14 20 644 https://www.history.okeq.org/files/original/dafc6b0bc21aec4784e2bf451bf91e49.pdf 589a8f9f011e5d7ab656ac77434b088a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Driller Bears Membership Application Subject The topic of the resource Driller Bears Description An account of the resource Application form for Driller Bears club. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Multicultural Advisory Council July 17, 2001 Meeting Minutes Subject The topic of the resource Metropolitan Tulsa Chamber of Commerce Description An account of the resource Meeting minutes for July 17, 2001 meeting of Metropolitan Tulsa Chamber of Commerce Multicultural Advisory Council. 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Title A name given to the resource PFLAG Kite Day Flier Subject The topic of the resource Fundraisers Description An account of the resource Flier advertising PFLAG event Kite Day. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Shangri-La Letters Subject The topic of the resource Bars Description An account of the resource Lettters from John Hitt, of the Associated Booking Corporation to Gino Scaggs, owner of the Shangri-La Club. Letters concern payment for a previous performance and booking future acts. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource [1965-ND] Bars Subject The topic of the resource Bars Description An account of the resource Documents and items relating to gay bars in Tulsa. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Tango Tulsa Invitation Subject The topic of the resource Fundraising Description An account of the resource Invitation to Deco Decadence Committee event Tango Tulsa. 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Title A name given to the resource Eva Unterman Holocaust Education Fund Letter Subject The topic of the resource Eva Unterman Holocaust Education Fund Description An account of the resource Letter soliciting donations for the Eva Unterman Holocaust Education Fund. 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Title A name given to the resource Millennium March Press Release Subject The topic of the resource Millennium March on Washington Description An account of the resource Press release from the Human Rights Campaign event Millennium March on Washington. Includes endorsement form signed by TOHR President Steve Horn. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Board Resolution #4 Subject The topic of the resource Millennium March on Washington Description An account of the resource Resolution from the board of the Millennium March to support the National Association of Community Centers by increasing their visibility and organizational development. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource GLBT Vote 2000 Subject The topic of the resource Millennium March on Washington for Equality Description An account of the resource Press release from the Millennium March on Washington announcing GLBT Vote 2000, a voter registration campaign. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource History of T.U.L.S.A. Subject The topic of the resource Tulsa Uniform and Leather Seekers Association (T.U.L.S.A.) Description An account of the resource Page from the T.U.L.S.A. website providing information about the organizations's history. Retrieved August 7, 2014. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Tulsa Uniform and Leather Seekers Association (T.U.L.S.A.) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived www.tulsaleather.com Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Tulsa Uniform and Leather Seekers Association (T.U.L.S.A.) 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Title A name given to the resource Oklahoma Mr. Leather 2001: A Leather Odyssey Subject The topic of the resource Oklahoma Mr. Leather 2001 Description An account of the resource Program for event Oklahoma Mr. Leather 2001. Includes information about the event, promotional artwork, advertisements, and information about the Tulsa Uniform and Leather Seekers Association. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Tulsa Uniform and Leather Seekers Association (T.U.L.S.A.) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Tulsa Uniform and Leather Seekers Association (T.U.L.S.A.) 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Title A name given to the resource Oklahoma Mr. Leather Past Titleholders Subject The topic of the resource Oklahoma Mr. Leather Description An account of the resource List of previous winners of Oklahoma Mr. Leather, 1990-2013. Pulled from www.tulsaleather.com on August 7, 2014. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Tulsa Uniform and Leather Seekers Association (T.U.L.S.A.) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Tulsa Uniform and Leather Seekers Association (T.U.L.S.A.) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1990-2013 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Tulsa Uniform and Leather Seekers Association (T.U.L.S.A.) 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(AP)- Two 14:year-old football players accused ¯ of raping a teammate with a broom handle won’t be tried as : adults, prosecutors said. The Tulsa County District Attorney’s ." Office filed rape by instrumentation charges in juvenile court ¯ against the Webster High School students. ¯ The boys are accused of forcing a 14-year-old freshman : football player to a school locker room floor and raping him with ¯. a broom handle Sept. 21. An hour later, the students allegedly _. spanked the same boy with a weight belt and pelted his genitals with traffic cones. Students said no affults were in the locker room ¯ when the alleged rape occurred. Tulsa Police spokesman Lucky Lamons responded that police ~ detectives claim there was no anti-Gay verbal abuse which could ¯ indicate that this assault had aspects of a hate crime. However, ¯ several longtime community activists from TOHR and PFLAG Bin Laden Joins Anti-Gay i speculated that the assault may have ties to issues of actual or sexual orientation. Officer Lamons noted that detecTerrorist on Wanted List ¯¯ perceived tives feel one of the motives may have been that victim was small. WASHINGTON, D.C. - Osama bin Laden isn’ t the only terrorist bombing suspect on the FBI’ s Ten Most Wanted list. Right here at home, the bureau is still hunting for Eric Robert Rudolph in connection with the 1996 Olympics bombing and other crimes. And some of the parallels are striking: both are trained soldiers and survivalists, accused of killing to further extreme religious and political beliefs. Both have eluded capture for years among sympathetic souls in mountainous terrain, despite a huge price on their heads. For nearly four years, agents have combed the sawtooth ridges of western North Carolina for Rudolph, an Army veteran and sometime carpenter charged with four bombings, including fatal blasts at the Atlanta Games and at an Alabama abortion clinic. Rudolph was last seen in the area in July 1998 after stealing supplies from a health store.owner. His truck had been spotted there early that year. see Terror, p. 2 :¯ ¯ : : ¯ ¯ : ¯ : : : ¯ ¯ i ¯ ¯" : The accused have been released from a juvenile shelter on bail. Their case will remain in the juvenile system, where the focus is on rehabilitation rather than punishment, said Assistant District Attorney Rebecca Nightingale. She said the district attorney’s office will not seek adult certification for the teens. Prosecutors considered the boys’ sophistication and maturity, their record and history, the likelihood of rehabilitation in the juvenile systern, and the prospects for protection of the public, she said. Fourteen student-athletes were suspended after the incident, and Webster’ s ninth-grade football season has been canceled. Five students received the maximum penalty allowed under the school district’ s code of conduct - suspension for the rest of the academic year. They also were banned from ever participating in school sports in the district. The other nine students got five-day or 10,day suspensions. Superintendent David Sawyer warned coaches and school district employees this week not to tolerate or ignore hazing and bullying; i overAnti-Bias Policy : TULSA (TFN)-TulsaOklahomaus forHuman Rights ." (TOHR) recently transfered its business from State Bank and BancOne to Bank of Oklahoma because of : BOk has an dear non-discrimination policy which ¯ includes "sexual orientation." ." Under the direction of the organization’ s treasurer, Angela Bruce, letters were written to TOHR’ s former i bank, informing them of the reason for the change. ¯ According to TOHR spokesman, Greg Gatewood, ¯ the move was really about doing business with those : who support the community_ and not doing business ¯ with those who do not. Gatewoodnoted that the funds : were not an enormous amount but should have been ¯. enough to get the institution’ s attention. ¯ Bank of Oklahoma instituted a non-discrimination ¯ policy which includes "sexual orientation" a couple i of years ago, and is the only bank in Tulsa which has ¯ included the Lesbian and Gay community in’ its : marketing outreach. State Bank’s president Don ¯ Walker was not available for comment at press time. Candidate for US Congress at TOHR ¯ On Tuesday, NOvember 13, Democratic candidate ¯ : for Oklahoma’s First Congressional District, Dong : Dodd will speak at the Community Center at 21st and ¯ Memorial at 7pro. TOHR organizers note that Cathy : Keating, one of three Republican candidates has also : been invited to meet with TOHR and the community. : Keating, unlike many Oklahoma Republicans, has ¯ stated that her campaign will exclude no one and : while announcing her candidacy at the Tulsa Press ¯ Club, Mrs. Keating noted that she was not very ¯ familiarwiththeconcemsofLesbianandGayTulsans, ~ but she is willing to educate herself. And Dodd has ¯ stated publicly his opposition to a constitutional ¯ amendment to ban same gender marriages. Iowa Rights Group Says ¯ Rocky Horror Benefit, Oct. 27 : Slow Come, Quick Go (TFN) - Tulsa’ s downtown Doubletree Hotel will host Add Sexual Orientation ¯: TULSA a new Halloween gala event which will benefit Tulsa Oklaho- i KS County Gives, Now May Drop Benefits DES MOINES, IOWA (AP) "The Iowa Civil Rights Commission is recommending that the state’s civil rights law specifically prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation. The commission voted 6-1 in September to recommend that the Legislature add sexual orientation to the wording of the law, marking the first time it has gone on record backing that step. Commission member Alicia Claypool said the move makes sense, because there’s strong evidence of discrimination. Republican legislative leaders have opposed the step, saying the inclusion of Gays in the law gives them special treatment. A commission subcommittee that studied the proposal said the state is facing a looming shortage of workers and diversity is one way tO attract new people to the state. "If we are to grow and remain a vital and productive state, we must create a current and future work force that is stable, wall-educated and sees Iowa as a viable place in which to grow up, live and work," said a subcommittee memo. The commission’ s recommendation likely will spark a renewed round of debate over an issue that’ s been around for years. The state’s civil rights law protects people from discrimination in employment, housing and lending based on age, color, creed, national origin, race, religion, marital status, sex, physical disability, or familial status: Backers long have said that Gays and Lesbians face discrimination as well and that sexual orientation should be added to the list. The Legislature specifically rejected that step because Republicans did not want to approve a measure they said gave special protection to Gays. Gov. Tom Vilsack issued an executive order in 1999 that also would have banned discrimination based on sexual orientation in state hiring, but legislative leaders successfully argued see Iowa, p.2 ¯ mans for Human Rights (TOHR) and the Pyramid Project - the ¯ capital campaign to purchase a permanent community center. ¯ Helga’ s Horfibles will perform live their version of the Rocky Horror Picture Show beginning at 8:15, featuring Helga, Animal, ¯ Peaches Lennox, Anita Richards, Shirley Nott, Scott, Brenda " Lynn Stewart, Patti, Crystal Meth and Johnny Cronin, all di; rected by Timothy Snapp. " After the show, the Time Warp Masquerade Ball will go till midnight. Costumes are en,co.uraged, ID is required and tickets ¯" are $25 in advance (at Ken s Flowers, Salon 41, the Pride Store ¯ at the Center and on line at www.Pyramidproject.org) or $30 at ¯: the door. VIP tickets and tables are available. The event will offer .. a cash bar, complimentary hors d’oeuvres, party pies, valet . parking and a dj. ¯ : Mr. Oklahoma Leather to Aid TOHRKulsa CARES ¯ ¯ The Mr. Oklahoma Leather contest which will be held at CW" s ¯ : on Oct. 19-21 will benefit TOHR/the Community Center and ¯ ¯ Tulsa C.ARES. For more information, call CW" s at 610-5323. : Other Community News : ¯¯ On Saturday, Oct. 13, PFLAG is having a Come Out and Fly ¯ ¯ Your Kite event in honor of National Coming Out Day (NCOD) ¯ ¯ at a local park. Call PFLAG at 749-4901 for more information: ¯ ¯ : . Annual AIDS Walk, Oct. 6, 9:00am ¯ ¯ Saturday, Oct. 6, Tulsa AIDS Walk 2001 will begin and end at ¯ Veterans Park at 21st and Boulder (site of the annual Diversity : ." Festival). Funds raised at the event help TCAP, the Tulsa Com- ¯ "¯ munity AIDS Partnership (TCAP). All funds will be increased by 50% with matching dollars from the Elton John AIDS Founda¯ tion. TCAP helps to fund the following groups: RAIN, the ¯ Regional AIDS Interfaith Network, Tulsa CARES, the American ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ : ¯ : ¯" ¯° ¯" ¯ Red Cross, Red Rock Behavioral Health Services and HOPE Testing Clinic. The Walk is now eight years old and has raised : thousands of dollars for direct care and education/prevention for : HIV/AIDS. It is an all volunteer effort which has no administra_ : ¯ tive costs For more information, call 585-5551 ¯ WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - Sedgwick County’s new insurance benefits for unmarried domestic partners may not last more than a week. County commissioners appear to have the votes to overturn County Manager William Buchanan’ s decision to offer employees the option of extending their health coverage to gay or straight partners. Employees were told of their option to cover domestic parthers in a packet of materials outlining insurance plans for 2002. Commissioners put the item on their agenda after receiving numerous phone calls and e-mails from constituents who say the policy gives official sanetion to "sinful" unions. Commissioner Tim Norton said he originally was willing to defer to Buchanan and the county’ s human resources staff. But now, he said, he would probably vote to rescind the policy because that’s what residents have toldhim they want. "I don’ t know that this is the right time, or the right place, for us to be stepping out and taking a leadership role on a social issue like this," he said. Commissioners Carolyn McGiun and Ben Sciortino said last week that they oppose the policy because they think the county’s health benefits should be reserved for employees and their immediate families only. see-Wichita, p.]O DIRECTORY EDITORIAL US & WORLD NEWS HEALTH NEWS Z ENTERTAINMENT+ MORE ~ GAYSTUDIES --- ---- P. 10/~1 ~ �Tulsa Clubs & Restaurants ¯ 918.583.1248, fax: 583.4615 *Bamboo Lounge, 7204 E. 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"No question that the focus right now for the immediate need of agents for time and resources" is to investigate last week’ s terror attacks, said Patrick Crosby, a spokes~ man for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Atlanta. But Crosby added: "Nobody’ s dropping anything on Rudolph or the investigation." Rudolph, for whose capture an award of $1 million has been offered, is believed to adhere to Christian Identity, a white supremacist religion that is rabidly anti-Gay, antiSemitic and anti-foreigner. Sdme of the four bombs Rudolph was charged with planting included messages from the shadowy "Army of God." Western North Carolina has long had a reputation as a haven forright-wing extremists. Many there mocked the government’ s inability to find Rudolph with bloodhounds, infrared-equipped helicopters and space-age motion detectors- and some said they would hide him if asked. Bin Laden, a wealthy Saudi who helped push the Soviets out of Afghanistan, has likewise become an almost mythic figure in Islamic militant circles. His protectors have not been swayed by a $5 million bounty. "These are both men who are pursuing their personally received messages, supposedly from God, and who are ruthless as a result," said Mark Potok, who tracks domestic terrorists for the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala. "presumably, there’s a litde more national will involved in the bin Laden case," he says. ’¢Fhis is a sdckin the eye of America in away that the Rudolph attacks really were not." in court that he had exceeded his authority. Vilsack challenged lawmakers to take that step on their own, but the issue hash’ t been debated since the legal battle. Republican legislative leaders have refused to bring the measure up for debate. Subcommittee members said the numbers alone argue for protecting Gays and Lesbians, because estimates are that up to 4% of the state’ s population is Gay, roughly 114,500 people. That’ s a larger population than the 2.8% of the state that is Hispanic and2.1% African-American population, they said. i Cummins Ends ¯ Support for Scouts COLUMBUS, Ind. - Heavy engine manufacturer Cummins Inc. almonnced Sept. 18 it plans to stop sponsoring an event that raises money for the Boy Scouts of America because of the organization’ s ban on Gays serving as troop leaders, according to The Associated Press. Cnmmin s has been a major donor to scouting programs, in Indiana’s Bartholomew County. seeScouts, p.11 �by Rich Tafel ¯ have a clear enemy today, that is absolutely bent on our " Everything in America has changed since the attacks of ¯¯ collective destruction, who brutalizes women, murders : Gays and sees a free society as the world’ s greatest evil. ¯¯ September 11,2001. While.Americans return to work and Now is not the time to attack the President. This will be their daily lives, Washington-based special interest groups : ¯ the hardest for groups whose fundraising has depended on : are struggling to figureout where to go from here. The Sierra Club, which earlier this year saw an increase ¯ demonizing him, but next time they do it, we all~eed to ask ¯ them to refrain. That doesn’t mean we cannot disagree in fundraising fromils attacks onnewly-inaugurated President George W. Bush, has sent a memo to their leading ¯¯ with President Bush or abrogate the freedoms we are truly ¯" members instructing them to stop bashing the president. fighting to defend, but as fellow Americans we have a " Other groups preparing to spend millions on ad campaigns : common moral duty to rekindle-a tone of respect for the : to fight the "lfckbox" budget wars have gone silent. ¯ office of the presidency, and for the burden on the man ¯ ¯ who sits there today. Democrats and Republicans are working together. : " Gay organizations are not sure how to respond. The ¯ debate in Washington. now revolves around a central "Gay organizations are not sure how question - do Gay groups move ahead with the "old" agenda items? Do they put Gay-specific issues on hold? to respond. The debate in Or, do they rise to meet the new challenges fa,c.ing Gay Washington now revolves around a Americans in this new period, even ifthey don t fit what -these groups have long argued was "the Gay agenda"? central question - do Gay groups move To me what has ehangedmost since September 11 is the ¯ rubric for debate. Throughout the years, Gay activists : ahead with the old" aCenda items? ¯ have relied on a paradigm of "victimization" to formulate ¯ Do they put Gay-speciflc issues on hold? their agenda for advancing our community’ sinterests. A divergence of reality began to take place, where our : Or, do they rise to meet the new political leaders argued our lives were getting worse and : challenges facing Gay Americans worse while, in reality, we were gaining greater accep¯ tance. In the end, Gay.politics became dominated by a in this new period, even ff they don’t fit "virtual victimization, with our own sogiety full of en: ¯ emies oppressing us. Obscured by this paradigm was the what these groups have long argued ¯ reality that, while we still have barriers to dear, life for was "the Gay agenda’S." Gay Americans has never been better. : ¯ The "virtual victimization" paradigm may have fit the time. But there was a cost. Gay Americans who bought New, more pressing issues have come to the forefront ¯ into this paradigm were left to believe that the power to and need our attention. Gay couples and families have ¯ live life on their own terms 4s outside their control. been ripped apart in the attacks. We must be vigilant in "Virtual victims’" become increasingly alienated from ensuring that those left behind are not cut off from survi- ¯ society, more inward-driven, and less connected to a sense vor benefits and legal rights that they deserve. We as a ¯¯ of personal responsibility about how their lives tnm out. community should take notice of the vital importance of ¯ We’ 11 look back on the 1990’ s with an almost embarrasspartner benefits and responsibilities in light of this tragedy ing realization of just how self-absorbed we were. The and ensure we have provided for our loved ones should ¯ ¯ same Gay community whose political leaders demanded anything happen to us. ¯ employment anti-discrimination laws and hate crime proDonating blood surfaced as an issue in the days after the tections was travding on RSVP cruises, packing ware- ¯ attacks. The Red Cross policy on donating bloodis dearly ¯ ¯ house circuit parties, and filling black-tie dinner halls to out of date and harmful in how absolute its exclusion of ¯ ¯ hear keynote addresses from Hollywood celebrities. Gay men has been since the 1980’s. The only response ¯ ¯ If the attack on September 11 shocked our nation back ¯¯ from Gay leaders thus far is still ringing of victimization, ¯ to reality, it might do the same for the Gay movement. At or has just been silence for fear of raising an issue that LEF’s July leadership conference, entitled "Redefining : makes us all sound selfish. However, there is a "united we stand" approach to ¯ the Gay Agenda," syndicated columnist Hasting Wyman ¯ ¯ made an observation about why Vice President AI Gore, ¯¯ giving blood. Again, sad as it is, there will likely be need ¯ the 2000 Democratic nominee for President, didn’t do for more blood before this war is over. We should respectbetter among Gay voters even though he supported what " fully, without fanfare and action alerts, approach the Red ¯ was knows as the Gay agenda: "... I think this raises an ~ Cross and explain that Gay men would like to hdp the interesting question and I say a question, not a conclusion. ¯ effort. While we do understand that Gay men are more : ¯ ...A lot of the Gay agenda, while it may be right or it may likely to be HIV positive then the general public, we ¯ be wrong, it’s not terribly relevant to the average Gay ¯ should not confuse sexual orientation with health status, person." : and the policy should be consistent in its approach to ¯ Hastings is right, and as we examine what is real and ¯ sexual behavior. For instance, heterosexuals with mul- ¯ relevant in our lives after September 11. Now is the time ¯ . tiple partners are not screened out in the same way as a Gay ¯ ¯ to reject the "virtual victim" paradigm and, maybe for the ¯ man who has had sex once since 1977. ¯ first lime ever, think of ourselves as fellow Americans, ; During times of war, scapegoats are often sought out in united with the rest of the nation, confronting a common ¯ every society. Will Gays and Lesbians become targets of : enemy. I think Gays and Lesbians get this, even if our ¯ greater hate crime activity? I doubt it. But I do believe that : leadership doesn’ t. One thing is clear as I walk through the : Arab Americans or anyonelooking like them will be. The ¯ Gay neighborhoods of Washington, where the American ¯ greatest weapon against intolerance is educating our- ¯ flag is draped from hundreds of windows, and as I read of " selves, so we should be role models. ¯ a conservative Republican Senator eulogizing Mark ¯ In the "united we stand" paradigm, we can explain to the : Bingham as an American hero who save the U.S. Capitol, public that we know what it is like to be judged, discrimi- ¯ ¯ Gays and Lesbians are part of the greatness of America hated against and even physically beaten because of who ¯ and they know it. : we are. Though we know many Islamicleaders in America ¯ What unique role can Gays and Lesbians play as we : have shown little tolerance for Gays and Lesbians, we as ¯ ¯ unite against the terrorists? First, Gay and Lesbian leaders ¯ a community love and respect our fellow Americaus under ¯ can stop the incessant negative backbiting against Presiattack. We support them and their civil rights, so that we ¯ dent Bush and his administration. Like every other Ameri- : never again make the mistake of how we treated Japanese ¯ can, we need him to succeed in this mission. Throw away ¯ Americans in World War II. ¯ ¯ those "He’ s Not My President" t-shirts. Gay organization ¯ The overall paradigm of the Gay civil rights movement ¯ leaders need to stop referring to him as the "enemy" - we must change, see Change, p.ll ¯ Welcome to Our Reality by Tom Neal, editor & publisher Hate crimes have been much on my mind in these weeks since the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. This horror has brought out the best in so many Americans but it has also brought out the worst in a few. Some of those few have used this mad event as an excuse to express their prejudices, theirracism, their antiimmigrant bigotry, and their homophobia, around the country as well as here in Tulsa. In Tulsa, we’ ve seen the beating of a Pakistani man and apparently, according to Barbara Moore of the AsianAmerican Society, others who are perceived as "foreign" have been harassed. No one in th.e Gay communities has missed the shameless opportunism of Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, perhaps the greatest disgraces to contemporary Christendom, at trying to incite violence against Lesbians and Gay Americans and others in the wake of the terrorist attack. My comment to our Muslim and Asian sisters and brothers is welcome to our reality of violence, prejudice and hatredin Tulsa. What you’re experiencing as, new has been our ongoing reality. What you’re experiencing as a new sensation of lack of safety has long been our experiBut while attacks on you are decried by Tulsa’ s profoundly hypocritical "do-good" organizations: NCCJ, Jewish Federation, Tulsa Metropolitan Ministry, Tulsa