[1994] Tulsa Family News, April-May 1994; Volume 1, Issue 5

[1994] Tulsa Family News, April-May 1994; Volume 1, Issue 5

Politics, education, and social conversation toward Tulsa's Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual communities.

Tulsa Family News was a monthly newspaper; No. 1 issued December 1993-January 1994. The final issue available was published in September of 2001 (Vol. 8, Issue 9).

The newspaper brings up important, evolving topics of marriage, military, law, charity, Pride, TORH, HIV/AIDs, events, advice, politics all at the local and national level.

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April-May 1994

James Christjohn
Kharma Amos

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Tulsa---Oklahoma
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Serving Tulsa~s LeJbian~i Gay & Bisexual Communities7 Our-Famitie:.S. of the Heart-
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IS Moving!
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PastorsPam~rockerandMarim: B u, r n i n
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.NEWS April - May 1994, Volume 1, IsSue 5
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brochure inserted in :the city
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--March 31, Rev. Rod Harris, .
Tulsa Mayor Susan Savage
showed up as .schedu!e.d on
Tuesday, March 29atthe Metropolitan
Community Church of
G-teater Tulsa for a community
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What’s Wrong With Our "World"?
By Kharma Amos
Recently I spent some time in
Springfield, Missouri and had
the opportunity to read their local
newspaper, "The News
Leader". I have to say, reading
their paper for two days made
me wonder what is wrong with
the Tulsa.World?_
In both weekend issues ~f the
Sprmgf~eldpap~r the~:~as s:ig~
nifieanti¢overage ofGay xssues,.
There was an article taken from
"The Advocate" in Saturday’s
paper, and on Sunday there was
a headline about the anti-gay positions
Missouri’s governor
supports. Additionally, The
News Leader runs Deb Price’ s
syndicated column about Gay
Issues weeny.
I don’ t know if you’ ve been
watching the news, but Springfield
is not rumored as being
among the world’s most progressive
and accepting cities.
Springfield just repealed their
hate crimes statute by a 71% to
29% vote because voters objected
to protecting citizens on
the basis of sexual orientation.
Does this sound like a town that
should have better media coverage
than Tulsa?
When anti-gay proposals are
made in.the Missouri House or
Senate, the News Leader gives it
a headline. When anti-gay proposals
are made in the Oklahoma
House or Senate, the Tulsa
World buries the illformation in
an article with a different headline.
Does this sound like equal
coverage? I think not.
Springfield is not the only U.S.
city whose media coverage
should make the T0ulsa World
.hang its-head in shanie. As a
matter of fact, cities all over the
U.S. have newspapers who do
not exhibit the blatant
homophobia apparent in the
Tulsa World.
I recenffycorresponded with
an editor from the Tulsa World
and suggested that the Tulsa
World get up off of its complacency
and give the people of
Tulsa the unbiased journalism
they deserve. Needless to say,
my request wash’ t greeted with
open arms. In fact, the Tulsa
World has no intention of
changing the way it covers gay
issues.
I wonder what would happen
if all 40,000+ Gays, Lesbians,
Bisexuals, their families, and
their friends cancelled their
subscriptions to the Tulsa World
until the coverage of Gay issues
improved. I think we might be
surprised.
Corrections & Comments
Any organization or business
will make mistakes. The more
complex the job, the greater the
likelihood of error. The process
of investigating, researching,
organizing & editing news coverage
as well as selling advertising
to support this paper and
physically producing is challenging.
What is surprising is
that this paper is not filled with
mistakes from cover to cover.
One mistake for which we
apologize is the following: the
name of our Local Hero of last
month is Jane Rother, not Jane
Roth. To Jane, a modest but true
hero, we apologize.
To our readers we apologize
See Corrections, page 7
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Letters
Dear Tulsa Family News,
We are children of God
We are your mothers and fathers
We are your sons and daughters
We are human beings
We are from all walks of life
We are doctors.and lawyers .
: We areiS01iC~:~and~i~,’ : :.:
We are ~eachers anrfann~rs :.
.We are i~Ii~sters~:and. RhblJ~s
We are Student~d "
churchgoers
We are bosses and laborers
We are home-makers, and
taxpayers
¯ We are young and old
We are black, white and brown
We are good and bad
We are poor and rich
We are loving and caring people
We are the pa~t and the future
We are a part of this world, too.
Many men and women have
fought and died to keep the
United States of America a land
of the free.
If this is the land of the free, let
there be FREEDOM FOR ALL,
not just for some. Lesbians and
Gays are part of this country and
all others, and a part of what
makes this world go ’round.
We do not ask for special
rights, only equal rights - the
rights every American are entiffed
to.
Jimmy Flowers
A Gay American.
Dear Tulsa Family News,
After I received the news that
the Westside Ministerial Fellowship
was coming before the
city council to propose ameasure
that would prohibit the city from
promoting the "homosexual
lifestyle", like they supposedly
did in the water bill insert, I
became deeply concerned.
I called the city council office
and spoke with the secretary who
informed me that my city councilor,
James Hogue, had put the
item on the agenda. My immediate
conclusion was that he
would be the one with the mos.t
concrete facts, & therefore was
the person to whom I should
direct my questions. I expected
to be treated with respect, and to
have at least some of my questi0ns
answeied:
: This was not the case. My first
question was, "Why did you put
this on the. agenda?" To my
¯ - sui-prise his answer was, "Because
they. asked me to". He had
no facts andgavemenopertinent
information.
Within the course of three
minutes the conversation mined
fr~rm a reasonable inquiry about
a specific issue mto a debate on
human and civil rights, t asked
¯ him, "If you hired someone not
knowinghe was homosexual and
he came out to you at a later date
what would you doT’. His reply
was, "If I had a woman secretary
and she came on to me, I would
fire her too." To my knowledge
coming OUT and coming ON
are two completely different
See Letters, page 7
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its members.
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to be held Tuesday, May 3 at 7 pro. As
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HIVRC, 4154 S. Harvard,.Suite H-1.
A chartered community of the United-
Methodist Chh~ch, Rev. Pem’ose says the
fellowship is open andaffirming to all its
members.
Some ofthe christqike projects offered
by the CommunityofHope include providing
transiti~hai;living quarter~ for victims
of domestic violence and their children;
Rainbow Village, a hospice for people living
with AIDS; a RAIN care team; [he
At/gel Proj~i;, deii~,ering packages of~food
and ~necessities’ for PLWAs;
the homeless.
