
partnerships, this is unacceptable and shows
me why we alxvays have to be vigilant, why we
have alvcays got to fight homophobic behavior
and any form of discrimination," Brown said
March 5 at a Downing Street reception for
GLBT VIPs.
6 in his apartment in Call
He suffered a fatal blow to the head and
was found tied to his bed and gagged. The
apartment had been trashed but there were no
signs of forced entry and nothing was stolen.
Rivera received national attention when he
fought a 2001 mandate by the Revolutionary
Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas
that all residents ofa FARC-controlled sector
of the eastern state of Meta take an HIV test
or leave the area within a week.
Thereafter, he received death threats and was
followed on the streets and harassed at worlc
He eventually left Meta, his home state, as a
result.
On March 4, the California Suprelne Court
heard oral arguments in the case seeking to
overturn the constitutional amendment. It
is widely expected that the effort will fail,
with the justices deciding, in effect, that the
right of the voters to amend the constitution
is more sacrosanct than the constitutional
guarantee of equal protection under the law.
The court must issue its decision by early
June.
Burundi plan to ban gay
sex dies in Senate
Leading Latino-issues blogger Andrds Duque
called Rivera’s death "a tremendous loss to the
international human rights movement."
Argentina lifts military
gay ban
Argentina’s military decriminalized
homosexuality and lifted its gay ban Feb. 27.
Part of an overhaul of the military justice
system, the change was approved by
Parliament last year and took effect six
months after passage.
A move to ban gay sex in the Central African U.S.-based Latino-issues, blogger Andrds
nati~ 6f Burundi was reiected by the Senate ~t}que called the m.ove ’.on.e more L.GBT
Feb. 16 after having passed the National nghts development in a Latin American
Assembly unanimously in November. nation that leapfrogs over current U.S.
"Burundi’s Senate, after significant pressure
and ’heated debate,’ today reiected the
proposed amendment to criminalize
homosexual conduct. Victory -- for the
moment," said Scott Long, head of Human
Rights Watclqs LGBT Rights Division.
The proposal, part of a much larger bill, set
a punishment of between three months and
two years in prison, along with a large fine,
for engaging in consensual adult gay sex.
The Senate and Assembly must now form a
commission to reconcile the two versions of
the bill before sending it to President Pierre
Nkurunziza.
"Any reconciliation could, potentially,
reinstate the provision criminalizing samesex
conduct," said the International Gay
and Lesbian Human Rights Commission.
"Whatever the outcome, the fact that
the majority of senators voted against the
provision shows a growing recognition that
all citizens are entitled to the full enjoyment
of human rights irtespective of their sexual
orientation."
policy"
Gays in the U.S. military are required
to remain in the closet under the "Don’t
Ask, Dofft Tell" policy signed into law by
President Bill Clinton.
Prior to that time, gays were not allowed in
the U.S. military at all.
300,000 at Sydney Mardi
Gras
Sydney’s 31st gay Mardi Gras parade attracted
300,000 spectators, 130 floats and 9,500
participants March 7.
Openly gay Olympic gold medal diver
Matthew Mitcham led offthe procession. His
winning dive at the Beijing Olympics was the
highest-scoring dive in Olympic history.
Marching units included the Federal
Police, the military and New South Wales
firefighters. U.S. comedian Joan Rivers also
joined in, riding on top of a truck.
Eighty-four of the world’s 19 5 nations ban
gay sex.
Colombian gay leader
m dered
Well-lmown Colombian gay activist idvaro
Miguel Rivera Linares, 41, was killed March
Jamaica .bans most antigay
music
Jamaica’s Broadcasting Commission has
effectively banned most anti-gay dancehall
songs from being played over the airwaves.
Wockner News Service
New regulations prohibit broadcast of songs
and videos that glorify arson, rape, shooting
or murder, as well as depictions of sex acts.
Gay activists, locally and internationally, have
campaigned for years against the anti-gay
alleged "murder music" ofJamaican artists
such as Sizzla, Bounty Killer, Elephant Man,
Vybz Kartel, Beenie Man, Buju Banton,
T.O.K. and Capleton.
Phelpses banned from
entering UK
Anti-gay Kansas pastor Fred Phelps and his
daughter Shirley have been banned from
entering the United Kingdom, the Telegraph
reported Feb. 19.
The "God hates fags" team had announced
plans to picket a performance of’l-he Laramie
Project on Feb. 20 at a school arts center in
Basingstoke, Hampshire.
A UK Border Agency spokesman said:
"Both these individuals have engaged in
unacceptable behavior by inciting hatred
against a number of communities.... We will
continue to stop those who want to spread
extremism, hatred and violent messages in our
communities from coming to our country."
In an interview with the BBC, Shirley Phelps-
Roper stated: "There are members ofWBC
(Westboro Baptist Church) that are not
named Phelps.... Unless they intend to begin
checking the bare backsides of every person
coming into that country to find that tattoo
that says ’Property ofWBC,’ they will have
no way of identifying who is from WBC."
In the end, a single, unidentified
demonstrator showed up and was chased
offby about 50 counterprotesters, the BBC
reported.
HIV rate climbs in Asia
Gay and bisexual men in Asia are having risky
unprotected sex, causing dramatic climbs in
HIV infection rates, said officials attending
a World Health Organization HIV/AIDS
conference Feb. 18 in Hong Kong.
The gathering heard that more than 30
percent of gay and bisexual men in Bangkok
are HIV-positive, while some Chinese cities
report a rate as high as 18 percent, and China
as a whole has a rate of 3.8 percent among
gay/bisexual men.
The director of Chinas AIDS-control center,
Wu Zunyou, said amphetamine use and
Internet hookups are factors in the climbing
infection rate.
HIV now is Chinas deadliest infectious
disease, according to a new report from the
Ministry of Health.
More than 8 percent of gay and bisexual men
in Jakarta are HIV-positive, the conference
heard, as are 7.8 percent in Cambodia.
Singapore censors Oscars
Singapore’s MediaCorp TV censored its
replay of the Academy Awards Feb. 23,
removing portions of Dustin Lance Black’s
acceptance speech.
Black won the original screenplay Oscar for
Milk, and said: "When I was 13 years old, my
beautiful mother and my father moved me
from a conservative Mormon home in San
Antonio, Tex., to California, and I heard the
story of Harvey Milk. And it gave me hope.
It gave me the hope to live my life. It gave me
the hope one day I could live my life openly
as who I am and that maybe even I could fall
in love and one day get married.