Interfaith Alliance, those same groups have been shamefully silent when Gay men were brutally beaten like the Tulsa Pakistani man. It’ s not that they didn’ t know that the attacks happened. Tim Beauchamp and Tony Orr’ s beating on Brookside a few years ago was well reportedin this newspaper as well as in The World. Beauchamp and Orrlater testified before the US House of Representatives about their beating, a fact also reported by The WorM. I personally told Nancy Day of NCCJ of the most recent beating of a Gay man which this newspaper reportedin our August issue. But neither Ms. Day nor NCCJ, nor any other of these organizations has felt it incumbent to express for Gay Tulsans what they fall over themselves to do for Muslim Tulsans. Clearly the message here is that NCCJ, Jewish Federation, and possibly TMM and Tulsa Interfaith Alliance do not consider the attacks on Gay Tulsans to rise to the same level of concern as the attacks on other minorities. Or if perhaps their values are slightly more humane, then they are cynically utterly unwilling to expend any of their effort or "capital" in acting upon them. As horrible as it to contemplate, for some time I have been convinced that the only thing that would get these groups off dead center would be for Tlffsa to have our own Matthew Shepard murdered- as much as I pray that such will never happen. What is it about this city that it is so profoundly morally bankrupt that only the veritible cruxcifiction of an iunocent might, and only_ might, move them to acknowledge the right of Lesbian and Gay Tulsans to live unassaulted and with even a fractiOi~ of the civil rights and other legal protections other residents, including other minorities, take for granted? Indeed I am glad to see that attacks against Muslim and others are condemned. I also am glad to see new networks formed to address hate crimes but I am deeply troubled that this new effort, again, starts by excluding Gay and Lesbian Tulsans and describes hate crimes only as race, religion and ethnicity when those who hate, attack race, ethnicity, rdigion and sexual orientation equally, and sometimes us first. The latest Tulsa anti-hate crime network did invite our Nancy McDonald, PFLAG founder, butit’ s not at all dear that she was invitedinher role as a more acceptable proxy for Gay folk but rather in her role as new co-convertor of the Say No to Hate Coalition. see Hate, p. 10 �Czechs Seek Partners Recognition ." ." ¯ : : ¯ ¯ ¯ PRAGUE, .Czech Republic (AP) - Czech Gays and Lesbians soon could become the first in a former communist country to be allowed to register their partnerships. Prime Minister Milts Zeman’ s Cabinet has thrown its support behind a draft law granting Gays equal rights with the rest of the population. And ¯ backers of the legislation say they’ ve never had a better ¯ ¯ chance for passage of the measure. The bill gives Gay and Lesbian couples the same _" fights as those of heterosexual ones in areas such as ¯¯ inheritance and health insurance. Couples would be ¯ allowed to seal their partnerships at local government : offices, and severing a union would require a court- : approved divorce. The draft, approved by the Cabinet, ¯¯ however; bars couples from adopting children. Legislation that would allow homosexual unions ¯ already has been turned down twice by the Czech : parliament, in 1997 and 1999. But this time will be ¯ ¯ different, Gay activists say. "Public opinion has changed," said Jiri Hromada, an activist. "Any deputy ¯ ¯ should listen to that." ¯ A May survey by the state-sponsored CVVM polling agency said only 33 % of those polled opposed such a law, compared to 42% in 1999. The margin of error was 3%, To pass, supporters of the law need only a simple majority in the 200-seat chamber. Since the ruling party holds 74 seats, supporters say they only need just over two dozen votes to make the measure pass. Several other European nations already extend legal fights to same-sex partners. Denmark granted legal rights in 1989, a move followed later by other countries, including Sweden and the Netherlands. Germany recently began to allow Gay couples to register their unions, and in the United States, Vermont became the first state to recognize same-sex unions last year. The Czech Republic would be the first post-communist country, however, to approve such a measure. Most post-communist societies, burdened with massive economic troubles, have largely neglected such social questions. Opponents are bracing for a fight. The Roman Catholic Church, which has long opposed such unions, sponsored a petition to pressure the parliament to reject the measure. Petition organizer Josef Zeman of the Brat-based group National Center for Family says 72,000 have already signed. Some 2.7 million people in the Czech Republic say they are Roman Catholic: "It will have an irreversible impact on those young people who still are not clear about their sexual orientation,’" Zeman warned. The draft law should be discussed in the lower ch~amber, the House of Deputies, by the end of this year. Cleveland United Way Drops-Boy Scouts ¯ CLEVELAND (AP) - The Clevdand chapter of the United Way has decided to stop funding traditional ¯" Boy Scouts programs that discriminate against Gays. ¯ The money will instead go to Boy-Scout-affiliated ~ programs such as Learning for Life, a program that : does not prohibit Gay menfrom being leaders. ¯ -. Earlier this month, United Way Services of Greater ¯ Cleveland shifted $268,000 in Boy Scout donations to : the Learning for Life program, said Mike Benz, presi- ¯ dent Of the local United Way organization. The pro- ¯ gram will be taught in Cleveland, Bedford and Lakewood public schools and teaches children to apply ¯ classroom lessons in their everyday life. ¯ Last year, the United Way Services gave about . $90,000 of its Boy Scout donation to Learning for Life. ¯ This year, the group considered cutting support to the ." Boy Scouts entirely but decided instead to shift all of ¯ its donation to ~ng for Life. Susan Lewis, spokeswoman for the Greater Cleveland Council for the Boy Scouts of America, said shifting the money to a Boy Scout-affiliated program was a good compromise. She said her chapter will try to shift around other donor money to make up for losing the United Way funding, which accounts for about 14% of t!~ir budget. Nearly 50 United Ways across the country and a dozen corporations have quit giving money to Boy Scouts of America since ihe U.S. Supreme Court last year upheld the Scouts’ right to reject homosexual leaders. Jan Cline, an Eagle Scout and associate director of the Lesbian Gay Community Service Center in Cleveland, said he wanted United Ways to stop funding the Boy Scouts altogether until they stop discriminating. "If I give to United Way, I don’ t want one cent to go to Boy Scouts," Cline said. "There’ s no better place for boys tolearn citizenship, personal fitness and camping skills. But by enforcing a membership standard that teaches young Gay men their feelings are second-class, they’re teaching bigotry and discrimination." None of the Northeast Ohio United Way organizations,including Uuited Way Services of Greater Cleveland, has employment policies that prohibit discrimination against Gays. Finland Recognizes Same Gender Partners HELSINKI, Finland (AP) - Lawmakers passed a goveminent proposal recently that makes Gay partnerships legally binding but stops short of letting Gay couples adopt children or use the same surname. The bill, which comes into force next year, was approved 99 to 84, with 17 abstentions or absentees. The new law says Finns who are at least 18 can register a same-sex union in a civil ceremony comparable to matrimony. It also give~ Gay couples the same rights as married heterosexual couples when inheriting each other’ s property and in cases of divorce. The Finnish Lesbian and Gay AsSociation welcomed the law but said it wished it went further. ’q’his at long last gives Gay couples the rights they deserve," said Rainer Hiltunen, the association’s secretary-general. "But it’ s a compromise, and we are disappointed that it doesn’ t secure the rights of chil&en in a Gay marriage because they can only be registered to one parent." The Finnish Evangdical Lutheran Church, to which 85% of the 5.2 million population belongs, has opposed giving Gay partners the same rights as married couples. However, Archbishop Jukka Paarma has said that the legal position of homosexual and Lesbian couples should be improved. The new law is in line with similar legislation in the other Nordic countries of Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Iceland, where Gay partnerships have been legalized. Denmark and Iceland permit adoptions by Gay couples in certain circumstances. Houston Partner Benefits Up for Vote HOUSTON (AP) - Houston, voters in November will consider whether the city should offer health and other benefits to same-sex parmers of its employees. The Houston City Council approved for the Nov. 6 ballot a referendum that, if passed,-would prohibit the city from providing same-sex benefits. The city doesn’t offer thosebenefits now, but had been considering changing its benefits policy to include them. The council approved the ballot addition by a 9-5 vote after City Secretary AnnaRnssell validated enough signatures on petitions to call for a vote. Petitioner Dave Wilson, who,opposes offering same-sex benefits, led an effort to gather 21,028 signatures on those petitions. City law requires 20~000 valid signatures from registered voters in Houston to force a vote on a change to the city charter. "1623 N. Maplewood (918) 838-1715 mcctu/saOaoLcom Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Community of Hope 2545 South Yale, Sundays at llam, 749-0595 A Welcoming Congregation HOUSE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT Sun. Worship, 10:45 am, Sunday School, 9:30 am Wed. Bible Study, 7 pm, Sunday Eve. Service, 6prn 1517 S. Memorial, 628-0802, Info: 224-4754 The Open Arms Project Young Adult Support Group Outreach Program Thurs. 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Har- : candidate John Price had argued that staging the play ris County District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal said his ¯ on the grounds of a state university_violated the constioffice would investigate if a complaint is fried. Wilson : tutional separation of church and state. Attorney S tephen R. Pennell represented the universaid he knew of no problems with the petitions or ¯ ¯ sity in thelawsuit. He said school leaders were pleased signatures. Houston voters in 1985 nullified a nondiscrimina- ¯ by the court’ s action. "The play has been performed, so tion ordinance approved by the council. Earlier this ¯¯ there is no longer any relief the court could grant that would be effective in any way, so the point is moot," year, the council approved.a similar ordinance protect¯ Pennell told The Journal Gazette. ing Gays and Lesbians from discrimination, and the The same appeals court ruled Aug. 7 in favor of Nov. 6 referendum does not address the ordinance. Gay Adoption Considered In Nebraska LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - As the state Supreme Court prepares to hear a case that could decide if Gay couples have the right to adopt children, groups on both sides are weighing in on the dispute. The high court is to hear the case next week of a Lincoln Lesbian who wants her lover to be able to adopt her 3-year-old boy. The case already has generated so-called "friend of the court" briefs from scores of organizations, including: theAmerican Psychological Association; the Family Research Institute; the Alliance for Children’s Rights; The National Organization for Women; the National Adoption Center; and the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund. The Nebraska Catholic Conference, the Family Research Council, the Nonpartisan Family Coalition and Family First also have weighed in. The boy, called "Luke" in court papers, was born to "B.P," in 1997 through artificial inseminataon. The boy has lived with his mother and her lover, "A.E.," since birth. The two women were joined in a commitment ceremony in 1995, according to court records. Such ceremonies are not recognized as marriages in Nebraska, where voters last year approved a measure to keep same-sex marriages from being legally recogB.P. already has custody of her 9-year-old son from a previous marriage. While Nebraska law contains no specific provision prohibiting adoptions by Gay couples, Deputy Attorney General Steve Grasz said does not mean it is legal. He also said A.E. has no legal rights to adopt the child, even though she has helped raise him. "Such caregivers, unlike parents, possess no substantive liberty interest in the child," he said in briefs filed in the case. "No fundamental constitutional right has been accorded in the law to individuals such as foster parents, grandparents, caregivers or ’partners’ of parents even though they have a deep emotional attachment to the child." Amy Miller, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union, dismissed those arguments. "The state’ s bias is based on its discomfort with A.E. and B.P.’ s relationship, but is irrelevant asthe real issue is Luke’ s interests," she said. "The law only inquires into the best interests of the child to be adopted. Court Rejects Gag on Play ¯ allowing "Corpus Christi" to be performed while the ¯ appeal was pending. The decision upheld a July ruling ¯ by U.S. District Judge William C. Lee, who said : issuing a preliminary inJunction against the production ¯ would cause more harm than allowing the play to : proceed. ¯ Patricia Corbat of Fort Wayne, one of the three ¯ plaintiffs participating in the appeal, was not sure ¯ whether there are any other ways to pursue the com. plaint. ¯° She said the S ept. 11 terrorist attacks put the churchstate relationship in a new perspective. "We don’t ¯ allow prayer in government at all, but all of a sudden ¯ everyone in government is praying," Corbat told the ¯ newspaper. "I just think that, all of a sudden, we’re : trying to get back in God’ s graces.’" Maine City OKs Civil Rights Bill BANGOR, Maine (AP) - Bangor became the 1 lth ¯ Maine city to enact a Gay civil rights ordinance when ¯ the city council approved the law by a lopsided vote. ¯ The law, approved by an 8-1 vote, bars discrimination ¯ based on sexual orientation in housing, public accom¯ modations, credit, education and employment. It is ." similar to measures that have been enacted by the ¯ Legislature, but overturned by Maine voters. The Bangor council’s passage came a week after a ¯ ¯ three-hour public hearing on the measure. Supporters ¯ said such a law is long overdue 17 years after a Gay youth named Charlie Howard died after being thrown i off a downtown Bangor bridge by three local teen" agers. But opponents cited religious objections, and said it ¯ ¯ is an unneeded extension of the Maine Human Rights ¯ Act that_ should be decided by voters. Some asserted ¯ that the-law confers special rights on a specific group. Maine voters last November turned down a law that ¯ would have outlawed discrimination based on sexual ¯ orientation. Similar bills had been rejected by the : Legislature for two decades until 1997, when a mea¯ sure was enacted and signed by Gov. Angus King. ¯ Voters repealed it in 1998, and lawmakers responded ¯ by sending a new bill back to referendum. ~ While the state’ s voters repealed the Gay civil rights ¯ question in 2000, a majority of voters in Bangor ¯ favored the state law. After Monday night’s council ¯ vote, about two dozen spectators broke into applause. ¯ "Equal rights and equal dignity are not special rights," ¯ said Councilor Joe Baldacci, who sponsored the pro" posal with Councilor Judy Vardamis. An opponent, Bangor Baptist Church Pastor Jerry : ¯ Mick, said he believed a planned effort to repeal the ¯ ordinance could be successful. ¯ Challenges to Gay civil rights laws in other Maine : cities have had mixed results. In 1992, Portland voters FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) - A federal appeals court has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to block a controversial student play, ruling that the issue is moot since the play has already been performed. The 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago last week rejected the complaint filed by opponents of the play "Corpus Christi" who accused Indiana University-Purdue Uni- ¯ rejected a proposal to overturn the city’s Gay civil versity of using taxpayer money to support an attack on ", rights ordinance. But Lewiston voters repealed their Christianity. : city’ s ordinance a year later. The play featured a Gay, Christ-like character named Joshua and 12 other male characters, most of whom had the names of Christ’s disciples. In a one-page order issued Sept. 19, the court said the �Los kn0olos May Host 2006 Games LOS ANGELES (AP) - A nonprofit group will send a delegation to SouthAfricanext month to lobby for the city to host the 2006 Gay Games, an Olympics-styl_e~l. event~that draws Gay and Lesbian athletes trom around the world. Los Angeles faces three other finalists - Chicago, Atlanta and Montreal - in its bid to host the games, which have been held every four years since 1982: As many as 15,000 competitors take part in the games, drawing upward of 250,000 spectators. The Federation of Gay Games will begin the selection process in Johannesburg, South Africa on Oct. 21, with the winning city announced four days later. The Gay Games include more than 30 sports, from aerobics to sailing to wrestling. The event was founded by Olympic decathlete Tom Waddell after enduring jokes and harassment on the sports circuit. The two-weekGay Games VII wouldbe the largest single event inLos Angeles in the next five years, according to the Los Angeles Convention and Visitors Bureau. The games could generate as much as $400 million for the city. San Francisco has played host to two previous games. Los Angeles has bid on the games, but has never been selected. LOs Angeles als0 is seeking to host the 2012 summer Olympic Games. Tt{~’summer Olympiad previously was held in the city in 1932 and 1984. Members of the nonprofit Los Angeles 2006 Inc. group that is seeking to draw the Gay Games said many Olympic venues would be used during the event. ment would prevent the city from providing employee benefits to Gay couples. City attorneys say the policy does not mention sexual orientation and therefore may not be voided if the amendment passes. So far, "very few" of about 900 city employees have applied for same-sex benefits, said City Attorney Robert Cinabro. Kalamazoo is among three cities in Michigan and 17 communities nationwide that will vote on Gay civil rights measures in November. Huntington Woods and Traverse City also are voting on human rights measures. "The whole country will be watching the three communities in Michigan," said ;can Kosofsky, director of policy and victim services for the Triangle Foundation, a Detroit-based Gay civil rights organization. The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force in Washington, D.C., last week announced it will give $10,000 to Kalamazoo Against Discrimination. Meanwhile, American Family Association is supporting Kalamazoo Citizens Voting Yes For Equal Rights Not Special Rights, which is promoting the proposal. That group has about 50 volunteers, about half of whom live outside the city, the Kalamazoo Gazette said Sunday. Among them is the group’ s spokesman, Kalamazoo County Commissioner Jack Hoogendyk Jr. of Portage. "I have interest because I work in the city," Hoogendyk said. "Most people rig,h,t now have no clue what the issues are. Massachusetts May Add Benefits BOSTON (AP) - Gay, Lesbian and unmarried state workers would be able to get health insurance for their domestic partners under a bill approved by a key state Senate committee late in September. The bill, approved by the Senate Ways and paign is under way here in the campaign MeansCommittee, would also let cities over an anti-Gay civil rights proposal on and towns decide to offer domestic parmer the Nov. 6 city ballot. Both sides pledge to benefits as a local option. keep debate civil. But city voters could A domestic partner is defined by .the bill ¯ face an onslaught of door-to-door cam- ¯ as someone of the same or opposite sex paigns, yard signs, telephone polls, radio ¯ who shares financialresponsibilities and a talk show forums and church debate. ¯ home with a state employee. They must "We feel there is a great deal of dis- ¯ crimination in the impetus to getting this ¯ also say that they are in a relationship of "mutual support, care and commitment" ballot initiative. It just r’eally stinks," said and plan to live together indefinitely. Robert Dempsey, campaign manager for : The Senate has approved two similar the group fighting the proposal. : bills in recent yb,ars. None became law. "I It has been more than a year since City ¯ approach it as a matter of basic fairness," Manager Pat DiGiovatmi enacted a policy ¯ said Senate President Thomas Birmingallowing Gay city employees to cover ¯ their parmers under health insurance. Op- ¯ ham, D-Chelsea. The full Senate is scheduled to vote on ponents immediately moved to put before ¯ the bill soon. It is also expected to vote on voters a broadly worded charter amend¯" bills that would allow Cambridge and ment that bans the city from adopting any ¯ Brookline to extend domesticpartner benordinances or policies that give special to their employees. preference based on sexual orientation. " efits Opponents of domestic partner benefits "We plan to explain to people why this is ¯ say they places homosexual relationships a bad amendment," said Dempsey, of : on the same level as heterosexual marKalamazoo Against Discrimination. They also say that giving nnmar" The Michigan branch of the Tupelo, "¯ riages. ried heterosexual couples the same benMiss.-based American Family Association is aiding the group seeking the "¯ efits as married couples weakens theinstitution of marriage. Kalamazoo Gays-rights b~a. The group’ s ¯ In 1998, the Legislature passed a bill Michigan president said he is hopeful for "- allowing Boston to provide the benefits ¯ its passage because the public is returning known as a"home rule petition" - but the to spirituality. "Churches are full. People ¯ bill was vetoed by former Gov. Paul are returning to a faith in.God," said Gary Cdlucci. It is unclear whether the charter amend- Michigan City to Vote Against Gays Conne . �: ¯ HIV ACtiViStS Educate Online ¯ Kelly Kirb.y, CPA, Certified Public Accountant a professional corPoration Lesbians and Gay men face many special tax situations whether single or as. couples¯ Electronic filing is available for faster refunds. 747-5466 SOuth Harvard Avenue, Suite 210, Tulsa 74135 ~AMI (AP) - Lighted by the blue glow ¯" of a portable computer, Marc Cohen is ¯ blazing a new trail in AIDS awareness. He : logs on to the Intemet, surfs into a busy chat room and uses his screen name ¯ hivoutreachmiami@aol.com- to answer ¯ questions aboutAIDS, hepatitis and other ¯ sexually transmitted diseases. "Awareness Alert," he types in bold ¯ letters. "Miami is now secondinthenation ¯ for syphilis infection. Wilton Manors has ¯ had an outbreak, too. STDand HIV screen, ings can be done free of charge." "We are not the sex police," said Cohen, ¯ president of the United Foundation for¯ AIDS, a South Beach-based group-that offers counseling; HIV screening and ¯ therapy to people with the AIDS virus that ¯ causes AIDS. ¯ With the AIDS epidemic in its third ¯ decade, Cohen and a cadre of national ¯ AIDS prevention advocates are invading : chat rooms to get the attention of those ¯ most at risk of HIV infection. It’ s an ap: proach that counselors and health Officials ¯ from San Francisco to South Beach be¯ lieve is working. Finding new ways to reach the (principal) at-risk groups - de" fined as young Gay and Bisexual men, ¯ especially blacks - has been a focus of ¯ AIDS awarenes~ conferences. ¯ As chat-room counselors, they answer" questions about HIV, hepatitis and syphi¯ lis that many would feel uncomfortable ¯ asking in person or on the phone. The ¯ Internet provides anonymity. "We treat it ~ as an opportunity for in-depth individual education," said Joseph Interrante, execu¯ tive director of Tennessee’ s Nashville CARES, an AIDS organization with staff ¯ members dispensing information in chat ¯ rooms. "The education actually becomes ¯ an online counseling session." ¯ Increasingly, warnings andAIDS statis¯ tics have fallen on the deaf ears of a ¯ younger, more reckless generation, health officials say. This summer, the U.S. Cen¯ ters for Disease Control and Prevention ¯ reported that among young men who have ¯ sex with other men, 4.4% - about 1 in 25 ¯ - get HIV. That’ s the same infection rate : asin the 1980s, before AIDS prevention ¯ methods andresearchtookroot. In Florida, ¯ blacks accounted for almost six of every : 10 new cases of HIV infection in the past ¯ four years. : Another trend: syphilis outbreaks in ¯ Wilton Manors, South Beach and Liberty -" City. Health officials say thegrowing num," bers are a signal mean thatGay and Bi: sexual men are encouraged by news of ¯ powerfully effective drug cocktails and longer life spans and are less worried about ", HIV infection. ¯ "The old modds do not work," said Jeff ¯ Wilkinson of the South Beach AIDS ¯ Project, where staff members cruise chat : rooms as sobequest @aol.com. They an¯ swer questions and ask others to share ¯ what they learn. "The more the pebble hits ¯ the pond, the more it ripples out." ¯ Cohen says he spends at least 25 hours a ¯ week online as hivoutreachmiami on : America Online. His online profile gives ¯ information about syphilis, how itis trans" mitted sexually., symptoms and telephone numbers to call for testing. He logs on in the afternoon and during peak chatting times, after 7 p.m. till until as late as 2 a.m. Since Cohen started the online campaign in June, he has seen the number of people who ask for HIV tests grow from a handful to a dozen or more a night. He takes their phone numbers, calls them and walks them through explains the process. He is training two volunteers to help. "So much that went on in bathhouses and public parks now takes place in chat rooms, where people meet to engage in unsafe sex from the comfort of their living room,’" Cohen said. "It’s opening a tremendous dialogue in this town." Some Blood Donors Get Surprise RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Shocked by the terrorist attacks in Washington and New York, thousands have lined up the past two weeks to give blood. Now, some of those donors are the ones asking for help. Because many people are donating blood for the first time, more people have learned that they have viral diseases such as hepatitis, syphilis and even AIDS. Since the mid-1980S, blood has been tested for viral diseases such as AIDS and hepatitis, andprospective donors have been screened for risky behavior such as intravenous drug use. Now, with so many more people learning they are infected, disease hoflines have experienced