16 20 644 https://www.history.okeq.org/files/original/5a7f6fbca17e7fa0df87d3e3cdda0f55.jpg 0e7511b0b72731c11cce0aad31be669d https://www.history.okeq.org/files/original/22c757ccbca213631769c1604c4ab941.pdf db25bf09d6c0e879203f02da1b23e3ed PDF Text Text ���Baptists..Support Anti-Gay ,initiative the charity lis, t would be "disappointing.""’We have no .choice, it S a national policy the’ local councils must follow," Pokorny s~id. "We cannot change our policies. But we do not ask the sexual orientation of anyone who wants to join, and I don’tbelieve we~have ever denied anyone membership." Pokorny said he did not know how much the state, employee charity program contributesannually to the Boy Scouts. One U.nited Way official said the total was atleast $25,000. Wyman said her position~"is one of intolerance for discrimination, no~intoieran~e of the Boy Scout~ SACRAMENTO~ Calif. (AP) - California Southern ¯ Baptists havepl’edged to support an aati-Gay marriage. initiative on the March 2000 ballot, saying it affirms the sanctity of .marriage. The motion to support ¯ Proposition 22, which would prohibit the _state from ~ recognizing same~sex marriages, received unanimous ". supp0rtat the Califomi~iSouthern Baptist Convention. ¯ Themove comes shortlyafter the Georgi,a Southern ¢. Baptist Conveiition ousted twp ~hu~ti6~ f6~allo~iing ¯. _orgapi~zati~n.’" . ¯ h0mb~xtmls’t0 lie difir~h !eadersai~ff:-f6r all:owing a Gay marriage, tb btiJeff0,~r~,ed at iSn~ 6f th~ ch~ehes. The motioii to ~slapport the iniffafive Wasmade :b3) Norma Ma~of Glendale, a trustee Of the church’s Ethics and Religious" LibertyC0mmission,_whi~h SACRAMENTO, California (AP) - California has instructs churches on the nioral and Socialimplicati ons quietly eliminated a regulation that required state of political is sues. "It’ s a significant posi~,ve statement government to automatically oppose adoptions of to reaffirm ’the sanctify bf marriage,’ May said. foster children by Gay and other unmarried couples. "Some peoplesay this is negative, but I don’t see it Attorneys representing Gay and Lesbian groups that way. We neeit strong family values now With all challenged the regulation earlier this year, and the the vidence thatgoes on." state Department of Social Services concluded the The convention also overwhelmingly voted, without policy "did not go through the proper legal process," debate, to condemn Gov. Gray Davis, for signing agency spokeswoman Sidonie Squier said. The change, recent Gay civil rights bills. The state organization approved by the Gov. Gray Davi~, a Democrat, rescinds will send Metter toDavis outlining.their"disapproval a 1995 order by then-Gov. Pete Wilson, a Republican. of recent bills passed in California ~ving"special Yet that doesn’t mean Davis supports adoption by rights’ to homosexuals," said the Rev. Wiley Drake. Gay couples, said spokesman Michael Bustamante. The new laws ban discrimination based on sexual "The previous administration took a position~.on orientation in public schools, strengthen protection adoptions. This administrauon is not," he said. ’¢I’his againstjob discrimination.based on sexual orientation governor has made the’ determination that, the .and provide health benefits to the same-sex domestic professionals, not the state, are best suited to decide" partners bf state employees. which couples are suitable adoptive parents. "When the governor signed this legislation he Last month, the state advised all California adoption made clear that he believed that all Californians have agencies and county welfare directors of the shift. a contribution to make," Davis spokesman Michael Opposition to all petitions by unmarried couples to Bustamante’said. Davis has not taken a position on adopt a foster child hadbeen state policy since 1987. Proposition 22, Bustamante said. Ed Condom 38, who adopred a child with his partner during the 1995 regulatory lapse, said the change is an important step. "There was kind of a sClfizophrenic effortby the state," Condon said. "There was recruiting of Gays and Lesbians into foster care HARTFORD, ,Coma, (AP).- The Boy Scouts of but you couldn’ t take the final step" and adopt. He and America’s r(fusal to admit Gays may cost the his partner plan to complete the adoption of their organization donations through a state employee second child this week contribution program. The United Way program The Rev. Louis Sheldon, chairman of the Anaheimallows state employees to contribute to a list: of based Traditional Values Coalition, said the state’s charities with donations taken directly from their decision "is not in the best interest of children and the paycheoks. home environment that they need so desperately in Cynthia Watts Elder, director of the state’s such an amoral society." California. No Opposes.Gay adoptions Boy Scouts’ Anti-Gay Stance May Cost Charity Commission on Human Rights and OppOrtunities, said allowing the Boy Scouts to parti(ipate in the paycheck deduction program may violate Counecticut’s anti-discrimination laws. "Allowing the-Boy Scouts of America to benefit from a fundraiser that uses state-resources . . . including the solicitation in employees~ paychecks.., potentially makes the state a party to the discrimination," Elder wrote in a recent letter to the Connecticut State Employees’ Campaign for Charitable Giving comnllttee. The state also may prevent the United Way from giving the Boy Scouts any employee paycheck contributions not designated for a particular agency. ,Such donations are usually divided equally anzong all member charities of the United Way. The CHRO began examining the state’s United Way drive after the New Jersey Supreme Court found the Boy Scouts pblicy bhnning Gays was unconstitutional. Elder’s letter prompted the employees’ charity campaign committee last week to request .that the CtIR.O=defin~ the.committee! s legal respoff~ibil~tie~;a~step .whida official_ s sai~l N aney ~yman,,che S tate~l~p troller and h, membe r of the (ornm~ttee,~vants hergroup to reques~a Written statement from each parti.cipating ¢hari~z.ist~ting that it will comply with Cqnnecticut anti~di~crimii~ation laws. "I believe this matter to be of Such magnitude as to warrant exploration of the possibility of cessation of this year’s campaign funds to-the (Boy Scouts of America) ,, Wyman wrote in a letter to the commi ttee. Harry L. Pokorny, chief executive officer for tile Boy Scouts of America’s Three Rivers" Council in East Hartford, said his organization’s removal from MCC-United formerly ,Family-of Faith,& Greater Tulsa MCC Joined as one body of believers. ¯ Come celebrate With us. ....... Sunday Services, 1,1-am~ - .’1623-North Maplewood, 838-1715 Cathy Furlong, Ph.D. £icensed Psychol gi 1980 Utica S’~lu~re Medical Center Tulsa, Oklahoma 74114 voice: 628-3709, faX: 712-9854 Adults, Children, Couples, and Families HO SE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT Sun. Worship, 10:45 am, Sunday School, 9:30 am Wed. Bible Study, 7 pm 3210b S. 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"They felt that it would be very strange to ¯ attorney and members needed more time look into the have their son grow up in a world where their legal ." matter, board member Maureen Aschoff told the relationship to him was recognized, but their ’ audience. ’’This is an important and complex issue," relationship to each other was not," said Bonauto, of : she said. But Kendra Huerd of People for the~ American the BOston-based Gay & Lesbian Advocates & : Defenders. ¯ Way, a legal defense organization also representing Their case uses three legal arguments, including ." the Students, said the delay violated federal law. the notion that marriage is a fundamental right. Iris " ’‘They have had plenty of time," she said. "They have to understand the consequences of their delay." also gateway to hundreds of rights andresponsibilities Codell and Ms,’ Huerd said a lawsuit against the and a unique status which designates the "person to ¯ board would be filed before the next meeting. call if I get hit by a bus," Bonauto said. StUdent Anthony Colin~ 15,proposed the dub as a. Although the legal battle has proved to be a : cumbersome process, therehas been growing support i place for all students at Fl Modena High School to disenss issues related to sexual orientation. for the plaintiffs as indicated by public opinion polls, Although reviewing proposed :campus clubs is Bonauto said. "People areinterested and engage~! and : they get the civil rights issue. And of course, some *, generally aroutine press, board meiffbers decided people don’t.:’ : to have a public vote after holding a"forum to get Because the case is predicated entirely on the state ¯ community feedback. The debate has lined up parents and religious leaders constitution, there will be no U.S. Supreme Court : review. The ruling, however, could prompt.other ’_ who say school is no place to deal with sexual issues states to begin mapping out their own strategies, said ¯ against those who say it is the perfect place to teach state Rep. Michael S. Pisaturo, who is one of two " tolerance. Jack Lewis., a parent of three children in the school openly Gay elected officials in the Rhode Island " Legislature. : district, pleaded with the board to not v ote for club. He For the last three years, he has filed bills asking for ¯ suggested the district bring a psychologist.in to ineet legalized marriage for Gays and Lesbians; but has " with students who want to talkabout sexual orientation. never called for a hearing or a vote on those bills. ¯ "I love my children enough to die for them," he told Instead, he plans to take action once the Vermont ¯ the board. "I am begging and pleading with the people who want to form this dub.., to let me be the father decision comes down. "I will continue to. introduce the bill until it is thelaw of theland," said Pisaturo, co- : of my two sons." But student Heather Zetin, 15, disagreed. ~’The chair of the event. ’’That is the promise I have made " to the Gay and Lesbian community of Rhode Island." : point of this .dub is about having a place to get But for now, his work remains a symbolic gesture. ¯ together to talk," the high school junior told board "Clearly, it’s going to be a long road,".he said. " members. ’!It’s not about sex, it’s not about recruiting ¯ or anything like tha.C’ ¯ After the board’ s Vote, which was met by boos from ¯ both sides, heated debates between Gay stndeiats and ¯ their parents and those opposed to dub broke out. A recorded church sermon by Pastor Rick Danna of ." BERLIN (AP)-Leading oppositionpoliticiaias called ¯ Anaheim was left on the Windshields of cars parked on Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder’s government to ¯ outside the school district’s offices. It advocated stop delaying on a campaign promise to grant legal ¯ respect for all people, but derided what it termed "the rights to Gay couples, but coalition members said the ¯ homosexual agenda." ruling parties are split over how far to go. Several people have suggested following the Former parliamentary president Rita Suessmuth, ~ example set by school officials in Salt Lake City, who who chairs the women’ s grouping in the conservative : in 1996 did away with student dubs rather than allow Christian Democratic Union, said in Welt am Sonntag : such an organization. The decision is being appealed that the government should create "a sensible ¯ in federal court. r.egulation for registered life partnerships", dealing with such tax and legal questions as inheritances. Guido Westerwelle, general secretary of the liberal Free Democrats, noted that the governing Social : LOS ANGELES (AP) - The City Council voted to Democrats and Greens promised before the September ¯ - extend rules for domestic partner benefits so they also 1998 election to introduce rights for Gay couples in ¯ apply to companies that do business with the city. An their first 100 days if elected. Instead, the partners : ordinance unanimously approved would require have brought to the matter "only vague, confused : municipal contractors that offer health msurance to ¯ workers and their spouses to also extend the benefits talk," he told the same newspaper. Justice Minister Herta Daeubler-Gmelin said in ¯ to their Gay, Lesbian and heterosexual domestic September she hoped to introduce a bill "soon" to : partners. grant some legal recognition to same-sex couples. "There are people like me, who have been in a But a leading Social Democrat in parliament, Dieter ¯ committed relationship for 20 years, and are not able Wiefelspuetz, told Welt am Sonntag there are "very ¯ togetbenefits," saidCouncilwomanJackieGoldberg, different positions" within the governing coalition on ¯ whois a Lesbian and author of the proposal. "It seems what should be included with the registered only a matter of fairness to offer to all workers the partnerships. benefits now offered only some." Greens lawmaker Volker Beck said the main point : Councilman Rudy Svorinich at first voted against of conflict is over granting Gay couples the right to : the proposal. That would have pushed adoption back adopt children, which his party favors but the Social ¯ one week. But he agreed to leave the chamber so the Democrats reject. ¯ council could pass the proposal unopposed and send ¯ it to Mayor Richard Riordan for consideration. Svorinich said he opposed it because some firms ¯ : might stop offering benefits to all their employees jus! ¯ to get out of the domestic partner rule. "It could end ¯" up hurting more people than it helps," he said. ORANGE, Calif. (AP) - School board members have Goldberg says she does not think firms will risk put off a vote on a Gay high school student’ s request i losing their workers by taking such a step. Riordan is to form a dub, prompting the teen’s attorneys:to say ¯ leaning toward approval but wants to study the they will sue because of discrimination. ¯ proposal’s impact, an aide said. "What’ s most disappointing about this is that this is : ’q]ae mayor will evaluate this through the lens of a school board entrusted with the education of these ~ equal opportunity and the fact that Los Angeles is the students, including civic virtues," said attorney David Codell. ’qqae example they should set for students is ¯ most diverse cityin thenation," Deputy Mayor Noelia : Rodriguez said. to follow the law." Under the rule, homosexual and heterosexual The Orange Unified School District voted 7-0 to ¯ domestic partners could seek benefits from employers consider the request Dec. 7 after an emotional meeting : that already offerhealthbenefits andhave city contracts attended by more than 300 parents, students and : worth at least $5,000. community leaders. Germans Debating Couples Recognition ¯ LAAdds Partner Benefits Students Sue School Board Over Gay Club �Fashion Show Goes to the Dogs Now there is a place to go: the new online treatment directory of the American Foundation for AIDS Research. Since 1985, the directory has been NEW YORK (AP) - Dogs took over the catwalk at the Kit Kat Klub for thenational " published in a book of hundreds of pages. launch of Canine Couture, a collection of " The foundation placed an expanded utilitarian fashions created by today’s : version of it online at www.amfar.org/td. leading designers for the 21st-century dog. ¯ Directory editors plan to update the online Canine Couture is part of fund-raising : version continuously; the printed version efforts by the Web site www.pets.com. It " will still be published twice a year. Dr. Kenneth H. Mayer, the director of will benefit the Design Industries the Brown University AIDS Program in Foundation Fighting AIDS and animal Pawtucket, R.L, said he has used the humane organizations. Nearly two dozen dogs wore fashions ¯ foundation’s printed directory smceit was createdbyleading designers DonnaKaran, ¯ first published. He said patients were coming to him asking about treatments . Todd Oldham, Carolina Hen’era, Isabel Toledo, Nicole Miller, Kate Spade, James " they had read about and he relied on the " book as a quick reference for analysis of Purcell and others. all medical claims. The runway show started late "because "There are some patients who will the makeup artist didn’t show up for the invariably .know more about the latest dogs," joked Julie Wainwright, CEO of treatment than the doctor," Mayer said. Pets.com. But as soon as the dogs - of all That is especially true if the patient is sizes and breeds - hit the catwalk, they seeing a doctor who only treats a few ruled the evening. Elite model Maggie Rizer - a familiar " )atients with HIV and AIDS, he said. The online directory will include Web face on the runways of New York, Paris, links to abstracts of original research, Milan and London - was among the saving the reader the time of going to a humans who accompanied big dogs, little medical library. An up-to-date listing of dogs, shy dogs and rowdy dogs as they clinical trials of ne~v treatments that are strutted their stuff. Seeking patients will also be on the site. Some of the doggie designs were "I can look up in the directory and find whimsical; others were practical. They out where clinical trials for new and ranged from a green sweater paired with a promising therapies may be found," Mayer big purple hat to a glittery collar andleash. said. During spring and summer 2000, the The online directory was launched in Canine Couture collection will tour the Philadelphia to coincide with the United States. The collection will be convention of the Infectious Diseases displayed in fashion shows held at Dog Society of America. Bob Huff, the Day AfternOon, a fun-filled day of - directory’s editor, said he has to remove. activities and contests for dogs and their some information from each editionof the pet owners. The event will be held in printed directory to keep it to amanageable Atlanta, Boston, Dallas/Fort Worth, Los size, something that will not be a problem Angeles, Minnesota, New York, San in cyberspace. Francisco, Seattle, Hartford, Conn., and Dr. Gary A. Noskin, the medical director Washington, D.C. of infection control and health care At the end of the tour, there will be an epidemiology at Northwestern University auction of the donated designs, with Medical Scheol in Chicago, said the timely proceeds benefiting DIFFA and animal nature of an online directory should be a humane organizations. hig asset. To ~,et something written, peerDavid Sheppard, executive director of reviewed and published takes a good year DIFFA, said the organization had raised to 15 montlas at a minimum," Noskin said. over $25 million for AIDS organizations Adding another delay with a twice-yearly since its founding in 1984. "DIFFA is publishing schedule would further hamper having its best y ear" , he said, thanks to getting reliable information, he said. organizations like Pets.corn Dr. G. Diego Miralles, who treats The online snpplier of pet products, patients at Duke University Hospital and information and services has a $1 million also serves as amedical adviser to Triangle Pets.commitme~nt Fund, which provides Pharmaceutica|s of Durham, N.C., said direct financial support to organizations there is already a lot of information about of two types: "people helping animals" AIDS and HIV on the Web. But, he said, and "animals helping people." this is the first site he knows of that puts so Wainwright said Pets .commitment was much information in one place. created because many of the organizations "Having one Web site where you can that bring people and animals toge@er"in do all your shopping in has got to be very special, life-changing ways are useful," Miralles said. "Physicians don’t underfunded, making it difficult for them haye much time to spend an hour cruising to fulfill their missions. the Web every day." Funds will go to shelter organizations, He also said many Web sites direct programs that train animals to assist and unsnspecting patients to quack treatments. support people, and organizations that As long as the foundation is careful about provide pet owners with expert care and editing its site, he said, it should be a wellness information. protection for consumers. Kevin Robert Frost, the foundation’s director of clinical research and information, said the site is intended for a wide variety of people, including doctors; PHILADELPHIA (AP)-, The AIDS nurses, social workers and sophisticated .patient Walks int0the doctor s Office with patients. But he said it has limits. a newspaper dipping about what appears The foundationreeommends thatpeople to be apromising experimental treatment. who have just been diagnosed with HIV The doctor, who only treats a few AIDS or AIDS should learn about the disease patients, has not heard of the treatment. from their doctors, social workers, support The patient wants to participate in groups and others first before turning to clinical trials of the experimental therapy. the Web site,.he said. Where can the doctor turn to find out "I think alot of human contact is what’s whether the treatment is appropriate and necessary," Mayer said. who is running the experiment? Online Treatment D rectory for HIV The More Change... Postage Stamp 1985 22¢ 1998 32, Min|mum Wage Average New Car Price 1985 $3.35 1998 $5.15 1985 $ 9,011 1998 $20,000 The More Things Sgay The Same. Average Price of Electricity Per Residential kWh 1985 6.4¢ A lot has changed since 1985. 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Compulsory licensing enables governments to provide medicines cheaply by licensing local firms to manufacture thedrugs using formulas patented by other compames. "Stop interfering with poor countries" efforts to increase access to essential medications," said Susan Whitaker, a spokeswoman for ACT-UP’s Philadelphia chapter, after leaving the building. Thailand and South Africa are among the countries that want to license companies to produce patented medicines if their manufacture is in the public interest. Repeated calls by. The Associated Press to the US Trade Representative’s office were not immediately returned. Four of the protesters chained themselves together at the wrists with their arms inside sections of plastic pipe, five inches in diameter and four feet long. District of Columbia firefighters were called to help Federal Protective Services guards saw through the pipes and cut the chains. Six men and four women from Pennsylvania and New Jersey were expected to be charged with urdawful entry, trespass and disorderly conduct all misdemeanors. "The government is going to prosecute them for executing their First Amendment Rights," said Thomas Rnffin, an attorney representing the protesters. Ms. Wqaitaker and another woman who left the building voluntarily will not be charged, officials said. So. African Official Defends .Policy President Thabo Mbeki told the legislature on Oct. 28 that there was significant evidence the drug was dangerous, a claim scoffed at by many researchers in South Africa and abroad ~ well as U.N. AIDS officials. AZT is one of the oldest and most established AIDS drugs and researchers consider it a significant weapon in preventing mother-child transmission. It is approved, in South Africa, the United States and scores of other countries. South Africa has one of the world’s worst and fastest-growing AIDS problems. Tshabalala-Msimang said that up to 4 million South Africans are infected with the virus that causes AIDS, compared to a previous government estimate of 3.6 million. That amounts to nearly one-tenth the population. Providing AZT, along with other drugs in the usual combination therapy, to all infected South Africans would far exceed the entire health budget, she said. Tshabalala-Msimang also cited studies on the effectiveness of preventing motherto-child transmission, noting that AZT reduced the risk for only a small number 6f newborns because up to three-quarters of babies born to HIV-positive mothers did not get the disease anyway. "We don’t know which babies will be in the healthy 75%, so we have to give the drugs to.all mothers with HIV/AIDS," she said. Exposing so many healthy babies to potentially toxic drugs was not justified, she said. But John Moore, an AIDS researcher at Rockefeller University in New York, said AZT’s toxicity to infants is poorly supported by evidence, and that treating children with AIDS is much more expensive than paying for AZT to prevent infection. South Africa’s health ministry is reviewing AZT’s safety, a review manufacturer Glaxo-Wellcome says is unnecessary. 10 million Chinese New HIV Infections BEIJING (AP) - Rampant prostitution and sharp increases in the incidence of sexual diseases are opening the door to AIDS in China, and unsafe sex could replace drug use as the main route of infection, state media reported recently. Without effective control and prevention, more than 10 million Chinese could be infected with the HIV virus that causes AIDS by the year 2010, up from an estimated 400,000 people now, the China Daily said, quoting Ministry of Health official Chen Xianyi. But with the correct measures, the number of HIV positive individuals could belimited to 1.5 million, Chen added, Police arrested 420,000 prostitutes and their clients in 1996, but that is only a tenth of the numbers involved in the illegal CAPETOWN, SouthAfrica (AP)- Citing concerns about the cost, side effects and effectiveness of drugs such as AZT, South Africa’s health minister on Tuesday defended the government’s refusal to provide the anti,AIDS drug through the public health system. Giving perhaps the most detailed explanation yet, of, her, reasons, Manto. Tshabalala-Msimang told Parliament the nation’s health policy rests on the "affordability and appropriateness" of. treating people with HtV or AIDS:- : -L Th_e govemmenL.must :"ensure~that w~.~ .~ polir~’~fi~ates. China"~so rep0~ied pro~cidethe peoplein our country who are~ living, wi~h-HIg/:AIDS :with.treatment, di~eas~ in 1998,an incr~as~’b~’J %~er that,,is .not: only :clinically, effective in~ Lg~.., butstill$_u,st a tdnth offlle:~e fi~e dealing with the progress of the disease: "’ rf not Mgiier, 0ie sfiat~niii ~fia News but also cost effectiv e, in terms of what we ~ Agency said. can afford," Tshabalala-Msimang said. ¯ So far, about 70% of the estimated There has been a major debate on AIDS ¯ 400,000 HIV positive individuals are treatments in South Africa, with : intravenous drug users, many of-whom researchers and AIDS activists calling on ¯ were infected by sharing needles. But, as ¯ the government to provide AZT to HIVin other parts of the world, unsafe sex infected mothers to prevent transmission ," could replace drug use as the main means to newborns. Activists ’also have called ¯ of infection in China. for the anti-retroviral drug to be provided to rape victims. �:, very "Greetings, folks, and a happy Yule &, silly Solstice to everyone! (Everyoneneeds: " a little silliness, now and then.) I would like to .take a moment tospeak: of a personal matter and to give thanks to: someone who deserves it: My mother had a heart attack and was hospitalized. The day I was leaving work to drive down to Fort Worth, something told me to look at the temperature gauge on my car; which was doing an unusual .,dance. I decided to have it checked, anda blown head gasket was the [~llal result: "Do NOT drive it on the freeway!’: being the warning of the mechalfi c. Given my history of relatives and friends going into hospital and not cormng out, or not too well if they did, I get a little nervous when loved ones good. Idisagreed with the Tulsa World’s assessment of Lewis Cleale’s Joe Gillis as being to weak a voice for the role, I thought he did well. And I am glad to report his is as nice as he is handsome. Pianist Jim Brickman ¯ go into hospitals. Tom Neal, editor, mid friend, graciously, loaned me the air fare :e get down there. ¯ And at an hour’s notice, ~t was not cheap. : That was ~va\ above mid be.vondcand I : wanted to mention it ¯ tte can, on occasion, be a pretty race : guy. Even if his entertai~m~ent writer’ sometimes utilizes his foibles for," humorous purposes. So now ~ have to be : tnce - which is ~dnd of frustrating, since ". iherc goes my best material. I was at’rai’d I’d have nothing to write ~ about tkis month. Not ;o... the sun has set ¯ on Sunset Boulevard, but the ~nemories ," shali ahvavs remain. . The day ! showed l’etuh| Clark to her dressing room - she walked in, in ftdl.: Nonna Desmond drag - long flowing. leopard skin print coat with black cnffs : and collar, black pant suit, darksunglasses, : ,’rod yes - a turban. Black ruff, leopard skin : prini, of course. Playing Norma since. 1996 would have ,an effect, l suppose. : "’And now, Mr. DeMille.. I’m ready for : my dresdng room." . outh Boston Company, ¯ one of Tulsa’s newer and interesting galleries, which is h:~,ated at 1730 S. Boston (584-7000) is showing the work of IrishAmerican artist, Jon Michael Riley, along with other works by Shan Goshorn, David ° llalperu, Grog Roach and others. :~. Rilev’s. images of the Irish landscape and monuments, frequently with enigmatic nude male or female fignres ,are striking, lovely works which, make you wistf, no disrespect to the other artists, that the entire show had been :levoted to his work. Studying in the US and France, Riley took a Master’s Degree at New York University’.s Graduate Institute of Film & Television has had a career in both film and in still photography, fie produced three major one man shows at the Soho I noticed that some interesting "Clarkisms" scooped notes, adding an extra note here and there increased during Petula’s numbers over the performances: Opening night was her strongest perfonnance; _as the run progressed she was stIaining for sonic of those notes. Insofar as backstage gossip goes, I was witness to one "star" fit that was just amazing to behold. Petula IS the greatest star of all -just ask her, she’ll tell you. She did inake an apology of sorts later¯ I heard of a couple of other tantrums, as well. As oue person remarked,"So, you met Petulm~t. ’ The next shows at the PAC will be the usual rounds of holiday shows: ATC’s Christmas Carol; "i’ulsa Ballet’s Nutcracker (_’,all 596-7111 for dates mid times ]he ever handsome pianist Jim Brickmau wil! be perfolming at the PAC on the tenth. I look forward to watching his fingers fickle the ivories, and listening to him pla.,, the pimlo, too. His work is so~ne of the most beauti ful I’ve heard in a long time. Don’t miss this one. 596-7111 for tickets¯ I’m looking forward to Peter Buffeli’s "’Spirit: A Journey in Dance, Drum, and Song, Jannary 3 and 4th, 200(; at the Brady Theatre. It’s a wonderful show, and having corn ersed with Peter, I only wish he were performing at the PAC and Petulant had been at the Brady. I’m wondering if the Clmstjolm that was listed on the video and CD as one of the Iroquois Singers will be traveling with the troupe. That would be ironic... Photo Gallery between 1974 and 1978. In addition, tfis ;xork was included in several group shows and was published in the photographic press. He began, with his spouse, a photo-imaging business. concentratihg on corporate/industrial & advertisin g accounts. In the mid-90’s, Riley began to return to his artistic roots, spending less time with demanding commercial assignments and more time with l~is Own art. The images in the SoBo exhibit sprang from a trip to Ireland which involved family history along with other Irish subjects. The work, still unfinished, is being shown in galleries across the USA and work is in progress for the book version of the show entitled "Ireland: Spirits in the Land". Check out www.irishimage. om in January 2000. the First Annual \. \ ,:g’. , ",, "\ loliday Home Tour December ~ ,_, .TOHR 1999 , 12 pm -5 pm ~ ~ti :k~ts: $5.00 & on sale now~ tickets als~ a~i~ fie ~ the houses, the day of the tour c~ll ~ .74~4297 for more information :~H~ ~ay~ception & Silent Auction ~e~9~be~,11, 1999 / 6 pm- 9 pm Tulsa, Ga~Com~unity Se~ices Center ...~ 1~07 ~ 38t~ Street (38th & Peoda) Parade of Lights. Come celebrate the spirit of the holiday season at the PSO Christmas Parade of Lights. Saturday, December 11, Downtown Tulsa at 6 p.m. View parade floats up close. FridaY, December 10. at. the ttoliday?est (Brady Arts District) from 6-9 p.m. Public Service Company of Oklahoma A Cen~al and South West Company �Illl Tulsa Parents,. Families and Friends of Lesbian~ and Gays (PFLAG) ~nd TOHR, Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights invite you to a Community. Holiday Dinner & Dance Monday, December 13th The Silver Star Saloon 1565 So. Sheridan !~ SUNDAYS Bless the Lord At All Times Christian Center Sunday School - 9:45am, Service - 11 am, 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815 Community of Hope (Welcoming); Service - 6pro, 2545 S. Yale, 585-1800 Community Unitarian Uni~ersalist Congregation Service - 11am, 2545 S. Yale, 749:0595 (Welcoming) Church of the Restoration Unitarian Universalist Service - 11am, 1314 No. Greenwood, 587-1314 Metropolitan Community Church United Service, 11am, 1623 North Maplewood, Info: 838-1715 House of the Holy Spirit Ministries, Inc. Sunday School - 9:45am, Service - 10:45mn, 3210b So. Norwood Parish Church of St. Jerome (Evangelical Anglican Church in America) Mass - 11am, 205 W. King (east of N. Denver), Info: 582-3088 Unity Church of Christianity Services: 9:15 & 11:00 am, 3355 S. Jamestown, 749-8833 University of Tulsa Bisexual/Lesbian/Gay/Transgendered Alliance 6:30 pro, Meets at the United Ministry Ctr., 5th & Evanston, 583-9780 ~" MONDAYS Dinner at 6:45, Dancing at 8pm Dance Instruction by Bobby Davis Pot Luck Diq~,.er, ReaseBring: A-H, Vegetable, I-P, Salad, Q-Z, Dessert Turkey, ham, soft drinks, and place settings provided, Cash bar. Must be 21 or older, Anon-smoking event. Mixed Volleyball, Helmerich Park, 7lst & Riverside, 6pm, call Shawn at 243-5190. HIV Testing Clinic, Free & anony~nous testing. No.appointment required. Walk in testing: 7-8:30pm, 834-TEST (8378) 3501 E Admiral (east o|" Harvardl aIV Rap Sessions at Bless the Lord At All Times Christian Center 7:30pro, 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815 PFLAG, Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians & Gays 2nd Mon/each too. 6:30pm, Fellowship Congregational Church, 2900 S. Harvard Women/Children & AIDS Committee, "call for meeting date, noon, 585-5551 Council Oak Men’s Chorale, rehearsals - call for times, info: 748-3888. I~" TUESDAYS AIDS Coalition of Tulsa, "call tbr next meeting, date. 1430 S Boulder, .585-5.551 Live And Let Live, Conm~mfity of Hope United Methodi~l, 7:30pm, 25-1.5 S "~~Lle American Theatre Co. presents its holiday classic A Christmas Carol Dec. 9-22, 596-7111 Tulsa Performing Arts. C~nter;i. ’~ " Multicultural AIDS Coalition, cal! for ucx~ mectin~date. Urban League, 240 FAst Apache, 584-0001 PrimeTimers, mens group, Pride Center, 1307 E. 381h Coming Out Support Group (TOHR/HOPE) Tuesdays, 6 pm. Pride Center. 1307 E. 38th~ info: 743-4297 ~ WEDNESDAYS Bless The Lord At All Times Christian Center Prayer & Bible Study, 7:30 pm 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815 House of the Holy Spirit Ministries, Inc. Service - 7pro. 3210b So. Norwood Tulsa Native American Mens Support Group, more informatmn, call 582-7225 TCC Gay & Lesbian Association of Students (GLAS), (.’all for i~ffo: 595-7632 Lambda A-A, 7 pm, 1307 E. 38th, 2nd ft. ~" THURSDAYS Holiday at Harwelden Sunday, December 12 Noon - 3pm, $5 Guided Tours of Harwelden Proceeds to benefit the Campaign for Harwelden 2210 Si Main, 584-3333 Arts & maniti Council 9f’-I lsa HOPE, HIV Outreach, Prevention, Education Anonymous HIV Testing, Testing: 7 - 8:30pro 834-8378. 350"7 E. Adnfiral Oklahoma Rainbow Young Adult Network (O’RYAN Support/social ~oup for 18-24"s. call Red Rock Mental Health at 584-2325 Substauce Abuse Support Group for persons with HIV ~AIDS, hffo: 834-4194 ~ FRIDAYS SafeHaven, Youug Adnlts Social Group, I st ["ri each too. 8pro, Pride Cir.. 1307 E 381h ~" SATURDAYS Narcotics Anonymous, 11 pro, Conmmnity Of I1op~:,1703 E. 2nd. Info: 585-18(X) Lambda A-A, 6 pm, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th, 2ndfi( I~’ OTHER GROUPS T.U~L.S.A. Tulsa Uniform & Leather Seekers Association, i~ffo: 298-0827 Gal-A-Vanting, Womens Social & Cultural Group Call for info: Kathy at 322-6322, or Barb at 459-6825. OK Spoke Club, Gay & Lesbian Bike Organization Long rides & short rides from . Zeigler Park. Long & short rides from Tulsa Gay Community Center. Write for info: POB 9165, Tulsa, OK 74157 If your organization is not listed, plea~e !et us b~ow. Call 583-1248 or fax 583-461A �ALBANY, N,Y. (AP) - Pulitzer Prize- : problems between the lines. "I have no winning author E. Annie Proulx calls ¯ Solutions. I’m not a futurologist," she herself a"professional outsider" and says : said, adding that her business is merely to she plans to continue visiting rural ¯ note conditions as they are. communities .facing economic hardship .’ Nonetheless, Proulx added, some of for use as settings in. her her stories, including fiction. "The Shipping News," ~[one] short story, Proulx pens her work have foreshadowedactual -in Wyoming, but as an Brol~ebael~ Mo.nta;n, events. itinerant novelist and And a short story, about two Gay short-story writer seeking "Brokeback Mountain," cowboys who cannot about two Gay cowboys new backdrops, finds herself attached to no who cannot consnmmate consummate particular home. "I’m their love because they literally rootless and live in a vehemently their love because moving on," she said in a homophobic culture, also they live in a recent interview. ’q’here matched elements of the are no ceremonies. There later attack on Matthew vehemently Shepard. The beating and are no tears of regret. homophobie culture, subsequent death of the There’s always another place and that’s where my student took place also matched elements college heart is." 25 miles from where Proulx, known for her of the later attack on Proulx writes. fragmented prose full of Proulx said prescience Matthew Shepard. is common among regional vocabulary and writers. She said it merely rich landscape The beating and description, says her next stems from paying close subsequent death of attention to what’s going stop may be Saskatchewan logging on, like knowing that a t[~ college student communities. She won bunch of clouds will roll in after seeing a few the Pulitzer Prize, the took place fingers of clouds in the NationalBookAwardand 25 miles from where sky. other major honors for her Proulx’ s remarks came 1993 "The Shipping Proulx writes." in a question-and-answer News," a tale about a session before an third-rate newspaperman audience at the State University at Albany, set in Newfoundland. She is a descendant following a reading sponsored by the New of CanadianS, and has traveled to the country frequently. York State Writers Institute. Her work, "Close Range: Wyoming Proulx examines rural areas where traditional economic structures collapse. Stories," which contains "Brokeback But don’t expect answers to the economic Mountain," was published this year. LONDON (AP) - Tennessee Williams’ "A Streetcar Named Desire" plays a crucial role in "All About My Mother." But it’s not for that reason alone that viewers might .be tempted to think of Spanish writer-director Pedro Almodovar’s new film as the" foreign-language script the quintessentially American Williams never wrote. Like Williams, Almodovar is a Gay man who writes beautifully for women, not to mention for fragile, damaged men whose poetic souls exist to be bruised. Bruises and wounds - both physical and psychological - proliferate during "All About My Mother," alongsideabelief in the power of what might be called ’*the sisterhood" to provide some balm. The result is that time-honored genre, a "woman ~ s picrate,, giv en a contemporary, even timdess spin.~Small wonder .that~this ~ fil~ has~..promptextitalk.of:, an~Acaden~y~ ~Should~that: ,happen;r~,Atmodovar, s, newfbund.!statu~ ,will ha~e be~ aehie~zed~ at adi.sc~mible eosL~For all.its emhraee, o~ people on the margins of society, "All About My Mother" lacks the sheer irreverence and zest of the f’flmmaker’s ~career-maldng "Women On the Verge of a Nervous-Breakdown" more than adecade ago. Few will question the sexual politics of this latest film. The new movie is a model of good behavior compared, say, to Almodovar’ s’q~ie Me Up! Tie Me Down!" - the un-PC title of which sparked its own mini-revolution before people had even seen the movie. By contrast, "Al! About My Mother" bespeaks a new sobriety in a director whose outrageousness was once inseparable from his charm. That’s why this time one can welcome the maturity of an artist even as one hopes next time for a healthy dollop of his childlike glee. Not that this movie offers much to be gleeful about.. From the start, Manuela (Cecilia Roth) clearly couldn’t be closer to her son, Esteban (Eloy Azarin), and marks his 17th birthday by taking him to a performance in Madrid of "Streetcar." The outing is a triumph, not least in the performance of Huma Rojo-(Marisa Paredes), the fiery stage diva cast as Blanche. Emotions intensify when ’Manuela informs her son that she once played~Blanche’ssister, Stella;inabygone pr0duction opposite the Stanley Kowalski who s:theboys now absenffather.So lt~;s doubly cruel, when.Est~ban’-:.a sensitive: young man in love with lite~ature:: is struck by a car and killed inhismad dash for Rojo’s autograph. What ensues is an upheaval for Manuela, who relocates to Barcelona to fred her son’s father and inform him of the boy’s death. That quest brings her to the socalled "Field"- an outdoor crmsing ground - and the violent and lonely world of that city’s drag scene. The grieving mother is unexpectedly The Second Annual Progressive Alliance Summit The State Capitol Oklahoma City Saturday, January 15th 2000 Join activists from many different progressive movements from across the state for skills and coalition building. Keynote Speaker: Frosty Troy The Oklahoma Observer For more information or for reservations contact Planned Parenthood in Tulsa at 918-587-7674 or Keith Smith at The SmithGroup: 405-840-2219 I Hostile fi’om across the dice: You can hel �¯ 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. RESTAURANT AT PHILBROOK TUES-SUN, I I-2 $13.95 ¯ Sunday, II to l ¯ Reservations, 748-5367 she has modest hopes. "Nothing has been more important to me than asking for my children in every possible way," she said regardless of how deep the emotional ." in a telephone interview. ¯ bond. The next major ruling on the issue may Massachusetts’ highest court, in ¯ come in New Jersey. The state Supreme contrast, granted visitation rights in June " Courtplans hearings this fallonan appeals to a Lesbian who helped raise her ex- ¯ court’s split decision granting a Lesbian partner’sson.Thew0manwasa"defacto" : visitation rights to her former partner’s parent, saidthecourt, winmngpraisefrom ¯ twin toddlers. The twins,, a boy and girl, Gay civil rights groups were born two years after for asserting that "~re want courts to the women began living nontraditional families together., and the plaintiff force our deserve legal respect. The shared child-rearing Massachusetts judges duties with the biological families to play were venturing into.alegal mother. Each took turns vacuum; one dissenting changing diapers, picking by the very same justice condemned the up the twins from day riding as an unwarranted care, rocking them to rules that step toward endorging sleep. same-sex marriages, heterosexual To date, virtually every Courts in many other high-profile court case couples have been states have sided regarding children of categorically with the same-sex partners has forced to play by biological mother in such involved Lesbians, not disputes, ruling that Gay men. That could for decades," estranged Lesbian change, however, as says Kate Kendell, partners have no more liberalized adoption legal right to demand policies expand the ranks executive director visitationthanalong-t~rm of Gay fathers. nanny or close family Although many Gay of the National friend. civil rights groups have "rlae courts aren’tused intervened in the court Center for to looking at people cases to espouse the Lesbian Rights in without a biological validity of same-sex relationship as being a partnerships, they would San Francisco. child’s parent," says prefer that couples avoid Michael Adams, litigation. This summer, "We don’t want associate director of the an alliance of groups American Civil Liberties anytkln~ special or published guidelines for Union’s Lesbian and Gay same-sex couples, urging civil rights project. "We different." those who want children are forced to work within to agree in advance on laws passed by legislatures that simply how to solve problems that might arise if never considered these circumstances, and they separate. Options vary from state to wecangetsome veryunfortunateresults." state, but it is often possible for a partner Gay civilrights activists don’tcontend to become a legal parent through that every ex-partner’s demand should be guardianship or adoption. granted. But they do want courts at least to "There are ways to resolve these things consider whether requested visitation outside of court," says Mary Bonauto, a rights might be in a child’s best interest. Bostonlawyer whodrafted the guidelines. "We want courts to force our families to "We have a legal system that for the most play by the very same rules that part does not acknowledge the legal heterosexual couples have been forced to existence of our families. So it’s important play by for decades," says Kate Kendell, that we honor our own agreements." executive director of the National Center - Bonauto, civil rights director for Gay for Lesbian Rights in San Francisco. "We and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, don’t want anything special or different." says children of same-sex couples, and In Crandell’s case, the Cfiiifornia the Gay civil rights movement, can be SupremeCourtinJulyletstandanappeals losers when a case goes to court. "It is court ruling against her. The lower court extremely damaging to our commumty said no legal grounds exist for granting and our families when we disavow as visitation rights to a nonparent over the insignificant the very relationships for biological mother’s objection, which we are seeking legal and societal "It’s the height of irony, given that respect," she wrote in the guidelines. California has perhaps more Lesbian As a positive example, Bonauto cites couples raising children than any other .JoyceKauffman, aLesbian-rightslawyer state," Kendall says. "We’re not talking in Boston who settled a child-custody aboutlive-ingirlfriends. We’renottalking dispute with her former partner without about a nanny. We all kngw a parent when litigation. we see one- someone who read a child Kauffman gave birth to her daughter, storiesatnight, whochangedtheirdiapers, Becca, as a single mother 15 years ago, who was there day in, day out, nurturing and soon afterward began a relationship and caring." that lasted four years. When the partners Crandell,now 43,andher partner started broke up~ and realized how distraught the: livingtogetherin 1985whenthepartner’s child was, they decided to continue codaughter was almost 3. Two years later, parenting. For thepast 10 years, Becea the partner gave birth to another daughter has spent half of each week with each of by artificial insemination. The couple the women, who live a few blocks apart. joinflyraisedthetwogidsuntilseparating "My daughter still calls both of us in1990.In 1994 the ex-partner demanded Morn," Kauffman says. "It was not my that Crandell cease her periodic visits, favorite thing to do, to deal with my exThe court ruling means Crandell cannot partner all the time. But I didn’t feel I had see the children until they mm 18. They any right to curtail my daughter’s are now 17 and 12. relationship with her. I felt morally it Crandell hasn’t ruledout trying to take would have been wrong." her case to the U.S. Supreme Court, though see Morns, p. 14 �Red Rock Tulsa Free Confidential HIV Testing by Esther Rothblum, Ph.D. : labeled as traitors, as fence-sitterS, makeHow do Lesbians. feel about Bisexual "" up-your-mind-you-haven’t-come-yet women?Havethesefeelingschangedover : thdt’s where [hose stereotypes come time? I asked Paula Rust, from." a professor of sociology "~ueer really ]aas But with younger at the State University of generations of women two meanings. One there is more adherence New York at Geneseo, who has conducted to Queer polities. "With meanhag ~s that research ~on Bisexuality younger people,:the word ever since she was a an umbrella term. ¯ queer’ is close to what graduate student. ’Gay’ meant to women It ~melu~les - anyone who "I had been out five or came out earlier, six years by the time I before Lesbianfeminism" was in graduate school," she explained. "One of she said, "and what the goals of Gay liberation interested me was how the was to work towards the world- looked different goal of sexual orientation when you’ rein a different no longer mattering. The traditional sex an~ social location. All of a whole point was not to be sudden I could see ~ender eat~o~es. proud of being a Lesbian, heterosexual privilege but instead there was a The ot~er mean~n~ focus on breaking down everywhere. The world qooked different. But once the distinctions so that it ls almost doesn’t matter who you I was in the Lesbian contra~ctlon to t~e sleep with. But in fact community, I began to see the same kinds of societal discrimination dynamies~ Some people proved that the distinction reject other people does matter. So Lesbian because of their social feminists built -up location." At a personal categorical boundaries level, Paulabeganhaylng between heterosexuals do~ those very an affair with a man and and Lesbians, and thatleft Bisexual women out in identifying as a Lesbian. cathodes. So "I was keeping that the cold." ~uestlon ls, relationship hidden the Paulafeels that theidea " same way that most of Queerness is somewhat ~uee~ a way to similar to the original idea heterosexual womenkeep of Gay liberation, of their relationships with ln~lude Bl~exuals working towards a dme other women.hidden. The ~ one 0~ many when the boundaries similarity reallystruck don’t matter, and where me." The relationship ~roups, or who you sleep with ended, but the result of doesn’t define yourBlsexualhy part o~ this was that Paula began sexuality, "Queer really to study prejudice and the ~ueer has two meanings. One boundaries within the meaning is that it’s an Lesbian community. Her movement umbrella term. It includes dissertation was on anyone who doesn’t fit "controversial issues into what might be within the Lesbian t~e removal considered traditional sex community," including and gender categories. how Lesbians felt about The other meaning is Bisexual women. almost in contradiction to "The tension is the ¯ the first. This meaning focuses on queer strongest among the Lesbian feminist generation," she said. "These are the as a way of breaking down those very women who came out in the 1970’s. They ¯ categories. So the question is, is ’queer’ a ¯ way to include Bisexuals as One of many came out in a feminist context where they viewed Lesbianism and feminism as ¯ groups, or is Bisexuality part of the queer interrelated. Becoming a Lesbian wasn’t ¯ movement which has as its end goal the just a personal stance. It had to do with a "_ removal of all categories?" ¯ In general, Paula thinks that Lesbians political awakening ." ¯ Paula feels that for that generation of ¯ are a littleless threatened than we used to be about Bisexuality, and therefore more women, heterosexuality is "sleeping with the enemy." Heterosexual women were : abletoopenupourownboundaries. Also, not to be trusted; they had benefits due to ¯ she sees Bisexuality becoming more of a be being in relationships with men. "Being : political identity and so there is less Bisexual was not only keeping your foot : concern that including Bisexuals will in the door of heterosexual privilege, but, ¯ "water down" the polities of Lesbians. For further reading, see Paula Rnst’s even worse, wanting the best of both : worlds. So Bisexual women were in some ." books: "Bisexuality and the Challenge to ways even more suspect than heterosexual ¯ Lesbian Politics: Sex, Loyalty and women. With heterosexual women you .. Revolution"(New York University Press, 1995) and "Bisexuality in the United could always come up with the excuse that they don’t know any better yet. But a i States: A Social Science Reader" Bisexual woman is more threatening ¯ (Columbia University Press, in press). because she knows what the alternative is : " Esther Rothblum is Professor of but still chooses to be involved in ¯ Psychology at the University of Vermont ¯ heterosexuality or to say that she’S willing and Editor of the Journal of Lesbian to go that way. And that’s threatening to : Studies. She can be reached at Dewey Lesbians who see sexual orientation as a ¯ Hall, Univ. of Vermont, Burlington, VT, political decision. So Bisexuals were ¯ emaih esther.rothblum@uvm.edu. wl~o Jo~,n’t f~t ~to ~t m~t ~ f~t. Th~ m~. fo~u~ o~ qu~ Want to get involved? Needto get tested for HIV? Walk-in Clinics Tuesday Testing, 5 -8 pin Pride Center, 1307 East 38th Wednesday Testing, 5-8 pm Red Rock, 1724 East 8th Need a Coming Out Support Group? Daytime appointments available. Call Call for more information: 743-GAYS (4297) 918-584-2325 Church of the Restoration Unitarian Universalist 11 am, Sunday 1314 North Greenwood 587-1314 Tulsa Gay Community Services Center 1307 E. 38th at Peoria, 2nd floor a W~y d We know you’re going to love h~ ~ ~t~ ~d ~0~I of ~II ~t~o~?" Restaurant & Cabaret 310 East First Street 918- 599-9949 Massage Therapy Services ¯ Country Club Barbering Custom Styling for Men & Women Edgar O. Cruz, L.M.T. Pager: 918-889-5255 Voice Mail: 918-697-9282 Lic. #C4133 David Kauskey 3310 E. 51st, 747-0236 Tues.-Fri., 8-5:30, Sat. 8-5pm �by Lamont Lindstrom, Ph:D. Millennium. The numerically finicky may Sniff that the third millennium will not In a society where time iS static, people are less concerned with individual differences and their cultivation. On Tanna, every, fam il y owns arrive until January 1, between a set of distinct personal --- ..... names (say, David, 2001, since there was no "~ year 0. But the rest of :us ¯odometer MichiieI, "~ Eugene) that-parents:, perpetualIy know the’",mn!l-0fmulfiple . zeros, we ve all yelled to-,," calendar re’rid us. recycle; one generation passengers inthebackseat’ to-ttie next. N0 matter that we conceive - toleanover and watchour What ,year, what century,. cars’ Odometers hi~thebig or what millennium it is, of time in there is always a David, 100,000 miles spatial terms. elderly Honda-knockon and a Michael, and a Eugene alive at any The years from 1 200,000 sometime in moment. Islanders don’t quite think that they are 2000.) When all those zeros line up on the identical with their previous namesakes, odometer, or on the timeline. And calendar, we figure we although they do use the individuafly, our must have passed some first person pronoun T notablemilestone. talking about lives feel like they when Parallels between something a namesake odometer and caleudar are composed of a did perhaps 200 years remind us that we ago. Because their time Conceive of time in spatial series of annual does notmove, this makes terms. The years from 1 to good sense. The past is steps, We move 2000 form a timeline. And also the present, and it is individually, our lives feel future, too. through time as ff theLocal understandings like they are composed Of a series of annual steps. of lime thus directly shape we are walking notions of who we are. We move through time as across a landscape. if we are walking across a Unlike Tanna, our ’American lineal time landscape. This llne, however, models require that we TNs line, however, is ’forward and that not the only way to is not the only way move 1999 be followed by 2000 perceive time. We also and not, say, by the year someumes think of time to perceive time.,.. 413 or maybe 6001. as a circle. The watch is The current Likewise, we can’t go married to the calendar. backwards - just always Time can ,go around and and only onwards. We around, like the hands on. ’Western ealendar~ who believe that time :a watch~ or it can progress and assoeiated progresses sequentially onwards onajourney,like years on the march of time. spatial metaphors~ along a line, also believe in the possibilities of Hours of the day, days of have spread individual development. the week, .months and Nowadays, we may be seasons of the year.move around the globe - postmodern but we still in cycles Years, on the Other hand, are a series of although it won’t entertain a deep, touching faith in individual irreversible, one-way be the year 2000 steps into the future. perfectibility. As outlives flow along the timeline, The current Western everywhere." we work to develop calendar, and associated ourselves our spatial metaphors, have kiaowledge; our skills, our capacities.spread around the globe - although it during this "journey" through life. won’t be the year 2000 everywhere. Some people believe m multiple According to the Jewish calendar, we are journeys, in recycling lives. Like the way beyond the 2nd and into the 6th seasons, Wekeep going aroundand around millennium. The upcoming year will be again. If Shirley MacLaine, in some of her 5760. And it’s 1421 for ’Muslims, 4698 past lives, was a man, then you too ~nay for the classical C~nese, and the 1 lth have bounced from one sex back to the year ofthe Heisei Era nowadays in Japan. other. And, if you are Gay or lesbian now, These other ways of counting and then you are also Straight, or bi, or conceiving timeexistalongside Europeanderived models. My neighbors on Tanna, whatever in both your past and your future. Lineal models of life’ s journey demand a small island in the South Pacific-nation that we dis cover and work on our identities of Vanuatu, have learned, like us, to ¯tell tim~ and count fire years. Bm th,ey also a~ W~e thke our one walk down that.timeline. : ~,’w !, .: ?. o. . : L ~ ............ ¯ still retain, a traditioiaal .appr~c.’iati6,n :of It" s the-o~lffe we ~e got, or.so finfeoth’~/’diffe,i!s markeRly from Our o~’fl: ifiS~i.aperdei4ing their INes as moving alqng a:line tl!a{ P0ints"relenfiessiy.igto ifi:timK. Maybe ~6u aren! t.just Gii~f;~.¢ jffst the’future, time.6n Tanna goes hoWhei~e. S~t~ii~ht? P~flihp~s y0ff~Gay~ia The local word for .day-after-tomorrow millennium but Straight in the 3rd? Or al~o means day-bef0re-yesterday. The your brother is heterosexual this time, but word for the distant future also means .the next time around he’s family. So, whether ’distant past. Pas t and future merge into the you travel in circles or down a line, happy same thing. Temporarily, islanders occupy year 2000, and 5760, and 1421. and 4698, an unchanging space. Their days and years and 11. cycle around, but their time as a whole Lamont Lindstrorn, Ph.D. teaches anthropolqgy at the University of Tulsa. does not move forwar& "Parallels IGTA.member Red Rock Tulsa O,RYAN Oklahoma Rainbow Young Adult Network ¯ Outreach Progrmn Thurs. 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Almodovar has dedicated the filmto actresses who over the years have played actresses - Gena Rowlands and Bette Davis, among them. (Davis’ name isn’t the only evocation of "All About Eve.") But it’s the performers within the film, many of them drawn from this director’s informal troupe of players, who dearly dominate a story that inlesser hands could have devolved into kitsch. Instead, for all of its talk of solitude, "All About My Mother’~ movingly insists upon a shared compassion. It’s as if the film’s import is too weighty for Almodovar’s one-time antics. For all of its emphasis on death, the movie believes in life. saying doing so would legitimize the church law he was accused of violating. He pronounced the trial "corrupted, contaminated.., illicit," and implored the jury during the 90-minute trial to refuse to reach a verdict. "I believe the law that prohibits pastors from celebrating holy unions with Gay and lesbian couples is an unjust and immoral law," he said. His actions have plunged the church’s 9.5 million members into a bitter debate over its doctrine. Rew Gregory Ddl, a United Methodist minister from Illinois suspended for marrying two Gay men, said he was saddened by the verdict. "It suggests how deeply the polarization has gone in the church," he said. Bishop William Grove, who presided over Creech’s trial, said he saidhe worries the controversy will further divide the church. "Nobody takes any joy in this d~iy." he said. "We think the church did what it was called on... to do." -Creech first touched off a controversy within the church when he performed a union ceremony for a Lesbian couple in his Omaha congregation in 1997. After a trial, a church tribunal decided not to act against him, leaving it unclear whether a ban on performing "same-sex commitments" carries the weight of church law. The church’s Judicial Council has since ruled that it does. After that trial, Creech was not reappointed to his pulpit but remained a member of the clergy. Kauffman’is frustrated by the tactics some Lesbian mothers use to oppose visitation rights. "We’ve been working so hard for so many decades to gain respect," she says. "Then to have people withi~t our own community use homophobic law against other Gay and Lesbian people that really troubles me. If we don’t respect oug own.relationships, how can we expect other people to respect- them?" (McKiuney) agreed to it. Even if it was our idea, he agreed to it. He had that choice. He definitely did." The day of the jury’s verdict, Nov. 3, Mrs. Shepard said she and Dennis learned that the defense team wanted to speak with them. She said she and her husband were skeptical but met with McKiuney’s attorneys that afternoon. For her, the meeting was difficult. "Even though, intellectually, you know they arejust doing their job, emotionally you wonder how in the world they can defend him," she said. "Just by association they become as despicable as he is." When the defense proposed that McKinney would agree not to speak with the press, she thought, "Oh my God, how great is that?" Defense attorney Jason Tangeman, citing the agreement, declined to comment further about the case. Rerucha said the Shepards’ involvement in the case was what the Legislature envisioned when it established the Victim’s Bill of Rights. He said Judy Shepard was instrumental in changing his mind about pursuing the case further but the ultimate decision was his. "The buck stops here," he said. TOHR incurred only about $75 in filing fees and copy costs. The attorney time was donated pro bone. Lewis noted that it was nice for TOHR to get this issue behind them. "The landlord was very aggressive, and theTOHR Board had to spend too much time and worry over an issue that could have been easily and amicably resolved. The Board is looking forward to spending that time and worry on more important issues in the community." Local activists, TOI-IR president Greg Gatewood and board member, Kerry Lewis attended the 12th annual "Creating Change" conference,, sponsored by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, and came back pledging to get more from Oklahoma to future events. Creating Change is the annual political gathering and skills-building conference of the GLBT movement and was held in Oakland, Califor.nia. Next year’s conference will be hdd in Atlanta. An address by U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee, who reminded attendees that GLBT people throughout much of thenation face danger and discrimination on a daily basis. "In our human rights movement, we certainly have come a long way oyer the past 20 years," said Rep. Lee, an Oakland Democrat. "In cities such as San Francisco, New York and West Hollywood, and of course Oakland, it is easier to live freely for most Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay and Transgendered people. . Unfortunately, however, not all enjoy this right. In other parts of our country, many of our brothers and sisters still live with the fear that if they choose to live freely, their own lives are endangered. Our work is very clear: we have to work to build a society that values every life regardless of sexual preference or orientation." Former religious right ghostwriter, the Rev. Mel White, leader of SoulForce. 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(;all to meet local guys tonight! : This is particularly disturbing since the : number of reporting agencies for 1998 ¯ decreased from 11,211 to 10, 461, with : two fewer states reporting, as wall. Hate Henry Hyde, R-Ill., Senate Judiciary Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and House ~ crimes based on sexual orientation Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-IlL, among : continue to make up the third highest ¯ category of those reported to the FBI after others. "Speaker Hastert and Chairman Hyde were dearly movedby the Shepards, ¯ race and religio~ The defeat of HCPA ignores but uafortunately it did not translate into overwhelming public support for hate any concrete steps on their part," Birch said. " crime legislation. A February 1999 Gallup In July, the Senate passed the Hate ," aoll showed that 70% of Americans are in favorof tougher hate crime laws. Since Crimes Prevention Act forthe first time as 1998~ when an African American, James part of the Commerce, State, Justice B yrd Jr., w as tied to the back of a truck and appropriations bill. dragged to death bywhite supremacists in Tulsans, Tony Orr andTim Beauchamp Jasper, Texas - several ~high-profile hate who had been victims of ahate motivated crimes have shocked our country. The assault at the State Bank ATM on HCPA would extend current federal hate Brookside went to Congress and Orr crimes protection - which covers race, testified before a Congressional religion, color and national origin - to subcommittee about ",heir experience. gender, sexual~rientation and disability. The House version of the bill did not HCPA would serve as a tool to help law include HCPA. The GOP leadership enforcement by allowing federal omitted HCPA in conference, where a assistance, when necessary, in the compromise between the House and investigation and prosecution of hate Senate versions of the Commerce, State, crimes. HCPA has broad support from Justice bill was crafted. President Clinton notable law enforcement agencies and vetoed the bill~ in-part because it did not state and local Icaders including 22 state include the Hate Crimes Prevention Act. attorneys general, the Police Foundation Following the veto, a coalition of and the National Sheriff’s Association " organizations rallied to revive the bill. HRC organized a press conference on Capitol Hill that featured Dennis and Judy Shepard and Wyoming law enforcement officials. Sens. Jim Jeffords, R-Vt., and "Gandhi and King remind us that our Gordon Smith, R-Ore., spoke at the event. only task is to reconcile," White said. as well as Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla. "You help the spirit of truth by learning to "Senator Edward Kennedy has led the love your enemy., we have to learn to way on this effort and has worked tirel es sly love each other. We have to learn to to see that hate crime victims and their reconcile with each other. We have to quit families will be protected and treated calling each other names. It is the only equally," said Birch. "In addition we way that we can save our world from applaud the dedication of so many’ other disaster." outstanding leaders, including Senate Cited for special awards this year were ,Minority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., two groups and one individual. Harry Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., Sen. Gordon Hay, a veteran activist and icon of the Smith, R-Ore., House Minority Leader early Gay movement, was honored for his. Richard Gephardt, D-Mo., and Rep. Mark work and his courage. And two local Foley, R-Fla." groups - the Kentucky Fairness Alliance Additionally, HRC launched a paid and the Fairness Campaign of Louisville advertising campaign to support HCPA. - were cited for their work in passing HRC also produced two public service several nondiscrimination ordinances in announcements (PSA) featuring Judy Kentucky. Shepard, mother of murdered hate crime This year’s Creating Change was victim and Gay college student, Matthew sponsored with the help of Gay.corn, Shepard. Pacific Bell, PlanetOu.t, Wells Fargo One of the PSA’s, Parenthood, has Mrs. Foundation, HERO Magazine, Harvey Shepard ending the piece with the words: Milk Foundation, The Advocate, "I loved Matt just the way he was. Just the BREATH/American Lung Association, way he was." Kaiser Permanente, Lesbian.corn, Olivia InTulsa, CBS affliate, KOTV, Channel Cruises and Resorts, AT&T, Pacific Gas 6 is the only station to air a spot. PSA’s & Electric, Chevron and Port of Oakland. typically air late at night when stations American Airlines was the official carner have unsold advertising air time. However, for Creating Change. a Channel 8, KTUL representative said A Gay Men’ s Singles Group scheduled that although it did not appear that they had received.a copy of the pieces, they ~ its first meeting on the 1st Thursday in December from 6:30 - 7:30 at the Gay would be willing to air them. HRC press Community Center. The group presents representative, Anabel Evora, indicated itself as an alternative to bars, the Net, or that HRC would provide the station with being alone. Future meetings will be a copy. Likewise, a spokespers0n, for announced. Call 743-4297 for more KJR.H, Channel 2 said that station would be willing to review and consider airing " information. the PSA’s. HRC’s continues, "the GOP’s thwarting of. this legislation comes just as the.FBI released new statistics ~howing a rise ~n which provided refreshments for the hate crimes against Gay and Lesbian Americans. According to the FBI’s ¯ reception, Saint Monica Catholic Church Uniform Crime Reports for 1998 - the ¯ from which the march began, Junior latest year for available statistics - hate ¯ Chamber Mission Inn Foundation for -providing a shuttle from Mount Zion to crimes based on sexual orientation increased 14.3% from 1997 to 1998. Hate ¯¯ Saint Monica, volunteer Vernon Jones, crimes based on sexual orientation have ¯ longtime companion of Phil Wiley and Tulsa Family News. nearly tripled since the FBI beg.an collecting statistics in 1991, comprising 16% of all hate crimes for 1998 at 1,260. �iim i i Closing on Home Equity Loans! h.a.t~s right. Home Equiw Loans at Bank of" Oklahoma now come with no closing costs, so you can save hundr~s of dollars. 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Zion Baptist Church Dedicated to the Memory of HIV/AIDS Activist Phil Wiley THE NAMES PROJECT Quilt Tours Black Colleges Coretta Scott King Slams Homophobia ATLANTA (AP) - During the AIDS Quilt tour of historically Black colleges and universities, Coretta Scott King told those viewing the memorial that homophobia has prolonged and worsened the epidemic within the Black community. "It is particularly sad to me when I hear Black people, includiug some in leadership positions, making homophobic comments and attacking t.he humm] rights of Gay and Lesbian people," the widow of die Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. said Monday during the tour’s opening ceremonies at Clark Atlanta University, Regardless of sexual orientation or gender, Blacks have a signiticantly higher risk of becoming infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Stati-stics show ntost new HIV infections occur among people 25 and younger. The Black community has been hit particularly hard. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Blacks account for about half the new HIV infections, AIDS cases and AIDS deaths, though they represent only 13% of the U.S. population, "With the stigma on homosexual behavior m the African-American coxmnunit~¢, ¯ see Ki.,t~, ~9.: 15 Matthew Shepard Murder Trial Update LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) - Gay college student Matthew Shepard was pumaneled to death by Aaron McKirmey in a drunken, drug-induced rage after Shepard made a pass at him, McKirmey’s attorney Said as: his trial began. "’Did Matthew Shepard deserve to die? No, that’s ridiculous-. No manslaughter victim deserved to die," Jason Tangeman said in opening statements. "That’s what Aaron McKirmey is guilty of, manslaughter." The roofer’s judgment that night Vas affected bv alcohol, methamphetamines and "~ome sexuall} traumatic and confusing events in his life," Tangeman told jurors. Prosecutor Cal Rerncha said his case against McKinney will not deal with Shepard’s Gayness. "It will simply be about the pain, suffering and death of Matthew Shepard at the hands of the defendant, Aaron James:McKimaey," he said." The Human Rights Campaign, a national Gay civil rights organization strongly condenmed the use of the.’’blame the victim" defense in the trial. Shepard, McKinney and Henderson met in a Laramie bar about a year ago, where Shepard asked McKinney for a ride home, humiliating him in front of friends because McKinney believed Shepard was Gay, Tangeman contended. Tangeman said McKinney, 22, was confused by three homosexual encounters that occurred when he was 7, 15 and 20: In one case, McKinney was forced into an oral sex act with a neighborhood bully, Tangeman said. Rerucha said McKirmey and Henderson drove Shepard, 21, to a remote area, where they robbed, lashed him to.the fence and pistol-whippinghim into a coma. Opening statements were made after a jury of 10 men and:six women, including four alternates, was seated in McKinney’s trial on charges of first-degree murder, kidnapping and robbery. The jury includes three students at the University of Wyoming, where Shepard was a freshman. McKinney could receive the.death penalty. TULSA - The 10th annual World AIDS Day Candlelight March and Memorial Service will be held at one of Tulsa’s most historical traditionally African-American churches, Mt. Zion Baptist Church, led b~ the Rev. Calvin McCutcheon. The march will begin gathering at 6:30 near St. Monica’s Church just south of Carver School east of Greenwood Avenue This is just south of Pine. The march will begin about 7pm and will continue about a mile south on Greenwood to John ttope Franklin Bottlevard which travels west through the Oklahoma State University at Tulsa campus to Elgin. Mt. Zion is on FJ~n just across the OSU-Tulsa parking lots near 1-244. The theme for the march and memorial is "Fa~d the Silence" and the service will feature the music of Ernestine Dillard, the Council Oak Mens Chorale and the Mr. Zion church choir. Tiffs Tulsa service is dedicated to the memory of 1o "cal ttIV AIDS and Gay civil rights activist Phil Wiley who died of kidney failure last summer. Orgamzers note that all tilnes are approximate aud that lhey will provide candles and matches but encourage marchers to bring banners and bells to nng on the march. For more information, call Interfaith ..\ IDS Mira stries at 4382437. Also on World AIDS Day, an organization called "\Vc The Peopl.e Li.ving .with AIDS/HIV’" will join with thousm~ds of other orgmuzatlons m remembering, fiercel3, those the~ lmvc !ost to the AIDS epidemic. They will do this through the posting of the manes of their members, friends and loved ones lost to ,A IDS on the. \ IDS \Vatch webpage, which will display the .,aan]es of tens of thousands of people who have died from :kIDS. one at a mnc in the 48 honrs before and after December ist. They request that readers consider adding the uames of those whom they have lost to AIDS to the list. The page is localed m http:/iwww.aidswatch.org. Click on "’Add a name "’ to include the name, of~v°ur loved one, friend or colleague to the li st. Falwell MeetsWith Gays LYNCHB URG, Va. (AP)-The Rev. Jerry Falwell, who has denounced homosexuals for years, held an .unprecedented meeting with Gay Christians recently m an attempt to reduce violent acts against Gays and Christians. Both sides said the gathering was productive. Dozens of anti-Gay protesters denmnstrated outside, yelling at Gay supporters as they entered the church parking lot. The Rex’. Fred Phelps of Topeka, Kan.. whose congregafiou also taunted Gays at the funeral of slain Gay college studcm Matthew Shepard. said Falwdl is a hypocrite for ineeting with the Rev. Mel White, a Gay minister and his followers. "Falwell used to teach the Bible word for word. now he’s going off and meeting with these fags and going against everything he’s ever taught," Phelp,~ said. "He always says ’hate the sin. bnt love the simmr,’ but it’s ~mpossible to separate the t~o Does a judge send the crime or the crintinal to jail’?" Falwell. who has long believed lha~ homosexuality is a sin, insists he will not change Iris views, but has agreed to tone down tfis anti language that Gay civil rights activists encourages hatred and violence towar~t homosexuals. "’We are here because ihnocent people ol vari~ faiths, racial and ethnic groups and sexual preferences have increasingly had their live~ abruptly mid violently ended by people ~vilh opposing vie~\s.’" Fah~ell told th~ group of 4 delegates in ~velcomiug then] to the anti "~ml,,ncc fortun Saturday afternoou x~q]itc brought 200 Gays mid Lesbians l’rom 3~* slates to p~ticil)atc in the forum. They were ]t)]ncd by 2~)evm~gelic~d Chnsfians who supjmrt Fid~ cEstmacc "q hi s is the first step iu ourjoume3 tm~ auct~ reconciliation." s~d White, who held a pra3 e~ ~ ~gil Ffida3 mght for 20 Gay men or gm~sgcndcred people killed because of their sexu~ oneutation. see Fahvell, p. 10 Community Center News France OK’s Gay and All Community Meeting, Nov. 16, 6:30pm TOHR Meeting, 11/9: Carol Petersen, Author, Poet + Gay Man in Hitler’s Navy TULSA - The third all community meeting will be held at the Communiiy Center on Tues., Nov. 16th at 6:30pm. About 35 individuals attended the last meeting in Sept. and the representatives of a number of organizations, churches and businesses decided to convene a community council with TOHR, Tulsa Oldahomans for Human Rights, the parent organization of the Tulsa Gay Community Services Center, coordinating the exchange of information. Local attorney and original meeting co-convener Dennis Neill will present a draft contract to clarify the relationship between the various groups. For more information about the next conmaunitv meeting, call the Community Center at 743-4297. On Tues. Nov. 9th at 7:30pro, TOHR will hold its montlflv membership meeting. The meeting, which is open to the publiC, will feature remarks by Carol Petersen, a Romanian born poet, biographer and educator. Petersen, a Gay man.~ even found lfimself serving in the German Navy during the N~i government of Adolf Hitler. Petersen has-published works on Albert Camus, Andre Gide, John Steinbeck, Goethe, Spanish poet Lorca, Thomas Mann as wall as works of poetry. He has taught French and German literature and awarded one of the highest honors in France, the Chevalier de L’oi’dre des Palmiers Academique de France. Other News: House of the Holy Spirit Calls Pastor House of the Holy Spirit Ministries announces that they have selected a new full-time pastor, Chuck Breckenridge. Breckenridge served in a pastoral capacity in a Wichita congregation where he formerly resided. Breckenridge is also known for having published and edited The Parachute, a now defunct regional publication. He also started The Triangle Of which he has recently served as general manager. Breckenridge was installed as pastor on October 17th. Troy McGoveran, spokesman for House of the Holy Spirit notes, "the entire congregation is very excited about the movement going on in our church.., we.. welcome Pastor Breckemidge to our church.. ?’ Non-Gay Partnerships The British Broadcasting System (BBC) reported in October that the French Parlimnent has approved a controversial bill that gives Gay couples mare of the rights enjoyed by married people. The NatiOnal Assmnbly passed the Civil Solidarity Pact (PACS) by 315 votes to 249. The PACS allows unmarried couples to register their umon and enjoy some of the tax, legal and social welfare benefits associated with marriage. It is intended to allow Gay and heterosexual couples who are not married to "’organise their common life". Partners who want to separate will be able to do so via a letter of separation. According to Justice Minister Elisabeth Guigou, the bill will improve the lives of more than five million people. Conservative opponents immediately said they would ask the Constitutional Council to role whether the law was unconstitutional. Religious leaders have strongly denounced the law, saying it enables a form of homosexual marriage. The PACS wasintroduced by the riding socialists and the government’s majority made approval virtually certain. It has been one of the most bitterlycontested pieces of social legislation for years, opposed by conservatives and by leaders of the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths in France. see France, p. 15 LI~ ~I~ ~ ~ Z mmm D IRECTORY EDITORIAL U S & WORLD NEWS . HEALTH NEWS ENTERTAINMENT COMMUNITY CALENDAR READ ALL ABOUT IT D O-IT-YOUR-SELF DYKE DYKE PSYCHE GAY STUDIES P. 2 P. 3 P. 4 P. 6 P. 8 P. 9 P. 10 P. 11 P. 12 P. 13 �Tulsa Clubs & Restaurants 832-1269 *Bamboo Lounge, 7204 E. Pine *Boston Willy’s Diner, 1742 S. Boston 592-2143 599-9512 *Empire Bar, 1516 S: Peoria 583 -6666 *Full Moon Cafe, 1525 E. 15th 749-4511 *Gold Coast Coffee House; 3509 S. 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Grand HIVtesting every other Tues. 5:30-8:30, call for dates EUREKA SPRINGS, ARKANSAS 501-253-7734 Autunm Breeze Restaurant, Hwv. 23 501~253-7457 *Jim & Brent’s Bistro, 173 S. Ma]n 501-253-6807 DeVito’s Restaurant, 5 Center St. 501-253-5445 Emerald Rainbow, 45 &l/2 Spring St. 501-253-9337 MCC of the Living Spring 501-253-2776 Geek to Go!, PC Specialist, POB 429 501-253-5332 Old Jailhouse Lodging, 15 Montgomery 501-624-6646 Positive Idea Marketing Plans 501-253-6001 Sparky’s, Hwy; 62 East 501-253-4074 White Light, 1 Center St. JOPLIN, MISSOURI 417-623-4696 *Spirit of Christ MCC, 2639 E. 32, Ste. U134 * is where you can find TFN. Not all are Gay-owned but all are Gay-friendly. Audra Sommers: To All .My Friends Tiff s rues sage brings to you information about my up-coming benefit called ’~onnecting The Hearts of Tulsa" Friday November 5th, at 10:30 p.m. at the Silver Star. This event focuses onthe Prescription Assistance Program which as you know is very, very important to many. As a community of caring individuals I ask all of you once again to come together as compassionate and sympathetic members of our community and show your support. Without fai! every year, you pull out all the stops and arrive in droves. My heart shines with delight to see all of your faces as we raise the much needed money to keep those who can’t afford the necessary medications alive and well. Come, meet new people and see some new faces. Uniting together_we make the difference. Please join all my guests: Miss Gay America - Catia Lee Love Miss Gay Oklahoma America - Bridgett Lee Miss Gay Oklahoma USofA - Kris Kohl Miss Fish-Lake Nevada - Slutisha Swamppussy Miss Midwestern Plains USofA - Victoria Turrell Miss Tulsa USofA 1998 - Jasmine Turrell Miss Gay University Of Tulsa Homecoming Queen 1999 - Audriana Sommers The Green Country Cloggers Miss Silver Star USofA 1996 - Tera "T" Neil Miss Gay Oklahoma At Large USofA 96 - Domonique Daniel’s Miss Feticia Winters Miss Ebony Hall Miss Tabatha Taylor Miss Gain A Pound Miss Miranda McMillian Miss Tore McMillian Miss Audra Sommers and her special "Grab Bag Segment" Mr. Steve Sludder And Mr. Brock Masters - video star along with many, maaay others. I look forward to seeing everyone at the StarFriday NovemberSthat 10:30p.m. It is going to be the best show ever! With love and respect, - Audra Marie Sommers Announcements Policy Tulsa Family News will provide space for holy union ceremony, marriage ceremony, birth, adoption and death announcements on a space available basis. Photos are welcome, though we cannot promise placement or return them, so please send copies to Tulsa Family News, POB 4140, Tulsa 74159. Letters Policy Tulsa Family Newswelcomes letters on issues which we’ve covered or on issues you think need to be considered. You may request that your name be withheld but letters must be signed & have phone numbers, or be hand delivered. 200 word letters are preferred. Letters to other publications will be re-printed as is appropriate. �Editorial: Singing Those Millennium March Blues serving as a representative) meetings. To March or Not March? :¯ from And according to the Nov. 9th i°ssue of The Advocate, That is the question - ok, ok, yes that’s tired and ¯ perhaps, even trite but I couldn’t help it. The millennium ~ does indeed approach and with it, the next great Gay march scheduled for next April. Called by Robin Tyler, Lesbian event organizer par excellence, taken up by the Gay community’s organizational 800 pound gorillas, the Metropolitan Community Church (MCC) and the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the Millennium March has been fraught with controversy from its beginning. No one doubts that these events are tremendously ehapowering for those of us who attend. I can attest to that from my experience .at the last march. My long-suffering ex (just ask him ;-) and I organized a group mostly of students and others on limited incomes from Texas to travel by bus to DC. Since this was a budget trip we stayed about 12 to a room, 3 or 4 to a bed with some on the floor of a hotel in the Virginia suburbs. But the moment of my epiphany was when we boarded the Metro (subway) at the 2nd to the last stop that far out into the suburbs, and everyone waiting, and everyone on the train but for perhaps one or two per car, w,as Gay, or Lesbian, or Bi, ornon-Gays whom we’ddearly welcomed into our tribe. For once to be safe, for once to be in OUR space is a rare and precious thing. There we could hold hands in the street without the fear that we Were taking our !ives literally in our hands. For once, we could say that we don’t mind "straights" as long as they "behave" themselves. For many this was alife transforming experience¯ From it, they came back and became active in the organizations of their hometowns. This clearly is go6~l: And yet, some questions remain. First of these i.s whether, this march will even come off at all. Because MCC and HRC proclaimed that a march was going to happened before they consulted the many other organizations which make up the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered civil fights and cultural movement, the March was immediately caught up in controversy. This "movement" is-tremendously diverse and building consensus is long hard work. Prior march organizers did do so through long and sometimes painful (I write this control of the event has _been shifted from Robin Tyler to Malcolm Lazin, interim executive director. Kerry Lobel, executive director of the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF), earlier resigned from an oversight board for the March because of concerns about event Do you know where a number of Tulsans have been during the last 18 months? Buried in trash. We studied different curbside recycling programs from around the state and from across the country. About 100 cities were looked at by the TARE board’ s subcommittee on recycling. Our most important discovery: each community is unique in its requirements for recycling. In Tulsa, most of the trash we generate is incinerated at the trash-to-energy plant. The burning process results in waste by-products that can mad do pollute our air. For example, some substances like plastic can be harmful when burned. Recycling will take them out of the trash collection burned at the Walker Hall recovery plant. The more Tulsa recycles, the more we improve Tulsa’s air quality for our young, our elderly, and most significantly, our chronically ill. And let us not forget that we are breathing the same air. Recycling does not ouly help in making the environment cleaner and healflfier; it also has economic benefits other than quality of life. Once Tulsa citizens recycle enough items that can be reused, a recycling industry will be created an become a viable part of the economy with added job opportunities, In the beginning, Tulsans, will be able to recycle four types of items. Newspapers, includin°g the slick advertisement sections, compose the first recycling category. Now you cannot recycle magazines and business forms; these are another category which may be added at a later date. However, you can still take them to MET recycling centers. The second category acceptable for recycling in Tulsa will be aluminum. Drop all aluminum beverage cans inj the recycling container; however, you cannot recycle other forms of aluminum. Please rinse them immediately after use. Remember that recycling pick up is every other week. Besides, you will make it so much easier for those separating our recyclables. Plastic is one of the most important things to recycle. As petroleum-based products, these items release toxins when burned. You can recycle all plastic beverage bottles including most pop, milk, and water containers, as well as soap and detergent bottles. Rinse our the container to prepare these items for recycling and dispose of the lids. It is easy to remember which plastic items are acceptable. Look for the number "1 "or "2" inside the little triangle on the bottom of the container. .The final or fotu:th category for Tulsa’s new recycling program is glass. Both clear and colored glass bottles and jars will be accepted. No unbroken glass will be taken, nor will the program accept other housewares or plate glass from windows. Since the glass before putting out for collection and discard the lid. Because of the once-everytwo-weeks collection, you may want to rinse after use, if it contains food. Curbside recycling is a great addition to Tulsa’s solid waste disposal program. Now it is up to us to make it succeed. Begin sign up for this new service. Just call the Mayor’s Action Center at 596-2100 and tell them that you wish to sign up for curbside recycling. It is scheduled to start on Nov. 1st. The cost is only $2/month; it will be added to your city utility bill. Recycled items will be collected twice a month on an every other week basis. Before the program begins, you will be informed about your curbside pickup days. You can also sign up by clicking on www cityoftulsa.org/recycle or www.tulsarecycles.com. Remember this program can succeed only if enough of us participate. So sign on now! Bob D. Rounsavell is a freelance Tulsa writer who specializes in environmental education. dollars did stay here in Oklahoma instead of adding to the profits of American Airlines, or United, or Marriott or Hilton? Let’s guess that many of those 50 attending spent about $500 to $1000 for their visit. A few who traveled as I did with my student group perhaps spent as little as $200300¯ One might argue that an average expenditure might be about $600 for a total of $30,000. But on the other hand, $30k would pay the current rent on the Community Center for almost two years ! Now that other TOHR ex-president argues that while many in our community are willing to spend that money on what is in essence an extra Queer vacation, he feels that few would be willing to mm around and invest that amount into our community if there’s no immediate gain for themselves. And sadly, I would like to argue with him but as a community organizer, I can’t - because I’ve seen that what he claims is mostly true. What if we did value our rights and invested in our communities as much as we did our fabulous vacations, great clothes, stylish homes and cars ? What coul d w e accompli sh then? After all, if w e don’t take care of ourselves, who is going to? "Straight" people? - Tom Neal PS: those of you who’ve already got this message, thanks! Keep up the good work and drag a friend along. Tom Neal, publisher & editor of Tulsa Family News, helped to found and direct the Coalition of Lesbian/Gay Student Groups and the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, Dallas Chapter andhelped iofoundGLAAD National. He also served as co-chair of the University of Oklahoma Gay & Lesbian Association, and helped to found the Rice University Gay Alumni group as well as serving on Tulsa’s Pride committee for several years. "...the moment of my epiphany was when we boarded the Metro (subway) at the gnd to the last stop that far out into the suburbs, and everyone waltln~, and everyone on the train but for perhaps one or two per ear, was Gay, or Lesl~ian, or Bi, or non-Gays whom we’d el rly we6om l into our tdl . " organization and raised the question of whether the event would need to be rescheduled or dropped. But another question to ask is this: is this the best use of our communities’ resources ? NGLTF has been arguing that we, as a movement, should be putting more of our energies into local and state efforts at change. This doesn’tmean abandoning federal level efforts but working harder locally. In Oklahoma, we’ve started to see some results from just such efforts; the Cimarron Alliance has substantially changed some legislative attitudes in the Oklahoma House. Funding for HIV/AIDS care andprevenfionhas benefited from lobbying by Tulsan Steve Eberle. These things would not have happened unless some Oklahomans decided to invest in local efforts. According to Kelly Kirby, former Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights (TOHR) president, longtime activist and current Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) board member, at least 40-50 Tulsans stopped by a reception Marty Newman gave at the last march. And likely there were some from the city who did not attend. So I have to ask, as another former TOHR president who begged for money for that organization and for the community center, what would happen if some of those On Nov. 9th, Tulsans will have the opportunity to vote on a $109 million bond package to invest in the needs of Tulsa Public Schools and the children of the district. The Citizens Bond Development Committee has identified more than $600 million in building, facilities, teaching materials and transportation needs for the District in a comprehensive, strategic plan that covers 20 years. The bond issue to be presented to voters on Nov. 9th will be m~ important step in adequately addressing the need of the District and in creating a District of unparalleled excellence in the state... - Sincerely, Ruth Ann Fate President, Tulsa Public Schools Board of Education Chair, Citizens for Better Education 2121 So, Columbia, Suite 103, Tulsa : ¯ ¯ ~ ¯ by Tom Neal, editor/publisher Some Gay readers will likely look at the excerpted letter above and respond: "yeah right, why should I care - I don’t have kids"and"TPS is a homophobic institution which doesn’t deserve my support." Some non-Gay ~ readers will likely read this and also wonder why Gay people should care about education issues. But the reality is that many Gay people (using the term broadly to include LGB and T folk) do have children, some by marriages to non-Gay folk before coming out, and some by adoption, and some creative Lesbians and Gay men are having our own children. Even those of us who do not have children directly of our own, like me, have no fewer than eight nephews and nieces about half of whom were educated in Tulsa Public Schools. And we have friends with children too. .My pointis that despite the an.ti-Gay stereotypes which paint Lesbians and Gay men as anti-family, we have a strong interest in providing a good educational system to the children of our community. We also have some selfinterest in that there tends to be a correlation between education and the lessening of anti-Gay prejudice. And if we insist that TPS, an educational system which we help fund, seek to teach the values of respect and tolerance for all citizens, to teach that the diversity of our city makes us stronger, then we, Gay and Lesbian citizens, regardless of whether we have children who directly benefit from TPS, will gain. Therefore, on Nov. 9th, please consider voting yes: do it for kids. �Friends Mourn Murdered Gay Pastor SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Calling him a "an ov ersized angel in human form," mourners and friendsof a slain pastor and Gay civil rights activist led tributes to him. The Rev. Edward R. Sherriff, 68, an associate pastor at the Cathedral of Promise Metropolitan Commtmity Church in Sacramento was found stabbed to death in his home Oct. 20 in what police believe was a robbery. More than 300 friends andfzraily crowded into the church where Sherriff served as co-pastor for 11 years. Later in the day, mourners filled the sidew~ilks to "celebrate the home~zoing" of the slain activist. A t~ndf-ul.of local religious leaders paid tribute to Sherriff, including Sister Catherine Connell, director of the Catholic Wellspring women’s center, and the Rev. Isaiah Muhammad of the Nation of Islam. Sherriff’s daughters were als0 among the crowds. "It’s amazing to me the people who love him, who truly love him," said Scharlene Sheriff. Sherriff’s other daughter Marsha Lanier said she does not believe her father’s murder was ahate crime. He likely died because he went out of his way to help, Lanier said. ’That’s one thing he would have been proud of," she said. Court to Reconsider Religious Bias Ruling challenges .by religious landlords. But if the federal appeals court sides with the landlords, property owners throughout the circuit could sidestep state court rulings and go into federal court for religious exemptions. The suit was filed by Kevin Thomas and Joyce Baker, who each own several rental properties in Anchorage and said they had consistently refused to rent to unmarried cohabitants because of their Christian beliefs. They have not been accused of violating the state or local laws but asked the court to bar" their enforcement. In the January ruling, Judge Diarmuid O’ Scannlain said the law not only placed an unconstitutional burden on landlords’ religious practices but also violated freedom of speech, by prohibiting owners from asking about a tenant’s marital status, States can impose such restrictions on businesses for compelling reasons, such as preventing discrimination based on race or sex, O’Scannlain said. But he said discrimination on the basis of marital status isn’t banned by the Constitution, federal law or the laws of many states, and no compelling interest has. been shown for its elimination. The case is Thomas vs. Anchorage Equal Rights Commission, 97-35220. 4021 S. Harvard, Suite 210, Tulsa 74135 Methodists Attack Boy Scouts’ Anti-Gay Policy Sunday Services, 11 am tIACKENSACK, N.J. (AP) - The Boy Scouts of America could lose an important ally as it prepares to appeal a New Jersey Supreme Court ruling that the group could not remove a New Jersey man because he SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The federal appeals court is Gay. that allowed religious landlords to deny rentals to The United Methodist Church, which sponsors unmarried couples agreed to reconsider recently at about 15% of the 3.3 million Scouts in the United the request of states, cities and civil rights groups. The States, has scolded the group and is threatening to halt 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said an 11-judge its sponsorship if things don’t change. Although the panel will decide whether property owners with church "would like to enthusiastically affirm and religious objections to certain types of tenants are encourage this continuing partnership of the church entitled to exemptions from housing discrimination and Scouting, we cannot due to the Boy Scouts of laws. The case involves state and local laws in America s discnmanat~on agmnstGays; the Gener Anchorage prohibiting housing discrimination based Board of Church and Society said earlier this month. on marital status. The ruling would also al’fect The board is a top policy-making body of the discrimination based on sexual orientation, where Methodists. It also encouraged the Boy Scouts to stop barred by law, and possibly other categories covered the policy barring homosexuals. ’"We further, for the by laws in the nine states of the nation’s largest sake of our continmng partnership, call upon the Boy federal circuit. Scouts of America to discontinue this exclusion of A panel of the court ruled 2-1 in January that Gays," the board concluded in the Oct. 10 statement. enforcement of the discriminationlaws would violate The Methodists earlier had said the church wanted to the rdigious freedom of two Anchorage landlords triple the number of Scouts it sponsors. who had religious objections to providing homes for But the Boy Scouts say the threat won’t dissuade unmarried couples. With no compelling state interest them from appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court. Greg at Stake, the landlords could not be forced to choose Shields, a spokesman for the Boy Scouts, said the between their businesses and their religious beliefs, organization hopes the case will be heard before next the court majority said. The court said a majority of its year’s summer recess. Shields also said he believes 21 active judges had voted to set the January decision the Boy Scouts’ longtime relationship with the aside and order a new hearing before the 11-judge Methodists will endure. "We feel like we have a panel, at a date not yet scheduled. ¯ Requests by Alaska and Anchorage for a reheating ¯ strong base of support within the congregations," were supported by national civil liberties and Gay ¯ Shields told The Record of Hackensack. The appeal plan follows aunanimous August ruling civil-rights orgamzations, cities including Los_Angeles by the state Supreme Court that says the policy of : and San Francisco, and the states of California, keeping out homosex~mls violates the state’s antiNevada, Washington, Oregon, Montana and Hawaii. " California Attorney General Bill Lockyer, who ¯ discrimination law. The court said the Boy Scouts organization constitutes a "place of public enlisted his counterparts in the other states, said accommodation" because it has a broad-based discrimination laws would be affected in every state. "q’here’s no inherent conflict between state anti- ¯ membership and forms partnerships with public entities such as police and fire departments. discrimination law s and the private religious view s of James Dale, 29, of Matawan in Momnouth County, a landlord," he said. "Fhe issue is whether they can ¯ discriminate in their commercial and business ¯ was an assistant scoutmaster whe was kicked out of the Boy Scouts nine years ago whenleaders found out activities." ¯ Kevin G. Clarkson, lawyer for the Anchorage ¯ he is Gay. He sued., seeking reinstatement. Dale earned 30 merit badges, seven achievement honors landlords, said he wasn’t surprised by the rehearing, ¯ but argued that his clients’ ’interests were more ¯ and other awards, and became an Eagle Scout during important than those of the state or would-be tenants. ¯ his 12 years in the organization. He was expelled by theMoumouthCouncilin 1990 after the group leamed ’%Vhat’s at stake is the First Amendment right of from a newspaper article that he was Gay. The Irving, property owners to manage their property consistent ¯ with their religious beliefs," Clarkson said. He said ¯ Texas-based organization has said if forced to accept there was no evidence that unmarried couples in any ¯ Gays, the organization would not be able to build moral character in boys. state have had trouble finding housing because of the The New Jersey ruling contrasted with a March religious objections of a small number of landlords. ¯ Conservative religious organizations such as Focus ¯ 1998 decision by the California Supreme Court inthe Boy Scouts’ favor. In that ruling, alsounammous, the on the Family and the American Center for Law and ¯ said the organization was not abusiness and was Justice, as well as the more liberal National Council : court therefore free to exclude Gays, as well as atheists and of Churches, have filed arguments supporting the ¯ agnostics. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an landlords. 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Atlanta Place, 742-7381 501 S. Cincinnati, 582-4128 The Episcopal Church Welcomes You also scattered downtown and placed on cars. Boeing ExtendsBenefits ¯¯ were City and police officials said they are taking the ¯ very seriously because they appear to be part to Same-Sex Partners ¯ threats of an organized effort. In response, the police assigned SEATTLE (AP) - The Boeing Co., citing the need to ¯ extra officers downtown. "In this day and age, this maintain a quality work force and the benefits of ’- should not be. We’re not going to tolerate it," Cianci diversity, plans-to extend health-care benefits next ~ told The Providence Journal. year to same-sex domestic partners of salaried non- ¯ W. Fitzgerald Himmelsbach, the city’s liaison to umon employees. The decision, announced to the Gay and Lesbian community, also received a company managers by electronic mail, was praised " death threat over the telephone. He received a call at by Gay civil rights advocatesl It was criticized by business from aman who said, "Die, you fagg.ot . union leaders, however, for leaving out their members ¯~ his All the letters said ’~omosexuality is a sin against ¯ and nnmarried heterosexual partners. Company humankind and God," and all were signed "The officials did not say how many employees would be ¯ Trench Coat Mafia" - the name used by a group of affected. Roughly half of Boeing’ s 202,000 employees "- students at Columbine High School, in I.ittleton, ¯ worldwide are salaried and non-union. Colo., that .included the two gnmmen who killed 13 A recent Forbes Magazine survey indicated ¯ people there last spring. unmarried partners are covered by health benefits in Himmelsbach saidletters received by the two assault 10% of the businesses with at least 200 employees. ". victims threatened that they would"end up in hell like Companies that provide same-sex-partner benefits [ Matthew Shepard," the Wyoming college student include Lotus Development Corp., Microsoft Corp., ¯ who was beaten to deathlast fall because he was Gay. IBM, Walt Disney Co., U S West, Honeywell and ¯ The letters were sent to Ed Webb, 34, and Noah Xerox. ] Schwartz, 41, both of Providence. On Sept. 19 in In the e-mail, James B. Dagnon, Boeing’s senior : downtown Providence, the men said about 20 collegevice president for personnel, said the move was made " aged men yelled "faggots" and then five of the men for two reasons: ’~First to attract and retain talented ¯ beat them up. employees, and second to walk the talk on diversity. ¯ Both Himmelsbaeh, who has been the liaison for "Diversity, with a capital D, means acknowledging ~ two years,and Cianci saidreceiving threats is nothing employees have different backgrounds, preferences ¯ new but both are worried that this is part of an and interests." ~ organized effort. ’~Eianci vowed to fred the "cowards" A task force of personnd managers and minority .. who are the perpetrators and then prosecute them for employees w.as formed to study the is sue last year, bu.t . hate crimes. Police do not have any suspects yet. consii~eration of an initial proposal was stalled until the company’s financial performance improved in recent months, Boeing spokesman Peter Conte said. The decision is long overdue, said Charles Fay, chairman of Hands-Off Washington in Snohomish County and Dennis Rybicki, a spokesman for the ¯ DENVER (AP) - City Council members are SnohomishCounty Elections Committee., which,r~an~__. s : considering a proposal that would create a registry to political candidates on Gay and Lesbian xssues, q’his ~ record the relationships of Gay and Lesbian partners should send a signal to other employers, large and and other committed but unmarried couples. The small, that it’s good business to recognize the value of ¯ proposal, heard by the city council, would allow Denverites to officially record their partnerships to all families," Fay said. ¯ Charles Bofferding, executive director of the Society qualify for insurance benefits some companies offer ¯ to the "domestic partners" of their workers. And, for of ProfesSional Engineering Employees in A.erospa.~, said the move seemed to be designed to sabotage ,his ¯ same-sex couples, it would allow their unions to be group’s contract-negotiations, which begin soon. : acknowledg?,.d,, if only nominally, by local S PF.EA, formerly the Seattle Professional Engineering " government. It sfinallytimeforthecitytorecognize Employees Association, is the second-largest imion ." committed relationships," said Councilman Ed at Boeing, representing 23,000 scientists, engineers, ¯¯ Thomas, who, along with Councilwoman Cathy manual writers and technical workers. SPEEA Reynolds, has been planning such a registry for several negotiators will seek the benefit but don’t want to ¯ years. . sacrifice other potential contract gains to obtain it, ¯ To qualify, both members of a couple would have Bofferding said. ’This attitude, that management ¯¯ to be unmarried, 18 years or older and sharing the knows best and employees will take whatever is same household with a partner who is not a blood ¯ dished, out, this is outrageous ,"he said. "Is the Boeing relative. A filing fee at the city’s clerk and recorder’s Co. going to discriminate against heterosexuals now?" ¯¯ office is expected to be about $20. Couples would be Conte said health-care benefits will not be offered ¯ required to notify that office if their relationships tO unmarried heterosexual partners because they can dissolve. The plan had tentative approval by most get married, an option from which same-sex parmers members of the city s Safety and Personnel Commatt ¯ except council member Ted Hackworth, who said it are barred by law. Tim Flynn, a spokesman for the International ¯ "doesn’t make sense." ¯ Itis slated for further discussionby council members Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, ¯ which r~ep~resents hourly producuon workers and is in the coming weeks. Advocates hope to have the Boeings largest union, said Machinist leaders may registry in place by Valentin~ s Day. If approved, discuss same-sex benefits before expiration of the ¯ filing with the registry wouldn t constitute a marriage three-year contract that was ratified in September. or common-law marriage, nor would it affect Annetta Small, director of the West Coast office of ¯ inheritance rights. Kerusso Ministries, which seeks to persuade Gays ¯¯ Still, advocates say it wouldprovide documentation and Lesbians to become heterosexual through for couples seeking benefits from United Airlines, Chrsfianity, said she opposes any extension of benefits ¯ Coors, Denver city government and other employers to non-married partners. "We are giving benefits to a ¯ who insure domestic partners of workers. Proponents behavior that I believe is wrong and that I believe is ¯ also hope it would help advance rights whenit comes immoral," she said. "I don’t believe that we should ¯ to visiting partners in the hospital or making medical extend these benefits to people who are not married." ¯ decisions on their behalf. Theregistry would similarly ¯ benefit senior couples who choose not to marry because ¯ they would lose Social Security or other benefits. ~ Boulder has a similar registry program, as do the state ¯ of California and 35 cities in 25 states nationwide. : Denver Considers : Couples Registry Hate Letters Sent to Rhode Island Politicos PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Threatening letters with anti-Gay sentiments have been sent to the Providence mayor, the city’s liaison to the Gay community and two men who were recently assaulted in a Gaybashing attack. One letter, which Mayor Vincent A. Cianci Jr. received, described Providence as a ’Tag lovin’ city". Leaflets that said "Fake Action Against Queer’s, ¯ : ¯ ¯ ¯ Irish Jury Convicts Writer’s Assailants PHILADELPHIA (AP)- A jury in Irdand convicted two men in the near-fatal beating of a well-known Philadelphia writer of Gay-themed books who was see News, p. 13 overseas researching a novel �Magic Johnson Plays in Sweden ¯ new clinics since 1994, traditional state ¯ hospitalshavefilledupwithAIDS patients ¯ who occupy up to 60% of the beds, South : BORAS, Sweden (AP) - Magic Johnson ¯ African Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said recently. entertained a sellout crowd Tuesday night ¯ ’’We expected the demand for hospital with some of the trademark skills he used to help the Los Angeles Lakers win five ¯ caretodrop,"shesaidatanews conference ; at theheadquarters of theAfrican National NBA rifles. ¯ Congress. "But the HIV and AIDS The 40-year-old star, 10 years older than the second oldest player on the court, ¯ epidemic has increased the burden." The had 14 points and 11 rebounds as Magic ¯¯ briefing was one of a series by the ANC on M7 beat Sallen 84-60 in.the Swedish ¯ its progress in ruling the country. Tshabalala-Msimang chairs the party’s basketball league. ¯ health committee. "The first half was a little tough, but the Some 3.6 million South Africans are second w as easier.," Johnson told the 3,319 -" ¯ infected with AIDS, roughly one in eight spectators after,the game, his first nonexlfihition contest since leaving the NBA ." adults, and the government says 1,500 ¯ new :infections occur every day in one of for good in 1996. Johnson missed some easy layup ." the world’s fastest rates of infection. A attempts. "That’s easy when the ¯ narionalAIDS councilwillbefunctioning atmosphere was as charged and the : by year’s end, Tshabalala-Msimang said. euphoria as high as it was tonight," he ¯ ’’We should have had the council in place said. After a standing ovation before the : already," she said. Controversial proposals, such treating game, Johnson drew further cheers when : he promised to return to play more games : pregnant women with HIV with a drug ¯ therapy to prevent transmission of the for Magic MT. ¯ MT, which missed the playoffs last ¯ virus to infants, will be discussed next season, is 7-0 this season,.with Johnson’s ¯ month at a meeting of regional health ministers, she said. The government so far appearance generating great interest in : has rejected the proposal as too expensive the sport in Boras, a city of 110,000 in : and possibly even dangerous in terms of western Sweden. ¯ long-term side effects. Johnson, who led Michigan State to the The health ministers from the Southern 1979 U.S. National Collegiate Athletic ¯¯ African Development Community will Association rifle, learned he had tested ¯ positive for the HIV virus that can cause ¯ also discuss blood safety and development of an HIV vaccine. AIDS in 1991. He retired for the first rime just before the start of the 1991-92 season. After returning to play on the U.S. Dream Team that won the gold medal in the 1992 Olympics, he made a brief comeback before the !992-93 season, but KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -The quit again after several players expressed AIDS epidemic in Asia could erase the concerns about playing against him. region’s economic gains over the last two In January 1996, he returned to the decades unless governments maintain Lakers and played the remaining half of funding for social programs, a World B ank the season, retiring again, at age 37, after expert warned late last month. the Lakers were eliminated from the In Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, playoffs. Myanmar, Malaysia, Vietnam and Southern China, AIDS had gained a "strong foothold," even before the economic crisis struckin 1997, saidMartha Ainsworth, a senior World Bank economist. HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) - Greg The dreaded virus "threatens to slowly Louganis has picked up a new habit. The unravel the progress in improving the Olympxc gold medal-winning diver is human condition.and to diminate if not starring in the musical comedy, ’~lunsense reverse the benefits of the economic A-Men," which runs through Dec. 5 at the miracle,’’ Ainsworth told the 5th Hollywood Playhouse. International Congress on AIDS in Asia Lougams, who won four gold medals in and the Pacific. two Olympics and later disclosed he was The region’s two-year economic crisis Gayand HIV-positive, will pull on a habit may have further hurt Asia’s fight against six rimes a week for his role as Sister AIDS, said Ainsworth. Cash-strapped Robert Ann, a streetwise nun who always governments were forced to slash budgets wanted to be a star. All the nuns in this and lower wages. The crisis also pushed production are men. thousands of families into poverty and The former diver, author and many women into prostitution. motivational speaker says he likes working "’Even before the crisis, political in an ensemble cast. "There’s always commitment to AIDS prevention in the someone there to hold your hand," said region was weak," said Ainsworth. "Many I_ouganis, 39. "It feels more supportive, I policy makers are still in denial." guess.’" Development policies before the crisis Thou.gh Louganis now has AIDS, he channeled funds into education and health looks and feels healthy. He says he does not think about being a role model. "We’ re ¯ care budgets, resulting in higher life expectancies and reduced poverty: all haman. We all make mistakes," he "The full impact of the crisis on HIV ¯ said "Role model, in my mind, is perfection and one can’t be that. I try to : depends critically on how well encourage young people to be their own ~ governments and households succeeded ¯ .in maintaining socialsafety nets," said heroes and their own role models." : AJnsworth, an expert on the effect of ¯ AIDS on households. Ainsworth said : AIDS hadalready subtracted several years ¯ JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - ¯ offtheaveragelifeexpectancies of certain countries. After the end of apartheid, South Africa A U.N report released at the four-day pushed to get patients out of overcroWded hospitals and into preventive care clinics. ¯¯ conference esrimates that by 2010, the overall death rate will be 20% higher in But as fast as the country has built 700 : Louganis in Nun-Drag? AIDS Threatens Asia’s Prosperity OECE~% WorldAIDS Day 1999 Candlelight March & Memorial Service sponsored by Interfaith AIDS Ministries Wednesday, December 1st End the Silence Mount Zion Baptist Church 419 North Elgin (next to OSU-Tulsa) Gather 6:30 at St. Monica’s, Marshall Place at Greenwood (just south of Pine), March at 7pm, Service at 7:30, all times approximate! Bring banners & bells; candles provided. Info: 438-2437. Are You Gay or Bisexual? Are You Native American~.~ Tulsa s Two-Spirited Indian Men s ¯ Support Group ~s here for you! ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ Evening support group meetings Relationship workshops Short trips, outings and retreats Free HIV testing For information call Tulsa Native.American AIDS Prevention Project at 582-7225 Ext, 208 or 218 Dial-Up Accounts Dedicated ISDN Connections Virtual Hosting AIDS & So. Africa Visit our web page "www.igisweb.net" (918) 622-4965 Internet Marketing E-Commerce Web Page Design On-Site Setup Available �Oklahoma NARAL cordially invites you to a chocOlate and champagne fete in support of abortion and reproductive rights in Oklahoma. Celebrating 26 Yedrs.of Choice Sunday, November 7, 1999, 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. to be held at Resonance 1608 S. Elwood, Tulsa, Oklahoma Champagne, Coffee, Chocolates $25 per individual Please R.S.V.P. to the NARAL Office: 494-9585 Stay Healthy Naturally Wellness Rejuvenation Longevity Dr. Terrance L. Sullivan Doctor of Naturopathy Certified Colonic Hygenist Certified Reflexologist Certified Herbalist Certified Accupres suri st provides consultations by appointment Iridology- Hair Analysis - Herbal Supplements Pain Control - Nutritional Analysis 4520 So. Peoria, Brookside, 712-1400 L Myanmar due to AIDS fatalities. In " at least 10 days to complete. And that’s Cambodia and Thailand, it may rise 15% : only if the expected 80 participants keep because of AIDS. The United Nations up a good pace. The snow layers the trail estimates that 7 million people in Asia are ¯ in multiple feet, not mere inches. infected with the HIV virus or AIDS. ¯" Temperatures dip deep into thenegatives, Speakers at the conference, which ends numbing hands and lungs. At night; Wednesday, have urged Asia to act fast to ¯ Sections of the woods-darkened course curb the epidemic or risk the devastation ." are lit only by the aurora borealis, which now faced by Africa, which has 21 million ¯ crackle and cast shadows in the trees and AIDS-related cases. : snow. Switchbacks get so steep in some Experts are particularly concemedabout ¯ areasthatdrivers can’tseetheleadoftheir the effects of AIDS on Indonesia, the ¯¯ 16-dogpack.A driver unlucky enough to world’s fourth largest country, where the fall off gets left in a cloud of snow and regional economic crisis was compounded ¯ regret. ’q~here ain’t no waitin’ in this by political upheaval. It diverted attention ." race," said Raymond "Raymie" and funding from the AIDS epidemic, ¯ Redington, King’s sled-dog trainer. ’q’he Aiusworth said. ’~olitical turmoil no doubt ¯" huskies are bred to go. They’ll bolt off the increased risky behavior for the spread of ." starting line even if you say halt." HIV," Ainsworth said. ." Redington should know. The 54-yearShe said countries such as Thailand . old Alaska native’s father founded the one of the high-risk areas in Asia, had ¯ racein 1973. He has been in 111ditarods; proved that maintaining commitment to : his highest placing was seventh. Since AIDS -prevention programs paid : September, Redington has trained King dividends. HIV cases dropped among ¯ on a four-wheeler that simulates a sledprostitutes, men with sexually-transmitted : dog team. King will work with the dogs as diseases and blood donors in Thailand ¯ the snow starts to fall. ¯ despite the economic crisis, she said. King began training last year, gaining ¯ "Many governments in this region have about 100 miles of mushing experience. ¯ Oddly, being a native Arizonan could a window of opportunity to act early and prevent an epidemic," Ainsworth said. give him a boost: King was trained as a bo.y to handle a mule drawn wagon, which ¯ ~mrrors mushing techniques, Redington ¯ said. King will have to be up to speed by : Jan. 1, whenthelditarod’sfirstqualifying race, the Knik 200, takes place. The 2nd JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - ~ qualifier is a week later. Seeking to help young children deal with Only after the 500 miles of racing will a soanng number of sexual assaults, ¯ Redington know whether King is ready national heal th and education officials are :’ for the Iditarod. "I don’t know how he’s considering an education program for " ¯ going to do when it gets real freezing," primary students to teach about rape and ¯ said Redington, who remembers the 38HIV infections, a newspaper reported below zero wind chill he endured in the Sunday. ¯ A pilot program was tested in the ¯ 1974Iditarod. "Buthelooks healthy now . "" That hasn’t always been the case for Nor~ern and F~ee State provinces, where ¯ King. Six years ago, the 6-foot man had about 700 children received the lessons, ¯ the Sunday Times of Johannesburg ¯ wastedto 118pounds. Doctors gav,e King, a former respiratory physician, 90 days to reported. About 14,000 children are live after diagnosing him with multidrug sexually violated every year, police reports say, but a large number of rapes go ¯ resistant tuberculosis. At one point, his Tcell count, a measure of the body’s unreported, anti-rape activists say. ¯ resistance to disease, bottomed out at 40; About 8% of the adult population is HIV positive. One factor that experts ~ a virus-free, healthy person’s T-cell coun! usually reaches 1,000. belie,ve has contributed to child rape is the King had one wish: to see Alaska before persxstent myth that sex with a virgin can ¯ he died. Two years ago he took a cruise cure the disease. ." there, and he caught another bug. This Abraham Seckle, an Education time, it was mushing. "That’s all he could Department official, was quoted as saying the program would "empower learners to ¯ talk about," said his father, Dick King. protect themselves." A consultant- ¯ "He was suicidal, depressed at times. BUt this brought him out." involved in the project, Darleen Edwards, Science lent a hand, too. Strong antisaid that children are taught to "run, yell viral drugs called protease inhibitors and tell" in the program. ¯ became available. King was soon on a ¯ five-drug ’.’cocktail"prescribed to him by Children at Risk in South Africa PLWA to Race in Iditarod Next Year Scottsdale’s Dr. Thanes Vanig. He began ¯ popping about 26 pills a day. He said he ¯ has to smoke marijuana to beat down the MESA, Ariz. (AP)- The first Arizonan to ¯ nausea caused by themedieation. He also enter Alaska’s most grueling sled dog ,- has to take percocet, and even morphine, race faces two major obstacles before he ¯ to numb the neurological pain to his lower ¯ legs that was caused by the tuberculosis even steps to the starting line. Chuck ¯ and AIDS drugs. His T-cell count has Kin.g, 39, of Tempe, has no experience racang. He has only 100 miles actually ¯ jumped to 560, the lower side of normal. riding a dog sled. And King is. HIV ¯ He’s also gained 44 pounds, thanks in positive. Every day, he takes fisffuls of ¯ large part to injections of human growth anti-viral pills just to stay alive. : hormone, a $4,000-a-month drug that he But he doesn’t see this as a setback. He ; said was donated by a pharmaceutical views his illness and the March 4 Iditarod ¯ company. sled-dog race as a chance to prove that ¯ When King recently returned to Alaska, people with AIDS don’t have to ¯ his spirits were high, His po~c,k,etbook is concentrate on survival alone. "In the last ¯ - the opposite. King is feveris!!) lining up seven years, I was supposed to have died ¯ sponsors, such as Tempe Mayor Neil three times and I made it through all of ¯ Giuliano, to make it through the race and that," King said in a telephone interview ¯ bring AIDS awareness to a new level, ¯ "It’s not just for people with AIDS," he from Wasilla, Alaska. ¯ The Iditarod this year will stretch 1,152 s.aid. ’q~hemessageis for everyone: Don’t miles from Wasilla to Nome, taking racers ¯ g~ve up. Don’t ever give up." �because in Native cultures, song and dance by James Christjohn are usually linked. You can’t have one Upon viewing the PBS production of without the other. They both contribute to "Spirit: A Journey in Dance, Drum, and the telling of the story. And the projections Song" on PBS, I contacted Peter Buffett, help bring the natural (or unnatural.., or the composer and creator. Upon learning supernatural) worldinto the theatre. That’s that there would be a National Tour with the "art" reason. a stop in Tulsa at the Brady "A hundred years ago The "commerce" reaTheatre on January 3, sonis that I knew my show 2000; I had the opportunity people sang would be competing with to ask afew questions. You the Ghost Dance larger and larger events. can get the video of the songs in the hopes Not only theatrical, but production that originally lmax movies, huge budget aired on PBS, as well as that the world would movies and all sorts of the CD at areamusic/video return to the way entertainment that tugs at stores. It’s powerful in the consumer. I wanted to those mediums (reviewed it once was, try and create something previously), and one can Now, the choir in that people could honestly only imagine the impact of say they hadn’ t seen before some of the Spirit the piece live. (no small feat). So this was JC: Hello, Peter! songs are singing those my attempt.. PB: Hello! Well... very same words in JC: Well,judgingfrom finally I’m answering your the response at the taping questions. I was frantically hopes that the world from the audience, and the finishing a record for a can become incredible response I’ve friend. It had to be done by seen to the video, l’d say what it could be. "" yesterday (which it was) you achieved your goal. so I can go to New York - Peter Buffett PB: It’s important to today to start all the note that I’m not in the "bigger is better" mechanics it’s going to take to get the "Spirit" showon the road by the Fall. At : camp (as it may sound) but people want and deserve their money’s worth. And it’s some point, you’ 11 hav e to get the’’making getting harder to "outdo" the last thing ~n of" part of the video. I think you’ll really enjoy it. "(Note: The "Making of..." is [ terms ofp0werful soundandimagery. My included on the retail vide~’Of the show.) [ hope is that the message of the show has as much effect on people as anything else. JC: It’s such an amazing piece that works on so many diffdrent levels, l was JC: I can only speak from my own wondering what inspired the idea to bring ¯. experience, and that of listening to others together the different elements - dance. ¯ who have seen the video, to say that it was very powerful in that regard, and song, etc. - to create the show? PB: I wanted to bring all the elements ¯ communicated its message wonderfully. see Buffett, p. 14 together for two main reasons. One, by That Entertainment Guy Livin La Vida Loca Tour, the Divine king, Ricky Martin appears in Dallas al Reunion Arena, Dallas, Thursday, Nov 4, 1999, at 8:00PM. Now this would be the concert to take binocnlars to - and the telephoto mini-camera. Ticket prices for the Prince of Pop: $35.00- $75.00 ChargeBy-Phone #: 214-373-8000. The Divine Queen of All Things is also performing in Dallas in November. No, not S tevie, although she is the other Queen of All T’nings Divine; but the Divine Ms. Millennium Tour: Bette Midler in Concert, A Beaver Production takes place Sunday, Nov128,1999 at 8:00prn at ReunionArena. As she said in one early concert tour, ’qTais ain’t no cheap meat you’re lookin’ at!": Ticket prices run $50.50 - $150.50, Charge-By-Phone at 214-373-8000. Peter Buffett’s "Spirit - A Journey in Dance, Drums and Song" is a music, dance and percussion spectacle that combines the power of contemporary music with the songs, chants and dances of Native American culture. The release of the CD coincides with the PBS Broadcast of the live show of Spirit, which features over 80 performers - including twenty dancers with both modem and traditional training, an orchestra with both modem and ancient tribal instruments, a flits choir and percussionists pounding out heart-stopping rhythms on a variety of drums. The show runs in Tulsa, January 4-9, at the Brady Theatre; and if you miss that, then you can catch "Spirit" in Dallas, March 7-12 at the Majestic Theatre. You really didn’t think I’d let you get away without the obligatory mention of Stevie Nicks herself, did you? Yes, La Diva nicks is performing three shows: Two in California’s HOuse of Biues in December, and one in Las Vegas HOB on New Year’s eve. Tickets went for an outrageous $127 (balcony seating) and $227 (Orchestra - STANDING!). There only a few floor spaces left for the New Year’s show.. All others sold out. Believe it or not. Anyone wishing to contribute to the "Send the obsessed reviewer to see S tevie and not come back fund" can send contributions to TFN. Just make sure my name’s in big letters on the envelope, or I’ll never see the money. It’ll end up in the "buy the publisher new household gimmicks" fund. The Divine Ms. Nick’s new album should be out the 1st of the year, if not sooner. And hopefully, with a more affordable tour. Apparently the cost of chiffon has risen - a lot. Fight Clubis.amovie that under ordinary circumstances, I would have never gone to see. However, I was not under ordinary circumstances, and was swept along to see it. I thought I’d hate it. After seeing it, I think everyone should see it. The acting is dynamic, the pace is breathless, and the intellect behind it is tremendous. The violence is not that bad, one scene aside, and the points the movie makes are well worth the viewing. The humor is well done, and the homoeroticism between Ed Norton and Brad Pitt makes it worthwhile. see Fight, p. 15 Is proud to present gie Hall veteran soprano, Floxane La Combe. nature "COMC Sound" has attracted sold out audiences. Order your tickets in advance. 