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:9th Annual Feast For Friends i Was Death Sentence
: And Other Community Events i Based onAnti-Gay Bias?
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¯ TULSA (TFN) - September is shaping up as a mostly quiet : OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A federal appeals court
month with only The NAMES Project Tulsa Area Chapter’s ¯ upheld the death sentence of an Oklahoma death row ¯ annual Feast for Friends as amajor event on Saturday, the 29th. ¯ inmate convicted ofkilling four people during a 1984 ¯ The event features private dinners at homes as wall as larger " bank robbery. ¯
dinners sponsored by community organizations and churches " The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver
¯
where contributions are encouraged to support The NAMES ~ split 2-1 in upholding Jay Wesley Neill’s death sen-
" Project Tulsa Area Chapter’s programs. ¯ tenceforthemurdersduringtherobberyofaGeronimo
¯ After each dinner, guests gather for dessert at theGreat Hall of " bank. Thedissentingjudge,Carlos LuceroofAlamosa, ¯
the Allan Chapman Activity Center at the University of Tulsa, " Colo., said the penalty phase of Neill’s trial was not
¯ 5th Street and Gary Avenue, from 8:30 till 10:30. There will be ¯ fair because Comanche County District Attorney
: a silent auction, entertainment, information about The NAMES : Robert Schulte repeatedly toldjurors that Neill was a
¯ Project and portions of the Quilt as well. " homosexual. ¯
To register a dinner, call The NAMES Project Tulsa Area ¯ ’The prosecutor’s blatant homophobic hate mon-
¯ gering at sentencing has no pl~,,cein the courtrooms of
¯ a civilized society, and Neill s (original) appellate
¯ connsd’s failure to raise the issue.., constitutes clear
~ and plain prejudicial neglect," Lucero wrote.
¯ Schulte, of Lawton, said he presented evidence ¯
¯ about Neill’s homo,sexuality because it was .relevant
to how he and his co-defendant used some. of the
: $17,000 they stole. ’‘i do not recall emphasizing or
¯ calling for _th~,,,t penalty because of his homosexual ¯
relationships, he said. "It was because of the grue-
~ some nature of the crime." His statements about
efll s homosexuahty came m 1992 at a retrial. The
¯ first conviction was overturned because the two de-
" fendants were not tried separately.
¯ The appellate judges who formed the majority,
~ Deanell R. Tacha of Lawrence, Kan. and Bobby
¯ Baldock of Roswell, N.M., concluded that none of
The NAMES ProjectAIDS Memorial Quilt at the Fair Grounds. " Neill’s claims of misconduct by Schulte have merit.
¯
Chapter at 748-3111 or e-mail to info@TulsaQuilt.org Admis- : Tsahyeiynigsstuheadt aS2c7h-upl.ateg,es dceocmismioennftosr "thweesriex-rsetlaetveacnoturtto,
sion to the dessert extravaganzais free for dinnerhosts and quests ¯ both the (prosecution’s) case and Neill’s defense
and others are welcome see Feast, p. 8 " theory."
¯ Gay Tulsan In Military Exhibit " Agmn a Hope ForVaccine
." Poem of Kicked Out Sailor in Smithsonian Show " ATLANTA (AP) - The scientists trying to create a
." WASHINGTON (AP) - A Smithsonlan Institution exhibit on " vaccine to prevent AIDS suddenly seem optimistic,
¯ submarines includes apoemby asailorwhowas kicked out of the " even bullish, words that have not been heard much in ¯ Navy for being Gay. "It’s kind oflike a validation ofmy service," " this perennially gloomy field. For the first time, many
¯ said Tim Beauchamp, a native of Tulsa, Oklahoma, who lives in ] researchers appear confident a vaccine is possible.
¯ Washington. ’’I was considering the Navy as a career." ¯ More than anything else, the monkeys are respon-
: Beauchamp, a yeoman who served in the Navy for more than : sible for the change in attitude. Scientists have long
¯ four years, wrote "Sub Sailor’s Views on ’Glasnost’ "in Decem- " used monkeys to test theories about AIDS treatment
~¯ ber 1987 on board the USS Henry Clay, a nuclear submarine " and prevention. But in two decades of trying, they
patrolling the North Atlantic. could not concoct a vaccine that would safely protect
¯ The poem is part of the exhibit "Fast Attacks & Boomers: : a monkey from dying of AIDS. Until now.
¯ Submarines in theColdWar" at theNational MuseumofAmeri- ¯ bloNnodw, 4t-hyeeraer-aorledmmoanckaeqyuselliikveinGgoidnotth,ealehvaenlds2obmioe-,
can History. A copy of it is displayed.on a sailor’s bunk in a part :
." of the exhibit dealing with daily life on a submarine, hazard containment facility at the Yerkes Regional
." Harkeuing back to the days of the ColdWar, thepoemindudes " Primate Research Center on the leafy fringes of
lines like, "Reagan and Gorbacliev back and forth volley while : Emory University. Just over a year ago, Godot got a
Nancy and Ralsa put on their best. Capitalist!Commuuist - " big dose of SHIV, an especially nasty lab-made
Political’folly! What does it matter? It’s East against West." amalgam of HIV and SIV, the human and monkey
Eight months after writing the poem, Beauchamp, now 36, ~ versions of the AIDS virus. Ordinarily, he would be
received an honorable discharge from the Navy after his superi- dead in six to eight months.
~,di’seovered,he’ was Gay. Before his discharge, Beauchamp " , A~.yone entering Godot’s living space must dress
oeen awaraea a Good Conduct Medal, a Sea Service Ribbon n.eao to toe in protective clothing, because SHIV
and a letter of commendation. ~ cxrculates in his bloodstream. But his curious, alert
’The fact that such a committed and rule-bound serviceman ~ .stare at visitors peeking through a window shows he
was kicked out of the Navy for no other reason than being Gay ." ~s outwardly unscathed. Godot is infected but otberillustrates
the stupidity and,wastefulness of our current policy wise healthy.
toward Gays in the military, saidRep. BameyFrank, D-Massa_ " Sevenmonthsbeforehewasinfected, Godotgotan
chusetts, an openly Gay member of Congress. 7 experimental new AIDS vaccine, see Vaccine, p. 2
When Beanchamp was in the military, homosexuals were "
prohibited fromserving. Under the current "don’t ask, don’ t tell,, ¯ Ill DIRECTORY P. 2 policy, homosexuals can serve so long as they do not engage in :
homosexual conduct or state their sexual preference. ~ EDITORIAL P. 3
: ~ US & WORLD NEWS P. 4 Beauchamp, whohas worked since his discharge as a computer -.
systems analyst and a writer, said he’d forgotten about the poem : ~ HEALTH NEWS P. 6 until he came across it in an old notebook from his days as a ¯
submariner. It was included in the exhibit after Beauchamp’s ; Z ENTERTAINMENT + MORE P. 8
partner brought it to the attention of the curator. ¯ ~ GAY STUDIES/R. LESBIAN P. 10/11
OKC Sets Up Censorship :
Because of Gay Banners ¯
OKLAHOMACITY (AP)- City officials willconsider :
regulating advertising messages on bus-stop benches
and .on. banners flying from city-owned light poles after "
receiving numerous complaints about a Gay-pride flag. ¯
A new law that will be brought before the City ¯
Council would allow only messages that would "pro- "
mote or celebrate the city, its civic institutions, orpublic "
activities or events in the city of Oklahoma City." This ¯
could prohibit messages promoting prayer, voting or "
drug-abuse prevention. Oklahoma City has 1,240 ban- "
her locations that are available for use by community -."
groups to promote activities. ¯
MayorKirkHumphreys and City ManagerJim Couch °
sought the new law after the city spar~ed controversy ."
earlier this year when it took down, triton put back up, ¯
banners promoting Gay pride. The banners, paid for by
the Cimarron Alliance Foundation, drew numerous ¯
complaints at City Hall. see Censor, p. 2 "
Murderer Now Claims
"Homosexual Panic’"
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A Mexican citizen on
Oklahoma’s deathrow is seeking anew trial after a state
psychiatrist recanted his testimony, saying new information
shows Gerardo Valdez suffered from brain
damage, paranoia and "homosexual panic" when he
killed another man in 1989.
Psychiatrist Cecil F: Mynatt said it is now his conclusion
that Valdez was unable to control his ownbehavior
or was "temporarily insane" when Valdez killed Juan
Barron. "Mr. Valdez suffers fromparanoia, specifically
triggeredin this instance by homosexual panic," Mynatt
said. "Additionally, he is brain damaged and was under
the influence of alcohol."
Mynatthadpreviously testified that Valdez was competent
to stand trial. He said he changed his mind after
reviewing information provided by Valdez’s attorney,
including opinions of two neurophsychologists and a
medical report.
Attorney Robert Nance is asking for anew trial based
~hn arecent deeisionby the International Court ofJustice
at deplored the 1999 execution in Arizona ofGerman
brothers Walter and Karl LaGrand. The court held that
the brothers were denied their rights underinternational
law to access thor consul after their arrest. Nance said
the world court s decision prevents domestic procedural
rules from interferin~ with judicial review of
cases involving international law violations.
The applicationwas filed with theOklahoma Court of
Criminal Appeals, on the same day Amnesty International
officials and other death penalty foes renewed
theirdemandthatGov. FrankKeating commute Valdez’s
sentence.
Keating has granted two stays, while rejecting Fox’~
request and a parole board recommendation of clemency
for Valdez, 41. Keating granted a second 30-day
stay for Valdez, see Valdez, p.2
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B/L/G/T Alliance, Univ. of Tulsa United Min. Ctr.
Chamber of Commerce Bldg., 616 S. Boston
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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
Member of The Associated Press
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* is where you canfindTFN. Notall are Ga_y-ownedbutallare Gay-friendly.
¯ torch with a rainbow flame over the
¯¯ foundation’s name.
The city’s staff granted a permit for
¯ Cimarron Alliance banners to be put on 44
: poles. City leaders decided to take the ban-
. hers down after receiving complaints, but
¯ they had to put them backup after attorneys
¯ representing the alliance threatened to sue.
: Bill Rogers, an attorney and a member of
", the Cimarron Alliance, said the banners
¯ were legally protected free speech. ’The
¯ city has provided a forum for speech and it
¯ must not prohibit speech unless there is a
~ compelling governmental interest in doing ’
¯ so," he said "It would be very difficult to
¯ demonstrate such an interest in these cir-
,* cumstances."
’, Humphreys contends the banners go be-
¯ yond the concept of public speech because
¯ the city requires.groups who want to use the ¯
poles to provide the banners and to pay for
¯ their installation and removal. He said many
advertisers choose not to carry certain rues-
"- sages, and that Oklahoma City can, too.
¯ The city has notrespondedto the alliance’ s
¯ request to hang banners on city poles for
Gay and Lesbian History Month, which
takes places in October, Rogers said. The
: group’s earlier banners finally came down
¯ in mid-July after the time the alliance had
¯ reserved for them ran out.
Besides promoting pride, they featured a
¯
while saying he had not changed his mind
¯ that the execution should go forward.
¯ Keating has apologized for a violation of
the article of the Vienna Convention that
: guarantees foreign nationals, upon arrest,
the right to contact their country’s consul.
~ Keating said that did not change Valdez’s
¯ guilt the slaying.
; An Amnesty International report said all
¯ 15 foreign nationals executed in the U:S.
since 1993 were denied theright to consular
¯ access.
¯, Valdez admits killing Barron after Barron
made advances toward him in abar. Valdez
~ took Barron home, forced him to strip, and
¯
shot him twice in the head before burning
¯ his body.
¯ one experts hopewill be themodel for a shot
to control the worldwide epidemic.
Two other variations of the same approach
have been tested on monkeys at
Harvard Medical School and Merck & Co.
," with similar results. The Merck vaccine is
" already in first-stage human testing, and the
-" Yerkes and Harvard versions should start
: within six months.
¯ Vaccine discovery has been a notoriously
~ discouraging areaofAIDS research, clouded
~ by doubts that such a thing is even scientifi-
¯" cally thinkable. Butoverthepastyear, thanks
¯
to this impressive series of monkey experi-
" ments, many researchers have grown up-
:beat.
An AIDS vaccine is still no sure bet, they
," say. But many believe they are at least on a
¯ rational path toward finding one.
: The chances of success? "Ve~. _good,"
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them tobuildnew copies ofthevirus and obliterating then~
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’ and destroy most 6f the infected cells before they can "
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predicts Dr. Harriet Robinson, who oversaw experiments
stampede to get these technologies into humans and ask : likely to pass .on HIV. ¯ ofthe rest of us, a whole lotof trouble ffinstead of listing
the question: Can we-translate these monkey findings into :
the human situation?" ¯ and Merck differ, but all involve the same strategy: First
Researchers hope to know soon whether these experimental
shots launch the same early immune system defenses
seem in vaccinated monkeys. This would be an
encouraging hint of the vaccine’s eventual power. Some
answers could beoffered at an international AIDS vaccine
conference in early September..
However, vaccine development is frustratingly slow.
Even if all goes flawlessly, Robinson estimates it will be
2905before large-scale experiments begin with her vacone.
Learning whether it truly prevents AIDS will take
another two years. Many estimate these vaccines are still
a decade or more away.
So with clear answers so far off, is all’this optimism
realistic? ’~I ask myself whether it is justified based on the
science," says Dr.. Peggy Johnston, assistant director for
AIDS vaccines at the National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases. "And my conclusion is yes."
One reason is that scientists have lowered the bar. Until
now, all useful vaccines prevented infections. However,
the human immune system cannot mm back an HIV
infection, and no one knows how to make a vaccine that
accomplishes something the human body cannot do for
itself.
So thenew vaccines are designed to accomplish thenext
best thing- train theimmune defenses to hold an infection
in Check without preventing it entirely.
"For a long time, people assumed that the only successfnl
vaccine would completely prevent infection," says Dr.
Robert Schooley of the University of Colorado. ’The new
studies suggest that a vaccine might also have a moderab
ing influence on the disease process itself."
Scientists agree that blocking an infection requires the
production, of powerful antibodies. This is how standard
vaccines work: They show the immune system a protein
that is unique to the germ. If the bug ever gets into the
body, the defenses will blaze back with antibodies that
latch onto the protein, blocking the germ and destroyingit.
HIV, however, is amoving target. It mutates so fast that
it constantly changes the proteins on its surface. So a
vaccine that triggers an attack against one strain of HIV
may be powerless against another. Furthermore, the virus
covers its surface with sugar, whichhides its proteins from
antibodies.
When all of this became clear in the 1990s, scientists
went back to basics. How is it, they asked, that people
often live with HIV for eight or 10 years beforefalling sick
with AIDS? And why do some never seem to get ill at all? "
The answer turns out to be another line of defense ¯
against germs, the killer cells. Unlike antibodies, which "
guard against free-floating microbes, the killer cells rec- "
ognize infected cells and destroy them. ¯
HIV’s favorite target is a blood cell called the helper "
cell. This complicates matters enormously, since one of
the hel.per cells’ most important jobs is nourishing and :
managing the killer cells.
In the first days ofaninfection, HIV burrows into helper "
Details of the vaccines developed by Yerkes, Harvard
come injections of several HIV genes, which are taken in
by muscle cells that use them as blueprints to make viral
proteins. Next comes an immune system booster, such as
a smallpox virus that has been rebuilt to carry some of the
HIV genes. The ultimate goal is still a vaccine that will
block HIV infection. But in the meantime, many believe
wide use of the latest vaccines could reduce spread of th~
disease, especially in parts of the world where it is rampant.
Experts believe a vaccine is the only thing tlmt will
tame an epidemic that has already killed 20 million people
and infects 15,000 more daily.
Dr. Gary Nabel, director of the National Institutes of
Health’s Vaccine Research Center, says that even if the
first versions are only modestly effective, tinkering will
probably make them better. ’"vVe’ll start with a Model T
and hope to get to a Mercedes fast."
While much of the attention is on novel strategies, a
more traditional vaccine is already in final-stage testing.
The AIDSVax, developed by VaxGen, has been given to
7,900 volunteers in North America, Europe and Thailand
The vaccine is made from the outer wrapper ofthe AIDS
virus and is intended to trigger antibodies to prevent
infection. Many AIDS experts are skepti,c01, because the
approach has been disappointing in monkeys, and some
early volunteers contracted HIV after being vaccinated.
However, VaxGen’s president, Dr. Donald Francis,
says more promising data from chimp experiments suggest
it has as good a chance as any other approach,
Researchers will take their first look at the results in
November, but unless it proves surprisingly effective, the
experiment will condnue until at least the end ofnext year.
Next in development is an Aventis Pasteur vaccine. It
consists of a canarypox virus engineered to carry HIV
genes, followed by a boost with AIDSVax. The Walter
Reed Army Institute of Research plans to start testing on
16,000 volunteers in Thailand next summer.
Even ifaaone of these works out, other ideas are in the
development pipeline. The National Institute of Allergy
and Infectious Diseases, the biggest vaccine backer, is
financing two dozen different possible vaccines.
Still, a few dozen healthy monkeys like Godot do not
prove anAIDS vaccine is on the horizon. Somein the field
worry that the wishforonehas dissolved~bealthy scientific
skepticism.
"We tend to swing from momentous lows to momentous
highs in the AIDS field," says Dr. Mark Mulligan of
the University ofAlabama at Birmingham. ’’Wemaybe in
an Alan Greenspan time ofirrational exuberance, because
we need this so desperately."
~ all the people who attend Tulsa events, she would simply
:. say that all the usual people were there - since it is the
: same-cast of criminals in column after colunm That
: would that reduce her column to a size .appropriate to its
¯ usual level of content, as well as saving someone the
¯
trouble of typing in all those names, over and over.
¯ Actually, as much as I hate to admit it, I find Ms.
.. Walker’s colulnn somewhat useful, if vulgar. In a town as
¯ screwed up and elitist/racist/homophobic as Tulsa is, it
never hurts to know who among Tnlsa’s "social elite" is
¯ in bed with each other, figuratively speaking.
¯ Top World editor JoeWorley took umbrage about TFN ¯
calling The Worm a country club newspaper some years
" back. My response is just read Ms. Walker’s column, see
¯ how much space it regularly commands and try to argue
¯ with me. Imagine if The Worm devoted as much space to
¯
international news regularly as they do to Ms. Walker!
Another interesting aspect of Tulsa Worm "reporting"
is the flagrant disregard for professional ethics in some
~
cases. Recently The World published an article about a
¯ new image/fundraising campaign~oyq~ulsa~ s most pron~i-
¯ nent non-profit organization. The only problem was that
the information in the article had/has yet to be released to
¯ the public. The "reporter" was privy to the information
¯
because s/he serves on an advisory committee for the non-
" profit and took theinformation direcdy out ofanonpublic
meeting without permission. Even first year journalism
¯ students would recognize that this was obtained and used
¯ improperly - and The World reporter who did this should
¯ know better.
¯ But part of the incestuous nature ofTulsais that the non-
" profit will likely tolerate just about anything The World
¯ does because The World donates so very many dollars a
." year. Given this compromised financial relationship, it’s
little surprise that this non-profit only gets promotional
¯
newscoverage from The WorM. And incompetence at the
¯ helm of this non-profit has been covered up for years by all
¯ of Tnlsa’s news outlets. ¯
But shoddy journalism should hardly be a surprise to
¯
thosewho’vebeenrcading The World’sreligioncoverage
¯ for some months. Thefirst clue that The WorMhas thrown
¯ journalistic balance out JoeWorley’s window onto Main ¯
Street is that World religion "reporter" Bill Sherman
¯
allegedly is a "Promise-Keeper".
Being a member of this rightwing, misogyuistic and
¯ anti-Gay organizationwouldbe consideredradicallycorn_ ¯
promised as a journalist by most news organizations but
¯
not at The WorM, apparently.
¯ Since Sherman took over the religion post, stories about
¯ evangelical and fundamentalist groups have dominated
¯ Wormcoverage while newsworthy stories coming out of
other moreprogressive traditions.have been ignored. And
: Tulsa’s moderate and progressive religious leaders have
¯ given up hope for fair coverage from The World.
¯
But at TFN, we always hold out hope for redemption,
¯ and note that Shermanis asking for stories aboutmiracles.
¯ Here, we’re just hoping for fair and accurate reporting
from The World. Now that would be a miracle, indeed.
Newspaper, Chain Offers
Partner Benefits
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) - Gannett Co., the nation’s
largest newspaper publisher, will soon offer full medical
benefits to same-sex partners who live together, the
company announced. The company also will offer
benefits to unmarried domestic partners of the opposite
sex. The benefits for partners will become available
inJanua~ 2002. Tobeeligible, partners mustfirst
havehad a 12-month relationship. They mustalso sign
an affidavit that declares there is financial dependence
between them.
Gannett spokeswomanTara Connell said there have
been several requests from empl,oyees for equal coverage
for domestic partners. "We ve been looking at it
for years," Connell said. She said the company’s rapid
growth last year slowed the process of revamping the
benefits. Gannett employs about 53,400 people at 98
newspapers in the United States. The company also
owns about 23 television stations.
Unlike married couples of the opposite sex, an
employee claiming the benefits will still have to pay
taxes on the amount used to insure his or her partner.
The IRS does not extend tax exemptions for medical
benefits to domestic partners.
Gannett’s decision was hailed by Gay and Lesbian
groups. ’q~o stay competitive youhave to provide good
benefits," said Sherry Boschert, a board member of
The National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association.
"It just makes good business sense."
Cincinnati Schools
AddressAnti-Gay Attacks
CINCINNATI (AP) - Public,school students who
xntimidate others because of sexual orientation or
disability can be suspended or expelled. The board of
education voted 6-1 to add those two provisions to the
Cincinnati Public Schools’ discipline policy. Board
lawyer John Concannon said principals and assistant
principals were trained to pr.operly enforce the new
policy during in-service sessxons two weeks ago.
Mindy Sandfort, a spokeswoman for the Gay, Lesbian
and Straight Education Network, urged the board
to teach educators how to recognize, prevent and
discipline harassment based on sexual identity, which
is not explicitly mentioned in the new policy. ’q~eachers
need to understand the difference between gender
identity and sexual orientationandhow to deal withthe
harassment that comes with both situations," she said.
Concannon said he believes gender identity is covered
under the current policy. The policy applies to
serious incidents ofharassment, intimidation or threatening,
he said. It does not apply to incidents that
involve free speech rights.
If a student says, "I’m opposed to homosexuality
because God says homosexuality is a sin," it is not a
violation of the policy, Concannon said.
Australian Gay Partners .
To Be Recognized .
PERTH, Australia (AP) -De facto partnerships, including
homosexual relationships, will be recognized
in the same way as marriages under new propertyrights
legislation to be introduced in a state parliament.
Western Australia state Attorney General Jim
McGinty said the legislatiqnwouldallow thoseheterosexual
and same-sex couples whose relationships .are
recognized by the state to have property disputes
settled through the Family Court rather than having to
go to the Supreme Court.
Australia has a vibrant and vocal Gay community.
Sydney each year plays host to the Gay and Lesbian
Mardi Gras, one of the largest international Gay pride
- festivals.
Under Australian law, when a de facto relationship
ends there is no specific legQ, right allowing a person
to claim a share of property. A significant and growing
proportion of couples living together in Western
Australia have no access to the Family Court if their
relationship ends," McGinty said. "Instead, they must
argue their case before the Supreme Court, resorting to
principles of equity that can be expensive, time consuming,
public and uncertain." McGinty said the legislation,
which will be introduced in Parliament this
week, would also ensure all de factor couples can ask
for alimony, just as married couples can.
The legislation comes after Prime Minister John
Howard said that he would not support homosexual
weddings and that same-sex couples should not have
the same legal status as married couples.
Teens Held in Gay Killing
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) -Abeating and arson that killed
a 58-year-old Wichita man began with him making
sexual advances to two teen-agers now charged with
killing him, witnesses said. The co-defendants - 18-
year-old Zachary Steward and 17-year-old Brandon
Boone - blamed each other for repeatedly striking
Marcell Eads on his head, according to testimony
presented at a preliminary hearing.
District Court Judge Joseph Bribiesca ruled there
was enough evidence to charge the two with firstdegree
murder, aggravated arson, aggravated burglary
and aggravated robbery. The judge also ruled that
Boone, 16 when the crimes occurred, would be tried as
an adult. Innocent pleas have been entered for both
men. Trial was set for Oct. 8.
Early the morning of June 29, firefighters found the
body of Eads on the floor of his smoldering home.
Although Eads was beaten severely, it was the fire that
killed him, Deputy Coroner Jaime Oeberst said. Eads
was burned over 60% to 70% of his body and inhaled
smoke that left alethal level of carbon monoxide in his
blood, he said.
Testimony showed that sex and sexual orientation
appeared to be key factors in the motive. Police Det~-
tive Blake Mumma said Steward gave a statement m
which he said that Eads had made sexual advances
toward him and Boone - prompting Boone to start
beating Eads with a broomstick, and later with the end
of a table and a rock. Steward also admitted to striking
Eads, Mumma said. According to Steward’s statement
to police, the two teens returned to Eads’ house and
Boone started the fire.
Eads, a hairstylist, was openly Gay, said neighbor
Zusan Livingston. She said Eads toldherhewas having
an affair with Steward. Steward and his father had
come to Eads for haircuts. Steward grew up in Riverside,,
several blocks west of F_ads’ bungalow.
Rachel Mroczkowsk, Boone’ s 15-year-old girlfriend,
testified she heard Steward say the night of the killing
that he was angry because he had gone to aman’s house
andthe man,had grabbed the area around his genitals
and propositioned him. She said Steward used a slur to
.describe the man and said he wanted Boone to go with
him to beatthe man and steal things from his home.
Under Kansas law, if it can be shown that someone
was a crime victim because of his sexual orientation, a
judge can use that to justify a harsher sentence.