Fashioned after a Central American community:
basedstructure, the Community of
Hope is a welcome addition to the Tulsa
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Part of ’96 Olympics to
be Held in Cobb
County, Ga.
ATLANTa-Rights groups have
asked the AtlantaCommittee for
the Olympic Games to move the,
site of the volleyball matches .at
the 1996 Summer Olympics out
of nearby Cobb County. Last
y.ear the CobbCounty Commissioners
approved a resolution
condemning the "gay lifestyle"
and cut all county arts funding
because of a play which included
references to homosexuality. So
far Atlanta Olympic organizers
have refused to do anything,
saying the games are "not about
politics." Activists have asked
people to contact the Olympic
Committee organizers to protest
locatinganyoftheevents inCobb
County. You can contact: Billy
Paine, president, Atlanta Committee
for the Olympic Games,
POBox 1996,AtlantaGA30301,
orphone (404) 224-1996,orFAX
(404) 224-1997
Gay Long Distance
Carrier Controversy
CHICAGO - After
CommunitySpirit, the long-dis:
tance phone carrieraimedat gays
and lesbians, dropped its customer
billing service, Trans National
Communications, customers
began complaining of
receiving calls from TNC saylng
that CommunitySpirit is not
donating the portion of customers"
bills that is earmarked to gay
and AIDS organizations. Jeffrey
Vitale, president of
CommunitySpirit, said, "This
accusation is a complete falsehood"
and called it a "’smear
campaign" on the part of TNC
because of its lost contract with
the carrier. Vitale noted that
Community,Spirit’s 1st year of
donations, which are based on
customers’ long-distance
charges through the carrier,
couldn’t even be computed until
April 1 since customers have up
to 90 days to pay their phone
charges. "’As soon as the books
can be dosed for 1993," Vitale
said, "approximately $80,000
will be distributed to approximately
600 different lesbian and
gay supportive organizations."
He said the payments are scheduled
to go out in May.
Ugly Child Custody
Fight in North. Carolina
LEXINGTON, N.C. - In what
rights activists say is a child custody
battle between a lesbian
room and her own mother, two
lesbians have been charged with
sexually abusi.ngone of the
women’s 2-year-old daughter.
Shirley EdwardS, 25, and Donna
MaVen, 34, were airested January
I 1 on felony child sexual
abuse charges inacomplaintfiled
by a friend of Edwards’ own
mother, Elaine van Zant. According
to Madren, after
Edwards told van Zant last year
that she is a lesbian, van Zant
began demanding that. she be
given custody of the woman’s
infant daughter and the two
women began receiving menacing
phone calls, had car windows
smashed, and were beaten
up in a parking lot. "This all
stems from her mother notliking
the relationship," Madren said.
"When she [EdwardS] came out
she said that Shirley had a choice
of.either giving her her child or
gomg to a "normal’ lifestyle."
Florida Anti-Gay
Measure Can’t Go on
Ballot
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - A proposed
state constitutional
amendment that would bar gay
civil rights in Florida was ruled
unconstitutional Thursday,
March 4, by the state Supreme
Court and blocked from appear~
ing on a statewide ballot this
November The justices ruled
the ballot measure was flawed
because it did not advise voters
of its true meaning and consequences,
and because it would
conflict with basic civil liberties,
such as the right of employees
to bargain collectively without
fear of discrimination. The
ballot initiative was backed by
the American Family Association,
which led a successful
campaign to strike down a gay
rights ordinance m the city of
Tampa in 1992. The wording of
the now-dead measure banned
new law.~ and repealed all existing
ones granting protections on
the basis of any "characteristic,
trait, status or condition other
than race, color, religion, sex,
national origin, age, handicap,
ethnic background, marital status
or familial status." ’’The
Florida Supreme Court’s ruling
is a critical national precedent,"
said Suzanne Goldberg, who argued
against the measure on behalf
of the Lambda Legal Defense
& Education Fund. "It
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makes dear that civil rights are
not special rights - and it deals a
powerful blow to the national
radical right attack on lesbians
and gay m.en and civil rights
generally."
VA Governor Fears
Housing Loans Might
Encourage Gays
RICHMOND, Va. - Virginia
Gov. Ge0rge Allenis opposing a
plan to make it easier for lowincome
Vir-ginians .to get state
housing loans because he says
the changes would encourage
homosexual and unmarried
couples to live together. In a
letter Allen argued that the plan
would change "long-standing
policy in Virginia as it relates to
the definition of !family?" According
to a spokesman for the
governor, "Allen doesn’t agree
with these relationships and is
not going to be advocating these
relationships in his .administration
.... This could establish a
precedent that could lead to a
redefinition of what family is."
The spokesman added that homosexuality
"is basically viewed
by the governor as an unnatural
relationship."
Zimbabwe
Homophobia,
AIDSphobia
HARARE, Zimbabwe- Several
political leaders in the southern
African nation of Zimbabwe
have recently shocked gay and
AIDS activists worldwide with
statements calling for the arrests
of homosexuals in the country,
as well as forced abortions for
women with AIDS who become
pregnant and the execution of
infected mothers. Chief
Nathanid Mutoko said during a
debate in the Zimbabwean parliament,
"ff a pregnant womanis
found to have AIDS, she should
be killed so that the AIDS ends
there with-her." Mutoko added,
"You should not only terminate
the pregnancy, because the
woman would still continue to
spread the AIDS." In January,
Home Affairs Minister Dumiso
Dabengwa told state police he
was "anxious" to have local gay
men arrested"because it 0aomo=
sexuality] is illegal in this country.".
Local gays have reported
that police indeed have begun
raiding private residences of
members of the Gay and Lesbian
Association of Zimbabwe
(GALZ). So far, GA~LZ members-
say, authorities have not
arrested anyone but have seized
GALZ materials. All this current
anti-gay campaign follows
in the wake of a statement last
yearby PresidentRobertMugabe
that homosexualitywas "acurse"
on indigenous African culture
that was_"for whites only."
Sydney Gay Pride Goes
on TV
SYDNEY - Sydney’ s Gay &
Lesbian Mardi Gras parade, one
of the largest gay pride events in
the world, made history this year
when the Australian Broadcasting
Commission (ABC) aired an
hour of coverage of the event on
AustralihnTV during prime time
Sunday evening, March 7, in
spite of objections by Anglican
bishops and members of parliament.
Police put the crowd estimates
at 300,000 people, but organizers
say the figure was closer
to half a million. The ABC
broadcast attracted more than
600,000 viewers - the largest
Sunday night audience ever for
ABC. The network also issued a
3-hour videotape of the parade.