an increase in calls from donors seeking help. "They’re really panic-stricken. They have no idea what it means," said Thelma King Thiel, chairman of Hepatitis Foundation International. More than 22,000 units of blood have been donated in the Carolinas blood services region of the American Red Cross since Sept. 11, spokeswoman Debbie Estes said. The organization collected twice as much blood as normal the week of the attacks and donations are running about 20% to 30% more than usual every day, Estes said. Offices are staffed 24 hours a day and donors have been asked to make appointments for later this fall. Since the attacks, more than 330,000 people nationally have donated blood to the American Red Cross, said Dr. Peter Page, senior medical officer for the Red Cross. The Red Cross, which supplies about half the blood in the country, was collecting two to three times more blood than normal the week after the attack and about 11/2 times more last week. Just over 1% of donors test positive for infections, Page said. Onein 20,000 wholeblood donors to the American Association of Blood Banks will test positive for anti- bodies to HIV, said Sara Foer, spokeswoman for the American Association of Blood Banks in Maryland. One in 2,500 will test positive for hepatitis B and one in 500 for hepatitis C, she said. But Thiel says it may be good for donors to find out they are infected. ’’The tests and screens in tiff s blood drive are a good thing for them," Thiel said. "Otherwise they may go blissfully on their way not knowing ~ey are infected, spreading the disease. �." streets of London and take him to the by TFN entertainment editor Tulsa’ s Theatre Arts will present Lionel ¯ master pickpocket, Fagin. That training Bart’ s"Oliver!" outin the country atTulsa ~ quickly lands Oliver in jail, where he is Community College’ s PACE Theatre at " rescuedby Mr. Brownlow,arich old gentle81st Street and Highway 169 from De- [ man who takes the boy into his home. Meanwhile, Fagin and his cohorts - Bill cember 14th - 22nd. The production will ¯¯ Sikes and Nancy - fearful of being inbe directed by Jon Grodeski of NYC and will star as "Fagin," Jamie Farr wall [ criminated by thelad, plot his kidnapping. Nancy abducts him but known for playing then is overcome with "Klinger"in television’ s "...Tulsa guilt and attempts his M.A.S.H. series. Family News return to Brownlow. Tulsa Family News is Suspecting her kind delighted to note that is delighted to (and traitorous) intenTFN writer and former tions, Sikes kills Nancy. entertainment editor, note that TFN He grabs Oliver but is James Christjotm, has writer and former foiled by the amval of been cast in the characthe police Finally, ter of"Mr. Sowerberry ," entertainment editor, Oliver is safely returned the undertaker that James Christjohn, has to the arms of his beneOliver is sold to before factor, who proves to he ends up in London as been east in the be his own grandfather. Fagin’s prot~g6 pickOliver! (the pocket. character.., of the name shortened for And on December undertaker..." Broadway) became a 6th, Theatre Arts will part of the musical s tage host "An Evening With ¯ repertoire in 1960, written in total by the ~Iamie Farr," at the PACE at 7pm, where the actor will speak about his life and ¯¯ multitalented Lionel Bart, who crafted the book, the music and the lyrics. With Ron career, and take audience questions. Please call 595-777 for ticket information. ¯ Moody. as Fagin and Georgia Brown as Charles Dickens’ novel,"OliverTwist," ¯ Nancy, Oliver! opened in London on June is the basis for Lionel Bart’ s musical Oliver! :¯ 30, 1960,and ran until September 9, 1966, foratotal of 2,618 performances - making Dickens began the novel as a magazine serial that ran in a London.monthly for ¯ it the longest-running musical in British more than two years beginning in 1837. Its ¯¯ theatre. This production marks Christjohn’ s repopularity was so great that Dickens rushed it to completion for publication - in three " turn to the stage after a long absence. volumes ~-in 1838. Still, the serial contin- ¯¯ "There w as a point that I thought the talent, ued to run for more than six months after ¯ the gift, the ability hadleft me. So I shut. the dooronthatdream."Ironically,thatdream the publication of the book. Some well¯ began as a young boy, when he was taken known songs from the show include "Where Is Love," "Consider Yourself," ¯¯ to his first live production- a performance of "Oliver!" at Theatre Under The Stars "Who Will Buy," "As Long as He Needs ; (TUTS), in Houston, Texas. Christjoha Me," and many others. ¯ notes, "I remember seeing the little boy The story of Oliver Twist begins in. a seedy workhouse where he and the other ¯ singing "Where Is Love," and identifying orphans are kept by Mr. Bumble and ; completdy. I also was filled with wonder Widow Comey. When Oliver asks for ¯ at’the ’magic’ of seeing London appear more food, Bumble is enraged and decides ; when they sang ’Who Will Buy?’, and to sdl the boy. Mr. Sowerberry, the under- ¯¯ seeing the city literally fly in from left, right, andabove. Andlknew then I wanted taker, buys him, but Oliver is terrified of ¯ to be a l~art of that, to help make the magic the man and his coffins and runs away. TheArtful Dodger andhis gang of young ¯ happen. And I wanted the applause that kid was getting!" Info: 595-7777. street thieves find Oliver woandering the Tulsa’ s Performing .Mas Center Trust ¯¯ celebrates its 25th znniversary season with ¯ a number of great performers. At the end of October, on the 30th, the usually staid ¯ and fairly stodgy Chapman Music Hall ." ." will host nothing less than a circus! Quebec’ s Cirque Eloize (that’ s said,"el- was") and the Tulsa Philharmonic will ¯¯ combine classical music with circus spectacular: aerials, haru~s work,and feats of ¯ strength (and I’m sure men and women in ." fights,, could Lesbians and Gay men want " ¯ anything more.’?). ¯ Cirque Eloize began in 1993 as part of the "Cirque Nouveau" movement that : sprung from Quebec. Seven then recent ¯ graduates of Montreal’ s National Circus : School began the company which drew on ¯ the Eurotx~tn, animal-free style of circus combining theater, music and dance. Cirque Eloize quickly gained acclaim forits acrobatics, and choreography. After touring Canada and the US, then in the United Kingdom, France and Ireland, Cirque Eloize garnered rave reviews from London’ s Sunday Times, "... hauntingly heart-catching.., conjur[ing] up the spirit of a medieval fair..." and from The Scotsman in Edinburgh, "pure dead billliant.., this is circus with atmosphere, poetry, humor and above all, hear~..." The music ranges from RimskiKorsakov, Sibelius, Grieg, Saint-Sachs, Rachmaninov and more. This is a don’ t miss performance. Call 596-7111 or800364-7111 for information or tickets. The Twilight of the Golds What happens when a young couple finds thru’ genetic testing that their unborn child might be Gay and how their conflict about whether to keep the child affects the young mother’s Gay brother¯ Oct. 26th- Nov. 4th Broken Arrow Community Playhouse Only 1,487 miles off Broadway In the Main Place, 1800 South Main 258-0077 for tickets and info. �THE GILDED AGE Treasures from the Smitbsonian American Art.MuSeum SEPTEMBER -- 4 .NOVEMBER 200I SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - For a while, character is a transsexual woman who entertainer Ha Ri-soo seemed to be everyworks as an express delivery worker by where: in a film, in a music video, in ads day and moonlights as a singer. The movie for makeup and wedding gowns. Televititle alludes to the bleached blond look that sion talk shows couldn’ t get enough of the some young South Koreans adopt to be sex symbol and her sensual dances. People rebellious. gabbed about her at home and on thestreet, "I chose the fi~m because I went through in offices and coffee shops. a lot and I wa~ed to look back on those No wonder. Ha, 26, is a transsexual. days," Ha s~d. "I wanted to break the While sex change operations are old stereotype of transsexuals - the demurenews from the United States to Thailand, ness and extreme weakness with which they’re a novelty in they are often porSouth Korea, where trayed." Confucian ideals of illHa’s autobiography, ial piety and a maleoperations are old ~’From Adam to Eve," dominated hierarchy are also failed to make the strong. So it was star- news from the United best sdler list. fling when Ha surged to She got her sexStates to Thailand, thetopofSouth Korea’ s change operation seventertainment industry eral years ago in Japan, they’re a novelty in this year. where she studied hair"I think the society styling. While in high South Korea, where and cnlture is changing school, she had taken in Korea and it should Confucian ideals of female hormone injecchange," Ha said in an tions and was exempted filial piety and a interview at a beauty from mill tary service on salon, her hair in curlers of "mental illmah-domlnated hier- grounds as makeup artists ness." dabbedher face with lipSouth Korean archy are strong°. 2 stick, eyeliner and powmen must serve 26 der. "Transsexuals haven’t killed or months in the armed forces, a precau¯ cheated anyone. Why should they be mis- ¯¯ tion in the event of conflict with commutreated when they haven’ t done anything nist North Korea. ’¢Fhink about it: What ¯ wrong to others?" She said. would happen to the. military’ s discipline Many South Koreans agree, but their ¯ if a man with breasts went into the milifascination with Ha reflects .as much pru- ~ tary?" Ha said, laughing. rience as tolerance for the maverick. In a ¯ Her sex change was tough on her family, country where women flock to clinics for ¯ particularly in a society that covets male ¯ offspring. Ha said she played with dolls as cosmetic surgery, Ha fits right in. "I think she is popular because of her ¯ a child, and her frustrated father eventucharm and looks,, said Jeon Dong-ki, a ¯ ally accepted her femininity. male university student. "It doesn’ t.mean Ha’ s career took off in January with a ¯ that people’ s prejudices against Gays and television ad for cosmetics, but it’s untranssexuals have changed as wall." ." dearhowlong she’ 11 stay in thepubliceye. Ha’ s overheated presence in pop culture ¯ Some religious leaders have denounced ¯ has cooled some recently, and she’s had her. "It makes me angry that the media is mixed success. She appeared in "Ydlow -." trying to make something ’abnormal’ apHair 2," a movie about people on society’ s ¯ pear normal," said Lee I-Iee-ja, a 58-yearfringes that failed at the box office. Her old housewife. Saturday, October 20, the historic town of Medicine Park will host the first annual Drum Fest. Organizers hope to attractmore than 800 drummers to this eventin hope of breaking the current Guirmess Book of World Records. Medicine Park is located at the main entry to the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, the second most visited wildlife refuge in the country - hosting almost 2 million annual visitors. The community has a rich and colorful history. Originally founded on July 4th, 1908- Medicine Park was Oklahoma’s first planned tourism resort, THE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART 2727 SOUTH ROCKFORD ROAD Medicine Park was once the "playground" of the state’s rich, famous and notorious. Folks would come to town for the weekend and leave their "work-a-day" world, troubles and reputations behind them. Outlaws and horsethieves mixed with noted politicians and businessmen, families and socialites. The pages of the ¯ town’s colorful history are filled with the ¯ -likes of Teddy Roosevelt, Will Rogers, ¯ Wiley Post, Frank Phillips, Bob Wills, A1 ¯ Capone, Col. Jack Abernathy, Lil Hardin, Bonny & Clyde, Pretty Boy Floyd, Les ¯ Brown, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans and ¯ countless others. : Ok Spoke Bike Rides All these rides begin at Ziegler Recre¯ ¯ ation Park, 3903 West Fourth Street, at the ¯ parking lot. All rides are open to GLBT ¯ people and those who are Gayffriendly. ¯ OnOct. 6andOct. 13,there will bea20¯ 25 mile rides beginning at 7:30am, helmet ¯ and water bottle required. Later on the 6th, ¯ there is also 5 mile ride along the Sand ¯ Springs Trail beginning at 2pro. And on ¯ Oct. 13, therewillbea5mileridealongthe ¯ Arkansas River Trail starting at 2pro. For more information, contact Okiebicycle@prodigy.net, or write to POB ¯ 9165, Tulsa 7~157. �Timothy W. Daniel by LamontLindstrom : the not-unhappy looking bin Laden. The Internet slowed to a crawl on Sep- ¯ Whether F.rnpire State Building as phaltember 1 lth. People crowded the system ¯ lus, or middle finger as phallus, these folk with messages and postings about that : imagesconceivemale-on-maleintercourse day’ s death and destruction. We turned to ¯ as appropriate revenge. Osama-"screws" America; we screw him email,chatrooms,lists,dis- ,, ¯ . . equations d sex right back. cussion groups and clubs These representations of to discuss, mourn, be anand vlolenee are so skyscraper as phallus (or gry or be reflective about dildo) are no metaphorical the attacks: The older mefamiliar, so accident. Beyond the dia - newspapers, teledeaths of 6500 innocents, embedded in our phones, radio, television some of ,amaerica’s rage still carry the bulk of our language and certainly stems from this words andimagery. But the symbolism. Osama’s hiInternet further speeds and culture, as to be jacked planes ftrst appeared spreads national (and into circumcise both the ternational) conversation, unremarkable. But mighty shafts of the WTC, intensifying this exchange. we should remark slicing into their heads. But .. And exchange still conthen, ~brribly, the towers tinues. Since September them, at least collapsed completely and 1 lth, I have been collectNew York, and America, ing folk-produced images occasionally. suffered an awful castrathat respond to the attacks. These, like the Interuet’ s First, if we can think tion. Actually, the WTC had bothersome chain letters it we can do it - this already lost its Big Man and bad jokes, are still claims. Since 1998,the tallbouncing from site to site, is anthropology’s est buildings in the world person to person. Computer are the twin Petronas Towmessage about the imaging software (Photoers in KualaLumpur, Mashop and the like) and the power of cultural laysia. Their edifice is bigWWW facilitate this outger than our edifice. But burst of creative reaction. understandings to luckily, New York has in Years ago, one of my anthropology professors, shape behavior..." hand a backup tool - the Empire State Building U.C. Berkeley folklorist ¯ (once again the tallest in the city) - that, Alan Dundes, along with Carl Pagter pubsymbolically, can stick it to Osama. lished a collection of Urban Folklore from ¯ Mass murderers need be brought to justhe Paperwork Empire (1975). Such "paper folklore" consisted of joke letters, ¯ tice, but what does it mean when we represent justice (or perhaps revenge) as homomemos, cartoons, drawings, and the like that people produced and circulated using " sexual anal intercourse? The penis, more an earlier technology -the office copy ¯ than a tool , becomes awcapon. Andsexual machine: As soon as photocopiers became ". intercourse, .rather than an act of love, ¯ becomes one of rape or war. I penetrate a standard business appliance, people copied and recopied joke memos and cartoons ¯ you, and thereby I dominate you. These equations of sex and violence are that spread from office to office, and cu- ~ ¯ so familiar, so embedded in our language bicle to cubicle. Today, the Internet, like the photocopy machine, spreads our re- ¯ and culture, as to be unremarkable. But we ¯ should remark them, at least occasionally. sponses to the everyday world, and to ¯ First, if we can think it we can do it - this tragic national events. Much of the attack-related folklore ¯"¯ is anthropology’ s message about the power of cultural understandings to shape behavflooding the Internet is patriotic, affirming the goodness and the spirit of Ainerica. Images of U.S. flags, pictures of candles and ribbons, uplifting poems, and recycled Canadian newspaper columns lauding American generosity probably filled your email boxes, as they did mine. Other imagery, less warm-hearted, portrays anger and revenge. Two of the folk images that ended up in my email box particularly caught my eye. Both strum American cultural chords that blur violence with sex. The first depicts a reconstructed World Trade Center. Instead of the Twin Towers, however, this features five towers in a row, like fingers. The middle tower sticks up highest into the air. This folk image rebuilds the WTC as "the bird," flipping off m~icious Osama bin Laden and his terrorists. The second image is ruder. In this "jpg," Osama’ s turbaned head is superimposed on a nude, muscular body that bends forward. Coming in behind is the Fxnpire State Building. Its pointy tower sodomizes ¯ ¯ ¯ ". : ¯ : : ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ . " : ¯ : ¯ : lOt. Currently, two 14-year-old boys are in custody here in Tulsa. They, along with other members of their freshman football " team, anally raped one of their young teammates with a broom handle in their high ~chool locker room. This is Tulsa’s teenaged version of the Abner Louima case. New York cops likewise wielded broom as dildo to prove their manliness. (The Empire State Building, presumably, was unavailable.) Our folk fantasies of homosexual rape are far more likely to be realized here in America than in Afghani- Attorney at Law An Attorney who will fight for justice & equality for Gays & Lesbians Domestic Partnership Planning, Personal Injury, Criminal Law & Bankruptcy 1-800-742-9468 or 918-352-9504 128 East Broadway, Drumright, Oklahoma Weekend and evening appointments are available: IOTA member Call341. 6866 International TourSio, mo,e nio on. TULSA COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY start. Second, all those "sex = war," and "peuis = weapon," metaphors are dangerously slippery. What, exactly, are we saying when we admit a desire to sodomize Osama? Where does violent hatred end and erotic desire begin? Dildos also are toys, and sex (of whatever sort) is play more often than it is aggression. Are we then to pleasure Osama to death? Country Club Barbering Custom Styling for Men & Women David Kauskey 3310 E. 51st, 747-0236, Tues.-Fri., 8:5:30, Sat. 8-5pm �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 evangelism. To nurture our faith, we gather for w.orship~ 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. Tulsa’s only professional Sunday Worship, 1 lam 712 S. Columbia Ave., 592-5800 (One block west of Delaware and the University of Tulsa Campus) body-piercing Soulful Sundown combines live music, inspirational readings, video, and audience articipation to create a rand new experience. ~ Soulful Sundown is an alternative worship experience that celebrates the mystery and wonder of life, without telling you what to believe. happens at All Souls Unitarian Church at 5:3oPM on Sundays. Join us. on Oct. 7, 14, 21 and 3oth. All people are welcome! All Souls Unitarian Church z95z S. Peoria, 743-z363 And it’s only 20 years now that our oldest community organization, indeed Oklahoma’ s oldest non-religious community non-profit, Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights, TOHR, has been around. Any one want to bet how many more years it will be until these groups figure out that we exist? It is in the end this: you are either part of the solution, or you are part of the problem. And Tul sais filled with those who are not part of the solution. ~Ihey are our mayor and most of our city councilors: certainly they are Tulsa’ s business elite: the Chamber of Commerce staff and board and especially some of Tulsa Area United Way’ s board and staff for whom I have little doubt that Dante notes a special place in hell; and they are TU’s unrepentent bigot president and those prominent Tulsans who selectedhim despitehis documented prejudice. And it will take all these individuals deciding that they are going to be part of the solution rather than part of the problem for Tulsa ever to be that which it hopes to be. In the meantime, I hope that Muslim Tulsans will be safe and if God really moves their hearts that Tulsa Muslims might actually take their horrible experience as being this moment’s America’s hated "other" and will try to be do for Gay and Lesbian Americans that what they would have done for themselves. Average Gays and Lesbians feel much more in me with the American people in the spirit of "united we stand." For those weaned on identity politics, it will be hard to verbalize or imagine an America where they can speak from a "united we stand" perspective, but this new period will require it. We still have challenges as Gay Americans, but the terrorist agenda of America’ s enemies is far more dangerous to Gay Americans than anything we face within our own society. These terrorists have come to our country to murder us, and hope to eradicate our way of life in all its forms. The Taliban of Afghanistan, who is harboring these terrorists, believe that homosexuality is a crime punishable by a sadistic death, which is meted out with pride in their society. More than ever, we should welcome the chance to serve in defense of liberty. We should document carefully the success of Gay soldiers. This act of patriotism, of the willingness to die for our country, is precisely why the current military policy is wrong. Our determination will be hugely educational to an American public who views our motives on this issue with suspicion. We will demonstrate with action the moral absurdity of the old policy and it will cave-in under that moral weight. Steve May, the hero who fought the "don’t ask, don’t tell" policy and won, is on message now. He said recently that it is an obligation of every Gay servicemember to accept the country’ s call to serve. United we stand today, and the military’ s policy on Gays has divided us as Americans. We now can look at new, real heroes. I’m g!ad Mark Bingham was such a strong man m body and soul. He took brave action with a small group of men and women who answered the call of service in that moment of crisis, sacrificing their lives to save maybe thousands of others to thwart the murderous actions of those who want to destroy our country. Can we find a maturity and resolve inside ourselves that we have neglected for so long, and defiaonstrate that unity means equality? Surely, as we look squarely at our enemies, and see the face of brutality and hatred that stares back at all of us, that hates freedom and liberty in any form and would annihilate Gays and Lesbians at the first opportunity, the answers to these questions become dear. Buchanan has said that he approved the domestic partner policy in order to keep the county competitive in recruiting and retaining the best employees possible. He was not required to get the commissioners’ approval beforehand, although he did discuss it with them. Domestic partner benefits are common among many of Wichita’ s major employers, such as Boeing Co. Such benefits also are routinely offered by government agencies on both coasts. However, in a stretch of the country from the Mississippi River to Arizona, domestic partner benefits are offered by local governments in only four metropolitan areas: Denver; Albuquerque; Austin, Texas; and Iowa City, Iowa. "Nationwide, it’ s been going on for a good while," Norton said. "But in the Midwest, we’re probably a little far up on the curve. Whether you call it Midwest values or Moral Majority or whatever you call it, I think that’ s what you have to deal with in the Midwest." Commissioner Tom Winters said last week that he would back Buchanan’ s action because it was within the manager’s area of responsibility to make such changes. Commissioner Betsy Gwin said Monday that she initially saw the policy as a business decision to make the county a more attractive employer and to "show some sort of compassionate understanding for all people." Now, she said She is undecided after receiving about 50 phone calls and e-mails, all but one in opposition to the policy. One event raises about 4.4% of the annual budget for the Hoosier Trails Council. A Boy Scouts spokesman told The Republic that scouting programs in the county may have to be scaled back if they cannot find a replacement for Cummins’ funding. But a company statement said that the en.gine, manufacturer’s executives were revzewmg their contributions to reflect the corporation’ s values. This was not the first time the company has confronted criticism regarding its policies. Last year, Cummins’ decision to extend partner benefits to employees’ same- and oppositesex partners was met with anger by some employees and shareholders. �Helga’ Horribles present the Rocky Horror Pictu re Show followed by the Time Warp Ball Saturday, October 27 8pm midnight Doubletree Hotel Downtown 616 West Seventh � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Bin Laden Joins Anti-Gay Terrorist on Wanted List WASHINGTON, D.C. - Osama bin Laden isn’ t the only terrorist bombing suspect on the FBI’ s Ten Most Wanted list. Right here at home, the bureau is still hunting for Eric Robert Rudolph in connection with the 1996 Olympics bombing and other crimes. And some of the parallels are striking: both are trained soldiers and survivalists, accused of killing to further extreme religious and political beliefs. Both have eluded capture for years among sympathetic souls in mountainous terrain, despite a huge price on their heads. For nearly four years, agents have combed the sawtooth ridges ofwestern North Carolinafor Rudolph, an Army veteran and sometime carpenter charged with four bombings, including fatal blasts at the Atlanta Games and at an Alabama abortion clinic. Rudolph was last seen in the area in July 1998 after stealing supplies from a health store.owner. His truck had been spotted there early that year. see Terror, p. 2 Iowa Rights Group Says Add Sexual Orientation DES MOINES, IOWA (AP) "The Iowa Civil Rights Commission is recommending that the state’s civil rights law specifically prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation. The commission voted 6-1 in September to recommend that the Legislature add sexual orientation to the wording of the law, marking the first time it has gone on record backing that step. Commission member Alicia Claypool said the move makes sense, because there’s strong evidence of discrimination. Republican legislative leaders have opposed the step, saying the inclusion of Gays in the law gives them special treatment. A commission subcommittee that studied the proposal said the state is facing a looming shortage of workers and diversity is one way tO attract new people to the state. "If we are to grow and remain a vital and productive state, we must create a current and future workforce that is stable, wall-educated and sees Iowa as a viable place in which to grow up, live and work," said a subcommittee memo. The commission’ s recommendation likely will spark a renewed round of debate over an issue that’ s been around for years. The state’s civil rights law protects people from discrimination in employment, housing and lending based on age, color, creed, national origin, race, religion, marital status, sex, physical disability, or familial status: Backers long have said that Gays and Lesbians face discrimination as well andthat sexual orientation should be added to the list. The Legislature specifically rejected that step because Republicans did not want to approve a measure they said gave special protection to Gays. Gov. Tom Vilsack issued an executive order in 1999 that also would have banned discrimination based Serving:Lesbian, .Gay, Bisexual + Transgendered Tulsans, Out’Families.