US Women Wed
In Netherlands
PROVINCETOWN, Mass. (AP) - Two women from
Provincetown were married last month in the Netherlands,
but it is unclear whether their marriage will be
legally recognized in Massachusetts.
Heather Wishik and Susan Donegan said they will
not fight for their overseas mamage to be legal in
Massachusetts, but Gay civil fights advocates predict
state courts may soon be forced to confront the issue of
same-sex couples who marry or are joined in a civil
union out of state or overseas.
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A lawsuit recently filed in Suffolk Superior Court
challenges the rights of same-sex couples to marry in
Massachusetts. Five’months ago, the Netherlands became
the first country to allow same-sex marriage.
"For us, our Dutch marriage is simply that - it’s a
Dutch marriage entered into for very personal reasons,"
Donegan said. "We did not get married as a
political or legal challenge to Massachusetts or to the
United States."
Mary Bonauto, staff attorney for Gay and Lesbian
Advocates and Defenders, said she had not yet seen
couples married in the Nefherlands or joined in civil
union in Vermont go to court in Massachusetts to
extend the legal recognition.
But Bonauto said she has seen same-sex couples
who went to Vermont for a civil union return to
Massachusetts and successfully negotiate employee
benefits with employers or family rates with clubs.
"It’s evolving in its own way," she said.
European Scouts
Do Accept Gays
During the last European Conference of Scouts and
[gift] Guides, at the initiative of the Belgian delegation
a resolution was approved not to consider homosexuality
as a discriminatory factor, neither inside nor
outside scouting. This resolution was a reaction by
Belgium to the recent troubles with the Boy Scouts of
America regarding the exclusion of gay members, on
account of which Steven Spielberg, among others,
resigned from the organization.
The European Conference of Scouts and Guides,
which took place from 7 - 12 July in Prague, was
attended by more than 400 representatives from
throughout Europe. Belgian delegates represented the
five Belgian scouts and guides organizations, which
have around 150,000 members.
Scouting and Guiding is active in 41 European
countries, with approximately 3.5 million boys and
gifts participating. Worldwide the organization counts
around 35 million scouts and guides in 216 countries,
and the Jamboree, to be held next year in Thailand, is
its most eye-catching international initiative.
The Belgian proposal to avoid discrimination based
on sexual preference opened with the charter of fundamental
rights of the child adopted by the European.
Unionin Nice in December 2000. Further, the amendment
pointed out evolutions in present day society and
the fact that scouting and guiding always follow the
tendencies of youth culture, put to the test of the
principles of the movement.
Following this it was stated that ’l~olebis" (the
Belgian abbreviation for Gays, Lesbians, and Bisexuals)
are to be universally accepted within European
society and that this cannot be used as an exclusionary
criterion by national (scouting) federations. The Belgian
proposal was approved by a large majority of the
conference representatives.
Turkey, Greece, Romania, Portugal, Cyprus, and
Malta voted against the initiative. The five Belgian
"scouts and guides organizahons (VVKSM, FOS, FCS,
GCB, and SGP) hope that the approval of this resolution
will have an impact on other regions of the world.
The American observer at the conference was "not
really happy" with the result [of the vote on the
initiative]. However, news is trickling out that the
scouting movement in the United States is.coming
under pressure from, among others, gigantic sponsors
such as Levis and Coca Cola, to revise its policy
against Gays.
Washington State Court
Upholds Partner Benefits
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - The city of Vancouver can
keep providing health benefits to domestic partners of
Gay and Lesbian city employees, the Washington
¯ Supreme Court has ruled. The 8-1 decision will likely
¯ stretch beyond the city’s borders. Other cities, includ-
¯
ing Seattle, and the state have similar policies, along
¯ withlocal governmentsinatleastfourotherstates.The
¯ policy allows domestic partners, including same-sex
: partners, to receive health insurance benefits. It also
¯ allows employees to use theii sick leave to care for
¯ partners or partners’ children.
Vancouver resident Roni Heinsma challenged the
¯
policy soon after it was adopted in 1998, arguing that
: the city was creating akind of mini-marriage in viola-
. tion of the state law against same-sex marriage.
But thejustices agreed with the city’s argument that
¯ regulation of employee benefits is alocal matter. ’’We
¯ conclude that the city’s recognition of domestic part-
. nershipis limited and that the program does not uncon-
¯ stitutionally interfere with the Legislature’s ability to
¯ regulate familial relationships on a statewide level,"
¯ Justice Susan Owens wrote for the majority.
Heinsma’s challenge was argued by the Northstar
¯ Legal Center, a conservative nonprofit law firm m
Fairfax, Va., which challenged the city’s argnment
that the benefits were necessary to recruit and retain
good workers. ’The city or county that enacts this is
¯ saying that we do not agree with the state Legislature’s
decision to ban same-sex marriage," said Jordan
Lorence, the Northstar attorney who argued the case.
¯ ’q-his isn’t based on need, it’s based on a political
¯ agenda."
Similar polices in Atlanta, Chicago, Denver and
Broward County, Fla., have been upheld by other state
supreme courts, Lorence said. Policies in Minneapo-
¯ lis, Boston, and Arlington County, Va., were struck
¯ down. Courts are still considering cases in Philadel-
¯ phia and Montgomery County, Maryland.
¯ "Every time we get domestic partner benefits like
¯ this, the fight wing swoops in and raises some kind of
challenge," said Pat Logue, senior counsel for the
¯ Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, a Gay
civil fightsgroup. "I think the courts recognize that
: domestic partnership is not marriage."
¯ In Washington, King County and the cities of Seattic,
Olympia and Tumwater have similar policies.
: The Public Employees Benefits Board approved a
: similar policy for state workers last year at Gov. Gary
Locke’s request.
¯ Since Vancouver’s policy was initiated in 1998, ¯
about 30 domestic partnerships have been registered
and approved. The city paid more than $20,000 to
¯ cover the cost of the policy in 1998. "A lot of private ¯
businesses have similar policies," said Ted Gathe,
¯ Vancouver’s city attorney. "It was felt by the city that
¯. recruiting and retaining employees is important, and
this was one of the benefits that should be included in
: our package."
¯ Gay Friendly Governor
i To Run for US Senate
: NEWBURY, N.H. (AP) - Democratic Gov. Jeanne
¯ Shaheen, New Hampshire’s first female governor and
¯ the first to openly support abortionfights, took the first
official step toward running for Senate. Shaheen, a
¯ social liberal and fiscal conservative, filed papers
." creating an exploratory committee for a run for the seat
¯ now held by conservative Republican incumbent Bob ¯
Smith.
¯ Shaheen has signed bills protecting Gay civil rights
in housing, jobs and public accommodations and re-
. pealing a ban on Gay adoptions.
¯ "Democrats, independents and Republicans all have
told me that they want a U.S. senator who will be a
¯ champion for them in Washington and take action on
the real problems they face," Shaheen said in a state-
" merit. Democrats have held a 50-49-1 advantage in the
¯ Senate since Jim Jeffords of Vermont switched from
¯ the GOP to independent in June. Shaheen said she
¯ won’t officially decide whether to run until next year.
_" She is serving her third two-year term as governor.
So. Africato Provide
Free AIDS Drug
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) -
The governmentmade a verbal agreement
with a German drug company to accept a
key AIDS drug for free in pilot projects
aimed at reducing the number of babies
born withHIV,company officials released
recently. The deal to provide free
nevirapine for the prevention of motherto-
child transmission of HIV at pilot
projects in the country was tentatively
accepted, said Kevin McKenna, technical
director ofBoehringer-Ingelheimin South
Africa.
The.company made the offer of free
Nevirapine to more than 100 developing
countries last year, provided it was part of
a properly managed, comprehensive
mother-to-child Transmission prevention
program. The government had been criticized
for not taking up the offer. AIDS
activists and doctors sued the government
demanding the immediate administration
of nevirapine nationwide.
About 200 babies are born with HIV
every day in South .africa and the drug
could slash that number in half. By refusing
to make nevirapine widely available to
HIV-infected pregnant women, the government
is denying women .and children
¯ their constitutional rights to health care,
the suit filed in the Pretoria High Court
claimed.
The government, which is reviewing
the suit, says it stands by its policy of first
distributing nevirapine on a small scale
¯ through pilot programs to test its effects~
Young So. Africans
Speak of AIDS
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - In a
steady voice, 16-year-old Jabu tells how
her father raped her repeatedly, infecting
her with the HIV virus. Once too scared to
speak out, she encouraged others to fight
anti-AIDS discrimination in South Africa
at the first national meeting of children
who are either infected or who have relatives
with the virus.
An estimated 4.7 million South Africans,
about 11% of the population, are
infected with HIV. The country has
700~000 AIDS orphans. Those infected
are often stigmatized by a society who
considers it a shameful illness, Infected
children at the meeting spoke of being
shunnedby theirpeers,abandonedby their
own families and even blamed by health
care workers for contracting the virus.
Jabu, who asked to be identified only by
her first name, encouraged the young
people to speak out. ’%’ou don’t have to
keep quiet," Jabu told the group of about
90 children. The children, aged seven to
18, gathered from across the country in
this coastal city and read anonymous testimonials
out loud.
Participants told of having to leave
school to care for their infected siblings.
Rejected by their families, others spoke of
having to support themselves by collectl’
ng fi¯ rewood and tendi"ng cattle. "My rdafives
discriminate between me and their
children," wrote one of the children in a
testimonial. "It’s like I am a slave."
Monene, 14, lost her mother to the disease.
She said she frequently goes hungry
and does not have proper clothes to wear.
Monene, who asked to be identified only
by her firstname, urged the government to
build more orphanages. "If they don’t do
that, what are we going to become in the
future?" she asked.
TheSouthAfrican governmenthasbeen
ambasted for an inconsistent policy on
combatting AIDS and for refusing to provide
anti-retroviral drugs through the public
health system.
At the meeting, Dr. Nono Simelela, who
heads the health department’s AIDS program,
told the children the government
was doing the best it could. "It’s dear that
a~ore resources as going to be needed,"
Simelela said. "As far as humanly possible,
we are responding to these challenges,
(but) the processes are slow."
Partners agree to joint ownership of patents
for first AIDS vaccine specifically
designed for Africa
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Three partners
developing and testing thefirstHIV/AIDS
vaccine specifically designed for an African
strain of the disease have agreed to
joint ownership of the drug’s patents.
The three-year agreement settles one of
the hurdles that had earlier threatened to
delay testing the vaccine to combat the
viral strain most common in eastern Africa:
Kenyan trials of the vaccine started
several months later than expected, partly
because of wrangling over ownership and
patent rights.
’q~nis was a delicate matter, requiring a
lot of patience and compromise from all
parties," said Francis Gichaga, vice chancellor
of theUniversity ofNairobi. Gichaga
and Seth Berkley, president of the New
York-based International AIDS Vaccine
Initiative, signed the agreementin Nairobi.
Britain’ s Medical Research Council signed
it in England earlier last month. ’q~he task
force was guided by the principle of.fairness,
equal partnership and need to equitably
apportion credit and any revenues that
may accrue from this project," Gichaga
said.
The groups have been working since
November 1998 to develop a double vac,
cine, basing much of their research on
prostitutes from a Nairobi slum who appear
to be immune to the HIV virus that
causes AIDS.
The first component is a simple_DNA
vaccine that delivers the genetic information
on HIV. The second component,
known as MVA~ is a vaccine that delivers
the same genetic information but uses a
weakened smallpox virus to carry it to the
cells.
The DNA vaccine is in its first phase of
testingonbothKenyans andBritons. Tests
of the MVA vaccine are being conducted
in England and are expected to begin in
Kenya in September or October, said G_ilbert
Camathan, project manager at the
vaccine initiative, which is funding the
research. Trials combining the components
are expected to begin later this year
in Britain and in early 2002 in Kenya,
Camathan said.
There is no HIV virus in the injections.
The safety tests will determine whether
they have any toxic effects. Once the combination
vaccine has proven safe, it will be
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tested to see if it actually wards off AIDS.
The process is expected to take several
years.
Berkley will sign an agreement with the
Uganda Vaccine Research Institute soon
that will pave the way for testing there of
an orally administered version of the vaccine,
CamathantoldTheAssociated Press.
Tests so far have "not only been safe, but
also generated surprisingly good immune
responses," Berkley said.
Africa, the world’s poorest continent, is
ground zero in the fightagainstHIV/AIDS.
More than 24 million Africans live with
the vires butmost cannot afford expensive
drugs designed to slow its effects. Health
officials estimate that more than 2.6 million
Kenyans alOne have HIV/AIDS, and
700 more are infected each day. Other
vaccines-target strains prevalent in Europe
and North America.
AIDS Activist Sees
Less Harassment
SHANGHAI, China (AP) - The threatening
phone calls and summons by angry
officials areover. Governmentleaders who
once shunned her now smile and say hello
inpublic. Thereversal represents a victory
ofsorts forGao Yaojie, aretired gynecologist
who publicized the spread of AIDS
through illegal blood buying in rural villages
in the central Chinese province of
I-Ienan.
After years of official attempts to conceal
the deadly outbreak, the government
is acknowledging that hundreds of villagers
are infected and that dozens have already
died.
Gao said a deputy governor of Henan
even went out ofhis way last week to greet
her at an art exhibition. The government
still hasn’t broken down and told Gao she
was right. Butithas stopped treating her as
if she were trying to reveal state secrets,
Gao, 74, told The Associated Press by
telephone. ’‘itrs so quiet now," she said.
"A couple of months ago, I was getting
phone calls from government officials almost
every day."
Gao stumbled onto the hidden epidemic
in 1996, when one of her patients tested
positive for the virus that causes AIDS.
Gao was able to link the infection to an
illegal blood-buying industry in rural
Henan. Since the 1980s, collectors had
been paying villagers for their blood, extracting
the valuable plasmaand then reinjecting
what was left back into donors’
veins. Donated blood was often pooled
together, facilitating Transmission ofHIV.
Gao printed more than 300,000 flyers
and 100,000 booklets to warn the villagers
about the danger. She also paid for the
treatment of infected children. She said
she has spent more than $25,000 of her
ownmoney over thelastfive years. Health
officials at first ignored her and then grew
hostile as her efforts drew Chinese and
foreign media attention, she said.
In May, officials at the hospital where
she had worked in Zhengzhou, Henan’s
capital, blocked her application for a passport
to visit the United States to accept an
award for anti-AIDS activism. Officials
accused her of collaborating with "anti-
Chinese foreign organizations," she said.
Butthis month:the governmentabruptly
reversed itselfand announced it was sending
a team of health officials to open a
clinic in the worst-hit village, Wenlou.
More recently, a vice minister of health
said an April survey of 1,645 Wenlou
villagers found that 318 - or 19% - were
HIV-positive. Among villagers who sold
blood, an even larger proportion were infected
- 244 out of 568, or 43%
Officials are now examining blood supplies
in all hospitals and donor centers in
Henan, the Health Ministry’s newspaper-
Health News - said Friday. Police also are
searching for illegal blood-buyers, known
as "bloodheads," and government officials
who helped them, it said.
"It’s a good start that the government is
beginning to acknowledge this problem
and take action against it," Gao said. ’’I am
not sure how effective the crackdown will
be or if theproblem will just reappear after
the campaign is over, but at least it’s much
better than before when the officials did
nothing at all."
Brazil Strips Patent
On AIDS Drug
¯ RIO DEJANEIRO, Brazil (AP)-Brazil’s
: decision to disregard patent protections
¯ and begin manufacturing a genetic ver-
¯’ sion of a powerful anti-AIDS drug could
¯ open the way for other developing coun-
." tries to follow suit, experts said in August.
¯¯ Brazil has become the first country to
strip the patent on an anti-AIDS medica-
¯ tion. Health Minister Jose Serra said gov-
¯ ernment laboratories would begin manu- ¯
facturing Nelf’mavir, an anti-AIDS drug
¯ made by the Roche group and sold under
¯ the trade name Viracept. Serra justified
¯ the move, saying six months of negotia-
¯ tions with Roche failed to lower the drug’s ¯ price sufficiently for Brazil to be able to
~ distribute the drug free of charge to all in
¯ need. Brazil, has the highest number of
: AIDS victimsin Latin America, with about
¯ 203,000 people with the disease.
¯ Mark Weisbrot, co-director of the Cen-
¯ ter for Economic Policy and Research, a
: Washington-based think tank, hailed
¯ Brazil’s decision and said it could prompt
¯ other countries to do the same. "I think
¯ you’regoing to seemoredeveloping coun- ¯
tries resisting these attempts to enforce the
¯ U.S. patent law all over the world. Very
." often, this is the ease: When one country
¯ challenges these laws, the U.S. backs ¯
down," he said. Weisbrot points to U.S.
¯ decisions to back away from attempts at
¯ stricterpatent enforcementonAIDS drugs ¯
in South Africa and Brazil.
¯
The law also contains clauses that allow
¯ patents to be stripped in cases of national
¯ emergency or when the company has been
~ judged to employ abusive pricing. Serra
~ used the abusive pricing clause in justify-
." ing this move.
Roche spokesman Daniel Piller said the
: company was not expecting Brazil’s latest
_" move. "We were surprised to hear the
¯° news from the Brazilian government. We
really think the government of Brazil ~s
~ really committed to combatting this dread-
." ful disease, andin ourpoint ofview, we are
¯ stillinnegotiations withthe Health Minis-
." try," Piller said by telephone from the
¯ company’s headquarters in Switzerland.
This year’s New Genre Festival, Octo~ ¯
her 3-7,-2001, will present a diverse range "
of artists, many of whom cross disciplin- "
ary lines to create exciting new art works.. ¯
These works push the limits of traditional "
media while incorporating the new media "
madepossiblebytoday’s technology. New ¯
Genre Festival is a program ofLiving Arts
of Tulsa.
This year the following art venues have ¯
chosen to collaborate on promoting corn ¯
temporary art in Tulsa: Living ArtSpace,
Nightingale Theatre, Philbrook Museum "
of Art, SoBo 2, TulsaModem Art Center, ¯
Tulsa Performing Arts CenterTrust, Tulsa
Pror~e~ ¯ le, University of Tulsa School of "
Art, Utica Square "
Since 1969, Living Arts of Tulsa has
been steadfast inits mission of"presenting ¯
and devdoping contemporary artforms in "
Tulsa." Living Arts is interested in newly "
evolving ideas and concepts, and in sharingits
interests withthe communitythrough "
creative workshops, performances, exhi- "
bitions, films/videos, demonstrations of ",
current art, lectures, related educational
activxties and research.
Living Arts has two principal goals: 1) ¯
to bring Outside artists and works to Tulsa
who are pushing their media to its limit
and, 2) to present opportunities and. challenges
for local artists to develop and
present new, exploratory works,which are
not normally seen in Tulsa.
’~3rrrl Power" Elizabeth.Whitney is one
of this year’s emcees and she will be
making several appearances throughout
the festival: Thursday at the Performance
Open; Friday at Die Audio Gruppe - 8pro
andatA.K.A. - 10pro; and Saturday atJos4
Torres Tama - 8pm.
Grrrls: Subversive Performances of
Femininity Utilizing multiple perso_~,ae
(Rizzo - tough girl, Barbie, Miss Flizabeth,
Bridesmaid, and Ethyl), Elizabeth
Whitney leads us through many aspects of
stereo typed women today - only with a
twist!
ncSis theotherof this year’ s emcees and
they will be making several appearances/
performances throughout the festival:
Thursday at the Performance Open - 8pm;
Friday at Jos4 Torres Tama- 10pro Saturday
at Die Audio Gruppe - 8pro
he5 had its .begin~,~,n,gs as a band. Always
"very theatrical for a rock group, it
wasn’t until the dialmmer quit that the
remaining band members decided to ditch
the gigs and dive into theatrical
experimentaion. Utilizing various disciplines,
technology and whatever else they
can find, nc5 strives to incorporate the
energy of a rock concert into their performances.
On Wednesday, Oct. 3, 5-Spin will feature
’q’he Culture of Breath," an interactive
computer projection insthllation by
Chicago Art Institute Professor of New
MediaTiffany Holmes whichinvestigates
the physiological, the biological, and the
~psychological aspects of breathing.
It opens at Living ArtSpace, 308 S
Kenosha. The installation continues on
display through October 25. The act of
breathing is presented as a series of visual
layers: physical, biotic, and psychological.
On the physical level, the artist reminds
us that we can consciously hold our
breath and halt the automatic process of
breathing for a short period of time until
the body revolts and reasserts control. The
act of breathing creates a dynamic interface
between our exterior and interior environments.
OnThursday, Oct. 4, Willy Le Maitre&
Eric Rosenzveig will present "The Appearance
Machine"- a live video installation
which begins in New York City with
the collection of trashfrom the streets. The
garbage starring in the drama is manipulated,
analyzed, videotaped and then
streamed in realtime over the internet directly
to the Alexandre Hogue Gallery,
Phillips Hall, University of Tulsa, 2935 E
5th St. It opens from 5-Tpm and continues
through October 25. Eric Rosenzveig also
will give a talk at TU about the work and
other artworks using new technologies at
6pro.
Chris Wildrick of ’~2funBasTards" from
Madison, Wisconsin will perform Local
Reality Test: Temporal Continuity Test,
an out-of-theater performance by walking
around Tulsa from 9-5pm asking people
what timeitis. He will then check this time
against his watch, marking down the difference
in minutes and his location. He
will also check times fOund on public
docks. Throughout the day he will accumulate
avast amount of data regarding the
discrepancies between time and space m
Tulsa.
A ground-breaking new program of the
New Genre Festival this year, the Performance
Open allows for several short performance
artworks by artists from Tulsa
and around the country to be seen at one
venue, The Nightingale Theatre, 1416 E
4th St8:00pm $8. ($6. students) onThursday,
Oct. 4.
The amazing Berlin-based multimedia
artgroup, DieAudioGruppe,buildelectroacoustic
clothing and then perform using
them. Studio Performances at the Tulsa
Performing Arts Center, Doenges Theater,
2rid. & Cincinnati, 8:00pm.$12. ($6.
students) Friday/Saturday, Oct. 5/6. Reservations
are required through the PAC at
596-7111 or www.tnlsapac.com.
A workshop will be offered, "Making
Electro-acoustic Clothing" with inventor
Ben0it Manbrey on Monday, Oct. 1,
7:00pro at Living ArtSpaee.
Also on "Oct. 5/6, Living Arts will
feature ’qm Exile Close to the Equator -
Personal Stories of Universal Truths in a
Search for the "American Dream." In this
autobiographical verbal and visual coil
lage, performance artist Jos~ Tortes Tama
: returns to Tulsawith awork that combines
: personal stories and incantations withdra-
~ matic movement and visual tableaus.
¯ Moving rapidly from poetic drama to the
hilariously absurd, he creates a dynamic
¯ piece that explores the immigrant experience
and rites-of-passage in urban Ameri-
] can culture.
¯ The New Genre Festival also will offer
: anumber more events. For moreinforma-
¯¯ tion, call 918-585-1234 or check out:
www.livingarts.org. Living Arts of Tulsa
¯
is located at 308 S Kenosha.
It’s too expensive."
You can subscribe to
Tulsa Opera’s entire
season for as little
as $13 per opera.
That’s cheaper than a
ballgame and at
that price you can
even bring a date.
]’re sure to score.
Herland
Fall Retreat
September 14-16
Roman Nose State Park
Featuring entertainers
Mary N Bright
Mary Catherine Reynolds,
-Kristall Bright and Nancy Nesser
Herland, 2312 NW 39th
Oklahoma City, www.herlandsister.org
THE GILDED AGE
Treasuresfrom the Smitbsonian American Art Museum
9 SEPTEMBER -- 4 NOVEMBER 2OO1
THE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART
2727 SOUTH ROCKFORD ROAD
Hungry for Atlantic Herring or
A Prince in a Shetland?
by Deborah J. Hunter
If you like Stephen McCauley (Object
ofMyAffection, Easy Way Out, Man ofthe
Houseand TrueEnough) you’ll love Louis
Bayard. I read Bayard’s two novels, En-
"dangered Species (2001) and Fool’s Errand
(1999) back to back. I get hungry for
good writing with peculiar characters that
happen to be Gay.
Bayard gives us both
in a feast of storytelling
about thirty-something
Nick Broome who hasurges
toward parenthoodandPatrick
Beaton
who is in search of
- "PrinceCharming"orin
this case "Prince Shetland."
Like McCauley,
Bayard gently bashes
stereotypes in favor of
people "like you and
me" (and some not so
like anyone I have ever
met) that are trying to
make alife that on most daysdoesn’t seen
the least bit-"altemative."
Nick Broome’s experience with sperm
banks and finding out his own motility
rates are hilarious. Thephysiclan s assistant..,
leads me down along hallway with
shell-colored carpet...She hands me three
medium-size glass vials, abox ofKleenex
and a back issue of Pro Wrestling magazine."
He evolves from wanting to propagate
to wanting to parent. His search for a
¯Lesbian co-parem, or finally, a surrogate
but are asked to donate $10 at the door.
Earlierin September,TulsaOklahomans
for Human Rights (TOHR) will kick off
theplanningfor Diversity Celebration2002
from 5:30 to7pmonThursday, Sept. 6th at
Renegades in the Rainbow Room. The
public is welcome and for more information,
call 743-4297, or e-mail to
community@tohr.org
Looking forward to the end of October,
TOHR will be hosting a Rocky Horror
Masquerade Ball featuring Helga’s
Horribles to benefit the Pyramid Project
(the-ftm.draising effort for a permanent
commumty center) at the Downtown
Doubletree on the 27th. More details will
be available in October.
HRC Announces Grant to
Oklahoma Group
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Human
Rights Campaign (HRC) madeannounced
decisions about its first round of Equality
Fund grants to Gay state lobbying groups
in 10 states.