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Write for info: POB 9165, Tulsa, OK 74157 If your organization is not listed, please let us know. Call 583-1248 or fax 583-4615. �reviewed by Barry Hensley Tulsa City-County Library What happens when a"radical Lesbian" goes undercover to infiltrate the organizations of the religious : : ¯ " substanceabuse and, now, a sympathetic wife with a decidedly un-Christian like penchant for screaming and yelling. The author’s interaction with this member of Focus on the Family is most "The a.thor’s insightful. She also meets with right? She writes a book, of several high level executives course! Fortunately, this isn’t interaetion with in the organization whose "jnsta another Christian bashing this member of arguments that they are not book, as Minkowitz is able to homophobic are astounding in see past her obvious Focus on the disagreements with these their hypocrisy. Family is most After these encounters with groups and find some real, the religious right, the author human common ground. Life ;nsi~htful. She inexplicably dives into an is full of gray area, as this book also meets with account of the International S/ shows. Ferocious Romance is a several high level M Leather Fetish Celebration that she attended in New York humorous but serious look into exeeutlves in the City to-celebrate the twentyreligious fight organizations, fifth anniversary of the such as Promise Keepers and or~anlzatlon Stonewall Riots. We really Focus on the Family. whose arguments learn more than we ever Minkowitz dons a fake monstachc and lowers her t~t they are not wanted to know about her involvement in S/M. This voice to attend a Promise homophone are topic surfaces occasionally Keepers weekend that really throughout the book and her opens her eyes. In addition to astoundln~ in comparison of conservative experiencing the fully their h~oe~sy." Christians and S/M expected propaganda of men practitioners is humorously itaking charge of the familyi and making women submissive, she al~o ¯¯ enlightening. As the 2000 elections approach, the witnesses burly men crying, hugging each other and expressing words of forgiveness. : religions right will undoubtedly take center She enjoys discussing this absurdity of .. stage to promote their candidates and the feminization of the Christian Men’s , agenda. It is in everyone’s best interest to : understand what these groups have in movement~ Her discussions with James Dobson’s ¯¯ store for the country, should their candidates be elected. This book gives a Focus on the Family are of more concern. She has long conversations with a cute : bit ofinsightinto what’ s going onin these voung man named Bobby, who is an ¯ organizations. Check out Ferocious Romance at your local branch library or ~tthappy "ex-Gay." It becomes evident ¯ call the Reader’s Services department at that Bobby’ s life is in a shambles due to the cumulative effects of childhood abuse, : Central library, at 596-7966. Members of each group were paired ¯ " together at the tables and encouraged to ¯ get to know each other. Before the meeting, : the groups agreed to disagree on whether : Gays can be Christians and to focus on ¯ ways to deter violence against Gays and : Christians, Falwell cited the September ." shootings at a Texas church and recent ¯ ¯ school shootings in which Christians were ¯ targeted. ¯ At a news conference following the meeting, Falwell and White apologized to : each other for harsh words they have said ¯" about the other’s groups over the years. ¯ "I’ve been a preacher for 47 years, a ¯ preacher of the gospel.., but in the end homosexuality is. wrong," Falwell said. ¯¯ ’’It is my hope that evangelicals might build a bridge of friendship -to Gays and : Lesbians as we have to alcoholics and : ¯ unwed mothers." ¯ White, an author and minister with the Metropolitan Community Churches, was : the ghost writerofFalwell’s autobiography ¯¯ before White acknowledged being Gay. Delegates from both groups thought the : ." meeting was good. The same weekend, many of Mel ¯ White’s groups listened to Falwell’s : Sunday sermon. Falwell, 66, began the : ¯ service by welcoming White andhis guests and briefing his congregation on the anti- ¯ violence forum conducted at the church : ¯ the day before. A t that meeting, both si des ¯ apologized for harsh words said over the years and discussed ways to reduce ¯¯ vio~lence against homosexualS. ’His sermon was amazang, said David Chandler, 36, a Gay man from San Francisco and one of the more than 4,000 worshippers who jammed into Thomas Roads BaptistChurch. "Hesentamessage to parents to love their children no matter what .... I admire and respect Falwell for taking that stand." In his sermon, Falwell stressed that he will hot change his belief that homosexuality is a sin. But he added, "That has nothing to do with the love factor involved. We are to be lovers of all men and women." Falwell’ s sermon came from Proverbs 13, which offers advice on successful living in the eyes of God. He spoke on the importance of working hard, living with integrity and not focusing on material things. He also talked at length about the importance of parents loving their children unconditionally. "For him to invite these fags here and into his church is an abomination,"Phelps said outside the church. "Now, Jerry Falwell is just as much a sinner as Mel White and both will bum in hell." The service ended with the congregation, singing the hymn "Only Trust Him. Falwell interrupted the song to reiterate to worshippers that what he or anyone else thought of them did not matter, but what was important is their relationship with God. White said it was "a shame" that protesters like Phelps brought hostility to aplace of worship. "What we have hereis a great moment for our country, Gays and Falwell worshipping together," White said. "It’s a small start, but it’s a start." The Gift of Pride In Honor of... Or In Memory of... Someone Special to You. 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You know what a we’re not back in front to do this in the spring, raving bitch your DIYD when scheduling is less is about safety, but she of the fireplace with hectic for the sweep, and does it out of a place of Baby just yet then the fireplace is ready love. Which place, she togo as soonas inspiration demurs to answer.. patience, and a little cool weather The first order of hits. This should be an business is to keep the my impetuous darlings! annual event for masonry winter winds and drafts Borrow Dorothy’s oll fireplaces, and every two outdoors where they years if you have a metal can and put a drop on belong. In the oftrepeated flue. words of the Oracle, ’We If you’re the intrepid don’t have a heating door hinges and garage sort who doesn’t mind contract with the great door ehaln drives to scampering out on the outdoors,’ although you keep things smoothly roof like a rabid squirrel, may feel that way when a good extension you get the first heating operating and silent in get ladder and do some bill for the winter. And maintenance and cleaning the wlnter, when the the side benefit is that if on the roof..Be sure that you can keep the house metal contracts and the ladder has firm, steady warm, you won’t have to footing and is not placed bundle up, and neither squeaks. You know near any power lines. Get will your schnookie, your DIYD eonslders " a hose with a power unless,of course, you fred the layers of sweats and the aesthetles as well as nozzle or a blower and blast those gutters clean, sweaters an erotic the practleal matters." especially at the challenge. From thereon, downspouts. Clean any you’re on your own! Try to take care of your outside heat ; leaves, sticks or debris offthe valleys and sinks (places you lose heat) before the ¯¯ gables of the roof, and look for any loose shingles. Use an appropriate kind of roof weather dips to 45 degrees during the day. ¯ goo or caulking to repair, and use this also Most ofthematerials you will useperform better when it’s warm - that’s a life ¯¯ around any flue flashings that might benefit from some extra sealant. This is a good philosophy worth adopting! Check around ¯ time to evaluate if you will need to repair windows and doors for loose or cracked caulking and replace where needed. ¯ or replace your roof in the spring. Be Around pipes or conduits that enter the : careful up there, and never crawl around ¯ on the roof without having someone at house, use an expanding foam product ¯ home in case you need help or get hurt. like Good Stuff or better yet, Daptex, Make sure she or he is not glued to a ball which can be tooled, painted and cleaned ¯ game or otherwise out of contact. At a up with water, It costs a little more but is worth it. Use this also to seal any gaps ¯¯ time like that, you deserve the extra attention, pookie! between your foundation and the siding of This is a good time of year for a lube your house. It’ s like mousse with attitude. ~" Work it, girl[ If you’re really hard core, ¯ job, or perhaps several. No, we’re not make a trip under the house and seM up ¯ back in front of the fireplace with Baby just yet-patience,my impetuous darlings ! around the pipes coming up into your house, and the same from the garage. This ¯ Borrow Dorothy’ s oil can and put a drop also discourages unwanted visits from ¯ on door hinges and garage door chain drives to keep things smoothly operating mice, who use pipe and conduit holes like ¯ a superhighway to the supermarket. And ¯ and silent in the winter, when the metal darlings, there’s no way to make trapping ¯ contracts and squeaks. You know your DIYD considers the aesthetics as well as mice attractive. Think about it. ¯ the practical matters. It is also a good idea to insulate behind If you have storm windows, give them switch and wall outlet plates. Special foam. cutouts can be bought at your local home ¯¯ a good cleaning to let in as much winter sunlight as possible, and check for any repair store, so that all you have to do is unscrew the plate, fit the cutout in and ¯ necessary repairs. If you don’ t haveenergy efficient windows,consider getting ~torms replace the plate. It is amazing how much cold air leaks in that way, especially in ¯¯ or even using the heat shrink film to provide some dead air spacq on your older houses. Occasionally, the fit between ¯ windows and to keep your house toastier. the plate is too tight, but not often. The foam cutouts are cheap and it takes little 0 : Now that the DIYD has planned your : social life for the next couple of weekends, time to do this. Before firing up the furnace for the first ¯ you can get busy making your nest cozy time, it is advisable to have a contractor ¯. and snuggly for the winter: And if you’re come and give it a gogd cleaning and ¯¯ very lucky, perhaps you will get your just reward- and we’re not only talking about inspection - the older your unit, the more important this step is. Most heating and ." a lower bill! Why don’t you go get a cooling contractors will do a combined ; couple pairs of silk boxer shorts,just to be winter and summer service for a reasonable ¯¯ prepared? Be hot, not frigid, this winter! Ciao, ducklings! sum, resulting in increased efficiency and �Red Rock Tulsa Free Confidential HIV Testing by Esther Rothblum, Ph.D. permission to come out; being I_~sbian Coming out as a Lesbian is difficult was very freeing in this way. I’ve even spoken with Lesbians born in the U.S. enough, but is even more stressful when who have told me that the woman is an they had to move all the immigrant and is struggling to come out in way across the country in order to come out." a new country and using a been.., interviewing The other group of new language. immigrant women... women Dr. Espin For several years now, Dr. Oliva Espin, a interviewed was actively "Coming to a new professor of women’s Lesbian in their home country made it studies at San Diego State country, immigrated to University, has been the U.S., and found that possible [or them to studying the lives of the U.S. Lesbian culture immigrant and refugee was different and had to come out. Lesbians. The topic had adjust their way of being This is true for to the new culture. That to do with her own life experience as an., was sometimes very women from all immigrant and with the difficult. "Some women who were used to playing imm.!grant eli .ents she was countries, not just seeing m her roles very actively," Dr. Espin continued, "if they those from psychotherapy practice were used to being ’the for over twenty years. traditional cultures. man,’, they couldn’t "I saw that there were some experiences that Being away from the understand why their partner did not want to .were common to immigrant women," Dr: familiar environment cook their meals, for Espin .told me. "A major example. Or, vice versa, gave them women who lived lives theme I found most interesting w as how often that were ve~ closeted in permission the woman would be their home countries, talking to me in Spanish~ foundit terribly offensive to come out; for example, and then when I would use the being Lesbian was word ’Lesbian’ and were switch to English when threatened by not having she began talking about very freeing being a Lesbian. There a cover-up." seemed to be something In general, Dr. Espin in this way. about using a second has found that immigrant I’ve even spohen with communities focus very language that helped distance Lesbians from much on the "decency" Lesbians born in the and "purit.y" of the whatever they had been women in their told was bad in their U.S. who have told community. "Because the communities are i also think that me that they had to experiencing difficulty women who have come move all the way out as Lesbians when they adjusting to the U.S., they were still children, may to prove that they across the country in want have more disruptions are good people. It is the about their own i dentity," behavior of women that order to come out." Dr. Espin said. ’q’hey describes the family. So ask ’who am I?’ or ’What is wrong with : when you have a Lesbian daughter, how me?’ For .them, coming out so young gets ¯ are you going to explain that to yourself mixed up with other issues of identity. For : andto your community? They may think girls who also fecl that they are not ’rexd : , that this is what happens to all women Americans,’ or who as immigrants are ¯ when they come to America." Dr. Espin has also found that Lesbian different in color or in language or in cultural traditions - being Lesbian is one : daughters tend to be more educated than more thing that strains their relationship : their parents or their heterosexual sisters. with their parents." ¯ As a result, the Lesbian daughters tend to Furthermore, the parents may feel that : bemaking more money andin many cases their daughter’s Lesbianism is something : runmng the community centers and she has "caught from those Americans." ¯ activities. "So coming out is also difficult When immigrant Lesbians come out as : for the Lesbian immigrant in terms of the adults, they have a stronger sense of : community losing their mast in her. The community doesn’t have the language identity and comin g out does not get mixed up with the turmoil of adolescence skills, the education, and the access to the although it may get mixed up with the dominant culture that she does." turmoil of migration if they are recent Dr. Espin has written about her immigrants. experiences in two recent books. For more Dr. Espin has been conducting research information, see Women Crossing and interviewing immigrant women. She Bbundaries: The Psychology of found two types of immigration Immigration and the Transformation of Sexuality (Routledge, 1999) and Latina experiences. Some women were Lesbian Realities: Essays on Healing Migration before the migration, or else where somewhat dissatisfied with what they were and Sexualities (Westview, 1997). even if they had no language for this. Esther Rothblum is Professor of ’~2oming to a new country made it possible Psychology at the University of Vermont for them to come out. This is true for and Editor of the Journal of Lesbian women from all countries, not just those Studies. She can be reached at Dewey Hall, Univ. of Vermont, Burlington, VT, from traditional cultures. Being away from the familiar environment gave them email: esther.rothblum@uvm.edu. Dr. Espln has Want to get involved? Need to get tested for HIV? Walk-in Clinics Tuesday Testing, 5 -8 pm Pride Center, 1307 East 38th Wednesday Testing, 5-8 pm Red Rock, 1724 East 8th Need a Coming Out Support Group? Daytime appointments available. Call Call for more information: 743-GAYS (4297) 918-584-2325 Church of the Restoration Unitarian Universalist 11 am, Sunday 1314 North Greenwood 587-1314 Tulsa Gay Community Services Center i307 E. 38th at Peoria, 2nd floor We know you’re going to love this[ Restaurant & Cabaret 3 i 0 East First Street 918-599-9949 Massage Therapy Services Country Club Barbering Custom Styling for Men & Women Edgar O. Cruz, L.M.T. 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"It’s one of ¯ these things where they’re wise enough to ¯ realize that if there were a grievance with ¯ respect to this sort of an issue, that based : on the case law both around the country ¯ -and the Labor Relations Board here in ¯ Vermont, that they would be fighting an : uphill legal battle," Fisher said of the : select board. "I think they look at it as an ¯ opportunity to perhaps steer clear of ¯ possible legal pitfalls in the future." " Blue Cross-Blue Shidd of Vermont, : which supplies health insurance to most Vermont municipalities through the ¯ Vermont LeagueofCities andTowns,has : offered domestic partner benefits to large ¯ groups for a few years now, said Leigh Tofferi, a company spokesman. Those benefits were available to same-sex and different-sex partners. at the time of the assault. A Circuit Court jury in northwest Ireland deliberated about two hours before finding 20-year-old Ian Monaghan and 21-year-old Glen Mahon, both of Sligo, guilty of "recklessly causing serious harm" in the Jan. 31 attack on Robert Drake, at his apartment. The defendants were convicP,xlofIrishcharges equivalent to aggravated assault in the U.S. Barely conscious, Drake lay for more than 12 hours in a pool of blood before a friend, Ciaran Slevin, discovered him. A police officer who recorded Drake’s words as he lay motionless in his blood-spattered kitchen with a severe head injury told the jury that he believed he was recording Drake’s "dying declaration." The defense contended that Drake made a crude homosexual pass at one of the men and that the other then struck Drake in the face to make him stop. Doctors had to open a hole in his windpipe to ease his breathing; he also experienced pneumonia, kidney failure : and other complications. Drake returned : to Philadelphia by medical transport in ¯ March to undergo five months of rehabilitation to learn to walk and speak " again. Though he was released from the : hospital two weeks ago, his speech and ¯ mobility remain seriously impaired. He ¯¯ uses a wheelchair to get around, and a ¯ letter board to assist in communicating. Drake was in the middle of a speech- ~ ¯ therapy session at his Center City ¯ apartment when word of the verdict reached him. Through a friend, he said :¯ that he was pleased with the verdict, ’"out ¯ not surprised." ¯ Monaghan and Mahon are free on bail awaiting sentencing Jan. 10, when they ¯ could get up to 10 years in jail. "It speaks ¯ volumes that Robert, eight months after ¯ ¯ theincident, needs round-the-clock care," said Slevin, an Irish physician now living with Drake in philadelphia. "I hope the : severity of the punishment meets the ¯ : severity of the crime." ¯ Brattleboro Offers ¯ Partners Benefits :¯ Compatibility reports for you and your friends or lovers. 59%0717 Gay Owned, Operated & Rainbow Proud Gay Mecca of the Ozarks Beautiful Eureka Springs, Arkansas BRATI’LEBORO, Vt. (AP) - Selectmen have voted to extend health benefits to same-sex domestic partners of town employees. Town Attorney Robert Fisher said the decision to extend the privileges to same-sex parmers, but not unmarried partners of the opposite sex, followed the trend of law in Vermont and other states. The University of Vermont extends benefits to same-sex couples, Fisher said. The city of Winooski is planning to as well after an employee filed a complaint with the Vermont Labor Relations Board. "Winooski hasn’t come out with a policy just yet," Fisher added. "They’re still researching insurance issues. But if they don’t follow the arbitrator’s decision, they’ll likely wind up back in court." He said Burlington, Vermont’s largest city, extends health benefits to all the domestic partners of city employees, whether the rdationship is same-sex or opposite sex. The town of Middlebury also offers benefits to same-sex couples, said Steve Jeffrey, the executive director of- the Vermont League of Cities and Towns. The Vermont Supreme Court is deciding whether to legalize same-sex marriages in Vermont. If it does, the towns’ policies ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ : ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ Lesbian & Gay Seniors Sought BOSTON (AP) - Targeting an older generation open about its sexuality and thinking about its golden years, some developer~ are looking to build Gayfriendly retirement communities. "We want to create something that mirrors the life they’re living now," said BoSton real estate agent John Goode, part of 9gr°up planning .an urban homosexual reUrement commumty in Boston. In generations past, societal pressures forced many Gays and Lesbians to keep their sexual orientations under wraps. Today,developers think those who helped pave the way for vibrant Gay communities will want to continue living in Gay communities after retirement. "In the mainstream aging community, there is the assumption that everyone is straight," said Terry Kaelber, executive director of the New York-based Seniors Active in a Gay Environment. ’’We have a place that does not assume that. In fact, it assumes that old people can be attracted to old people of the same gender." Kaelber’s group is working with a real estate development company to locate a site and investors for a 100-unit, mixedincome assisted living facility. Current options for Gay- and Lesbian-themed retirement housing consist primarily of a handful of mobile home parks and small resorts in Florida and Arizona. Goode’s group of seven partners wants to build a 75- to 100-unit retirement community somewhere in Boston. The project, called Stonewall Communities, is named after a Gay bar in New York City where a 1969 police raid sparked what many say is the begimfing of the modem Gay civil rights movement. Other entrepreneurs across the country also have begun thinking about how the Gay and Lesbian baby boomers pushing into their 50s will want to spend their retirement years. "I’m looking for the active retirement market," said Peter Lundberg of San Francisco, who is trying to round up capital to build a Gay retirement community in California. Gay retirement housing options will likelyincreasedramaticallyinthecoming years, said Laura Connolly, who chairs the LesbianandGayAging Issues Network for the San Francisco-based American Society on Aging. "I think it will grow over the years," slie said. "They will be in a variety of configurations, from the more : affordable trailer park options on upto the ¯ more upscale and expensive models." �How did the story develop? PB: Many years ago while reading "Son of the Morning Start’ I was struck by what we all may have lost by the greed and ego of relatively few men. I wasn’t so much taken by Native history as I was the belief system behind the first people of.this land. JC: One of the things that struck me while viewing the show was that this was much more than a show, this was a ritual, what theatre started out as. And ritual that worked successfully to bridge past and present. PB: I alsoknew that most people (myself included) thought of Indian hi story as just that.., history, museum pieces etc. So it was important to do a couple of things. Bring the culture into the present and future tense. And incorporate a mythical story about aman"s journey to findhimself. By understanding his past - better understanding his role in this life. I was hoping to bridge worlds for people on both sides. We might be able to accept, as _ opposed to feel guilty or angry. And if we can get to acceptance, we can progress to learning. JC: I like that philosophy PB: A hundred years ago people sang the Ghost Dance songs in the hopes that the world would return to the way it once was. Now, the choir in some of the Spirit songs are singing those very same words in hopes that the world can become, what it could be. JC: What a lovely vtsion. PB: Pretty lofty goals., but hey, somebody’s got to try. JC: !’d say, from what l’ve seen and heard, you’ve succeeded admirably. Before I wear out my welcome, one last question: What inspired you to utilize Native American music in 3,our works ? PB: To me, almost all Native tribes on may land have the true connection and understanding of that land. Here, not only can we learn things about how we fit into the fabric of the physical world through Native American culture. But we can also learn a thing or two about the spiritual world. PB: I’m really glad that you hear the music staying true to the ancient as well as the modem. The show (and the music) can’t work any other way. It’s where the two worlds combine that the magic happens. JC: That is so true. in more ways than one. It’s a dzfficult balance, and rarely have I heard it done so well. PB: If you liked the video, I’m sure you’ll love the live version! JC: Having seen the video and the impact it had on people, 1 can barely begin to imagine the effect ofseeing it live. I can’t wait. Thank you, Mr. Buffett. © 1999 J. Christjohn, all fights reserved represented in galleries or who are just starting their careers. We’re having the show at my house and studio to keep the whole setting fun and relaxed, as well as making these exciting works accessible to a broad audience. ’~lt’s a good time to consider buying a special gift for the significant people in ~our life, or for adding an original piece of art to your own home, or even for buying something practical like hath salts, candles, display cases or smudges. Prices are reasonable, especially compared to the premiums paid for works shown in galleries or higher priced venues such as Eureka Springs. We’ll have clayworks and sculptures, paintings, etchings, and many other fun items." The preview for the show is Friday, Nov. 5 from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. The show and sale continues Saturday Nov. 6 . from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 pro. The address is2727E. 56thSt. (51sttoColumbiaAve, South on Columbia to 56th St) in Tulsa. For details or directions, please call Mary at 743-6740. The Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company, an Israeli arts group will present .... Aide Memoire"," a full-length contemporary dance by renowned choreographer and KCDC Artistic Director Rami Be’er at the at Tulsa Performing Arts Center’ s Chapman Music Hall on November 16 at 8 pm. Tickets are $15, $22, and $25 with discoants for groups of 10 or more and student discounts at the door (call (918) 596-711 lot order online: www.tulsapac.com). Choreographer Rami Be’er states that .... Aide Memoire .... is not about the Holocaust nor does it describe the Holocaust; it deals neither with documentation nor a historical account. Rather, "Aide Memoire" introduces the maaner in which the remembrance of the Holocaust can be approfiched and expressed in an inspired, artistic medimn. The subject of Holocaust remembrance is relevant to present-day life and reality as it lurks in the background of mundane existence, penetrates deep subconsciousness, and dwells forever in personal and collective memories. "’Aide Memoire" presents the audience with a sequence of scenes moving about the stage just like a cinematic flashback. The production conveys a fleeting glimpse of images which.the audience must face in a lfighly personal manner. The audience has ne alternative but to use its senses to impart meaning to the images. "Aide Memoire" has no central narrative, nor do two opposing sides face each other. Cruel stormtroopers are absent, yet there exists a reminder of the struggle by those who were there and experienced those atrocities firsthand. Within this conflict, we observe their efforts to continue the fabric of human relationships, whether as : individuals, couples or xn groups, and to express the fundamental right of every A unique opportunity to view and ¯ person to continue to dream. Be’er joined Kibbutz Contemporary purchase art works and hand crafts from local women artists occurs Nov. 5 - 6. : Dance Company in 1981 as a dancer and Hosted by local artists Kathleen ¯ choreographer. His works have won Pendergrass and Mary Schepers, the show ¯ several international awards and have and sale will also highlight works by ~-become the trademark of KCDC’s Susan Norris, Robin Dunn, Donna : repertoire. He became the company’s Artistic Director in 1996. Richardson, Cara Liggett, Nicolasa ¯ The Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Kuster, Gayla Norman and others. "We want to showcase the incredible : Company was founded in 1970 by talent that we have in the Tulsa area," _" Holocaust survivor Yehudit Arnon. Schepers said. 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Earlier this month, Black churches in Atlanta gathered for the first National Black Church HIV/ AIDS Institute. The gathering was an effort to help pastors learn how to deal with the disease. Last Thursday, faith leaders, policy makers, commumty activists and AIDS researchers met in Atlanta to discuss combating AIDS among Blacks. On the same day, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, announced a series of educational films aimed at raising HIV awareness. The CDC has also awarded $39 million in federal funds to 100 national, state and local organizations to help prevent HIV infections in minority communities. "We must mount prevention and treatment strategies that deal with people where they are now, not where we want them to be or where we imagine them to be," said Phill Wilson, director of the AIDS Social Policy Archive. Nonetheless, the statistics continue to upset AIDS activist Denise Stokes, who has been HIV-positive fo~ 17 years. "One day, this is ultimately where I’m going to end up," she said pointing to the quilt. "I’m going to be a panel on some wall in some library. "I just hope the library isn’t full of people with AIDS." on Saturday, November 13 from 12 - 3 PM at Warrior Way martial Arts, 2717 S. Memorial. The cost is $25 in advance; $35 after Nov. 6. Call to register at 6649100. These guys are serious and know their stuff, and with the violence against Gay folk on the rise, I think everyone should make an investment in something like this. Knowledge is power, and in this case could mean the difference between life and death. Literally. Learn, and practice what you learn, and stay safe. And my final words for this column: life is not about surviving orjobs or l’mding love, although it’s nice if it happens. It’s about facing fears and making dreams come true, struggling against yourself and others to find your strength and make things happen. Being ready, and in the right place and time for opportunity to strike is important. Butifyou’re notready, or are afraid, it will pass you by before you know it, and that’s when regret sets in, which leads to bitterness. So try all the things you can, and do all the things you wanted to do - and it’s never too late. - James Christjohn its members come from settlements all over Israel. The dancers rehearse five days a week at Ga’aton Studio, but on weekends return home to work on their various kibbutzim. Not only is KCDC one of Israel’s foremost companies, it has also earned an international reputation of renown and is invited to perform at numerous festivals worldwide. Kibbutz Contemporary Dance is copresented by the Oklahoma Israel Exchange. Sponsors for this event include the Oklahoma Arts Council, Heartland Arts Fund. The National Endowment for the Arts, S chustennan Family Foundation, KCFM 94.1 and ONEOK Foundation. Opponents fear it will eventually lead to Gay couples being able to adopt children, although the government has opposed any such move. Last November, parliament rejected a conservative bid to sink the controversial bill. At the time, left-wingers said PACS was needed to adapt outdated laws to the evolution of French society, where marriage is on the decline. A lot of straight folk are going to go into this thinking it’s about beating other people up, and come out thinking about a lot of things. Some of you, due to the timing of the paper will have seen it - don’t ruin the ending for those that haven’t. And if you haven’t seen it because you don’t think it"s your kind of movie, go see it. You’ll be surprised. Brad Pitt’s bod is well worth Classifieds - how to work them: seeing. Amd since I work in a football First 30 words are $10. Each additional word is sized building filled with cubicles, I could 25 cents. 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Text Any textual data included in the document THE NAMES PROJECT Quilt Tours Black Colleges Coretta Scott King Slams Homophobia ATLANTA (AP) - During the AIDS Quilt tour of historically Black colleges and universities, Coretta Scott King told those viewing the memorial that homophobiahas prolonged and worsened the epidemic within the Black community. "It is particularly sad tome when I hear Black people, includiug some in leadership positions, making homophobic comments and attacking t.he humm] rights of Gay and Lesbian people," the widow of die Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. said Monday during the tour’s opening ceremonies at Clark Atlanta University, Regardless of sexual orientation or gender, Blacks have a signiticantly higher risk of becoming infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Stati-stics show ntost new HIV infections occur among people 25 and younger. The Black community has been hit particularly hard. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Blacks account for about half the new HIV infections, AIDS cases and AIDS deaths, though they represent only 13% of the U.S. population, "With the stigma on homosexual behavior mthe African-American coxmnunit~¢, ¯ see Ki.,t~, ~9.: 15 Matthew Shepard Murder Trial Update LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) - Gay college student Matthew Shepardwas pumaneled to deathby Aaron McKirmey in a drunken, drug-induced rage after Shepard made a pass at him, McKirmey’s attorney Said as: his trial began. "’Did Matthew Shepard deserve to die? No, that’s ridiculous-. No manslaughter victim deserved to die," Jason Tangeman said in opening statements. "That’s what Aaron McKirmey is guilty of, manslaughter." The roofer’s judgment that night Vas affected bv alcohol, methamphetamines and "~ome sexuall} traumatic and confusing events in his life," Tangeman told jurors. Prosecutor Cal Rerncha said his case against McKinney will not deal with Shepard’s Gayness. "It will simply be about the pain, suffering and death of Matthew Shepard at the hands of the defendant, Aaron James:McKimaey," he said." The Human Rights Campaign, a national Gay civil rights organization strongly condenmed the use of the.’’blame the victim" defense in the trial. Shepard, McKinney and Henderson met in a Laramie bar about a year ago, where Shepard asked McKinney for a ride home, humiliating him in front of friends because McKinney believed Shepard was Gay, Tangeman contended. Tangeman said McKinney, 22, was confused by three homosexual encounters that occurred when he was 7, 15 and 20: In one case, McKinney was forced into an oral sex act with a neighborhood bully, Tangeman said. Rerucha said McKirmey and Henderson drove Shepard, 21, to a remote area, where they robbed, lashed him to.the fence and pistol-whippinghim into a coma. Opening statements were made after ajury of 10 men and:six women, including four alternates, was seated in McKinney’s trial on charges of first-degree murder, kidnapping androbbery. Thejury includes three students at the University of Wyoming, where Shepard was a freshman. McKinney could receive the.death penalty. Serving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual + Transgendered Tulsans, Our Families + Friends Tulsa’s Largest Circulation Community PaperAvailable In More Than 75 City Locations World AIDS Day Memorial Service at Historic Mt. Zion Baptist Church Dedicated to the Memory of HIV/AIDS Activist Phil Wiley TULSA - The 10th annual World AIDS Day Candlelight March and Memorial Service will be held at one of Tulsa’s most historical traditionally African-American churches, Mt. Zion Baptist Church, led b~ the Rev. Calvin McCutcheon. The march will begin gathering at 6:30 near St. Monica’s Churchjust south of Carver School east of Greenwood Avenue This is just south of Pine. The march will begin about 7pm and will continue about a mile south on Greenwood to John ttope Franklin Bottlevard which travels west through the Oklahoma State University at Tulsa campus to Elgin. Mt. Zion is on FJ~n just across the OSU-Tulsa parking lots near 1-244. The theme for the march and memorial is "Fa~d the Silence" and the service will feature the music of Ernestine Dillard, the Council Oak Mens Chorale and the Mr. Zion church choir. Tiffs Tulsa service is dedicated to the memory of 1o"cal ttIV AIDS and Gay civil rights activist Phil Wiley who died of kidney failure last summer. Orgamzers note that all tilnes are approximate aud that lhey will provide candles and matches but encourage marchers to bring banners and bells to nng on the march. For more information, call Interfaith ..\ IDS Mira stries at 438- 2437. Also on World AIDS Day, an organization called "\Vc The Peopl.e Li.ving .with AIDS/HIV’" will join with thousm~ds of other orgmuzatlons m remembering, fiercel3, those the~ lmvc !ost to the AIDS epidemic. They will do this through the posting of the manes of their members, friends and loved ones lost to ,A IDS on the. \ IDS \Vatch webpage, which will display the .,aan]es of tens of thousands of people who have died from :kIDS. one at a mnc in the 48 honrs before and after December ist. They request that readers consider adding the uames of those whom they have lost to AIDS to the list. The page is localed m http:/iwww.aidswatch.org. Click on "’Add a name "’ to include the name, of~v°ur loved one, friend or colleague to the li st. Community Center News All Community Meeting, Nov. 16, 6:30pm TOHR Meeting, 11/9: Carol Petersen, Author, Poet + Gay Man in Hitler’s Navy TULSA - The third all community meeting will be held at the Communiiy Center on Tues., Nov. 16th at 6:30pm. About 35 individuals attended the last meeting in Sept. and the representatives of a number of organizations, churches and businesses decided to convene a community council with TOHR, Tulsa Oldahomans for Human Rights, the parent organization of the Tulsa Gay Community Services Center, coordinating the exchange of information. Local attorney and original meeting co-convener Dennis Neill will present a draft contract to clarify the relationship between the various groups. For more information about the next conmaunitv meeting, call the Community Center at 743-4297. On Tues. Nov. 9th at 7:30pro, TOHR will hold its montlflv membership meeting. The meeting, which is open to the publiC, will feature remarks by Carol Petersen, a Romanian born poet, biographer and educator. Petersen, a Gay man.~ even found lfimself serving in the German Navy during the N~i government of Adolf Hitler. Petersen has-published works on Albert Camus, Andre Gide, John Steinbeck, Goethe, Spanish poet Lorca, Thomas Mann as wall as works of poetry. He has taught French and German literature and awarded one of the highest honors in France, the Chevalier de L’oi’dre des Palmiers Academique de France. Other News: House of the Holy Spirit Calls Pastor House of the Holy Spirit Ministries announces that they have selected a new full-time pastor, Chuck Breckenridge. Breckenridge served in a pastoral capacity in a Wichita congregation where he formerly resided. Breckenridge is also known for having published and edited The Parachute, a now defunct regional publication. He also started The Triangle Of which he has recently served as general manager. Breckenridge was installed as pastor on October 17th. Troy McGoveran, spokesman for House of the Holy Spirit notes, "the entire congregation is very excited about the movement going on in our church.., we.. welcome Pastor Breckemidge to our church.. ?’ Falwell MeetsWith Gays LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP)-The Rev. Jerry Falwell, who has denounced homosexuals for years, held an .unprecedentedmeeting with GayChristians recently m an attempt to reduce violent acts against Gays and Christians. Both sides said the gathering was productive. Dozens of anti-Gay protesters denmnstrated outside, yelling at Gay supporters as they entered the church parking lot. The Rex’. Fred Phelps of Topeka, Kan.. whose congregafiou also taunted Gays at the funeral of slain Gay college studcm Matthew Shepard. said Falwdl is a hypocrite for ineeting with the Rev. Mel White, a Gay minister and his followers. "Falwell used to teach the Bible word for word. now he’s going off and meeting with these fags and going against everything he’s ever taught," Phelp,~ said. "He always says ’hate the sin. bnt love the simmr,’ but it’s ~mpossible to separate the t~o Does ajudge send the crime or the crintinal tojail’?" Falwell. who has long believed lha~ homosexuality is a sin, insists he will not change Iris views, but has agreed to tone down tfis anti language that Gay civil rights activists encourages hatred and violence towar~t homosexuals. "’We are here because ihnocent people ol vari~ faiths, racial and ethnic groups and sexual preferences have increasingly had their live~ abruptly mid violently ended by people ~vilh opposing vie~\s.’" Fah~ell told th~ group of 4 delegates in ~velcomiug then] to the anti "~ml,,ncc fortun Saturday afternoou x~q]itc brought 200 Gays mid Lesbians l’rom 3~* slates to p~ticil)atc in the forum. They were ]t)]ncd by 2~)evm~gelic~d Chnsfians who supjmrt Fid~ cEstmacc "q hi s is the first step iu ourjoume3 tm~ auct~ reconciliation." s~d White, who held a pra3 e~ ~ ~gil Ffida3 mght for 20 Gay men or gm~sgcndcred people killed because of their sexu~ oneutation. see Fahvell, p. 10 France OK’s Gay and Non-Gay Partnerships The British Broadcasting System (BBC) reported in October that the French Parlimnent has approved a controversial bill that gives Gay couples mare of the rights enjoyed by married people. The NatiOnal Assmnbly passed the Civil Solidarity Pact (PACS) by 315 votes to 249. The PACS allows unmarried couples to register their umon and enjoy some of the tax, legal and social welfare benefits associated with marriage. It is intended to allow Gay and heterosexual couples who are not married to "’organise their common life". Partners who want to separate will be able to do so via a letter of separation. According to Justice Minister Elisabeth Guigou, the bill will improve the lives of more than five million people. Conservative opponents immediately said they would ask the Constitutional Council to role whether the law was unconstitutional. Religious leaders have strongly denounced the law, saying it enables a form of homosexual marriage. The PACS wasintroduced by the riding socialists and the government’s majority made approval virtually certain. It has been one of themostbitterlycontested pieces of social legislation for years, opposed by conservatives and by leaders of the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths in France. see France, p. 15 LI~ DIRECTORY P. 2 EDITORIAL P. 3 ~I~ US & WORLD NEWS P. 4 . HEALTH NEWS P. 6 ~ ENTERTAINMENT P. 8 COMMUNITY CALENDAR P. 9 READ ALL ABOUT IT P. 10 Z DO-IT-YOUR-SELF DYKE P. 11 DYKE PSYCHE P. 12 mmm GAY STUDIES P. 13 Tulsa Clubs & Restaurants *Bamboo Lounge, 7204 E. Pine *Boston Willy’s Diner, 1742 S. 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Not all are Gay-owned but all are Gay-friendly. Audra Sommers: To All .My Friends Tiff s ruessage brings to youinformation about my up-coming benefit called ’~onnecting The Hearts of Tulsa" Friday November 5th, at 10:30 p.m. at the Silver Star. This eventfocuses onthe Prescription Assistance Program which as youknow is very, very important to many. As a community of caring individuals I ask all ofyou once again to come together as compassionate and sympathetic members of our community and show your support. Without fai! every year, you pull out all the stops and arrive in droves. My heart shines with delight to see all of your faces as we raise the much needed money to keep those who can’t afford the necessary medications alive and well. Come, meet new people and see some new faces. Uniting together_we make the difference. Please join all my guests: Miss Gay America - Catia Lee Love Miss Gay Oklahoma America - Bridgett Lee Miss Gay Oklahoma USofA - Kris Kohl Miss Fish-Lake Nevada - Slutisha Swamppussy Miss Midwestern Plains USofA - Victoria Turrell Miss Tulsa USofA 1998 - Jasmine Turrell Miss Gay University Of Tulsa Homecoming Queen 1999 - Audriana Sommers The Green Country Cloggers Miss Silver Star USofA 1996 - Tera "T" Neil Miss Gay Oklahoma At Large USofA 96 - Domonique Daniel’s Miss Feticia Winters Miss Ebony Hall Miss Tabatha Taylor Miss Gain A Pound Miss Miranda McMillian Miss Tore McMillian Miss Audra Sommers and her special "Grab Bag Segment" Mr. Steve Sludder And Mr. Brock Masters - video star along with many, maaay others. I look forward to seeing everyone at the StarFriday NovemberSthat 10:30p.m. It is going to be the best show ever! With love and respect, - Audra Marie Sommers Announcements Policy Tulsa Family News will provide space for holy union ceremony, marriage ceremony, birth, adoption and death announcements on a space available basis. Photos are welcome, though we cannot promise placement or return them, so please send copies to Tulsa Family News, POB 4140, Tulsa 74159. Letters Policy Tulsa Family Newswelcomes letters on issues which we’ve covered or on issues you think need to be considered. You may request that your name be withheld but letters must be signed & have phone numbers, or behand delivered. 200 word letters are preferred. Letters to other publications will be re-printed as is appropriate. Editorial: Singing Those Millennium March Blues To March or Not March? That is the question - ok, ok, yes that’s tired and perhaps, even trite but I couldn’t help it. The millennium does indeed approach and with it, the next great Gay march scheduled for next April. Called by Robin Tyler, Lesbian event organizer par excellence, taken up by the Gay community’s organizational 800 pound gorillas, the Metropolitan Community Church (MCC) and the Human Rights Campaign(HRC), the Millennium Marchhas beenfraught with controversy from its beginning. No one doubts that these events are tremendously ehapowering for those ofus who attend. I can attest to that from my experience.at the last march. My long-suffering ex (just ask him ;-) and I organized a group mostly of students and others on limited incomes from Texas to travel bybus to DC. Since this was a budget trip we stayed about 12 to a room, 3 or 4 to a bed with some on the floor of a hotel in the Virginia suburbs. But the moment ofmy epiphany was when weboarded the Metro (subway) at the 2nd to the last stop that far out into the suburbs, and everyone waiting, and everyone on the train but for perhaps one or two per car, w,as Gay, or Lesbian, or Bi, ornon-Gays whomwe’ddearly welcomed into our tribe. For once tobe safe, for once to be inOUR space is a rare and precious thing. There we could hold hands in the street without the fear that we Were taking our !ives literally in our hands. For once, we could say that we don’t mind "straights" as long as they "behave" themselves. Formany this was alife transforming experience¯ From it, they came back and became active in the organizations of their hometowns. This clearly is go6~l: And yet, some questions remain. First of these i.s whether, this march will even come off at all. Because MCC and HRC proclaimed that a march was going to happened before they consulted the many other organizations which make up the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered civil fights and cultural movement, the March was immediately caught up in controversy. This "movement" is-tremendously diverse and building consensus is long hard work. Prior march organizers did do so through long and sometimes painful (I write this Do you know where a number of Tulsans have been during the last 18 months? Buried in trash. We studied different curbside recycling programs from around the state and from across the country. About 100 cities were looked atby theTAREboard’ s subcommittee onrecycling. Ourmost important discovery: each community is unique in its requirements for recycling. In Tulsa, most of the trash we generate is incinerated at the trash-to-energy plant. The burning process results in waste by-products that can mad do pollute our air. For example, some substances like plastic can be harmful when burned. Recycling will take them out of the trash collection burned at the Walker Hall recovery plant. The more Tulsa recycles, the more we improve Tulsa’s air quality for our young, our elderly, and most significantly, our chronically ill. And let us not forget that we are breathing the same air. Recycling does not ouly helpinmaking the environment cleaner and healflfier; it also has economic benefits other than quality of life. Once Tulsa citizens recycle enough items that can be reused, a recycling industry will be created an become a viable part of the economy with added job opportunities, In the beginning, Tulsans, will be able to recycle four types of items. Newspapers, includin°g the slick advertisement sections, compose the first recycling category. Now you cannotrecyclemagazines and business forms; these are another category which may be added at a later date. However, you can still take them to MET recycling centers. The second category acceptable for recycling in Tulsa will be aluminum. Drop all aluminum beverage cans inj the recycling container; however, you cannot recycle other forms of aluminum. Please rinse them immediately after use. Remember that recycling pick up is every other : from serving as a representative) meetings. ¯ And according to the Nov. 9th i°ssue of The Advocate, ¯ control of the event has _been shifted from Robin Tyler to ~ Malcolm Lazin, interim executive director. Kerry Lobel, executive director of the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF), earlier resigned from an oversight board for the March because of concerns about event "...the moment of my epiphany was when we boarded the Metro (subway) at the gnd to the last stop that far out into the suburbs, and everyone waltln~, and everyone on the train but for perhaps one or two per ear, was Gay, or Lesl~ian, or Bi, or non-Gays whom we’d el rly we6om l into our tdl . " organization and raised the question of whether the event would need to be rescheduled or dropped. But another question to ask is this: is this the best use ofour communities’ resources? NGLTFhas been arguing that we, as a movement, should be putting more of our energies into local and state efforts at change. This doesn’tmean abandoning federal level efforts but working harder locally. In Oklahoma, we’ve started to see some results from just such efforts; the Cimarron Alliance has substantially changed somelegislative attitudes in theOklahomaHouse. FundingforHIV/AIDS care andprevenfionhas benefited from lobbying by Tulsan Steve Eberle. These things would not have happened unless some Oklahomans decided to invest in local efforts. According to Kelly Kirby, former Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights (TOHR) president, longtime activist and current Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) board member, at least 40-50 Tulsans stopped by a reception Marty Newman gave at the last march. And likely there were some from the city who did not attend. So I have to ask, as another former TOHR president who begged for money for that organization and for the community center, what would happen if some of those week. Besides, you will make it so much easier for those separating our recyclables. Plastic is one of the most important things to recycle. As petroleum-based products, these items release toxins when burned. You can recycle all plastic beverage bottles including mostpop, milk, and water containers, as well as soap and detergent bottles. Rinse our the container to prepare these items for recycling and dispose of the lids. It is easy to remember which plastic items are acceptable. Look for the number "1 "or "2" inside the little triangle on the bottom of the container. .The final or fotu:th category for Tulsa’s new recycling program is glass. Both clear and colored glass bottles and jars will be accepted. Nounbroken glass will be taken, nor will the program accept other housewares or plate glass from windows. Since the glass before putting out for collection and discard the lid. Because of the once-everytwo- weeks collection, you may want to rinse after use, if it contains food. Curbside recycling is a great addition to Tulsa’s solid waste disposal program. Now it is up to us to make it succeed. Begin sign up for this new service. Just call the Mayor’s Action Center at 596-2100 and tell them that you wish to sign up for curbside recycling. It is scheduled to start on Nov. 1st. The cost is only $2/month; it will be added to your city utility bill. Recycled items will be collected twice a month on an every other week basis. Before the program begins, you will be informed about your curbside pickup days. You can also sign up by clicking on www cityoftulsa.org/recycle or www.tulsarecycles.com. Remember this program can succeed only ifenough ofus participate. So sign on now! Bob D. Rounsavell is a freelance Tulsa writer who specializes in environmental education. dollars did stay here in Oklahomainstead of adding to the profits of American Airlines, or United, or Marriott or Hilton? Let’s guess that many of those 50 attending spent about $500 to $1000 for their visit. A few who traveled as I did with my student group perhaps spent as little as $200- 300¯ One might argue that an average expenditure might be about $600 for a total of $30,000. But on the other hand, $30k would pay the current rent on the Community Center for almost two years ! Now that other TOHR ex-president argues that while many in our community are willing to spend that money on whatis in essence an extraQueer vacation, he feels that few would be willing to mm around and invest that amount into our community if there’s no immediate gain for themselves. And sadly, I would like to argue with him but as a community organizer, I can’t - because I’ve seen that what he claims is mostly true. What if we did value our rights and invested in our communities as much as we did our fabulous vacations, great clothes, stylish homes and cars?Whatcould we accomplish then? After all, ifwe don’t take care of ourselves, who is going to? "Straight" people? - Tom Neal PS: those of you who’ve already got this message, thanks! Keep up the good work and drag a friend along. Tom Neal, publisher & editor ofTulsa Family News, helped tofound and direct the Coalition of Lesbian/Gay Student Groups and the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, Dallas Chapter andhelped iofoundGLAAD National. He also served as co-chair ofthe University of Oklahoma Gay & Lesbian Association, and helped to found the Rice University Gay Alumni group as well as serving on Tulsa’s Pride committeefor several years. On Nov. 9th, Tulsans will have the opportunity to vote on a $109 million bond package to invest in the needs of Tulsa Public Schools and the children of the district. The Citizens Bond Development Committee has identified more than $600 million in building, facilities, teaching materials and transportation needs for the District in a comprehensive, strategic plan that covers 20 years. The bond issue to be presented to voters on Nov. 9th will be m~ important step in adequately addressing the need of the District and in creating a District ofunparalleled excellence in the state... - Sincerely, Ruth Ann Fate President, Tulsa Public Schools Board of Education Chair, Citizens for Better Education 2121 So, Columbia, Suite 103, Tulsa : by Tom Neal, editor/publisher ¯ Some Gay readers will likely look at the excerpted ¯ letter above and respond: "yeah right, why should I care ~ - I don’t have kids"and"TPS is ahomophobic institution ¯ which doesn’t deserve my support." Some non-Gay ~ readers will likely read this and also wonder why Gay people should care about education issues. But the reality is that many Gay people (using the term broadly to include LGB and T folk) do have children, some by marriages to non-Gay folk before coming out, and some by adoption, and some creative Lesbians and Gay men are having our own children. Even those of us who do not have children directly of our own, like me, have no fewer than eight nephews and nieces about half of whom were educated in Tulsa Public Schools. And we have friends with children too. .My pointis that despite the an.ti-Gay stereotypes which paint Lesbians and Gay men as anti-family, we have a strong interest in providing a good educational system to the children of our community. We also have some selfinterest in that there tends to be a correlation between education and the lessening of anti-Gay prejudice. And if we insist that TPS, an educational system which we help fund, seek to teach the values of respect and tolerance for all citizens, to teach that the diversity of our city makes us stronger, then we, Gay and Lesbian citizens, regardless of whether we have children who directly benefit from TPS, will gain. Therefore, on Nov. 9th, please consider voting yes: do it for kids. Friends Mourn Murdered Gay Pastor SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Calling him a "an oversized angel inhumanform,"mourners andfriendsof a slain pastor and Gay civil rights activist led tributes to him. The Rev. Edward R. Sherriff, 68, an associate pastor at the Cathedral of Promise MetropolitanCommtmity Churchin Sacramento was found stabbed to death in his home Oct. 20 in what police believe was a robbery. More than 300 friends andfzraily crowded into the church where Sherriff served as co-pastor for 11 years. Later in the day, mourners filled the sidew~ilks to "celebrate the home~zoing" of the slain activist. A t~ndf-ul.of local religious leaders paid tribute to Sherriff, including Sister Catherine Connell, director of the Catholic Wellspring women’s center, and the Rev. Isaiah Muhammad of the Nation of Islam. Sherriff’s daughters were als0 among the crowds. "It’s amazing to me the people who love him, who truly love him," said Scharlene Sheriff. Sherriff’s other daughter Marsha Lanier said she does notbelieve her father’s murder was ahate crime. Helikely died because he went out ofhis way to help, Lanier said. ’That’s one thing he would have been proud of," she said. Court to Reconsider Religious Bias Ruling SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The federal appeals court that allowed religious landlords to deny rentals to unmarried couples agreed to reconsider recently at therequest of states, cities andcivil rights groups. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said an 11-judge panel will decide whether property owners with religious objections to certain types of tenants are entitled to exemptions from housing discrimination laws. The case involves state and local laws in Anchorage prohibiting housing discrimination based on marital status. The ruling would also al’fect discrimination based on sexual orientation, where barred by law, and possibly other categories covered by laws in the nine states of the nation’s largest federal circuit. A panel of the court ruled 2-1 in January that enforcement of the discriminationlaws would violate the rdigious freedom of two Anchorage landlords who had religious objections to providing homes for unmarried couples. With no compelling state interest at Stake, the landlords could not be forced to choose between their businesses and their religious beliefs, the courtmajority said. The court said a majority ofits 21 activejudges had voted to set the January decision aside and order a new hearing before the 11-judge panel, at a date not yet scheduled. Requests by Alaska and Anchorage for a reheating were supported by national civil liberties and Gay civil-rights orgamzations, cities including Los_Angeles and San Francisco, and the states of California, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, Montana and Hawaii. California Attorney General Bill Lockyer, who enlisted his counterparts in the other states, said discrimination laws would be affected in every state. "q’here’s no inherent conflict between state antidiscrimination laws and the private religious view s of a landlord," he said. "Fhe issue is whether they can discriminate in their commercial and business activities." Kevin G. Clarkson, lawyer for the Anchorage landlords, said he wasn’t surprised by the rehearing, but argued that his clients’ ’interests were more important than those of the state or would-be tenants. ’%Vhat’s at stake is the First Amendment right of property owners to manage their property consistent with their religious beliefs," Clarkson said. He said there was no evidence that unmarried couples in any state have had trouble finding housing because of the religious objections of a small number of landlords. Conservative religious organizations such as Focus on the Family and the American Center for Law and Justice, as well as the more liberal National Council of Churches, have filed arguments supporting the landlords. The Supreme Courts of Alaska and Californiahave upheld their state discrimination laws against challenges .by religious landlords. But if the federal appeals court sides with thelandlords, property owners throughout the circuitcould sidestep statecourtrulings and go into federal court for religious exemptions. The suit was filedby KevinThomas and Joyce Baker, who each own several rental properties in Anchorage and said they had consistently refused to rent to unmarried cohabitants because of their Christian beliefs. They have not been accused of violating the state or local laws but asked the court to bar" their enforcement. In the January ruling, Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain said the law not only placed an unconstitutional burden on landlords’ religious practices but also violated freedom of speech, by prohibiting owners from asking about a tenant’s marital status, States can imposesuchrestrictions onbusinesses for compelling reasons, such as preventing discrimination based on race or sex, O’Scannlain said. But he said discrimination on the basis of marital status isn’t banned by the Constitution, federal law or the laws of many states, and no compelling interest has. been shown for its elimination. The case is Thomas vs. Anchorage Equal Rights Commission, 97-35220. Methodists Attack Boy Scouts’ Anti-Gay Policy tIACKENSACK, N.J. (AP) - The Boy Scouts of America could lose an important ally as it prepares to appeal a New Jersey Supreme Court ruling that the group couldnotremove aNew Jersey manbecausehe is Gay. The United Methodist Church, which sponsors about 15% of the 3.3 million Scouts in the United States, has scolded the group and is threatening to halt its sponsorship if things don’t change. Although the church "would like to enthusiastically affirm and encourage this continuing partnership of the church and Scouting, we cannot due to the Boy Scouts of America s discnmanat~on agmnstGays; the Gener Board of Church and Society said earlier this month. The board is a top policy-making body of the Methodists. It also encouraged the Boy Scouts to stop the policy barring homosexuals. ’"We further, for the sake of our continmng partnership, call upon the Boy Scouts of America to discontinue this exclusion of Gays," the board concluded in the Oct. 10 statement. The Methodists earlier had said the church wanted to triple the number of Scouts it sponsors. But the Boy Scouts say the threat won’t dissuade themfrom appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court. Greg Shields, a spokesman for the Boy Scouts, said the organization hopes the case will be heard before next year’s summer recess. Shields also said he believes the Boy Scouts’ longtime relationship with the Methodists will endure. "We feel like we have a ¯ strong base of support within the congregations," ¯ Shields told The Record of Hackensack. ¯ The appeal plan follows aunanimous Augustruling : by the state Supreme Court that says the policy of keeping out homosex~mls violates the state’s anti- " discrimination law. The court said the Boy Scouts ¯ organization constitutes a "place of public accommodation" because it has a broad-based membership and forms partnerships with public ¯ entities such as police and fire departments. ¯ James Dale, 29, ofMatawan inMomnouth County, ¯ was an assistant scoutmaster whe was kicked out of the Boy Scouts nine years ago whenleaders found out ¯ he is Gay. He sued., seeking reinstatement. Dale ¯ earned 30 merit badges, seven achievement honors ¯ and other awards, and became an Eagle Scout during ¯ his 12 years in the organization. He was expelled by ¯ theMoumouthCouncilin 1990 after the group leamed from a newspaper article that he was Gay. The Irving, ¯ Texas-based organization has said if forced to accept ¯ Gays, the organization would not be able to build ¯ moral character in boys. The New Jersey ruling contrasted with a March ¯ 1998 decision by the California Supreme Court inthe ¯ Boy Scouts’ favor. In that ruling, alsounammous, the ¯ court said the organization was not abusiness and was : therefore free to exclude Gays, as well as atheists and ¯ agnostics. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an : appeal of that decision. Kelly Kirby, CPA, PC Certified Public Accountant a professional corporation 747-5466 4021 S. Harvard, Suite 210, Tulsa 74135 MCC-United formerly Family of Faith & Greater Tulsa MCC Joined as one body of believers. Come celebrate with us, Sunday Services, 11 am 1623 North Maplewood, 838-1715 HOUSE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT Sun. Worship, 10:45 am, Sunday School, 9:30 am Wed. Bible Study, 7 pm 3210b S. Norwood, Info: 224-4754, Chris or Sharon Sandra Hill M.s. 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Atlanta Place, 742-7381 Saint Dunstan 5635 East 71st, 492-7140 Trinity 501 S. Cincinnati, 582-4128 The Episcopal Church Welcomes You Boeing ExtendsBenefits to Same-Sex Partners SEATTLE (AP) - The Boeing Co., citing the need to maintain a quality work force and the benefits of diversity, plans-to extend health-care benefits next year to same-sex domestic partners of salaried nonumon employees. The decision, announced to company managers by electronic mail, was praised by Gay civil rights advocatesl It was criticized by unionleaders, however, for leaving outtheirmembers and nnmarried heterosexual partners. Company officials did not say how many employees would be affected. RoughlyhalfofBoeing’s 202,000 employees worldwide are salaried and non-union. A recent Forbes Magazine survey indicated unmarried partners are covered by health benefits in 10% of the businesses with at least 200 employees. Companies that provide same-sex-partner benefits include Lotus Development Corp., Microsoft Corp., IBM, Walt Disney Co., U S West, Honeywell and Xerox. In the e-mail, James B. Dagnon, Boeing’s senior vice president for personnel, said the move was made for two reasons: ’~First to attract and retain talented employees, and second to walk the talk on diversity. "Diversity, with a capital D, means acknowledging employees have different backgrounds, preferences and interests." A task force of personnd managers and minority employees w.asformedto study theissue last year, bu.t consii~eration of an initial proposal was stalled until the company’s financial performance improved in recent months, Boeing spokesman Peter Conte said. The decision is long overdue, said Charles Fay, chairman of Hands-Off Washington in Snohomish County€ and Dennis Rybicki, a spokesman for the SnohomishCountyElections Committee., which,r~an~__. s political candidates on Gay and Lesbian xssues, q’his should send a signal to other employers, large and small, that it’s goodbusiness to recognize the value of all families," Fay said. Charles Bofferding, executive directorof the Society ofProfesSional Engineering Employees inA.erospa.~, said the move seemed to be designed to sabotage ,his group’s contract-negotiations, which begin soon. SPF.EA, formerly the Seattle Professional Engineering Employees Association, is the second-largest imion at Boeing, representing 23,000 scientists, engineers, manual writers and technical workers. SPEEA negotiators will seek the benefit but don’t want to sacrifice other potential contract gains to obtain it, Bofferding said. ’This attitude, that management knows best and employees will take whatever is dished, out, this is outrageous ,"he said. "Is the Boeing Co. going to discriminate againstheterosexuals now?" Conte said health-care benefits will not be offered tO unmarried heterosexual partners because they can get married, an option from which same-sex parmers are barred by law. Tim Flynn, a spokesman for the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, which r~ep~resents hourly producuon workers and is Boeings largest union, said Machinist leaders may discuss same-sex benefits before expiration of the three-year contract that was ratified in September. Annetta Small, director of the West Coast office of Kerusso Ministries, which seeks to persuade Gays and Lesbians to become heterosexual through Chrsfianity, said she opposes any extension ofbenefits to non-married partners. "We are giving benefits to a behavior that I believe is wrong and that I believe is immoral," she said. "I don’t believe that we should extend these benefits to people who are not married." Hate Letters Sent to Rhode Island Politicos PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Threatening letters with anti-Gay sentiments have been sent to the Providence mayor, the city’s liaison to the Gay community and two men who were recently assaulted in a Gaybashing attack. One letter, which Mayor Vincent A. Cianci Jr. received, described Providence as a ’Tag lovin’ city". Leaflets that said "Fake Action Against Queer’s, ¯ were also scattered downtown and placed on cars. ¯¯ City and police officials said they are taking the threats very seriously because they appear to be part ¯ ofan organized effort. Inresponse, thepolice assigned ¯ extra officers downtown. "In this day and age, this ’- should not be. We’re not going to tolerate it," Cianci ~ told The Providence Journal. ¯ W. Fitzgerald Himmelsbach, the city’s liaison to the Gay and Lesbian community, also received a " death threat over the telephone. He received a call at ¯ his business from aman who said, "Die, you fagg.ot . ~ All the letters said ’~omosexuality is a sin against ¯ humankind and God," and all were signed "The ¯ Trench Coat Mafia" - the name used by a group of "- students at Columbine High School, in I.ittleton, ¯ Colo., that .included the two gnmmen who killed 13 ¯ people there last spring. - Himmelsbach saidletters receivedby the twoassault ". victims threatened that they would"endup inhell like [ Matthew Shepard," the Wyoming college student ¯ who was beaten to deathlast fall because he was Gay. ¯ The letters were sent to Ed Webb, 34, and Noah ] Schwartz, 41, both of Providence. On Sept. 19 in : downtownProvidence, themensaid about20college- " aged men yelled "faggots" and then five of the men ¯ beat them up. ¯ Both Himmelsbaeh, who has been the liaison for ~ two years,and Cianci saidreceiving threats is nothing ¯ new but both are worried that this is part of an ~ organized effort. ’~Eianci vowedto fred the "cowards" .. who are the perpetrators and then prosecute them for . hate crimes. Police do not have any suspects yet. : Denver Considers :: Couples Registry ¯ DENVER (AP) - City Council members are : considering a proposal that would create a registry to ~ record the relationships of Gay and Lesbian partners and other committed but unmarried couples. The ¯ proposal, heard by the city council, would allow Denverites to officially record their partnerships to ¯ qualify for insurance benefits some companies offer ¯ to the "domestic partners" of their workers. And, for ¯ same-sex couples, it would allow their unions to be : acknowledg?,.d,, if only nominally, by local " government. It sfinallytimeforthecitytorecognize ." committed relationships," said Councilman Ed ¯ Thomas, who, along with Councilwoman Cathy ¯ Reynolds, has beenplanning such aregistry for several ¯ years. . ¯ To qualify, both members of a couple would have ¯ to be unmarried, 18 years or older and sharing the ¯ ¯ same household with a partner who is not a blood relative. A filing fee at the city’s clerk and recorder’s ¯ office is expected to be about $20. Couples would be ¯ ¯ required to notify that office if their relationships dissolve. The plan had tentative approval by most members ofthe city s Safety and Personnel Commatt ¯ except council member Ted Hackworth, who said it ¯ "doesn’t make sense." ¯ Itis slated for further discussionby council members ¯ in the coming weeks. Advocates hope to have the registry in place by Valentin~ s Day. If approved, ¯ filing with the registry wouldn t constitute amarriage or common-law marriage, nor would it affect ¯ inheritance rights. ¯ Still, advocates say itwouldprovide documentation ¯ ¯ for couples seeking benefits from United Airlines, Coors, Denver city government and other employers ¯ who insure domestic partners of workers. Proponents ¯ also hope it would help advance rights whenit comes ¯ to visiting partners in the hospital ormaking medical ¯ decisions on their behalf. Theregistry would similarly ¯ benefit seniorcouples who choosenot to marry because ¯ they would lose Social Security or other benefits. ~ Boulder has a similar registry program, as do the state ¯ of California and 35 cities in 25 states nationwide. ¯ Irish Jury Convicts Writer’s Assailants : PHILADELPHIA (AP)- Ajury in Irdand convicted ¯ two men in the near-fatal beating of a well-known ¯ Philadelphia writer of Gay-themed books who was ¯ overseas researching a novel see News, p. 13 Magic Johnson Plays in Sweden BORAS, Sweden (AP) - Magic Johnson entertained a sellout crowdTuesday night with some of the trademark skills he used to help the Los Angeles Lakers win five NBA rifles. The 40-year-old star, 10 years older than the second oldest player on the court, had 14 points and 11 rebounds as Magic M7 beat Sallen 84-60 in.the Swedish basketball league. "The first half was a little tough, but the second was easier.,"Johnson told the 3,319 spectators after,the game, his first nonexlfihition contest since leaving the NBA for good in 1996. Johnson missed some easy layup attempts. "That’s easy when the atmosphere was as charged and the euphoria as high as it was tonight," he said. After a standing ovation before the game, Johnson drew further cheers when he promised to return to play more games for Magic MT. MT, which missed the playoffs last season, is 7-0 this season,.with Johnson’s appearance generating great interest in the sport in Boras, a city of 110,000 in western Sweden. Johnson, who led Michigan State to the 1979 U.S. National Collegiate Athletic Association rifle, learned he had tested positive for the HIV virus that can cause AIDS in 1991. He retired for the first rime justbefore the startof the 1991-92 season. After returning to play on the U.S. Dream Team that won the gold medal in the 1992 Olympics, he made a brief comeback before the !992-93 season, but quit again after several players expressed concerns about playing against him. In January 1996, he returned to the Lakers and played the remaining half of the season, retiring again, at age 37, after the Lakers were eliminated from the playoffs. Louganis in Nun-Drag? HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) - Greg Louganis has picked up a new habit. The Olympxc gold medal-winning diver is starring in the musical comedy, ’~lunsense A-Men," which runs through Dec. 5 at the Hollywood Playhouse. Lougams, who wonfour gold medals in two Olympics and later disclosed he was Gayand HIV-positive, will pull on a habit six rimes a week for his role as Sister Robert Ann, a streetwise nun who always wanted to be a star. All the nuns in this production are men. The former diver, author and motivational speaker says he likes working in an ensemble cast. "There’s always someone there to hold your hand," said I_ouganis, 39. "It feels more supportive, I guess.’" Thou.gh Louganis now has AIDS, he looks and feels healthy. He says he does not think aboutbeing arole model. "We’re all haman. We all make mistakes," he said "Role model, in my mind, is perfection and one can’t be that. I try to encourage young people to be their own heroes and their own role models." AIDS & So. Africa JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - After the end of apartheid, South Africa pushed to get patients out of overcroWded hospitals and into preventive care clinics. But as fast as the country has built 700 ¯ new clinics since 1994, traditional state ¯¯ hospitalshavefilledupwithAIDS patients who occupy up to 60% of the beds, South : African Health Minister Manto ¯ Tshabalala-Msimang said recently. ¯ ’’We expected the demand for hospital ¯ caretodrop,"shesaidatanews conference ; at theheadquarters oftheAfrican National ¯ Congress. "But the HIV and AIDS ¯ epidemic has increased the burden." The ¯ briefingwas one ofa series by theANCon ¯ its progress in ruling the country. ¯ Tshabalala-Msimang chairs the party’s ¯ health committee. -" Some 3.6 million South Africans are ¯ infected with AIDS, roughly one in eight ." adults, and the government says 1,500 ¯ new :infections occur every day in one of ." the world’s fastest rates of infection. A ¯ narionalAIDS councilwillbefunctioning : by year’s end, Tshabalala-Msimang said. ¯ ’’We should have had the council in place : already," she said. : Controversial proposals, such treating : pregnant women with HIV with a drug ¯ therapy to prevent transmission of the ¯ virus to infants, will be discussed next ¯ month at a meeting of regional health ¯ ministers, she said. The government so far : has rejected the proposal as too expensive : and possibly even dangerous in terms of ¯ long-term side effects. ¯ The healthministers fromthe Southern ¯ African Development Community will ¯ also discuss blood safety anddevelopment ¯ of an HIV vaccine. : AIDS Threatens Asia’s Prosperity KUALALUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -The AIDS epidemic in Asia could erase the region’s economic gains over the last two decades unless governments maintain funding for social programs, aWorldBank expert warned late last month. In Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, Malaysia, Vietnam and Southern China, AIDS had gained a "strong foothold," even before the economiccrisis struckin 1997, saidMartha Ainsworth, a senior World Bank economist. The dreaded virus "threatens to slowly unravel the progress in improving the human condition.and to diminate if not reverse the benefits of the economic miracle,’’ Ainsworth told the 5th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific. The region’s two-year economic crisis may have further hurt Asia’s fight against AIDS, said Ainsworth. Cash-strapped governments wereforced to slash budgets and lower wages. The crisis also pushed thousands of families into poverty and many women into prostitution. "’Even before the crisis, political commitment to AIDS prevention in the region was weak," said Ainsworth. "Many policy makers are still in denial." Development policies before the crisis channeled funds into education and health ¯ care budgets, resulting in higher life expectancies and reduced poverty: ¯ "The full impact of the crisis on HIV : depends critically on how well ~ governments and households succeeded ¯ .in maintaining socialsafety nets," said : AJnsworth, an expert on the effect of ¯ AIDS on households. Ainsworth said : AIDS hadalready subtracted several years ¯ offtheaveragelifeexpectancies ofcertain ¯ countries. A U.N report released at the four-day ¯ conference esrimates that by 2010, the ¯ overall death rate will be 20% higher in OECE~% WorldAIDS Day 1999 Candlelight March & Memorial Service sponsored by Interfaith AIDS Ministries Wednesday, December 1st End the Silence Mount Zion Baptist Church 419 North Elgin (next to OSU-Tulsa) Gather 6:30 at St. Monica’s, Marshall Place at Greenwood (just south of Pine), March at 7pm, Service at 7:30, all times approximate! Bring banners & bells; candles provided. Info: 438-2437. Are You Gay or Bisexual? Are You Native American~.~ Tulsa s Two-Spirited Indian Men s ¯ Support Group ~s here for you! ¯ Evening support group meetings ¯ Relationship workshops ¯ Short trips, outings and retreats ¯ Free HIV testing For information call Tulsa Native.American AIDS Prevention Project at 582-7225 Ext, 208 or 218 Dial-Up Accounts Dedicated ISDN Connections Virtual Hosting Visit our web page "www.igisweb.net" (918) 622-4965 Internet Marketing E-Commerce Web Page Design On-Site Setup Available Oklahoma NARAL cordially invites you to a chocOlate and champagne fete in support of abortion and reproductive rights in Oklahoma. Celebrating 26 Yedrs.of Choice Sunday, November 7, 1999, 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. to be held at Resonance 1608 S. Elwood, Tulsa, Oklahoma Champagne, Coffee, Chocolates $25 per individual Please R.S.V.P. to the NARAL Office: 494-9585 Stay Healthy Naturally Wellness Rejuvenation Longevity Dr. Terrance L. Sullivan Doctor ofNaturopathy Certified Colonic Hygenist Certified Reflexologist Certified Herbalist Certified Accupressurist provides consultations by appointment Iridology- Hair Analysis - Herbal Supplements Pain Control - Nutritional Analysis 4520 So. Peoria, Brookside, 712-1400 Myanmar due to AIDS fatalities. In Cambodia and Thailand, it may rise 15% because of AIDS. The United Nations estimates that 7 million people in Asia are infected with the HIV virus or AIDS. Speakers at the conference, which ends Wednesday, have urged Asia to act fast to curb the epidemic or risk the devastation now facedby Africa, which has 21 million AIDS-related cases. Experts areparticularlyconcemedabout the effects of AIDS on Indonesia, the world’s fourth largest country, where the regional economiccrisis was compounded by political upheaval. It diverted attention and funding from the AIDS epidemic, Aiusworth said. ’~olitical turmoil nodoubt increased risky behavior for the spread of HIV," Ainsworth said. She said countries such as Thailand one of the high-risk areas in Asia, had proved that maintaining commitment to AIDS -prevention programs paid dividends. HIV cases dropped among prostitutes,menwith sexually-transmitted diseases and blood donors in Thailand despite the economic crisis, she said. "Many governments in this region have a window of opportunity to act early and prevent an epidemic," Ainsworth said. Children at Risk in South Africa JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - Seeking to help young children deal with a soanng number of sexual assaults, national health and education officials are considering an education program for primary students to teach about rape and HIV infections, a newspaper reported Sunday. A pilot program was tested in the Nor~ern and F~ee State provinces, where about 700 children received the lessons, the Sunday Times of Johannesburg reported. About 14,000 children are sexually violated every year, police reports say, but a large number of rapes go unreported, anti-rape activists say. About 8% of the adult population is HIV positive. One factor that experts belie,ve has contributed to child rape is the persxstent myth that sex with a virgin can cure the disease. Abraham Seckle, an Education Department official, was quoted assaying the program would "empower learners to protect themselves." A consultantinvolved in the project, Darleen Edwards, said that children are taught to "run, yell and tell" in the program. PLWA to Race in Iditarod Next Year MESA, Ariz. (AP)-The first Arizonan to enter Alaska’s most grueling sled dog race faces two major obstacles before he even steps to the starting line. Chuck Kin.g, 39, of Tempe, has no experience racang. He has only 100 miles actually riding a dog sled. And King is. HIV positive. Every day, he takes fisffuls of anti-viral pills just to stay alive. But he doesn’t see this as a setback. He views his illness and the March 4 Iditarod sled-dog race as a chance to prove that people with AIDS don’t have to concentrate on survival alone. "In the last seven years, I was supposed to have died three times and I made it through all of that," King said in a telephone interview from Wasilla, Alaska. The Iditarod this year will stretch 1,152 miles fromWasilla to Nome, takingracers " at least 10 days to complete. And that’s : only if the expected 80 participants keep up a good pace. The snow layers the trail ¯ in multiple feet, not mere inches. ¯" Temperatures dip deep into thenegatives, numbing hands and lungs. At night; ¯ Sections of the woods-darkened course ." are lit only by the aurora borealis, which ¯ crackle and cast shadows in the trees and : snow. Switchbacks get so steep in some ¯ areasthatdrivers can’tseetheleadoftheir ¯¯ 16-dogpack.A driver unlucky enough to fall off gets left in a cloud of snow and ¯ regret. ’q~here ain’t no waitin’ in this ." race," said Raymond "Raymie" ¯ Redington, King’s sled-dog trainer. ’q’he ¯" huskies are bred to go. They’ll bolt off the ." starting line even if you say halt." ." Redington should know. The 54-year- . old Alaska native’s father founded the ¯ racein 1973. He has been in 111ditarods; : his highest placing was seventh. Since : September, Redington has trained King ¯ on a four-wheeler that simulates a sled- : dog team. King will work with the dogs as ¯ the snow starts to fall. ¯ King began training last year, gaining ¯ ¯ about 100 miles of mushing experience. Oddly, being a native Arizonan could give him a boost: King was trained as a bo.y to handle amule drawn wagon, which ¯ ~mrrors mushing techniques, Redington ¯ said. King will have to be up to speed by : Jan. 1, whenthelditarod’sfirstqualifying race, the Knik 200, takes place. The 2nd ~ qualifier is a week later. ¯ Only after the 500 miles of racing will ’ Redington know whether King is ready : for the Iditarod. "I don’t know how he’s ¯" going to do when it gets real freezing," ¯ said Redington, who remembers the 38- below zero wind chill he endured in the ¯ 1974Iditarod. "Buthelooks healthynow. "" ¯ That hasn’t always been the case for ¯ King. Six years ago, the 6-foot man had ¯ wastedto 118pounds. Doctors gav,eKing, ¯ a former respiratory physician, 90 days to live after diagnosing him with multidrug ¯ resistant tuberculosis. At one point, his Tcell count, a measure of the body’s ¯ resistance to disease, bottomed out at 40; ~ a virus-free, healthy person’s T-cell coun! usually reaches 1,000. Kinghad one wish: to see Alaska before ¯ he died. Two years ago he took a cruise ." there, and he caught another bug. This time, it was mushing. "That’s all he could ¯ talk about," said his father, Dick King. ¯ "He was suicidal, depressed at times. BUt this brought him out." Science lent a hand, too. Strong anti¯ viral drugs called protease inhibitors became available. King was soon on a ¯ five-drug ’.’cocktail"prescribed to him by Scottsdale’s Dr. Thanes Vanig. He began ¯ popping about 26 pills a day. He said he ¯ has to smoke marijuana to beat down the ¯ nausea caused by themedieation. He also ,- has to take percocet, and even morphine, ¯ to numb the neurological pain to his lower ¯ legs that was caused by the tuberculosis ¯ and AIDS drugs. His T-cell count has ¯ jumped to 560, the lower side of normal. ¯ He’s also gained 44 pounds, thanks in ¯ large part to injections of human growth : hormone, a $4,000-a-month drug that he ; said was donated by a pharmaceutical ¯ company. ¯ WhenKingrecentlyreturned to Alaska, ¯ his spirits were high, His po~c,k,etbook is ¯ - the opposite. King is feveris!!) lining up ¯ sponsors, such as Tempe Mayor Neil ¯ Giuliano, to make it through the race and ¯ bring AIDS awareness to a new level, ¯ "It’s not just for people with AIDS," he ¯ s.aid. ’q~hemessageis for everyone: Don’t ¯ g~ve up. Don’t ever give up." L by James Christjohn Upon viewing the PBS production of "Spirit: A Journey in Dance, Drum, and Song" on PBS, I contacted Peter Buffett, the composer and creator. Upon learning that there would be a National Tour with a stop in Tulsa at the Brady Theatre on January 3, 2000; I had the opportunity to askafew questions. You can get the video of the production that originally aired on PBS, as well as theCDat areamusic/video stores. It’s powerful in those mediums (reviewed previously), and one can only imagine the impact of the piece live. JC: Hello, Peter! PB: Hello! Well... finally I’m answering your questions. I was frantically finishing a record for a friend. It had to be done by yesterday (which it was) so I can go to New York today to start all the mechanics it’s going to take to get the "Spirit" showon the road by the Fall. At somepoint, you’11 have to get the’’making of" part of the video. I think you’ll really enjoy it. "(Note: The "Making of..." is included on the retail vide~’Of the show.) JC: It’s such an amazing piece that works on so many diffdrent levels, l was wondering whatinspired the idea to bring together the different elements - dance. song, etc. - to create the show? PB: I wanted to bring all the elements together for two main reasons. One, "A hundred years ago people sang the Ghost Dance songs in the hopes that the world would return to the way it once was, Now, the choir in some of the Spirit songs are singing those very same words in hopes that the world can become what it could be. "" - Peter Buffett because in Native cultures, song anddance are usually linked. You can’t have one without the other. They both contribute to the telling ofthe story. Andthe projections help bring the natural (or unnatural.., or supernatural) worldinto the theatre. That’s the "art" reason. The "commerce" reasonis that I knew my show would be competing with larger and larger events. Not only theatrical, but lmaxmovies,hugebudget movies and all sorts of entertainment that tugs at the consumer. I wanted to try and create something thatpeople could honestly say they hadn’ t seenbefore (no small feat). So this was my attempt.. JC: Well,judgingfrom the response at the taping from the audience, and the incredible response I’ve seen to the video, l’d say you achieved your goal. PB: It’s important to note that I’m not in the "bigger is better" : camp (as it may sound) but people want and deserve their money’s worth. Andit’s getting harder to "outdo" the last thing ~n [ terms ofp0werful soundandimagery. My [ hope is that the message of the show has as much effect on people as anything else. JC: I can only speak from my own ¯. experience, and that oflistening to others ¯ who have seen the video, to say that it was very powerful in that regard, and ¯ communicated its message wonderfully. see Buffett, p. 14 couNciL Is proud to present gie Hall veteran soprano, Floxane La Combe. nature "COMC Sound" has attracted sold out audiences. Order your tickets in advance. November 19 & 20 JOHN WILLIAMS THEATRE TULSA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Call 596-7111 for tickets www.counciloak.org ~’~#Made possible in part oy a grant from the Tulsa Pedorming Arts Center Trust. by That Entertainment Guy Livin La Vida Loca Tour, the Divine king, Ricky Martin appears in Dallas al Reunion Arena, Dallas, Thursday, Nov 4, 1999, at 8:00PM. Now this would be the concert to take binocnlars to - and the telephoto mini-camera. Ticket prices for the Prince ofPop: $35.00- $75.00 Charge- By-Phone #: 214-373-8000. The Divine Queen of All Things is also performing in Dallas in November. No, not Stevie, although she is the otherQueen of All T’nings Divine; but the Divine Ms. Millennium Tour: Bette Midler in Concert, A Beaver Production takes place Sunday, Nov128,1999 at8:00prn at ReunionArena. As she said in one early concert tour, ’qTais ain’t no cheap meat you’re lookin’ at!": Ticket prices run $50.50 - $150.50, Charge-By-Phone at 214-373-8000. Peter Buffett’s "Spirit - A Journey in Dance, Drums and Song" is a music, dance and percussion spectacle that combines the power of contemporary music with the songs, chants and dances of Native American culture. The release of the CD coincides with the PBS Broadcast ofthe live show of Spirit, which features over 80 performers - including twenty dancers with both modem and traditional training, an orchestra withboth modem and ancient tribal instruments, a flits choir and percussionists pounding outheart-stopping rhythms on a variety of drums. The show runs in Tulsa, January 4-9, at the Brady Theatre; and if you miss that, then you can catch "Spirit" in Dallas, March 7-12 at the Majestic Theatre. You really didn’t think I’d let you get away without the obligatory mention of Stevie Nicks herself, did you? Yes, La Diva nicks is performing three shows: Two in California’s HOuse of Biues in December, and one in Las Vegas HOB on New Year’s eve. Tickets went for an outrageous $127 (balcony seating) and $227 (Orchestra - STANDING!). There only a few floor spaces left for the New Year’s show.. All others sold out. Believe it or not. Anyone wishing to contribute to the "Send the obsessed reviewer to see S tevie and not come back fund" can send contributions to TFN. Just make sure my name’s in big letters on the envelope, or I’ll never see the money. It’ll end up in the "buy the publisher new household gimmicks" fund. The Divine Ms. Nick’s new album should be out the 1st of the year, if not sooner. And hopefully, with a more affordable tour. Apparently the cost of chiffon has risen - a lot. Fight Clubis.amovie that under ordinary circumstances, I would have never gone to see. However, I was not under ordinary circumstances, and was swept along to see it. I thought I’d hate it. After seeing it, I think everyone should see it. The acting is dynamic, the pace is breathless, and the intellect behind it is tremendous. The violence is not that bad, one scene aside, and the points the movie makes are well worth the viewing. The humor is well done, and the homoeroticism between Ed Norton and Brad Pittmakes it worthwhile. see Fight, p. 15 .Parade of Ligh! s. Come celebrate the spirit of the holiday season at the PSO Christmas Parade of Lights. Saturday, December 11, Downtown Tulsa at 6 p.m. View parade floats up close, Friday, December 10, at the HolidayFest (Brady Arts Distriot) fl om 6-9 p.m. Pubfic Service Company of Oklahoma A Central and South West Company I B B (I T Z "emotionally and visually rich ..." -Performing Arts Review, Taiwan "unforgettable scenes of disparate beauty" -Davar "intense in feeling ... deep in intellectual content" -The Plain Dealer "bold, flLnging athleticism" -The Kansas City Star November 16 at 8 p.m. Chapman Music Hall Tulsa Performing Arts Center 3rd & Cincinnati Tickets: $15, $22, $25 Call: (918) 596-7111 Outside Tulsa: 1-800-364-7111 Online: www.tulsapac.com Presenting by Rami Be’er Co-presented bj,: Oklahoma Israel Exchange "Dazzling," "Pounding," "Unsettling," "Erotic" "The dancing--real, vital dancing--of these 18 people becomes a dyfiamo for transforming experience and recharging the spirit." The Village Voice Sponsored in part by: "You don’t have to know ballet to love ballet. You just have to try it." -- MARCELLO ANGELINI ART ST C D RECTOR :Mixed Repertory includes two Oklahoma premieres FRIDAY 8 PM NOVEMBER 5 SATURDAY 8 PM " NOVEMBER 6 SUNDAY 3 PM NOVEMBER 7 Be one of the first anywhere to witness Tulsa Ballet’s first commissioned piece. Tailored to the strengths of the Company by an international genius. Classical ’roots, contemporary movements A prime-time performance of2Oth-century choreography. The way people dance today. Andwili tom0rrow: " Tickets start at $8. THE 199.9 - 2000 SEASON IS SPONSORED IN PART BY: Order tickets,by calling The Tulsa Ballet Ticket Office at 749-6006, PAC at 596-7111 or Carson Attractions at 584~2000 * 4512 S. Peoria Ave. ¯ Tulsa, OK 74105-4563 Visit our web site at www.webtek.€omitulsaballet ~ SUNDAYS Bless the Lord At All Times Christian Center Sunday School - 9:45am, Service - 11 am, 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815 Community of Hope (Welcoming), Service - 6pro, 2545 S. Yale, 585-1800 Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation Service - 1 lain, 2545 S. Yale, 749-0595 (Welcoming) Church of the Restoration Unitarian Universalist Service - 1 lam, 1314 No. Greenwood, 587-1314 Metropolitan Community Church United Service, 1 lain, 1623 North Maplewood, Info: 838-1715 House of the Holy Spirit Ministries, Inc. Sunday School - 9:45am, Service - 10:45am, 3210b So. Norwood Parish Church of St. Jerome (Evangdical Anglican Church in America) Mass - 1 lam, 205 W. King (east of N. Denver), Info: 582-3088 Unity Church of Christianity Services: 9:15 & 11:00 am, 3355 S. Jamestown, 749-8833 University of Tulsa Bisexuai/Lesbian/Gay/Transgendered Alliance 6:30 pm, Meets at the United Ministry Cir., 5th & Evanston, 583-9780 ~ MONDAYS Mixed Volleyball, Helmerich Park, 71st & Riverside, 6pm, call Shawn at 243-5190. HIV Testing Clinic, Free & anonymous testing. No appointment required. Walk in testing: 7-8:30pm, 834-TEST (8378) 3501 E. Admiral (east of Harvard) HIV Rap Sessions at Bless the Lord At All Times Christian Center 7:30pm, 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815 PFLAG, Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians & Gays 2nd Mordeach mo. 6:30pro, Fellowship Congregational Church, 2900 S. Harvard Women/Children & AIDS Committee, call for meeting date, noon, 585-5551 Council Oak Men’s Chorale, rehearsals - call for thnes, info: 748-3888. ~ TUESDAYS AIDS Coalition of Tulsa, call, for next meeting date. 1430 S. Boulder, 585-5551 Live And Let Live, Community of Hope U~fited Methodist, 7:30pm, 2545 S. Yale Multicultural AIDS Coalition, call for next meeting date. Urban League, 240 East Apache, 584-0001 PrimeTimers, mens group, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th Coming Out Support Group (TOHR/HOPE) Tuesdays, 6 pm, Pride Center, 1307 E 38th, info: 743-4297 ~ WEDNESDAYS Bless The Lord At All Times Christian Center Prayer & Bible Study, 7:30 pm 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815 House of the Holy Spirit Ministries,. Inc. Service - Vpm, 3210b So. Norwood Tulsa Native American Mens Support Group, more information, call 582-7225 TCC Gay & Lesbian Association of Students (GLAS), Call for info: 595-7632. Lambda A-A, 7 pm, 1307 E. 38th, 2nd ft. ~ THURSDAYS HOPE, HIV Outreach, Prevention, Education Anonymous HIV Testing, Testing: 7 - 8:30pm 834-8378, 3507 E. Admiral Oklahoma Rainbow Young Adult Network (O’RYAN) Support/social group for 18-24’s, call Red Rock Mental Health at 584-2325 Substance Abuse Support Group for persons with HIV/AIDS, Info: 834-4194 ~ FRIDAYS SafeHaven, Young Adults Social Group, l st Fri/each mo. 8pm, Pride Ctr., 1307 E. 38th ~ SATURDAYS Narcotics Anonymous, I 1 pm, Community o!~ Hope, 1703 E. 2nd, Info: 585;-1800 Lambda A-A, 6.pm, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th, 2nd fl. ~ OTHER GROUPS T.U.L.S.A. Tulsa Uniform & Leather Seekers Association, info: 298-0827 Gal-A-Vanting, Womens Social & Cultural Group Call for info: Kathy at 322-6322, or Barb at 459-6825. OK Spoke Club, Gay & Lesbian Bike Organization. Long rides & short rides from Zcigler Park. Long & short rides from Tulsa Gay Community Center. Write for info: POB 9165, Tulsa, OK 74157 Ifyour organization is not listed, please let us know. Call 583-1248 orfax 583-4615. reviewed by Barry Hensley : substanceabuse and, now, a sympathetic Tulsa City-County Library : wife with a decidedly un-Christian like Whathappens whena"radical Lesbian" ¯ penchant for screaming and yelling. The goes undercover to infiltrate the " author’s interaction with this member of organizations of the religious Focus on the Family is most right? She writes a book, of course! Fortunately, this isn’t "jnstaanotherChristianbashing book, as Minkowitz is able to see past her obvious disagreements with these groups and find some real, human common ground. Life is full ofgray area, as this book shows. Ferocious Romance is a humorous but serious lookinto religious fight organizations, such as Promise Keepers and Focus on the Family. Minkowitz dons a fake monstachc and lowers her voice to attend a Promise Keepers weekend that really opens her eyes. In addition to experiencing the fully expected propaganda of men itaking charge of the familyi and making women submissive, she al~o witnesses burly mencrying,hugging each other andexpressing words offorgiveness. She enjoys discussing this absurdity of the feminization of the Christian Men’s movement~ Her discussions with James Dobson’s Focus on the Family are of more concern. She has long conversations with a cute voung man named Bobby, who is an ~tthappy "ex-Gay." It becomes evident that Bobby’ s life is in a shambles due to the cumulative effects ofchildhood abuse, "The a.thor’s interaetion with this member of Focus on the Family is most ;nsi~htful. She also meets with several high level exeeutlves in the or~anlzatlon whose arguments t~t they are not homophone are astoundln~ in their h~oe~sy." insightful. Shealso meets with several high level executives in the organization whose arguments that they are not homophobicareastoundingin their hypocrisy. After these encounters with the religious right, the author inexplicably dives into an account ofthe International S/ M Leather Fetish Celebration that she attended inNew York City to-celebrate the twentyfifth anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. We really learn more than we ever wanted to know about her involvement in S/M. This topic surfaces occasionally throughout the book and her comparison of conservative Christians and S/M practitioners is humorously ¯¯ enlightening. As the 2000 elections approach, the : religions right will undoubtedly take center .. stage to promote their candidates and , agenda. It is in everyone’s best interest to : understand what these groups have in ¯ store for the country, should their ¯ candidates be elected. This book gives a : bit ofinsightinto what’ s going onin these ¯ organizations. Check out Ferocious Romance at your local branch library or ¯ call the Reader’s Services department at : Central library, at 596-7966. Members of each group were paired together at the tables and encouraged to gettoknow each other. Before the meeting, the groups agreed to disagree on whether Gays can be Christians and to focus on ways to deter violence against Gays and Christians, Falwell cited the September shootings at a Texas church and recent school shootings inwhichChristians were targeted. At a news conference following the meeting, Falwell andWhite apologized to each other for harsh words they have said about the other’s groups over the years. "I’ve been a preacher for 47 years, a preacher of the gospel.., but in the end homosexuality is. wrong," Falwell said. ’’It is my hope that evangelicals might build a bridge of friendship -to Gays and Lesbians as we have to alcoholics and unwed mothers." White, an author and minister with the Metropolitan Community Churches, was the ghost writerofFalwell’s autobiography before White acknowledged being Gay. Delegates from both groups thought the meeting was good. The same weekend, many of Mel White’s groups listened to Falwell’s Sunday sermon. Falwell, 66, began the serviceby welcoming White andhis guests and briefing his congregation on the antiviolence forum conducted at the church the day before. At that meeting, both sides apologized for harsh words said over the years and discussed ways to reduce vio~lence against homosexualS. ¯" ’His sermon was amazang, said David ¯ Chandler, 36, a Gay man from San : Francisco and one of the more than 4,000 : worshippers who jammed into Thomas ¯ Roads BaptistChurch. "Hesentamessage : to parents to love their children no matter ." what.... I admire and respect Falwell for ¯ taking that stand." In his sermon, Falwell ¯ stressed that he will hot change his belief ¯ that homosexuality is a sin. But he added, ¯ "That has nothing to do with the love : factor involved. We are to be lovers of all menand women."Falwell’ s sermon came ¯" from Proverbs 13, which offers advice on ¯ successful living in the eyes of God. He ¯ spoke on the importance of working hard, ¯ living with integrity and not focusing on ¯ material things. He also talked at length : about the importance of parents loving : their children unconditionally. ¯ "For him to invite these fags here and ¯ into his church is an abomination,"Phelps : said outside the church. "Now, Jerry ¯ Falwell is just as much a sinner as Mel ¯ White and both will bum in hell." : Theservice endedwiththe congregation, ." singing the hymn "Only Trust Him. ¯ Falwell interrupted the song to reiterate to : worshippers that what he or anyone else : thought of them did not matter, but what ¯ was important is their relationship with ¯ God. White said it was "a shame" that : protesters like Phelps brought hostility to ¯ aplace of worship. "What we have hereis ¯ a great moment for our country, Gays and ¯ Falwell worshipping together," White ¯ said. "It’s a small start, but it’s a start." The Gift of Pride In Honor of... Or In Memory of... Someone Special to You. For a small gift of $25.00, you can donate a beautiful Christmas poinsettia to a local AIDS hospice. Your gifts will adorn the stage at" "A Council Oak Christmas," November 19-20. Call Today for COMC Carolers at Your Holiday Party! To Order: Call COMC at (918) 748-3888 Medical Excellence And Compassionate Care Since 1926. ¯ ST. JOHN MEDICAL CENTER WJj Medical Excdlence ’ Compassionate Care Timothy W. Daniel Attorney at Law An Attorney who will fight for justice & equality for Gays & Lesbians Domestic Partnership Planning, Personal Injury, Criminal La w & Bankruptcy 1-800-742-9468 or 918-352-9504 128 East Broadway, Drumright, Oklahoma Weekend and evening appointments are available. RESTAURANT AT PHILBROOK TUES-SUN, I I-2 $13.95 ¯ Sunday, II to2 ¯ Reservations, 748-5367 TOHR Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights Home Holiday Tour Saturday, December 11,noon- five o’clock Several homes in historic Tulsa. Reception at the Center tofollow. More info. after Dec. 1st. 743-4297 by Mary Schepers, Do-It- Yourself-Dyke Hey, baby, it’ s coldoutside. Andbefore you start heating it up in front of the fireplace, take some precautions. Notjust theustml ones, ducklings! Thehouseneeds some love and attention, too. And by attending to a few simple details, not only will your house o’ love be snug, but safer, too. You know what a raving bitch your DIYD is about safety, but she does it out of a place of love. Which place, she demurs to answer.. The first order of business is to keep the winter winds and drafts outdoors where they belong. Inthe oftrepeated words of the Oracle, ’We don’t have a heating contract with the great outdoors,’ although you may feel that way when you get the first heating bill for the winter. And the side benefit is that if you can keep the house warm, you won’t have to bundle up, and neither will your schnookie, unless,ofcourse, youfred the layers of sweats and sweaters an erotic challenge. From thereon, you’re on your own! Try to take care of your outside heat sinks (places you lose heat) before the weather dips to 45 degrees during the day. Mostofthematerials you will useperform better when it’s warm - that’s a life philosophy worth adopting! Checkaround windows and doors for loose or cracked caulking and replace where needed. Around pipes or conduits that enter the house, use an expanding foam product like Good Stuff or better yet, Daptex, which can be tooled, painted and cleaned up with water, It costs a little more but is worth it. Use this also to seal any gaps between your foundation and the siding of your house. It’ s like mousse with attitude. Work it, girl[ If you’re really hard core, make a trip under the house and seM up around the pipes coming up into your house, and the same from the garage. This also discourages unwanted visits from mice, who use pipe and conduit holes like a superhighway to the supermarket. And darlings, there’s no way to make trapping mice attractive. Think about it. It is also a good idea to insulate behind switch and wall outlet plates. Special foam. cutouts can be bought at your local home repair store, so that all you have to do is unscrew the plate, fit the cutout in and replace the plate. It is amazing how much cold air leaks in that way, especially in older houses. Occasionally, thefitbetween the plate is too tight, but not often. The foam cutouts are cheap and it takes little time to do this. Before firing up the furnace for the first time, it is advisable to have a contractor come and give it a gogd cleaning and inspection - the older your unit, the more important this step is. Most heating and cooling contractors will do a combined winterandsummerservice forareasonable sum, resulting in increased efficiency and ¯ reduced chance of injury. Heater ¯ malfunctions can result in explosions or ¯ fires, and sweeties, we have worked so ¯¯ hard to make your house into a fabulous home.- It’s worth your peace of mind and personal safety. If you have a fireplace, 6all a licensed sweep to clean thechimneyandto inspect and repair the firebox and flue: Your DIYD prefers to do this in the spring, when scheduling is less hectic for the sweep, and then the fireplace is ready togo as soonas inspiration and a little cool weather hits. This should be an annual event for masonry fireplaces, and every two years if you have a metal flue. If you’re the intrepid sort who doesn’t mind scampering out on the roof like a rabid squirrel, get a good extension ladder and do some maintenance and cleaning on the roof..Be sure that the ladder has firm, steady footing and is not placed near any powerlines. Get a hose with a power nozzle or a blower and blast those gutters clean, especially at the downspouts. Clean any ; leaves, sticks or debris offthe valleys and ¯ gables of the roof, and look for any loose ¯ shingles. Use an appropriate kind of roof ¯ goo or caulking to repair, and use this also ¯ around any flueflashings thatmightbenefit ¯ from some extra sealant. This is a good ¯ time to evaluate if you will need to repair ¯ or replace your roof in the spring. Be : careful up there, and never crawl around ¯ on the roof without having someone at ¯ home in case you need help or get hurt. Make sure she or he is not glued to a ball ¯ game or otherwise out of contact. At a ¯ time like that, you deserve the extra ¯ attention, pookie! ~" This is a good time of year for a lube ¯ job, or perhaps several. No, we’re not back in front of the fireplace with Baby ¯ justyet-patience,my impetuous darlings ! ¯ Borrow Dorothy’ s oil can and put a drop on door hinges and garage door chain ¯ drives to keep things smoothly operating ¯ and silent in the winter, when the metal ¯ ¯ contracts and squeaks. You know your DIYD considers the aesthetics as well as ¯ the practical matters. If you have storm windows, give them ¯ a good cleaning to let in as much winter ¯ sunlight as possible, and check for any necessary repairs. Ifyoudon’ t haveenergy ¯ efficient windows,consider getting ~torms ¯ or even using the heat shrink film to ¯ provide some dead air spacq on your ¯ windows and to keep your house toastier. 0 : Now that the DIYD has planned your : social life for the next couple of weekends, ¯ you can get busy making your nest cozy ¯. and snuggly for the winter: And if you’re ¯ very lucky, perhaps you will get yourjust ¯ reward- and we’re not only talking about ." a lower bill! Why don’t you go get a ; couple pairs of silk boxer shorts,just to be ¯ prepared? Be hot, not frigid, this winter! ¯ Ciao, ducklings! "This is a good tlme of year for a lube job, or perhaps several. No, we’re not back in front of the fireplace with Baby just yet - patience, my impetuous darlings! Borrow Dorothy’s oll can and put a drop on door hinges and garage door ehaln drives to keep things smoothly operating and silent in the wlnter, when the metal contracts and squeaks. You know your DIYD eonslders " the aesthetles as well as the practleal matters." by Esther Rothblum, Ph.D. Coming out as a Lesbian is difficult enough, but is even more stressful when the woman is an immigrant and is struggling to come out in anew countryand using a new language. For several years now, Dr. Oliva Espin, a professor of women’s studies at SanDiego State University, has been studying the lives of immigrant and refugee Lesbians. The topic had to do with her own life experience as an., immigrant and with the imm.!granteli.ents she was seeing m her psychotherapy practice for over twenty years. "I saw that there were some experiences that .were common to immigrant women," Dr: Espin .told me. "A major theme I found most interestingwashow often the woman would be talking to me in Spanish~ for example, and then switch to English when she began talking about being a Lesbian. There seemed to be something about using a second language that helped distance Lesbians from whatever they had been told was bad in their i also think that women who have come outas Lesbians when they were still children, may have more disruptions about theirownidentity," Dr. Espin said. ’q’hey ask ’who am I?’ or ’What is wrong with me?’ For .them, coming out so young gets mixedup with other issues ofidentity. For girls who also fecl that they are not ’rexd Americans,’ or who as immigrants are different in color or in language or in cultural traditions - being Lesbian is one more thing that strains their relationship with their parents." Furthermore, the parents may feel that their daughter’s Lesbianism is something she has "caught from those Americans." When immigrant Lesbians come out as adults, they have a stronger sense of identity and coming outdoes not getmixed up with the turmoil of adolescence although it may get mixed up with the turmoil of migration if they are recent immigrants. Dr. Espin has been conducting research and interviewing immigrant women. She found two types of immigration experiences. Some women were Lesbian before the migration, or else where somewhatdissatisfied with what they were even if they had no language for this. ’~2oming to anew countrymadeitpossible for them to come out. This is true for women from all countries, not just those from traditional cultures. Being awayfrom the familiar environment gave them permission to come out; being I_~sbian Dr. Espln has been.., interviewing immigrant women... "Coming to a new country made it possible [or them to come out. This is true for women from all countries, not just those from traditional cultures. Being away from the familiar environment gave them permission to come out; being Lesbian was very freeing in this way. I’ve even spohen with Lesbians born in the U.S. who have told me that they had to move all the way across the country in order to come out." was very freeing in this way. I’ve even spoken with Lesbians born in the U.S. who have told me that they had to move all the way across the country in order to come out." The other group of women Dr. Espin interviewed was actively Lesbian in their home country, immigrated to the U.S., and found that the U.S. Lesbian culture was different and had to adjust their way of being to the new culture. That was sometimes very difficult. "Some women who were used to playing roles very actively," Dr. Espin continued, "if they were used to being ’the man,’, they couldn’t understand why their partner did not want to cook their meals, for example. Or, vice versa, women who lived lives that were ve~ closeted in their home countries, foundit terribly offensive when I would use the word ’Lesbian’ and were threatened by not having a cover-up." In general, Dr. Espin has found that immigrant communities focus very much on the "decency" and "purit.y" of the women in their community. "Because the communities are experiencing difficulty adjusting to the U.S., they want to prove that they are good people. It is the behavior of women that describes the family. So : when you have a Lesbian daughter, how ¯ are you going to explain that to yourself : andto your community? They may think : , that this is what happens to all women ¯ when they come to America." Dr. Espin has also found that Lesbian : daughters tend to be more educated than : their parents or their heterosexual sisters. ¯ As a result, the Lesbian daughters tend to : bemaking more money andin many cases : runmng the community centers and ¯ activities. "So coming out is also difficult : for the Lesbian immigrant in terms of the : community losing their mast in her. The community doesn’t have the language skills, the education, and the access to the dominant culture that she does." Dr. Espin has written about her experiences intwo recent books. Formore information, see Women Crossing Bbundaries: The Psychology of Immigration and the Transformation of Sexuality (Routledge, 1999) and Latina Realities: Essays on Healing Migration and Sexualities (Westview, 1997). Esther Rothblum is Professor of Psychology at the University of Vermont and Editor of the Journal of Lesbian Studies. She can be reached at Dewey Hall, Univ. of Vermont, Burlington, VT, email: esther.rothblum@uvm.edu. Red Rock Tulsa Free Confidential HIV Testing Walk-in Clinics Tuesday Testing, 5 -8 pm Pride Center, 1307 East 38th Wednesday Testing, 5-8 pm Red Rock, 1724 East 8th Daytime appointments available. Call for more information: 918-584-2325 Church of the Restoration Unitarian Universalist 11 am, Sunday 1314 North Greenwood 587-1314 We knowyou’re going to love this[ Restaurant & Cabaret 3 i 0 East First Street 918-599-9949 Massage Therapy Services Edgar O. Cruz, L.M.T. Pager: 918-889-5255 Voice Mail: 918-697-9282 Lic. #C4133 Want to get involved? Need to get tested for HIV? Need a Coming Out Support Group? Call 743-GAYS (4297) Tulsa Gay Community Services Center i307 E. 38th at Peoria, 2nd floor Country Club Barbering Custom Styling for Men & Women David Kauskey 3310 E. 51st, 747-0236 Tues.-Fri., 8-5:30, Sat. 8-5pm IGTA member Call 341.6866 International Toursformoreinformation. Red Rock Tulsa O’RYAN Oklahoma Rainbow Young Adult Network Outreach Program Thurs. Nights ’ Meet Others in a Safe Enviroment Call for meeting times and place: 918-584-2325 AUTHENTIC FRESH 1TALIAN RAJNBOW CUSINE TROUT ofEureka Springs. Voted Number One in Arkansas! (501) 253-6807, Closed Wednesday 5 Center Street, Eureka Springs, AR 72632 TOM NEAL BUILDING & GARDEN DESIGN 583- 1248 eeze FRESH CLAMS VEI;IE STIR FRY COtaUILE ST. JAI;IUES MAHI-MAHI RACKOF LAMB CHOCOLATE SOUFFLE Compatibility reports for you and your friends or lovers. 