+ Friends i Male on Male Rape at Webster i Some Speculate Whether Anti-Gay Bias at Issue ¯¯ TULSA, Okla. (AP)-Two 14:year-old football players accused of raping a teammate with a broom handle won’t be tried as : adults, prosecutors said. The Tulsa County District Attorney’s ." Office filed rape by instrumentation charges in juvenile court ¯ against theWebster High School students. ¯ The boys are accused of forcing a 14-year-old freshman : football player to a school locker room floor and raping him with ¯. a broom handle Sept. 21. An hour later, the students allegedly _. spanked the same boy with a weight belt and pelted his genitals with traffic cones. Students said no affults were in the locker room ¯ when the alleged rape occurred. ~ Tulsa Police spokesman Lucky Lamons responded that police ¯ detectives claimtherewas no anti-Gay verbal abusewhich could indicate that this assault had aspects of a hate crime. However, ¯ several longtime community activists from TOHR and PFLAG i speculated that the assault may have ties to issues of actual or ¯ perceived sexual orientation. Officer Lamons noted that detec- ¯ tives feel one ofthe motives may have been that victim was small. ¯: The accused have been releasedfrom ajuvenile shelter on bail. ¯ Their case will remain in thejuvenile system, where the focus is : on rehabilitation rather than punishment, said Assistant District : Attorney Rebecca Nightingale. She said the district attorney’s ¯ office will not seek adult certification for the teens. Prosecutors ¯ considered the boys’ sophistication and maturity, their record : and history, the likelihood of rehabilitation in the juvenile sys- ¯ tern, and the prospects for protection of the public, she said. : Fourteen student-athletes were suspended after the incident, : and Webster’ s ninth-grade football season has been canceled. : Five students received the maximum penalty allowed under ¯ the school district’ s code of conduct - suspension for the rest of ¯ the academic year. They also were banned from ever participati ing in school sports in the district. The other nine students got ¯ five-day or 10,day suspensions. ¯" Superintendent David Sawyer warned coaches and school district employees this week not to tolerate or ignore hazing and : bullying; i TOHR Drops State Bank i overAnti-Bias Policy : TULSA (TFN)-TulsaOklahomaus forHumanRights ." (TOHR) recently transfered its business from State Bank and BancOne to Bank of Oklahoma because of : BOk has an dear non-discrimination policy which ¯ includes "sexual orientation." ." Under the direction of the organization’ s treasurer, AngelaBruce, letters were written toTOHR’ s former i bank, informing them of the reason for the change. ¯ According to TOHR spokesman, Greg Gatewood, ¯ the move was really about doing business with those : who support thecommunity_ and not doing business ¯ with those who do not. Gatewoodnoted that the funds : were not an enormous amount but should have been ¯. enough to get the institution’ s attention. ¯ Bank ofOklahoma instituted a non-discrimination ¯ policy which includes "sexual orientation" a couple i of years ago, and is the only bank in Tulsa which has ¯ included the Lesbian and Gay community in’ its : marketing outreach. State Bank’s president Don ¯ Walker was not available for comment at press time. ¯ Candidate for US Congress at TOHR ¯ On Tuesday, NOvember 13, Democratic candidate : for Oklahoma’s First Congressional District, Dong : Dodd will speak at the Community Center at 21st and ¯ Memorial at 7pro. TOHR organizers note that Cathy : Keating, one of three Republican candidates has also : been invited to meet withTOHRand the community. : Keating, unlike many Oklahoma Republicans, has ¯ stated that her campaign will exclude no one and : while announcing her candidacy at the Tulsa Press ¯ Club, Mrs. Keating noted that she was not very ¯ familiarwiththeconcemsofLesbianandGayTulsans, ~ but she is willing to educate herself. And Dodd has ¯ stated publicly his opposition to a constitutional ¯ amendment to ban same gender marriages. : Slow Come, Quick Go i KS County Gives, Now May Drop Benefits ¯ WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - Sedgwick County’s new ¯ insurance benefits for unmarried domestic partners ¯ may not last more than a week. ¯ County commissioners appear to have the votes to overturn County Manager William Buchanan’ s deci- " sion to offer employees the option of extending their ; health coverage to gay or straight partners. Employ- " ees were told of their option to cover domestic part- "¯ hers in apacket ofmaterials outlininginsuranceplans ¯ for 2002. Commissioners put the item on their agenda after ¯: receiving numerous phone calls and e-mails from .. constituents who say the policy gives official sane- . tion to "sinful" unions. ¯ Commissioner Tim Norton said he originally was ¯ willing to defer to Buchanan and the county’ s human ¯ resources staff. But now, he said, he would probably ¯ vote to rescind the policy because that’s what resi- : dents have toldhim they want. "I don’ t know that this : is the right time, or the right place, for us to be ¯ stepping out and taking a leadership role on a social ¯ issue like this," he said. ¯ Commissioners Carolyn McGiunandBen Sciortino : said last week that they oppose the policy because ¯ they think the county’s health benefits should be : reserved for employees and their immediate families ¯ only. see-Wichita, p.]O DIRECTORY EDITORIAL US & WORLD NEWS Z ENTERTAINMENT+ MORE ¯ Rocky Horror Benefit, Oct. 27 ¯ TULSA (TFN) - Tulsa’ s downtown Doubletree Hotel will host : a new Halloween gala event which will benefit Tulsa Oklaho- ¯ mans for Human Rights (TOHR) and the Pyramid Project - the ¯ capital campaign to purchase a permanent community center. ¯ Helga’ s Horfibles will perform live their version of the Rocky ¯ Horror Picture Show beginning at 8:15, featuringHelga,Animal, ¯ Peaches Lennox, Anita Richards, Shirley Nott, Scott, Brenda ¯ Lynn Stewart, Patti, Crystal Meth and Johnny Cronin, all di- ¯ rected by Timothy Snapp. : After the show, the Time Warp Masquerade Ball will go till ¯ midnight. Costumes are en,co.uraged, ID is required and tickets : are $25 in advance (at Ken s Flowers, Salon 41, the Pride Store ¯" at the Center and on line at www.Pyramidproject.org) or $30 at ¯° the door. VIP tickets and tables are available. The event will offer ¯" a cash bar, complimentary hors d’oeuvres, party pies, valet parking and a dj. : Mr. Oklahoma Leather to Aid TOHRKulsa CARES ¯ The Mr. Oklahoma Leather contest which will be held atCW" s : on Oct. 19-21 will benefit TOHR/the Community Center and ¯ Tulsa C.ARES. For more information, call CW" s at 610-5323. ¯ Other Community News ¯ On Saturday, Oct. 13, PFLAG is having a Come Out and Fly ¯ Your Kite event in honor of National Coming Out Day (NCOD) ¯ at a local park. Call PFLAG at 749-4901 for more information: ¯ . Annual AIDS Walk, Oct. 6, 9:00am ¯ Saturday, Oct. 6, TulsaAIDSWalk 2001 will begin and end at ¯ Veterans Park at 21st and Boulder (site of the annual Diversity ." Festival). Funds raised at the event help TCAP, the Tulsa Com- ¯" munityAIDS Partnership (TCAP). All funds will be increasedby ¯ 50% withmatching dollars from the Elton John AIDS Foundation. TCAP helps to fund the following groups: RAIN, the ¯ Regional AIDS Interfaith Network, Tulsa CARES, theAmerican ¯ Red Cross, Red Rock Behavioral Health Services and HOPE Testing Clinic. The Walk is now eight years old and has raised : thousands of dollars for direct care and education/prevention for HEALTH NEWS on sexual orientation in state hiring, but legislative : HIV/AIDS. It is an all volunteer effort which has no administra_ : ~ GAYSTUDIES P. 10/~1 leaders successfully argued see Iowa, p.2 ¯ tive costs For more information, call 585-5551 ¯ --- ---- ~ Tulsa Clubs & Restaurants *Bamboo Lounge, 7204 E. Pine *CW’ s, 1737 S. Memorial *Play-Mor, 424 S. Memorial Polo Grill, 2038 Utica Square *Renegades/Rainbow Room, 1649 S. Main *St. Michael’s Alley Restaurant, 3324-L E. 31st *Schatzi’ s, 2619 S. 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MCC of the Living Spring 501-253-9337 : Geek to Go!, PC Specialist, PUB 429 501-253-2776 .- Old Jailhouse Lodging, 15 Montgomery 501-253-5332 ¯ Positive Idea Marketing Hans 501-624-6646 : White Light, 1 Center St. 501-253-4074 ¯ JOPLIN, MISSOURI ¯ Spirit of Christ MCC, 2639 E. 32, Ste. U134 417-623-4696 : * is whereyou canfindTFN. NotallareGay-owned butallare Gay.friendly. Authorities say they also ran across some of his camping sites and found garbage or buried debris connected to him. Now,a taskforce coordinating the Rudolph search has dwindled from 200 agents to just afew. "No question that the focus rightnow for the immediate need of agents for time and resources" is to investigate last week’ s terror attacks, said Patrick Crosby, a spokes~ man for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Atlanta. But Crosby added: "Nobody’ s dropping anything on Rudolph or the investigation." Rudolph, for whose capture an award of $1 million has been offered, is believed to adhere to Christian Identity, a white supremacist religion that is rabidly anti-Gay, anti- Semitic and anti-foreigner. Sdme of the four bombs Rudolph was charged with planting included messages from the shadowy"Army of God." Western North Carolina has long had a reputation as ahavenforright-wing extremists. Many there mocked the government’ s inability to find Rudolph with bloodhounds, infrared-equippedhelicopters and space-age motion detectors- and some said they would hide him if asked. Bin Laden, a wealthy Saudi who helped push the Soviets out of Afghanistan, has likewise become an almost mythic figure in Islamic militant circles. His protectors have not been swayed by a $5 million bounty. "These are both men who are pursuing their personally received messages, supposedly from God, and who are ruthless as a result," said Mark Potok, who tracks domestic terrorists for the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala. "presumably, there’s a litde more national will involved in the bin Laden case," he says. ’¢Fhis is a sdckin the eye ofAmerica inaway that the Rudolph attacks really were not." i Cummins Ends ¯ Support for Scouts in court that he had exceeded his authority. Vilsack challenged lawmakers to take that step on their own, but the issue hash’ t been debated since the legal battle. Republican legislative leaders have refused to bring the measure up for debate. Subcommittee members said the numbers alone argue for protecting Gays and Lesbians, because estimates are that up to 4% of the state’ s population is Gay, roughly 114,500 people. That’ s a larger population than the 2.8% of the state that is Hispanic and2.1% African-Americanpopulation, they said. ¯ COLUMBUS, Ind. - Heavy engine manu- ¯ facturer Cummins Inc. almonnced Sept. 18 ¯ it plans to stop sponsoring an event that ¯ raises money for the Boy Scouts ofAmerica ¯ because of the organization’ s ban on Gays ¯ serving as troop leaders, according to The ¯ Associated Press. ¯ Cnmmins has beenamajor donor to scout- ¯ ing programs, in Indiana’s Bartholomew ¯" County. seeScouts,p.11 by Rich Tafel Everything in America has changed since the attacks of September 11,2001. While.Americans return to work and theirdaily lives, Washington-based special interest groups are struggling to figureout where to go from here. The Sierra Club, which earlier this year saw an increase infundraising fromils attacks onnewly-inaugurated President George W. Bush, has sent a memo to their leading members instructing them to stop bashing the president. Other groups preparing to spend millions onad campaigns to fight the "lfckbox" budget wars have gone silent. Democrats and Republicans are working together. Gay organizations are not sure how to respond. The debate in Washington. now revolves around a central question - do Gay groups move ahead with the "old" agenda items? Dothey put Gay-specific issues on hold? Or, do they rise to meet the new challenges fa,c.ing Gay Americans in this new period, even ifthey don t fit what -these groups have long argued was "the Gay agenda"? Tome whathas ehangedmost since September 11 is the rubric for debate. Throughout the years, Gay activists have relied on a paradigm of "victimization" to formulate their agenda for advancing our community’ sinterests. A divergence of reality began to take place, where our political leaders argued our lives were getting worse and worse while, in reality, we were gaining greater acceptance. In the end, Gay.politics became dominated by a "virtual victimization, with our own sogiety full of enemies oppressing us. Obscured by this paradigm was the reality that, while we still have barriers to dear, life for Gay Americans has never been better. The "virtual victimization" paradigm may have fit the time. But there was a cost. Gay Americans who bought into this paradigm were left to believe that the power to live life on their own terms 4s outside their control. "Virtual victims’" become increasingly alienated from society, moreinward-driven, and less connected to a sense of personal responsibility about how their lives tnm out. We’ 11 look back on the 1990’ s with an almost embarrassing realization of just how self-absorbed we were. The same Gay community whose political leaders demanded employment anti-discrimination laws and hate crime protections was travding on RSVP cruises, packing warehouse circuit parties, and filling black-tie dinner halls to hear keynote addresses from Hollywood celebrities. If the attack on September 11 shocked our nation back to reality, it might do the same for the Gay movement. At LEF’s July leadership conference, entitled "Redefining the Gay Agenda," syndicated columnist Hasting Wyman made an observation about why Vice President AI Gore, the 2000 Democratic nominee for President, didn’t do better among Gay voters even though he supported what was knows as the Gay agenda: "... I think this raises an interesting question and I say a question, not a conclusion. ...A lot of the Gay agenda, while it may be right or it may be wrong, it’s not terribly relevant to the average Gay person." Hastings is right, and as we examine what is real and relevant in our lives after September 11. Now is the time to reject the "virtual victim" paradigm and, maybe for the first lime ever, think of ourselves as fellow Americans, united with the rest of the nation, confronting a common enemy. I think Gays and Lesbians get this, even if our leadership doesn’ t. One thing is clear as I walk through the Gay neighborhoods of Washington, where the American flag is draped from hundreds of windows, and as I read of a conservative Republican Senator eulogizing Mark Bingham as an American hero who save the U.S. Capitol, Gays and Lesbians are part of the greatness of America and they know it. What unique role can Gays and Lesbians play as we unite against the terrorists? First, Gay and Lesbian leaders can stop the incessant negative backbiting against President Bushand his administration. Like every other American, we need him to succeed in this mission. Throw away those "He’ s Not My President" t-shirts. Gay organization leaders need to stop referring to him as the "enemy" - we ¯ have a clear enemy today, that is absolutely bent on our ¯¯ collective destruction, who brutalizes women, murders Gays and sees a free society as the world’ s greatest evil. : Now is not the time to attack the President. This will be ¯ the hardest for groups whosefundraising has depended on ¯ demonizing him, butnext time they doit,weall~eed to ask ¯ them to refrain. That doesn’t mean we cannot disagree ¯ with President Bush or abrogate the freedoms we are truly ¯ fighting to defend, but as fellow Americans we have a : common moral duty to rekindle-a tone of respect for the ¯ office of the presidency, and for the burden on the man ¯ who sits there today. "Gay organizations are not sure how to respond. The debate in Washington now revolves around a central question - do Gay groups move ahead with the old" aCenda items? Do they put Gay-speciflc issues on hold? Or, do they rise to meet the new challenges facing Gay Americans in this new period, even ff they don’t fit what these groups have long argued was "the Gay agenda’S." New, more pressing issues have come to the forefront and need our attention. Gay couples and families have been ripped apart in the attacks. We must be vigilant in ensuring that those left behind are not cut off from survivor benefits and legal rights that they deserve. We as a community should take notice of the vital importance of partner benefits andresponsibilities in light of this tragedy and ensure we have provided for our loved ones should anything happen to us. Donating blood surfaced as an issuein the days after the ¯ attacks. The RedCross policy on donating bloodis dearly ¯ out of date and harmful in how absolute its exclusion of ¯ Gay men has been since the 1980’s. The only response ¯ from Gay leaders thus far is still ringing of victimization, ¯ or has just been silence for fear of raising an issue that : makes us all sound selfish. ¯ However, there is a "united we stand" approach to ¯ giving blood. Again, sad as it is, there will likely be need ¯ for more blood before this war is over. We should respect- " fully, without fanfare and action alerts, approach the Red ~ Cross and explain that Gay men would like to hdp the ¯ effort. While we do understand that Gay men are more ¯ likely to be HIV positive then the general public, we ¯ should not confuse sexual orientation with health status, : and the policy should be consistent in its approach to ¯ sexual behavior. For instance, heterosexuals with mul- ¯ . tiple partners are not screened outin thesame way as aGay ¯ man who has had sex once since 1977. ; During times of war, scapegoats are often sought out in ¯ every society. Will Gays and Lesbians become targets of ¯ greater hate crime activity? I doubt it. But I do believe that : Arab Americans or anyonelooking like them will be. The ¯ greatest weapon against intolerance is educating our- " selves, so we should be role models. ¯ In the "unitedwe stand" paradigm,we can explain to the ¯ public that we know what it is like to bejudged, discrimihated against and even physically beaten because of who : weare. Thoughweknow many Islamicleaders inAmerica : have shown little tolerance for Gays and Lesbians, we as ¯ acommunitylove andrespect ourfellow Americaus under ¯ attack. We support them and their civil rights, so that we : never again make the mistake of how we treated Japanese ¯ Americans in World War II. ¯ The overall paradigm of the Gay civil rights movement ¯ must change, see Change, p.ll " Welcome to Our Reality : by Tom Neal, editor &publisher ¯ Hate crimes have beenmuch onmymind in theseweeks ¯ since the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. This : horror has brought out the best in so many Americans but it has also brought out the worst in a few. Some of those few have used this mad event as an ¯" excuse to express their prejudices, theirracism, their anti- " immigrant bigotry, and their homophobia, around the : country as well as here in Tulsa. ¯ In Tulsa, we’ ve seen the beating of a Pakistani man and : apparently, according to Barbara Moore of the Asian- " American Society, others who are perceived as "foreign" ¯ have been harassed. No one in th.e Gay communities has missed the shameless opportunism of Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, perhaps the greatest disgraces to contemporary Christendom, at trying to incite violence against Lesbians and Gay Americans and others in the wake of the terrorist ¯ attack. : My comment to our Muslim and Asian sisters and ¯ brothers is welcome to our reality of violence, prejudice ¯ and hatredin Tulsa. What you’re experiencing as,new has : been our ongoing reality. What you’re experiencing as a : new sensation of lack of safety has long been our experi- ¯ But while attacks on you are decried by Tulsa’ s pro- : foundly hypocritical "do-good" organizations: NCCJ, ¯ Jewish Federation, Tulsa Metropolitan Ministry, Tulsa ¯ Interfaith Alliance, those same groups have been shame- : fully silent when Gay men were brutally beaten like the ¯ Tulsa Pakistani man. ¯ It’ s not that they didn’ t know that the attacks happened. ¯ Tim Beauchamp and Tony Orr’ s beating on Brookside a few years ago was well reportedin this newspaper as well ¯ as in The World. Beauchamp and Orrlater testified before ¯ the US House of Representatives about their beating, a ¯ fact also reported by The WorM. ¯ I personally told Nancy Day ofNCCJ of themost recent ¯ beating ofaGay man which this newspaper reportedin our ¯ August issue. But neither Ms. Day nor NCCJ, nor any ¯ other of these organizations has felt it incumbent to ¯ express for Gay Tulsans what they fall over themselves to ¯ do for Muslim Tulsans. ¯ Clearly themessage here is that NCCJ, Jewish Federa- ¯ tion, and possibly TMM and Tulsa Interfaith Alliance do ¯ not consider the attacks on Gay Tulsans to rise to the same level of concern as the attacks on other minorities. Or if ¯ perhaps their values are slightly more humane, then they ¯ are cynically utterly unwilling to expend any oftheir effort ¯ or "capital" in acting upon them. ¯ As horrible as it to contemplate, for some time I have been convinced that the only thing that would get these : groups off dead center would be for Tlffsa to have our own ¯ Matthew Shepard murdered- as much as I pray that such will never happen. ¯ What is it about this city that it is so profoundly morally ¯ bankrupt that only the veritible cruxcifiction of an iuno- ¯ cent might, and only_ might, move them to acknowledge ¯ the right of Lesbian and Gay Tulsans to live unassaulted ¯ and with even a fractiOi~ of the civil rights and other legal : protections other residents, including other minorities, : take for granted? ¯ Indeed I am glad to see that attacks against Muslim and ¯ others are condemned. I also am glad to see new networks ¯ formed to address hate crimes but I am deeply troubled : that this new effort, again, starts by excluding Gay and ¯ Lesbian Tulsans and describes hate crimes only as race, ¯ religion and ethnicity when those who hate, attack race, ¯ ethnicity, rdigion and sexual orientation equally, and ¯ sometimes us first. ¯ ¯ The latest Tulsa anti-hate crime network did invite our Nancy McDonald, PFLAGfounder, butit’ s not at all dear ¯ that she was invitedinher role as a more acceptable proxy ¯ for Gay folk but rather in her role as new co-convertor of ¯ the Say No to Hate Coalition. ¯ see Hate, p. 10 Czechs Seek Partners Recognition PRAGUE, .Czech Republic (AP) - Czech Gays and Lesbians soon could become the first in a former communist country to be allowed to register their partnerships. Prime Minister Milts Zeman’ s Cabinet has thrown its supportbehind a draftlaw grantingGays equal rights with the rest of the population. And backers ofthelegislation say they’ ve neverhada better chance for passage of the measure. The bill gives Gay and Lesbian couples the same fights as those of heterosexual ones in areas such as inheritance and health insurance. Couples would be ¯ allowed to seal their partnerships at local government offices, and severing a union would require a courtapproved divorce. The draft, approved by the Cabinet, however; bars couples from adopting children. Legislation that would allow homosexual unions already has been turned down twice by the Czech parliament, in 1997 and 1999. But this time will be different, Gay activists say. "Public opinion has changed," said Jiri Hromada, an activist. "Any deputy should listen to that." A May survey by the state-sponsored CVVM polling agency said only33%of those polled opposed such a law, compared to 42% in 1999. The margin of error was 3%, To pass, supporters of the law need only a simple majority in the 200-seat chamber. Since the ruling party holds 74 seats, supporters say they only need just over two dozen votes to make the measure pass. Several other European nations already extend legal fights to same-sex partners. Denmark granted legal rights in 1989, a move followed later by other countries, including Swedenand the Netherlands. Germany recently began to allow Gay couples to register their unions, and in the United States, Vermont became the first state to recognize same-sex unions last year. The Czech Republic wouldbe the firstpost-communist country, however, to approve such a measure. Most post-communist societies, burdened with massive economic troubles, have largely neglected such social questions. Opponents arebracing for afight. TheRomanCatholic Church, which has long opposed such unions, sponsored a petition to pressure the parliament to reject the measure. Petition organizer Josef Zeman of the Brat-based group National Center for Family says 72,000 have already signed. Some 2.7 million people in theCzechRepublic say they are Roman Catholic: "It will have an irreversible impact on those young people who still are not clear about their sexual orientation,’" Zeman warned. The draft law should be discussed in the lower ch~amber, the House of Deputies, by the end of this year. Cleveland United Way Drops-Boy Scouts CLEVELAND (AP) - The Clevdand chapter of the United Way has decided to stop funding traditional Boy Scouts programs that discriminate against Gays. The money will instead go to Boy-Scout-affiliated programs such as Learning for Life, a program that does not prohibit Gay menfrom being leaders. -. Earlier this month, United Way Services of Greater Cleveland shifted $268,000 in Boy Scout donations to the Learning for Life program, said Mike Benz, president Of the local United Way organization. The program will be taught in Cleveland, Bedford and Lakewood public schools and teaches children to apply classroom lessons in their everyday life. Last year, the United Way Services gave about $90,000 ofits Boy Scout donation to Learning for Life. This year, the group considered cutting support to the Boy Scouts entirely but decided instead to shift all of its donation to~ngfor Life. ." Susan Lewis, spokeswoman for the Greater Cleve- ." land Council for the Boy Scouts of America, said ¯ shifting the money to a Boy Scout-affiliated program : was a good compromise. She said her chapter will try : to shiftaround other donormoney tomake upforlosing ¯¯ the United Way funding, which accounts for about 14% of t!