Amoung these grants (totaling $47,000)
is one to Oklahoma’s Cimarron Alliance
Foundation of $4,000 to conduct the first
poll in Oklahoma to guidedevelopment of
public outreach messages, with special
emphasis on hate crimes, discrimination
"... Like MeCauley,
Bayard gently
bashes stereotypes
in favor
of people
’like you and me’
"(and some not
so like anyone I
have ever met)..."
¯ mother, takes him on a journey that in-
: eludes a cast of ordinary but uncommon
¯ people. His thoughts turn from Atlantic
¯ herring, "These are fish that travel inlarge
" schools and reproduce as casually as I
untangle phone cords," to other species,
" "Cowbirds have beenonmindlately. They
¯ are brown-headed creatures that decline
: the honor of building nests and instead lay"
¯ eggs in thenests of other birds. Some birds
pick up on the ruse, but
most will happily incubate
the new eggs as
one of their own."
In Fool’s Errand,
Patrick Beaton learns to
hate naps and learns to
love Seth. He thinks
Seth is helping him find
themaninthe cranberry
Shetland sweater. He
thinks their days spent
in the parking lots of
discount stores and their
nights spent in bars are
in search of a "Scottish
Prince" who Patrick
barely met on~ sleepy
¯ afternoon in someone’s den.
¯" That Seth is the ex-boyfriendofPatrick’ s
¯ ex-boyfriend, Alex only adds to the flavor
¯¯ of the stew, as does the long visit from
Patrick’ s bi-polar father who ends up mar~
¯ rying his best friend Marianne.
: Fool’s Errand is a long book and the
¯ yearning for love is there under the esca-
¯ pades and in every day. Like Endangered
¯ Species, the search is what gives life its
¯ substance, the finding is what helps bring ¯
life’s meaning.
: and other equality issues such as domestic
¯ partnership.
¯ Prior, HRC had issued $114,000 in
¯ Equality Fundgrants and also gave $5,000
¯ to the Federation of Statewide Political
¯ Advocacy Organizations. These grants
." helped to fund essential state house lobby
¯ work, such as Maryland’s non-discrimi-
¯ nation and Texas’ hate crimes bills.
¯ Others receiving grants include:
." Texas’ Lesbian/Gay Rights Lobby
¯ which got a $5,000 grant to support their ¯
lobby program, including to continue to
." defeat attempted bans on same-sex mar-
.¯ riage and civil unions and to advance their
safe schools initiative.
¯ Unity Utah will receive $4,000 to lobby
." the Salt Lake City Council to codify an
¯ existing mayoral executive order which
¯ prohibits discrimination in city employ-
" ment based on sexual orientation. This
¯ local project is an important first poliltical
...step for this organization, and also is an
¯ important first step towards state level
: advocacy.
¯ Vermonters for Civil Unions Legisla-
: tive Defense Fund is getting $5,000 for
¯ lobbying and polling efforts to keep the
¯ legislature from denigrating the legal stares
of civil unions as a marriage-equiva-
¯ lent.
: A number of other organizations also
¯ received grants or are still under consider-
¯ ation for aid.
¯
Creator of the universe has sown a very
Well, kind of. I was a Boy Scout. The : important fluid. This fluid is the most
years, 1965 - 1970; the place, Martinez, : wonderful material in all the physical
CA,Troopl81.And,nowadays, I amGay. ¯ world. Some parts of it f’md their way into
ButwhenI was a ldd; I had yet to hear any : theblood, andthroughthebloodgivetone
oftheearlynotesbftoday’s - ~ -~ : to the muscles, power-to~
elaborated language of -":-. ~;~outs havealways~- thebrain, and : strength to .
Gayness and;eve~ii,~-Ihad, - ]md ~ex and aender ~ " the nerves:. This fluid"isthe :
I probably ,wouldn thave - ........¯ ~’~ -sex fluid ’Am habit
ldentifiedmyselfwlth.lt.A ¯ mind; An explleit~l ....whichaboyhas thatcauses .
GayBoyScout,backthen,.. o[ the o~,anJ=atloi~ is to this fluid robe discharged
wasanthinkable.Wenever .. ~ .’ . ,. " ’ ¯ from the body tends-to .
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by Lamont Lindstrom
~ous today, in thefinal.lin,~e dmt I~. I w~’t alone
of theBoy Scout oath: ’I--
promise .... to keepmyself my Troop. Several
physically strong, mentally
awake and morally
straight."
The Boy Scouts of
America, backed by five
U.S. Supreme Court Justices,
have recently affirmed
their legal right to
scout mates a|so ~rew
into Gayness. Many
parents, I’m sure, prayed
tlmt scouting would
toughen up their
worrisome sons.... "
disease :. ~to yield:means
to Sacrifice strengthS,and
power and m~liness.
Jeez,we~ought. Could
we even survive our teens.’?
Scoutmasterly duties,~
given Boy Scout dogma,
included the regulation of
boyish sexuality and this
task could be approached
withall shades ofinterest. I
discharge Gay Scoutmasters
and perhaps also (although this is less
clear) boys who affirm ahomosexual identity.
The Gay community andbeyondhave
condemned this invidious policy as harmful,
But theScouts, clearly, are in a dicey
position. We might try to understand, although
not necessarily sympathetically,
the orgardzati0n’s problems in ha,vigating
the dangerous American cultural ~hoals of
childhood and sex.
The Boy Scouts have always had sex
and gender in mind. An explicit goal of the
organization is to turn boys into men -
men of a particular type, that is. I wasn’t
alone in my Troop. Several of my scout
mates also ~ew into Gayness. Many pareats,
I’m sure, prayed that scouting would
toughen up their worrisome sons.
The Boy Scouts, !ike the Marines, Little
League sports, and certain small fundamentalist
Christian colleges, are a last resort
of desperate parents hoping to make a
man out of one. My fellow Scouts ranged
from the ambitiously normal to hopeless
twinks (although we didn’t have that word
back then either): The proto-gangbangers
at my school, who wouldn’t be caught
dead in the Boy Scouts, weren’t fooled by
our organized protestations of masculinity.
All those silly (if sometimes still surprisingly
useful) ropes and knots.
AlthoughTroop 181 hadno language of
Gayness, this does not mean that there
were no sexual frissons - a sexuality that,
in an all-male organization, is at least by
default homosexual. Such currents surely
feed the organization’s recent touchiness
about Gayness.
I remember friends giggling over the
Boy Scout Handbook’s warnings against
masturbation. When I got my first HandbookIeagerly
soughtoutthoseparagraphs.
The Handbook, subsequently, wo~tld be
somewhat liberalized. My 1960’ s edition,
however, hadn’t progressed much beyond
these 1927 admonitions published under
the subtitle ’~onservation" (which, in the
1970’s, would acquire a more ecological,
less Taoist gignificance): "In the body of
every boy who has reached his teens; the
.... spent part of four s||mmers
¯¯ atWolfboro, a camp in the Sierra Nevada.
Oar leaders trooped us up river to "Bare-
" Ass Slide" and ordered to take off our
,. clothes and slide down shallow, mossy
¯ river rapids. On one 50-mile hike, buck-
" naked Scoutmaster Bob chased five of us
¯ boys, equally buck-naked, squealing
¯ through the woods because we refused to
¯ hop into the icy aver.
¯ Innocent male hi-jinks, of course. But
¯ some of this past must inform the Boy ¯
Scouts’ present sexual bad conscious. Itis
¯ sweet irony,’as many have noted (e.g., see
¯ Tim Neal’s biography The Boy-Man), that
¯ -the founder of the Boy Scouts, Lord Rob-
. eft Baden-Powell, was obsessed with
¯ "boyology," had a 30 year relation with a
¯ younger man, K~uneth McLaren- whom
¯ he called The Boy - and adored watching
his lithesome Scouts swim nude.
¯ Postmodem theorists warn that the past
(life-long male friend) is often misunder-
" stood in contemporary terms (Gay). Still,
Baden-Powell and some of his Scoutmaster
successors clearly appreciated boys in
¯ complicated ways.
¯ Pricking this Boy Scout bad conscious,
¯ Americais currently onthe warpath against
any sort of child sexuality; When I was a
¯
kid, we had never heard of the term sexual
harassment let alone sexual abuse. These
¯ notions, like Gay, had yet to hit Martiuez. ¯
In that heyday of the miniskirt, my 7th
¯ grade Algebra teacher used to force those
¯ 12-year old gifts who wore the shortest
¯ minis to sit in the front row of his class so ¯
he could gawk up their skirts. (He also
¯ used to hang troublesome boys out his
¯ second-story window by the scruffs of
their neck.) Today? Run, don’t walk, to
your nearest hungry lawyer.
¯ Thereasons for America’s recent child-
* sex pamc are complex, reflecting, prob-
" ably, parental guilt about working morns
¯
and about divorce. Nowadays, with suspi-
¯ cious parents and enterprising lawyers all
¯o around, theBOy Scouts have their backs to
the wall. You can see why they mightnot
¯ want to get in bed with us Gays. We
¯ remindthemoftoomuch, seeScout,p.11
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College Hill
Presbyterian Church
In response to God’s Love,
College Hill Presbyterian Church
is a community of God’s people
called to tell others the
Gospel of Jesus Christ
through worship,
service, and evangdism.
To nurture our faith, we gather for
worship~ prayer,
study and fellowship.
¯ Trusting in a living, loving God,
we seek to become a compassionate
voice for peace and justice.
Our congregation welcomes all
persons who respond in trust and
obedience to God’s grace
in Jesus Christ, and desire to become
part of the membership and ministry
of Christ’s church.
Membership is open to all people
regardless of race, ethnic origin,
worldly condition, marital status, or
sexual orientation.
Sunday Worship, 11am
712 S. Columbia Ave., 592-5800
(One block west of Delaware and the
University of Tulsa Campus)
Tulsa’s only
professional
body-piercing
On September 3oth, something brand
new is hitting the Tulsa scene!
Soulful Sundown
is an alternative worship experience that celebrates
the mystery and wonder of life,
within a non-dogmatic context.
Soulful Sundown combines live music, inspirational readings., video, and
audience participation to create an experience that
moves, challenges, transforms and
connects people to e~tch other and the ~¢orld.
Soulful Sundo.wn
happens at All Souls Unitarian Church at 5:3oPM on
Sundays starting September 3oth and continuing
through the rest of the year. All people are welcome!
All Souls Unitarian Church
2952 S. Peoria, 743-2363.
Karmajust bitmein the ass! Here I was,
pining for something I thought I’d never
have, when lo and behold, a woman told
me she was in love with me. Ofcourse this
was three hours after meeting he_r, so you
can imagine how frightened I was, thinking
I’druninto Psycho LesbianFrom Hell.
RememberMiss No-Longer-Interested-
In-Me? Well, she stir isn’t. But that’s not
the point. Miss No-Longer-Interested-In-
Me and I reached an agreement and have
done what many Lesbian couples do (or
non-couples, in this case) and become
friends.
I know what you’re saying. ’Raging
Lesbian, this is just a way to get to see
her!" I could tell you how much we click
on a friendship level; how much we value
that friendship; how much werespect each
other, etc. OK- it’s a way to get to see her!
I never knew how she felt because no
one’s ever said those three little words to
me. I found out how she felt the other
weekend when I heard them whispered
into my ear.
Youneed toknow rightnow thatinternet
acquaintances should be a slow process.
No need to rush into meeting her after
writing to her once or twice. She might
turn into a Karin, and you might become a
Miss No-Longer-Interested-In-Me.
The other weekend was my first date
since Miss No-Longer-Interested-In-Me
told me that, well, she was no longer
interested in me.
It was the first time sinceMay that I even
thought of trying to move on. I didn’t
realize I’d meet Miss U-Haul Lesbian. My
experiences since coming out have been
with users until I met Miss No-Longer-
Interested-In-Me. This explains why she’s
making yet another starring role in the
column. Her honesty disarmed me and
made me realize I hadn’t been honest with
the most important person in my life--me¯
How could I be honest with her, or anyone
else,.for that matter?
Timing tndy sucks sometimes. Had I
met Miss U-Haul,. fallen for her, learned
my lesson, then met Miss No-Longer-
Interested-In-Me, perhaps... No, I won’t
go there. We fill our lives with so many
’~vhat-ifs" and "if onlys" that we don’t see
the people in front of us.
The person in front of me now is a
woman who would do anything for me.
Scary, huh? But don’t we look for this all
our lives? Here is it, staringmein the face,
and I’m feeling very different than I did in
April¯ I feel like Miss No-Longer-Interested-
In-Me.
I let my new-found "friend" in on what
was happening. She told me never to say
anything to Miss U-Haul I didn’t mean.
Wise advice which I learned from her
through first-hand experience. I’ve told
Miss U-Haul aboutmy recent history, and
I also let her know that I don’t think I can
realm her feelings. She says I will. Umm,
no, I don’t think so.
What’ s she like? Besides living in outer
Dallas anddressinginmen’ s clothing (well,
somewhat), she’s kind, caring, and listens
to my every word¯ Where I was almost a
non-entity with Miss No-Longer-Interested-
In-Me, Iama"Diamond" to Miss UHaul.
In fact, that’s her name for me.
So what is myproblem? I didn’tfeel that
"something"; that immediate feeling that
Miss No-Longer-Interested-In-Me was
looking for with "us". I always thought
you grew into it. But she’s right. The
spark, if you will, just isn’t there. I can
wish for it all I want, but Miss U-Haul
doesn’t do itfor me. Yes, I HAVEbecome
Miss No-Longer-Interested-In-Me, with a
vengeance!
And yet I still see Miss U-Haul. Why?
My immediate response? No one’s cared
for me this much, or treated me this wall
since.... ever. Certainly not since I’ve
become active in this life. I shouldn’t let
that sway me, or confuse Miss U-Haul.
Above all, I don’t want to hurt her. I
don’t want anyone to feel what I have the
past few months - hurt, lonely, confused,
desperate, despairing, you get the drill.
And yet, I don’t see.any other way. As I
perceive it, Miss No-Longer-Interested-
In-Me had three choices: A. Hurt me; B.
Hurt me; C. Hurt me; D. All of the above.
That she chose D for a triple shot of hurt
annoys me, but whatcan you do? Try NOT
to repeat her pattern.
It really doesn’t help that the townspeople
where Miss U-Haul lives dre telling
her that I may be "I’he One."
I’ve already let her in on my Love-OMeter
¯ You know, the thing that lets you
comprehend, unequivocally, that you’re
in love? A friend asked me about a month
ago, what I would have told my mother if
Miss No-Longer-Interested-In-Me and I
had a different experience: in other words,
if she returned my feelings.
"I would say, ’Mother, this is Miss Interested-
In-Me. We’reinlove.’"Myfriend
asked what I would do after my mother
fainted. Oh please. She knows. Even MY
mother can’t be THAT naive!
I guess what I’m trying to say is that
until that woman comes along again (IF
she ever comes along again) who makes
me want to come out to my family, then it
ain’t love.
Sure, I may love being with her, talking
to her, and heating how wonderful I am.
The sex may be great (yes, Horny Lesbian
strikes again!), but the feding’s not there.
Does that make me a terrible person? I
think not. I certainly hope not.
I told Gay Felix one night, after Miss UHaul
letmeknow (as have so many others)
that Miss No-Longer-Interested-In-Me
used me, that only the two people in that
relationship truly understand what went
on between them. Miss No-Longer-Interested-
in-Me didn’t use me. Being in her
shoes now, I honestly believe that. Only
She and I comprehend the feelings and the
loss¯ I’m sure Miss U-Haul’s neighbors
and friends will one day say that I used her.
I hope she understands a simple truth - I
met a wonderful woman whose feelings I
can’t return.
As Miss No-Longer-Interested-In-Me
said recently, ’q’here are a billion reasons
why someone wouldfall inlove withyou."
Unfortunately, I’m afraid I’ll be saying the
same thing soon to Miss U-Haul. Love, no
matter which side you’re on, is often the
most difficult and most agonizing feeling
in the world. - by Karin Gregory
Gregory is a Ft. Worth based writer.
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Serving Tulsa’s Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual Communities - Our Families of the Heart February 15 - March 14, 1996, Volume 3, Issue 3
National News
Clinton Slams HIV+
Military Discharges
WASHINGTON - The Clinton administration
has announced that it believes the
HIV discharge provision in the $265 billion
Defense Department’s 1996 authorization
defense authorzafion bill is unconstitutional
and has ordered the Justice
Department not to defend the provision.
That provision, written by arch-conservalave
Rep. Bob Dornan, R-Calif., would
discharge within sxx months, regardless
see Clinton, page 3
Anti-Marriage Bills
ExplodeAround US
PIERRE, S.D.- Sparked by the likelihood
that state courts in Hawaii will soon declare
same-sex mamage legal there, a
rapidly growing number of state legislatures
throughout the country have started
arush to outlaw gay and lesbian marriages
from being recognized locally, even if
they should be legal elsewhere in the U.S.
Legislatures in at least 18 states: AL, AK,
CA, CO, GA, HI, ID, IL, IA, MO, N19I; RI,
SC, SD, TN, VA, WA, WI - had various
versions of"gay miscegenation" proposals
before thein at press tame.
In Virginia, where same-sex marriages
are already forbidden by state law, under
pressure from Radical Right Gov. George
F. Allen, the Virginia Housing DevelopmentAuthority
has reversed a 1994 policy
and now effectively prohibits mmaamed
or gay and lesbian couples from getting
see Marriage, page 3
Gay Morn Appeals
Custody DecisiOn
PENSACOLA, Fla. - Mary Ward has
appealed an August ruling that ordered
her 11-year-old daughter be given over to
the custody of the child’s father, who was
convicted of killing his first wife.The decision
last year by state Circuit Court
Judge JosephTarbuck stunnedmany when
he ruled in favor of John Ward, the girl’s
father, who served 9 years in prison for
killing his first wife during an argument
over custody of their daughter. In deciding
against Mary Ward, Tarbuck ruled
see Morn, page 3
Tennessee Sodomy
Law Thrown Out
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. ~ The Tennessee
Court of Appeals has ruled unanimously
that the state’s anti-gay sodomy statute is
unconstitutional. In overturning the state
law the court ruled that the right to privacy
includes "the fight of the plaintiffs to
engage in consensual, private, non-commercial
sexual conduct" that were none of
the state’s business because they involve
"intimate questions of personal and family
concern." State officials gave no immediate
indication of whether they would
appeal the ruling to the state supreme
court or not, but most rights advocates
expect an appeal.
FUSO: Friends in Unity
Social Organization
Tulsa’s organization forAfrican-American
Gay men ~s expanding its efforts to
meet both social and health needs of their
immediate community, and the larger one.
Over the past year they’ve established a
RAIN team, which has its first client, and
which may be the only all African-Amencan
team in Oklahoma. Its leadership also
is working on the non-profit’s tax-exempt
status with the Internal Revenue Service
so that they can actively seek grant funding
to provide HIV education and care.
Ultimately they would like to provide
case management, peer education, information
and referra! services, HIV testing
and counseling, health and nutrition, and
substance abuse counseling and a food
bank in North Tulsa.
Over this last year, FUSO has donated
canned goods to Our House, made a gift to
the victims of theOKCbombing They v e
helped to represent Tulsa African-A~eri ¯
cans by sending representatives to Hoist
ing the Bamwr. the state HIV AIDS con.
ference in OKC addressing issnes of
people of color and also participated in the
statewide HIV/AIDS conference held last
summer at the Doubletree Hotel, Warren
Place. Its members marched in the "95
Tulsa AIDS Walk and the World AIDS
Day March held at University of Tulsa.
Derrick Davis, who is one of FUSO’s
officers, has been nominated to be cochair
of the Multi-Cultttral AIDS Coalition.
FUSO also is participating in the
planning of the Women and AIDS conference
that will be tleld in April.
Last Labor Day, FUSO held a successful
Labor Day Weekend event with guests
see FUSO, page 10
Vicious Pink, In the Red?
OKC-owned Store Closes
Vicious Pink, a Gay-oriented gift store
owned by Anthony Klatt of Oklahoma
City has closed after barely 6 months. The
store located in Concessions at 3340 So.
Peoria opened with ambitious plans and
claims of being the largest such establishment
in the state.
Kirk Glines, one of the owners of Concessions,
indicated that he and his partner
Terry Kerns will reopen the shop themselves,
possibly by March 1st. Klatt also
opened a shop, Dusty Roads, in the Silver
Star Saloon. Star owner, John Rothrock
could not say whether Dusty Roads was
still in business, noting that it was closed
without explanation for a week recently
and had not been dependably open.
Tulsa Man Seeks
Relief From Threats
A 31-year 01d Tulsa man’s been driven
from one home, has had to send his children
away for their safety, has had other
members of his family threatened and
may have to flee his new apartment, all
because he’s living with AIDS. Roscoe
Pilant, who goes by the nickname, JR,just
wants to be left alone to hve, and to work
when he can. However, despite having
swastikas and death threats marked on his
door and threats to murder him left on his
answering machine, Tulsa Police initially
were hardly cooperative. And as a result
of his complaint, investigation by legalaid
attorneys have discovered that the
Oklahoma S tate Bureau of Investigations
might have been violating the OK hate
crimes statute by not keeping statistics on
hate crimes directed toward any disabled
persons, including those living with AIDS.
Pilant says his troubles began when he
had to take a HIV related medical absence
from work. After he returned, he feels that
his employer, a national finn, fired him
becauseof his HIV status. After the finn
was contacted by Oklahoma Legal Aid
attorney Darlene Shadid andwas informed
that discrimination based on HIV’AIDS
status is illegal under federal law, the
Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA),
he returned to work. And then the harassment
began.
see Threats, page 2
Lesbian & Gay
Domestic Violence
Two police officers from Tulsa area
police departments spoke to the members
and guests of Tulsa Oklahomans for Hnman
Rights (TOHR) about do~nestic violence
issues, both within and out the LesbianGay
con~nunities. Both officers who
are 10 year plus veterans work pmnanly
on domestic violence (hereafter abbreviated
as DV). Each gave profoundly sobering
statistics on the extent of DV. For
example, they noted that 50% of US
women ~vi!l be DV violence victims, that
wom_en are at a 9 times higher risk of
injury in their homes than they are on the
street, and that every 15 seconds a women
is beaten in her own home. The officers
outlined some of the social psycholoNcal
dynamics of DV noting the stages of the
syndrome and gave details of legal opti’ons
and other resources to help victims
and to identify abusers.
The officers who had dealt with Lesbian/
Gay DV issues bemoaned the lack of
research in this area but noted that the
causes are similar to those of DV for
heterosexuals. They suggested that 30%
of Lesbian/Gay relationships have some
DV problems but they suspected that these
cases tended to be underreported because
the criminal justice system rmnains
homophobic. They also stated that Lesbian
relationships appear to be more physically
violent than those of Gay or Bi men.
Also, Gay men may not report DV when
it happens because the general perception
is that DV ouly happens to women and
often the agencies that deal with DV are
not well equipped to help men.
Saks 5th Avenue to
Show AIDS Quilt
DKNY Fashion Fundraiser-2/29
Tulsa’s Saks Fifth Avenue will display
10 sections of The NAMES PROJECT
AIDS Memorial Quilt on February 21 to
March 1st. Saks Fifth Avenue is the first
corporation to spensor a multi-site display
with 45 Saks Fifth Avenue stores and
60ff5th’s outlet centers showing memorial
panels that are geographically specific
to the store’s site.
Later this year, the panels displayed in
Tulsa will join the nearly 32,000 panels
now in the Quilt. The Columbus Day
weekend (Oct. 12-13) display on the Capitol
Mall in Washington, DC will be the
first time in four years that the Quilt has
b~en seen in its entirety as it has grown so
large. All fifty US states are represented
as well as 39 other countries. Panels made
by Saks Fifth Avenue associates from
across the US will be exhibited in New
YorkCity in August before going to Washington.
On February 29~ Saks Fifth Avenue,
Tulsa will present a DKNY Fashion extravaganza,
Give My Regards to Donna,
to benefit the Hope Candlelight Tonr. A
silent auction and fashion show, featuring
local celebrities, will unveil DKNY’s
spring collection and be Tulsa’ s exclusive
launch of DKNYfor Men. A few models
are Debbie Campbell, I.J. Gannam,
Aleksandr Lunev, Beth Reng,’d, Kevin
Steincross, Mike Jones and Sonya Colberg
Nanc3 Renberg, Charles & Francie
Faudree. Hope Candlelight Tour benefits
St. Joseph Residence and RAIN, the Regional
.-kIDS Interfaith Network
INSIDE-] EDITORIAL P. 2
DIRECTORY P. 2
NEWS BRIEFS P. 4
HEALTH BRIEFS P. 6
CALENDAR P. 9
EUREKA PAGE P. 11
Music for Life John McCarthy and Beverly Stanley,
chairing the Walk for Ltfe committee,
have zumounced that a "Blues" Festival
will kick off tiff s 3’ear’ s series of events for
the fourth annual Walk for Life Campaign.
Mark Snider, renowned Tulsa musician,
has organized an outstanding
evening of the "Blues" featuring local
musicians. The event will be held at the
Sunset Grill, 3410 South Peoria on Tuesday,
March 12. The admission donation
of $5 will include two raffle tickets for
items donated by the Blue Rose Cafe, the
Doubletree at Warren Place, and the Celebrity
Club, to nmne a few. K-MOD
Radio and Budweiser will join the Sunset
Grill as hosts and Paine Webber and Roche
Laboratories are patron sponsors.
This event is the first of several plam~ed
to raise funds for Tulsa area HIV/AIDS
support agencies. Other events include an
art show in June and ajazz festival in July,
and the 4th Walkfor Life to be at Riverside
Park on October 12. Proceeds from the
1995 Walk went to 12 Tulsa community
HIV/AIDS related non-profit age~l~ies.