Partners Ordinance
Under Attack
AUSTIN, Texas - Anti-gay opponents
of the Austin, Texas,
domestic partners ordinance
turned in nearly 17,000 signatures
to the city clerk’ s office in
the latest anti-gay ballot campaign
in the U.S. At least 15,269
valid.signatures are needed to
put the repeal measure before
the voters this May. The ballot
initiative would amend the city’ s
charter to define a. spouse as a
legally married husband or wife
and would restrict city benefits
to workers’ spouses, parents,
children, siblings, grandparents
and the parents and grandparents
of an employee’s spouse.
The city’s partners benefits
package, which applies only to
city workers, was approved by
the city council in September
and is the only such benefits
packages in Texas.
Georgia Legislature’s
Weird Gay Agenda
ATLANTA-The Georgia Legislature
is considering a number
of measures of interest this session.
In the state Senate, one
resolution urges GPTV, a PBS
television affiliate, never to
broadcast "Tales of the City"
again; while one bill (SB 350)
would decriminalize consensual
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sodomy in Geor~a. In the state
House, one bill would prohibit
local government agencies from
recognizing domestic partnerships;
but a second measure (HB
1331), which reclassifies rape
into varying types of offenses,
also would decriminalize consensual
sodomy: The oddest bill
(HB 605), however, would create
something called a"covenant
marriage" that would require
both p~rfies, regardless of their
ages, to have written permission
from both parents unless they
are dead; documentation that
both have received pre-marital
counseling; and a notarized
statement from both stating that
they understand that a "covenant
marriage" cannot be dissolved
under any circumstances. The
proposed law would allow for
legal separation - not divorce -
only for spousal abuse, child
abuse or homosexual conduct
by the other spouse.
Another Roseanne Kiss
LOS ANGELES - When
Roseanne Arnold was given the
People’ s Choice’ award for best
female performer on television
Tuesday, Mar. 8, by Carol
Bumett, Americans watching the
CBS-TVbroadcas.t got a replay
of Roseanne’s recent "lesbian
kiss" when Arnold embraced
Bumett and gave her a lengthy
kiss. A spokesman for Arnold
said the People’s Choice kiss
was Bumett’ s idea because the 2
women ’~ust wanted to make
fun of all the silliness about the
"Roseanne’ controversy." Earlier
in March, Mariel
Hemingway’ s lesbian character
on the show took Roseanne to a
lesbian bar where Hemingway
kissed her, creating something
of a media frenzy when ABCTV
initially said it would not
broadcast the episode.
More ’Roseanne’ Kiss
HOLLYWOOD - Just in case
you aren’t tired of hearing the
phrase "lesbian kiss" in connection
withABC-TV’ s "Roseanne"
show, we hasten to note that the
episode featuring the Roseanne
Arnold-Mariel Hemingway
smoochwas the week’ s top-rated
program. The show’ s 21% share
o~" the nation’ s viewing audience
represents some 19,782,000
households.
Colombia High Court
Says Gays Can Serve in
Military
BOGOTA - The United States
couldn’t quite bring itself to end
the 50-year ban on gays and lesbians
in the armed forces, but
with one sweeping ruling, the
Colombia Supreme Court has
toppled its own military’s prohibitions
- and thrown in police
forces as well. The Colombia
Supreme Court ruled that all the
nation’s military and police
forces must accept gays and
dump its rules barring homosexuals.
The high court cited
constitutional guarantees of "indmacy
and personal-developNews
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ment" in ordering the military to
re-admit Eduardo Cuevas, .who
had been expelled from a cavairy
school in 1993. The army
had claimed Cuevas was.seen
"with another male. student,
hugging, kissing andcommittii~
g acts that a~e immoral .and.,
abnormal het~een;t~0~men, I
~f .a~, ~.e.~~¢tfi~it~,i~,int~~
fere~i-W~th mjliiary dilfids~
the court said,e~en then the rail -
tary Would have to makea.very
good arg~ument for diSCharging
anyone for homosexual behavior.
¯Colombia is the-lst Latin
American nation, and onlythe
2nd nation in th~ Americas -
Canada was the 1 st - tolift its
banonhomosexuals in thearmed
forces.
New Regulat!ons at FBI
WASHINGTON - The Federal
Bureau of Investigation has is:
lsounegdstnaenwdingguipdreolhinibeistieonn~dnin’ ggaiytss
and lesbians in the n~tiori, s top
law enforcement agency. At a
press conference, F~I’ Director
Lores. Ereeh said that homosexual
conduct isnot per se misconduct,"
but added that "’the
FBI will draw adverse conclusions
if there is an attempt to
conceal activities that might
make the employee or applicant
vulnerable to coercion~ espio-
nage or theft. The new-gin"delln~
s ~ame abomf0116wing a
" protractedlawsni~byforme~.FBI
agent Frank Bu’ttino of San Di-
~0 which was only settledlast
year with thelaw enforcement
~gency agreeingto ~em0~e its
-- r~strictions On. gays. and lesbians.
Gay Games Versus
World CuoSoeear
NEW YORK: :- Organizers of
the World Cup soccer tourna-
- ment, slated to take placeinNew
York the same time as the, Gay
Games, are complaining tlmt the
lesbian and gay athletic-cultural
event is creati~ig transportation
and hotd booking problems,f0r
them. Charlie Stillitano, World
Cup director, said "They [the
Gay Games] impact on.us very
directly. Everything fr0mlimousines
to buses are being taken
up and so are hotel rooms.Jt’s
been jus(incredible." Stillitano
also said he had_been stunned to
be askeffata meeting last year
-with city officials "-if we conld
move the .dates of our games
because they,,co.~nflicted with the
Gay Games: O~ganizers of the
two events, .however, have re~
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munity] member states" .: to :.
eliminate.anti-gay laws and:~idd
Civil rights pr0ie~tiong forga~
and lesbians in their respeCtiVe
BBC Radio toBegin :
We~kly Gay Program
LONDON:~-BBC Radio will be
launc!~gi.tSJst,weeklylgay and
lesbia~ ii~ws ~d c~em affairs
~_nchtr~d I~y Nigel.wr~nd~;-frill
be broadcast Saharday eveniligs
and Will aim at substantivenews
affecting the gay and lesbian
commlmity in areas such as civil
rights, same-sex marriages,
ho~nophobla and simiiak topi~s.
Vatican Again Attacks
Saran.Sex Marriage..
"ROME - The Vatican newspaper
L’Osservatore Romano has
published another attack on:the
Eur0peanParliamentr s calls for
legalizing game~sex marriages,
claiming i( conld lead to incest.