~ir budget. Nearly 50 United Ways across the ¯ country and a dozen corporations have quit giving ¯ money to Boy Scouts of America since ihe U.S. Su- ¯ preme Court last year upheld the Scouts’ right to reject ¯ homosexual leaders. _" Jan Cline, an Eagle Scout and associate director of ¯ the Lesbian Gay Community ServiceCenter in Cleve- ¯ land, said he wanted United Ways to stop funding the : Boy Scouts altogether until they stop discriminating. : "If I give to United Way, I don’ t want one cent to go ¯ to Boy Scouts," Cline said. "There’ s no betterplace for ¯ boys tolearn citizenship, personal fitness and camping ¯ skills. But by enforcing a membership standard that : teaches young Gaymentheirfeelings are second-class, ¯ they’re teaching bigotry and discrimination." ¯ None of the Northeast Ohio United Way organiza- ¯ tions,including UuitedWay Services ofGreaterCleve- ¯ land, has employment policies that prohibit discrimi- ¯ nation against Gays. Finland Recognizes Same Gender Partners HELSINKI, Finland (AP) - Lawmakers passed a goveminent proposal recently that makes Gay partnerships legally binding but stops short of letting Gay couples adopt children or use the same surname. The bill, which comes into force next year, was approved 99 to 84, with 17 abstentions or absentees. The new law says Finns who are at least 18 can register a same-sex union in a civil ceremony comparable to matrimony. It also give~ Gay couples the same rights as married heterosexual couples when inheriting each other’ s property and in cases of divorce. TheFinnish Lesbian andGay AsSociationwelcomed the law but said it wished it went further. ’q’his at long last gives Gay couples the rights they deserve," said Rainer Hiltunen, the association’s secretary-general. "But it’ s a compromise, and we are disappointed that it doesn’ t secure the rights of chil&en in a Gay marriage because they can only be registered to one parent." The Finnish Evangdical Lutheran Church, to which 85% of the 5.2 million population belongs, has opposed giving Gay partners the same rights as married couples. However, Archbishop Jukka Paarma has said that the legal position of homosexual and Lesbian couples should be improved. The new law is in line with similar legislation in the other Nordic countries of Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Iceland, where Gay partnerships have been legalized. Denmark and Iceland permit adoptions by Gay couples in certain circumstances. Houston Partner ¯ Benefits Up for Vote ¯" HOUSTON (AP) - Houston, voters in November will ¯ consider whether the city should offer health and other ~ benefits to same-sex parmers of its employees. The : Houston City Council approved for the Nov. 6 ballot a ¯ referendum that, ifpassed,-wouldprohibit the cityfrom ¯ providing same-sex benefits. The city doesn’t offer : thosebenefits now, but had been considering changing ¯ its benefits policy to include them. ¯ The council approved the ballot addition by a 9-5 vote after City Secretary AnnaRnssell validatedenough ¯ signatures on petitions to call for a vote. Petitioner ¯ Dave Wilson, who,opposes offering same-sex ben- . efits, led an effort to gather 21,028 signatures on those ¯ petitions. City law requires 20~000 valid signatures ." from registered voters in Houston to force a vote on a ¯ change to the city charter. "1623 N. Maplewood (918) 838-1715 mcctu/saOaoLcom Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Community ofHope 2545 South Yale, Sundays at llam, 749-0595 A Welcoming Congregation HOUSE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT Sun. Worship, 10:45 am, Sunday School, 9:30 am Wed. Bible Study, 7 pm, Sunday Eve. Service, 6prn 1517 S. Memorial, 628-0802, Info: 224-4754 The Open Arms Project Young Adult Support Group Outreach Program Thurs. 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Earlier this year, the council approved.a similar ordinance protecting Gays and Lesbians from discrimination, and the Nov. 6 referendum does not address the ordinance. Gay Adoption Considered In Nebraska LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - As the state Supreme Court prepares to hear a case that could decide ifGay couples have the right to adopt children, groups on both sides are weighing in on the dispute. Thehigh court is to hear the case next week of a Lincoln Lesbian who wants her lover to be able to adopt her 3-year-old boy. The case already has generated so-called "friend of the court" briefs from scores of organizations, including: theAmerican Psychological Association; the Family Research Institute; the Alliance for Children’s Rights; The National Organization for Women; the National Adoption Center; and the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund. The Nebraska Catholic Conference, the Family Research Council, the Nonpartisan Family Coalition and Family First also have weighed in. The boy, called "Luke" in court papers, was born to "B.P," in 1997 through artificial inseminataon. The boy has lived with his mother and her lover, "A.E.," since birth. The two women were joined in a commitment ceremony in 1995, according to court records. Such ceremonies are not recognized as marriages in Nebraska, where voters last year approved a measure to keep same-sex marriages from being legally recog- B.P. already has custody of her 9-year-old son from a previous marriage. While Nebraska law contains no specific provision prohibiting adoptions by Gay couples, Deputy Attorney General Steve Grasz said does not mean it is legal. He also said A.E. has no legal rights to adopt the child, even though she has helped raise him. "Such caregivers, unlike parents, possess no substantive liberty interest in the child," he said in briefs filed in the case. "No fundamental constitutional right has been accorded in the law to individuals such as foster parents, grandparents, caregivers or ’partners’ of parents even though they have a deep emotional attachment to the child." Amy Miller, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union, dismissed those arguments. "The state’ s bias is based on its discomfort with A.E. and B.P.’ s relationship, but is irrelevant asthe real issue is Luke’ s interests," she said. "The law only inquires into the best interests of the child to be adopted. Court Rejects Gag on Play FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) - A federal appeals court has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to block a controversial student play, ruling that the issue is moot since the play has already been performed. The 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago last week rejected the complaint filed by opponents of the play "Corpus Christi" who accused Indiana University-Purdue University ofusing taxpayermoney to support an attackon Christianity. Theplayfeatured aGay, Christ-like characternamed Joshua and 12 other male characters, most of whom had the names of Christ’s disciples. In a one-page orderissued Sept. 19, the court said the ;" issues raised on appeal do not merit’fotther consider: ¯¯ ation because theplay has already been performed. Six sold-out performances took place Aug. 10 to 18 in a ¯ theater on the university’ s Fort Wayne campus. ¯ Opponents led by former Republican gubernatorial : candidate John Price had argued that staging the play ¯ on the grounds of a state university_violated the consti- : tutional separation of church and state. ¯ Attorney Stephen R. Pennell represented the univer- ¯ sity in thelawsuit. He said school leaders were pleased ¯ by the court’ s action. "The play has been performed, so ¯ there is no longer any relief the court could grant that ¯ would be effective in any way, so the point is moot," ¯ Pennell told The Journal Gazette. The same appeals court ruled Aug. 7 in favor of ¯ allowing "Corpus Christi" to be performed while the ¯ appeal was pending. The decision upheld a July ruling ¯ by U.S. District Judge William C. Lee, who said : issuing a preliminary inJunction against theproduction ¯ would cause more harm than allowing the play to : proceed. ¯ Patricia Corbat of Fort Wayne, one of the three ¯ plaintiffs participating in the appeal, was not sure ¯ whether there are any other ways to pursue the com- . plaint. ¯° She said the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks put the churchstate relationship in a new perspective. "We don’t ¯ allow prayer in government at all, but all of a sudden ¯ everyone in government is praying," Corbat told the ¯ newspaper. "I just think that, all of a sudden, we’re : trying to get back in God’ s graces.’" Maine City OKs Civil Rights Bill BANGOR, Maine (AP) - Bangor became the 1 lth ¯ Maine city to enact a Gay civil rights ordinance when ¯ the city council approved the law by a lopsided vote. ¯ The law, approved by an 8-1 vote, bars discrimination ¯ based on sexual orientation in housing, public accom- ¯ modations, credit, education and employment. It is ." similar to measures that have been enacted by the ¯ Legislature, but overturned by Maine voters. ¯ The Bangor council’s passage came a week after a ¯ three-hour public hearing on the measure. Supporters ¯ said such a law is long overdue 17 years after a Gay i youth named Charlie Howard died after being thrown off a downtown Bangor bridge by three local teen- " agers. ¯ But opponents cited religious objections, and said it ¯ is an unneeded extension of the Maine Human Rights ¯ Act that_ should be decided by voters. Some asserted ¯ that the-law confers special rights on a specific group. ¯ Maine voters last November turned down a law that would have outlawed discrimination based on sexual ¯ orientation. Similar bills had been rejected by the : Legislature for two decades until 1997, when a mea- ¯ sure was enacted and signed by Gov. Angus King. ¯ Voters repealed it in 1998, and lawmakers responded ¯ by sending a new bill back to referendum. ~ While the state’ s voters repealed the Gay civil rights ¯ question in 2000, a majority of voters in Bangor ¯ favored the state law. After Monday night’s council ¯ vote, about two dozen spectators broke into applause. ¯ "Equal rights and equal dignity are not special rights," ¯ said Councilor Joe Baldacci, who sponsored the pro- " posal with Councilor Judy Vardamis. : An opponent, Bangor Baptist Church Pastor Jerry ¯ Mick, said he believed a planned effort to repeal the ¯ ordinance could be successful. ¯ Challenges to Gay civil rights laws in other Maine : cities have had mixed results. In 1992, Portland voters ¯ rejected a proposal to overturn the city’s Gay civil ", rights ordinance. But Lewiston voters repealed their : city’ s ordinance a year later. Los kn0olos May ment would prevent the city from provid- Host 2006 Games LOS ANGELES (AP) -Anonprofitgroup will send a delegation to SouthAfricanext month to lobby forthe city to host the2006 Gay Games, an Olympics-styl_e~l. event~that draws Gay and Lesbian athletes trom around the world. Los Angeles faces three other finalists - Chicago, Atlanta and Montreal - in its bid to host the games, which have been held every four years since 1982: As many as 15,000 competitors take part in the games, drawing upward of 250,000 spectators. The Federation of Gay Games will begin the selection process in Johannesburg, South Africa on Oct. 21, with the winning city announced four days later. The Gay Games include more than 30 sports, from aerobics to sailing to wrestling. The event was founded by Olympic decathlete Tom Waddell after enduring jokes and harassment on the sports circuit. The two-weekGay Games VII wouldbe the largest single event inLos Angeles in the next five years, according to the Los Angeles Convention and Visitors Bureau. The games could generate as much as $400 million for the city. San Francisco has played host to two previous games. Los Angeles has bid on the games, but has never been selected. LOs Angeles als0 is seeking to host the 2012 summer Olympic Games. Tt{~’summer Olympiad previously was held in the city in 1932 and 1984. Members of the nonprofit Los Angeles 2006 Inc. group that is seeking to draw the Gay Games said many Olympic venues would be used during the event. Michigan City to Vote Against Gays paign is under way here in the campaign over an anti-Gay civil rights proposal on the Nov. 6 city ballot. Both sides pledge to keep debate civil. But city voters could face an onslaught of door-to-door campaigns, yard signs, telephone polls, radio talk show forums and church debate. "We feel there is a great deal of discrimination in the impetus to getting this ballot initiative. It just r’eally stinks," said Robert Dempsey, campaign manager for the group fighting the proposal. It has been more than a year since City Manager Pat DiGiovatmi enacted a policy allowing Gay city employees to cover their parmers under health insurance. Opponents immediately moved to put before voters a broadly worded charter amendment that bans the city from adopting any ordinances or policies that give special preference based on sexual orientation. "We plan to explain to people why this is a bad amendment," said Dempsey, of Kalamazoo Against Discrimination. " The Michigan branch of the Tupelo, Miss.-based American Family Association is aiding the group seeking the Kalamazoo Gays-rights b~a. The group’ s Michigan president said he is hopeful for its passage because the public is returning to spirituality. "Churches are full. People are returning to a faith in.God," said Gary It is unclear whether the charter amending employee benefits to Gay couples. City attorneys say the policy does not mention sexual orientation and therefore maynotbevoidediftheamendmentpasses. So far, "very few" of about 900 city employees have applied for same-sex benefits, said City Attorney Robert Cinabro. Kalamazoo is among three cities in Michigan and 17 communities nationwide that will vote on Gay civil rights measures in November. Huntington Woods and Traverse City also are voting on human rights measures. "The whole country will be watching the three communities in Michigan," said ;can Kosofsky, director of policy and victim services for the Triangle Foundation, a Detroit-based Gay civil rights organization. The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force in Washington, D.C., last week announcedit will give $10,000 to Kalamazoo Against Discrimination. Meanwhile, American Family Association is supporting Kalamazoo Citizens Voting Yes For Equal Rights Not Special Rights, which is promoting the proposal. That group has about 50 volunteers, about half of whom live outside the city, the Kalamazoo Gazette said Sunday. Among themis the group’ s spokesman, Kalamazoo County Commissioner Jack Hoogendyk Jr. of Portage. "I have interest because I work in the city," Hoogendyk said. "Most people rig,h,t now have no clue what the issues are. Massachusetts May Add Benefits BOSTON (AP) - Gay, Lesbian and unmarried state workers would be able to get health insurance for their domestic partners under a bill approved by a key state Senate committee late in September. The bill, approved by the Senate Ways and MeansCommittee, would also let cities and towns decide to offer domestic parmer benefits as a local option. ¯ A domestic partner is defined by .the bill ¯ as someone of the same or opposite sex ¯ who shares financialresponsibilities and a ¯ home with a state employee. They must ¯ also say that they are in a relationship of ¯ "mutual support, care and commitment" and plan to live together indefinitely. : The Senate has approved two similar : bills in recent yb,ars. None became law. "I ¯ approach it as a matter of basic fairness," ¯ said Senate President Thomas Birming- ¯ ham, D-Chelsea. ¯ The full Senate is scheduled to vote on ¯ the bill soon. It is also expected to vote on ¯" bills that would allow Cambridge and ¯ Brookline to extend domesticpartner ben- " efits to their employees. Opponents of domestic partner benefits ¯ say they places homosexual relationships : on the same level as heterosexual mar- " riages. They also say that giving nnmar- ¯ ried heterosexual couples the same ben- " efits as married couples weakens theinsti- ¯ tution of marriage. ¯ In 1998, the Legislature passed a bill "- allowing Boston to provide the benefits - ¯ known as a"home rule petition" - but the ¯ bill was vetoed by former Gov. Paul Cdlucci. Conne . Kelly Kirb.y, CPA, Certified Public Accountant a professional corPoration Lesbians and Gay men face many special tax situations whether single or as. couples¯ Electronic filing is available for faster refunds. 747-5466 SOuth Harvard Avenue, Suite 210, Tulsa 74135 :¯ HIV ACtiViStS Educate Online ¯ ~AMI (AP) - Lighted by the blue glow ¯" of a portable computer, Marc Cohen is ¯ blazing a new trail in AIDS awareness. He : logs on to the Intemet, surfs into a busy chat room and uses his screen name - ¯ hivoutreachmiami@aol.com- to answer ¯ questions aboutAIDS, hepatitis and other ¯ sexually transmitted diseases. "Awareness Alert," he types in bold ¯ letters. "Miami is now secondinthenation ¯ for syphilis infection. Wilton Manors has ¯ hadan outbreak, too. STDand HIV screen- , ings can be done free of charge." "We are not the sex police," said Cohen, ¯ president of the United Foundation for- ¯ AIDS, a South Beach-based group-that offers counseling; HIV screening and ¯ therapy to people with the AIDS virus that ¯ causes AIDS. ¯ With the AIDS epidemic in its third ¯ decade, Cohen and a cadre of national ¯ AIDS prevention advocates are invading : chat rooms to get the attention of those ¯ most at risk of HIV infection. It’ s an ap- : proach that counselors and health Officials ¯ from San Francisco to South Beach be¯ lieve is working. Finding new ways to reach the (principal) at-risk groups - de- " fined as young Gay and Bisexual men, ¯ especially blacks - has been a focus of ¯ AIDS awarenes~ conferences. ¯ As chat-room counselors, they answer- " questions about HIV, hepatitis and syphi- ¯ lis that many would feel uncomfortable ¯ asking in person or on the phone. The ¯ Internet provides anonymity. "We treat it ~ as an opportunity for in-depth individual education," said Joseph Interrante, execu¯ tive director of Tennessee’ s Nashville CARES, an AIDS organization with staff ¯ members dispensing information in chat ¯ rooms. "The education actually becomes ¯ an online counseling session." ¯ Increasingly, warnings andAIDS statis- ¯ tics have fallen on the deaf ears of a ¯ younger, more reckless generation, health officials say. This summer, the U.S. Cen- ¯ ters for Disease Control and Prevention ¯ reported that among young men who have ¯ sex with other men, 4.4% - about 1 in 25 ¯ - get HIV. That’ s the same infection rate : asin the 1980s, before AIDS prevention ¯ methods andresearchtookroot. In Florida, ¯ blacks accounted for almost six of every : 10 new cases of HIV infection in the past ¯ four years. : Another trend: syphilis outbreaks in ¯ Wilton Manors, South Beach and Liberty -" City. Health officials say thegrowing num- ," bers are a signal mean thatGay and Bi- : sexual men are encouraged by news of ¯ powerfully effective drug cocktails and longerlife spans and are less worried about ", HIV infection. ¯ "The oldmodds do notwork," said Jeff ¯ Wilkinson of the South Beach AIDS ¯ Project, where staff members cruise chat : rooms as sobequest @aol.com. They an- ¯ swer questions and ask others to share ¯ what they learn. "The more the pebble hits ¯ the pond, the more it ripples out." ¯ Cohen says he spends at least 25 hours a ¯ week online as hivoutreachmiami on : America Online. His online profile gives ¯ information about syphilis, how itis trans- " mitted sexually., symptoms and telephone numbers to call for testing. He logs on in the afternoon and during peak chatting times, after 7 p.m. till until as late as 2 a.m. Since Cohen started the online campaign in June, he has seen the number of people who ask for HIV tests grow from a handful to a dozen or more a night. He takes their phone numbers, calls them and walks them through explains the process. He is training two volunteers to help. "So much that went on in bathhouses and publicparks now takes place in chatrooms, where people meet to engage in unsafe sex from the comfort of their living room,’" Cohen said. "It’s opening a tremendous dialogue in this town." Some Blood Donors Get Surprise RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Shocked by the terrorist attacks in Washington and New York, thousands havelinedupthepast two weeks to give blood. Now, some of those donors are the ones asking for help. Because many people are donating blood for the first time, more people have learned that they have viral diseases such as hepatitis, syphilis and even AIDS. Since the mid-1980S, blood has been tested for viral diseases such as AIDS and hepatitis, andprospective donors have been screened for risky behavior such as intravenous drug use. Now, with so many more people learning they are infected, disease hoflines have experienced an increase in calls from donors seeking help. "They’re really panic-stricken. They have no idea what it means," said Thelma King Thiel, chairman of Hepatitis Foundation International. More than 22,000 units of blood have been donated in the Carolinas blood services region of the American Red Cross since Sept. 11, spokeswoman Debbie Estes said. The organization collected twice as much blood as normal the week of the attacks and donations are running about 20% to 30% more than usual every day, Estes said. Offices are staffed 24 hours a day and donors have been asked to make appointments for later this fall. Since the attacks, more than 330,000 people nationally have donated blood to the American Red Cross, said Dr. Peter Page, senior medical officer for the Red Cross. The Red Cross, which supplies about half the blood in the country, was collecting two to three times more blood than normal the week after the attack and about 11/2 times more last week. Just over 1% of donors test positive for infections, Pagesaid. Onein20,000 wholeblood donors to the American Association of Blood Banks will test positive for antibodies to HIV, said Sara Foer, spokeswoman for the American Association of Blood Banks in Maryland. One in 2,500 will test positive for hepatitis B and one in 500 for hepatitis C, she said. ButThiel says itmay be goodfor donors to find out they are infected. ’’The tests and screens in tiff s blood drive are a good thing for them," Thiel said. "Otherwise they may go blissfully on their way not knowing ~ey are infected, spreading the disease. by TFN entertainment editor Tulsa’ s Theatre Arts will present Lionel Bart’ s"Oliver!" outin the country atTulsa Community College’ s PACE Theatre at 81st Street and Highway 169 from December 14th - 22nd. The production will be directed by Jon Grodeski of NYC and will star as "Fagin," Jamie Farr wall known for playing "Klinger"intelevision’ s M.A.S.H. series. Tulsa Family News is delighted to note that TFN writer and former entertainment editor, James Christjotm, has been cast in the characterof" Mr. Sowerberry," the undertaker that Oliver is sold to before he ends up in London as Fagin’s prot~g6 pickpocket. And on December 6th, Theatre Arts will host "An Evening With ~Iamie Farr," at the PACE at 7pm, where the actor will speak about his life and career, and take audience questions. Please call 595-777 for ticket information. Charles Dickens’ novel,"OliverTwist," is the basis forLionel Bart’ s musical Oliver! Dickens began the novel as a magazine serial that ran in a London.monthly for more thantwo years beginning in 1837. Its popularitywas so greatthatDickensrushed it to completion for publication - in three volumes ~-in 1838. Still, the serial continued to run for more than six months after the publication of the book. Some wellknown songs from the show include "Where Is Love," "Consider Yourself," "Who Will Buy," "As Long as He Needs Me," and many others. The story of Oliver Twist begins in. a seedy workhouse where he and the other orphans are kept by Mr. Bumble and Widow Comey. When Oliver asks for morefood, Bumbleis enraged and decides to sdl the boy. Mr. Sowerberry, the undertaker, buys him, but Oliver is terrified of the man and his coffins and runs away. TheArtful Dodgerandhis gangofyoung street thieves find Oliver woandering the "...Tulsa Family News is delighted to note that TFN writer and former entertainment editor, James Christjohn, has been east in the character.., of the undertaker..." ." streets of London and take him to the ¯ master pickpocket, Fagin. That training ~ quickly lands Oliver in jail, where he is " rescuedby Mr. Brownlow,arichold gentle- [ man who takes the boy into his home. ¯ Meanwhile, Fagin and his cohorts - Bill ¯ Sikes and Nancy - fearful of being in- [ criminated by thelad, plot his kidnapping. Nancy abducts him but then is overcome with guilt and attempts his return to Brownlow. Suspecting her kind (and traitorous) intentions, Sikes kills Nancy. He grabs Oliver but is foiled by the amval of the police Finally, Oliver is safely returned to the arms of his benefactor, who proves to be his own grandfather. Oliver! (the name shortened for Broadway) became a partof themusical stage ¯ repertoire in 1960, written in total by the ¯¯ multitalented Lionel Bart, who crafted the book, the music and the lyrics. With Ron ¯ Moody. as Fagin and Georgia Brown as ¯ Nancy, Oliver! opened in London on June : 30, 1960,and ran until September 9, 1966, ¯ foratotal of2,618 performances - making ¯ it the longest-running musical in British ¯ theatre. ¯ This production marks Christjohn’ s re- " turn to the stage after a long absence. ¯ "Therewas apoint that I thought the talent, ¯ the gift, the ability hadleft me. SoI shut. the ¯ dooronthatdream."Ironically,thatdream ¯ began as a young boy, when he was taken ¯ to his first liveproduction- aperformance ¯ of "Oliver!" at Theatre Under The Stars ; (TUTS), in Houston, Texas. Christjoha ¯ notes, "I remember seeing the little boy ¯ singing "Where Is Love," and identifying ; completdy. I also was filled with wonder ¯ at’the ’magic’ of seeing London appear ; when they sang ’Who Will Buy?’, and ¯ seeing the city literally fly in from left, ¯ right, andabove. Andlknew then I wanted ¯ to be a l~art of that, to help make the magic ¯ happen. And I wanted the applause that kid was getting!" Info: 595-7777. Tulsa’ s Performing .Mas Center Trust celebrates its 25thznniversary season with a number of great performers. At the end of October, on the 30th, the usually staid and fairly stodgy Chapman Music Hall will host nothing less than a circus! Quebec’ s Cirque Eloize (that’ s said,"elwas") and the Tulsa Philharmonic will combine classical music with circus spectacular: aerials, haru~s work,and feats of strength (and I’m sure men and women in fights,, could Lesbians and Gay men want anything more.’