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Using Gays as the scapegoat for the demise of the
family is; reprehensible nonsense.. Unfortunately,,
in order, to get in good with.Pat Robertson’ s Christian
Coalition, Republican presidential candidates
are all too willing.to go along with the lie that Gay
people are somehow, a.threat.to.thefamilv.
Wqaoles~le divorce among heterosexuals doe;
the real damage. With a 50% divorce rate. adultery,
abused women, financial conditions that require
both parents to leave children home alone, abandoned
and abused children and so forth, it doesn"t
take much effort to see that heterosexuals have
succeeded quite well in crippling the family without
any he!p:from Gays and Lesbians.
-~- J.J. Stogsdill, Broken Arrow
I recently had the distinct pleasure Of being one
of the stops along District 6 City Councilor. Art
Justiss" campaign tour. I felt like I shouldn’t be the
ordy one who has the advantage of "knowing how
Mr. Justiss feels about Gay rights in Tulsa before I
cast nay vote in the up-coming elections for City
Council.
My partner and I asked Mr. Justiss about the
status of the Human Rights Depar.~nent (Committee
on Sexual Orientation Discrimination) Proposal
to the City of Tulsa. Mr. Justiss said that he
would never put such a thing on the City Council
agenda and he felt :quite confident that no other
councillor would either. When questioned about
why he was too afraid to even consider a proposal
from one of the city’s own commissxons. Mr.
Justiss admitted that he didn’t want to "’take the
heat.’" He told us that to put something like the
current proposal on the agenda would be political
suicide. Of course, he added that he wouldn’t
discriminate on the basis of "’race, color or sexual
preference," but he felt protections for Gays against
discrirmnation had no place in city government.
Mr. Justiss’ visit to our home was a reminder to
him that .there are Lesbians alive and living in
Tulsa, OK and a reminder to us that we can’t vote
for a representative who will only entertain ~ssues
and concerns that are popular. - Kharma R. Amos
. Many of the threats were specific in saying that
if he returned to work he would die. Pilant feels his
privacy was deliberately compromised by co-workers
who posted his unlisted number counter to his
request.
When Pilant first reported the phone messages
and the graffiti on his door, Tulsa police did not
even send out an officer. Calls to the Mayor’s
Action hotline were also unhelpful. However, after
intervention by community-activist Nancy
McDonald, li~ing up to her appellation "Saint
McDonald", Tulsa police were more responsive
and took more thorough reports.
Pilant also nbted that Claudette Peterson, director
of Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights’
(TOHR) HIV Testing Clinic was helpful in getting
him assistance as was former TOHR president,
Kelly Kirby, through whose contact, KJRH, Ch. 2
became aware of Pilant’ s dilemma and reported on
by Phvl Boler-Schmidt
,:~ .A t~ureka. Spri_ngs man i.s dead. A 17-year-old
Who admitted to the "killing has not been charged.
And, the whole event is shrouded in mystery.
This is what we -know. The "killing o~curr~d at a
~popular local lake park where the young mau was
helping his; ~andmotlXe~- cSaretake th~ i-esort for the
Winter. It happened at night. The dead man, in his
forties and -knownby his friends to be a closeted gay
man. was shot at point blank range in the face with
a shotgtm. The young man did not have the gun at
his immediate disposal, but had to go to another
room, locate the gun, find the shells, load the
weapon, then return to the place where he shot and
killed the victim.
The young man has said that he awoke with a
start to find the he was being sprayed with ejaculate
as the older man was masturbating all over him. He
says he killed the man in self-defense. There aren’t
many Queers in these parts who are buying that
story. The police have been silent. The ~oroner’s
report is not due out of Little Rock for a few weeks.
No arrest has been made, no charges filed. It is
minored that the dead man was found completely
nude though there is no official word on this.
I have decided not to publish any names here so
as not to interfere with what the police are calling an
ongoing investigation. Since there have been no
public statements made regarding the case, I am
giving law enforcement authorities the benefit of
the doubt that they will continue to investigate this
case. and if the facts warrant it, an arrest will be
made. The benefit of the doubt. For now.
I’ve spoken with a number of Gays mad Lesbians
about tiffs issue. No one is taking it lightly. There is
some fear that, if the case is swept under the carpet,
and the young man is not charged, it will send a
signal that it is okay to kill Queers because no one
will do anything at~out it. I remain hopeful though
skeptical.
The facts that we DO "know are alarming. Even if
the young man’s story is true, how could it possibly
be grounds for murder’? Semen in these circumstances
is not a deadly weapon, certainly not enough
justification for murder. Most assuredly not - if he
was free enough to leave, mad chose to go to another
room, find a shotgun, load it, and return to the
scene. Justhow frightened for his life could the
young man have been? see Murder, page 3
it. Attomey Darlene Shadid said she was told by
sources in OSBI and the Tulsa DA’s office that a
decision had been made, apparently informally at a
seminar in the past couple of years, not to consider
persons living with AIDS to be disabled, despite
federal law on the matter. Later, Shadid determined
that OSBI appeared not to be keeping any statistics
on hate crimes based on any disability of any kind.
In response toTFN, Tim Hams ofthe Tulsa District
Attorney’s office indicated that their office would
enforce the Oklahoma hate crime statute as it applied
to disability and noted thatnew DALaFortune
has participated in the Say No to Hate Coalition for
some time. Director of the Oklahoma State Bureau
of Investigations (OSBI), Dwade Langley said that
they would keep statistics on hate crimes based on
disability but that they were entirely dependent on
the local law enforcement agencies to report the
incidents to them.
Meanwhile, JR Pilant hopes that he can return to
a quiet life with his children and family sal’e from
hate and intimidation.
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*Bamboo Lounge, 7204 E. Pine 832-1269
*Barraccuda’s, 2405 E. Admiral 582-4340
*Concessions, 3340 S. Peoria 744-0896
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*Lola’s, 2630 E. 15th 749-1563
*Silver Star Saloon, 1565 Sheridan 834-4234
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*TNT’s, 2114 S. Memorial 660-0856
*Tool Box, 1338 E. 3rd 584-1308
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home loans through the state housing
agency itself. The new definition.of a
household adopted by the VHDA states
that a "single-family loan can be made to
more than one person only if all such
persons ... are related by blood, marriage
or adoption or by legal custodial relationship."
Albert Eisenberg, one of theVHDA
commissioners, disagreed loudly with the
change. "It is bigoted nonsense elevated
to formal state policy," Eisenberg said of
the new policy, which he said may lead to
~xpensive legal court challenges as well
as possible trouble with federal housing
agencies that underwrite most of the loans
the Virgima agency makes. Most of the
state’s real estate organizations opposed
thenew definition, as did gay rights groups
and the ACLU, which said the change
would "inspire lawyers to look for loopholes."
In addition to Gov. Allen’s backing,
the rule change was also supported by
the Virginia Family Foundation and Concemed
Women for America, which argued
thatonly "traditional" families should
be given economic benefits from the state
agency.
However in Nebraska, an exception to
the "stop-the-wedding" frenzy has come
Nebraska where state Sen. Ernie Chambers
of Omaha has introduced a measure
that would amend Nebraska law to let
gays and lesbians legally marry in the
Cornhusker State. Chambers acknovCl--
edges that his proposal, LB1260, probably
won’t win approval on its first pass
through the state legislature, but he says
he’s determined and won’t give tip. ’q’his
is an issue related to civil rights mad civil
liberties that can’t be dodged by political
bodies,"-he says. "It has an impact on so
many people."
And in San Francisco, its Board of
Supervisors created a "civil ceremony to
solemnize" same-sex domestic parmerships
under the aegis of the county clerk’s
office, the city official who also perfolans
civil wedding ceremonies for heterosexual
couples. The measure, which would extend
no benefits beyond its symbolic ceremony,
is believed to be the first time any
govenfing body has moved to create a
civil rite to acknowledge same-sex umons.
A board committee quic"kly approved the
measure mad sent it on to the full board.
Five of the board’s 11 members are cosponsors
of the ceremony. The county
clerk’s office has estimated that adding
the ceremony would probably increase
the number of registered partners by 2 or
3 times. And with a $30 fee for the ceremony
itself, the clerk’s office also esti-
: mated the proposed rite could add close to
¯¯ $50,000 to the city’s coffers.
Back in Hawaii, Gov. Ben Cayetano
¯
has .suggested that the way for the state to
extricate itself from the ongoing controversy
of same-sex marriages is for the
¯ state to stop giving marriage licenses to
anyone and just offer domestic partnerships
to gay and non-gay couples instead.
¯ ’The institution ofmarriage shouldbe left
to the church," Cayetano is quoted as
saying in a report in the Honolulu Adver-
¯ tiser. ’q’he government needs to explore
its role in marriages. The government
: should not be in the role of sanctifying
marriages. That’s when they nminto problems."
State Senate leaders quickly said they
didn’t think the legislature was likely to
go along with Cayetano’s idea to pull the
plug on marriage. While legal experts say
.th.ey haveno idea if a state could even stop
~ssuing marriage licenses, they do agree
that the most important benefits of legal
marriage are derived from the federal
government in the form of income taxes,
Social Security benefits, and pensionregulations
- all ofwhich depend on state legal
definitions of a mamage.
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oftheir ability to serve in the armed forces,
the 1,049 HIV-positiveU.S. service members
and immediately cut off all health
care benefits to their dependents. Half
these service members are married and,
on average, they have served in the military
for a decade, according to the Pentagon.
Nearly 20 percent of them are officers.
Clinton legal counsel, Jack Quinn, told
reporters in making the announcement
that "the President has determined that
this provision is .unconstitutional and he
has therefore directed the Attorney General
not to defend it in court." The Pentagon,
Gay & Lesbian civil rights advocates,
AIDS activists and a number of
members of Congress oppose the provision.
But President Clinton signed the
appropriations measure because it is vital
to the country’s defense needs, in spite of
the Dornan provision.
A measure has also been introduced by
Sens. William Cohen (R-Maine) and Edward
Kennedy (D-Mass.) to repeal the
Dornan provision. A similar bill to overturn
the measure was introduced in the
Houseby Reps. PeterTorkildsen, R-Mass.,
Jane Harman, D-Calif., Connie Morella,
R-Md., and Ron Dellums, D-Calif. Elizabeth
Birch, head of the Human Rights
Campaign, applauded the \Kqaite House
announcement. "We asked him [Clinton]
to put the full force of his administration
behind overturning it and he has done just
that," she said. "This is precisely the kind
ofleadership we expect from Bill Clinton."
Winnie Stachelberg, HRC’s senior
health policy advocate, said, "q’hat [the
Dornan provision] ~ as one of the meanest.
most vindictive measures to come out
of the 104th Congress, and we will do
everything in our power to ensure,, repeal
of that discmninatorv measure, The
repeal bill is expected to have broad bipartisan
support in both honses,
Stachelberg said, noting that Georgia Sen.
Sam Numa, ranking Democrat on the Senate
Armed Services Committee, has called
the HIV expulsion measure "pmfitive."
Dornan and otherGOPextremists added
the HIV provision to the House version of
the defense authorization, but it was not in
the Senate bill. When the two versions
went to a House-Senate conference committee
for reconciliation, House Republicans
made sure this discriminatory measure
became part of the final bill,
Stachelberg said.
Currently, service members with the
virus that causes AIDS may serve their
country as long as they can perform their
duties, but they are not deployed overseas.
The same policy is applied to service
members who have other chronic medical
conditions such as diabetes, asthma, heart
disease or cancer.
The Human Rights Campaign is the
largest national lesbian and gay political
organization, with members throughout
the country. It effectively lobbies Congress,
provides campaign support and
educates the public to ensure that lesbian
and gay Americans can be open, honest
and safe at home, at work and in the
community.
that the daughter "should be given the
opportunity and the option to live in a
non-lesbian world." One new witness
slated to testify in the appeal will be
Michelle Mclr£nes, 25, the daughter of
John Ward and the wife he "killed. During
a television interview am~onncing that
she ~vould testify, McInnes said her father
also tried to molest her ~vhen she was 14
3ears old.
This reporter does not claim to be a
legal scholar, bnt from what I do kaaow,
the evidence points toward premeditated
mnrder, even if the provocation the young
man talked about happened in exactly the
way he said it did. I, for one, donbt the
story, but I also doubt there is any way to
disprove it. What will the offici~s cal[ it’?
Murder? Justifiable homicide? A -killing
in self-defense? A hate crone? Stay tuned.
I’ll keep you posted.
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Survey: Less Opposition
to Homosexuality
WAbH., D.C. - According to
the annual survey of college
freshmen around the country by
the University of California, the
nation’s students continue to
have less objection to same-sex
relationships. The survey, conducted
under the aegis of the
American Council on Education
and given to more than 300,000
freshmen entering some 641 colleges
and universities in the U.S,
fouud that o~fly about 31% of the
students this year believed that
homosexuality ~s wrong and
should be forbidden. That figure
is the lowest reported since the
survey started in 1987 when53%
said they disapproved of gay and
lesbian relationships.
Fed. Court Topples
Alabama Anti-Gay Law
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - U.S.
District Court Judge Myron Thompson
has declared a 1992 state
law prohibiting state agencies
frown using public funds in direct
or indirect support of gay and
lesbian orgamzations as unconstitutional.
The law was quickly
passed by. the state legislature
and signed into law after officials
at Auburn University g~ve
recognition to a gay student
group on the campus. Lawmakers
had argued that because sodtroy
is illegal in Alabama, no
state funds should be used to
support-the "’gay lifestyle." Judge
Thompson, however, ruled that
the law was simply an attempt to
restrict discussion at public
schools, an illegal restriction of
free speech.
’Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’
Hearing Begins
SFATTLE - The attorueys representing
Navy Lt. Richard
Watson, called the military’s
"don’t ask, don’t tell" policy on
gays and lesbians in the armed
forces"the height ofhypocrisy,"
arguing in federal court that it
was an unconstitutional invasion
of privacy. Watson, a 34-yearold
officer who was training to
eventually captain one of the
Navy’s nuclear-powered submafines,
has said he told his commandingofficer
he is gay to avoid
the possibility of being blackmailed
as his naval career advanced.
He continues to serve in
the Navy wlfile his case, one of
several like it, is in the federal
courts.
Canadian Censorhsip
Case: Mixed Ruling
VANCOUVER - The British
Columbia Supreme Court has
handed down a utixed ruling in
the case of the Little Sister’s
BookStore, a gay and lesbian
shop that had charged Canadian
Customs officials with unconstitutional
censorship. The provincial
high court declared that
Customs officials had in fact used
their power to seize published
materials counng into the countU
in ways that violated the
nation’s Charter of Rights and
Freedoms. Customs officials
have seized, and sometimes destroyed,
hundreds of gay m~d lesbian
books and magazines ordered
by Little Sister’s, maiulv
from UTS. publishers, claiming
the materials violated Canadian
pornography laws. The court
ruled that the Customs actions
"’in large part.., are die arbitrary
and improper consequence of a~
inadequate mad flawed admimstration
of the legislation.’" It also
ruled that the incidents involving
Little Sister’s were isolated
episodes, but constituted a"~ave
systemic problem." The most
d~sappointing part of the court
ruling, said Janine Fuller of Little
Sisters, was the justices’ failure
to declare the statute that gives
Customs officials the authority
to seize materials as unconstitutional.
Fuller called the failure of
the court to overturn die Customs
legislation "disappointing"
and said the store would be appealing
that part of the ruling,
but that she was otherwise
pleased with the rest of the high
court’s ruling. "Ttfis decision is
a complete vindication of thc
gay aud lesbian conmmmty and
the lives of its people mid for that
we celebrate die decision," she
said. "It has been a long, hard
climb. We haven’t quite reached
the smmnit but we’re dimm closc.
We are colffident that we will
succeed at the Court of Appeal."
Cincinnati Bias Costs
City $35 Million
CINCINNATI - The Cincinnati
Enquirer reports that the cit\"s
Convention & Visitors Bureau
says it has lost some $35 million
in tourist and convention income
because of an anti-gay measure
approved by voters in 1993 to
repeal an earlier anti-bias measure
that included gays mid lesbians.
The visitors bureau report
had been requested by the city
council and cited 10 ~arger national
organizations, including
die A~nerican Library Association.
that specifically mentioued
the repealed rights measure as
their reason for not holding conventions
in the city.
Catholic Bishops Speak
Upfor Gays in Zimbabwe
HAt~kRE, Zimbabwe - Gays
and lesbians in Zimbabwe have
gotten some limited support from
an unexpected source when the
country’s Catholic Bishops’
Conference issued a pastoral letter
denouncing attacks against
homosexuals. Zimbabwe President
Robert Mugabe, who is a
Catholic, sparked an international
flap last year when he refused
to allow a gay rights organization
in the country to operate
a booth at an interuational
book fair in the nation’s capital,
calling homosexuals"sodomists
mid sexual perverts" who ,are
"’worse than dogs and pigs." He
followed up later by saying the
gays and lesbians have "no
rights" in Zimbabwe and threatened
to imprison homosexuals.
Although the Catholic Church
considers homosextmlity a "disorder"
that should be dealt with
as sucll, the Bishops Coifference
letter condemned what it "called
"’any attempts toinstitute a witchhunt
or hate campaign" against
homosexuals. "It is therefore not
right for anyone, induding govenunent,
to harass, persecute or
torture people simply because
they are known to have this indination,’"
the Bishops’ Co~fference
letter said.
Anti-Bias Measure for
CA Students Dies
SACtL~kMENTO, Calif. - AB
1001, a proposed measure in the
¯ Califonfia legislature to bar discrimination
because of sexual
orientation in the state’s public
schools and universities, failed
by an 8-7 vote in the Assembly’s
education colurnittee. The measure,
introduced by Assemblywoman
Sheila Kuehl (DFa~
cino), has languished in the
committee since April 1995
when it failed to pass on a first
reading there. The vote against
sending the bill to the full Assembly
was along party lines.
Utah Wants to Stop
School Gay Group
SALT LAKE CITY - According
to a report in the Deseret
News, the Utah State Board of
Education has told state officials
to find "all available ~neans" to
control the kinds ofnon-curriculum
dubs that are formed at public
schools in the state.The move
is aimed at preventing a gay and
lesbian student club from being
formed at East High School in
the state’s capital city. C. Grant
Hurst, who introduced the directive,
told the newspaperit wasn’t
specifically about the gay dub at
the high school and said he was
concerned the current legal situation
could allow net-Nazi
groups to be formed at public
schools in Utah. Hurst admitted,
however, that he had gotten"numerous"
phone calls opposed to
the gay club and none about possible
net-Nazi dubs forming..
The board’s resolution speaks
only about the"formation of any
organizations, in schools, that
may create a disruptive or unsafe
atmosphere for children or
that may attract or entice children
tomake decisions tllat could
have a long-term negative impact
on their lives." The Utah
attorney general’s office told
educators late last year in a letter
that federal law and court rulings
mandate that scllool clubs
have to be treated equally no
matter how potentially controversial.
The board’s own attorney
late in 1995 said the only
way the state could keep the gay
dub at East High from forming
would be for all clubs to be prohinted,
stop receiving federal
education funds entirely,.or to
ask Congress to repeal the Equal
Access Act.
Rally Against Blocking
Gay School Clubs In Utah
SALT LAKE CITY - Hundreds
of gay rights activists, including
the parents of gay mid lesbian
teens, rallied outside the state
Capitol to protest a move by
conservative lawmakers who
have said the state should not
allow gay and lesbian student
groups in public schools, even if
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the state has to refuse a $100
million education grant from the
federal government or even bar
all student groups. Kelli
Peterson, the East High School
student who asked to organize
the gay and lesbian campus club,
told the cheering crowd she
didn’t try to start the group to
advocate homosexuality or to
recruit heterosexual classmates
into a "homosexual lifestyle."
In.stead, she said, "I started this
group to end the misery and isolation
of being gay in high
school."
Utah legisli~tors held a secret
meeting earlier in the week with
the state school superintendent,
the commissioner of higher education
and members of the Utah
Attorney General’s office, reportedly
to discuss legal methods
to prevent gay clubs from
being formed at schools in the
state. But Senate President Lane
Beattie dismissed the protest as
a tempest in a teapot. "The infermarion
given them was in error,"
he said. "It [the secret meeting]
wasnot an anti-gay, anti-lesbian
meeting. The meeting was not
held to discuss issues they tlfink
we discussed.’~ Beatrie said that
lawmakers at the meeting were
not anti-gay bnt were anti-immorality.
"That includes heterosexual
immorality as well as
homosexual iunnorality. We m’e
not going to allow immorality to
be taught or encouraged in our
public education system. Period."
But rights activists point
out that a measure that has not
yet been printed for public review
- SB 246 - would"prohibit
schools from supporting illegal
conduct" and may well mimic
an Alabmna state law barring
publicly supported schools from
supporting any orgmfizarion that
advocates illegal activities. That
Alabmna measure was specifically
aimed at preventing state
colleges from allowing gay and
lesbian student groups on campus
because sodomy is illegal in
Alabama, as it is in Utah. The
Alabamameasure, however, was
recently declared unconstitutional
by a federal court.
Episcopal Bishop
Faces Heresy Trial
WILMINGTON, Del. -Theheresy
trial of retired Episcopal
Bishop Alter Righter for ordainingan
openly gay priest is slated
to start before a panel of 9 bishops
Feb. 27, only the second
such heresy proceeding in the
history of the church although
the bishops who brought the
charges against Righter say it
won’t be the last. Righter, the
retired bishop of Iowa, ordained-
Barry Stopfel as a deacon in
1990. At the rime Stopfel not
only acknowledged that he is
gay, but also that he had been
living with his male partner
throughout his seminary studies.
The 10 bishops who brought
the charges against Righter say
bishops in New Jersey, Philadelphia,
Detroit and Washington
may also be charged With heresy
for similar ordinations if the
ecclesiastical court finds Righter
guilty.
TX Radical Right Wants
No Gays In Library
SAN ANTONIO, Texas - Antigay
flmdamentalists have tried -
so far without success - to keep
the Unity Foundation, an organization
that’s working on plans
to open a lesbian and gay community
center in this SouthTexas
¯ city, fromholding mmeetings in
the city’s pubhc library. Organizers
of the anri-gay group have
protested outside the library and
city hall, and say that homosexuals
shouldn’t be permitted to use
~ public facilities because sodomy
¯ is illegal under state law. But so
far the anti-gay protests have
been small and failed to draw
wide support, while a number of
mainstream religious leaders
have vocally backed the Unity
Foundation’ s rights both to meet
at the library and to work on the
community center.
San Francisco Police: A
’Commanding’ Lesbian
SAN FRANCISCO- As part of
sweeping changes from top to
bottom being instituted by newly
elected Mayor Willie Brown in
San Francisco, Melinda Pengel
has become perhaps the highest
ranking openly gay police officer
in any major U.S. police e
force. Pengel, who was in the
first class of women cadets to
join the SFPD in 1975 and iu
1994 became one of the
department’s highest ranking
officers when she was awarded
her captain’s bars, has now been
made a commander on the force
of some 2,000 officers. Colnmander
Pengel, 41, was named
to hernew rank by Brown’s handpicked
Police Chief Fred Lau.
The rank of commander is below
only the chief and deputy
chief officials. Among her new
duties, Pengel will oversee the
department’s pohcing efforts on
the city’s trouble-plagued public
transportation system. Pengel
said of the promotion, "It’s not
just for me; it’s for .the other
women in the department too.
We’re moving into a nmv era,
and I get to be a part of that."
Virginia ’Diversity’
Billboard Covered Up
CHRISTIANBURG, Va. - A
billboard erected recently in the
downtown area of this small
community of some 11,000
people west of Roanoke, proclaiming
simply that "Diversity
Enriches,’" has been covered over
by the owners of the billboard
after callers threatened to damage
the finn’ s property. The billboard
was paid for by an informal
group known as Gay &
Straight Citizens of Southwest
Virginia with the help of the
local chapter of PFLAG (Parents
& Friends of Lesbians And
Gays), and went up January 18.
Aside from the simple phrase,
"’Diversity Enriches," the only
other print on the rainbow billboard
was the much smaller
sponsorship tag for Gay &
Straight Citizens of Southwest
Virginia, which paid $450 for
having its sign up for a month.
But after au article with a photo
of the billboard appeared in the
local newspaper, Frank Amburn,
manager of the lo’cal office of
Outdoor East, the company that
owns the billboard space, says
his office was flooded with calls
complaining about the sign, including
several from people who
threatened to destroy other billboards
owned by the advertising
finn. At that point, Amburn decided
to cover up the billboard
out of fear for his company’s
property. The ad agency’ is refunding
the money paid for the
billboard space.
Forbes’ Gay Views
Become a Political Issue
DES MOINES, iowa- Dmnonstrating
once again - for better or
f6r worse - that gay fights can no
longer be separated from uational
politics, Republicau pres. hopefuls
have increasingly tried to
derail the unexpectedly surging
candidacy of multi-~nillionaire
Steve Forbes by portraying him
as "’pro-ga.v.’" In Iowa iu Jan.,
state cmnpaign officials who
were supporting Sen. Phil
Grannn’s bid, told reporters that
Forbes supports allowing gays
m~d lesbim~s to serve in the U.S.
military under the current "’don’t
ask, d’on’t tell’" compromise
policy. Recently, Forbes was
asked ifhe was in favor of allowing
same-sex marriages. Although
clearly uncomfortable
with the question, Forbes responded,"
Compassion is not approval.
There should be special
fights for none, equal rights for
all."
Brits Expected to Keep
Anti-Gay Military Policy
LONDON" - London ucwspapers
have reported that British
defense lmnistry officials remmn
opposed to ending the ban on
gays and lesbians in the nation’ s
armed forces. Several newspapers
reported that Michael
Portillo, the defense ~mnister,
will announce sometime in Feb.
the findings of a ministry review
of the policy excluding homosexuals
in the military, but several
ministry officials have atready
said the review found no
reason to change the policy. If
the govenunent keeps the current
policy there will almost certainly
be a legal challenge before
ihe European Court of fluman
Rights, where 4 discharged
gay and lesbian service members
have already’ applied for a
review of their case. The uational
gay rights group Stonewall
has also applied for pervm ssign
to appeal the policy to the
House of Lords, Britain’s highest
court of appeal.