"If Harvey had not been taken from us 30
years ago, I think he’d want me to say to all
of the gay and lesbian kids out there tonight
who have been told that they are ’less than’ by
their churches, by the government or by their
families, that you are beautiful, wonderful
creatures of value and that no matter what
anyone tells you, God does love you, and
that very soon, I promise you, you will have
equal rights federally across this great nation
of ours."
Sean Penn’s acceptance speech also was
truncated. He won the best actor Oscar for
his portrayal of Harvey Milk.
Penn said: "You commie, homo-loving sons
of guns.... For those who saw the signs of
hatred as our cars drove in tonight, I think
that it is a good time for those who voted
for the ban against gay marriage to sit and
reflect, and anticipate their great shame and
the shame in their grandchildren’s eyes if they
continue that way of support. We’ve got to
have equal rights for everyone."
Subscribers to one of the main Singaporean
gay e-mail lists were outraged at the edits.
"This sort of bigoted, intolerant and ignorant
action by a national broadcaster is better
suited for Iran or North Korea than a nation
that puts itself forward as a modern worldclass
city," wrote one.
MediaCorp/Channel 5 censorship,manager
David Christie said the broddcast would
have been in serious breach of the MDA
(Media Development Authority) Programme
Code if such controversial content was not
editorially managed."
"The code explicitly disallows content that
sympathizes with, promotes or normalizes
such a lifestyle from being broadcast," he said.
Gay sex is illegal in Singapore.
The Asian satellite TV service STAR also
censored the two men’s speeches, dropping
the audio each time the word "gay" or
"lesbian" vcas uttered.
STAR beams into more than 50 countries to
some 300 million viewers.
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By Camper English Colder, smaller, weaker: Better martinis
~lhe diplomatic way of defining the "best martini" is as "the
martini that you like the best." But, really, if you’re pulling
a jug of vodka out of the freezer and pouring it into a glass,
you’re not drinking a martini at all. You’re drinldng a glass of
cold vodl~a. Add olives and you’ve got vodka with a snack.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that. I drink cold vodka
all the time, and ~vho doesn’t enjoy a string of olives for
dinner? But a martini is a mixed drink, necessitating more
than one ingredient to mix into it.
Bar-haviora Problems
The working theory is that the martini star~ed as a spinoff
of the Martinez, a cocktail made with sweetened gin, sweet
vermouth, maraschino liqueur and bitters (with a lemon
twist). As tastes in cocktails shifted away from sweet drinks,
the "Dry Martini" made with d~/vermouth became more
popular, and eventually most everybody forgot about the
bitters. Vodka didn’t become an option until later.
Gay bar bartenders, who are not necessarily gay bartenders,
are usually the most ei~cient and fair intoxicologists in
tl~e drinking universe. I say "fair" because at straight
establishments, hot women and rid>looking men (usually
jerk~) get first priority, and the bartenders frequently take
drink orders out of order. Infuriating! This is not often the
case in gay ~vatering holes, where the bartenders tend to be the
hottest people in the room and dofft need to impress you by
serving you first (you need impress them with the size of your
tips).
Given the variations over time, you could rightfully order
your martini made with gin or vodka, sweet or dry vermouth
or none at all, bitters or not, olives or a twist - and you could
find a published recipe to back it up. None are the "right" way
to make a martini, but I would encourage experimentation to
find the way that’s right for you.
Also, gay bar patrons Imow how to behave (toward the
bartender anyway) and will often line up in an orderly fashion
at the drink well rather than shouting and waving like the
opening scene ofThe Love Boat al! along the bar. I take
straight friends to my favorite gay bar and they are anlazed at
the German,like efficientT in place. They are often jealous and
ofthe strained drink in the
frdezer’ ......
determine to start coming there every night, until they hear ........... .... ......
the 14th Madonna remix in a row. I can’t say I blame them.
In a nightclub or other crowded venue, or anywhere with a
mixed crowd, all bets for orderly ordering are off. You need
to gain the attention of tl~e bartender as well as make him or
her think you’re going to be a good (i.e., fast, non-annoying)
customer. Here are a few suggestions for attracting the
bartender and keeping his attention.
While jumbo-sized martini glasses used in many bars
provide a lot of liquor for the dollar, by the time you get to
the bottom half you’re drinking room-temperature alcohol.
That is bad. Or worse, it’s a warm salt bath if you’ve got the
extra-large-sized olives in there that help to heat it xtp. The
very dassiest ofbars serve their martinis in very small, very
cold glasses - with an additional quantity of the drink in an
ice-chilled container on the side. That is lovely. At home, I
use vintage (small) glassware and keep the remainder cooling
Look available. You want to make eye contact with the
bartender and have her give you the "I see you" nod. To
accomplish this, face the bar, not your friends behind you. If
you’re turned around chatting and using the bar as a leaning
post, you’re not giving the right signal.
Be ready. When you are trying to get the bartender’s attention,
have visible cash in your hand -but don’t ~vave it around
unless there is a row of drag queens in six-inch heels blocking
your line of sight. And if you’re planning to pay with a credit
card, you may want to keep that hidden. It takes longer to
process, so the bartender will serve the cash-holding folks first.
Also, be ready with your friends’ drink orders. Don’t wait until
the bartender gets there to turn around and say, "What do you
guys want?" As the person standing next to you, H1 swoop in
and say "~ree martinis please" when your back is turned. I’m
like that.
S~’ategize. Don’t shout to get the bartender’s attention.
Nobody likes to be yelled at while doing their job. A friendly
"Hi!" sometimes helps though. Make your first tip the most
generous one to help ensure prompt service and healthy pours
for the rest of the evening. And be respectful of others - if the
guy next to you was waiting longer but the bartender comes
to you, give him the "he was here first" point. The bartender
will remember that you’re next, and you never kmow if that
guy next to you wil! return the favor and pay for your drink.
Do not fear vermouth.
Try it and you might
find you actually like it
- but probably not the
4-year-old, mostly full
bottle gathering dust in
the back of your liquor
cabinet. Use a fresh bottle.
Vermouth spoils like wine
after opening, so buy small
bottles and keep them in
the refrigerator to lengthen
their life span.
Ice, too, is an ingredient
in the drink. Ifyou keep
your vodka or gin in the
freezer, not much water
will melt into your martini.
Dilution brings the drink
down to a manageable level
of alcoholic strength to keep you from making that too-strong
scrunchy face that gives you wrinkles. A martini should be
refreshing, not painful.