?). Cirque Eloize began in 1993 as part of the "Cirque Nouveau" movement that sprung from Quebec. Seven then recent graduates of Montreal’ s National Circus School began thecompany which drew on ¯ the Eurotx~tn, animal-free style of circus ¯ combining theater, music and dance. ¯ Cirque Eloize quickly gained acclaim ¯ forits acrobatics, and choreography. After ." touring Canada and the US, then in the ." United Kingdom, France and Ireland, Cir- - que Eloize garnered rave reviews from ¯ London’ s Sunday Times, "... hauntingly ¯ heart-catching.., conjur[ing] up the spirit ¯ of a medieval fair..." and from The ." Scotsman in Edinburgh, "pure dead bill- " liant.., this is circus with atmosphere, ¯ poetry, humor and above all, hear~..." ¯ The music ranges from Rimski- : Korsakov, Sibelius, Grieg, Saint-Sachs, ¯ Rachmaninov and more. This is a don’ t : miss performance. Call 596-7111 or800- ¯ 364-7111 for information or tickets. The Twilight of the Golds What happens when a young couple finds thru’ genetic testing that their unborn child might be Gay and how their conflict about whether to keep the child affects the young mother’s Gay brother¯ Oct. 26th- Nov. 4th Broken Arrow Community Playhouse Only 1,487 miles offBroadway In the Main Place, 1800 South Main 258-0077 for tickets and info. THE GILDED AGE Treasuresfrom the Smitbsonian American Art.MuSeum SEPTEMBER -- 4 .NOVEMBER 200I THE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART 2727 SOUTH ROCKFORD ROAD SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - For a while, entertainer Ha Ri-soo seemed to be everywhere: in a film, in a music video, in ads for makeup and wedding gowns. Television talk shows couldn’ t get enough of the sex symbol and her sensual dances. People gabbed abouther athome andonthestreet, in offices and coffee shops. No wonder. Ha, 26, is a transsexual. While sex change operations are old news from the United States to Thailand, they’re a novelty in South Korea, where Confucian ideals of illial piety and a maledominatedhierarchyare strong. So it was starfling when Ha surged to thetopofSouth Korea’ s entertainment industry this year. "I think the society and cnlture is changing in Korea and it should change," Ha said in an interview at a beauty salon, her hair in curlers as makeup artists dabbedherface with lipstick, eyeliner andpowoperations are old news from the United States to Thailand, they’re a novelty in South Korea, where Confucian ideals of filial piety and a mah-domlnated hierarchy are strong°. 2 character is a transsexual woman who works as an express delivery worker by day and moonlights as a singer. The movie title alludes to the bleached blond look that some young South Koreans adopt to be rebellious. "I chose the fi~m because I went through a lot and I wa~ed to look back on those days," Ha s~d. "I wanted to break the stereotype of transsexuals - the demureness and extreme weakness with which they are often portrayed." Ha’s autobiography, ~’From Adam to Eve," also failed to make the best sdler list. She got her sexchange operation several years ago in Japan, where she studied hairstyling. While in high school, she had taken female hormone injections and was exempted frommill tary service on grounds of "mental illness." South Korean men must serve 26 der. "Transsexuals haven’t killed or cheated anyone. Why should they be mistreated when they haven’ t done anything wrong to others?" She said. Many South Koreans agree, but their fascination with Ha reflects .as much prurience as tolerance for the maverick. In a country where women flock to clinics for cosmetic surgery, Ha fits right in. "I think she is popular because of her charm and looks,, said Jeon Dong-ki, a male university student. "It doesn’ t.mean that people’ s prejudices against Gays and transsexuals have changed as wall." Ha’ s overheated presence inpop culture has cooled some recently, and she’s had mixed success. She appeared in "Ydlow Hair 2," a movieabout people on society’ s fringes that failed at the box office. Her ¯ months in the armed forces, a precau- ¯¯ tion in the event of conflict with communist North Korea. ’¢Fhink about it: What ¯ would happen to the. military’ s discipline ¯ if a man with breasts went into the mili- ~ tary?" Ha said, laughing. ¯ Her sex changewas toughonherfamily, ¯ particularly in a society that covets male ¯ offspring. Ha said she played with dolls as ¯ a child, and her frustrated father eventu- ¯ ally accepted her femininity. ¯ Ha’ s career took off in January with a television ad for cosmetics, but it’s un- ." dearhowlong she’ 11 stay in thepubliceye. ¯ Some religious leaders have denounced ¯ her. "It makes me angry that the media is -." trying to make something ’abnormal’ ap- ¯ pear normal," said Lee I-Iee-ja, a 58-yearold housewife. Saturday, October 20, the historic town of Medicine Park will host the first annual DrumFest. Organizers hope to attractmore than 800 drummers to this eventinhope of breaking the current Guirmess Book of World Records. Medicine Park is located at the main entry to the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, the second most visited wildlife refuge in the country - hosting almost 2 million annual visitors. The community has a rich and colorful history. Originally founded on July 4th, 1908- Medicine Park was Oklahoma’s first planned tourism resort, Medicine Park was once the "playground" of the state’s rich, famous and notorious. Folks would come to town for the weekend and leave their "work-a-day" world, troubles and reputations behind them. Outlaws and horsethieves mixed with noted politicians and businessmen, families and socialites. The pages of the ¯ town’s colorful history are filled with the ¯ -likes of Teddy Roosevelt, Will Rogers, ¯ Wiley Post, Frank Phillips, Bob Wills, A1 ¯ Capone, Col. Jack Abernathy, Lil Hardin, Bonny & Clyde, Pretty Boy Floyd, Les ¯ Brown, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans and ¯ countless others. : Ok Spoke Bike Rides ¯ All these rides begin at Ziegler Recre- ¯ ation Park, 3903West Fourth Street, at the ¯ parking lot. All rides are open to GLBT ¯ people and those who are Gayffriendly. ¯ OnOct. 6andOct. 13,there will bea20- ¯ 25mile rides beginning at 7:30am, helmet ¯ and water bottle required. Lateron the 6th, ¯ there is also 5 mile ride along the Sand ¯ Springs Trail beginning at 2pro. And on ¯ Oct. 13, therewillbea5mileridealongthe ¯ Arkansas River Trail starting at 2pro. For more information, contact ¯ Okiebicycle@prodigy.net, orwrite to POB 9165, Tulsa 7~157. by LamontLindstrom : the not-unhappy looking bin Laden. The Internet slowed to a crawl on Sep- ¯ Whether F.rnpire State Building as phaltember 1 lth. People crowded the system ¯ lus, or middle finger as phallus, these folk with messages and postings about that : imagesconceivemale-on-maleintercourse day’ s death and destruction. We turned to ¯ as appropriate revenge. Osama-"screws" email,chatrooms,lists,dis- ,, America; we screw him cussion groups and clubs to discuss, mourn, be angry or be reflective about the attacks: The older media - newspapers, telephones, radio, television - still carry the bulk of our words andimagery. Butthe Internet further speeds and spreads national (and international) conversation, intensifying this exchange. .. And exchange still continues. Since September 1 lth, I have been collecting folk-produced images that respond to the attacks. These, like the Interuet’ s bothersome chain letters and bad jokes, are still bouncing from site to site, person toperson. Computer imaging software (Photoshop and the like) and the WWW facilitate this outburst of creative reaction. Years ago, one of my anthropology professors, U.C. Berkeley folklorist ¯ . . equations d sex and vlolenee are so familiar, so embedded in our language and culture, as to be unremarkable. But we should remark them, at least occasionally. First, if we can think it we can do it - this is anthropology’s message about the power of cultural understandings to shape behavior..." Alan Dundes, along with Carl Pagter published a collection of Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire (1975). Such "paper folklore" consisted of joke letters, memos, cartoons, drawings, and the like that people produced and circulated using an earlier technology -the office copy machine: As soon as photocopiers became a standard business appliance, people copied and recopiedjoke memos and cartoons that spread from office to office, and cubicle to cubicle. Today, the Internet, like the photocopy machine, spreads our responses to the everyday world, and to tragic national events. Much of the attack-related folklore flooding the Internet is patriotic, affirming the goodness and the spirit of Ainerica. Images of U.S. flags, pictures of candles andribbons, upliftingpoems, and recycled Canadian newspaper columns lauding American generosity probably filled your email boxes, as they did mine. Other imagery, less warm-hearted, portrays anger and revenge. Two of the folk images that ended up in my email box particularly caught my eye. Both strum American cultural chords that blur violence with sex. The first depicts a reconstructed World Trade Center. Instead of the Twin Towers, however, this features five towers in a row, like fingers. The middle tower sticks up highest into the air. This folk image rebuilds the WTC as "the bird," flipping off m~icious Osama bin Laden and his terrorists. The secondimageis ruder. In this "jpg," Osama’ s turbaned head is superimposed on a nude, muscular body that bends forward. Coming in behind is the Fxnpire State Building. Its pointy tower sodomizes right back. Theserepresentations of skyscraper as phallus (or dildo) are no metaphorical accident. Beyond the deaths of 6500 innocents, some of ,amaerica’s rage certainly stems from this symbolism. Osama’s hijackedplanes ftrst appeared to circumcise both the mighty shafts of the WTC, slicing into theirheads. But then, ~brribly, the towers collapsed completely and New York, and America, suffered an awful castration. Actually, the WTC had already lost its Big Man claims. Since 1998,the tallest buildings in the world are the twin Petronas Towers in KualaLumpur, Malaysia. Their edifice is bigger than our edifice. But luckily, New York has in hand a backup tool - the Empire State Building ¯ (once again the tallest in the city) - that, symbolically, can stick it to Osama. ¯ Mass murderers need be brought to jus- ¯ tice, but what does it mean when werepresentjustice (or perhaps revenge) as homo- " sexual anal intercourse? The penis, more ¯ than a tool , becomes awcapon. Andsexual ". intercourse, .rather than an act of love, ¯ becomes one of rape or war. I penetrate ¯ you, and thereby I dominate you. ~ These equations of sex and violence are ¯ so familiar, so embedded in our language ¯ and culture, as to be unremarkable. But we ¯ should remark them, at least occasionally. ¯ First, if we can think it we can do it - this ¯" is anthropology’ s messageaboutthepower ¯ of cultural understandings to shape behav- ¯ lOt. ¯¯ Currently, two 14-year-old boys are in custody here in Tulsa. They, along with ". other members of their freshman football " : team, anally raped one of their young ¯ teammates with a broom handle in their high ~chool locker room. This is Tulsa’s : teenaged version of the Abner Louima : case. New York cops likewise wielded ¯ broom as dildo to prove their manliness. ¯ (The Empire State Building, presumably, - ¯ was unavailable.) Our folk fantasies of ¯ homosexual rape are far more likely to be ¯ realized here in America than in Afghani- ¯ start. ¯ Second, all those "sex = war," and "pe- ¯ uis = weapon," metaphors are danger- . ously slippery. What, exactly, are we say- " ing when we admit a desire to sodomize : Osama? Where does violent hatred end ¯ and erotic desire begin? Dildos also are : toys, and sex (of whatever sort) is play ¯ more often than it is aggression. Are we : then to pleasure Osama to death? Timothy W. Daniel Attorney at Law An Attorney who will fight for justice & equality for Gays & Lesbians Domestic Partnership Planning, Personal Injury, Criminal Law & Bankruptcy 1-800-742-9468 or 918-352-9504 128 East Broadway, Drumright, Oklahoma Weekend and evening appointments are available: IOTA member Call341. 6866 International TourSio,mo,e nio on. TULSA COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY Country Club Barbering Custom Styling for Men & Women David Kauskey 3310 E. 51st, 747-0236, Tues.-Fri., 8:5:30, Sat. 8-5pm 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 evangelism. To nurture our faith, we gather for w.orship~ prayer, study and fellowship. Trusting in a living, loving God, we seek to become a compassionate voice for peace andjustice. 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, 1 lam 712 S. Columbia Ave., 592-5800 (One block west of Delaware and the University of Tulsa Campus) Tulsa’s only professional body-piercing is an alternative worship experience that celebrates the mystery and wonder of life, without telling you what to believe. Soulful Sundown combines live music, inspirational readings, video, and audience ~articipation to create a rand new experience. Soulful Sundown happens at All Souls Unitarian Church at 5:3oPM on Sundays. Join us. on Oct. 7, 14, 21 and 3oth. All people are welcome! All Souls Unitarian Church z95z S. Peoria, 743-z363 And it’s only 20 years now that our oldest community organization, indeed Oklahoma’ s oldest non-religious community non-profit, Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights, TOHR, has been around. Any one want to bethow many more years it will be until these groups figure out that we exist? It is in the end this: you are either part of the solution, or you are part of the problem. AndTulsais filled with those who are not part of the solution. ~Ihey are our mayor and most of our city councilors: certainly they are Tulsa’ s business elite: the ChamberofCommerce staffand board and especially some of Tulsa Area United Way’ s board and staff for whom I have little doubt that Dante notes a special place in hell; and they are TU’s unrepentent bigot president and those prominent Tulsans who selectedhim despitehis documented prejudice. And it will take all these individuals deciding that they are going to be part of the solution rather than part of the problem for Tulsa ever to be that which it hopes to be. In the meantime, I hope that Muslim Tulsans will be safe and if God really moves their hearts that Tulsa Muslims might actually take their horrible experience as being this moment’s America’s hated "other" and will try to be do for Gay and Lesbian Americans that what they would have done for themselves. Average Gays and Lesbians feel much more in me with the American people in the spirit of "united we stand." For those weaned on identity politics, it will be hard to verbalize or imagine an America where they can speak from a "united we stand" perspective, but this new period will require it. We still have challenges as Gay Americans, but the terrorist agenda of America’ s enemies is far more dangerous to Gay Americans than anything we face within our own society. These terrorists have come to our country to murder us, and hope to eradicate our way of life in all its forms. The Taliban of Afghanistan, who is harboring these terrorists, believe that homosexuality is a crimepunishablebya sadisticdeath, which is meted out with pride in their society. More than ever, we should welcome the chance to serve in defense of liberty. We should document carefully the success of Gay soldiers. This act of patriotism, of the willingness to die for our country, is precisely why the current military policy is wrong. Our determination will be hugely educational to an American public who views our motives on this issue with suspicion. We will demonstrate with action the moral absurdity of the old policy and it will cave-in under that moral weight. Steve May, the hero who fought the "don’t ask, don’t tell" policy and won, is on message now. He said recently that it is an obligation ofevery Gay servicemember to acceptthe country’ s call to serve. United we stand today, and the military’ s policy on Gays has divided us as Americans. We now can look at new, real heroes. I’m g!ad Mark Bingham was such a strong man m body and soul. He took brave action with a small group of men and womenwho answered the call ofservice in that moment of crisis, sacrificing their lives to save maybe thousands of others to thwart the murderous actions of those who want to destroy our country. Can we find a maturity and resolve inside ourselves that we have neglected for so long, and defiaonstrate that unity means equality? Surely, as we look squarely at ourenemies, and see the face of brutality and hatred that stares back at all of us, that hates freedom and liberty in any form and would annihilate Gays and Lesbians at the first opportunity, the answers to these questions become dear. Buchanan has said that he approved the domestic partner policy in order to keep the county competitive in recruiting and retaining the best employees possible. He was not required to get the commissioners’ approval beforehand, although he did discuss it with them. Domestic partner benefits are common among many of Wichita’ s major employers, such as Boeing Co. Such benefits also are routinely offered by government agencies on both coasts. However, in a stretch of the country from the Mississippi River to Arizona, domestic partner benefits are offered by local governments in only four metropolitan areas: Denver; Albuquerque; Austin, Texas; and Iowa City, Iowa. "Nationwide, it’ s been going on for a good while," Norton said. "But in the Midwest, we’re probably a little far up on the curve. Whether you call it Midwest values or Moral Majority or whatever you call it, I think that’ s what you have to deal with in the Midwest." Commissioner Tom Winters said last week that he would back Buchanan’ s action because it was within the manager’s area ofresponsibility tomake suchchanges. Commissioner Betsy Gwin said Monday that she initially saw the policy as a business decision to make the county a more attractive employer and to "show some sort of compassionate understanding for all people." Now, she said She is undecided after receiving about 50 phone calls and e-mails, all but one in opposition to the policy. One event raises about 4.4% of the annual budget for the Hoosier Trails Council. A Boy Scouts spokesman told The Republic that scouting programs in the county may have to be scaled back if they cannot find a replacement for Cummins’ funding. But a company statement said that the en.gine, manufacturer’s executives were revzewmg their contributions to reflect the corporation’ s values. This was not the first time the company has confronted criticism regarding its policies. Last year, Cummins’ decision to extend partner benefits to employees’ same- and oppositesex partners was met with anger by some employees and shareholders. Helga’ Horribles present the Rocky Horror Pictu re Show followed by the Time Warp Ball Saturday, October 27 8pm midnight Doubletree Hotel Downtown 616 West Seventh Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data newspaper periodical Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource [2001] Tulsa Family News, October 2001; Volume 8, Issue 10 Subject The topic of the resource Politics, education, and social conversation toward Tulsa’s Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual communities. Description An account of the resource 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 An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Tulsa Family News Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://history.okeq.org/collections/show/24 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Tom Neal Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource October 2001 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource James Christjohn Karin Gregory Barry Hensley J.P. 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The dissenting judge, Carlos Lucero of Alamosa, ¯ 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 told jurors 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. OKLAHOMA CITY (AP)- City officials willconsider : ¯ Schulte, of Lawton, said he presented evidence ¯ regulating advertising messages on bus-stop benches about Neill’s homo,sexuality because it was .relevant ¯ and .on. banners flying from city-owned light poles after " to how he and his co-defendant used some. of the receiving numerous complaints about a Gay-pride flag. ¯ : $17,000 they stole. ’‘i do not recall emphasizing or A new law that will be brought before the City ¯ ¯ calling for _th~,,,t penalty because of his homosexual ¯ Council would allow only messages that would "pro- " relationships, he said. "It was because of the gruemote or celebrate the city, its civic institutions, or public " ~ some nature of the crime." His statements about activities or events in the city of Oklahoma City." This ¯ efll s homosexuahty came m 1992 at a retrial. The could prohibit messages promoting prayer, voting or " ¯ first conviction was overturned because the two dedrug-abuse prevention. Oklahoma City has 1,240 ban- " " fendants were not tried separately. her locations that are available for use by community -." ¯ The appellate judges who formed the majority, groups to promote activities. ¯ ~ Deanell R. Tacha of Lawrence, Kan. and Bobby Mayor Kirk Humphreys and City Manager Jim Couch ° ¯ Baldock of Roswell, N.M., concluded that none of sought the new law after the city spar~ed controversy ." The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt at the Fair Grounds. " Neill’s claims of misconduct by Schulte have merit. ¯ earlier this year when it took down, triton put back up, ¯ 27-p.ag,es decision for "were the six-state court, Chapter at 748-3111 or e-mail to info@TulsaQuilt.org Admis- : Theyissued saying that aSchulte comments relevant to banners promoting Gay pride. The banners, paid for by the Cimarron Alliance Foundation, drew numerous ¯ sion to the dessert extravaganzais free for dinner hosts and quests ¯ both the (prosecution’s) case and Neill’s defense see Feast, p. 8 " theory." complaints at City Hall. see Censor, p. 2 " and others are welcome OKC Sets Up Censorship : Because of Gay Banners ¯ Murderer Now Claims "Homosexual Panic’" ¯ 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 OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A Mexican citizen on ." WASHINGTON (AP) - A Smithsonlan Institution exhibit on " vaccine to prevent AIDS suddenly seem optimistic, Oklahoma’s deathrow is seeking anew trial after a state ¯ submarines includes apoem by asailor who was kicked out of the " even bullish, words that have not been heard much in ¯ Navy for being Gay. "It’s kind of like a validation of my service," " this perennially gloomy field. For the first time, many psychiatrist recanted his testimony, saying new infor¯ mation shows Gerardo Valdez suffered from brain said Tim Beauchamp, a native of Tulsa, Oklahoma, who lives in ] researchers appear confident a vaccine is possible. ¯ damage, paranoia and "homosexual panic" when he ¯ 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 killed another man in 1989. Psychiatrist Cecil F: Mynatt said it is now his conclu- ¯ four years, wrote "Sub Sailor’s Views on ’Glasnost’ "in Decem- " used monkeys to test theories about AIDS treatment sion that Valdez was unable to control his own behavior ~ ber 1987 on board the USS Henry Clay, a nuclear submarine " and prevention. But in two decades of trying, they ¯ could not concoct a vaccine that would safely protect or was "temporarily insane" when Valdez killed Juan patrolling the North Atlantic. ¯ Barron. "Mr. Valdez suffers from paranoia, specifically The poem is part of the exhibit "Fast Attacks & Boomers: : a monkey from dying of AIDS. Until now. triggered in this instance by homosexual panic," Mynatt ¯ Submarines in the Cold War" at the National Museum of Ameri- ¯ blond, Now4-year-old there are monkeys Godot, handsome, macaque like living in thealevel 2 biosaid. "Additionally, he is brain damaged and was under can History. A copy of it is displayed.on a sailor’s bunk in a part : hazard containment facility at the Yerkes Regional the influence of alcohol." ." of the exhibit dealing with daily life on a submarine, Mynatt had previously testified that Valdez was com- ." Harkeuing back to the days of the Cold War, thepoemindudes " Primate Research Center on the leafy fringes of petent to stand trial. He said he changed his mind after lines like, "Reagan and Gorbacliev back and forth volley while : Emory University. Just over a year ago, Godot got a reviewing information provided by Valdez’s attorney, Nancy and Ralsa put on their best. Capitalist!Commuuist - " big dose of SHIV, an especially nasty lab-made amalgam of HIV and SIV, the human and monkey including opinions of two neurophsychologists and a Political’folly! What does it matter? It’s East against West." medical report. 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 superidead in six to eight months. Attorney Robert Nance is asking for a new trial based n a recent deeision by the International Court of Justice ~,di’seovered, he’ was Gay. Before his discharge, Beauchamp " , A~.yone entering Godot’s living space must dress at deplored the 1999 execution in Arizona of German oeen awaraea a Good Conduct Medal, a Sea Service Ribbon n.eao to toe in protective clothing, because SHIV brothers Walter and Karl LaGrand. The court held that and a letter of commendation. ~ cxrculates in his bloodstream. But his curious, alert the brothers were denied their rights underinternational ’The fact that such a committed and rule-bound serviceman ~ .stare at visitors peeking through a window shows he law to access thor consul after their arrest. Nance said was kicked out of the Navy for no other reason than being Gay ." ~s outwardly unscathed. Godot is infected but otberthe world court s decision prevents domestic proceillustrates the stupidity and,wastefulness of our current policy wise healthy. dural rules from interferin~ with judicial review of toward Gays in the military, saidRep. BameyFrank, D-Massa_ " Sevenmonthsbeforehewasinfected, Godotgotan cases involving international law violations. 7 experimental new AIDS vaccine, see Vaccine, p. 2 chusetts, an openly Gay member of Congress. The application was filed with the Oklahoma Court of When Beanchamp was in the military, homosexuals were " Criminal Appeals, on the same day Amnesty Internaprohibited from serving. Under the current "don’t ask, don’ t tell,, ¯ Ill DIRECTORY tional officials and other death penalty foes renewed P. 2 policy, homosexuals can serve so long as they do not engage in : their demand that Gov. Frank Keating commute Valdez’s ~ EDITORIAL P. 3 homosexual conduct or state their sexual preference. : sentence. ¯ ~ US & WORLD NEWS Beauchamp, who has worked since his discharge as a computer P. 4 -. Keating has granted two stays, while rejecting Fox’~ ¯ systems analyst and a writer, said he’d forgotten about the poem : ~ HEALTH NEWS P. 6 ¯ request and a parole board recommendation of clemuntil he came across it in an old notebook from his days as a ¯ ency for Valdez, 41. Keating granted a second 30-day P. 8 Z ENTERTAINMENT + MORE submariner. It was included in the exhibit after Beauchamp’s ; stay for Valdez, see Valdez, p.2 ¯ partner brought it to the attention of the curator. ~ GAY STUDIES/R. LESBIAN P. 10/11 ¯ ~h ¯ . . . �Besides promoting pride, they featured a ¯ torch with a rainbow flame over the 918.583.1248, fax: 583.4615 Tulsa Clubs& Restaurants FOB 4140, Tulsa, OK 74159, e-mail: TulsaNews@earthlink.net 832-1269 ¯ foundation’s name. *Bamboo Lounge, 7204 E. Pine ¯ 610-5323 Publisher + Editor: Tom Neal *CW’s, 1737 S. 