Gay arit to Play Wilde
LONDON - Openly’ gay British
comic actor Stephen Fry, perhaps
best known to American
audiences for his portrayal of the
erudite and condescending butler
in the BBC,’PBS "Wooster
and Jeeves,’" says his next role
will be starnng in a film bio-pic
of 19th century playwright, wit
mad ben vivant , Oscar Wilde.
Wilde was finprisoned in 1895
for a sodomy statute violation.
KELLY KIRB Y
Certified Public Accountant
Lesbians & Gays face many special tax
situations whether single or as couples.
We are proud to serve our communities
with sensitive & timely information.
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Where God Uplifts All People
Sunday Service, 10:45 am
Wednesday Service, 6:30 pm
Home Cell Groups, 2nd & 4th Sun.
1623 No. Maplewood, 838-1715
Drug Combo Treats Eye Disease
WASHINGTON - According to a report.
in the Archives ofOphthalmology, a daily
injecteddose of 2 drugs - foscarnet and
ganciclovir - is a more effective way to
combat the blinding AIDS-related eye
disease cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis
than either of the drugs used alone. Patients
in the research who were given one
or the other but not both drugs had recurring
CMV retinilis infections in a month
or two of starting the therapy. But patients
in the study who were given both drugs
were able to keep it under.control for 4.
months or longer.
Just Say No School Programs
WASHINGTON" - Part of the massive
welfare overhaul confessional Republicans
have proposed in this year’s ongoing
budget battle includes $75 millionin federal
funds for state schools to each students
the "gains to be realized by abstaining
from sexual activity" outside marnage.
The abstinence pro~am proposal
would provide money for schools to teach
youngsters that complete abstinence is
the oulv certmn wav to avoid unwanted
pregnancies and sex~ally transmitted diseases
such as AIDS. Ignoring gays and
lesbians ~vho cannot legally marry in this
country, the language of"ihe G~)P proposal
states: "A mutually faithful monogmnous
relationship in the context of
mamage is the expected standard of human
sexual activity" mad that sex outside
marnage "’is likely to have laarmful p~ychological
and physical effects."
Gay Medical Journal
NEWYORK-The Gay &Lesbian Medical
Assn. has announced plans to begin
publishing what it says will be the first
science journal devoted to medical issues
faced byhomosexuals. Thejournal, which
as yet has not been given a name, will
focus on publishing findings in research
on AIDS and HIV, mental health issues,
breast cancer and other medical issues.
FDA OK Sought for AIDS Drug
STOCKHOLM - The U.S.-Swedish drug
manufacturer Pharmica & Upjohn has
released preliminary data on ,still-incomplete
clinical trials of its drug Delavirdine
(also -known as Rescriptor) because early
results hold so much promise, the firm sa
vs. Hoping that the early results will help
get faster approval from the U.S. Food &
Drug Administration for the drug,
Pharmica & Upjotm said Delavirdine appears
to help some patients infected with
HIV stave off developing full-blown
AIDS. The firm said that preliminary data
from its ongoing tests with the drug indicate
that patients receiving Delavirdine
had been able to lower the amount ofHIV
in their blood system by at least 68% for
as long as 60 w~eks. Some 3,500 patients
have been participating so far.
Infants Shed HIV Completely
LONDON - According to researchers
reporUng in the medical journal Lancet,
nine infants who were infected with HIV
bv their mothers at birth have fended off
tl~e virus. Only a few such reports of HIV
relnisston have ever been reported, an~
those have beeu received with some skepticism.
But the uew findings - which come
from Italy, Belgium m~d Swedeu : may
not be so easiix disufissed. Of some 264
babies who were born HIV-positive, the
research team found nine who subsequently
became free of the virus. In seven
cases, both HIV tests used went from
positive to negative during the course of
the study; in the other two, the virus was
detected even though the antibody tests
indicated that the baby was not infected.
2 Different AIDS Epidemics
NEW DELHI - Max Essex of the Harvard
AIDS Institute said at a conference on
infectious diseases that increasingly there
are 2 different AIDS epidemics globally -
one in the Western industrial nations,
which is slowing, and another in Afr ica
and Asia, which is continuing to Wow
with noend in sight. Essex told the conference
that the 2 epidemics are spread by
different strains of HIV- 1, and that the B
and E strains of the virus behave differently.
Unpublished research by Essex and
his team at the Harvard institute, he said,
indicates that subtype E is more efficient
at infecting cells in the female reproductive
tract, so is more readily transmitted
during heterosexual sex. The E subtype is
largel y found in Africa and the Indian
subcontinent. But, Essex said, the viral
subtype that is largely responsible for the
AIDS epidemic in Europe and North
America - subtype B - targets different
body cells and seems more prone to being
passed on during anal sex, perhaps explaining
its predominance among gay men.
Essex noted that in the West, about 2
million people are infected and that that
number appears to have leveled off. But,
he said, there are an estimated 15 to 20
million cases in Africa and the Indian
subcontinent, and that number apparently
is continuing to grow unchecked.
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4138 S. HARVARD. SUITE C-1
TULS& OK 74135 (918) 742-8868
Free & Anonymous
Finger Stick Method
By & for, but not exclusive
to the Lesbian, Gay, & Bisexual Communities.
Monday & Thursday evenings:
7-8:30 pm for testing, 7-9 pm for results.
Daytime testing, Mon-Thurs by appointment.
TOHR Tulsa Oklahomans
for Human Rights
742-2927
4158 South Harvard, Suite E-2
2 doors east of the HIV Resource Consortium
Look for our banner on testing nights.
Intimacy
for
Gay & Bisexual Men
A 10 WEEK THERAPEUTIC GROUP EXPERIENCE
The focus of the group will be the introduction of a
cognitive behavioral group model for examining intimacy
and .barriers to intimate relationships among gay and
bisexual men. This approach is skill-based, and builds
upon the strengths of group members while promoting
growth at intrapersonal, interpersonal and community
levels.
Facilitated by Richard Reeder, M.S.
When: Monday evenings, 7:00 - 9:00 P.M.
Beginning March 4, 1996
Concluding May 6, 1996
Cost: $25.00 per session or
$200.00 advance registration
Where: Cherry Street Psychotherapy Associates
1515 South Lewis
Tulsa, OK 74104
FOR INTAKE APPOINTMENT, PLEASE CALL 743-4117
THE GROUP WILL BE LIMITED TO 8 PARTICIPANTS.
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WHAT IS VIATICATION?
Viatication is the process d~rough which a person
living with an terminal illness can receive a cash payment
from flae face value of their insurance policy.
WHO IS ELIGIBLE FOR A
VIATICAL SETTLEMENT?
Generally, to be eligible for a viatica1 settlement you
must have a documentable terminal illness, and life
insurance coverage in either an individual term, whole
life, or a group policy.
HOW MUCH IS MY
POLICY WORTH?
The value of your life insurance policy in a viatical
settlement is determined by the specifics of your policy
and your unique medical situation. Not every policy is
suitable for viaticanon, but settlement offers typically
range from 60% to 90% of a policy’s face value, depending
on the specifics of your policy and medical history.
HOW DOES A SETTLEMENT
WORK?
With your written penmssion, we gather medical and
xnsurance records with which to determine your policy’s
value. Then. a settlemnt offer is presented to you. You
may always decline the offer with no obligation whatsoever.
Should you accept the offer, payment is made
directl y to you. You pay nothing else on your poli(y, and
you owe us nothing.
IS VIATICATING MY
POLICY THE RIGHT
CHOICE FOR ME?
Man?,’ factors influence whether vxaticadng 3’our life
insurance is the best financial alternative available for
you. Southwest Viatical can discuss all of the factors with
you and 3our family in person, in detail and can recommend
an experienced Certified Financial Planner to asnst
you in plmming the best outcome from 3our umque
financial situation.
HOW IS SOUTHWEST
VIATICAL DIFFERENT?
Today, many compames offer viatical settlements,
doing business only by bulk advertising and 1-8,00 numbers.
They transfer your insurance and medical records
by mail. and do business from another state.
At Southwest Viatical. we believe you should be assured
of complete confidentiality and the best possible
service by working with us in person, face-to-face. We
are involved on a commumtv level, and are responsible
directly to our local community.
By working with you in person, but at the same time
having access to nationwide financial resources, we are
able to deliver the best value on your policy available
today. And because of our established resources, we can
deliver a settlement in less than a third the time other
companies take by mail, typically in fe~ver than 30 days.
We’ll do what it takes
to find the best solution for you.
Southwest
Home Office
Dailas, Texas
800-559-4790
Kelly Kirby
Oklahoma Representative
POB 14011
Tulsa, OK 74159-1011
918-747-3320
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SUNDAYS MONDAYS
Agape’ Christian ¯ HIV Testing
Fellowship TOHR Clinic
Worship Service, 10:30 am : Free & anonymous testing
Sheridan Center, Suite H
21st & Sheridan, 599-7688
Bl~ss the Lord At All
Times Christian Center
Sunday School, 9:45 am
Worship Service, 11 am
2627b East 1 lth 583-7815
Community of Hope
(United Methodist)
Worship Service, 6 pm
1703 E. 2nd, 585-1800
Family of Faith
Metro. Comm. Church
Adult Sunday School, 9:15 :
Worship Service, 11 am
5451-E South Mingo.
Info: 622-1441
Metro. Comm; Church
of Greater Tulsa
Worship Service, 10:45am
1623 N. Maplewood
Info: 838-1715
Bisexual/Lesbian/Gay
Alliance - Univ. of Tulsa
6:30 pm at Canterbury
5th & Evanston,’ 583-9780
using fingerstick method.
No appointment required.
Walk in testing: 7-8:30 pm
Results hours: 7-9 pm
Info: 742-2927
Lambda Bowling League
Sheridan Lanes
8:45 pm
3121 S. Sheridan
PFLAG Family AIDS
Support Group
2nd Monday of month,
6:30 pm
4154 S. Harvard
Info: 749-4901
OTHER GROUPS
: Tool Box Technicians,
: Leather org., Info c/o The
Too1 Box: 584-1308
T.U.L.S.A. Ti~sa Uniform
¯ & Leather Seekers Assoc.
Info: 838-1222
~ The Banned, OK Gay Band
Practice weekly in OKC
Info: 838-2121
TUESDAYS
HIV+ Support Group
HIV Resource Consortium
1:30 pm
4154 S. Harvard, Ste. H-1
Info: Wanda @ 749-4194
WEDNESDAYS
Authority OfThe Believer
Bible Study, 7 pm
MCC of Greater Tulsa
1623 N. Maplewood
Info: 838-1715
Shanti-Tulsa, Inc. Bless The Lord At All
HIV/AIDS Support Group : Times Christian Center
.&
Friends & Family
HIV/AIDS Support Group
7 pm, call for location:
749-7898
Community of Hope
Grief Group, 6 pm
1703 E. 2nd, 585-1800
Womens Grief Group
sponsored by
Community of Hope
6pm, Butler/Stumpff
Funeral Home
2103 E. 3rd St.
Info: 585-1800
¯ Prayer & Bible Study
7:30 pm 2627-B East 1 lth
Call 583-7815 for info.
Family Of Faith MCC
Praise & Prayer 6:30 pm
Choir Practice 7:30 pm
5451-E South Mingo.
Call 622-1441 for info.
Community of Hope
(United Methodist)
Service for Peace, 6:30 pm
Bible Study, 7 pm
1703 E. 2nd, 585-1800
TNAAPP
Tulsa Native American
AIDS Prevention Project
Support group
for Gay & Bi Native
American Men, 6 pm
at Community of Hope
1703 E. 2nd
582-7225 or 584-4983
THURSDAYS
16-Step Empowerment
Group For Women
Community of Hope
1703 E. 2nd, Info: 585-1800
Co-Dependency
Support Group .
7:30, Family of Faith MCC
5451-E S. Mingo, 622-144 1
HIV TestingTOHRClinic
Walk in testing: 7 - 8:30 pm
Results hours: 7 - 9 pm
Info: 742-2927
Tulsa Family Chorale
Weekly practice, 9:30 pm
Lola’s 2630 E. 15th
PFLAG Family AIDS
Support Group
1st & 3rd Thursdays
4154 S. Harvard, 749-4901
Alternatives
Weekly social events for
LGBT men & women, 7 pm
Info: 646-5503
Substance Abuse
Support Group
for persons with HIV’AIDS
4154 S. Harvard, Ste. G
3-4:30 pm, Info: 749-4194
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16
Community ofHope Movie Night &
Discussion: A River Runs Through It
6:30 pm, 1703 E. 2nd, Info: 585-1800
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17
Family ofFaith MCC Reclaim &
Recovery Workshop: Forgiveness
9-3 pm, 5451-E S. Mingo, Info: 622-1441
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18
Community ofHope
Companioning Celebration
2 pm, 1703 E. 2nd, Info: 585-1800
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21
St. Jerome’s. Catholic Church (ECC)
Fat Tuesday Party
Ash Wednesday Service
Info: page Father Rick at 646-7116
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22
Alternatives Social Groap - Dinner
7pm, Golden Corral, 71St & Mingo
Info: 646-5503
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24
Shanti Mardi Gr~ Ball, 8-midnight
Natl. Guard Armory, Fairgrounds "
Info: 749-7898
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 29
Alternatives Leap Year Party
7pm, Bamboo Lounge, 7204 E. Pine
Info: 646-5503
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27
Rainbow Business Guild
7 pm, Full Moon Care, Cherry Street
Dinner Meeting with speaker.
Info: 665-5174
." FRIDAY, MARCH 1
¯ Community ofHope
¯ Movie Night & Discassion: Priest
: 6:30 pm, 1703 E. 2nd, hffo: 585-1800
OF
Safe Haven, a free, non-political, nonreligious,
non-recovery-oriented social
gathering for LGBT voimg adults. 18-30
: Family of Faith MC~, 8 - rmdnight
5451-E S. Mingo, Info: 622-1441
SATURDAY, MARCH 2
Rosary at St. Jerome’s Catholic Charch
The Garden Chapel, 3841 S. Peoria
Info: page Father Rick at .636-7116
TUESDAY, MARCH 5
Tulsa Oklahomansfor Haman Rights
Community Meeting, 7 pm
Chapman Activity Ctr., Univ. of Tulsa
5th St. west of Harvard, Info: 743-4297
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6 Marsha Stevens Concert
presented by Agape Christian Fellowship
7 pm, All Soul’s Unitarian, 2952 S. Peoria
Info: 599-7688
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6
NewLGBTPolitical Groap, I st Meeting
7 pm, Martin East Regional Library
2601 So. Garnett
SATURDAY, MARCH 9
Dignityllntegrity Meeting
Lesbian/Gay Catholics & Episcopalians
5 pm, St. Dunstan’s Episcopal Church
5635 E. 71st, Info: POB 701044, 74170
SATURDAY, MARCH 16
Gaylapalooza, 8 pm
Tulsa Performing Arts Center
110 E. Second, Info: 596-7111
SATURDAYS
St. Jerome’s Ecumenical
Catholic Church
Mass, 6 pm
Garden Chapel
3841 S. Peoria
Info: Father Rick
at 742-7122
Narcotics Anonymous
Meets weekly at l 1 pm
Confidential support for
recovering addicts.
Community of Hope
1703 E. 2nd, Info: 585-1800
NAMES Project
AIDS Memorial Quilt
Sewing Bees
3rd Sat. of each month
Info: 748-3111
OTHER GROUPS
Gay & Lesbian Sttulent
Association -
TJC Southeast Can~pus,
Info: 631-7632
SWAN-Single Women’s
Activity Network
Call 832-2121
TOHR Helpline
Daily 8-10 pm
For info. or to vohlntecr:
743-GAYS
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for your convenience!
3 locations to serve you:
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1145 So. Utica
743-2351
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1560 East 21st, Ste. 104
743-2351
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8146-D South Lewis
299-1790
Reviewed by Barry Hensley
Tulsa City-County Library
This entertaining anthology combines
essays, personal narratives and poetry regarding
the multitude of rites and phases
of lesbian life. Coming from the position
that the lives of lesbians are, in many
ways, very unlike the lives of heterosexual
women or gay men, Dyke Life
~ves an inside perspective of lesbian
marriage, parenting, stereotypes and lesbians
in corporate America, among 0{her
topics.
There are five parts to Dyke Life: 1)
Relating to Others, 2) Relating to Each
Other, 3) Sex and Gender Identity, 4)The
Public World, and 5) The Lesbian Body.
Each section includes several entries by
both well-known and obscure lesbian
writers. Some of the better-known authors
include JoAnn Lonlan, Del Martin,
Leslea Newman and Rutt~&im Robson,
all of whom have other books available in
the library.
The entry rifled "outing and the Politics
of the Closet," by Victoria Brownworth,
is an entertaining examination of the social
circumstances which make the outing
of women a difficult and sensitive proposition.
"Creating Lesbian Families," by
Heather Conrad and Kate Colwell shows
the challenges and controversies surrounding
lesbian parenting. One of the more
unusual entries is by Hon. PanlaJ. Hepner,
who is a judge on the New York State
Family Court. Her entry is titled, "Oy
Veh, t’he Judge on the Bench is a Dyke!’"
Another valuable entry is by Jeanne
Adleman, member of Old Lesbians Organizing
for Change (OLOC), who contributes,
"We Never Promised You Role
Models."
One of the best things about this book is
the extensive bibliographical information
that many entries contain. Often, not only
books and magazines are cited, but organizarions
as well, complete with address,
fax and phone numbers.
For aninteresting and enlightening treat,
check,out Dyke Life. This and other
books on similar topics are available at
Tulsa City-County Libraries. Please call
your local branch library or the Central
Library Readers Services Department at
596-7966, for more information.
traveling from around the region to participate
in a picnic mad other festivities.
Particular thanks went the support FUSO
received from METSAS, Metropolitan
Tulsa Substance Abuse Services..
On Feb. 15-19 , FUSO members are
joining with members of Brother to
Brother, an Oklahoma City organization,
to attend the 9th Annual National Black
Lesbian & Gay Conference, taking place
in Dallas, titled, Black Lesbians and Gqvs:
Continuing the Struggle.
FUSO meets the 1st Thursday of each
month at 6:30 pm at Rudisill North Regional
Library, 1520 No. Hartford, 596-
7280. The meetings and membership are
open to those 18 and above.
presents in concert
March 6th, 7prn
In Her
All Souls Unitarian
Church Auditorium
2952 South Peoria
For more information, call Agape"
Christian Fellowship at 599-7688
Tul~sa’s only Gay-owned Funera~ Home
Butfer-Stumpff
Funera¢ Home gg Crematory
~103 /3ast Tftird~ 587-7000
Complete Services Available. For Example, Only $2820 for Casket with
Complete Service. Includes: Quality Steel Sealer Casket in one of four colors,
Standard Single Lawn Crypt, Service at your church or in our chapel, Hearse,
Family Limousine, Pallbearers Limousine, Thank You Cards, Register Book,
Memorial Folders, Visitation, Embalming, Hairdressing, Cosmetic Services, All
Professional Services. If you have a prearrangement elsewhere, and paid too
much, transfer your policy and you may be eligible for a cash refund.
Wasfiin~Iton Memorial~ Gardens
4300 East 91st Street South
Special Offer! Burial Space for Just $200, pre-construction.
by Phyl Boler-Schmidt
An excitement has erupted in
Eureka Springs, and you’ll find
j.’ust about everyone talking about
it - gay, straight, businessman,
minister, lodging owner, photographer,
realtor, even computer
geek. Okay, especially computer
geek!
So, what’s :the fuss? ~ureka
now has a whole lot of information
available on the Internet and
WorldWide Web. Most of it has
just popped up, seemingly out of
nowhere, in the last month. And,
where is it coming from? Who
would spend a lot of time promoting
Eureka Springs?
Positive Idea Marketing Plans
(PIMP, for short) is the source of
all the hubbub, and not surprisingly,
PIMP is a family-owned
and operated company. Jan and
Kim Ridenour own PIMP, and
they. have put their company in
literal overdrive on this new
project since the year began.
You probably remember Jan
and Kim. They are the soon-tobe-
former owners of The EmeraldRainbow,
andKim frequently
writes the astrology column for
Tulsa Family News,
PIMP (among other things)
owns its own Web domain, and
the Ridenours have been processing
and publishing pages on
that domain (PIMPS.corn). Everything
imaginable is available
with the click of a mouse, mad
new pages are being added daily.
Just what is available for Eureka
on the Web? As of this
writing (you never know what
else will be there by the time we
are published and distributed)~
you can access pages about the
town of Eureka, complete with
gorgeous photographs, and there
is also a page about the Ozark
region.
When you first see the pictures,
some may seem familiar.
That’s because many of the pictures
are from the collection of
Susan Storch, master photographer.
Susan is responsible for
many of the photos that appear
on .postcards for Eureka and the
reg~oni And Susan’s shop, The
Imagery also has a page on the
Web, complete with more
samples of her work.
There is a page for Weddings
and Holy Unions and how to set
up the honeymoon of your
dreams right here in the Ozarks.
A standard wedding page also
exists (you know, standard - one
boy, ,one girl), complete with
more photos.
Pond Mountain, a favorite bed
and breakfast inn, has a page
complete with details on lodging,
wedding setups, honeymoons,
and breathtaking photos.
Two local realtor~ are represented
in the Enreka pages: Century
21 Woodland Real Estate, a
partly family-owned operation,
and McClung Realty, a regular
advertiser in these pages.
For those of you that were
fortunate to stop in and visit The
Emerald Rainbow in the past
year, you may have met Alice
P(ig) Bailey. Alice now has her
own page on the information
superhighway, and even has an
advice column. Stay tuned for
pig astrology.
There are a number offamilyspecific
sites as well. In addition
to the weddings and holy unions
page, there is a site for g/l/b/t
retreats, Our Worm Magazine is
published on line, and Guru to
Go, Kim’s astrology.page, is
there too. So, I guess you could
call tiffs Queer Eureka OnLine
too.
Local weather forecasts are
easy to access, and there is a
feature site of the week as well.
Yahoo, one of the premiere
Internet search engines can be
acces sed, and you can download
the latest in browser software.
I know of several more pages
that are in the making, and there
are listings of pages that are due
to be available soon. The Eureka
pages continue to grow in number
every time I look at the
WorldWi’de Web. But, it doesn’t
stop with Eureka Springs.
The Internet and the Web are
national and international communications
systems. I+inks tO
related sites can be found ~dl
over the PIMP pages, and other
companies that aren’t specific to
Eureka Springs have an opportunity
to get on the PIMP bandwagon
too.
If you have never had the opportunity
to browse around the
Web, it is a thrill you will not
easily forget. Once a person realizes
how easy ~t is to access an
entire world of information with
the click of a mouse, the task of
looking things up in a phone
book, a dictionary, or an encyclopedia
becomes downright
mundane.
For those of you who are already
on line: if you haven’t
used thatWebbrowser that came
with your signup package, give
it a try. You’ll never look at a
compute.r screenin quite the same
way again. And, if you want a
first place to look, use this address:
http://www.pimps.com/
For you experienced Web
browsers out there, go to the
address above, then put it on a
bookmark. New pages are being
added all the time. Follow all the
links on that front page, and you
could easily spend a couple of
hours just looking at what is
available in and near Eureka
Springs, and especially what is
available that isfamily-specific
If you don’t have a computer,
or hive one and have not vet
made the leap to cyberspace, n~w
is the time. An entire world of
information, resources, new
friends, business contacts, and
just plain fun is to be had.
Since I’m your basic computer
geek, this has been an especi,’dly
exciting time for me. I have
watched as numerous people
have accessed the Web for the
first time, and I gotta tell you, it’s
an amazing thing to see thc excitement
in the eyes of someone
who has just discovered the answer
to his or her dreams.
If you don’t have access to the
Interuet, find a friend who does.
Buy the beer and bribe your
friend into showing you how to
access cyberspace. If you do have
access, point your browser to the
address given above. You can
also reach PIMP by e-mail at
emerald@intellinet.com. If you
aren’t on line, or if youjust want
to talk to a real live human, call
501-253-2401. Be brave. Step
out. You’ll be glad you did!
Georgia Ragsdale, who has
filmed a movie, "’Never Met
Picasso, soon to be released, with
co-star Margot Kidder.
Their shows have been sellouts
wherever they’ve played.
Tickets for this "Doh’t-miss"onc
of a -kind show are available at
the PAC and Carson Attractions,
for S15.50 to $18.50. The show
has one performance at 8 pm
Saturday, March 16th
Mark your calendars now, because
this is one show yon won’t
want to miss out on, and it’s the
first of its kind in Tulsa.
That’s progress !
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by Jean-Pierre
It’s 2 a.m., the bars have closed, and
you’re hungry. Where in Tulsa can you
go’? The restaurants revxewed here are
open all night and have table service.
Clearly, the unquestionable winner in
the all-night category has to be the Village
Inn chain. While service quality varies a
bit from store to store, it is generally
reasonably prompt, and, as long as you.
d.on’t have any special requests or instructions,
reasonably efficient.
Breakfast is.Village Inn’s forte. They
" are Particularly known for theirextremely
fluffy omelettes, made so by a quick whirl
in the blender before cooking. Otherpopular
breakfasts are the several varieties of
"skillets", which feature diced potatoes, a
meat, and onions and other vegetables, all
sauteed together, and then topped with
eggs to order and a sauce or gravy ofsome
sort.
Of course, you can also get sandwiches
and regular diner food. We particularly
like the Cobb salad, of mosdy iceberg
lettuce, but topped with aplethora ofother
tasty items like bleu cheese, fresh bacon,
grilled chicken breast, an~ diced avocados.