The shaken-versus-stirred decision is not worth the ~veight
given to it. Shaking adds ice chips and air bubbles that make
the drink look doudy and taste fizzy, whereas stirring results
in a clear and smooth cocktail from the get-go. I prefer a
stirred martini when I’m at a nice cocktail lounge, but I do
often shake them at home. Not because it tastes better, but
because shaldng is more fun.
Camper English is a cocktails and spirits writer andpublisher of
Alcademics. com. ’
12 ~et~:oSTAR April 2009
~e internationally renowned cast ofWoody
Sez- back rowfrom left: Helen Russell, Darci
Deaville, Andy Tekstein;J~ont- David Lutken
as Woody @hoto courtesy of The Scotsman
Publications Ltd.)
OKLAHOI~La~ CITY, OK (PR) __ Lyric
~eatre, OkAahoma’s premiere professional
theatre company, will present the American
Premiere ofWoody Sez, the words, music,
& spirit ofV[oody Guthrie as part of the
2009 "Lyric at the Plaza" season. This
unique theatrical concert event celebrates
the life and spirit ofAmerican folk legend
Vioody Guthrie, whose music continues to
inspire today’s finest storytelling songwriters
including Bob DyIan, Bruce Springsteen,
John Mellencamp, the Indigo Girls, and
Billy Bragg. Lyri& production will run from
March 26th through April 1 lth and features
the show’s original cast from its European
tour.
st0ryte!l& ~na
David tutken Stars in {he and
actor,musici~s Darcie
Deaville ,Teirstein
join in ,to portray
up the fabric of Guthrie’s amazing story.
The four accompany themselves on over 15
different instruments, ranging from guitar
and fiddle to jaw harp and dulcimer.
\Voodrow Wilson "W’oody" Guthrie
was born in 1912 in Okemah, Oklahoma.
He is best kmown as an American singersongwriter
and folk musician, whose
musical legacT indudes hundreds of
political, traditional and children’s songs,
ballads and improvised works. Many of his
recorded songs are archived in the Library of
Congress. Guthrie traveled from Oklahoma
to California and later New York and used
his rich life experiences and observations to
write traditional folk and blues songs, many
ofwhich deal with the Great Depression.
Guthrie died from complications of
Huntington’s disease, a progressive genetic
neurological disorder.
When Nick Corley accepted the position
as Lyric’s new artistic director, he was thrilled
with the timing and what it meant for the
future ofWoody Sez. With the blessing of the
Guthrie estate, Corley, who has directed the
show fi’om its inception, prepared Lyric for
the American premiere, so that Oklahomans
could be the first in ~he country to celebrate
Guthrie’s life and music in this special way.
Furthermore, so that the celebration of
Woody’s spirit can reach even further beyond
the Oklahoma City metro area, Lyric Theatre
has plans to take the show on the road. A
special presentation ofWoody Sez, the words,
music, & spirit ofWoody Guthrie has been
generously underwritten by Continental
Resources, one of the largest independent
oil and natural gas companies in the United
States. The show will play a special two-night
engagement at the Enid Symphony Center
on Tuesday, March 31st and g~rednesday,
April 1st at 7:30pm, marking the first time
in the company’s 47-year history that a full
prod,uction will be performed outside of
Lyric s home venue.
Back in Oldahoma City, Woody Sez
performances are March 26th through
April 1 lth: Thursdays at 7:30pm, Fridays at
8:00pm, Saturdays at 2:00pm & 8:00pro.
For tickets: ,a-wvc.lyrictheatreokc.com, (405)
524-9312, or in person at 1727 NW 16th St,
Oldahoma City, OK.
In Oklahoma City, the renovation and
opening of Plaza Theatre, located on NW
16th Street between Penn and Classen,
means that audiences can look forward to an
intimate world-class theatrical experience,
complete ~vith free accessible parking, tdtracomfortable
seating, and a full service cash
bar. Drinks are even allowed inside the theatre
as the audience takes in the performance. The
2009 "Lyric at the Plaza" season concludes in
May with Steel Magnolias. Lyric will continue
to produce its annual summer season at
downtmvn Oklahoma City’s Civic Center
Music Hall, beginning in June with Disney’s
High School Musical 2 and continuing with
The Music Man, Joseph and the Amazing
Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Producers, and
Little Shop of Horrors.
w~-w.metrostarnews.com NetroSTAR 13
Arkansas Domestic
Partnership Registry
Under Attack
Gay News Bureau
EUREKA SPRINGS, AR The only
Domestic Partnership Registry in Arkansas--
and one of the fe~v in the Mid-South region
of the country--may soon be history if one
right-wing state legislator has his way.
But the Eureka Springs mayor, city council
and supporters of the DPR, vow to vigorously
oppose a move by Republican Arkansas State
Rep. Bryan King to do away with it.
In only 22 months, 256 unmarried couples
from 55 Arkansas communities and 14 other
states have registered as domestic partners in
Eureka Springs.
At least 28 of those couples came from
neighboring Oklahoma and another 32 from
Missouri, says Michael Walsh, who wrote the
domestic partnership law that went into effect
in June 2007.
Efforts to keep the resort town from
officially honoring gay and straight couples is
"transparent homophobia," he says.
"There are six words to describe State Rep.
Bryan King ofArkansas," said Walsh, "and
they are, ’State Rep. Sally Kern of Oklahoma’.
To know one is to know the other."
DPR advocates say it is hypocritical for
any state lawmaker to condemn municipal
domestic partnership laws while accepting
campaign contributions from I~aft Foods,
Wal-Mart, FedEx and Cox Communications,
companies that have domestic partner
policies.
King is serving his final term as state
representative and may next run for the
Arkansas senate. His detractors say he
has nothing to lose and much to gain by
assaulting the DPR at this time.
King introduced his anti-DPR measure
March 9. Out lesbian Arkansas State Rep.
Kathy Webb, a Democrat, opposes the ban
and has said it may be killed at the committee
level. Arkansas Speaker of the House Robbie
Wills is also on record as opposing the bill.
But Eureka Springs city officials are not
taking any chances. In a statement signed
by the entire Eureka Springs City Council,
Mayor Dani Joy strongly defended the DPR
and condemned King’s intrusion into city
affairs.
"I vdll not stand silent any longer and allow a
demographic of our citizens to be humiliated
and degraded," she said. "Prejudice or bigotry
have no place in our city. The gay and lesbian
community are our fi’iends, neighbors and
family."