59%0717 Gay Owned, Operated & Rainbow Proud Gay Mecca of the Ozarks Beautiful Eureka Springs, Arkansas at the time of the assault. A Circuit Court jury in northwestIreland deliberated about two hours before finding 20-year-old Ian Monaghan and 21-year-old Glen Mahon, both ofSligo, guilty of "recklessly causing serious harm" in the Jan. 31 attack on Robert Drake, at his apartment. The defendants were convicP,xlofIrishcharges equivalent to aggravated assault in the U.S. Barely conscious, Drake lay for more than 12 hours in a pool of blood before a friend, Ciaran Slevin, discovered him. A police officerwhorecordedDrake’s words as he lay motionless inhis blood-spattered kitchen with a severe head injury told the jury that he believed he was recording Drake’s "dying declaration." Thedefensecontended thatDrakemade acrudehomosexual pass atone ofthemen and that the other then struck Drake in the face to make him stop. Doctors had to open a hole in his windpipe to ease his breathing; he also experienced pneumonia, kidney failure and other complications. Drake returned to Philadelphia by medical transport in March to undergo five months of rehabilitation to learn to walk and speak again. Though he was released from the hospital two weeks ago, his speech and mobility remain seriously impaired. He uses a wheelchair to get around, and a letter board to assist in communicating. Drake was in the middle of a speechtherapy session at his Center City apartment when word of the verdict reached him. Through a friend, he said that he was pleased with the verdict, ’"out not surprised." Monaghan and Mahon are free on bail awaiting sentencing Jan. 10, when they could get up to 10 years in jail. "It speaks volumes that Robert, eight months after ¯ theincident, needs round-the-clock care," said Slevin, an Irish physician now living with Drake in philadelphia. "I hope the severity of the punishment meets the severity of the crime." Brattleboro Offers Partners Benefits BRATI’LEBORO, Vt. (AP) - Selectmen have voted to extend health benefits to same-sex domestic partners of town employees. TownAttorney Robert Fisher said the decision to extend the privileges to same-sex parmers, but not unmarried partners of the opposite sex, followed the trend of law in Vermont and other states. The University of Vermont extends benefits to same-sex couples, Fisher said. The city of Winooski is planning to as well after an employee filed a complaint with the Vermont Labor Relations Board. "Winooski hasn’t come out with a policy just yet," Fisher added. "They’re still researching insurance issues. But if they don’t follow the arbitrator’s decision, they’ll likely wind up back in court." He said Burlington, Vermont’s largest city, extends health benefits to all the domestic partners of city employees, whether the rdationship is same-sex or opposite sex. The town of Middlebury also offers benefits to same-sex couples, said Steve Jeffrey, the executive director of- the Vermont League of Cities and Towns. TheVermontSupremeCourtis deciding whether to legalize same-sex marriages in Vermont. If it does, the towns’ policies : will be irrelevant, Fisher said. The policy : passed tmanimously. The issue wasn’t ¯¯ controversial, Fisher said. "It’s one of these things where they’re wiseenough to ¯ realize that if there were a grievance with ¯ respect to this sort of an issue, that based : on the case law both around the country ¯ -and the Labor Relations Board here in ¯ Vermont, that they would be fighting an : uphill legal battle," Fisher said of the : select board. "I think they look at it as an ¯ opportunity to perhaps steer clear of ¯ possible legal pitfalls in the future." " Blue Cross-Blue Shidd of Vermont, : which supplies health insurance to most Vermont municipalities through the ¯ VermontLeagueofCities andTowns,has : offered domestic partner benefits to large ¯ groups for a few years now, said Leigh Tofferi, a company spokesman. Those benefits were available to same-sex and different-sex partners. Lesbian & Gay Seniors Sought : BOSTON (AP) - Targeting an older : generation open about its sexuality and ¯ thinking about its golden years, some developer~ are looking to build Gay- " friendly retirement communities. : "We want to create something that ¯ mirrors the life they’re living now," said ¯ BoSton real estate agent John Goode, part ¯ of9gr°up planning .an urban homosexual ¯ reUrement commumty in Boston. ~ In generations past, societal pressures ¯ forced many Gays and Lesbians to keep ¯ their sexual orientations under wraps. : Today,developers think those who helped ¯ pave the wayfor vibrantGay communities ¯ will want to continue living in Gay ¯ communities after retirement. ¯ "In the mainstream aging community, there is the assumption that everyone is ¯ straight," said Terry Kaelber, executive ¯ director of the New York-based Seniors Active in a Gay Environment. ’’We have : a place that does not assume that. In fact, ¯ it assumes that old people can be attracted : to old people of the same gender." ¯ Kaelber’s group is working with a real estate development company to locate a ¯ site and investors for a 100-unit, mixed- : income assisted living facility. Current options for Gay- and Lesbian-themed ¯ retirement housing consist primarily of a ¯ handful of mobile home parks and small ¯ resorts in Florida and Arizona. Goode’s group of seven partners wants ¯ to build a 75- to 100-unit retirement community somewhere in Boston. The project, called Stonewall Communities, ¯ is named after aGay bar inNew York City ¯ where a 1969 police raid sparked what many say is the begimfing of the modem ¯ Gay civil rights movement. ¯ Other entrepreneurs across the country ¯ also have begun thinking about how the ¯ Gay and Lesbian baby boomers pushing ¯ into their 50s will want to spend their ¯ retirement years. "I’m looking for the ¯ active retirement market," said Peter Lundberg of San Francisco, who is trying to round up capital to build a Gay ¯ retirement community in California. ¯ Gay retirement housing options will : likelyincreasedramaticallyinthecoming ¯ years, said Laura Connolly, who chairs ¯ theLesbianandGayAgingIssues Network ¯ for the San Francisco-based American ¯ Society on Aging. "I think it will grow ¯ over the years," slie said. "They will be in ¯ a variety ofconfigurations, from the more : affordable trailer park options on upto the ¯ more upscale and expensive models." How did the story develop? PB: Many years ago whilereading "Son of the Morning Start’ I was struck by what we all may have lost by the greed and ego of relatively few men. I wasn’t so much taken by Native history as I was the belief system behind the firstpeople of.this land. JC: One of the things that struck me while viewing the show was that this was much more than a show, this was a ritual, what theatre started out as. And ritual that worked successfully to bridge past andpresent. PB: I alsoknew thatmostpeople (myself included) thought of Indian history asjust that.., history, museum pieces etc. So it was important to do a couple of things. Bring the culture into the present and future tense. And incorporate a mythical story about aman"sjourney tofindhimself. By understanding his past - better understanding his role in this life. I was hoping to bridge worlds for people on both sides. Wemight be able to accept, as _ opposed to feel guilty or angry. And if we can get to acceptance, we can progress to learning. JC: I like that philosophy PB: A hundred years ago people sang the Ghost Dance songs in the hopes that the world would return to the way it once was. Now, the choir in some of the Spirit songs are singing those very same words in hopes that the world can become, what it could be. JC: What a lovely vtsion. PB: Pretty lofty goals., but hey, somebody’s got to try. JC: !’d say, from what l’ve seen and heard, you’ve succeeded admirably. Before I wear out my welcome, one last question: What inspired you to utilize Native American music in 3,our works ? PB: To me, almost all Native tribes on may land have the true connection and understanding of that land. Here, not only can we learn things about how we fit into the fabric of the physical world through Native American culture. But we can also learn a thing or two about the spiritual world. PB: I’m really glad that you hear the music staying true to the ancient as well as the modem. The show (and the music) can’t work any other way. It’s where the two worlds combine that the magic happens. JC: That is so true. in more ways than one. It’s a dzfficult balance, and rarely have I heard it done so well. PB: If you liked the video, I’m sure you’ll love the live version! JC: Having seen the video and the impact it had on people, 1 can barely begin to imagine the effect ofseeing it live. I can’t wait. Thank you, Mr. Buffett. © 1999J. Christjohn, all fights reserved A unique opportunity to view and purchase art works and hand crafts from local women artists occurs Nov. 5 - 6. Hosted by local artists Kathleen Pendergrass andMary Schepers, the show and sale will also highlight works by Susan Norris, Robin Dunn, Donna Richardson, Cara Liggett, Nicolasa Kuster, Gayla Norman and others. "We want to showcase the incredible talent that we have in the Tulsa area," Schepers said. "There ’are a lot of very talented artisans here who are not represented in galleries or who are just starting their careers. We’re having the show at my house and studio to keep the whole setting fun and relaxed, as well as making these exciting works accessible to a broad audience. ’~lt’s a good time to consider buying a special gift for the significant people in ~our life, or for adding an original piece of art to your own home, or even for buying something practical likehath salts, candles, display cases or smudges. Prices are reasonable, especially compared to the premiums paid for works shown in galleries or higher priced venues such as Eureka Springs. We’ll have clayworks and sculptures, paintings, etchings, and many other fun items." The preview for the show is Friday, Nov. 5 from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. The show and sale continues Saturday Nov. 6 . from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 pro. The address is2727E. 56thSt. (51sttoColumbiaAve, South on Columbia to 56th St) in Tulsa. For details or directions, please call Mary at 743-6740. The Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company, an Israeli arts group will present ....Aide Memoire"," a full-length contemporary dance by renowned choreographer and KCDC Artistic Director Rami Be’er at the at Tulsa Performing Arts Center’ s Chapman Music Hall on November 16 at 8 pm. Tickets are $15, $22, and $25 with discoants for groups of 10 ormore and student discounts at the door (call (918) 596-711 lot order online: www.tulsapac.com). Choreographer Rami Be’er states that ....Aide Memoire.... is not about the Holocaust nor does it describe the Holocaust; it deals neither with documentation nor a historical account. Rather, "Aide Memoire" introduces the maaner in which the remembrance of the Holocaust can be approfiched and expressed in an inspired, artistic medimn. The subject of Holocaust remembrance is relevant to present-day life and reality as it lurks in the background of mundane existence, penetrates deep subconsciousness, and dwells forever in personal and collective memories. "’Aide Memoire" presents the audience with a sequence of scenes moving about the stage just like a cinematic flashback. Theproduction conveys afleeting glimpse of images which.the audience must face in a lfighly personal manner. The audience has ne alternative but to use its senses to impart meaning to the images. "Aide Memoire" has no central narrative, nor do two opposing sides face each other. Cruel stormtroopers are absent, yet there exists a reminder of the struggle by those who were there and experienced those atrocities firsthand. Within this conflict, we observe their efforts to continue the fabric of human relationships, whether as : individuals, couples or xn groups, and to express the fundamental right of every ¯ person to continue to dream. Be’er joined Kibbutz Contemporary : Dance Company in 1981 as a dancer and ¯ choreographer. His works have won ¯ several international awards and have ~-become the trademark of KCDC’s : repertoire. He became the company’s Artistic Director in 1996. ¯ The Kibbutz Contemporary Dance : Company was founded in 1970 by _" Holocaust survivor Yehudit Arnon. : Although based in Kibbutz Ga’aton near ¯ the Lebanese border, see Dance, p. 15 use code 393 ~eqaDhone does noI presereen sal[ers & assumes rio liability for personal meetings. 24hr Customer Service. 18+ only. © 1999 PC Sprint PCS" The Glear Alternative to Cellular Serint PC$" Select Retailer ;9935 :25.oo $74.95 New Sprint PCS Phone Less instore rebate " Net cost Buy any Sprint PCS Phone and get S25 off!* Everyone is approved! :~,.o~,,,,,: ,~.,,,~.;.,.~,.:,oc,.,,,¢., All Sprint PCS service plans include: ¯ Free Voicemail ¯ Free Caller ID phonesistartingat. ¯ Free. Call Waiting¯ Free 3 way calling ................ ¯ No activation, fee o No contract required ¯ 100% Sprint PCS Nationwide Network. Tulsa Locations: 2001 S. Garnett, 437-2444 3733 S. Memorial, 6600344 1216 S. Harvard, 587-1778 Sapuipa Location: 109 N. 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Slowly, leaders say, more attention is being focused on the issue. Earlier this month, Black churches in Atlantagathered for the first National Black Church HIV/ AIDS Institute. Thegathering was an effort to help pastors learn how to deal with the disease. Last Thursday, faith leaders, policy makers, commumty activists and AIDS researchers met in Atlanta to discuss combating AIDS among Blacks. On the same day, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, announced a series of educational films aimed at raising HIV awareness. The CDC has also awarded $39 million in federal funds to 100 national, state and local organizations to help prevent HIV infections in minority communities. "We must mount prevention and treatment strategies that deal with people where they are now, not where we want them to be or where we imagine them to be," said Phill Wilson, director of the AIDS Social Policy Archive. Nonetheless, the statistics continue to upset AIDS activist Denise Stokes, who has been HIV-positive fo~ 17 years. "One day, this is ultimately where I’m going to end up," she said pointing to the quilt. "I’m going to be a panel on some wall in some library. "I just hope the library isn’t full of people with AIDS." A lot of straight folk are going to go into this thinking it’s aboutbeating otherpeople up, and come out thinking about a lot of things. Some of you, due to the timing of the paper will have seen it - don’t ruin the ending for those that haven’t. And if you haven’t seen it because you don’t think it"s your kind of movie, go see it. You’ll be surprised. Brad Pitt’s bod is well worth seeing. Amd since I work in a football sized building filled with cubicles, I could relate well to Ed Norton’s plight in the beginning of the film- living life to support things he’s bought, working in a mindless dronin.gnumbness of cubicality. Anyway, go see It. Oh yeah, Helena Bonham Carter turns in a magnificent performance as well. I kept wondering why her character was sleeping with guys, though. In the interest of a public service announcement, I will pass this along: Warrior Way Martial Arts is offering a 3 hour class on selfdefense againstpunches, kicks, and grab attacks; knife and gun attacks; and club attacks. This takes place on Saturday, November 13 from 12 - 3 PM at Warrior Way martial Arts, 2717 S. Memorial. The cost is $25 in advance; $35 after Nov. 6. Call to register at 664- 9100. These guys are serious and know their stuff, and with the violence against Gay folk on the rise, I think everyone should make an investment in something like this. Knowledge is power, and in this case could mean the difference between life and death. Literally. Learn, and practice what you learn, and stay safe. And my final words for this column: life is notabout surviving orjobs orl’mding love, although it’s nice if it happens. It’s about facing fears and making dreams come true, struggling against yourselfand others to find your strength and make things happen. Being ready, and in the right place and time for opportunity to strike is important. Butifyou’re notready, or are afraid, it will pass youby before you know it, and that’s when regret sets in, which leads to bitterness. So try all the things you can, and do all the things you wanted to do - and it’s never too late. - James Christjohn its members come from settlements all over Israel. The dancers rehearse five days a week at Ga’aton Studio, but on weekends return home to work on their various kibbutzim. Not only is KCDCone of Israel’s foremost companies, it has also earned an international reputation of renown and is invited to perform at numerous festivals worldwide. Kibbutz Contemporary Dance is copresented by the Oklahoma Israel Exchange. Sponsors for this event include the Oklahoma Arts Council, Heartland Arts Fund. The National Endowment for the Arts, Schustennan Family Foundation, KCFM 94.1 and ONEOK Foundation. Opponents fear it will eventually lead to Gay couples being able to adopt children, although the government has opposed any such move. Last November, parliament rejected a conservative bid to sink the controversial bill. At the time, left-wingers said PACS was needed to adapt outdated laws to the evolution of French society, where marriage is on the decline. Classifieds - how to work them: First 30 words are $10. Each additional word is 25 cents. Options for your ad: Bold headline - $1, ali capital letters - $1, all bold & capital letters - $2. ad in box - $2, Ad reversed - $3. tear sheet mailed - $2 Blind P.O. Box - $5 Please type or print your ad. Count the words - word is a group of letters or numbers separated by a space. TFN reserves the fight to edit or refuse any ad. No refunds. Send ad & payment to POB 4140, Tulsa. OK 74159 with your name, address, telephone. 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Title A name given to the resource [1999] Tulsa Family News, November 1999; Volume 6, Issue 11 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. 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W .y Fun.ds i Support Anti-Gay D,scr, minat,on : ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ TULSA (TFN) - In a recent promotional piece printed and inserted in The Tulsa Worm for free, Tulsa Area United Way (TAUW) touted its strong points. TAUW claims to be thelargest non-governmental funder of health and human services.in the Tulsa area, funding some 231 programs at 68 member agencies. TAUW also claims to have a lower than 10% overhead as compared to overhead of up to 40% declared acceptable by the National Charity Information Bureau. Joe Cappy, chairman/CEO and president of Dollar/Thrifty ¯ Automotive Group, in the Tulsa World insert, claimed, ’q’ulsa ¯ Area United Way gives each of us a sensible, cost-effective ¯ approach to helping the people in our community who need it European Union to British Army: No More Gay Ban ¯¯ most..." But there are those who take issuewith some aspects of United STRASBOURG, France (AP) - The European Court of Human Rights ruled late in S eptember that Britain’ s ban ¯ on homosexuals in the armed forces is a breach of ¯ human rights. The court found in favor of three men and : a woman who were discharged from the British armed ¯ forces in line with its absolute ban on homosexual ¯ personnel after they admitted their sexual orientation. ¯ The court said the British policy yciolated Article 8 of the ¯ European Convention on Human Rights which defends ¯ ¯ the right to respect for private and family life. "The Court considered the investigations, and in particular the interviews Of the applicants, to have been ¯ exceptionally intrusive," thc European court said in a ¯ statement. "The investigations conducted into the applicants’ sexual orientation together with their ¯ discharge from the armed forces constituted especially ¯ grave interferences with their private lives," it said. The verdict cannot force a-change of law, but the ¯ applicants considered it a step towards ending discriminationin the armed forces. Defense Sec. George ¯ Way s funding,, partacularly that of the Indian NaUons Council of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). The BSA is one of the earliest organizations funded in Tulsa by the predecessors to the current United Way but the Scouting organization has been under fire nationally for its anti-Gay policies. The BSA claims the Scout pledge to be "morally straight" refers to being heterosexual and .therefore bans Gay youth from being Scouts or Gay men from being Scoutmasters on the grounds that to be Gay is intrinsically to be "morally non-straight." Recently, the B SA lost a legal challenge to thi s anti-Gay policy brought under New Jersey state law. Former Eagle scout James Dale won his lawsuit but in response to questions from The Tulsa World, aspokespersonfortheTulsa-basedIndianNafionCouncil of the BSA r~affirmed the ban in this area. And when TAUW kicked off its 75th anmversary campaign, running from Sept. 10th to Nov. 1 lth with a goal of raising $21,497,725.00, some of these individuals said no to helping United Way because of the funding for an organization which blatantly discriminates. Most of the individuals who spoke asked to remain anonymous Robertson said other existing cases involving Gays in ¯ citing fears of retaliation from TAUW or risk to their employment the British armed forces will be put on hold while the ¯ by public.ly speaking ~bout Lesbian and Gay issues in’h city with government studies the implications of:the ruling. fewprote~tious again~wolkplace discrimination based on sexual ¯ orientation. ¯ One Gay couple, both of whom are public employees, had slightly different reactions to the ¯ issue of funding for the Boy Scouts.-One noted that ¯ "we’re so used to it, that we don’ t think about it"but ¯ he added that it’s "time when United Way needs to start analyzing what they’re doing." : However, his parmer noted that the organizations ¯ his employer was set to help for United Way’s Day ¯ of Caring were the Boy Scouts and the Salvation Army, both organizations which he claims ¯ discriminate against Gay people. He notified his ¯ employer that he would not participate in the Day ¯ ¯ of Caring because of those organization’ s anti-Gay policies. ¯ Another couple, Lesbian, said that it was a"tough ¯ question." One women, again who requested ¯ anonymity because of her job (she is a teacher), ¯ characterized the Boy Scouts’ policy as ¯ reprehensible but noted too that United Way funds ¯ the YWCA, an organization which has a non" discrimination policy which includes "sexual ¯ orientation." Her partner added that TAUW also ¯ funds Youth Services of Tulsa (YST) which has ¯ ¯ programs that benefit Lesbians and Gay men but she also acknowledged that YST hadkept those ¯ programs "closeted,"i.e. not publicized because of ¯ fears that UnitedWay fundingmight be withdrawn, despite the fact that the failure to publicize the ¯ program significantly limitedYST’s ability toreach ¯ those whom the program was intended to help. : Tulsa Area United Way’s marketing representative, Beth Kuehnert was asked to explain ¯ TAUW’s continued funding for the BSA and ¯ initially, in a cordial and civil conversation, Ms. Kuehnert said she was not aware of the Boy Scouts’ position nor see TA UW, p. 12 Gay Demos Organize ¯ Community Center News Eureka Springs Holds TULSA- Local. Democratic Party activists will hold an Community Meeting 111 6. Diversity Celebration organizational meeting for a Tulsa chapter of the the ¯ National Stonewall Democratic Federation on Sunday, TULSA - Organizers of the First Annual Community Center ¯ EUREKA SPRINGS - Fall is around the comer, October 24th, at 4pro at the Tulsa Gay Community ¯ Film Festival to be held on Oct. 7-9, Tulsa’s Gay Commtmity : andintheOzarks,it’salmosttimefor thebi-annual Services Center (the Pride Center), at 1307 East 38th ¯ Center andits parent organization, Tulsa Oklahomaus for Human " Diversity Celebration Weekend in Eureka Springs, Street, 2nd floor.. : Rights (TOHR) will show both Lesbian and Gay films, both : Ark. ! Organizers say this event, scheduled for Nov . Stonewall Democrats, a caucus within the Democratic ’. feature length and shorts beginningat 5:30 onThurs, and Fri. and " 5-7, will be bigger and better than ever! Party works to secure the rights of all people, regardless : from 2pm on Sat. and Sun. ¯ Metropolitan Community Church’s Friday night ’of sexual orientation or gender identity and serves as a ¯ In addition, theCenterwillhostTOHR’sfirstComingOutFair " dance and camival will kick off the weekend at the voice within the Democratic Party for Lesbians and Gay : "Discovering Yourself" from noon to 6pro on Sat. Oct. 9th. A " top of the Basin Park Hotel. On Saturday morning, men. Organizers noted in their press release that the ." record number of community organizations have committed to " strollthestreetsofEurekaonahistoric(andcolorful) Oklahoma,Democratic party is rather conservative with ¯ particil~ating in the Coming Out Fair. . walking tour, canoe on the White River, or hike in regard to civil rights for Gays and Lesbians and seek to ¯ GregGatewood,TOHRboardpresident, noted that at the Sept. ." Lake Leatherwood Park. educate state party leadership about Lesbian and Gay ¯ .14th commlmity wide meeting held at the Center about 35 " Intheearlyaftemoon,bringthekidstoa"family" issues. family picnic at Harmon Park, sing like you’re in ihdividuals attended and the representatives decided through a They list the following specific goals of the National i largely consensus process to convene a commlmity council of the shower at karaoke, or listen to the sounds of Stonewall Democratic Federation as: ¯ organizations, churches and businesses. The group also decided : localandvisitmgGay/Lesbianmusiciansatseveral (1) mobilizing voters through a national grassroots to askTOHR to co-ordinate theproposedbi-monthlymeetings to " different venues around town. And please be sure network of Gay and Lesbian Democratic clubs and : exchange information and ideas. . to visit all the wonderfully unique shops, and individuals to advance the fight for Gay and Lesbian ¯ Marty Newman, a Human Rights Campaign board member, : support the Diversity Cooperative businesses of civil rights; ¯ who along with TOHR co-founder Dennis Neill, called the first " Eureka Springs. (2) improving the record of the Democratic party by : meeting this summer, expressed his satisfaction with the Sept. " Then, after a delightful dinner (it’s Eureka - pressing it further inthe direction of full recognition of - ". meeting and the general progress of the process. Newman-noted ¯ Spri.ngs’ Food and Wine Festival this weekend, the rightsof Gay men, Lesbians and Bisexuals to be free ¯ thatTulsaPFLAG chapter co-founder, Nancy McDonald attended ¯ too),work offthosecaloriesat two fantasticdances. from prejudice; ¯ the meeting and that Mrs. McDonald recalled that TOHRs by- : AtCenterStage, DJ Jonwillraisetheroofwithhigh (3) educating voters on the vast difference that exists ." laws had at one time had a provision for a community advisory ¯ energy club music. And the Basin Park Hotel between the two major parties on our issues, and the ¯ council. Meeting co-convener Dennis Neill, an attorney, was ¯ Ballroom will come alive with electrifying importance of voting Democxatic as the most effective i given the task of drafting a contract to clarify the relationship " performances by "Barnes", a dynamic GLAMAway to achieve our goals; ¯ betweenthevariousgroups.Formoreinformationaboutthenext ~ winningsinger/songwriter seeEureka, p. 14 (4) fighting the anti-Gay rhetoric of the Republican ¯ community meeting, call the Community Center at 743-4297. ." conservative-wing, which has increasingly become the : Also, the Community Center will be the site of an all-community ¯ instrument of those d~dicated to denying us our rights. ¯ Halloween Costume Ball to be held on Saturday, Ocotober 30th, : The organizers are encouraging those who share ¯ 8pm at 1307 East 38 Street, 2nd floor. The event will be BYOL " these values to come to the October 24 meeting which ¯ but soft drinks and ice will be provided. : will feature members from the newly formed Oklahoma : Organizers suggest that while this is a costume party, a loud ¯ City Stonewall Democrats chapter. Paul Barby, who ran ¯ shirt and simple mask will-do. Guests should not feel compelled : as an openly Gay candidate for US Congress in : to spend a lot of money, just to use a little imagination. The : Oklahon~a’s 6th district will speak. : sponsors, Prime Timers of Tulsa, stated that the purpose of the : For more information, telephone Start Simpson at _" party is for all groups connected with the Pride Center to have an 582-6557. ~ ¯ opportunitytogettoknowonemlother, andhelpbuildcommunity, i �Tulsa Clubs & Restaurants 832-1269 *Bamboo Lounge, 7204 E. Pine 592-2143 *Boston Willy’s Diner, 1742 S. Boston 835-1207 Burger Sisters Restaurant, 1545 S. Sheridan 599-9512 *Empire Bar, 1516 S. 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School Ave. JOPLIN, MISSOURI *Spirit of Christ MCC, 2639 E. 32, Ste. U134 417-623-4696 * is where you can ftndTFN. Not all are Gay-owned but allare Gay-friendly. Holy Union Ceremony Alan Williams and Gregory Casillas celebrated a Holy Union Ceremony on Friday, September 24, 1999, in Eureka Springs, AR. Presiding over the intimate union was Reverend Vivian Juett. The commitment ceremony was witnessed by Zoe Dearing and Nancy Ermding. After traveling to Dallas, TX, San Francisco, CA and Nashville, TN to celebrate with friends and family, the couple will reside for’a short period in Tulsa. Obiturary Dr. W. Malcolm Jacox, a veterinarian well known in the community for his kindness and gentleness with both his animal patients and their caregive~s, died Sept. 22. Services were held at Floral Haven Memorial Gardens Mausoleum on Sept. 25. He will be greatly missed by many both in and out of the Gay He is survived by his family and his longtime companion. Those who wish to honor his memory are encouraged to support a charity of their choice. Condolences may be sent care of Jacox Animal Clinic, 2732 East 15th, Tulsa 74104. Mr. Tulsa Leather 2000 ¯ The Mr. Tulsa Leather 2000 contest was held September 10, 1999, at the Silver Star Saloon in Tulsa, Oklahoma.The evening included a benefit for Miss Gay Mid America, Catia Lee Love. Love will participate in the Miss Gay America contest. Four contestants participated in the contest: Jay Fleming, Kelly Kirby, Dayvid Montross, and Tony Hall, all of Tulsa Oklahoma. The men competed in Personal Interview, Street Wear, Swimwear/ Physique, and Full Leather Image events. The judging panel consisted of: Ron Greenwood, Mike Ryan, Ed Smith, John McCuistian, Don Lawrence, all also from Tulsa. The tally master was James Murray, Mr. Tulsa Leather 1997. The winner of the contest was Jay Fleming of Tulsa. Jay is a past "Mr Gay. Leather Long Beach 1987" and the 20th Elected Emperor, Greater California Empire. Fleming will compete for the Oklahoma Mr. Leather 2000 title on October 22-24, 1999. He is an event promoter for such events in Tulsa as Mayfest, Gatesway Balloon Festival and chairman of Street Party 2000; benefiting Street School and Tulsa at risk youth. Contest producer, Ric Poston, Mr Tulsa Leather 1999 and the Oklahoma Mr Leather 1999, said of Fleming, "he is an outstanding citizen and will be a great representative for the Tulsa Leather Community." The first runner up was Kelly Kirby and the 2nd runner up was Dayvid Montross. For more information on OML2000, check the T.U.L.S.A. website at WWW.TULSALEATHER.com �Editorial: Un!ted Our Way The Tulsa World- not frequently known for challenging the Tulsa power establishment, often inseparable from it. And what is more troubling about the unexamined decision to continue to fund the Indian Nations Council of the Boy Scouts of America by TAUW is the lack of leadership from TAUW’s board of directors. A number of TAUW board members come from corporations that claim that they do not discriminate on sexual orientation. Foremost among these are Public Service Company of Oklahoma, Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group, Inc. and Bank of America, and yet, somehow, not one of these very highly paid and presumably ratberintelligent men seem to havemade the connection between their own corporate policies emphasizing fairness andTAUW’s support for ablatantly bigoted program. Or perhaps they’ve just not"counected United Way also funds the Tulsa C.A.R.E.S. or ." the dots." Or perhaps, they’re hoping that no one will ever Community Service Council that manages the other or~an{zatlons in ¯¯ hold them responsible. our eommunlty... Regardless, until Tulsa Area United Way see fit to Tulsa Community AIDS Project, one of the most groups that really do : begin to treat Lesbian and Gay Tulsans as equal human : beings by adding sexual orientation to its noneffective funding sources give a damn about for fighting HIV infection ,. discrimination policies and chooses not to fund ¯ organizations which discriminate, the best bet is for us to and for providing care for. us. Let’s stop using ¯ not to contribute to Tulsa Area United Way but to take individuals with HIV our dollars and those ." those same dollars and to give them directly to worthy relatedillnesses. These are of our families and ¯_ organizations. worthy organizations - as ¯ I’d suggest that instead of letting TAUW slice its take friends to support are many, many others ¯ off the top, give your dollars directly to Tulsa C.A.R.E.S. which TAUW funds. United Way’s However, along with the ¯. or other organizations in our community, like the prejudlee and ¯ community center, or the Cimarron Alliance or PFLAG, many good organizations which TAUW funds is eowardlee. Let us be ¯ groups that really do give a danm about us. Let’s stop ¯ using Our dollars and those of our families and friends to another. That is the Indian unlt,~ our way. ¯ support United Way’ s prejudice and cowardice. Let us be Nations Council of the ¯ united our way. Boy Scouts of America. It ¯ TulsaFamily News editorandpublisherTomNealhas is the official policy of the Boy Scouts, both locally and nationally, to discriminate on the basis of sexual ¯ volunteeredonaUnitedWayfundsdistributioncommittee ¯ on services for semor citizens tn the Tulsa area. orientation. They’ve been rather explicit about this. ¯ Unfortunately, hefound thatTulsaArea UnitedWay staff The last time the Indian Nations Council of the Boy went out of their way to censor and suppress questions Scouts of America voiced this policy locally was in August when James Dale, a former Scout in New Jersey, ¯ about how well member agencies were serving Lesbian successfully challenged the BSA’s apartheid policies ¯¯ and Gay seniors, even when the agencies were willing to answer the questions and despite TAUW claims that under New Jersey state law and won. A local BSA ¯ their evaluationprocess is "volunteer driven." Neal also representative however reiterated-its support for BSA ¯ has asked to serve on the funds distribution committee prejudice. Now as a former Boy Scout, I’m hardly hostile to the ¯¯ which looks at the funding for the Boy Scouts Indian Nations Council but, for some reason, keeps getting true values of the organization. But I do not believe that ¯ reassigned to senior services - imagine that. the phrase, "morally straight," ori_ginating around th_e tum of the century, ever, ever could be thought to refer to heterosexuality, using an interpretation of the word "straight" which never existed until at leas t some 60 years later. However I recognize that it is the prerogative under current federal, state and local law, of the BSA to engage First and foremost, let me put your mind at rest about in invidious discrimination if it chooses to do so. It is ¯ two of our regular columnists, our fabulous Do-Itreprehensible behavior but it is quite legal. " Yourself-Dyke, Mary Schepers and Tulsa City-County However, even if this bigoted conduct is legal, there is ¯ Library book reviewer, Barry Hensley. Both columns no justification for Tulsa Area United Way to use the ¯ will resume next month. funds it receives from the community as a whole to ¯ An,other upcoming event is the annual World AIDS ¯ subsidize the systematic discrimination of the Indian Day Memorial Service. This year’s event will be at Nations Council of the Boy Scouts of America. After all, ¯ Mount Zion Baptist Church under the auspices of the if we were to substitute "no Jews allowed" or "no Blacks ¯¯ Rev. Calvin McCutchen, Sr., one of Tulsa’s most allowed" lot"no fags allowed," I would hardy have to be distinguished religious leaders. The date, as always will ¯ be Dec. 1st which is a Wednesday but the details of the writing this essay. Part of why TAUW still funds this apartheid ~ march and precise time of the service will be announced. organization is an accident of history. The Boy Scouts ¯¯ It is expected that Council Oak Mens Chorale who had their first ever performance at a World AIDS Day have been funded for most of TUAW’s existence. Back ¯ in thoseearly days theBSA was one ofafew organizations Memorial Service will again lend their talents. The event that did address youth issues. That is no longer so. And in . is being co-ordinated by Diane Zike, former executive contrast with the BSA, the Girl Scouts, for example, have ¯¯ director of Interfaith AIDS Ministries and Beverly Denton explicitly said that sexual orientation is not relevant to Galbreith. For more information, call 438-2437. - TN participation in their organization and they have a nondiscrimination policy. An nouncements Policy Now if Tulsa Area United Way had a comprehensive Tulsa Family News will provide space for holy union non-discrimination policy, they might have some greater ¯ ceremony, mamage ceremony, birth, adoption and death degree of credibilityas an organization committed to fair " announcements on a space available basis. Photos are treatment of all. But they don’t. In fact, Ms. "duck’n’cover" Kathleen J. Coan, president ~ wdcome, though we cannot promise placement or return ¯ them, so please send copies to TFN, POB 4140, Tulsa and chief professional officer, is so gun-shy of the issue she’s managed not to return phone calls to this newspaper ¯ 74159. Letters Policy for nearly four years -now that’s what I call real ¯¯ Tulsa Family News¯ welcomes letters on issues which professional conduct (though in fairness, Ms. Coan did take a phone call once when TFN was calling on deadline ¯ we’ve covered or on issues you think need to be considered. You may request that your name be withheld but and her p.r. person was unavailable) But it does call into question, Ms. Coan and TAUW’s commitment to all of ¯ letters must be signed & h.ave phone numbers, or be hand Tulsa’s communities when she seems primarily willing ~- delivered. 200 word letters are preferred. Letters to other to talk to non-minority news orggnizations, for example, ~ publications will be printed as is appropriate. Drug-resistant Strains of AIDS Virus Rising ." by Tom Neal, editor and publisher This year is the 75th anniversary of a program of ¯ charitable giving in Tulsa which has become known as ." Tulsa Area United Way (TAUW). Tulsa’s United Way ¯ supports some 231 programs offered by 68 member ¯¯ agencies and hopes to raise over $21 million and help perhaps 250,000individuals this year. Obviously, all this ¯ ¯ is worthy. ." For example, oneof the I’d suggest that agencies which TAUW ~ instead of letting supports is Tulsa ¯: "C.A.R.E.S., formerly and" TAU~V’ sllee its tare more accurately known as off the top, glve your : _" the HIV Resource dolhrs dlreetly to ¯ Consortium. Tulsa Area ¯ CHICAGO (AP) - Highly drug-resistant strains of the AIDS virus are on the rise, showing up in as many as 4.5% ofnewlyinfectedpatients in twonew studies. "Resistance is slowly increasing," said Dr. Roger J. Pomerantz, an expert not involved with either study, "If you were looking at this five years ago, you would see zero." The studies - published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) - involve mostly Gay white men. Resistance, however, may be more prevalent in other groups, such as drug users and their sex partners, researchers-said. About 40,000 new HIV infections occur yearly in the United States. In recent years, powerful drug cocktails have subdued the virus to undetectable levels in many patients. But studies have found the virus persists or comes roaring back in 10% to 50%. The complicated drug regimen has proved difficult to adhere to, and many patients who missed doses or quit taking their medicines developed drug-resistant infections that are now being passed’along to others. "I wasn’t that surprised. This is what happens in infectious disease," said Pomerantz, director of the Center for Human Virology at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. HIV is still so new that scientists disagree even about how to define resistance. And since both studies used laboratory tests, no one really knows how the definitions will translate into patient care. Giving high doses of a drug may be enough to overwhelm a virus’ resistance, Pomerantz said. In one study, researchers at the University of California at San Diego defined resistance as a 10-fold increase in HIV’s ability to withstand a drug when compared with a laboratory strain. That study, led by Dr. Susan J. Little. tested 141 patients - in San Diego, Los Angeles, Dallas, Denver and Boston- and found that three (2%) had HIV with at least 10-fold greater resistance to one or more drugs. An additional 36 patients (26%) had HIV that was 2.5 to 10 times more resistant. In the other study, researchers at Rockefeller University in New York defined resistance as a threefold increase in HIV’s ability to withstand a drug. That study, led by Dr. Daniel Boden of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, tested 80 subjects in New York and Los Angeles. Of 67 in whom resistance could be tested, three (4.5%) had HIV that was highly resistant- fivefold resistant- to multiple drugs. The subjects were among 18 (26.8%) with HIV that was at least threefold resistant to at least one drug. Testing every newly infected patient for drugresistance would be impractical because the tests cost several thousand dollars and are difficult to interpret, Pomerantz said. But if a patient takes a drug cocktail faithfully and it isn’t working, testing should be considered to see how the combination of medicines might be reformulated, he said. Don’t Go to Sleep Yet ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ For a while, it seemed that there might be a light at the end of the tuunel of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. And for many things are better than they used to be: to become HIV positive is not immediatdy to know that your death was likely six months away like it was in the 80s. But the news report above from The Associated Press should slam home the message that we cannot be complacent; we must continue to educate ourselves and our children about protecting themselves against HIV infection, through all appropriate means: safer sex with its reduced risk, no sex, i.e. abstinence where appropriate and through the strengthening of longterm relationships through their legal recognition not only for heterosexuals but for Gay men and Lesbians. The best way to deal with AIDS is to prevent further infections but also to insist on adequate funding for proper care for those who are already infected and more funding for more successful treatments for AIDS. Please, please be safe, hdp those still in need and remember those whom we have lost. -Tom Neal �Accused Killer of Gay Soldier To Stand Trial FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) - An Army private charged with premeditated murder in the. beating death of afellow Fort Campbell soldier will stand trial at a general court-martial, the Army said Sept. 24th. The charge against Pvt. Calvin N. Glover was referred to court-martial by Maj. Gen. Robert T. Clark, Fort Campbell’ s commanding gelleral. Clark reviewed an iiiv~tigative hearing he~’d in August for Glovet and rexx:ived recommendations from the investigating officer, brigade commander and staffjudge advocate. The hearing was similar to a civilian grand jury investigation. Glover, of Sulphur, Okla.,is charged in the death of Pfc. Ban-y L. ,Winchell, of Kansas City, Me. No date has been set for G10ver’s courtmartial, which will be open to the public. The courtmartial is scheduled to be at Fort Campbell. According to Army investigators, the 21-year-old Winchell w as beaten with a baseball bat in his barracks on July 5 and died the following day at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn. Gay civil-rights advocates say anti-Gay sentiment m,ay have been behind, or at least contributed to, me ldlling. Winehell was perceived as Gay by some soldiers in his mlit and friends contend he was beginning to explore his homosexuality when he Another investigative hearing was held several weeks ago for Spec. Justin R. Fisher, who is accused of being an accomplice in Winchell’s death. Fisher, of Lincoln, Neb., is accused of .encouraging Glover in the attack and lying to Army ii~qestigators about his iiavolvement. No decision has been made yet on whether Fisher’s case should proceed to a courtmartial, an Army official added. Both Glover and Fisher are being held at Fort Knox. Gay Priest Resigns NEWARK,N.J. (Ap)- A Gaypriest whose ordination divided the Episcopal church has left the parish where he ministered for six years, blaming the controversy that surroundedhim. Rev. Barry Stopfel said the furor strained his relationship with his partner, and preached his last sermon at St. George’ s Church in Maplewood at the end of September. "My ministry has not been a typical one," Stopfel told The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J. in a story published recently. "It has been deeply gratifying but very stressful, and it has taken its toll on me and our marriage." When Stopfel was ordained as a deacon in 1990, conservative Episcopal bishops filed heresy charges against Newark Bishop Walter Righter. Righter’s trial was averted, but a church court in 1996 ruled that church doctrine does not explicitly bar the ordination of practicing homosexuals. The division, however, remained between the church’s conservative and liberal factions. Stopfel, 51, and his partner are moving to a 25-acre farm in an Amish area of Pennsylvania, where he said he will write a book. Methodist Minister Faces 2nd Church Trial OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -The Rev. Jimmy Creech, who faces another church trial for performing a Gay union ceremony, said the church law against such ceremonies amounts to institutional bigotry against Gay Christians. Reached at his Raleigh, N.C., home, Creech said he was disappointed but not surprised with.a church committee’s deci~i0n ordering him to stand trial. Nebraska United Methodist Church Bishop Joel Martinez announced thfit the former Nebraska minister will stand trial for Officiating a Chapel Hill, N.C. ceremony for two meninApril. A March 1998 church trial cleared Creech of violating church law for a similar 1997 ceremony involving two women. At least two complaints were filed as a result of the April ceremony. Atissuein Creech’s 1998 trial was whether the church’ s ban on same-sex unionswas a pastoral guideline or church law. The church has since established the ban is church law. Creech said the trial will be "a detriment to the church." "It’s a waste of time and money. The trial is an act of violence against Lesbians, Gays and bisexual people," Creech said. While Creech said he admits he violated the church law by performing the Chapel Hill ceremony, the immorality of this law makes him innocent of violating the order.and discipline of his denomination, of which he is accused. "I think the law itself is a violation of the highest ethical standards of the United Methodist Church," Creech said. Creech said the church’ s position on Gay unions is comparable to racism. "How can such an encumbered church witness to the grace bf God?" he asked. Martinez’s assistant, Rev. Mel Luetchens, said Martinez will .appoint another bishop as presiding authority for the case. A jury of 13 ministers will [ecide Creech" s fate. Ministers will lead the defense and the prosecution. The trial likely will be in Nebraska in the next couple of months,-Luetchens said. If convicted Creech faces a wide range of possible )unishments, including dismissal from the United Methodist clergy. Creech is on voluntary leave of absence after. Martinez declined to reappoint him pastor of Omah.a’ s First United Methodist Church after the earher controversy. He remains part of the Nebraska conference and is answerable to Martinez. Kelly Kirby, CPA, PC Certified Public Accountant a professional corporation 747-5466 402i S.Ha~vard, sifite 2.10~-T~llsa 74135 MCC-United forme.rly Family of Faith & Greater Tulsa MCC Vermont Judge Judged .Joined as one body of believers. Come celebrate with us. By His Wife’s Vote 1623 North Maplewood, 838-1715 MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - A group opposed to same-sex marriage; "Take it to the People," says a V ermont Supreme Courtjustice mightnot be impartial as he reviews a pending case. "Take it to the People" says the wife of Justice John Dooley voted in June as a member of the Governor’s Commission on Women to give an award to the three same-sex couples who are challengxn.g Vermont marriage law. Sandra Dooley’s vote raises questions about whether the justice is impartial in the case now before the Vermont Supreme Court, said Ruth Charlesworth of Burlington, a member of the antimarriage group. "I think it is outrageous that the wife of the Supreme Court jusdce should come out (with a public stand) when this issue isn’t yet decided," Charlesworth said. ’‘This isn’t fair to the citizens of Vermont." The court is considering a law suit seeking to overtmal the state’s refusal to issue marriage licenses to samesex couples. Despite its concerns, ’’Take it to the People" hasn’t formally requested that Justice Dooley disqualify himself from the case. Judith Sutphen, executive director of the Governor’ s Commission on Women, said Sandra Dooley has been on the commission for 15 years. The organization has supported allowing same-sex couples to marry since. 1996 - before the lawsuit brought by two Gay men and four Lesbian women was appealed_ to the Supreme Court, Sutphen said. Commissioners have the right to take independent votes on issues, Sutphen said. "A wife has a right to vote as she chooses, as does a husband," she said. "The votes of one spouse don’t necessarily reflect the . judgment or opinion of the other spouse." "Take it to the People" argues that rules of judicial ¯ conduct sayjudges should disqualify themselves when their spouses have interests that could be substantially : affected by the proceeding. The lawyers at the office ." of the attorney general who are defending the state’s mamage lawweren’t available to comment. -" Beth Robinson, an attorney representing the three : couples in the Supreme Court appeal, said she felt confident the deliberations would be fair. "We have : no reason to question Jusdce Dooley’s ability to ~ impartially judge this case on its legal merits," : Robinson said. "Justice Dooley and his wife are two ¯ different people with two different jobs to do." Sunday Services, 11 am HOUSE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT Sun. Worship, 10:45 am, Sunday School, 9:30 am Wed. Bible Study, 7 pm 3210b S. Norwood, Info: 224-4754, Chris or Sharon Sandra Hill M.s. Licensed Professional & National Certified Counselor, Certified Hypnotherapist Psychotherapy & Clinical Consultation After Hours Appointments Available 2865 E. 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Jamestown Avenue (918) 749-8833 Rev. Steve Colladay, Minister Jay Brause and Gene Dugan had claimed in their lawsuit that it was discriminatory to not allow samesex couples the same health insurance and other benefits that married and unmarried heterosexual couples enjoy. It was their lawsuit that spurred the pbtition drive that put the same-sex marriage amendment before voters last November. Bob Wagstaff, the lawyer representing the two men, says the case will be appealed to the state Supreme Court. 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The registry would allow domestic partners - two unmarried people age 18 or older who live togetherto document that relationship. Gay couples cannot marry under Oregon law, which recognizes marriage as the union of a manand a woman. "I believe it is appropriate that AglJland, as a caring community, should lead the way," said Neil Sechan, speaking for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Political Caucus of Southern Oregon. The local chapter of Parents, Family and Friends of Lesbians and Gays are also backing the proposed registry. Mayor Cathy Shaw said she believes a registry would have limited effect on unmarried couples, whether heterosexual or same-sex. "I would be incredibly proud to be mayor of a community that provides this service," she said recendy. "I am a great believer in the institution of marriage... I understand why this community is asking us to do this -.how importantit.is to be able to celebrate in an official way your commitment to another person.’" Rosemary Dunn Dalton, also speaking for the caucus, said a registry would let unmarried couples establishrelationships for purposes of visitation rights in hospitals and other institutions. She said a registry would provide proof of partnership for businesses offering benefits to domestic partners. The Oregon Court of Appeals decided last year that if local governments offer benefits to domestic partners, they cannot deny benefits to same-sex couples because of the constitutional guarantee of equal protection. The court did not nile on Oregon’s legal definition of marriage. Ashland is among the local governments that have extended benefits to same-sex couples to comply with the ruling. A proposed ballot measure, to write the definition of marriage into the state constitution and bar benefits to unmarried couples, died in the 1999 Legislature. Albuquerque To Vote Housekeeping & Gardening Service Contact Patti on: (918) 582 8460 POB 3150, Tulsa, OK; 74101 OPENARMS, OPENMINDS, OPENHEARTS Saint Aidan Saint Dunstan 4045 N. Cincinnati. 425-7882 5635 East 71st, 492-7140 Saint John Trinity 4200 S. Atlanta Place. 742-7381 501 S. Cincinnati. 582-4128 The Episcopal Church Welcomes You On Discrimination Ban ALBUQUERQUE (AP) - Lillian Mueller says she Gays in Albuquerque have lost their jobs and been denied housing because of their sexual orientation. Mueller, the mother of a Gay son and president of the local chapter of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, has formed a new group called The Campaign for Human Rights. The group’s purpose is to mobilize support for a proposed amendment to the Albuquerque city charter that would add sexual orientation and mental disability to the antidiscrimination section. The issue will be on the Oct. 5 municipal election ballot. The charter now bans discrimination based on race, religion, sex and national origin. "It’s not a question of special rights," she said. "It’s a question of equal rights.’" But the Christian Coalition of New Mexico strongly opposes the charter amendment because it believes "the Gay lifestyle" is wrong. Mark Burton, Christian Coalition executive director, said his group will alert people in voters guides that go to about 300 churches. "It’s not a behavior that we want to have a nondiscrimination policy for," he said. "It’s a health haTard. It spreads AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases, so there’s no reason to endorse a behavior that’s dangerous and hazardous." Albuquerque added a human rights section to its charter in the early 1970s. The state Legislature in March rejected a bill that would have outlawed discrimination based on sexual orientation. It was the "third time such a measure was killed in the House. The bill would have expanded the state’s Human Rights Act to cover sexual orientation, malting it il!egal’to discriminate on that basis in matters of empld’yment, housing, credit, public-accommodations and’union membership. Eleven states and more than 170 local governments include sexual orientation in their nondiscrimination statutes, supporters Of the bill say. The cify of Albuquerque bars Such discrimination against its employees and when providing public services. Alleged Killers of Gay Men Must Stand Trial REDDING, Calif. (AP) - Two brothers accused of murdering a Gay couple must stand trial and may face the death penalty if convicted, Shasta County Superior Court Judge James Ruggiero has ruled. Benjamin M. Williams, 31, and James T. Williams, 29, will each be tried on two counts of murder and related charges. The brothers are accused of killing Gary Matson, 50, and Winfield Scott Mowder, 40, in July. They are also suspects in June arson fires that caused more than $1 million in damage to three Sacramento-area synagogues. Matson and Mowder were found shot to death in their bed July 1 in rural Happy Valley, about 165 miles north of Sacramento. The Williams brothers, being held without bail, have pleaded innocent to first-degree murder and four robbery, burglary and auto theft charges. The judge ruled that prosecutors can seek the death penalty, a decision that hasn’t been made. Prep School Attacker Free Until Trial GREENFIELD, Mass. (AP) - A Tennessee youth accused of using a knife to cut anti-Gay slur into the back of a fellow prep school student can continue college classes while awaiting trial, a judge said. Matthew Rogers, 20, of Franklin, Tenn., pleaded to charges of assault with a dangerous weapon. Franklin Superior Court Judge Lawrence Wemick continued bail at $10,000 cash or $50,000 bond on condition Rogers live with his parents or at the University of Mississippi where he is taking classes. Before his arrest, Rogers had held an appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy. Rogers and another student at the Northfield Mount Hermon School, Jonathan Shapiro, 18, of Keene, N.H., were initially charged in Greenfield District Court following the May 27 incident. The two are accused of slashing the word "HOMO" in shallow cuts on the back of a 17-year-old student during a dispute over music. Authorities said no one actually believed the victim was Gay. The argument arose over the rock band Queen and the characterization of its music as "Gay." Promoters of Community Center To Respond ELK CITY, Idaho (AP) - Promoters of a community education and performing ~ center expect to respond to charges by critics of the ~roposed c~nter who fear it could be used by homosexuals and become a place where teen-age girls get abortions. Plans to build the center have created division in the town of about 400 in remote Idaho County. Objections to the center range from locating it on school property to the fear homosexuals will use it to stage performances and teen-age girls getting abortions there. Critics have said since the center would be on public land there could not be restrictions placed on who uses it. �New AIDS Drug SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A medicine developed in North Carolina that blocks the AIDS virus from getting inside cells is showing promise among patients who fail to respond to standard AIDS drugs. The medicine, code-named T-20, is still in early-stage testing, but researchers said it could offer a reprieve for those who have run out of options. "It looks quite good," said Dr. Michael Saag of the University of Alabama. "We are looking at something with a.totally different method of. action. It is an important, potent new option." T~20 was discovered at Duke University. It is being developed by Hoffmatm-La Roche Inc. and Trimeris Inc., a small biotech company in Durham, N.C. Thedrug is the furthest along of a new ¯ body’s immune system may be able to ¯ k~p I-HV in check without completely eliminating it. : Satcher Looks at :¯ Kids’ Health : ROBINSVILLE, Miss. (AP) - U.S. ¯ SurgeonGeneralDavidSatcherhasissued ¯ ¯ : ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ a warning about the health of America’s children. Satcher, speaking to a health association recently in Tunica County, said children are growing fatter, lazier, more sexually active and increasingly addicted to toxic substances. Satcher, former president of Meharry Medical College in Nashville, .Tenn., -spoke tO 400 public health care workers ¯ and advocates at the annual meeting of the ¯ Mississippi Public Health Association. Regarding the disparity in health care, ¯ Satcher said that in the last 10 years class of AIDS medicines called fusion ¯ minorities, women and children have inhibitors. They work by thwarting the : fallen behind in many areas. virus’s ability to fuse with blood cells and Satcher said progress has been made in ¯ insert their genetic material into them. ¯ dealing with infectious diseases and there However, the treatment has one large ¯ has been a decrease in the number of drawback compared with other AIDS ¯ cancer cases, injury-related deaths and drugs: Instead of being a pill, it must be ¯ adult smokers. However, the munber of injected twice daily. Nev~rtbeless, Saag : teen-age smokers has risen_rapidly, Satcher said patients in advanced stages of AIDS ¯ said. are willing to give themselves shots, and Obesity has become a virtual epidemic they seem to tolerate the drug well. ¯ among both adults and children, Satcher The results were reported by Dr. Jay said. The current generation of children Lalezari of Quest Clinical Research in ¯ and teen-agers is the most inactive the ¯ S an Francis co at a meeting of the.,Aga,erican country has ever had. Society for Microbiology. One of the results of that inactivity has Other AIDS drugs work principally by ¯ been an increase in Type 2 diabetes in thwarting the virus’s ability to stitch its ¯ children. In the past, physicians were told genetic material into cells it has invaded never to look for Type 2 in individuals or by blocking its ability to disperse mature ¯ - under 40 years old, Satcher said. Now, the copies of itself. disease is occurring in children under the Doctors gave T-20 to 55 people who age of 10. Emphasis must be placed on had high levels of the AIDS virus despite physical activity and on diet, Satcher said. trying many different combinations of The American diet consists mainiy of fats AIDS medicines. While these standard and sugars, he said. In one year, the average drugs have proved to be life savers for American will consume 156 pounds of many with AIDS, they do not work for all added sugar. patients. We need to promote healthy lifestyles, Doctors administered T-20 in Satcher said. "We need to promote combination with other drugs, even though physical activities. We need to promote the patients’ HIV was resistant to the nutrition and avoidance of toxins like older medicines. After four months of tobacco, alcohol and illicit drugs. We treatment, virus levels fell significantly in need to promote responsible sexual 33 of the volunteers. In 20 of them, the behavior." virus fell to levels too low to be measured. 40% of college students and 30% of Saag cautioned that the treatment is high school students are binge dri .nking, unlikely to work forever. But he said Satcher said. That has contributed to an doctors hope it will dday rebound of the increase m automobile accidents and virus for perhaps-a year. irresponsible ~exual behavior. T-20 is part of the protein that makes up "We need to talk more with our children the AIDS virus’ outer coat. Ordinarily it about what it means to be s exuall y activ e ," comes into play with another peptide- TSatcher said. "When we don’ t teach sex in 21 - as the AIDS vinm grabs onto blood the schools, at home and in the churches, ¯ cells and prepares to enter them. Scientists ¯ but they do teach it out on the streets or ¯ found that flooding the body with extra after school when there are no adults copies of T-20 gums up this attachment ¯ around, our children aren’t going to process, ¯ become responsible, sexual adults." Another AIDS study released at the ¯ His warning was directed not just to meeting found that treatment very early in teen-agers, but to all people. Every day, the course of an AIDS infection does not 16,000 people become infected with HIV, wipe out the virus entirely, as some had ¯ the virus that causes AIDS. In the years hoped. : since the disease’s discovery, HIV has Dr. Martin Markowitz of the Aaron ¯ infected 50 million people and resultedin Diamond AIDS Research Center in New 14 million AIDS-related deaths. York City reported on four patients who ¯ "In my opinion AIDS is the worst started treatment within seyen to 90 days : epidemic since the plague of the 14th of catching HIV. All signs of their virus : century or maybe the influenza epidemic disappeared, and they chose to stop therapy ," of 1918," Satcher said. "AIDS is after three years: The virus reappeared within two to three weeks, One patient went back on treatment, but the three others stayed off. After shooting up, their virus levds fell again to low but detectable levds. Researchers said the results raise the possibility that in such situations, the : ¯ : : ¯ ¯ increasingly a disease o,,f people of color, women and the young. African Americans account for almost 50% of new cases; Hispanics, 20%; and women, 25%. Not enough is being done to prevent the disease, Satcher said, even though people know how to stop the ¯ spread. Are You Gay or Bisexual? 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Peoria, Brookside 712-1400 awarded to an organization whose accomplishments include bringing health care to the Maasai and Turkana, two of Africa’s nomadic tribes. The Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize, awarded to the African Medical and Research Foundation, will give the organization funds it needs for additional work in AIDS and malaria prevention. It will also help pay to train more health care workers. ’q’his million will go along way and it will allow us to keep many projects afloat," saidJohn R. Batten, director of the Nairobi, Kenya-based AMREF, who accepted the prize at a ceremony in New York on Tuesday. Startedin 1957 as aprogram that helped needy Africans get specialized medical care- particularly reconstructive surgery - AMREF now provides health care services to 21 African countries. Programs are run from offices in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and South Africa. This year’s budget was $19 million. Over the years, AMREF built a twoway radio network that boosted hospital communications in East Africa, spearheaded the use of insecticide-treated mosquito nets to reduce childhood malaria deaths and performed more than 40,000 operations. It also has trained thousands of health care workers and specialists and brought services to the most remote corners of Africa, including to tribes that roam the continent. What sets AMREF apart from most international non-governmental organizations is that more than 95% of its employees are Africans. ’q’he approach we use in tackling all of theseproblems is community-based," said Peter Muchiri Ngatia, director for AMREF’s Uganda office. "Some prdl~lems "in A~r~ca, such as AIDS and HIV, areaggravated by cultural practices." Much of the prize, which will be spent over three years, will be directed at two of Africa’s biggest killers - AIDS and malaria. "AMREF’s success in building an African-led and African-run health care system that is accessible to all provides a strong model for aid agencies around the world," said Barron Hilton, chairman of Hilton Hotels Corp. and a board member of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. AMREF was selected out of 225 nominations made by members of the international community, including diplomats, foundation leaders and academics. Once nominations are made, the Hilton foundation researches the organization and performs On-site visits. After that, selections go to an independent international jury. Last year, Medecins Sans Frontieres, or Doctors Without Borders - the largest independent international medical aid organization - won the prize. DETROIT (AP) - Federal AIDS czar S andy Thurman and Mayor Dennis Archer led thousands of walkers in a fund-raising event for programs that help treat people infected with the deadly disease. The Detroit event was one of 12 statewide sponsored by AIDS Walk Michigan. "Walk on walkers!" Thurman shouted to cheering participants at Hart Haza, where the 3.1-mile walk began and ca_rex!.. Many held helium balloons and signs with messages such as "AIDS has many faces." Despite the cheery atmosphere and warm sunshine, Thurman brought a chilly message about the disease, which she said will have infected 100 million people worldwide by 2005. "We’re at the beginning of an epidemic, not the end of an epidemic, with no vaccine, no cure," she told reporters before the walk began. "It’s not going to be over next week. It’s not going to be over in 10 years. It’s probably not going to be over in my lifetime.’" A sign of hope is the success of antiAIDS drugs that are keeping thousands of people infected with the HIV virus free from symptoms. But in many Third World natxon~, including much of AIDSdecimated Africa, the medicines remain unaffordable and the public health system inadequate, she said. This is the second year of a coordinated AIDS Walk Michigan. Last year, 10 walks statewide raised $2~0,000, This year, walks also tookplace Sunday in Ann Arbor, BerrienCounty, Flint, Grand Rapids, Holland-Saugatuck, Kalamazoo, Lansing, Muskegon, Port Huron, Saginaw-Midland-Bay City and Traverse City. But organizers sdid/he ~)etro’it event was particularly important because of the high rate of AIDS in the city. With about 10% of the state’s population, Detroit has nearly half of the reported AIDS cases, they said. "It’s the No. 1 killer of young AfricanAmerican males and the No. 2 killer of young black females," said Detroit Episcopal Bishop R. Stewart Wood Jr. as he set out on the walk. Wood’s diocese, which has 35,000 members from Lansing to the Ohio line, has not been immune from the effects of AIDS. "Every one of our congregations has been touched by AIDS - members or loved-ones who have the disease. We’ve lost two of our clergy to AIDS," he said. Teresa and Bill Snell came in from Wayne County’s Redford Township to walk in this year’s walk, taking turns pushing 15-month-olddaughter Courtney in a three-wheeled jogger’s stroller. They raised a total of $49, most in pledges of $2 to $3, for their part in the walk. The 20 walkers from Mrs. Shell’s agency, the Detroit Hispanic Development Corp., raised $1,500 for. the fight, against AIDS. "It affects so many people and families around you," she said. "I don’t know anyone who has died,.of AIDS, but I do know that it is something that affects ¯¯ FRANKFORT, Ky~ (AP):-, The General Assembly could be asked to require all kinds of people," her husband said. "It’s something that’s got to be stopped." : doctors treating people infected with the : virus that causes AIDS to report them by ¯ name. It is the only way to ensure that : federal money for AIDS treatment and " program keeps flowing, a task force’s ~ reasoning goes. NEW YORK (AP) - The world’s largest : "The practicality is this," Dr. Anna humanitarian prize - $1 million - was ¯ Huang, see Health, p. 11 ¯ Feds Pushingf0r : Name"Reporting Award Given to African Groups �by James Christjohn, entertainment Queen ¯ (ironic, given his criticism only moments before of the "cinematic moments"). The By the time you read this, the film will ¯ be gone (thanks to Woodland Hills Cinema ¯ boys split, our hero deciding against a futurebased on deceptionand hiding with for bringing it to us!), but as it will be a great stocking stuffer - no catty remarks, : one so.uncomfortable with himself. To me, that was a happy ending - he please - I will review it for your reading ¯ pleasure anyway. And since I’ve never : was strong enough to standup for what he believed, both in a public worried about timeliness and personal sense, and before, why start now? And of course, no wasn’t willing to "settle" "Get Real" was a column written by for less. wonderful film about a 16 Yes, the sappy ending year old Gay boy in yours truly would my friend proposed would England, and the process have been ok, and his be complete of "coming out" - he runs rationale was that so many into an older boy at his without a mowes with Gay school, and they find characters end up with mention of themselves in "love", or depressing endings that what seems to be love. "You Know Who." he’d have liked to have Only one problem: The And if you seen an alternate ending older boy is ashamed of where both come out and his Gayness, and wants don’t know, then live happily ever after. everything kept "hushYeah, maybe it. would you’ve not been hush." have been nice, but I Needless to say, many reading this applaud the author and poignant moments ensue, producer’s strength to seetion regularly, all of which rang true for stick with this ending. me and the other person now have you? And to me, it was a viewing the film with me. happy ending of sorts. All Much was true to life, ¯ depends on perspective, I suppose. At any although much of it was kind of "what if I had come out at 16 instead of 21" ¯¯ rate, The activg was top-notch, the characters were real, and it is definitely a speculation for me. I was a late bloomer, ¯ film destined to be at the top of my DVD what can I say? Speaks a lot for "the ¯ wish list." environment. "Beauty and the Beast" ended its run on At any rate, I found the film absorbing :¯ aninterestingnot.e.Abeautifulproduction, and realistic, in many aspects. As my friend pointed out, "Yes, but there were so ¯ albeit with some technieal difficulties (the. many’cinematic moments.’ "My response : first week’s shows were in reality was, "yes -and ? - life is made of : "previews", in which technical errors are ’cinematic moments.’ Sometimes we’re : more or less expected and worked out) bad timing on the lighting, lucky enough to havelots of them." I ¯¯ such as ° ’ " ° pointed out several ’cinematic moments’ ¯ reveahngcharacter s disappearances"to be actors running in and out oflights when that we shared that he’d forgotten, and he ¯ it should be dark, beasts transforming into conceded the point. He also took umbrage with the ending, : princes and getting stuck in midwhichwas realistic. (Warning: Don’tread ’¯ transformation by malfunctioning "magic" ("this spell canceled due to beyond this point to the next paragraph if ¯ technical difficulties") and mysterious you haven’t seen it and don’t want it ¯ illnesses taking out cast members. spoiled) see Beast, p. 14 He wanted a more romantic ending ". ¯ Tea, who squeezed 240 pounds into a by John Curran ATLANTIC CITY - The flowers and : sequined black cocktail dress and operadime-store crown were real. Nearly " length black gloves. Down the runway ¯ everything else was fake, from the ¯ went Miss Tea, pushing acartloaded with goodies and warbling a versionofthe title eyelashes to the cleavage to the tip-synched : song from the musical "Cabaret." "Life is songs. ¯ abigb,uf,fet, myfriend. Socometothebig Welcome to Atlantic City’ s other beauty pageant, the one for men dressed in drag. ¯ buffet, sang Miss Tea. Then there was Miss Tenee, a 6-foot-3 Seven blocks and a world away from the stage where Miss America 2000 was : inch, 205-pounder, who began a talent crowned, the Miss’d America Pageant ¯¯ segment in a purple Afro wig and brown velour dress. That soon disappeared, lampooned its famous older sister with a raucous, gender-bending spoof funny : revealing a silk chemise. Miss Tenee won : the crown, was given a dozen roses and enough to bust a girdle. Held annually on the night after Miss ¯¯ headeddown the bulb-adorned runway as the crowd sang a reworked version of America’s crowning, Miss’d America provides a sarcastic antidote to the apple- ". "There She Is," the Miss Americastandard. ¯ The capacity 600-person crowd was a pie sincerity of the real pageant. The ¯ mix of Gay and straight, casino workers swimsuit competition? A display of chunky thighs and muscular arms. The ¯ and local politicians, Miss America Pageant hairstylists and female musical production numbers? Over-the¯ impersonators. , top atrocious. The evening wear contest? Not that there wasn t some authenticity Outright hysterical. ¯ to the proceedings. Miss America 1998 The only serious thing Sunday was the cause: Theeventraisedmorethan $15,000 : Kate Shindle, who spent her reign for support programs run by the South ¯ promoting AIDS advocacy and needle Jersey AIDS Alliance. "It’s the wildest : exchanges, sang "My Man" during the show this side of the Boardwalk," said : show. "As far as I’m concerned, what’s Bill Mattel, the alliance’s former chief : any pageant without a former Miss ¯ Whatever singing StreisandT’ she said. executive. Wild, indeed. There was Miss Sallotta by the Helmerich Foundation October 16, 22 & 24 Tulsa Perf:oming Arts Act Now! 587-4811 596-7111 for tickets. 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"In by George Bria ¯ essence, thesemuscles act as"guy wires," POUND RIDGE, N.Y. (AP) - Gardening ¯ to keep your baekmhne. She prescn a series of abdominal strengthening ~njoys suchaserenereputation that getting njure~ at it seems almost laughable: Yet : an overzealous green thumb can also mean ¯ exercises and also exercises to condition other muscles related to the back. a sore elbow. : If, in spite of all this, back spasm The casualty hsts are. swelled, of course, suddenly strikes, Pearlman by the power eqmpment "Lets get says stop your garden work ix~juries oaten stiffered through immediately, head for the ¯ in’attention or failure to wear down to earth house and lie down on an ice ,:protective gear~ But. what we’re pack for 20 minutes. That’s and be real;’ talking about here is soreness, a beginner. Then do some Pearlman says, just strains and sprains. exercises and maybe take a A common ailment is pain reliever. Repeat the "gardening is tendonitis. You can get tennis sequence four or five tames elbow just pulling weeds, the an active, during the first day. In two or repetitive squeezing motion three days you should be contact "sport." inciting inflzmmation. she says, and if not, Back muscle spasm is "When is the better, think of going to a doctor. another trauma that threatens last time you Pearlman prescribes a the wheelbarrow lifter or the variety of push-ups and person who bends abruptly or sat still in your weight-lifting exercises to improperly to perform some -strengthen arms. One. way to garden?" task in flower bed or vegetable strengthen hands, she says, is patch. Sometimes it just - Barbara repetitive squeezing of a happens without an easily semisoft rubber ball.. Aside Pearlman pinpointed cause. from strengthening exercises, Having suffered both these ailments from my gardening, I can testify : knee fitness involves proper squatting in they’re just as painful as if you got them " the garden, Pearlman says. This means keeping your heels flat, otherwise far on the tennis court, as I did, or from some ° : much pressure is placed on your knees." other sport or at work. To add to potential : "Knowing how to bend over andhow to miseries, a bad elbow you got in tennis ¯ might heal only to flare up again in the ¯ lift an object (or yourself) the correct way is crucial to gardening," Pearlman says. garden. Tendonitis can hit the shoulder, too, and often does. There are conditioning : ’The chance of straining your back is far : greater if youneglect to bend your knees." exercises you can do, and probably should ¯ When carrying things, she says, "you do, to prevent injuries, but in my ¯ should use the strongest and largest joints experience inflanu~tory ailments like and muscles (those in your arms) for the tendonitis sometimes seem to happen . " job to avoid direct pressure on your willy-nilly. ¯ smallestjointsandweakestmuscles (those One day you’re fine after w.eedigg an,d. : in your hands and fingers.)" another day you develop pain tlaat doesn t "There is a right way and a wrong way go away. The same thing happens to a ¯¯ pitcher or a hard-serving teums player ¯ to move when you garden and malting th,e, right moves makes good garden sense,’ despite conditioning. Proven therapies, ". Pearlman says. "It’s as simple as that." involving drugs, exercises or even surgery, exist to heal such injuries but preventing : them from happening in the first place is : something else. Nevertheless, suggestions exist, and a good book has just come out aimed at conditioning you to minimize the chances of getting hurt while gardening. "Gardener"s Fitness" by Barbara Pearlman (Taylor Publishing Co., $12.95, ¯ JOHANNESBURG, South Mrica (AP)¯ A provincial blood donor service has paperback), a Manhattan fitness expert ¯ and a gardener, prescribes exercises, ¯ started turning away black blood donors between 18 and 35 years because of the proper posture and attire and relaxation : high risk of infection from AIDS and teclmiques. The 151-page book contains easy-to-follow instructions and helpful ¯ other diseases, E-TV reported in : September. illustrations. ¯ Eric Saunderson, head of the Natal "Lets get down to earth and be real," BloodTransfusion Service, confirmed that Pearlman says, "gardening is an active, the agency is importing blood from contact "sport." "When is the last time Holland and the Western Cape, a province you sat still in your garden?" she asks, "If with a lower rate of HIV infections. you’re not hauling heavy rocks, you’re "Our responsibility is to the patient, and ¯ pushing a wheelbarrow, toting tools, ¯ it’s the right of every patient to have the dragging the hose, or whacking weeds. ¯ You’re in perpetual motion, unless of ¯ safest blood possible," Saund~rson said course your idea of gardening is planting ¯ in the television interview. Ronald Louw, a spokesman from the :apot of ~etunias or p~msies on your paso?’ ¯ Gay and Lesbian Coalition, denounced Pearlman identifies tlie body parts mat the practice of apartheid blood collection. work hardest in the garden as arms,: ,,l~ees, ¯ ’q’his is discrimination," he said. hands "and, abov,~ all, your back,. 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"It’s gender real man - llke comedian’s portrayal of straight-jacketing," Pollack the ones in the schlepping through a mundane "He’s stuck in a job that’s said. ’q~hese boys believe that media - they job. going nowhere and the whole in order to be a real man- like basis (of the show) is that he is the ones in the media - they have to be ¯ . . a loser," Ms. Salisbury have to be violent and violent and said. "That tells boys that the aggressive."About 74% of the only place to be is at the top. characters and sports figures aggressive." Otherwise, you’re to be viewed by the participants laughed at." committed brutal or defiant - William Michael J. Gerson, a acts or demonstrated antipsychologist and lecturer at social behavior such as Pollack Loyola Marymount ridiculing or lying, Pollack University, criticized Children Now for said. The study was released at the start of the ¯¯ drawing what he characterized as an elementary conclusion about the effects group’ s anntml conference in Los Angeles. Children Now, an independent advocacy ¯ of media violence on young people. group for children in Oakland, plans to ¯ "Researchers can underestimate the ability of children to make distinctions between use the findings to call on entertainment ¯ fantasy andreality,"Gerson said.’~A child executives to promote a more compassionate image of men, said Lois ¯ may s~oot his fingers like a gun, but he doesn t have to develop a killer mentality Salisbury, president of the organization. According to Ms. Salisbury, the ¯ or wish to be destructive." i-iowever, kickboxing crimefighter on "Walker, ¯¯ Gerson said Children Now was correct in proposing that the blending of sex and Texas Ranger" on CBS and the ¯ violence can confuse adolescents who sensationalized crashes and arrests on Fox’s "World’s Wildest Police Videos" ¯ should instead associate gentleness with were among the worst for reinforcing ¯ intimacy. "I do object to movies where the negativ e stereotypes of authoritativemen. ¯ girl and the guy get into the back seat of ¯ the car and a Miler pops out and cuts them "They just glorify heavy-handed tactics," ¯ in half with a chain saw," Gerson said. she said. She also speculated that professional ¯ "That can cause problems." wrestling’s blend of scantily dad women Kentucky, said states should challenge the federal agencies. "It’s a terrible thing that we have to sacrifice so much privacy in the name of money," Vessels said. a University of Louisville assistant medical An AIDS patient said the stigma of the professor, said: without federal money, disease would drive many people only people with insurance will have underground. "For the fear of reporting access to the relatively few doctors with their names, they simply will not go get experience in AIDS treatment. "I think we’re at a point the legislation tested," Michael Seidler of Louisville needs to be considered," Huang said during testified. The state keepsrecords of AIDS patients a public hearing by the legislature’s Task Force on HIV/AIDS Prevention, Services " by name, but not of people infected with and Financing. " ttIV..For that reason, the state’ s reports of Thirty-three states require people ! HIV infection are considered suspect by infected with HIV, the human ¯ federal record keepers at the Centers for immundeficiency virus, to be reported by " Disease Control. Mollie’Adkins, of the name. The federal government is : Kentucky Department for Public Health, pressuring all other states, including ¯ said name reporting is the most reliable Kentucky, to follow suit. Those that balk ¯ way yet found to ensure cases are not could lose federal funding for AIDS, the " duplicated and statistics are not inflated. task force says in a report. ." Names would he maintained, in a state The recommendation brought a fierce ¯ database, not passed along to the CDC. response about privacy- even among task " The task force also says the legislature force members - at the public hearing. "I " should restrict access to the information call it blackmail," said Barry .Norris, a ," and enact stiff penalties for breaches. Seidler, the AIDS patient, said that was task force member from Louisville. But, ¯ Norris asked, what choice does Kentucky " wishful thinking. Computer hackers got 9 ° into Florida’s HIV-test database, he said. have. Do we just not take the money... ¯ Do we make a principled stand?" Jeff ." "If you can guarantee somethin g like that’ s Vessels, executive director of the ¯ not going to happen..." Seidler said, "by American Civil Liberties Union in " all means go out and get tested yourselves." �Red Rock Tulsa ~ substance use issues than are heterosexual by Esther Rothblum, Ph.D. ¯ women. Oneofthe questionsinthesurvey Do Lesbians drink more alcohol than is "Have you ever wondered if you had a heterosexual women? In the not-toodrinking problem," and 47% distant past, the Lesbian bar of Lesbians answered "yes" to was one of the only places " ~ome d the this item compared with only where Lesbians could go to early studies 14% of the heterosexual meet other women. On the women. This finding again other hand, many Lesbian bars su~,rested that hints at heavy alcohol use in h~iVe Closed down, indicating the past on the part of Lesbians. P.erhaps that Lesbians -are up-to onle~thlrdFinally, there was a trend for drinking l~ss and have otherd Lesbians older Lesbians to report more places to socialize, were serious drinking, and these are the To find out more about Lesbians who were adults Lesbians and alcohol-use, I alcohol during earlier times when interviewed Dr. Tonda Hughe~ abusers~~ drinking was more part of the in the Department of Nursing Lesbian commurtities. at the University of Illinois at she said, ’but Dr. Hughes is interested in Chicago. ,Some of the early often these exploring patterns of drinking studies suggested that up .to across various age groups of one third of Lesbians were researchers Lesbians. Specifically, she is serious alcohol abusers," she co||ected tbelr interested in whether older said, "but often these Lesbian~ who were adults researchers collected their data data [rom during earlier times when from Lesbians in bars. So itis Lesblans ;n drinking was more part of the not surprising that this method Lesbian cotumunities are found a large number of bars. So it’s continuing to drink heavily. Lesbians who were heavy not surprlslng She is also interested in the drinkers. I think that that is question of how Lesbians and why we have the bdief that that this their partners moderate each Lesbians are atrisk for alcohol method [ound others drinking, because abuse." research on heterosexuals Nevertheless, Dr. Hughes shows that partners’ drinking believes that Lesbians drank o[ Lesbians is a major factor in how much more than heterosexual people drink. We still know who were women in the 1960s and 70s. very little about all Ihe factors "Lower rates of drinking heavy drinkers. that increase or decrease among Lesbians now is partly Lesbians’ risk for alcohol I think that due to changes in drinking in abuse or alcohol-related the whole population, to more that is why we problems. health consciousness, and to Esther Rothblum is Probare the belld fessor the AIDS crisis, which has of Psychology at the alerted us to the risks of alcohol that Lesbians University of Vermont and and drug use," she said. She Editor of the Journal of are at r~sk [or also felt that Lesbians used to Lesbian Studies. She can be drink more during the coming alcohol abuse.’" reached at Dewey Hall, Univ. out process, in order to deal of Vermont, Burlington, VT, with social anxiety and stigma ¯ emaih esther.rothblum@uvm.edu. involved in meeting other women and coming to terms with being a Lesbian. In a study conducted in Chicago, New York City, and Minneapolis/St. Paul in the mid-1980s with more than Lesbians, of The Tulsa Worldnews story about the Lesbians overall were no more likely to report alcohol-related problems than we.re ° New Jersey ruling. Ms. Kue.lmert promised to check into the issue and to telephone heterosexual women. Only Lesbians in the 50-60 year old age range reported ¯ back the next day. TAUW enjoys significant support from more alcohol problems than did their " heterosexualcounterparts. Dr. Hughes has ¯ some of Tulsa’s most well known conductedaseries of studies withLesbians " corporations. Debbie Graham of QuikTrip and heterosextml women that focus on ° Corporation said that her organization various mental health factors, including ¯ had supported United Way for many years because it helps a vast variety of agencies alcohol use and abuse. Her results indicate that Lesbians these " but-that Quik Trip doesn’t get involved in days are no more likely to drink heavily " "the politics of individual agencies." And while Ms. Graham could not than are heterosexual women. In fact,-confirm that Quik Trip has a nonLesbians were more likely to report ¯ abstaining from alcohol altogether for the " discrimination policy which explicitly past year than were heterosexual women.." includes "sexual orientation," she noted Most of the Lesbian and-heterosexual ¯ that it is their practice not to discriminate. Quik Trip had provided promotion of womenin her sample drank alcohol at low " levels. White Lesbians, however, drank " the United Way campaign in the form of more thandid African American or Latina ¯ a printed solicitation for support on Quik Trip paper bags. Lesbians. Emily Gill of Dollar Car Rental did "Interestingly, there are more Lesbians ." who report that they are in recovery, " confirm that her company and its parent though" she added. Only 2% of." group, Dollar/Thrifty Automotive Group (DTAG) which Mr. Cappy chairs, does heterosexual women had been in treatment have an explicit non-discrimination policy for alcohol or in 12-step programs, compared with 17% of Lesbians--a large " but Ms. Gill was unable to address whether difference. This may be the result of prior ¯ any one at DTAG saw any conflict between heavy drinking among Lesbians. Or it " their internal non-discrimination policy see TA UW, p. 13 may be thht Lesbians are more aware of " and Free Confidential HIV Testing Want to get involved? Need to get tested for HIV? Walk-in Clinics Tuesday Testing, 5 -8 pm Pride Center, 1307 East 38th Wednesday Tdsting, 5-8 pm Need a Coming Out Support Group? Red Rock, 1724 East 8th Daytime appointments available. 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Nights & Meet Others in a Safe Enviroment Call for meeting times and place: 918-584-2325 GARDEN DESIGN 583- 1248 Compatibility reports . for you and your friends or lovers. 599-0717 Gay Owned, Operated & Rainbow Proud Gay Mecca of the Ozarks Beautiful Eureka Springs, Arkansas ¯ authority and influence they have within by Lamont Lindstrom, Phdg. their fzmilies and societies. Here, if you Last snmmer I went to a friend’ s fiftieth birthday p~arty.,] I think actually it was at :¯ want to be president at age 69, like Ronald Reagan you’d better pour on that black least his tbir or even fourth fiftieth ¯ hair dye. birthday. He is de_t,_e~_.ined.n_o,t to get any . Gay men may be more panicked by age older. Freezing one s agent 50 ts somewhat more mature than those of us who fixate : than most Americans. We have all heard on 30, or even 25. Another birthday boy I : bitter complaints about our agi_sm ~ a~,d lookism- and such gripes are often samy know is at 28 and holding. And my friend : justifiedbypersonal experience. (Lesbian Steve- who is 33 and gorgeous - always shaves five or six years off his age on ¯ society is,l~___ha,p_s kinder to it_s wrin.kl,ed sisters ) It s fun to read the age limitalmns those tempting messages he leaves on in classified personal ads. telephone dating, lines. Most of the lovelorn are ISO "Gay men may Welcome to America. sweet-young things. Not many Growing up around here is be more want to date those of well-. good. But growing old can be aged .and mature vintage. panicked by a problem. We all know about Many ads have upper age cutthe bittersweetness of age than most offs - commonly 30 or 35 or, birthdays. Next time you are more rarely, 40. Some seekers Americans. in a card store, have a look at are willing to date over a those nasty if cruelly funny. We have all decade’s span-five years cards that we are encourag younger to five years older heard bitter to giveanyoneunlueky enough than themselves. Many 40to have turned 40. Women complaints somethings speei-ficaldl’y complain that the onusof age request none but the 20a~out our falls most heavily on them. something... Good luck... Men, as they wrinkle, gray; agism -and More gray hair on the way for and sag, at least might bope.~o I think. lookism - and you, grow to be distinguished. Or there is the daddy niche: Women, on the other hand, such gripes are Sugar daddies,leather daddies, age into grannies and crones. bears and cubs. A few often sadly My sly friends who have yonngish personal advertisers recycled or lost a few of their justified by won’ t touch anyone blrdadays, however, don~t underneath 45 or 50. They personal seem to be waiting eagerly for want ~eir daddy. At.least there distinguished, silver-haired experience." remarns, here m .agist maturity. They, too~ would American, one specialized rather stay young and juicy. market opporUmity for mental, ,facial,,and Theexplosion of men’s hair dye, plastic financial maturity. So you can atways ouy surgery, and youthful herbal supplement a youth if you can’t have youth yourself commercials flashing daily on my Then there are the age-blind. They "go television screen suggest an increasingly bvth niri "Thevoromisetodateanyone __ ~_e s,___t. desperate age-panic among all of us, no 18 to 88, or so they say. I logged onto a 61matter our gender. vear-old’s personal page on the Internet. When I was 24, I lived on Tanna, an "Age is only a state of mind,"it said. Yeah isolated South Pacific island. Everyone right. Are you from Tanna or America? there is related to everyone. Newcomers Check out your mirror. But I’m taking - quickly receive "fictive kin" identities in notes. Those birthdays keep rolling. And order better to fit into village life. Soon next year the cake might set off the smoke after I arrived, all the kids began calling me kaha - "grandpa." I was taken aback Lamont Lindstrom. Ph.D. teaches by this. Why, back then, I had hardly any anthropology at ~he University of Tulsa? gray hair after all! On Tanna, though, as in most places on earth, ageis pr_estigio.us.. Those kids were doing me abig favor wttla that grandpa thing. My island friend Nariu, who was hardly older than me, within a the discriminatory policies of the BSA few years had started referring to himself and United Way’s failure to pledge not to (and me) as "’we old men." Nariu was discriminate. Ms. Gill promised a response ambitious and since old men ran his after consulting with others in her society, he was determined to become a organization but failed to respond by press senior citizen as soon as he could. time. American fears of aging clearly have Likewise, Jean Johnson, Bank of much to do with how years connect up America’s southwestern press with power and prestige. I sometimes ask spokesperson, pointed out that the bank, my university students when they think with its origins in San Francisco, has adulthood begins. When do you truly some of the most progressive policies, not become an adult? They tend to place this only pledging not to discriminate but also somewhere in the 20s- a few years bey.ond ¯ prowiding domestic partner benefits to their own age. Most Americans associate ¯ their employees. She added that Bank of adulthood with economic independence: ] America is one of United Way’s largest having one’s own job, paying 0n.e’s.o.wn ~ supporters on a national level. Roger bills. We see some 35-year-old still hvlng ¯ Whaley of Bank of America serves on the with mother as sadly still a little juvenile. ~ board of directors of TAUW. I also ask my youthful students for their, : The Tulsa Area United Way campaign defimtmns of nnddle-aged and old. ¯ enjoys further promotional sup.port fr,.om Answers here are more variable. (Some Tulsa area television stations. Accoromg start middle age-at 30.) Generally, though, ’. to the staffperson at KOTV, Channel 6, true oldness connects with retirement. : the stations which represent the major Once we leave the workplace for good, ~ networks and Fox all agree to do public we lose salary, power, prestige, and any ¯ service announcements. final fleeting claims to youth. People " Pat Baldwin of KTUL, Cbannel 8 who throughout most of the world can’t wait to ¯ see TA UW, p. 14 is a member get old. The older they are, the more �: is "very clear...very firm" on their ¯ corporate non-discriminationpolicy which ¯ includes "sexual orientation." Greg Gatewood, president of Tulsa The regular Belle’s father was : hospitalized during the run, and at the last ¯¯ Oklahomans for Human Rights (TOHR), was one .Gay person willing to have his matinee, folks in the audience never knew of the backstage drama going on. The : name used though he emphasized that he Beast became ill at the end of the first act ¯¯ was speaking as an individual not for TOHR. Gatewood saidhefeltUnitedWay (where he flings himself across a balcony In despair of ever being loved, and the : did a lot of good, funding for example, curtain falls). When the backstage crew ¯¯ TulsaC.A.R.E.S.andotherorganizations, and that he’d given to United Way in the revolved the set to help him down, they found the actor playing the Beast hanging : past. However, he added that he did not over the balcony - passed out cold. They ¯¯ agree with theBoy Scouts’ policy and that he’d like to see United Way open a revived him, and he decided to go on with : discussionwith theGay community about the show: ¯ the Boy Scouts, trying to f’md common However, you could never tell from the audience that anything was wrong. After ¯¯ ground. He added that he’d like to include the performance, he was whisked to the ¯ the Boy Scouts in that dialogue also. He suggested that instead of asking hospital as soon as the curtain fell. It ¯ Tulsa Area United Way to stop funding appears he may have been suffering from ¯ the Boy Scouts that TAUW should be a bleeding ulcer. The understudy went on that evening, : asked to fund an organization which and I hear he did well, despite misgivings : provides services to Tulsa’s Lesbian and on the part of some of the crew and other : .Gay communities. Gatewood emphaticast members- not to mentionhe himself! ¯ tally agreed thatTAUW shouldamendits I was sorry to see the troupe leave - they : own non-discrimination policy to include ¯ "sexual orientation." were such nice folk. A prominent member of Tulsa’s Gay October events at the Performing Arts : Center (596-7111 for tix) include Tulsa ¯¯ community, Vernon Jones, partner of the late Phil Wiley and civil rights and HIV/ Ballet’ s "Anna Karenina", Oct 1-3; Sabella ¯ AIDS issues activist, recalled that Tulsa Oct 2; The Celtic Series with Natalie McMaster, Oct 8-9; Tulsa Opera’s ¯ Area United Way also has a history of "Carmen, Oct 16-24; ATC’s Titanic :¯ racial discrimination. He remembers newspaper articles from his youth mystery, "Scotland Road", Ok 22-30; ¯ reporting on how TAUW refused to fund and The Phil’s pops concert, "Sound and ¯ agencies which served Tulsa’s Black Sorcery" Oct 29-30. I look forward to the arrival of Petula ¯¯ commtmity. Jones,likeothers appreciated TAUW’s support for HIV/AIDS services Clark as Norma Desmond in "Sunset Boulevard." However, I still think Carol ¯ " but thought United Way should not fund. the BSA. Bumett should tour with the show; that Beth Kuehnert, Tulsa Area United would bea .fresh interpretation in many Way’s marketing representative, did not respects. The reviews I’ve read and heard call back as she promised. When asked from friends thus far have reassured me about this by telephone, she accused Tulsa we are in for an excellent show. The Family News of calling and harassing magic in the making will arrive November United Way supporters, naming one in 23 -28. particular. Ms. Kuehnert was informed And of course, no column written by that a news story required speaking with yours truly would be complete without a more than just her and that all contacts mention of"You Know Who."And if you with United Way supporters had been don’t know, then you’ve not been reading through their designated press this section regularly, now have you? representatives and clearly identified as Shame on you! news inquiries and had been quite cordial. The ever-ethereal Stevie Nicks made a And despite earlier promises to try to stumling appearance on the top-rated answer questions about United Way’s Sheryl Crow and Friends concert on the decision to fund .the Boy Scouts, Ms. ,Fox network, and it was interesting to Kuehnert now stated that "I’m not going note that she garnered the most enthusiastic to ask this question in the middle of the audience response of the eminently campaign.., the decision [to fund the Boy talented bunch. Scouts] was made in the spring [last "Gold Dust Woman" never sounded spring]." better, and according to the rumor mill, When Tulsa Family News contacted the her new CD’s in the can, awaiting release. United Way corporate supporter who had Sheryl Crow produced the CD in between allegedly been the subject of TFN tours. Also, Lesbian Icon, Melissa harassment, TFN was told that they’d said Etheridge, if you follow the Tulsa World nothing of the sort but only that they’d columns, is rumored to be scheduling a Tulsa appearance. We’ll be awaiting word ¯ called Tulsa Area United Way president and chief professional officer, Kathleen on that situation. ¯ Coon, to say that the issue of funding the And "heart-and-other-body-partsthrob" Ricky Martin will be in Dallas : Boy Scouts had been raised. ¯ This corporate spokesperson November 4th. Ay cammba! ¯ characterized the conversation with TFN ¯ as very civil and cordial. At press dine, Tulsa Family News had ¯ made either three or four phone calls over of the board of directors of Tulsa Area : at least a four year period to Tulsa Area United Way, failed to respond to the voice ~ United Way president Kathleen Coan mail asking him to call. ¯ requesting the courtesy of a return phone In contrast, Bud Brown, new general ¯ call. manager of KOTV, Channel 6, noted he’d To date, Ms. Coon, despite an apparent ¯ only been in Tulsa for 3 weeks, and had ¯ ready accessibility to The Tulsa World not seen the Tulsa World article in which ¯ and other non-minority news orgamthe Boy Scouts reaffirmed their anti-Gay ." zations, has refused to return any calls. stance but he noted that his corporation, ¯ For a related editorial, please see The Belo Corporation which owns the ; United Our Way, p. 3. 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(and former lead singer of "lnae Nylons), whose sound is an eclectic hybrid of electronic pop with arock ’n’ roll swagger, and the fabulous "Doris Daze", an allwomen’s pop/rock band that is currently making a big splash in Dallas. (Check out these websites, www.mp3.com/dorisdaze and www.loudboybarnes.com, to get a taste of their music.) And it’s not over yet! Don’t dare miss the dance and drag show on Sunday afternoon at Center Stage. Besides the always exciting, always surprising performances of Domonique Daniels, .Carla Renee, Miss Helga, Tara T’Neil, and Tabitha Taylor of Tulsa, Okla., and our ever-popular DJ, Jon Caswell, "Barnes" will make a guest appearance! So call your friends, select your wardrobe, and make your lodging reservations now!! You won’t want to miss this weekend!!! Call The Emerald Rainbow at (501) 253-5445 or visit www.shimaka.com!eureka/diversity to get a full schedule of activities. DIVERSITY CELEBRATION SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES " bRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5 2:30 pm - 5:00 pin"Family" musicians perform at Mud St. Espresso Cafe on Main St. 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm More entertainment at the Kaffeehaus Aroma in Basin Park Hotel. 8:00 pm - 12:30 am M.CC. of the Living Spring hosts Carnival Under the Rainbow - Dance and Game Night. Game booths- will raise funds for local projects and organizations while Jon Caswell spins an eclectic mix of dance music. A great way to kick off the weekend! Basin Park Hotel Ballroom. Cover: $4.50 per person, $7.50 per couple. Must be 21. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6 10:00 am - Noon Catch the end of the fall colors canoeing down the beautiful White River. Call the Dam Store at (501) 253-6154 for details. $22!canoe. 10:30 am - Noon Enjoy a "colorful" historic walking tour wi~ Bill. Meet at Sweet Springs on upper Spring St. next to Rogue’s Manor. No charge. 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Bring the kids to a "family" family picnic at Harmon Park. Food and games. Call Samuel Strickland for details (501 ) 253 -7837. Children of all ages welcome. No charge. Be sure to check out the unique shops and restaurants listed in the Eureka Springs Diversity Cooperative. Let them know you’ re here for Diversity Weekend! 1:00 pm - 4:00 pro, Did you bring your singing voice? Give Karaoke a whirl with Lita at the Hole in. the Wall off Center St. No cover. 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm, Give your feet a break, and listen to some great musicians at Mud St. Espresso Cafe and Kaffeehaus Aroma. Tips appreciated. 9:00 pro- 1:00 am Party, party, party!! Dance, dance, dance!! Come on out to Center Stage, and dance like you mean it to Jon’ s high energy club tunes; OR Shake your booties at the Basin Park Hotel Ballroom to the live performances of dynamic GLAMA-winning L.A. Singer/ songwriter Barnes, and the fantastic pop/ rock Dallas-based women’s band Doris Daze. (Both will have their CDs available for sale.) Must be 21! Cover charges: Center Stage only - $5 per person. Basin Park only - $10 per person. Both venues $13 per person. What a nightt ! SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm Y ou can’t leave yet!! Meet us again at Center Stage for our tea dance and drag show. Those girls from Tulsa, those talented, and always fantabulous entertainers, Domonique Daniels, Carla Renee, Miss Helga, Tara T’Neil and Tabitha Taylor will knock your socks off with their dazzling performances, while Jon graces us with his DJ magic once again. AND, to add to the excitement, Barnes will be there to share his terrific voice and powerful music in a Special guest set. Must be 21! Cover: $5 per person. 7:00 Inn M.C.C. of the Living Spring Service at 17 Elk St. Call (501) 253-9337 for information. All are welcome! OTHER HAPPENINGS * Friday night from 10 p.m. ’til close, Clary and K.J. will have live entertainment and dancing at Center Stage. * If you’re feeling adventurous (and a little brave), you may want to check out the Ghost Tours at the Crescent Hotel. They start at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and last for approximately anhour andfifteenminutes. Discounted price of $8 per person to anyone wearing a purple"Eureka Springs Celebrating Diversity" button (available for half a buck at The Emerald Rainbow). Call (501) 253-8030 or 2428 for details. * In keeping with both themes this weekend, Judy at Pond Mountain Lodge, is hosting a "family" wine tasting, with hors d’oeuvres, from 5 to 7 p.m. on Saturday. Admission is a favorite boftle of wine from your state or $10 per person. Pond Mountain is on Hwy 23S about two miles from its intersection in town with Hwy 62. Call (800) 583-8043 for reservations. * After the dances on Friday and Saturday nights, Basin Block Cafe (across from Basin Park Hotel) will be open for breakfast from midnight ’til 3 a.m. * This weekend is also Eureka Springs’ Food and Wine Festival, and many of the town’s fine restaurants are offering special menus, from light fare to exquisite multicourse dinners. If you’re interested, call the Chamber of Commerce for more details at (501) 253-8737. Be sure to stop by The Emerald Rainbow to pick up your Diversity Cooperative booklet and discount coupons from some of the Coop’s businesses! And please join us at our next Eureka Springs Diversity Celebration Weekend on April 7, 8 & 9, 2000 ! ! ! Keep an eye on www. shimaka.com/eureka~diversity for details. The Eureka Springs Diversity Celebration weekend is produced by Linda Williams and M.C. 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Text Any textual data included in the document European Union to British Army: No More Gay Ban STRASBOURG, France (AP) - The European Court of HumanRights ruled latein September that Britain’ sban on homosexuals in the armed forces is a breach of humanrights. The court found in favor ofthreemenand a woman who were discharged from the British armed forces in line with its absolute ban on homosexual personnel after they admitted their sexual orientation. The court said the British policyyciolated Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights which defends the right to respect for private and family life. "The Court considered the investigations, and in particular the interviews Of the applicants, to have been exceptionally intrusive," thc European court said in a statement. "The investigations conducted into the applicants’ sexual orientation together with their discharge from the armed forces constituted especially grave interferences with their private lives," it said. The verdict cannot force a-change of law, but the applicants considered it a step towards ending discriminationin thearmedforces. Defense Sec. George Robertson said other existing cases involving Gays in the British armed forces will be put on hold while the government studies the implications of:the ruling. Gay Demos Organize TULSA- Local. Democratic Party activists will hold an organizational meeting for a Tulsa chapter of the the National Stonewall Democratic Federation on Sunday, October 24th, at 4pro at the Tulsa Gay Community Services Center (the Pride Center), at 1307 East 38th Street, 2nd floor.. Stonewall Democrats, acaucus within the Democratic Party works to secure the rights ofall people, regardless ’of sexual orientation or gender identity and serves as a voicewithin the DemocraticParty for Lesbians andGay men. Organizers noted in their press release that the Oklahoma,Democratic party is rather conservative with regard to civil rights for Gays and Lesbians and seek to educate state party leadership about Lesbian and Gay issues. They list the following specific goals of the National Stonewall Democratic Federation as: (1) mobilizing voters through a national grassroots network of Gay and Lesbian Democratic clubs and individuals to advance the fight for Gay and Lesbian civil rights; (2) improving the record of the Democratic party by - pressing it further inthe direction of full recognition of the rightsofGay men, Lesbiansand Bisexuals to befree from prejudice; (3) educating voters on the vast difference that exists between the two major parties on our issues, and the importance of voting Democxatic as the most effective way to achieve our goals; (4) fighting the anti-Gay rhetoric of the Republican conservative-wing, which has increasingly become the instrument of those d~dicated to denying us our rights. The organizers are encouraging those who share these values to come to the October 24 meeting which will feature membersfromthenewlyformedOklahoma City Stonewall Democrats chapter. Paul Barby,whoran as an openly Gay candidate for US Congress in Oklahon~a’s 6th district will speak. For more information, telephone Start Simpson at 582-6557. ~ :.Serving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual + Transgendered Tulsane, Our Families + Friends ¯ Tulsa’s Largest Circulation Community PaperAvailable In More Than 75 City Locations i Tulsa Area United. W .y Fun.ds Support Anti-Gay D,scr, minat,on : TULSA (TFN) - In a recent promotional piece printed and ¯ inserted in The Tulsa Worm for free, Tulsa Area United Way ¯ (TAUW) touted its strong points. TAUWclaims to be thelargest ¯ non-governmental funder of health and human services.in the ¯¯ Tulsa area, funding some 231 programs at 68 member agencies. TAUW also claims to have a lower than 10% overhead as ¯ compared to overhead of up to 40% declared acceptable by the ¯ National Charity Information Bureau. ¯ Joe Cappy, chairman/CEO and president of Dollar/Thrifty Automotive Group, in the Tulsa World insert, claimed, ’q’ulsa ¯ Area United Way gives each of us a sensible, cost-effective ¯ approach to helping the people in our community who need it ¯ most..." ¯ But there are those who take issuewith some aspects of United Way s funding,, partacularly that of the Indian NaUons Council of ¯ the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). The BSA is one of the earliest ¯ organizations funded in Tulsa by the predecessors to the current : United Way but the Scouting organization has been under fire ¯ nationally for its anti-Gay policies. The BSA claims the Scout ¯ pledge to be "morally straight" refers to being heterosexual and ¯ .therefore bans Gay youth from being Scouts or Gay men from ¯ being Scoutmasters on the grounds that to be Gay is intrinsically ¯ to be "morally non-straight." ¯ Recently, the BSA lost a legal challenge to thi s anti-Gay policy ¯ brought under New Jersey state law. Former Eagle scout James Dale won his lawsuit but in response to questions from The Tulsa ¯ World,aspokespersonfortheTulsa-basedIndianNafionCouncil of the BSA r~affirmed the ban in this area. ¯ And when TAUW kicked off its 75th anmversary campaign, ¯ running from Sept. 10th to Nov. 1 lth with a goal of raising $21,497,725.00, some of these individuals said no to helping ¯ United Way because of the funding for an organization which blatantly discriminates. ¯ Most ofthe individuals who spoke asked to remain anonymous ¯ citing fears ofretaliationfromTAUWor risk to their employment ¯ by public.ly speaking ~bout Lesbian and Gay issues in’h city with fewprote~tious again~wolkplace discriminationbasedon sexual ¯ orientation. ¯ One Gay couple, both of whom are public ¯ employees, had slightly different reactions to the issue of funding for the Boy Scouts.-One noted that ¯ "we’re so used to it, thatwedon’ t think about it"but ¯ he added that it’s "time when United Way needs to start analyzing what they’re doing." : However, his parmer noted that the organizations ¯ his employer was set to help for United Way’s Day ¯ of Caring were the Boy Scouts and the Salvation Army, both organizations which he claims ¯ discriminate against Gay people. He notified his ¯ employer that he would not participate in the Day ¯ ofCaring because of those organization’ s anti-Gay ¯ policies. ¯ Another couple, Lesbian, said that it was a"tough ¯ question." One women, again who requested ¯ anonymity because of her job (she is a teacher), ¯ characterized the Boy Scouts’ policy as ¯ reprehensible but noted too that United Way funds ¯ the YWCA, an organization which has a non- " discrimination policy which includes "sexual ¯ orientation." Her partner added that TAUW also ¯ funds Youth Services of Tulsa (YST) which has ¯ programs that benefit Lesbians and Gay men but ¯ she also acknowledged that YST hadkept those ¯ programs "closeted,"i.e. not publicized because of ¯ fears that UnitedWay fundingmight be withdrawn, despite the fact that the failure to publicize the ¯ program significantly limitedYST’s ability toreach ¯ those whom the program was intended to help. : Tulsa Area United Way’s marketing representative, Beth Kuehnert was asked to explain ¯ TAUW’s continued funding for the BSA and ¯ initially, in a cordial and civil conversation, Ms. Kuehnert said she was not aware of the Boy Scouts’ position nor see TA UW, p. 12 ¯ Community Center News Eureka Springs Holds Community Meeting 111 6. Diversity Celebration ¯ TULSA - Organizers of the First Annual Community Center ¯ EUREKA SPRINGS - Fall is around the comer, ¯ Film Festival to be held on Oct. 7-9, Tulsa’s Gay Commtmity : andintheOzarks,it’salmosttimefor thebi-annual ¯ Center andits parent organization, TulsaOklahomaus forHuman " Diversity Celebration Weekend in Eureka Springs, : Rights (TOHR) will show both Lesbian and Gay films, both : Ark. ! Organizers say this event, scheduled forNov. ’. feature length and shorts beginningat 5:30 onThurs, and Fri. and " 5-7, will be bigger and better than ever! : from 2pm on Sat. and Sun. ¯ Metropolitan Community Church’s Friday night ¯ In addition, theCenterwillhostTOHR’sfirstComingOutFair " dance and camival will kick off the weekend at the : "Discovering Yourself" from noon to 6pro on Sat. Oct. 9th. A " top of the Basin Park Hotel. On Saturday morning, ." record number of community organizations have committed to " strollthestreetsofEurekaonahistoric(andcolorful) ¯ particil~ating in the Coming Out Fair. . walking tour, canoe on the White River, or hike in ¯ GregGatewood,TOHRboardpresident,noted that at the Sept. ." Lake Leatherwood Park. ¯ .14th commlmity wide meeting held at the Center about 35 " Intheearlyaftemoon,bringthekidstoa"family" ihdividuals attended and the representatives decided through a family picnic at Harmon Park, sing like you’re in i largely consensus process to convene a commlmity council of the shower at karaoke, or listen to the sounds of ¯ organizations, churches and businesses. The group also decided : localandvisitmgGay/Lesbianmusiciansatseveral toaskTOHRto co-ordinate theproposedbi-monthlymeetings to " different venues around town. And please be sure : exchange information and ideas. . to visit all the wonderfully unique shops, and ¯ Marty Newman, a Human Rights Campaign board member, : support the Diversity Cooperative businesses of ¯ who along with TOHR co-founder Dennis Neill, called the first " Eureka Springs. : meeting this summer, expressed his satisfaction with the Sept. " Then, after a delightful dinner (it’s Eureka - ". meeting and the general progress of the process. Newman-noted ¯ Spri.ngs’ Food and Wine Festival this weekend, ¯ thatTulsaPFLAG chapter co-founder,Nancy McDonaldattended ¯ too),work offthosecaloriesattwofantasticdances. ¯ the meeting and that Mrs. McDonald recalled that TOHRs by- : AtCenterStage, DJ Jonwillraisetheroofwithhigh ." laws had at one time had a provision for a community advisory ¯ energy club music. And the Basin Park Hotel ¯ council. Meeting co-convener Dennis Neill, an attorney, was ¯ Ballroom will come alive with electrifying i given the task of drafting a contract to clarify the relationship " performances by "Barnes", a dynamic GLAMA- ¯ betweenthevariousgroups.Formoreinformationaboutthenext ~ winningsinger/songwriter seeEureka, p. 14 ¯ community meeting, call the Community Center at 743-4297. ." : Also, the CommunityCenter will be the site ofanall-community ¯ ¯ Halloween Costume Ball to be held on Saturday, Ocotober 30th, : ¯ 8pm at 1307 East 38 Street, 2nd floor. The event will be BYOL " ¯ but soft drinks and ice will be provided. : : Organizers suggest that while this is a costume party, a loud ¯ ¯ shirt and simple mask will-do. Guests should not feel compelled : : to spend a lot of money, just to use a little imagination. The : : sponsors, Prime Timers of Tulsa, stated that the purpose of the : _" party is for all groups connected with the Pride Center to have an ¯ opportunitytogettoknowonemlother, andhelpbuildcommunity, i Tulsa Clubs & Restaurants *Bamboo Lounge, 7204 E. Pine *Boston Willy’s Diner, 1742 S. Boston Burger Sisters Restaurant, 1545 S. Sheridan *Empire Bar, 1516 S. Peoria *Full Moon Cafe, 1525 E. 15th *Gold Coast Coffee House, 3509 S. Peoria *Jason’s Deli, 15th & Peoria *Lola’s, 2630 E. 15th *Polo Grill, 2038 Utica Square *St. Michael’s Alley Restaurant, 3324-L E. 31st 832-1269 592-2143 835-1207 599-9512 583-6666 749-4511 599-7777 749-1563 744-4280 745-9998 *Silver Star Saloon, 1565 Sheridan ........ 834-4234 "*Renegades/Rainbow Room, 1649 S. Main 585-3405 *TNTrs, 2114 S. Memorial 660-0856 *Tool, :Box, 1338 E. 3rd 584-1308 Tulsa Businesses, Services, & Professionals Advanced Wireless & PCS, Digital CelIular 74%1508 *Affinity News, 8120 E; 21 610-8510 *Assoc. in Med. & Mental Health, 2325 S. Harvard 743-1000 Kent Balch & Associates, Health & Life Insurance 747-9506 *Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 8620 E. 71 250-5034 *Barnes & Noble Booksdlers, 5231 E. 41 665-4580 Body Piercing by Nicole, 2722 E. 15 712-1122 *Borders Books & Music, 2740 E. 21 712-9955 *Borders Books & Music, 8015 S. Yale 494-2665 Brookside Jewelry, 4649 S. Peoria 743-5272 *CD Warehouse, 3807c S. Peoria 746-0313 Cherry St. Psychotherapy, 1515 S. Lewis 581-13902, 743-4117 Community Cleaning, Kerby Baker 622-0700 Tim Daniel, Attorney 352-9504, 800-742-9468 *Deco to Disco, 3212 E. 15th 749-3620 *Devena’s Gallery, 13 Brady 587-2611 Doghouse on Brookside, 3311 S. Peoria 744-5556 *Elite Books & Videos, 821 S. Sher~llan 838-8503 *Ross Edward Salon 584-0337, 712-9379 *Floral Design Studio, 3404 S. Peoria 744-9595 Four Star Import Automotive, 9906 E. 55th P1 610-0880 Cathy Furlong, Ph.D., 1980 Utica Sq. Med. Ctr. 628-3709 Gay & Lesbian Affordable Daycare 808-8026 *Gloria Jean’s Gourmet Coffee, 1758 E. 21st 742-1460 Leanne M. Gross, Insurance & financial planning 459-9349 Mark T. Hamby, Attorney 744-7440 *Sandra J. Hill, MS, Psychotherapy, 2865 E. Skelly 745-1111 *International Tours 341-6866 Jadox Animal Clinic, 2732 E. 15th 712-2750 *Jared’s Antiques, 1602 E. 15th 582-3018 David Kauskey,’ Country Club Barbering 747-0236 The Keepers, Housekeeping & Gardening 582-8460 *Ken’s Flowers, 1635 E. 15 599-8070 Kelly Kirby, CPA, 4021 S. Harvard, #210 747-5466 *Living ArtSpace, 19 E. Brady 585-1234 *Midtown Theater, 319 E. 3rd 584-3112 Mingo Valley Flowers, 9720c E. 31 663-5934 *Mohawk Music, 6157 E 51 Place 664-2951 David A. Paddock, CPA, 4308 S. Peoria, Ste. 633 747-7672 Puppy Pause II, 1060 S. Mingo 838-7626 *Peace of Mind Bookstore, 1401 E. 15 583-1090 The Pride Store, 1307 E. 38, 2rid floor 743-4297 Rainbowz on the River B+B, POB 696, 74101 747-5932 Richard’s Carpet Cleaning 834-0617 Teri Schutt, Rex Realtors 834-7921,747-4746 *Scribner’s Bookstore, 1942 Utica Square 749-6301 Paul Tay, Car Salesman 260-7829 *Tickled Pink, 3340 S. Peoria 697-0017 *Tulsa Book Exchange, 3749 S. Peoria 742-2007 *Tulsa Comedy Club, 6906 S. Lewis 481-0558 *Venus Salon, 1247 S. Harvard 835~5563 Fred Welch, LCSW, Counseling 743-1733 *WhittierNews Stand, 1 N. Lewis 592-0767 Tulsa Agencies, Churches, Schools & Universities AIDS Walk Tulsa, POB 4337, 74101 579-9593 *All Souls Unitarian Church, 2952 S. Peoria 743-2363 Black & White, Inc. POB 14001, Tulsa 74159 587-7314 Bless The Lord at All Times Christian Center. 2207 E. 6 583-7815 *B/L/G/T Alliance, Univ. of Tulsa Canterbury Ctr. 583-9780 *Chamber of Commerce Bldg., 616 S. Boston 585-1201 *Chapman Student Ctr., University of Tulsa, 5th PI. & Florence *ChurchoftheRestorationUU, 1314N.Greenwood 587-1314 *CommunityofHopeUnitedMethodist,2545 S.Yale 747-6300 *Community Unitarian-Universalist Congregation 749-0595 *CouncilOak Men’s Chorale 748-3888 *Delaware Playhouse, 1511 S. Delaware 712-1511 *Democratic Headquarters, 3930 E. 31 742-2457 Dignity/Integrity of Tulsa- Lesbian & Gay Catholics & Episcopalians, POB 701475, 74170-1475 355-3140 *Fellowship Congreg. Church, 2900 S. Harvard 747-7777 918.583.1248, fax: 583.4615 POB 4140, Tulsa, OK 74159 e-mail: TulsaNews@ earthlink, net Publisher + Editor: Tom Neal Writers + contributors: James Christjohn, Barry Hensley, J.-P. Legrandbouche, Lamont Lindstrom, Esther Rothblum, Mary Schepers Member of The Associated Press Issued on or before the 1 st of each month, the entire contents of this ~blicaatnidonmaaryenportobteecrteedprboyduUcSedcoepityhreirgihntW19h9o8leboyrTin~part without written permission from the publisher. Publication of a name or photo does not indicate a person’s sexual orientation. Correspondence is assumed to be for publication unless ot.herwjse no,ted,,~must be signed & becomes the sole property of T~ Each reader is entitled to 4 copies of each edition at distribution lYoints. Additional copies are available by calling 583-1248. *Free SpiritWomen’s Center, call for location& info: 587-4669 Friend For A Friend, POB 52344, 74152 747-6827 Friends in Unity Social Org., POB 8542, 74101 582-0438 *HIV ER Center, 4138 Chas. Page Blvd. 583-6611 *HIV Resource Consortium, 3507 E. Admiral 834-4194 *Holland Hall School, 5666 E. 81st 481-1111 HOPE, HIV Outreach, Prevention, Education 834-8378 *House of the Holy Spirit Minstries, 3210e So. Norwood Interfaith AIDS Ministries 438-2437, 800-284-2437 *MCC United, 1623 N. Maplewood 838-1715 NAMES Project, 3507 E. Admiral P1. 