The lengthy., opinion: pieceby
Bishop AlesSandro. Maggiolini
~asks~ "What if-incest began to
spread as an instinct, world that
.be marriage too?r’ Maggiolini
reiterates the Catholic Church’s
moral objecti0ng to .homosexuality
as an "objective moral disorder"
and cha~ges thatgay fights
activists’ campaign to legalize
samersex marriage is ."aggressive;
hedonistic;.and indi~Cidual-~
¯ ~!stte.: In.whatsomenghts.actt -
-~sts-cons~dered an- ~rome-’ truth
:that the-Catholi,,c: lea-ders~p.:it: ..
~sMel~fggsihoofui~ldwr:0|atek-e~~:/0~eh~har:t~thYe:
.~ die~’0~hip of~those:who)think
they po~se~S the. truth-and- the
good.takes over; you can be slire
of the imminent decline of that
cnlture."
-. TextbookPubiisher
.. Withdraws Book.from
¯ ~ Texas
AUSTIN, Texas - PubliSher
Hold, Rinehart & Winston.has
told the Texas Board of.Education
that it will not market a
health textbook iii the state be- _
cause ’of changes the state had
insisted, o~ being made Concerning
sex education~" bir,th
control teen suicide andgay and
" lesbian help phone, numbers.
WilliamT~g~0n;president of
¯ the publishing firm, said in a
letter, "~We simply cannot pro~
duce a product that does.~not
provide children with ade~luate
¯ in§truetion on .life:threatening
tion 175,.. which never
criminalized lesbian rel~tionships,
waS widely used by the
Nazis to force thtlisandS Of homosexuals
into concentration
camps andhas become the symbol
of legal bias among.German
gay and i~sbian rights groups.
Tl~e change.alsom~16. ~e
sexual sex, the same as for he -
¯ ero~exual sex! Ttf~ fo.rmer F~_.t
German Republic ha.d:’iilready
abolished Section 175f611owing
.World War II, and-with !the
reunification of-.Germafiy in
1990, the:newly reunited ~oun- " ’
try announced ~e.anti-gay pro-
- hibition would be removed.
European Parliament
Gets Behind Gay Rights
BRUSSELS:-In its most
.sweeping statement t6 date .on
gay rights, the European Parliamenthas
voted .159 to 96 for
equalized age of consent laws
throughout the European Community
governing gay and nongay-
sexual behavior. The measure
also instructs the European
Commission to develop, guidelines
for member nations to dismantle
laWs discriminating
against homosexuals or used to
persecute gays and lesbians. The
resolution, which does not have"
the force of law, also says that
gay and lesbian couples should
bepermitted thesai~ legal.mar-
¯ fiage fighB:andadvantages as
¯ opposite-sex couples.~Cl’.atidia
RatA, the Germaii~liamefi~.th.ry:
’ ~epre~entafive Wfi0 infroduc~d :
the resolution;initiall~ipr.opoS~
: measiires that would haw
:--m~tted the :European C0mmission
to fight anti-gay bias in EC
military forces and ~hurches, as
well as extending asylum status
to refugeesfleeing persecution
in theirhomeland~ because of
their sexual orientation. Roth’s
originalproposal would ha~e
2amended.the Maastricht Treaty
to prohibit discrimination on the
basis of Sexual 6dentation. The
reso!ution-was especially criti~
eal :of iGreat ~B~t,~in: which has
the highestage.of sexual consent
laws inEurope, contimies tohave
a higher age of consent for ’sex
among men than for heterosexuals,
and still has some of the
most repressive antiSgay laws in
theEC. Paul Elling, the International.
Gay and Lesbian
Association’s representativetothe
European Uni0n~ said
parliament’ s actions were"badly
needed to spur .[European Cam-
:lgsues." Conservative groups in ]
the state hadinsisted fl]at ihfor- I
marion ~n abortion bedeieted,
¯ thatI abstin(nce be emphasized
in the~ex,education secfioni and
that warliings ahem th~ state’s
¯sodomy lhff~ be inclUded. The
textbooks are aimed at high
school students, - ~. . ,.:-, .. ~.~ .... ;- ~-,-~
-. St. Patr,cks ay: ~
;NEWYORK-St. Patn~k.s~ y.
parades iffNe~: Y~0rk and:B0s’-
ton remained embroiled in controvetsy,
this year as Irish-
American community, leaders
continued trying to keep gays
and lesbians fr~in marchin~ in
those.2 cities.. In New York’s
massive parade, the Ancient
Order of Hibemians again re-
.fused to permit the Irish Lesbian
& Gay Organization to march in
the c~ty-s’parad , as several
hundred gay fights activists prote~
ted wiih a rally. Asprotesters
blocked-an intersection near the
¯ parade route~ police arrested at
least 3Oaf the demonstrators,
including gay city_councilman
Tom Duane. It is the 3rd year
running .that the gay-and lesbian
-Irish group has been excluded
from the parade inNew York. In
Boston, the.Allied War Veterans
-COuncil of So.uth Boston canceled
the annual event it has
spomored there since 1947 after
the Massachusetts Supreme Ju~
didal COurt ruled that theJrish-
’Am~ric~ Gay; ~sbian &~:Bi~
Sexual .G~tup’tf~ BOSton had a
le~al:ri:ght to march in the pa-..
- mde~ U.S, SupremeCo~Jus..rice
DaVid: ~:tUt~r ~r~fu~d~it~bl:tek- i
the state high court riding after
parade 0rg~mizers argfaed that
being compelled to allow the
gay and lesbian group to march
violated the veterans group S
own right of free as~eml~ly.
S0uter did not comment on his
refusal to intervene in the Case. ’
Elsewhere around the country,
gay and lesbian Irish,American
groups joined in St. Patrick’s.
Day paradesin Seattle mid San
FranCisco without protest Or Opposition.
While in Irdand~ gays
and lesbians again marChdd in
.Dublin’s giantparade for the2nd
time and a gay.group in Cork for
: the 1st time joined in the celebrations
.there. Gay and lesbian
marchers in neither parade in
Ireland were opptsed.
BOSTON - The city’s official
St. Patrick’S Day Parade. was
formally canceled when the
South Boston Allied War Veterans
Council refused to sponsor
this year’s event after the
state supreme court said a gay
and lesbian group Arid a right to
inarch. But there was a parade -
sort of -Sunday, Mar. 20, anyway:
¯A quickly orgamzed motorcade
assembled in South
Boston.with more than.200 vehictes~’"
packedo with-~-I¥is
~i~fi~ans~ b~i~fl~, dr69~hlO~g
i~dt<Wi~~ membekS ~0f
Ameriean:-Gay, LesbiAn=, Bi--~
Sexual-Group of Boston.