The editor of the tmvffs weekly newspaper,
The Lovely County Citizen, characterized
Y,dng’s anti-DPR bill as a "regressive, faithbased,
discriminatory, venal.., and cynical
act."
It is, said editor Don Lee in a editorial,
"demagoguery based on religious prejudice
bordering on moral fascism..."
~e Carroll County (AR) News reported
King "felt the bill (to ban DPRs) was needed
because tourism in Eureka Springs has
become identified too strongly with issues of
sexuality."
Given the town’s long-standing reputation as
a major wedding destination, King’s rationale
is fraudulent, says Walsh.
"What the hell does he think goes on in all
those heart shaped hot tubs and honeymoon
cabins," Walsh said. "King’s real aim is to
impose his extremist religious and political
views on our town and at the expense of gay
residents, business owners and tourists.
"Playing the gay card is a way for cheap
politicians in Arkansas to fan the fires of hate
and fatten up their campaign coffers."
But, on the brink of what may be a precarious
tourist season, King’s bill cotfld also deprive
the town of a critical revenue stream.
According to city records, the DPR has
generated almost $10,000 for the city in less
than two years. Registration costs $35 per
couple.
Walsh puts the figure at closer to $250,000
to $500,000 when DPR-related expenditures
on hotels, motels, B &Bs, restaurants,
bars, caterers, ministers, florists, gift shops,
photographers mad spending by friends and
}’amilies are included.
"Precisely when the state needs all the tax
revenue it can it, I~dng’s bill is exceedingly
short-sighted," he said.
* To express your support, send a brief e-mail
to Eureka Springs Mayor Dani Joy at mayor@
cityofeurekasprings.org
~ Express your outrage to Arkansas State Rep.
Bryan King at: kingb@arkleg.state.ar.us
* Ask your friends, co-workers, family
members and neighbors to do the same.
* Send this story to news outlets, LGBT
organizations, web sites and blogs.
* Ask your elected local and state
representatives to speak out on this issue, as
did the Eureka Springs mayor when Sally
Kern was on the rampage last year.
= Come to Eureka Springs for Diversity
Weekend April 3-5 and get your own DPR.
See www.eurekapride.com for events.
Diversity Weekend Kicks
Offin Eureka Springs
FRIDAY, APRIL 3
Domestic Partner Certificates. The
courthouse is dosed Saturday and Sunday.
City Clerl~’s office is in the City Hall,
lower level of the Western Carroll County
Courthouse, 44 S. Main. Office hours are
9:30 AM - 12 Noon and 1:30 to 4:30 PM.
Over150 unique shops and galleries. Be sure
to stop by and say hi to Charlie at A Byrds
Eye View. Weekend favorites include The
Tourist Stop, Mountain Eclectic, Antique
Affaire, The Inn Convenience Store, Fusion
Squared and Eclectic Edge.
Over 6 vendors are setting up in the old
Eureka Screams Theater parking lot and
lobby, located on H~W 23 South. Friday -
Sunday, 8 AM - 5 PM, everything from Tools
to Toys.
Welcome Mixer, Pizza Bar, 13 N Main, 6:00
to 8:00 PM. Come feel the warmth. Mix and
mingle with locals and visitors from around
the county. CITY PARKING FREE AFTER
6 PM.
Rock and Roll with Tiffany Christopher, The
New Delhi, 2 North Main, All ages welcome,
6:30 PM - 9:30 PM-ish.
It’s a Hawaiian Luau Weekend. Karake,
Dance, Giveaways and FUN. Friday and
Saturday, Henri’s Just One More, 19 1/2
Spring, Open Noon - 2AM, Full menu served
till 9 PM nightly. NO COVER CHARGE.
The always popular Tiki Torch Club and their
Spring Diversity Dance Par-Tee. Arrive early
this place fills up fast. Midnight Teaser Drag
Show with Secdackeiry.
Male Illusionist. That’s right they’re all girls
and they’re dressed too ’KISS’. The IgSSS
Tribute Band, Lumberyard, 105 East Van
Buren, 9:00 PM. Stick around for DJ TIC’S
Spin Cycle and Dance Party.
Ashley McBryde... the miracle gift returns for
SPRING ,n Eureka. Jacks Place. 37 Spring
St, 9:00 PM.- Midnight, no cover. Handsome
Lee wit! be checking IDs at the door.
EUREKA’S UNDERGROUND the
subterranean and always gay Eureka Live,
35 North Main, Trash Disco Party, drink
specials. NO COVER CHARGE!
THE DIVERSITY BAND: Chelsea’s, 10
Mountain St. 9 PM - ~
Avoid those Diversity buzz-killers like getting
a DUI or trying to find a parking place
downtown. Eureka Springs Limousine. $5.00
point to point. Call 479-244-6320 for your
PICK-UP!
SATURDAY, APRIL 4
Name That Tune With Sandy at the
Smokehouse Card, 580 West Van Buren,
8:30 A.M to1 l:30ish, biscuits as big as your
head. WIN Fabulous Prizes, like Sparlcy Sun
Glasses! Saturday and Sunday Only.
The Diversity Bikers "Bridges and Dam Poker
Run." Planer’s Hill Parking lot on the corner
of 62 and 23 (Main Street) Starting at 12:45
PM.
The Spring PDA photo shoot. Just some good
time amusement for the tourist and to annoy
the fundies. SPRINGS PUBHC DISPLAY
OF AFFECTION (PDA), 12 noon, Basin
Park band shell, downtown. A G-rated
opportunity to smooch your sweetie-or the
perfect stranger-for posterity. Eureka Pride
has free treats to pass out.
The Eclectic Edge, 49 Spring, ARTIST
RECEPTION drop by and meet Artist
Matt Johnson and Gallery owners David
and Ginny between 1 and 5 PM. Light ,
refreshments. Register to win a piece of Matt s
artwork. Raffie to benefit the local Doggie
Shelter.
KARAOYdS: Jack’s Place, 37 Spring, 2 PM - 6
PM, WOW!.!! Jello Shots For a BUCK!
ALL GIRLS BAND IRIS: Chelsea’s, 10
Mountain St. Better show out early, these
ladies have been known to Jump Start their
show as early as 7 PM and then ~vind it up
Midnight.
The North West Arkansas Center For
Equality and UA PRIDE, are havin,,g a dance.