748-3111 NOW, Nat’l Org. for Women, POB 14068, 74159 365-5658 OK Spokes Club (bicycling), POB 9165, 74157 *OSU-Tulsa (formerly UCT, formerly Rogers U. whoever...) *Our House, t 114 S. Quaker 584-7960 PFLAG, POB 52800, 74152 749-4901 +Planned Parenthood, 1007 S. Peoria 587-7674 Prime-Timers, P.O. Box 52118, 74152 *R.A.I.N., Regional AIDS Interfaith Network 749-4195 Rainbow Business Guild, POB 4106, 74159 665-5174 *Red Rock Mental Center, 1724 E. 8 584-2325 O’RYAN, support group for 18-24 LGBT young adults O’RYAN, Jr. support group for 14-17 LGBT youth St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church, 4045 N. Cincinnati 425-7882 St. Dunstan’s Episcopal, 5635 E. 71st 492-7140 *St. Jerome’s Parish Church, 205 W. King 582-3088 *Tulsa Area United Way, 1430S. Boulder 583-7171 TNAAPP(Native American men), Indian Health Care 582-7225 Tul sa County Health Department, 4616 E. 15 595-4105 Confidential HIV Testing - by appt. on Thursdays only 743-4297 298-0827 Tulsa Okla. for Human Rights, c/o The Pride Center T.U.L.S.A. Tulsa Uniform/Leather Seekers Assoc. *Tulsa City Hall, Ground Floor Vestibule *Tulsa Commumty College Campuses *Tulsa Gay Community Center, 1307 E. 38, 74105 Unity Church of Christianity, 3355 S. Jamestown BARTLESVILLE 743-4297 749-8833 *Bartlesville Public Library, 600 S. Johnstone 918-337-5353 OKLAHOMA CITY/NORMAN *Borders Books &Music, 3209NWExpressway 405-848-2667 *Borders Books & Music, 300 Norman Center 405-573-4907 TAHLEQUAH *Stonewall League, call for information: 918-456-7900 *Tahlequah Unitarian-Universalist Church 918-456-7900 *Green Cotmtry AIDS Coalition, POB 1570 918-453-9360 NSU School of Optometry, 1001 N. Grand HIVtesting every other Tues. 5:30-8:30, call for dates EUREKA SPRINGS, ARKANSAS *Autumn Breeze Restaurant, Hwy. 23 *Jim & Brent’s Bistro, 173 S. Main DeVito’s Restaurant, 5 Center St. *Emerald Rainbow, 45 &l/2 Spring St. MCC of the Living Spring Geek to Go!, PC Specialist, POB 429 Old Jailhouse Lodging, 15 Montgomery Positive Idea Marketing Plans Sparky’s, Hwy. 62 East *White Light, 1 Center St. FA YETTEVI LLE, ARKANSAS5 *Edna’s, 9 S. School Ave. JOPLIN, MISSOURI *Spirit of Christ MCC, 2639 E. 32, Ste. U134 501-253-7734 501-253-7457 501-253-6807 501-253-5445 501-253-9337 501-253-2776 501-253-5332 501-624-6646 501-253-6001 501-253-4074 501-442-2845 417-623-4696 * is where you can ftndTFN. Notall areGay-ownedbutallare Gay-friendly. Holy Union Ceremony Alan Williams and Gregory Casillas celebrated a Holy Union Ceremony on Friday, September 24, 1999, in Eureka Springs, AR. Presiding over the intimate union was Reverend Vivian Juett. The commitment ceremony was witnessed by Zoe Dearing and Nancy Ermding. After traveling to Dallas, TX, San Francisco, CA and Nashville, TN to celebrate with friends and family, the couple will reside for’a short period in Tulsa. Obiturary Dr. W. Malcolm Jacox, a veterinarian well known in the community for his kindness and gentleness with both his animal patients and their caregive~s, died Sept. 22. Services were held at Floral Haven Memorial Gardens Mausoleum on Sept. 25. He will be greatly missed by many both in and out of the Gay He is survived by his family and his longtime companion. Those who wish to honor his memory are encouraged to support a charity of their choice. Condolences may be sent care of Jacox Animal Clinic, 2732 East 15th, Tulsa 74104. Mr. Tulsa ¯ Leather 2000 The Mr. Tulsa Leather 2000 contest was held September 10, 1999, at the Silver Star Saloon in Tulsa, Oklahoma.The evening included a benefit for Miss Gay Mid America, Catia Lee Love. Love will participate in the Miss Gay America contest. Four contestants participated in the contest: Jay Fleming, Kelly Kirby, Dayvid Montross, and Tony Hall, all of Tulsa Oklahoma. Themencompeted in Personal Interview, Street Wear, Swimwear/ Physique, and Full Leather Image events. The judging panel consisted of: Ron Greenwood, Mike Ryan, Ed Smith, John McCuistian, Don Lawrence, all also from Tulsa. The tally master was James Murray, Mr. Tulsa Leather 1997. The winner of the contest was Jay Fleming of Tulsa. Jay is a past "Mr Gay. Leather Long Beach 1987" and the 20th Elected Emperor, Greater California Empire. Fleming will compete for the Oklahoma Mr. Leather 2000 title on October 22-24, 1999. Heis an event promoter for such events in Tulsa as Mayfest, Gatesway Balloon Festival and chairmanof Street Party 2000; benefiting Street School and Tulsa at risk youth. Contestproducer, Ric Poston,MrTulsa Leather 1999 and the Oklahoma Mr Leather 1999, said of Fleming, "he is an outstanding citizen and will be a great representative for the Tulsa Leather Community." The first runner up was Kelly Kirby and the 2nd runner up was Dayvid Montross. For more information on OML2000, check the T.U.L.S.A. website at WWW.TULSALEATHER.com Editorial: Un!ted Our Way by Tom Neal, editor andpublisher This year is the 75th anniversary of a program of charitable giving in Tulsa which has become known as Tulsa Area United Way (TAUW). Tulsa’s United Way supports some 231 programs offered by 68 member agencies and hopes to raise over $21 million and help perhaps 250,000individuals this year. Obviously, all this is worthy. For example, oneof the I’d suggest that agencies which TAUW supports is Tulsa instead of letting "C.A.R.E.S., formerly and" TAU~V’ sllee its tare moreaccuratelyknown as the HIV Resource Consortium. Tulsa Area UnitedWayalso funds the Community Service Council that manages the Tulsa Community AIDS Project, one of the most effective funding sources for fighting HIV infection and for providing care for. individuals with HIV relatedillnesses. These are worthy organizations - as are many, many others which TAUW funds. However, along withthe many good organizations which TAUW funds is another. Thatis the Indian Nations Council of the Boy Scouts ofAmerica. It off the top, glve your dolhrs dlreetly to Tulsa C.A.R.E.S. or other or~an{zatlons in our eommunlty... groups that really do give a damn about us. Let’s stop using our dollars and those of our families and friends to support United Way’s prejudlee and eowardlee. Let us be unlt,~ our way. is the official policy of the Boy Scouts, both locally and nationally, to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation. They’ve been rather explicit about this. The last time the Indian Nations Council of the Boy Scouts of America voiced this policy locally was in August when James Dale, a former Scout in New Jersey, successfully challenged the BSA’s apartheid policies under New Jersey state law and won. A local BSA representative however reiterated-its support for BSA prejudice. Now as a former Boy Scout, I’m hardly hostile to the true values of the organization. But I do not believe that thephrase, "morally straight," ori_ginating around th_etum of the century, ever, ever could be thought to refer to heterosexuality, using an interpretation of the word "straight" whichnever existed until at leas t some 60 years later. However I recognize that it is the prerogative under current federal, state and local law, of the BSA to engage in invidious discrimination if it chooses to do so. It is reprehensible behavior but it is quite legal. However, even if this bigoted conduct is legal, there is no justification for Tulsa Area United Way to use the funds it receives from the community as a whole to subsidize the systematic discrimination of the Indian Nations Council of the Boy Scouts of America. After all, if we were to substitute "no Jews allowed" or "no Blacks allowed" lot"no fags allowed," I would hardy have to be writing this essay. Part of why TAUW still funds this apartheid organization is an accident of history. The Boy Scouts have been funded for most of TUAW’s existence. Back in thoseearly days theBSA was one ofafew organizations that did address youth issues. That is no longer so. Andin contrast with the BSA, the Girl Scouts, for example, have explicitly said that sexual orientation is not relevant to participation in their organization and they have a nondiscrimination policy. Now if Tulsa Area United Way had a comprehensive non-discrimination policy, they might have some greater degree of credibilityas an organization committed to fair treatment of all. But they don’t. Infact, Ms. "duck’n’cover" KathleenJ. Coan, president and chief professional officer, is so gun-shy of the issue she’s managed not to returnphone calls to this newspaper for nearly four years -now that’s what I call real professional conduct (though in fairness, Ms. Coan did take aphone call once whenTFN was calling on deadline and her p.r. person was unavailable) But it does call into question, Ms. Coan and TAUW’s commitment to all of Tulsa’s communities when she seems primarily willing to talk to non-minority news orggnizations, for example, ." The Tulsa World- not frequently known for challenging ¯ the Tulsapower establishment, often inseparable from it. ." And what is more troubling about the unexamined ¯ decision to continue to fund the Indian Nations Council ¯ of the Boy Scouts of America by TAUW is the lack of ¯ leadership from TAUW’s board of directors. ¯ A number of TAUW board members come from ¯ corporations that claim that they do not discriminate on ." sexual orientation. Foremost among these are Public ~ Service Company of Oklahoma, Dollar Thrifty ¯: Automotive Group, Inc. and Bank of America, and yet, somehow, not one of these very highly paid and : presumably ratberintelligent men seem to havemade the _" connection between their own corporate policies ¯ emphasizingfairness andTAUW’s supportfor ablatantly ¯ bigoted program. Or perhaps they’vejust not"counected ." the dots." Or perhaps, they’re hoping thatnoone will ever ¯ hold them responsible. ¯ Regardless, until Tulsa Area United Way see fit to : begin to treat Lesbian and Gay Tulsans as equal human : beings by adding sexual orientation to its non- ,. discrimination policies and chooses not to fund ¯ organizations which discriminate, the best bet is for us to ¯ not to contribute to Tulsa Area United Way but to take ." those same dollars and to give them directly to worthy ¯ organizations. ¯ I’d suggest that instead of letting TAUW slice its take ¯ off the top, give your dollars directly to Tulsa C.A.R.E.S. ¯. or other organizations in our community, like the ¯ community center, or the Cimarron Alliance or PFLAG, ¯ groups that really do give a danm about us. Let’s stop ¯ using Our dollars and those of our families and friends to ¯ support UnitedWay’s prejudice and cowardice. Let us be ¯ united our way. ¯ TulsaFamily News editorandpublisherTomNealhas ¯ volunteeredonaUnitedWayfundsdistributioncommittee ¯ on services for semor citizens tn the Tulsa area. ¯ Unfortunately, hefound thatTulsaArea UnitedWay staff went out of their way to censor and suppress questions ¯ about how well member agencies were serving Lesbian ¯ and Gay seniors, even when the agencies were willing to ¯ answer the questions and despite TAUW claims that ¯ their evaluationprocess is "volunteer driven." Neal also ¯ has asked to serve on the funds distribution committee ¯ which looks at the funding for the Boy Scouts Indian ¯ Nations Council but, for some reason, keeps getting ¯ reassigned to senior services - imagine that. First and foremost, let me put your mind at rest about ¯ two of our regular columnists, our fabulous Do-It- " Yourself-Dyke, Mary Schepers and Tulsa City-County ¯ Library book reviewer, Barry Hensley. Both columns ¯ will resume next month. ¯ An,other upcoming event is the annual World AIDS ¯ Day Memorial Service. This year’s event will be at ¯ Mount Zion Baptist Church under the auspices of the ¯ Rev. Calvin McCutchen, Sr., one of Tulsa’s most ¯ distinguished religious leaders. The date, as always will ¯ be Dec. 1st which is a Wednesday but the details of the ~ march and precise time of the service will be announced. ¯ It is expected that Council Oak Mens Chorale who had ¯ their first ever performance at a World AIDS Day ¯ Memorial Service will again lend their talents. The event . is being co-ordinated by Diane Zike, former executive ¯ directorof Interfaith AIDS Ministries andBeverlyDenton ¯ Galbreith. For more information, call 438-2437. - TN An nouncements Policy Tulsa Family News will provide space for holy union ¯ ceremony, mamage ceremony, birth, adoption and death " announcements on a space available basis. Photos are ~ wdcome, though we cannot promise placement or return ¯ them, so please send copies to TFN, POB 4140, Tulsa ¯ 74159. ¯ Letters Policy ¯ Tulsa Family News¯ welcomes letters on issues which ¯ we’ve covered or on issues you think need to be considered. You may request that your name be withheld but ¯ letters must be signed &h.ave phone numbers, or be hand ~- delivered. 200 word letters are preferred. Letters to other ~ publications will be printed as is appropriate. Drug-resistant Strains of AIDS Virus Rising CHICAGO (AP) - Highly drug-resistant strains of the AIDS virus are on the rise, showingupin as many as 4.5% ofnewlyinfectedpatients in twonew studies. "Resistance is slowly increasing," said Dr. Roger J. Pomerantz, an expert not involved with either study, "If you were looking at this five years ago, you would see zero." The studies - published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) - involve mostly Gay white men. Resistance, however, may be more prevalent in other groups, such as drug users and their sex partners, researchers-said. About 40,000 new HIV infections occur yearly in the United States. In recent years, powerful drug cocktails have subdued the virus to undetectable levels in many patients. But studies have found the virus persists or comes roaring back in 10% to 50%. The complicated drug regimen has proved difficult to adhere to, and many patients who missed doses or quit taking theirmedicines developed drug-resistantinfections that are now being passed’along to others. "I wasn’t that surprised. This is what happens in infectious disease," said Pomerantz, director of the Center for Human Virology at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. HIV is still so new that scientists disagree even about how to define resistance. And since both studies used laboratory tests, no one really knows how the definitions will translate into patient care. Giving high doses of a drug may be enough to overwhelm a virus’ resistance, Pomerantz said. In one study, researchers at the University ofCalifornia at San Diego defined resistance as a 10-fold increase in HIV’s ability to withstand a drug when compared with a laboratory strain. That study, led by Dr. Susan J. Little. tested 141 patients - in San Diego, Los Angeles, Dallas, Denver and Boston- and found that three (2%) had HIV with at least 10-fold greater resistance to one or more drugs. An additional 36 patients (26%) had HIV that was 2.5 to 10 times more resistant. In the other study, researchers at Rockefeller University in New York defined resistance as a threefold increase in HIV’s ability to withstand a drug. That study, led by Dr. Daniel Boden of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, tested 80 subjects in New York and Los Angeles. Of 67 in whom resistance could be tested, three (4.5%) had HIV that was highly resistant- fivefold resistant- to multiple drugs. The subjects were among 18 (26.8%) with HIV that was at least threefold resistant to at least one drug. Testing every newly infected patientfor drugresistance would be impractical because the tests cost several thousand dollars and are difficult to interpret, Pomerantz said. But if a patient takes a drug cocktail faithfully and it isn’t working, testing should be considered to see how the combination of medicines might be reformulated, he said. Don’t Go to Sleep Yet For a while, it seemed that there mightbe a light at the end of the tuunel of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. And for many ¯ things are better than they used to be: to become HIV ¯ positive is not immediatdy to know that your death was likely six months away like it was in the 80s. But the news report above from The Associated Press ¯ should slam home the message that we cannot be ¯ complacent; we must continue to educate ourselves and ¯ our children about protecting themselves against HIV ¯ infection, through all appropriate means: safer sex with ¯ its reduced risk, no sex, i.e. abstinence where appropriate ¯ and through the strengthening of longterm relationships ¯ through their legal recognition not only for heterosexuals ¯ but for Gay men and Lesbians. ¯ The best way to deal with AIDS is to prevent further ¯ infections but also to insist on adequate funding for ¯ proper care for those who are already infected and more ¯ funding for more successful treatments for AIDS. ¯ Please, please be safe, hdp those still in need and ¯ remember those whom we have lost. -Tom Neal Accused Killer of Gay Soldier To Stand Trial FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) - An Army private charged with premeditated murder in the. beating death ofafellow FortCampbell soldierwill stand trial at a general court-martial, the Army said Sept. 24th. Thecharge against Pvt. CalvinN. Gloverwas referred to court-martial by Maj. Gen. Robert T. Clark, Fort Campbell’ s commanding gelleral. Clark reviewed an iiiv~tigative hearing he~’d in August for Glovet and rexx:ived recommendations from the investigating officer, brigade commander and staffjudge advocate. The hearing was similar to a civilian grand jury investigation. Glover, of Sulphur, Okla.,is charged in the death of Pfc. Ban-y L. ,Winchell, of Kansas City, Me. No date has been set for G10ver’s courtmartial, which will be open to the public. The courtmartial is scheduled to be at Fort Campbell. According to Army investigators, the 21-year-old Winchellwas beaten with abaseball batinhis barracks on July 5 and died the following day at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn. Gay civil-rights advocates say anti-Gay sentiment m,ay have been behind, or at least contributed to, me ldlling. Winehell was perceived as Gay by some soldiers in his mlit and friends contend he was beginning to explore his homosexuality when he Another investigative hearing was held several weeks ago for Spec. Justin R. Fisher, who is accused of being an accomplice in Winchell’s death. Fisher, of Lincoln, Neb., is accused of .encouraging Glover in the attack and lying to Army ii~qestigators about his iiavolvement. No decision has been made yet on whether Fisher’s case should proceed to a courtmartial, an Army official added. Both Glover and Fisher are being held at Fort Knox. Gay Priest Resigns NEWARK,N.J. (Ap)-AGaypriestwhoseordination divided the Episcopal church has left theparish where he ministered for six years, blaming the controversy that surroundedhim. Rev. Barry Stopfel said the furor strained his relationship withhis partner, andpreached his last sermon at St. George’ s Church in Maplewood at the end of September. "My ministry has not been a typical one," Stopfel toldThe Star-Ledger ofNewark, N.J. in a story published recently. "It has been deeply gratifying but very stressful, and ithas taken its toll on me and our marriage." When Stopfel was ordained as a deacon in 1990, conservative Episcopal bishops filed heresy charges against Newark Bishop Walter Righter. Righter’s trial was averted, but a church court in 1996 ruled that church doctrine does not explicitly bar the ordination of practicing homosexuals. The division, however, remained between the church’s conservative and liberal factions. Stopfel, 51, andhis partner aremoving to a 25-acre farm in an Amish area of Pennsylvania, where he said he will write a book. Methodist Minister Faces 2nd Church Trial OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -The Rev. Jimmy Creech, who faces another church trial for performing a Gay union ceremony, said the churchlaw against suchceremonies amounts to institutional bigotry againstGayChristians. Reached at his Raleigh, N.C., home, Creech said he was disappointed but not surprised with.a church committee’s deci~i0n ordering him to stand trial. Nebraska United Methodist Church Bishop Joel Martinezannouncedthfit theformerNebraskaminister will stand trial for Officiating a Chapel Hill, N.C. ceremony fortwo meninApril.AMarch 1998 church trial cleared Creech of violating church law for a similar 1997 ceremony involving two women. At least two complaints were filed as aresult of the April ceremony. Atissuein Creech’s 1998 trial was whether thechurch’s ban on same-sex unionswas a pastoral guideline or church law. The church has since established the ban is church law. Creech said the trial will be "a detriment to the church." "It’s a waste of time and money. The trial is an actofviolence againstLesbians, Gays andbisexual people," Creech said. While Creech said he admits he violated the churchlaw byperforming the Chapel Hill ceremony, the immorality of this law makes him innocent of violating the order.and discipline of his denomination, ofwhichheis accused. "I think thelaw itself is a violation of the highest ethical standards of the United Methodist Church," Creech said. Creech said thechurch’ s positiononGayunions is comparable to racism. "How can such an encumbered church witness to the grace bf God?" he asked. Martinez’s assistant, Rev. Mel Luetchens, said Martinez will .appoint another bishop as presiding authority for the case. A jury of 13 ministers will [ecide Creech"s fate. Ministers will lead the defense and theprosecution.Thetrial likely will beinNebraska in the next couple of months,-Luetchens said. If convicted Creech faces a wide range of possible )unishments, including dismissal from the United Methodist clergy. Creech is on voluntary leave of absence after. Martinezdeclined toreappointhim pastorofOmah.a’s First United Methodist Church after the earher controversy. He remains part of the Nebraska conference and is answerable to Martinez. Vermont JudgeJudged By His Wife’s Vote MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - A group opposed to same-sex marriage; "Take it to the People," says a VermontSupremeCourtjusticemightnotbeimpartial as he reviews a pending case. "Take it to the People" says the wife ofJusticeJohn Dooley voted in June as a member of the Governor’s Commission on Women to give an award to the three same-sex couples who are challengxn.g Vermont marriage law. Sandra Dooley’s vote raises questions about whether the justice is impartial in the case now before the Vermont Supreme Court, said Ruth Charlesworth of Burlington, a member of the antimarriage group. "I think it is outrageous that the wife of the Supreme Courtjusdce should come out (with a public stand) when this issue isn’t yet decided," Charlesworth said. ’‘This isn’t fair to the citizens of Vermont." Thecourtis considering alawsuit seeking to overtmal the state’s refusal to issue marriage licenses to samesex couples. Despite its concerns, ’’Take it to the People" hasn’tformally requested thatJustice Dooley disqualify himself from the case. Judith Sutphen, executive director ofthe Governor’ s Commission on Women, said Sandra Dooley has been on the commission for 15 years. Theorganization has supported allowing same-sex couples to marry since. 1996 - before the lawsuit brought by two Gay men and four Lesbian women was appealed_ to the Supreme Court, Sutphen said. Commissioners have the right to take independent votes on issues, Sutphen said. "A wife has a right to vote as she chooses, as does a husband," she said. "The votes of one spouse don’t necessarily reflect the . judgment or opinion of the other spouse." "Take it to the People" argues that rules of judicial ¯ conduct sayjudges should disqualify themselves when their spouses have interests that could be substantially : affected by the proceeding. The lawyers at the office ." of the attorney general who are defending the state’s mamage lawweren’t available to comment. -" Beth Robinson, an attorney representing the three : couples in the Supreme Court appeal, said she felt confident the deliberations would be fair. "We have : no reason to question Jusdce Dooley’s ability to ~ impartially judge this case on its legal merits," : Robinson said. "Justice Dooley and his wife are two ¯ different people with two different jobs to do." ¯ Judge Dismisses Same- Sex Marriage Lawsuit ¯ ANCHORAGE (AP) - A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filedby twoAnchoragemenwho claimed that : the state’s marriage laws discriminated against them. ¯ Judge Peter Michalski took the action late in ¯ September, nearly a year after Alaska voters ¯ overwhelmingly passed a constitutional amendment ¯ limiting marriage to a union of one man and one Kelly Kirby, CPA, PC Certified Public Accountant a professional corporation 747-5466 402i S.Ha~vard, sifite 2.10~-T~llsa 74135 MCC-United forme.rly Family of Faith & Greater Tulsa MCC .Joined as one body of believers. Come celebrate with us. Sunday Services, 11 am 1623 North Maplewood, 838-1715 HOUSE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT Sun. Worship, 10:45 am, Sunday School, 9:30 am Wed. Bible Study, 7 pm 3210b S. Norwood, Info: 224-4754, Chris or Sharon Sandra Hill M.s. 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Cincinnati. 582-4128 The Episcopal Church Welcomes You Jay Brause and Gene Dugan had claimed in their lawsuit that it was discriminatory to not allow samesex couples the same health insurance and other benefits that married and unmarried heterosexual couples enjoy. It was their lawsuit that spurred the pbtition drive that put the same-sex marriage amendment before voters last November. Bob Wagstaff, the lawyer representing the two men, says the case will be appealed to the state Supreme Court. Wagstaff says his clients’ lawsuit is at its heart an equal-rights case, not a Gay marriage Town Considering Partners Registry ASHLAND, Ore: (AP) - Same-sex couples can’t get married in Oregon, but in this town, they may soon be able to get registered. The City Council is likely to consider settingupsucharegistry for domesticpartners at its upcoming meeting Oct. 5. City Attorney Patti Nolte said he is unaware of a similar registry in Oregon. The registry would allow domestic partners - two unmarried people age 18 or older who live togetherto document that relationship. Gay couples cannot marry under Oregon law, which recognizes marriage as the union of a manand a woman. "I believe it is appropriate that AglJland, as a caring community, should lead the way," said Neil Sechan, speaking for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Political Caucus of Southern Oregon. The local chapter of Parents, Family and Friends of Lesbians and Gays are also backing the proposed registry. Mayor Cathy Shaw said she believes a registry would have limited effect on unmarried couples, whether heterosexual or same-sex. "I would be incredibly proud to be mayor of a community that provides this service," she said recendy. "I am a great believer in the institution of marriage... I understand why this community is asking us to do this -.how importantit.is to be able to celebrate in an official way your commitment to another person.’" Rosemary Dunn Dalton, also speaking for the caucus, said a registry would let unmarried couples establishrelationships for purposes ofvisitation rights in hospitals and other institutions. She said a registry would provide proof of partnership for businesses offering benefits to domestic partners. The Oregon Court ofAppeals decided last year that if local governments offer benefits to domestic partners, they cannot deny benefits to same-sex couples because of the constitutional guarantee of equal protection. The court did not nile on Oregon’s legal definition of marriage. Ashland is among the local governments that have extended benefits to same-sex couples to comply with the ruling. A proposed ballot measure, to write the definition of marriage into the state constitution and bar benefits to unmarried couples, died in the 1999 Legislature. Albuquerque To Vote On Discrimination Ban ALBUQUERQUE (AP) - Lillian Mueller says she Gays in Albuquerque have lost their jobs and been denied housing because of their sexual orientation. Mueller, the mother of a Gay son and president of the local chapter of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, has formed a new group called TheCampaignforHumanRights. The group’s purpose is to mobilize support for a proposed amendment to the Albuquerque city charter that would add sexual orientation and mental disability to the antidiscrimination section. The issue will be on the Oct. 5 municipal election ballot. The charter now bans discrimination based on race, religion, sex and national origin. "It’s not a question of special rights," she said. "It’s a question of equal rights.’" Butthe Christian Coalition ofNew Mexico strongly opposes the charter amendment because it believes "the Gay lifestyle" is wrong. Mark Burton, Christian Coalition executive director, said his group will alert people in voters guides that go to about 300 churches. "It’s not a behavior that we want to have a nondiscrimination policy for," he said. "It’s a health haTard. It spreads AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases, so there’s no reason to endorse a behavior that’s dangerous and hazardous." Albuquerque added a human rights section to its charter in the early 1970s. The state Legislature in March rejected a bill that would have outlawed discrimination based on sexual orientation. It was the "third time such a measure was killedin the House. The bill would have expanded the state’s Human Rights Act to cover sexual orientation, malting it il!egal’to discriminate on that basis in matters of empld’yment, housing, credit, public-accommodations and’union membership. Eleven states and more than 170 local governments include sexual orientation in their nondiscrimination statutes, supporters Of the bill say. The cify of Albuquerque bars Such discrimination against its employees and when providing public services. Alleged Killers of Gay Men Must Stand Trial REDDING, Calif. (AP) - Two brothers accused of murdering a Gay couplemust stand trial and may face the deathpenalty ifconvicted, ShastaCounty Superior Court Judge James Ruggiero has ruled. Benjamin M. Williams, 31, and James T. Williams, 29, will each be tried on two counts of murder and related charges. The brothers are accused of killing Gary Matson, 50, and Winfield Scott Mowder, 40, in July. They are also suspects in June arson fires that caused more than $1 million in damage to three Sacramento-area synagogues. Matson and Mowder were found shot to death in their bed July 1 in rural Happy Valley, about 165 miles north of Sacramento. The Williams brothers, being held without bail, have pleaded innocent to first-degreemurder and four robbery, burglary and auto theft charges. The judge ruled that prosecutors can seek the death penalty, a decision that hasn’t been made. Prep School Attacker Free Until Trial GREENFIELD, Mass. (AP) - A Tennessee youth accused of using a knife to cut anti-Gay slur into the back of a fellow prep school student can continue college classes while awaiting trial, a judge said. Matthew Rogers, 20, of Franklin, Tenn., pleaded to charges of assault with a dangerous weapon. Franklin Superior Court Judge Lawrence Wemick continued bail at $10,000 cash or $50,000 bond on condition Rogers live with his parents or at the University of Mississippi where he is taking classes. Before his arrest, Rogers had held an appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy. Rogers and another student at the Northfield Mount Hermon School, Jonathan Shapiro, 18, of Keene, N.H., were initially charged in Greenfield District Court following the May 27 incident. The two are accused of slashing the word "HOMO" in shallow cuts on the back of a 17-year-old student during a dispute over music. Authorities said no one actually believed the victim was Gay. The argument arose over the rock band Queen and the characterization of its music as "Gay." Promoters of Community Center To Respond ELK CITY, Idaho (AP) - Promoters of a community education and performing~center expect to respond to charges by critics of the ~roposed c~nter who fear it could be used by homosexuals and become a place where teen-age girls get abortions. Plans to build the center have created division in the town of about 400 in remote Idaho County. Objections to the center range from locating it on school property to the fear homosexuals will use it to stage performances and teen-age girls getting abortions there. Critics have said since the center would be on public land there could not be restrictions placed on who uses it. New AIDS Drug SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A medicine developed in North Carolina that blocks the AIDS virus from getting inside cells is showing promise among patients whofail to respond to standard AIDS drugs. The medicine, code-named T-20, is still in early-stage testing, but researchers said it could offer a reprieve for those who have run out of options. "It looks quite good," said Dr. Michael Saag of the University of Alabama. "We are looking at something with a.totally different method of. action. It is an important, potent new option." T~20 was discovered at Duke University. It is being developed by Hoffmatm-La Roche Inc. and Trimeris Inc., a small biotech company in Durham, N.C. Thedrug is the furthest along of a new class of AIDS medicines called fusion inhibitors. They work by thwarting the virus’s ability to fuse with blood cells and insert their genetic material into them. However, the treatment has one large drawback compared with other AIDS drugs: Instead of being a pill, it must be injected twice daily. Nev~rtbeless, Saag said patients in advanced stages of AIDS are willing to give themselves shots, and they seem to tolerate the drug well. The results were reported by Dr. Jay Lalezari of Quest Clinical Research in SanFrancisco atameeting ofthe.,Aga,erican Society for Microbiology. Other AIDS drugs work principally by thwarting the virus’s ability to stitch its genetic material into cells it has invaded orbyblocking its ability to dispersemature copies of itself. Doctors gave T-20 to 55 people who had high levels of the AIDS virus despite trying many different combinations of AIDS medicines. While these standard drugs have proved to be life savers for many with AIDS, they do not work for all patients. Doctors administered T-20 in combinationwith other drugs, eventhough the patients’ HIV was resistant to the older medicines. After four months of treatment, virus levels fell significantly in 33 of the volunteers. In 20 of them, the virus fell to levels too low to bemeasured. Saag cautioned that the treatment is unlikely to work forever. But he said doctors hope it will dday rebound of the virus for perhaps-a year. T-20 is part of the protein thatmakes up the AIDS virus’ outer coat. Ordinarily it comes into play with another peptide- T- 21 - as the AIDS vinm grabs onto blood cells andprepares to enter them. Scientists found that flooding the body with extra copies of T-20 gums up this attachment process, Another AIDS study released at the meeting found that treatment very early in the course of an AIDS infection does not wipe out the virus entirely, as some had hoped. Dr. Martin Markowitz of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York City reported on four patients who started treatment within seyen to 90 days of catching HIV. All signs of their virus disappeared, andthey chose to stop therapy after three years: Thevirus reappeared within two to three weeks, One patient went back on treatment, but the three others stayed off. After shooting up, their virus levds fell again to low butdetectable levds. Researchers said the results raise the possibility that in such situations, the ¯ body’s immune system may be able to ¯ k~p I-HV in check without completely eliminating it. Are You Gay or Bisexual? : Satcher Looks at Are You Native American? :¯ Kids’ Health , . , Tulsa s Two-Sp,r,ted ,nd,an Mens : ROBINSVILLE, Miss. (AP) - U.S. ¯ SurgeonGeneralDavidSatcherhasissued Support Group is here for you! ¯ a warning about the health of America’s ¯ children. Satcher, speaking to a health ¯ Evening support group meetings : association recently in Tunica County, ¯ said children are growing fatter, lazier, ¯ Relationship workshops ¯ more sexually active and increasingly ¯ Short trips, outings and retreats ¯ addicted to toxic substances. ¯ Free HIV testing ¯ Satcher, former president of Meharry ¯ Medical College in Nashville, .Tenn., -spoke tO 400 public health care workers ¯ and advocates at the annual meeting of the ¯ Mississippi Public Health Association. ¯ Regarding the disparity in health care, ¯ Satcher said that in the last 10 years minorities, women and children have : fallen behind in many areas. ¯ Satcher said progress has been made in ¯ dealing with infectious diseases and there ¯ has been a decrease in the number of ¯ cancer cases, injury-related deaths and ¯ adult smokers. However, the munber of : teen-age smokers has risen_rapidly, Satcher ¯ said. Obesity has become a virtual epidemic ¯ among both adults and children, Satcher said. The current generation of children ¯ and teen-agers is the most inactive the ¯ country has ever had. One of the results of that inactivity has ¯ been an increase in Type 2 diabetes in ¯ children. In the past, physicians were told never to look for Type 2 in individuals ¯ - under40 years old, Satcher said. Now, the disease is occurring in children under the age of 10. Emphasis must be placed on physical activity and on diet, Satcher said. The American diet consists mainiy offats and sugars, he said. In one year, the average American will consume 156 pounds of added sugar. Weneedto promotehealthy lifestyles, Satcher said. "We need to promote physical activities. We need to promote nutrition and avoidance of toxins like tobacco, alcohol and illicit drugs. We need to promote responsible sexual behavior." 40% of college students and 30% of high school students are binge dri.nking, Satcher said. That has contributed to an increase m automobile accidents and irresponsible ~exual behavior. "Weneed to talkmorewith ourchildren aboutwhatit means tobesexually active," Satcher said. "When we don’ t teach sex in ¯ the schools, at home and in the churches, ¯ but they do teach it out on the streets or ¯ after school when there are no adults ¯ around, our children aren’t going to ¯ become responsible, sexual adults." ¯ His warning was directed not just to teen-agers, but to all people. Every day, 16,000 peoplebecomeinfected with HIV, ¯ the virus that causes AIDS. In the years : since the disease’s discovery, HIV has ¯ infected 50 million people and resultedin 14 million AIDS-related deaths. ¯ "In my opinion AIDS is the worst : epidemic since the plague of the 14th : century or maybe the influenza epidemic ," of 1918," Satcher said. 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"We’re at the beginning of an epidemic, not the end of an epidemic, with no vaccine, no cure," she told reporters before the walk began. "It’s not going to be over next week. It’s not going to be over in 10 years. It’s probably not going to be over in my lifetime.’" A sign of hope is the success of anti- AIDS drugs that are keeping thousands of people infected with the HIV virus free from symptoms. ButinmanyThirdWorld natxon~, including much of AIDSdecimated Africa, the medicines remain unaffordable and the publichealth system inadequate, she said. This is the second year of a coordinated AIDS WalkMichigan. Lastyear, 10 walks statewide raised $2~0,000, This year, walks also tookplace Sunday inAnnArbor, BerrienCounty, Flint,Grand Rapids, Holland-Saugatuck, Kalamazoo, Lansing, Muskegon, Port Huron, Saginaw-Midland-Bay City and Traverse City. But organizers sdid/he ~)etro’it event was particularly important because of the high rate of AIDS in the city. With about 10% of the state’s population, Detroit has nearly half of the reported AIDS cases, they said. "It’s the No. 1 killer of young African- American males and the No. 2 killer of young black females," said Detroit Episcopal Bishop R. Stewart Wood Jr. as he set out on the walk. Wood’s diocese, which has 35,000 members from Lansing to the Ohio line, has not been immune from the effects of AIDS. "Every one of our congregations has been touched by AIDS - members or loved-ones who have the disease. We’ve lost two of our clergy to AIDS," he said. Teresa and Bill Snell came in from Wayne County’s Redford Township to walk in this year’s walk, taking turns pushing 15-month-olddaughter Courtney in a three-wheeled jogger’s stroller. They raised a total of $49, most in pledges of $2 to $3, for their part in the walk. The 20 walkers from Mrs. Shell’s agency, the Detroit Hispanic Development Corp., raised $1,500 for. the fight, against AIDS. "It affects so many people and families around you," she said. "I don’t know anyone who has died,.of AIDS, but I do know that it is something that affects all kinds of people," her husband said. "It’s something that’s got to be stopped." Award Given to African Groups NEW YORK (AP) - The world’s largest humanitarian prize - $1 million - was awarded to an organization whose accomplishments include bringing health care to the Maasai and Turkana, two of Africa’s nomadic tribes. The Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize, awarded to the African Medical and Research Foundation, will give the organization funds it needs for additional work in AIDS and malaria prevention. It will also helppay to trainmore health care workers. ’q’his million will go along way and it will allow us tokeepmanyprojects afloat," saidJohn R. Batten, director ofthe Nairobi, Kenya-based AMREF, who accepted the prize at a ceremony in New York on Tuesday. Startedin 1957as aprogram thathelped needy Africans get specialized medical care- particularly reconstructive surgery - AMREF now provides health care services to 21 African countries. Programs are run from offices in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and South Africa. This year’s budget was $19 million. Over the years, AMREF built a twoway radio network that boosted hospital communications in East Africa, spearheaded the use ofinsecticide-treated mosquito nets to reduce childhoodmalaria deaths and performed more than 40,000 operations. It also has trained thousands of health care workers and specialists and brought services to the most remote corners of Africa, including to tribes that roam the continent. What sets AMREF apart from most international non-governmental organizations is that more than 95% of its employees are Africans. ’q’he approach we use in tackling all of theseproblems is community-based," said Peter Muchiri Ngatia, director for AMREF’s Uganda office. "Some prdl~lems "in A~r~ca, such as AIDS and HIV, areaggravatedby cultural practices." Much of the prize, which will be spent over three years, will be directed at two of Africa’s biggest killers - AIDS and malaria. "AMREF’s success in building an African-led and African-run health care system that is accessible to all provides a strong model for aid agencies around the world," said Barron Hilton, chairman of Hilton Hotels Corp. and a board member of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. AMREF was selected out of 225 nominations made by members of the international community, including diplomats, foundation leaders and academics. Once nominations are made, the Hilton foundation researches the organization and performs On-site visits. After that, selections go to an independent international jury. Last year, Medecins Sans Frontieres, or Doctors Without Borders - the largest independent international medical aid organization - won the prize. ¯ Feds Pushingf0r : Name"Reporting ¯ FRANKFORT, Ky~ (AP):-, The General ¯ Assembly could be asked to require : doctors treating people infected with the : virus that causes AIDS to report them by ¯ name. It is the only way to ensure that : federal money for AIDS treatment and " program keeps flowing, a task force’s ~ reasoning goes. : "The practicality is this," Dr. Anna ¯ Huang, see Health, p. 11 byJames Christjohn, entertainmentQueen By the time you read this, the film will be gone (thanks toWoodlandHills Cinema for bringing it to us!), but as it will be a great stocking stuffer - no catty remarks, please - I will review it for your reading pleasure anyway. And since I’ve never worried about timeliness before, why start now? "Get Real" was a wonderful film about a 16 year old Gay boy in England, and the process of "coming out" - he runs into an older boy at his school, and they find themselves in "love", or what seems to be love. Only one problem: The older boy is ashamed of his Gayness, and wants everything kept "hushhush." Needless to say, many poignant moments ensue, all of which rang true for me and the other person viewing the film with me. Much was true to life, although much of it was kind of "what if I had come out at 16 instead of 21" speculation for me. I was a late bloomer, what can I say? Speaks a lot for "the environment. At any rate, I found the film absorbing and realistic, in many aspects. As my friendpointed out, "Yes, but there were so many’cinematicmoments.’ "Myresponse was, "yes -and ? - life is made of ’cinematic moments.’ Sometimes we’re lucky enough to havelots of them." I pointed out several ’cinematic moments’ that we shared that he’d forgotten, and he conceded the point. He also took umbrage with the ending, whichwas realistic. (Warning: Don’tread beyond this point to the next paragraph if you haven’t seen it and don’t want it spoiled) He wanted a more romantic ending ¯ (ironic, given his criticism only moments before of the "cinematic moments"). The ¯¯ boys split, our hero deciding against a futurebased on deceptionand hiding with : one so.uncomfortable with himself. ¯ To me, that was a happy ending - he : was strong enough to standup for whathe believed, both in a public And of course, no column written by yours truly would be complete without a mention of "You Know Who." And if you don’t know, then you’ve not been reading this seetion regularly, now have you? and personal sense, and wasn’t willing to "settle" for less. Yes, the sappy ending myfriendproposedwould have been ok, and his rationalewas that so many mowes with Gay characters end up with depressing endings that he’d have liked to have seen an alternate ending where both come out and live happily ever after. Yeah, maybe it. would have been nice, but I applaud the author and producer’s strength to stick with this ending. And to me, it was a happy ending of sorts. All ¯ depends on perspective, I suppose. At any ¯ rate, The activg was top-notch, the ¯ characters were real, and it is definitely a ¯ film destined to be at the top of my DVD ¯ wish list." : "Beauty and the Beast" ended its run on ¯ aninterestingnot.e.Abeautifulproduction, ¯ albeit with sometechnieal difficulties (the. : first week’s shows were in reality : "previews", in which technical errors are : more or less expected and worked out) ¯ such as bad timing on the lighting, ¯ ° reveahngcharacter’ s "di° sappearances"to ¯ beactors running inand out oflights when ¯ it should bedark, beasts transforming into : princes and getting stuck in mid- ’ transformation by malfunctioning ¯ "magic" ("this spell canceled due to ¯ technical difficulties") and mysterious ¯ illnesses taking out cast members. ". see Beast, p. 14 by the Helmerich Foundation October 16, 22 & 24 Tulsa Perf:oming Arts Act Now! 587-4811 596-7111 for tickets. OKLAHOMA T 0 H R by John Curran ATLANTIC CITY - The flowers and dime-store crown were real. Nearly everything else was fake, from the eyelashes to thecleavage tothetip-synched songs. WelcometoAtlantic City’ s otherbeauty pageant, the one for men dressed in drag. Seven blocks and a world away from the stage where Miss America 2000 was crowned, the Miss’d America Pageant lampooned its famous older sister with a raucous, gender-bending spoof funny enough to bust a girdle. Held annually on the night after Miss America’s crowning, Miss’d America provides a sarcastic antidote to the applepie sincerity of the real pageant. The swimsuit competition? A display of chunky thighs and muscular arms. The musical production numbers? Over-thetop atrocious. The evening wear contest? Outright hysterical. The only serious thing Sunday was the cause: Theeventraisedmorethan $15,000 for support programs run by the South Jersey AIDS Alliance. "It’s the wildest show this side of the Boardwalk," said Bill Mattel, the alliance’s former chief executive. Wild, indeed. There was Miss Sallotta ¯ Tea, who squeezed 240 pounds into a : sequined black cocktail dress and opera- " length black gloves. Down the runway ¯ wentMissTea, pushing acartloadedwith ¯ goodies and warbling a versionofthe title : song from the musical "Cabaret." "Life is ¯ abigb,uf,fet, myfriend. Socometothebig buffet, sang Miss Tea. ¯ Then there was Miss Tenee, a 6-foot-3 : inch, 205-pounder, who began a talent ¯ segment in a purple Afro wig and brown ¯ velour dress. That soon disappeared, : revealing a silk chemise. Miss Tenee won : the crown, was given a dozen roses and ¯ headeddown the bulb-adornedrunway as ¯ the crowd sang a reworked version of ". "There She Is," the Miss Americastandard. ¯ The capacity 600-person crowd was a ¯ mix of Gay and straight, casino workers and local politicians, Miss America ¯ Pageant hairstylists and female ¯ impersonators. , Not that there wasn t some authenticity ¯ to the proceedings. Miss America 1998 : Kate Shindle, who spent her reign ¯ promoting AIDS advocacy and needle : exchanges, sang "My Man" during the : show. "As far as I’m concerned, what’s : any pageant without a former Miss ¯ Whatever singing StreisandT’ she said. M E TI"VAL OCTOBER 7, 8, 99 9 9 9 Professional Business "You don’t have to know ballet to love ballet. You just have to try it." AR11Sl1[: :Mixed Repertory includes two Oklahoma premieres Exposition ~SUNDAYS Bless the Lord At All Times Christian Center Sunday School - 9:45am, Service - 11 am, 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815 Community of Hope (Welcoming), Service - 6pm, 2545 S. Yale, 585-1800 Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation Service - 1 lain, 2545 S. Yale, 749-0595 (Welcoming) Church of the Restoration Unitarian Universalist Service - 1 lain, 1314 No. Greenwood, 587-1314 Metropolitan Community Church United Service, l lain, 1623 North Maplewood, Info: 838-1715 House of the Holy Spirit Ministries, Inc. Sunday School - 9:45am, Service - 10:45am, 3210b So. Norwood Parish Church of St. Jerome (Evangelical Anglican Church in America) Mass - 1 lain, 205 W. King (east of N. Denver), Info: 582-3088 Unity Church of Christianity Services: 9:15 & 11:00 am, 3355 S. Jamestown, 749-8833 University of Tulsa Bisexual/Lesbian/Gay/Transgendered Alliance 6:30 pm, Meets at the Canterbury Ctr., 5th & Evanston, 583-9780 ~ MONDAYS Mixed Volleyball, Helmerich Park, 71st & Riverside, 6pm, call Shawn at 243-5190. HIV Testing Clinic, Free & anonymous testing. No appointment required. Walk in testing: 7-8:30pm, 834-TEST (8378) 3501 E. Admiral (east of Harvard) HIV Rap Sessions at Bless the Lord At All Times Christian Center 7:30pro, 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815 PFLAG, Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians & Gays 2rid Mon/each mo. 6:30pro, Fellowship Congregational Church, 2900 S. Harvard Women/Children & AIDS Committee, call for meeting date, noon, 585-5551 Council Oak Men’s Chorale, rehearsals - call for times, info: 748-3888. I~"TUESDAYS AIDS Coalition of Tulsa, call for next meeting date. 1430 S. Boulder, 585-5551 Live And Let Live, Commuuity of Hope United Methodist, 7:30pm, 2545 S. Yale Multicultural AIDS Coalition, call for next meeting date. Urban League, 240 East Apache, 584-0001 PrimeTimers, mens group, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th Coming Out Support Group (TOHR/HOPE) Tuesdays, 6 pro, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th, info: 743-4297 I~ WEDNESDAYS Bless The Lord At All Times Christian Center Prayer & Bible Study, 7:30 pm 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815 House of the Holy Spirit Ministries, Inc. Service - 7pm,’3210b So. Norwood Tulsa Native American Mens Support Group, more information, call 582-7225 TCC Gay & Lesbian Association of Students (GLAS), Call for info: 595-7632. Lambda A-A, 7 pm, 1307 E. 38th, 2nd ft. ~THURSDAYS HOPE, HIV Outreach, Prevention, Education Anonymous HIV Testing, Testing: 7 - 8:30pm 834-8378, 3507 E. Admiral Oklahoma Rainbow Young Adult Network (O’RYAN) Support/social group for 18-24’s, call Red Rock Mental Health at 584-2325 Substance Abuse Support Group for persons with HIV/AIDS, Info: 834-4194 I~" FRIDAYS SafeHaven, Young Adults Social Group, I st Fri/eachmo. 8pro, Pride Ctr., 1307 E. 38th ~" SATURDAYS Narcotics Anonymous, 11 pm, Commmlity of Hope, 1703 E. 2nd, Info: 585-1800 Lambda A-A, 6 pm, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th, 2nd t, ~i~ _ I~’ OTHER GROUPS ...... T.U.L.S.A. Tulsa Uniform & Leather Seekers Association, info:298-0827 Gal-A-Vanting, Women~ Social & Cultural Group Call for info: Kathy at 322-6322, or Barb at 459-6825. OK Spoke Club, Gay & Lesbian Bike Organization. Long rides & short ddes from Zeigler Park. Long & short rides from Tulsa Gay Commtmity Center. Write for info: PUB 9165. Tulsa, OK 74157 Ifyour organization is not listed, please let us know. Call 583-1248 orfax 583-4615. by George Bria POUND RIDGE, N.Y. (AP) - Gardening ~njoys suchaserenereputation thatgetting njure~ at it seems almost laughable: Yet anoverzealous greenthumbcanalsomean a sore elbow. Thecasualtyhsts are. swelled, ofcourse, by the power eqmpment ix~juries oaten stiffered through ¯ in’attention or failure to wear ,:protective gear~ But.whatwe’re talking about here is soreness, strains and sprains. A common ailment is tendonitis. You can get tennis elbow just pulling weeds, the repetitive squeezing motion inciting inflzmmation. Back muscle spasm is another trauma that threatens the wheelbarrow lifter or the person who bends abruptly or improperly to perform some taskinflowerbed or vegetable patch. Sometimes it just happens without an easily pinpointed cause. Having suffered both these : abdominal muscles," Pearlman says. "In ¯ essence, thesemuscles act as"guy wires," ¯ to keep your baekmhne. She prescn a series of abdominal strengthening : exercises and also exercises to condition ¯ other muscles related to the back. : If, in spite of all this, back spasm suddenly strikes, Pearlman says stop your garden work immediately, head for the house and lie down on an ice pack for 20 minutes. That’s just a beginner. Then do some exercises and maybe take a pain reliever. Repeat the sequence four or five tames during the first day. In two or three days you should be better, she says, and if not, think of going to a doctor. Pearlman prescribes a variety of push-ups and weight-lifting exercises to -strengthen arms. One. way to strengthen hands, she says, is repetitive squeezing of a semisoft rubber ball.. Aside from strengthening exercises, "Lets get down to earth and be real;’ Pearlman says, "gardening is an active, contact "sport." "When is the last time you sat still in your garden?" - Barbara Pearlman ailments from my gardening, I can testify : they’re just as painful as if you got them " on the tennis court, as I did, or from some ° other sport or at work. To add to potential miseries, a bad elbow you got in tennis might heal only to flare up again in the garden. Tendonitis can hit the shoulder, too,andoften does. There are conditioning exercises youcan do, andprobably should do, to prevent injuries, but in my experience inflanu~tory ailments like tendonitis sometimes seem to happen willy-nilly. One day you’re fine after w.eedigg an,d. anotherday you develop pain tlaat doesn t go away. The same thing happens to a pitcher or a hard-serving teums player despite conditioning. Proven therapies, involving drugs, exercises or even surgery, exist to heal such injuries but preventing them from happening in the first place is something else. Nevertheless, suggestions exist, and a good book has just come out aimed at conditioning youto minimize the chances of getting hurt while gardening. "Gardener"s Fitness" by Barbara Pearlman (Taylor Publishing Co., $12.95, paperback), a Manhattan fitness expert and a gardener, prescribes exercises, proper posture and attire and relaxation teclmiques. The 151-page book contains easy-to-follow instructions and helpful illustrations. "Lets get down to earth and be real," Pearlman says, "gardening is an active, contact "sport." "When is the last time you sat still in your garden?" she asks, "If you’re not hauling heavy rocks, you’re pushing a wheelbarrow, toting tools, dragging the hose, or whacking weeds. You’re in perpetual motion, unless of course your idea of gardening is planting :apot of~etunias orp~msies onyourpaso?’ Pearlman identifies tlie body parts mat workhardestinthe garden as arms,: ,,l~ees, hands "and, abov,~ all, your back,. Back pain,"shesays,~s the gardener sbugaboo. Unless your back is made of steel (in which case, youprobably can’.t g.etinto ,al,1 the contorted positions gardemng cans for) at some point during the season, your back is bound to protest." ’The very best defense against back painis agoodoffense, whichmeans strong knee fitness involves proper squatting in the garden, Pearlman says. This means keeping your heels flat, otherwise far : much pressure is placed on your knees." : "Knowing how to bend over andhow to ¯¯ lift an object (or yourself) the correctway is crucial to gardening," Pearlman says. : ’The chance of straining your back is far : greater if youneglect tobendyourknees." ¯ When carrying things, she says, "you ¯ should use the strongest and largestjoints and muscles (those in your arms) for the ." job to avoid direct pressure on your ¯ smallestjointsandweakestmuscles (those : in your hands and fingers.)" ¯ "There is a right way and a wrong way ¯ to move when you garden and malting th,e, ¯ right moves makes good garden sense,’ ". Pearlman says. "It’s as simple as that." :: :DonationsRejected ¯ JOHANNESBURG, South Mrica (AP)- ¯ A provincial blood donor service has ¯ started turning away black blood donors ¯ between 18 and 35 years because of the : high risk of infection from AIDS and ¯ other diseases, E-TV reported in : September. ¯ Eric Saunderson, head of the Natal BloodTransfusion Service, confirmedthat the agency is importing blood from Hollandand theWestern Cape, a province with a lower rate of HIV infections. ¯ "Ourresponsibility is to thepatient, and ¯ it’s the right of every patient to have the ¯ safest blood possible," Saund~rson said ¯ in the television interview. ¯ Ronald Louw, a spokesman from the ¯ Gay and Lesbian Coalition, denounced the practice of apartheidblood collection. ¯ ’q’his is discrimination," he said. ¯ About 8% 0f all South Africans are ¯ HIV positive,~a rate that reaches up to ¯ 25% in some communities in KwaZulu- ¯ Natal, where the Natal service is located, ¯ and elsewhere in the country. But a racial : breakdown of the infection rate was not ¯ known. Black Blood The MoreThings Average New Car Price 1985 $ 9,011 1998 $20,000 Minimum Wage 1985 $3.35 1998 $5.15 Postage Stamp 1985 22¢ 1998 32~ The More Things Average Price of Electrici~ Per Stay The Same. Residential kWh 1985 6.,$¢ Alot has changed since 1985. Prices for many 1998 5.7¢ consumer goods have more than doubled. But one thing has stayed the same. Our rates. They’ve remained virtually unchanged for almost fifteen years. Top value for P~9 your energytdollar. The most reliable service possible. And better choices than Public Service Company of Oklahoma ever before. You can count on it. A Central and South West Comoany Give The Gift of Pride In Honor of~, Or In Memory of... Someone Special to You. For a small gift of $25.00, you can donate a beautiful Christmas poinsettia to a local AIDS hospice. Your gifts will adorn the stage at "A Council Oak Christmas," November 19-20. Call Today for COMC Carolers at Your Holiday Party! To Order: Call COMC at (918) 748-3888 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. Holland Hall SCHOO’L PRIMARY SCHOOL TOUR (aGE 3- GRADE 3) ALL CAMPUS OPEN HOUSE To reserve your place; please call the Admission Office at 481-1111, extension 251. 5666 E 8 Ist Street ~ Between Yale & Sheridan ~ Tulsa www.hollandhall.org Holland Hall admits qualified students without regard to race, sex, reugton, national or ethmc ortgm, or p~.’sical disabiliF. by Anthony Breznican Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) - The aggressive roles of men in sports, movies and television can cause boys to equate violence with masculinity, according to a report released today byachildren’s advocacy group. A survey of 1,200 boys, ranging from 10- to 17-yearsold, revealed their favorite entertainment often depicts brutality as a heroic way to solve~problems, said Harvard psychologistWilliam Pollack, who helped analyze the study for ChildrenNow. "It’s gender straight-jacketing," Pollack said. ’q~hese boys believe that in order to be a real man- like the ones in the media - they have to be violent and aggressive."About74%ofthe characters and sports figures viewed by the participants committed brutal or defiant acts or demonstrated antisocial behavior such as ridiculing or lying, Pollack said. The study was released at the start ofthe group’ s anntml conferencein Los Angeles. Children Now, an independent advocacy group for children in Oakland, plans to use the findings to call on entertainment executives to promote a more compassionate image of men, said Lois Salisbury, president of the organization. According to Ms. Salisbury, the kickboxing crimefighter on "Walker, Texas Ranger" on CBS and the sensationalized crashes and arrests on Fox’s "World’s Wildest Police Videos" were among the worst for reinforcing negative stereotypes ofauthoritativemen. "Theyjust glorify heavy-handed tactics," she said. She also speculated that professional wrestling’s blend of scantily dad women a University ofLouisville assistantmedical professor, said: without federal money, only people with insurance will have access to the relatively few doctors with experience in AIDS treatment. "I think we’re at a point the legislation needs tobe considered,"Huangsaidduring a public hearing by the legislature’s Task "It’s gender straightjacketing," Pollack said. "These boys believe that in order to be a real man - llke the ones in the media - they have to be violent and aggressive." - William Pollack : and muscle-bound fighters could cause ¯ relationship problems for adolescent boys "_ who might imitate the behaviors they see ¯ acted out by the wrestlers when trying to : woo women. ’The image is that men are meant to be defined by anger and violence and power and sex," Ms. Salisbury said. ’There is very little roomfor a range of behaviors such as compassion and compromise." She points to ABC’s ’¢Fhe Drew Carey Show" as an example ofaprogram that has very little violence and draws itshumorfrom the crew-cutted comedian’s portrayal of schlepping throughamundane job. "He’s stuck in ajob that’s going nowhere and the whole basis (of the show) is that he is ¯ . . a loser," Ms. Salisbury said. "That tells boys that the only place to be is at the top. Otherwise, you’re to be laughed at." Michael J. Gerson, a psychologist and lecturer at Loyola Marymount University, criticized Children Now for ¯¯ drawing what he characterized as an elementary conclusion about the effects ¯ of media violence on young people. ¯ "Researchers canunderestimate the ability of children to make distinctions between ¯ fantasy andreality,"Gerson said.’~A child ¯ may s~oot his fingers like a gun, but he doesn t have to develop a killer mentality ¯ or wish to be destructive." i-iowever, ¯ Gerson saidChildren Now was correct in ¯ proposing that the blending of sex and ¯ violence can confuse adolescents who ¯ should instead associate gentleness with ¯ intimacy. "I do object to movies where the ¯ girl and the guy get into the back seat of ¯ the car and a Miler pops out and cuts them ¯ in half with a chain saw," Gerson said. ¯ "That can cause problems." Force on HIV/AIDS Prevention, Services " and Financing. " Thirty-three states require people ! infected with HIV, the human ¯ immundeficiency virus, to be reported by " name. The federal government is : pressuring all other states, including ¯ Kentucky, to follow suit. Those that balk ¯ could lose federal funding for AIDS, the " task force says in a report. ." The recommendation brought a fierce ¯ response aboutprivacy-evenamong task " force members - at the public hearing. "I " call it blackmail," said Barry .Norris, a ," task force member from Louisville. But, ¯ Norris asked, what choice does Kentucky " have. Do we just not take themoney9... ° ¯ Do we make a principled stand?" Jeff ." Vessels, executive director of the ¯ American Civil Liberties Union in " Kentucky, said states should challenge the federal agencies. "It’s a terrible thing that we have to sacrifice so much privacy in the name of money," Vessels said. An AIDS patient said the stigma of the disease would drive many people underground. "For the fear of reporting their names, they simply will not go get tested," Michael Seidler of Louisville testified. Thestate keepsrecords ofAIDS patients by name, but not of people infected with ttIV..For that reason, the state’ s reports of HIV infection are considered suspect by federal record keepers at the Centers for Disease Control. Mollie’Adkins, of the Kentucky Department for Public Health, said name reporting is the most reliable way yet found to ensure cases are not duplicated and statistics are not inflated. Names would he maintained, in a state database, not passed along to the CDC. The task force also says the legislature should restrict access to the information and enact stiff penalties for breaches. Seidler, the AIDS patient, said that was wishful thinking. Computer hackers got into Florida’s HIV-test database, he said. "Ifyoucan guarantee somethinglike that’ s not going to happen..." Seidler said, "by all means go outand get tested yourselves." by Esther Rothblum, Ph.D. Do Lesbians drink more alcohol than heterosexual women? In the not-toodistant past, the Lesbian bar was one of the only places " ~ome d the where Lesbians could go to early studies meet other women. On the otherhand,many Lesbianbars su~,rested that h~iVe Closed down, indicating Pdr.einrhkainpgs lt~hsast aLndeshbaivaensot-haerer- upd-toLoensblei~atnhlsrdplaces to socialize, To find out more about Lesbians and alcohol-use, I interviewedDr. TondaHughe~ in the Department of Nursing at the University of Illinois at Chicago. ,Some of the early studies suggested that up .to one third of Lesbians were serious alcohol abusers," she said, "but often these researchers collected their data from Lesbians in bars. So itis not surprising that this method found a large number of Lesbians who were heavy drinkers. I think that that is why we have the bdief that Lesbians are atriskfor alcohol abuse." Nevertheless, Dr. Hughes believes that Lesbians drank more than heterosexual women in the 1960s and 70s. "Lower rates of drinking among Lesbians now is partly due to changes in drinking in the whole population, to more health consciousness, and to the AIDS crisis, which has alertedus to the risks ofalcohol and drug use," she said. She also felt that Lesbians used to drink more during the coming out process, in order to deal with social anxiety and stigma involved in meeting other women and coming to terms with being a Lesbian. In a study conducted in Chicago, New York City, and Minneapolis/St. Paul in the mid-1980s with more than Lesbians, Lesbians overall were no more likely to reportalcohol-relatedproblems than we.re ° heterosexual women. Only Lesbians in the 50-60 year old age range reported ¯ more alcohol problems than did their " heterosexualcounterparts. Dr. Hughes has ¯ conductedaseries of studies withLesbians " and heterosextml women that focus on ° various mental health factors, including ¯ alcohol use and abuse. Her results indicate that Lesbians these " days are no more likely to drink heavily " than are heterosexual women. In fact,-- Lesbians were more likely to report ¯ abstaining from alcohol altogether for the " past year than were heterosexual women.." Most of the Lesbian and-heterosexual ¯ womeninher sample drank alcohol at low " levels. White Lesbians, however, drank " morethandid AfricanAmericanor Latina ¯ Lesbians. "Interestingly, there are more Lesbians ." who report that they are in recovery, " though" she added. Only 2% of." heterosexual womenhadbeenin treatment for alcohol or in 12-step programs, compared with 17% of Lesbians--a large " difference. This may be the result of prior ¯ heavy drinking among Lesbians. Or it " may be thht Lesbians are more aware of " were serious alcohol abusers~~ she said, ’but often these researchers co||ected tbelr data [rom Lesblans ;n bars. So it’s not surprlslng that this method [ound o[ Lesbians who were heavy drinkers. I think that that is why we bare the belld that Lesbians are at r~sk [or alcohol abuse.’" ~ substanceuse issues than areheterosexual ¯ women. Oneofthe questionsinthesurvey is "Have you ever wondered if you had a drinking problem," and 47% of Lesbians answered "yes" to this item compared with only 14% of the heterosexual women. This finding again hints at heavy alcohol use in thepastonthepartofLesbians. Finally, there was a trend for older Lesbians to report more drinking, and these are the Lesbians who were adults during earlier times when drinking was more part of the Lesbian commurtities. Dr. Hughes is interested in exploring patterns of drinking across various age groups of Lesbians. Specifically, she is interested in whether older Lesbian~ who were adults during earlier times when drinking was more part of the Lesbian cotumunities are continuing to drink heavily. She is also interested in the question of how Lesbians and their partners moderate each others drinking, because research on heterosexuals shows that partners’ drinking is a major factor in how much people drink. We still know very little about all Ihe factors that increase or decrease Lesbians’ risk for alcohol abuse or alcohol-related problems. Esther Rothblum is Professor of Psychology at the University of Vermont and Editor of the Journal of Lesbian Studies. She can be reached at Dewey Hall, Univ. of Vermont, Burlington, VT, ¯ emaih esther.rothblum@uvm.edu. of The Tulsa Worldnews story about the New Jersey ruling. Ms. Kue.lmertpromised to check into the issue and to telephone back the next day. TAUWenjoys significant supportfrom some of Tulsa’s most well known corporations. Debbie Graham ofQuikTrip Corporation said that her organization had supported UnitedWayformany years because it helps a vast variety of agencies but-that QuikTrip doesn’t get involved in "the politics of individual agencies." And while Ms. Graham could not confirm that Quik Trip has a nondiscrimination policy which explicitly includes "sexual orientation," she noted that it is their practice not to discriminate. Quik Trip had provided promotion of the United Way campaign in the form of a printed solicitation for support on Quik Trip paper bags. Emily Gill of Dollar Car Rental did confirm that her company and its parent group, Dollar/Thrifty Automotive Group (DTAG) which Mr. Cappy chairs, does have an explicitnon-discrimination policy butMs. Gill wasunable to address whether any one atDTAG saw any conflictbetween their internal non-discrimination policy and see TA UW, p. 13 Red Rock Tulsa Free Confidential HIV Testing Walk-in Clinics Tuesday Testing, 5 -8 pm Pride Center, 1307 East 38th Wednesday Tdsting, 5-8 pm Red Rock, 1724 East 8th Daytime appointments available. Call for more information: 918-584-2325 Church of the Restoration Unitarian Universalist 11 am, Sunday 1314 North Greenwood 587-1314 We knowyou’re going to love this..r Restaurant & Cabaret ltxst~~ tla~ ~’f~rO~ ¯. 310 East First Streel 918-599-9949 Massage Therapy Services Edgar O. Cruz, L.M.T. Pager: 918-889-5255 Voice Mail: 918-697-9282 Lic. #C4133 Want to get involved? Need to get tested for HIV? Need a Coming Out Support Group? Call 743-GAYS (4297) Tulsa Gay Community Services Center 1307 E. 38th at Peoria, 2nd floor Country Club Barbering Custom Styling ¯ for Men & Women David Kauskey 3310 E. 51st, 747-0236 Tues.-Fri., 8-5:30, Sat. 8-5pm ¯ IGTA member Call 341. 6866 International Tours/ormoreinformation. Red Rock Tulsa O’RYAN Oklahoma Rainbow Young Adult Network Outreach Program Thurs. Nights Meet Others in a Safe Enviroment Call for meeting times and place: 918-584-2325 ERESH ITALIAN RAINBOW CUSINE TROUT ofEureka Springs Voted Number One in Arkansas! (501) 253-680Z Closed Wednesday 5 Cen~er Street, Eureka Springs, AR 72632 TOM NEAL BUILDING & GARDEN DESIGN 583- 1248 Compatibility reports . for you and your friends or lovers. 599-0717 Gay Owned, Operated & Rainbow Proud Gay Mecca of the Ozarks Beautiful Eureka Springs, Arkansas by Lamont Lindstrom, Phdg. Last snmmer I wentto afriend’ s fiftieth birthday p~arty.,] I think actually it was at least his tbir or even fourth fiftieth birthday. He is de_t,_e~_.ined.n_o,t to get any older. Freezingone s agent50ts somewhat more mature than those of us who fixate on 30, or even 25. Another birthday boy I know is at 28 and holding. Andmy friend Steve- who is 33 and gorgeous - always shaves five or six years off his age on those tempting messages he leaves on telephone dating, lines. Welcome to America. Growing up around here is good. But growing old can be a problem. We all know about the bittersweetness of birthdays. Next time you are in a card store, have a look at those nasty if cruelly funny. cards that we are encourag to giveanyoneunlueky enough to have turned 40. Women complain that the onusof age falls most heavily on them. Men, as they wrinkle, gray; and sag, at least might bope.~o grow to be distinguished. Women, on the other hand, age into grannies and crones. My sly friends who have recycled or lost a few of their blrdadays, however, don~t seem to be waiting eagerly for distinguished, silver-haired maturity. They, too~ would rather stay young and juicy. Theexplosion of men’s hair dye, plastic surgery, and youthful herbal supplement commercials flashing daily on my television screen suggest an increasingly desperate age-panic among all of us, no matter our gender. When I was 24, I lived on Tanna, an isolated South Pacific island. Everyone there is related to everyone. Newcomers - quickly receive "fictive kin" identities in order better to fit into village life. Soon after I arrived, all the kids began calling me kaha - "grandpa." I was taken aback by this. Why, back then, I had hardly any gray hair after all! OnTanna, though, as in most places on earth, ageis pr_estigio.us.. Those kids were doing me abig favor wttla that grandpa thing. Myislandfriend Nariu, who was hardly older than me, within a few years had started referring to himself (and me) as "’we old men." Nariu was ambitious and since old men ran his society, he was determined to become a senior citizen as soon as he could. American fears of aging clearly have much to do with how years connect up with power and prestige. I sometimes ask my university students when they think adulthood begins. When do you truly become an adult? They tend to place this somewherein the20s-afew years bey.ond their own age. Most Americans associate adulthood with economic independence: having one’s own job, paying 0n.e’s.o.wn bills. We see some 35-year-old still hvlng with mother as sadly still a little juvenile. I also askmy youthful students for their, defimtmns of nnddle-aged and old. Answers here are more variable. (Some startmiddleage-at30.) Generally, though, true oldness connects with retirement. Once we leave the workplace for good, we lose salary, power, prestige, and any final fleeting claims to youth. People throughoutmost of the world can’t wait to get old. The older they are, the more ¯ authority and influence they have within their fzmilies and societies. Here, if you : want to be president at age 69, like Ronald ¯ Reagan you’d better pour on that black ¯ hair dye. . Gay menmay bemore panickedby age : than most Americans. We have all heard : bitter complaints about our agi_sm ~ a~,d lookism- and such gripes are often samy : justifiedbypersonal experience. (Lesbian ¯¯ society is,l~___ha,p_s kinder to it_s wrin.kl,ed sisters ) It s fun to read the age limitalmns in classified personal ads. "Gay men may Most of the lovelorn are ISO sweet-youngthings. Notmany be more want to date those of well-. panicked by age than most Americans. We have all heard bitter complaints a~out our agism -- and lookism - and such gripes are often sadly justified by personal experience." aged .and mature vintage. Many ads have upper age cutoffs - commonly 30 or 35 or, morerarely, 40. Some seekers are willing to date over a decade’s span-five years younger to five years older than themselves. Many 40- somethings speei-ficaldl’y request none but the 20- something... Good luck... More gray hair on the way for you, I think. Or there is the daddy niche: Sugardaddies,leatherdaddies, bears and cubs. A few yonngish personal advertisers won’ t touch anyone underneath 45 or 50. They want~eir daddy. At.leastthere remarns, here m .agist American, one specialized market opporUmity for mental, ,facial,,and financial maturity. So you can atways ouy a youth if you can’t have youth yourself Then there are the age-blind. They "go bv~t_he s,n_i_r_i t. "Thev_o_romisetodateanyone 18 to 88, or so they say. I logged onto a 61- vear-old’s personal page on the Internet. "Ageis only a state of mind,"it said. Yeah right. Are you from Tanna or America? Check out your mirror. But I’m taking notes. Those birthdays keep rolling. And next year the cake might set off the smoke Lamont Lindstrom. Ph.D. teaches anthropology at ~he University of Tulsa? the discriminatory policies of the BSA and United Way’s failure to pledge not to discriminate. Ms. Gill promised aresponse after consulting with others in her organizationbutfailed to respondby press time. Likewise, Jean Johnson, Bank of America’s southwestern press spokesperson, pointed out that the bank, with its origins in San Francisco, has some of themostprogressive policies, not only pledging not to discriminate but also ¯ prowiding domestic partner benefits to ¯ their employees. She added that Bank of ] America is one of United Way’s largest ~ supporters on a national level. Roger ¯ Whaley ofBank of America serves on the ~ board of directors of TAUW. : The Tulsa Area United Way campaign ¯ enjoys further promotional sup.port fr,.om Tulsa area television stations. Accoromg ’. to the staffperson at KOTV, Channel 6, : the stations which represent the major ~ networks and Fox all agree to do public ¯ service announcements. " Pat Baldwin of KTUL, Cbannel 8 who ¯ is a member see TAUW, p. 14 The regular Belle’s father was hospitalized during the run, and at the last matinee, folks in the audience neverknew of the backstage drama going on. The Beast became ill at the end of the first act (where he flings himself across a balcony In despair of ever being loved, and the curtain falls). When the backstage crew revolved the set to help him down, they found the actor playing the Beast hanging over the balcony - passed out cold. They revived him, and he decided to go on with the show: However, you could never tell from the audience that anything was wrong. After the performance, he was whisked to the hospital as soon as the curtain fell. It appears he may have been suffering from a bleeding ulcer. The understudy went on that evening, and I hear he did well, despite misgivings on the part of some of the crew and other castmembers-not tomentionhehimself! I was sorry to see the troupe leave - they were such nice folk. October events at the Performing Arts Center (596-7111 for tix) include Tulsa Ballet’ s "AnnaKarenina", Oct 1-3; Sabella Oct 2; The Celtic Series with Natalie McMaster, Oct 8-9; Tulsa Opera’s "Carmen, Oct 16-24; ATC’s Titanic mystery, "Scotland Road", Ok 22-30; and The Phil’s pops concert, "Sound and Sorcery" Oct 29-30. I look forward to the arrival of Petula Clark as Norma Desmond in "Sunset Boulevard." However, I still think Carol Bumett should tour with the show; that would bea .fresh interpretation in many respects. The reviews I’ve read and heard from friends thus far have reassured me we are in for an excellent show. The magicin themaking will arriveNovember 23 -28. And of course, no column written by yours truly would be complete without a mention of"YouKnow Who."Andifyou don’tknow, then you’ve not been reading this section regularly, now have you? Shame on you! The ever-ethereal Stevie Nicks made a stumling appearance on the top-rated Sheryl Crow and Friends concert on the ,Fox network, and it was interesting to note that she garneredthemostenthusiastic audience response of the eminently talented bunch. "Gold Dust Woman" never sounded better, and according to the rumor mill, her new CD’s in the can, awaiting release. Sheryl Crow produced theCDin between tours. Also, Lesbian Icon, Melissa Etheridge, if you follow the Tulsa World columns, is rumored to be scheduling a Tulsa appearance. We’ll be awaiting word on that situation. And "heart-and-other-body-partsthrob" Ricky Martin will be in Dallas November 4th. Ay cammba! of the board of directors of Tulsa Area UnitedWay, failed to respond to the voice mail asking him to call. In contrast, Bud Brown, new general manager ofKOTV, Channel 6, noted he’d only been in Tulsa for 3 weeks, and had not seen the Tulsa World article in which the Boy Scouts reaffirmed their anti-Gay stance but he noted that his corporation, The Belo Corporation which owns the Dallas Morning News, WFAA in Dallas and a number of other television_ stations, : is "very clear...very firm" on their ¯ corporatenon-discriminationpolicy which ¯ includes "sexual orientation." : Greg Gatewood, president of Tulsa ¯ Oklahomans for Human Rights (TOHR), ¯ was one .Gay person willing to have his : name used though he emphasized that he ¯ was speaking as an individual not for ¯ TOHR. Gatewood saidhefeltUnitedWay : did a lot of good, funding for example, ¯ TulsaC.A.R.E.S.andotherorganizations, ¯ and that he’d given to United Way in the : past. However, he added that he did not ¯¯ agreewith theBoy Scouts’ policy and that he’d like to see United Way open a : discussionwith theGay community about ¯ the Boy Scouts, trying to f’md common ¯ ground. He added thathe’dlike to include ¯ the Boy Scouts in that dialogue also. ¯ He suggested that instead of asking ¯ Tulsa Area United Way to stop funding ¯ the Boy Scouts that TAUW should be : asked to fund an organization which : provides services to Tulsa’s Lesbian and : .Gay communities. Gatewood emphati- ¯ tally agreed thatTAUW shouldamendits : ownnon-discrimination policy to include ¯ "sexual orientation." : A prominent member of Tulsa’s Gay ¯ community, Vernon Jones, partner of the ¯ late Phil Wiley and civil rights and HIV/ ¯ AIDS issues activist, recalled that Tulsa ¯ Area United Way also has a history of : racial discrimination. He remembers ¯ newspaper articles from his youth ¯ reporting on how TAUW refused to fund ¯ agencies which served Tulsa’s Black ¯ commtmity. Jones,likeothers appreciated ¯ TAUW’s support for HIV/AIDS services ¯ " but thought United Way should not fund. the BSA. Beth Kuehnert, Tulsa Area United Way’s marketing representative, did not call back as she promised. When asked about this by telephone, she accused Tulsa Family News of calling and harassing United Way supporters, naming one in particular. Ms. Kuehnert was informed that a news story required speaking with more than just her and that all contacts with United Way supporters had been through their designated press representatives and clearly identified as news inquiries and had been quite cordial. And despite earlier promises to try to answer questions about United Way’s decision to fund .the Boy Scouts, Ms. Kuehnert now stated that "I’m not going to ask this question in the middle of the campaign.., the decision [to fund the Boy Scouts] was made in the spring [last spring]." When TulsaFamilyNews contacted the UnitedWay corporate supporter who had allegedly been the subject of TFN harassment,TFN was told that they’d said nothing of the sort but only that they’d called Tulsa Area United Way president ¯ and chief professional officer, Kathleen ¯ Coon, to say that the issue of funding the : Boy Scouts had been raised. ¯ This corporate spokesperson ¯ characterized the conversation with TFN ¯ as very civil and cordial. At press dine, Tulsa Family News had ¯ made either three or four phone calls over : at least a four year period to Tulsa Area ~ United Way president Kathleen Coan ¯ requesting the courtesy of a return phone ¯ call. ¯ To date, Ms. Coon, despite an apparent ¯ ready accessibility to The Tulsa World ¯ and other non-minority news orgam- ." zations, has refused to return any calls. ¯ For a related editorial, please see ; United Our Way, p. 3. 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(and former lead singer of "lnae Nylons), whose sound is an eclectic hybrid of electronicpop witharock ’n’ roll swagger, and the fabulous "Doris Daze", an allwomen’s pop/rock band that is currently making a big splash in Dallas. (Check out these websites, www.mp3.com/dorisdaze and www.loudboybarnes.com, to get a taste of their music.) And it’s not over yet! Don’t dare miss the dance and drag show on Sunday afternoon at Center Stage. Besides the always exciting, always surprising performances of Domonique Daniels, .Carla Renee, Miss Helga, Tara T’Neil, and Tabitha Taylor of Tulsa, Okla., and our ever-popular DJ, Jon Caswell, "Barnes" will make a guest appearance! So call your friends, select your wardrobe, and make your lodging reservations now!! You won’t want to miss this weekend!!! Call The Emerald Rainbow at (501) 253-5445 or visit www.shimaka.com!eureka/diversity to get a full schedule of activities. DIVERSITY CELEBRATION SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES " bRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5 2:30 pm - 5:00 pin"Family" musicians perform at Mud St. Espresso Cafe on Main St. 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm More entertainment at the Kaffeehaus Aroma in Basin Park Hotel. 8:00 pm - 12:30 am M.CC. of the Living Spring hosts Carnival Under the Rainbow - Dance and Game Night. Game booths- will raise funds for local projects and organizations while Jon Caswell spins an eclectic mix of dance music. A great way to kick off the weekend! Basin Park Hotel Ballroom. Cover: $4.50 per person, $7.50 per couple. Must be 21. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6 10:00 am - Noon Catch the end of the fall colors canoeing down the beautiful White River. Call the Dam Store at (501) 253-6154 for details. $22!canoe. 10:30 am - Noon Enjoy a "colorful" historic walking tour wi~ Bill. Meet at Sweet Springs on upper Spring St. next to Rogue’s Manor. No charge. 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Bring the kids to a "family" family picnic at Harmon Park. Food and games. Call Samuel Strickland for details (501) 253-7837. Children of all ages welcome. No charge. Be sure to check out the unique shops andrestaurants listed in the Eureka Springs Diversity Cooperative. Let them know you’re here for Diversity Weekend! 1:00 pm - 4:00 pro, Did you bring your singing voice? Give Karaoke a whirl with Lita at the Hole in. the Wall off Center St. No cover. 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm, Give your feet a break, and listen to some great musicians at Mud St. Espresso Cafe and Kaffeehaus Aroma. Tips appreciated. 9:00 pro- 1:00 am Party, party, party!! Dance, dance, dance!! Come on out to Center Stage, and dance like you mean it to Jon’ s high energy club tunes;ORShake your booties at the Basin Park Hotel Ballroom to the live performances of dynamic GLAMA-winning L.A. Singer/ songwriter Barnes, and the fantastic pop/ rock Dallas-based women’s band Doris Daze. (Both will have their CDs available for sale.) Must be 21! Cover charges: Center Stage only - $5 per person. Basin Park only - $10 per person. Both venues - $13 per person. What a nightt ! SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7 2:00 pm - 6:00pmYou can’t leave yet!! Meet us again at Center Stage for our tea dance and drag show. Those girls from Tulsa, those talented, and always fantabulous entertainers, Domonique Daniels, Carla Renee, Miss Helga, Tara T’Neil and Tabitha Taylor will knock your socks off with their dazzling performances, while Jon graces us with his DJ magic once again. AND, to add to the excitement, Barnes will be there to sharehis terrificvoice andpowerful music in a Special guest set. Must be 21! Cover: $5 per person. 7:00 Inn M.C.C. of the Living Spring Service at 17 Elk St. Call (501) 253-9337 for information. All are welcome! OTHER HAPPENINGS * Friday night from 10 p.m. ’til close, Clary and K.J. will havelive entertainment and dancing at Center Stage. * If you’re feeling adventurous (and a little brave), you may want to check out the Ghost Tours at the Crescent Hotel. They start at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and last for approximately anhour andfifteenminutes. Discounted price of $8 per person to anyone wearing a purple"Eureka Springs Celebrating Diversity" button (available for half a buck at The Emerald Rainbow). Call (501) 253-8030 or 2428 for details. * In keeping with both themes this weekend, Judy at Pond Mountain Lodge, is hosting a "family" wine tasting, with hors d’oeuvres, from 5 to 7 p.m. on Saturday. Admission is a favorite boftle of wine from your state or $10 per person. Pond Mountain is on Hwy 23S about two miles from its intersection in town with Hwy 62. Call (800) 583-8043 for reservations. * After the dances on Friday and Saturday nights, Basin Block Cafe (across from Basin Park Hotel) will be open for breakfast from midnight ’til 3 a.m. * This weekend is also Eureka Springs’ Food and Wine Festival, and many of the town’s fine restaurants are offering special menus, from light fare to exquisite multicourse dinners. If you’re interested, call theChamberofCommerceformoredetails at (501) 253-8737. Be sure to stop byThe EmeraldRainbow to pick up your Diversity Cooperative booklet and discount coupons from some of the Coop’s businesses! And please join us at our next Eureka Springs Diversity Celebration Weekend on April 7, 8 &9, 2000 ! ! ! Keep an eye on www.shimaka.com/eureka~diversity for details. The Eureka Springs Diversity Celebrationweekendis producedby Linda Williams and M.C. 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InSeptember 1997, Orr and Beaucamp were standing at an ATM at State Bank in the Brookside neighborhood when three men approached them. They called the two men "faggots" and proceeded to brutally beat them. Orr suffered a concussion and received stitches for the many gashes onhis head. Bcauchamp received permanent nerve damage after the orbital bone around his eye was broken. Speaking at a press conference before the Congxessional hearing, HRC executive director Elizabeth Birch introduced Orr, saying, "we urge Congress to listen to the courageous men and women who came forward today to speak of the unspeakable hate cr~mes that irreversibly changed their lives.., it is clear that hate crimes are a national problem and now is the time for Congress to embrace real solutions. The House should follow the Senate’s lead and pass the Hate Crimes Prevention Act (HCPA)." To demonstrate the reai-life impact of these crimes, Birch introduced "A Decade of Violence: Hate Crimes Based on Sexual Orientation," a newly published report by the Human Rights Campaign and the Southern Poverty Law Center. The report details the rise in hate crimes and the impact it has on its victims and society. Tulsan Orr noted, "people like us in communities all across this country need some place to turn seeCongress,p.lO United +American Airlines To Offer Partners’ Benefits WASHINGTON - In a bold move with global ramifications for Gay and Lesbian workplace equality, United Airlines - the world’s largest airline - became the first major U.S. airline to offer full domestic partner benefits, according to a press release from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC). United Airlines announced the decision on July 30. ’q’his enormous victory will have a global impact in helping to create fair and equitable workplaces for Gay and Lesbian people," noted HRC Executive Director Elizabeth Birch in a statement released early in August. "We congratulate United forjoining the rapidly growing legion of compames who realize that treating all employees with dignity and respect is good for business. United has definitely earned their wings. This is a noble challenge to other carriers to now align their benefits packages to reflect fairness and equality for every employee." As a result of United’s action, Equal Benefits Advocates, a San Francisco-based group, declared an end to the educational boycott of United. That organization called the.boycott in Febrtmry to .raise public awareness of United’s lawsuit, see United, p. 2 ¯ Rights (TOHR) have announced a full schedule of ¯ events for the next several months. On Sept. 11, TOHR andParents, Families & Friends of Lesbians ¯ & Gays (PFLAG) will hold aGarage Sale to benefit ¯ both groups. The sale will run from 7am to 4pm at ¯ 5303 E. 27th Place at Darlington. Donations of sale ¯ items may be left at the Center up to Sept. 8. Later, on Sept. 25, TOHR along with many ¯ others will host a Feast for Friends dinner which ¯ supports THE NAMES PROJECT, theAIDS Quilt ; organization. TOHR’s dinner at the "Double T ; Ranch" will begin at 5pro and a $15 donation is ¯ requested. Those who cannot attend a dinner can ¯ join the dessert finale at the Southern Hills Marriott ; at 8:30. Into: TOHR, 743-4297 or THE NAMES ; PROJECT, 748-3111. Along with the First Annual Film Festival on ¯ Oct: 7-9 (see TFN’s Entertainment column which begins on page 8for more details as well as the Film Festival ad on page 8), the Center will host ¯ TOHR’s first Coming Out Fair "Discovering ¯ Yourself" from noon to 6pro on Sat. Oct. 9th. TOHR is also kicking off a new project, the ; CommUnity Pages, which is a Gay & Lesbian ; "yellow" or "pink" pages, or directory to Gay and ¯ Gay-friendly businesses and organizations. ; Tulsa formerly had such a directory called "Gay Tulsa" which was published by former resident, Kharma Amos. Amos, however, moved to the ; Northwest to attend seminary and for a number of ; years, no directory has been published. (Editor’s ¯ note:TulsaFamilyNewsalsoprovidesfreelistings ¯ in its directory to those who request them.) ¯ TOHR volunteers will be soliciting advertisers ¯ this fall and hope to publish a community directory ; early next year. Those interested in being listed or ¯ advertising should contact TOHR board member, ¯ Kerry Lewis, at POB 2687, Tulsa 74101 or by email at pride_center@yahoo.corn Arizona Legislator Takes ¯ ’Jenny Jones’ Murderer Guilty ¯ Wichita: No GaysAIIowed ¯ Mich. (AP) - A jury rejected a claim that Jonathan On "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" ¯ PONTIAC, Schmitz was driven to kill a Gay.acquaintance because of his Tulsa Big Bros: No Prob. by Melanie Carroll, Associated Press Writer ¯ WICHITA/TULSA (AP/TFN) When the unrelenting and unwanted advances, starting by revealing a crush NEW YORK - "Don’t ask, don’t tell?" Doesn’t work. ¯ on a talk show. "If he was Gay and a woman had approached him ¯ Sedgwick County Big Brothers Big Sisters went That’s the word from an openly Gay Arizona legislator " that way, would it have been right for him to kill her because she ¯ asking for mentors for a new program, everyone and Army Reserve officer being investigated for : put a note and a flashing light in his door?" asked juror Kimberley ¯ was invited to participate. Everyone except members discharge by the military. State Rep. Steve May,in New ¯ Manney. ¯ of Ten Percent, a campus Gay and Lesbian group. ¯ York recently for a meeting of the Log Cabin Schmi tz was convicted in late August of second-degree murder Big Brother Big Sisters of Sedgwick County Republicans, a Gay political group, called for an end to . in the death of Scott Amedure,who had appeared with him on ¯ began its search for mentors by sending letters to the military’s policy on Gays. ’q’he Jenny Jones Show." It marked the second time that a jury ¯ Wichita State University student organizations. "A.t a time when recruiting and retentionis becoming ¯ had found him guilty of that charge. The first conviction was later ¯ Thoughit wasn’t supposed to,Ten Percent received a serious problem, and some members of Congress are . overturned"We wanted to send a message that it’s not all right to ¯ a letter soliciting volunteers. The letter said Big discussing a reinstatement of the draft, how much " act this way," juror Ted Hight said. : Brothers Big Sisters clients were "waiting for a longer will we degrade our military readiness by ¯ Schmitz’s second trial avoided the debate over the role played ¯ mentor like you." discharging competent, qualified, trained men and ¯ by Ms. Jones’ show, which was amajor part of acivil trial against However, Ten Percent, which describes itself as women?... This policy must come to an end," May said. " the-show and Schmitz’s first murder trial. Instead, the jury : a"campus organization for Lesbian, Bisexual,.Gay A spokesman for the Army Reserve confirmed an " debated Schmitz’s state of mind. As the verdict was read, : and Transgendered university students and their investigation of May is under way; it started Aug. 7. ¯ Schmltz, 29, hung his head, stared down and clasped his hands ¯ friends and allies," didn’t fit Big Brothers Big ’¢foday I am facing discharge proceedings because I ¯ under his chin. ¯ Sisters’ policy. The youth group does not allow have refused to lie about who I am," May said. While Schmitz’s first conviction for second-degree murder in 1996 ¯ Gay men or Lesbians to serve as mentors. never discussing his sexual orientation with military ¯ resulted in a sentence of 25 to 50 years in prison; the Verdict was ¯ Casey Ritchie, spokesman for Big Brothers Big officials, he was open about it when seeking election ¯ thrown out on appeal due to an error in jury selection. Oakland : Sisters, said theletter was part of a mass mailing to last year. May, who still serves in the Army Reserve County Assistant Prosecutor Donna Pend~rgast Raid ~he Would ¯ all Wichita State University groups. "We simply once a month, said he willlikely be discharged when the " ask for the same penalty when Schmitz is sentenced Sept. 14. "I ¯ feel it’s not in the best interest of the youths we Army’s investigation is complete. ¯ always knew if the jury followed the law it would come back with : serve to put them in the middle of any potential Sen. John McCain, a former POWl said thereis room : this verdict," she said ¯ controversy," Ritchie said. in the GOP for openly Gay _r,ep,r.,e.sen,t~tives, but,add,~e~,’ " Schmi tz’s attorney, Jerome Sabbota, sought a le~s~r verdict Of The letter was addressed to Chris Taylor, vice that besupports [he fiiiiitary s ’dOn t ask~ don t tell’ " manslaughter, saying that Amedure continued to pursue Schmitz ¯ president of the 50-member group, whose name is policy. "We should in our party refrain from ¯ to the point Schmitz "lost all reason." The segment never aired. based on studies that suggest that 10% of the discrimination in any form,.... McCaan satd. As-for May, : He said Amedure lied to Schmi tz about the show, entitled "Same- ¯ : nation’s population is Gay. see 10%,p. 3 "he’s a fine man," McCain added. "I have the greatest Sex Secret Crushes," and set Schmitz off byleaving a suggestive respect for him ?’ Yet, as a member of the:mili~, May note and blinking construction light on his door. Amedure "never DIRECTORY P. 2 is subject to constraints growing out of the natur~ ~t~the let up and he never backed off. He created a situation when any EDITORIAL p. $ military service, McCain said. He said that since soIdiers ¯ reasonable person would have snapped," Sabbota said. US & WORLD NEWS P. 4 must live in place and with people not of their own . : The facts in the case were not disputed in the four-day trial. On HEALTH NEWS P. 6 choosing, the policy regarding a soldierrs Sexual _" March 6,1995, Amedure revealed his crush on’q’he Jenny Jones ENTERTAINMENT P. 8 ¯ orientation makes sense. Show," along with a sexual fantasy. Schmitz told him he was COMMUNITY CALENDAR P. 9 Stacey Sobel, a senior attorney with the Washington- ." heterosexual. The two flew back to Detroit together and stayed D-I-Y-D P. 11 based Service Members Legal Defense Network, is ." out late drinking with a mutual friend, Donna Riley. DYKE PSYCHE P. 12 representing May against the Army Reserve. GAY STUDIES : Onthe morning of March 9, 1995, see Jones, p. 15 P. 1:3 see Officer, p. 2 �Tulsa Clubs & Restaurants 832-1269 *Bamboo Lounge, 7204 E. Pine 592-2143 *Boston Willy’s Diner, !742 S. Boston 835-1207 Burger Sisters Restaurant, !545 S. Sheridan 599-9512 *Empire Bar, 1516 S. Peoria 583 -6666 *Full Moon Cafe, 1525 E. 15th 749-4511 *Gold Coast Coffee House. 3509 S. 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"It’ s ironic that his qualities of integrity and honesty got him elected in Arizona. ¯ Now thosequalitiesaregettinghimkicked ¯ out of the Army Reserve," Sobel said. Sobel added that since the ¯ implementation of"don’t ask, don’t tell," ¯ in 1994 the number of people discharged ¯ from the armed services has increased. ¯" "This demonstrates that the policy is not ¯ working," Sobel said. Lastyear the Army ¯ discharged 1,149 members of the armed ¯ fo.r..ccs ~or being G.ay~,ua.der. ’~do!~t. ask,. ~" don’Lt~ll." In 1~97, idi~lhw f6i~ 997 ~: ~eopte-0ut of die miii~_y. In 1994; 6i7 :,’. ~eople were dismissed. May, a lieutenant trained in nuclear, chemical and biological warfare defense, also is qualified as a paratrooper. He is second-in-command of the 348th Transportation Company. *Free Spirit Women’ s Center, call for location &info: 587-4669 747-6827 Friend For A Friend, POB 52344, 74152 582-0438 Friends in Unity Social Org., POB 8542, 74101 583-6611 *HIV ER Center, 4138 Chas. 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School Ave. JOPLIN, MISSOURI *Spirit of Christ MCC, 2639 ~5.. 32, Ste. U134 417 6’2Lq-4696 * is where you can find TFN. Not allare Gay-owned bu~ll are Gay-friendly. "The boycott was a success and now it’s over,;’ Jeff Sheehy, founder of Equal Benefits Advocates, told HRC. "We are grateful that HRC supported this action;it really made a difference. Together, we liave sent a message to corporate America that this issue is important to our commlmity." "We have changed the world, and given that United is providing worldwide benefits, that is not hyperbole," said San Francisco Supervisor Mark Leno. "I want to commend and recognize HRC’s early and immediate support upon our request to honor the Equal Benefits Advocates in their designing of the boycott. Theboycott certainly played arole in the outcome, as did the courts." United’s domestic partner benefits package will offer a full range of coverage to Gay and Lesbian couples. These benefits include medical and dental benefits, life insurance, pension survivor rights, bereavement and medical leave and flight discounts. Heterosexual domestic partners will only receive non-economic benefits such as bereavement or medical leave and flight discounts. The decision will affect 97,000 United employees worldwide. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the airline said their domestic partnership program will not go into effect until May. United came under heat from Gay and Lesbian advocates this year for.joining in a lawsuit to stop San Francisco from making them comply with a local ordinance that said they must offer domestic partner benefits in order to do business in the city. United argued that they did not have to comply with the ordinance because they were a national company that only had to follow federal government mandates. U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilkin recently ruled that the airlines had to provide "soft benefits" such as bereavement or medical leave. However, they did not have to offer employees economic benefits, such as pensions or health insurance. The airlines, represented by the Air Transport Association, are appealing the ruling. Letters Policy Tulsa Family News welcomes letters on issues which we’ve covered or on ~ssues you think need to be considered. You may request that your name be withheld but letters must be signed & have phone numbers, or be hand delivered. 200 wordletters are preferred. Letters to other publications will be printed as is appropriate. �Guest Editorial: Keeping Gay Kids Safe Too ¯ even in the school classroom. ¯ What can be done? ¯ The good news is progress can- and is - being made to ¯ protect our schoolchildren. In the state of New York, for ." example, legislators this summer filed (but have not yet ¯ passed) the Dignity for All Students Act, which would ¯" direct schools to adopt policies to create a safe school environment for all students. The proposal would revise : state curriculum requirements to include human relations ¯ education. This curriculum Would enable students to ¯" :foster an appreciation- of people of different sexmd ¯ orientations as well as different racial or religious ¯ [ backgrounds. school dlStrlet adopt In the state of California, legislators defeated similar concern. ¯ Let’s consider some legislation by one vote. That was disappointing, but the pollees that protect bill progressed further than ever before, and I am hopeful statistics: - 28% Of Gay, Lesbian California and New York will join Connecticut, ¯ students and teachers Massachusetts and Wisconsinin protecting their students. and Bisexual youth drop ¯ from harassment and Across the country, hundreds of school districts have out of school because of harassment and verbal discrimination; p~-ovlde examined ways to keep young people safe. Perhaps some attacks, according to a of you reading this column have joined in this effort. I like staff with workshops study conducted by the to say that equality begins at home- and there’s no better and training; support place to join the battle for GLBT equality thzn at your U.S. Department of Health local school district.Groups such as the National Youth : and Human services. eurrio~la that includes Advocacy Coalition (www.nyacyouth.org) and the Gay, ¯ - 22% of boys and 29% Lesbian, and Straight Education Network of girls perceived as Gay information about the (www.glsen.org) are already working across the country ¯ or Lesbian have reported llv~s and contributions ¯ physical attacks by to improve the lives of GLBTQ youth. of GLBT people; and students, according to What can you do? Demand that your school district another study by the same adopt polices that protect students and teachers from allow for the formation harassment and-discrimination; provide staff with agency. of Gay-Stralght -80% of Gay and workshops and training; support curricula that includes Lesbian teens report information about the lives and contributions of GLBT Ai~’~anees. , . feelings of severe social people; and allow for the formation of Gay-Straight alliances and other clubs that address homophobia and isolation at school, according to statistics provided by the Gay, Lesbian, and heterosexism in school. Straight Education Network. As the award-wiuning documentary producer Debra Right now, our nation is having a public discussion Chasnoff ("It’s Elementary") taught us, children are not overwhat to do about violence in the schools. President born with bigotry and intolerance- they learn it. Wouldn’ t Clinton held a summit. Columbine, Colorado officials it be wonderful, if we used back-to-school season as a platform to address safety for our children? put in place a policy of "zero tolerance" for harassment and taunting. Many are pointing fingers at the Five million children are waiting for us to act. Founded in 1973, the National Gay and Lesbian Task entertainment industry or the gun industry or the Interact. Force works to eliminateprejudice, violence and injustice Republicans and Democrats, in typical fashion, are pointing fingers at each other. against Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and transgenderedpeople But once again, our voices are left out of the debate. at the local, state and national level. As part ofa broader Our voices are enriched by painful experience, for who socialjustice movementforfreedom,justice and equality, among us can forget the frequency with which epithets NGLTF is creating a world that respects and celebrates like "fag" and "dyke" are casually tossed around on the the diversity of human expression and identity Where all playground, in the school cafeteria, inthe locker room, people may fully.participate in society. l~y Kerry Lobel, National Gay & Lesbian Task Force More than 50 million young people in grades K~ 12 trek back to school this month. They bring with them the concerns of their parents and their communities over the issue of school safety. Seeing the flood of back-to-school stories on the local news, I sense that something - or someone - is missing from this picture. Specifically, five million someones. That’s the number ofestimatednumberofGLBTQ (Gay, -Lesbian, Bisexual, transgendered or What can you do? questioning) students in "our public schools. For Demand that your them, safetyis aneveryday Nevertheles s, airline industry experts expect Other airlines to follow United s lead~ According to the Chronicle, a spokesman for the Air Transport Association said that although none of the group’s members except United is offering the benefits, they probably will, even as they press for appeal Just a few days after United Airlines announced ~ts decision, American Airlines officials informed the Human Rights Campaign that they would become the second major U.S airline to offer domestic partner benefits to Gay and Lesbian employee~ worldwide. -.HI~ ~ s Birch~said of, American Airlines’ decision, "W~ are witnessing history and the beginning of a new era of fairness for Gay and Lesbian airline workers. United’s landmark decision has clearly had a domino effect, where walls.of discrimination-.are:falling each day." And Birch added, "American Airlines is HRC’s official airline and we ate enormously proud that they have taken this important step." American’s domestic partner benefits package will offer a full range of coverage to the partners of Gay and Lesbian workers. These benefits include medical and dental insurance, life insurance, pension survivor fights, bereavement and medical leave and flight discounts. The decision will affect more than 100,000 American and American Eagle employees worldwide. American and United Airlines join a greater trend in corporate America where employers are increasingly offering domestic partner benefits to Gay and Lesbian employees. Overall more than 2,800 U.S. employers currently offer domestic partner benefits, according to HRC’s WorkNet project which tracks this trend. Currently 70 Fortune 500 companies offer these benefits, including AT&T, Chase Manhattan Bank Corp., General Mills, IB M, Mobil Oil, Time Warner, and Walt Disney Company. In addition, more than 99 colleges and universities, 73 state and local governments and hundreds of non-profit organizations and trade umons are currently offering domestic partner benefits, according to HRC’s WorkNet. I-IRC’ s WorkNet project, which also assists companies in implementing domestic partner benefits and with other workplace issues, worked closely with GLEAM, the Gay employee group at AMR Corporation, the parent company, of American Airlines in formulating the policy. Taylor said the group would use the incident to try to get Big Brothers Big Sisters’ policy changed. However, in contrast to the Wichita group, Tulsa’s Big Brothers Big Sisters has no "’across the board" ban on Lesbians or Gay men acting as mentors. The group’s spokesperson, Martha Desmond, Community Relations Director, did note that the issue probably would come up in the screening interview and would be shared with the child’s parent. She said she was not aware of the issue having arisen before. According to executive director, John Jacobs, the agency’s overriding concern had to be the best interest of the child, especially since most of the children served by the program may already have challenges which they face. Also, Jacobs stated that while a parent might veto a potential mentor because he or she is Gay, a parent, for obvious reasons, may also chose to take into consideration matching race, or religion or a nnmber of Other factors as well. by Tom Neal, editor & publisher A few years ago, my father and I prevailed upon Sen. Don Nickles to meet with us about Gay & Lesbian issues, and we trekked over to Oklahoma City one warm winter day. We figured with one conservative Republ,ican and one progressive Democrat, one straight man and one Gay one, we were presenting a bipartisan view on civil rights issues. We were scheduled for 15 minutes and gotnearly -30.......... When all was said and Call me foolish or naive if you llke, but I done, Oklahoma’s senior senator, hardly surprisingly had not changed his still hope {or mind one little iota, though an Oklahoma that he was quite civil. All we could stand up to any got out of the meeting was the c~mpliment that "you other state in our are a good spokesman for your cause." Gee thanks. nation in justice, in So it’s not as though I equal opportunity, in really thought any constituent comment decent education. I made to his office would believe our people are make a difference, but up to it. I just wish we periodically I like to try to bdieve in our American had leaders who were. democracy: that if you have faith and speak the truth, that eventually right will prevail, despite the ample evidence of most of our history where minority Americans are involved, be we Black, Indian, Female or Gay, or any combination thereof. But after reading one or another bits of tripe from the senator about the recess uomination by Pres. Clinton of openly Gay ambassador James Hormel, I figured I should at least not let Mr. Nickles believe that all Oklahomans agreed with him. I called. I left a~ message. I didn’t think much more about it. That was until I got a form letter from our senator saying how he agreed with my position and in which letter proceeded to trash Hormel. Obviously that was not my position. Now mind you, this sort of inverse idiocy ~s just the sort of thing we’ve come to expect from Oklalaoma’s jtmior senator, Jim Inhofe, of pornographic office computer fame. Sen. Inhofe, who sings the praises of private enterprise although he’s lived off the public dole most of his ilfe, ts reputed by thosein this town who should know. not to be particularly bright. And I can say from first hand experience, that he’s rude to constituents. So the simple incomp.etence of getting a constituent’ s~position enurely wrong is somewhat expected from his office. But from Nickles, we should be able to expect a bit more. But then again, I also still believe in democracy. So of course, I called again to ask if it’s possible for Nickles’ office to do better. Because surely, surely no matter how much evil been done in this state in one way or another, nothing could have been so bad that we deserve two Inhofes! Nickles" staff did begrudgingly ad~nit that maybe they should have gotten it right. But they made the claim that they really don’t have to represent all the c~tizens of Oklahoma, that all Nic.kles has to .do is ,to represent whatever he said in his campaign that got him elected and that was enough. So forget about whatever you may have believed about representative democracy, about the need for elected officials to find solutio~as for all their constituents, it’s winner take all and the rest be damned. I can’t believe that this approach is in our state or nation’s best ~nterests. I believe that Americans and Oklahomans in particular, are fair-minded people who would respond to leaders who sought compromise and consideration for all instead of the "leaders" we have who wallow in prejudice and bigotry to fill their campaign coffers and get elected (mind you, I’m not picking just on Republicans, too many Oklahoma Democrats are just as bad, the only difference is Democrats just don’t talk as dirty about you when they’re stabbing you in the back). Call me foolish or naive if you like, but I hope for an Oklahoma that could stand up to any other state in our nation injustice, in equal opportunity, in decent education. I believe our people are up to it. I just wish we had leaders who were. �Montana to several area churches. Early in the effort, center got a $1,000 grant from the Centers for Colorado Springs Holds¯ the Disease Control and Prevention. The money will go Gay Pride Parade & Rally toward a Healthy Lifestyles Program, which .will include health and mental health support serwces, COLORADO SPRINGS, Cold¯ (AP)-Two-year-old : Kyle wore a T-shirt that said "I love my Gay ¯ stress reduction and education about sexually mommies," and knows 25-year-old Jennifer " transmitted infections. The Gay Outdoors group, Gays and Straights Porterfield as "mommy" and 32-year-old Becky " Together, and other organizations will also use the Lewton as "mama." Each year Porterfield gets a card ¯ community center as their headquarters. on Mother’ s Day and Lewton gets breakfast in bed on ’°I’he idea is to have our space available for other "Becky’s Day." "We’re no different than a straight " family," Lewton says. "We argue about the same " groups, and to use our office for as a resource to bring other groups together," said volunteer Casey Charles. stuff. Believe me." . " The group has also drawn a $5,000 grant from They were among.those p.articipating .in the. m,n,th " annual Colorado Spnngs PrideFest parade and ratly, " Broadway Cares, a fund of ~the actors’ equity held on the last Sunday in August. At the end of the ¯ organization in New Y ork. It will help start a speakers’ parade, police estimated between 3,500 and 4,500 ¯ bureau and foster work on HIV prevention. The center will have security measures in place, but people filled Acacia Park for a celebration sponsored " its members stress they’ve had no trouble with by the Pikes Peak Gay &Lesbian Community Center. " "We’reteachers. We’relawyers. We’reprofessional " opposition to the center. Other Montana cities have services for Gay, Lesbian, pa,,,,,l~" Lewton said. "(The oarade) is certainly not ¯ bisexual and transgender people, but the. closest s’~xV’t~l thing, and that s"- wha’t people think it is." About a dozen protesters, some holding placards i community centers are in Spokane and Boise. The group is working on bylaws and hopes to have and a couple of them carrying crosses; stood at one ¯ a board of directors in place by the end of the year. street comer as the parade passed. Police reported no ¯ problems. The .rally capped a week that brought Gay.iss..ues into the headlines in Colorado Springs, including those triggered by a meeting of the National Religious OGDEN, Utah (AP) - The s tate Division of Child and Focus on the Family Christian ministry xor aueg y Fnmily Services has adopted apolicy to bannnmarried "inflammatory" rhetoric about homosexuality. couples from providing state-sponsored foster care. Focus responded on Sundayin~tfull-pagenewspaper The new policy, adopted Friday, August 27th, by a52 vote by the DCFS board, defies standards set by the ad that said its staff members who attended the conference had hopes of establ}shing dialogue but Child Welfare League of America, a professional were blind-sided by the accusataon. association representing more than 1,000 voluntary Focus, and the Christian Coalition of Colorado, and public agencies. also had criticized Colorado Springs Mayor Mary Board chairman Scott Clark, the driving force behind ~Lou Makepeace for sigmng a proclamation the decision, said unmarried, unrelated adults living recognizing Gay-Pride week. together abuse children more often than married men But City Councilman Richard Skorman marched in and women. "I read in the newspaper just last night of the parade and told the crowd at the park the mayor two cases in which boyfriends abused the children in would have faced controversy regardless of her their girlfriends’ homes," Clark said. response to PrideFest organizers’ request for the In the past, Clark has also referred to Gay couples proclamation. - who, because they cannot m.ar~,,_, w!ll be b~ar~,e~,, The banners in the parade heralded civil,rights from foster care-as contributing to gender contusion groups, support groups, Gay pageant winners and of children in their care. Gay-friendl y churches, including First Congregational Only two boardmembers, Regnal Garff andVirgrnia Church, All Souls Unitarian Church and Pikes Peak Higbee, opposed Clark’s recommendations. They Metropolitan Community Church. argued the new rule would narrow the field of foster parents, who are already outnumbered nearly 2-to- 1 The handful of protesters staked out the no,rthw.e,st comer of Platte Avenue and Tejon Street wlaere me by children in state custody who need homes. six-block parade terminated. Parade participants Garff, a retired juvenile court judge, also criticized occasionally taunted and blew kisses to the protesters Clark’s example because neither of the cases sited involved foster children. "I am relterating my who called for the marchers to "’repent." opposiuon to this whole thing.., that example is poorly conceived and poorly argued," he said. The change brings matches similar state restncuons ¯ passed earlier this year for adoptive parents. But groups like the Child Welfare League of MISSOULA (AP) - Wanting to show they’re "just ¯ America, the American Bar Association and the next-door people," volunteers will open a downtown ¯ American Civil Liberties Union have opposed such Gay and Lesbian community center here Wednesday¯ policies. Opponents say too many quesuons are left Founders of the Wes tern Montana Gay and Lesbian ¯ Community Center have Seen raising money for the ¯ unanswered by the policy. For example, there is no provision for common-law marriages, which go into project since last fall and now have about $19,000 ¯ ¯ effect after seven 3,ears. And it is unclear if the rules from 50 paid members. apply when an unrelated adult rents living space from But finding an affordable rent in Missoula’ s visible ¯ a foster or adoptive paxent. down~own axea wa.s ~ bigger challenge than raising ¯ The Child Welfare League is so staunch ih its the money, supporters said. With a rent budget of opposition that the association recently sent DCFS $800 a month and their goal focused on downtown, ¯ Director Ken Patterson aletter asking its end°rsement the members hav e beencombing the real-estate market ¯ be removed from the agency’s po!icy manual...Th,e formonths:: ...... -, ’ -: -’ ’-~. ":. What they ended up with is a two-room office state ¯ board gwiftly a~ounrt0dated that reituest b~removing wi~ hardly=the room for a dance or even a public ¯ the phrase that refers to DCFS policy as "in accordance with the standards of the Child Welfare League of lectfire. But it’s a start, said Cat Carrel, one of the ¯ America." lcadera~pf the effort. ’qlais is a start-up space," she,, said,"and it rsa good first start-up. We can get goln~. Missoula last had a Gay and ,L~,,sbian commumty ~enter during the first half of the 80s, when the nowdefunct organization."Out in Montana" hadoffices in ¯ the Wilma Building in downtown Missoula. 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"I’m going to stop holding my breath for the ELCA to come along." When Sabin was.removed from the church’s list of ordained ministers last year, the 150-member congregation supported him. By keeping him as their pastor, the congregation risks .expulsion from the While Bishop Philip Hougen of the Southeastern Iowa Synod said he is "uncomfortable" with Sabin as Lord of Life’s minister, he has not asked the Synod Council to expel the congregation. ’To remove them in,order to make some sort of point about purity seems t0be~to benot worth the effort," Hougen said. "I don’t want to cause any more pain." At the Churchwide Assembly earlier this month in Denver, ELCA leaders passed a resolution that reaffirmed previous assembly statements that committed the church to continuing discussion of the issue of ordination of Gays and Lesbians. "How long do you have to keep studying it?". Sabin asked last week. Sabin, who has two daughters, was ordained as a minister in 1985 and became pastor at the Lord of Life Church in Ames later that year. He was married at the time, but the 10-year marriage ended i.n 1990. Sabin began living with Karl von Uhi abont four years ago. Former Lesbian Couple Must Share Custody GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) - A district judge has ordered a former Lesbian couple to share custody of a 10year-old girl they raised, but ruled the youngster must live in New York with her biological mother during the school year. Jefferson County District Judge Christopher Munch said he based the decision on what he considered the best interests of the child. The youngster will spend summers and school vacations in Colorado. He noted she will be able to make friends and attend a neighborhood school in Albany, but if she remains in Colorado, she will have to commute daily from Aurora to Jefferson County, rougtfly a ’40-mile round trip, Munch said. "(Gift M) will be living in a race middle-class, rural to suburban home with her morn and stepdad," Munch said. The judge emphasized that he did not consider the past rdationship of the two women or their sexual orientation when he made the decision. Identifiedin court papers as "Gift M," the youngster was raised by Leaune Bueker, her "psychological" mother, and Kelly Cunningham, her bi o1 ogi cat mother, until the two women separated two years ago. The women were awarded joint custody in February 1998, but the arrangement became complicated when Ms. Cunningham married Michael Naylor and moved to Albany. Ms. Bueker remains single. Mrs. Naylor "was pleased with the decision. "The judge gave appropriate (onsiderat~on to the facts and came up with a. decision that was difficult to make," said attorney Ron Litvak. Ms. Bucker declined comment. Sen. Hatch Apologizes to Blacks But Not To Gays SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Sen. Orrin Hatch said Wednes day he had been "inarticulate" and apologized to NAACP officials for a statement in which he compared Gay civil rights with black issues. . The Utah Republican, who is a GOP presidential candidate, came under fire earlier this month for saying,"People of color can’t do anything about their color." Hatch continued: "I do believe Gay people have a choice to live within the legal rules or not. That’s why we have civil-rights laws to protect African-Americans from discrimination." JeanettaWilliams, president of the Salt Lake branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, called Hatch’s remark "a poor articulation of what he was trying to say." Heather Barney, a Hatch spokeswoman, said Hatch "apologized for being inarticulate." "He did note that he was coming from a strictly legal perspective, that there is judicial precedent that the courts have treated race as distinct from sexual orientation, which is the point h~ was making," Barney said. Darin Hobbs of the Gay and Lesbian Political Action Committee in Salt Lake said Hatch did the right thing by apologizing to the NAACP. Next, he said Hatch should apologize to Utah’s Gay community. "The senator is unable to recognize the commonalities between homophobiaand racism," Hobbs said. "Both are bigotries rooted in fear and ignorance." Williams and Edward J. Lewis, president of the NAACP tri-state conference for Utah, Nevada and Idaho, said they felt Hatch’s’apology was sincere. They were scheduled to meet with Hatch at 1 p.m. but di’dn’t arrive at his Salt~Lake office until-an hour later. Hatch pushed back other meetings and talked with them for 45 minutes. "The importance of this meeting was we established a need to sit down and have a dialogue with him," Lewis said. Williams said she also discussed concerns about Hatch’s voting record on civil-rights issues. She said Hatch made no promises but agreed to consider the NAACP’s views. Hatch and Sen. Bob Bennett, RUtah, received F’s in the NAACP’s latest congressional report cards. Also, Bennett apologized to the NAACP for saying Texas Gov. George W. Bush would win the GOP presidential nomination unless "some woman comes forward, let’s say some black woman ~omes forward, with an illegitimate child that he fathered." Comparing the remarks by the two senators, Lewis’ said: "On,e, was more severe, but they were both in the same pie. Williams and Lewis said Hatch and his wife, Elaine, are lifelong NAACP members. Hatch co-sponsored a bill to award civil-rights pioneer Rosa Parks the Congressional Gold Medal, whichis Congress’ highest honor. Barney said Hatch has enjoyed a good relationship with the NAACP. "His door has always been open to Jeanetta and the NAACP," she said. "They meet regularly and he is proud of some of the things he has been able to accomplish which benefit minority communities in Utah." Hatch has previously raised the ire of Gay civilrights groups. In 1988, he called the Democratic Party "’the party of homosexuals; they are the party of abortion." In June, he told delegates to the Republican state convention they could be proud because "we don’t have the Gays and Lesbians with us." Gay Couple Murdered After Recording Message REDDING, California (AP) - Two brothers killed a Gay couple after forcing them to record an answering machine message saying they had suddenly become ill and were leaving town for medical help, authorities say. Benjamin Williams, 31, and James Willianas, 29, could face the death penalty if convicted of murdering Gary Matson, 50, and Winfield Mowder, 40. The men were found shot to death in their bed July 1. in rural Happy Valley near Redding, northeast of San Francisco. The suspects have pleaded innocent. According to the court documents, sheriff’s deputies went to the victirrisr home after Matson’s relatives thought the answering machine message sounded forced and odd, and may have been someone else’s voice. The message said the. victims were headed to San Francisco to see "a specialist friend"for medical help and would return "in about a week." "Off the message, it’s evident that the person who recorded the message is under distress and was possibly forced to make the recording," officers said. In the background, another voice can be heard saying, "just calm down." Based on information from Matson’s father and brother, investigators said the message was recorded "very dose" to the time of the slayings. The documents were unsealed following a legal challenge by several news organizations. Evidence in the brothers’ homes also allegedly links them to the arson of three California synagogues. Those fires caused more than $1 million in damages. Authorities also found handouts from the World Church of the Creator, a white supremacist group, which preaches extreme racial and religious views. �AIDS Deaths Decline ATLANTA (AP) - Two years after powerful new drugs brought a sharp drop in AIDS deaths nationwide, new government figures released today show the declinein AIDS deaths slowed sharply a year later. AIDS killed 17,047 people in the United States last year - a decline of 20% from 1997. From 1996 to 1997, the drop in deaths was a much more dramatic 42%, which health officials attributed to the effectiveness of new drugs. "As we anticipated, we are now seeing the first signs ofa slowing in this trend,’" said Dr. Helene Gayle, director of HIV prevention for-the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said during the National HIV Prevention Conference. "In a period of only two years, new combination therapies cut the annual level of death in half," she said. "But for the time being, it appears that much of the benefit of these new therapies has been realized." In 1995, 49,351 people died from AIDS in the United States. By 1996, that dropped to 36,792, and the number was down to 21,222 in 1997. The CDC listed several possible causes for the slowdown in reductions of AIDS deaths. Most people who know they have HIV are already being treated, Gayle said. Drug resistance among some AIDS patients causes the treatment to fail, and other patients fail to keep up with, the complicated juggling of pills they,have to take for the drugs to be effective. New HIV infections in 1998 were estimated at roughly 40,000 - a number that’ s held steady for the past decade. The CDC said AIDS continues to kill blacks in higher numbers than other racial groups. Blacks, who make up about 13% of the population, accounted for 49% of AIDS deaths in 1998. Thirty-two% of deaths were among whites and Hispamcs made up 18%. "In many ways, the story of how well we do in HIV and AIDS will be told by how well we do with the AfricanAmerican population," Gayle said. The three-day conference, organized by the CDC and 17 other agencies, features 2,000 scientists, doctors, researchers and advocates addressing efforts to monitor and prevent the spread of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Gayle and others opened the conference by warning against complacency. "It’s becoming increasingly difficult to get people to pay attenuon to HIV prevention and that in and of itsdf is a primary reason for this conference," she said. Since the 1980s, more than 300,000 have died of AIDS. The recent success of some treatments have made some people complacent about the disease. "Despite a growing complacency about the need for HIV prevention, HIV remains a serious disease that is still very much with us and there is a greater need for HIV prevention today more than ever," she said. Black Churches To Step Up AIDS Fight BOSTON (AP) - Local black religious leaders plan to meet with state Department of Public Health officials and members of the AIDS Action Committee to discuss ways to better educate their congregations about the disease. The meeting, involving 26 black leaders, signals a change in the black church’s approach to AIDS, religious scholars and activists told the Boston Globe. They said the conservative theological views about homosexuality, intravenous drug use and premarital sex held by many black religious leaders have led them to shy away from the issue. But leaders are now seeing they must pay attention to the disease because of their obligation to help people in need, according to Pemissa Seele, founder of the New York-based Balm in Gilead ministry. The ministry raises AIDS and HIV awareness among black congregations nationwide. "Their responsibility to save lives has nothing to do with their theology on homosexuality or sex outside marriage," Seele said. "We’re talking about two different apples." In the Boston area, only about 90 of 450 black churches promote HIV awareness, the Globe reported. Meanwhile, blacks account for 26% of all AIDS cases in Massachusetts, though they make up only 6% of the population. Nationally, AIDS is the leading cause of death for black men and women ages 25 to 44. Rev. Conley Hughes, pastor of Concord Baptist Church in Boston’s South End, said the church can be a powerful influence in the fight against AIDS because it has historically been an institution blacks could count on. Many blacks consider the church society’ s most credible source of authority, Hughes said. Medical Excellence And Compassionate Care Since 1926. ¯ ¯ ST. JOHN MEDICAL CENTE_R Experts-Discuss Vaccine Progress BALTIMORE (AP) - Doctors and scientists from 20 countries gathered in Baltimore las t month for a conference to . discuss progress made in the effort to find an AIDS vaccine. The annual meeting, which began years ago as an informal gathering of Dr. Robert C. Gallo, codiscoverer of the AIDS virus, and his colleagues, has grown into one of the largest AIDS conferences in the w6rld. More-than 1,000 physicians, scientists and others are expected to attend the conference, hosted by Gallo and the University of Maryland’s Institute of Humafi Virology, which he directs. "It is possible that the components for a reasonably successful vaccine are almost there, in our hands, but we don’ t know it yet," Gallo told The (Baltimore) Sun. ’T m much more positively inclined than a year or two ago." However, it could be years before a vaccine is developed. At the conference, Gallo expected one of the more significant discussions to deal withTat, or transactivating protein, which is made by HIV. Researchers have found that Tat plays a key role in HIV spreading. "You can regard it as one of the missiles from HIV infection that leads to the problems in the immune system and facilitates the virus’ spread," said Gallo, who has done some of the work. Researchers have -shown that vaccinating monkeys against Tat lowers the amount of the virus and lessens the immune system’s impairment. Gallo and his collaborators have tested Tat in humans for safety, both as a preventive vaccine and as a therapeutic one. He said his group’ s strategy will be to create a sort of vaccine cocktail, by combining an inactivated Tat protein with another vaccine approach. Over the past 10 years, more than 40 preventive AIDS vaccines have been tested worldwide involving about 10,000 volunteers. 