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Memorial ", the Cimarron Alliance, said the banners publication are protected by US copyright 2001 by Tulsa ¯ were legally protected free speech. ’The 584-1308 *Tool Box II, 1338 E. 3rd Family News and may not be reproduced either in whole or in 835-2376 ¯ city has provided a forum for speech and it *Vortex, 2182 S. Sheridan part without written permission from the publisher. Publica*The Yellow Brick Road Pub, 2630 E. 15th 749-1563 ¯ must not prohibit speech unless there is a tion of a name or photo does not indicate a person’s sexual Tulsa Businesses, Services, & Professionals ~ compelling governmental interest in doing ’ orientation. Correspondence is assumed to be for publication ¯ so," he said "It would be very difficult to Assoc. in-Med. & Mental Health, 2325 S. Harvard 743-1000 unless otherwise noted, must be signed & becomes the sole ¯ demonstrate such an interest in these cirBarnes & Noble Booksellers, 8620 E. 71 250-5034 property of Tulsa Family News. Each reader is entitled to 4 665-4580 ,* cumstances." Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 5231 E. 41 copies of each edition at distribution points. 712-1122 Humphreys contends the banners go be’, Body Piercing by Nicole, 2722 E. 15 Additional copies are available by calling 583-1248. ¯ yond the concept of public speech because 712-9955 *Borders Books & Music, 2740 E. 21 ¯ the city requires.groups who want to use the 494-2665 *Borders Books & Music, 8015 S. Yale ¯ Dignity/Integrity of Tulsa- Lesbian & Gay Catholics & 743 -5272 poles to provide the banners and to pay for Brookside Jewelry, 4649 S. Peoria 355-3140 ¯ their installation and removal. He said many Episcopalians, PUB 701475, 74170-1475 746-0313 *CD Warehouse, 3807c S. Peoria 747-7777 *Fellowship Congreg. Church, 2900 S. Harvard 295-5868 advertisers choose not to carry certain rues*Cheap Thrills, 2640 E. 1 lth *Free Spirit Women’s Center, call for location & info: 587-4669 "- sages, and that Oklahoma City can, too. Cherry St. Psychotherapy, 1515 S. Lewis 58120902, 743 -4117 747-6827 ¯ Friend For A Friend, PUB 52344, 74152 622-0700 The city has not responded to the alliance’ s Community Clearfing, Kerby Baker 582-0438 Friends in Unity Social Org., PUB 8542, 74101 request to hang banners on city poles for 352-9504, 800-742-9468 " ¯ Tim Daniel, Attorney 834-4194 749-3620 " *Tulsa C.A.R.E.S., 3507 E. Admiral Gay and Lesbian History Month, which *Deco to Disco, 3212 E. 15th 834-8378 HOPE, HIV Outreach, Prevention, Education 744-5556 . " takes places in October, Rogers said. The Doghouse on Brookside, 3311 S. Peoria 838-8503 ¯ *HouseoftheHoly SpiritMingtries,1517S. Memorial 224-4754 : group’s earlier banners finally came down *Elite Books & Videos, 821 S. Sheridan 838-1715 369-8555 " *MCC United, 1623 N. Maplewood in mid-July after the time the alliance had Encompass .Travel, 13161H N..,~/I.emorial 748-3111 ¯¯ reserved for them ran out. NAMES Project, 3507 E Admiral PI. 584-0337, 712-9379 " Ross Edward Salon 365-5658 592-0460," NOW, Nat’I Org. for Women, PUB 14068, 74159 Events Unlimited, 507 S. Main OK Spokes Club (bicycling), PUB 9165, 74157 744-9595 Floral Design Studio, 3404 S. Peoria 610-0880 " *OSU-Tulsa Four S~ar Import Automotive, 9906 E. 55th P1. 749-4901 628-3709 ¯ PFI_AG, POB 52800, 74152 Cathy Furlong, Ph.D., 1980 Utica Sq. Med. Ctr. 587-7674 ¯ while saying he had not changed his mind *Planned Parenthood, 1007 S. Peoria 808-8026 : Gay & Lesbian Affordable Daycare 627-2359 Prime-Timers, P.O. Box 52118, 74152 742-1460 ¯ that the execution should go forward. *Gloria Jean’s Gourmet. Coffee, 1758 E. 21 st 749-4195 Keating has apologized for a violation of 459-9349 " R.A.I.N., Regional AIDS Interfaith Network Leanne M. Gross, Insurance & financial planning 584-2325 ¯ the article of the Vienna Convention that 744-7440 ~ *Red Rock Mental Center, 1724 E. 8 Mark T. Hamby, Attorney 425-7882 : guarantees foreign nationals, upon arrest, *Sandra J. Hill, MS, Psychotherapy, 2865 E. Skelly 745-1111 ¯ St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church, 4045 N. Cincinnati 492-7140 St. Dunstan’s Episcopal, 5635 E. 71st 341-6866 " the right to contact their country’s consul. *International Tours 582-3088 ~ Keating said that did not change Valdez’s *St. Jerome’s Parish Church, 205 W. King 712-2750 " Jacox Animal Clinic, 2732 E. 15th 582-3018 " Soulforce-OK, Rt.4,# 3534, Stigler 74462 587-3248,452-2761 ¯ guilt the slaying. *Jared’s Antiques, 1602 E. 15th 583-7171 ; An Amnesty International report said all 747-0236 ¯ *Tulsa Area United Way, 1430 S. Boulder David Kauskey, Country Club Barbering 582-7225 15 foreign nationals executed in the U:S. *TNAAPP (Native American men), Indian Health Care 582-8460 " ¯ The Keepers, Housekeeping & Gardening 595-4105 since 1993 were denied theright to consular 599-8070 " Tulsa County Health Department, 4616 E. 15 *Ken’s Flowers, 1635 E. 15 Confidential H_IV Testing - by appt. on Thursdays only ¯ access. 747-5466 ¯ Kelly Kirby, CPA, 4021 S. Harvard, #210 Valdez admits killing Barron after Barron 585-1234 ¯ Tulsa Okla. for Human Rights, Gay Comm. Center 743-4297 ¯, *Living ArtSpace, 308 South Kenosha made advances toward him in abar. Valdez - 584-3112 " TUL-PAC, Positive Advocacy Coalition, POB2687,Tulsa 74101 *Midtown Theater, 319 E. 3rd 298-0827 ~ took Barron home, forced him to strip, and 663-5934 " T.U.L.S.A. Tulsa Uniform/Leather Seekers Assoc. ¯ Mingo Valley Flowers, 9720c E 31 *Tulsa City Hall, Ground Floor Vestibule shot him twice in the head before burning 664-2951," *Mohawk Music, 6157 E 51 Place ¯ his body. *Tulsa Community College Campuses 838-7626 Puppy Pause II, 1060 S. Mingo 7434297 743-4297 " *Tulsa Gay Community Center, 21 st & Memorial *The Pride Store 749-8833 Unity Church of Christianity, 3355 S. Jamestown 747-5932 ¯ Rainbowz on the River B+B, PUB 696,74101 BARTLESVILLE 834-0617 ~ Richard’s Carpet Cleaning 918-33%5353 834-7921, 748-0224 ¯ Bartlesville Public Library, 600 S. Johnstone Teri Schutt, Ellen & Co. one experts hope will be the model for a shot 481-0558 " ¯ TAHLEQUAH *Tulsa Comedy Club, 6906 S. Lewis to control the worldwide epidemic. 835-5563 ¯ 918-456-7900 Venus Salon, 1247 S. Harvard Stonewall League, call for information:. Two other variations of the same ap743-1733 918-456-7900 Fred Welch, LCSW, Counseling Tahlequah Unitarian-Universalist Church proach have been tested on monkeys at 665-2222 918-453-9360 Green Country AIDS Coalition, PUB 1570 *Wherehouse Music, 5150 S. Sheridan Harvard Medical School and Merck & Co. *Whittier News Stand, 1 N. Lewis 592-0767 EUREKA SPRINGS, ARKANSAS ," with similar results. The Merck vaccine is www.gaytulsa.org website for Tulsa Gays & Lesbians 501-253-7734 " already in first-stage human testing, and the Autunm Breeze Restaurant, Hwy. 23 501-253-7457 -" Yerkes and Harvard versions should start Tulsa Agencies, Churches, Schools & O niversities Jim & Brent’s Bistro, 173 S. Main 579-9593 501-253-6807 AIDS Walk Tulsa, PUB 4337, 74101 : within six months. DeVito’s Restaurant, 5 Center St. 743-2363 501-253-5445 ¯ All Souls Unitarian Church, 2952 S. Peoria Vaccine discovery has been a notoriously Emerald RainbOw, 45 &l/2 Spring St. 587-7314 501-363-9203 ~ discouraging area of AIDS research, clouded Black & White, Inc..PUB 14001, Tulsa 74159 Heart of the Hills B&B, 5 Summit St. 501-253-9337 ~ by doubts that such a thing is even scientifiBless The Lord at All Times Christian Center, 2207 E. 6 583-7815 MCC of the Living Spring 583 -9780 501-253-2776 ¯" cally thinkable. Butoverthepastyear, thanks B/L/G/T Alliance, Univ. of Tulsa United Min. Ctr. Geek to Go!, PC Specialist, PUB 429 585-1201 501-253 -5332 ¯ to this impressive series of monkey experiChamber of Commerce Bldg., 616 S. Boston Old Jailhouse Lodging, 15 Montgomery 501-624-6646 " ments, many researchers have grown up*Chapman Student Ctr., University of Tulsa, 5th P1. & Florence Positive Idea Marketing Plans 587-1314 501-253-4074 :beat. Church of the Restoratio~ UU, 1314 N.Greenwood White Light, 1 Center St. 747-6300 *Community of Hope Church, 2545 S. Yale An AIDS vaccine is still no sure bet, they JOPLIN, MISSOURI *Community Unitarian-Universalist Congregation 749-0595 , " say. But many believe they are at least on a 417-623-4696 Spirit of Christ MCC, 2639 E. 32, Ste. U134 748-3888 Council Oak Men’s Chorale ¯ rational path toward finding one. 712-1511 *Delaware Playhouse, 1511 S. Delaware : The chances of success? "Ve~. _good," * is where you can find TFN. Not all are Ga_y-ownedbut allare Gay-friendly. 742-2457 *Democratic Headquarters, 3930 E. 31 �cells by the billions, taking over their machinery, forcing them to build new copies of the virus and obliterating then~ - ~ in theprocess. Eventually, though, the killer cells awaken ." ’ and destroy most 6f the infected cells before they can " predicts Dr. Harriet Robinson, who oversaw experiments : release more virusl Virus levels fall and then level off. : !n~volving~eca Q.odor an,d _a__~t. 80 .... other, monkeys...Wl~.y? .: In the years that follow, stalemate. the war is nearly a . . . us~ ot me mo,nKey,s: she says. ~re are not all tlmt , The body produces new hel cells almost as mckl as dif~ __ . . . per . .. q . y ~~erm.en~unk2~Yns; _ ~. ,., , : ~e-v.~..rams,~.em. ~ut ,g~.,,d.ually;, their levels slide too by Tom Neal, publisher/editor : Well,maybe. You’ve got to figure that The Tulsa World " has to love The Dail Okl " " " . . y .ahoman, its sister rag in Olda:homaC.ity. After all, anything The World does, nomatter m~, m,~l~w u ~.~ Lrom monkeys ls Key. anaa : Iar._ _A_t tl~s point, .vtr~.s kilh,n~..arugs can restore the : ho..w ~ss- .ix?or a~_d.pro.vm~al it might be, is going to be ~veOf~ ~.anlong sclen,ttsts. So,,me, wonder ft. these . bal,,~ance; butoth_e~wise theresultls AIDS and dentla.., betterthantimtot wlmthasbeendeelaredAmericaYsworst ~ .: ~ ~gtvenmega~aoses oi lao-~’ownvlri~: , . lne new :¢aceines are desi~.,ned tostart .the .ot~min~ .... news~aoer-Tbatbein,,.~id it’l~tillru~ %unt ...................au ;.,~a,,,~,~o~,~ _ t_ --__,_ __~~ ¯ ~S-’-~’s,":"~7:"~,’=~°~’ki~’g’,,mb°th_m_.°~,m,~eyan,.,um~n~ i ~emnv~ne ~e~u~_~_s ~ts_~n_,m_ s ce.,ns, aert~.~aat.oranea)~t, the . ,_ mtvuut¢unt:s..mmonkeys, me vaccme seems to munt ¯ tilts le. too-. . attack. Maybe ....it wl!l in,, ~, , ,.¯ . : ~Sudde~l. Ythere~sasensef°r.thefirst:ttmcthatperhaps : Wns mc a.y, f we hel -7 .World f bl :. So ,here homd we sm in this our muem:towerieveL.. -~y. oomg reaanvety su0tle,thmgs .’-- (besides TFN tn our modest way and Lordknows,..we’re du ", ~thefirstho.urs~ to w_ee.ks of infection, wethinkwe : certainly a David to their Goliath)? . .can havea, dramatic pay~off m allowing the body’s own : ’ We’re notreallypickingon them- someone’sgot toffy ~mmuneres nseoverthelonehanltocontalnthisv’rzl , tokeen mfecuon , sa ......... . criticize . y.s Le~twn. , , , . esO. and it ShOt" as ¯ though The World doesnt , . .... Instead~ofdyingfromAIDS, vac~nated people who get :. , everyone else in theireditorialpages. " ,, . ,, for decades or even a :, , My’favorite waste of newsprint is our local "society, ¯~.mv,~.~.,.,_~.,,,~.~uymm~_" 0t mr:. r~tv epl~mmlc, says.., -menme. ires como atso slow ~ svread of,the disease; . column the wo k¢~-l~ rmrvaro s L~r.Norman Letvm. ’~low there is an.absolute ¯ because when virus levels are low. ~ie are much les~ : but wonde~ ff M~V~i ~o%~’~t ~’a’~’~’~r~e’~ ....v and all stampede to get these technologies into humans and ask : likely to pass .on HIV. s .bLt t : liv,o,w!th vi ,s ¯ ofthe rest of us, a whole lotof trouble ffinstead of listing the question: Can we-translate these monkey findings into : Details of the vaccines developed by Yerkes, Harvard ~ all the people who attend Tulsa events, she would simply the human situation?" ¯ and Merck differ, but all involve the same strategy: First :. say that all the usual people were there - since it is the Researchers hope to know soon whether these expericome injections of several HIV genes, which are taken in : same-cast of criminals in column after colunm That mental shots launch the same early immune system deby muscle cells that use them as blueprints to make viral : would that reduce her column to a size .appropriate to its fenses seem in vaccinated monkeys. This would be an proteins. Next comes an immune system booster, such as ¯ usual level of content, as well as saving someone the encouraging hint of the vaccine’s eventual power. Some a smallpox virus that has been rebuilt to carry some of the ¯ trouble of typing in all those names, over and over. answers could be offered at an international AIDS vaccine HIV genes. The ultimate goal is still a vaccine that will ¯ Actually, as much as I hate to admit it, I find Ms. conference in early September.. block HIV infection. But in the meantime, many believe Walker’s colulnn somewhat useful, if vulgar. In a town as .. However, vaccine development is frustratingly slow. wide use of the latest vaccines could reduce spread of th~ ¯ screwed up and elitist/racist/homophobic as Tulsa is, it Even if all goes flawlessly, Robinson estimates it will be disease, especially in parts of the world where it is ramnever hurts to know who among Tnlsa’s "social elite" is 2905before large-scale experiments begin with her vacpant. Experts believe a vaccine is the only thing tlmt will ¯ in bed with each other, figuratively speaking. one. Learning whether it truly prevents AIDS will take tame an epidemic that has already killed 20 million people ¯ Top World editor Joe Worley took umbrage about TFN ¯ another two years. Many estimate these vaccines are still and infects 15,000 more daily. calling The Worm a country club newspaper some years a decade or more away. Dr. Gary Nabel, director of the National Institutes of " back. My response is just read Ms. Walker’s column, see So with clear answers so far off, is all’this optimism Health’s Vaccine Research Center, says that even if the ¯ how much space it regularly commands and try to argue realistic? ’~I ask myself whether it is justified based on the first versions are only modestly effective, tinkering will ¯ with me. Imagine if The Worm devoted as much space to science," says Dr.. Peggy Johnston, assistant director for probably make them better. ’"vVe’ll start with a Model T ¯ international news regularly as they do to Ms. Walker! AIDS vaccines at the National Institute of Allergy and and hope to get to a Mercedes fast." Another interesting aspect of Tulsa Worm "reporting" Infectious Diseases. "And my conclusion is yes." While much of the attention is on novel strategies, a is the flagrant disregard for professional ethics in some One reason is that scientists have lowered the bar. Until more traditional vaccine is already in final-stage testing. cases. Recently The World published an article about a now, all useful vaccines prevented infections. However, The AIDSVax, developed by VaxGen, has been given to ~¯ new image/fundraising campaign~oyq~ulsa~ s most pron~ithe human immune system cannot mm back an HIV 7,900 volunteers in North America, Europe and Thailand ¯ nent non-profit organization. The only problem was that infection, and no one knows how to make a vaccine that The vaccine is made from the outer wrapper of the AIDS the information in the article had/has yet to be released to accomplishes something the human body cannot do for virus and is intended to trigger antibodies to prevent ¯ the public. The "reporter" was privy to the information itself. ¯ infection. Many AIDS experts are skepti ,c01, because the because s/he serves on an advisory committee for the nonSo thenew vaccines are designed to accomplish the next approach has been disappointing in monkeys, and some " profit and took theinformation direcdy out ofanonpublic best thing- train the immune defenses to hold an infection early volunteers contracted HIV after being vaccinated. meeting without permission. Even first year journalism in Check without preventing it entirely. However, VaxGen’s president, Dr. Donald Francis, ¯ students would recognize that this was obtained and used "For a long time, people assumed that the only success¯ says more promising data from chimp experiments sugimproperly - and The World reporter who did this should fnl vaccine would completely prevent infection," says Dr. gest it has as good a chance as any other approach, ¯ know better. Robert Schooley of the University of Colorado. ’The new Researchers will take their first look at the results in ¯ But part of the incestuous nature of Tulsais that the nonstudies suggest that a vaccine might also have a moderab November, but unless it proves surprisingly effective, the " profit will likely tolerate just about anything The World ing influence on the disease process itself." experiment will condnue until at least the end of next year. ¯ does because The World donates so very many dollars a Scientists agree that blocking an infection requires the Next in development is an Aventis Pasteur vaccine. It ." year. Given this compromised financial relationship, it’s production, of powerful antibodies. This is how standard consists of a canarypox virus engineered to carry HIV little surprise that this non-profit only gets promotional vaccines work: They show the immune system a protein genes, followed by a boost with AIDSVax. The Walter ¯ newscoverage from The WorM. And incompetence at the that is unique to the germ. If the bug ever gets into the Reed Army Institute of Research plans to start testing on ¯ helm of this non-profit has been covered up for years by all body, the defenses will blaze back with antibodies that 16,000 volunteers in Thailand next summer. ¯ of Tnlsa’s news outlets. latch onto the protein, blocking the germ and destroyingit. Even ifaaone of these works out, other ideas are in the ¯ But shoddy journalism should hardly be a surprise to HIV, however, is a moving target. It mutates so fast that development pipeline. The National Institute of Allergy ¯ thosewho’vebeenrcading The World’sreligioncoverage it constantly changes the proteins on its surface. So a and Infectious Diseases, the biggest vaccine backer, is ¯ for some months. The first clue that The WorMhas thrown vaccine that triggers an attack against one strain of HIV financing two dozen different possible vaccines. ¯ journalistic balance out Joe Worley’s window onto Main may be powerless against another. Furthermore, the virus Still, a few dozen healthy monkeys like Godot do not ¯ Street is that World religion "reporter" Bill Sherman covers its surface with sugar, which hides its proteins from prove an AIDS vaccine is on the horizon. Some in the field ¯ allegedly is a "Promise-Keeper". antibodies. worry that the wishforonehas dissolved~bealthy scientific Being a member of this rightwing, misogyuistic and When all of this became clear in the 1990s, scientists skepticism. ¯ anti-Gay organization would be considered radically corn_ went back to basics. How is it, they asked, that people ¯ "We tend to swing from momentous lows to momenpromised as a journalist by most news organizations but often live with HIV for eight or 10 years before falling sick tous highs in the AIDS field," says Dr. Mark Mulligan of ¯ not at The WorM, apparently. with AIDS? And why do some never seem to get ill at all? " the University of Alabama at Birmingham. ’’We may be in ¯ Since Sherman took over the religion post, stories about The answer turns out to be another line of defense ¯ an Alan Greenspan time of irrational exuberance, because ¯ evangelical and fundamentalist groups have dominated against germs, the killer cells. Unlike antibodies, which " we need this so desperately." guard against free-floating microbes, the killer cells recognize 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 of aninfection, HIV burrows into helper " ¯ " : " Worm coverage 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 Sherman is asking for stories about miracles. ¯ 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 in Janua~ 2002. To be eligible, partners must first have had a 12-month relationship. They must also sign an affidavit that declares there is financial dependence between them. Gannett spokeswoman Tara 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 you have to provide good benefits," said Sherry Boschert, a board member of The National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. "It just makes good business sense." 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 Cincinnati Schools Address Anti-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 orientation and how to deal with the 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 of harassment, 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 legislatiqn would allow those heterosexual 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 . WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - A beating 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 - 18year-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 told her he was 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 Mroczkow sk, 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 a man’ 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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Cincinnati, 582-4128 The Episcopal Church Welcomes You 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. Union in 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. ¯ ¯ : . ¯ ¯ . ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ : ¯ : : ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯. : Supreme Court has ruled. The 8-1 decision will likely stretch beyond the city’s borders. Other cities, including 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 violation of the state law against same-sex marriage. But the justices agreed with the city’s argument that regulation of employee benefits is alocal matter. ’’We conclude that the city’s recognition of domestic partnershipis limited and that the program does not unconstitutionally 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 Minneapolis, Boston, and Arlington County, Va., were struck down. Courts are still considering cases in Philadelphia 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 abortion fights, 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 OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - The city of Vancouver can ¯ the GOP to independent in June. Shaheen said she keep providing health benefits to domestic partners of ¯ won’t officially decide whether to run until next year. Gay and Lesbian city employees, the Washington _" She is serving her third two-year term as governor. Washington State Court Upholds Partner Benefits �So. Africa to Provide Free AIDS Drug JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) The government made 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 with HIV,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 of B oehringer-Ingelheim in 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 shunned by their peers, abandoned by 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 collect" cattle. "My rd a’ firewood ¯ lng and tending fives 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 dis- ease. She said she frequently goes hungry and does not have proper clothes to wear. Monene, who asked to be identified only by her first name, urged the government to build more orphanages. "If they don’t do that, what are we going to become in the future?" she asked. The South African government has been 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 the first HIV/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 the University of Nairobi. 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 testing on both Kenyans and Britons. 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 Power Connect. Public Service Company of Oklahoma Service Is Now Available 24 Hours A Day, Seven Days A Week. These days, traditional 8-5 business hours aren’t always convenient. So PSO has made it easier than ever for you to contact us. Our Customer Service Center operates 24/7 - offering around-the-clock answers to your questions - and better access to service. Now it’s easier for you to inquire about your monthly electric bill. Or report a power outage. Or arrange tohave your power turned on or off. Our professionally trained, friendly and knowledgeable customer service representatives are standing by to serve you. All day, every day. 