Entire, family welcome, upstairs at The
Space, located across from the U.S. Post
Office in Uptown-Downtown Eureka on
Spring St., DJ dance music and activities for
the kids. $5 cover, FREE to children 12 and
under. 8 -11 PM.
For a complete list of activities and events go
to www.eurekapride.com and diversitypride.
com.
New Owners ForJoplin’s
Pla-Mor Lounge.
New owners ofJoplin’s Pla-Mor Lounge, Tim,
Bonnie and Tom. Staffphoto
JOPLIN, MO (PR) After more than 40
years in the bar business including several
gay clubs, Dick and Billy Jack decided to
retire and let longtime friends Tim, Tom and
Bonnie take over their latest venture, the
Pla-Mor Lounge located at 532 S. Joplin St,
Joplin’s only gay club. New hours beginning
in April will be Tues-Sat 5pm to 1am. Happy
hour 5pro to 7pm. Phone 417-624-2722
Retiring Pla-Mor owners Dick and Billy Jack.
Staffphoto
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@ The Copa, Oklahoma City
@ Tulsa Eagle, Tulsa
@ Hideaway, Tulsa
@ Bamboo Lounge, Tulsa
@Club Majestic, Tulsa
@ The Ledo, Oklahoma City
@ Angles, Oklahoma City
@ Finishline, Oklahoma City
@ The End Up, Tulsa
@The Mine Shaft, Tulsa
@Club 209, Tulsa
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I really dig California Zins. For springtime/
back yard grill time, what better red xvine
than Zinfandel to go with short ribs, beef
brisket, grilled veggies and brats. Here
are some killer bottles I think should be
considered to go with your barbeque fun.
Brief histoD+ of the grape
[ZIHN-fuhn-dehl] qlais is thought to be
California’s most popular red-wine grape
because it’s not widely grown in other parts
of the world. Zinfandel vines were brought
to California in the 1850s and it is now that
state’s second most extensively planted red
grape behind cabernet sauvignon. Initially,
research confirmed a relationship between
Zinfandel and Primitivo (a variety grown
in Italy’s Puglia region), causing speculation
that Zinfandel might have originated in Italy.
However, in late 200 t, DNA fingerprinting
determined that Crljenak Ka~telanski (a littleknown
grape from Croatia) and Zinfandel
have identical DNA profiles.
Beside the Zinfandel grown in California
(and Italy’s Priraitivo), there are only isolated
plantings of this grape, mainly in South
Africa and Australia. The Zinfandel grape can
produce wines ranging from light, nouveau
styles to hearty, robust reds with berrylike,
spicy (sometimes peppery) flavors, plenty of
tannins, enough complexity and longevity to
be compared to Cabernet Sauvignon.
Mr. D’s V2 case
EarthQuake Zin ’06
The Phillips brothers pride themselves on
farming their vineyards with a meticulous
eye on quality. Their wines regularly take top
accolades in wine competitions. This Zin is
really full bodied with lots zing and flavor. In
addition to the Earthquake brand of reservetier
wines, wine brands under the Michael
David Winery umbrella include the popular
7 Deadly Zins. This wine has recently come
down in price about 20% in this market and
it’s a must try.
FoxGlove Zin ’07
Wine critic Robert Parker says that this one
of the most ,mpress~!}e
in the coot, high elevations
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wine shop. He also bar tends and hosts wine & food
town as the
Enthusiasts ofTulsa.
Hyse Couzins ’05,
This is the first
intriguingblend
39% Zinfandel and
drinldng xvell right now,
to decant. Wine critid sa3
for the next 5 - 7 years. This
be hard to find so if you see it,
wine has also come down in
20% in this market and
Remember that
Zinfandel are two
Couzins.
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cheese and cracked black pepper if desired.
Provide pita wedges and fresh vegetables for
spreading.
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nmen
At The BOK Center Tulsa
Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band
.April 7, 2009 @ 7:30
Ticket Prices: $9I, $57, $4I
Get tickets at LiveNation.com, all Tickets.corn Outlets, or
charge by phone at 1-866-7-BOK-CTR
Bruce Springsteen’s new album ’Working on a Dream’ was
released today (January 27, 2009). ’~,Working on a Dream~
was recorded with the E Street Band and features twelve
new Springsteen compositions plus one bonus track. It is
the fourth collaboration between Springsteen and Brendan
O’Brien, who produced and mixed the album.
Nickelback
Apr 10, 2009 at BOK Center
Nickelback With Seether and Saving Abel
Aprill 0, 2009
Tickets On Sale Now
Prices: $75, $55, $35
Unstoppable rock powerhouse Nickelback have announced
dates for their upcoming North American tour in support
of their new" album Dark Horse, released on Roadrunner
Records on November !8th. Nickelback are a phenomenally
successful touring band whose tours have grossed in excess
of $100 million thus f.ar and have sold more than 30 million
albums worldwide. Dark Horse is Nickelback’s first release
since the immensely popular All ~fhe Right Reasons, released
in 2005.
Fleetwood Mac
May 3, 2009 at BOK Center
"Unleashed" Tour
May 3, 200~
Tickets Off Sale Now
Prices: $149.50, $79.50, $49150
Wne sure to be historic "Unleashed" Tour, beginning on March
1st in Pittsburgh, is an epic cross-c0untry trek featuring
44 shows in major markets. The tour will include al!~ of the
Ma& many greatest hits fi’om over the course of the band’s
extraordinary career. Fleem~ood Mac, the multi-Grammy
winning, multi-platinum Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
inductees are back on the road for the first time in five years
following several successful solo projects.
OKC Civic Center Music Hall April Events
THE LEFT HAND SINGING a drama by Barbara Lebow
Date: Frida); March 20, 2009 - Saturday, April 11, 2009
Presented by Carpenter Square Theatre
MF~SURE FOR MEASURE by William Shakespeare
Date: Friday, March 27, 2009 - Sunday, April i9, 2009
Presented by the Oklahoma City Theatre Company
Perpetual Motion "Chiaroscuro"
Date: Friday, April 03, 2009 - Saturday, April 04, 2009
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Perpetual Motion presents Chiaroscuro
CLASSIC SERIES: SEASON FINALE presented by the
Oklahoma City Philharmonic
Date: Saturday, April 04, 2009 Time: 8:00 p.m.