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What he does want is data - hard numbers that will prove or disprove the theory that transplants can help people infected with HIV. Key to HIV transplants i s finding patients who are heal thy enough to qualify and are willing to take care of their new organs once they get them. Another key is controlling hepatitis C, which is often found in HIV patients and invariably reinfects the new liver once i~ has been transplanted. At this point, there is very little data on transplantation for patients infected with HIV, the virus which causes AIDS, and no papers have been published, experts said. Only recently have a select few surgeons performed the procedure knowingly, although there is some historical data from before patients were checked for HIV infections. "’People think we’re crazy for doing it," said Dr. John Fung, head’of the Um~ersity of Pittsburgh Medical Center’ s transplant center. But early indications show that liver transplantation is effective in reversing the complications of end-stage organ failure m some HIV-positive patients, Fung said. He presented findings at the conference on four HIV patients who underwent the procedure between September 1997 and March 1999. In all the cases, the liver transplants reversed the distinguishing characteristics of chronic liver failure, including fluid retention, muscle wasting, fatigue and jaundice. HIV traces remained undetectable with patients who continued the drug combination with protease inhibitor and none developed opportunistic infections, Fung said. Medical experts often question Fung and others about the.use of scarce resources - in this case, healthy human organs- and the safety of surgeons operating on HIV infected patients in a procedure that involves a lot of blood . S0cietallv sorn0 ~o,,~,i,~ ,~;.J ~,.,, whether org~a~s sho~d~’tiao~’~ lifestyle choices may have led to their infection, said the doctors, who prefer that medical reasons determine who gets a transplant. Recently, the University of California in San Francisco received a $1 million grant to perform transplants on HIV patients. The state money will fund transplants for 10 people, and doctors hope the information will help build a database to determine if the operation can be a medical success in HIV patients. "I think there is a great deal of trepidation in the medical community, and I don’ t think it’s ill-founded at all," said Peter Stock, associate professor of surgery at UCSF. "We have to be very cautious." While some insurance companies in the Calif. A! ow Needle Exchange SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP)- Tryi:n~ to slow the spread of AIDS, the Legislature sent Gov. Gray Davis a,bill that would let cities and counties setup n~dle-exchange pro~s for ~g addicts. Cmwent state law b~s such progrmns but four CNifo~a cities - Berkeley, Los Angeles, San Fr~cisco and Santa Cruz - ~d M~n County have adopted emergency ordi~s ~lowing needle exchm~ges. Davis’ office said the Democratic governor has not taken a position on the Nll, wNch passed the state Senate. At le~t 15 o~er states have authorized ne~e-exch~ge pro~s, ~ough ~ere ~e exch~ge progr~s operating in more th~ twi~ that m~y states, according to AssemNy~voman Ke~ M~zoni’s office~ Supporters of her proposN sNd studies have shown exchange progrmns redu~ the spread of the A IDS vires. There lmve been atleast six o~er needleexch~ge bills intr~uced in ~ifo~a since 1993. They either died in the Legislature or were vetoed by thenRepubti~ Gov. Pete Wilson. Chemist Gets $7 m. For AIDS Research NEW BRUNSWICK,’N.J. (AP) - A Rutgers University chemist who helped researchers study the most lethal part of the AIDS virns will get nearly $7 million in federal fnnds to continue his work. Dr. Edward Arnold has won an award from the National Institutes of Health that will double federal suppor~ of his research. The prize, called MERIT for Method ~o Extend Research in Time, will extend his funding from a five-year grant for $3.4 million to a grant spanning 10 years and providing nearly $7 million. His work is aimed at developing longerlasting drugs to fight the deadly AIDS virus. "The whole philosophy of research is the more you know, the better chavce you have to fight something," Arnold told the East Brunswick Home News Tribune. The new funding will aid his study of a protein called reverse transcriptase, or RT. The protein plays a key role in the virus’ early life cycle, giving it insm~ctions to duplicate its deadly properties. It is the . molecule targeted by anti-AIDS drugs ¯ includingAZT, DDI, Nevirapineand3TC. : The virus colnmonly mutates so quickly " that it becomes irmnune to drugs. Arnold ." is trying to devise a way to see what drug resistance looks like. Heis mapping three. dimensional pictures of the RT protein, _" getting a look at its detailed atomic " structure. Such views can help researchers ¯ see how the virus interacts with" drugs. ". "We need to understand how drugs can ¯ fail," Arnold said. "If we can do that, we - can be more aware of how to design them .* - how to avoid those hurdles." His work first gained prominence in ¯ 1992 when he and others created a threedimensional computer model of the RT protein. Arnold’ s workis also focusing on the design and development of an AIDS vaccine, something that has eluded researchers thus far. �by James Christjohn ¯ with or without an interest in the genre. TFN entertainment writer They have everything: magic, intrigue, Hey there, hi there; ho there! Where ho? romance, murder, and just about There ho? Who you callin’ a ho? Sorry, everything else you can think of, in a just had to. Something about Disney artistically perfect package. The events inspires that kind of mania, especially and characters are such that you hate the after having lived with a Beast for so long. book to end, and the characters stay with (editor’s note: aren ’t lucky you long after the last page the Beast is occasionally is turned. I wondered ff the quite for-bearing?) ~Lynn was gracious average fantas~ r~.a+der Speaking of beasts, enough to spare some time Beauty and the Beast is would follow that far for some questions while here! They’ve been working on the new book, they have, and building sets, chopping "The Bone Doll’s Twin:" ¢ladly for sets, recreating and creatJC: I have enjoyed the ing costumes for a month Nightrunner series. Your the most part. now, working 15 hour characters are so wellI eet letters from days[ And it looks to be drawn, that they seem real faaaabulous ! Especially enough to wonder what straiCht Curs they’re up to long after the those moving pillars., I sayln~ essentially LOVE those moving book is finished. pillars t There’s just someLF: I’m so glad to hear "I shouldn’t be ok with thing so intrinsically... that the story and the t~s, but I amP’... characters work for you. phallic about moving pillars ! I want some for my. That’s high praise indeed. Others ~ve sald it house! Really the- magic That’s how I feel about made it ~sler to talk my favorite books. begins September 7 and ~th Gay relatives. JC: What inspired you runs through the 19. And to write these characters the conductor and assistant conductor, James and Brent, are very as "Gay" men (Seregil & Alec, the protagohists) ? handsome and char~i,"ng men, so say hi if you can when they re out on ~e town! LF: Well, as I recall, I wanted to create "a hero that challenged the stereotypical Call 596-7111 for tix. molds set by Eddings. or Jordan (well Lynn Flewdling has written one of the known fantasy writers). Hence his best series of Gay fantasy novels to come along since Mercedes Lackey’s "Last profession and methods. The Gay part not: sure. Partly the mold breaking, bu~ Herald Mage" trilogy. "Luck in the mostly just how he wanted to be. Perhaps Shadows", which I’ve written of before; he’s my animus? Whatever the case, the "Stalking Darkness", and the just out character just came out that way and I love "Traitor’s Moon" follows the trail of him. Alec was more of a conscious choice. intrigue and romance of Seregil and Alec, the main protagonists. I could see where it was all headed, see Fantasy, p. 14 I recommend the books highly to anyone T Call today to receive a 1999-2000 season brochure Season subscriptions, starting at $44 for adults, are now on SALE! FOR 1999-2000 SEASON BROCHURES CALL 1999-2000 SEASON TULSA~PERA MEET THREE WOMEN To.DIE FOR CARMEN MANON TOSCA Season tickets on sale now! Save 25% off single ticket prices! Season tickets start at just $36 for three operas! FOR 1999-2000 SEASON BROCHURES CALL J by. TFN staff As we move into the fall, Oklahoma’s arts calendar is increasingly busy. On Sept. 11, at 8pm at Holland Hall’ s Branch Theatre, Richard Gere Productions, the Loseling Institute and Unity Church of Christianity and Unity Center of Tulsa present "The Mystical Arts of Tibet" featuring the Drepung Loseling Monks. This group of monks have performed with composer Phillip Glass, and performers such as Paul Simon, Natalie Merchant, the Beastie Boys and others. For tickets, call 582-6624 or 749-8833. Already open at Gilcrease is an exhibit of Inuit art which will be shown until Nov. 7th. The .works, which include sculpture, prints and tapestries, draw on a private collection which has never before been publicly exhibited. Pieces from Gilcrease’s-collection will complement the exhibit. Gilcrease anthropology curator, Jason Jackson, suggested that these works will appeal to those who appreciate traditional Native American art as well as those who like modem art coming out of western Europeantmditions. hffo: 596-2700. Local youth activist Emily Sizemore is one of the organizers of Arts for AIDS, an event scheduled for Sept. 25th. They are looking for singers, other musicians, writers, actors, visual artists, etc. If interestedin parlicipating, please call 3611000. That same evening, the Tulsa Philharmonic will open see Arts, p. 14 HoT "It’s Elementary" Tolerance Film Provokes Debate CHICAGO/TULSA (AP/TFN) - Thirdgraders in New York debate the idea of Gay mamage. Storytime for first- and second-graders ata school in Cambridge, Mass., includes the book "Asha’ s Mums" about a little girl who has two Lesbian mothers. Eighth-graders in San Francisco fire questions at a Gay man and Lesbian who visit their classroom. All areexcerpts from a controversial documentary, "It’s Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues In School," which first caused a stir when several public television stations decided to air it this summer. Now it’s being used by many schrol districts nationwide as a training tool for teachers, most recently in Chicago unifying what some say is a growing move to incorporate Gay and Lesbian issues into curriculum, from elementary to high school. Critics say talk about suchissues belongs at home. But others say it’s a matter of dealing with issues that students already see every day in newspapers, on television, in movies - and maybe even in their own communities or classrooms. "Both schools and families have to address the issue somehow because it’s there - and it’s not going back into the closet," says Tony D’Augelli, a psychologist at Penn State’s College of Health and Human Development who studies Gay youth ~sues. see Elem.,p.15 THE SEASON! TULSA ¯ Mas~Ywol"~s " PHILHARMONIC . Classics usic on . "toe RocRs" No ! FOR 1999-2000 T~CKaT INFORMATION CALL 1999-2000 Celtic Series SAVE $10 by purchasing the entire series! Natalie MacMaster An Irish Christmas October 8t~ & 9~ ¯ 8pro November 21,~ ¯ 3pro Gaelic Storm (Celtic BonusO The ’Party Band’ from the blockbuster movie 17tanic January 19m & 20za ° 8pro Trinity Irish Dance Company February 20= ¯ 3pro Anam March 3,1 & �~c~~h~d Gere Productions & the Loseling Institute present The Mystical Arts of Tibet Sacred Music Sacred Dance for World Healing with the famed Multiphonic Singers of Drepung Loseling Monastery September 11, 8 pm Branch Theatre, Holland Hall School 5666 East 81 st Street Jointly sponsored by Unity Church of Christianity and Unity Center of Tulsa Call 749-8833 for tickets. ~ SUNDAYS Bless the Lord At All Times Christian Center Sunday School - 9:45am, Service - 11 am, 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815 Community of Hope (Welcoming), Service ~ 6pro, 2545 S. Yale, 585-1800 Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation Service - 1 lam, 2545 S. 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Service - 7pm, 3210b So. Norwood Tulsa Native American Mens Support Group, more information, call 582-7225 TCC Gay & Lesbian Association of Students (GLAS), Call for info: 595-7632. Lambda A-A, 7 pro, 1307 E. 38th, 2nd ft. ~" THURSDAYS HOPE, HIV Outreach, Prevention, Education Anonymous HIV Testing, Testing: 7 - 8:30pro 834-8378, 3507 E. Admiral Oklahoma Rainbow Young Adult Network (O’RYAN) ¯ Support/social group for 18-24’s, call Red Rock Mental Health at 584-232.5 Substance Abuse Support Group for persons with HIV/AIDS, Info: 834-4194 ~" FRIDAYS Safe Haven, Young Adul{s Social Group, 1 st Fri/each mo. 8pm, Pride Ctr., 1307 E. 38th ~" SATURDAYS Narcotics Anonymous, 11 pm, Community of Hope,1703 E. 2nd, Info: .585-1800 Lambda A-A, 6 pro, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th, 2nd ft. I~" OTHER GROUPS T.U.L.S.A. Tulsa Uniform & Leather Seekers Association, info: 298-0827 Gal-A-Vanting, Womens Social & Cultural Group Call for info: Kathy at 322-6322, or Barb at 459-6825. OK Spoke Club, Gay & Lesbian Bike Organization. Long rides & short rides from Zeigler Park. Long & ~hort rides from Tulsa Gay Community Center. Write for info: POB 9165, Tulsa, OK 74157 If your organization is not listed, please let us know. Call 583-1248 or fax 583-4615. �Associated Press - Your lawn crunches ¯ base of the plant," he said. "That way, you like potato chips.when you walk on it.. don’t drown the roots, and new roots have Even your older trees are showing stress. : moist soil to move ~nto." Mulching is the next best solution to Although you might be tempted to coddle _" your plants, you can kill them with too ¯ watering, Nuss says. "But be sure to water much kindness, say experts in Penn State’ s : under mulch, not on top of it. It takes at *- least an inch of rain to get through organic College of Agricultural Sciences. mulch." In extreme condi"Pruning, fertilizing and watering can fool plants.into "Focus your tions, Nuss said covering the soil surface with black plastic thinking it’s springtime and water~ng-efforts will retain extra moisture. trigger new growth," said "You.can hide the plastic with Robert Nuss, professor of on plants you organic mulch," he says. ornamental horticulture. "New ~n do To supplement watering, use growth won’t have time to mature before the frost. Not some~blng about, gray water (from such uses as cooking and the laundry rinse only will you kill it, but you’ll llke ornamentals," cycle) on ornamentals, Nuss use up next year’s buds." "If you have a landscape said. "But move from tree to ke added. tree so you dilute it. Also, don’t contractor or arborist do your "With lawns, it’s use water that contains work, there’s only so much chlorine bleaches or laundry they’ll want to do during a just a waiting softeners. For health reasons, drought," said Rick Johnson, game until the don’t use gray water on leafy associate extension agent in vegetables or root vegetables. Delaware County. "Since rMn and cool "With a drought this serious, normal plant care practices w~ther return." I’d focus watering on highmight be harmful under value plants and shrubs," Nuss drought conditions, understand that these contractors may advise ¯ said. "Save fresh water for your vegetables, ¯ use gray water on the ornamentals, and against them." ¯ don’t water your flowers. Flowers are Nuss and others offer some specific ¯ going to die with the. first frost anyway." suggestions. "Grasses gO into a semi"Droughts have a negative effect on dormant state and become vulnerable ¯ most insect and mite pests that attack when it’s dry," said Peter Landschoot, associate professor of turfgrass science. : landscape plants," says Greg Hoover, extension entomologist. "Because of last "Now that the water’s been turned off, year’ s drought, forinstanee, we have fewer you should limit activities and traffic on adult Japanese beetles this year, and lawns as much as .possible. Come probably will see even fewer next year." September (October in Oklahoma) - if But hot, dry weather favors two different we get rain and cooler weather- you can groups of insect and mite pests. "Woodfertilize and overseed to get some recovery. boring insects successfully attack trees If we don’t get enough rain in September, and shrubs that are stressed," Hoover said. wait tmtil next spring to oversee&’" "If you don’t have water restrictions, the "Focns your watering efforts on plants bes~ thing you can do for woody plants is you can do something about, like water them. Supplement watering with ornaments," he added¯ "With lawns, it’s rainfall collected in buckets or barrels, or just a waiting game until the rain and cool water from dehumidifiers." weather return.’" "The two-spotted spider ~mite, a common "Pruning’s a gamble," said Nuss. "If pest on garden and landscape plants, also you’re sure the parts are dead - if they’re thrives in hot, dry weather," Hoover said. brittle and dry - go ahead and cut back to "The winged euonymus - what some the live tissue. This will promote some people call ’burning bush’ -is particularly healing and help the plants aesthetically. vulnerable. When indicated, use an But remember, ff we get somerain, proning appropriate miticide on infested plants." can trigger growth in the buds." Hoover recorfimends using wet powder "Fertilizers are salts - even organic insecticide formulations. ’q’hey’re less materials such as manure -and salts can likely to damage plant tissues during hot, bum roots," Nuss said. "If you want to dry Weather when used according to label give plants nutrients, wait until October directions." (late November or December here) when they’re fully dormant." "Watering is key for woody plants," Nuss said. "When the top 1-11/2 inches of soil are dry, water down to 8-10 inches when justice is not served. We need to be to the root zone," he said. "You can able to appeal to a higher authority’when accompllsh~ this by dire~t, slow watering. localities and states do not-for whatever Trickle water on very slowly so it soaks reason- fully investigate and prosecute a into the soil, with no rtmoff. Also, when hate crime. On behalf of hate crimes you water at night, you lose less to victims everywhere, I urge Congress to evapOration." pass the Hate Crimes Prevention Act." But watering has its dangers. "If you On" added, "we were targeted because of overwater in areas with heavy soil or slow who we are, not for any other reason... drainage, you can saturate the root zone they were trying to send a message that and force out the air," Nuss says. "This "our kind’ are not welcome in Tulsa and can suffocate the roots and kill them." deserve to be beaten or die. It is time to When roots die, you’ll _see top wilting in send a message that what is not welcome ¯ the plant, Nnss says. "Mostpeopleinterpret are hate crimes." this as a lack of water, add even more and Under current law, a hate crime can be aggravate the problem. After watering, federally prosecuted only if the victim is most plants should recover overnight. But targeted on the basis of race, religion, if the plant remains wilted, you may have color or national origin, while on federal root damage from overwatering." property or while exercising a federally For new plantings, Nuss recommends protectedright, such as vodng or attending keeping the initial root ball moist. "Water school: see Congress, p. 11 bevond the planting hole, not just at the Change... ~- Postage Stamp 1985 22¢ 1998 Minimum:Wage 1985 $3.35 1998 $5.15 Average New Car Price 1985 $ 9,011 1998 $20,0OO q- e More Stay The m ee. A lot has changed since 1985. Prices for many consumer goods have more than doubled. But one Average Price of Electricity Per Residential kWh 1985 1998 6.4¢ 5.7¢ thing has stayed the same. Our rates. They’ve remained virtually unchanged for almost fifteen years. Top value for your energy dollar. The mo st reliable ser vice p~~ Public Service Company of Oklahoma possible. And better choices than ever before. You can count on it. 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Currently, hate crimes ¯ monitoring and enforcement consists of a ¯ patchwork of laws that offer citizens ¯ varying see Congress, p. 12 �Red Rock Tulsa by Esther Rothblum, Ph.D. get cervical cancer." Two women even Dr. Sue Wilkinson is currently reported that they were considered conducting the first national survey of "virgins" by the medical profession Lesbian health in the United Kingdom because they had had sex with women but with doctoral student Julie Fish. The" not with men! survey managed to contact Lesbians in But the pap smear is not a comfoitable almost every postal district of the United procedure for many women, and may be Kingdom, from the southern particularly painful, uncomCervical cancer tip of England to the islands fortable, unusual or trauoff northern Scotland. Over. matizing for Lesbians. 38% of appears to l~e 1,000 Lesbians answered the Lesbians in the U.K. study .connected. with questionnaire, which focused reported .that they. had never sexual activity, on breast cancer, mammohad a cervical smear for this grams, breast self-exam, reason. One Lesbian reported particularly cervical cancer, and pap that she viewed a speculum as penetrative sex staears, "a huge metal crocodile." I recently spoke with Sue Othershadheardhorrorstories wlt]~men. Tl~is about the early results of this . from friends and partners that Is why Lesi~ians studY, Which focus on cervica1 the procedure was aversive, screemng. Unlike many lmve traditionally humiliating, or painful. cancers, cervical cancer has Finally,, Lesbians raised ]~een vlewed as an early warning stage, with questions about havingamale at low rls]~ for abnormal cells present. This is health provider "pokingwhy women are told to have around in my body," cervical cancer, regular pap smears (or cervical specifically, in the vagina. Or But Lesglans smears, as they’re called in the. they were concerned that the may lmve ]~ad health care provider conU.K.). SueandJuliefoundthat 12% ducting the procedure would sex with men of Lesbians eligible for result in questions about their cervical screening had previously, and/ sexual activity or would NEVERhadapap:mear.This assume they were heteroor t]aey may ]~e is higher than comparable U.S. sexual. ha’~cln~ sex with figures of 5% found by the This important study raises National Lesbian Health Care men evenw]a~le some questions about cervical smears. Do Lesbians whohave However,Surveyinthisthefiguremid-1980’S.is lower eallln~ t]aemselves neverhadintercourseneedpap Lesl~ans. than that of 17% for women in smears at all, or need pap the general U.K. population smears less often? How can Cervical cancer who report never having had a pap smears be performed in a is not well cervical smear. What is matter that is more positive surprising about these low understood, so for Lesbians? figures for women in the U.K. Sue Wilkinson and Julie women, ineludin~ is that the U.K. has national Fish can be contacted at the health service. Pap smears are Lesl~ians, may l~e Department of Social free, and women receive a Sciences, Loughborough at rls]~ for other reminder letter every five University, Loughborough reasons unrelated years,withtwoorthreefollowLE11 3TU United Kingdom. uplettersiftheydon’tcomein tosexualaetlvity. - Esther Rothblum is for the pap sinear, Professor ofPsychology at the When Sue andJulieexaminedLesbians’ ¯ University of Vermont and Editor of the written comments about cervical Journal of Lesbian Studies. She can be screening, they found that one reason for " reached at John Dewey Hall, University non-attendance was lack of time. "But " of Vermont, Burlington, VT. E-maih apart from that, it looks as though the two ¯ esther.rothblum@uvm.edu. main categories of response are-that " Lesbians feel they don’t need a smear and ° secondly, negative aspects of the ¯ procedure," said Sue, "they imagine the " procedurewillbepainful,orembarrassing, ° levels of legal protection depending on where they live. Twenty-two states and or thatthey will encounterheterosexism." Cervicalcancerappearstobeconnected " the District of Columbia have hate crimes with sexual activity, particularly " laws that include sexual orientation. penetrative sex with men. This is why ¯ Twentystateshavelawsthatdonotinclude Lesbians have traditionally been viewed- ¯ sexual orientation. Eight states have no as at low risk for cervical cancer. But " hate crimes laws at all. Lesbians may have had sex with men ¯ SpeakingwithTFN, Orr&Beauchamp previously, and/or they may be having ¯ expressed their disappointment with how sex with men even while calling Tulsa district attorney staff members themselves Lesbians. " handled the prosecution of their attackers. Cervical cancer is not wall understood, ° They indicated that had Orr not had so women, including Lesbians, may be at ¯ .professional experience as a journalist, risk for other reasons unrelated to sexual : specifically covering crime stories, they activity, In the U.K. study, about 40% of : likely would have given up in frustration Lesbians felt they did not need a cervical : while trying to get information about how screen because they had never had ¯ the case was going. Their perception intercourse. Many Lesbians wrote that : remains that Tulsa DA considered the they had specifically been told this by a " assault to unimportant because they are doctor or nurse. 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Emotionally, he couldn’t handle knowledgeofhis lover’s onetimerelations with : And difficult cultures have different ways of.classifying and interpreting those same other guys. We’ve got a name for that emotion: ¯ chemical flushes. You may have heard of the sexual jealousy. Shawn’s anthropologists German emotion tmhappiness prompted me to schadenfreude which is debate the facts think about the green emotion. Jealous feelings, and their of human emotion. pleasure felt at someone else’ s misfortune. Many of us also sorry consequences, are an Can we say that take pleasure from other’s endlessly fascinating motif in misfortunes, but English has popular novel and film. Besides, most of us have emotions that we no word that specifically labds this twisted enjoyment. Does experienced jealously in all feel because this lin,g,nistic gap mean that person. We’ve learned to use wedon t sense this pleasure as the word to label a peculiar we are human? deeply as do Germans? mental state and aching body And even if jealousy is a If so, whleh ones? sensation sparked by our love human universal, it may be interests. Love, bate, that some of us experience the The word has been around bappiness, feeling more intensely. Gore for years. English speakers of Vidal reports in his sadness, f~r, the 12th century borrowed autobiography Palimpsestthat ’jealousy’ from Old French. anger? he and his lover never have And those speakers on the sex. This he finds this on the Are there other continent previously had street. His "lover," instead, adopteditfrom the Latinzelus, emotions that provides breakfast derived from the even more people in one conversation and other forms ancient Greek zelos, that of sexless companionship. culture eultlvate originally m,,eant something Clearly, many couples have like ardor or "fervor." and learn to feel created similar "open" Jealousy and zeal- and jealous relationships in which they are that are and zealot - are linguistic able to at least mute any cousins, all derived from the unknown or less feelings of sexual jealousy, s ame root concept of emotional important in Some occasionally have upheaval and intensity. campaigned to open up all other soeieties? Jealousy’ s deep cultural and relationships. linguistic roots indicate the During the 1960s, many popular reach of both emotion and concept. : preached and sometimes practiced "free We use a language of jealousy to understand why Shawn’s boyfriend ¯ love." They hoped to stifle sexual jealousy in order to rework the economy of dumped him. Whose lips were kissing ¯ Shawn before his? Whose arms had ¯ relationships. No one was meant to own anyone else. No one ought get jealous. already held that waist? Yet, Sex was healthy recreation, freedom, even anthropologists debate the facts of human ¯ spiritual; jealousy was wrongly emotion. Can we say that there are ¯ emotions that we all feel because we are ¯ possessive, limiting, and neurotic. It was no dice, though. For most of us, human? If so, which ones? Love, hate, ¯ jealousy remains the flip side of love- or happiness, sadness, fear, anger? Are there of love American-style anyway. The other emotions that people in one culture ¯ cultivate and learn to feel that are unknown ¯ babyboomers failed to stamp out jealousy or less important m other societies? Just ¯ because they could not remake the how normal - and how universal - are ¯ associated emotion of love. It remains might) hard to love and not get jealous. If feelings such as sexual jealousy? ¯ you don’t feel jealous, can you really be in Those anthropologists of the love? It is plausible that humans in other sociobiological persuasion often figure ¯ places and at other times have experienced that jealousy ~s indeed a human universal ¯ with an adaptive function. Men are never ¯ and understood the body flashes that we completely sure that the baby a woman ]¯ call jealousy in various ways. But around here, don’t let me catch you messing carries is theirs. Jealousy works = so goes ¯ around! the story - to motivate men to police their Lamont Lindstrom teaches anthrowomen in order to better the odds that the. y have fathered her babies. An), ¯ pology at the University of Tulsai: easygoing man withdut Some yet~to-beidentified gene for.jealousy would have contributed less to the human gene pool in that he may not have fathered the children ¯ profesgionally, did local law enford~ment; he thought he did. Butwhatof women?They always know ¯¯ take the casemore seriously. SpecifiCally, two of their assailants had not been made that they are the mothers of their children, so what should they care if the guys mess : to perform their sentences whichinduded community service and a fine to the court. around elsewhere? Andwhat of Shawn? ¯ Orr and Beauchamp also stated that it is It’s unlikely thathis boyfriendwas jealous ¯ typical in assaults of this type for the because of evoluationary womes that a ~ victims to receive compensation for their rival would make him pregnant. ¯ We could argue that our bodies have an ¯ losses due to the assault, and that they inbnilt heritage of emotions, includln. ¯ specifically requested compensation from theDistrictAttomeys, see Congress, p.14 jealously, no matter who are lovers happen �¯ ¯ Bernhardt, Guy Logsdgn, CliftonTaulbert, Eddie Faye Gates, C.J. Cherryh, Rich ¯ Fisher and folksinger Michael Martin ." Murphey. Info: 594-8215. ¯ Alsoin Oct. the Performing Arts Center Trust presents Sabella, featuring"global" ¯ music on Oct. 2 and on Oct. 8th & 9th, TPACT’s Celtic series (now so popular ¯ that they’ve added 2nd performances, and alas, forgotten their friends who helped ¯ them before the Celtic series got so ¯ popular) will start with Natalie ¯ MacMaster, fiddler extraordinaire. I don’t think any of the Celtic series artists I’ve ¯ seen have ever been bad, so check it out. And on that same busy weekend, both ." ¯ Tulsa’s and Oklahoma City’s Gay ¯ communities are presenting arts events in ¯ honor of National Coming Out Day. ¯ OUTART’99inOKCwillfeature 10new ." release films, two plays, a music special ¯ and visual artists. The Gala opening, A ¯ Black Tie Dinner and A Movie, Friday, ¯ Oct. 8th will present the southwest : premiere of the film"Edge of Seventeen" ¯ as well as a buffet dinner and wine bar. ¯ For more information or tickets, see the ¯ advertisement on page 16, or call 405¯ 752-2762 or 800-722-8866. ¯ That same busy weekend, TOHR and ¯ the Gay Community Center will hold ¯ TOHR’s first film festival at the Center. ¯ The first film will be shown at 7:30pro on Thursday~ Oct. 7 with films also being ¯ shown on Fri. evening and on Sat. ¯ afternoon and evening. Call 743-4297 for ¯ more information. : It also appears that local presentation of ¯ Gay and Lesbian films may show back up on a big screen. AMC Southroads 20 will ¯ present a Lesbian themed film, "Better ¯ Than Chocolate" on Sept. 10, and a Gay ¯ film, "Trick" on Oct. 1st. The key to ¯ getting these on aregular basis is to support the theatre that takes the risk. S o vote with your dollars ! but wondered if the average fantasy reader would follow that far - they have, and gladly for the most part. I get letters from straight guys saying essentially "I shouldn’t be ok with this, but I am!" even if it makes them a little uncomfortable any-way. Others have said it made it easier to talk with Gay relatives. Ifmy stories have any social value, perhaps it’s .that. Mostly, I just follow my muse where~she leads and hope it works. JC: And how have you managed to do it so well? LF: Love is love. JC: And how do you keep track ofall the .intrigues? My head is spinningfrom what l’ve gotten through in "Traitor’s Moon!" LF: Copious notes and charts on the wall. I see that Bantam (though they cut my glossary, now available on.my web page) left a blank page at the ends. I hope people will use it for notes, like I did reading "Trainspotting." The next book, ’‘The Bone Doll’s Twin" goes back in history to one of the. Skalan queens, but there will be more Nightnmners, too. A&S are already prowling restlessly about my brain, hungry for more work. JC: 1 understand you’re appearing at Gaylaxicon, a sci-fi convention for Gay and Lesbian fans of the genre in Alexandria, Virginia. LF: Gaylaxicon promises to be a lot of fun. I’ve had a lot of contact with the organizers and they are simply the best I’ve ever dealt with. Hope to teach a writing workshop for them while I’m there. JC." Have you heard of Loreena McKennitt? Her music and appearance reminds me of some of your "aurenfaie" characters. LF: Aurenfaie? I’ll claim her. "Mask and Mirror" is my personal favorite of all her disks. My husband is a great fan of female vocalists and has amassed quite a collection, which I dip into. (My tastes seem torunmore to GeorgeThoroughgood and Melissa Etheridge a lot of the time, along with some Leonard Cohen and Rufus ¯ Wainwright, a new discovery.) ¯ JC : And on that musical note, l ’d like to say thank you to Lynn for sharing some of ¯ her inspirations, writings, and - methods ¯¯ behind the madness’ with us. ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ !ts 51 st season wiihpianist John Browning m a program featuring Brahms, ¯ Tchaikovsky and Berlioz. Prior to the concert at 7pm, long time radio man and ¯ the voice of the OK Mozart Festival ¯ (Simon Estes - he’s the bestest!) Edward ¯ Dumit will lead "Musical Moments" a pre-concert discussion. For more ¯ information, call the Phil at 747-7445. ¯ Also at the end of Sept. Heller Theatre, one of Tulsa’s theatre companies that actually interested in newer works (as opposed-to recycling the same old stuff, again and again and again), are presenting "Dallas to LaGuardia R.T." on Sept. 2325 and Sept.. 30-OcL 2, a play about a couple that misses a flight and winds up invited to stay .over with complete strangers. Later in Oct. Heller will present "Fortinbras" revisiting Hamlet in a contemporary political context. ¯ Early in Oct. the Oklahoma Center for Poets and Writers presents its Celebration ¯ of Books on Oct. 1-2 at OSU-Tulsa with ¯ a remarkable assemblage of artists, even ¯ including some Gay ones. Some names include Michael Wallis, William . FRE 100% LOCAL Per o a M use code 393 Megaplnone aoes not prescreen callers & assumes no ]JabJlit~ for personal meetings. 24hr Customer Service. 18+ :~nly. © lggg Pe None was ever received. In fact,-this became an issue in Orr’s Congressional testimony. Rep. Mary Bonn, widow of the late Sonny Bonn, attacked err and Beauchamp saying that the Tulsa District Attorneys office claimed that they had been uncooperative with th DA and had not filled out the forms necessary to receive compensation..Orr and Beauchamp counter that not only-did they not receive the forms, thry did not even know of their existance until Bonn raised the issue. Commenting to TFN, Human Rights Campaign Political Director Winnie Stachelberg said, "I urge "the Gay and Lesbian community of Tulsa to act now in support of this bill (HCPA), so that incidents like these are prevented .... i~t is important that the; Gay and LeSbian community of Oklahoma is protected at a federal if not at a state level.’" Want to get involved? Need to get tested for HIV? Need a Coming Out Support Group? 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If nothing .else, ~ v~.:~ parents can ask to have their , excused from a lesson the-: find that "It’s Elementary" will not be shown . objecttonable: SaysP~,~shall, Mywarm g to parents would be: Beware.’ " to students - are atadskittishabouttalking In Oklahoma, there’s been no public about, their plan. They confirm that the " outcry about "It’s Elementary" because district’s 589principals will view thefilm beginning in September and receive a " the Oklahoma Educational Television ¯ Association has chosen not to air the piece. copy of the Video for their schools - a plan funded by Lesbian tennis star Billie Jean " Malcomn Wall, executive director of King. But several teachers who vealready " OEFA, claimed that OETA’s decision toair theprogram was not based onthe viewed the film on their-own declined to : not content, i.e. Gay & Lesbian issues but be interviewed out of feat of criticism, A city official who helped get the film " rather that OETA is offered far more - in part due to backing from chicago " programs thaJa it can ,possibly. air. He characterized it as.a routine passing over. Mayor Richard Daley ~ .into the dis~t was more forthcoming. She says the " However, Wallis relatively new at OETA decision was aimed at fostering tolera9,ce ¯ and the association has had a history of and, in turn, preventing violepce ag..mns, t " mostly refusing to air programs with Gayand Lesbian students. "It’s pmcttcm. Lesbian and Gay content. One notable Itmakes good sense. It’s about safety_, for " exception was the airing of an award children.Idon’tthinkanybody,regardless winning program, "Breaking the Code" of their religious background, can argue ¯ about the Gay man who broke the Nazi messagecodeinWorldWarlI. However, with that," says Mary Morten, Daley’s ¯ liaison on Gay and Lesbian issues. " OETA first refused to air this program School officials in San Francisco, who ] and did so only after being pressured by are also using "It’s Elementary" have ¯ Oklahoma City’s Gayly Oklaho_.man gone as far as imposing a ban on anti-Gay newspaper and Tulsa Family News. "they There’s no charge to slurs. "Go stand on a playground. I " also waited to air the program later in the create an ad! guarantee you that you will hear within " summer of 1998 after the Oklahoma ......... ’Oh , that’s so Gay ¯ ¯ Legislature was out of session, instead of Call Runutes raos ~ay in" ~,,, What at(you a fag? says KevinGogin, airing in May or June like many PBS 1-800-326-MEET director of support services for sexual : affiliates did. SMALL TOWN G!RL minority youth for the San Francisco ." Unified School District who regularly ¯ 36-year:old BF, looking speaks to teachers and principals for a F, to have a good nationwide. ¯ DO YOU time with and maybe Moves to address Gay and Lesbian " Schmitzarrivedhometofindthenoteand FULFILL MY FAN- WHAT issues in the classroom are not, however, " light in his doorway from Amedure. TASY Straight-acting WANT? Bi-curious more. 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Text Any textual data included in the document United +AmericanAirlines To Offer Partners’ Benefits WASHINGTON - In a bold move with global ramifications for Gay and Lesbian workplace equality, United Airlines - the world’s largest airline - became the first major U.S. airline to offerfull domestic partner benefits, according to a press release from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC). United Airlines announced the decision on July 30. ’q’his enormous victory will have a global impact in helping to create fair and equitable workplaces for Gay and Lesbian people," noted HRC Executive Director Elizabeth Birch in a statement released early in August. "We congratulate Unitedforjoining therapidly growing legion of compames who realize that treating all employees with dignity andrespect is goodfor business. United has definitely earned their wings. This is a noble challenge to other carriers to now align their benefits packages to reflect fairness and equality for every employee." As a result of United’s action, Equal Benefits Advocates, a San Francisco-based group, declared an end to the educational boycott of United. That organization called the.boycott in Febrtmry to .raise public awareness of United’s lawsuit, see United, p. 2 Arizona Legislator Takes On "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" by Melanie Carroll, Associated Press Writer NEW YORK - "Don’t ask, don’t tell?" Doesn’t work. ¯ That’s the word from an openly Gay Arizona legislator " and Army Reserve officer being investigated for : dischargeby the military. State Rep. Steve May,inNew ¯ York recently for a meeting of the Log Cabin Republicans, a Gay political group, called for an end to . the military’s policy on Gays. "A.t a time when recruiting and retentionis becoming ¯ a serious problem, and some members of Congress are . discussing a reinstatement of the draft, how much " longer will we degrade our military readiness by ¯ discharging competent, qualified, trained men and ¯ women?... This policymustcome to an end,"May said. " A spokesman for the Army Reserve confirmed an " investigation of May is under way; it started Aug. 7. ¯ ’¢foday I am facing discharge proceedings because I ¯ have refused to lie about who I am," May said. While never discussing his sexual orientation with military ¯ officials, he was open about it when seeking election ¯ last year. May, who still serves in the Army Reserve once a month, saidhe willlikely be discharged when the " Army’s investigation is complete. - ¯ Sen. John McCain, a former POWl said thereis room : in the GOP for openly Gay _r,ep,r.,e.sen,t~tives, but,add,~e~,’ " that besupports [he fiiiiitary s ’dOn t ask~ don t tell’ " policy. "We should in our party refrain from ¯ discrimination in any form,.M.cC.aan.satd. As-forMay, : "he’s a fine man," McCain added. "I have the greatest respect for him?’ Yet, as a member of the:mili~,May is subject to constraints growing out of the natur~ ~t~the military service, McCain said. Hesaid that sincesoIdiers ¯ must live in place and with people not of their own . : choosing, the policy regarding a soldierrs Sexual _" orientation makes sense. Stacey Sobel, a senior attorney with the Washingtonbased Service Members Legal Defense Network, is representing May against the Army Reserve. see Officer, p. 2 Serving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual + Transgendered Tuleans, Our Families + Friends Tulsa’s Largest Circulation Community PaperAvailable In More Than 75 City Locations Congressi,onal Committee Hears Tulsans On Hate Crimes WASHINGTON-TheHuman Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest national Lesbian and Gay political organization, with members throughout the country, brought Tulsa hate crime victims Tony Orr and his partner Tim Beaucamp to Washington in early August to testify?before the hearing ot the House Judiciary committee on the .faced for a stonger federal response to hate crimes, specifically asking the House of Representatives to pass the Hate Crimes Prevention Act (HCPA). InSeptember 1997, Orr and Beaucamp were standing at an ATM at State Bank in the Brookside neighborhood when three men approached them. They called the two men "faggots" and proceeded to brutally beat them. Orr suffered a concussion and received stitches for the many gashes onhis head. Bcauchampreceivedpermanentnerve damage after the orbital bone around his eye was broken. Speaking at a press conference before the Congxessional hearing, HRCexecutive director Elizabeth Birch introduced Orr, saying, "we urge Congress to listen to the courageous men and women who came forward today to speak ofthe unspeakable hate cr~mes that irreversibly changed their lives.., it is clear that hate crimes are a national problem and now is the time for Congress to embrace real solutions. The House should follow the Senate’s lead and pass the Hate Crimes Prevention Act (HCPA)." To demonstrate the reai-life impact of these crimes, Birch introduced "A Decade of Violence: Hate Crimes Based on Sexual Orientation," a newly published report by the Human Rights Campaign and the Southern Poverty Law Center. The report details the rise in hate crimes and the impact it has on its victims and society. Tulsan Orr noted, "people like us in communities all across this country need some place to turn seeCongress,p.lO Tony Orr & Tim Beauchamp ¯ ’Jenny Jones’ Murderer Guilty ¯ PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) - A jury rejected a claim that Jonathan ¯ Schmitz was driven to kill a Gay.acquaintance because of his unrelenting and unwanted advances, starting by revealing a crush on a talk show. "If he was Gay and a woman had approached him that way, would it have been right for him to kill her because she put anote and a flashing light in his door?" askedjuror Kimberley Manney. Schmitzwas convicted inlate August of second-degree murder in the death of Scott Amedure,who had appeared with him on ’q’he Jenny Jones Show." It marked the second time that a jury hadfoundhim guilty of that charge. The first conviction was later overturned"We wanted to send a message that it’s not all right to act this way," juror Ted Hight said. Schmitz’s second trial avoided the debate over the role played by Ms. Jones’ show, which was amajor part of acivil trial against the-show and Schmitz’s first murder trial. Instead, the jury debated Schmitz’s state of mind. As the verdict was read, Schmltz, 29, hung his head, stared down and clasped his hands under his chin. Schmitz’s first conviction for second-degree murder in 1996 resulted in a sentence of 25 to 50 years in prison; the Verdict was thrown out on appeal due to an error in jury selection. Oakland County Assistant Prosecutor Donna Pend~rgast Raid ~he Would ask for the same penalty when Schmitz is sentenced Sept. 14. "I always knew if thejury followed the law it would come back with this verdict," she said Schmi tz’s attorney, Jerome Sabbota, sought a le~s~r verdict Of manslaughter, saying that Amedure continued to pursue Schmitz to the point Schmitz "lost all reason." The segment never aired. He said Amedure lied to Schmi tz about the show, entitled "Same- Sex Secret Crushes," and set Schmitz off byleaving a suggestive note and blinking construction lightonhis door. Amedure "never let up and he never backed off. He created a situation when any reasonable person would have snapped," Sabbota said. The facts in the case were not disputed in the four-day trial. On ¯ March 6,1995,Amedure revealed his crush on’q’heJenny Jones Show," along with a sexual fantasy. Schmitz told him he was ." heterosexual. The two flew back to Detroit together and stayed ." out late drinking with a mutual friend, Donna Riley. : Onthe morning of March 9, 1995, see Jones, p. 15 ¯ Community Center News ¯ TULSA - Tulsa’s Gay Community Center and its parent organization, Tulsa Oldahomans for Human ¯ Rights (TOHR) have announced a full schedule of ¯ events for the next several months. On Sept. 11, ¯ TOHRandParents, Families &Friends ofLesbians &Gays (PFLAG) will hold aGarage Sale to benefit ¯ both groups. The sale will run from 7am to 4pm at ¯ 5303 E. 27th Place atDarlington. Donations of sale ¯ items may be left at the Center up to Sept. 8. Later, on Sept. 25, TOHR along with many ¯ others will host a Feast for Friends dinner which ¯ supports THENAMES PROJECT, theAIDS Quilt ; organization. TOHR’s dinner at the "Double T ; Ranch" will begin at 5pro and a $15 donation is ¯ requested. Those who cannot attend a dinner can ¯ join the dessert finale at the Southern Hills Marriott ; at 8:30. Into: TOHR, 743-4297 or THE NAMES ; PROJECT, 748-3111. ¯ Along with the First Annual Film Festival on Oct: 7-9 (see TFN’s Entertainment column which begins on page 8for more details as well as the Film Festival ad on page 8), the Center will host ¯ TOHR’s first Coming Out Fair "Discovering ¯ Yourself" from noon to 6pro on Sat. Oct. 9th. ; TOHR is also kicking off a new project, the CommUnity Pages, which is a Gay & Lesbian ; "yellow" or "pink" pages, or directory to Gay and ¯ Gay-friendly businesses and organizations. ; Tulsa formerly had such a directory called "Gay Tulsa" which was published by former resident, Kharma Amos. Amos, however, moved to the ; Northwest to attend seminary and for a number of ; years, no directory has been published. (Editor’s ¯ note:TulsaFamilyNewsalsoprovidesfreelistings ¯ in its directory to those who request them.) ¯ TOHR volunteers will be soliciting advertisers ¯ this fall and hope to publish a community directory ; early next year. Those interested in being listed or ¯ advertising should contact TOHR board member, ¯ Kerry Lewis, at POB 2687, Tulsa 74101 or by email at pride_center@yahoo.corn ¯ Wichita: No GaysAIIowed Tulsa Big Bros: No Prob. ¯ WICHITA/TULSA (AP/TFN) When the ¯ Sedgwick County Big Brothers Big Sisters went ¯ asking for mentors for a new program, everyone ¯ was invited to participate. Everyone exceptmembers ¯ of Ten Percent, a campus Gay and Lesbian group. ¯ Big Brother Big Sisters of Sedgwick County ¯ began its search for mentors by sending letters to ¯ Wichita State University student organizations. ¯ Thoughit wasn’t supposed to,Ten Percentreceived ¯ a letter soliciting volunteers. The letter said Big : Brothers Big Sisters clients were "waiting for a ¯ mentor like you." However, Ten Percent, which describes itself as : a"campus organization for Lesbian, Bisexual,.Gay : and Transgendered university students and their ¯ friends and allies," didn’t fit Big Brothers Big ¯ Sisters’ policy. The youth group does not allow ¯ Gay men or Lesbians to serve as mentors. ¯ Casey Ritchie, spokesman for Big Brothers Big : Sisters, said theletter was part of a mass mailing to ¯ all Wichita State University groups. "We simply ¯ feel it’s not in the best interest of the youths we : serve to put them in the middle of any potential ¯ controversy," Ritchie said. The letter was addressed to Chris Taylor, vice ¯ president of the 50-member group, whose name is ¯ based on studies that suggest that 10% of the : nation’s population is Gay. see 10%,p. 3 DIRECTORY P. 2 EDITORIAL p. $ US & WORLD NEWS P. 4 HEALTH NEWS P. 6 ENTERTAINMENT P. 8 COMMUNITY CALENDAR P. 9 D-I-Y-D P. 11 DYKE PSYCHE P. 12 GAY STUDIES P. 1:3 Tulsa Clubs & Restaurants *Bamboo Lounge, 7204 E. Pine *Boston Willy’s Diner, !742 S. Boston Burger Sisters Restaurant, !545 S. Sheridan *Empire Bar, 1516 S. Peoria *Full Moon Cafe, 1525 E. 15th *Gold Coast Coffee House. 3509 S. 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Harvard, #210 747-5466 *Living ArtSpace, 19 E Brady 585-1234 *Midtown Theater, 319 E. 3rd 584-3112 Mingo Valley Flowers, 9720c E. 31 663-5934 *Mohawk Music, 6157 E 51 Place 664-2951 David A. Paddock, CPA, 4308 S. Peoria, Ste. 633 747-7672 Puppy Pause II, 1060 S. Mingo 838-7626 *Peace of Mind Bookstore, 1401 E.. 15 583-1090 The Pride Store, 1307 E. 38, 2rid floor 743-4297 Rainbowz on the River B+B, POB 696, 74101 747-593.2 Richard’s Carpet Cleaning 834-0617 Teri Schutt, Rex Realtors 834-7921, 747-4746 *Scribner’s Bookstore, 1942 Utica Square 749-6301 Patti Tay, Car Salesman 260-7829 *Tickled Pink, 3340 S. Peoria 697-0017 *Tulsa Book Exchange, 3749 S. Peoria 742-2007 *Tulsa Comedy Club; 6906 S. Lewis 481-0558 *Venus Salon, 1247 S. Harvard 835-5563 Fred Wdch, LCSW, Counseling 743-1733 *Whittier News Stand, 1 N. Lewis 592-0767 Tulsa Agencies, Churches, Schools & Universities AIDS Walk Tulsa, POB 4337, 74101 579-9593 *All Souls Unitarian Church, 2952 S. Peoria 743-2363 Black & White, Inc. 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"It’ s ironic that his qualities ofintegrity and honesty got him elected in Arizona. ¯ Now thosequalitiesaregettinghimkicked ¯ out of the Army Reserve," Sobel said. ¯ Sobel added that since the implementation of"don’t ask, don’t tell," ¯ in 1994 the number of people discharged ¯ from the armed services has increased. ¯" "This demonstrates that the policy is not ¯ working," Sobel said. Lastyear the Army ¯ discharged 1,149 members of the armed ¯ fo.r..ccs ~or being G.ay~,ua.der. ’~do!~t. ask,. ~" don’Lt~ll." In 1~97, idi~lhw f6i~ 997 ~: ~eopte-0ut of die miii~_y. In 1994; 6i7 :,’. ~eople were dismissed. May, a lieutenant trained in nuclear, chemical and biological warfare defense, also is qualified as a paratrooper. He is second-in-command of the 348th Transportation Company. "The boycott was a success and now it’s over,;’ Jeff Sheehy, founder of Equal Benefits Advocates, told HRC. "We are grateful thatHRC supported this action;it really made a difference. Together, we liave sent amessage to corporateAmerica that this issue is important to our commlmity." "Wehave changed the world, and given that United is providing worldwide benefits, that is not hyperbole," said San Francisco Supervisor Mark Leno. "I want to commend and recognize HRC’s early and immediate support upon our request to honor the Equal Benefits Advocates in their designing of the boycott. Theboycott certainly played arole in the outcome, as did the courts." United’s domestic partner benefits package will offer a full range ofcoverage toGayandLesbian couples. Thesebenefits include medical and dental benefits, life insurance, pension survivor rights, bereavement and medical leave and flight discounts. Heterosexual domesticpartners will only receive non-economic benefits such as bereavement or medical leave and flight discounts. The decision will affect 97,000 United employees worldwide. According to the SanFrancisco Chronicle, the airline said their domestic partnership program will not go into effect until May. United came under heat from Gay and Lesbian advocates this year for.joining in a lawsuit to stop San Francisco from making them comply with a local ordinance that said they must offer domestic partner benefits in order to do business in the city. United argued that they did not have to comply with the ordinance because they were a national company that only had to follow federal government mandates. U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilkin recently ruled that the airlines had to provide "soft benefits" such as bereavement or medical leave. However, they did not have to offer employees economic benefits, such as pensions or health insurance. Theairlines, represented by the Air Transport Association, are appealing the ruling. Letters Policy Tulsa Family News welcomes letters on issues which we’ve covered or on ~ssues you think need to be considered. You may request that your name be withheld but letters must be signed & have phone numbers, or be hand delivered. 200 wordletters are preferred. Letters to other publications will be printed as is appropriate. Guest Editorial: Keeping Gay Kids Safe Too l~y Kerry Lobel, National Gay & Lesbian Task Force More than 50 million young people in grades K~ 12 trek back to school this month. They bring with them the concerns of their parents and their communities over the issue of school safety. Seeing the flood of back-to-school stories on the local news, I sense that something - or someone - is missing from this picture. Specifically, five million someones. That’s thenumber ofestimatednumberofGLBTQ (Gay, -Lesbian, Bisexual, transgendered or questioning) students in "our public schools. For them, safetyis aneveryday concern. Let’s consider some statistics: - 28% Of Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual youth drop out of school because of harassment and verbal attacks, according to a study conducted by the U.S. DepartmentofHealth and Human services. - 22% ofboys and29% of girls perceived as Gay or Lesbian have reported physical attacks by students, according to another study by the same agency. -80% of Gay and Lesbian teens report feelings of severe social isolation at school, What can you do? Demand that your school dlStrlet adopt pollees that protect students and teachers from harassment and discrimination; p~-ovlde staff with workshops and training; support eurrio~la that includes information about the llv~s and contributions of GLBT people; and allow for the formation of Gay-Stralght Ai~’~anees. , . according to statistics provided by the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network. Right now, our nation is having a public discussion overwhat to do about violence in the schools. President Clinton held a summit. Columbine, Colorado officials put in place a policy of "zero tolerance" for harassment and taunting. Many are pointing fingers at the entertainment industry or the gunindustry or the Interact. Republicans and Democrats, in typical fashion, are pointing fingers at each other. But once again, our voices are left out of the debate. Our voices are enriched by painful experience, for who among us can forget the frequency with which epithets like "fag" and "dyke" are casually tossed around on the playground, in the school cafeteria, inthe locker room, Nevertheless, airlineindustry experts expect Other airlines to follow United s lead~ ¯ even in the school classroom. ¯¯ What can be done? The good news is progress can- and is - being made to ¯ protect our schoolchildren. In the state of New York, for ." example, legislators this summer filed (but have not yet ¯ passed) the Dignity for All Students Act, which would ¯" direct schools to adopt policies to create a safe school environment for all students. The proposal would revise : state curriculum requirements to include human relations ¯ education. This curriculum Would enable students to ¯" :foster an appreciation- of people of different sexmd ¯ orientations as well as different racial or religious backgrounds. In the state of California, legislators defeated similar legislation by one vote. That was disappointing, but the bill progressed further than ever before, and I amhopeful California and New York will join Connecticut, Massachusetts and Wisconsinin protecting their students. Across the country, hundreds of school districts have examined ways to keep young people safe. Perhaps some ofyoureading this columnhavejoined in this effort. I like to say that equality begins at home- and there’s no better place to join the battle for GLBT equality thzn at your local school district.Groups such as the National Youth Advocacy Coalition (www.nyacyouth.org) and the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (www.glsen.org) are already working across the country to improve the lives of GLBTQ youth. What can you do? Demand that your school district adopt polices that protect students and teachers from harassment and-discrimination; provide staff with workshops and training; support curricula that includes information about the lives and contributions of GLBT people; and allow for the formation of Gay-Straight alliances and other clubs that address homophobia and heterosexism in school. As the award-wiuning documentary producer Debra Chasnoff ("It’s Elementary") taught us, children are not bornwith bigotry andintolerance- they learn it. Wouldn’t it be wonderful, if we used back-to-school season as a platform to address safety for our children? Five million children are waiting for us to act. Founded in 1973, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force works to eliminateprejudice, violenceandinjustice against Gay, Lesbian, Bisexualandtransgenderedpeople at the local, state and national level. Aspart ofa broader socialjustice movementforfreedom,justice andequality, NGLTF is creating a world that respects and celebrates the diversity ofhuman expression and identity Where all people mayfully.participate in society. According to the Chronicle, a spokesman for the Air Transport Association said that although none of the group’s members except United is offering the benefits, they probably will, even as they press for appeal Just a few days after United Airlines announced ~ts decision, AmericanAirlines officials informed theHuman Rights Campaign that they would become the second major U.S airline to offer domestic partner benefits to Gay and Lesbian employee~ worldwide. -.HI~ ~ s Birch~said of,American Airlines’ decision, "W~ are witnessing history and the beginning of a new era of fairness for Gay and Lesbian airline workers. United’s landmark decision has clearly had a domino effect, where walls.of discrimination-.are:falling each day." And Birch added, "American Airlines is HRC’s official airline and we ate enormously proud that they have taken this important step." American’s domestic partner benefits package will offer a full range of coverage to the partners of Gay and Lesbian workers. These benefits include medical and dental insurance, life insurance, pension survivor fights, bereavement and medical leave and flight discounts. The decision will affect more than 100,000 American and American Eagle employees worldwide. American and United Airlines join a greater trend in corporate America where employers are increasingly offering domestic partner benefits to Gay and Lesbian employees. Overall more than 2,800 U.S. employers currently offer domestic partner benefits, according to HRC’s WorkNetprojectwhich tracks this trend. Currently 70 Fortune 500 companies offer these benefits, including AT&T, Chase Manhattan Bank Corp., General Mills, IBM, Mobil Oil,TimeWarner, and Walt DisneyCompany. In addition, more than 99 colleges and universities, 73 state and local governments and hundreds of non-profit organizations and trade umons are currently offering domestic partner benefits, according to HRC’s WorkNet. I-IRC’ s WorkNet project, which also assists companies in implementing domestic partner benefits and with other workplace issues, worked closely with GLEAM, the Gay employee group atAMRCorporation, the parentcompany, of American Airlines in formulating the policy. Taylor said the group would use the incident to try to get Big Brothers Big Sisters’ policy changed. However, in contrast to the Wichita group, Tulsa’s Big Brothers Big Sisters has no "’across the board" ban on Lesbians or Gay men acting as mentors. The group’s spokesperson, Martha Desmond, Community Relations Director, did note that the issue probably would come up in the screening interview and would be shared with the child’s parent. She said she was not aware of the issue having arisen before. According to executive director, John Jacobs, the agency’s overriding concern had to be the best interest of the child, especially since most of the children served by the program may already have challenges which they face. Also, Jacobs stated that while a parent might veto a potential mentor because he or she is Gay, a parent, for obvious reasons, may also chose to take into consideration matching race, or religion or a nnmber of Other factors as well. ¯ Call me foolish or [ naive if you llke, but I ¯ still hope {or an Oklahoma that ¯ could stand up to any ¯ other state in our nation in justice, in equal opportunity, in : decent education. I ¯ believe our people are ¯ up to it. I just wish we ¯ had leaders who were. by Tom Neal, editor & publisher A few years ago, my father and I prevailed upon Sen. Don Nickles to meet with us about Gay &Lesbian issues, and we trekked over to Oklahoma City one warm winter day. We figured with one conservative Republ,ican and one progressive Democrat, one straightman and one Gay one, we were presenting a bipartisan view on civil rights issues. We were scheduled for 15 minutes and gotnearly -30.......... When all was said and done, Oklahoma’s senior senator, hardly surprisingly had not changed his mindone little iota, though he was quite civil. All we got out of the meeting was the c~mpliment that "you are a good spokesman for your cause." Gee thanks. So it’s not as though I really thought any constituent comment made to his office would make a difference, but periodically I like to try to bdieve in our American democracy: that if you have faith and speak the truth, that eventually right will prevail, despite the ample evidence ofmostofourhistory whereminority Americans are involved, be we Black, Indian, Female or Gay, or any combination thereof. But after reading one or another bits of tripe from the senator about the recess uomination by Pres. Clinton of openly Gay ambassador James Hormel, I figured I should at least not let Mr. Nickles believe that all Oklahomans agreed with him. I called. I left a~ message. I didn’t think much more about it. That was until I got a form letter from our senator saying how he agreed withmy position and in which letter proceeded to trash Hormel. Obviously that was not my position. Now mind you, this sort of inverse idiocy ~s just the sort of thing we’ve come to expect from Oklalaoma’s jtmior senator, Jim Inhofe, of pornographic office computer fame. Sen. Inhofe, who sings the praises of private enterprise although he’s lived off the public dole most of his ilfe, ts reputed by thosein this town who should know. not to be particularly bright. And I can say from first hand experience, that he’s rude to constituents. So the simple incomp.etence of getting a constituent’ s~position enurely wrong is somewhat expected from his office. But from Nickles, we should be able to expect a bit more. But then again, I also still believe in democracy. So of course, I called again to ask if it’s possible for Nickles’ office to do better. Because surely, surely no matter how much evil been done in this state in one way or another, nothing could have been so bad that we deserve two Inhofes! Nickles" staff did begrudgingly ad~nit that maybe they should have gotten it right. But they made the claim that they really don’t have to represent all the c~tizens of Oklahoma, that all Nic.kles has to .do is ,to represent whatever he said in his campaign that gothim elected and that was enough. So forget about whatever you may have believed about representative democracy, about the need for elected officials to find solutio~as for all their constituents, it’s winner take all and the rest be damned. I can’t believe that this approach is in our state or nation’s best ~nterests. I believe that Americans and Oklahomans in particular, are fair-minded people who would respond to leaders who sought compromise and consideration for all instead of the "leaders" wehave who wallow in prejudice and bigotry to fill their campaign coffers and get elected (mind you, I’m not picking just on Republicans, too many Oklahoma Democrats are just as bad, the only difference is Democrats just don’t talk as dirty about you when they’re stabbing you in the back). Call me foolish or naive if you like, but I hope for an Oklahoma that could stand up to any other state in our nation injustice, in equal opportunity, in decent education. I believe our people are up to it. I just wish we had leaders who were. Colorado Springs Holds¯ Gay Pride Parade & Rally COLORADO SPRINGS, Cold¯ (AP)-Two-year-old : Kyle wore a T-shirt that said "I love my Gay ¯ mommies," and knows 25-year-old Jennifer " Porterfield as "mommy" and 32-year-old Becky " Lewton as "mama." Each year Porterfield gets a card ¯ on Mother’ s Day and Lewton gets breakfast in bed on "Becky’s Day." "We’re no different than a straight " family," Lewton says. "We argue about the same " stuff. Believe me." . " They were among.those p.articipating .in the. m,n,th " annual Colorado Spnngs PrideFest parade and ratly, " held on the last Sunday in August. At the end of the ¯ parade, police estimated between 3,500 and 4,500 ¯ people filled Acacia Park for a celebration sponsored " by the Pikes Peak Gay &Lesbian Community Center. " "We’reteachers. We’relawyers. We’reprofessional " pa,,,,,l~" Lewton said. "(The oarade) is certainly not ¯ s’~xV’t~l thing, and thats"- wha’t people think it is." About a dozen protesters, some holding placards i and a couple of them carrying crosses; stood at one ¯ street comer as the parade passed. Police reported no ¯ problems. The .rally capped a week that brought Gay.iss..ues into the headlines in Colorado Springs, including those triggeredby ameeting oftheNational Religious Focus on the Family Christian ministry xor aueg y "inflammatory" rhetoric about homosexuality. Focus respondedonSundayin~tfull-pagenewspaper ad that said its staff members who attended the conference had hopes of establ}shing dialogue but were blind-sided by the accusataon. Focus, and the Christian Coalition of Colorado, also had criticized Colorado Springs Mayor Mary ~Lou Makepeace for sigmng a proclamation recognizing Gay-Pride week. ButCity Councilman Richard Skorman marchedin the parade and told the crowd at the park the mayor would have faced controversy regardless of her response to PrideFest organizers’ request for the proclamation. The banners in the parade heralded civil,rights groups, support groups, Gay pageant winners and Gay-friendly churches, includingFirstCongregational Church, All Souls Unitarian Church and Pikes Peak Metropolitan Community Church. The handful of protesters staked out the no,rthw.e,st comer of Platte Avenue and Tejon Street wlaere me six-block parade terminated. Parade participants occasionally taunted and blew kisses to the protesters who called for the marchers to "’repent." Missoula Gets First Gay Community CenterAgain MISSOULA (AP) - Wanting to show they’re "just next-door people," volunteers will open a downtown Gay and Lesbian community center here Wednesday¯ Founders of the Wes tern MontanaGay and Lesbian Community Center have Seen raising money for the project since last fall and now have about $19,000 from 50 paid members. But finding an affordable rent in Missoula’ s visible down~own axea wa.s ~ bigger challenge than raising the money, supporters said. With a rent budget of $800 a month and their goal focused on downtown, themembers havebeencombing thereal-estate market formonths:: ...... -, ’ -: - -’ ’-~. ":. What they ended up with is a two-room office state wi~ hardly=the room for a dance or even a public lectfire. But it’s a start, said Cat Carrel, one of the lcadera~pf the effort. ’qlais is a start-up space," she,, said,"and itrsa good first start-up. Wecan get goln~. Missoula last had a Gay and ,L~,,sbian commumty ~enter during the first half of the 80s, when the nowdefunct organization."Out in Montana" hadoffices in the Wilma Building in downtown Missoula. After 15 years without asocial and service-oriented center; the town’ s Gays and Lesbians wanted aplace to meet that was not a bar, said Randy Chancy, executive director of the Missoula AIDS Council. The center’s fledgling efforts had a wide variety of allies, from student groups at the Uni~iersity of Montana to several area churches. Early in the effort, the center got a $1,000 grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The money will go toward a Healthy Lifestyles Program, which .will include health and mental health support serwces, stress reduction and education about sexually transmitted infections. The Gay Outdoors group, Gays and Straights Together, and other organizations will also use the community center as their headquarters. ’°I’he idea is to have our space available for other groups, and to use our office for as a resource to bring other groups together," said volunteer Casey Charles. The group has also drawn a $5,000 grant from Broadway Cares, a fund of ~the actors’ equity organization inNew York. It willhelp starta speakers’ bureau and foster work on HIV prevention. The center will have security measures in place, but its members stress they’ve had no trouble with opposition to the center. OtherMontanacities have services forGay, Lesbian, bisexual and transgender people, but the. closest community centers are in Spokane and Boise. The group is working on bylaws and hopes to have a board of directors in place by the end of the year. Utah Bans Unmarried Foster Parents OGDEN, Utah (AP) -The s tate Division of Child and Fnmily Services has adopted apolicy to bannnmarried couples from providing state-sponsored foster care. The new policy, adopted Friday, August 27th, by a5- 2 vote by the DCFS board, defies standards set by the Child Welfare League of America, a professional association representing more than 1,000 voluntary and public agencies. Board chairman Scott Clark, the drivingforcebehind the decision, said unmarried, unrelated adults living together abuse children more often than married men and women. "I read in the newspaperjust last night of two cases in which boyfriends abused the children in their girlfriends’ homes," Clark said. In the past, Clark has also referred to Gay couples - who, because they cannot m.ar~,,_, w!ll be b~ar~,e~,, from fostercare-as contributing to gendercontusion of children in their care. Only twoboardmembers, Regnal GarffandVirgrnia Higbee, opposed Clark’s recommendations. They argued the new rule would narrow the field of foster parents, who are already outnumbered nearly 2-to- 1 by children in state custody who need homes. Garff, a retired juvenile court judge, also criticized Clark’s example because neither of the cases sited involved foster children. "I am relterating my opposiuon to this whole thing.., that example is poorly conceived and poorly argued," he said. The changebrings matches similar state restncuons ¯ passed earlier this year for adoptive parents. But groups like the Child Welfare League of ¯ America, the American Bar Association and the ¯ American Civil Liberties Union have opposed such policies. Opponents say too many quesuons are left ¯ unanswered by the policy. For example, there is no ¯ provision for common-law marriages, which go into ¯¯ effect after seven 3,ears. And it is unclear if the rules apply when an unrelated adult rents living space from ¯ a foster or adoptive paxent. ¯ The Child Welfare League is so staunch ih its ¯ opposition that the association recently sent DCFS Director Ken Patterson aletter asking its end°rsement ¯ be removed from the agency’s po!icy manual...Th,e ¯ board gwiftly a~ounrt0datedthat reituestb~removing ¯ thephrase that refers toDCFS policy as "in accordance with the standards of the Child Welfare League of ¯ America." ¯ Gay Pastor’s Church : Work Continues in Ames ¯ ¯ AMES, Iowa (AP) -Though technically an outcast in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Steve ¯ Sabin’s ministry continues at Lord of Life Lutheran Church. The ELCA has removed Sabin from its roster of ] ministers because he has a Gay parmer. 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Cincinnati. 425-7882 Saint John 4200 S. Atlanta Place, 742-7381 Saint Dunstan 5635 East 71st, 492-7140 Trinity 501 S. Cincinriati, 582-4128 The Episcopal Church Welcomes You earlier this month voted to keep its ride requiring homosexual ministers to remain celibate. "My call right now is ministry at Lord of Life," Sabin said. "I’m going to stop holdingmy breath for the ELCA to come along." When Sabin was.removed from the church’s list of ordained ministers last year, the 150-member congregation supported him. By keeping him as their pastor, the congregation risks .expulsion from the While Bishop Philip Hougen of the Southeastern Iowa Synod said he is "uncomfortable" with Sabin as Lord of Life’s minister, he has not asked the Synod Council to expel the congregation. ’To remove them in,order tomakesome sort ofpoint about purity seems t0be~to benot worth the effort," Hougen said. "I don’t want to cause any more pain." At the Churchwide Assembly earlier this month in Denver, ELCA leaders passed a resolution that reaffirmed previous assembly statements that committed the church to continuing discussion of the issue of ordination of Gays and Lesbians. "How long do you have to keep studying it?". Sabin asked last week. Sabin, who has two daughters, was ordained as a minister in 1985 andbecame pastor at the Lord of Life Church inAmes later that year. He was married at the time, but the 10-year marriage ended i.n 1990. Sabin began living with Karl von Uhi abont four years ago. Former Lesbian Couple Must Share Custody GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) - A district judge has ordered a former Lesbian couple to share custody of a 10- year-old girl they raised, but ruled the youngster must live in New York with her biological mother during the school year. Jefferson County DistrictJudge Christopher Munch said he based the decision on what he considered the best interests of the child. The youngster will spend summers and school vacations in Colorado. He noted she will be able to make friends and attend a neighborhood school in Albany, but if she remains in Colorado, she will have to commute daily from Aurora to Jefferson County, rougtfly a ’40-mile round trip, Munch said. "(Gift M) will be living in a race middle-class, rural to suburban home with her morn and stepdad," Munch said. Thejudge emphasized that he did not consider the past rdationship of the two women or their sexual orientation when he made the decision. Identifiedin court papers as "Gift M," the youngster was raised by Leaune Bueker, her "psychological" mother, and Kelly Cunningham, her bio1ogicat mother, until the two women separated two years ago. The womenwere awardedjoint custody in February 1998, but the arrangement became complicated when Ms. Cunninghammarried Michael Naylor andmoved to Albany. Ms. Bueker remains single. Mrs. Naylor "was pleased with the decision. "The judge gave appropriate (onsiderat~on to the facts and came up with a. decision that was difficult to make," said attorney Ron Litvak. Ms. Bucker declined comment. Sen. Hatch Apologizes to Blacks But Not To Gays SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Sen. Orrin Hatch said Wednesday hehad been "inarticulate" and apologized to NAACP officials for a statement in which he compared Gay civil rights with black issues. . The Utah Republican, who is a GOP presidential candidate, came under fire earlier this month for saying,"People of color can’t do anything about their color." Hatch continued: "I do believe Gay people have a choice to live within the legal rules or not. That’s why we have civil-rights laws to protect African-Americans from discrimination." JeanettaWilliams, presidentof the SaltLakebranch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, called Hatch’s remark "a poor articulation of what he was trying to say." Heather Barney, a Hatchspokeswoman, said Hatch "apologized for being inarticulate." "He did note that he was coming from a strictly legal perspective, that there is judicial precedent that the courts have treated race as distinct from sexual orientation, which is the point h~ was making," Barney said. Darin Hobbs of the Gay and Lesbian Political Action Committee in Salt Lake said Hatch did the right thing by apologizing to the NAACP. Next, he saidHatch shouldapologize to Utah’s Gaycommunity. "The senatoris unable to recognize the commonalities between homophobiaandracism," Hobbs said. "Both are bigotries rooted in fear and ignorance." Williams and Edward J. Lewis, president of the NAACP tri-state conference for Utah, Nevada and Idaho, said they felt Hatch’s’apology was sincere. They were scheduled to meet with Hatch at 1 p.m. but di’dn’t arrive at his Salt~Lake office until-an hour later. Hatch pushed back other meetings and talked with them for 45 minutes. "The importance of this meeting was we established a need to sit down and have a dialogue with him," Lewis said. Williams said she also discussed concerns about Hatch’s voting record on civil-rights issues. She said Hatch made no promises but agreed to consider the NAACP’s views. Hatch and Sen. Bob Bennett, RUtah, received F’s in the NAACP’s latest congressional report cards. Also, Bennett apologized to theNAACPfor saying Texas Gov. George W. Bush would win the GOP presidential nomination unless "some woman comes forward, let’s say some black woman ~omes forward, with an illegitimate child that he fathered." Comparing the remarks by the two senators, Lewis’ said: "On,e, was more severe, but they were both in the same pie. Williams and Lewis said Hatch and his wife, Elaine, are lifelong NAACPmembers. Hatch co-sponsored a bill to award civil-rights pioneer Rosa Parks the Congressional Gold Medal, whichis Congress’ highest honor. Barney said Hatch has enjoyed a good relationship with the NAACP. "His door has always been open to Jeanetta and the NAACP," she said. "They meet regularly and he is proud of some of the things he has been able to accomplish which benefit minority communities in Utah." Hatch has previously raised the ire of Gay civilrights groups. In 1988, he called the Democratic Party "’the party of homosexuals; they are the party of abortion." InJune, he told delegates to the Republican state convention they could be proud because "we don’t have the Gays and Lesbians with us." Gay Couple Murdered After Recording Message REDDING, California (AP) - Two brothers killed a Gay couple after forcing them to record an answering machine message saying they had suddenly become ill and were leaving town for medical help, authorities say. Benjamin Williams, 31, and James Willianas, 29, could face the death penalty ifconvicted of murdering Gary Matson, 50, and Winfield Mowder, 40. The men were found shot to death in their bed July 1. in rural Happy Valley near Redding, northeast of San Francisco. The suspects have pleaded innocent. According to the court documents, sheriff’s deputies went to the victirrisr home after Matson’s relatives thought the answering machine message sounded forced and odd, and may have been someone else’s voice. The message said the. victims were headed to San Francisco to see "a specialist friend"for medical help and would return "in about a week." "Off the message, it’s evident that the person who recorded themessageis under distress andwas possibly forced to make the recording," officers said. In the background, another voice can be heard saying, "just calm down." Based on information from Matson’s father and brother, investigators said the message was recorded "very dose" to the time of the slayings. Thedocuments were unsealed following a legal challenge by several news organizations. Evidence in the brothers’ homes also allegedly links themto the arson ofthree California synagogues. Those fires caused more than $1 million in damages. Authorities also found handouts from the World Church of the Creator, a white supremacist group, which preaches extreme racial and religious views. AIDS Deaths Decline ATLANTA (AP) - Two years after powerful new drugs brought a sharp drop in AIDS deaths nationwide, new government figures released today show the declinein AIDS deaths slowed sharply a year later. AIDS killed 17,047 people in the United States last year - a decline of 20% from 1997. From 1996 to 1997, the drop in deaths was a much more dramatic 42%, which health officials attributed to the effectiveness of new drugs. "As we anticipated, we are now seeing the first signs ofa slowing in this trend,’" said Dr. Helene Gayle, director of HIV prevention for-the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said during the National HIV Prevention Conference. "In a period of only two years, new combination therapies cut the annual level of death in half," she said. "But for the time being, it appears that much of the benefit of these new therapies has beenrealized." In 1995, 49,351 people died from AIDS in the United States. By 1996, that dropped to 36,792, and the number was down to 21,222 in 1997. TheCDClisted several possible causes for the slowdown in reductions of AIDS deaths. Most people who know they have HIV are already being treated, Gayle said. Drug resistance among some AIDS patients causes the treatment to fail, and other patients fail to keep up with, the complicatedjuggling of pills they,have to take for the drugs to be effective. New HIV infections in 1998 were estimated at roughly 40,000 - a number that’ s held steady for the past decade. The CDC said AIDS continues to kill blacks in higher numbers than other racial groups. Blacks, who make up about 13% of the population, accounted for 49% of AIDS deaths in 1998. Thirty-two% of deaths were among whites and Hispamcs made up 18%. "In many ways, the story of how well we do in HIV and AIDS will be told by how well we do with the African- American population," Gayle said. The three-day conference, organized by theCDCand 17 other agencies, features 2,000 scientists, doctors, researchers and advocates addressing efforts to monitor and prevent the spread of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Gayle and others opened the conference by warning against complacency. "It’s becoming increasingly difficult to get people to pay attenuon to HIV prevention and that in and of itsdf is a primary reason for this conference," she said. Since the 1980s, more than 300,000 have died of AIDS. The recent success of some treatments have made some people complacent about the disease. "Despite a growing complacency about the need for HIV prevention, HIV remains a serious disease that is still very much with us and there is a greater need for HIV prevention today more than ever," she said. Black Churches To Step Up AIDS Fight BOSTON (AP) - Local black religious leaders plan tomeetwith state Department of Public Health officials and members of the AIDS Action Committee to discuss ways to better educate their congregations about the disease. The meeting, involving 26 black leaders, signals a change in the black church’s approach to AIDS, religious scholars and activists told the Boston Globe. They said the conservative theological views about homosexuality, intravenous drug use and premarital sex held by many black religious leaders have led them to shy away from the issue. But leaders are now seeing they must pay attention to the disease because of their obligation to help people in need, according to Pemissa Seele, founder of the New York-based Balm in Gilead ministry. The ministry raises AIDS and HIV awareness among black congregations nationwide. "Their responsibility to save lives has nothing to do with their theology on homosexuality or sex outside marriage," Seele said. "We’re talking about two different apples." In the Boston area, only about 90 of450 black churches promote HIV awareness, the Globe reported. Meanwhile, blacks account for 26% of all AIDS cases in Massachusetts, though they make up only 6% of the population. Nationally, AIDS is the leading cause of death for black men and women ages 25 to 44. Rev. Conley Hughes, pastor ofConcord Baptist Church in Boston’s South End, said thechurchcanbe apowerful influence in the fight against AIDS because it has historically been an institution blacks could count on. Many blacks consider the church society’ s most credible source of authority, Hughes said. Experts-Discuss Vaccine Progress BALTIMORE (AP) - Doctors and scientists from 20 countries gathered in Baltimore las t month for a conference to . discuss progress made in the effort to find an AIDS vaccine. The annual meeting, which began years ago as an informal gathering of Dr. Robert C. Gallo, codiscoverer of the AIDS virus, and his colleagues, has grown into one of the largest AIDS conferences in the w6rld. More-than 1,000 physicians, scientists and others are expected to attend the conference, hosted by Gallo and the University of Maryland’s Institute of Humafi Virology, which he directs. "It is possible that the components for a reasonably successful vaccine are almost there, in our hands, but we don’ t know it yet," Gallo told The(Baltimore) Sun. ’Tm much more positively inclined than a year or two ago." However, it could be years before a vaccine is developed. At the conference, Gallo expected one of the more significant discussions to deal withTat, or transactivating protein, which is made by HIV. Researchers have found that Tat plays akey role inHIV spreading. "You can regard it as one of the missiles from HIV infection that leads to the problems in the immune system and facilitates the virus’ spread," said Gallo, who has done some of the work. Researchers have -shown that vaccinating monkeys against Tat lowers the amount of the virus and lessens the immune system’s impairment. Gallo and his collaborators have tested Tat in humans for safety, both as a preventive vaccine and as a therapeutic one. He said his group’ s strategy will be to create a sort of vaccine cocktail, by combining aninactivatedTatprotein with another vaccine approach. Over the past 10 years, more than 40 preventive AIDS vaccines have been tested worldwide involving about 10,000 volunteers. 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What he does want is data - hard numbers that will prove or disprove the theory that transplants can help people infected with HIV. Key toHIV transplants i s finding patients who are healthy enough to qualify and are willing to take care of their new organs once they get them. Another key is controlling hepatitis C, which is often found in HIV patients and invariably reinfects the new liver once i~ has been transplanted. At this point, there is very little data on transplantation for patients infected with HIV, the virus which causes AIDS, and no papers have been published, experts said. Only recently have a select few surgeons performed the procedure knowingly, although there is some historical data from before patients were checked for HIV infections. "’People think we’re crazy for doing it," said Dr. John Fung, head’of the Um~ersity ofPittsburgh Medical Center’ s transplant center. But early indications show that liver transplantation is effective in reversing the complications of end-stage organ failure m some HIV-positive patients, Fung said. He presented findings at the conference on four HIV patients who underwent the procedure between September 1997 and March 1999. In all the cases, the liver transplants reversed the distinguishing characteristics of chronic liver failure, including fluid retention, muscle wasting, fatigue and jaundice. HIV traces remained undetectable with patients who continued the drug combination with protease inhibitor and none developedopportunistic infections, Fung said. Medical experts often question Fung and others about the.use of scarce resources - in this case, healthy human organs- and the safety of surgeons operating on HIV Calif. A! ow Needle Exchange SACRAMENTO,Calif. (AP)- Tryi:n~ to slow the spread of AIDS, the Legislature sent Gov. Gray Davis a,bill that would let cities and counties setup n~dle-exchange pro~s for ~g addicts. Cmwent state law b~s such progrmns butfour CNifo~a cities - Berkeley, Los Angeles, San Fr~cisco and Santa Cruz - ~d M~n County have adopted emergency ordi~s ~lowing needle exchm~ges. Davis’ office said the Democratic governor has not taken a position on the Nll, wNch passed the state Senate. At le~t 15 o~er states have authorized ne~e-exch~gepro~s,~ough~ere ~e exch~ge progr~s operating in more th~ twi~ that m~y states, according to AssemNy~vomanKe~ M~zoni’s office~ Supporters of her proposN sNd studies have shown exchange progrmns redu~ the spread of the A IDS vires. There lmve been atleast six o~erneedleexch~ ge bills intr~uced in ~ifo~a since 1993. They either died in the Legislature or were vetoed by then- Repubti~ Gov. Pete Wilson. infected patients in a procedure that Chemist Gets $7 m. For AIDS Research NEW BRUNSWICK,’N.J. (AP) - A Rutgers University chemist who helped researchers study the most lethal part of the AIDS virns will get nearly $7 million in federal fnnds to continue his work. Dr. Edward Arnold has won an award from the National Institutes of Health that will double federal suppor~ of his research. The prize, called MERIT for Method ~o Extend Research in Time, will extend his funding from a five-year grant for $3.4 million to a grant spanning 10 years and providing nearly $7 million. His work is aimed at developing longerlasting drugs to fight the deadly AIDS virus. "The whole philosophy of research is the more you know, the better chavce you have to fight something," Arnold told the East Brunswick Home News Tribune. The new funding will aid his study of a protein called reverse transcriptase, or RT. The protein plays a key role in the virus’ early life cycle, giving itinsm~ctions to duplicate its deadly properties. It is the involves a lot of blood . . molecule targeted by anti-AIDS drugs S0cietallv sorn0 ~o,,~,i,~ ,~;.J ~,.,, ¯ includingAZT, DDI, Nevirapineand3TC. whether org~a~s sho~d~’tiao~’~ : The virus colnmonly mutates so quickly lifestyle choices may have led to their " that it becomes irmnune to drugs. Arnold infection, said the doctors, who prefer that medical reasons determine who gets a transplant. Recently, the University of California in San Francisco received a $1 million grant to perform transplants on HIV patients. The state money will fund transplants for 10 people, and doctors hope the information will help build a database to determine if the operation can be a medical success in HIV patients. "I think there is a great deal of trepidation in the medical community, and I don’ t think it’s ill-founded at all," said Peter Stock, associate professor of surgery at UCSF. "We have to be very cautious." While some insurance companies in the ." is trying to devise a way to see what drug resistance looks like. Heis mapping three- . dimensional pictures of the RT protein, _" getting a look at its detailed atomic " structure. Such views can help researchers ¯ see how the virus interacts with" drugs. ". "We need to understand how drugs can ¯ fail," Arnold said. "If we can do that, we - can be more aware of how to design them .* - how to avoid those hurdles." ¯ His work first gained prominence in 1992 when he and others created a threedimensional computer model of the RT protein. Arnold’ s workis also focusing on the design and development of an AIDS vaccine, something that has eluded researchers thus far. J by James Christjohn TFN entertainment writer Hey there, hi there; ho there! Whereho? There ho? Who you callin’ a ho? Sorry, just had to. Something about Disney inspires that kind of mania, especially after having lived with a Beast for so long. (editor’s note: aren ’tlucky the Beast is occasionally quitefor-bearing?) Speaking of beasts, Beauty and the Beast is here! They’ve been building sets, chopping sets, recreating and creating costumes for a month now, working 15 hour days[ And it looks to be faaaabulous ! Especially those moving pillars., I LOVE those moving pillars t There’s just something so intrinsically... phallic about moving pillars ! I want somefor my. house! Really the- magic begins September 7 and runs through the 19. And the conductorand assistant conductor, James and Brent, are very handsome and char~i,"ng men, so say hi if you can when they re out on ~e town! Call 596-7111 for tix. Lynn Flewdling has written one of the best series of Gay fantasy novels to come along since Mercedes Lackey’s "Last Herald Mage" trilogy. "Luck in the Shadows", which I’ve written of before; "Stalking Darkness", and the just out "Traitor’s Moon" follows the trail of intrigue and romance of Seregil and Alec, the main protagonists. I recommendthe books highly to anyone ¯ with or without an interest in the genre. They have everything: magic, intrigue, romance, murder, and just about everything else you can think of, in a artistically perfect package. The events and characters are such that you hate the book to end, and the characters stay with I wondered ff the average fantas~ r~.a+der would follow that far - they have, and ¢ladly for the most part. I eet letters from straiCht Curs sayln~ essentially "I shouldn’t be ok with t~s, but I amP’... Others ~ve sald it made it ~sler to talk ~th Gay relatives. youlong after the lastpage is turned. ~Lynn was gracious enoughto spare some time for some questions while working on the new book, "The Bone Doll’s Twin:" JC: I have enjoyed the Nightrunner series. Your characters are so welldrawn, that theyseem real enough to wonder what they’re up to long after the book isfinished. LF: I’m so glad to hear that the story and the characters work for you. That’s high praise indeed. That’s how I feel about my favorite books. JC: What inspired you to write these characters as "Gay" men (Seregil & Alec, the protagohists) ? LF: Well, as I recall, I wanted to create "a hero that challenged the stereotypical molds set by Eddings. or Jordan (well known fantasy writers). Hence his profession and methods. The Gay part - not: sure. Partly the mold breaking, bu~ mostly just how he wanted to be. Perhaps he’s my animus? Whatever the case, the characterjust cameout that way and I love him. Alec was more ofa conscious choice. I could see where it was all headed, see Fantasy, p. 14 by.TFN staff As we move into the fall, Oklahoma’s arts calendar is increasingly busy. On Sept. 11, at 8pm at Holland Hall’ s Branch Theatre, Richard Gere Productions, the Loseling Institute and Unity Church of Christianity and Unity Center of Tulsa present "The Mystical Arts of Tibet" featuring the Drepung Loseling Monks. This group ofmonks have performed with composer Phillip Glass, and performers such as Paul Simon, Natalie Merchant, the Beastie Boys and others. For tickets, call 582-6624 or 749-8833. Already open at Gilcrease is an exhibit of Inuit artwhich will be shownuntil Nov. 7th. The .works, which include sculpture, prints and tapestries, draw on a private collection which has never before been publicly exhibited. Pieces from Gilcrease’s-collection will complement the exhibit. Gilcrease anthropology curator, Jason Jackson, suggested that these works will appeal to those who appreciate traditional Native American art as well as those who like modem art coming outofwestern Europeantmditions. hffo: 596-2700. Local youth activist Emily Sizemore is one of the organizers of Arts for AIDS, an event scheduled for Sept. 25th. They are looking for singers, other musicians, writers, actors, visual artists, etc. If interestedinparlicipating, please call 361- 1000. That same evening, the Tulsa Philharmonic will open see Arts, p. 14 "It’s Elementary" Tolerance Film Provokes Debate CHICAGO/TULSA (AP/TFN) - Thirdgraders in New York debate the idea of Gay mamage. Storytime for first- and second-graders ata school in Cambridge, Mass., includes the book "Asha’ s Mums" about a little girl who has two Lesbian mothers. Eighth-graders in San Francisco fire questions at a Gay man and Lesbian who visit their classroom. All areexcerpts from a controversial documentary, "It’s Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues In School," which first caused a stir when several public television stations decided to air it this summer. Now it’s being used by many schrol districts nationwide as a training tool for teachers, most recently in Chicago - unifying what some say is a growing move to incorporate Gay and Lesbian issues into curriculum, from elementary to high school. Critics say talkabout suchissues belongs at home. But others say it’s a matter of dealing with issues that students already see every day innewspapers,ontelevision, in movies - and maybe even in their own communities or classrooms. "Both schools and families have to address the issue somehow because it’s there - and it’s not going back into the closet," says Tony D’Augelli, a psychologist at Penn State’s College of Health and Human Development who studies Gay youth ~sues. see Elem.,p.15 T Call today to receive a 1999-2000 season brochure Season subscriptions, starting at $44for adults, are now on SALE! FOR 1999-2000 SEASON BROCHURES CALL TULSA~PERA 1999-2000 SEASON MEET THREE WOMEN To.DIE FOR CARMEN MANON TOSCA Season tickets on sale now! Save 25% off single ticket prices! Season tickets start at just $36 for three operas! FOR 1999-2000 SEASON BROCHURES CALL TULSA PHILHARMONIC HoT THE SEASON! ¯ Mas~Ywol"~s " . Classics usic on . "toe RocRs" No ! 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Admiral (east of Harvard) HIV Rap Sessions at Bless the Lord At All Times Christian Center 7:30pm. 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815 PFLAG, Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians & Gays 2nd Mon]each mo. 6:30pm, Fellowship Congregational Church, 2900 S. Harvard Women/Children & AIDS Committee, call for meeting date, noon, 585-5551 Council Oak Men’s Chorale, rehearsals - call for times, info: 585-COMC (2662) ~ TUESDAYS AIDS Coalition of Tulsa, call for next meeting date. 1430 S. Boulder, 585-5551 Live And Let Live, Community of Hope United Methodist, 7:30pm, 2545 S. Yale Multicultural AIDS Coalition, call for next meeting date. Urban League, 240 East Apache, 584-0001 PrimeTimers, mens group, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th Coming Out Support Group (TOHR/HOPE) Tuesdays, 6 pro, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th, info: 743-4297 ~ WEDNESDAYS Bless The Lord At All Times Christian Center Prayer & Bible Study, 7:30 pm 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815 House of the Holy Spirit Ministries, Inc. Service - 7pm, 3210b So. Norwood Tulsa Native American Mens Support Group, more information, call 582-7225 TCC Gay & Lesbian Association of Students (GLAS), Call for info: 595-7632. Lambda A-A, 7 pro, 1307 E. 38th, 2nd ft. ~" THURSDAYS HOPE, HIV Outreach, Prevention, Education Anonymous HIV Testing, Testing: 7 - 8:30pro 834-8378, 3507 E. Admiral Oklahoma Rainbow Young Adult Network (O’RYAN) ¯ Support/social group for 18-24’s, call Red Rock Mental Health at 584-232.5 Substance Abuse Support Group for persons with HIV/AIDS, Info: 834-4194 ~" FRIDAYS SafeHaven, Young Adul{s Social Group, 1 st Fri/each mo. 8pm, Pride Ctr., 1307 E. 38th ~" SATURDAYS Narcotics Anonymous, 11 pm, Community of Hope,1703 E. 2nd, Info: .585-1800 Lambda A-A, 6 pro, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th, 2nd ft. I~" OTHER GROUPS T.U.L.S.A. Tulsa Uniform & Leather Seekers Association, info: 298-0827 Gal-A-Vanting, Womens Social & Cultural Group Call for info: Kathy at 322-6322, or Barb at 459-6825. OK Spoke Club, Gay & Lesbian Bike Organization. Long rides & short rides from Zeigler Park. Long & ~hort rides from Tulsa Gay Community Center. Write for info: POB 9165, Tulsa, OK 74157 Ifyour organization is not listed, please let us know. Call 583-1248 orfax 583-4615. Associated Press - Your lawn crunches ¯ like potato chips.when you walk on it.. Even your older trees are showing stress. : Although you mightbe tempted to coddle _" your plants, you can kill them with too ¯ muchkindness, say experts inPenn State’ s : College of Agricultural Sciences. *- "Pruning, fertilizing and watering can fool plants.into thinking it’s springtime and trigger new growth," said Robert Nuss, professor of ornamental horticulture. "New growth won’t have time to mature before the frost. Not only will you kill it, but you’ll use up next year’s buds." "If you have a landscape contractor or arborist do your work, there’s only so much they’ll want to do during a drought," said Rick Johnson, associate extension agent in Delaware County. "Since normal plant care practices might be harmful under drought conditions, under- "Focus your water~ng-efforts on plants you ~n do some~blng about, llke ornamentals," ke added. "With lawns, it’s just a waiting game until the rMn and cool w~ther return." stand that these contractors may advise against them." Nuss and others offer some specific suggestions. "Grasses gO into a semidormant state and become vulnerable when it’s dry," said Peter Landschoot, associate professor of turfgrass science. "Now that the water’s been turned off, you should limit activities and traffic on lawns as much as .possible. Come September (October in Oklahoma) - if we get rain and cooler weather- you can fertilize and overseedto getsomerecovery. Ifwe don’t get enough rain in September, wait tmtil next spring to oversee&’" "Focns your watering efforts on plants you can do something about, like ornaments," he added¯ "With lawns, it’s just a waiting game until the rain and cool weather return.’" "Pruning’s a gamble," said Nuss. "If you’re sure the parts are dead - if they’re brittle and dry - go ahead and cut back to the live tissue. This will promote some healing and help the plants aesthetically. Butremember, ffweget somerain,proning can trigger growth in the buds." "Fertilizers are salts - even organic materials such as manure -and salts can bum roots," Nuss said. "If you want to give plants nutrients, wait until October (late November or December here) when they’re fully dormant." "Watering is key for woody plants," Nuss said. "When the top 1-11/2 inches of soil are dry, water down to 8-10 inches - to the root zone," he said. "You can accompllsh~ this by dire~t, slow watering. Trickle water on very slowly so it soaks into the soil, with no rtmoff. Also, when you water at night, you lose less to evapOration." But watering has its dangers. "If you overwater in areas with heavy soil or slow drainage, you can saturate the root zone and force out the air," Nuss says. "This can suffocate the roots and kill them." Whenroots die, you’ll _see top wilting in ¯ the plant, Nnss says. "Mostpeopleinterpret this as a lack of water, add even more and aggravate the problem. After watering, most plants should recover overnight. But if the plant remains wilted, you may have root damage from overwatering." For new plantings, Nuss recommends keeping the initial root ball moist. "Water bevond the planting hole, not just at the base of the plant," he said. "That way, you don’t drown the roots, and new roots have moist soil to move ~nto." Mulching is the next best solution to watering, Nuss says. "But be sure to water under mulch, not on top of it. It takes at least an inch ofrain to get through organic mulch." In extreme conditions, Nuss said covering the soil surface with black plastic will retain extra moisture. "You.can hide the plastic with organic mulch," he says. To supplement watering, use gray water (from such uses as cooking and the laundry rinse cycle) on ornamentals, Nuss said. "But move from tree to tree soyoudilute it. Also, don’t use water that contains chlorine bleaches or laundry softeners. For health reasons, don’t use gray water on leafy vegetables or root vegetables. "With a drought this serious, I’d focus watering on highvalue plants and shrubs," Nuss ¯ said. "Savefresh waterforyour vegetables, ¯ use gray water on the ornamentals, and ¯ don’t water your flowers. Flowers are ¯ going to die with the. first frost anyway." "Droughts have a negative effect on ¯ most insect and mite pests that attack : landscape plants," says Greg Hoover, extension entomologist. "Because of last year’ s drought, forinstanee, wehavefewer adult Japanese beetles this year, and probably will see even fewer next year." But hot, dry weatherfavors two different groups of insect and mite pests. "Woodboring insects successfully attack trees and shrubs that are stressed," Hoover said. "If you don’t have water restrictions, the bes~ thing you can do for woody plants is water them. Supplement watering with rainfall collected in buckets or barrels, or water from dehumidifiers." "The two-spotted spider~mite, acommon pest on garden and landscape plants, also thrives in hot, dry weather," Hoover said. "The winged euonymus - what some people call ’burning bush’ -is particularly vulnerable. When indicated, use an appropriate miticide on infested plants." Hooverrecorfimends using wetpowder insecticide formulations. ’q’hey’re less likely to damage plant tissues during hot, dry Weather when used according to label directions." whenjustice is not served. We need to be able to appeal to a higher authority’when localities and states do not-for whatever reason- fully investigate and prosecute a hate crime. On behalf of hate crimes victims everywhere, I urge Congress to pass the Hate Crimes Prevention Act." On" added, "we were targeted because of who we are, not for any other reason... they were trying to send a message that "our kind’ are not welcome in Tulsa and deserve to be beaten or die. It is time to send a message that what is not welcome are hate crimes." Under current law, a hate crime can be federally prosecuted only if the victim is targeted on the basis of race, religion, color or national origin, while on federal property or while exercising a federally protectedright, such as vodng or attending school: see Congress, p. 11 Change... ~- Minimum:Wage 1985 $3.35 Average 1998 $5.15 New Car Price Postage Stamp 1985 22¢ 1998 1985 $ 9,011 1998 $20,0OO q- e More Stay The m ee. 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Fortunately, not everyone has tumbled onto the fact that those steel lawn chairs that, until ten years ago, decorated many a grandma’s porch or front lawn are highly collectible. And they comfortable and easy t~o maintain. Garage sales andthe more junky variety of antique stores can still offer a bargain; where you might pick up a rocker or glider for as little as five to fifteen dollars. Otherwise, prepare to pay upwards of thirty dollars. Your DIYD know what she’ll choose! Economize on the chairs and tempt a sweet lady with a lovely cocktail and still have change. Yours is a most practical, yet romantic, DIYD! .Check some of the basics out when buying a chair. Water and rust tend to congregate in certain places. Checkriveted areas as well as the runners that contact the ground for excessive rust. Stay away from anything that is too rotten or any spots that look like the metal has started to buckle and pinch. There’s a proper time and place for buckles and pinches, but it’s not on your lawn furniture. Or perhaps it will be... Minor rust holes on the runners are not unusual as long as the runner is still relatively strong. Find that welder and have a new half round piece welded on for about fivedollars, unless you know ofone who can sit with you on your soon-to-beseductive glider. Quid pro quo can be so entertaining. Paint removal can be a real chore. the rust and paint (trust your ¯.. The palntln~ DIYD on this one: it isn’t anything like a big vibrator. is where you e.an Jollies are definitely limited); really express or take it down to the friendly yourselves with Dip ’n Strip furniture refinisher and pay a modest color, color, color! stun to have it done for you. Go wild with The DIYD strongly recommends the latter, if only for those hold colors the reason that people tendeo - it pays to fo paint these chairs with leadbased paints, and inhaling the advertise! dust is quite dangerous. Or irritate l~he Got most of that loose paint and rust off now? Oh, you’re neighbors with a doing so well! As you may hot pink that remember from painting our kitchenproject,weleftarather matches your enthusiastic dyke vigorously lawn ~larnln~oes. shaking her can of Rust-OLeum Well, girlfriend, it is The possibilities your time to shine! are endless! Put your stripling chair on newspaper and put on the coat ¯ of spray primer. Darlings, I know you’re : coIor conscious, but it doesn’t matter if ¯¯ you use the red or the gray primer. It really doesn’t. Please follow the directions on ¯ the can. Keep the can about 10 inches ¯ away from yourwork, use a slow side to : sidemotion, andrememberthatthreelight ¯ coats are better than one heavy one that ¯ willrun and trailandjust ruin your look of ¯ urban sophistication. Put an extra coat on ¯ curces and any other rust:prone areas. ¯ Use a minimum of three color coats to ¯ finish the project. ¯ The painting is where you can really ¯ express yourselves with color, color, color ! ¯ Go wild with those bold colors -it pays to : advertise! Or irritate the neighbors with a ¯ hot pink that matches your lawn ¯ flamingoes. The possibilities are endless ! ¯ And if you don’t like the color, paint over it. It’s a tradition with this sort offurniture. ¯ Consider it your cultural contribution ¯ to the neighborhood, and fix your DIYD a ¯ cocktail when you are done. She prefers ¯ Manhattans ! ¯ Two cherries, of course. Ciao, Bella! The Hate Crimes Prevention Act would address these limitations by allowing federal involvement when necessary and thereby helping to forge and strengthen a lasting partnership between state and federal law enforcement officials m fighting hate crimes. The Hate Crimes Prevention Act limits the federal governrnent’ sjurisdiction to only themost serious violent .crimes directed at persons, not property crimes. Lead House sponsors ofthe Hate Crimes Prevention Act are Reps.. John Conyers, D-Mich; Mictiael Forbes, D-N.Y.; Connie Morella, R-Md;TammyBaldwin, D-Wis.; and House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt, D-Mo. The Hate Crimes Prevention Act was passed by the Senate this summer as an amendment to the Commerce, State, Justice Appropriations Bill. President Clinton has-promised to sign HCPA into law if it is passed by ¯ ¯ Congress. This bill would allow states with inadequate resources to take advantage of ¯ Department of Justice resources and personnel in limited cases that have been ¯ authorized by the Attorney General. The Hate Crimes Prevention Act has broad ¯ bipartisan backing and support from notable law enforcement agencies and state and local leaders, including 22 state ¯ attorneys general, the National Sheriff’s ¯ Association, President Bush’s former Attorney General Dick Thoruburgh, the Police Foundation and the U.S. ¯ Conference of Mayors. ¯ Hate.crimes basedon sexual orientation were up 8% in 1997, according to the ¯ latest FBI statistics. Sexual orientation ," was the third highest category of hate ¯ crimes behind race and religion and ¯ represented 14% of all hate crimes ¯ reported. Currently, hate crimes ¯ monitoring and enforcement consists of a ¯ patchwork of laws that offer citizens ¯ varying see Congress, p. 12 by Esther Rothblum, Ph.D. get cervical cancer." Two women even Dr. Sue Wilkinson is currently reported that they were considered conducting the first national survey of "virgins" by the medical profession Lesbian health in the United Kingdom because they had had sex withwomen but with doctoral student Julie Fish. The" not with men! survey managed to contact Lesbians in But the pap smear is not a comfoitable almost every postal district of the United procedure for many women, and may be Kingdom, from the southern particularly painful, uncomtip of England to the islands Cervical cancer fortable, unusual or trauoff northern Scotland. Over. appears to l~e matizing for Lesbians. 38% of 1,000 Lesbians answered the Lesbians in the U.K. study questionnaire, which focused .connected. with reported .that they. had never on breast cancer, mammo- sexual activity, had a cervical smear for this grams, breast self-exam, particularly reason. One Lesbian reported cervical cancer, and pap that she viewed a speculum as staears, penetrative sex "a huge metal crocodile." I recently spoke with Sue wlt]~men. Tl~is Othershadheardhorrorstories about the early results of this . from friends and partners that studY, Which focus oncervica1 Is why Lesi~ians the procedure was aversive, screemng. Unlike many lmve traditionally humiliating, or painful. cancers, cervical cancer has ]~een vlewed as Finally,, Lesbians raised an early warning stage, with questions about havingamale abnormal cells present. This is at low rls]~ for health provider "pokingwhy women are told to have cervical cancer, around in my body," regular pap smears (or cervical specifically, in the vagina. Or smears, as they’re called in the. But Lesglans they were concerned that the U.K.). may lmve ]~ad health care provider con- SueandJuliefoundthat 12% sex with men ducting the procedure would of Lesbians eligible for result in questions about their cervical screening had previously, and/ sexual activity or would NEVERhadapap:mear.This or t]aey may ]~e assume they were heterois higher than comparable U.S. sexual. figures of 5% found by the ha’~cln~ sex with This important study raises National Lesbian Health Care men evenw]a~le some questions about cervical smears. DoLesbians whohave However,Surveiynthisthefiguremid-19lo80w’Se.isr eallln~ t]aemselves neverhadintercourseneedpap than that of 17% for women in Lesl~ans. smears at all, or need pap the general U.K. population Cervical cancer smears less often? How can who report never having had a cervical smear. What is is not well pap smears be performed in a matter that is more positive surprising about these low understood, so for Lesbians? figures for womenin the U.K. ineludin~ is that the U.K. has national Fish can be contacted at the women, Sue Wilkinson and Julie health service. Pap smears are Lesl~ians, may l~e Department of Social free, and women receive a at rls]~ for other Sciences, Loughborough reminder letter every five years,withtwoorthreefollow- reasons unrelated University, Loughborough LE11 3TU United Kingdom. uplettersiftheydon’tcomein tosexualaetlvity. - Esther Rothblum is for the pap sinear, Professor ofPsychology at the When Sue andJulieexaminedLesbians’ ¯ University of Vermont and Editor of the written comments about cervical Journal of Lesbian Studies. She can be screening, they found that one reason for " reached at John Dewey Hall, University non-attendance was lack of time. "But " of Vermont, Burlington, VT. E-maih apart from that, it looks as though the two ¯ esther.rothblum@uvm.edu. main categories of response are-that " Lesbians feel they don’t need a smear and ° secondly, negative aspects of the ¯ procedure," said Sue, "they imagine the " procedurewillbepainful,orembarrassing, ° levels of legal protection depending on or thatthey will encounterheterosexism." where they live. Twenty-two states and Cervicalcancerappearstobeconnected " the District of Columbia have hate crimes with sexual activity, particularly " laws that include sexual orientation. penetrative sex with men. This is why ¯ Twentystateshavelawsthatdonotinclude Lesbians have traditionally been viewed- ¯ sexual orientation. Eight states have no as at low risk for cervical cancer. But " hate crimes laws at all. Lesbians may have had sex with men ¯ SpeakingwithTFN, Orr&Beauchamp previously, and/or they may be having ¯ expressed their disappointment with how sex with men even while calling Tulsa district attorney staff members themselves Lesbians. " handled theprosecution of their attackers. Cervical cancer is not wall understood, ° They indicated that had Orr not had so women, including Lesbians, may be at ¯ .professional experience as a journalist, risk for other reasons unrelated to sexual : specifically covering crime stories, they activity, In the U.K. study, about 40% of : likely would have given up in frustration Lesbians felt they did not need a cervical : while trying to get information abouthow screen because they had never had ¯ the case was going. Their perception intercourse. Many Lesbians wrote that : remains that Tulsa DA considered the they had specifically been told this by a " assault to unimportant because they are doctor or nurse. Examples of this were: : Gay men. ’¢I’he doctor has decided that I do not ¯ Orr noted that finally they contacted require one as I am a Lesbian and have " Susan Ellerbach, managing editor of The never had a sexual relationship with a : T.ulsaWorld, andthatoulyafterTheWorM man," or "the nurse informed methat it : wrote about their experience, and having was virtually unheard of for a Lesbian to to out himself see Congress, p. 13 Red Rock Tulsa Free Confidential HIV Testing Walk-in Clinics Tuesday Testing, 5 -8 pm Pride Center, 1307 East 38th Wednesday Testing, 5-8 pm Red Rock, 1724 East 8th Daytime appointments available. Call for more information: 918-584-2325 Church of the Restoration Unitarian Universalist 11 am, Sunday ’1314 North Greenwood 587-1314 We knowyou’re going to love this[ Restaurant & Cabaret East First Street 18-599-9949 Massage Therapy Services ¯ Edgar O. Cruz, L.M.T. 