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More than 24 million Africans live with the vires but most 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 Timothy W. Daniel Attorney at Law An Attorney who will fight for justice & equality for Gays & Lesbians Domestic Partnership Planning, Personal Injury, Criminal Law & Bankruptcy 1-800-742-9468 or 918:352-9504 128 East Broadway, Drumright, Oklahoma Weekend and evening appointments are available. reversed itself and 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 newspaperHealth 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 the problem 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 SHANGHAI, China (AP) - The threatening phone calls and summons by angry officials are over. Government leaders who once shunned her now smile and say hello ¯ RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP)-Brazil’s in public. The reversal represents a victory : decision to disregard patent protections of sorts for Gao Yaojie, aretired gynecolo- ¯ and begin manufacturing a genetic vergist who publicized the spread of AIDS ¯’ sion of a powerful anti-AIDS drug could through illegal blood buying in rural vil- ¯ open the way for other developing counlages in the central Chinese province of ." tries to follow suit, experts said in August. ¯ I-Ienan. Brazil has become the first country to ¯ After years of official attempts to constrip the patent on an anti-AIDS medicaceal the deadly outbreak, the government ¯ tion. Health Minister Jose Serra said govis acknowledging that hundreds of villag- ¯¯ ernment laboratories would begin manuers are infected and that dozens have alfacturing Nelf’mavir, an anti-AIDS drug ready died. ¯ made by the Roche group and sold under Gao said a deputy governor of Henan ¯ the trade name Viracept. Serra justified even went out of his way last week to greet ¯ the move, saying six months of negotiaher at an art exhibition. The government ¯ tions with Roche failed to lower the drug’s still hasn’t broken down and told Gao she ¯ price sufficiently for Brazil to be able to was right. But it has stopped treating her as ~ distribute the drug free of charge to all in if she were trying to reveal state secrets, ¯ need. Brazil, has the highest number of Gao, 74, told The Associated Press by : AIDS victimsin Latin America, with about telephone. ’‘itrs so quiet now," she said. ¯ 203,000 people with the disease. "A couple of months ago, I was getting ¯ Mark Weisbrot, co-director of the Cenphone calls from government officials al- ¯ ter for Economic Policy and Research, a most every day." : Washington-based think tank, hailed Gao stumbled onto the hidden epidemic ¯ Brazil’s decision and said it could prompt in 1996, when one of her patients tested ¯ other countries to do the same. "I think positive for the virus that causes AIDS. ¯ you’regoing to see more developing counGao was able to link the infection to an ¯ tries resisting these attempts to enforce the illegal blood-buying industry in rural ¯ U.S. patent law all over the world. Very Henan. Since the 1980s, collectors had ." often, this is the ease: When one country been paying villagers for their blood, ex- ¯ challenges these laws, the U.S. backs tracting the valuable plasma and then rein- ¯ down," he said. Weisbrot points to U.S. jecting what was left back into donors’ ¯ decisions to back away from attempts at veins. Donated blood was often pooled ¯ stricter patent enforcement on AIDS drugs ¯ together, facilitating Transmission of HIV. in South Africa and Brazil. ¯ Gao printed more than 300,000 flyers The law also contains clauses that allow and 100,000 booklets to warn the villagers ¯ patents to be stripped in cases of national about the danger. She also paid for the ¯ emergency or when the company has been treatment of infected children. She said ~ judged to employ abusive pricing. Serra she has spent more than $25,000 of her ~ used the abusive pricing clause in justifyown money over the last five years. Health ." ing this move. officials at first ignored her and then grew Roche spokesman Daniel Piller said the hostile as her efforts drew Chinese and : company was not expecting Brazil’s latest foreign media attention, she said. _" move. "We were surprised to hear the In May, officials at the hospital where ¯° news from the Brazilian government. We she had worked in Zhengzhou, Henan’s really think the government of Brazil ~s capital, blocked her application for a pass- ~ really committed to combatting this dreadport to visit the United States to accept an ." ful disease, andin ourpoint of view, we are award for anti-AIDS activism. Officials ¯ stillinnegotiations withthe Health Minisaccused her of collaborating with "anti- ." try," Piller said by telephone from the Chinese foreign organizations," she said. ¯ company’s headquarters in Switzerland. But this month:the government abruptly �This year’s New Genre Festival, Octo~ ¯ cal. On the physical level, the artist reher 3-7,-2001, will present a diverse range " minds us that we can consciously hold our of artists, many of whom cross disciplin- " breath and halt the automatic process of ary lines to create exciting new art works.. ¯ breathing for a short period of time until These works push the limits of traditional " the body revolts and reasserts control. The media while incorporating the new media " act of breathing creates a dynamic intermadepossiblebytoday’s technology. New ¯ face between our exterior and interior environments. Genre Festival is a program of Living Arts On Thursday, Oct. 4, Willy Le Maitre & of Tulsa. Eric Rosenzveig will present "The ApThis year the following art venues have ¯ chosen to collaborate on promoting corn ¯ pearance Machine"- a live video installation which begins in New York City with temporary art in Tulsa: Living ArtSpace, Nightingale Theatre, Philbrook Museum " the collection of trash from the streets. The of Art, SoBo 2, TulsaModem Art Center, ¯ garbage starring in the drama is manipulated, analyzed, videotaped and then Tulsa Performing Arts Center Trust, Tulsa Pror~e~ ¯ le, University of Tulsa School of " streamed in realtime over the internet diArt, Utica Square " rectly to the Alexandre Hogue Gallery, Phillips Hall, University of Tulsa, 2935 E Since 1969, Living Arts of Tulsa has been steadfast inits mission of"presenting ¯ 5th St. It opens from 5-Tpm and continues and devdoping contemporary artforms in " through October 25. Eric Rosenzveig also Tulsa." Living Arts is interested in newly " will give a talk at TU about the work and other artworks using new technologies at evolving ideas and concepts, and in sharingits interests with the community through " 6pro. Chris Wildrick of ’~2funBasTards" from creative workshops, performances, exhi- " bitions, films/videos, demonstrations of ", Madison, Wisconsin will perform Local Reality Test: Temporal Continuity Test, current art, lectures, related educational an out-of-theater performance by walking activxties and research. Living Arts has two principal goals: 1) ¯ around Tulsa from 9-5pm asking people what timeitis. He will then check this time to bring Outside artists and works to Tulsa against his watch, marking down the difwho are pushing their media to its limit ference in minutes and his location. He and, 2) to present opportunities and. chalwill also check times fOund on public lenges for local artists to develop and docks. Throughout the day he will accupresent new, exploratory works,which are mulate avast amount of data regarding the not normally seen in Tulsa. discrepancies between time and space m ’~3rrrl Power" Elizabeth.Whitney is one Tulsa. of this year’s emcees and she will be A ground-breaking new program of the making several appearances throughout New Genre Festival this year, the Perforthe festival: Thursday at the Performance mance Open allows for several short perOpen; Friday at Die Audio Gruppe - 8pro formance artworks by artists from Tulsa andat A.K.A. - 10pro; and Saturday at Jos4 and around the country to be seen at one Torres Tama - 8pm. venue, The Nightingale Theatre, 1416 E Grrrls: Subversive Performances of 4th St 8:00pm $8. ($6. students) on ThursFemininity Utilizing multiple perso_~,ae day, Oct. 4. (Rizzo - tough girl, Barbie, Miss FlizaThe amazing Berlin-based multimedia beth, Bridesmaid, and Ethyl), Elizabeth art group, Die Audio Gruppe,build electroWhitney leads us through many aspects of acoustic clothing and then perform using stereo typed women today - only with a them. Studio Performances at the Tulsa twist! Performing Arts Center, Doenges ThencSis the other of this year’ s emcees and ater, 2rid. & Cincinnati, 8:00pm.$12. ($6. they will be making several appearances/ students) Friday/Saturday, Oct. 5/6. Resperformances throughout the festival: ervations are required through the PAC at Thursday at the Performance Open - 8pm; 596-7111 or www.tnlsapac.com. Friday at Jos4 Torres Tama- 10pro SaturA workshop will be offered, "Making day at Die Audio Gruppe - 8pro Electro-acoustic Clothing" with inventor he5 had its .begin~,~,n,gs as a band. AlBen0it Manbrey on Monday, Oct. 1, ways "very theatrical for a rock group, it 7:00pro at Living ArtSpaee. wasn’t until the dialmmer quit that the Also on "Oct. 5/6, Living Arts will remaining band members decided to ditch feature ’qm Exile Close to the Equator the gigs and dive into theatrical Personal Stories of Universal Truths in a experimentaion. Utilizing various disciSearch for the "American Dream." In this plines, technology and whatever else they autobiographical verbal and visual coican find, nc5 strives to incorporate the l lage, performance artist Jos~ Tortes Tama energy of a rock concert into their perfor: returns to Tulsa with a work that combines mances. On Wednesday, Oct. 3, 5-Spin will fea- : personal stories and incantations withdrature ’q’he Culture of Breath," an interac- ~ matic movement and visual tableaus. ¯ Moving rapidly from poetic drama to the tive computer projection insthllation by Chicago Art Institute Professor of New ¯ hilariously absurd, he creates a dynamic piece that explores the immigrant experiMediaTiffany Holmes which investigates ence and rites-of-passage in urban Amerithe physiological, the biological, and the ] can culture. ~psychological aspects of breathing. The New Genre Festival also will offer It opens at Living ArtSpace, 308 S ¯ Kenosha. The installation continues on : anumber more events. For moreinformadisplay through October 25. The act of ¯¯ tion, call 918-585-1234 or check out: breathing is presented as a series of visual ¯ www.livingarts.org. Living Arts of Tulsa is located at 308 S Kenosha. layers: physical, biotic, and psychologi- 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 �Hungry for Atlantic Herring or ¯ mother, takes him on a journey that inA Prince in a Shetland? : eludes a cast of ordinary but uncommon by Deborah J. Hunter ¯ people. His thoughts turn from Atlantic If you like Stephen McCauley (Object ¯ herring, "These are fish that travel inlarge ofMy Affection, Easy Way Out, Man ofthe " schools and reproduce as casually as I House and True Enough) you’ll love Louis untangle phone cords," to other species, Bayard. I read Bayard’s two novels, En- " "Cowbirds have been on mindlately. They "dangered Species (2001) and Fool’s Er- ¯ are brown-headed creatures that decline rand (1999) back to back. I get hungry for : the honor of building nests and instead lay" good writing with peculiar characters that ¯ eggs in thenests of other birds. Some birds happen to be Gay. pick up on the ruse, but Bayard gives us both most will happily incu"... Like MeCauley, in a feast of storytelling bate the new eggs as about thirty-something one of their own." Bayard gently Nick Broome who hasIn Fool’s Errand, urges toward parentbashes stereotypes Patrick Beaton learns to hoodandPatrick Beaton hate naps and learns to who is in search of love Seth. He thinks - "Prince Charming" or in Seth is helping him find of people this case "Prince Shetthemanin the cranberry land." Shetland sweater. He ’like you and me’ Like McCauley, thinks their days spent Bayard gently bashes in the parking lots of "(and some not stereotypes in favor of discount stores and their people "like you and so like anyone I nights spent in bars are me" (and some not so in search of a "Scottish like anyone I have ever have ever met)..." Prince" who Patrick met) that are trying to barely met on~ sleepy make alife that on most daysdoesn’t seen ¯ afternoon in someone’s den. the least bit-"altemative." ¯" That Seth is the ex-boyfriend of Patrick’ s Nick Broome’s experience with sperm ¯ ex-boyfriend, Alex only adds to the flavor banks and finding out his own motility ¯ of the stew, as does the long visit from ¯ rates are hilarious. Thephysiclan s assisPatrick’ s bi-polar father who ends up mar~ tant.., leads me down along hallway with ¯ rying his best friend Marianne. shell-colored carpet...She hands me three : Fool’s Errand is a long book and the medium-size glass vials, a box of Kleenex ¯ yearning for love is there under the escaand a back issue of Pro Wrestling maga- ¯ pades and in every day. Like Endangered zine." He evolves from wanting to propa- ¯ Species, the search is what gives life its gate to wanting to parent. His search for a ¯ substance, the finding is what helps bring ¯ ¯ Lesbian co-parem, or finally, a surrogate life’s meaning. in favor THE GILDED AGE Treasures from the Smitbsonian American Art Museum 9 SEPTEMBER -- 4 NOVEMBER 2OO1 THE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART 2727 SOUTH ROCKFORD ROAD : ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ." ¯ ¯ ¯ and other equality issues such as domestic partnership. Prior, HRC had issued $114,000 in but are asked to donate $10 at the door. Equality Fund grants and also gave $5,000 Earlierin September, Tulsa Oklahomans to the Federation of Statewide Political for Human Rights (TOHR) will kick off Advocacy Organizations. These grants the planning for Diversity Celebration 2002 helped to fund essential state house lobby from 5:30 to 7pm on Thursday, Sept. 6th at work, such as Maryland’s non-discrimiRenegades in the Rainbow Room. The nation and Texas’ hate crimes bills. public is welcome and for more informaOthers receiving grants include: tion, call 743-4297, or e-mail to ." Texas’ Lesbian/Gay Rights Lobby community@tohr.org ¯ which got a $5,000 grant to support their Looking forward to the end of October, ¯ lobby program, including to continue to TOHR will be hosting a Rocky Horror ." defeat attempted bans on same-sex marMasquerade Ball featuring Helga’s . riage and civil unions and to advance their Horribles to benefit the Pyramid Project ¯ safe schools initiative. (the-ftm.draising effort for a permanent ¯ Unity Utah will receive $4,000 to lobby commumty center) at the Downtown ." the Salt Lake City Council to codify an Doubletree on the 27th. More details will ¯ existing mayoral executive order which be available in October. ¯ prohibits discrimination in city employ" ment based on sexual orientation. This HRC Announces Grant to ¯ local project is an important first poliltical Oklahoma Group ...step for this organization, and also is an WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) made announced ¯ important first step towards state level decisions about its first round of Equality : advocacy. Vermonters for Civil Unions LegislaFund grants to Gay state lobbying groups ¯: tive Defense Fund is getting $5,000 for in 10 states. ¯ lobbying and polling efforts to keep the Amoung these grants (totaling $47,000) is one to Oklahoma’s Cimarron Alliance ¯ legislature from denigrating the legal stares of civil unions as a marriage-equivaFoundation of $4,000 to conduct the first ¯ lent. poll in Oklahoma to guidedevelopment of : A number of other organizations also public outreach messages, with special ¯ received grants or are still under consideremphasis on hate crimes, discrimination ¯ ation for aid. �¯ by Lamont Lindstrom 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 that causes . GayBoyScout,backthen,.. o[ the o~,anJ=atloi~ is to this fluid robe discharged wasanthinkable.Wenever .. ~ .’ . ,. " ’ ¯ from the body tends-to . turn boys into men ~.~ :’weaken his $[rength,"to " once "sniggered at.: the double entendre, so obvi- men-o[ a imrt-leu]ar tTl~, makehimlessabletoresist disease :. ~to yield:means ~ous today, in thefinal.lin,~e dmt I~. I w~’t alone of theBoy Scout oath: ’I-to Sacrifice strengthS,and promise .... to keepmyself my Troop. Several power and m~liness. physically strong, mentally Jeez, we ~ought. Could scout mates a|so ~rew awake and morally we even survive our teens.’? into Gayness. Many straight." Scoutmasterly duties,~ The Boy Scouts of parents, I’m sure, prayed given Boy Scout dogma, America, backed by five included the regulation of tlmt scouting would U.S. Supreme Court Jusboyish sexuality and this toughen up their tices, have recently aftask could be approached firmed their legal right to withall shades of interest. I worrisome sons .... " discharge Gay Scoutmas.... spent part of four s||mmers ters and perhaps also (although this is less ¯¯ at Wolfboro, a camp in the Sierra Nevada. clear) boys who affirm ahomosexual idenOar leaders trooped us up river to "Baretity. The Gay community andbeyondhave " Ass Slide" and ordered to take off our condemned this invidious policy as harm- ,. clothes and slide down shallow, mossy ful, But theScouts, clearly, are in a dicey ¯ river rapids. On one 50-mile hike, buckposition. We might try to understand, al- " naked Scoutmaster Bob chased five of us though not necessarily sympathetically, ¯ boys, equally buck-naked, squealing the orgardzati0n’s problems in ha,vigating ¯ through the woods because we refused to the dangerous American cultural ~hoals of ¯ hop into the icy aver. childhood and sex. Innocent male hi-jinks, of course. But ¯ The Boy Scouts have always had sex ¯ some of this past must inform the Boy ¯ and gender in mind. An explicit goal of the Scouts’ present sexual bad conscious. Itis organization is to turn boys into men - ¯ sweet irony,’as many have noted (e.g., see men of a particular type, that is. I wasn’t ¯ Tim Neal’s biography The B oy-Man), that alone in my Troop. Several of my scout ¯ -the founder of the Boy Scouts, Lord Robmates also ~ew into Gayness. Many par- . eft Baden-Powell, was obsessed with eats, I’m sure, prayed that scouting would ¯ "boyology," had a 30 year relation with a ¯ younger man, K~uneth McLaren- whom toughen up their worrisome sons. The Boy Scouts, !ike the Marines, Little ¯ he called The Boy - and adored watching League sports, and certain small fundahis lithesome Scouts swim nude. mentalist Christian colleges, are a last re- ¯ Postmodem theorists warn that the past sort of desperate parents hoping to make a (life-long male friend) is often misunderman out of one. My fellow Scouts ranged " stood in contemporary terms (Gay). Still, from the ambitiously normal to hopeless Baden-Powell and some of his Scoutmastwinks (although we didn’t have that word ter successors clearly appreciated boys in back then either): The proto-gangbangers ¯ complicated ways. at my school, who wouldn’t be caught ¯ Pricking this Boy Scout bad conscious, dead in the Boy Scouts, weren’t fooled by ¯ Americais currently on the warpath against our organized protestations of masculinany sort of child sexuality; When I was a ity. All those silly (if sometimes still sur- ¯ kid, we had never heard of the term sexual prisingly useful) ropes and knots. harassment let alone sexual abuse. These Although Troop 181 had no language of ¯¯ notions, like Gay, had yet to hit Martiuez. Gayness, this does not mean that there In that heyday of the miniskirt, my 7th were no sexual frissons - a sexuality that, ¯ grade Algebra teacher used to force those in an all-male organization, is at least by ¯ 12-year old gifts who wore the shortest default homosexual. Such currents surely ¯¯ minis to sit in the front row of his class so feed the organization’s recent touchiness he could gawk up their skirts. (He also about Gayness. ¯ used to hang troublesome boys out his I remember friends giggling over the ¯ second-story window by the scruffs of Boy Scout Handbook’s warnings against their neck.) Today? Run, don’t walk, to masturbation. When I got my first Handyour nearest hungry lawyer. book I eagerly sought out those paragraphs. ¯ The reasons for America’s recent childThe Handbook, subsequently, wo~tld be * sex pamc are complex, reflecting, probsomewhat liberalized. My 1960’ s edition, " ably, parental guilt about working morns however, hadn’t progressed much beyond ¯ and about divorce. Nowadays, with suspithese 1927 admonitions published under ¯ cious parents and enterprising lawyers all the subtitle ’~onservation" (which, in the o¯ around, the BOy Scouts have their backs to 1970’s, would acquire a more ecological, the wall. You can see why they mightnot less Taoist gignificance): "In the body of ¯ want to get in bed with us Gays. We every boy who has reached his teens; the ¯ remindthemoftoomuch, seeScout, p.11 KellyKirby, CPA, PC Certified Public Accountant a professional corporation Lesbians and Gay men face many special tax situations whether single or as couples. Electronic filing is available for faster refunds. 747-5466 4021 South Harvard Avenue, Suite 210, Tulsa 74135 IGTA member ~~ Call 341.6866 International TOH~ formoreinformation. TULSA COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY Country Club Barbering Custom Styling for Men & Women David Kauskey 3310 E. 51st, 747-0236, Tues.-Fri., 8-5:30, Sat. 8-5pro �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. Karma just bit me in 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. Of course this was three hours after meeting he_r, so you can imagine how frightened I was, thinking I’ d run into Psycho Lesbian From Hell. Remember Miss No-Longer-InterestedIn-Me? Well, she stir isn’t. But that’s not the point. Miss No-Longer-Interested-InMe 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 we respect 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. You need to know 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 since May 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-LongerInterested-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-LongerInterested-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, staring me in 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 about my 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 and dres sing in men’ 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, I am a"Diamond" to Miss UHaul. In fact, that’s her name for me. So what is my problem? I didn’t feel 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 it for me. Yes, I HAVE become 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-InterestedIn-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 what can 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’ re in love.’" My friend 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 let me know (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 would fall 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. �The NAMES Project Tulsa Area Chapter 3507 East Admiral Place Tulsa, OK. 74115-8211 (918) 748-3111 www.TulsaQuilt.org MEMORIAL Feast with Friends® in TV Land Saturday, September 29, 2001 Following the individual Dinner Parties, join us for the Dessert Extravaganza 8:30 to 10:30 PM Allan Chapman Activity Center, University of Tulsa, 5th and Gary, Admission js free for Dinner Hosts and their guests; others may attend for a $10.00 donation at the door � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document :9th Annual Feast For Friends i Was Death Sentence : And Other Community Events i Based onAnti-Gay Bias? ¯ ¯ 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. 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Lewis 592-0767 www.gaytulsa.org - website for Tulsa Gays &Lesbians Tulsa Agencies, Churches, Schools & O niversities AIDS Walk Tulsa, PUB 4337, 74101 579-9593 All Souls Unitarian Church, 2952 S. Peoria 743-2363 Black & White, Inc..PUB 14001, Tulsa 74159 Bless The Lord at All Times Christian Center, 2207 E. 6 B/L/G/T Alliance, Univ. of Tulsa United Min. Ctr. Chamber of Commerce Bldg., 616 S. Boston *Chapman Student Ctr., University of Tulsa, 5th P1. Church of the Restoratio~ UU, 1314 N.Greenwood *Community of Hope Church, 2545 S. Yale *Community Unitarian-Universalist Congregation Council Oak Men’s Chorale *Delaware Playhouse, 1511 S. Delaware *Democratic Headquarters, 3930 E. 31 587-7314 583-7815 583-9780 585-1201 & Florence 587-1314 747-6300 749-0595 748-3888 712-1511 742-2457 918.583.1248, fax: 583.4615 FOB 4140, Tulsa, OK 74159, e-mail: TulsaNews@earthlink.net Publisher + Editor: Tom Neal Writers + contributors: James Christjohn, Karin Gregory, Barry Hensley, J.-P. 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Main 501-253-7457 DeVito’s Restaurant, 5 Center St. 501-253-6807 Emerald RainbOw, 45 &l/2 Spring St. 501-253-5445 Heart of the Hills B&B, 5 Summit St. 501-363-9203 MCC of the Living Spring 501-253-9337 Geek to Go!, PC Specialist, PUB 429 501-253-2776 Old Jailhouse Lodging, 15 Montgomery 501-253-5332 Positive Idea Marketing Plans 501-624-6646 White Light, 1 Center St. 501-253-4074 JOPLIN, MISSOURI Spirit of Christ MCC, 2639 E. 32, Ste. U134 417-623-4696 * is where 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," cells by the billions, taking over their machinery, forcing them tobuildnew copies ofthevirus and obliterating then~ - ~ in theprocess. Eventually, though, the killer cells awaken ." ’ and destroy most 6f the infected cells before they can " : release more virusl Virus levels fall and then level off. : by Tom Neal, publisher/editor !n~volving~eca Q.odor an,d _a__~t. 80..o.th.er, monkeys...Wl~.y? .: In the years that fsollotw,athelwear ismnearlyaa t.e.. : Well,maybe. You’ve got tofigure that The TulsaWorld . us~ ot me mo,nKey,s: she says. ~re are not all tlmt , The body produces new hel cells almost as mckl as " has to love The Dail Okl " " " dif~ __ . . . per . .. q . y . . y .ahoman, its sister rag in Olda- ~~erm.en~unk2~Yns; _ ~. ,., , : ~e-v.~..rams,~.em. ~ut ,g~.,,d.ually;, their levels slide too :homaC.ity. After all, anything The World does, nomatter m~, m,~l~w u ~.~ Lrom monkeys ls Key. anaa : Iar._ _A_t tl~s point, .vtr~.s kilh,n~..arugs can restore the : ho..w ~ss-.ix?or a~_d.pro.vm~al it might be, is going to be ~veOf~~.anlong sclen,ttsts. So,,me,wonder ft. these . bal,,~ance; butoth_e~wise theresultls AIDS and dentla.., betterthantimtot wlmthasbeendeelaredAmericaYsworst ~ .:~~gtvenmega~aoses oi lao-~’ownvlri~: , . lne new :¢aceines are desi~.,ned tostart .the .ot~min~ .... news~aoer-Tbatbein,,.~id it’l~tillru~ %unt Wns mc a.y, f we hel -7 .World f bl :. 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" ,, . ,, - s .bLt t : liv,o,w!th vi ,s for decades or even a :, , My’favorite waste of newsprint is our local "society, ¯~.mv,~.~.,.,_~.,,,~.~uymm~_" 0t mr:. r~tv epl~mmlc, says.., -menme. ires como atso slow ~€ svread of,the disease; . column the wo k¢~-l~ rmrvaro s L~r.Norman Letvm. ’~low there is an.absolute ¯ because when virus levels are low. ~ie are much les~ : but wonde~ ff M~V~i~o%~’~t ~’a’~’~’~r~e’~ ....v and all 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. MCC United MetropolRan Coctmltardgy C~urch United is a cor-,gre~jaUon ofthe Univer~a~ Fellowship of Metropcdita~ Community ~hurcl~,s Sharing the ~oodness of the Lord with our community.= Sunday Morning Traditional 11:00 AM Wednesday EvenJn, Contemporary 7:00 PM Rev. Cathy Elliott, Pastor "1623 N. Maplewood (918) 838-1715 mcctulsa@aoLcotn Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Community ofHope 2545 South Yale, Sundays at llam, 749-0595 A Welcoming Congregation HOUSE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT Sun. 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Celebration, Nov. 2 - 4 Red Rock Tulsa Free Confidential HIV Testing Walk-in Clinics Tues. & Thurs., 5 -8 pm at the Center; 1307 East 38th Daytime appointments available. Call for more information: 918-584-2325 e i I v r American Red Cross American Red Cross Tulsa Area Chapter~ 10151 East Eleventh Tulsa 74128 Dannette Mclntosh Diversity Co-ordinator 838-1100 OPENARMS OPEN MINDS OPEN I-IFAI~S Saint Aidan 4045 N. Cincinnati, 425-7882 Saint John 4200 S. Atlanta Place, 742-7381 Saint Dunstan 5635 East 71st, 492-7140 Trinity 501 S. Cincinnati, 582-4128 The Episcopal Church Welcomes You 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. 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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 . once "sniggered at.: the turn boys into men ~.~ :’weaken his $[rength,"to " double entendre, so obvi- men-o[ a imrt-leu]ar tTl~, makehimlessabletoresist 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 KellyKirby, CPA, PC Certified Public Accountant a professional corporation Lesbians and Gay men face many special tax situations whether single or as couples. 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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. The NAMES Project Tulsa Area Chapter 3507 East Admiral Place Tulsa, OK. 74115-8211 (918) 748-3111 www.TulsaQuilt.org MEMORIAL Feast with Friends® in TVLand Saturday, September 29, 2001 Following the individual Dinner Parties, join us for the Dessert Extravaganza 8:30 to 10:30 PM Allan Chapman Activity Center, University of Tulsa, 5th and Gary, Admission js free for Dinner Hosts and their guests; others may attend for a $10.00 donation at the door Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data newspaper periodical Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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