Featuring Yuja X~gang, Piano
ZOMBIE PROM
Date: Frida>; April 10, 2009 - Sunday, Apri! 19, 2009
Zombie Prombook and lyrics by John Dempse, music by
Dana E Rowe based on a story by John Dempsey and Hugh
Murphy April 10-19, 2009 in the Freede Litde Theatre
DISNEY’S THE LION KING
Date: Tnesday, April 21, 2009 - Saturday, May 23, 2009
Presented by Celebrity Attractions
Begins April 21, 2009
Tracy Morgan and Martin Lawrence put the fun in
Funeral
When Romeo first reported on the proposed Chris Rock-led
American version of the outrageous British farce Death at
a Funeral, it was unclear as to whether the wild gay subplot
would survive. But as casting begins it seems clear that the
queer surprise in the black comedy’s casket is alive and well.
Better yet, 30 Rock’s hilarious Tracy Morgan has signed on
to star alongside Martin La~vrence in the corned); due in
2010, about a dead patriarch’s funeral interrupted by mishaps~
bizarre guests and the arrival of the deceased’s secret gay lover.
As long as Lawrence ~snt contracted to play B~g Momma
in this verSion, fans of the original can rest easy:. Now, which
brave American actor is going to pla~ the family member who
runs around the hOuSe naked for the entire length of the fihn? ......
Cherry Jones’ sister act
Object lesson to any actor who believes that coming out
will be career-damaging: Cherry Jones. The talented lesbian
character actress never stops working, plays the President on
24, was Matt Damon’s reality-checking mother in Ocean’s 13
and won a Tony Award for her pre-Meryl Streep incarnation
of Sister Aloysius on Broadway in Doubt. Now she’l! take
on another nun role in the upcoming drama Mother and
Child starring opposite Naomi xYc:atts, Samuel Jackson,
Kerry Washington and Annette Bening. The female-centered
adoption drama is currently in production and due for release
this December - aka Beg For Your Oscar Month - so the
filmmakers must be pretty confident about its chances. Who
knows, maybe Jones will have to dear room next to her Tony
for a new golden friend.
Ghost musical to raise Broadway from the dead?
It seems that everything on Broadway is going belly up.
Shows are dosing faster than new ones can take their place,
ticket sales are in the toilet and all seems hopeless. And it’s
desperate times that lead to crazy/genius ideas like Ghost: The
Musical taldng root and flowering. The smash 1990 Patrick
Swayze/Demi Moore film (for which Whoopi Goldberg
won her Color Purple Oscar) is going to sing its way onto
one of London’s West End stages sometime in 2010 and, if
sufficiently crowd-pleasing, will probably make a mad dash
for Broadway sometime later. The writers of "Unchained
Melody" are already spending their future royalty check
bump, but who’s going to pen the song about Patrick Swayze’s
heartbreaking inability to express love without invoking the
word "ditto?"
Neil Patrick Hat~s. 20th Century Foxphoto
Nell Patrick Harris hands out TV Land Awards
If the Harold and Kumar movies, How I Met Your Mother,
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, his SNL appearance and his
spoonbending antics on Ellen weren’t enough to convince you
that Neil Patrick Harris is a national treasure, try this: now
he’s retro-nostalgia-cable-channel TV Land’s answer to Hugh
Jackman. The funny, quick-witted song-and-dance man will
host April’s TV Land Awards with the requisite amount of
skits, mttsical numbers and awards given out to shows like
Charles In Charge and Mama’s Family. Expect a lot ofvintage
TV personalities showing up to join Harris as he tosses out
non-vintage one-liners.
Romeo San Vicente could sense something was up as early as Doogie
Howser, ~I.D. He can be reached care ofthispublication or at
DeeplnsideHollywood@qsyndicate.com.
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by Donald Pile and Ray Williams
SOME LEATHER_ FUN, ANYONE?
Photo: Pool atThe Inn Leather Resort
friends from North Carolina that we met
there, Paul and Dick. After all, meeting new
and exciting people is what traveling is all
about. By the way, did we mention that they
have a leather and chain sling in every room
at the Inn Leather? Seriously ifyou are into
leather, want to be into leather or just want to
look and enjoy leather, then fly, drive, take a
train or bus or even hitchhike and get down
to die Inn Leather resort in Ft. Laxlderdale
and learn how to have some real fun "leather
fun".
Since our travel columns are in
publications from coast to coast and
since we have readers who are into just about
everything we decided to stay in this Leather
Resort. The Inn Leather Resort has been
serving the leather and levi gay community
in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida as well as the
entire East coast and the Midwest for over 10
years and a lot of gay men from all over the
country love to stay there. During our stay
~ve met guys from New York, Chicago and
several other places in the Midwest as well
as Floridians. The general manager Chase
and his staff of Benji, Kevin and Gabe are
extremely professional, friendly and know
how to take care of their guests. We just can’t
say enough nice things about them. Chase
has the most beautiful eyes and smile that you
have ever seen in your life. We know that
a lot of guys stay here just so that they Can
see him! Tnru his professional guidance,
the Inn is in the process of being remodeled.
~ae entire staff is really very accommodating.
The grounds are filled with luscious tropical
plants. The pool area is very inviting.
.Amenities include heated swimming pool,
hot tub, tree wi-fi and a SLING in every
room! Yep! You read that right............
a leather and chain SLING in every room!
Never tried one? XWell this is a perfect
opporttinity for you. They have about a
dozen rooms and suites and are located just
two miles from the beach and just about a
10 minute drive to the major bars and one
mile south of do~vntown Ft. Lauderdale and
t’wo miles north of the Ft. Lauderdale airport.
~ae Inn Leather is a "clothing optional"
resort. Did we mention that there is a leather
and chain SLING in every room?
Each accommodation includes queen or king
size bed, private bath, kitchenette which
includes fridge, coffee maker, microwave,
TWVCR/cable tv and alarm clock.
They have ample off street parking for their
guests. A stay here includes a complimentary
continental breakfast poolside every morning.
q-here are a lot of restaurants within walking
distance and a major shopping center with a
supermarket just a few blo~ away. Ifyou
are into leather or appreciate leather or just
curious, then call and make a reservation.
Oh yeah! Did we mention that there is a
leather and chain SLING in every room?
For those really into leather, be SURE and
stop by the Ramrod leather bar at 1508 NE
4th Avenue for the most interesting time that
you can EVER have in a gay bar! They have
specials going on every day including Leather
Sunday; Full Moon Monday, Butt to Butt
Wednesda)~ Battle of the Bulge "l-hursday and
Fetish Friday. They have a daily two for one
happy hour from 3 to 9 PM. Check out their
website at: www.ramrodbar.com
A very special thanks to Chase, general
manager of the Inn Leather and to our new
leather and chain sling in every room"
While you in the area, be sure and check
out the greatest totally nude beach in the
country, Haulover Beach! which is located
about a twenty minute drive south of Ft.