Be sure and ask if the avocados are
ripe, since we were served hard and tasteless
avocados on several occassions. Those
of you not counting fat grams will no
doubt be quite favorably impressed by the
double cheeseburger, f~aturing two j’ulcv
hamburger patties, grilled onions, ba0o~
~trips, cheese, & thousand island dressing.
Our biggest complaint with the Village
Im] chain is that the3 close at midnight on
Sunday and Monday nights.
On those unfortunate nights, the default
choice has to be Kettle. We are sorry to
report that the corporate Kettle entity was
recently purchased by Denny’s. None of
the employees in any of the local stores
are able to tell us whether ornot there will
be any change in the restaurant’s Policies ,
orif the Kettle stores will become Dermy’s.
Kettle’s food is pretty standard and
generic fare. They also do a better job on
dinner entrees than most of their competitors,
but even so, none meet the excruciatingly
high Jean-Pierre standards.
Denny’s is the traditional American allnightrestaurant,
andis the standard against
which other competitors are measured.
Fortunately for those competitors, the local
Denny’s don’t meet the old Denny’s
standard.
Over the last three months, we made
twovisits each to three ofthe local Deuny’s
stores. In each case, the service was unacceptably
slow. Twice we heard patrons at
other tables get almost violently loud with
their server over delays, wrong orders,
and poor food. The most frequent problem
we encountered was cold .food. Runner
up was overcooked food. To make all
of. this worse, Denny’s famous budgetsaver
"Grand Slam"brealffast is not served
during the midnight to 6 a.m period.
Frequent road-trippers will no doubt be
familiar with the Waffle House chain.
Small and unpretentious, Waffle House
can serve a decent and cheap breakfast.
Unfortunately we found that food quality
vanes greatly from store to store.
All Waffle Houses have wmtresses that
call their customers "Hon." It’s a tradition.
But, what realh scares us at Waffle
House is the fa~t tl~at your short-order
cook works in full view.’Some thin2s are
probably better left unsaid.
Waffle House has an All You Can Eat
special for $4.59, slightly higher during
the 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. period, that is worth
yourmoney and probably the best way for
you to eat. The signature food is the pecan
waffle, which appears hot off the iron
golden brown, fragrant, and filled with
pieces of pecan throughout the batter.
We’ve never yet had a bad pecan waffle at
a Waffle House. Other items are not so
lucky. The grits we were served were a
congealed mass of got bathed in some
type of yellow oi!y substance we took to
be melted margarine.
Three ’local" restaurants exist Unfortunately,
with no nadonal standards to
meet, all three have definite short-comings,
and we tend to avoid them. They are
Mama Lou’s, Perry’s, and Kelly’s.
So, as you can see, goodreaders,Tulsa’a
late night dining scene Is not paricularly
condusive to the gourmet experience. We
do, however, have to ~ve honorable mentlons
to the Whataburger and Tact Cabana
chains. The food at Tact Cabana is
pretty good, although not as good as what
we’ve had at their San Antonio stores.
Also, a favorite spot we had to mention is
the Country Ketde/Texaco truck stop way
out east of town on 1-44. Technically, it’s
in Catoosa city limits, but just across the
highway is sti]l within Tulsa city limits.
Ourrecommendation?Hone vou~ gourmet
skills at home for your friends. Eat
before ten o’clock. Move to New York.
Otherwise, head to a Village Inn, maybe
eat at Tact Cabana, or try your luck with
a gamble at one of the other restaurants.
by James Christjohn ¯ If you missed the last two concerts in
the Celtic Music series at the PAC, you
: missed some great entertainment! Celtic
music is the great-grandperson of bluegrass
and country, yet has a quality all its
¯ own. Haunting and celebratory, often at
the same time, it is great music to dis-
, cover, or if you already have, to explore.
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Coming up is the third and final (sadly)
; concert of the Celtic Music Series, the
¯ Cassidys, 5musical Irish brothers (hate to
be in the middle of one of their family
¯ spats!),atthePAC nMarch 13. They ve
¯ played for two Presidents, and filled Ra¯
dio City Music & Carnegie Halls. This
will be their Tulsa debut. For info and
¯ tickets, call the PAC ticket office at 596-
: 7111. And doit soon, because these shows
¯ usually pack the house! ¯
For an amusing evening, don’t miss
¯ Broken Arrow Community Playhouse’s
¯ production of"the Lion in Winter. This is
¯ the last weekend to catch it; Friday & ¯
Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 2pm.
¯ Catch the kiss in the second act - it’s quite
a show stopper! (Not to mention the numerous
pacemakers planted throughout
¯ the audience!) For info, call 258-0077.
¯ Well, I haven’t seen any ghosts lately,
¯ but I’ve been haunted by a Phantom. Yes,
he looms large on the horizon... Oh, never
¯ mind, that’s not him, just my shadow! I
¯ really must stick to that diet more stricdy.
¯ Where was I? Oh, yeah, Phantom. THE ¯
Phantom, of Opera fame, is arriving the
¯ 22nd, and will haunt the PAC until March
23 - they’ve added a week. According to
my info. The Phantom himself, Thomas
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hal cast recording of Miss Saigon. He’s 16that2pm;andasignedperformancefor
also featured on the soon to be released
international symphonic recording of Miss
Saigon as well. No skimping on this show.
After all, they have rebuilt part of the
theatre just for the chandelier. So use lots
o’ hair spray, build up the chandelierproof
bouffant, and call the PAC at 596-
7111 for tickets (going fast, I hear). If you
want to have a gay old time and scare
people enmasse, groups of 20 or more can
call 254-1069 for group tickets. Tickets
run from $16.50 to $61.50. Interesti0g
juxtaposition ofnumbers, eh? Heaven hdp
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night only, March 16, at the PAC.
Gaylapalooza is an evening featuring four
acclaimed openly Gay comics: Scott
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Serving Tulsa’s Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual Communities - Our Families of the Heart February 15- March 14, 1995, Volume 2, Issue 3
Barnes & Noble
Censors Paper
TULSA - Barnes & Noble’s
recently opened Tulsa store has
denied equal access to Tulsa
Family News as a distribution
point. Tulsa Family News
approachedBarnes &Noble after
observing a stand for Tulsa
People in the lobby of their 71st
store.
Cynthia Carnahan, spokesperson
for that location, said that
store manager, Diane Elliott,
would not allow Tulsa Family
News ~FFN) because the store
hadalready had a few complaints
about the Lesbian & Gay rifles
they carry. Hliott,inconversation
with TFN publisher, Tom Neal,
said-that Tulsa People and Urban
Tulsa (both of which had been
given permission to distribute)
were "acceptable" because they
were of "general interest".
Camahan indicated that the
objection was based on the
Chance that non-Gays might
complain rather than on any
specific content issue (editor’s
note: TFN and the Tulsa Worm
are comparable in content).
Regional manager, Jim Van
Natter, at press time, had decided
to ban all free publications in the
stores over which he had
responsibility. He says was
motivated; in part, by the
problems in stores in locations
see B & N, page 11
Helms to Try to
Ban Homosexuality
WASHINGTON- Sen. Jesse
Helms (R-NC) has introduced a
bill (S. 25) entitled"Prohibition
of Homosexuality as a Legitimate.
or Normal. Lifestyle" that
would bar any federal agency
from spending money "to
encourage its employees or
officials to accept homosexuality,"
The Helms-measure would
also bar federal agencies from
recruiting homosexuals for
employment. The measure has
no cosponsors, has not been
referredtoany Senate committee
and has not been scheduled for
anyfurther aetionyet. There is
....also no House counterpart.
Utah & So. Dakota
Want to Ban Same-
Gender Marriage
SALTLAKEC1TY-Legislators
m Utah have introduced a
measure to prohibit same-sex
marriages and lawmakers in
South Dakota have quickly
passed a similar law in the state
House, sending it on to the state
Senate for approval.Activists
believe both measures have been
introduced now because of the
see Marrriage, page 9
Largent Mtg.
March 4, 10 am
MCC-Tulsa
Congressman Steve Largent
will attend a meeting with the
Lesbian/Gay communities on
Sat. March4, at 10 am. hostedby
the Metropolitan Community
Church of-Greater Tulsa and
Tulsa Family News. -
This meeting is an historic
event since it will be the first
time ever that an Oklahoma
Member of Congress has met
with Lesbian&Gay constituents
in state. Mr. Largent, who.has
record o£~ .making anti;;G~y.
expressed his desire to represent
all persons in his district.
TOHR Leadership: Kelly Kirby, Tim Gillean, & Miriam Childers
Leaders Organize in Tulsa &OKC
to Counter Anti-GayAmendment
Community organizers in Tulsa and Oklahoma City called
community meetings to warn of an anti-Gay amendment that State
Rep. Bill Graves of Oklahoma City has introduced into the current
legislative session. In a Oklahoma House of Representative press
release, the following is attributed to Graves, "this type of lifestyle
[homosexuality] must not be allowed to continue ff we are going to
’maintain a moral, orderly society. ’" Graves added, "...we have seen
pro:homosexual groups in other states obtain minority and protected
status from .discrimination...history has shown that in nations wher
such policies have succeeded, moral disintegration has soon
followed...it is~incredible that such programs would even be seriously
proposed in view of the fact that-homosexuals are the ones who have
brought us the deadly AIDS plague".
IfpassedbytheOklahomaHouseand Senate, HouseJointResolution
1018 would create a state ballot question to amend the Constitution
adding" the following."¯ "Section" 2.1 Neither" the State of. Oklah0ma,.
through any of its branches or departments, or any of ~ts agencaes,
political subdivisions, municipalities, counties or school districts
sl~:enact, adopt, or,enforce-any statute, rule, regulation, Ordinance
or policy whereby homosexual, lesbian, or bisexual orientation,
conduct, practices, or relationships shall constitute or otherwise be the
see HJR 1018, page 11
Gay Officials Going
to White House
DC -- In what many observers
say is clearly an effort by the
Clinton administration to mend
badly damaged fences with
lesbian and gay voters, some 30
gay and lesbian dected officials
have been invited to a meeting at
theWhite House in late February
or early March. "We want them
[administration officials] to give
us someindication that, yes, they
do care about us, that weare an
important community, an
important part ,of their
constituency," said San Francisco
Supervisor Susan Leal,
whowas asked toputthe meeting
together. ?At the same time, we
also want to hear that they’re not
going to be giving in to the far
right." Ideally, Lealthinks those
who should be present would be
Health & Human Services See.
Shalala, Atty. Gen. Reno &
AIDS policy coordinator Patsy
Fleming. But the administration
has madeno commilments about
who actually will attend the
meeting yet. "I think for
perception it’s important for the
President to be there," Leal said.
"We’re planning that he comes
and blesses the thing and says,
"This is my thing, and thanks for
coming, and here aremyideas.’"
"Gay" Books Most
Often Attacked
PHILADELPHIA - The
American Library Assn; says 2
lesbian and gay children s books
continue to be among the "most
challenged" at schools and
libraries around the country.
Michael Willhoite’s Daddy’s
Roommate headed the.ALA’s
list ofbooks drawing the greatest
number of attempts to have it
removed from bookshelves in
the U.S. - the 2rid year in arow
the book has topped the ALA
list.Tied in2ndplace on the book
suppression list was Leslea
Newman’s Heather Has Two
Mommies. Both books depict
gays and ,lesbians as heads of
families.Another gay~oriented
tiffed on the ALA’s list was
Charles Silverstein’s The New
Joy ofGay Sex.
Dallas Council
OK’s Anti-Bias Rule
DALLAS -- The Dallas City
Council voted 9 to 6 to include
marital status and sexual
orientation anti-bias protections
for city workers in a 2rid test of
the issue after the city attorney
ruled that the council’s 1st vote
earlier in January may not have
see Dallas, page 9
Gingrich to Hold
Anti.Gay Hearings
DC -- According to the Human
Rights Campaign Fund, Speaker
Newt Gingrich said at a town
meeting in ,Ga.., that the House
will hold hearings SoughtbyLou
Sheldon of the anti,gay
Traditional Values Coalition. "I
do think at somepoint this spring
or summer,ft.we.can have a on~
day hearing on whether or not
taxpayermoney is being spent to
promote things that are literally
grotesque;.tha.t, that’ s alegitimate
request, HRCF reported
Gingrich as saying.
Since the Republicans won
control of Congress in Nov.,
Sheldon has told reporters that
Gingrich-had pledged ~o. hold-.-
hearings on a array of proposals
-.including limiting AIDS
FeredVe ention programs, imposing
ral"controls on public school
curricula, and limits on counseling
& materials aimed at Gay
& Lesbian youth. Elizabeth
Birch, HRCF’s new executive
director, said, "The Republican
leadership is clearly coming
under pressure from anti-gay
extremists. The Speaker should
reject this extremism and keep
focused on issues important to
mainstream America."
Gay Basher
Gets Bashed
TULSA - A Gay Tulsa man
reported to TFN that he was
assaulted in mid-January at the
Tulsa Promenade Shopping
Center parking lot. His assailant,
a man in his 20’ s, sprang out,
yelling "hey queer-boy". The
intended victim (whom we’ll call
"Joe" since he spoke on
condition ofanonymity toprotect
his employment-editor’s note)
said that "of course, I turned
around." His assailant attempted
see Basher, page 9
Speaker at King
Service Slanders
Gays - No Apology
From Organizers
TULSA - On Sunday, January
15, the Martin Luther King, Jr.
Commemorative Society held an
interfaith memorial service in
honor of slain civil rights leader,
Dr. Martin Luther King. This
waspartofa series ofKingevents
in Tulsa. Bishop ,Ron Young,
former Tulsa City Commissioner,
and pastor of the
Pentecostal Bridegroom Church
of Philadelphia, ~vas the main
speaker for the event,, held at
Boston Ave. Methodist Church,
Young listed homosexuality,
with spouse and childabuse, drug
see ML King, page 9
Conviction;inr
Miss. Murder Trial
MISSISSIPPI -- February 13,
1995 -- Rejecting the HIV and
gay panic arguments Of the
defense, ajury convicted Marvin
McClendon, 17, Friday for the
slayingof two gay men near
Laurel, MS. Circuit Judge Billy
Landrum, who earlier had released
the HIV status of both
victimsto the jury, Sentenced
MeClendon to two consecutive
life prison terms for the murders
of Robert Waiters and Joseph
Shoemake.
The defense attorney, J.
Ronald Parrish, whose legal defense
strategy included arguments
basedonthe the HIV status
¯ anti, Sexual orientation, of. the
victims, Continued his anti-gay
tirade after the triaE Parrish
decried the verdict, calling it a
defeat for "people who want to
keep their children safe from
people trolling the streets.’"
"NGLTF is pleased that the
see Murder, page 9
"Gays & Lesbians under attack,
what do we do?
Act up, fight back!
People with AIDS under attack,
what do we do?
Act-up, fight back!" -~ ACT UP
slogan
One look at page one of this
paper is enough to see that
indeed, Lesbians, Gay men,
Bisexuals, Transgendered
persons, people withAIDS are
under attack in Tulsa, in the
Oklahoma Legislature, in
Washington and around the
world.
In Tulsa, a veteran is assaulted
fornoreason thanhehas rainbow
triangles on a chain (with his dog
.tags). Under Oklahoma law, this
ts not a hate crime. But not all
attacks are active. Some folks
just achieve similar results by
their passivity or inaction.
For example, Tulsa’s
OOPS
Editor’s note: last month Kelly
Kirk, wrote an excellentstory of
which only halfgotprinted thru’
ou.r error. The bottom ofhis story
gottost somewhere on an dectronic
desktop. Our~tpologies to
Kelly. The complete story runs
below. - TN
In honor of International
Human Rights Day, the Human
Rights Commission and Human
Rights Department of the City of
Tulsa hosted a reception on
Monday, December 19, 1994.
Addressing the gathering,
Commission Chair Eddie Faye
Gates spoke of past accomplishments
and achievements in
the human rights arena globally.
International Human Rights
Day was started by the United
Nations to monitorhumanrights.
Ms. Gates noted that the United
States is still on the list ofhuman
rights violators in the area of
prisoner treatment, particularly
23 hourperdaylockdowns where
inmates aren’t exposed to
sunlight. She noted also a
distinctionbetweenhumanfights
monitored globally and civil
rights which are maintained by
national governments.
Ms. Gates noted that while
things are less than perfect, we
have adequate legislation and
agreement in the important areas
of discrimination based on race,
gender, religion, disability, and
ethnic origin, leaving the basic
rights of Gay men and Lesbians
as the last frontier to be crossed.
Tulsa Mayor Susan Savage
remarked on the irony of a
speaker in town recently to
address city employees on
sensitivity issues being quite
surprised when he met her,
expecting the Mayor to be male.
She echoedCommi ssioner Gates
comments on the need to
see Human Rights, page 9
sometimes Gay-friendly mayor
& staff pretend that no city
!employees have told them about
!and-Gay discriminationby other
city employees. If the problem
were acknowleged, our mayor,
who’s clearly opposed to
discrimination based on gender
and other statuses, might have to
risk some of her political future
by issuing an executive order
banning anti-Gay discrimination
in city employment.
Now at a state-level, there’s
been little doubt that our
legislature has had little regard
for minority views. After all this
is a body whose first official act"
upon statehood was to pass
segregation ("Jim Crow’) laws.
Ours is a state where our
institutions (OU, agencies, etc.)
only do the "right thing" after a
court compels them to do so.
But the current proposal of
radical right loon, Rep. Bill
Graves, HJR 1018 (which would
amend our constitution to
institutionalize anti-Gay bias -
as though it needs any help here)
is just part of the same attack on
Lesbian & Gay citizens. The sad
On the evening of Dec. 18, I was
given a gift of love by several
peoplein ourcommunity. I would
like to opeuly thank them and the
businesses for their love and
support: Scott Johnson, Steve
Tucker, GreenCountry Cloggers,
Sensuous, Kris Kohl, Lola, Dana
Doyle, "Tigger" Taylor, Anita
Richards, Slutisha (Pat), Janalyn
Watt, "rl’iger" Rawlings, Winnie
O’Keeffe, Jane Rother, The
Silver Star,TNT’ s andmyfamily.
Lots of work goes into a great
benefit and making things nm
smooth. Thebusinesses give their
time, space and money for these
events to take place. The people
running these events are tireless
in their effort in keeping thing
happy and helpful. The many
volunteers work up acts, jokes,
beauty, signs and sayings to help
promote these events.
I really enjoyed the benefit. It
brought back may memories of
the entertainers’ fLrstappearances
and shows when I as more active.
I laughed and cried with joy and
delight at the many people war
are so willing to donate,
participate and keep our
community spirit together and
high with the purpose ofhelping
those of us in need.
I appreciate all of yo,u who in
the last 16 montfi~ ffli~ liii~e
prayed and sat with me, picked
me up, cheeredme up listened to
me, visited withme, and checked.
on me. For someone with long
term disabilities, it means a great
deal to the heart- the head always
follows - but the heart consumes
love from you and keep our tuner
sprite lifted so that we can make
it to the next day. It stays the
depression and gives youa smile.
It is really true friends that keep
you going. 1 love you, my true
friends.
Sincerely, Wanda Sumter
thing is that this resolution will
likely .pass if it’s not killed in
committee. There are only a
handful of Oklahoma.legislators
who have to courage not to join
an attack on us. And though I am
a native son, proud of my state
on those occasions when it lives
up to its promise, I have little
faith in our fellow .citizens not to
fall prey to the Nazi-like
propaganda about Lesbian and
Gay lives.
At the federal level,
Oklahoma’s entire Congressional
delegation is hostile to
their own Lesbian & Gay
constituents. The Human Rights
Campaign Fund, the nation’s
largest Lesbian & Gay
organization, began its national
effort to get Congress members
to sign a pledge not to discriminatein
their own hiring based
primarily on the prejudice of
TulSa’s Rep. Jim Inhofe (now
Senator) because of a Tulsa
World story. Tulsans, of course,
have known of Inhofe’s bias for
almost 20 years. Sen. Nickles
,goes around to small towns like
See Fight Back. page 11
Carbon Copy
US Rep, Steve Largent_
2424 E. 21st, Ste. 510
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Dear Representative Largent:
As a representative of all our
citizens, I hope you will ease off
on the homosexuals. Tom Neal’ s
father is anMD [retired-editor]
- the other children are "normal".
Dr. McDonald’s daughter is
Lesbian - his other children are
"normal". My daughter and two
Aunts are Lesbian - the rest of us
are "normal". Youare apparendy
"normal". So I hope you realize
that all citizens need equal (not
special) opportunities.
Your humble constituent,
Phil Diggdon, MD
Fellow,
American College of Surgeons
Diplomate,
American Board of Urology
PS: By the way, I did vote for
you; we all have certain, blind
spots.
Carbon Copy
Editors, Tulsa World
January 31
I, too, was shocked at Bishop
Ron Young’ s comments at the
Martin Luther King Jr. March
and Interfaith Memorial Service.
I was elated to be there, wished
the ’~,h’ol~ city could march
together, hear the beautiful mnsic
and the young man who so
..,e,!oquenflydeliver,e~t, Rev. King’ s
I I4ave A Dream.’ Many years
ago, my father took me to hear
Rev. King speak in Tulsa - before
he was well known. [ will never
forgethim. Inmyopinion, Bishop
Young’s derogatory remarks
about the Lesbian & Gay
Community m no way represent
what Rev. King or his family
stand for, work towards, or died
for. I certaiul,y agree that, at the
b’ee Letters, page 9
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that~ person’s sexual orientation.
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unless otherwise noted, must be signed &
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All correspondence should be sent to the address
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Initiative to Bar Gay
Adoptions in Wash. St.
OLYMPIA, Wash. - Organizers
of the Citizens’ Alliance of
Washington have filed petition
papers with the state to gather
signatures to put aballotmeasure
before state voters in November
that would bar gays and lesbians
from adopting children in the
state. Some 180,000 valid
signatures are need to put the
measure on the ballot. The same
group tried unsuccessfully last
year to put an anti-gay rights
measure before Washington
voters.
FL Anti-Bias Law Wins
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -
Voters in West Palm Beach
rejected an attempt to repeal the
"’sexual orientation" clause from
its anti-bias ordinance, which
prohibits discrimination in
housing, employment and public
accommodation. Voters rejected
the repeal move by 54% to 44%
in the special election.
Conservatives Try to
Bar The Advocate
BATAVIA, Ohio - The
American Family Assn. and a
local Christian Coalition chapter
have asked the Clermont County
Library’s board to bar libraries
from circulating The Advocate,
clai.ming a recent issue of the
national gay magazine-depicted
male and female genitals on its
cover. Two years ago-several
local residents tried to force
library officials to bar The
Advocate at the libraries without
SUCCESS.
British Military Keeps
Lists of Gays on File?
LONDON - BBC television
news has reported that the British
government is investigating
charges that thenation’s Ministry
of Defense keeps a computer
database~ listing suspected
homosexuals in thearmedforces.
The charges of the secret computer
files were made by onetime
British Navy officer
Edmund Hall, who is about to
publish abook onhomosexnality
in the country’s military forces.
Hall also charged that police can
get access to the information in
the files, which includes
information on civilian acquaintances
of members of the
armed forces. The BBC quotes a
government security officer as
saying the dataproteclaonagency
was in the process of
investigating the charges.
British Study: ’Sexual
Attitudes & Lifestyles’
CHICAGO -A study of"Sexual
Attitudes & Lifestyles" in the
Journal oftheAmerican Medical
Association reports on sexual
behavior of Britons. Conducted
between 1986-94, the study
included face-to-face interviews
as well as an extensive
anonymousquestionnair~ about
more personal sexual behavior
that respondents completed
themselves in private. Th~
researchers found that the "safe
sex" education message being
enhanced by either a sexually
exclusive relationship orcondom
use seems to be getting through
to the British public. A total of
27% of the men and 36% of the
women endorsed exclusive
relationships, while 75% of the
men and 81% of the women
supported the use of condoms.
During the last year, unsafe sex
was reported by just 6% of the
men and 4% of the women.
As withU.S, efforts, theBritish
search for data concerning the
HIV epidemic was hampered by
political considerations. In 1989,
then-Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher vetoed the study
because of "its intrusiveness and
its unacceptability to the British
people." The study eventually
was funded by a large grant from
the Wellcome Trust.
Milk Institute Opens in
San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO - Civic
leaders, organizers and
commtmi~ty representatives held
formal ribbon-cutting
ceremonies launching the
Harvey Milk Institute, which will
begin its first term on Jan. 23.
The Institute will be the largest
adult education program devoted
to gay and lesbian studies with
more than 200 students already
enrolled in more than 50 class
offerings. Reflecting Milk’s own
sense of "street smarts," the
Institute’s classes cover such
topics as: "Lesbian Literature -
1700 to the Present," "Creative
Block and the Queer Artist,"
"Prostitution 101," and "Auto
Mechanics forWomen & Men."
BBC Bans Activist Group
LONDON - Worried that gay
rights activists in the British
group OutRage would publicly
identify famous and influential
closeted homosexuals in the
U.K., the BBC has barred
OutRage members from I
speaking live on its radio and I
television program~. OutRage
voted early in January to out
well-known but closeted
homosexuals in the country if
their public activities or inactivities
harm gays andlesbians.
In a press statement, OutRage
condemned the BBC’s ban as
"outrageous censorship" that it
said "effectively silet~ces a whole
section of lesbian and gay
opinion."A spokesperson for the
BBC, however, said the issue
isn’t censorship but a question
of whether the broadcasting
agency should risk being
involved in statements .OutRage
members mightmake that"could
neither be supported by facts nor
whichhave any particular public
interest."