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JA~IUES MAHI-MAHI RACKOF LAMB CHOCOLATE SOUFFLE Compatibility reportv for you and"- your frieTids or lovers¯ 599-0717 Gay Owned, Operated & R~xbow Proud Gay Mecca of the Ozarks Beautiful Eureka Springs, Arkansas by Lamont Lindstrom, Ph.D. . My lawn is wilting. So are a lot of my friends’ relationships. Maybe it’s the wicked summer heat that makes people touchy and irritable. Recent casual gossip ¯ nearly broke up my friend Shawn and his ". lover. The boyfriend walked when he ¯ heard stories of Shawn’s previous exploits. ¯ Emotionally, he couldn’t handle knowledgeofhis lover’s onetimerelations with : other guys. We’ve got a name for that emotion: ¯ sexual jealousy. Shawn’s tmhappiness prompted me to think about the green emotion. Jealous feelings, and their sorry consequences, are an endlessly fascinating motif in popular novel and film. Besides, most of us have experienced jealously in person. We’ve learned to use the word to label a peculiar mental state and aching body sensation sparked by our love interests. The word has been around for years. English speakers of the 12th century borrowed ’jealousy’ from Old French. And those speakers on the continent previously had adopteditfrom the Latinzelus, derived from the even more ancient Greek zelos, that originally m,,eant something like ardor or "fervor." Jealousy andzeal-andjealous and zealot - are linguistic cousins, all derived from the samerootconceptofemotional upheaval and intensity. Jealousy’ s deep cultural and linguistic roots indicate the popularreachofboth emotion andconcept. We use a language of jealousy to understand why Shawn’s boyfriend dumped him. Whose lips were kissing Shawn before his? Whose arms had already held that waist? Yet, anthropologists debate the facts ofhuman emotion. Can we say that there are emotions that we all feel because we are human? If so, which ones? Love, hate, happiness, sadness, fear, anger? Are there other emotions that people in one culture cultivate and learn to feel thatareunknown or less important m other societies? Just how normal - and how universal - are feelings such as sexual jealousy? Those anthropologists of the sociobiological persuasion often figure that jealousy ~s indeed a human universal ¯ with an adaptive function. Men are never completely sure that the baby a woman carries is theirs. Jealousy works = so goes the story - to motivatemen to police their women in order to better the odds that the.y have fathered her babies. An), easygoing man withdut Some yet~to-beidentified gene for.jealousy would have contributed less to thehuman gene pool in that he may not have fathered the children he thought he did. Butwhatof women?They always know that they are the mothers of their children, so what should they care if the guys mess around elsewhere? Andwhat of Shawn? It’s unlikely thathis boyfriendwas jealous because of evoluationary womes that a rival would make him pregnant. We could argue that our bodies have an inbnilt heritage of emotions, includln. jealously, nomatterwho arelovers happen to be. Still, other anthropologists argue that our body feelings are only half the story. The other half - perhaps the more important half - is the way we have of labeling, understanding, and talking about those feelings. We sense a rush of chemicals through our brains and body, butwe can’tknow what is happening to us until we put these feelings into words. Anddifficult cultures have different ways of.classifying and interpreting those same chemical flushes. anthropologists debate the facts ofhuman emotion. Can we say that emotions that we all feel because we are human? If so, whleh ones? Love, bate, bappiness, sadness, f~r, anger? Are there other emotions that people in one culture eultlvate and learn to feel that are unknown or less important in other soeieties? You may have heard of the German emotion schadenfreude - which is pleasurefelt atsomeoneelse’ s misfortune. Many of us also take pleasure from other’s misfortunes, but English has nowordthat specifically labds this twisted enjoyment. Does this lin,g,nistic gap mean that wedon t sense this pleasure as deeply as do Germans? And even if jealousy is a human universal, it may be that some ofus experience the feeling more intensely. Gore Vidal reports in his autobiography Palimpsestthat he and his lover never have sex. This he finds this on the street. His "lover," instead, provides breakfast conversation and other forms of sexless companionship. Clearly, many couples have created similar "open" relationships inwhich they are able to at least mute any feelings of sexual jealousy, Some occasionally have campaigned to open up all relationships. During the 1960s, many : preached and sometimes practiced "free love."They hopedto stifle sexualjealousy ¯ in order to rework the economy of ¯ relationships. No one was meant to own ¯ anyone else. No one ought get jealous. Sex was healthy recreation, freedom, even ¯¯ spiritual; jealousy was wrongly possessive, limiting, and neurotic. ¯ It was no dice, though. For most of us, ¯ jealousy remains the flip side of love- or of love American-style anyway. The ¯ babyboomers failed to stamp outjealousy ¯ because they could not remake the ¯ associated emotion of love. It remains ¯ ¯ might) hard to love and not get jealous. If you don’t feel jealous, can you really be in love? It is plausible that humans in other ¯ places and at other times have experienced ¯ and understood the body flashes that we ] call jealousy in various ways. But around ¯ here, don’t let me catch you messing ¯ around! Lamont Lindstrom teaches anthro- ¯ pology at the University of Tulsai: ¯ profesgionally, did local law enford~ment; ¯ take the casemore seriously. SpecifiCally, ¯ two of their assailants had not been made : to perform their sentences whichinduded community service and a fine to the court. ¯ Orr and Beauchamp also stated that it is ¯ typical in assaults of this type for the ~ victims to receive compensation for their ¯ losses due to the assault, and that they ¯ specifically requested compensationfrom ¯ theDistrictAttomeys, see Congress, p.14 butwonderedifthe averagefantasy reader would follow that far - they have, and gladly for the most part. I get letters from straight guys saying essentially "I shouldn’t be ok with this, but I am!" even if it makes them a little uncomfortable any-way. Others have said it made it easier to talk with Gay relatives. Ifmy stories have anysocial value, perhaps it’s .that. Mostly, I just follow my muse where~she leads and hope it works. JC: Andhow haveyou managed to do it so well? LF: Love is love. JC:Andhow doyou keep trackofall the .intrigues? My head is spinningfrom what l’ve gotten through in "Traitor’s Moon!" LF: Copious notes and charts on the wall. I see that Bantam (though they cut my glossary, now available on.my web page) left a blank page at the ends. I hope people will use it for notes, like I did reading "Trainspotting." The next book, ’‘The Bone Doll’s Twin" goes back in history to one of the. Skalan queens, but there will bemoreNightnmners, too. A&S are already prowling restlessly about my brain, hungry for more work. JC: 1 understand you’re appearing at Gaylaxicon, a sci-fi convention for Gay and Lesbian fans of the genre in Alexandria, Virginia. LF: Gaylaxicon promises to be a lot of fun. I’ve had a lot of contact with the organizers and they are simply the best I’ve ever dealt with. Hope to teach a writing workshop forthemwhile I’m there. JC." Have you heard of Loreena McKennitt? Her music and appearance reminds me ofsome ofyour "aurenfaie" characters. LF: Aurenfaie? I’ll claim her. "Mask and Mirror" is my personal favorite of all her disks. My husband is a great fan of female vocalists and has amassed quite a collection, which I dip into. (My tastes seem torunmore to GeorgeThoroughgood and Melissa Etheridge a lot of the time, along with someLeonardCohen and Rufus Wainwright, a new discovery.) JC: Andon thatmusical note, l ’d like to say thank you to Lynnfor sharing some of her inspirations, writings, and - methods behind the madness’ with us. !ts 51 st season wiihpianist John Browning m a program featuring Brahms, Tchaikovsky and Berlioz. Prior to the concert at 7pm, long time radio man and the voice of the OK Mozart Festival (Simon Estes - he’s the bestest!) Edward Dumit will lead "Musical Moments" a pre-concert discussion. For more information, call the Phil at 747-7445. Also at the end of Sept. Heller Theatre, one of Tulsa’s theatre companies that actually interested in newer works (as opposed-to recycling the same old stuff, again and again and again), are presenting "Dallas to LaGuardia R.T." on Sept. 23- 25 and Sept.. 30-OcL 2, a play about a couple that misses a flight and winds up invited to stay .over with complete strangers. Later in Oct. Heller will present "Fortinbras" revisiting Hamlet in a contemporary political context. Early in Oct. the Oklahoma Center for Poets and Writers presents its Celebration of Books on Oct. 1-2 at OSU-Tulsa with a remarkable assemblage of artists, even including some Gay ones. Some names include Michael Wallis, William ¯¯ Bernhardt,GuyLogsdgn,CliftonTaulbert, Eddie Faye Gates, C.J. Cherryh, Rich ¯ Fisher and folksinger Michael Martin ." Murphey. Info: 594-8215. ¯ Alsoin Oct. the Performing Arts Center Trust presents Sabella, featuring"global" ¯ music on Oct. 2 and on Oct. 8th & 9th, ¯ TPACT’s Celtic series (now so popular that they’ve added 2nd performances, and alas, forgotten their friends who helped ¯ them before the Celtic series got so ¯ popular) will start with Natalie ¯ MacMaster,fiddler extraordinaire. I don’t think any of the Celtic series artists I’ve ¯ seen have ever been bad, so check it out. ." And on that same busy weekend, both ¯ Tulsa’s and Oklahoma City’s Gay ¯ communities are presenting arts events in ¯ honor of National Coming Out Day. ¯ OUTART’99inOKCwillfeature 10new ." release films, two plays, a music special ¯ and visual artists. The Gala opening, A ¯ Black Tie Dinner and A Movie, Friday, ¯ Oct. 8th will present the southwest : premiere of the film"Edge of Seventeen" ¯ as well as a buffet dinner and wine bar. ¯ For more information or tickets, see the ¯ advertisement on page 16, or call 405- ¯ 752-2762 or 800-722-8866. ¯ That same busy weekend, TOHR and ¯ the Gay Community Center will hold ¯ TOHR’s first film festival at the Center. ¯ The first film will be shown at 7:30pro on Thursday~ Oct. 7 with films also being ¯ shown on Fri. evening and on Sat. ¯ afternoon and evening. Call 743-4297 for ¯ more information. : It also appears that local presentation of ¯ Gay and Lesbian films may show back up on a big screen. AMC Southroads 20 will ¯ present a Lesbian themed film, "Better ¯ Than Chocolate" on Sept. 10, and a Gay ¯ film, "Trick" on Oct. 1st. The key to ¯ getting theseon aregular basis is to support the theatre that takes the risk. S o vote with your dollars ! None was ever received. In fact,-this ¯ became an issue in Orr’s Congressional testimony. Rep. Mary Bonn, widow of the ¯ late Sonny Bonn, attacked err and ¯ Beauchamp saying that the Tulsa District ¯ Attorneys office claimed that they had ¯ been uncooperative with th DA and had ¯ notfilled out the forms necessary toreceive ¯ compensation..Orr and Beauchamp ¯ counter that not only-did they not receive ¯ the forms, thry did not even know of their existance until Bonn raised the issue. ¯ Commenting to TFN, Human Rights ¯ Campaign Political Director Winnie Stachelberg said, "I urge "the Gay and ¯ Lesbian community ofTulsa to act now in ¯ support of this bill (HCPA), so that incidents like these are prevented.... i~t is ¯ important that the; Gay and LeSbian ¯ community of Oklahoma is protected at a federal if not at a state level.’" Want to get involved? Need to get tested for HIV? Need a Coming Out Support Group? 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Ifnothing .else, ~ ays : parents can ask to have their , v~.:~ Chicago school officials- who stress ¯ excused from a lesson the-: find that "It’s Elementary" will not be shown . objecttonable: SaysP~,~shall, Mywarm g to students -are atadskittishabouttalking to parents would be: Beware.’ " about, their plan. They confirm that the In Oklahoma, there’s been no public district’s 589principals will view thefilm " outcry about "It’s Elementary" because beginning in September and receive a " the Oklahoma Educational Television copy of the Video for their schools - a plan ¯ Associationhas chosen not to air thepiece. funded by Lesbian tennis star Billie Jean " Malcomn Wall, executive director of King.But several teacherswho vealready " OEFA, claimed that OETA’s decision viewed the film on their-own declined to : not toair theprogram was not based onthe be interviewed out of feat of criticism, content, i.e. Gay & Lesbian issues but A city official who helped get the film " rather that OETA is offered far more - in part due to backing from chicago " programs thaJa it can ,possibly. air. He Mayor Richard Daley ~ .into the dis~t characterized it as.a routine passing over. was more forthcoming. She says the " However, Wallis relatively new at OETA decision was aimed at fostering tolera9,ce ¯ and the association has had a history of and, in turn, preventing violepce ag..mns,t " mostly refusing to air programs with Gayand Lesbian students. "It’s pmcttcm. Lesbian and Gay content. One notable Itmakes good sense. It’s about safety_, for " exception was the airing of an award children.Idon’tthinkanybody,regardless winning program, "Breaking the Code" of their religious background, can argue ¯ about the Gay man who broke the Nazi with that," says Mary Morten, Daley’s ¯ messagecodeinWorldWarlI. However, liaison on Gay and Lesbian issues. " OETA first refused to air this program School officials in San Francisco, who ] and did so only after being pressured by are also using "It’s Elementary" have ¯ Oklahoma City’s Gayly Oklaho_.man gone as far as imposing a ban on anti-Gay newspaper and Tulsa Family News. "they slurs. "Go stand on a playground. I " also waited to air the program later in the guarantee you that you will hear within " summer of 1998 after the Oklahoma Ru.n.ut.es..ra.os..~a.yin~",,,’Oh, that’s so Gay¯ ¯ Legislature was out of session, instead of What at(you a fag? says KevinGogin, airing in May or June like many PBS director of support services for sexual : affiliates did. minority youth for the San Francisco ." Unified School District who regularly ¯ speaks to teachers and principals nationwide. ¯ Moves to address Gay and Lesbian " Schmitzarrivedhometofindthenoteand issues in the classroom are not, however, " light in his doorway from Amedure. without opponents, among them tough- Schmitz withdrew money from his bank, talking radio talk show host Dr. Laura " bought shells and a shotgun and drove to Schlessinger and several religious groups " Amedure’s mobile home. Schmitz went who have made "It’s E"lementary" a "¯ inside to see if Amedure was home, then went back to his car, got the gun and shot priority target. Patti Johnson - a member of the " ~maedure twice in the chest- all while Colorado Board of Education who has wearingthegreenbowtieandwhitemxedo spoken out against use of the filmin her shirt from his job as a waiter. state - says she agrees with having a no- Pendergast told jurors that Schmitz slur policy but says some teachers are " werreactedtomereembarrassment."The going too far. "I don’t thinkyou have to go ouly reason that murder is an issue is that into bl , deep explanattons, especlall.y Scott Amedurewas Gay and (Schmitz’s) when kids are little, Johnson says. It s manhood, so to speak, was insulted on kind of like when you want to stop a 2- national TV," she said. "Wall, you know year-old fromrunninginto the street. T.hey what? Get over it." Jurors said while some don’t always understand death or dying, agreed with. Sabbota at first, they But they understand a quick swat on the eventually decided that Schmitzacted too slowly for the crime to be an actofpassion. butt." One official at the Washington-based "There was just way too much time Family Research Council, calls the film involved for a reasonable person to make ,,anindoctrinationtool-plainandsimple." some choices," said juror Bruce Sole. Sabbota said he would appealthe "Whyareyoucreating aresource to create abei~htened sensitivity.., on a behavior verdict, saying Oakland County Circuit choice that is cons!,,dered problematic to a Judge Wendy Potts should ,have letjurors whole lot of folks? ’ asks JanetParshall, a hear about Schmitz’s history of mental former teacher and spokeswoman for the illness andalcoholism. Hehadbeentreate~t. nonprofit organization which is known " for manic depression and tried to comnnt for its anti-Gay policy positions. , suicide four times in the years before the Filmmaker Debra Chasnoff says she s killing. "We knew it was an uphill battle simply providing resources to teachers from the start," Sabbota said. whoalready have to deal with such issues Ms. Jones and the producers of the in the classroom. "It just doesn’t work to show were not called to testify, as they say, ’We’re ,going to all be race to one hadbeenintheprevioustrials.Thejuryin another; don t use those words here.’ I the civil case awarded Amedure’s family thinkyouneed to explain who those words $25million; that verdictis being appealed. are hurtful to," says Chasnoff, director Jurors said the show played a role in the and co-producer of "It’s Elementary. kilhng,butwas not the sole cause. I think The debate is not likdy to end soon. most of us felt it Was a whole series of Thisfall,Chasnoff’s SanFrancisco-based events, H~,ht sal . media center also will begin distributing a After seven jurors spoke to the media, curriculum guide for.elementary teachers Amedure’s father, Frank Amedure St., that includes lessons they can incorporate shook hands with each one. "ijust want to into discussions about Gay and Lesbian thank the jury. God bless you," he said. Schrmtz’s father, Allw~ Sc~unitz, said 1ssues. " Such moves frustrate Parshall, who he didn’t ka~ow what to think about the notes that - w~le parents don’t ha;’e verdict. "T~crc’s no wwcaer~, or losers much control over what teachers use lot here," he said. "’Everybody loses." 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(TOHR), Oklahoma’ s oldest non-religions Gay and parentorganization of the Tulsa Gay Community Services Center has experienced a change in leadership. Board president Steve Horn resigned in July in order to take anew job in Dallas. Horn had been employed with CFS. Upon his resignation, TOHR vice president, Greg Gatewood became president. Gatewood praised Horn for his leadership and noted that the change in leadership would not affect any of the programs that TOHR and the Center had planned. He noted that for August, the TO HR & Community Centerformerpresident Steve Horn (right) and with his friend Phil at Pride ’99. ¯ organization had calle~,,a work day at the,,C.enter on 8/8 at noon, a planning meeting for MilleniumPride, the Parade and Picuic ’ for 2000 on 8112 at 7:30 and a community potluck with a"Cajun" Next Gay Community Gay Couple Murdered In " theme for 8/21at Tpm. Other significant news for the Center was the receipt of a California; Senate Passes " $5,000 grant for general operating expenses from the Gill ° Foundation. Center volunteer of the year, Tim Gillean, was Two Anti-Hate Crimes Bills ¯ responsible for writing the grant application~ New president HAPPY VALLEY, Calif. (AP) - In this tiny, largely conservative farming community, Gary Matson and Winfield Mowder were accepted. It didn’t matter that they were Gay. They gained respect through their community Work. They helped create alocal children’s museum, and Matson helped establish the 20-year-old Redding Farmer’s Market. Now tWO brothers who Eave been linked to a series of arson fires at Sacramento synagogues are accused of killing the couple, police said. Authorities said one of the alleged gunmen, Benjamin Matthew Williams, sometimes sold vegetables andherbs atM~son’s ~narket. "It’s beyond words that the farmers market may be the connection between the victims and the killers," said Margaret Jensen, who tends a market stall stocked with squash and onions. "If they burned the synagogues, too, that takes it to a level that is just staggering from someplace we think of as a small community." The bodies of Matson, 50, and Mowder, 40, were discovered July I at their home in Happy Valley, a small community just outside of Redding in northern California. They had been shot in their bed. A few days later, after one of the victims’ credit cards was used, police staked out a Yuba City business where the credit card purchasewas to be delivered, and arrested the Williams brothers. The brothers were both armed and one was wearing a bulletproof vest, police said. Yuba City is about 120 miles southeast of Redding. see Hate, p. 10 Council Oak Mens Chorale Presents August Concert Other UpcomingEvents: Feast + AIDS Walk TULSA-The Council Oak Men’sChorale, Tulsa’s Gay men’s singing organization will present a concert, Brothers Forever on August 27 & 28 at 8pro in the John Williams Theatre at Tulsa’s Performing Arts-Center. COMC will be joined in concert by Positive Voices of Dallas, Texas. A reception will follow the performances and tickets, $12, are available through the Performing Arts Center box office at 596-7111 or 800-364-7111 (outside of Tulsa). Also, coming up is the annual Feast for Friends, a ftmdraiser .for-THE NAM-ES~ PROJECT-,. the. AIDS Memorial .Quilt. In the event, organizations and individuals join each other for private dinners at which the attendees donate to support THE NAMES PROJECT and then all of the various dinner groupS’ come together for entertainment’and dessert at 8:30pro at the Southern Hills Marriott. For more information, call 748-3111. Later in October, the annual AIDS Walk will be held on October 2nd. For more information, call 579-9593. DIRECTORY/LETTERS EDITORIAL US & WORLD NEWS HEALTH NEWS ENTERTAINMENT . COMMUNITY CALENDAR READ ALL ABOUT IT DYKE PSYCHE GAY STUDIES P. 2 P. 3 P. 4 P. 6 P. 8 P. 9 P. 11 P. 12 P. 13 Meeting Called for 9/14 TULSA -. With about 40 people attending, representing most of Tulsa Lesbian and Gay, and HIV related groups, the first community wide meeting in several years brought together young and not so young, Gay and non-Gay, political and non-partisan groups. The representattves spent over two hours discussing their group’s goals and what ¯ Gatewood emphasized that while the grant would help the Center :. develop a small emergency reserve, see TOHR, p. 14 ¯ NGLTF Starts Family Program common ground they may have. : Veteran Attorney Paula Ettelbrick to Lead Initiative Washington High School’s Gay-S traight Alliance and TU’s BLGT Alliance were there along with most of the Gay-friendly religaons groups in the city. Cimarron Alliance and Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights also attended with RAIN, the Regional AIDS Interfaith Network, and HOPE, HIV Outreach, Prevention and Education as well. Under the facilitation of Marty Newman and DennisNeill(who’dissuedthecallforthemeeting) a number of possible community goals were identified: to replace the Tulsa Community AIDS Partnership funding (which is due to end soon), relocate the Community Center when its lease ends, ~o-ordinatecommtmity fundraisingandeven:s to better support various organizations, and where appropriate, do political and civil fights related work. see Aleetin~, ~. 1] ¯ ¯ ° ¯ ¯ JULY 26, 1999--The Policy Institute of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) today announced creation of a Family Policy program to secure inclusive definitions of family in national, state and local policy contexts. The Family Policy Program will engage in research, policy analysis, coalition building, strategy development and collaborative work with a ¯ wide range of family-focused organizations to ensure that the ¯ needsofGay, Lesbian~BisexualandTransgender(GLBT)families ¯ are considered and protected, "We are in the midst of a revolution in family creation within ¯ GLBT communities, but ironically, and inaccurately, our ¯ movement is characterized as being anti-family," said NGLTF : Executive Director Kerr3, Lobel. "This Program at NGLTF’s Policy Institute takes aim at the myths that persist about our families and will formulate a genuinel y pro-family public policy agenda from the vantage point of GLBT people’s lives." TheFamilyPolicyprogramatthePolicyInstituteisfundedby major gifts from several parents., including Seattle City Councilwoman and philanthropist Tina Podlodowski, and California-based donors Jennifer and Kathy Levinson through a gift from the Lesbian Equity Foundation of Silicon Valley. Urvashi Vaid, director of the Policy Institute announced that nationally known Lesbian attorney and family advocate, Paula Ettelbrick, has been hired to direct the Family Policy Program. Ettelbrickha~ worked on local, state and national family policy issues for the past 13 years. She is former legal director of Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund, where she developed the group’s.emphasis on family advocacy and founded the Family RelatioushipslProject. She served as public policy director for the National Center for Lesbian Rights. Since 1994, Ettelbrick has been legislative counsel for the Fan.pire State Pride Agenda, where she is credited with helping wm passage of New York City’s comprehensive domestic . partnership policy and drafting innovative municipal and state ¯¯ pro-GLBT family laws. ¯ Ettelbrick and her partner, Suzanne Goldberg, have a two-year ¯ old son and are expecting another child in September. She has ¯ taught law for 10 years and currently teaches a course on ." sexua!i~ty and the_ law at New York Uni versity Law School and the Saint Jerome to Host Ordination Ceremony TULSA - The Parish Church of Saint Jerome will welcome clergy and lay leaders of the Evangelical AnglicanChurchinAmericafromacross thenation for the denomination’s annual ordination ceremonies. The Right ReverendCraig Bettendoff, presiding bishop will ordai~ or receive candidates duringtheregularworshipservicesofSaintJerome on Sunday, August 8th at llam. The weekend eventsbeginatlpmonSaturday,August7thandan Evensong service will be held that day at 6pro with dinner to follow. Candidatesfortbediaconatewillbepresentfrom North Carolina, Arkansas, Illinois, and Oklahoma. BishopBettendorfwillalsoordaintothe presbytery, candidates fromNew Mexico, New York, Colorado, California and Florida. All events are open to the public. For more information, call Father Rick Hollingsworth at the Parish Church of Saint Jerome, 582-3088. ¯ UniversityofMichiganLawSchool.Earlierthisyear, Ettelbrick Tulsa C.A.R.E.S Gets ¯ Served as the National Coordinator of the highly successful Phili.p Morris Grant ""EqualityBegiusatHome"campaigu, spousoredbyNGLTFand ¯ tbe Federation of Statewide LGBT Political Orgamzations, which : encompassed 350 rallies and other events in all 50 states plus : Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia last March. and observed that Ettelbnck s experase will be invaluable to : .thenational GLBTmovement’s efforts to organizearoundfamily ¯ issues. She pointed out that as of June of 1999, almost 50 anti: GLBTfamilybillshadbeenfiledinstatelegislaturesthroughout : the country. "This nationwide mobilization against our families ¯ comes directly from the anti-Gay religious fight and its think ¯ tanks," Vaid said. "It is an effective strategy because the GLBT ¯ political movement at the state level remains understaffed and ¯ underfunded." The NGLTF Family Policy program will pursue three major " objectives: first, to provide the data and arguments that can ¯ enable activists to secure inclusive definitions of family in - national, state and local policy frameworks see NGLTF, p. 3 : TULSA -Tulsa C.A.R.E.S., Tulsa’s Center for ¯ AIDS Resources, Education and Support, formerly known as the HIV Resource Consortium, has : received a grant of $15,000 to its food pantry from : the Philip Morris Companies, Inc. ¯ Stephen C. Parrish, senior vice president for : corporate affairs came toTulsathelastweekofJuly " to announce the award to the Tulsa Area United : Way agency. According to comments reported by ¯ " " " ¯ " The Tulsa WorM, executivedirector, SharonThoele, indicated that the grant word be matched by $15,000 from another philanthropic organization and wonld help purchase a freezer and refrigerator. The award was oneof 38 given to organizations in 24 states, and the only Oklahoma award. �Tulsa Clubs & Restaurants *Bamboo Lounge, 7204 E. Pine 832-1269 592-2143 *Boston Willy’s Diner, 1742 S. Boston 835-1207 Burger Sisters Restaurant, 1545 S; Sheridan 599-9512 *Empire Bar, 1516 S. Peoria 583-6666 *Full Moon Cafe, 1525 E. 15th 749-4511 *Gold Coast Coffee House, 3509 S. Peoria 599-7777 *Jason’s Deli, 15th & Peoria 749-1563 *Lola’s, 2630 E. 15th 744-4280 *Polo Grill, 2038 Utica Square *St.~ Michael’s Alley Restaurant, 3324-L E. 31st 745-9998 834-4234 *Silver Star Saloon, 1565 Sheridan 585-3405 *Renegades/Rainbow Room, 1649 S Main 660-0856 *TNT’s,. 2114 S. Memorial 584-1308 *Tool Box, 1338 E. 3rd Tulsa Businesses, Services, & Professionals 747-1508 Advanced Wireless & PCS, Digital Cellular *Affinity News, 8120 E. 21 610-8510 *Assoc. in Med. & Mental Health, 2325 S. Harvard 743-1000 Kent Balch & Associates, Health & Life Insurance 747-9506 250-5034 *Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 8620 E. 71 665-4580 *Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 5231 E. 41 Body Piercing by Nicole, 2722 E. 15 712-1122 712-9955 *Borders Books & Music, 2740 E. 21 494-2665 *Borders Books & Music, 8015 S. Yale 743-5272 Brookside Jewelry, 4649 S. Peoria 746-0313 *CD Warehouse, 3807c S. Peoria Cherry St. Psychotherapy, 1515 S.Lewis 581-0902, 743-4117 622-0700 Community Cleaning, Ke~by Baker 352-9504, 800-742-9468 Tim Daniel, Attorney 749-3620 *Deco to Disco, 3212 E. 15th 587-2611 *Devena’s Gallery, 13 Brady 744-5556 Doghouse on Brookside, 3311 S. Peoria 838-8503 *Elite Books & Videos, 821 S. Sheridan 584-0337, 712-9379 *Ross Edward Salon Four Star Import Automotive, 9~06 E. 55th P1. 610-0880 628-3709 Cathy Furlong, Ph.D., 1980 Utica Sq. Med. Ctr~ 808-8026 Gay & Lesbian Affordable Daycare 742-1460 *Gloria Jean’s Gourmet Coffee, 1758 E. 21st 459-9349 Leanne M. Gross, Insurance & financial planning 744-7440 Mark T. Hamby, Attorney *Sandra J. Hill, MS, Psychotherapy, 2865 E. Skelly 745-1111 341-6866 *International Tours 712~2750 Jacox Animal Clinic, 2732 E. 15th 582-3018 *Jared’.s Antiques, 1602 E. 15th 747-0236 David Kauskey, Country Club Barbering 582-8460 The Keepers, Housekeeping & Gardening -599-8070 *Ken’s Flowers, 1635 E. 15 747-5466 Kelly Kirby, CPA, 4021 S. Harvard, #210 585-1234 *Living ArtSpace, 19 E. Brady 584-3112 *Midtown Theater, 319 E. 3rd 663-5934 Mingo Valley Flowers, 9720c E. 31 664-2951 *Mohawk Music, 6157 E 51 Place 747-7672 David A. Paddock, CPA, 4308 S. Peoria, Ste. 633 838-7626 Puppy Pause II, 1060 S. Mingo 583-1090 *Peace of Mind Bookstore, 1401 E. 15 743-4297 The Pride Store, 1307 E. 38, 2nd floor 747-5932 Rainbowz on the River B+B,’POB 696, 74101 834-0617 Richard’s Carpet Cleaning Teri Schutt, Rex Realtors 834-7921, 747-4746 749-6301 *Scribner’s Bookstore, 1942 Utica Square 260-7829 Paul Tay, Car Salesman 697-0017 *Tickled Pink, 3340 S. Peoria 742-2007 *Tulsa Book Exchange, 3749 S..Peoria 481-0558 *Tulsa Comedy Club, 6906 S. Lewis 835-5563 *Venus Salon, 1247 S. Harvard 743-1733 Fred Welch, LCSW, Counsding 592-0767 *Whittier News Stand, 1 N. Lewis Tulsa Agencies, Churches, Schools & Universities 579-9593 AIDS Walk Tulsa, POB 4337, 74101 743-2363 *All Souls Unitarian Church, 2952 S. Peoria 587-7314 Black & White, Inc. POB 14001, Tulsa 74159 Bless The Lord at All Times Christian Center, 2207 E. 6 583-7815 583-9780 *B/L/G/T Alliance, Univ. of Tulsa Canterbury Ctr. 585-1201 *Chamber of Commerce Bldg., 616 S. Boston *Chapman Student Ctr., University of Tulsa, 5th P1. & Florence *Church of the Restoration UU, 1314 N.Greenwood 587-1314 *Community of Hope United Methodist, 2545 S. Yale 747-6300 *Community Unitarian-Universalist Congregation 749-0595 585-COMC (2662) *Council Oak Men’s Chorale 712-1511 *Delaware Playhouse, 1511 S. Delaware 742-2457 *Democratic Headquarters, 3930 E. 31 Dignity/integrity of Tulsa- Lesbian & Gay Catholics & 355-3140 Episcopalians, POB 701475, 74170-1475 747-7777 *Fellowship Congreg. Church, 2900 S. Harvard 918.583.1248, fax: 583.4615 POB 4140. Tulsa, OK 74159 e-mail: TulsaNews@ earthlinlc net Zoning Concerns On the eve of the August 10 bond election for street improvements, I find myself in the awkward position of being asked to vote ’yes’ while some of my Publisher + Editor: basic property rights are under the threat Tom Neal Writers + contributors: of seizure. Againstmy very vocal protests, James Christjohn, Barry Hensley, J.-P. Legrandbouche, the Tulsa Metropolitan Area Planning Lamont Lindstrom, Esther Rothblum, Mary Sehepers Commission (TMAPC) recently voted to ’downzone’ my home from a multi-family Member of The Associated Press to a single-family category. I purchased ¯ I ssued on or before the 1st of each month, the entire contents of this my house with the intention of adding a ¯ rental .unit in the future for supplemental ~Lblication are protected by US copyright 199,8 by T~/:~. ¯ and may not be reproduced either in whole or in part Without: income, and I wish to retain the existing written permission from the publisher. Publication of a name or zoning designation. -" photo does not indicate a person’s sexual orientation. CorresponCurrently, I have the right to build eleven dence is assumed to be for publication unless otherwise noted, must . apartments on my property. If the zoning . is changed, I will have the right to one be signed & becomes the sole property of TJ.~. ~ N,~,~. ¯ Each reader is entitled to 4 copies of each edition at distribution single-family dwelling. This constitutes ¯ points. Additional copies are available by calling 583-1248. an obvious taking of my development ¯Free Spirit Women’ s Center, callforlocation&info: 58%4669 " rights without fair compensation, and I resent the TMAPCIs insistence on 747-6827 Friend For A Friend, POB 52344, 74152 rezoning without my consent. 582-0438 Friends in Unity Social Org., POB 8542, 74101 Doesn’t the TMAPC have enough to do 583-6611 ¯ ¯ HIV ER Center, 4138 Chas. Page Blvd. 834-4194 : without tinkering with the private property ¯ HIV Resource Consortium, 3507 E. Admiral 481-1111o¯ of a taxpayer who is satisfied with the ¯ Holland Hall School, 5666 E. 81st 834-8378 . existing zoning? The ’planners’ should HOPE, HIV Outreach, Prevention, Education ¯ attend to their business of more efficient ¯ House of the Holy Spirit Minstries, 3210e So. Norwood Interfaith AIDS Ministries 438-2437, 800-284-2437 " metropolitan planning by allowing 838-1715 ." residential infill development in the ¯ MCC United, 1623 N. Maplewood downtownneighborhoods. Then,perhaps 748-3111 NAMES Project, 3507 E. Admiral P1. 365-5658 " we would not be faced with multi-million NOW, Nat’l Org. for Women, POB 14068, 74159 " dollar bond elections to support hundreds OK Spokes Club (bicycling), POB 9165, 74157 of miles of streets and utilities sprawling ¯ OSU-Tulsa (formerly UCT, formerly Rogers U. whoever...) across such a sparsely populated city. 749-4901 PFLAG, POB 52800, 74152 -Sincerely, Paul Uttinger, Tulsa 587-7674 " ¯ Planned Parenthood, 1007 S. Peoria Prime-Timers, P.O. Box 52118, 74152 ¯ R.A.I.N., Regional AIDS Interfaith Network 749-4195 ¯ 665-5174 " Rainbow Business Guild, POB 4106, 74159 584-2325 ¯ Red Rock MentaI Center, 1724 E. 8 TITLE VII. Earlier this month, another O’RYAN, support group for 18-24 LGBT young adults ." Eastern Districtjudgehadrejected aclaim ¯ that harassment aimed at gays is covered O’RYAN, Jr. support group for 14-17 LGBT youth St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church, 4045 N. Cincinnati 425-7882 : under the federal anti-discrimination 492-7140 " statute, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of St. Dtmstan’s Episcopal, 5635 E. 71st 582-3088 ¯ St. Jerome’s Parish Church, 205 W. King 1964. In rejecting the suit of a Gay postal ¯Tulsa Area United Way, 1430 S. Boulder 583-7171 ¯ worker who claimed he was subjected to 582-7225 " a hostile work environment, Judge TNAAPP (Native American men), Indian Health Care Tulsa County Health Department, 46i6 E. 15 595-4105 ." Leonard B. Wexler ruled in Simonton v. ¯ Runyon, that discrimination based t~pon Confidential HIV Testing - by appt. on Thursdays only Tulsa Okla. for Human Rights, c/o The Pride Center " 743-4297 ¯ sexual orientation did not fall within Title T.U.L.S.A. Tulsa Uniform/Leather Seekers Assoc. 838-1222 ¯ VII’s ban of "sex" discrimination. ¯ ¯ Tulsa City Hall, Ground Floor Vestibule However, Judge Spatt ruled in Qninn v.~ ¯ Nassau County Police Department, No. ¯ Tulsa Community College Campuses ¯ 743-4297 ¯ Tulsa Gay Community Center, 1307 E. 38, 74105 97-3310, that there is no such similar 749-8833 " limitation upon a claim framed.directly Unity Church of Christianity, 3355 S. Jamestown " upon the Equal Protection clause in the BARTLESVILLE ¯ Bartlesville Public Library,600 S. Johnstone 918-337-5353 " U.S. Constitution. Title VH specifically enumerates five OKLAHOMA CITY/NORMAN types of discrimination that it bans, and ¯ Borders Books & Music, 3209 NW Expressway 405-848-2667 ’ the list does not include discrimination ¯ Borders Books & Music, 300 Norman Center 405-573~4907 ¯ based upon sexual orientation, Judge Spatt TAHLEQUAH pointed out. In contrast, he wrote~-the 918-456-7900 ¯ Supreme Court in Romer recognized that ¯ Stonewall League, call for information: ¯Tahlequah Unitarian-UniversalistChurch 918-456-7900 ¯ homosexuals are directly protected trader 918-453-9360 " the Equal Protection Clause from ¯ Green Country AIDS Coalition, POB 1570 NSU School of Optometry, 1001 N. Grand "invidious and irrational discriminationHIVtesting every other Tues. 5:30-8:30, call for dates . based on sexual orientation." Chris P. Termini, of McCabe, Collins, EUREKA SPRINGS, ARKANSAS : McGeogh & Fowler, represented Nassau 501-253~7734 ¯Autumn Breeze Restaurant, Hwy. 23 501-253-7457 ¯ County. Two individual defendants were ¯ Jim & Bren.t’s Bistro, 173 S. Main 501-253-6807 ¯ separately represented by Ronald J. DeVito’s Restaurant, 5 Center St. ¯ Emerald Rainbow, 45 &l/2 Spring St. 501-253-5445 " Morelli, of Mulholland, Minion & Roe, 501:253-9337." and Alan J. Reardon. Susan Fitzgerald;of MCC of the Living Spring Leeds & Morelli, also represented Mr. 501-253-2776 Geek to Go!, PC Specialist, POB 429 501-253-5332 : Old Jailhouse Lodging, 15 Montgomery Positive Idea Marketing Plans 501-624-6646 : Letters Policy Sparky’s, Hwy. 62 East 501-253-6001 : Tulsa Family News welcomes letters on issues 501~253-4074 ¯ which we’ve covered or on issues you think ¯ White Light, 1 Center St. ¯ need to be considered. You may request that FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS5 501-442-2845 ¯ your name be withheld but letters must be ¯ Edna’s, 9 S. School Ave. signed & have phone numbers, or be hand JOPLIN, MISSOURI delivered. 200 word letters are preferred. Letters ¯ Spirit of Christ MCC, 2639 E. 32, Ste. U 134 417-623-4696 ¯ to other publications will be printed as js appropriate. ¯ is where you can find TFN. Not all are Gay-owned but all are Gay- friendly. �In many parts of the United States, Gay, lesbian, " running for any office in this party." While I had good bisexual and transgendered (GLBT) persons have ~ support among delegates I had contacted in that 24-hour achieved an equal status in the communities in which they ¯ period leading up to convention, I knew that it would be live. But not in Oklahoma. Not yet. The Democratic ." difficult to fnnction as a team. I did not seek the nomination National Committee (DNC) recognizes GLBT persons. ¯ during the convention. There was no caucus to turn to for But not the Oklahoma Democratic Party (ODP). Not yet. ¯ support. In 1998 the DNC Even a more glaring adopted a policy A quotation from the May 25 Daily concern for GLBT requiring each state persons is the election to nameGLBT Oklahoman interview with the newly elected of a new state chair delegates to the for the ODP during ODP Chair, Mike Mass, speaks to my National Democratic its May 15 convenConventions. The tion. Representative concern as a Gay person: DNC has recognized Mike Mass, a very that the majority of "Mass said he thinks the party under Hall vocal opponent of the GLBT persons, like hate crimes bill in the has eottoned too much to what he calls the majority of legislature, was straight persons, are elected by a two-vote splinter groups¯ He and Hall were both at a caring and margin in an election responsible citizens funetlon, and a Gay and lesbian advocate fraught with fraud. entitled to an equal, (I am leading a not special but equal, asked Mass what he was going to do to help challenge of that presence in the DNC. election for the the Gay eommunlty. ’Nothing,’ Mass replied. The ODP, once purpose of restoring moving towards integrity to the ODP. Mass thinks the party has tended to make a inclusion of GLBT A petition calling for persons, now under big deal about such groups." a new election was new party leadership, signed by more than rejects or ignores that DNC policy. ¯ 200 co-signors and filed with the DNC ou June 9.) ~ ¯ Much has been accomplished in Oklahoma for which quotation from the May 25 Daily Oklahoman interview GLBT persons should all be proud. Moving a hate crimes with the newly elected ODP Chair, Mike Mass, speaks to bill from a legislative committee to the House floor for ¯ my concern as a Gay person: ¯ debate is somewhat miraculous, considering the prevailing "Mass said he thinks the party under Hall has cottoned Oklahoma attitudes only a few years ago when the ¯ too much to what he calls splinter groups. He and Hall Oklahoma City Council rejected and terminated the ¯ were both at a function, and a Gay and lesbian advocate Human Rights Commission. What has been accomplished ¯ asked Mass what he was going to do to help the Gay can be attributed to the efforts of GLBT and affiliated ¯ community. ’Nothing,’ Mass replied. Mass thinks the political organizations such as OGLPC (Oklahoma Gay ¯ party has tended to make a big deal about such groups." & Lesbian Political Committee), The Cimarron Alliance ¯¯ If there was a partisan presence of GLBT persons in the Group, TOHR (Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights), ODP, or at least the acknowledgment of the DNC’s PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) with ¯ directive to include GLBT persons as delegates, this the support of the NAACP and various labor and faith ¯ archaic attitude would be a relic of the past instead of organizations. Although these organizations are the heroes ¯ facing us for the future in the ODP. in the efforts to date, they are not adequate for what is yet There are national part~san organizations for both the to be accomplished. These organizations focus on issues ¯ Democratic and Republican parties - The Log Cabin and review candidates from a non-partisan perspective. ¯ Republicans and the National Stonewall Democratic What is missing in Oklahoma is the partisan participation ¯ Federation (NSDF). GLBT persons in Oklahoma need of GLBT persons, open partisan participation within the that partisan identification so that they can have a"seat at major parties, not unlike the women’s organizations and ¯ the table" when partisan political decisions are made. other caucuses. : The NSDF was organized at Kansas City in May 1998 Straights raise families; GLBT persons care for the ¯ for the purpose of mobilizing GLBT persons through a ¯ community in which those families live. Just look at who national grassroots network of GLBT Democratic clubs. we are. We are present in every profession and job ¯ There are GLBT Democratic clubs that are joined with category as wall as present or have been present in every ¯ their state Democratic party. Colorado and Michigan elected office level, whether we admit it publicly or.not. ¯ both have a federated GLBT Democratic dub within Throughout recorded history GLBT persons have often ¯ their State Democratic parties. GLBT Oklahomans need been the movers and shakers for communities, the care- ¯ that presence in our state party. An Oklahoma Stonewall givers, the compassionate, the artists, even leaders of ¯ Democratic Club must be organized. I am a recently ¯ historical fame. The majority of us as GLBT persons have elected regional director for the NSDF and urgeinterested the same expectations and dedication to our communities ¯ persons to check out the website at as the majority of straights among whom we live and www.stonewalldemocrats.org or contact me by e-mail, work with side by side. But you would not know that if paulb@pldi.net. youJistened to partisan leaders in both major Oklahoma The mere thought of a public GLBT presence in the parties. Oklahoma Republican Party (ORP) is breath-taldng. But As a congressional candidate for Congress from it can mid must be Created. When those GLBT Repnhlicafs Oklahoma’s Sixth District in 1996 and again in 1998, I who have been supporting their party in the background made many friends with Democrats. I know and have with contributions and party activism make their presence good contacts with Democrat. leaders in each of the 24 known to the ORP, then there is an opportunity for counties comprising the Sixth District. That is an asset inclusion in ORP policy making. Republican Oklahoma that I believe valuable as a party worker. I let it be known GLBT persons should connect with the National Log that I wanted to serve as the District Secretary when the Cabin Republicans and establish an Oklahoma Log Cabin incumbent indicated the day before the convention that Republican Club. he would not run for re-election. We must do this. We must orgamze a partisan presence Without detailing the series of events leading up to the of GLBT persons in each of Oklahoma’s major parties. conclusion of my attempt to place my name in line for That is the Gay agenda that I am aware of- to be treated District Secretary, the man who became District Chair at as an equal in civic life as we continue to hold ourselves that April convention blocked me from running for office. to the same standards of responsibility and caring as During a fifteen-minute conversation with him prior to expected of straights. We must ask for a place at the table. the Convention, he made it clear that he and other elected Editor’s note: I agree with Paul Barby but Would even officials in the Sixth District did not want me to run for speak more strongly. We must demand our place at the any office. He would not say it was because I am Gay but table and must challeng~ bigots like Mike Mass. We his remarks left me with only that justification for his might also question some of our "friends"like Tulsa statement, "I am running for chair to keep you from Democrat Sally Frasier who helped get Mass "elected." by Tom Neal, editor and publisher By now, Steve Horn is probably getting settled down in his new home in Dallas. Steve, until his recent job related move, was in the middle of his second term as president of the board of Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights, Inc. (TOHR) - the parent organization of Tulsa’s Gay community center (the awkwardly renamed Tulsa Gay Community Services Center). Tulsa has been fortunate in Tulsa has been having a number of dedicated ~,olunteers to our Lesbian and fortunate in Gay communities (and Bi and havln~ a number Transgendered) over many years. Unfortunately, we of dedleated haven’t really done a very good volunteers to our job of recognizing or thanking Lesbian and Gay them for their work. We use them and then ignore them when eommunltles we’re not actually vilifying (and BI and them. There are, of course, a Transgendered) few exceptions, individuals who repeatedly receive recognition over many years. but many more don’t. Unfortunately, So I’d like to be one to clearly we haven’t really thank Steve Horn for his dedication to TOHR. Steve done a very ~ood became president just after I job of served, inheriting the same big mess with TOHR’s HIV testing reeognlzlng or programs that I and several thanklng them previous TOHR presidents had inherited. And while he and I for their work. would still disagree profoundly about how those issues were resolved, i.e. the separation of the testing clinic into a stand-alone organization, his work as a whole was great. He continued and expanded onalegacy ofvolunteerism andleadership that’s continued for nearly 20 years with TOHR. see Horn, p. ]4 Legal Win: Bias Against Gays Unconstitutional Editor’s note: the ruling noted below has great potential for judicial remedies for anti-Gay bias in the United States. Traditionally, many civil rights advances in this country have come through court decisions and this shows promise for fair treatment for Lesbian and Gay citizens.- TN by Daniel Wise, New York Law Journal, July 6, 1999 In a ruling believed to be one of first impression, a federal judge in Uniondale has found discrimination against homosexuals in an employment context to be actionable as an Equal Protection violation. Eas tern District Judge Arthur D. Spatt issued the ruling in upholding a $380,000 verdict that a jury awarded two weeks ago to a former Nassau County police officer who claimed he had been hounded out of his job by his fellow officers and supervisors after they learned he was Gay. The officer, James M. Quinn, resigned after enduring nine years of taunts that included the prominent posting in his stationhouse of cartoons labeling him a child molester, a transvestite and a sadomasochist. " "Judge Spatt is the first judge to explicitly recognize that. discrimination based- upon, sexual- orientation .can give rise to a hostile work environment claim under the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution," said Mr. Quima’s lawyer, Frederic Ostrove, of Leeds & Morelli in Carle Place. In concluding that harassment based upon an animus against homosexuals was actionable lmder the Equal Protection clause, Judge Spatt relied heavily upon a 1996 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, Romer v. Evans, 517 U.S. 620. That ruling struck down an amendment to ColOrado’s constitution that prohibited Gays and Lesbians from obtaining any legal protections -legislative or judicial from discrimination. The Supreme Courtin Romer concluded that the statute withdrawing legal protection from homosexuals could not stand because it was motivated by "irrational fear and prejudice," Judge Spatt pointed out. Similaxly, thejudge reasoned, the hate campaign against Mr. Quinn had been motivated "by irrational fear and prejudice towards homosexuals." see Ruling, p. 2 �Gay Conversion Group Holds Convention travel to Vermont, slie said. The church is virulently anti-Gay and pickets frequently. In October, it picketed-outside the funeral ~f Matthew Shepard, who authorities say was killed in WHEATON, Ill. (AP) - Exodus International, a : part because he was Gay. Seattle-based organization that claims homosexuals can be converted to change their sexual behavior, opened its annual conference as protesters sang gospels softly nearby. "A whole new chapter has opened up," said Bob Davies, executive director of Exodus. "For the first SALEM, Ore. (AP) - A watered-down proposal that time in our 23 year history, the body of Christ has began as a ban on Gay marriages failed in the Senate gotten behind this ministry." last month. The proposed ballot measure would have About 1,200 people attended the rally, the biggest asked voters only whether the Legis!~ture sh.ould attendance, since the group began in 1976. Leaders have the power to define What cbiastitutes a marnage. attributed the large turnout to a nationwide ad As passed by the House, the proposal defined marriage campaign promoting conv ersi on from homosexuality, as atmionbetween man and woman. Sen. Neil Bryant, As the group clapped inside, the Rev. Bradley R-Bend, said the measure as reworked by the Senate Mickelson of the Metropolitan Community Church set a middle ground in the dispute, but foes argued the of the Incarnation in Oak Park, Ill., led a quiet march revised measure would accomplish nothing. of 50 people outside. "We need to be a voice for The proposal stemmed from an Oregon Court of people who think they’re living in sin, to tell them Appeals ruling that employers cannot discriminate how to be liberated and free," said Mickelson, whose against homosexuals and must provide benefits to Chicago-area church is open to homosexuals. same-sex partners of government workers. Supporters of the anti-Gay mamage measure contended that the Exodus International burst.into public notice a year ago with full-page ads m major newspapers court decision opened the door for legalization of Gay proclaiming its belief that Gays and Lesbians can marriages. change. Conservative groups such as the Christian Coalitionhelped pay for the.campaign. Exodus teaches that "freedom from homosexuality is possible through -. repentance and faith in Jesus Christ" and seeks to provide hdp for "men and women who desire to MONTGOMERY, AIa. (AP) - The Alabama overcome their homosexuality." Legislature is drawing praise from the National Gay The conference, a mixture of training workshops and Lesbian Task Force for passing domestic violence and inspirational rallies, is meeting at Wheaten legislation that could make Alabama the first state to College, a prominent Evangelical Protestant school, cover homosexual couples. In its legislative update but is not sponsored by the college. July 16, the task force listed the Alabama domestic Cynthia Marquardt, member of the Oak Park violence legislation as one of the "highlights" of congregation, said sexual conversion is impossible legislative sessmns nationwide. and that Exodus’ message contributes to -violence But the sponsor of thelegislation, state Rep. Yvo,,n~e against Gays and Lesbians. "Exodus has a right to Kennedy, D-Mobile, said, "That’s way off base. At their message, and we will continue to proclaim that issue is a bill passed on the Legislature’s final day God loves us just as we are," she said, June 9, when dozens of bills were flying through the Exodus is a federation of 131 independent ministries House and Senate with little or no discussion. Gov. located in 38 states and the District of Columbia, plus Don Siegelman signed the bill imo law June 19. several overseas affiliates. The organizationis staffed Ms. Kennedy and Carol Gundlach, executive by people from a var~,ety of Christian denominations. director of the Alabama Coalition Against Domestic Manyofthegroup sleaders saytheyusedtobeGay Violence, said the purpose of the legislation was raise or Lesbian and merely offer options to people that the cost of a marriage license by $15 to provide more want them. Exodus is closely aligned with funding for shelters for domestic abuse victims and to Homosexuals Anonymous, a twelve-step movement broaden domestic abuse laws to cover more than patterned after Alcoholics Anonymous, and with the spouses. The legislation expands domestic abuselaws National Association for Research and Therapy of to cover violence "occurring among family, household, Homosexuality, made up of psychological counselors dating, or engagement relationships.’" who work for change through "reparative therapy." The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, a Both the American Psychiatric Association and Washington-based group that works to eliminate American Psychological Association have denounced prejudice and violence against Gay persons, is focusing Christian-based reparative therapy, saying it doesn’t eta the word "household" in the new Alabama law. work and can cause psychological damage. "Y ou could hav e tw o people in a same-sex relationship and that’s a household," said David Elliott, communications director for the task force. The task force’s legislative report said Alabama "’became the first state to enact a bill expanding the state’s definition of domestic violence to potentially MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP)- Members of a church that organized a picket outside the funeral of a murdered include Gay, Lesbian, bisexual and transsexual people University of Wyoming student last year plan a under Alabama’ s domestic violence law." But Elliott protest on the lawn of the Vermont Statehouse next conceded it will probably take a court case to determine whether the task force’s view is correct. week. The Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kans., Ms. Kennedy, who sponsored the bill for the Coalition Against Domestic Violence, said the new plans to have a dozen people in Montpelier on Aug. 3 to picket against Gay marriage, said Shirley Phelpslaw is silent about sexual orientation. But she said homosexual couples were never mentioned in any of Roper, a church a!!orney and dangh,ter of founder the Rev.FredPhelps. Whenthenation smilitant, activist the legislative debate on the bill. Ms. Gundlach said the language was copied from fags brag about a place - watch out!" said an announcement distributed by the church. "Well, Alabama’s 1989 warrantless arrest law. That law they’re bragging about Vermont from sea to shining allows police to make assault arrests without an arrest sea. They think Vermont will soon allow filthy fag warrant when an assault occurs between two people living together. She said she has heard of cases where beasts to marry each other." The Vermont Supreme Court is considering a police used the law to make arrests involving homosexual relationships that turned violent. ’q’hat’ s lawsuit seeking to overturn the state’ s refusal to issue mamage licenses to same-sex couples. Some legal just common sense. People in homosexual relationships can and do assault each other and the experts have predicted that Vermont could become victim needs protection," she said. But she said the the first state to legalize such marriages. Phelps-Roper said a dozen members of her church xndusion of"household" in the 1989taw and the 1999 would spend the weekend in Ottawa and Montreal, law does not legitimize homosexual rdationships protesting a decision on domestic partnership by the trader state law. 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He agreed with the task force’s spokesman that it would take a court case to find out. While the legislative update from the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force complimented Alabama on the domestic violence legislation, the state Legislature came in for criticism for refusing to expand Alabama’ s hate crimes law to cover sexual orientation despite the Feb. 19 beating death of Billy Jack Gaither of S ylacauga. But Alabama was not alone. Twenty other state legislatures turned back similar ~.egislation, the task force noted. Gay Couple Appeals Adoption Ruling ERIE, Pa. (AP) - Two men hope an appeals court will allow them to become adoptive parents and help define parental rights forGay couples in Pennsylvania. The couple has asked the state Superior Court to overturn a decision by Erie County Judge Shad Connelly, who nded las t month that state law dictates that only one man can be the legal parent of the two children. Lower court judges have differed on the issue, and appeals courts have not made a definitive decision. Connelly said the Legislature should specifically sanction Gay marriages before judges can allow Gay couples to adopt. The children, an 8-year-old boy and a 7-year-old gift, were adopted by one of the men and raised since infancy by the couple. The man who does not have legal custody said he wants to be officially named a parent in case his partner dies. "The children have been and will continue to live with their family regardless of the court’s action," said Karen Engro, a la~vyer for the couple. "ff the adoption is granted, everyone wins. Bydenying it, everyone loses." The men, who are 43 and 42 years old, have been together for 18 years and are identified only by their initials in court records. They have asked reporters not to use their names to protect the children’s privacy. Another lawyer for the couple, Chris Biancheria, said other Common Pleas Court judges in the state have granted "second parent" adoptions for Gay couples. She said a Superior Court ruling in favor of the adoption could help establish guidelines for lower courts. "It would mean that these type of adoptions would have to be granted in every county," she said. She said Connelly, in ruling against the adoption, ignored the Legislature’s stipulation that all adoptions be considered in light of "the children’ s bes t interests." In his ruling, Counelly wrote that the "best interest" issue was irrelevant because the request was illegal to begin with. "Because the Legislature has not seen fit to specifically sanction such adoptions-as this, this court is not empowered to grant the petitaon for adoption," he wrote. 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Jennifer Levi, a lawyer from Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, a Boston nonprofit representing thepupils, said Thursday the recognition "is a great day for the students at Manchester High School West." The lawsuit charged the principal discriminated against the group under the Equal Access Act because no other student association has been required to get school board approval to use school facilities. Supporters of the Gay Straight Alliance say it offers support and acceptance to pupils ~ho are Gay, Lesbian or bisexual in an often hostile environment. It also helps educate others about o~fensive stereotypes and acceptance of differences. Court Rejects Ex’s Visitation Appeal SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Despite pleas by Gay civil-rights groups, the state S upreme Court has turaed down an appeal by an Alameda County woman who sought the right to visit two children she helped raise with her Lesbian partner. An appellate court ruled in April that the woman, Kathleen C., had no parental rights because she was not the biological mother, and because there was no evidence that the children were being harmed by living with their biological mother. The state’s high court denied review of the case in July. Only lustices Stanley Mosk and Janice Rogers Brown voted to grant a hearing, two short of the needed majority. The appellate ruling is now binding on trial courts statewide. The case was closely watched by Gay civil-rights groups, who wanted California to follow a handful of court rul!ngs in other states that have granted parental rights to former members of same-sex couples. Kathleen and her partner, Lisa W., started living together in February 1985, when Lisa’s daughter was almost 3. They had a child together by artificial insemination in 1987 and separated in 1990. Kathleen was allowed to visit the children on alternate weekend until November 1994, when Lisa cut off visitation. Kathleen argued that she should be considered the children’s "de facto parent," one who develops a parent-like relationship by providing daily care, affection and concern over a long period. An appellate court in New Jersey ruled this March that a woman who had helped her .Lesbian partner raise two children was a "psychological parent" entitled to visitation. Courts in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania have also granted limited parental rights to former members of Lesbian couples. But Alameda County Superior Court Judge Roderic Duncan ruled against Kathleen C. and was upheld by the 1st District Court of Appeal. Kathleen had shown the characteristics of a "de facto parent," but there is no legal authority to grant a non-parent visitation rights "’over the objection of the biological parent and in the absence of any showing of detriment to the child," said the opinion by Presiding Justice Daniel Hanlon. The ruling means Kathleen cannot see the children until they turn 18. They are now 17 and 12. The state Supreme Court appeal drew support from the National Center for Lesbian Rights, the Youth La~v Center, the American Civil Liberties Union and other advocacy groups. The appdlate ntling "leaves the two children... locked in the embrace of but one of their mothers, denied by her - and by the courts of this state - any contact with the other woman they call ’Morn,’ "said E. Elizabeth Summers, alawyer for Kathleen, in court papers. She acknowledged that a Lesbian partner can get parental rights by adopting the child with her partner, but said not all California counties, or judges in the same county, allow adoptions by same-sex couples. Mormans Lose Members Over Anti-Gay Stance SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - The Mormon church says it regrets a protest by dozens of dissident members trying to quit the church because of its campaign in California against Gay. marriages. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issued a statement saying it was defending the "traditional family" by pushing for a California ballot initiative that seeks to preempt legalized same-gender marriages. The dissidents say the church crossed a line from religion to politics by asking its 740,000 California members to "do all you can" to assure passage of the initiative. Church spokesman Dale Bills said, "we regret that any member would ask to have his or her name removed from our records because the church has joined a coalition in California to oppose samegender marriage." �¯ Methodist Health Care System New Test Catches ¯ reaching," president Peter Butler said. HIV Quicker : Science Advances, RICHMOND, Va. (AP)-The agency that collects most blood donations in central Virginiais still using two standard tests to i¯ Prejudice Remains Timothy W. Daniel Attorney at Law screen blood for the AIDS virus, four ¯ OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - T.J. months after federal health officials urged contracted the virus that causes AIDS 18 blood baul~ to use a new test. The new : years ago. He says nothing’s changed. test, called Nucleic Acid Testing; was ¯ "Wall, almost nothing," " he said. "A lot recommended by the Food and Drug : has changed in medicine, but very little Administration on March 3. NAT may : has changed in stigma and prejudice." So significantly reduce the time that HIV can ¯ little that he feels obliged to use T.J. ¯ avoid detection in current blood tests. instead of his real name. TheFl’)A’sreq°mmendati°n~et"w°° i ,,~’li~eitl arural’~rea~ w~s~.~f_5,re ~iPetet~b~gman; William good iqtca, (o use my name, he said. T.J. C C~ippy ¥6tmg~" tmderwent:V~seular~ ~ hdped form the Long Term ~Survivors surgeryat~MedicalColleg~ofVirginia : Group for people living with AIDS in Hospitals in Richmond..Young said he : Oklahoma. It has about 200 members. contracted HIV from a blood transfusion : "We’ve had members burned out of their ¯ he received during the surgery. home and run out of town," he said. "One Virginia Blood Services, the regional ¯ family just recently moved to the city blood bank., last week acknowledged that (from a natal community) because they a unit of blood it sent to MCV may have ¯¯ couldn’t take it anymore. The mother has been tainted with HIV. The unidentified AIDS." T.J. said the quality and length of donor tested negative when the blood was life for people living with AIDS has given but later tested posluve. ¯ improved because of medical advances, The NAT procedure is not yet required ¯ but there is still a long way to go. "People because it is experimental and there are ~ have started believing thatit’s over. It’s a questions abouL how to implement it long way from being over," he said. ¯ Pam Cross, director of the Regional nationwide But FDA spo,k, eswoman Len0re Gelb said the test will’ help close AIDS Interfaith Network, agreed that the the window" when. HIV cannot, be ¯ much of the general public remains ¯ ignorant of the disease. "People have detected. ¯ Virginia Blood Services has used the become quite complacent. They’ve taken test for another virus, hepatitis C~"since ¯ good news from headlines and TV about April 15 as part of a study, said ¯ medical advances," she said. "They think spokeswoman Laura Cameron. She said it’ s a cure for HIV and there’ s not. "We’re the procedure would be used to test blood ~ not seeing a drop. Nationwide, we still when it is licensed by the FDA, which is have 40,000 people a y,e, ar becoming awaiting results .of NAT experiments ¯ infected with this disease. around the country. T.J., who got AIDS from a Gay At the time Y oung contends he recei v ed ; relationship, fits into the Centers for the tainted blood, only a few blood centers ~ Disease Co~,trol and Prevention"Pre- 1987 had the technology to implement the ne.w : Definition. That definition refers .to the, test for AIDS, said Dr; Celso Bianco, the Original list of"oppormnistic infect|ons. president of America s Blood Centers¯ In other words, he got the virus that causes "Even if the (NAT) test worked, it would AIDS before AIDS had a name. not have benefited this recipient," Bianco In Oklahoma, there have been 5,441 said. reported HIV/AIDS cases, according to The new test detects HIV at very small theOklahomaState Department of Health, concentrations even before the body which began tracking the disease in 1982. produces antibodies to the virus. Blood Figures show no confirmed heterosexual banks now use a test that spots antibodies cases were recorded the first four years to HIV and another that finds a protein ¯ records were kept, but in the past four ¯ years about 10% of overall cases have attached to the virus. In a study published this month in the ¯ been heterosexual. ¯ medical journal Transfusion, scientists ¯ Ms. Cross said documented cases don’t ¯ studying an HIV-infected chimpanzee fully represent the amount of people who discovered that the new test narrowed the ¯¯ have the disease. "If they’re anonymous, detection window by three weeks. They there’s no way oftellinghow many people also found that blood from the HIV- ¯ have it. I’ve heard estimates that cases infected chimp did not infect another ¯ could be as many as 10 times higher (than animal until the virus concentration was ¯ what is documented)," Ms. Cross said. ¯ detectable using the new test. ’qqaere are alot of people that don’t know re "Johnson, infected, ashe19-year sm . survivor of ~ they Don 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. Are You Gay or Bisex.uaI? Are You Native Amer can T ulsa’s Two-Spirited Indian Men’s Support Group is here for you! "~/ ~%~-7~ ¯ Evening support group meetings ¯ Relationship workshops ¯ Short trips, outings and retreats ¯ Free HIV testing For information call Tulsa Native American AIDS Prevention Project at 582-7225 Ext. 208 or 218 New Medical Center ¯ AIDS, said he thinks the biggest reason HOUSTON (AP) - A new cell and gene ¯ for increase in heterosexual cases is research center here could revolutionize ¯ ignorance andalackofAIDS educationin therapy for many illnesses, including ¯ Oklahoma. "There’s still a lot of that ’It cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes ~ can’ t happen here’ attitude.I don’ t see the and AIDS, say doctors. Formation of the ¯ education taking place that I see in International Center for Cell and Gene ~ California," said Johnson,41, who is G.ay. Therapy, a collaboration by Baylo, r ¯ "The schools there have a curriculum that College of Medicine, Texas Children s ¯ involves HIV prevention. There is not the Hospital andThe Methodist Hospital, was ¯ samecommumtyawarenesshere, hesaid. announced this morning. Officials said ¯ Shelly Hickman, spokeswoman f.o,r .,file the center will be the first in the world to i state Department of Education, sam m.e combine basic science mid clinical ¯ state requires that schools have a certain research with pediatric and adult cell- : amount of AIDS education curriculum, and-gene-therapy transplant facilities. ¯ but much of it is left up to the schools¯ Creation of the center was prompted by ¯ ’‘There is some discretion on how it is new understanding of the molecular basis ~ taught andwhenitis taught," Ms. Hickman of disease and the need for novel strategies ¯ said."Weareinfavoroflocal communities for cell and gene therapy.-"We realize the ~ that they use what’s best for them." medical possibilities are endless and the ¯ Peggy, who would not use her real potential impact on patients is far- est Dial-Up Accounts Dedicated ISDN Connections Virtual Hosting Internet Marketing E-Commerce Web Page Design On-Site Setup Available Brought to you.. by: Visit our web page "www.igisweb.net" :~ ~." ~TRATEG1E5 IN TECHNOLOGY 1918) 622-4965 �Stay Healthy Naturally Wellness Rejuvenation Longevity. 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She said she and her husband hid their disease from the community to protect their children. "Until society accepts this disease and is able to talk about it, it will go on and on," she said. "Heterosexual people are afraid to be tested because they’re afraid they’ll be labeled as Gay. So then they go and ~x;e it to someone else and the cycle goes on.r’ Congress Hears ¯ African Appeal ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ : ¯ : ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ : : ¯ : : ¯ : country can import lower-cost drugs without infringing on patents. The issue of African access to AIDS drugs has taken on a political dimension recently. Gore has been caught in a fight between AIDS activists seeking cheap generic drugs for South African AIDS victims of the disease and U.S. laws intended to protect drug companies from having their patents violated abroad. Gore has saidhedoesnotopposeSouthAfrica’s attempts to produce or obtain generic AIDS medicines as long as those efforts donot violate laws protecting patents. A 1997 South African law granted the government unspecified power to obtain cheaper AIDS drugs. About 40 pharmaceuticalcompanies worldwide are challenging the law in South African courts, fearing it may beusedin a way that violates patent rights. More Die From AIDSThan War : NAIROBI, Kenya(AP)-AIDS killed 1:4 : million people in eastern .and southern ," Africa last year, overtaking armed WASHINGTON (AP)- An AIDS patient ¯ conflicts as the No. 1 killer in the region, from Malawi asked Congress for help in ," the U.N~ Children’s Fund said recently. The epidemic, which has hit this portion settling trade-disputes that could deprive : poor African countries such as her own of ¯ of the African continent harder than : anywhere else in the world, has left 6 vital drugs. Chatinkah Nkhoma, 37, believes she : million children orphaned in eastern aud ¯ southern Africa, amounting to 70% of the would be dead now had she stayed in Lilongwe, Malawi’s capital, where the ¯¯ world’s AIDS orphans, said UNICEF drugs she needs either are tmavailable or ¯ DeputyExecutiveDirectorStephenLewis. 48% of the world’s AIDS cases are in this cost too much. Millions of other Africans are not as lucky, said Nkhoma, who came ¯ region, Lewis said during the release of to the United States as a graduate student. ¯¯ UNICEF’s annual report on AIDS. It called for emergency action to curb the ~’I’m their voice. I’m here to cry for help," ¯ spread of AIDS in Africa. Nkhoma testified tearfully before the "Fundamentally, AIDS is spreading and House Government Reform subcommittee ¯ on criminal justice, drug policy and human ¯ stifling the economic and social " infrastructure of the entire continent. It is resources. The government did act in response: ¯ killing the most productive age group," Vice President Gore on Monday ¯ Lewis said. "It is doubling and tripling announced a new $100 million proposal ¯ infant mortality rates. It is returning life to help Africa stop the spread of AIDS. -" .expectancy to the levels of 1960s." "It is Nkhoma also appealed to lawmakers to : the modern incarnationof the Dante’s ¯ reject arguments that the drags may cause ¯ Inferno," Lewis said. "Neaier has Africa more harm than good in poor nations ¯ faced such a plague." Worldwide, some 16,000 people daily unable to ensure AIDS patients adhere to ~ strict drug regimens. Experts have said " are infected.by HIV, the virus that causes that people who do not take the drugs as ¯ AIDS, and there are 8.2 million AIDS prescribed actually may become sicker or : orphans, most in sub-Saharan Africa, the devdop drug-resistant strains of the AIDS " report said. The report warned that AIDS : could increase infant mortality in eastem virus. AIDS deaths in the United States have ¯ and southern Africa by 75% and double declined because of advances in treatment, : the death rate of children under fivein the but they remain on the increase in Africa, ¯ region in the next decade. "The number of where it is the leading cause of death. : orphans in Africa constitute nothing less Trade disputes have developed over ¯ thananemergencyrequiring an emergency some countries’ efforts to reduce the cost : response," the report said. ¯ In Uganda, some 1.1 million children of importing AIDS drugs, with some blame directed at pharmaceutical companies. ¯ under 15 - or 11% of the country’s child "What happens to countries who.., do ¯¯ population- have lost one or both parents to AIDS, the highest number of AIDS not purchase their AIDS drugs from drug companies, instead looking to. buy them ¯ orphans in the world. In the developed through cheaper sellers, often times other ¯¯ wodd, that figure is at 1%. countries? Under direct pressure from the Especially important was educating ¯ people on prevention and on building pharmaceuticalindustry, they are punished by the United States," Rep. Bernie Sanders, ¯ tolerance in the region, where AIDS I-Vt., said in a written statement. He said ¯ victims are frequently shamedinto silence. these countries could lose their preferential ¯" Men, more than women, were intolerant tariff treatment "all because the ¯ of the disease, often refusing to be tested pharmaceutical companies do not wish to : or to support wives stricken with AIDS, lose any of their tremendous profits." ¯ Lewis said. Lewis attacked Western nations for not Joe Papovich, an assistant U.S. trade : representative, said the Clinton : financing the fight against the scourge in administration believe it can resolve the ¯ Africa. "It is morally indefensible," Lewis disputes, which involve drug companies’ ~ said, "That the West is prepared to spend efforts to protect their patents and help : upwards of $40 billion to fight war in the recoup research costs. He said the ¯ Balkans then to engage in the economic administration is working with South ¯ restoration of Kosovo, and less than 1% of Africa, where 45% of the military is : that to save the lives of tens of millions of infected with the AIDS virus, so that ¯ women, children and men in .adriea." �by James Christjohn ~ challenging aspects of the signs a little Well, Just saw the new Muppets in ¯ easier to take, and makes one aware of Space (MIS). It only served to make me ¯ them without alienating or antagonizing, nostalgic for the days when Jim Henson ¯ except in a good natured, "just kidding" was at the helm of Muppetland. His son, " kinda way. She’s been writing Brian, strives to follow in his footsteps ¯ professionally aboutastrology for 9 years, and for the most parts does a pretty good and has studied astrology since childhood, job, but for whatever and she does seem to reasons, the muppets know her stuff. One of my favorite justseem to be puppets As an astrologer now, not beings with (Gemini Moon Astronumbers was the personalities. logical Services, see In MIS, the plot ad within these pages), focuses on Gonzo, I am always on the who doesn’t know wherein a bunch of lookout for new and what he is. Neither informative murderesses explain does anyone else. information on Turns out, he’s an astrology, especially why "they done it". "alien from outer space pertaining to Gay and that.got left behind on Lesbian folk This I think anyone who’s a mzsslon many years book fits the bill quite ago, and now his been in a relationship nicely and accurately, family is looking for Informally written, him. This could have could probably it is an overview of been the setup for a the sun sign..(the mos t identify with many of basic really tinny "Pigs in part of one’s Space" type romp, personality. Of the reasons. taking on all the big course, for a really space films, like Star accurate picture, a full Wars, Close Encounters, Star Trek, etc. interpretation or birthchart is necessary; And, while it has a few cute moments, since the other planets can mitigate/ it fizzles like booster rockets with a furl amplify the sun sign’s qualities in any leak. I was really hoping it wout~d be good, given person.) As such, it is scarily on the so it is with heavy heart I ~rite this. target. Missing are the cameos that populated the As a Sagittarius, I found that section first three muppet films to such success, (sometimes unfortunately) to be dead-on: the rapid fire jokes, and the witty And having spent more than my share of commentary on society that was the secret time around Leas, I read that section as an weapon of the muppet minds. This is not objective "test" of the accuracy of the to say that you won’t find a few chuckles writing, and again, it was quite right. So, in the film, which is worth seeing at the if you’re looking for a quick overview of dollar movie. someone’s personality, and what makes Especially relevant - and attention them tick, tiffs would be one of the better getting - are the bits where Gonzo is book. telling the gang that"I didn’ t choose to be For a more complete picture, if you this way, I was’born this way." There are know the person’s moon sign and rising other moments like that as well, which sign, I would recommend reading those indicates more of an overt Gay sensibility sections as well. Sun: basic ego quirks and to the film that one might suspect. These personality; rising sign or ascendant: how moments are what makes the film worth they appear to others (Which explains seeing.The pacing is-off on most of the why a sun sign appears to be something jokes - many of which absolutely depend else entirely, emphasis on the "seems".); and moon sign: emotions and the on the perfect timing to be funny rather than misfires. subconscious - the way someone filters/ The ending leaves one wishing formore expresses emotional tendencies. Or, in - more buildup, more climax, better jokes. the case of one Leo I know, not. It is kind ofperfunctory, and at no time do It’ s a worthy addition to thebookshelves the muppets sing any of the songs except of anyone curions about what makes for one perfunctory number, and it’s an people tick, psychology, or mateoldie everyone will recognize, mainly shopping. And, as a former total skeptic because it was overplayed in the 80’ s way and a psychology major, I can say give it toe much. It was obviously thrown in at arty; you’llbe surprised. Forget the overly the last minute, probably as a result of a general newspaper tidbits (especially the production meeting wherein someone said, Tulsa World -"Sagittarius: Today you’ll have a day" just doesn’t cut it with me), "But we HAVE to have a muppet musical number! It’s expected!", and someone and go for the real stuff. This is a good start, else said,"Well... OK. I guess so. What’ll we do?" "How about some old song from If you can, check out "Chicago", at the the 80’s that everyone knows? That way PAC through August 1 st. The Kander and we won’t have to pay for songwriters?" Ebb musical starring Sandy Duncan is worth seeing. The men and women are all That, too, was disappointing, for one who remembers the Muppet Movie for the gorgeous, and the staging is perfect. The story of the "sensationalization" of two music as wall as the dream of one little green frog to "make millions of people murders for publicity’s sake is certainly happy." timely. Ms. Duncan is gorgeous and turns Switching hats here, I thought I’d cross in a great performance, and the dancing over into TFN Book reviewer Barry alone is worth seeing. Hensley’s territory and make a One of my favorite numbers was the recommendation for "Queer Astrology "Jailhouse Tango", wherein a bunch of for Men" by Jill Dearman. 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And so began his killing spree mesmerized’by the odd and frightening which also included Madson, an elderly story of Andrew Cnnanart, as he went on friend in Chicago, an unlucky a killing spree across several worker whose truck states, ending.with the murder Indiana’s cemetery Cunanan needed, and finally, of fashion designer Gianni ¯ ". ~ " gravcst sin, Versace. Versace in Miami. This Author Gary Indiana did a ¯recounting of Cunanan’s lot of research but much of the interesting life and horrifying book revolves around what death makes fascinating, ff that makes i and the thing difficult, reading. Cunanan was thinking, how he formulated his plans, and Growing up in a lower conversations between middle class family,Cunanan Cunanan and his victims. learned early in life to Since all of the participants embellish tte truth to make are dead, Indiana is simply him seem more important. 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Call 743-GAYS Tulsa Gay Community Services Center 1307 E. 38th at Peoria, 2nd floor WASHINGTON - The House passed the ¯ discriminate on the basis of sext~A Religi~us Liberty Protection Act (RLPA) : orientation. Unfortunately, the question last month and defeated a substitute bill ’_ that would have closed a dangerous ¯ answered during last week’s debate <~n loophole in RLPA that could threaten : RLPA is, in my mind, the most import~zt civil fights ff not remedied in the Senate, : one: what religious liberty fights wo~.! d according to the Haman Rights Campaign. ¯ be lost or weakened by the inclusion of a "In its current form, this bill poses a : civilrights provision?For members of the grave threat to civil rights laws throughout ¯ coalition supporting this bill who profc.qs the country," said HRC Executiv e Director ¯ a desire to resolve this impasse in good Elizabeth Birch "In an unconscionable : faith, I find the rejection of this provision vote~.the U.S. House of Repre.sentatives ¯ completely bafflin.g....: has indicated its willingness, to trample on- ¯ " " Our ~ concern! ls:.com~pou,n,ded by statements made by (he bill’.s chief: thb civil rigllts of women, people of color,. people with disabilities and Gay and ¯ sponsor, Congressman Charles Canady, ~ and one of the leading members of your Lesbian Americans." "While we support the intentions of the ¯¯ coalition, Steve McFartand, of the Christian Legal Society. During Religious Liberties Protection Act, it is ¯ Saturday’s broadcast of the CSPAN shameful that the House rejected an alternative bill that would have protected " program Washington Journal, Canady civil rights," said HRC Political Director ¯ said"I believe there are contexts in which : this bill could result in a claimant who is Winnie Stachelberg. ¯ defending agmnst the application of a A substitute bill sponsored by Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., was defeated in the House ¯ local Gay rights ordinance to raise a claim 190 to 234 after an hour-long debate. The that would be successful - I think this law Nadler bill would have clarified RLPA by would trump the Gay rights ordinance." ¯ Mr. McFarland also acknowledged this preventing an individual from using religious beliefs to undermine local or ." intended use of RLPA in response to a state civil rights statutes. Without the ¯¯ question from Congressman Jerry Nadler during his congressional testimony on Nadler bill, which was necessary for HRC support, the Rep. Charles Canady0 R-Fla., ¯ RLPA before the House Judiciary sponsored Religious Liberty Protection ¯ Committee.’s Subcommittee on the Act- a bill designed to safeguard religious ¯¯ Constitution on May 12, 1999. I am sure you can understand why such statements expression- passed the House 306 to 118. RLPA would prohibit any state or local ¯ do little to dispel the very real fear that law from placing a "substantial burden" ¯¯ some intend to use RLPA as a sword to strike down the civil rights of others in the on a "person’s religious exercise" even if. the rule is not designed to infringe on a ¯ name of religious liberty. Whether it is person’s religious beliefs. The problem ; your intent or not, opposition to a civil is; the bill currently does not clarify ¯ rights exemption ts support for whether state andlocal anti-discrirhination ¯ discrimination based on sexual orientation laws can be ignored by a person who " - a position in direct opposition to the claims that these laws violate his or her ¯ principles that are the foundation of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. religious beliefs. We are particularly passionate about "We cannot support legislation that : might threaten anti:discrimina tion statutes : the need for a civil rights provision in that protect Gay and lesbian Americans in ¯ RLPA because of the lack of any federal laws prohibiting employment 11 states and 101 municipalities," said Stachelberg. ." discrimination on the basis of sexual The following is an excerpt of a letter ; orientation. The eleven state laws and that was sent by HRC executive director ¯ nearly 200local laws are the few and very Elizabeth Birch to our allies who are : hard fought civil rights protections supporting the RLPA without civil rights ] available for Gay and Lesbian Americans. : Many of those laws took fifteen years or protection. The- Human Rights Campaign is proud ¯ more of struggle by the local community to have the support of a broad-based to pass .... ¯ The Religious Liberty Protection Act, coalition ofreligious organizations in the struggle for Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual .~ as currently drafted, will put more equality. However, in light of the position ¯¯ Americans at risk of discrimination, not fewer. Enacting this legislation without many such organizations took on last week’s House vote in support of the : stating clearly in the bill that RLPA does Religious Liberty Protection Act (RLPA), ¯ not provide a defense to non-compliance I would like to share with you our thoughts ¯ with state or local anti-discrimination laws ¯ undercuts those laws .... on RLPA. First, we believe the intent of ¯ this legislation is a worthy one - religious To allow RLPA as a defense against freedom is an important righL But, as : discrimination is to defend religious ¯ practices that do real and definable harm currently drafted, this bill is flawed. ¯ We strongly believe support for this to others. From our perspective, your legislation, as currently drafted, is not ¯ opposition to the civil rights provision consistent with support for Gay and ." means you are defending the right of a Lesbian rights .... ¯ religious individual, who chooses to be a Like you, the Human Rights Campaign : landlord or employer, to impose their strongly supports the principle of ¯ religious beliefs on a Gay or Lesbian protecting the free exercise of one’s ¯ American by denying them a job or a personal religious beliefs that serve as the : place to live because of their sexual foundation for RLPA. Just as strongly, we : orientation. To find ourselves in this believe that Lesbian, Gay and bisexual : disagreement with you, our long-time Americans should not face discrimination ¯¯ allies, deeply saddens and angers us... We ask you to join with us as this bill at work, at home or in their communities because of their sexual orientation. It is ." moves forward to strongly encourage the clear from statements made by members : Senate to include a civil rights provision of the coalition supporting RLPA that ¯ and enact a religious liberty protection act they believe individual landlords and : for all Americans. employers should be allowed to ¯ - Elizabeth Birch, Executive Director �A UTHENTI~ 1TALIAN FRESH RAINBOW TROUT CUSINE by Esther Rothblum, Ph.D. : to include women of color and women of Given thenumber and range of research ¯ diffeient economic backgrounds and not projects about Lesbians in recent years, it ¯ have language be a barrier. So she talked with people about how to ask clinical is easy to forget how challenging it was to survey Lesbians even a decade ago. In the ¯ questions in a non-clinical way. Caitlin 1980’ s, Caitlin Ryan and Judy Bradford ¯ said: "I talked with women bus drivers, day laborers, women who had been conducted @hat became the National Lesbian Health Care Survey. This study ¯ recently diagnosed with cancer, about their eventually resulted in 1,925 completed ¯¯ experiences and how we should ask these questionnaires from Lesbians in all 50 questions. All of that helped frame how ¯ U.S. states. It figured prominently in the we would shape a questionnaire." recent Institute of Medicine She elicited Report of the National suggestions about language ¯ . . it is easy in a series of focus groups Academy of Sciences. Even today, there are Lesbians to forget how that took place in several (including me!) who different parts of the country. remember completing a They pre-tested the questxonna]re at several questionnaire for this study Lesbian and Gay 15 years ago. I recently asked Caiflin and Judy to describe conferences and with individuals around the the "herstory" and process country. They would ask the of conducting the National a decade ago. women in the focus group to Lesbian Health Care Survey fill out the questionnaire, and in the mid- 1980s. In the late 1970s, Caitlin suggested ¯ then they would sit around and talk about forminganational organization that would ¯¯ it alittlebit, and hear what people thought of it to make it more accessible. After be multi-disciplinary, focus on Lesbian - and Gay health issues, and sponsor " several go-arounds using that process, research and education. She began to talk : they finalized the questionnaire. Since Caitlin had done the early Lesbian with other Lesbians about the need for a ¯¯ survey. There was no av~i~lable and Gay health organizing, she had alarge ¯ address baseofpeopleall overthecountry information on how Lesbians who were willing to help distribute the conceptualize Lesbian health. She was also interested in how stigma affected ¯¯ quesdounaires. They set up a distribution plan that was kind of an unusual approach health, mental health, self care, and access ¯ tO snowball sampling. The methodology to care. She applied for a grant though the newly ¯¯ was intended to get the questionnaires out formed National Lesbian and Gay Health as broadly as possible to people all over the country, including Alaska; They were Foundation and hired a research concerned with getting the survey to underconsultant, Dot Parkel, who was a represented populations that hadn’t been sociologist and survey researcher. Dot’s sampled before, so they made a role was to help design the study and to commitment to getting it to Lesbians in develop drafts of the questionnaire, using the input Caitlin had received from many the military, Lesbians living on Indian reservations, and Lesbians in prison. Lesbians. Caitlin told me: "I remember talking They also. tried reaching non-English speaking women and they tried to reach with a researcher who was herself a Lesbians of color in a variety of ways, closeted Lesbian, who sat down with me including having Lesbians of color give it and basically told me that I could not out to their networks around the country. possibly do a study like this. She just felt The National Coalition of Black Lesbians that it was not feasible. And, of course, and Gays sent a mailing about the survey therewas no such thing as arepresentadve and how important it was and how to sample. I saw this woman recently and we laughed about her earlier skepticism. She participate. The Wisconsin Governor’s Task Force sent out mailings that went all said, ’I told you that you couldn’t do and you went out and did it.’ " over the state of Wisconsin. The National Judy got started by attending the Organization of Women sent out Intemational Lesbian and Gay Health and information abeut the survey, and information about it was published in a AIDS Conference at New York University with a good friend, a man who was in her variety of Lesbian and Gay newsletters. The survey went out in the fall of 1984 class in graduate school. They were both and by early 1985 they had received interested in AIDS research, which was surveys back from 1,925 Lesbians from just getting started then. Everywhere Judy every U.S. state. It was a wonderful looked- and she went to a lot of sessions at the conference - there were mostly experience for them,hearing from so many Lesbians across the country, and had the men. Then she noticed in the Conference sense of a national movement. There was program a scheduled time for a women’ s an electric energy - everyone had a great group meeting. It turned out to be an sense of how important the survey was. orgamzing meeting for the National Of course, a major issue was how to Lesbian Health Care Survey, and Caitlin obtain money to fund data entry and data was facilitating the group. When Judy analysis. The early 1980s was not a time said she was a graduate student and described a little of what she was doing, for funding Lesbian projects. Once the struggles for funding were over (though she suddenly became co-investigator and the study was funded on a shoestring), was responsible for data analysis and Judy sent the questionnaires out to the preparing the survey report. Virginia State Prison, where all the lab’s One of the things Caitlin had been very concerned about was inclusion. So many data entry was done at that time. She told of the early studies, and even those ¯¯ me: "The questionnaires did not arrive back. When our project manager called conducted today, have shown very highly ¯ educated samples of Lesbians. 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Thefirst ¯ In Kagoshima, some of the more elegant time I paid someone for a haircut I was ¯ salon assistants had dyed their black nervous. I was 40 years old but had never ¯ Japanese hair blond and I wondered if been inside a salon. That chair, the sink, ¯ they were Gay. But then I felt guilty for those weird tools - it all reminded me of ¯ thinking stereotypically. All hair stylists, the dentist. However, I soon learned to ¯" of course, are not Gay. Warren Beatty in appreciate hairdressers’ skills and also Shampoo.testified to that. Still, Gay men the pleasure of a shampoo and an ¯ have, been deeply involved in the ¯ emergence of today’s hair industry. occasional head massage. But I was still worried when I moved to ¯ McCracken reviews some of the giants of Japan for seven months. My hair grew ¯ 20th century hair styling: Ernest Adler, faster than I could learn Japanese. 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It may be that relieve the pain. developments in genetics and cloning one A few years ago there was a weird day will replace plastic surgery to allow outbreak of ponytails among my 40us effortlessly to remake ourselves: something straight-guy friends Perhaps change our skin color, or buy new Something about hitting the Big 40 made orange eyeballs, or a bigger set ofpecs, or these aging friends cultivate their long, trade in our ears or more personal body graying locks. Perhaps they figured this parts. But until that day comes, we’ve got was the last chance before it all fell off our hair. You can redo with a new do. anyway. Which renfinds me. It’s about time for Psychologists from Freud on downhave a haircut. commented on the sexual meaning of Lamont Lindstrom, Ph.D. teaches hair. Delilah cuts away Samson’s anthropology at the University of Tulsa. 1-900-786-4865 $1.99/MIn. 18+ Discreet ¯ Confidential ¯ Easy hewas told ,they wouldn’ t code the surveys. I got another company to.do it and the same thing happened. Finally when it came to the third company I was told that the data entry staff were afraid to touch the questionnaires for fear of getting AIDS !" Over the years, wherever Judy and Caitlin are, they continue to nm into Lesbians who participated in the survey, and who want to talk about the impact that it had on them. Many women wrote pages of material in addition to the answers they gave to the items on the questiormaire. For published results of the National Lesbian Health Care Survey, see: 1. Bradford, J.B., & Ryan, C. (1991). Who we are: Health concerns of middle- aged Lesbians. In B. Sang, J. Warshow, & A.J. Smith (Eds.) Lesbians atmidlife: The creative transition (pp. 147-163). San Fransisco, CA: Spinsters Book Company. 2. Bradford, J.B., Ryan, C., & Rothblum, E.D. (1994). National Lesbian Health Care Survey: Implications for mental health care. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 62, 228-242. 3. Ryan, C., & Bradford, J. (1993). The National Lesbian Health Care Survey: An Overview. In D. Garnets & D.C. Kimmel (Eds.) Psychological perspectives on Lesbian and Gay male experiences. New York: Columbia University Press. Esther Rothblum is Professor of Psychology at the University of Vermont and Editor of the Journal of Lesbian Studies. She can be reached at John Dewey Hail, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT. E-mail: esther.rothblum@uvm.edu. �and to effectively refute the anti-family policies of the right-wing; second, to actively build an effective and collaborative national pro-GLBT family network among GLBT and mainstream organizations working on family issues; and third, to educate the general public about the value and values of GLBT families. Ettelbrick will assist NGLTF in articulating a voice in policy debates that have a great impact on GLBT families, including debates on adoption, coparenting, foster Care, alternative insemination and recognition of "broader family support networks. In addition, NGLTF will raise GLBT perspectives in debates that have traditionally excluded consideration of GLBT perspectiyes. Examples include definitions of family in Social Security reform proposals~ the Older Americans Act and immigration policy. Noted Vaid, "A number of legal and advocacy groups do excellent work in the arena of family issues, but no group currently coordinates the efforts of our movement in this area so that collaboratively we can muster the resources we need to change family policy. In addition, there is no national research center for policy development and policy analysis ~n family issues. With GLBT families facing attack on so maiiy fronts, the need for a coordinated national approach has never been greater." Announcement of the Family Policy Programis part of along-term commi tmenl on the part of the NGLTF Policy Institute to GLBT Families. Beginning in the 1980s, NGLTFhoused thefirstnational Families Project. Throughout the 1990"s, the Task Force worked actively on a number of family issues. Last year, NGLTF organized "Celebrating Our Families," a 15-city national tour to raise the visibility of GLBT family issues and to organize against attacks by right wing groups. In 1999, the Policy Institute published The Domestic Partnership Organizing Manual to help employees and citizens around the country mobilize to obtain important benefits for their families. Founded in 1973, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force works to ¯ elimiinateprejudice, violence and injustice against Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual "andTransgendered people at the local, state and national level. As part of abroader , social justice movement for freedom, : justice and equality, NGLTF iscreating a world that respects and celebrates the : diversity ofhumanexpression and identity ¯" where all people may fully participate in : society. ¯ ¯ For example, if anyone had suggested that in the third year after we held the first Pride March (all 65 brave souls - likely more non-Gay than Gay) that we would have hnndreds at the Pride Parade and Picnic of this year with no less than Congressman Barney Frank as grand marshal. While the principal credit for that goes to Mitchell Savage and Ric Martin and many others, it was nndcr Steve’s leadership that these people came together. Andjust keeping the Community Center afloat is no little task. While the Center continues to serve many. groups and members of the community, it still needs broader support. Air conditioning has to ¯ "¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ : ¯ be paid for (air conditioning repairs have to be paid for) as well as rent and other expenses. I would suggest that the greatest way in which we can honor Steve Horn - and those who served before him as well - is to continue to support the work he did: to help keep our community center open, to improve it; maybe one day, even to help build our own building - imagine. would expand federal authority to prosecute hate crimes. Currently, federal officials canouly intervene if a victim is engaged in a federally protected act such as attempting to vote, go to school or serve onajury. Federal officials catmotintervene at all in hate crimes based on disability, sexual orientation or gender. The Senate also passed a watered-down amendment by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, that does not cover sexual orientation, disability or gender and would only expand federal jurisdiction to hate crimes commi tted after the crossing of state lines. "The Hatch amendment fails to recognize that no one should be a target for bias-motivated violence," Lobd said. "Hate crimes legislation that doesn’t cover sexual orientation, disability and gender is a farce." The Hate Crimes Prevention Act has been a top. legislative priority of both organizations and passage of the amendment culminates months of work."With strong administration backing and bipartisan support in both houses of Congress, we expect to be in a strong position in the conference committee to ensure final passage of the Hate Crimes Prevention Act," Winnie Stachelberg, HRC’s political director, said today. The Hate Crimes Prevention Act has strong support from President Clinton and the administration has made passage a priority. Rep. Henry Hyde, R-Ill., has scheduled a hearing on the measure in the House Judiciary Committee on Aug. 4. HCPA currently has more than 180 Hous e cosponsors from both parties. the need for individuals in the community to support the Center remained. According to Tracey Conaty, spokespersonfor the Gill Foundation, Tim Gill, software developer of Quark, established the Fmmdation in 1994 as a catalyst for and’to provide resources for communities in pursuit of justice and equality. The foundation also seeks to build awareness of the contributions which Gay men and Lesbians make to American society. Since its inception, Tim Gill and the Gill Foundation have provided nearly $13 million to hundreds of community organizations. Gatewood also mentioned several other events at the Center. On Sept. 25th, the Center will host a Feast for Friends dinner in support of THE NAMES PROJECT. And in Oct. the Center will present a National Coming Out Day Festival and Fair. This event will include a mini film festival as well beginning on Oct. 8th. More information will be available as the event approaches. For Good Home Friendly,~ honest~ & very experienced 42 year young realtor seeks sincere & motivated buyers &sellers. Into MLS. 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Now tWO brothers who Eave been linked to a series of arson fires at Sacramento synagogues are accused of killing the couple, police said. Authorities said one of the alleged gunmen, Benjamin Matthew Williams, sometimes sold vegetables andherbs atM~son’s ~narket. "It’s beyond words that the farmers market may be the connectionbetween the victims and thekillers," said Margaret Jensen, who tends a market stall stocked with squash and onions. "If they burned the synagogues, too, that takes it to a level that is just staggering from someplace we think of as a small community." The bodies of Matson, 50, and Mowder, 40, were discovered July I at theirhomeinHappy Valley, a small community just outside of Redding in northern California. They had been shot in their bed. Afew days later, after one of the victims’ credit cards was used, police staked out aYuba City business where the creditcardpurchasewas to be delivered, andarrested the Williams brothers. The brothers were both armed and one was wearing a bulletproof vest, police said. Yuba City is about 120 miles southeast of Redding. see Hate, p. 10 Council Oak Mens Chorale Presents August Concert Other UpcomingEvents: Feast + AIDS Walk TULSA-TheCouncil Oak Men’sChorale, Tulsa’s Gay men’s singing organization will present a concert, Brothers Forever on August 27 & 28 at 8pro in the John Williams Theatre at Tulsa’s Performing Arts-Center. COMC will be joined in concert by Positive Voices of Dallas, Texas. Areception willfollow theperformances and tickets, $12, are available through the Performing Arts Center box office at 596-7111 or 800-364-7111 (outside of Tulsa). Also, coming up is the annual Feast for Friends, a ftmdraiser .for-THE NAM-ES~ PROJECT-,. the. AIDS Memorial .Quilt. In the event, organizations and individuals join each other for private dinners at which theattendees donate to supportTHENAMES PROJECT and then all of the various dinner groupS’ come together for entertainment’and dessert at 8:30pro at the Southern Hills Marriott. For more information, call 748-3111. Later in October, the annual AIDS Walk will be held on October 2nd. For more information, call 579-9593. DIRECTORY/LETTERS P. 2 EDITORIAL P. 3 US & WORLD NEWS P. 4 HEALTH NEWS P. 6 ENTERTAINMENT . P. 8 COMMUNITY CALENDAR P. 9 READ ALL ABOUT IT P. 11 DYKE PSYCHE P. 12 GAY STUDIES P. 13 " Serving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual + Transgendered TuIsans, Our Families + Friends " Tuisa’s Largest Circulation CommunityPaperAvailable In More Than 75 City Locations ° TOHR Center News: President "Resigns; $5k Grant Received TOHR&Community CenterformerpresidentSteve Horn (right) and with hisfriend Phil at Pride ’99. TULSA - Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights, Inc. (TOHR), Oklahoma’s oldest non-religions Gay and parentorganization of the Tulsa Gay Community Services Center has experienced a change in leadership. Board president Steve Horn resigned in July in order to take anew job in Dallas. Horn had been employed with CFS. Upon his resignation, TOHR vice president, Greg Gatewood became president. Gatewood praised Horn for his leadership and noted that the change in leadership would not affect any of the programs that TOHRand the Center had planned. He noted that for August, the ¯ organization had calle~,,a work day at the,,C.enter on 8/8 at noon, a planning meeting for MilleniumPride, the Parade and Picuic Next Gay Community ’ for 2000 on 8112 at 7:30 and acommunity potluck with a"Cajun" " theme for 8/21at Tpm. Meeting Called for 9/14 Other significant news for the Center was the receipt of a " $5,000 grant for general operating expenses from the Gill TULSA -. With about 40 people attending, ° Foundation. Center volunteer of the year, Tim Gillean, was representing most of Tulsa Lesbian and Gay, and ¯ responsible for writing the grant application~ New president HIV related groups, the first community wide ¯ Gatewood emphasized that while the grant would help the Center meeting in several years brought together young :. develop a small emergency reserve, see TOHR, p. 14 and not so young, Gay and non-Gay, political and non-partisan groups. Therepresentattves spent over two hours discussing their group’s goals and what ¯ NGLTF Starts Family Program common ground they may have. : VeteranAttorney Paula Ettelbrick to Lead Initiative WashingtonHigh School’sGay-StraightAlliance and TU’s BLGT Alliance were there along with ¯ JULY 26, 1999--The Policy Institute of the National Gay and most of the Gay-friendly religaons groups in the ¯ Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) today announced creation of a city. Cimarron Alliance and Tulsa Oklahomans for ° Family Policy program to secure inclusive definitions of family Human Rights also attended with RAIN, the ¯ in national, state and local policy contexts. The Family Policy Regional AIDS Interfaith Network, and HOPE, ¯ Program will engage in research, policy analysis, coalition HIV Outreach, Prevention and Education as well. building, strategy development and collaborative work with a Under the facilitation of Marty Newman and ¯ wide range of family-focused organizations to ensure that the DennisNeill(who’dissuedthecallforthemeeting) ¯ needsofGay, Lesbian~BisexualandTransgender(GLBT)families a number of possible community goals were ¯ are considered and protected, identified: to replace the Tulsa Community AIDS "We are in the midst of a revolution in family creation within Partnership funding (which is due to end soon), ¯ GLBT communities, but ironically, and inaccurately, our relocate the Community Center when its lease ¯ movement is characterized as being anti-family," said NGLTF ends, ~o-ordinatecommtmity fundraisingandeven:s : Executive Director Kerr3, Lobel. "This Program at NGLTF’s to better support various organizations, and where Policy Institute takes aim at the myths that persist about our appropriate, do political and civil fights related families and will formulate a genuinel y pro-family public policy work. see Aleetin~, ~. 1] agenda from the vantage point of GLBT people’s lives." TheFamilyPolicyprogramatthePolicyInstituteisfundedby Saint Jerome to Host major gifts from several parents., including Seattle City Councilwoman and philanthropist Tina Podlodowski, and Ordination Ceremony California-based donors Jennifer and Kathy Levinson through a TULSA - The Parish Church of Saint Jerome will gift from the Lesbian Equity Foundation of Silicon Valley. welcome clergy and lay leaders of the Evangelical Urvashi Vaid, director of the Policy Institute announced that AnglicanChurchinAmericafromacross thenation nationally known Lesbian attorney and family advocate, Paula for the denomination’s annual ordination Ettelbrick, has been hired to direct the Family Policy Program. ceremonies. The RightReverendCraig Bettendoff, Ettelbrickha~ worked onlocal, state and national family policy presiding bishop will ordai~ or receive candidates issues for the past 13 years. She is former legal director of duringtheregularworshipservicesofSaintJerome Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund, where she developed on Sunday, August 8th at llam. The weekend the group’s.emphasis on family advocacy and founded the eventsbeginatlpmonSaturday,August7thandan Family RelatioushipslProject. She served as publicpolicy director Evensong service will be held that day at 6pro with for the National Center for Lesbian Rights. dinner to follow. Since 1994, Ettelbrick has been legislative counsel for the Candidatesfortbediaconatewillbepresentfrom Fan.pire State Pride Agenda, where she is credited with helping North Carolina, Arkansas, Illinois, and Oklahoma. wm passage of New York City’s comprehensive domestic BishopBettendorfwillalsoordaintothe presbytery, . partnership policy and drafting innovative municipal and state ¯ pro-GLBT family laws. candidates fromNew Mexico,New York, Colorado, ¯ California and Florida. ¯ Ettelbrick and her partner, Suzanne Goldberg, have a two-year All events are open to the public. For more ¯ old son and are expecting another child in September. She has information, call Father Rick Hollingsworth at the ¯ taught law for 10 years and currently teaches a course on Parish Church of Saint Jerome, 582-3088. ." sexua!i~ty and the_law atNewYorkUni versity Law School and the ¯ UniversityofMichiganLawSchool.Earlierthisyear, Ettelbrick ¯ Served as the National Coordinator of the highly successful Tulsa C.A.R.E.S Gets ""EqualityBegiusatHome"campaigu, spousoredbyNGLTFand Phili.p Morris Grant ¯ tbe Federation ofStatewideLGBTPolitical Orgamzations, which : encompassed 350 rallies and other events in all 50 states plus : TULSA -Tulsa C.A.R.E.S., Tulsa’s Center for : Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia last March. ¯ AIDS Resources, Education and Support, formerly and observed that Ettelbnck s experase will be invaluable to known as the HIV Resource Consortium, has : .thenational GLBTmovement’s efforts to organizearoundfamily : received a grant of $15,000 to its food pantry from ¯ issues. She pointed out that as of June of 1999, almost 50 anti- : the Philip Morris Companies, Inc. : GLBTfamilybillshadbeenfiledinstatelegislaturesthroughout ¯ Stephen C. Parrish, senior vice president for : the country. "This nationwide mobilization against our families : corporate affairs came toTulsathelastweekofJuly ¯ comes directly from the anti-Gay religious fight and its think " to announce the award to the Tulsa Area United ¯ tanks," Vaid said. "It is an effective strategy because the GLBT : Way agency. According to comments reported by ¯ political movement at the state level remains understaffed and ¯ The TulsaWorM,executivedirector, SharonThoele, ¯ underfunded." 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Grand HIVtesting every other Tues. 5:30-8:30, call for dates . EUREKA SPRINGS, ARKANSAS : ¯Autumn Breeze Restaurant, Hwy. 23 501-253~7734 ¯Jim & Bren.t’s Bistro, 173 S. Main 501-253-7457 ¯ DeVito’s Restaurant, 5 Center St. 501-253-6807 ¯ ¯Emerald Rainbow, 45 &l/2 Spring St. 501-253-5445 " MCC of the Living Spring 501:253-9337." Geek to Go!, PC Specialist, POB 429 501-253-2776 Old Jailhouse Lodging, 15 Montgomery 501-253-5332 : Positive Idea Marketing Plans 501-624-6646 : Sparky’s, Hwy. 62 East 501-253-6001 : ¯White Light, 1 Center St. 501~253-4074 ¯ FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS5 ¯ ¯Edna’s, 9 S. School Ave. 501-442-2845 ¯ JOPLIN, MISSOURI ¯ Spirit of Christ MCC, 2639 E. 32, Ste. U 134 417-623-4696 ¯ ¯ is where you can find TFN. Notall are Gay-owned butall are Gay-friendly. Zoning Concerns On the eve of the August 10 bond election for street improvements, I find myself in the awkward position of being asked to vote ’yes’ while some of my basic property rights are under the threat of seizure. Againstmy very vocal protests, the Tulsa Metropolitan Area Planning Commission (TMAPC) recently voted to ’downzone’ myhomefrom amulti-family to a single-family category. I purchased my house with the intention of adding a rental .unit in the future for supplemental income, and I wish to retain the existing zoning designation. Currently, I have theright to build eleven apartments on my property. If the zoning is changed, I will have the right to one single-family dwelling. This constitutes an obvious taking of my development rights without fair compensation, and I resent the TMAPCIs insistence on rezoning without my consent. Doesn’t theTMAPChave enough to do without tinkering with the privateproperty of a taxpayer who is satisfied with the existing zoning? The ’planners’ should attend to their business of more efficient metropolitan planning by allowing residential infill development in the downtownneighborhoods. Then,perhaps we would not be faced with multi-million dollar bond elections to support hundreds of miles of streets and utilities sprawling across such a sparsely populated city. -Sincerely, Paul Uttinger, Tulsa TITLE VII. Earlier this month, another Eastern Districtjudgehadrejected aclaim that harassment aimed at gays is covered under the federal anti-discrimination statute, Title VII ofthe Civil Rights Act of 1964. In rejecting the suit of a Gay postal worker who claimed he was subjected to a hostile work environment, Judge Leonard B. Wexler ruled in Simonton v. Runyon, that discrimination based t~pon sexual orientation did not fall within Title VII’s ban of "sex" discrimination. However, Judge Spatt ruled in Qninnv.~ Nassau County Police Department, No. 97-3310, that there is no such similar limitation upon a claim framed.directly upon the Equal Protection clause in the U.S. Constitution. Title VH specifically enumerates five types of discrimination that it bans, and the list does not include discrimination basedupon sexual orientation, Judge Spatt pointed out. In contrast, he wrote~-the Supreme Court in Romer recognized that homosexuals are directly protected trader the Equal Protection Clause from "invidious and irrational discriminationbased on sexual orientation." Chris P. Termini, of McCabe, Collins, McGeogh & Fowler, represented Nassau County. Two individual defendants were separately represented by Ronald J. Morelli, of Mulholland, Minion & Roe, and Alan J. Reardon. Susan Fitzgerald;of Leeds & Morelli, also represented Mr. Letters Policy Tulsa Family News welcomes letters on issues which we’ve covered or on issues you think need to be considered. You may request that your name be withheld but letters must be signed & have phone numbers, or be hand delivered. 200 wordletters are preferred. Letters to other publications will be printed as js appropriate. In many parts of the United States, Gay, lesbian, " running for any office in this party." While I had good bisexual and transgendered (GLBT) persons have achieved an equal status in the communities in whichthey live. But not in Oklahoma. Not yet. The Democratic National Committee (DNC) recognizes GLBT persons. But not the Oklahoma Democratic Party (ODP). Not yet. In 1998 the DNC adopted a policy requiring each state to nameGLBT delegates to the National Democratic Conventions. The DNC has recognized that the majority of GLBT persons, like the majority of straight persons, are caring and responsible citizens entitled to an equal, not special but equal, presence in the DNC. The ODP, once moving towards inclusion of GLBT persons, now under new party leadership, rejects or ignores that DNC policy. Much has been accomplished in Oklahoma for which GLBT persons should all be proud. Moving a hate crimes bill from a legislative committee to the House floor for debateis somewhatmiraculous, considering the prevailing Oklahoma attitudes only a few years ago when the Oklahoma City Council rejected and terminated the HumanRights Commission. Whathas been accomplished can be attributed to the efforts of GLBT and affiliated political organizations such as OGLPC (Oklahoma Gay & Lesbian Political Committee), The Cimarron Alliance Group, TOHR (Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights), PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) with the support of the NAACP and various labor and faith organizations. Although these organizations are the heroes in the efforts to date, they are not adequate for what is yet to be accomplished. These organizations focus on issues and review candidates from a non-partisan perspective. What is missing in Oklahoma is the partisan participation of GLBT persons, open partisan participation within the major parties, not unlike the women’s organizations and other caucuses. Straights raise families; GLBT persons care for the community in which those families live. Just look at who we are. We are present in every profession and job category as wall as present or have been present in every elected office level, whether we admit it publicly or.not. Throughout recorded history GLBT persons have often been the movers and shakers for communities, the caregivers, the compassionate, the artists, even leaders of historical fame. Themajority ofus as GLBT persons have the same expectations and dedication to our communities as the majority of straights among whom we live and work with side by side. But you would not know that if youJistened to partisan leaders in both major Oklahoma parties. As a congressional candidate for Congress from Oklahoma’s Sixth District in 1996 and again in 1998, I made many friends with Democrats. I know and have good contacts with Democrat. leaders in each of the 24 counties comprising the Sixth District. That is an asset that I believe valuable as a party worker. I let it be known that I wanted to serve as the District Secretary when the incumbent indicated the day before the convention that he would not run for re-election. Without detailing the series of events leading up to the conclusion of my attempt to place my name in line for District Secretary, the man who became District Chair at that April conventionblockedmefromrunning for office. During a fifteen-minute conversation with him prior to the Convention, hemade it clear that he and other elected officials in the Sixth District did not want me to run for any office. He would not say it was because I am Gay but his remarks left me with only that justification for his statement, "I am running for chair to keep you from ~ support among delegates I had contacted in that 24-hour ¯ period leading up to convention, I knew that it would be ." difficult to fnnction as a team. I did not seek the nomination ¯ during the convention. There was no caucus to turn to for ¯ support. A quotation from the May 25 Daily Oklahoman interview with the newly elected ODP Chair, Mike Mass, speaks to my concern as a Gay person: "Mass said he thinks the party under Hall has eottoned too much to what he calls splinter groups¯ He and Hall were both at a funetlon, and a Gay and lesbian advocate asked Mass what he was going to do to help the Gay eommunlty. ’Nothing,’ Mass replied. Mass thinks the party has tended to make a big deal about such groups." Even amore glaring concern for GLBT persons is the election of a new state chair for the ODP during its May 15 convention. Representative Mike Mass, a very vocal opponent ofthe hate crimes bill in the legislature, was elected by a two-vote margin in an election fraught with fraud. (I am leading a challenge of that election for the purpose of restoring integrity to the ODP. A petition calling for a new election was signed by more than ¯¯ 200 co-signors and filed with the DNC ou June 9.) ~ quotation from the May 25 Daily Oklahoman interview with the newly elected ODP Chair, Mike Mass, speaks to ¯ my concern as a Gay person: ¯ "Mass said he thinks the party under Hall has cottoned ¯ too much to what he calls splinter groups. He and Hall ¯ were both at a function, and a Gay and lesbian advocate ¯ asked Mass what he was going to do to help the Gay ¯ community. ’Nothing,’ Mass replied. Mass thinks the ¯ party has tended to make a big deal about such groups." ¯ If therewas apartisan presenceofGLBTpersons in the ¯ ODP, or at least the acknowledgment of the DNC’s ¯ directive to include GLBT persons as delegates, this ¯ archaic attitude would be a relic of the past instead of ¯ facing us for the future in the ODP. ¯ There are national part~san organizations for both the Democratic and Republican parties - The Log Cabin ¯ Republicans and the National Stonewall Democratic ¯ Federation (NSDF). GLBT persons in Oklahoma need that partisan identification so that they can have a"seat at ¯ the table" when partisan political decisions are made. : The NSDF was organized at Kansas City in May 1998 ¯ for the purpose of mobilizing GLBT persons through a ¯ national grassroots network of GLBT Democratic clubs. ¯ There are GLBT Democratic clubs that are joined with ¯ their state Democratic party. Colorado and Michigan ¯ both have a federated GLBT Democratic dub within ¯ their State Democratic parties. GLBT Oklahomans need ¯ that presence in our state party. An Oklahoma Stonewall ¯ Democratic Club must be organized. I am a recently ¯ ¯ electedregional director for theNSDFandurgeinterested persons to check out the website at www.stonewalldemocrats.org or contact me by e-mail, paulb@pldi.net. The mere thought of a public GLBT presence in the Oklahoma Republican Party (ORP) is breath-taldng. But itcan midmustbe Created. WhenthoseGLBTRepnhlicafs who have been supporting their party in the background with contributions and party activismmake their presence known to the ORP, then there is an opportunity for inclusion in ORP policy making. Republican Oklahoma GLBT persons should connect with the National Log Cabin Republicans and establish an OklahomaLog Cabin Republican Club. Wemust do this. Wemust orgamze a partisan presence of GLBT persons in each of Oklahoma’s major parties. That is the Gay agenda that I am aware of- to be treated as an equal in civic life as we continue to hold ourselves to the same standards of responsibility and caring as expected of straights. Wemust ask for a place at the table. Editor’s note: I agree with Paul Barby but Would even speak more strongly. We must demand our place at the table and must challeng~ bigots like Mike Mass. We might also question some of our "friends"like Tulsa Democrat Sally Frasier who helpedgetMass "elected." by Tom Neal, editor andpublisher By now, Steve Hornis probably getting settled down in his new home in Dallas. Steve, until his recentjob related move, was in the middle of his second term as president of the board ofTulsaOklahomans for Human Rights, Inc. (TOHR) - the parent organization of Tulsa’s Gay community center (the awkwardly renamed Tulsa Gay Community Services Center). Tulsa has been fortunate in havln~ a number of dedleated volunteers to our Lesbian and Gay eommunltles (and BI and Transgendered) over many years. Unfortunately, we haven’t really done a very ~ood job of reeognlzlng or thanklng them for their work. Tulsa has been fortunate in having a number of dedicated ~,olunteers to our Lesbian and Gay communities (and Bi and Transgendered) over many years. Unfortunately, we haven’t really done a very good job of recognizing or thanking them for their work. We use themandthen ignore them when we’re not actually vilifying them. There are, of course, a few exceptions, individuals who repeatedly receive recognition but many more don’t. So I’d like to be one to clearly thank Steve Horn for his dedication to TOHR. Steve became president just after I served, inheriting the same big mess with TOHR’s HIV testing programs that I and several previous TOHR presidents had inherited. And while he and I would still disagree profoundly about how those issues were resolved, i.e. the separation of the testing clinic into a stand-alone organization, his work as a whole was great. He continued and expanded onalegacy ofvolunteerism andleadership that’s continued for nearly 20 years with TOHR. see Horn, p. ]4 Legal Win: Bias Against Gays Unconstitutional Editor’s note: the ruling noted below has greatpotential for judicial remedies for anti-Gay bias in the United States. Traditionally, many civil rights advances in this country have come through court decisions and this shows promise for fair treatment for Lesbian and Gay citizens.- TN by Daniel Wise, New York Law Journal, July 6, 1999 In a ruling believed to be one of first impression, a federal judge in Uniondale has found discrimination against homosexuals in an employment context to be actionable as an Equal Protection violation. Eastern District Judge Arthur D. Spatt issued the ruling in upholding a $380,000 verdict that ajury awarded two weeks ago to a former Nassau County police officer who claimed he had been hounded out of his job by his fellow officers and supervisors after they learned he was Gay. The officer, James M. Quinn, resigned after enduring nine years of taunts that included the prominent posting in his stationhouse of cartoons labeling him a child molester, a transvestite and a sadomasochist. " "Judge Spatt is the first judge to explicitly recognize that. discrimination based- upon, sexual- orientation .can give rise to a hostile work environment claim under the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution," said Mr. Quima’s lawyer, Frederic Ostrove, ofLeeds &Morelli in Carle Place. In concluding that harassment based upon an animus against homosexuals was actionable lmder the Equal Protection clause, Judge Spatt relied heavily upon a 1996 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, Romer v. Evans, 517 U.S. 620. Thatruling struck down an amendment to ColOrado’s constitution that prohibited Gays and Lesbians from obtaining any legal protections -legislative orjudicial - from discrimination. The Supreme Courtin Romerconcluded that the statute withdrawing legal protection from homosexuals could not stand because it was motivated by "irrational fear and prejudice," Judge Spatt pointed out. Similaxly, thejudge reasoned, thehatecampaignagainst Mr. Quinn had been motivated "by irrational fear and prejudice towards homosexuals." see Ruling, p. 2 Gay Conversion Group Holds Convention WHEATON, Ill. (AP) - Exodus International, a : Seattle-based organization that claims homosexuals can be converted to change their sexual behavior, openedits annual conference as protesters sang gospels softly nearby. "A whole new chapter has opened up," said Bob Davies, executive director of Exodus. "For the first time in our 23 year history, the body of Christ has gotten behind this ministry." About 1,200 people attended the rally, the biggest attendance, since the group began in 1976. Leaders attributed the large turnout to a nationwide ad campaignpromoting conversionfromhomosexuality, As the group clapped inside, the Rev. Bradley Mickelson of the Metropolitan Community Church of the Incarnation in Oak Park, Ill., led a quiet march of 50 people outside. "We need to be a voice for people who think they’re living in sin, to tell them how to be liberated and free," said Mickelson, whose Chicago-area church is open to homosexuals. Exodus International burst.into public notice a year ago with full-page ads m major newspapers proclaiming its belief that Gays and Lesbians can change. Conservative groups such as the Christian Coalitionhelped pay for the.campaign. Exodus teaches that"freedomfromhomosexuality is possible through -. repentance and faith in Jesus Christ" and seeks to provide hdp for "men and women who desire to overcome their homosexuality." The conference, a mixture of training workshops and inspirational rallies, is meeting at Wheaten College, a prominent Evangelical Protestant school, but is not sponsored by the college. Cynthia Marquardt, member of the Oak Park congregation, said sexual conversion is impossible and that Exodus’ message contributes to -violence against Gays and Lesbians. "Exodus has a right to their message, and we will continue to proclaim that God loves us just as we are," she said, Exodus is afederation of 131 independentministries located in 38 states and the District of Columbia, plus several overseas affiliates. Theorganizationis staffed by people from a var~,ety of Christian denominations. Manyofthegroup sleaders saytheyusedtobeGay or Lesbian and merely offer options to people that want them. Exodus is closely aligned with Homosexuals Anonymous, a twelve-step movement patterned after Alcoholics Anonymous, and with the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality,madeup ofpsychological counselors who work for change through "reparative therapy." Both the American Psychiatric Association and American Psychological Associationhave denounced Christian-based reparative therapy, saying it doesn’t work and can cause psychological damage. Phelps to Protest in Vermont MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP)- Members of a church that organized a picket outside the funeral of a murdered University of Wyoming student last year plan a protest on the lawn of the Vermont Statehouse next week. The Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kans., plans to have a dozen people in Montpelier on Aug. 3 to picket against Gay marriage, said Shirley Phelps- Roper, a church a!!orney and dangh,ter of founder the Rev.FredPhelps. Whenthenation smilitant, activist fags brag about a place - watch out!" said an announcement distributed by the church. "Well, they’re bragging about Vermont from sea to shining sea. They think Vermont will soon allow filthy fag beasts to marry each other." The Vermont Supreme Court is considering a lawsuit seeking to overturn the state’ s refusal to issue mamage licenses to same-sex couples. Some legal experts have predicted that Vermont could become the first state to legalize such marriages. Phelps-Roper said a dozen members of her church would spend the weekend in Ottawa and Montreal, protesting a decision on domestic partnership by the Canada Supreme Court and then picketing the Montreal Gay pride parade. The group then will travel to Vermont, slie said. The church is virulently anti-Gay and pickets frequently. In October, it picketed-outside the funeral ~fMatthew Shepard, who authorities say was killed in part because he was Gay. Oregon Anti-Gay Marriage Bill Dies SALEM, Ore. (AP) - A watered-down proposal that began as a ban on Gay marriages failed in the Senate last month. The proposed ballot measure would have asked voters only whether the Legis!