Lauderdale. It is the only legally nude beach
in the Florida. Haulover Beach Park contains
one of south Florida’s most b~autiful clothing
optional beaches-a 0.4 mile stretch of beach
on the northernportion that draws people
from all walks of life, from other states,
Canada and a variety of other countries.
Nestled between the Intercoastal Waterway
and the Atlantic Ocean, it has pristine white
sand shores, open ocean surf, various shaded
picnic facilities, beautifully landscaped sand
dunes, and concession stands. The beach
is ideal for surfing as well as swimming.
Thousands of people go to Haulover Beach
on a sunny day. Simply put, Haulover Beach
is one of the best clothing-optional beaches
in the world, as ranked by many online and
print publications. As many as 7,000 people
visit the beach in a single day. There is a
snack cart situated in the clothing optional
area most days, as well as chairs available to
rent. Haulover Beach is quite large and is
broken up into different areas for gays and
straights. It is a great way to meet people.
Their website is http://www.hauloverbeach.
org
Contact the Inn Leather Resort at:
877.532.7729 or email them at
InnLeather610@aol.com and be sure to check
out their website at: www.innleather.com.
By the way, did we mention that they have a
leather and chain sling in every room???
Always remember to have fun when traveling,
meet new people and talk to everyone!
Spirit Journeys
Announces Gay Travel
Adventure Rafting the
Grand Canyon
Spirit Journeys has a new gay vacation rafting
the Grand Canyon. This journey starts July 1,
2009 and ends July 10, 2009.
NEW MILFORD, NJ (PRWEB)__ Spirit
Journeys is very pleased to announce its new
gay travel adventure rafting through the
Grand Canyon. "Going Deep" is the title
of this adventure and it begins and ends in
Las Vegas and includes eight days and seven
nights of rafting the Colorado River some
280 miles through the Grand Canyon. On
this journey the goal IS tO experience the
canyon and the river at a more profound level
than on an ordinary vacation.
Grand Canyon Rafting The adventure
into Self is enhanced by the inspiring
surroundings the Canyon has to offer. Being
on the Colorado River at the bottom of the
Grand Canyonhas a way of making humans
very humble in the presence of such majesty,
major life shifts can happen. Meditation
Heart Circles and group movement rituals
will be used to help open the mind and heart
and deepen the experience of this incredible
place. The intention is to actively engage
the Canyon and the River; to know them
on a more intimate level. The raft stops
several times each day to hike, to explore side
canyons, to swim in favorite swimming holes
or to stand in ~e power ofwaterfalls.
Howie Holben is the guide for this gay
vacation. Heis owner and caretaker of
Spirit Journeys. He was raised in northern
Arizona and has always felt a special bond to
the sacred places of the Southwest The gifts
he brings to this Journey are his extensive
knowledge of these places and the love for the
path we follow on this journey. Since early
childhood, he has been drawn to indigenous
peoples and their spiritual teachings,
traditions and practices. This attraction has
taken him on many adventures, exploring
the countless ways of "being in the world".
His personal journey through addiction
and recovery has spavcned in him a genuine
interest in assisting others on their own
spiritual path and he takes great pleasure
in introducing people to practices, sacred
ways and cultures to help them "step outside
their box". A Reiki/Karuna Ki Master and
Quantum Touch Pracdoner, his desire is to
help others uncover their potential and set
their hearts and minds free.
For additional information on this and other
special gay vacations, contact Hmvie Holben
or visit w~#.spiritjourneys.com.
About Spirit Journeys: Spirit Journeys offers
gay travel, gay vacations and gay retreats with
a spiritual focus, and unique gay retreat and
gay vacation options. Call (800) 754-1875 to
learn more about Spirit Journeys.
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April At P.A.C. Tulsa
April 18 -This year TU BLGTA’s Pride
Prom 2009: A BollDvood Ball will be held
on Apri! 18 at the Tulsa Performing Arts
Center Westby Pavilion. 3-he event is a prom
targeted toward Tulsa-area youth who are not
alIowed m or not comfortable with bringing
the date of their choice to prom, but it is
open to all people ages 15 m 25. Tickets are
$10 for general admission or $5 for %lsa
UniversitT students. For more information
emait http:l/us.mc l O.mail.yahoo.com/mc/
compose?to=tublgta@gmail.com.
March-27-29 & April 2-4 8pro Up the
Down Staircase -Liddy Doenges N~eatre
Anyone who’s ever started a new job will
relate to this comedy about Sylvia, an
idealistic young English teacher maneuvering
her way through a blizzard of paperwork,
contradictmT orders and indecipherable
instructions. She discovers that "Keep on
file in numerical order" means throw in
wastebasket, "Let it be a challenge" means
April 14-15 7:30pro Aspen Santa Fe Ballet
John H. XXqlliams ~eatre "Aspen Santa Fe
Ballet is a jewel of a company...a refreshing
surprise!" declares Ba&stage.com. This
dazzling contemporary dance company will
perform three to four pieces from its eclectic
repertoire that contains works by some of
the world’s [bremost choreographers, such as
TwT1a %arp, Jorma Elo and Paul Taylor.
The Vertical Hour
April 16-18 at 8 p.m., April 19 at 2 p.m.
Lid@ Doenges ~eatre
"iI~e "vertical hour" is the first hour after an
injury when ~sistance has the greatest chance
of being beneficial, tn this 2006 play by
Englishman David Hare, an ~Mnerican former
war correspondent turned Yale political
science professor joins her British boyfi’iend,
Philip, for a visit to his fhther, Oliver. She
has a pro-Iraq viewpoint, while the father,
a doctor with liberal leanings, is against not
only the war but many of the beliefs she
holds about a range of issues. Nadia is both
offended by and attracted to Oliver.
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by Jack Fertig Apill 2009
"Your are everyone’s darling Aries"
Mercury, Venus, and the Sun are
aligning in Aries bringing together
charming, witty banter and mad,
impulsive flirtations. Venus is retrograde
so be careful with those flirtations.
They’re not likely to go anywhere you’ll
want to stay!
ARIES (March 20-Apri~ 19): For now,
you are everybody’s darling and could
get away with almost anything. Dedicate
that power for good, not selfish motives.