Leaders Denounce Hate
WASHINGTON - In response
,t~ the verbal attacks. against
.whites, womefi, Jew¯s,’ Arabs,
~gays,. and African Americans"
by some KhaiidMuhammad and
other leaders of the Nation of
Islam, the AmericanJewish
Committee has. put ads in a
ntafiber 6fnational publications,
incinding the’New Republic,
Cosigned by a number of leaders
¯of the Catholic Church, political
leaders and gay and o~er civil
rights or~aii~za_tio~is.-- We, the
undersigned, believethat the best
response we can ~ve to those
who teach hate is to join our
voices, as wehave so oftenjoined
. forces, in a better me.ssage - of
faith in each other, of shared
devotion to America’s highest
ideals of freedom and equality,"
the ads state. The ad is Signed by
2 Catholic cardinals, 5:archbishops,.
and3 bishops. Addition
signa~ories:inchide~ New York
~ Gay. Marie Cuomo;~ Chicago
¯ MayorRichardDaiey,NewYo~k
., Mfi~or. Rudolph Giuliani~ U.S.
Rep.~,ThomaS Manton of New
Yo}k, andThomas Melady, u.S.
ambassador to the Vatican. Gay
rights signers included David
Geffen, Tim McFeely of the
Human Rights Campaign Fund:,
and Peri Jude .Radecic of the
National Gay. & Lesbian Task
Force.
Gay Book Awards
BUFFALO; N~Y. - The American
Library AssoCiation’s Gay
and¯Lesbian Book .Awards
.Committee has announced this
years’s winners. The 1994.book
awardforliterature went to Leslie
Feinberg for Stone Butch Blues
(Firebrand Books), a poignant
exploration of transgendered
identity in the years surrounding
Stonewall. Chosen as the 1994
nonfiction award winner was
Family Values: Two Morns and
Their Son by Phyllis Burke
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(Random House), a chronicle of
the author’s transformationfrom
the closet to up-front activism
though the catalyst of lesbian
parenthood. The awards will be
formally presented during the
ALA’s annual convention irt
Miami on June 27.
WASHINGTON,-The Internati~:
Lesbian, and~ Gay ~outh
Orgaliizhtion (IGLYO) has!announced
its 1 lth. annual youth
and student conference slated for
July 31-Aug. 7, 1994, in Dublin,
Ireland. Registration for the
conference is $95 (U.S.) for
tGLYO members and $110 for
non-members. For information
in North & South America:
IGLYO:America, P.O. Box
42463, Washington, DC 20015-
0463, (202) 362-9624 (voice &
fax), or via Internet e-mail at
EP4417A@American.EDU In
Europe contact: IGLYO General
Secretariat, Postbus 542,
NL-!00 AM Amsterdam, The
Netherlands.
Tom ~nks Wows
HOLLYWOOD - Steven
Spielberg’s dinosaurs from "Jurassic
Park" and the director’ s
stunning Holocaust film
"’Schindler’s List" may have
dominated the ammal Academy
Awards Monday night, Mar. 21.
but it was Tom Hanks, winner of
the best actor accolade for his
bx)ru’ayal ofagay man with AIDS
m the box office hit "Philadelphia,"
who walked a~vay the
hearts of thousands of gays and
lesbians around the country for
his moving acceptance speech.
"I know that my work in this
case is magnifiedby the fact that
~the streets of heaven are too
crowded with angels...We "know
~their, names.~ Thgy number a
thousand for each one of the red
ribbQns that we wear here tonig~
L.They finally rest in the
warm embrace of the creator of
us all." Acknowledging "two
gay men" from his high school
days in Oakland, Calif., when he
was just beginning to learn the
art of acting, Hanks said during
his acceptance speech, "I would
not be standing here if it weren’t
for two very important men in
my life, Mr. Rawley Famsworth,
who was my high school drama
teacher who taught me that "Act
well. There all the glory lies’ and
one of my classmates, Mr. John
Gilgerson." His voice cracking,
Hanks went on: "I mention their
names because they are two of
the finest gay Americans, two
wonderful men, that I had the
good fortune to be associated
with, to fall under their inspiration
at such a young age. I wish
my babies could have the same
sort of teachers, the same sort of
friends." Farnsworth, now retired,
taughtHanksfor three years
at Skyline High School in the
early 1970s. Farnsworth wasn’t
out to his students back then, but
it was apparent to Hanks and
other students that their teacher
was gay.
H~V-PosNve V~Ntors
Can Attend Gay Games
WASHINGTON - The Clinton
administration will pe.rmi.t.for~
eigners infected with HIV to attendGayG~
e~ IV~Newyork
this Jun~ Af(er being advisedby
the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention that there was no
public health reason to prohibit
the brief stay, Attorney General
Janet Reno on Mar. 22 approved
a waiver to a nile prohibiting
people with HIV from entering
the United States. Visas granted
under the waiver will allow visitors
to stay in the country for up
to 10 days. Between 10,000 and
15,000 participants and spectators
from more than 40 countries
are expected to attend the event.
Or~on Communiti~
OK Anti-Gay M~sures
PORTLAND, Ore. - Continuing
its city-by-city, county-bycounty
sweep of passing antigay
ballot measures, the Oregon
~itizens Alliance won voter approval
in 3 more cities and 1
county on Tuesday, Mar. 22.
Marion County voters approved
its measure by a 61%-39% margin;
Albm~y voted 59%-41% in
favor; Junction City approved
an initiative by 57%-43%; and
Turner voters gave its local measure
a whopping ?9%-21% vote.
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All 4 communities had voted for dence that he might be targeted
the statewide anti-gay ballot initiative
Measure 9 ~at failed to
pass in 1992. The state legislature
enacted an emergency law
last year that prohibits such
measures from being enforced,
although that law is being challengedincourt:
LonMabon~head
of the OCt, Sai&he:was #eased
with the vote: "This is:exactly
what I was hoping for.
Gay W~na US Asylum
SAN FRANCISCO- The U.S.
Immigration and Naturalization
Service has granted asylum to a
gay Mexican man in what may
be the first agency decision recognizing
gays and lesbians as a
social group vulnerable to persecution
in other nadons. San
Francisco attorney Ron
Silberstein announced Mar. 24
that a special asylum unit of the
INS in San Francisco had determined
on Mar. 18 that his irumigrant
client had established
well-founded fear of persecution"
if he were to be returned to
his homeland. The man, who
identified himself by the pseudonym
Jose Garcia, said he entered
the U.S. illegally more than
10 years ago to escape a lifetime
of abuse and ostracism in
Mexico. Garcia sought asylum
in October on the grounds that
he had been beaten, harassed and
at one time raped by Mexican
police because of his sexual orientation.