Talk Show Host’s Anti-
Gay Obituaries Banned
DENVER- After reading
obittmries of gay men who have
died of AIDS and identifying
them repeatedly as "ex-sodomites"
on his daily cable TV
program, aired on a fundamentalist
Christian station, host
Bob Enyart has been told by
KWHD-TV to stop. Enyart’s
display of "sodomite" obituaries
exploded into controversy in
mid-January when showed a
photograph and obituary of
James Bybee, describing him as
"a former sodomite...exsodomite.
He’s dead." Members
of Bybee’s own church expressedoutrage
withthereligious
broadcasting channel, and
Bybee’s lover, Don Dias, told
reporters he intended to sue both
the station and Enyart. The
station has instituted a policy
forbidding such identifications,
saying "we didn’t want to seem
like we were harassing people."
Trade Center Suspect,
Also Gay Bar Bomber?
NEW YORK - In a bizarre
development, U.S. attorneys said
that one of the defendants
charged with plotting to blow up
theWorldTrade Centerin a 1993
explosion that killed 6 and
injured more than 1,000 people,
was responsible for an earlier
bombing. Federal prosecutors
said in a court statement said E1
Sayyid Nosair, one of the 11
defendants in the case, planned
and carried out the April 21,
1990, bombing of Uncle
Charlie’s Downtown, a popular
Greenwich Village gay bar. Two
bar patrons and an employeet The defendants hailed the
were hurt in the attack when a 6- [ European Commission decision
inchpipebombhiddeninametal a vindication of their claims
trash can in the club exploded.
Then Mayor David Dinkins
called the bomb attack "an antihomosexual"
act, but police at
the time said they had no
evidence the explosion was bias
related.
"Freedom Riders" to
Head for Camp Sister
Spirit in Mississippi
LOS ANGELES - With the
backing of activist/producer
Robin Tyler and Metropolitan
Community Church founder the
Rev. Troy Perry, plans have been
announced for Gay & Lesbian
Freedom Riders to bus in up to
1,000 lesbians and gay men to
Ovett, Miss., wherethe lesbian/
feminist Camp Sister Spirit has
been the object of repeated
attacks by hostile locals. The
Freedom Riders will be
coordinated with local groups
around the country and are
scheduled to arrive in Ovett on
Memorial Day Weekend, May
26-30. The activists bussing in
will help finish building fences
around the camp to provide
greater security for the camp,
and other building projects at
Sister Spirit. "Instead of just
praying for these women, we are
putting legs on our prayers and
inviting people to join us in
Mississippi," Perry said. For
additional information contact
either the MCC Offices in Los
Angeles at (213) 464-5100, or
Robin Tyler’s L.A. offices at
(818) 893-4075.
SM Case Appealed to
Euro pean Court
STRASBOURG, France - An
application by 3 of the 16
defendants in a consensual sadomasochism
case known as
"Operation Spanner" have won
the approval of the European
Commission of Human Rights
for a full heating of their appeal
before the European Court of
HumanRights,probably in 1996.
Roland Jaggard, 47, along with
Tony Brown, 58, and Colin
Laskey, 52, were among 16 men
arrested by London police in
1990 and convicted of assault
for their SM activities despite
arguing they were consenting
adults acting in their homes. The
police brought the charges after
seemg a videotape the men had
made of their sexual activities.
throughout that consent should
bea defense to charges of assault
when the SM activity was
consensual and resulted in no
lasting harm. Attorneys for the 3
men argued that their arrest and
conviction violated their rights
to privacy under the European
Convention of Human Rights, to
which the United Kingdofia is a
signatory.
2nd Conference for
Lesbigays in Criminal
Justice Set-
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. - The
2nd annual International
Conference of Lesbian & Gay
Criminal Justice Professionals
has been slated for Friday, Sept.
8, in Palm Springs, along with a
number of related events in the
greater Los Angeles area from
Sept. 1 to 10. Sponsored by the
Golden State Peace Officers
Assn., the conference itself will
cover topics including:
maproving workplace conditions
for gays & lesbians, coming out
on the job, organizing police
associations, the impact ofAIDS
on criminaljustice professionals,
working with the larger lesbian
& gay community, and using
computer technology. The 10-
day related events will include a
tour of the L.A. police academy,
ride-alongs with local on-duty
police officers, and a tour of the
Simon Wiesenthal Museum of
Tolerance. For additional
information in North & South
America, contact: GSPOA, PO
Box 45605, Los Angeles, CA
90046 USA;phone+ 1 (213) 739-
4121; or E-mail to
gspoa@aol.com. In Europe,
Asia, Africa or Australia,
contact: Lesbian & Gay Police
Assn. (LAGPA), BM LAGP A,
London, WC1N 3XX, United
Kingdom; phone +44 (0) 1426-
943011; or E-mail to
lagpa@murph.demon.co.uk.
Survey of CA Activists
SACRAMENTO,Calif. -AIDS,
the economy and crime are the
major issues for lesbians and gay
men in California according to a
first of its kind survey ofpolitical
activists in the state. The poll of
500 gays and lesbians was
conducted byphone in July of
1994 by Drs. Eric Schockman
and Nadine Koch of the
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Lobby. The survey also found
that bias on the job, domestic
partnership, and health care
reform were also on the activists’
agenda. A majority says the
political positions of candidates,
not their sexual orientation, is
most important in casting their
votes. Some 91% of the activists
said they had given money to an
AIDS organization during the
past 4 years, 3/4ths said they had
contributed to a gay rights group
during thatperiod, and abouthalf
said they had given to a
candidate? s election campaign.
Although a majority (51%) said
they approve of more "radical"
tactics andalargemajority (68%)
said groups like Queer Nation
and ACT UPhad been effective,
the overwhelming majority of
the respondents (81%) identified
themselves as political
"moderates."
USC Gets Gay Archives
LOS ANGELES - Over 2
million historical and cultural
items chronicling 20th century
gay life and politics, one of the
largest such collections in the
world, is to be housed at the
University of Southern California.
The university agreed to
accept the archives - the result of
.merging two collections based
m Los Angeles. "One of our
problems as gay and lesbian
people is finding our roots," said
John O’ Brien of the One Institute
which supervises the collections.
"It’ s so important for people to
know who and what they came
from." The universi,ty will
provide space on campus for the
material ru exchange for
scholastic access to the material,
which consists of collections
from One Inc. and the
International Gay & Lesbian
Archives dating back to 1942.
Cincinnati Will Host
Annual Gay Repul~licans
CINCINNATI - The national
gay Republican Log Cabin
Federation has announced that
its 1995 convention will be held
Aug. 25-27 in Cincinnati, and is
expected to be the largest
gathering of gay and lesbian
Republicans in history. The Log
Cabin Club ofGreater Cincinnati
got the support of the Cincinnati
Convention & Visitors Bureau
in its bid to hold the national
convention in the city, beating
out Boston, Dallas, Las Vegas
and. Salt Lake Cityl LCC/
Cincinnati PresidentSam Collins
also said Delta Airlines has
signed on as the 1st corporate
sponsor of the Convention this
year. A boycott of Cincinnati
was initially called after voters
there in 1993 approved the repeal
of the city’s gay rights ordinance.
That repeal has since been
declared unconstitutional by a
federal court. "Boycotts are about
anger, notabout setting apolitical
agenda," said Rich Tafel,
executive director of the
Washington, D.C.-based Log
Cabin Republicans. "We will
accomplish more through
education, not confrontation. By
stressing the values that we share
with the people of Cincinnati,
we are convinced that we can
make progress toward equality
and reconciliation." "We are
excited and honored," said
Collins. "We have 7 months of
hard work ahead of us as we
prepare for what will be a
showcase of Cincinnati
hospitality.’"
LAPD Anti-Gay Incident?
LOS ANGELES - Rights
activists and civil libertarians
have told the Los Angeles Police
Dept. they would "not tolerate"
anti-gay harassment by city
police officers. The warnings
came after news accounts by an
eye,witness reporter and
photographer on a police ridealong
who said they saw a police
officer verbally abuse a young
homeless gay man who had
reported a robbery as 7 other
officers stood by and did nothing
about the incident. Lorri Jean of
the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center
told reporters, "We have a
message: We will not tolerate
hate crimes being perpetrated
againstourpeoplebytheLAPD."
The ACLU of Southern
California has also called for an
investigation of 7 other alleged
anti-gay incidents involving L.A.
police officers. LAPD officials
said an internal affairs
investigation has already been
launched.
CO Hate-Crimes Law
DENVER - With the wounds
from the anti-gay Amendment 2
still fresh, Colorado Rep. Ken
Chlouber has introduced
legislation that would add sexual
orientation to the state’s hatecrimes
laws. The 1988legislation
already bars intimidation ok
physical harm based on race,
color, ancestry, religion or
national origin. Colorado for
Family Values, which backed
Amendment Two, termed
Chlouber’s proposed measure
"ridiculous." A CFV spokesperson
said the legislation might
be used in an attempt to silence
clergy who condemn homosexuality
in their sermons.
Associated Press
Refuses Job Protections
NEW YORK - The Associated
Press, the largest news wire
service in the world, has refused
a union proposal to formally bar
workplace discrimination based
on sexual orientation. The AP
announced ~that it would only
prohibit erfiployment bias based
on categories coveredby federal
law - age, sex, race, creed, color,
national origin, disability and
veteran’ s status. A spokesperson
for the Wire Services Guild
called AP’s policy "disingenuous."
In addition to being a
major news source of daily
newspapers and electronic
media, AP ironically has also
now become the main source of
national news for scores of the
country’ s larger gay newspapers.
Shocking Report on
Hate Crimes in Arizona
PHOENIX - The Arizona
HumanRights Fundhas released
the 1st study of anti-gay crimes
in the state, showing some
disturbing trends. The AHRF
reportfonnd that anti-gay attacks
were the major hate-crime in the
cityofTempeandthe2ndleading
bias-based crimeinPhoenix. The
study also reports that a large
portion (39%) of the anti-gay
crimes reported were "extremely
violent," involving assaults,
arson and 5 reported homicides
in the state. AHRF also found
that according to police, reported
anti-gay bias crimes increased
dramatically - 300% in Tempe
and 88% in Phoenix in 1994
over the previous year. In a press
statement, AHRF’s Mark
Colledge said, "The murder of5
ga.y men in Arizona in 1994
points to the fact that gays and
lesbians are being murdered and
brutally attacked simply because
of who they are. These crimes
are not simply against individual
gays and lesbians, but are an
attack upon the entire communityy
Minneapolis Partners
Benefits Loses in Court
MINNEAPOLIS -A Minnesota
state appeals court has ruled that
the city of Minneapolis can not
extend health care benefits to the
partners of gay and lesbian
workers because state law
doesn’t officially recognize
same-sex couples. The court
ruled 2-1 that the city council
exceeded its authority in offering
the domestic partner health care
benefits in 1993. The ruling
upholds a lower court ruling
against the city’ s partners policy
which had been challenged by a
taxpayer who argued the policy
violates the state’s policy
"favoring marriage of heterosexual
couples." It was not
immediately known if the city
will appeal the decision to the
state supreme court.
N.Y. Attorney General
Omits Anti-Gay Bias
ALBANY, N.Y.- New York
Attorney General Dennis Vacco,
who came under fire for his
campaign last year against an
open lesbian candidate for the
office, has issued anorderbarring
hiring bias that pointedly does
not include sexual orientation.
The state’s two preceding
¯attorneys general had included
sexual orientation in their
executive orders even though the
state has no law prohibiting antigay
employment discrimination.
A spokesperson for Vacco said
the attorney general felt sexual
orientation was a "personal,
private issue that has nothing to
do with aperson’ s employment."
Mandatory Tests
Proposed for Injured
Residents in Utah
SALT LAKE CITY - The Utah
state House of Representatives
has approved and sent to the
Senate a measure that would
make injured state residents
rescued by public safety officers
or others obligated to take tests
to ensure they are notinfected
with HIV or other diseases.
Opponents of the legislation say
the bill is an unnecessary
intrusion and that police, fire and
emergency officers should
routinely take precautions
against infections while doing
their jobs.
Link Between Lesbianism
& Banned Drug?
NEW-YORK - A recently
published report in the journal
Developmental Psychology
indicates that the daughters of
women who took the synthetic
estrogen diethylstilbestrol
(DES), widely used by pregnant
women to help prevent
miscarriages, are m ore likely to
be bisexuals or lesbians than the
daughters ofwomenwho did not
take the drug. Researchers at
Columbia University, led by Dr.
Heino Meyer-Bahlburg, reported
in their work that eight of some
117 women whose mothers had
taken DES while carrying them
had bisexual or lesbian
tendencies. None of the 117 in a
separate control group whose
mothers did not take DES during
their pregnancies were bisexuals
or lesbians, however. The
ColumbiaUniversityresearchers
also made similar comparisons
ofmen whose mothers had been
given DES during their
pregnancies. But that comparative
study found no
differences for males exposed to_
the artificial estrogen.
Police Raid AIDS Benefit
SAN FRANCISCO - Some 40
SanFrancisco police officers and
about 20 state Alcohol Beverage
Control (ABC) agents raided a
New Year’s Eve AIDS
fundraiser, arresting 11 people
and setting the stage for up to 3
official inquiries and possibly a
series of lawsuits. Party-goers
have charged that during the raid
police officers covered their
badges, roughed people up, used
unnecessary choke-holds,
punched people in theface, made
anti-gay remarks, andperformed
illegal searches. Police officials
have denied the charges, saying
the raid of the fundraising party
for Visual Aid, an organization
that helps artists with AIDS
preserve and promote their
works., Wash’ t anti-gay at all and
was just a "routine part" of
several raids of "illegal
nightclubs" conducted the same
night. Several party-goers,
however, have told reporters and
city officials that officers used
expressions like "fucking
faggots" during theraid,punched
at least two people at the event,
and refused to identify
themselves or hid their badges,
and seized money, lighting and
musical equipment illegally.
S.F. Film Festival Head
Presumed Dead
SAN FRANCISCO - Mark
Finch, the well-liked and
respected director of the San
Francisco International Lesbian
&Gay Film Festival operated by
the organization Frameline, has
beenreportedmissing and isnow
considered an "unconfirmed
suicide" by the California
Highway. Patrol. Finch’s
briefcase was found by CHP
officers on a pedestrian walkway
on the Golden Gate Bridge
Saturday evening, Jan. 14,
although authorities have not
found any body as yet. Officials
characterized some of the letters
inside the briefcase as "suicide
notes." Last June’s film festival
attracted some 55,000 people to
see more than 300 films at three
locations in San Francisco,
Berkeley and San Jose.
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Changing Portrait apparentl y are infected ~by AIDS. The scientists said their ’Blocking’ Protein
of the Epidemic
WASHINGTON - Dr. Harold
Jaffee of the Centers for Disease
Control & Prevention said at the
2nd National Conference on
Human Retroviruses that the
majority of the estimated
800,000 Americans believed to
beinfected withHIV areunaware
of their HIV stares. In reporting
a new statistical portrait of the
epidemic, Jaffee reported recent
CDC data that indicates that the
new infection rate among gay
and bisexual men has leveled off
after 13 years of relentless
increases.
Thedataindicates that: women
now account for more that 18%
ofall newlyreported cases during
recent years; nearly 60% of all
new cases are reported among
racial minorities; gay and
bisexual mean last year
represented43% ofall new cases
- down from47% the yearbefore.
Jaffee said, "Heterosexual
.contact is becoming increasingly
Important, especially for young
Hispanics and blacks in cities
and in small Southern cities and
towns."
Jaffee also noted a recent
national study of 2,500 people
newly diagnosed as HIV-positive
which found that nearly 60%
weren’t tested until they had
already becomeill with anAIDSrelated
disease and another study
of 222 infants infected with HIV
ehiCh found that only i in 6 was
tting appropriate treatment to
prevent AIDS-related pneumonia.
Complications of AIDS :
Leading Cause of Death
WASHINGTON - Recent data
from the Centers for Disease
Control & Prevention reported
at the 2nd National Conference
onHumanRetroviruses indicates
that HIV infection is now the
leading cause of death among
Americans between the ages of
2 5 and44. The new data means.
that AIDS has now surpassed
accidental injuries as the cause
of death for people in the age
group. AIDS is also now the
leading cause of death for all
people in 79 of the country’ s 169
largest cities, according to the
new CDC data.
Long-Term Survivors
BOSTON - Researchers report
that they have uncovered
significant new dues about why
some people infected with HIV
remain healthy for up to 15 years
after being infected - findings
that scientists say could lead to
important new approache s to
both treatment and research.
In reports in the New England
Journal ofMedicine, researchers
say that some of the "long-term
survivors" they study have
developed potent antibodies
against the virus, some have
elevated levels of specialized
cells that battle HIV, and some
unusually weakened strains of
the vires. While most men and
women infected with HIV
develop full-blown AIDS and
die within 6 to 12 years, some 5
percent have lived with
unimpairedimmune systems and
without disease for 15 years or
more. Dr. Ronald Desrosier, one
of the researchers in this study,
said the apparent immunity to
AIDS of some long-term
survivors offers fresh evidence
that using weakened strains of
the virus rather than dead ones
may offer a path to the
development of safe vaccines.
One study from a large team at
the National Institute of ALlergy
and Infectious Disease, the
government’s main AIDS
research center, focused on
survivors infected with a
genetically normal and highly
virulent strain of the virus but
who seem to possess supereffective
immune responses that
are able to hold the virus in check.
Another study involved
volunteer subjects who have
remained healthy for 10 to 15
years afterinfection. Researchers
at New York University found
that the levels of HIV in the
volunteers’ cells were unusually
low and that the CD8 cells of
their immune sy stems proved to
be powerful killers of the virus -
far more powerful, in fact, than
the same type of cells found in
patients who develop full-blown
findings suggest new paths
toward therapies and the
possibility of creating vaccines
to induce the same type of
immunity that the long-term
survivors apparently possess
naturally.
Scientists Link
Kaposi’s & New Virus
WASHINGTON - Dr. Patrick
S. Moore and Dr. Yuan Chang,
researchers at Columbia
University, have reported they
have found strong evidence that
a newly identified virus in the
herpes group, which they’ve
tentatively named Kaposi
Sarcoma Ass ociated Herpes
Virus (KSHV), may cause
Kaposi’ s sarcoma, a cancer that
strikes some people with AIDS.
While Moore would not say
categorically that the new virus
actually causes KS, other experts
believe it does. Dr. Steven Miles
of the University of California at
Los Angeles said that his team
and others in the U.S. and
England had confirmed the
findings.
Moore’ s research team found
evidence ofKSHV in 95% of the
21 patients withKS they studied,
while only one of the 21 who did
not have KS showed signs of
KSHV - which he said was
probably the result of a technical
error. The scientists also found
evidence ofKSHV in tissue from
21 African adults & children.
Found in Saliva
WASHINGTON - A study
reported on at the 2nd National
Conference on Human
Retroviruses indicates scientists
with the National Institute of
Dental Research have identified
a protein in human saliva that
blocks HIV from infecting cells.
The researchers said the
discovery sheds light on why
kissing andoral sex donot appear
to be significant routes Of AIDS
spread. Only aboutadozenAIDS
cases have been traced to oral
contact since the epidemic began
nearly 14 years ago.
The anti-AIDS protein,
discovered by Dr. Tessie
McNeely and Dr. Sharon Wahl,
adheres to the surface of white
blood cells and blocks HIV from
infecting them. Despite its
adhesiveness, the scientists have
dubbed the substance SLPI
(pronounce "slippy"), for
"secretory leukocyte protease
inhibitor." One area of future
research will be whether SLPI
could be added to condoms or
douches to reduce the risk of
HIV transmission. The protein’ s
natural function is apparently to
protect mucous membranes
against the body’s own proteindestroying
proteins.
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a poll of some 794 U.S.
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companies by the American
Management Association, 38%
of the firms reportedhaving dealt
with at least one worker infected
with HIV or who had AIDS
during 1994. The figure
represents a 15% increase over a
similar poll the previous year.
The survey also reported that
26% of the companies that have
had an employeewithHIV/AIDS
had implemented a companywide
policy on the workers with
the disease, but of firms that had
had no infected workers only "
17% had set up employment
policies conce ruing the disease.
The association’s research
director said that apparently
businesses "wait until the first
instance of AIDS or HIV
infection before putting together
policies."
’Titanic Struggle’ of HIV
NEW YORK - New research
by 2 independent teams of
scientists indicates that the
immune system of people
infected with HIV is engaged in
a "titanic struggle" with the
body’ s defenses. Scientists at the
Aaron Diamond AIDS Research
Center in New York and a team
at the University of Alabama
and Oxford University reported
their findings in the journal
Nature. According to their study
o.f people infected with HIV, the
researchers estimated that
between 100 million and a billion
viruses are produced every day
during the initial stages of
~infection, while the body’s
~immtme system pours out as
many as 2 billion white blood
cells to fight off the infection.
This enormous battle between
the immune system and the
invading virus, the researchers
say, is one of the reasons the
vxrus so quickly develops
resistance to medications unless
it is treated early in the infection.
Study Questions Care
SAN FRANCISCO- Researchers
studying patient care for
AIDS patients with pneumoma
and other severe respiratory
ailments at the intensive care
unit of San Francisco General
Hospital have raised questions
about the cost-effectiveness and
medical efficacy of such care.
Between 1988 and 1991, only
24% of those who got intensive
care for severe respiratory
illnesses associated with AIDS
left the hospital alive, the
researchers found. During the
period from 1986 to 1988, that
numberhadbeen39%. Similarly,
the costof saving lives had grown
to more than $215,000 during
the 1988-91 period - more than
double the $94,500 cost for the
earlier years.
Dr. Robert Wachter, who led
the study, said it was unclear
why more patients were dying,
but said he suspected those who
came to the hospital’ s ICU were
in later stages of the disease.
Wachter said it was not time to
suggest that the hospital start
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den~ing such expensive, ~.lowsuccess
ICU treatment, but he
did suggest th~i~"h’~itals’with
significant numbers of such
patients begin considering the
issue of when such care might be
best withdrawn.
AIDS Caregivers Study
SAN FRANCISCO - A study
by the University of California
at San Francisco indicates that
friends and family members of
people with AIDS can be a
crucial source of support and
strength for the ill person -
although, they can also
unintentionally be unhelpful and
Offensive. Often, friends and
family members are confused or
unsure about how bey can give
the most support to their loved
ones. The UCSFstudy identified
helpful and unhelpful behaviors
from the pointofview ofaperson
with the disease, and offers
guidance for those who care but
aren’ t sure how to offer support
to someone with AIDS.
Some of the unhelpful
behaviors identified in the study
include avoiding interaction,
acting embarrassed or ashamed,
breaking confidentiality, and
criticizing one’s medical care.
More helpful behaviors
identified by the study include
.expressi.ng love or concern,
interacting naturally, and
offering practical assistance. The
study followed 136 couples -
gay and non-gay - in the San
Francisco Bay Area for 5 years
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and was published in London
publication AIDS Care
Magazine.
Women in Drug Trials
WASHINGTON- The National
Task Force on AIDS Drug
Development has recommended
that the U.S. Food & Drug
Administration require
researchers to include more
women in all stages of clinical
trials for drugs for serious and
life-threatening diseases,
including AIDS. An FDA
spokesperson said the
recommendation had been
accepted and would be acted on
as soon as possible.
Women and advocacy groups
have complained that drug trials
to treat diseases such as AIDS
excluded women, or only
brought them in late, because of
concerns about the drug’s effects
on the female reproductive
system and child-bearing
functions. Without the
participation of women in the
trials, they complained, there
would be little or no data on
possible effects the drug might
have on them when the drugs
came up for FDA approval.
SEC Investigation of
Florida Viatical Firm
FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. - The
U.S. Securities & Exchange
Commission has gone to court to
force United Benefits Group of
Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to hand
over records of its investors,
employees, financial results, tax
returns and other inform ation.
United Benefits Group, a viatical
settlement broker that arranges
the sale of AIDS patients’ life
insurance policies to investors,
has refused to tell regulators how
it sells the policies and what
becomes of the money. The
company’s attorney claims that
because the company is not
selling securities, it does not have
to obey the SEC’ s directives. The
SEC says it needs to review the
documents to determine whether
there have been violations of,
federal securities laws, according
to SEC regional director Chuck
Senatore.
Philadelphia HIV Bias
Suit Moves Forward
PHILADELPHIA-U.S. District
Court Judge John Padova has
refused to dismiss a lawsuit filed
by John Woolfolk, who claims
he was denied medical services
in the HealthPass program
because he is infected with HIV.
The judge decided that a jury
should decide whether a city
physician and the managers of
HealthPass, which is financed
by state and federal funds,
violated the Americans With
Disabilities Act and the U.S.
Rehabilitation Act. Judge Padova
said that a doctor "who receives
federal funds to provide healthcare
benefits may not withhold
medical benefits wi.thout
reasonable accommodation. ""
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Human RightS, omp.2
celebrate our diversity, the changing facd,s
of the workplace, and the need to furth6r
understand and accomodate persons based
on their sexual orientation.
Other Human Rights Commissioners
present, along withDepartment staff; were
recognized for their work. The City of
Tulsa will be hosting the 47th Annual
Conference of the International
Association of Official Human Rights
Agencies next August. Event co-chairs
Maynard Ungerman, local philanthropist,
and Jerry Goodwin, publisher of the
Oklahoma Eagle, were also recognized.
Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights
(TOHR) was represented by Tim Gillean,
Ric & Kelly Kirby.
Letters, frompage2
very least, an apology is due from ~he
Commemorative Society.
Discrimination is not what that
memorial service was to be about. My
friends, both homosexual and
heterosexual, and I were there to affirm
one another, to dispel intolerance and
prejudice. Bishop Young’s remarks did
-just the opposite.
Marilyn & Charles Murphy
Marriage, ompage 1
possibility that Hawaii’s Supreme Court
may rule same-sex marriages legal in that
state, making it possible for gays and
lesbians to legally marry in Hawaii and
return home where th eir weddings might
otherwise be legally valid." Clearly this is
a preemptive strike against recognition of
.our loving unions," said Robert Bray of
the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force.