You have so much of yourself to offer;
select your beneficiaries wisely to be
fully appreciated.
TAURUS (Apri~ 20 - May 20): Take
some private time with your nearest
and dearest in pursuit of pleasures that
nurture your soul. No need to hide in
a cloister. You can be wild, loud, and
frivolous, but do get away from your
usual routines and pals.
GEMIN~ (May 21- June 20): Fun with
your friends can easily get way out
of hand, but is that necessarily a bad
thing? You could talk a tiger out of his
or her stripes, but then what? When you
start to improvise, then the fun really
begins!
CANCER (~une 2t- July 22): The
m65n’s not full this week, but you’re
shining like it may as well be. Dazzle
your way up the ladder of success. Be
clear on where you want to go and with
,~hom. Or at least leave room to change
partners and destination.
LEO (July 23 - August 22):
Sometimes it’s best to let people air
out their differences or to hone their
arguments in fiery debate. If your
peacemaking talents aren’t really
needed, give yourself an aesthetic
challenge at a movie or an art show
you’d normally not attend.
VlRGO (August 23 - September 22):
Being a love god is a better deal when
you can choose your worshippers. Even
then, you’re likely to make bad choices.
Have your fun, but commitments should
be made in the cold light of day, not in
the throes of passion.
L~BP.A (September 23 - October
22): This is a great time to work on a
relationship, not to start one. Problems
are easy to discuss now. Solutions
can come later. It may feel like you’re
backtracking. That’s actually good for
clarifying those problems.
SCORHO (October 23 - November
21): Re-evaluate your goals at the gym.
How much are you motivated by pride
and vanity? Oh, really? Pushing too
hard for looks may be undermining your
health. Prioritize health, and your looks
wil! last longer!
SAGITTARIUS (November 22
- December 20): Your fascination with
a new sport or hobby is probably just a
passing fancy. Enjoy it, but don’t invest
in new gear at this point! Same with any
dates right now. Don’t confuse a great
time with falling in love.
CAPRICORN (December 21 - January
19): Changes are needed around your
home, and will be again soon. Whatever
re-arrangements or new tchatchkes you
like now will become annoying later.
Just think of it as a springboard - and
budget accordingly.
AQUARIUS (January 20 - February
18): Dahhhling! You are just too, too
charming. Be careful not to ta!k your
way into something you can’t get out of!
Sure, you can fake sincerity for now, but
that will trip you up later! Be real! No,
really real!
PISCES (February 19 - March 19):
Brace yourself and take a close look
at any financial problems. This is the
not the time to be buying anything (bad
impulses!) or selling (you’ll get better
prices later). Just take stock, and get
things into order.
METROPOLITAN
COMMUNITY CHURCHES
Rev Steve T. Urie
Spirit of Christ MCC
2902 E 20th Street
Joplin, MO 64804
417-529-8480
Worship Sunday 6:00 PM
Community Meal Wednesdays at 6:00 PM
www.socmcc.org
Have a God filled and Blessed Day!
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ahomans for Equality
The Festival will be held on Saturday, June 6th, from 11arn to 11prn at
Centennial Park at: 6th & Peoria. The Festival features a Kids Zone with
inflatable water slides, a mechanical bull & a rock climbing wall for the
adults, food & drinks, and all kinds of LGBT-friendly vendors, businesses,
organizations & churches. Online registration still open!
The 2009 Pride Parade starts on Saturday, June 6th at 7:30prn in the
Brady Arts District and ends at the Diversity Festival at Centennial Park
at 6th & Peoria. Shuttles and security will be provided. Online
registration stilt open!
Tulsa Folk-Rocker, Eric Hirnan is bringing his new band, Eric and the #.dams, to
the Centennial Park Stage to headline at 9:00prn on Saturday night, June 6th.
On May 30th at the historic Cain’s Ballroom, the annual Equality Gala will be held, celebrating
the 2009 theme "Dreams Really Do Come True!" Visit ww~.okeq,org for tickets!
The Tulsa Pride Exhibition of Fine Art, MOREcolor 2009, opens Thursday, June 4th
from 5:00-9:00prn and continues Friday June 5th & Saturday June 6th from Noonennis
R. Neill Equality Center. ....
Turn-A-Bout Fundraiser
Library Event
PFLAG Spaghetti Dinner
Diversi~ Day at the Zoo
Pride ~nterfaith Service
Gender Avengers/Trans Night
ToUoLS.A. Leather Show
PFLAG Movie Night
OYP Fashion Show & Fundraiser
Pride, Pioneers & Pancakes
April 1st, 10pro
May 28th, 7pro
May 29th, 6:30pm
May 30th, 10am
May 31st, 3pro
June 1st, 7pro
June 2nd, 7pro
June 3rd, 7pro
June 5th, 7pro
June 6th, 7:00am
Club Maverick
Tulsa Central Libra~
Fellowship Congregational Church
Tulsa Zoo
St. Jerome’s Parish Church
OkEq Equality Center
OkEq Event Center
Circle Cinema
Centennial Park Stage
Centennial Park Building
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[2009] Metro Star Magazine, April 1, 2009; Volume 6, Issue 4
Subject
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Politics, education, and social conversation over LGBTQ+ topics
Description
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The Metro Star’s first issue began in August of 2008. Before this issue was Ozarks Pride (2004), The Ozark’s Star (2004), and The Star (2005).
This magazine discusses topics of AIDs, education, politics, local and national civil rights of the LGBT community, and advice for relationships and places to visit.
This collection is PDF searchable. Physical copies are also available to be seen at the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center with permission.
Creator
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Metro Star News
Publisher
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Metro Star News
Date
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April 2009
Contributor
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Greg Steele
James Nimmo
Jeanne Flanigan
Victor Gorin
Rex Wockner
Susan A. Muscari
Gerald Libonati
Michael W. Sasser
Romeio San Vicente
Andrew Collins
Donald Pile
Ray Williams
Jack Fertig
Devre Jackson
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PDF
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English
Type
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magazine
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Southwest Missouri
Western Arkansas
Eastern Oklahoma
Southeast Kansas
The United States of America (50 states)
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https://history.okeq.org/collections/show/19
Relation
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The Metro Star Magazine, February 1, 2009; Volume 6, Issue 2
https://history.okeq.org/items/show/131
The Metro Star Magazine, July 1, 2009; Volume 6, Issue 7
https://history.okeq.org/items/show/133
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https://history.okeq.org/items/show/128
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