He also presented eviby
Mexican authorities because
he has spentmost of his time in
the U.S~ asa gay advocate and
AIDS outreach worker.
Silberstein credited the Clinton
administration for the groundbrealdng
decision,~
~LBKNY; N~;~L, T~a~ New
rights activists inputting pressure
on Republicans in the New York
Senate to support a statewide
gay rights measure. A bill last
year passed the state Assembly,
but died when Senate majority
leader Ralph Marino, a Republican,
refused to bring the measure
to the floor for a vote. The
Times reported that a number of
GOP senators last year had privately
expressed concerns over
a backlash over the measure and
wanted to avoid a floor vote altogether.
Optien fer Gay Fi~m
LOS ANGELES - David
Caruso, the sexy red-head actor
starting in the controversial TV
series NYPD Blues has signed a
film opuon on James
Delessandro’s murder mystery
"Bohenfian Heart,"based on the
fictional killing of the first openly
gay mayor of San Francisco. ff
the motion picture deal goes
through, Caruso would play a
private detective.
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BILOXI, Miss.- According to
the G.ulfport (Miss2) Sun-Herald,
T0mmy Moffet,.police chief
in Biloxbacknowledged that city.
police kept a list; of re~,idents
infected With HIV, in.~hat he
said was an effort .to protect
paramedics, police andother=
emergency personnel who "frequently
come into contact"With
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0nly i3 %of.available funding is
allocated to AIDS prevention
programs aimed at these,groups.
’qqais document is a long overdue
assessment of the impact of
HIV-disease on giay men of
color," said Steve Lew, Asian
co-chair 6f ithe Campaigi~ for
Fairness. "Federal and local
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underfunded appmpiiate HIV
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could have critical dresses the issues with Which
Orphan Drug stares~ for its ex- health, political, and economic .state and local governments are
pedimental, d-rug IMREG-1 and ramifications. Identifying ~the nowconfronted. It describes the
synthetic counterparts. IMREG- national trend in HIV infection court decisions and legislative
1 is being-tested with HIVdn- and pinpointing geographic ar- fOundatiOnS that define the legal
fected patients¯who caunot tol, eas where the virus is concen- atmosphere, and recommends
crate other antiviral medicationS, trated is crucial to preparing guidelines for avoiding liability
in the areas of HIV testing, confidentiality;
discrimination, and
BROOKSIDE JEWELRY Racism.in HIV Treatment
BOSTON ~ According to a ma-
Fine Jewelry jot study published in (he March
Watch & Jewelry Repair
17 issue ofthe prestigious New
. England Journal of Medicine,
- 4649 South Peoria, 743,5272 Af~Can Americans diagnosed
with HIV infection are far]ess
Comer of 48th & Peoria likely than whites to be pre-
9:30~ 5i00 Monday-Friday..... scribed medicines to fight the
infection. The s~mdy, conducted
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I 1-635E’i15thSt,reet" 99 8070 | " ’." .. , Serving Tulsa’s .: . ~ -:
|, L sbian &.Oay Co ,nities it Priae
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.found..thatjust58 percentofHIVpositive
African American patients
were prescribed drugs approved
to fend off the onset of
p.neumocyStis carinii pneumo-
....... .- ma,. a common AIDS-related
1¯635 E.-15th Street, 599-8070 ailment, while 82 percent grinretted
white patients.are pre-
Scribed the pn~tunonia-fighting
drugs. Similarly, less than half -
48 percent- of HIV-positive
-African Americans are pre-
.... - Look scribed Azr, an anti-viral medi-
" cine, while 68 percent of whites
. are given the drug, according¯to
the researchers.
Cure Difficult to Imagine
KUWAIT -The World Health
Organj’zation’s chief AIDS re-
. . search expert-said that while scientists
would doubtless eventuallybeable
todevelop atreatment
to keep HIV infection atbay, it is
not likely that they will find an
" ouuight ~ure. "I think cure is a
big word," Joep Lange,.chief of~
clinical research and product
development at WHO s Global
¯ Program on AIDS, said. "I think
- W~ are much further away than
- we..ttlink we are in ~ffective
" treatment ofthe.disease.’; Hesaid
that e~en, if a yac.€~e was
available today; itwt~lld take
another decadeor two to. break
the back of the ep~dennc be~
cause.Ofthe10gisfieal difficulties
of Vaccinating groups most at
Health~ ¯Briefs¯ H¯ealth Briefs
risk in the developing world.
Lange said he is optimis.tic a
vaccinewould eventually be
developed, but that this event
would inevitably slow down the
search for a cur~. "Even if we
had an effective vaccine today, it
stillmeans there are millions and
millio,m,,bf infe.c,te,d.~ople to be
treated,.-he said. "I ~"sure:that
ifwdhadtaneffe~tive vacdri~; ¯
thedfi;ce to find’an~ffeetiveCur~
wouldsuffer.b~usew.by _Would
you be looldng for an effective
cure when eventually ther~ is
not going to. be a disease anymore?"
N¥C HIWAIDS Pharmacy
NEW.YORK-APP (Americ~an
Preferred Prescription) has
opened New York City’s first
pharmacydevoted topeople with-
HIV/AIDS. The A~PPPharmacy
opened in the city’ s_ Chelsea
districtWednesday,Mar. 23,and
is believed to be only the 2rid
" such facility in the country. A
similar HIV/AIDS plaarma~y
operates in San Francisco, .
SyringesResold inlndia
PUNE¢India --The Indian Express
repor.ts fliat hundreds :.of
ihoiisands of used and possibly
co~ita~il~ted IV syringes-are
being soldheredufing,the religiousHoli
celebration. The fesrival
includes spraying pe6ple
wi.th-.tinted water, which celebrants_
do by using the syringes.