Murder, frompoge l
jury saw past the AIDS-phobic and
homophobic rhetoric presented by the
defense in this case." said Beth Barrett,
NGLTF spokesperson. "The jury
recognized that HIV status is never an
excuse for murder."
,It is unfortunate that, even after the
trial, the defense attorney continues to use
outdated stereotypes and homophobia in
an attempt to defame the gay and lesbian
communityofMississippi,"Barrettadded.
NGLTF will continue to monitor
developments in Mississippi. Organizers
point to the murder of a third gay man
under similar circumstances in Indianola
and the potential for continued tension at
the lesbian-feminist retreat, Camp Sister
Spirit, in Ovett, as reasons for their
concern. "Given the murders and the
history of harassment in Mississippi, we
continue to be deeply concerned for the
safety of gay men and lesbians in that
state," Barrett said.
The jury, including five black jurors,
convicted McClendon, who is black, of
the murders of the two white men which
occured on Oct. 8, 1994.
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to grab the raihbow triangles necklace
wornby "Joe". "Joe", who Spent anumber
of years in an elite US military unit, reports
that his self-defense training kicked in
and the assailant was on the ground with
his arms twisted behind his back in just a
few moments.
Later, "Joe" contacted the Tulsa District
Attorney’ s office which was able to locate
the assailant through the emergency room
records whichmatched "Joe’s"description
of the assailant and his likely injuries.
ML from page 1
abuse, and I~lophilia, as some of the ills
h~,.sees in contemporary society. He
s~ecifically characterized these as
"slavery." Several persons were seen
leaving the service after Bishop Young
made his remarks.
Tulsa Family News staff attended the
service and immediately after the service
asked Young about including
homosexuality in a list of violent and
abusive crimes. Young’s response was
that his views werejustifiedby "the Word
of God". When asked how he would
compare Bible passages whichhe believes
condemn homosexuality to passages once
used to justify slavery, Young refused to
answer.
The reaction of other religious and
community leaders involvedin the service
varied. School Superintendent John
Thompsonrefused comment. Sister Sylvia
Schmidt, executive director of Tulsa
Metropolitan Ministry expressed dismay
not only at Young’s anti-Gay remarks but
also his sexist ones. After the service, the
Rev. David Wiggs of Boston Ave.
Methodist promised as a member of the
MLKing Commemorative Society to raise_
the issue at the next Society meeting.
Society board members, Yolanda
Charney, formerly of the Jewish
Federation and Nancy Day of the National
Conference of Christians and Jews,
promised to raise the issue of an apology
to the Lesbian & Gay communities for
Young’s remarks. The Society’s president,
the Rev. Andrew Phillips, remarked to the
Tulsa Wormthat he hoped that the Society
could give an apology.
Since the event, the Society has met but
so far has not responded to Tulsa Family
News’ complaints. Nancy Day, not
speaking officially for the Society, said
that ithad decidednot toapologize because
they did not want to set a precedent. She
related that it was decided that the Society
would set up a committee to establish
guidelines for future speakers. The
Society’s president, the Rev. Andrew
Phillips, however, when contacted by the
Tulsa World, refused comment.
Tulsa’s Family of Faith Metropolitan
Community Church issued a statement
condemning Young’s remarks: %..Family
of Faith takes great offense at the inclusion
of such prejudice in an "interfaith" service
which includes those churches that believe
as we do, that homosexuality is a Godgiven
orientation....it seems unthinkable
that a service dedicated to a civil rights
leaderwhoadvocated’non-violent’ protest
and equal rights for all would be a place
people gather to hear a message
advocating...the oppression of Gay and
Lesbians."
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been legal.
Councilwoman Donna Bloomer, a
supporter of the Eagle Forum, said the
-group would join with organizers from
Operation Rescue and the state’s Christian
Coalition chapter in an effort to force the
new job protections to the ballot. The
measure adopted by the Council, however,
got support not only from city and state
gay rights organizations, but also highprofile
backing from Dallas Mayor Steve
Barlett, a conservative Republican, and
from Coretta Scott King, who wrote in
support o f the ordinance.
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"Cole Porter-- One of a Kind"
Tuesday, February 28
2 and7p.m, shows
John H. Williams Theatre -- Tulsa Performing Arts Center
Tickets: $12 Matinee. $15 Evening
Enjoy conversation and song with one of AmericaZs premier
composers. Songsfromthe following musicals will be featured:
Panama Hattie, Paris, Red Hot and Blue, Rosalie, Silk Stockings,
Something to Shout About, The Gay Divorce, The New Yorkers,
You Never Know, You’ll Never Get Rich and Wake Up and
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by Beverly Haney ofMCC-Greater Tulsa
Editor’s note: this is the balance ofthe
column begun in last month s paper. The
topic is the writings of St. Paul &
homosexuality.
Verse 26 is the only place in the Bible
that can be used to. refer to Lesbian sex
because it refers to "’unnatural" sexual
relations and, as the term is used today,
unnatural sex means homosexuality. As
we have seen, however, Paul uses para
physin to mean something out of the
ordinary an not something unnatural or
immoral as it has been translated. So the
reference to female sexual relations that
are "’beyond the ordinary" could mean
many things. We know that it was considered
unclean to have sex with a woman
during menstruation, or for a woman to
have sex with an uncircumcised man.
Actually there is not reason to read
homosexuality in the passage at all because
in all of the ancient texts, this is a subject
that is not discussed and there is no reason
to think that Paul would bring it up now.
It is also believed that the word "likewise"
set up a parallel between what women do
and what the men do. This parallel could
also mean that the women and the men are
having sex that is "’out of the ordinary".
There is not reason to conclude that this
passage means-Lesbian sex. The burden
ofproof rests ~ith those making the claim.
Paul uses the words. "degrading
passions" and "shameless acts" to describe
the sexual acts he is referring to. The
Greek word translated as "degrading" is
atimia. It means something not held in
honor, not respected, or not highly valued.
There is no moral condemnation in this
word and when he uses the same word
elsewhere, there is never any moral
condemnataon in his meaning. He uses the
word when he talks of chamber pots and
long hair.
The other Greek word that is translated
as "shameless acts" is aschemosyne:
Literally, the word means not according
to form, not nice, or unseemly. In other
places, Paul Uses this work to describe a
man who refuses to give his daughter in
marriage and also to describe genitals.
Never does the word imply moral
condemnation but only social disapproval.
During the time of Patti, homosexuality
between men was common in Greek and
Roman societies They thought it was
perfectly natural for men to be attracted to
other men..It is obvious that Paul didn’t
really disapprove of homosexuality, so
why did he bring it up at all? This will be
the topic for next month’s article.
Homosexuality was never brought up by
Jesus Himself, so it is necessary to find
out why Paul brought it up.
Religion Briefs Prime Timers
New Bishop Does Holy Unions Prime Timers of Tulsa and Eastern
LOS ANGELES The Rev. Pant ~.~,.OklahomawillwelcomeDanielleShreve,
Egertson, newly installed as a Lutheran
bishop in Southern California, told his
congregation that he has performed 3
same-sex holy unions at his North
Hollywood church even though such
ceremomes violate the policies of the
parent Evangelical Lutheran Church of
America against "blessing of a
homosexual relationship." Egertson said
the ceremonies were done "with dignity
and reverence" and that 10 other Lutheran
pastors and 4 bishops in the area also
conducted the rites for same-sex couples.
Gay Pastor to Stay
OAKLAND, Calif. With the overwhelming
support of members of his
congregaaon at St. Paul Lutheran Church
in defiance of an order that he be fired
because he’s gay, the Rev. Ross Merkel
has been allowed to keep his post as pastor
by officials of the Evangelical Lutheran
Church ofAmerica. Merkel was defrocked
in February 1994 after telling his
cong.regation that he is gay on the 15th
anmversary commemorating his
relationship with his lover. The ELCA’s
official policy is to allow gay clergy only
if they remain celibate. But because of the
overwhelming support from his
congregataon at St. Paul’s, the regional
governing church synod has allowed
Merkel to remain in his post, although it
barred him from appointing anyone to fill
posts at the 18 other congregauons in the
area which he had had authority over.
Interfaith AIDS Ministry
TheAmericanTheater Co. has dedicated
its Wednesday, March 8th "preview"
performance ofThe Crucible to Interfaith
AIDS Ministry as a benefit. Tickets m:e
$10 with discounts for students and groups.
Persons under 16 years are 1/2 price. Call
438-2437 for more info. and tickets.
Tickets are also available at Tomfoolery!
The performance will be at 8 pm at the
Williams Theater in the Perf. Arts Center.
co-ordinator of volunteers for the H’IV
Resource Consortium, as speaker for their
Sunday, March 5th meeting at 4pm at the
Gathering Place, 4154 S. Harvard.
Ms. Shreve will discuss volunteer
opportunities and training available at the
Resource Consortium and in the general
community.
A committee will also be formed to
plan their 2nd anniversary dinner. Other
upcolmng events include the Orlando,
Florida CR Convention in May and one
for the International Primetimers in Dallas
in October. For more info. call 437-2878.
Rainbow Business Guild
The Rainbow Business Guild will meet
Feb. 26 at 7 pm at Tao Tao Restaurant at
6219 E. 61st. RGB is an organization for
Lesbian/Gay & Gay-friendly businesses.
For more info. call 254-2100
Women’s Sadie Hawkins Dance
Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights
(TOHR) will hold a women’s dance atAll
Soul’s Unitarian Dance. This smoke-free,
alcohol-free event will double as a
menabership drive for TOHR. The cover
charge of $5 individual or $5 couple can
be applied to TOHR membership. Child
care will be provided.
This eventis part of a series of women’ s
TOHR events planned by TOHR women
at a recent focus group.
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Oklahoma Leather
TULSA Last October 22, the SilverStar
Saloon hosted the Mr. Oklahoma Leather
1995 Contest with over 400 leather
supporters in attendance and $3000 raised
for Oklahoma charities record numbers,
according to T.U.L.S.A. president, Amie
Holder. T.U.L.S.A. (Tulsa Uniform &
Leather Seekers Association) has
produced the contest since its inception
six years ago.
Larry Everett won the title of Mr.
Oklahoma Leather 1995. This contest is a
preliminary to the International Mr.
Leather (IML) contest in Chicago this
May. Judges for ~he contest includedNLA
International 94, Mark Frazier; International
Ms. Leather 94, Cindy Bookout;
International Mr. Drummer 94-95, Keith
Hunt; Mr. Gulf Coast Drummer 94, Pant
Jaques; Mr. Oklahoma Daddy 94, Mark
Touchstone; Mr. Tulsa Leather 93, Ron
Greenwood; and Mistress Mir.
According to Holder, "Interest in leather
is at an all time high in Oklahoma. Across
the country, we have become the state to
watch for serious leather contenders.’"
Cindy Bookont and Paul Jaques are both
from Oklahoma. In additirn, MS. Gulf
Coast Leather 95, "Shadow" and the first
nmner up to International Mr. Leather 94,
Terry Gatewood, are alsofrom Oklahoma.
Twocharities were selected as this years
beneficiaries: Raint)ow Village, Inc. of
Tulsaand Other Options, Inc. ofOklahoma
City. T.U.L.S.A. presented a $1500 check
to each at the Miss Oklahoma Pageant on
Jan. 29.
Rainbow Village helps persons living
with AIDS/HIV to control their own lives.
They help to provide education and
counseling to intervening in day-to-day
hardships. Other Options provides AIDS/
HIV education through resource books,
seminars and networking professional
services.
"1994 was the best year ever for the
leather community in Oklahoma. We are
looking forward to 1995 with great
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Fight Back co.,’ om p. 2
Drumwright talking regularly about how
homosexuals are a threat to our very
culture. Hello - is this really a burning
issue for small town or rural Oklahoma?
After all, we know how small town
Oklahoma is just being over-run by
homosexuals.
Both senators have been stalling a
meeting with Lesbian/Gay constituents
for over a year now. Maybe the theory is
that if you never meet with folks you’ ve
decided to hate, then you never have to
reconsider your views. It’ s similar to Nazi
techniques for dehumanizing Nazi victims
so that it’ s easier to murder them. If they
met with us they might find we all have
something in common.
The one bit ofhope in all this is that Rep.
Steve Largent appears to be keeping a
promise made in the campaign to come to
the Metropolitan Commuaity Church of
Greater Tulsa. Whoknows what will come
of this but just meeting with us here in
Oklahomaismore than has everhappened.
Wemay have to agree to disagree onmany
things but Mr. I_argent may be serious in
wanting to represent zll Tulsans.
So after this mostly gloomy assessment,
whatcanwedo?Wemustbegin toorganize
seriously, as though we are fighting for
our fives - which we may be doing. Only
a handful of you are members of and
involved in TOHR. Whatever its .faults,
it’ s a good starting place.
We must start thinking about politics,
no matterhow tedious and frustrating they
are. We will only really get decent
representation when we are organized
enough to deliver dollars and votes. It’s
possible. Dallas has 3 of 14 Gay city
councilors which is the result of years of
organizing.
Wewill begin to have a chance when we
elect a Lesbians and Gay men to the Tulsa
City Council and to our state legislature.
Art Justis, newly elected to district 6 only
got 575 votes on Feb. 14. There are
probably more than 575 queens m the
Silver Star and Concessions alone on a
Sat. night.
The answer is: get involved, give a
damn, fred a place where your donation of
time (maybe more important than money)
can make a difference. Register to vote
and then, vote! Call your state legislator.
Call Inhofe and Nickles, even if it feels
like an exercise in frustration. Numbers
make a difference. Get involved with the
new Lesbian and Gay Political Action
Committee. If you’re Republican, join
Log Cabin Republicans and work for our
lives and well-being as well as your
pocketbook. If you don’t like politics,
then help PWLA’s or Lesbian & Gay
youth or TOHR’s community center
project, or fill a need yet unfilled.
Just do something.
N, cont’dfrom p. 1
such as Boulder, CO where there are so
many papers there is not room enough.
TFN publisher Neal pointed out to Van
Natter that Tulsa has fewer free
publications. Neal added that it seems that
banning all free publications seemed at
odds with the mission of booksellers, as
well as appearing to be a cover for
discriminatory behavior since Barnes &
Noble did not seem to have any problem
with space for free papers until a Gay one
asked for access. Neal stated, "Barnes &
Noble’ s decision to sell Lesbian and Gay
books and magazines but to refuse a
community newspaper equal access says
that Barnes & Noble wants to take money
from the Lesbian & Gay communities
while discriminating against us."
Tulsa Family News has forwarded its
complaint of discrimination to Tulsa
Oklahomans for Human Rights, Parents,
Friends & Families of Lesbians & Gays,
Tulsa’s Human Rights Commission as
well as to the Gay & Lesbian Alliance
Against Defamation. At press time, TFN
continues to work with Barnes & Noble’ s
New York corporate offices to resolve
this conflict. Comments may be directed
to CynthiaCamahan, community relations
co-ordinator at 250-5034,r fax: 250-0576.
HJR 1018, cont’dfromp. 1
basi~of 6t enti[le any person or class of
persons to have or claim any minority
status, quota preferences, protected status
or claim of discrimination." "Section 2.2
No board of educaton in this state shall
allow the teaching of homosexuality,
lesbianism or bisexuality as natural
lifestyles." "Section 2.3 No person who is
a homosexual, bisexual or lesbian shall be
permitted to adopt or provide foster care
to any child in this state."
Lambda Legal Defense and Education
Fund, a non-profit organization based in
New York, issued a review of the Graves’
resolution. Attorney Suzaune Goldberg
states that HJR 1018 "suffers fatal legal
flaws". Goldberg suggests that the
amendment if passed by the voters would
be quickly challenged and such a challenge
would probably succeed.
Kelly Kirby and Tim Gillean (past
president and current president
respectively) of Tulsa Oklahomans for
Human Rights (TOHR) led a meeting of
about 50 persons at the Metropolitan
Community Church of Greater Tulsa on
January 30. Kirby urged those attending
to contact their representatives and
members of the Rules Committee to
discourage support for the resolution and
to remain alert to future developments
while the Legislature is in session. Kirby
explained that the resolution had to given
a hearing by the committee to which i.t has
been assigned in order to be voted on by
the full House ofRepresentives. However,
even if the resolution is kept in committee
without a hearing, Graves can attempt to
add it as an amendment to other bills. Pat
Reaves of Simply Equal OKC said that a
similar, meeting was held in Oklahoma
City recently.
Oklahoma House of Representatives
leadership was non-commital when
contacted about HJR 1018 but it is wall
known that Rep. Graves is not well thought
of by many of his peers. However, some
political observers worry that this
resolution might pass if it gets to a "floor"
vote just because few Oklahoma
legislators have the courage to vote in any
way except what might be seen as anti-
Gay. For more info, contact TOHR at
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What If You Get Sick?
Did you know...there was insurance
that will protect your income? That’s
right...your salary, the old paycheck, the
piece of paper that pays the bills.
And why not? We insure our cars, our
homes, and.our personal belongings. Yet
we don’t insure the one thing which
makes all o.f the above possible, our ability
to earn an income.
Its name is Disability Income Insurance
( D.I. coverage ). Disability Income
insurance is a monthly expense ; however
, should you become unable to work, a
D.I. plan will send you a check each
month to help pay the bills.
Look at it this way... You pay into an
insurance plan for five years and then
become disabled. Within three years, you
will have recouped your expenses and, in
most cases, will continue to draw a benefit
check. Three years is nothing, people,
should you become disabled.
Facts:
-85% of failed mortgages are due to the
owner becoming disabled and un@Je to
pay.
- 1 out of 3 people will become disabled
or contract an incurable disease and will
not be able to earn their income.
- Actuaries tell us: a person has a better
chance ofbecoming disabled between the
ages of 35 and 65, than of dying before
that age.
Questions to ask when shopping for
Disability Income Insurance:
* How disabled must I be to collect the
benefit ?
A policy’ s definition of disability is the
Your ability to earn an
income is something most
people take for granted....
many people tend to forget,
however, is that it’s also a
person’s most valuable
asset.
single most important provision. Some
policies require total disability or define it
as the inability to engage in any gainful
occupation (stay away from these type of
policies). Look for plans which will cover
partial disability.
* What if I was able to return to my own
profession, butmyearnings werereduced?
Ideally, your benefit - or a portion of it
- should be payable, even if you return to
your own occupation at a reduced income.
* Can I continue my disability.coverage
if my health declines ?
Some disability policies allow the
insurance company to terminate the policy
or to refuse renewal in the event of an
insured’s ailing health. To avoid these
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the policy or increase the premium after
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* What does the policy exclude from
coverage ?
No exclusions is the best (of course).
Do make a point to check-in on each and
every exclusion, they may not pertain to
you.
* How long must I be disabled before I
start receiving benefits ?
Most insurance companies require a
self-insuring period of at least 30 days
after a disability occurs. During this
"elimination period", no benefits are paid.
Therefore, to avoid financial hardship,
it’s important to coordinate your
elimination period with your emergency
funds and any employer-provided salary
continuation plans.
* Will I be protected against inflation ?
Make sure you can add a rider that will
increase your disability benefit to protect
you against the erosion of your disability
check.
Your ability to earn an income is
something most people take for granted.
Whatmanypeople tend to forget, however,
is that it’s also a person’s most valuable
asset. Disability income insurance offers
one of the most reliable, practical ways to
protect your financial health when your
physical health is ailing. It provides a
continued, regular income until you’re
able to return to work. To ensure the plan
you choose is right for you and your
financial situation, consult with your
financial advisor or insurance
representative.
A Friend for a Friend
Art Show & Sale
A Friend for a Friend, a non-profit
organization dedicated to serving the HIV/
AIDS community and their pets will hold
an Art Show & Sale on April 29 & 30.
Artists and craftspersons, and aspiring
ones, are encouraged to donate works for
the cause. All proceeds from this sale are
used for AIDS support.
A Friend for a Friend serves the HIV/
AIDS communities by caring for the
boarding, feeding and veterinary care of
PWLA’s pets, as well as making hospital
visits and other support. For more
information and to help, please call Alice
Wilder Bates at 747-6827. All artwork
donations are needed by April 15th.
AIDS is a preventable
disease! You
can provide prevention
education!
Get the training,
Save a life,
The Minority Task Force is sponsoring
an HIV/AIDS training program on Feb.
17, 6-9pm and Feb. 18, 9-5 pm at Antioch
Baptist Church, 2123 No. Frankfort. For
more information, call Tessie at 749-4194
or 800-474-4872, or Reggy at 744-1000.
Lesbian or Gay
and Republican?
Contact Tulsa Log Cabin
Republicans care of this paper:
POB 4140, 74159 or at
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Tulsa HIV & AIDS
Anthology Begun
Words and pictures on; about and by
persons in the Tulsa area are being
collected for use in a book to benefit
Rainbow Village. This anthology will
showcase the strength, courage, humor
and talents of the many people here in the
heartland who are fighting the battle
agmnst AIDS.
Choose your weapon: pen, pencil, taperecorder,
paintbrush or camera! Honor a
friend or family member; bring a smile or
a tear; unlock the window of the soul!
Showcase a talent!
Theanthology will include: shortstories,
poetry, journal entries, humor, 1 st person
or biographical sketches, artwork and
photography. In other words, anything
that can be set down on paper. Whether
you want to write about AIDS from your
pet’ s point-of-view, draw a cartoon, tear a
poignant page from a journal, write a
segment from your own life or share a
letter or a prayer, all submissions are
welcome. Family and friends may want to
honorlovedones by submitting theirworks
so their talents will live on.
Submissions can be hand-written, typed
or on tape. Since we would like to include
as many works as possible in the book, we
ask that submissions be limited to five (5)
typewritten pages. Artwork from pen and
ink to photographs are also being considered.
Do not send original artwork.
Send copies or color photocopies as the
work cannot be returned. Complete
confidentiality will be respected. Submissions
may be anonymous. Names will
only be ihcluded with the authors’, artists’,
or in the case ofposthumous submissions,
family member’s consent.
All materials received will be given the
same consideration. Every submission
may not appear in the anthology, but all
will be read and preserved.
All submissions must be received by
April 1, 1995. Materials may be sent care
of Tulsa Family News, POB 4140, Tulsa
74159. For more info., call 832-2333.
READ ALL ABOUT IT
by Barry Hensley,
Circulation Department Supervisor
Tulsa City-County Library
You saw themovie, now read the book!
In case yofi missed the recentNBC movie,
here are the basics: Margarethe Cammermeyer
was the highest ranking officer in
the U.S. military to
challenge the military’s
anti,Gay policy. She was
a decorated Army nurse,
24 years into her satisfying
career, when, in
1989, she was interviewed
for admission to
the Army War College
and asked about her
sexual orientation. After
pausing foramoment, she
said, "Iamalesbian." She
was formally discharged
in 1992, solely because
...Margarethe
Cammermeyer was
the highest ranking
officer in the U.S.
military to
challenge the
military’s
anti-Gay polley...
of her sexual orientation, after being given
several opportunities to change heranswer.
Her book reveals a personal life not
unlike many people who realize their
sexual identity after being married and
having children. Juggling a career while
holding together a "traditional family
unit", in the process of acknowledging
her true sexual orientation makes quite a
story.
Her husband, Harvey, proves to be a
fascinating character as he gradually
changes from a loving, supportive husband
to a confused and divisive man as
his wive’s career advances and her inner
turmoil surfaces. His complete disintegration
into bitterness is illustrated by
Cammermeyer’s recollection of the period
following their divorce when, "after
my weekly visits with my sons, Harvey
would line up the boys
and make them join him
in jeering at me. They
would chant ’Dyke,
queer.’ These little men,
ages 4 to 11, yelling, their
faces twisted in pain and
confusion." Fortunately,
time often heals, and
Cammermeyer’s children
have become unwavering
in their support for her.
Along with her devoted
companion, they now
form a family which is, in
many ways, very conventional.
Cammermeyer’s military ordeal is
harrowing. After reading about her logic,
courage and honesty, one soon realizes
that there are, indeed, heroes and role
models in the Gay community. She is an
important figure as she continues her
advocacy for human rights. Her book is
timely, inspiring and written in an easyto-
read style.
Check the Tulsa City-County Library catalog for this book, or call the Central
Library’s Reader’s Services department at 596-7966.
Some other recent library additions of interest include:
*Girlfriend Number One: Lesbian Life in the 90s (edited by Robin Stevens)
*Hearing Us Out: Voices from the Gay and Lesbian Community (by Roger Sutton)
*The Burning Library: Essays (by Edmund White}
*Men on Men 5: Best New Gay Fiction
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newspaper
periodical
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[1995] Tulsa Family News, February 15-March 14, 1995; Volume 2, Issue 3
Date
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February 15-March 14, 1995
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Language
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Engllish
Type
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newspaper
periodical
Subject
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Politics, education, and social conversations toward Tulsa's Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual communities.
Description
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Tulsa Family News was a monthly newspaper; No. 1 issued December 1993-January 1994. The final issue available was published in September 0f 2001 (Volume 8, Issue 9).
The newspaper brings up important, evolving topics of marriage, Pride, TOHR, HIV/AIDs, events, advice, and politics all at the local and national level.
This document is available in searchable PDF attached. It is also available to be seen at the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center with permission.
Creator
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Tulsa Family News
Publisher
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Tom Neal
Contributor
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James Christjohn
Kharma Amos
Kelly Kirby
Maureen Curtin
JD Jamett
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Tom Neal/Tulsa Family News
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Tulsa---Oklahoma
Oklahoma---Tulsa
United States Oklahoma Tulsa
United States of America (50 states)
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https://history.okeq.org/items/show/494
Relation
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Tulsa Family News, January 15-February 14, 1995; Volume 2, Issue 2
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https://history.okeq.org/collections/show/24
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