According to tlie papet,-th~re are
some,~,000~es0f.r~Hinfe~ca- lt"h~uvBe~lresiemafys. be.-inHfecetead,ltahnd .Kris. Kohl’s " Miss Female- Coming Events Impersonator tion in ~e westeru Indian city.. ~ejuv¢~l~ bo~d ml~g ~lows
~eteens~obetestedwi~outthe ~Apfil 16~atRe~egades, NEOK Pageant consent "of their parents. ~e "Red ~bbon.- Gift s Night - -
University Asks
Students for HIV Status
HOBART, Australia- Tlie University
of Tasmania s school of
medicine and plmrmacy has-to!d
medical Students to supply the
university.administration with
medical records indicating their
HIV statusl The herod of the Tas:
manianAIDS Council; however;
said the request violates the
Australian state’s confidentiality
l~ws and has referred the
matter .to the human rights
commission. A.school official
said the university is investigating
whether the letters to medical
school students violated the
law but,!nsisted they hail been
written, in go0d faith~ with the
The newspaper reported that the
used syringes,were probably.
obtained illegallyfrom hospitals
discarding reusable syringes in
favorofdisposablehyp0dermtcs.
Indian Express reported that
many "of the needles still ~ontained
tra~es-of blOOd even
though.several shop :owners
selling the,s.yringessa~d they had
been ~qeanedbefore beingr~sold.
Australian with AIDS
Symptoms,¯ But No HIV
LONDON - According to. areport
in the BritiSh Medical Jour~
hal, rese-archers in Australia
"found7 people who appeared
.clinically to have ¯AIDS there,
but were-~ot infected with HIV,
the virus generally believed to
caus.e the disease. "Only one
patient gave ahistory of exposure.
to a factor associated with
an increased risk of HIV infection:
he had received-multiple
blood transfusions during 1982~.
83,Tthe University ofNew South
Wales.reported.
HIV Testing fo r "
- Juvenile Detainees
HousToN -The H0uhton
Clitonicle reportsthat the Harris
County (Houston), Texas, jure-
" nileboardhas agreed t0 lethealth
workers t~estconSentingjuvefliIes
waiting to appear in court cases
for HIV. County health officials
¯bdieve a larg~- number of the
Out"will behappeningas aTulsa .The ’Wliss Female Impersonator
Pride. Benefit at 1 l:00p.m. On
April 24th, the Miss Silver Star
’ 94pageant will-take place at, Of
course, the Silver Star Saloon.
Linedupare Ivana B.Real, Anne
¯ Marie, and Miss Cote. ApplicatiOnsand
other information will
be available at the clu,b,. -;>: .".
On Ma~ist, TNT s Tulsa
Pride Benefit GaY.Picnic show¯
with an all star cast will be the
event. Held to provide funding
"for the eventof the year, the Gay
Pride Picnic, the show¯ starts at
9:00 p.m., and donations at the
door wduld be appreciated.
-- On May 13th,"tbe Silver Star
Saloon Will host-a Tulsa Pride
Benefit for the picnic, with a
stellar cast. The curtain is set for
Northeast: Oklahoma Pageant’:
¯ (MFINQP) isbeing formed by
Jordan Henry of Broken Arrow.
Mr. Henry intends to mix a pageant’~
a benefit; and Selec.tE~een
Who wi~-repre~’~nt antl:pttifiote
fUfih~iq~n~fit~-tg,hel’p:~e~m:
munity ~S a Wh0[e. ¯
This year, the MFINOP
benefit SHANTI, which is an
agency that provides information,
referral, and suppdrt services
for persons involved with
_AIDS. The pageant is limited to
only the 918 ar~a-code, anffwill
take place on May 22nd.
special Notice:
TheNational Institut~ofhealth
is seeking pairs of Gay brothers,
intention of protecting members ’ ~0"00 n m anddonations will
of the pub!!c and~e Students l~’acd~te~i, at.the door:- . ’ .theirLesbianparents,SisterS~toandpartpicoispsatiebilfe,in
concerned. : : ¯ " ~ Th(-Picnie has grown a lot" :. basic research which includes a
sinceits inception, and the costs blood sample and a short inter~
,, Quote- Unquote, have grown, too. Supporting view. The-NIH islocated in
Leviticus.20 is- eleaLthat a. these eventsi§~ruci~l.s0~aatthls Bethesda, Maryland: Transpor:
man Wholi~s wi~atioth~rman - year’.s picnic will !~e the best tationcosts andasmall perdiem
is an abominationand should be- ever!Gr,e~t things are coming to payment.will b~ provided. Strict
killed.Ofco~se,itals0~aystliat Tulsain 9~;:’s0-.-~yatch the T.ulsa cohfldentialit~ is agsured. Gay
a man who handlegla pigskin is .fami.]FNeWs;.~d listen fortip: brothers may write to Dr. Dean
an abomination. W,hatwill that ..€omj.’~eyefi~;,~: ¯ ,~ ~ ".. ~:~. Hamer, NIH Bldg 37,Room
Bethesda, MD, 20892,
1:402:2709. Lesdo
to American footbati: -
-- Mel White,. once
speechwriter for Jerry Falwell
ahd Pat RoiSertson, nowDean Of
the MCC~d~edral:in Dallas
Jeffery A. Beal, MD
TedCampbell, LCSW
Ginny Butler, RN MS
Specialized in HIV Care
Providing Comprehesive Primary Care
Medicine andPsychotherapeutic Services
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Window coverings of..~ll types; accessories, silk
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Tulsa, Oklahoma 74105, 745-1111
~ulsa Family News, April - May 1994, page 9
T H E G A
American Theatre Co.
Lost in Yonkers 4129-517
Brbken Arrow Community Playhouse
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(;lark
HellefTheatre
TBA.
Plfilh~mn6nic _ -
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Sapldpa Commmfit~¢ .Theatre
"FBA
Spotlight Theatre
THE DRUNKARD Ongoing
Theatre North
. THE MEEFING 4/19-20
Tl~catrc Pops
TBA
Theatre Tulsa. -
~ ~AN-NE OF THE "
:i~- --THOUSAND DAYS 4/8-17
PRELUDETOA KISS 5~20-29
,TCcltic Music Shries 4~22
Tulsa 13allot Theatre
" TBA.
746-5065
596-711i
22%2169
587-5030
596-7111
596-77111
596-7111
Y L I F E- S T Y L E
T~ea~r~ [~[ot~ How.eanan established Arts
When.fewer and fewer people
Group_suddenly find itself on buyseasontickets,theArtsgroup
. By GeraMMiller the verge of extinction ? First.- has to remove "Art" dollars and
¯ I:wanted fo talkabout season because i(hasprobablynot been transfers.that. ~t,o ,trying. to find
subs.c.r.i.p.t.ion for Thea" tre Tulsa’s abl~ to recognize and adapt to other "dollars" to ma~htain the
596-7111 73rd consecutive which will be: the new economic environment the group.
.gin next September. Here’s What we all face. Second, because it is Sh~ak,e,speareas always has said
258-0077- " we have oil tap forne~,t season: taken for~tedbythe commu: it best, for want of the nail the
September ~rmed): Blithe nity, mea~iiiag the public Third, :gho~ was lost, fob-wantof the
596-7111 ~- /Spirit b’yNod Cow.ard,October andmost dangerous, becamethe - SfiO~ the horse was lo~t, for want
Thriller: Dracula -based on the of .the horse, the Kingdom was
Brain Stoker Novel, December 16St% Each of you as a season
Family: Miracle on 34th street $70.00 dollars is S" ubscriber fs the nail in the shoe
(with seasonal music), February what you ai~d a:fri~nd of the horse called "arts".
Comedy: Jakes’ Women - Nell. might spend on one
Theatre Tulsa has this year
Simon’s latest script, March .... done something unhehrd of, we
Family: Charlottes" Web - really good dinner have lowered the overall ticket
Childrens Classic, March and drinks, cost. As a Season buyer you can
Drama: Twelve AngD’ Men - have 8 admissions to be used
Courtroom type drama., May Why not. nourish however you wish next season
Classical: Cyrano de Bergerac - the "Arts" with that for ST0.00. YoU could use 1 ad-
Period Romance Comedy, missionforeachofthe8produc-
Summer Musical: Forever Haid same $70.00 .9 tions, ot two admissions for your
- Musical Comedy/Drama. All 8 4 favorites or bring 7 friends for
productions are included in one a Dracnla Halloween party.
package price with a lower price community has begun to believe $70.00 dollars is what you and
than the 1993 - 1994 seas.on, that wealthy patrons and bust- a friend might spend on one re-
Butwith the news that the nesses will take care of the needs ally gooddinner and drinks. Why
Philharmonic is filing for of the organization, not nourish the "’Arts" with that
596-7111 Chapter 11 .Bankruptcy :reorga- .When you decide you.won’t same $70.00 ? You are the ulti-
--.~ nization, I have been answering buy a season subscription you mate decision maker, about
- a lot a questions about how such have wounded on the overall whether Tulsa can have a thriv~
a thing canhappen to an es.tab~ health of the Arts group. T.hat ing Arts Community. Here at the
lished Arts organization. So, asa wound becomes even more fatal Theater, we refer to Theatre
Non-Prbfit Arts manager I want because Chances are when you Tulsa as Tulsd’s Theater. Help
to take minute to touch on that aren’t a season ticket holder, you us continue with the 73rd Seaissue,
because it is joined at the won’.tbe comingas an individual
hip, so. to speak, with Subscrip- ticket buyer either dueto schedtions.
- - uling and other constraints.
Tnlsa Junior College ’:
CURSEYOU JACK DALTON Apr::~8~l7 596;7t11
Tulsa Opera " - ’ . -
MARR1AGEOF FIGARO:: 4/30-5/1
son, call 587-8402 and hammer
your nail home for the A~ts in....
Tulsa..
TOHR & BLGA ofTU
Present the- Friday; April 15, 7:30 pm
¯
1
Two Spirit People FlrstAnnua, , NativeAmeficanLesbian&Gay
Traditions, 1991, USA Tulsa Lesbian Anthem
A music video by the late Marion
& Gay Film Riggs,199t, USA
Barbara Hammer #1
.... Video:.sh0rts by Lesbian filmaker.
Festival
With assistance from
the Canterbury Ministry
& Tulsa Family News
Saturday afternoon, April i6, 2:00pm
Beauties Without a Cause
Drag queens out of control 1986,
USA.
Comedy in.Six Unnatural Acts
Vinrge Lesbian comedies,
1975, USA: .
Dead Boys Club
A young man’s coming out story,
1992, USA.
~: 15, Intermission ,_~o: ~
~:3 30, Absolutelv.Posttt e . ~
i
Peter, ad~..’~r~’int~y~,ews wi~l~ven
HIV+ persons, 1990, USA.
198%89, .US.A+...... "
9:00, Intermission
9:15, Fun Down There .
A naive, young man faoves to NYC
to learn about Gay life. 1989;.USA.
Saturday~ April 16, 7!30pm
1Got That-Way From Kissing Girls
Justkissing with a couple of guys too,
1990, USA.
Stop The Church
Documentary on ACT-UP (AIDS
Coaliton to Unleash Power). demonstration;
!991,USA.
8:15, Intermission
8:30, Urinal ~ .
Notqu~t~Whatyoumightthink, partly
i newsstory,partly suffeal comic in-
-vention, a look at police harassment,
1989, canada. ." -
Sunday aftemoon, April 17
2:00, Tongues Untied
Marion Riggs acclaimed exploration
of being African-American & Gay,
1989, USA.
3:15, Intermission
3:30, Choosing Children
Lesbians having children,
1984, USA.
Sunday, April 17
7:30, Among Good Christian.People
The:story of an African-American
Lesbian who grew upas Jehovah’s
Witness, 1991, USA.
8:15, Salut Victor
Two older men, one Gay, coping
with living in a nursing home, 1989,
Canada.
vHugePatio - .. ..
vVolley Ball
¯ Horseshoes
rye 01’ Sunday
OPEN
Afternoon Beer Bust,
2-4 pm$2
v Happy Hour,
Daily 4-6 pm
¯ Pool Tournament
Tuesdays, 8 pm
v.Dart Tournament
Saturday, 3 pm
& Mondays
After Dart League
Male Dancers
Open: Mon-Sat, 10am - 2am, Sun, Noon - 2am
NEVER
ECT!!
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so yOU
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Gay.P~de:Picnic Benefit.
Tues.-Thurs. 4:2,.Fr~:"i &!Sat. 7-2, Sun. 4-2
.1565 South Sheridan, 834:4234
Herland Spring Womens’ Retreat!
¯ R0manNose ¯State Park is the si~eof the armua~ Hind~Sp;ring
Retreat for Women, held May 2 lst~-23r& FeatUredentertainers ate"
Miss Brown To You with Mar)’ Reynolds, Louise Golberg, Terri
Hoersch;. and Elvse An~elo.. Other l~hligh~s h~dudeth~ ]at~-night.
campfire s~ng-a[ongs, ~he fabulot~s .~ot-luck"supper~ia :Women~ s
Market, open mike with jokes;.poetr.~~, and music, and all’ the. other
things that a hundred br so women could dream ~up~ For more
information regarding tickets and lod~ng!camping, write Herland
Sister Resources at 2312 N.W. 39th Street, Oklahoma City, OK,
731.1~2, or:phone 405-521-9696. . . ~-
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