~ture sh.ould have the power to define What cbiastitutes a marnage. As passedby the House, the proposal definedmarriage as atmionbetweenmanand woman. Sen. Neil Bryant, R-Bend, said the measure as reworked by the Senate set a middle ground in the dispute, but foes argued the revised measure would accomplish nothing. The proposal stemmed from an Oregon Court of Appeals ruling that employers cannot discriminate against homosexuals and must provide benefits to same-sex partners ofgovernmentworkers. Supporters of the anti-Gay mamage measure contended that the court decision opened the door for legalization of Gay marriages. Alabama Passes Gay-Friendly Law MONTGOMERY, AIa. (AP) - The Alabama Legislature is drawing praise from the National Gay and LesbianTaskForcefor passing domestic violence legislation that could make Alabama the first state to cover homosexual couples. In its legislative update July 16, the task force listed the Alabama domestic violence legislation as one of the "highlights" of legislative sessmns nationwide. Butthe sponsor of thelegislation, state Rep. Yvo,,n~e Kennedy, D-Mobile, said, "That’s way off base. At issue is a bill passed on the Legislature’s final day June 9, when dozens of bills were flying through the House and Senate with little or no discussion. Gov. Don Siegelman signed the bill imo law June 19. Ms. Kennedy and Carol Gundlach, executive director of the Alabama Coalition Against Domestic Violence, said the purpose of the legislation was raise the cost of a marriage license by $15 to provide more funding for shelters for domestic abuse victims and to broaden domestic abuse laws to cover more than spouses. The legislation expands domestic abuselaws to cover violence "occurring amongfamily, household, dating, or engagement relationships.’" The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, a Washington-based group that works to eliminate prejudice and violence againstGaypersons, is focusing eta the word "household" in the new Alabama law. "You couldhave two peoplein a same-sex relationship and that’s a household," said David Elliott, communications director for the task force. The task force’s legislative report said Alabama "’became the first state to enact a bill expanding the state’s definition of domestic violence to potentially includeGay, Lesbian, bisexual and transsexual people under Alabama’ s domestic violence law." But Elliott concededit will probably take acourt case to determine whether the task force’s view is correct. Ms. Kennedy, who sponsored the bill for the Coalition Against Domestic Violence, said the new law is silent about sexual orientation. But she said homosexual couples were never mentioned in any of the legislative debate on the bill. Ms. Gundlach said the language was copied from Alabama’s 1989 warrantless arrest law. That law allows police to make assault arrests without an arrest warrant when an assault occurs between two people living together. She said she has heard of cases where police used the law to make arrests involving homosexual relationships that turned violent. ’q’hat’ s just common sense. People in homosexual relationships can and do assault each other and the victim needs protection," she said. But she said the xndusion of"household" in the 1989taw and the 1999 law does not legitimize homosexual rdationships trader state law. Jerry Bassett, director of the Legislative Reference Kelly Kirby, CPA, PC Certified Public Accountant a professional corporation 4021 747-5466 S. Harvard, Suite 210, Tulsa 74135 MCC-United formerly Family of Faith & Greater Tulsa MCC Joined as one body of believers. 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Cincinnati, 582-4128 The Episcopal Church Welcomes You Service and chief bill-writer for the Legislature, said the new law was supposed to apply to couples who could get married, but chose not to. "Whether you could extend that to people who couldn’t get married if they wanted to, I don’t know," he said. He agreed with the task force’s spokesman that it would take a court case to find out. While the legislative update from the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force complimented Alabama on the domestic violence legislation, the state Legislature camein forcriticismfor refusing to expandAlabama’ s hate crimes law to cover sexual orientation despite the Feb. 19 beating death of Billy Jack Gaither of Sylacauga. ButAlabama was not alone. Twenty other state legislatures turned back similar ~.egislation, the task force noted. Gay Couple Appeals Adoption Ruling ERIE, Pa. (AP) -Twomenhope an appeals court will allow them to become adoptive parents and help defineparental rights forGay couples in Pennsylvania. The couple has asked the state Superior Court to overturn a decision by Erie County Judge Shad Connelly, who nded las t month that state law dictates that only one man can be the legal parent of the two children. Lower court judges have differed on the issue, and appeals courts have not made a definitive decision. Connelly said the Legislature should specifically sanction Gay marriages before judges can allow Gay couples to adopt. The children, an 8-year-old boy and a 7-year-old gift, were adopted by one of the men and raised since infancy by the couple. The man who does not have legal custody said he wants to be officially named a parent in case his partner dies. "The children have been and will continue to live with their family regardless of the court’s action," said Karen Engro, a la~vyer for the couple. "ff the adoption is granted, everyone wins. Bydenying it, everyone loses." The men, who are 43 and 42 years old, have been together for 18 years and are identified only by their initials in court records. They have asked reporters not to use theirnames to protect the children’s privacy. Another lawyer for the couple, Chris Biancheria, said other Common Pleas Court judges in the state have granted "second parent" adoptions for Gay couples. She said a Superior Court ruling in favor of the adoption could help establish guidelines for lower courts. "It would mean that these type of adoptions would have to be granted in every county," she said. She said Connelly, in ruling against the adoption, ignored the Legislature’s stipulation that all adoptions be consideredin light of "the children’ s best interests." In his ruling, Counelly wrote that the "best interest" issue was irrelevant because the request was illegal to begin with. "Because the Legislature has not seen fit to specifically sanction such adoptions-as this, this court is not empowered to grant the petitaon for adoption," he wrote. High School Gay-Straight Alliance Recognized MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) - West High School on Thursday formally recognized a support group for Gay and Lesbian pupils. The action, in a formal letter, gives theWestHighGay/Straight Alliance recognition retroactive to April 1. The letter follows the school board’s narrow margin approval ofthe dublast week, 10 weeks after several current and former pupils filed suit over Principal Robert Baines’ decision not to recognize the group without school board approval. Jennifer Levi, a lawyer from Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, a Boston nonprofit representing thepupils, said Thursday the recognition "is a great day for the students at Manchester High School West." The lawsuit charged the principal discriminatedagainstthe group under the Equal Access Act because no other student association has been required to get school board approval to use school facilities. Supporters of the Gay Straight Alliance say it offers support and acceptance to pupils ~ho are Gay, Lesbian or bisexual in an often hostile environment. Italso helps educate others abouto~fensive stereotypes and acceptance of differences. Court Rejects Ex’s Visitation Appeal SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Despite pleas by Gay civil-rights groups, the state SupremeCourthas turaed down an appeal by an Alameda County woman who sought the right to visit two children she helped raise with her Lesbian partner. An appellate court ruled in April that the woman, Kathleen C., had no parental rights because she was not the biological mother, and because there was no evidence that the children were being harmed by living with their biological mother. The state’s high court denied review of the case in July. Only lustices Stanley Mosk and Janice Rogers Brown voted to grant a hearing, two short of the needed majority. The appellate ruling is now binding on trial courts statewide. The case was closely watched by Gay civil-rights groups, who wanted California to follow a handful of court rul!ngs in other states that have granted parental rights to former members of same-sex couples. Kathleen and her partner, Lisa W., started living together in February 1985, when Lisa’s daughter was almost 3. They had a child together by artificial insemination in 1987 and separated in 1990. Kathleen was allowed to visit the children onalternateweekend until November 1994, when Lisa cut off visitation. Kathleen argued that she should be considered the children’s "de facto parent," one who develops a parent-like relationship by providing daily care, affection and concern over a long period. An appellate court in New Jersey ruled this March that a woman who had helped her .Lesbian partner raise two children was a "psychological parent" entitled to visitation. Courts in Wisconsin and Pennsylvaniahave also granted limited parental rights to former members of Lesbian couples. ButAlamedaCounty Superior CourtJudge Roderic Duncan ruled against Kathleen C. and was upheld by the 1st District Court of Appeal. Kathleen had shown the characteristics of a "de facto parent," but there is no legal authority to grant a non-parent visitation rights "’over the objection of the biological parent and in the absence ofany showing of detrimentto the child," said the opinionby Presiding Justice Daniel Hanlon. The ruling means Kathleen cannot see the children until they turn 18. They are now 17 and 12. The state Supreme Court appeal drew support from the National Center for Lesbian Rights, the Youth La~v Center, the American Civil Liberties Union and other advocacy groups. The appdlate ntling "leaves the two children... locked in the embrace of but one of their mothers, denied by her - and by the courts of this state - any contact with the other woman they call ’Morn,’ "said E. Elizabeth Summers, alawyer for Kathleen, in court papers. She acknowledged that a Lesbian partner can get parental rights by adopting the child with her partner, but said not all California counties, or judges in the same county, allow adoptions by same-sex couples. Mormans Lose Members Over Anti-Gay Stance SALT LAKECITY (AP) - The Mormon church says it regrets a protest by dozens of dissident members trying to quit the church because of its campaign in California against Gay. marriages. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issued a statement saying it was defending the "traditional family" by pushing for a California ballot initiative that seeks to preempt legalized same-gender marriages. The dissidents say the church crossed a line from religion to politics by asking its 740,000 California members to "do all you can" to assure passage of the initiative. Church spokesman Dale Bills said, "we regret that any member would ask to have his or her name removed from our records because the church has joined a coalition in California to oppose samegender marriage." New Test Catches HIV Quicker RICHMOND,Va. (AP)-Theagency that collects most blood donations in central Virginiais still usingtwo standard tests to screen blood for the AIDS virus, four months afterfederal healthofficials urged blood baul~ to use a new test. The new test, called Nucleic Acid Testing; was recommended by the Food and Drug Administration on March 3. NAT may significantly reduce the time thatHIV can avoid detection in current blood tests. ¯ reaching," MethodistHealth Care System ¯ president Peter Butler said. : Science Advances, i Prejudice Remains ¯ OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - T.J. ¯ contracted the virus that causes AIDS 18 : years ago. He says nothing’s changed. ¯ "Wall, almost nothing," "he said. "A lot : has changed in medicine, but very little : has changed in stigma and prejudice." So ¯ little that he feels obliged to use T.J. ¯ instead of his real name. TheFl’)A’sreq°mmendati°n~et"w°° i ,,~’li~eitl arural’~rea~ w~s~.~f_5,re ~iPetet~b~gman; William good iqtca, (o use my name, he said. T.J. C C~ippy ¥6tmg~" tmderwent:V~seular~ ~ hdped form the Long Term ~Survivors surgeryat~MedicalColleg~ofVirginia : Group for people living with AIDS in Hospitals in Richmond..Young said he : Oklahoma. It has about 200 members. contracted HIV from a blood transfusion he received during the surgery. Virginia Blood Services, the regional blood bank., last week acknowledged that a unit of blood it sent toMCV may have been tainted with HIV. The unidentified donor tested negative when theblood was given but later tested posluve. The NAT procedure is not yet required because it is experimental and there are questions abouL how to implement it nationwide But FDA spo,k,eswoman Len0re Gelb said the test will’ help close the window" when. HIV cannot, be detected. Virginia Blood Services has used the test for another virus, hepatitis C~"since April 15 as part of a study, said spokeswoman Laura Cameron. She said the procedure would be used to test blood when it is licensed by the FDA, which is awaiting results .of NAT experiments around the country. Atthe timeYoung contendshe received the taintedblood, only afew blood centers had the technology to implement the ne.w test for AIDS, said Dr; Celso Bianco, the president of America s Blood Centers¯ "Even if the (NAT) test worked, it would not have benefited this recipient," Bianco said. The new test detects HIV at very small concentrations even before the body produces antibodies to the virus. Blood banks now use a test that spots antibodies to HIV and another that finds a protein attached to the virus. In a study published this month in the medical journal Transfusion, scientists studying an HIV-infected chimpanzee discovered that the new test narrowed the detection window by three weeks. They also found that blood from the HIVinfected chimp did not infect another animal until the virus concentration was detectable using the new test. New Medical Center HOUSTON (AP) - A new cell and gene research center here could revolutionize therapy for many illnesses, including cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and AIDS, say doctors. Formation of the International Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, a collaboration by Baylo,r College of Medicine, Texas Children s Hospital andTheMethodist Hospital, was announced this morning. Officials said the center will be the first in the world to combine basic science mid clinical research with pediatric and adult celland- gene-therapy transplant facilities. Creation ofthe center was prompted by new understanding of the molecular basis ofdisease and theneedfornovel strategies for cell and gene therapy.-"We realize the medical possibilities are endless and the potential impact on patients is far- : "We’ve had members burned out of their ¯ home and run out of town," he said. "One ¯ family just recently moved to the city ¯ (from a natal community) because they ¯ couldn’t take it anymore. The mother has AIDS." T.J. said the quality and length of life for people living with AIDS has ¯ improved because of medical advances, ¯ but there is still a long way to go. "People ~ have started believing thatit’s over. It’s a ¯ long way from being over," he said. Pam Cross, director of the Regional AIDS Interfaith Network, agreed that the ¯ much of the general public remains ¯ ignorant of the disease. "People have ¯ ¯ become quite complacent. They’ve taken good news from headlines and TV about ¯ medical advances," she said. "They think it’ s a cure for HIV and there’ s not. "We’re ~ not seeing a drop. Nationwide, we still have 40,000 people a y,e,ar becoming ¯ infected with this disease. T.J., who got AIDS from a Gay ; relationship, fits into the Centers for ~ Disease Co~,trol and Prevention"Pre- 1987 : Definition. That definition refers .to the, Original list of"oppormnistic infect|ons. In other words,he got the virus that causes AIDS before AIDS had a name. In Oklahoma, there have been 5,441 reported HIV/AIDS cases, according to theOklahomaState Departmentof Health, which began tracking the disease in 1982. Figures show no confirmed heterosexual ¯ cases were recorded the first four years records were kept, but in the past four ¯ years about 10% of overall cases have ¯ been heterosexual. ¯ ’t ¯ Ms. Cross said documented cases don ¯ fully represent the amount of people who ¯ have the disease. "If they’re anonymous, ¯ ¯ there’s noway oftellinghowmany people have it. I’ve heard estimates that cases ¯ could be as many as 10 times higher (than ¯ what is documented)," Ms. Cross said. ¯ ’qqaere are alot of people that don’t know ~ theDyorne"iJnofhecntseodn,, ashe19s-myea. r survivor of ¯ AIDS, said he thinks the biggest reason ¯ ¯ for increase in heterosexual cases is ignorance andalackofAIDS educationin ¯ Oklahoma. "There’s still a lot of that ’It ~ can’ thappenhere’ attitude.I don’ t see the ¯ education taking place that I see in ~ California," saidJohnson,41, whois G.ay. ¯ "The schools there have a curriculum that ¯ involves HIV prevention. There is not the ¯ samecommumtyawarenesshere, hesaid. ¯ Shelly Hickman, spokeswoman f.o,r .,file i state Department of Education, sam m.e ¯ state requires that schools have a certain : amount of AIDS education curriculum, ¯ but much of it is left up to the schools¯ ¯ ’‘There is some discretion on how it is ~ taughtandwhenitis taught," Ms. Hickman ¯ said."Weareinfavoroflocal communities ~ that they use what’s best for them." ¯ Peggy, who would not use her real 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. 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Peoria, Brookside, 712-1400 name, said the state doesn’t do enough to protect future generations from getting .AIDS. "People think this diseaseis starting to go away," she said. "This is afact oflife - we have to protect our future and give them the information they need to protect themselves. How can we do that if we have to be careful about what words we say or don’t say in this state? "This generation is not like generations in the past. We can’t treat our youth like we did three or four generations ago. They’re having sex younger and younger." Peggy said she got HIV from her late husband when’he got it from a blood transfusion in the mid-80’s. She said she and herhusband hid their disease from the community toprotecttheir children. "Until society accepts this disease and is able to talk about it, it will go on and on," she said. "Heterosexual people are afraid to ¯¯ country can import lower-cost drugs without infringing on patents. ¯ The issue of African access to AIDS ¯ drugs has taken on a political dimension ¯ recently. Gore has been caught in a fight ¯ between AIDS activists seeking cheap ¯ generic drugs for South African AIDS ¯ victims of the disease and U.S. laws : intended to protect drug companies from ¯ having theirpatents violated abroad. Gore : has saidhedoesnotopposeSouthAfrica’s ¯ attempts to produce or obtain generic ¯ AIDS medicines as long as those efforts ¯ donot violate laws protecting patents. ¯ A 1997 South African law granted the ¯ government unspecified power to obtain ¯ cheaper AIDS drugs. About 40 ¯ pharmaceuticalcompanies worldwide are : challenging the law in South African : courts, fearing itmay beusedin a way that ¯ violates patent rights. be tested because they’re afraid they’ll be : labeled as Gay. So then they go and ~x;e : it to someone else and the cycle goes on.r’ ¯ Congress Hears ¯African Appeal WASHINGTON (AP)-AnAIDS patient from Malawi asked Congress for help in settling trade-disputes that could deprive poor African countries such as her own of vital drugs. Chatinkah Nkhoma, 37, believes she would be dead now had she stayed in Lilongwe, Malawi’s capital, where the drugs she needs either are tmavailable or cost too much. Millions of other Africans are not as lucky, said Nkhoma, who came to the United States as a graduate student. ~’I’m their voice. I’m here to cry for help," Nkhoma testified tearfully before the HouseGovernmentReform subcommittee oncriminaljustice, drug policy andhuman resources. The government did act in response: Vice President Gore on Monday announced a new $100 million proposal to help Africa stop the spread of AIDS. Nkhoma also appealed to lawmakers to ¯ reject arguments that the drags may cause more harm than good in poor nations unable to ensure AIDS patients adhere to strict drug regimens. Experts have said that people who do not take the drugs as prescribed actually may become sicker or devdop drug-resistant strains of theAIDS virus. AIDS deaths in the United States have declinedbecause ofadvances in treatment, but they remain on the increase in Africa, where it is the leading cause of death. Trade disputes have developed over some countries’ efforts to reduce the cost ofimporting AIDS drugs, withsomeblame directed at pharmaceutical companies. "What happens to countries who.., do not purchase their AIDS drugs from drug companies, instead looking to. buy them through cheaper sellers, often times other countries? Under direct pressure from the pharmaceuticalindustry, they arepunished bythe UnitedStates," Rep. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said in a written statement. He said thesecountries couldlose theirpreferential tariff treatment "all because the pharmaceutical companies do not wish to lose any of their tremendous profits." Joe Papovich, an assistant U.S. trade representative, said the Clinton administration believe it can resolve the disputes, which involve drug companies’ efforts to protect their patents and help recoup research costs. He said the administration is working with South Africa, where 45% of the military is infected with the AIDS virus, so that More Die From : AIDSThan War : NAIROBI, Kenya(AP)-AIDS killed 1:4 : million people in eastern .and southern ," Africa last year, overtaking armed ¯ conflicts as the No. 1 killer in the region, ," the U.N~ Children’s Fund said recently. : Theepidemic, whichhas hit this portion ¯ of the African continent harder than : anywhere else in the world, has left 6 : million children orphaned in eastern aud ¯ southern Africa, amounting to70% of the ¯ world’s AIDS orphans, said UNICEF ¯ DeputyExecutiveDirectorStephenLewis. ¯ 48% of the world’s AIDS cases are in this ¯ region, Lewis said during the release of ¯ UNICEF’s annual report on AIDS. It ¯ called for emergency action to curb the ¯ spread of AIDS in Africa. ¯ "Fundamentally,AIDS is spreading and ¯ stifling the economic and social " infrastructure of the entire continent. It is ¯ killing the most productive age group," ¯ Lewis said. "It is doubling and tripling ¯ infant mortality rates. It is returning life -" .expectancy to the levels of 1960s." "It is : the modern incarnationof the Dante’s ¯ Inferno," Lewis said. "Neaier has Africa ¯ faced such a plague." ~ Worldwide, some 16,000 people daily " are infected.by HIV, the virus that causes ¯ AIDS, and there are 8.2 million AIDS : orphans, most in sub-Saharan Africa, the " report said. The report warned that AIDS : could increase infant mortality in eastem ¯ and southern Africa by 75% and double : the death rate of children under fivein the ¯ region in the next decade. "Thenumber of : orphans in Africa constitute nothing less ¯ thananemergencyrequiring an emergency : response," the report said. ¯ In Uganda, some 1.1 million children ¯ under 15 - or 11% of the country’s child ¯ population-have lost one or both parents ¯ to AIDS, the highest number of AIDS ¯ orphans in the world. In the developed ¯ wodd, that figure is at 1%. ¯ Especially important was educating ¯ people on prevention and on building ¯ tolerance in the region, where AIDS ¯ victims arefrequently shamedinto silence. ¯" Men, more than women, were intolerant ¯ of the disease, often refusing to be tested : or to support wives stricken with AIDS, ¯ Lewis said. : Lewis attacked Western nations for not : financing the fight against the scourge in ¯ Africa. "It is morally indefensible," Lewis ~ said, "That the West is prepared to spend : upwards of $40 billion to fight war in the ¯ Balkans then to engage in the economic ¯ restoration ofKosovo, andless than 1% of : that to save the lives of tens of millions of ¯ women, children and men in .adriea." by James Christjohn Well, Just saw the new Muppets in Space (MIS). It only served to make me nostalgic for the days when Jim Henson was at the helm of Muppetland. His son, Brian, strives to follow in his footsteps and for the most parts does a pretty good job, but for whatever reasons, the muppets justseem to be puppets now, not beings with personalities. In MIS, the plot focuses on Gonzo, who doesn’t know what he is. Neither does anyone else. Turns out, he’s an "alien from outer space that.got left behind on a mzsslon many years ago, and now his family is looking for him. This could have been the setup for a really tinny "Pigs in Space" type romp, taking on all the big space films, like Star Wars, Close Encounters, Star Trek, etc. And, while it has a few cute moments, it fizzles like booster rockets with a furl leak. I was really hoping it wout~d be good, so it is with heavy heart I ~rite this. Missing are the cameos that populated the first three muppet films to such success, the rapid fire jokes, and the witty commentary on society that was the secret weapon of the muppet minds. This is not to say that you won’t find a few chuckles in the film, which is worth seeing at the dollar movie. Especially relevant - and attention getting - are the bits where Gonzo is telling the gang that"I didn’ t choose to be this way, I was’born this way." There are other moments like that as well, which indicates more of an overt Gay sensibility to the film that one might suspect. These moments are what makes the film worth seeing.The pacing is-off on most of the jokes - many of which absolutely depend on the perfect timing to be funny rather than misfires. The ending leaves one wishing formore - morebuildup,more climax, betterjokes. It is kind ofperfunctory, and at no time do the muppets sing any of the songs except for one perfunctory number, and it’s an oldie everyone will recognize, mainly because it was overplayed in the 80’ s way toe much. It was obviously thrown in at the last minute, probably as a result of a production meeting wherein someone said, "But we HAVEto have a muppet musical number! It’s expected!", and someone else said,"Well... OK. I guess so. What’ll we do?" "How about some old song from the 80’s that everyone knows? That way we won’t have to pay for songwriters?" That, too, was disappointing, for one who remembers the Muppet Movie for the music as wall as the dream of one little green frog to "make millions of people happy." Switching hats here, I thought I’d cross over into TFN Book reviewer Barry Hensley’s territory and make a recommendation for "Queer Astrology for Men" by Jill Dearman. Ms. Dearman writes in a humorous style, which can seem light until you read - really read - whatshe’ s writing. (Shemustbea"sadge" - Saggitarian) It makes the more ~ challenging aspects of the signs a little ¯ easier to take, and makes one aware of ¯ them without alienating or antagonizing, ¯ except in a good natured, "just kidding" " kinda way. She’s been writing ¯ professionally aboutastrology for 9 years, and has studied astrology since childhood, and she does seem to One of my favorite numbers was the "Jadhouse Tango", wherein a bunch of murderesses explain why "they done it". I think anyone who’s been in a relationship could probably identify with many of the reasons. know her stuff. As an astrologer (Gemini MoonAstrological Services, see ad within these pages), I am always on the lookout for new and informative information on astrology, especially pertaining to Gay and Lesbian folk This book fits the bill quite nicely and accurately, Informally written, it is an overview of the sun sign..(themost basic part of one’s personality. Of course, for a really accuratepicture, afull interpretation or birthchart is necessary; since the other planets can mitigate/ amplify the sun sign’s qualities in any given person.) As such, it is scarily on the target. As a Sagittarius, I found that section (sometimes unfortunately) to be dead-on: And having spent more than my share of time around Leas, I read that section as an objective "test" of the accuracy of the writing, and again, it was quite right. So, if you’re looking for a quick overview of someone’s personality, and what makes them tick, tiffs would be one of the better book. For a more complete picture, if you know the person’s moon sign and rising sign, I would recommend reading those sections as well. Sun: basic ego quirks and personality; rising sign or ascendant: how they appear to others (Which explains why a sun sign appears to be something else entirely, emphasis on the "seems".); and moon sign: emotions and the subconscious - the way someone filters/ expresses emotional tendencies. Or, in the case of one Leo I know, not. It’ s a worthy addition to thebookshelves of anyone curions about what makes people tick, psychology, or mateshopping. And, as a former total skeptic and a psychology major, I can say give it arty; you’llbe surprised. Forget the overly general newspaper tidbits (especially the Tulsa World -"Sagittarius: Today you’ll have a day" just doesn’t cut it with me), and go for the real stuff. This is a good start, If you can, check out "Chicago", at the PAC throughAugust 1 st. The Kander and Ebb musical starring Sandy Duncan is worth seeing. The men and women are all gorgeous, and the staging is perfect. 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Tulsa Uniform & Leather Seekers Association, info: 838-1222 Gal-A-Vanting, Womens Social & Cultural Group Call for info: Mary at 743-6740, Kathy at 322-6322, or Barb at 459-68251..i OK Spoke Club, Gay & Lesbian Bike Organization. Long rides, 7am on 8~ & 8/ 21. Short ride, 6:30pm on 8/5, 6pm on 8/18 from Zeigler Park. Short ride, 6:30pro, 8/ 25 from Tulsa Gay Community Center. Write for info: PUB 9165, Tulsa. OK74157 lfyour organization is not listed, please let us know. Call 583-I248 orfax 583-4615. READ ALL ABOUT IT reviewed by Barry Hensley Tulsa City-Couniy Library For a short time, in 1997, the worldwas mesmerized’by the odd and frightening story of Andrew Cnnanart, as he went on a killing spree across several states, ending.with themurder Indiana’s of fashion designer Gianni ¯ ". ~ " Versace in Miami. This ¯recounting of Cunanan’s interesting life and horrifying death makes fascinating, ff difficult, reading. Growing up in a lower middle class family,Cunanan learned early in life to embellish tte truth to make him seem more important. He studied the.finer things in life beginning as a child, and by - high school, dazzled his teachers with his knowledge andtaste, andwonrespectfrom other students with his sharp wit, easy’ demeanor and exceedingly good looks. As he eased into gay life in " sentence at California, Cnnanan learned thathe couldeasilymanipulate ~’- 39~0 words! otherpeopleinto situations that were advantageous to him. He had a few seim-serious relationships and even had a sugar daddy at one point. The two people he was serious about, David Madson and JeffTrail, each soonrealized thatCunanan was a fraud. To get away from him, they each left the state, ironically both ending up in Minnesota. As Cunanan’s friends deserted him, with no job and low on funds, he went to Minnesota, hoping one of his old boyfriends wouldinvitehim to stay awhile - untilhe wasbackonhis feet. BothMadson and Trail, who barely knew each other, were simply hoping that he wouldstay for acoupleofdays andleave. Whenitbecame gravcst sin, and the thing that makes the book so hard to read, is his highly approach to sentence structure. I do kd The brothers were being held in lieu of $150,000 bail on charges of receiving stolen property after authorities said they found awallet, credit card, driver’s license and Social Security card belonging to Matson. Federal and local authorities said the brothers also were being investigated in connection with the Sacramento synagogue fires onJune 18 that caused $1 million in damage.. TheWilliams brothers livedinamodest, wood-frame house in Redding, where investigators said they found material espousing white supremacist beliefs. Amongthematerial foundwas literature from the Illinois-based World Church of the Creator, according to news reports. A former member of the church, Benjamin Smith, killed himself last week after a two-state shooting spree targeting minorities inTndianaand ~linois thatkill~.~ two men and wonnded nine others. Also found in the house was alist of32 prominent Jewish and civic leaders in Sacramento, and FBI special agent James Maddock said protection was ordered for those individuals. Officials also urged Reddin~’s only Jewish congregation, Temple Beth Israel, to increase secun y. ii evident that no offers were forthcoming, Cunanan tttmed bitter and surly. After a minor betrayal by Jeff Trail, Cunanan snapped, bludgeoning Trail to death with a hammer. And so began his killing spree which also included Madson, an elderly friend in Chicago, an unlucky cemetery worker whose truck Cunanan needed, and finally, Versace. Author Gary Indiana did a lotofresearch butmuch of the book revolves around what Cunanan was thinking, how he formulated his plans, and conversations between Cunanan and his victims. Since all of the participants are dead, Indiana is simply making up. a good story,, With events that may ormay not be true.But, Indiana’s gravestsin, and the thing that makes the book so hard to read, is his highly unusual approach to sentence structure. I clocked one sentence at 320 words! Frustrations aside, this is an interesting story, and there are some fairly good photographs to help put faces ¯ with names. There is an unseemly photo ." Of Ctmanan’s bloody corpse, after his ¯ suicide, which is better suited to a tabloid ~ thanarespectablebook. Ctmananwas ful! ¯ of contradictions; smart but doing stupid ¯" things, sweet yet mean to those around him, and;mostofall,complex yetshallow. ¯ His is a warning to materialistic social ". climbers that there is more to life than superficial appearances, and if you take ¯ things too seriously, you can wind up : hurting yourself and those you love. ¯ Check for Three Month Fever at your : local branch library, or call the Readers : Services departmentatthe Central Library, ¯ at 596-7966. i Anti-Hate Crimes Legislation : Advances in Senate ¯ WASHINGTON - The Senate has taken i a ,strong stand against the rising tide of hate violence in America by adding the ¯ Hate Crimds Prevention Act to the ¯ Commerce, Justice and State appro- ¯ priations bill, both the Human Rights "_ Campaiguandthe National Gay&Lesbian ¯ Task Force asserted recently. ¯ "The Senate took a dramatic step ¯ forward in making this nation a safer ¯ place for all Americans," HRC Executive : Director Elizabeth Birch said a day after ¯ the Senate added hate crimes language to ¯ the appropriationsmeasure. "We appla.ud ¯ this responsibleeffort to stem the growing : trend of hate crimes in our country." ¯ ’q’his is the first concrete action taken ¯ by either chamber since America buried ¯" Matthew Shepard, James Byrd Jr., Billy ~ .Jack Gaither, and many transgendered : people whose names and faces do not make the newspapers," said Kerry Lobel, ¯ executive director of the National Gay ¯ and Lesbian Task Force. _" "It is a good first step. But we have a ¯ long way to go and we must now mm to ¯ the House and tell our representatives : how critically important this legislation ¯ is. In short, we must keep up the heat." ¯ Theamendmentapprovedby the Senate : see Hate, p, 14 Red Rock Tulsa Free Confidential HIV Testing Walk-in Clinics Tuesday Testing, 5 -8 pm Pride Center, 1307 East 38th Wednesday Testing, 5-8 pm ¯ Red Rock, 1724 East 8th Daytime appointments available. 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Also, for those who have missed the regular "Stevie" updates, Ms. Nicks’ album is nearly completed, with an October release date, The most concrete action taken, however, was acommitmenttomeetagain as a group on Sept. 14, at the TulSa Gay Community Services Center (the Pride Center) at 1307 E. 38th St. probably at 6pro. For more information, call Marty Newman at 582-4673. Want to get involved? Need to get tested for HIV? Need a Coming Out Support Group? Call 743-GAYS Tulsa Gay Community Services Center 1307 E. 38th at Peoria, 2nd floor HUman Rights Campaign Fears Religious Liberty Bill May Threaten Civil Rights WASHINGTON - The House passed the ¯ discriminate on the basis of sext~A ~::i.: Religi~us Liberty ProtectionAct (RLPA) : orientation. last month and defeated a substitute bill that would have closed a dangerous loophole in RLPA that could threaten civil fights ff not remedied in the Senate, according to theHaman Rights Campaign. "In its current form, this bill poses a grave threat to civil rights laws throughout thecountry," saidHRCExecutive Director Elizabeth Birch "In an unconscionable vote~.the U.S. House of Repre.sentatives has indicated its willingness, to trample onthb civil rigllts ofwomen, people of color,. people with disabilities and Gay and Lesbian Americans." "While we support the intentions of the Religious Liberties Protection Act, it is shameful that the House rejected an alternative bill that would have protected civil rights," said HRC Political Director Winnie Stachelberg. A substitute bill sponsored by Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., was defeated in theHouse 190 to 234 after an hour-long debate. The Nadler bill would have clarified RLPAby preventing an individual from using religious beliefs to undermine local or state civil rights statutes. Without the Nadlerbill, which was necessary forHRC support, the Rep. Charles Canady0 R-Fla., sponsored Religious Liberty Protection Act-a bill designed to safeguard religious expression- passed the House306 to 118. RLPA would prohibit any state or local law from placing a "substantial burden" on a "person’s religious exercise" even if. the rule is not designed to infringe on a person’s religious beliefs. The problem is; the bill currently does not clarify whether state andlocal anti-discrirhination laws can be ignored by a person who claims that these laws violate his or her religious beliefs. "We cannot support legislation that might threatenanti:discrimination statutes thatprotect Gay andlesbianAmericans in 11 states and 101 municipalities," said Stachelberg. Thefollowing is an excerpt of a letter that was sent by HRC executive director Elizabeth Birch to our allies who are supporting the RLPA without civil rights protection. The- Human Rights Campaign is proud to have the support of a broad-based coalition ofreligious organizations in the struggle for Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual equality. However, in light of the position many such organizations took on last week’s House vote in support of the Religious Liberty ProtectionAct(RLPA), I wouldlike to share withyou our thoughts on RLPA. First, we believe the intent of this legislation is a worthy one - religious freedom is an important righL But, as currently drafted, this bill is flawed. We strongly believe support for this legislation, as currently drafted, is not consistent with support for Gay and Lesbian rights.... Like you, the Human Rights Campaign strongly supports the principle of protecting the free exercise of one’s personal religious beliefs that serve as the foundation for RLPA. Just as strongly, we believe that Lesbian, Gay and bisexual Americans shouldnotface discrimination at work, at home or in their communities because of their sexual orientation. It is clear from statements made by members of the coalition supporting RLPA that they believe individual landlords and employers should be allowed to ’_ Unfortunately, the question ¯ answered during last week’s debate <~n : RLPA is, in my mind, the most import~zt : one: what religious liberty fights wo~.! d ¯ be lost or weakened by the inclusion of a : civilrights provision?Formembers of the ¯ coalition supporting this bill who profc.qs ¯ a desire to resolve this impasse in good : faith, I find the rejection of this provision ¯ completely bafflin.g....: ¯" " Our ~ concern! ls:.com~pou,n,ded by statements made by (he bill’.s chief: ¯ sponsor, Congressman Charles Canady, ~ and one of the leading members of your ¯ coalition, Steve McFartand, of the ¯ ¯ Christian Legal Society. During Saturday’s broadcast of the CSPAN " program Washington Journal, Canady ¯ said"I believe there are contexts in which : this bill could result in a claimant who is ¯ defending agmnst the application of a ¯ local Gay rights ordinance to raise a claim that would be successful - I think this law would trump the Gay rights ordinance." ¯ Mr. McFarland also acknowledged this ." intended use of RLPA in response to a ¯ question fromCongressman Jerry Nadler ¯ during his congressional testimony on ¯ RLPA before the House Judiciary ¯ Committee.’s Subcommittee on the ¯ Constitution on May 12, 1999. I am sure ¯ you can understand why such statements ¯ do little to dispel the very real fear that ¯ some intend to use RLPA as a sword to ¯ strike down the civil rights of others in the ¯ name of religious liberty. Whether it is ; your intent or not, opposition to a civil ¯ rights exemption ts support for ¯ discriminationbased onsexual orientation " - a position in direct opposition to the ¯ principles that are the foundation of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. : We are particularly passionate about : the need for a civil rights provision in ¯ RLPA because of the lack of any federal laws prohibiting employment ." discrimination on the basis of sexual ; orientation. The eleven state laws and ¯ nearly 200local laws are the few and very : hard fought civil rights protections ] availableforGay and Lesbian Americans. : Many of those laws took fifteen years or ¯ more of struggle by the local community ¯ to pass.... The Religious Liberty Protection Act, .~ as currently drafted, will put more ¯ Americans at risk of discrimination, not ¯ fewer. Enacting this legislation without : stating clearly in the bill that RLPA does ¯ not provide a defense to non-compliance ¯ with stateor local anti-discriminationlaws ¯ undercuts those laws .... ¯ To allow RLPA as a defense against : discrimination is to defend religious ¯ practices that do real and definable harm ¯ to others. From our perspective, your ¯ opposition to the civil rights provision ." means you are defending the right of a ¯ religious individual, who chooses to be a : landlord or employer, to impose their ¯ religious beliefs on a Gay or Lesbian ¯ American by denying them a job or a : place to live because of their sexual : orientation. To find ourselves in this : disagreement with you, our long-time ¯ allies, deeply saddens and angers us... ¯ We ask you to join with us as this bill ." moves forward to strongly encourage the : Senate to include a civil rights provision ¯ and enact areligious liberty protection act : for all Americans. ¯ - Elizabeth Birch, Executive Director byEsther Rothblum, Ph.D. Giventhenumberandrange ofresearch projects about Lesbians in recent years, it is easy to forget how challenging it was to survey Lesbians even a decade ago. In the 1980’ s, Caitlin Ryan and Judy Bradford conducted @hat became the National Lesbian Health Care Survey. This study eventually resulted in 1,925 completed questionnaires from Lesbians in all 50 U.S. states. It figured prominently in the recent Institute of Medicine Report of the National Academy of Sciences. Even today, there are Lesbians (including me!) who remember completing a questionnaire for this study 15 years ago. I recently asked Caiflin and Judy to describe the "herstory" and process of conducting the National Lesbian Health Care Survey in the mid- 1980s. In the late 1970s, Caitlin suggested forminganational organization thatwould be multi-disciplinary, focus on Lesbian - and Gay health issues, and sponsor research and education. She began to talk with other Lesbians about the need for a survey. There was no av~i~lable information on how Lesbians conceptualize Lesbian health. She was also interested in how stigma affected health, mental health, self care, and access to care. Sheapplied for agrant though thenewly formed National Lesbian and Gay Health Foundation and hired a research consultant, Dot Parkel, who was a sociologist and survey researcher. Dot’s role was to help design the study and to develop drafts of the questionnaire, using the input Caitlin had received from many Lesbians. Caitlin told me: "I remember talking with a researcher who was herself a closeted Lesbian, who sat down with me and basically told me that I could not possibly do a study like this. She just felt that it was not feasible. And, of course, therewas no such thing as arepresentadve sample. I saw this womanrecently and we laughed about her earlier skepticism. She said, ’I told you that you couldn’t do and you went out and did it.’ " Judy got started by attending the Intemational Lesbian and Gay Health and AIDS Conference atNew YorkUniversity with a good friend, a man who was in her class in graduate school. They were both interested in AIDS research, which was just getting started then. EverywhereJudy looked- and she went to a lot of sessions at the conference - there were mostly men. Then she noticed in the Conference program a scheduled time for a women’ s group meeting. It turned out to be an orgamzing meeting for the National Lesbian Health Care Survey, and Caitlin was facilitating the group. When Judy said she was a graduate student and described a little of what she was doing, she suddenly became co-investigator and was responsible for data analysis and preparing the survey report. One of the things Caitlin had been very concerned about was inclusion. So many of the early studies, and even those conducted today, have shown very highly educated samples of Lesbians. Shewanted ¯ . . it is easy to forget how challenging it was to survey Lesbians even a decade ago. : to include women of color and women of ¯ diffeient economic backgrounds and not ¯ have language be a barrier. So she talked with people about how to ask clinical ¯ questions in a non-clinical way. Caitlin ¯ said: "I talked with women bus drivers, day laborers, women who had been ¯ recently diagnosed withcancer, about their ¯ experiences and how we should ask these ¯ questions. All of that helped frame how ¯ we would shape a questionnaire." She elicited suggestions about language in a series of focus groups that took place in several different parts ofthe country. They pre-tested the questxonna]re at several Lesbian and Gay conferences and with individuals around the country. They would ask the womenin the focus group to fill out the questionnaire, and ¯ then they would sit around and talk about ¯ it alittlebit, and hearwhat people thought ¯ of it to make it more accessible. After " several go-arounds using that process, : they finalized the questionnaire. ¯ SinceCaitlinhaddone the early Lesbian ¯ andGayhealth organizing, shehad alarge ¯ address baseofpeopleall overthecountry who were willing to help distribute the ¯ quesdounaires. They set up a distribution ¯ plan that was kind of an unusual approach ¯ tO snowball sampling. The methodology ¯ was intended to get the questionnaires out ¯ as broadly as possible to people all over the country, including Alaska; They were concernedwithgetting the survey to underrepresented populations that hadn’t been sampled before, so they made a commitment to getting it to Lesbians in the military, Lesbians living on Indian reservations, and Lesbians in prison. They also. tried reaching non-English speaking women and they tried to reach Lesbians of color in a variety of ways, including having Lesbians of color give it out to their networks around the country. The National Coalition of Black Lesbians and Gays sent a mailing about the survey and how important it was and how to participate. The Wisconsin Governor’s Task Force sent out mailings that went all over the state of Wisconsin. The National Organization of Women sent out information abeut the survey, and information about it was published in a variety of Lesbian and Gay newsletters. The survey went out in the fall of 1984 and by early 1985 they had received surveys back from 1,925 Lesbians from every U.S. state. It was a wonderful experience for them,hearing from somany Lesbians across the country, and had the sense of a national movement. There was an electric energy - everyone had a great sense of how important the survey was. Of course, a major issue was how to obtain money to fund data entry and data analysis. The early 1980s was not a time for funding Lesbian projects. Once the struggles for funding were over (though the study was funded on a shoestring), Judy sent the questionnaires out to the Virginia State Prison, where all the lab’s data entry was done at that time. She told ¯ me: "The questionnaires did not arrive ¯ back. When our project manager called ¯ about this, seePsyche, p. 13 IGTA member Call 341.6866 International Toursformoreinformation. AUTHENTI~ FRESH 1TALIAN RAINBOW CUSINE TROUT ofEureka Springs Voted Number One in Arkansas! 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But I was still worried when I moved to Japan for seven months. My hair grew faster than I could learn Japanese. I riffled desperately throughmyratty oldJapanese "useful phrases for tourists" looking for haircut vocabulary. I had the book in my pocket when I picked a shop at random from the scores of salons in downtown Kagoshima. Lucky for me, the stylist and owner had trained with Vidal Sassoon in London. And he remembered enough English to understand roughly how I wanted my hair. He had an army of assistants, too, who shampooed me and got me ready for the cut. (They would drape a cloth over my eyes while working on me - I wasn’t sure if this was to keep out the suds, or spare me the rude view of their nostril hair.) The shampoo always finished with a beautifully relaxing head massage - a standard service in Japanese salons. I have just finished reading an analysis of hair styling written by anthropologist Grant McCracken: Big Hair: A Journey into the Transformation of Self. McCracken interviewed both stylists and customers about the transforming powers of hair. He suggests that we Americans get new hairstyles in order to recreate and change ourselves. When we reach a point in life where we need a change, we redo our hair. Or when the boyfriend dumps you, a new buzz cut and goatee can help relieve the pain. A few years ago there was a weird outbreak of ponytails among my 40- something straight-guy friends Something about hitting the Big 40 made these aging friends cultivate their long, graying locks. Perhaps they figured this was the last chance before it all fell off anyway. Psychologists from Freudondownhave commented on the sexual meaning of hair. Delilah cuts away Samson’s hewas told ,they wouldn’ t code the surveys. I got another company to.do it and the same thing happened. Finally when it came to the third company I was told that the data entry staff were afraid to touch the questionnaires for fear of getting AIDS !" Over the years, wherever Judy and Caitlin are, they continue to nm into Lesbians who participated in the survey, and who want to talk about the impact that it had on them. Many women wrote pages of material in addition to the answers they gave to the items on the questiormaire. For published results of the National Lesbian Health Care Survey, see: 1. Bradford, J.B., & Ryan, C. (1991). Who we are: Health concerns ofmiddle- ¯ manhood by fleecing his curls. Though ¯ nowadays- thanks to Michael Jordan and ¯¯ others - the bald knob is equally sexy. Whether one goes for flowing ponytail or ¯ smooth, shiny scalp, the pointis that when ¯ life gets messy or gloomy, we run to our ¯ barber. ¯ In Kagoshima, someof themoreelegant ¯ salon assistants had dyed their black ¯ Japanese hair blond and I wondered if ¯ they were Gay. But then I felt guilty for ¯ thinking stereotypically. All hair stylists, ¯" of course, are not Gay. Warren Beatty in Shampoo.testified to that. Still, Gay men ¯ have, been deeply involved in the ¯ emergence of today’s hair industry. ¯ McCracken reviews some of the giants of ¯ 20th century hair styling: Ernest Adler, ¯ Alexandre, and Antoine - the 1950s forerunners of Sassoon - and many of ¯ these men dearly were Gay. ¯ Furthermore, theAmerican marketplace ¯ feeds off cultural creativity generated ~ within local, often otherwise unap¯ preciated communities. It steals hiphop stylefromurbanstreets;itborrows stylistic ¯ developments in language, dress, and hair from Gay men and women. The long hair ¯ of the 1960s and the cropped hair of the ¯ 1990s both largely originated in Gay circles. The combination ofhomosexuality and ¯ personal service is not unusual across the ¯ world. Many of the small town beauty ¯ salons springing up in the Philippines and elsewhere, for example, are established ¯ by Gay men. ¯o It may be that culturally ambiguous ¯ homosexuality-whichstands bothoutside and between the categorical opposition betw.eenmal,e andfemale-makes personal service easier. If the server is somehow outside the arena ofordinary heterosexual gender competition and dalliance, then his touch is easier to bear. It is not news that. map.y Gay men provide personal service m restaurants, hotels, hospitals, rest homes, as well as in hair salons. Next time you need a new you, do something about that hair. It may be that developments in genetics and cloning one day will replace plastic surgery to allow us effortlessly to remake ourselves: Perhaps change our skin color, orbuy new orange eyeballs, or a bigger set ofpecs, or trade in our ears or more personal body parts. But until that day comes, we’ve got our hair. You can redo with a new do. Which renfinds me. It’s about time for a haircut. Lamont Lindstrom, Ph.D. teaches anthropology at the University of Tulsa. agedLesbians. In B. Sang, J. Warshow, & A.J. Smith (Eds.) Lesbians atmidlife: The creative transition (pp. 147-163). San Fransisco, CA: Spinsters Book Company. 2. Bradford, J.B., Ryan, C.,&Rothblum, E.D. (1994). National Lesbian Health Care Survey: Implications for mental health care. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 62, 228-242. 3. Ryan, C., & Bradford, J. (1993). The NationalLesbian Health Care Survey: An Overview. In D. Garnets & D.C. Kimmel (Eds.) Psychological perspectives on Lesbian and Gay male experiences. New York: Columbia University Press. Esther Rothblum is Professor of Psychology at the University of Vermont and Editor of the Journal of Lesbian Studies. She can be reached atJohn Dewey Hail, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT. E-mail: esther.rothblum@uvm.edu. and to effectively refute the anti-family policies of the right-wing; second, to actively build an effective and collaborative national pro-GLBT family network among GLBT and mainstream organizations working on family issues; and third, to educate the general public about the value and values of GLBT families. Ettelbrick will assist NGLTF in articulating a voice in policy debates that have a great impact on GLBT families, including debates on adoption, coparenting, foster Care, alternative insemination and recognition of "broader family support networks. In addition, NGLTF will raise GLBT perspectives in debates that have traditionally excluded consideration of GLBT perspectiyes. Examples include definitions of family in Social Security reform proposals~ the Older Americans Act and immigration policy. Noted Vaid, "A number of legal and advocacy groups do excellent work in the arena of family issues, but no group currently coordinates the efforts of our movement in this area so that collaboratively we can muster the resources weneedto changefamily policy. In addition, there is no national research center for policy development and policy analysis ~n family issues. With GLBT families facing attack on so maiiy fronts, the need for a coordinated national approach has never been greater." Announcement of the Family Policy Programis partofalong-term commitmenl on the part of the NGLTF Policy Institute toGLBTFamilies. Beginning in the 1980s, NGLTFhousedthefirstnational Families Project. Throughout the 1990"s, the Task Force worked actively on a number of family issues. Last year, NGLTF organized "Celebrating Our Families," a 15-city national tour to raise the visibility of GLBT family issues and to organize against attacks by right wing groups. In 1999, the Policy Institute published The Domestic Partnership Organizing Manual to help employees and citizens around the country mobilize to obtain important benefits for their families. Founded in 1973, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force works to elimiinateprejudice, violence andinjustice against Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual andTransgenderedpeople at thelocal, state and national level. As part of abroader social justice movement for freedom, justice and equality, NGLTF iscreating a world that respects and celebrates the diversity ofhumanexpression andidentity where all people may fully participate in society. For example, if anyone had suggested that in the third year after weheld the first Pride March (all 65 brave souls - likely more non-Gay than Gay) that we would have hnndreds at the Pride Parade and Picnic of this year with no less than Congressman Barney Frank as grand marshal. While the principal credit for that goes to Mitchell Savage and Ric Martin and many others, it was nndcr Steve’s leadership that these people came together. Andjustkeeping theCommunityCenter afloat is no little task. While the Center continues to serve many. groups and members of the community, it still needs broader support. Air conditioning has to be paid for (air conditioning repairs have to be paid for) as well as rent and other expenses. I would suggest that the greatest way in which we can honor Steve Horn - and those who served before him as well - is to continue to support the work he did: to help keep our community center open, to improve it; maybe one day, even to help build our own building - imagine. would expand federal authority to prosecute hate crimes. Currently, federal officials canouly intervene if a victim is engaged in a federally protected act such as attempting to vote, go to school or serve onajury. Federal officials catmotintervene at all in hate crimes based on disability, sexual orientation or gender. The Senate also passed a watered-down amendmentby Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, that does not cover sexual orientation, disability or genderand wouldonly expand federal jurisdiction to hate crimes committed after the crossing of state lines. "The Hatch amendment fails to recognize that no one should be a target for bias-motivated violence," Lobd said. "Hate crimes legislation that doesn’t cover sexual orientation, disability and gender is a farce." The Hate Crimes Prevention Act has been a top. legislative priority of both organizations and passage of the amendment culminates months of work."With strong administrationbacking and bipartisan support in both houses of Congress, we expect to be in a strong position in the conference committee to ensure final passage of the Hate Crimes Prevention Act," Winnie Stachelberg, HRC’s political director, said today. The Hate Crimes Prevention Act has strong supportfrom President Clinton and the administration has made passage a priority. Rep. Henry Hyde, R-Ill., has scheduled a hearing on the measure in the House Judiciary Committee on Aug. 4. HCPA currently has morethan 180House cosponsors from both parties. theneed for individuals in the community ¯ to support the Center remained. According to Tracey Conaty, "- spokespersonfor the Gill Foundation,Tim , Gill, software developer of Quark, established the Fmmdation in 1994 as a : catalyst for and’to provide resources for : communities in pursuit of justice and ¯" equality. The foundation also seeks to buildawareness ofthe contributions which : Gay men and Lesbians make to American ¯ society. Since its inception, Tim Gill and ¯ the Gill Foundation have provided nearly $13 million to hundreds of community ¯ organizations. Gatewoodalso mentioned several other ¯" events at the Center. 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Title A name given to the resource [1999] Tulsa Family News, August 1999; Volume 6, issue 8 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. 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In addition to the House vote, a new poll shows that the vast majority of Texas residents support hate crimes legislation... "Reason and principle triumphed in the Texas legislature today," said Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Executive Director Elizabeth Birch. ’‘Texas lawmakers took a giant step towards combating hate violence against all residents of the state." The Human Rights Campaign is the largest national Lesbian and Gay political organization. A new Scripps Howard poll for The Dallas Mormng News revealed that 72% of Texans support hate crimes legislation. According to the newspaper, the poll said that the public supports the inclusion of all groups currently included in the legislation: 81% for race; 80% for women; 78% for religious groups; and 76% for Gay people, see Texas, p. 14 TU Hosts Women + AIDS Regional Conference TULSA- The Second Regional Conference on Women and AIDS will be held on The University of Tulsa campus Monday,June 14,in the Allen ChapmanActivity Center, located at 440 South Gary Avenue. The conference is a comprebensive, one-day program to raise awareness, promote discussion and provide opportunities for new directions in HIV prevention, care and treatment for women. "We will gather together in the spirit of concern for our community," says Jauice Nicklas, Senior Planner of the Commttnity Service Council and Conference Spokesperson. According to Nicklas, the conference will benefit everyone - women living with HIV and AIDS, people who deal with women’sissues, educators, policymakers, youth organizations,health and social service providers, family members, volunteers and concern.ed citizens. "In the Arms of the Angels," a documentary produced by the National AIDS Fund Americorps Team Tulsa, will open the conference at 8:30 a.m. with a look at women and AIDS. Patty Lather, author of "Troubling the Angels," will give the keynote address at 8:45 a.m. In addition to a series of workshops, the conference will feature a panel of HIV positive women who will share their stories. Judith Billings of the President’s Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS will give the luncheon address. Saiadra McDonald, the founder of Outreach, Inc., will present the closing address on "What We Can Do to Be a Force for Change." see Women, p. 11 MJ DIRECTORY/LETTERS EDITORIAL ~I~I~. ~ "" US & WORLD NEWS HEALTH NEWS ENTERTAINMENT COMMUNITY CALENDAR DO-IT-YOURSELF-DYKE DYKE PSYCHE GAY STUDIES P. 2 p. $ P. 4 P. 6 P. 8 P. 9 P. 11 P. 12 P. 13 Restaurant Open But Concessions Closes by Tom Neal TULSA - Maybe it’s just spring but a couple of new Gay owned and oriented businesses have, or are about to open this month. And one ofTul sa’ s most visible Gay businesses has unexpectedly dosed. From Lesbian Baby Boom, Comes Gay Daycare The origin of GLAD, Gay & Lesbian Affordable Daycare, reflects the frustrations of two new moms, Teresa and Joan, 33 and 32 years old, trying to find good daycare for their 4 month old son, Joseph (Joey) while they worked. For Teresa, the final thing that convinced her to leave her 7080 hour a week managerial position to start a home based business was a conflict about getting time off when their son was sick. But for both, there was more. After their son was bom, they explored many alternatives for infant care. Some options using relatives or friends just didn’t work out. Many of the day care operations which they reviewed just didn’t seem to be very good. And most had inflexible rules and were very expensive, with high deposits, inflexible contracts and schedules. For example, many day care operations require a year round contract with perhaps only 10 days off allowed. Any more days off have to be paid for regardless of whether the child is at the center or not. For these morns, one of whom is a teacher and has the summer off, it makes no sense to pay for care year-round. However, if they don’t, they take the risk that no place will be available in the fall again. Furthermore, Joan and Teresa also were concerned about raisxng their son in an enviroment where he will not be mistreated because he has two morns. And they know that they are not the only Gay parents who have these concerns. At some of the day care centers they inspected they were asked, "where’s the father" and were received with not very well disguised hostility. They say that they’v e sometimes felt they had ~o say they were"sisters" in order to be treated fairly. So finally, after thoroughly researching state requirements, they just decided tO start their own daycare in their cozy midtown bungalow, see Businesses, p. 14 Red Ribbon Gala + SwanAwards TULSA, Okla. (AP/TFN) - Some members of Tnlsa’s Gay community say they were pleased Chastity Bono visited this weekend because the author has helped mainstream Americans become more tolerant. "Just by her coming to Tulsa, it means a great deal to us. It helps people to come together," said Nancy McDonald, who recently was national president of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG). B ono was the keynote speaker Saturday night, April 17th at the Red Ribbon Ball, an annual black-tie gala that benefits Tnlsa CARES, the Center for AIDS Resources, Education and Support. The event attracted more than 250 to the Downtown Doubletree. Bono, the Openly Lesbian daughter of Sonny and Cher, formerly served as the entertainment media director of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance’Against Defamation. She was involved in controversy for suggesting that the television show of Lesbian comedian, Ellen Degeneres, was "too Gay." Bono, 30, spent part of the day autographing copies of her book "Family Outing," which details how she and others revealed their sexual orientation to their families. Also, at the Gala, the co-sponsoring organization, the Tulsa Chapter of PFLAG, Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians & Gays presented their annual Swan awards. Among those honored were State Rep. DOn Ross, the Revs. Leslie Penrose and Gary Blaine, The Tulsa World, represented by editorial board writer David Averill, and PFLAG board member Tim Gillean. The award to Gillean was met with consternation by two former TOHR presidents attending the Gala,’Deb Starnes and Tom Neal, as PFLAG credited him as ’~he founder" of the Community Center. Both noted that Gillean helped start the Center, particularly doing early fundraising but that after he was voted out as TOHR president, he had dropped his member at the time when the building was found and leased. "No single person can claim the Center; Kelly Kirby was president when we began, Tim certainly did a great deal but Deb Statues, Midge Elliott and I sweated blood to get that building open, walls tom down and the place painted. Tim’s done enough other work that PFLAG doesn’t have to rip anyone off to honor him," said Neal. PFLAG president and Swan award presenter, Jan Allen, stated that she was not aware of the history of the Center and that PFLAG had not intended to slight any of the Center’ s organizers. Pride ’99 Shaping Up: Picnic, Parade & More US Rep. Frank to be Grand Marshall of First Tulsa Parade + Community Unitarians Host First Gay UU Pastor TULSA - Tulsa’s Pride ’99 organizers have confirmed that openly Gay US Congressman, Barney Frank of Massachusetts not only will attend this year’s June 12th event but will serve as grand marshall of Tulsa’s very first Lesbian/Gay pride parade. The parade will begin at 10 am at Tulsa’s Gay Community Services Center at 38th & Peoria and will go north on Peoria to 31st Street. From there it will go west to Riverside Drive and will continue north to Veterans (Boulder) Park, the site of the Picnic as it was last year. The principle sponsors for this year’s event are Bud Light and MCC United. The picnic will be from noon until 5pm again. Bud Light will be providing a large tent to provide some shelter from the sun as wall the sound system. Local drag diva Kris Kohl is organizing entertainment. These range from a local band, an appearance by the Council Oaks Mens Chorale, various female impersonators and titleholders, and more. Refreshments as always will be free. Congressman Frank will also be the guest of honor at a dinner Saturday evening at the Greenwood Cultural Center at 322 No. Greenwood near the OSU-Tnlsa campus. Thedinner will be hosted joindy by TOHR/Tulsa’s Gay Community Services Center and by the Cimarron Alliance, Oklahoma’s Gay and Lesbian political action committee. Cocktails begin at 7pm and dinner will be at 8. Dinner and a cash bar cocktail pre-party will be $50/person and dinner and a complimentary cocktail reception with Congressman Frank will be $125/ person, see Frank, p. 3 "One Fool" Play Coming To Eureka Springs, AR EUREKA SPRINGS, Ark. - As part of the May Festival of the Arts, OneFool, a one-woman, oneact play will be presented Tuesday and Wednesday, May 25-26, 8 p.m. at Center Stage (on Spring Street m the downtown Historic Distric0. The play, featuring Orlando improv-actress, Catherine Goodison, was written by Terry Baum and will be directed by Lewis Routh. ’One Fool is a riotously funny play about a woman’s search for the ’one love’ with whom she can live forever," says director Routh. ’‘This wild odyssey takes her across the world and into your heart." Catherine Goodison began her acting career in 1994 under the direction of Lewis Routh in the play Bar Dykes, where she played the role ofabig butch. She and Routh have worked together on several projects since that time, including the 1994 showing of One Fool in Orlando. Goodison, whose comedic talenthas foundits way tomany of Florida’s stages, including the famed Fringe Festival, has been a featured performer with Act Out Theatre and the Improvabilities comedy troupe. As part of the troupe, her most memorable roles include Lucy in You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown, and the roles of the Nanny and the school teacher in Baby With The Bath Water, both plays directed by Routh. Playwright Terry Bantu is the founder of Lilith, the San Francisco Women’s Theater, and was its artistic director from 1975 to 1980. During that time, she co- wrote and/or directed every production. Moonlighting, which she directed and co-wrote, toured Europe to great acclaim in 1979. Baum wrote Dos Lesbos with Carolyn Myers, which ran for two years in San Francisco and was nominated for several awards. 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The reasons for my resignation stem from three basic issues, which have¯ continued to grow over time. First, I have significant political disagreements with the March call and planning, which ha~’e not been addressed. Secondly, I have grown increasingly skeptical of the value of this event for the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender (GLBT) movement at this time. And finally, I cannot endorse certain decisions made by the Board. Although I have great trust and affection for each of you individually, it does not assuage my concerns and questions. I now believe I will be most helpful to the community from outside the Board. Since the initial call for the March, grassroots activists have consistently challenged us as national leaders. Their concerns address the credibility and legitimacy of the March and they have demanded an opening of the March process for greater discussion. The questions have been on whether to march, what agenda to march for, and how best to use the tremendous platform and visibility that such marches provide. Despite my political disagreements with the call and process, I agreed to serve on the March Board, believing my participation could change the course of the process. I also felt that as a representative of the oldest national political organization, and one of the few explicitly progressive national GLBT groups, my voice was needed in the March planning process. I stated at the time that I would remain on the Board as long as my. presence represented the best interests of Task Force members, our constituents, and the movement as a whole. Since I joined the Board, my participation has been challenged by members and activists with whom we have deep and longs tanding relationships. Individuals from all perspectives have intensively engaged me, the Task Force staff, and our Board. I took their concerns to heart and carried them in my work on the March Board. During my tenure, I voted in the minority on key resolutions on personnel issues, the naming of the March, and the broadening of the planning effort to allow more people a seat at the table. I helped lead the successful effort to ensure that funds raised by the March would go to statewide organizations, people of color organizations and other constituents underrepresented in our movement. However, the Board has ¯ largely ignored the fundamental issues that lead me into become involved: why we should march, the agenda, and the involvement of the entire GLBT commnnity. I cannot serve on a Board that will not open itself to greater input and see Letters, p. 3 Letters Policy Tulsa Family News welcomes letters on issues which we’ve covered or on issues you think need to be considered. You may request that your name be withheld but letters must be signed & have phone numbers, or be hand delivered. 200 word letters are preferred. Letters to other publications will be printed as is appropriate. �Talking with people inthe community, I was relieved to learn that I was hardly the only one who was disappointed with the celebrated Chastity Bono. Ms. Bono was "the keynote speaker" at the recent Red Ribbon Gala benefiting Tulsa CARES, our local co-ordinating organization for HIV/AIDS services. The dinner was nice enough and the attendance was about double that of last year’s inaugural event. The organizers dearly deserve praise for their efforts. But Ms. Bono was, to be kind, unimpressive, both as a speaker and at her book signing at Tnlsa’s Gay Community Services Center. To a number of observers at the Center, it appeared that Ms. Bono had little interest in being there. At the dinner, she fredy admitted that she’d made no effort to prepare any.remarks -and that degree of preparation showed. Two things saved her performance. First, it was mercifully short, and second, she did have a good, if scatological, anecdote about confronting the Rev. Fred Phelps of "godhatesfags" infamy in Topeka at a booksigning. Her appearance may indeed have helped the event. Attendance at the Red Ribbon Gala was about double but then that might have happened just from being the second year for the event. Her appearance does raise questions, though, about America’s preocuppation with celebrity and notoriety. After meeting Ms. Bono, it’ s hard not to regard her as a v cry ho-hum ’~v onderbread dyke" (as one of my Lesbian friends put it) who but for the accident of her birth would hardly be getting a second hearing,!et alone a book contract. Ms. Bono’s elevation seems to exemplify the worstAm~rican tendency to Value notoriety over any shred of content. But what really raises some concern about her appearance was learning that despite her having reduced her appearance fee by one-half, it still cost almost $10,000 for her irresistible charms. Our sou~,,ce indicates that Ms. Bono normally charges $15,000 for her appearances" but that du~ to her friendship with the daughter of PFLAG’s Nancy McDonald, Bono reduced it to only $7,500, plus expenses, of course. This is what many wouM call a damn fine racket. One would hope that the organizers came up with aspecial donor to take on these expenses andno harm was-done to the genuine financial needs of Tulsa CARES. And no doubt organizers will argue that it wonld not have been nearly as successful without her appearance. But all I can think of is how much medicine or food that $10,000 might have bought for persons living with AIDS Hello, the peop!e, this is supposed to be all about? Maybe that $10k s money that would not have come into this effort except for supporting Ms. Bono in the fashion to which she’s become accustomed. But then, maybe, just maybe, it could have been given to care-giving, and surely, there are speakers, ones who actually prepare their remarks and who have something worth saying, who’d speak for, say, only two or three thousand. Makes you wonder, don’t it? - Tom Ne.al, editor & publisher Several special ’levels. of participation in the event are available with,the most cxdflsiCe being the Platinum table ($ 2500), which includes six seats at a table with Congressman Frank. There will be only one Platinum table. Also Offered is the Gold level, a table with 8 seats and an invitation to the cocktail party with the Congressman ($1500), a SilVer level ($250) which is two seats and cocktails, and a Bronze level ($500), a table for 8 and the .cash bar cocktail party. For tickets or for more information, call 743-4297. Also, Sunday morning Congressman Frank will probably be attending an interfaith prayer breakfast. Details for that event will be announced soon. Also in honor of Lesbian and Gay Pride, Community Unitarian Universalist Cohgtegation (cuuc) has invited the:Rev. DougStrong.of Community UU Church ~h ~iano~ T~xas to be guest minister attheir Sunday, May 16th, 1 lain service. After the service, all are invited to’join CUUC and Community of Hope ~for a potluck picnic cookout.~ The service and picnic .will be at Community of Hope Church, 2545 So..Yale where CUUC meets regularly. Guests are encouraged to bring both lawn chairs and food to share or t6 cook. The Rev. S trong i s a 6th generation Uni taft an-Univ ers ali s t and an openl~ Gay. man who has served congregations in Maine, Massachusetts, Virginia, California, Wisconsin and Arizona. Mr. Strong was the first openly Gay man to be called to serve as a pastorAn the history of the UnitarianUniversalism f~iith. Thiswas in 1980 inAugusta, Maine.- by Tom Neal Editor & Publisher The Tulsa WorM really is gettmg better. Whileit’s not of the quality of The Dallas Morning News or other such papers,itis shedding some of its more parochial qualities. Of course, since the state’s only other major daily is The ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ " ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ " ; ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ : ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ : advertise my gift shop, tomfoolery! which now has transmuted into The Pride Store at Tulsa’s Gay Community Center. The World’s anti-Gay policy stung PFLAG, Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, more recently when the orgamzation placed an advertisement Oklahoman, now officially recognized as supporting fair treatment for Lesbians and the worst paper an the United States as The Tulsa World Gays but was not allowed to spell out their Oklahomans have long known, it’s never full legal name because, of course, it really is Settln$ been hard for The World to look better. includes the forbidden word: "gay". better. While it’s not More investigative journalism is being In contrast, The Worm accepted an allowed at The World. So instead of just advertisement from West Tulsa churches of the quality of supporting the status quo, an elected attacking Gay people but The ~VorM The Dallas official like Dist. 4 City Councilor Anna allowed the churches to use the word Falling is being held accountable for her "gay"! It’s bad enough that they have the Morrdn¢ News liberal spending of public dollars on bigoted policy but worse that they enforce or other such "working" vacations or for possible it selectively. conflicts of interest she may have had And it only adds injury to insult that The papers, it is sheddln$ when her spouse was applying for public World, counter to the pohcies of the best some of its more monies which theCouncil would have to media corporations in the country, has no approve. non-discrimination policy that includes paroehlaJ qualities. This last month, The Worm also printed "sexual orientation" to protect the Lesbian Of course, slnee the a week series of in,depth stories about and Gay reporters and staff. Nor has the state’s only other Tnlsa’s Latino communities. This series corporation seen fit to provide equal pay is similar to ones done aboutTulsa s Black for equal work by providing benefits for major daily is communities. All this is very well and the families of Lesbian and Gay workers. good. Tulsa’s "establishment," our Tl~e Oldal~oman, In a day when health care is so expensive wealthy, our influential have long taken and benefits become a significant part of now offleially advantage of Tulsa’s minority comthe "total employment package", this is no reeoSnlzed as the munities without sharing the benefits, little issue. But maybe it shouldn’t be too surprising without sharing the decision-making worst paper in the process,-most often not acknowledging that The Worm doesn’t recognize the United States as even the existence of our communities. families of their Gay workers since part-0f The fact that The WorM, the ultimate The World’s anti-Gay policy also includes Oklahomans have establishment mou~piece of Tiflsa, the a refusal to print engagement, anniversary lon$ known, country club paper par excellence, is now or tmion announcements for Gay and willing to acknowledge the existence of Lesbian couples. Several years ago, v~fien it’s never been hard Latino, Black, Indian and Asian I asked Joe Worley about thi~ discrifor commlmil~es is.progress. minatory policy, he responded by asking But the real proof of The World’s The World if all I had to do each day was to dreamup commitment to journalistic fundamentals, hard questions for The Tulsa World. The to look better. i.e. covering the community as it is. rather answer to thatis "no"but the issue remains. than as its ownership wants to present it, will come Would The WorMban such ads from interracial couples ? when The World does a similar piece on Tulsa’s Gay, Those relationships were once not recognized as legal, Lesbian, Bi and Transgendered’communities. in many states. Ironically, more than five years ago, World reporters All this might not be that surprising for a corporation were set to do such a series. I discussed aspects of the which has barely integrated its newsroom racially, and proposalwithTulsaWorldreporters,JanetPearsonand which was cited for (and settled) an EEOC (Equal David Fallis. The proposal was killed by-then executive Employment Opportunity Commission) complaint for editor, Bob Haring. And while I believe Joe Worley, racist hiring practices (this according to their own current executive editor, is fundamentally a fair person, pages). It still doesn’t make it right. in general, and in particular towards.Gay people, it So while we are making progress with The World, appears that he is constrained by the prejudices of the they really have a still some way to go. And as daily paper’s ownership. newspapers struggle to retain their relevancy in an The Tulsa World’s owners and top business increasingly media-diverse culture, organizations like management are responsible for the newspaper’s many The World will have to lose their country-club year’ s old and quite official anti-Gay advertising policies. narrowness, with its largely useless and clearly I first encountered these policies in the middle 80’s pretentious regular columns devoted to who attended when a Lesbian businesswoman tried to advertise her what soiree, and their outdated view of how-minority Gay oriented book and gift shop. I later encountered the Tulsans, Gay as well as racial and religious groups, are exact same policy almost 10 years laterwhen I tried to to be treated, and look at our world as it really is. more allies were reached and involved, more media coverage was generated in every state on GLBT issues than had ever been achieved at the state level. Because : scrutiny from the communities we claim to represent. ¯ . of its overwhelming success, the campaign is likely to ¯ ° Thesecondreasonformyresiguationisthatlcontinue ¯ be repeated in years to come, perhaps even annually. : to doubt the value of this March at this time. I honor the "" The National Gay and Lesbiafi Task Fbrce has ¯ valueofour previous nafi6nal Marches andacknowledge ¯ committedthevastmajorityofitsresources to deepening them as having been political turning points in the lives and growing political power in every state. The time I of many current leaders and activists. However, the ¯ have spent on the March Boardhas taken away from my effectiveness of sflCh dn enormous commiimeiit ofiJme ¯ °iniportani work ~t( ~he state and i~tl level. I need to and resources at a moment when more and more energy ¯ concentrate my energies on. NGLTF’s efforts to build is demanded of the GLBT movement at the state and this state-by-state movement and on advocating for our local level is questionable. Nothing so dramatically ¯ grassroots constituents at the national level This is the reinforced this as the success of Equality Begins at ¯ heart and soul Of our work and it requires us to have the ¯ courage of our convictions. Home. ¯ ’Held one month ago and sponsored by the Federation Finally as a Board member, I have had personal ¯ of LGBT Statewide Political Organizations and the financial responsibility and liability for the non-profit Task Force, EBAH was supported by national and local ¯ corporation producing the March. I am concerned that groups, including the March Board. It demonstrated the ¯ the March is not moving forward in a strategic manner. ¯ incredible power ofinveslingin state and local movement I am also concerned that neither the Boardmembers nor building. It also exemplified the real possibilities for ] our GLBT community have full access to information political advancement of GLBT equality in eyery state~ ] about March management and finances. More favorable bills were introduced in state legislatures, ¯ see Letters, p. 10 ¯ �Arkansans Challenge: After learning she was a Lesbian, he refused to her and told her to leave his office, she told Gay Foster Care Ban l treat the Concord Monitor. LITFLE ROCK (AP) - Six people are suing the state, seeking to overturn a state policy that bans , Gays from serving as foster parents. TheArkansas : Child Welfare Agency Review Board approved ¯ the banlast month. It also prevents heterosexuals from serving as foster parents, if a homosexual lives in their home. "This prohibition imposes a significant burden on (the plaintiffs’).., intimate, highly personal relationships with their partners, as they will not be allowed to serve as foster parents unless,they terminate those intimate relationships," says the lawsuit filed in Pulaski County Chancery Court: Department .of Human Services spokesman Joe Quinn said the state expected the issue to go to court. "I don’t think there was ever much doubt," he said. The state averages 2,600 foster children daily in about 700 homes, Quinn said. He said the state doesn’t keep track of how many foster parents are homosexuals. Board member Wanda Gooden said before the ban was approved that it was "my strong conviction that children thrive best in two-parent homes where there is a father and mother." Ms. Gooden said the new rulewonld not significantly reduce the number of foster families in Arkans as. According to the law suit, the plaintiffs are two Eureka Springs men who adopted children ages 6 and 2 and want to be foster parents; two Little Rock men who want to serve as foster parents; a Fayetteville woman who wants,,to be a foster parent and a Fayetteville man who has a homosexual son living at home. Fewer But More Vicious Attacks BOSTON (AP) - The number of hate cnmes against Gays in Massachusetts dropped last year, but the attacks that did happen were more vicious, according to state figures. There was a 36% drop in the number of hate crimes against Gays and Lesbians, Bisexuals and Transgenders reported to police and other organizations, said the Fenway Community Health Center in Boston. But there was a 13 % increase in attacks that caused serious injury, and a 5% increase in attacks with a weapon. Nationally, the number of hate crimes against Gays was down 4%last year from 1997, but cases of violence increased 12%. The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs said 33 Gay men and women were, killed in hatemotivated attacks last year, twice the number in 1997. The coalition said two of those killed were in Boston, but police said they were not certain those killings were hate crimes. Friends said a27-year-old Gay man committed suicide last October, about one year after two men beat him in Boston’s South End and carved an "F" on his shoulder with a knife. "Let’S not be fooled by the numbers" showing a decrease in hate crimes, said Attorney GEneral Thomas Reilly. "I see a very frightening increase in violence.’" ¯ David Shannon of the Fenway center’s Violence Recovery Program said that since the killing in October of a Gay college student in Laramie, Wyo., "there has been ahigher visibility of hate crimes against Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Transgenders." "There has also been increased targeting and violence," he said. Dentist Refuses to Treat Lesbian FRANKLIN, N.H. (AP) - Tricia Thompson had been going to the same dentist for two years. Dr. Jay Roper had done her fillings and cleanings and repatred cracked teeth. He s always bee nice," she said. Or he was until two weeks ago, when Thompson came in for a root canal and Roper questionedher abouther sexual orientation. Katharine Daley, executive director of the state Human Rights Commission, said for a dentist to refuse to treat someone because,of their sexual orientauon is illega! in New Hampshire. Thompson said she may file a civil rights complaint against Roper. ~f the commission finds he i!legally discriminated against her, he could be fined up to $10,000 and ordered to pay compensatory damages. Thompson said when she first signed up as Roper’s patient, she put a former partner’s name on the"spouse" lineofher registrationform. The name was clearly a woman’s. About a month ago, when Thompson went "ln with a bad toothache, she was asked to fill out a new card, ~he said. She put down the name of her new partner; they had performed a commitment ceremony in February. Roper then told her she needed a root canal, put in a temporary filling and told her to return March 23. By the time she came back, accompanied by her partner, the temporary filling had come out and her tooth was in pain. B efore taking her into his office, Roper held up the registration card she’d filled out and told her he had questions about it, she said. Thompson and her partner said Roper asked whether Thompson’s "spouse" was the woman with her. She said yes. He asked whether she had been married to her previous partner, then divorced and remarried. When she said yes, he asked if she had a marriage license. She said she asked him, "What business is it of yours?" He shot. back, "Do you have AIDS or something?" she said. She said she didn’t, but she also told him she did not like his questions. Roper shook his head, told her, "I.don’t believe in it," and insisted he had the right to refuse anyone treatment, she said. Roper then put her file, her registration card and chart on the counter and told her to take it and leave the office. Thompson said she reminded him she had been his patient for years. But he said he hadn’t previously realized that her partner was a woman, she said. "Basically, he kicked me out of his office and said have a nice life," Thompson said. ’He didn’t even ask me how my tooth was." Roper confirmed that he denied Thompson treatment: ’qZor my own personal reasons, yes,’’ he told the Monitor. ’~ecaus e of my own personal philosophy, yes." Asked what his philosophy was, Roper replied, "I’hat stays in the office." Asked if he routinely informed patients about his philosophy, he responded, "What philosophy?" Roper said he told Thompson she could file a complaint with the state dental board if she was unhaplSy withhis decision. The American Dental Association’s "Principles of Ethics," which govern New Hampshire dentists, say they cannot refuse to treat patients on the basis of race, creed, color, sex or national origin. It does not mention sexual preference, but does say, ’‘The dentist’s primary obligations include dealing wi~ people justly and delivering dental care without prejudice." A spokesman at ADA headquarters said the issue of withholding treatment because of a patient’s sexual preference had ne~er come " up before. However, New Hampshire law is dear, Daley -" said. In New Hampshire, health providers are : considered a "public accomodation;" and equal ¯. access to public accomodations for Gays and ¯ Lesbians is protected by state law, she said. ¯ Gay Priest Being : Considered As Bishop ¯ WEARE, N.H.(AP) - The Rev. Canon Gene ". Robinson again is a finalist for bishop and if he ~ becomes the spiritual leader of the Diocese of ¯ Rochester, N.Y., he will be the first openly Gay : bishop in the 2.5 million-member Episcopal : Church of America~ ¯ Robinson one of five nominees from a field of ¯ 86 applicants for the bishopric, was cited by the Kelly Kirby CPA, PC Certified Public Accountant a professional corporation 74-7-5466 4021 S. Harvard, Suite 210, Tulsa 74135 MCC-United formerly Family of Faith & Greater Tulsa MCC Joined as one body of believers. Come celebrate with us. Sunday Services, 11 am 1623 North Maplewood, 838-1715 GLAD Lesbian Affordable Daycare) Joan & Teresa Wright P.O. BOX 54281 Tulsa, Oklahoma 74155 (918) 808-8026 Mingo Valley Flowers 9413 E. 31st St. Tulsa. 74145 91S-663-5934 fax: 663-5834 800-~.A.A. 7 5934 Sandra Hill M.S. 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We wanted someone who would be apastor to all our clergy and their families and he’ s known for his work in clergy wellness," she told The Concord Monitor. Robinson, assistant to Bishop Douglas Theuner of the Diocese of New Hampshire and a priest for 25 years, finished third last year in his bid to become bishop of the Diocese of Newark, N.J. "As honored as I felt to be nominated in Newark, I’m overwhelmed at the privilege of being nominated in a diocese like Rochester and the courage they have shown in nominating me," he said. "The way I can help Gay and Lesbian people the most is by being a good bishop, not a Gay bishop," he said. But his sexuality will be alightning rod for some. At the international level, the church has taken a strong stand against homosexuality. A majority of Anglican bishops at the Lambeth Conference of Bishops in England last year declared homosexuality contrary to scripture. While that group has no authority over the Episcopal Church the Anglican communion in the United States, it has pressured American bishops to conform. Thatpressure also comes from within. The conservative Episcopalians United takeissue with Robinson, believing homosexuality sinful. The group worries his dection could cause rifts in the church. ’’We expect a higher standard of our leaders than our members," said its board chairman, the Rev. Sandy Greene of Christ Church in Denver, Colo., who supports ministries that encourage peopl9 to renounce their homosexuality. Robinson was married with two children when he acknowledged he was Gayin 1986. Henow lives with his partner, Mark Andrew. In early June, he and2Madrew will meet with voting delegates throughout the diocese. On June 19, the diocese’s clergy and three lay people from each of the 54 congregations will vote on a candidate, who needs a simple majority from both groups to win. Should Robinson be elected, he faces an even bigger hurdle. To be ordained bishop, he must be "consented to" by a simple majority of the nation’s Episcopal bishops as wall as standing committees, comprised of laity and clergy. The church went through a similar controversy in 1994 when it elected the first female bishop, Barbara Harris of the Diocese of Massachusetts. Yet it hasn’t rejected a bishop elected by a diocese since thelate 1800s. James DeKovan, rejected twice, now is a church saint. New Haven Police Targeting Gays NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - Police here admit they are targeting bJacks, Hispanics, women, Gays and Lesbians - not as suspects, but as candidates to join the force. At a time when images of police brutality have been seared into the American psyche, the New Haven Police Department is recruiting the very people who have often been seen as their victims. The department began its campaign recently, printing advertisements in alternative publications and distributing fliers to inner city organizations, churches, and a commumty center for Gays and Lesbians. The fliers say, "I want you" in bold letters and feature photographs of minority and women officers. ’’We want populations thathave been traditionally underserved by police and underrepresented in police departments," said Kay D. Codish, director of training and education. Similar recnfitment drives have had mixed results in San Francisco, Boston and elsewhere, said Penny Harrington, director of the National Center for Women & Policing in Los Angeles and former chief of the Portland, Ore., police department. "A lot of women and minorities do not see policing as a place for them. In the media, on television, they’re frequently shown in subsidiary roles," Harrington said. "If an agency is serious, they have to go out and target." Hubert Williams, director of the Police Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based research organization, said mistrust of police in some minority communities has reached crisis proportions because of "racial profiling," allegations that police make traffic stops and detain people based on race. "In order for the police officers to do theirjob, they must have public support," said Williams, f6rmer director of police in. Newark, N.J. "You have ¯ " populations that see the police in hostile ways, that ¯ they’re not there to protect and to serve, but to control and : ¯ ¯ oppress." James Mclver of the National Orgamzation of Black ¯ ." Law Enforcement Executives in Alexandria. Va., said ¯ ¯ studies show that a police force that reflects the community ¯ ¯ it serves demographically is less likely to have accusations ¯ of police brutality lodged against it. He pointed to two : ¯ recent cases in New York City. Four police officers have ¯ been charged in the fatal shooting of Amadou Diallo, an ¯ unarmed West African, and four other city officers are ¯ charged with sodomizing a Haitian suspect. ¯ According to the U.S. Justice Department Bureau of ¯ Statistics, there are about 664,000 full-time police officers ¯ in the country. At the municipal level, the latest figures ¯ : available show that roughly 11% are black, 6% are ¯ ¯ Hispanic, and about 9% are women. The federal ¯" government does not keep track of officers’ sexual ¯¯ "orientation. New Haven’s 447-member department ¯ already is diverse compared to national statistics, with : ¯ ¯ 39% being minorities and 16% female. ¯ In a newspaper editorial earlier this month, Police ¯ ¯ Chief MelvinWearing said thereis no quota and minorities ¯ ¯ " ¯ don’t get extra points on their applications just for being ¯ who they are. "Our goal is simply to increase the number ¯ of applicants from those groups that, in the past, have not : ¯ presented themselves for consideration in substantial ¯ " ¯ numbers," he said. ¯ However, police union officials have questioned the ¯ recruitment effort and some have said they fear white ¯ ¯ male candidates will feel unwelcome to apply for the 40 ¯ ¯ job openings. "If you start encouraging one certain group, ¯ ¯ others might feel slighted. We would like to see an open ¯ recnfitment. The key is that tlmy be qualified,’7 said Frank ¯ Lombardi, vice president of the local union. Most, if not ¯ : ¯ all, police departments say they are "’equal opportunity employers," but Codish believes law enforcement agencies ¯ must go further by advertising in unlikely places such as women’s health clinics and day care centers. ¯ Catholics Attack Boston Partners Benefits BOSTON (AP) - City paramedic Kay Schmidt works ¯ hard and thinks she deserves healthinsurance benefits for ¯ her familyjust like any other city worker. But the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts says its members don’t ¯ want the city to subsidize Lesbian relationships like ¯ Schmidt’s. The Supreme Judicial Court heard arguments ¯ in the Catholic Action League’s challenge to the city’s ¯ domestic parmer policy. The court’s ruling could affect ¯ Boston and other communities that offer benefits for ¯ domestic partners. Springfield, Northampton, Brookline ¯ and Cambridge also provide domestic partner benefits. The question before the state’ s highest court was whether ¯ Boston had the authority to extendhealth benefits to those ¯ not stipulated by state law. "Providing these health ¯" insurance benefits complements the state law, it certainly ¯ doesn’t defeat its purposes," said Jennifer Levi, of the Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, who argued ¯ before the court on behalf of Schmidt. ¯ Vincent McCarthy, representing the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts, said the city needed to get ¯ permission from the Legislature, but failed last year when ¯ Gov. Patti Cellucci vetoed the measure. Mayor Thomas ." Menino then signedanexecutive orderputting themeasure ¯ into effect. ’"What they’re trying to do now is an end run ¯ around the Legislature," McCarthy told the court. ¯ McCarthy, counsel for the American Center for Law ¯ and Justice, whichdescribes itsdf as a.nonprofit pro" family organization, said the city’s executive order was ¯ legally and morally wrong. "It encourages heterosexual : and homosexuals to form what, in essence, are common ¯ law relationships which are illegal in Massachusetts, ¯ without the responsibilities of marriage, and really ¯ discourages people from getting married as well," ¯ McCarthy said. The SJC took the arguments under ¯ advisement. ." Boston defines domestic partners as two people, of at ¯ least 18 years of age, who are not married, but who share ¯ living expenses so that one assumes responsibility for the ¯ welfare of the other. It is not limited to Gay couples. ¯ Schmidt, speaking outside the courthouse with her ¯ partner Diane Pullen and their 8-month-old daughter, ¯ said she was not looking for special privileges as a : Lesbian, but the benefits her co-workers enjoy. She said ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ : ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ : ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ : ; ; ¯ ¯ ¯ .. ¯ ¯ ¯ they decided Pullen would stay home with the baby and their 7-year-old child. They said it was perfect timing when the city began offering health benefits for domestic partners in November. Were they to lose that benefit, the two women said Pullen would likely have to return to work and the two would pay for day care for the baby. Responding to those critical of their"lifestyle," S chmidt said, "We are two parents rinsing two children. I work, we’re a family. There’s no way anybody can deny we’re a family. And why shouldn’t we have affordable health insurance like any other family, like your family?" Federal Hate Crimes Bill Uncertain WASHINGTON (AP) - Legislation that would broaden the federal hate crimes law by including offenses based on sexual orientation faces an uncertain future despite President Clinton’s call for lawmakers to pass it this year. A similar bill, which Clinton also pushed, died in the last Congress. Neither the House nor the Senate or any of the appropriate commi ttees voted onit. The White House and other supporters hope public outrage over recent wellpublicized hate crimes will help advance the measure tbis time around. But opposition, however, appears so strong that a lead sponsor, Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., doubts whether Congress will approveit. "We have to face the reality that it’ s a very tough sell," Specter, a former local prosecutor, said in a recent interview. "After a while you can develop a majority (of votes)but I think we’re a long way from it." Senate Judiciary Committee hearings are expected later this month. At a recent White House ceremony, Clinton said Congress should pass the bill this year and "send a message to ourselves and to the world that we are going into 21st century determined to preach and to practice what is right." The Hate Crimes Prevention Act would add disability, gender and sexual orientation to federal anti-bias laws and make it easier for the Justice Department to inv eslagate and prosecute such offenses. Current law prohibits crimes based on race, color, religion or national origin. Eight state have no hate crimes laws. Laws in 21 states cover sexual orientation, 22 state laws include gender and 21 cover disability. Richard Socarides, Clinton’s civil rights adviser, said the White House was more optamistic this time because of public sentiment over the killings and the upcoming Senate hearings ,The signs are better than ever before," he said. David Smith, spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign, a Gay and Lesbian political advocacy group, cited a Gallup poll, conducted in mid-Febrnary, that found that 70% of the public favors having a hate crimes law in their state. ’’We would be very happy for there to be no need for this legislation," he said. Some opponents believe federal Intervention is unnecessary, because states already are prosecuting allegations of hate crimes, and discriminatory. Social conservatives,meanwhile, view thebill as creating speci~d protections for Gays. "By including hate crimes enhancement for some groups, the message is that the government cares more about those victims than other people," said Robert H. Knight, senior director for cultural studies at the conservative Family Research council. Among the recent hate-crime cases: - In Texas, white supremacist John William King was sentenced to death in February for dragging James Byrd Jr., who was black, to his death behind a pickup truck in June 1998. Two other men await trial in the slaying. - In Wyoming, Russell Henderson, one of two young men charged in the beating death of Matthew Shepard, a Gay college student, pleaded guilty Monday to murder andwas se~itencedtotwoconsecudvelifetermsinprison. - In Alabama, two men face murder charges in the Feb. 19 killing of Billy Jack Gaither, who was Gay. Police say he was beaten with an ax handle and burned to death because he allegedly made a pass at one of the men. �he, too, is dead. So when Coburn Calls For "¯ believes MacGuffie, who had decided to become a H IV Prog ram A udits "- "medi missiona ,"touredthedis°aseinfested areas of western Kenya 12 years OKLAHOMA C1TY (AP) - Questions " ago, sheunderstoodhow muchits residents about spending pmctices and other aspects " were suffering. 1,,was appalled at what, of federal AIDS/HIV programs have . they didn’t have, said the 75-year-old prompted U.S. Rep. Tom Cobum and two plastic surgeonfrom New City, New Y ork. Republican colleagues to request an audit ¯ She returned home and founded the " Society for Hospital and Resources of those programs. Coburn, a practicing physician from ¯ Exchange to improve health care for westem Kenyaby sta_,aing clinics, donating Oklahoma, House Majority Leader Dick Armey of Texas and Commerce medical equipment and educating Committee Chairman Tom Bliley of " residents how to avoid disease. Kenya’s Virgima sent a letter requesting the audit " government provides little medical care to the General Accounting Office on ¯ for many rural districts, leaving private Tuesday. They question spending ¯ groups like SHARE to care,f0r the _ps~o.pl,e. Inrecognition of SHARE s work, Lion s practices and other aspects of the programs. ¯ Club International named MacGnffie its "X2ongress has a moral obligation to 1998 Humanitarian of theYear, anhonor those suffering with AIDS/HIV to ensure ¯ previously given to Mother Teresa and that the nearly $9 bilfion directed to federal ¯ Jimmy Carter. The award comes with a $200,000 grant. AIDS programs is s,p,ent for purpos.~ for On a recent trip, she and other SHARE this it is intended, Coburn said m a ¯ prepared statement. "Over the past five ¯ volunteersfromNewYorktreatedpatients years I have encountered too many and sprinkled donations throughout instances where federal AIDS/HIV funds " Nyanza province, about 160 miles (250 ". kms) west of the capital, Nairobi. They have been misused." In addition to requesting any evidence ¯ gave money to expand a local hospital. on misuse Of federal AIDS funds, the ¯ They paid the school fees for AIDS orphans. They donated drugs to treat letter requests a report on whether ¯ disparities existinAIDS funding regarding children wit.h, disfiguring Birkitts Lvmphoma. "It s a greater need here than race or gender, what criteria are used to ~ .,h ....l~e" said Eleanore Schafer, a determine AIDS Drug Assistance Pro.gra~. N’~e~v~’~]t~y’;o~ial worker who set. up distributions and whether tkose criteria ¯ SHARE’s program for sponsoring favor any particular region, and information regarding compliance with orphans. ~ David Violante, a paramedic from federal laws within the programs.. ¯ Wallkill, New York, was on his fifth visit Other requests made in the letterinclude information on how much money from- ¯¯ to train Kenyans in emergency medical federal AIDS programs is used to pay for ¯ techniques. He met MacGuffie nine years overhead and other non-care related ¯ when she taught a course for his paramedics class, andthree years later she activities rather than on direct treatment ¯ persuaded him and three other paramedics of patients. ¯ to visit Kenya. "She just has so much " passioninitandputssomuchenergyint° it, that probably impressed me more than Black Men 7x More Likely For AIDS " anything," Violante said. ¯ local paramedics and brought over MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Public " 500 Violanteesdmatedhehadtrainedabout health officials are sounding an alarm, for hundreds of thousands of doll.ars worth of Alabama black males, who are seven ttmes ] donated backboards, stretchers, cervical more likely than white males (o contract ¯ collars and other trauma equipment. the virus that causes AIDS. The, MacGuffie has spent millions here, she Department of Public Health, which held ~ said, wheedling donations from drug a news conference last month to discuss ¯. companies, civic groups and corporations. the problem, said the spread of the disease ¯ Shehas raised.tens of thousands of dollars has reached crisis proportions among black ¯ from her Rockland County neighbors and ¯ collected single dollars from children she men. ¯ The dan,g,er .lies in the f.ac,t that. m~any lectured to at schools. She remains blacksdon tknow they areimected, they determined to continue working in Kenya might believe the disease is still one of ¯ as tong as Americans support her. homosexual white males, said Jane ¯, Editor’s Note: SHARE, c/o Martha Cheeks, AIDS director at the state Health MacGuffie, 591 S. Mountain Rd., New Department. A former public health City, New York. USA, 10956. worker in Jefferson County, Ms. Cheeks Dentist Settles HIV Bias Lawsuit recalled working with the first people i,n Birmingham to be affected by HIV, which causes AIDS. Most were homosexual white males. BOSTON (AP) -A dentist and his office The disease is now striking more heax[ily ...... exuals ¯ "We’re seeing manager will pay a combined $60,000 for among black laetelu~zthis as aleading causeof death for Africanallegedly committing Medic~’," d fr, aud and discriminating against people who were American males ages 25 to 44, and that’ s HIV-positive, the attorney general’s office got to stop," she said. She said the state said. Dr. Guillermo Recinos, 38, and has spen{ $1.6 million On HIV/AIDS education programs since 1993, but more ¯ Yolanda Jereidini, 46, were sued in civil court in October 1998 by the attorney must be done. "It’s not working," she ¯ general’s office. They were accused of said. "We need to join commumty efforts ~ violating federal discrimination laws by to address this at a local level." ¯ refusing to treat patients who were HIVpositive. They also allegedly told employees not to take patients who wereHIV-positive at their clinic in the city’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood. When one dentist in the ¯ office took a patient who was HIVpositive, Recinos andJereidinididn’tgive ¯ ¯ ¯ KISUMU, Kenya (AP) - Dr. Martha ¯ ,’Bobby" MacGuffie has known pain. Two of her sons died of the AIDS they ¯ HIV Fight in Kenya contracted from blood transfusions. Their older brother, crushed by the deaths, disappeared into a haze of drugs. She Power To Do Good. 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The remaining $8,450 will be : donated to the Battered Children and : Women’s program at the Elizabeth Stone ¯ House in Jamaica Plain. Under the terms ¯ ¯ of the Medicaid fraud settlement approved by Kottmyer, Recinos alone will pay ¯ $40,000 in civil penalties and restitution. : private market, which represents five ¯ Botswana, South Africa’s wealthier to be given to fight AIDS. months of wages for an average South " neighbor to the north, has introduced free UNAIDS says 95% of the people living ¯ AZT treatment for infants born to HIVAfrican. ¯ with the AIDS virus are in developing The Centers for Disease Control and ¯ positive mothers, said Vicki Ehrich ¯ countries, most of them in Africa. Prevention in Atlanta recommends the ¯ spokeswoman for Glaxo Wellcome, which ¯ Agency officials said developing three-drug therapyforhealthcare workers ¯ produces AZT. ." countries are also contributing to the who have been exposed to HIV through Glaxo Wellcome wants to supply the ¯ campaign against AIDS. The study contaminated needles because some ¯ South African government with the drug ¯ showed domestic spending varied from a ¯ studies have found AZT alone has for $65 perbirth, orone-third of its market low of 8% in the Caribbean and 9% in prevented them from contracting the virus. ¯ price. But the government says that’s too Africa to 57% in Asia, 67% in Latin ¯ "The state has removed the death : expensive. ’°We cannot afford this type of America and 79% in Eastern Europe. sentence" for crime, said Johannesburg intervention," said Khangelani journalist Charlene Smith. "Now we are ¯ Hlongwane, spokesman for the South asking them to remove the death sentence ¯ African Health Ministry. for rape survivors." Smith, who wrote ¯ Physicians at state-rim hospitals have recently about being raped and her ¯ clashed with the government on theissue. attempts afterward to obtain AIDS -related ¯ ’oWe’re trying to convincethegovernment BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Asia’s medical treatment, spoke at a news economic crisis is worsening Thailand’s that it’s actually cost effective," said Dr. ¯ conference sponsored by women’s groups ¯ Avy Violari, a pediatrician at Chris Hani ¯ AIDS crisis, experts said, predicting that ¯ more than 100,000 Thai children will be who represent rape victims. : Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto. Doctors and others have also ." The United Nations AIDS program ." orphaned by the disease by the end of the complained about a decision by South ¯ estimates that about 600,000 HIV ¯ year 2000. Africa’s Health Ministry last year to shut ¯ infections are spread during childbirth ¯ Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai, down pilot projects to treat HIV-positive ¯ worldwide, but no figures for South Africa ¯ opening Thailand’s annualNationalAIDS expectant mothers in the last month of ." were available. Transmission of HIV ¯ Seminar, told hundreds of researchers and pregnancy with AZT, which reportedly ¯ through sexual assault has been less ¯ health workers that the government will ¯ can reduce by half the transmission rate of studied, partlybecause rape and AIDS are ¯ scrimp to find now-scarce funding to keep ¯ : HIV to newborns. the AIDS epidemic under control. not as widespreadin Europe and the United A woman in South Africa is three times : States, wheremostresearchis carried out, ¯ But Wirut Poolcharoen, a Health ¯ ¯ morelikely to be raped than in the United ¯ ." Ministry official, acknowledged that Smith said. ¯ States, and South African men are much ¯ Thailand’s government does not know ¯ JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) how to cope with an expected explosion Women’s groups criticized the South : more likely to be infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, said Nthabiseng in the number of AIDS orphans. Most are ¯ ¯ African government Thursday for failing Mogale, head of People Opposed to taken care of by their grandparents or to provide medical treatment they say Women Abuse. South African women are other family members. "The number of could help prevent victims of rape from ¯ : entitled to treatment as a human right, ¯ GENEVA (AP) - Spending by donor orphans whose parents die of AIDS will contracting the AIDS virus from their : countries to combat AIDS in developing ¯ double by the end of the year 2000,"Wirnt Mogale said. ¯ attackers. ¯ One in eight South African adults is ~ countries is failing to keep pace with the ¯¯ said. "The government does not yet know The activists are demanding the ¯ infected with HIV. The rate is tWice that ¯ spreadofthe disease, now infecting nearly how to carry such a huge burden to ensure government provide rape victims with a for pregnant women, the government has ¯ 6 millionpeople worldwide each year, the ¯ the well-being of these children." . " three-drug cocktail of AZT, 3TC and a said. Police say about 65,000 women and ¯ United Nations said recently. ¯" Statisticians at Mahidol University protease inhibitor Crixovan. The three"it is alarming that AIDS is expanding girls are assaulted every year, but activists ¯ released a report showing that in 1997, the drug cocktail is available for $820 on the ¯ three times faster than the funding to ¯ year that recession struck Thailand and insist the number is much higher. control it," said Dr. Peter Piot, executive : much of Southeast Asia, the country had director of UNAIDS, the Joint U.N. 34,349 AIDS orphans, about a quarter of Program on HIV/AIDS. Piot called on them under age five. By the end of 2000, ¯ industrialized nations to do more to fight the report predicts the total figure will be the disease in developing countries. ¯ 116,508childrenorphanedbyAIDS,with The agency said wealthy countries’ 30,845 of them under five¯ support for the global fight against AIDS Acquired immune deficiency syndrome IS being vastly outpacedby the epldennc, ¯ claimed 51,000 lives in Thailand in 1997 which has infected 47 million people over alone, according to research presented by the past two decades. That figure includes Bangkok’s prestigious Chulalongkorn those who have already died from the ¯ University. Death figures were not ¯ disease and those hying with HIV, the available for 1998. "It takes years for AIDS-causing virus. ~ p.eople to realize they have contracted the Funding to fight AIDS in developing virus, and its consequences are thereby countries was $273 million in 1997, less ¯ affecting quality of life of their family than double the $165 million spent in ¯ members and of society as a whole,"Wirnt 1990, it said. During the same period, the said. number of people living with HIV around In the early years after AIDS was the world more than tripled to 30.3 million ¯ discovered, Thailand refused to ¯ acknowledge it had a single case of the from 9.8 million. UNAIDS said a study by the Harvard disease, fearing damage to the lucrative University School of Public Health found prostitution industry that is a mainstay the United States was "by far the largest ¯ both of tourism and the sex lives of many tnbutor to the lnternat~onal campaign, ¯ Thai men. A change of attitude coupled giving $135.2 million-in 1997. But it said ¯ with aggressive condom distribution and that other countries ranked higher when ¯ education programs brought the epidemic their contributions were measured against ¯ somewhatundercontrolbythemid_ 1990s, the size of their economies. Norway gave ¯ but the gains are eroding due to cuts in the $ 93 for each $1 million of its gross national health budget in ’the recession-era product; the Netherlands gave $92. ¯ economy. The government’s spending on Denmark was third at $52 per 1 million of ¯ AIDS pre~iention has fallen about 25% to its gross national product, followed by ¯ 1.4 billion baht ($39 miillion) Since 1997. Sweden at $49. Australia gave $31, Canada ¯ Thailand needs to prepareitself to handle $21, Britain $19, Belgium $18, United ¯ the social and economic consequences of States $17, Finland $10, Switzerland and : AIDS and the HIV virus that leads to it, Germany $6 and Japan $2. ¯¯ said Supachai Kunarattanapruek, an Industrialized countries are spending adviser to the Health Ministry. I P Medical Excellence. Compassionate Care less than 1% of their development aid on ¯ Though Thailand spends little on longthe fight against AIDS, according to : term care for AIDS sufferers, the country UNAIDS. ’oWeighed against the global will pay a high price for the loss of catastrophe of the AIDS epidemic, the economically active people, experts said. ¯ level of spending for HIV prevention About two-thirds of the country’s AIDS around the world is minimal," Piot said. ¯ sufferers are 25-39 years old, their prime He said in order for any aid to benefit ¯ working years. ¯ developing countries, more money needs ¯ Economics Making :HIV Fight Harder So. African Women Criticize Govt. :$ for HIV Falling Behind Its Spread Medical Excellence And Compass.ionate Care S nce 1926. ¯ ¯ ST. JOHN MEDICAL CENTER �It’s the end of the season but things are ¯ relationship between the artist and patron, hardly slowing down. Tulsa Opera will ¯ and includes the museum’s patron, end its season with our favorite opera, " Thomas Gilcrease who with John D. Mozart’s Magic Flute. Performances are : Rockefeller, Jr. was a patron of artist May 1,6 & 8 at 8pm, except on Thursday, ¯ JosephHenry Sharp. Formoreinformation the6thandare or directions in the Chapthe to man Music museum, call Hall. This 596-2700 or in work, visit the German with website at translations www~ shown above T u 1 s a the stage, has Philharmonic not been seen will wrap up It in Tulsa in Chamber more thanl0 Classics years and the season with cast looks to pieces by be excellent. Bizet, Ravel It is, of course and Haydn on a fairy tale, May 7th at the complete with Waiters Arts an evil queen, Center at 319 East 21st Street and of course, Holland Hail we can all relate to that, can’t we? Don’t " School. Three local Episcopal choirs are ¯ featured, Saint John’s, Saint Dtmstan’s miss it. Switchinggearsfromtheartstoreligion, ¯ and Trinity’s. For tickets and moreinfo., those radical, free thinking, wild eyed " call 747-7445. liberals, those Presbyterians are going to ¯ Also, check out the Philharmonic’s havethenationalconferencefortheMore ¯ DesignerShowcaseat319East21stStreet. Light Presbyterians (the official,ly Gay- : It’s a great way to see what the latest in friendly ones) in Oklahoma’City at " high "foofI3"’ and decorating is and to OklahomaCityUniversity’sAngieSmith ," support a great organizatxon. This is the Memorial Chapel, NW 23rd and 26th year for the showcase and the 50th Blackwelder, on May 21-23. The program : year for the Philharmonic. Tickets are $10 begins with a dinner and worship service ¯ and it’s open Tues. to Sat. from 10-4pro at 6pm on Friday. Workshops are : and Thurs. from l0-8pm, Sundays l-4pm scheduledfrom8amto 10pmonSaturday ¯ but don’t get ther after 3pm or 7pm on and Sunday will be devoted to a"ministry ¯ Thurs. if you want to get in. FYI, no ¯ of presence." Speakers include Chris cameras and it’s not handicapped Glaser, Janie Spahr, Scott Anderson and accessible. more.Info:JohnMcNeese,405-848-2819 " Finally ourregular entertaiment writer or john33 @ix.netcom.com , shares the following with credit to "News Moving to the arts but still with a " oftheWeird"andofcourse, Rolling Stone: religious theme, Philbrook Museum opens : "Prominent ’Christian’ radical right an Italian Old Masters drawing exhibit in psychologist Patti Cameron told Rolling May.TheexhibitfeaturesworksbyCrespi, Stone magazine that he feared Gay sex Luti, Cambiaso andCantafiniandTiepolo would supplant heterosexual sex unless a and will hang from May 9 to Sept. 12. vigilant society repressed it. ’Marital sex Philbrook is at 2727 Rockford Rd. tends toward the boring,’ he said. Gilcrease Museum continues to ’Generally, it doesn’t deliver the kind of eelebrateits50thanniversarywithashow sheer sexual pleasure that homosexual opening on May 16th. ’q’aos Artists and sex does.’ ’If all one seeks is an orgasm,’ Their Patrons,1898 -1950" was organized he said, ’the evidence is that men do a by the Snite Museum at Notre Dame U. betterjobonmen, andwomenonwomen.’ but draws on the collections at the Metro’Homosexuality,’ he said, ’seems too politan, the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa powerful to resist.’ " Fe, the Harwood Museum of the Amazing. Time to set up more University of New Mex-ico in Taos, recruitment stations. With publicity like Chicago’s Art Institute and more. The this,ourplantorulethewofldwillproceed show parti-cularly explores the much faster... - TFN editors TOHR & Cimarron Alliance present Designer Showcase TULSA-The Council OakMen’s Chorale will present it’s spring concert "MUSIC" to be held on May 7 and 8, 1999, at All Soul’s Unitarian Church, 2952 S. Peoria. Concerts on both evenings will begin at 7 PM. Advance tickets are available from The Pride Store, chorale members or by contacting the COMC Ticket Office at 585-COMC. Tickets will also be available atthedoor. Tickets areS 10.00andadvance purchase is recommended due to sdl-out audiences at previous events. The program will feature a variety, of music from"Swell the Full Chorus" by G. F. Handel, to 60’s sensation’q’umArotmd, Look at Me". "Our audiences have come to expect the Standard choral repertoire ¯ with an occasional twist of humor that ¯ only the men of Council Oak can do so ¯ eloquently.., trust me, concert-goers will not be disappointed," said Rick Former, ¯ Jr., Artistic Director. Recently, members of Council Oak ¯ Men’s Chorale performed on the floor of ¯ the Oklahoma State House of ¯ Representatives as a lobbying effort for passage of House Bill 1211. The work ¯ performed there, ’Wile Voice," was an ¯ original composition by chorale member : Greg Davis, and will also be given its ¯ concert premiere on May 7 & 8. -" . Don’t miss the opportunity to enjoy an ¯ evening of beautiful and exciting music ¯ performed by Tulsa’s all-male chorus, ¯ Council Oak Men’s Chorale. A Black Tie Optional Dinner with US Congressman Barney Frank 4th District, Massachusetts Saturday, June 12, 1999 Greenwood Cultural Center 322 North Greenwood Dinner and cash bar cocktails: $50 Dinner and cocktails with the Congressman: $125 Information: 743-4297 1 WORKIHG CLASS HEROES.IMAGES FROM THE POPULAR CULTURE Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art 410 W. Boyd The University of OklaSoma fIaJrttappyHour Tuesday&Thursday J t, g goddesses 3pm toSpm 835-5563 1247 Si Harvard, Tulsa, Near TO �PRIDE ’99 "PRIDEFUL PAST... POWERFUL FUTURE! TULSA’S FIRST ANNUAL PARADE W/GRAND MARSHALL REP. 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That’s the the tile that if you go with down-side of a drawn out, point, there are lower-end, cheaper tiles festage by stage renovation usually lots of the most part and then use the until you’re finished, you just horrendously expensive have to putup with it. Hm, that other "fatally" accent tiles, the job will be sounds like a straight girl’s more economical overall, and commentary on sex, but we there, so quite attractive, to boot. You just won’t go there. Instead, we’ll go to the old happy erulsln~. will be applying a thinset mortar, then your tiles and drawing board and look at our Honey, they then grouting the next day. options for counter tops. As don’t call it Consider using a darker grout, usual, it will be time to review the budget and sharpen the old "Homo" Depot or avoid white all together, because darlings,itjust doesn’, t pencil when it comes down to age well, even after sealing for nothln’. making your choice. The the grout. And if you tile, you constraints of this column The DIYD will seal the grout, won’t you? don’t allow me to teach you The DIYD does not tolerate about installing prelaminated blushes to whining from those who counter tops or tiling, but admit that choose not to follow her sage fortunately, there are several large home improvement more than tool wisdom. The DIYD cannot recommend highly enough stores who will help you out with classes and videos, so for lust earrles her that you buy a long level and using it for setting up your the skilled and intrepid, your tldther on a lines. Also, lay out the tiles ¯ options- and savings- will be dry and see if a little regular basis. greater. And strictly from an rearranging of the cross lines aesthetic view point, there are , won’t make for an easier job. Sometimes usually lots of other ’Tamily" there, so happy cruising. Honey, they don’t call it ¯ working off of true center is not best, "Homo" Depot for nothin’.The DIYD : especially if you’re cutting tiny pieces of file. blushes to admit that more than tool lust ¯ Realizing she hasn’t been of much carries her thither on a regular basis. But your DIYD digresses. Yes, you can : practical help at all, the DIYD wishes you call in Surface Doctor or a resurfacing : a fond bon voyage on your trip to the company of that ilk, but by the time it’ s all ¯ home improvement center until she said and done, you might just as wall pay : astounds and amazes youagainnextmonth for a new surface. Of course, check it out : when she has you on your knees on the floor. The mere thought of it makes her anyway, but please review your options before buying.Dating should be the same ¯ purr with anticipation... way, but hopefully, you’ll show a bit : more discipline - if you’re the impetuous sort. 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Some will ~ us a chance to look at the progress that has do the miter cut and cutouts for sink, range ~ been made over the years, and the or whatever; others won’t, but can ¯ challenges which still confront us when ~ dealing with women and AIDS," says recommend someone who will do two ¯ Nicklas. miters [one comer] and a sink cutout for Conferenceregistrationfeeis $35before about $40,whichisn’tbad:Itis remarkably ¯ ¯ May 20 or $40 after May 20. The fee for easy to install these counters yourself if ¯ the luncheon only is $15. Special student YcoachOU have a simple L, and the store will you on what to do. The back splashes ," rates are available. Seating is limited. Some confidential scholarships for come pre-rolled in most cases, so you can ¯ finish them off with a smart little bead of ¯" housing, transportation and conference fees are available for HIV positive women. caulk. ¯ Call 585-5551 ext. 231 to receive an If your counter top layout is more ¯ application. A respite room and child eare complicated or longer, you will have to have the counter tops custom made, and ¯¯ are available for HIV positive women. For more information or to register, call possibly even installed by a contractoI ¯ 585-5551. but that will be p art of your review process. �by Esther Rothblum. Ph.D. . Research begins to happen when the There has been some speculation about : governmentputs funds behindit, andright whether Lesbians are at higher or lower ¯ now the Institute of Medicine of the riskforbreastcaneerthanareheterosexual : National Academy of Science has women. Buttherehasbeenlittleresearch. ;. publishedareportOnLesbianhcalthwhich will stimulate research on Now Dr. Deborah Bowen, a The theory goes Lesbian health issues. Dr. psychologist at the Fred Bowen said: "It’ s expensive Hutchin~n Cancer Research that ff Lesbians to do this kind of research. Center and a member of the have a harder You have to have lots of Lesbian Health Research money to call up 20,000 ¯ Institute, is conducting tlme finding women, and with breast research on breast cancer that affordable and cancer you have to call a lot includes Lesbians. of women in order to reach "Five years ago, this was affirmative some who have the disease." guess-work; there was no Dr. Bowen’s research team cheek-ups, data," shetold me in a recent asks about sexual interview. "At my Cancer then they may he now orientation in both paper and Center, we do a lot of pencil surveys and in research about the causes of less likely to have telephone interviews. They breast cancer and how to ask this in two ways - by mammo~rams prevent breast cancer. There are many experts on breast or to interact with asking about identity (do women identify as cancer, so I had a lot of a health provider heterosexual, bisexual, colleagues I could talk to Lesbian, or other) and also about my ideas about in a Way that by asking about sexual Lesbians and breast cancer." would help with behavior. "ff we only ask the In talking with Lesbians, former, we lose women who Dr. Bowen realized that the early diagnosis. have sex with women but common perception was that don’t identify as Lesbian, breast cancer was more So it may be that and .if we just ask about frequent among Lesbians Lesbians aren’t at sexual behavior we lose and that perception was women who are not currently frightening to Lesbians. As hi’her risk for a scientist, she knew there breast eaneer, just sexually active," she explained. was no proof yet one way or Dr. Bowen thinks there the other. "That’s when I that Lesbians are two camps of thoughts in began thinking that we could don’t get good the Lesbian community make some in-roads into about breast cancer. ,One this," she said, "either by health eare . . . has to do with reproductive collecting new data on Lesbians or else by including questions ¯ factors. Fewer Lesbians have children than about sexual orientation into existing ¯¯ do heterosexual women. The ’fewer’ can range from about 36% to about 60% of studies." Dr. Bowen has done both - she Lesbians who have had children. Whereas has written research grants to fund studies specifically on Lesbians and breast cancer ¯¯ with heterosexual women it’s actually and also begun to examine sexual ¯ quitehigh-between 80-90% of all women have had children. Not having had children orientationin somelarge-scale community : or having had children late aright be a surveys on hundreds of thousands of ¯ factor in developing breast cancer. women. ¯ Pregnancy might cease certain hormones "The biggestriskfactor for getting breast ¯ that are linked to the development of cancer is being a woman," Dr. Bowen said, "and the second biggest risk factor is ¯ breast cancer." "The other camp of thought has to do age. Even though we hear a lot about ~¯ with acces s to reliable, good, open, access younger women getting breast cancer, it ¯ to health care," Dr. Bowen said, "and is really a disease of older women. And the problem is that very few people have ¯¯ Lesbians may not have such access. We studied older women who are past ¯ know that if cancer is caught at a later stage when it has had more chance to menopause. So we don’ t even know much ¯ growandspreadtootherpartsofthebody, about breast cancer in women in general." Other risk factors for breast cancer are ¯ it’ s harder to treat and can’t be treated as having a family history of breast cancer. ~ wall. The theory goes that if Lesbians "Having a close or even a distant relative : have a harder time finding affordable and who has had breast cancer is now known ," affirmative check-ups, then they may be to ~put women at higher risk for breast ¯¯ less likely to have m~mmograms or to c~._cer, but we don’t know much about ¯ interact with a health provider in a way that wouldhelp with early diagnosis. Soit why this is so," Dr. Bowen continued. "Much of the research has focused on ¯¯ may be that Lesbians arCh’ t at higher risk women Who have multiple relatives with ¯ for breast cancer, just that Lesbians don’t get good health care and are likely to be breast cancer~ but that only accounts for ¯ diagnosed with breast cancer at a later abOut 4% of all women. What about the woman who had a great-atmt Matilda who ¯ stage when it is harder to treat." I asked Dr. Bowen what she would had breast cancer? How does Aunt ¯"¯ reconamend that health care professionals Matilda’ s breast cancer transfer to her?" ¯ do to increase the comfort of Lesbian Cancer researchers are also. beginning to learn more about environmental ¯ patients. Her suggestions: "The person exposures, "the toxins, chemicals, and :¯ who comes to a doctor has to trust that doctor and she has to feel comfortable maybe even the radiation that we experience, some of it naturally occurring ¯ bringing scary problems to that doctor. and some it put there by technology" as ¯ And I’m hypothesizing that one of the Dr. Bowen described it, "but we don’t ~ problems bringing up sexual orientation how andwe don’ tknow when the exposure : in a health care setting is that you aright to these environmental factors has to occur ¯ feel okay saying you have a cold or a see Psyche, p. 13 in order to become arisk for breast cancer." : stomach ache, A UTHENTIC FRESH ITALIAN RAINBOW CUSINE TROUT IGTA Call 341.6866 member ’ [ .~~.~~ International of Eureka Springs Voted Number One in Arkansas! Tours SormoreinSormation. 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His parents expect him Previously, in many love, and the to marry and if he returns to societies, even if you were a Pakistan he knows he ..would emergence of a man-loving-man, there was find tfimself quickly caught up no obvious alternative to what in an arranged mamage with separate Gay ¯ all men did. You accepted the some woman selected by his woman that your parents identity are father. So he remains in San arranged for you and you Francisco, despite his homepowerful served your family by sickness, hoping to arrange his fathering children. notions that ownmamage- but withaman. In future, however, Ahmad’ s problem is shared have spread there may be more and more by the characters of a recently Ahmads who are unwilling to published novel that deals with Oobally. go along with traditional Gay lifein India, P. Parivaraj’ s ¯ " expectations. Western stories of romantic Shiva and Arun. In this book, a group of Hindu and Muslim schoolboys face :¯ love and the emergence of a separate Gay difficult challenges related to their ¯ identity are powerful notions that have spread globally. homosexuality. They can only be honest , When one of Parivaraj’s young men with each other about their desires that breaks with his parents by confessing that they hide from family and even their ¯ ¯ he loves men, they think he must be a closest friends. After leaving school, one is fired when ¯ transvestite prostitute -the only local to try his boss discovers his sexual orientation. ¯ gender category they have available t All of them are pressured by family to ¯ tounderstandhim. Buthe sno. Although marry and have children. One is rejected ¯ he may not call it thus, he has adopted the Western identity "Gay" that is by his father when he refusesto do so. : fundamentally defined by a romantic Another gives in and is only able to have ¯ awkward sex with his new wife by thinking ¯ desire for boyfriends. Those of us who celebrate individuality -. of his boyfriend. He soon kills himsdf. ¯ andlovemight applaud Abroad’ s coura.ge Marriage has failed to quell his ¯ at defying his father, abandoning his homosexual desire. mother and sisters, and casting himself I discussed Shiva and Arun with a Gay colleague who has lived in India. Based :¯ into Gay-dating hell - that horribly lonely on his experience (some of thi.s rather ¯ search for romance. In my more paranoid moments, intimate), .my colleague argued that the ¯ novel’ s tragic suicide is unbelievable. He ¯ however, I worry about the recent proliferation and spread of all sorts ofnew has met hundreds of happily married social identities, including "Gay." The homosexual Indian men who juggle parallel lives with wife and children in ¯ global economic system in large part public, and discrete sexual encounters with ¯ depends on the cultivationof multiple and men in private. Almost all Indian and ¯ splintered identities that serve-as niche markets for its goods. Pakistani men - whether they desire : So, in addition to all the foods, and women or men - marry without complaint ¯ clothing, and furniture, and art, and music as the normal, human thing to do. Those ¯ who want sex with men can easily pick up ¯ that Ahmad seems to need to buy in order to demonstrate his Gayness, I pray thathe partners by cruisi,ng in appropriate places. can manage to snag a boyfriend. But he Stephen Murray s 1997 book, Islamic : knows that they can cost a lot. Homosexualities, describes street corners ¯ already Lamont Lindstrom is a professor of in Karachi where men drive by to find ¯ dates. ¯ anthropology at the University of Tulsa. However, this semester he is teaching at I asked Ahmad why he just didn’t give "~ the University of California, in Berkeley. in and go home, make his dad happy by getting married, and find an occasional lover on the highway roundabouts. He replied gloomily that he couldn’ t do this. He wants instead to live as what he really ¯ but not that you want the provider to feel is, a Gay man. He is exiled in California, your breast, for example. Lesbians might torn between family duties and personal also worry that the provider might force desire. Shiva andArun taps into this sentiment ¯ them to use high-tech solutions for their problem when they would prefer to begin - a model of Gayness that is recently ¯ "diffusing" (as anthropologists put this) ¯ with alternative solutions. Lesbians often have good reason got to trust ’the system’ from West to East. Parivaraj seemingly ¯ and right now the solutions we have for rejects the conclusion that Indians have ¯ breast cancer have to with technology, borrowed Western patterns of sexuality. : such as chemotherapy, radiation, or None of his characters identifies himself ¯ as"Ga,. v" Pather , they are "men who love ¯ surgery." She also recommends that Lesbians look for open, trustworthy men." Still,he clearly has adopted Western ¯ providers if these exist’ in their concepts of individuality and romantic communities. love. Two of his boys manage to find ¯ : Esther Rothblum is Professor of happiness in the end. They fall in love, Psychology at the University of Vermont leave their families, and move in with i and Editor Of the Journal of Lesbian their boyfriends to establish at least quasi: Studies.ShecanbereachedatJohnDewey public homosexual households. : Hall, UniversityofVermont, Burlington, The notion of long-term household relations between two men founded in : VT, email: esther.rothblum@uvm.edu. �Good Food, Good Service, If the hate crimes bill passes the Senate, where it has been in committee, it will ¯ come before Bush who can either veto it or sign it into law. "We hope the state Senate and Governor B ush will follow the lead of the House and the people of Texas and pass hate crimes legislation," said Birch. At aWashington press conference last month, family members of two hate crimes victims announced their support for federal and state hate crimes legislation. Both Judy Shepard, mother of University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard, and Darrell Verrett, nephew of Jasper, Texas resident James Byrd Jr., urged Bush to pass the Texas legislation. As reported in The Dallas Morning News, in 1997 - the most recent year for available statistics- 360 hate crimes were reported in Texas. The Department of Public Safety reported that 167 crimes were directed against African-Americans; 64 against Gays and Lesbians; 22 against Hispamcs; and 21 against Jews. The effort to pass hate crimes legislation is led by Dianne Hardy Garcia, executive director of the Lesbian and .Gay Rights Lobby of Texas and state Rep. Senfronia Thompson, D~Texas, Chair, Judicial Affairs Committee. ’q~he incredible leadership of Dianne Hardy Garcia and Representative Senfronia Thompson has made it po,s.sible for the House to-take this great stride forward," said Birch. ’q’his is a textbook example of how effective engagement in thepolitical process through lobbying and education can have a significant societal impact. Today, millions of Texans are one step closer to receiving protection from hate violence." Only 21 states have hate crimes laws that include sexual orientation and eight s.tates have no hate crimes laws. Nationally, since 1981, hate crimes have nearly doubled. In 1997 - the FBI’s most recent reporting period - race-related hate crimes were by far the most common, representing nearly 60% of all cases. Hate crimes based on religion represented 15% of all cases. And hate crimes against Gay, lesbian and bisexual Americans increased by 8% - or about 14% of all hate crimes reported. The Scripps Howard poll of 1,003 adults was conducted by telephone, March 30April 17. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. The home can hold up to 6 or 7 kids from infants to older, and is filled with plenty, of toys. and a nice, little backyard for play. The operation will be licensed and bonded, and one of the morns is qualified to work with special education and hearing impaired children. And in a very 90’s touch, they are considering adding an internet camera which would allow parents who have web access at work to log into a web site and checkon~ their kids!. GLAD, Ga)~. & ~bian-Daycare ~il1 als0 ~b~a [~t[¢: 1:~§~ ;expensi.ve~ than~ .. comparable:qUality opera.tions. The ~ ¯ ~rogram .which is due openversus mid-May ill charge $100 per to week the $125phis which Teresa and Joan found to ¯ be more common. And they are willing to : provide evening and weekend care by ¯ ¯ special arrangement. GLAD,’s orgamzers will be having a special garage sale on ¯ May 7th & 8th to help kick off the program. : For more information, call 808-8026. ¯ No Anti-Gay Attitude Tulsa’s never had that many choices for late night dining but now, with Burger Sisters,just opened the last week of April, Tulsa’s Gay community not only can get good food but be treated right in the process.. John Rothrock and Steve Walley, owners of the Silver Star, just down the way in the same shopping center, have opened a "comfortable, clean" restaurant. Rothrock notes that the restaurant welcomes all, Gays, straights, young and old but especially, it will be a place where Gay people can be free and comfortable to hold hands or to come in late from the clubs in drag or leather and not be hassled. In other words, straight people are welcome - as long as they behave themselves ! Rothrock notes, "it’s time for Gays to grasp the respect we’ve earned.., not tO be ashamed..." and he adds, "when you eat here, you don’t have to hide who you are. Burger Sisters, which opens at 6am offers a typical, "downhome" breakfasts, hamburgers, fries, salads as wall as a daily dinner special. Monday to Thursday, the cafe will be open till 10pro. On Friday and saturday, they’ll stay open till 4am and Sunday, the hours will be 10am - 3pro (all subject to some change, after all they’ve been open only a few days when this goes to press). At this point, the cafe accepts only cash, no credit cards but their prices are very reasonable. Burger Sisters is located at 1545 So. Sheridan, just north a few doors from the Silver Star. Tel: 8351207. Four Years They’re There, One Night They’re Gone According to some of their now exstaff, Concessions, for more than four years one of Tulsa’s largest dance clubs closed precipitously the last Saturday of April. 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Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data newspaper periodical Text Any textual data included in the document First Gay Ambassador, James Hormel, Sworn In WASHINGTON (AP) - Sedate events are the norm in the gilded confines of the State Department’s eighth floor reception room but there can be exceptions. The atmosphere was downright raucous on Tuesday, June 29 over a seemingly routine happening.." the swearing in of a new ambassador. James Hormel, who is Gay, took the oath as ambassador to Luxembourg in the presence ofhundreds offriends whohad siipported Hormel’ s ofttroubled nomination since it was first announced 20 months ago. Hormel’s supporters cheered loudly as he was sworn in as America’s first openly Gay ambassador. "What an inered!ible privilege it is to be standing before you today,’ said Hormel, an heir to the Audiin, Minn.-based Hormel Foods Corp. fortune.Secretary of State Madeleine .Albiight was there, along with Sens. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., and Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. Television cameras lined the rear of the majestic State Department hall. Normal procedure on such occasions is to bar the press altogether. Uncertainty had shrouded Hormel’s appointment almost from the day he was nominated because of opposition from a few senators, see Hormel, p. 12 30 Years After Riot, Gays & Lesbians Take Stock NEW YORK (AP) -~,years ago, police raids on Gay bars were a fact oflife~ You took themfor granted the way you took being hated for granted," says Joan Nestle, a writer and activist who started going to, Greenwich Village bars as a tean-ager in the 1950s~ Volunteers carried a 120footRainbowflagfrom the Community Center to Veterans Park where Congressman Frank spoke. 2000 Attend 1st Tulsa Parade TULSA-Tulsa’ s firstGayPrideParade was declared a sweeping success by its organizers and by almost all who attended. -According to The Tulsa World, more than 2000 attended the event which featured US Congressman Barney Frank, Democrat from MassaChusetts as grand marshall and which had more than 35 entries. Frank spoke at the traditional picnic which followed the parade and again at a dinner that evening at the Greenwood Cultural Center. At both events, Frank suggested that straight Americans are not essentially bigoted but rather bdieve that they are expected to be anti-Gay. He strongly encouraged Gay & Lesbian citizens to become politically active. Sponsors of the events indued Mark & Mike, Cimarron Alliance, the Parish Church of Saint Jerome, MCC United, Council Oak Mens Chorale, PFLAG, Bud Light, Pepsi-Cola/Dr Pepper Bottling Co. of Tulsa, Jason Reed, The Storm, Jack Wallace, T.W.’s A.F.A.B. Catering, Tulsa Family News and some others. Photos of the parade andpicnicfollow on page 3. Cath, of St. John the Divine Hosts Stonewall 30 Service NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, speaking on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the Stonewall riot, urged Gays and lesbians Saturday to bring their fight for equal fights to the ballot box. The congressman, who was greeted with a standing ovation ata Manhattan celebration of the 1969 incident, told the crowd So when the patrons of a bar called the Stonewall Inn ¯ fonghtbackJune 27,1969-attackingpolice with rocks, .bottles and fists that stmtling act of defiance became an . instantwatershed event. Gayactivists considerit akin to the .Montgomery bus boycott or the lunch-counter sitins that galvanized the civil rights movement. This lastmonth~parades andralfiesinNew York, San Franciscoanddozens ofcities worldwidecommemorate the Stonewall riotandmarkthreedecades ofremarkable change. While Gay pcople are not universally accepted - a Time/CNN Foil last fall found that 48% of Americans believe homosexuality is morally wrong-Lesbians and Gay men are becoming increasingly integrated into American society. "We’ve made a sea change in notjust public opinion but public policy as well:~ says Kerry Lobel, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, a lobbying groupbasedin Washington, D.C."We see that ." in areas like civil rights, hate crimes; family issues and ¯ sodomy repeal, we have more possibility of legislative : change than ever before." Lobel cited Nevada, whose Legislature recendy ." banned job discrimination see 30 Years, p. 14 . DIRECTORWt.E’I’rERS P. 2 : EDITORIAL P. 2 ; US & WORLD NEWS P. 4 " HEALTH NEWS P. 6 " ENTERTAINMENT P. 8 . COMMUNITY CALENDAR P. 9 . DO-IT-YOURSELF-DYKE P. 11 ." DYKE PSYCHE P. 12 . GAY STUDIES P. 15 ~.that the gains made by the Gay comm_u~,’,ty were substantial. But ¯ ne s~sed.~that the.struggle continues. °We have fought on our .terms, said Frank, D-Mass., one of only three Gay members of ". Congress. ,ButI urge you to take the next step. Use our political . ¯ power..You have to vote. Your friends have to vote." Frank-was one of about two dozen speakers, performers and activis~ appearing at "Stonewall 30: A Sacred Celebration." Some. 1,500 Gays and lesbians turned out at.the Cathedral of St. John the Divi~e for the event, which commemorated the start of the Gay rights movement. OnMonday,June28,the Christopher Street siteofthe Stonewall Inn will .be Added to the National Register of Historic Places. Angry Gays fought with police who had rousted them from the Stonewall on June 27, 1969. : Frank, whotookpot shots at closeted Gays in Congress and the : -Rev. Jerry .Falwell, said that there should be no complacency : among Gay civil rights activists. "No one should ask us to be ¯ grateful because there’s less bigotry," Frank said to rousing cheers. "It never should have been there at all." Therest of the ceremony,was by turns solemn andcomical. The New York City Gay Men s Chorus sang a requiem for the late Matthew Shepard, the Wyoming youth killed by Gay-bashers, and a group called Lavender Light performed "We Shall Overcome." But actor Jay Goede did a hilarious reading of a 1969 Daily News article on the Stonewall riot, opening with its homophobic headline: "Homo nest raided. Queen bees are stinging mad." Later, drag performer Miss Coco Peru - in red wig, matching lipstick and sequined purple dr~s - stood in the pulpit with Gay police Sgt. Edward Rodriguez. As a Gay boy growing up in the Bronx," Miss Peru said, "I never dreamed I’d be in the world’s largest Gothic cathedral, in the pulpit, in full drag." She smiled, and the audience applauded. Longtime activist Jimmy Flowers stands before Parade Grand Marshall US Rep. Barney Frank. Community Leadership Meeting Called for 6/20 TULSA - Established community leaders, Marty NewmanandDennis Neill, have called acommumty leadership meeting for 6pro on Tuesday, July 20. According to the letter that went out under Newman’s and Neill’s names, the intent of the meeting is to capitalize on the "renewed sense of excitement and energy" that’s resulted from the recent Pride weekend events: Tulsa’s first parade, the annual picnic and the dinner featuring US Congressman Barney Frank from Massachusetts. The letter went to nearly 50 businesses and organizations, from bars to churches inviting each to send one representative to present their priorities, fo seek ways better to work together, and to "work towards building a more cohesive Gay & Lesbian community." see Meeting, p.11 From one religibus extreme to another at the Parade, Rev, LesliePenroseto anti-Gayprotesters, Rev. PenroseAccepted in UCC; l her Religi .us i Groups Also Welcomzng ¯" TULSA- TheReverend Leslie Penrose, pastor of : Community of Hope Base Shalom Congregation ¯ has had her request for transfer of her.ordination : accepted by the Ecclesiastical Council of the ¯ Oklahoma Association of the United Church of : ChrisL Penrose, _had received her ordination within : the United Methodist Church but had been : experiencing harassment within that denomination ¯ by anti-Gay activists because she had performed : religious ceremonies that blessed same-gender ¯ relationships, i.e. "holy unions." : Pem’ose, writing in Community of Hope’s newsletter, noted that the process of being nszderedfor transfeXincludedpreachingasermon : and presenting several papers and then waiting for : the vote by the council. But she also said that upon ¯ arrival, she’d been greeted with a comment from : the Rev. Russell Bennett saying, "your name’s ," already on the cakeF’ And indeed after the "yes" ¯¯ vote, Peurose was .welcomed at a reception where there was a cake that said,"Welcome, Leslie, to the ¯ United Church of Christ!" : But the UCC is not the only Christian group : trying to welcome Lesbians and see Leslie, p. 14 Tulsa Clubs & Restaurants *Bamboo Lounge, 7204 E. Pine 832-1269 *Boston Willy’ s Diner, 1742 S. Boston 592-2143 Burger Sisters Restaurant, 1545 S. Sheridan 835-1207 *Empire Bar, 1516 S. Peoria 599-9512 *Full Moon Cafe, 1525 E. 15th 583-6666 *Gold Coast Coffee House, 3509 S. Peoria 749-4511 *Jason’ s Dell, 15th & Peoria 599-7777 *Lola’s, 2630 E. 15th 749-1563 *Polo Grill, 2038 Utica Square 744-4280 *St. Michael’s Alley Restaurant, 3324-L E. 31st 745-9998 *Silver Star Saloon, 1565 Sheridan 834-4234 ¯ *Renegades/Rainbow Room, 1649 S. Main 585-3405 *TNT’ s, 2114 S. 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Peoria 744-9595 Four Star Import Automotive, 9906 E: 55th P1 610-0880 Cathy Furlong, Ph.D., 1980 Utica Sq. Med. Ctr. 628-3709 Gay & Lesbian Affordable Daycare 808-8026 *Gloria Jean’ s Gourmet Coffee~ 1758 E. 21 st 742-1460 Leaune M. Gross, Insurance &financial planning 459-9349 Mark T. Hamby, Attorney 744-7440 *Sandra J. Hill, MS, Psychotherapy, 2865 E. Skelly 745-1111 *International Tours 341-6866 Jacox Animal Clinic, 2732 E. 15th 712-2750 *Jared’ s Antiques, 1602.E. 15th 582-3018 David Kauskey, Country Club Barbering 747-0236 The Keepers, Housekeeping & Gardening 582:8460 *Ken’s Flowers, 1635 E. 15 599-8070 Kelly Kirby, CPA, 4021 S. Harvard, #210 747-5466 *Living ArtSpace, 19 E. Brady 585-1234 *Midtown Theater, 319 E. 3rd 584-3112 Mingo Valley Flowers, 9720c E. 31 663-5934 *Mohawk Music, 6157 E 51 Place 664-2951 David A. Paddock, CPA, 4308 S. Peoria, Ste. 633 747-7672 Puppy Pause II, 1060 S. Mingo 838-7626 *Peace of Mind Bookstore, 1401 E. 15 583-1090 The Pride Store, 1307 E. 38, 2rid floor 743-4297 Rainbowz on the River B÷B, POB 696, 74101 747-5932 Richard’ s Carpet Cleaning 834-0617 Ted Schutt, Rex Realtors 834-7921, 747-4746 *Scribner’ s Bookstore, 1942 Utica Square 749~-6301 Paul Tay, Car Salesman 260-7829 *Tickled Pink, 3340 S. Peoria 697-0017 ~,Tulsa Book Exchange, 3749 S. Peoria 742-2007 *Tulsa Comedy Club, 6906 S. Lewis 481,-0558 *Venus Salon, 1247 S. Harvard 835-5563 Fred Welch, LCSW, Couusding 743~1733 *Whittier News Stand, 1 N; Lewis 592-0767 Tulsa Agencies, Churches, Schools & Universities AIDS Walk Tulsa, POB 4337, 74101 579-9593 *All Souls Unitarian Church, 2952 S. Peoria 743-2363 Black & White, Inc. POB 14001, Tulsa 74159 587-731~4 Bless The Lord at All Times Christian Center, 2207 E. 6 583-7815 *B/L/G/T Alliance, Univ. of Tulsa Canterbury Ctr. 583-9780 *Chamber of Commerce Bldg., 616 S. Boston 585-1201 *Chapman Student Ctr., University of Tulsa, 5th PL & Florence *Church oftheRestorationUU, 1314N.Greenwood 587-1314 *Community ofHope United Methodist, 2545 S. Yale 747-6300 *Community Unitarian-Universalist Congregation 749-0595 *Council Oak Men’ s Chorale 585-COMC (2662) *Delaware Playhouse, 1511 S. Delaware 712-1511 *Democratic Headquarters, 3930 E. 31 742-2457 Dignity/Integrity of Tulsa- Lesbian & Gay Catholics & Episcopalians, POB 701475, 74170-1475 355-3140 *Fellowship Congreg. Church, 2900 S. Harvard 747-7777 918.583.1248, fax: 583.4615, POB 4140, Tulsa, OK 74159 o-mail: TtlLsaNews@earthlinlc net t~8~:+l~.~9[Jsers.aol.com/TulsaNews/ l~om Neal ~/riters + contributors: lean-Claude de Flambeauchaud Barry Hensley, J.-P. 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After almost 6 years of ¯ journalism and more than 10 years of all but full-time, unpaid activism for civil ¯ rights for Lesbian and Gay Americans, ¯ I’ ve grown cynical. It’ s hardnotto become ¯ thatwayworkinginOklahoma andTexas ¯ - dearly not Gay-friendly environs. :- But this last month’ s success of Pride ¯ ’99 helps to bolster that wee bit of hope " that’s not entirely faded. And Pride ’99 : organizers deserve to behonored for their ¯ work.Severalnamesneedtobementioned ¯ particularly: Rick Martin who chaired the ¯ picnic for his second year, and Mitchell Savage who chaired the Barney Frank ¯ dinner. Others also merit recognition: ¯ Steve Horn as TOHR president, Kerry ¯ ¯ Lewis aspro-bonolegal counsd, andTim Gillean who was honored as TOHR ," volunteer of the year, Robin Leach, and ¯ the rock, in the sense said by the Christ to ¯ Saint Peter (and graphic designer par ¯ excellence)ofthecommunitycenter,Greg ," Gatewood. There are others, no doubt, ¯ who should also be named, a host of ¯ additional volunteers, and I wish to honor ¯ -them as well. ¯ Congressman Frank was a joy to hear, ¯ an inspiration, a gentle goad to us as a ¯ commumty toovercomeourcomplacency. : Especially in a state where Gay and ¯ Lesbian citizens effectively have no ¯ ¯ politicalrepresentation,itseems ourvoices are heard in our own government at least : through this Congressman from ¯ Massachusetts. My hope is that his message willbe taken to heart and that our ¯ people will get politically involved - we : can change this state. It’ s already happening, thanks in huge : measure to the Cimarron Alliance’ s work ¯ at the Oklahoma Capitol, and as I have ¯ said before, in particular to Keith Smith’ s ¯ and Nancy McDonald’ s work there (yep, ¯" you did read that -nice words even for ", those with whom I’ve occasionally, or : even frequently, disagreed). ¯ Now post-Pride, we must build on this ¯ success. There are signs this is happening. ~ Two of our most respected community ¯ leaders have called a leadership meeting ~ to see what common ground we can : establish. This is great. It’s been tried : before but the time wash’ t right and these ~ two have the stature to bring together ¯ those who might not otherwise meet. ¯ However, I’ll suggest that the goal of : such organizing should not be "unity." ¯ We are a widely diverse group with class, : race, gender, educational, age, and health ~ status differences, and recreational ¯ preferences. Unity in such a diversity is ¯ impossible, andinourpast,nationally and locally, has frequently been "achieved" : through a kind of Gay fascism, where : those with dissenting views were told to ¯ conform or pay the price usually by an : economic, gender and racial elite, i.e. ¯ rich, white guys. : However, building consensus, through ¯¯ long hard work, by really listening to.the diversity ofourcommunity(communities) ¯ is possible, see Pride, p~ 10 ¯ Letters Policy Tulsa Family News welcomes letters on ~ssues ~ which we’ve covered or on issues you think ¯ need to be considered. You may request that ," your name be withheld but letters must be ," signed & have phone numbers, or be hand ¯ delivered. 200 wordletters are preferred. Letters : to other publications will be printed as is ~ appropriate. A giantRainbowflag ends theparade at Veteran’s Park. Cimarron Alliance may have had the most artistic float, Al & David had the coolest bikes in the paradel The University ofTulsa’s Bi/Lesbian/Gay/Trans Alliance Gay-j~iendly straight supporters also marched. Paul Barby behind Marthd Hardwick & her kazoo band.. Greg Gatewood, US Cong. Barney Frank, & BJ Medley T.U.L.S.A. - butch guys with sweet smiles. PFLAG’s McDonald Hilary Kitz & son. CSC"s Janice Nicklas Father Walt Rockabrand " Fabulousdiva&fundraiserAudraSommersandfriends. Counci!OakMens ’. Chorale alsoperformed atthepicnic. The cross ofHouse of the Holy Spirit stood in witness. Theparadecoveredmore than a mile, Peoria to Riverside. Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation Miss Gay Black Oklahoma America 1999 The University ofOklahoma’s Gay/Lesbian/Bi Alliance ¯ ,. FrustratedHousewivesplayedanexcellentsetattheend. Lawmakers Fight Anti- ¯ agenda." - Supporters said it is a long-overdue Gay Discrimination WASHINGTON - Democratic and~Republican lawmakers from New England revived efforts last month to pass a federal law prohibiting job discrimination against Gays. To boost the measure’s chance of passage, lawmakers have rewritten it to explicitly prohibit preferential treatment of Gays, such as hiring to meet quotas or designing affLrmative action standards to make. up for past discrimination. Opponents of the Employment Non- Discrimination Act, known as ENDA, have successfully fgught it in three previous Congresses on the grounds that it would extend special protections to Gays. "ENDA will achieve equal rights - not special .flights- for gays and lesbians," said Sen. James J~fords, R-Vt., who plans to pass the bill out of his Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee andthen try to force considerailon.by the full.Senate. In 1996, the Senate defeated a similar bill by one vote. Vice President A1 Gore, campaigning in Los Angeles at a Gay and Lesbian center, voiced support for the legislation. "It does not confer any special rights, but it does outlaw the kind of discrimination that has become all too common in our society," he Said. The bill was introduced by Jeffords and Sens. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and Joseph LielJerman, D-Conn., and in the House by Reps. Barney Frank, D-Mass., and Christopher Shays, R=Conn. "If they’re able to get it out of the Senate, that would create tremendous pressure on the House," said Shays, an influential moderate. Shays and other ENDA supporters argue that the bill would pass the House - if conservative Republican 1eaders allow it to comeupfor debate -becauseit is backedby amajority ofAmericans. ENDA would extend basic civil rights protections in the area of employment to cover sexual orientation. Such protections are already afforded to people on the basis of race, religion, gender, national origin, age and disability. Eleven states --California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey; Rhode Island, Vermont, Wisconsin, New Hampshire and Nevada - already prohibit job discrimination against gays. ENDA would prohibit employers of 15 or more, employment agencies and labor unions from using an individual’ s sexual orientation as the basis for employment decisions, such as hiring, firing, promotion or compensation. The bill would exempt the .military and religious organizations. It would not require benefits for workers’ same-sex partners. Oooonents aren’t buying the argument that the bill- ~v~n’ t confer special-rights. RobertH. Knight of the conservative Family Research Council said sexual orientation shouldn’t be a category that receives federal protection from job discrimination because it involves behavior. Other specially protected categories, such as race, gender and disability, do not. "What if that person was representing a company and it became known that that person had wild and bizarre sexual tastes?" he asked. "That reflects on his employer. An employer should have the right to say,’I don’t want to have that kind of person working for me." " : statement in support of equality, since same-sex ¯ couples cannot marry. ¯ The list would be similar to those in about 50 : cities across the country, including Atlanta, ~ Boston and Madison. Under the measure, same- " sex couples could pay $30 to have their names ¯" placed on the registry. They would have to be 18 ." or older, live together and show some form of : financial unity, such as a joint bank account or ~ joint ownership of a vehicle. ¯ Two years ago, the council rejected by a vote ~ of 14-3 an effort to give health and funeral leave ~ benefits to unmarriedpartners ofcity employees. ¯ However, the currentmeasureis less controversial ¯ becauselittle,ifany, taxpayermoney is involved= Still, about 130 people came to the meelang o! ~ the council’s Judiciary and Legislation ¯ Committee. T,,h,er~ewereapplause,hisses,mut.ters ~ and "Amens during testimony for and against ~ theproposal. CaseyLepianka, whocalledhimself ~ anevangelist, told the committeethattheproposal ¯ condones Sinful behavior and would help send same-sex couples to "the fires of hell." ¯ Bill Attewell of Milwaukee said the.registry would make it easier for himto get benefits from ¯" his partner’s employer. "It angers me that simply : by living my life with my partner, it becomes a ~ politicalissue," Attewell said. If approved July 13 by the council and signed Milwaukee May Register Gay Couples MILWAUKEE (AP) - A Common C6~incil committee has approved the creation of a voluntary city-run registry that would allow Gay couples to formally declare their relationships. Tile measure, which passed 3-1 over the loud objections of Bible-quoting critics, goes to the full council next month. Opponents said the registry is the first step toward carrying out a destructive "Gay-fights Kelly Kirby, CPA, PC Certified Public Accountant a professional corporation 747-5466 4021 S. Harvard, Suite 210, Tulsa 74135 MCC-United formerly Family of Faith & Greater Tulsa MCC Joined as one body of believers¯ Come celebrate with us. Sunday Services, 11 am 1623 North Maplewood, 838-1715 ". by Mayor John O. Norquist, the registry would ¯ take effect in September. Gore Visit.s LA Gay CommunltyCenter ,de .N.M ! od LOS ANGELES (AP) - Vice President AI Gore, seeking to bolster his credentials as a unifier, ¯ " fo"rgi ~n_d_ _A~d~l-llt~ offered a forceful defense of affirmative action. I MeG ted 6_2_3 71.e? and paid tribute to aGay andLesbian.€ommunity center. He faced a skeptical audience at the Gay i. 1 center, where Javier Garcia :asked, !’I want to know exactly why you’rehere."Garcia saidlater Io July 26-30th, 6-8pm each night hewas"suspicious" thatGore’sappearance was [ I 838-1715 C~ll Soon tO Enroll. purdy political. I Gore’s tour of the center came exactly one weekafter his rival for the Democraticpresidential nomination, formerNew Jersey Sen. Bill Bradley, visited it. "I’m here to learn and to pay honor to this ~lace," Gore said, adding the Gay and Lesbian Center of Los Angeles was helping to chang, attitudes and abolish some .. irrationa~ discrimination thetis all toocommon."Hegranted his only interview of the day to the Advocate, a national Gay and Lesbian news magazine. "Thevicepresidenthas alongtimecommitment to bringing our country together," said Gore spokesman Chris Lehane. "He strongly believes that we’re much stronger as a country when all aspects of our community work together and come together." Gore said he supports federal legislation that would outlaw discrimination against homosexuals at the workplace, and bills criminalizing certain hate crimes. Michelle Byler, 22, said she didnrt find Gore convincing. "He didn’t really speak to me or say anything to impress me," said l~yler, who said she left the Army after acknowledging her~ homosexuality. She added that she had reef. Bradley aweekearlier andfoundBmdleyequally. tmimpressive. Arkansas Sodomy ¯ Challenge Continues : LITTLE ROCK (AP) - A group challenging the ¯ constitutionality ofArkansas’ law against s°d°my ; can continue with itscourt acdon against the ; state, the Arkansas Supreme Court-ruled. In its ¯ June 24th opinion, the court ruled against a ¯ request that the law be thrown offthe books. ¯ The court overturned a chancellor s refus to ~ grant a motion by the state attorney general’s ¯ office and the Pulaski County prosecutor to Mingo Valley Flowers 9413 E. 31st St. Tulsa 74145 918-663-5934 fax: 663-5834 800-44A.-5934 ¯ ~amily Owned ~&Operated ~ HOUSE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT Sun. Worship, 10:45 am, Sunday School, 9:30 am Wed. Bible Study, 7 prn ¯ note our new address 3210b S. Norwood :Info., call 224-4754, Chris & Sharon Sandra Hill M.S. Licensed Professional & National Certified Counselor, Certified Hypnotherapist Psychotherapy & Clinical Consultation After Hours Appointments Available 2865 E. 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However, the courtdisagreed with their argu.m,en.ts, that a constitutional challenge must be.postponed until ¯ true," said Guess, of Zion United Church of someoneisarrestedandchargedwithviolatingthesod°my ". Christandco_ch"aWirmeansohfothuelHdenndoertsohnFavaiernetSoScfalmeepaiogunr. ¯ statute. The justices ordered that the case be transferred to ¯ communities of choice becauselegal protections : ccoirncsutiittuticoonaulritty, owf ictrhimjiunarlisldawicst.ioAnny tsouchdedcecidlaerattihoen ": areino1f9fe9r4ed,Hinenbdigergseorncrietiveiss.e"ditspersonndpolicy ¯ so that it doesn’t discriminate against employe~.s could be appealed to the Supreme Court. . ¯ The suit that seven homosexual men and women filed on the basis of sexual ofientation. However, It ¯ " applies only to people working or seeking ¯ in Pulaski County.Chantry ~?.~,,t. ~,k.,e~l., ,Ch.:an~.d~ ~; e~ployment in;cit’y governmehL " CollinsKilg°re~°ldeclarethes°dOmyiawunc°nsttmu°n ¯ Guess said Fairness Campaign officials have ¯ and to bar enforcementof the statute. . : . ¯ ¯ TheLambdaLegalDefenseand,FxlucationF.lm,d.hafltsedee . met with the four city commissioners and the mayor to share stories of people being denied the decision ,,Welookforwardtotlaenextstepln,tmsca:s, ¯ apartments or being turned down for.jobs. ~dade] ¯ ---the chanc~ to show that the.sodomy,law, .violate,s,,tlae . Fairness Campaign plans to present a mo ¯ p.riv.a.cy.an.d ~e,qi,u~aIlnpmrohtdeactionflraiwghvtesroStuzLaensemBanGaonldtb~eargy ¯ ordinance to the commission in August .or ¯ ArKansans......staf. - ¯ ¯ " September. Opponents are promising to defeat it Shehad argued the case since it was filedln January 1998. The suit said members of the group had performed and saying thelaw would guarantee special rights ant ¯ would perform in the future,sexual ac.t.s bar~ed, by~ me_ that homosexuality is morally wrong and against statute, and that they feared prosecuuon. ~oaomy l~ " Biblical teachings. . , misdemeanor under thelaw, ptmishableby up to a year in " City Commissioner Robby Mills opposes, me ordinance but admits it has a chance ot passing. jail and a $1,000 fine. The suit says the law violates their ruingdhetsr ttohperliavwacsyi,nacsewthelel asstatthueteirdfiogehstsntootepqruoahlipbriot taeccttsioonf ¯" HlitetlesatyoswtnhleikdeeHbaetnediesrspooninbdeelosso.k"iWnghayt tshhisouislsduea ¯ tha~evenourstateandfederalofficeh°lders cannot sodomy between heterosexuals. , : CoOunntyapPperoals,ecthuetoarttLoarnrreyy Jgeegnleeyrala’srgoufefdic,eaamnodngPuolathskeir ¯ dspeceinddemony?t"imhee wsaoidrrylaisntgwaebeoku.t"wI hwaot usltdreleitksewtoe things, thattheirofficeswereimmunefromlawsuits, that " are going to pav,e, next and what sewer project we : the chancery court was not the proper place to file the are going to d& ¯ lawsuit and that the law should be challenged only in ". Guess said the measure has the support of several area congregations and church leaders, : defense of a prosecution. " from Catholic priests to Presbyterian ministers. : Gay Couples Covered by : Lon Oliver, senior minister at First Christian ¯ . Church, said he has been shocked by the tone of ¯ Domestic Violence Law someopponents,whohavesaidthattheordinance " would lead to teaching homosexuality in schools ¯ TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - A circuit judge has ruled Florida’s : and that Henderson would become a haven for ¯ domestic violence law covers Gay couples¯ "To hold Gays . ,’The harslmess of the rhetoric and the fear ¯ otherwise would undermine the efforts to safeguard, " has surprised us all," he said. ¯ regardless of gender, the rights of victims of domestic ¯ The Green Valley Baptist Association, which ¯ violence," Judge Ronald N. Ficarrotta wrote in his rifling, represents 30 churches andabout 14,000members " " The ruling came in the case of David Baker who was . _themajorityoftheminHendersonCounty~has ¯ charged with violating a domestic violence restraining " adopted a resolution denouncing the ordinance. ¯ order taken out by his former partner, David Lozier, 39. ¯ Mills, the city commissioner, said that ¯ Public defenders asked the judge last week to dismiss " Henderson citizens generally do not accept the ¯ the case against Baker, saying the injunction was invalid. " homosexuallifestyle¯"Our community is apolite ¯ They maintained the judge who signed the injunction commumty that will not g. .I~O,,P,....... ’ " et in le’s face and ¯ ,,w.rongly recognized ahomosexual relationship a~ family. " say, ’You shouldn’tbe doing that, lae sam. . The court, in issuing, this, injuncu~on,, r,eco.~g~i~zed. a ¯ when this is brought forward, you’ll see a huge ¯ homosexual relationship as a family, which vlotates me " amountofpeoplewanting to voice their opinion." ¯ longstanding policy of ~e Flori,da, Constitution, s~tut.e~s_, ¯ The debate could go statewide. State Rep. Kathy Legislature and courts, Baker s lawyers wrote, rmnoa - Stein,D_Lexington,hasproposedabillthatwould ¯ doesnotrecog~.’.zemarriagesbe.twee,ns,a,.m..e-,s.exp~,ar,m_~oS~ ¯ protect homosexuals, from discrimination.,s The ¯ FicarrottasaldBakerandLozter, wnouvextt°gemert . measurecouldbediscussedatnextyear General .. seven years, sharing ahousehold andjointbank accounts, ¯ Assembly session. ¯ didlive together as family. Legislators who expanded the ¯ domestic violence law in 1991 intendedit to protect all " Namibian Court Rules ¯ meLmobzieerrshoafdaahcocuusseedhohlids,ohneetsiamideipnahrtinseorr°dfers.-trhkinghim for Lesbian Couple andlaterharassing him wlth threatemngphone calls. I m . WINDHOEK, Namibia - Namibia’s high court ¯ very happy with the decision," he said. ¯ ¯ Hillsborough County Public Defender Julinnne Holt has ruled that Gay and Lesbian couples have ¯ saidherofficewillr,e,viewthejudge’sorderbef°redeciding " exactly-the same fights in the country as ¯ whether to appeal. Webelieve that it’s not dear that (the " heterosexual couples. The Namibian newspaper " "d ..... if " said the ruling was a rebuke to often hom°ph°bic ’ " law) covers same-sex couples, she sal . the term, as ~ afnmily,"isnotdefinedinFloridala~v andthereapparently ¯ government that had sought to deny a German are no previous cases on the issue, according to court ¯ woman a residence permit because of her ¯ " relationship with her Namibian parmer. ¯ records. In theruling, Judge Harold Levy also ruled the ¯ Small Kentucky Town May of Home Affairs must supply reasons ¯ for refusing an application for permanent : Ban Anti-Gay Bias ¯ residence.Thejudgerejectedministryatguments ¯ that the nature of the rdationship betw~m Liz ¯ HENDERSON,Ky.(AP)-WhentheLonisvilleB°ard°f " Frank, a German, and Elizabeth Khaxas, a ¯ Aldermen voted earlier this year to ban discrimination ~ Namibian, had no bearing on the application. ~ against homosexuals in the workplace, the Rev. Ben ¯ The couple has been living together for several Guess was at city hall to celebrate. Now, Guess finds years and are ratsmg a son. Not only is thi ¯ himself involved in a similar debate in his own city of relationship recognized, but the respondents ¯ Henderson¯ A group of citizens is urging M_ayor Joan ¯ (HomeAffairs)shouldha,v,.etakenit~toa.ccx).unt,." Hoffman and the City Commission to make it-illegal to ¯ Levy said in his ruling. I have no hesitation is ¯ discriminate in employment, housing and public saying that the long-term relationship between ¯ accommodations based on aperson’s sexual orientation. ¯ the applicants in so far as it is a universal ¯ If approved, Henderson would become the second partnership, xs recogmzeo t~y ia , wrote Levy. MARK T. HAMBY Attorney Bankruptcy & Civil Matters Call for More Information 1500 Nations Bank, 15 West Sixth Tulsa, Oklahoma 74119 744-744~ Fax 744-9358 OPENARMS,OPENMtNDS,OPEN 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 Anonymous HIV Tests Droppin ATLANTA (AP) - Fewer Americans are choosing to remain anonymous when tested for HIV at federally funded clinics, hospitals and prisons, according to a government report¯ In most states, people can get tested for the AIDS virus without giving their names. But the number of federally fundedanonymous tests declined nearly 27% between 1995 and 1997, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported recently. "One of the reasons perhaps is that people are beginning to see HIV as more of a treatable condition and perhaps less of a stigmatizing disease," RobertJanssen, deputy director of HIV and AIDS prevention at the CDC, said. The decline coincides with theemergence of powerful drugs that have allowed HIV patients to live longer, more normal lives. Also, new laws and regulations have been designed to protect the confidentiality of people who give their names when tested. The study period alsoincludes the arrival of the home AIDS test, which went on the market in 1996 and gav.e people another option for checking their HIV status anonymously. The CDC looked at 6.3 million HIV tests conducted at health clinics,hospitals, drug treatment centers and prisons.~Those sites conduct about 15% of H~.V tests in the United States. Federally funded HIV tests declined8% overall,from2.5 million tests in 1995 to 2.3 million in 1997. The drop could reflect the wider options available for testing and a growing population thathasbeen tested anddoesn’t feel the need to do it again, Janssen said. Joycelyn Elders at AIDSWalk Michigan DETROIT (AP) - Former Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders advocated the use of condoms, commumty involvement and needle exchange programs in Michigan’s fight against AIDS. Elders kicked offAIDS Walk Michigan - Detroit, a September fund-raising event coordinated by the Michigan Women and AIDS Committee. The walk’s organizers, who helped bring Elders here, said they hope to raise community awareness of AIDS and HIV, especially among minorities. In 1997, AIDS was the leading cause of death among blacks ages 24 to 44, despite falling AIDS death rates for the general population, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It was the second leading cause of death among Hispanics in that age group in 1996. But Denise Stokes, a member of President Clinton’s AIDS Advisory Council and a speaker at aregional AIDS/ HIV conference here this week, said HIV and AIDS do not strike limited ¯ communities. "The only requirement to get HIV is to be human," said Ms. Stokes, who has lived with HIV for 17 years. Elders saidthegovernment is harming society bynbtmaking more clean needles a~ailable to. drug users. ~’I consider that absolutdy abuse," Eiders: said during a Detroitnew~ conference. Some Michigan cities have privately funded needle exchange programs. Elders also highlighted the experiences of families with mothers with AIDS. She said thatin thepast, criteriafor diagnosing AIDS were based on men, not women. Thus,womenoftenreceivedlate diagnoses and didnotreceive treatmentIn time. "We have almost 100,000 children who have been orphaned because of the death of their mothers,", she said. She urged churches and communities to talk with young people about HIV and AIDS, but said telling them to abstain from sex isn’t enough. Instead, she would make condoms available to students, many of whom are sexually active already, she said. "Weknow abslinence works, heaven knows it works," Elders said. "But we are sexual beings, and the vows of abstinence break far more easily than do latex condoms." Arab World Needs More AIDS Info ABHA, Saudi Arabia (AP) - AIDS specialists, health workers and government officials wound up a threeday conference with the ~onsensus that information onthe deadly disease must be more vigorously disseminated throughout the Arab world. Cases ofAIDS and HIV - the virus that causes AIDS - remain relatively low in the Middle East and North Africa region - 19,000 adults and children in the region were infected with the human immunodeficiency virus in 1998, compared with44,000 infectious in North America and 30,000 in Western Europe. But the disease is slowly spreading; and nearly 500 people gathered in this mountain resort some 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) south of Riyadh this week to hear the latest on how to combat the epidemic. "The stumbling block is that thefigures (onHIV-AIDS infections) may not be accurate," said Dr. Fahad A1- Rabiah, a specialist oninfecfious diseases at King Faisal Hospital in Riyadh, the capital. The conference, the third such gathering held every five years, was organized by the King Faisal Hospital and Research Center, the World Health Organization and the Saudi Health Ministry. Strict social and moral codes that prohibit premarital sex, adultery, homosexuality and drug abuse are effective in slowing the spread of HIV infections in Arab and Islamic countries, the speakers noted. But these same codes consider discussing sex and sex education taboo, limiting the flow of information about the disease. WHO estimates that there were 210,000 adults and children with HIV or fully developed AIDS in the Middle F_~st and North Africa region in 1998. The conference speakers pointed out that the number of cases will continue to rise as more young people experiment with sex and drugs without knowledge of safe sex methods and other precautions. MostHIV cases in the region are attributed to heterosexual transmission and shared drug needles. Adding to the growing concern, many Arab governments are not willing to treat AIDS as athreatening epidemic, so testing for HIV and medicine supplies are inadequate. According to ,1998WHOfigures, there e~are~. 373 AIDS patients" in Saudi Arabia, ¯ considered the most socially and religiously strictcountryin theArabworld. "The figures are low, but that should not make us become lazy (in combating AIDS)," Dr. A1-Rabiah said. "The most important way to fight the disease in the kingdom now is to make people aware of it and admit that it exists." 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 appointmenls are available. Are You Gay or Bisexual? Are You Native American? 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Or are the attitudes and practices of doctors and hospitals making it harder for these patients to get it? "At least on an unconscious level, some providers may have more aggressively tried to provide these treatments to certain patients," said Dr. Martin F. Shapiro of the University of California at Los Angeles, lead author of the study being published today in the Joumal.-of the American Medical Association (JAMA). Shapiro also noted that the differences in care based on insurance type and race persisted, evenwhenresearchers took into account such factors as how the person contracted the virus. This, he and others said, reflects larger disparities in the health system that go well beyond AIDS. "The voices of the poor are not heard well in this country," Shapiro said. ’-’In the case of HIV, the consequences of that can be quite profound." Overall, care improved from 1996 to 1998. At first, just 29% of ~all patients were receiving care that met all six standards. Thatjumped to47% two years later. But the care differed widely among groups. In 1998, for instance, 88% of whites were receiving powerful protease inhibitors, but just 80% Of blacks were. Similarly, 87% of men infected through sex with other men were taking these drugs in 1998, compared with 81% of those infected through drug use. Some of the gap had narrowed, but researchers found that tread had slowed, meaning further improvements were not likely. While disparities in access to health care are widespread, unlike other diseases, mostpeople with theAIDS virus can trace their infection to one of two sources: homosexual men or intravenous drug USerS. Part of the explanation is simple economics. People infected through intravenous drug use, or sex with a drug user, generally have less money, less education and more life problems - all of which keep them from getting effective care. Someone who can’t pay the rent or buy groceries or who is addicted to drugs may find getting medical.care a low priority. "That tends to be much more of adown-and-outpopulationinevery way,, said Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint, who studies racial disparities in health at Harvard Medical School. At the same time, the Gay commLlnity has mobilized around the disease, educating its members about treatment options and the importance of getting care. But while the AIDS epidemic hit homosexnal men first, black~ are the fimting growing group of victims, now accounting for nearly half of all new infections, making the disparities in care even more alarming to public health officials. There are many AIDS clinics in. the Gay community but few that are targeted to drug users, said Peter Lurie of Public Citizen’s Health Research Group. "The injection drug users are a relatively forgotten part of this epidemic," he said. The new research comes from the HIV Cost and Utilization Study, the first national data on care for people with HIV and AIDS. Researchers identified about 231,400 American adults with HIV.who were receiving at least some medical care outside the militaiy or prison, in all states except Alaska and Hawaii. From this group, a random sample of more than 2,000 patients was chosen for interviews beginning in early 1996 and againin early 1998. Researchers measured six components of care- three relating to use of medication and three related to use of doctors and hospitals. Morgues Stay Open Longer DuetoAIDS HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - State morgues are extending their hours to cope with Zimbabwe’s soaring death rate, mostly as a result ofAIDS, the main state- . controlled newspaper reported in June. An estimated 3,000 people now die every week in the southern African country, nearly 70% of them from AIDS-related illnesses, The Herald reported. Harare’s main hospital will now staff its morgue around the clock and other hospital mortuary facilities will extend closing time by four hours to 8 p.m., health authorities said, according to the newspaper. Families ofthe dead also were being asked to remove corpses within 24 hours of death to reduce overcrowding in morgues, the paper said. The National AIDS Coordination Program estimaies that more than 80,000 Zimbabweans will diefromAIDS-related illnesses this year. The World Health Organization says some 25% of Zimbabwe’s 12.5 million people are infected with the virus that causes AIDS. Churches Helping Support PLWAs RALEIGH (AP) - Churches and secular groups in one area of North Carolina are consolidating to work together on what they call a holistic approach for AIDS patients. A coalition of faith-based congregations Will consolidate with two secular AIDS service agencies to create the largest Triangle organization helping people cope with the virus. Triangle is the ¯ name for the central geographical area of North Carolina. : Thenew entity, which still has no name ¯" or central location, will help people with HIV or AIDS secure federal funding for " housing, track Social Security benefits : andfind supportgroups. Anditwillmatch ¯. clients who want spiritual help with a chaplain or a congregation ready to help i them. "It’s one thing to give lip service t,o, compassion; it’s another thing to do it, "_ said Stacy Smith, who chairs the Triangle ¯ AIDS Interfaith Network’s board of ¯ directors. "For congregations, the : consolidation points to a way they can : walk the walk- not just talk the talk." ¯ BeforeAIDS advocates agreedto allow : churches to work with them, they insisted : on two conditions: All clients would be i treated equally no matter how they were infected, see Health, p. ~4 by TFN Entertainment Editor Can youbelieve that it’s nearly the year 2000? And that 1999-2000 is Broken Arrow Playhouse’s 20th ~nniversary season? 13APC is celebrating this milestone with six productions: You’re a GoodMan, CharlieBrown, Murderonthe Nile, Greater. Tuna, Arsenic & Old Lace, Steel Magnolias, and The Sound of Music. While none of these productions are strict-. ly Gay plays, this is a company doing good work that’s always been Gay-friendly. Yes, it is ajourney out of mid-town to the wilds of Broken Arrow (except for those of you who live out there anyway) but the productions merit the journey. Speaking of good works, Saint Louis Bread, and .local franchise owners, Jim and Gaynell Magers havebeen great about supporting local charities. So when they opened their fourth _and fifth Tulsa locations, it ~should be little surprise that they gave 100% (100%! ! ! !) ofthe proceeds of their opening "dry runs" to charity. When the Woodland Hills ,location opened, the proceeds benefit~l Tulsa CARES (formerly the HIV Resource Consortium) and the Girl Scouts. The opening ofthelocationnear Bishop Kelley benefited Bishop Kelley. So when you dine next at St. Louis Bread, thank them for their community spirit - they don’t ¯ have to do it and it really helps. St. LouisBreadBenefitfor TulsaCARES and the Girl Scouts: co-owners Jim & Gaynell Magers, Tulsa CARES presidentJoeINorvetl, &J.A. Hankins, Bishop Kelley Director ofDevelopment : And if you’re thinking of taking in a ¯ meal at The Polo Grill, consider dining ¯ thereonJuly 6th, whenthose two fabulous ¯¯ Gay guys, financial guru,SteveD,Wright and his buddy, Taimadge Poweil will be : the Polo Grill’s guest chefs. It should be great menu - you can get a preview on KJRH’s morning show on July 5th. Make your reservation now ! Don’t forget that Gilcrease has the exceptional show, Taos Artis ts and their Patrons, 1898-1950 up through July 18th. And opening in August is their show featuring extra- . ordinary masks from Northwest Native ¯ American tribes. ¯ At theendofSeptember,THENAMES ¯ PROJECT will hold its annual Feast for ¯ Friends on 9/25 at the Tulsa Marriott ¯ Sou-them Hills. If you don’t recall, this is ¯ theeventwhereyoudine withyourfriends, ¯ casually or formally and then join all the : other Feast supporters for dessert. The ¯ event raises funds for HIV/AIDS ¯ education and specifically to present : portions of the AIDS Memorial Quilt. ¯ The next local presentation of part of the ¯ quilt is planned for World AIDS Day, ¯ Dec. 1, 2000. Into: 748-3111. Also, ¯ Council Oak Mens Chorale has a " performance planned for August. We’ll : bring you more about that. Stay posted. by the Rev. Mel White, Soulforce, Inc. On June 26, the Huntington Library in Pasadena, California, announced the first publicexhibitionof the Nurembergpapers. Signed by Adolf Hitler himself, the original documents havebeenonfile since they were donated by General George Patton in 1945. Hitler decreed these brief laws to guarantee the"racial purity" ofhis Third Reich. They redefined the role of Jews in Germany and opened the doors to holocaust. "I felt like I was viewing the first draft of the death warrant that led to the demise of one-third of world Jewry," said Dr. Uri Herscher. "Once deportation began" added UCLA professor Saul Friedlander, "these laws determined who would live and who would die." The four primary paragraphs were pnblishedin the Los Angeles Times. I was stunned by their familiarity. The minute .they are on display, Gary and I will be there to see them. IhopeI won’tembarrass him with involuntary tears. We should publish them in every GLBT paper in the country With the warning: It could happen again! Paragraph 1: Ended theright of Jews to marry freely. Sounds like a reason to work even harder to defeat the "Antigay Marriage" laws. Paragraph 2: Ended the right of Jews to have sexual intercourse freely. Sounds like a reason to continue our efforts to rescind the "Sodomy’’ laws. Paragraph3. Ended the right of Jews tO employee or be employed freely. Sounds like a reason to support ENDA, the Employment Nondiscrimination Act. . paragraph 4. Ended the right of Jews to ¯ display/serve the nation’s flag freely. ¯ Sounds like areason to seek thatpromised ¯ executive order from President Clinton to ¯" end the ban on gays in the military at last. ; While we’re celebrating all our hard- " earned victories (and we deserve the time ¯ to celebrate), we need to remember that ¯ Berlin in the 1930s was the most gayfriendly city in the world. How quickly ¯ life as cabaret became a nightmare of suffering and death. ¯ Too many of us believe our adversaries ¯ are ~fools who are only using us to raise funds and mobilize volunteers. In fact ¯ they are sincere believers, determined to ¯ end our rights. Too many of us think that it is NOT important for us to contribute time and ¯ money to help continue our struggle for ¯ equal rights. Infactany one ofour primary adversaries raises more money every ¯ month in part to end th.ose fi.ghts than our entire commumty raises in a year to ¯ preserve and protect them. ¯ Too many of us think the danger is passed and that time is on the side of ¯ justice. In fact Dr. King madeit very clear. ¯ "Time is on the side of injustice." ¯ Even if Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwdl, ¯ James Dobson and the others look to you ¯ likefools who arelosingpower, their antihomosexual rhetoric is reaching critical mass in thehomes and churches of our childhood. Let these documents remind us that it could happen again. Our ¯ "Nuremberg Laws" are in place or on the ¯ ballot. All it would take is for you or for ¯ me to do nothing. 3,600 Honda & Acura Owners Believe in Our... 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Yale, 74%0595 Church of the Restoration Unitarian Universalist Service - 1 lain, 1314 No. Greenwood, 587-1314 Metropolitan Community Church United Service, 1 lain, 1623 North Maplewood, Info: 838-1715 House of the Holy Spirit Ministries, Inc. Sunday School - 9:45am, Service - 10:45am, 3210b So. Norwood Parish Church of St. Jerome (Evangelical Anglican Church in America) Mass - 1 lain, 205 W. King (east of No. Denver), Info: 582-3088 University of Tulsa Bisexual/Lesbian/Gay/Transgendered Alliance 6:30 pm, Meets at the Canterbury Ctr., 5th & Evanston, 583-9780 ~ MONDAYS Mixed Volleyball, Helmerich Park, 71st & Riverside, 6pm, call Shawn at 243-5190. HIV Testing Clinic, Free & anonymous testing. No appointment required. Walk in testing: 7-8:30pm, 834-TEST (8378) 3501 E. Admiral (east of Harvard). HIV RapSessions at Bless the Lord At All Times Christian Center 7:30pm, 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815 PFLAG, Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians & Gays 2nd Mon/each mo. 6:30pm, Fellowship Congregational Church, 2900 S. Harvard Women/Children & AIDS Committee, call for meeting date, noon, 585-5551 Council Oak Men’s Chorale, rehearsals - call for times, info: 585-COMC (2662) ~" TUESDAYS AIDS Coalition of Tulsa, call for next meeting date. 1430 S. Boulder, 585-5551 Live And Let Live, Community of Hope United Methodist, 7:30pro, 2545 S. Yale Multicultural AIDS Coalition, call for next meeting date. Urban League, 240 East Apache, 584-0001 Rainbow Business Guild, Business & prof. networking group. Info: 743-4297 PrimeTimers, mens group, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th Coming Out Support Group (TOHR/HOPE) Tuesdays, 6 pm, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th, info: 743-4297 ~" WEDNESDAYS Bless The Lord At All Times Christian Center Prayer & Bible Study, 7:30 pm 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815 House of the Holy Spirit Ministries, Inc. Service - 7pro, 3210b So. Norwood Tulsa Native American Mens Support Group, more information, call 582-7225 TCC Gay & Lesbian Association of Students (GLAS), Call for info: 595-7632. Lambda A-A, 7 pro, 1307 E. 38th, 2nd ft. ~= THURSDAYS HOPE, HIV Outreach, Prevention, Education Anonymous HIV Testing, Testing: 7 - 8:30pm 834-8378, 3507 E. 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Reviewed by Barry Hensley Tulsa City-County Library One of the biggest controversies surrounding the Gay civil rights movement today is the act known as outing- one person publicly identifying another, closeted person as homosexual, against their wishes. Although this trend seems to be winding down, there are still many people, young and old, who are unable to .identify themselves as Losblian or Gay. Because they ar~ not prepared to,acknowledge their orientation, they lead double lives to disguisethe truthfromfriends, families and eoworkers. "Outing Yourself," by Michelangelo Signorile, recognizes the difficulty of these situations andprovides a step-by-step program for making the .journey from "Identifying Yourself" to"Not Thinking About It at All." Signorileoutlines 14 steps, under six general parts which include "Outing Yourself to Yourself," "Outing Yourself to Other Gay People," "Outing Yourself to Your Straight Friends," "Outing Yourself to Your Family," "Outing Yourself to Your C0workers," and, finally, "Coming Out Every Day," which includes ways to help others undertake the same journey. Signorile examines the most difficult steps in the first chapter, where he presents the thoughts of other authors, including film historian Vito Russo, who said, "The truth will set you free, but first it will be a pain in the neck," and Mark Thompson, who commented, "Basically, coming out is a death and rebirthexperience. To come out, something has to diewhateveritwasyouthought your were...In asense, you’rekiiling aformer constructed identity and creating anew one." Also in this chapter are exercises to do whichmay seem simplistic to some, but helpful to others, depending on how comfortable one is with the coming-out process. We can create a list of shared goals, particularly here in Oklahoma where we have so far yet to go. i’11 be so bold as to list afew I hope will make the cut: continuing the work to pass improved hate crimes protections in the Oklahoma Legislature, asking for nondiscrimination policies in private and public corporations and agencies; replacement .of elected officials who support prejudice against Lesbians, Gay men, Bisexuals and Transgendered persons. Some of this canbe the work ofjust one individua. Rogers University, now OSUTulsa, added~€term "sexual orientation" to its non-discrimination policy because one.person asked them to do so. That was me. Now had that request not been heard by social progressives ontheRogersboard like Nancy Feldman, Dorothy Dewitty and SharonKing Davis, it wouldnothave passed. But they wouldn’t have run with that ff someone hadn’t asked. Each of us canbring this reform effort to someaspect of our lives.- A. number of significant Tulsa ¯ As the journey continues, the author ¯¯ documents true experiences which reveal the common frustrations related to- " homophobia and the act of : "deprogramming yoursdf" from stereo- . types and the myths that cause lesbians : and gays to feel out of place in a straight S;~norlh... presents the thoughts of other authors, ineludlng film hlstorlan Vito Russo, who s~;d, ’~Fhe truth will set you free, but first it will be society. In "Meeting Other -Gay People," the reader is reminded that today, with gay community centers, organizations, newspapers and computer bulletin boards, the gay bar is no longer the primary gathering place. There is a list of related books, many of which arein thelibrary, which should be consulted to further explain the sometimes complex and contradictory feelings that many people experience. In "That First Talk," Signorile prepares readers for the inevitable questions and concerns that arise when having thatimportant chatwith parents or other family members. He acknowledges that it is not always wise to come out to parents immediately. Timing is everything, and it may be best topostpone yourconversation. As you get near the end of the book, which deals with coming out at work and helping others to come out, it is apparent that a common thread has been woven through chapter after chapter: maintaining a positive approach. Regardless of who is being addressed, people coming out are urged to ignore negative comments and concentrate on having a truth-" ful, uplifting and educational conversation. ¯ Signorile has also authored "Queer in ¯ America" and numerous columnsfor na- ¯ tional periodicals.Afew years ago,hehad : a notorious reputation for outing public " figures, but he has mellowed consider- " ably and this book is a patient and under- . standing guide, free from harsh judge- ~ ments or urgings to sacrifice oneself for "the cause." ." institutions have already made the pledge ¯ to treatGaypeoplefairlyin theworkplace: ~ our largest employer, American Airlines, ¯ Public ServiceCompany, Kimberly-Clark _. and others. Wenee~l, to build alocal public ¯ awareness campatgn about their good work and encturage others to follow that : lead (like TU, for example and Home ¯ Depot to mentionanother). : I have one last agenda item. We’ve got : a great community center but as many ¯ know it’s got a lease that will not be ¯ renewed. Now is the time to plan for tke : next center, one that is bigger and : preferably owned by us. It’s certainly ¯ feasibleifalotofus withmodest incomes : join withfew of our community members : with not so modest resources to find a i buil~ng and to endowit. One community wag s saidthatifafew of’ourcommunity’s : wealthiest merely redirected a portion of : their interior decorating budgets, we’d : have a buildingpaid off and its annual operating costs covered. I, ofcourse, don’ t know if that’s true butwehave to ere.ate a : vision of a better future. And while we’re : atit, how about a Gay neighborhood too? ¯ Not just a midtown where we’re part of : the fabric but one where we really can : even hold hands, without fear. Imagine. 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She was sweaty. She was close to her work. Polishing. Grinding. And then it occurred to her - "Am I being safe?" The answer, unfortunately, was "No." Removing rest with power equipment requires a minimum of personal protective equipment (PPE) to keep you safe. Rest assured, Muffins, that your DIYD promptly set her work aside, had a cool drink of water, put on her safety glasses, a pair of leather gloves, a dust mask and some earplugs. Then she returned to her work, whioh she brought to a very satisfactory, and safe, conclfision. All too often, the important element of working safely at home eludes us. It’ s awkward. It’s uncomfortable. The job will only take a few moments, so who needs it? Or, more often, wejustdon’t think about it. So this month, your DIYD happily dons her Safety Cop uniform to coax you ~nto submitting to safer work practices in your fabulous home. Surrender, Dorothy! First, read instructions. The law requires s afety notices and admonitions onmost products fi .power tools, adhesives, pmnts, and lawn chemicals. Follow the safety instructions fully. It’s a good idea to have some PPE handy around the house for when you need it. Make a kit and keep it sealed and stored in a clean, dry place where you’ll remember it. Suggested items: Dust and mist tuasks (don’t reuse these, Rockefeller!); latex or vinyl gloves; earplugs (clean the reusable type after every use. Don’t reuse disposable ones); safety glasses and/orgoggles; work gloves that fit. Lawn and Garden Work: For mowing, weed eating, grass blowing and edging, preserve and protect them. Too many of us think the danger is passed and that time is on the side of justice. Infact Dr. Kingmadeit very clear. "Time is on the side of injustice." Even if Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, James Dobson and the others look to you like fools who arelosing power, their antihomosexual rhetoric is reaching critical mass in the homes andchurches of our childhood. Let these documents remind us that it could happen again. Our "Nuremberg Laws" are in place or on the ballot. All it would take is for you or for me to do nothing. "" o In 1997, the Rev. Dr. Mel White received the ACLU’s National Civil Liberties Award for applying the ’soul force’ principles of Gandhi and King to the liberation 9fsexual minorit~’es. He ts a cofounder of Soulforce, Inc.and the author 0fStranger at the Gate: To Be Gay and Christian in America. wear safety glasses to protect your eyes from foreign objects, earplugs for your hearing, and a dust mask if ~AII too often, tke important element d workln~ safely at home eludes as. It’s awkward. It’s uncomfortable. Thejob will only take a few moments, so who needs ~t.~ Or, more Often, we just don’t think about it, So thls month, your DIYD happily dons her Safety Cop uniform to coax you into submittln~ to safer work praetlees in your fabulous home. you are allergy prone or asthmatic. Drinklots ofliquids and work early if it’ s hot. Lawn Chemicals: If using liquids, wear long sleeves and pants, work upwind, spray 0nly on calm days, wear latex or vinyl gloves and safety glasses. Most chemicals can be absorbed through skin and mucous membranes, andduckling, if it will kill weeds or ticks, think about what it can do to you! For dry chemicals, wear gloves, a dust mask and safety glasses. Shop Work: Wear your earplugs and safety glasses. Never disarm guards m~ant to protect you. Don’t use worn out blades, bits or other components. Use a dust mask and keep the area well ventilated. Using a table saw? Then use push sticks when cutting your stock. Saw kickbacks are truly ugly. Refinishing and painting: Do it outside, if at all possible. Wear gloves, safety glasses and possibly arespirator. Look at less harmful options. There are several products for stripping and refinishing that are more environmentally - and human - friendly. Do not use strippers, Solvents or solvent based stains and : finishes near flame sources, such as gas ¯ water heaters, oven pilot lights and ¯ furnaces. We do not want you to go Sha- ¯¯ boom, sha-boo~n. Na-na-na-na-na, etc. Sorry. Having a retro moment. ¯ This is just an overview to get youin the ¯ habit of looking at the safety precautions your home projects may require. Be safe, ¯ be healthy and be back for next month’ s : column. Your DIYD wants to tell you what to do.for a long, long time. : meeting is to gather, learn and find ways ¯ several "possible outcomes:" : - a commitment to regroup every six ¯ months; - a review of our calendars for events ¯ where we might work together; ¯" - discussion of combining mailing lists with provision for privacy of each ¯ organization’s original list; : - discussion of a community wide fundraising event, similar to Dallas’ Black Tie dinner to benefit all organizations ¯ instead of competing for thee,same dollars; ¯ - consideration of aft ~fimbrell~ co¯ ordinating organization ~or these eff0~ts. Those receiving the letter were ¯ encouraged tO alert the Organizers ~J any ¯ group not listed who should be invited. ¯ However, the contact number listed on ¯ the letter rings to a disconnected message ¯ but Newman’s no. is 582-4673. : Editor’s note: this month’s editorial, ¯ Say Something Nice: Praise for Pride ’99, also comments on this meeting and some ¯ possible community goals. The letter suggests that the point of the better to work together but also identifies by Esther Rothblum : recommend the book Eden Built by Eyes: What’s the first thing that comes to , TheCultureofWomen’sMusicFestivals, mind when we think about women’s ¯ by Bonnie Morris (Alyson Press, 1999) music.’? Many Lesbians will recall Alix Dobkin’s album Lavender Jane Loves ¯ Women. I r~eq,ently spoke with Alix and asked how she first became a Lesbian musician. "I was writing aboutmy own life," she recalled, "so music waspartofmyconsciousness raising." Alix had been a professional folk singer for many-years. "I was at the right place, at the right time, with the right background, doing the right thing," she told me. She produced a number of albums of women’s music: Lavender Jane Loves Women (1973), Living WithLesbians (1976), XXAlix (1980), These Women (I986), YahooAustralia (1990), andLoveandPolitics ( 1992, acompilation album). .., Living with Lavender Jane (1998) wa~ a re-release ontoCDofthefirsttwoalbums. In addition, Alix Dobkin’s Adventures in Women’s Music (Not Just a Songbook) was published in 1978. I asked Alix what other music was around for Lesbians when she first began performing. The answer: notmuch. Robin Tyler had produced Maxine Feldman in 1972; a 45-rpm record with two songs. There was the Chicago Women’s LiberationRockBandand theNew Haven Women’s Liberation Rock Band Double Album. And in New York, Lesbian Feminist Liberation conducted a talent show and recorded it - the record was called A Few Loving Women: Lavender Jane Loves Women was the first album of women’s music that was distributed internationally. "Those days were tremendously exciting," Alix said. "First of all, I was writing about myself AS A LESBIAN. I was writing the kinds of songs in which you could not change a pronoun and have it still make sense. In other words, you could not change my music into heterosexual songs. They were clearly and openly songs about women loving women. I realized that as long as I was writing songs like that, I was writing umque material. No one had ever written that before, and even the women depending on Lesbian audiences almost never write about Lesbians - in fact; they rarely mention womenF’ Even today, Alix feels that there is a great need for Lesbians to be writing about their lives. She has sensed at times that women’s music has received a bad rap, when in fact it is precisely because of the foremothers in .women’s music that performers like theIndigo Gifts havebeen successful. "There is this belief that women’s music is confined to folk music, which it never was," said Alix. "The negative reaction coming from many young Lesbians is due largely to the backlash against feminis~a. Our communities very much reflect what is going on in the world generally and feminism has been dismissed, even by women in our own communities. I would "There is this belief that women s music is confined to folk music, which it never was," said Alix. "The negative reaction coming from many .young Lesbians is due largely to the backlash ag.ai.nst emlnlSm. for an excellent overview and more details. Women’s music is about raising consciousness, and most people don’t even know ~vhat ttiat is anym0re. Furthermore, due to budget cuts in education, we’vealso lost a generation that was schooled to appreciate music" Nevertheless, Alix is excited by the fact that many of her performances these days are atuniversities, so that she does have an impact on young women. After a lifetime in New York, Alix is now living in California. She stillperforms around the country, and is involved with a club that features concerts by women and holds and furthers our chlture. The Director, Barbara Price, used to co- ¯ produce the Michigan Womyn’s Music ¯ Festival. Alix is writing a column for : Chicago Outlines and working on a book ¯ of her memoirs. ¯ Visit Alix Dobkin’s webpage at : www.ladyslipper.org/vendors/ ¯ ladyslipper/alix_dobkin.xtml To order ." Alix Dobldn’s music and music by other ¯¯ women and Lesbian musicians, contact Ladyslipper Music, P.O. Box 3124, ¯ Durham, NC 27715, tel. 1-800-634-6044 ¯ or 919-383-8773. ¯ Esther Rothblum is Prof. ofPsychology ", at the Univ. ofVermont and Editor of the : Journal of Lesbian Studies. She can be ¯ reatz-hedatDeweyHall, Univ.ofVermont, : Burlington, VT, email: ¯ esther.rothblum@uvm.edu. : President Clinton broke the impasse three ¯ weeks agowhenhemadeHormel a"recess : appointment"-amethodthatcircumvents : the normal Senate confirmation process. ," The State Department generally shies ¯ away from partisanship, but the whiff of politics was in the air as Albright joined ¯ Hormel, a longtime Democratic donor ¯ and activist, for the festivities and spoke ¯ on his behalf. Civil rights for Gays and ¯ Lesbians have been a high-profile theme ¯ for the Democrats as campaigning for : next year’s election picks up steam. Vice ¯ President A1 Gorevisited aGayandlesbian ¯ centerduringacampaignvisittoCalffornia : last week. ¯ The Traditional Values Coalition, a ¯ churchlobby thatopposedthenomination, ¯ said in a statement that the swearing in of ¯ Hormel marks "the beginning of the Gore ¯ campaign’s efforts to woo thehomosexual : vote." Coalition members demonstrated ~ in protest outside the State Department as ¯ the ceremony was taking place. : ’"Unis is one of those glorious days : when thenice guy finishes first," Albright ¯, told the gathering. "Neitherrace, norcreed, ¯ nor gender nor sexual orientation should ¯ berelevant to the selection ofambassadors ; for the United States. ¯ . Said Kennedy: see Hormel, p. 13 IGTA member Call 341.6866 International TOUrs !ormorein ormation. AUTHENTIC FRESH 1TALIAN RAINBOW CUSINE TROUT ofEureka Springs Voted Number One in Arkansas! 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Hula, like Hawaiian language, surfing, slack key guitars, kalua pork and lomilomi salmon, and similar cultural symbols, represents "Hawaiianness." Hula dancers celebrate their Hawaiian identity and tla~ir links to ancestral tradition. There.~e twohula styles: ’auana,which often is tourist-trash hula which shakes to the beat of guitar andukulele, and kahiko, where dancers bodies move When ,]ames Cook’s ships llM at the Island of Hawai’i in 1789, the En~llsh were hor~f;ed to d~seover that l ding Hawai~n ehlefs bo g n& in addition to to accompany traditional chants. You might guess that our stodgy academic seminar was treated to the more formal, higher status huta kahiko. But I prefer kahiko style--I must confess--in that the guys d~ce shiftless in skimpy malo; orloindoths. It is certainly easier to appreciate dance when the performer wears little on his body. Traditionally, only men danced hula. ¯ Although no doubt always entertaining, hula was principally a religious ritual meant to communicate with gods and ancestors. Dances took place at temples and shrines that were taboo to women. Nowadays, hula is mostly-women’s business though there are several popular men’s troops that perform and compete in regular hula festivals. Many male hula dancers are gay as have been some noted kumu hula (dance school teachers and leaders). Drivenundergroundby Christian missionary opposition in the early 19th century, the hularetumed as a legitimate art form in the 1880S under the patronage of King Kalakaua. Gay dancers have long cultivated and daborated hula and today, a century later, huladoes very wall as both tourist spectacle and marker of Hawaiian cultural authenticity. Nowadays the local words for "gay man" that one hears most often are mahu and "muffy," these often indicating some degree of effemininl~y. Traditionally, islanders also .spoke of:aikane - a word that appears to have meant "male lover" though today people use the word for any dose friend. When James Cook’s ships called at the Big Island ofHawai’i in 1789, the English were horrified to discover that leading Hawaiianchiefs hadboyfriends in addition to wives. Charles Clerke, second in command of the expedition, wrote: every chief "according to his rank keeps so many women and so many young men ([aikane] as they call them) for the amusement of his leisure hours; they talk of this infernal practice with all"~’ indifference in the world, not do I suppose they imagine any degree of infamy init." Kamehameha, who would unify Hawai’i and.become the archipelago’s first king, also had a boyfriend. David Samwell, ship’s surgeon, met the future king’s lover when Kamehameha visited us, as we have had opportunities before of being acquainted with a detestable part of his Character which he is not in the least anxious to The Hawaiians - shrewd observers no doubt - asked the English if some of the ship’s boys and young sailors on board were the aikane of the ship’s officers. One might guess that a trim ship’s boy might begin to look rather attractive, even to the most heterosexist officer, on an extended two-year voyage around the world in the dose quarters of a small leaky ship. Still, the English were offended by the Hawaiians’ pointed questions. I suspect they mostly were mortified and embarrassed that the Hawaiians, unlike the English, were not anxious to conceal their homosexual relations, nor "imagine any degree of infamy" in them. Any officer who might havebeenmessing witha ships’ boy would have been desperate to keep this on the down low. Today, as Hawaiians ofall sorts continue to argue the possibilities of homosexual marriage, the aikane serves in this debate. Some suggest that the State of HawaJ~i should legalize gay marriage as a way of respecting and celebrating the past and these islands’ onetime traditions. The "English" view of boyfriends remains dominant, however, and aikane are still partially in hiding. Where once Hawaiian homosexuality was indifferent and therefore normal, today it has become different and thus dangerous to admit. There are popular statues and images of the great King Kamehameha on view in many public places here but in none of these does the King have his boyfriend at his side. Nonethdess, the past lives on in hula. As I watched the sinuous hula dancers in their malo I could see back into a time and place where men saw no reason to conceal their honorable affairs with their boyfriends. "There was never any honorable question abouthis qualifications tobe ambassador." The opposition to Hormel was ¯ "irresponsibleandunacceptable," he said. ¯ Feinstein, noting that Hormel’s ¯ appointment teared the SenateForeign ~ Rdations Committee by 16-2, said he ¯ would have been approved by an ¯ overwhelming majority had the Senate ¯ voted as a whole. By tr~idition, even one ¯ senator can preventa Vote on anomination ¯ because of a personal grievance. In Hormel’s case, his appointment was ¯ blockedby Oklahoma senator, Jim Inhofe, who formerly represented in Oklahoma’s ¯ (mostly Tulsa) First District in the US House. Inhofe has received national attention for his anti-Gay views. "In Jim’s [Hormd] appointment, I think ¯ we open a door," Feinstein said. ..) and-AIDS education wouldcontinue, even if it meant handing out condoms at Gay bars. "We wanted to make sure we don’t repeat the mistakes of the past," said Jacquelyn Clymore, director of client. services for AIDS Service Agency of North Carolina. The consolidation, which will become official in December, will unite the AIDS ServiceAgency of NorthCarolina, serving Wake, Durham and Orange counties, the AIDS Service Agency of Orange County and theTriangleAIDS Interfaith Network, a coalition of 60 churches and one synagogue. The secular agencies will get help from a crew of about 500 committed church volunteers, many of whom feel called to help people with AIDS. In the early days of AIDS, Gay men with the virus were unwelcome in many churches, while those who had contracted AIDS from heterosexual contact or blood infusions were called "innocent victims." But in recent years, many Christians and Jews have quietly begun reaching out to people with AIDS, acting on scriptural commandments to love thy neighbor. Today, HIV infection rates are- highest among low-income African-American men and women, many of whom ¯ contracted the virus througli heterosexual contact or sharing needles. It took four years of talking for the consolidation to move forward because this time, it was the AIDS advocates who harbored stereotypes of religious groups. Some feared they would bejudgmental, if not sanctimonious. "We asked ourselves: ’What’s in the best interest of the client?’ "said Bill Brent, executive director of the AIDS Service Agency of North Carolina and director of the new agency. The three groups, withbranches across the Triangle, will consolidate their staff, apply for grants and raise money as one. Man3" church volunteers say they are happy to avoid the politics of AIDS. They don’t ask about sexual orientation or past drug use. "We don’t even talk about that. It’s the relationship here and now that’s important," said Earl Wiggins, who leads the care team at Greater St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church in Durham. "Love is the key component." againstGays, andNew Hampshire, where lawmakers repealed a 1987 law thatbarred Gays fromadopting children or serving as foster parents. "You can sort of pick the state and measure progress in every state on the legislative front," she said. Unimaginablein 1969was the visibility of-Gay people today in politics, entertainment and everyday news coverage. Think Ellen DeGeneres, k.d. lang; Melissa Etheridge, Flton John, Ian McKellan, Rupert Everett. Three current members of Congress are openly Gay - Democrats Barney Frank ofMassachusetts and’Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin and Republican Jim K01h¢Of Arizona- as are scores~of other.deeted officials around ’, theS(ountry. ’:.The love that dare not speak its name now ~on’t shut up," says TomAmmiano, president of San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors. In 1%9, Ammiano was a27- year,old,, sp,,ec~_’al education teacher and no~e,t, ’out as, a Gay man, although, he salt. ’it wash t hard to surmise - the wrists and everything." He subsequently b~e a stand-up comic and a member of die Board of Supervisors;,where three of 11 members are openly Gay. President of the board since November, he’s considered a likely challenger to San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown Jr. The progress made by Lesbians and Gay men has been accompanied by setbacks as well. Eighteen states still have sodomy laws ontheirbooks, five of which single outhomosexual sodomy, Efforts to include Gays in federal civil rights and hate-crime laws have stalled. Current law prohibits crimes based on race, color, religion or national origin. Recent murders of Gay men- Matthew Shepard, a University ofWyoming student who was beaten and tied to a fence last October, and Billy Jack Gaither, an Alabama textile worker who was beaten with an ax handle mad set on fire - raised awareness of the persistence of anti-Gay violence. AIDS has decimated ageneration of Gay men, and nearly 20 years into the epidemic there is no cure. Still, few could dispute that Lesbians and Gay men in 1999 enjoy rights undreamed of in 1969. Karl Rusterholtziives in Mission Viejo, Calif., with his partner and their twofoster sons. They are active in their church, where Rusterholtz and his partner celebrated their union with a commitment ceremony. "l would say that we’re just pretty average," says Rusterholtz, 36, a microbiologist. "We’ve gone to pride marches and stuff, but it’s not our cup of tea." Rusterholtz says he "would like to see federal protection, that Gays and Lesbians would not worry about losing their jobs or losing their homes -or losing their children." But his own experience negotiating the foster care system inconservative Orange County has been "nothing but fabulous." Margaret Blankenbiller, 21, works in a florist’s shop inProvo, Utah. "I’d like to be able to hold my girlfriend’s hand when we go out to dinner and not worry about someone slashing our tires," she says. Still, her family is supportive and her coworkers - many of them members of the conservative Mormon church - treat her Lesbianism "like it’ s pretty normal." Nestle, who founded the Lesbian Her’story Archives and is now 59, remembers when being a Lesbian was anything but normal. At one bar she frequented, Nestle and her friends had to line up to use the bathroom one at a time "because we couldn’t be trusted" not to misbehave inside together. Toilet paper was doled out shut by sheet. "Something in me was moving from knowing I was a freak to saying that someday I will refuse this moment of humiliation;’ she says. Nestle has ;been chosen one of two grand marshals for Sunday’s Gay pride parade in New York. "It’ll be a very special moment," she says. "I see it as the largest grassroots demonstration in the world." Gay men into its worship life. Unity Church of Christianity at 3355 So. Jamestown has welcomed a new pastor, Steve Colliday, who happens to be an openly Gay -man. 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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 July 1999 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Jean-Claude de Flambeauchaud Barry Hensley J.P. 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In addition to the House vote, a new poll shows that the vast majority of Texas residents support hate crimes legislation... "Reason and principle triumphed in the Texas legislature today," said Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Executive Director Elizabeth Birch. ’‘Texas lawmakers took a giant step towards combating hate violence against all residents of the state." The Human Rights Campaign is the largest national Lesbian and Gay political organization. A new Scripps Howard poll for The Dallas Mormng News revealed that 72% of Texans support hate crimes legislation. According to the newspaper, the poll said that the public supports the inclusion of all groups currently included in the legislation: 81% for race; 80% for women; 78% for religious groups; and 76% for Gay people, see Texas, p. 14 TU Hosts Women + AIDS Regional Conference TULSA- The Second Regional Conference on Women and AIDS will be held on The University of Tulsa campus Monday,June 14,in the Allen ChapmanActivity Center, located at 440 South Gary Avenue. The conference is a comprebensive, one-day program to raise awareness, promote discussion and provide opportunities for new directions in HIV prevention, care and treatment for women. "We will gather together in the spirit of concern for our community," says Jauice Nicklas, Senior Planner of the Commttnity Service Council and Conference Spokesperson. According to Nicklas, the conference will benefit everyone - women living with HIV and AIDS, people who deal with women’sissues, educators, policymakers, youth organizations,health and social service providers, family members, volunteers and concern.ed citizens. "In the Arms of the Angels," a documentary produced by the National AIDS Fund Americorps Team Tulsa, will open the conference at 8:30 a.m. with a look at women and AIDS. Patty Lather, author of "Troubling the Angels," will give the keynote address at 8:45 a.m. In addition to a series of workshops, the conference will feature a panel of HIV positive women who will share their stories. Judith Billings of the President’s Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS will give the luncheon address. Saiadra McDonald, the founder of Outreach, Inc., will present the closing address on "What We Can Do to Be a Force for Change." see Women, p. 11 MJ DIRECTORY/LETTERS EDITORIAL ~I~I~. ~ "" US & WORLD NEWS HEALTH NEWS ENTERTAINMENT COMMUNITY CALENDAR DO-IT-YOURSELF-DYKE DYKE PSYCHE GAY STUDIES P. 2 p. $ P. 4 P. 6 P. 8 P. 9 P. 11 P. 12 P. 13 Restaurant Open But Concessions Closes by Tom Neal TULSA - Maybe it’s just spring but a couple of new Gay owned and oriented businesses have, or are about to open this month. And one ofTul sa’ s most visible Gay businesses has unexpectedly dosed. From Lesbian Baby Boom, Comes Gay Daycare The origin of GLAD, Gay & Lesbian Affordable Daycare, reflects the frustrations of two new moms, Teresa and Joan, 33 and 32 years old, trying to find good daycare for their 4 month old son, Joseph (Joey) while they worked. For Teresa, the final thing that convinced her to leave her 7080 hour a week managerial position to start a home based business was a conflict about getting time off when their son was sick. But for both, there was more. After their son was bom, they explored many alternatives for infant care. Some options using relatives or friends just didn’t work out. Many of the day care operations which they reviewed just didn’t seem to be very good. And most had inflexible rules and were very expensive, with high deposits, inflexible contracts and schedules. For example, many day care operations require a year round contract with perhaps only 10 days off allowed. Any more days off have to be paid for regardless of whether the child is at the center or not. For these morns, one of whom is a teacher and has the summer off, it makes no sense to pay for care year-round. However, if they don’t, they take the risk that no place will be available in the fall again. Furthermore, Joan and Teresa also were concerned about raisxng their son in an enviroment where he will not be mistreated because he has two morns. And they know that they are not the only Gay parents who have these concerns. At some of the day care centers they inspected they were asked, "where’s the father" and were received with not very well disguised hostility. They say that they’v e sometimes felt they had ~o say they were"sisters" in order to be treated fairly. So finally, after thoroughly researching state requirements, they just decided tO start their own daycare in their cozy midtown bungalow, see Businesses, p. 14 Red Ribbon Gala + SwanAwards TULSA, Okla. (AP/TFN) - Some members of Tnlsa’s Gay community say they were pleased Chastity Bono visited this weekend because the author has helped mainstream Americans become more tolerant. "Just by her coming to Tulsa, it means a great deal to us. It helps people to come together," said Nancy McDonald, who recently was national president of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG). B ono was the keynote speaker Saturday night, April 17th at the Red Ribbon Ball, an annual black-tie gala that benefits Tnlsa CARES, the Center for AIDS Resources, Education and Support. The event attracted more than 250 to the Downtown Doubletree. Bono, the Openly Lesbian daughter of Sonny and Cher, formerly served as the entertainment media director of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance’Against Defamation. She was involved in controversy for suggesting that the television show of Lesbian comedian, Ellen Degeneres, was "too Gay." Bono, 30, spent part of the day autographing copies of her book "Family Outing," which details how she and others revealed their sexual orientation to their families. Also, at the Gala, the co-sponsoring organization, the Tulsa Chapter of PFLAG, Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians & Gays presented their annual Swan awards. Among those honored were State Rep. DOn Ross, the Revs. Leslie Penrose and Gary Blaine, The Tulsa World, represented by editorial board writer David Averill, and PFLAG board member Tim Gillean. The award to Gillean was met with consternation by two former TOHR presidents attending the Gala,’Deb Starnes and Tom Neal, as PFLAG credited him as ’~he founder" of the Community Center. Both noted that Gillean helped start the Center, particularly doing early fundraising but that after he was voted out as TOHR president, he had dropped his member at the time when the building was found and leased. "No single person can claim the Center; Kelly Kirby was president when we began, Tim certainly did a great deal but Deb Statues, Midge Elliott and I sweated blood to get that building open, walls tom down and the place painted. Tim’s done enough other work that PFLAG doesn’t have to rip anyone off to honor him," said Neal. PFLAG president and Swan award presenter, Jan Allen, stated that she was not aware of the history of the Center and that PFLAG had not intended to slight any of the Center’ s organizers. Pride ’99 Shaping Up: Picnic, Parade & More US Rep. Frank to be Grand Marshall of First Tulsa Parade + Community Unitarians Host First Gay UU Pastor TULSA - Tulsa’s Pride ’99 organizers have confirmed that openly Gay US Congressman, Barney Frank of Massachusetts not only will attend this year’s June 12th event but will serve as grand marshall of Tulsa’s very first Lesbian/Gay pride parade. The parade will begin at 10 am at Tulsa’s Gay Community Services Center at 38th & Peoria and will go north on Peoria to 31st Street. From there it will go west to Riverside Drive and will continue north to Veterans (Boulder) Park, the site of the Picnic as it was last year. The principle sponsors for this year’s event are Bud Light and MCC United. The picnic will be from noon until 5pm again. Bud Light will be providing a large tent to provide some shelter from the sun as wall the sound system. Local drag diva Kris Kohl is organizing entertainment. These range from a local band, an appearance by the Council Oaks Mens Chorale, various female impersonators and titleholders, and more. Refreshments as always will be free. Congressman Frank will also be the guest of honor at a dinner Saturday evening at the Greenwood Cultural Center at 322 No. Greenwood near the OSU-Tnlsa campus. Thedinner will be hosted joindy by TOHR/Tulsa’s Gay Community Services Center and by the Cimarron Alliance, Oklahoma’s Gay and Lesbian political action committee. Cocktails begin at 7pm and dinner will be at 8. Dinner and a cash bar cocktail pre-party will be $50/person and dinner and a complimentary cocktail reception with Congressman Frank will be $125/ person, see Frank, p. 3 "One Fool" Play Coming To Eureka Springs, AR EUREKA SPRINGS, Ark. - As part of the May Festival of the Arts, OneFool, a one-woman, oneact play will be presented Tuesday and Wednesday, May 25-26, 8 p.m. at Center Stage (on Spring Street m the downtown Historic Distric0. The play, featuring Orlando improv-actress, Catherine Goodison, was written by Terry Baum and will be directed by Lewis Routh. ’One Fool is a riotously funny play about a woman’s search for the ’one love’ with whom she can live forever," says director Routh. ’‘This wild odyssey takes her across the world and into your heart." Catherine Goodison began her acting career in 1994 under the direction of Lewis Routh in the play Bar Dykes, where she played the role ofabig butch. She and Routh have worked together on several projects since that time, including the 1994 showing of One Fool in Orlando. Goodison, whose comedic talenthas foundits way tomany of Florida’s stages, including the famed Fringe Festival, has been a featured performer with Act Out Theatre and the Improvabilities comedy troupe. As part of the troupe, her most memorable roles include Lucy in You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown, and the roles of the Nanny and the school teacher in Baby With The Bath Water, both plays directed by Routh. Playwright Terry Bantu is the founder of Lilith, the San Francisco Women’s Theater, and was its artistic director from 1975 to 1980. During that time, she co- wrote and/or directed every production. Moonlighting, which she directed and co-wrote, toured Europe to great acclaim in 1979. Baum wrote Dos Lesbos with Carolyn Myers, which ran for two years in San Francisco and was nominated for several awards. 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The reasons for my resignation stem from three basic issues, which have¯ continued to grow over time. First, I have significant political disagreements with the March call and planning, which ha~’e not been addressed. Secondly, I have grown increasingly skeptical of the value of this event for the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender (GLBT) movement at this time. And finally, I cannot endorse certain decisions made by the Board. Although I have great trust and affection for each of you individually, it does not assuage my concerns and questions. I now believe I will be most helpful to the community from outside the Board. Since the initial call for the March, grassroots activists have consistently challenged us as national leaders. Their concerns address the credibility and legitimacy of the March and they have demanded an opening of the March process for greater discussion. The questions have been on whether to march, what agenda to march for, and how best to use the tremendous platform and visibility that such marches provide. Despite my political disagreements with the call and process, I agreed to serve on the March Board, believing my participation could change the course of the process. I also felt that as a representative of the oldest national political organization, and one of the few explicitly progressive national GLBT groups, my voice was needed in the March planning process. I stated at the time that I would remain on the Board as long as my. presence represented the best interests of Task Force members, our constituents, and the movement as a whole. Since I joined the Board, my participation has been challenged by members and activists with whom we have deep and longs tanding relationships. Individuals from all perspectives have intensively engaged me, the Task Force staff, and our Board. I took their concerns to heart and carried them in my work on the March Board. During my tenure, I voted in the minority on key resolutions on personnel issues, the naming of the March, and the broadening of the planning effort to allow more people a seat at the table. I helped lead the successful effort to ensure that funds raised by the March would go to statewide organizations, people of color organizations and other constituents underrepresented in our movement. However, the Board has ¯ largely ignored the fundamental issues that lead me into become involved: why we should march, the agenda, and the involvement of the entire GLBT commnnity. I cannot serve on a Board that will not open itself to greater input and see Letters, p. 3 Letters Policy Tulsa Family News welcomes letters on issues which we’ve covered or on issues you think need to be considered. You may request that your name be withheld but letters must be signed & have phone numbers, or be hand delivered. 200 word letters are preferred. Letters to other publications will be printed as is appropriate. �Talking with people inthe community, I was relieved to learn that I was hardly the only one who was disappointed with the celebrated Chastity Bono. Ms. Bono was "the keynote speaker" at the recent Red Ribbon Gala benefiting Tulsa CARES, our local co-ordinating organization for HIV/AIDS services. The dinner was nice enough and the attendance was about double that of last year’s inaugural event. The organizers dearly deserve praise for their efforts. But Ms. Bono was, to be kind, unimpressive, both as a speaker and at her book signing at Tnlsa’s Gay Community Services Center. To a number of observers at the Center, it appeared that Ms. Bono had little interest in being there. At the dinner, she fredy admitted that she’d made no effort to prepare any.remarks -and that degree of preparation showed. Two things saved her performance. First, it was mercifully short, and second, she did have a good, if scatological, anecdote about confronting the Rev. Fred Phelps of "godhatesfags" infamy in Topeka at a booksigning. Her appearance may indeed have helped the event. Attendance at the Red Ribbon Gala was about double but then that might have happened just from being the second year for the event. Her appearance does raise questions, though, about America’s preocuppation with celebrity and notoriety. After meeting Ms. Bono, it’ s hard not to regard her as a v cry ho-hum ’~v onderbread dyke" (as one of my Lesbian friends put it) who but for the accident of her birth would hardly be getting a second hearing,!et alone a book contract. Ms. Bono’s elevation seems to exemplify the worstAm~rican tendency to Value notoriety over any shred of content. But what really raises some concern about her appearance was learning that despite her having reduced her appearance fee by one-half, it still cost almost $10,000 for her irresistible charms. Our sou~,,ce indicates that Ms. Bono normally charges $15,000 for her appearances" but that du~ to her friendship with the daughter of PFLAG’s Nancy McDonald, Bono reduced it to only $7,500, plus expenses, of course. This is what many wouM call a damn fine racket. One would hope that the organizers came up with aspecial donor to take on these expenses andno harm was-done to the genuine financial needs of Tulsa CARES. And no doubt organizers will argue that it wonld not have been nearly as successful without her appearance. But all I can think of is how much medicine or food that $10,000 might have bought for persons living with AIDS Hello, the peop!e, this is supposed to be all about? Maybe that $10k s money that would not have come into this effort except for supporting Ms. Bono in the fashion to which she’s become accustomed. But then, maybe, just maybe, it could have been given to care-giving, and surely, there are speakers, ones who actually prepare their remarks and who have something worth saying, who’d speak for, say, only two or three thousand. Makes you wonder, don’t it? - Tom Ne.al, editor & publisher Several special ’levels. of participation in the event are available with,the most cxdflsiCe being the Platinum table ($ 2500), which includes six seats at a table with Congressman Frank. There will be only one Platinum table. Also Offered is the Gold level, a table with 8 seats and an invitation to the cocktail party with the Congressman ($1500), a SilVer level ($250) which is two seats and cocktails, and a Bronze level ($500), a table for 8 and the .cash bar cocktail party. For tickets or for more information, call 743-4297. Also, Sunday morning Congressman Frank will probably be attending an interfaith prayer breakfast. Details for that event will be announced soon. Also in honor of Lesbian and Gay Pride, Community Unitarian Universalist Cohgtegation (cuuc) has invited the:Rev. DougStrong.of Community UU Church ~h ~iano~ T~xas to be guest minister attheir Sunday, May 16th, 1 lain service. After the service, all are invited to’join CUUC and Community of Hope ~for a potluck picnic cookout.~ The service and picnic .will be at Community of Hope Church, 2545 So..Yale where CUUC meets regularly. Guests are encouraged to bring both lawn chairs and food to share or t6 cook. The Rev. S trong i s a 6th generation Uni taft an-Univ ers ali s t and an openl~ Gay. man who has served congregations in Maine, Massachusetts, Virginia, California, Wisconsin and Arizona. Mr. Strong was the first openly Gay man to be called to serve as a pastorAn the history of the UnitarianUniversalism f~iith. Thiswas in 1980 inAugusta, Maine.- by Tom Neal Editor & Publisher The Tulsa WorM really is gettmg better. Whileit’s not of the quality of The Dallas Morning News or other such papers,itis shedding some of its more parochial qualities. Of course, since the state’s only other major daily is The ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ " ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ " ; ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ : ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ : advertise my gift shop, tomfoolery! which now has transmuted into The Pride Store at Tulsa’s Gay Community Center. The World’s anti-Gay policy stung PFLAG, Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, more recently when the orgamzation placed an advertisement Oklahoman, now officially recognized as supporting fair treatment for Lesbians and the worst paper an the United States as The Tulsa World Gays but was not allowed to spell out their Oklahomans have long known, it’s never full legal name because, of course, it really is Settln$ been hard for The World to look better. includes the forbidden word: "gay". better. While it’s not More investigative journalism is being In contrast, The Worm accepted an allowed at The World. So instead of just advertisement from West Tulsa churches of the quality of supporting the status quo, an elected attacking Gay people but The ~VorM The Dallas official like Dist. 4 City Councilor Anna allowed the churches to use the word Falling is being held accountable for her "gay"! It’s bad enough that they have the Morrdn¢ News liberal spending of public dollars on bigoted policy but worse that they enforce or other such "working" vacations or for possible it selectively. conflicts of interest she may have had And it only adds injury to insult that The papers, it is sheddln$ when her spouse was applying for public World, counter to the pohcies of the best some of its more monies which theCouncil would have to media corporations in the country, has no approve. non-discrimination policy that includes paroehlaJ qualities. This last month, The Worm also printed "sexual orientation" to protect the Lesbian Of course, slnee the a week series of in,depth stories about and Gay reporters and staff. Nor has the state’s only other Tnlsa’s Latino communities. This series corporation seen fit to provide equal pay is similar to ones done aboutTulsa s Black for equal work by providing benefits for major daily is communities. All this is very well and the families of Lesbian and Gay workers. good. Tulsa’s "establishment," our Tl~e Oldal~oman, In a day when health care is so expensive wealthy, our influential have long taken and benefits become a significant part of now offleially advantage of Tulsa’s minority comthe "total employment package", this is no reeoSnlzed as the munities without sharing the benefits, little issue. But maybe it shouldn’t be too surprising without sharing the decision-making worst paper in the process,-most often not acknowledging that The Worm doesn’t recognize the United States as even the existence of our communities. families of their Gay workers since part-0f The fact that The WorM, the ultimate The World’s anti-Gay policy also includes Oklahomans have establishment mou~piece of Tiflsa, the a refusal to print engagement, anniversary lon$ known, country club paper par excellence, is now or tmion announcements for Gay and willing to acknowledge the existence of Lesbian couples. Several years ago, v~fien it’s never been hard Latino, Black, Indian and Asian I asked Joe Worley about thi~ discrifor commlmil~es is.progress. minatory policy, he responded by asking But the real proof of The World’s The World if all I had to do each day was to dreamup commitment to journalistic fundamentals, hard questions for The Tulsa World. The to look better. i.e. covering the community as it is. rather answer to thatis "no"but the issue remains. than as its ownership wants to present it, will come Would The WorMban such ads from interracial couples ? when The World does a similar piece on Tulsa’s Gay, Those relationships were once not recognized as legal, Lesbian, Bi and Transgendered’communities. in many states. Ironically, more than five years ago, World reporters All this might not be that surprising for a corporation were set to do such a series. I discussed aspects of the which has barely integrated its newsroom racially, and proposalwithTulsaWorldreporters,JanetPearsonand which was cited for (and settled) an EEOC (Equal David Fallis. The proposal was killed by-then executive Employment Opportunity Commission) complaint for editor, Bob Haring. And while I believe Joe Worley, racist hiring practices (this according to their own current executive editor, is fundamentally a fair person, pages). It still doesn’t make it right. in general, and in particular towards.Gay people, it So while we are making progress with The World, appears that he is constrained by the prejudices of the they really have a still some way to go. And as daily paper’s ownership. newspapers struggle to retain their relevancy in an The Tulsa World’s owners and top business increasingly media-diverse culture, organizations like management are responsible for the newspaper’s many The World will have to lose their country-club year’ s old and quite official anti-Gay advertising policies. narrowness, with its largely useless and clearly I first encountered these policies in the middle 80’s pretentious regular columns devoted to who attended when a Lesbian businesswoman tried to advertise her what soiree, and their outdated view of how-minority Gay oriented book and gift shop. I later encountered the Tulsans, Gay as well as racial and religious groups, are exact same policy almost 10 years laterwhen I tried to to be treated, and look at our world as it really is. more allies were reached and involved, more media coverage was generated in every state on GLBT issues than had ever been achieved at the state level. Because : scrutiny from the communities we claim to represent. ¯ . of its overwhelming success, the campaign is likely to ¯ ° Thesecondreasonformyresiguationisthatlcontinue ¯ be repeated in years to come, perhaps even annually. : to doubt the value of this March at this time. I honor the "" The National Gay and Lesbiafi Task Fbrce has ¯ valueofour previous nafi6nal Marches andacknowledge ¯ committedthevastmajorityofitsresources to deepening them as having been political turning points in the lives and growing political power in every state. The time I of many current leaders and activists. However, the ¯ have spent on the March Boardhas taken away from my effectiveness of sflCh dn enormous commiimeiit ofiJme ¯ °iniportani work ~t( ~he state and i~tl level. I need to and resources at a moment when more and more energy ¯ concentrate my energies on. NGLTF’s efforts to build is demanded of the GLBT movement at the state and this state-by-state movement and on advocating for our local level is questionable. Nothing so dramatically ¯ grassroots constituents at the national level This is the reinforced this as the success of Equality Begins at ¯ heart and soul Of our work and it requires us to have the ¯ courage of our convictions. Home. ¯ ’Held one month ago and sponsored by the Federation Finally as a Board member, I have had personal ¯ of LGBT Statewide Political Organizations and the financial responsibility and liability for the non-profit Task Force, EBAH was supported by national and local ¯ corporation producing the March. I am concerned that groups, including the March Board. It demonstrated the ¯ the March is not moving forward in a strategic manner. ¯ incredible power ofinveslingin state and local movement I am also concerned that neither the Boardmembers nor building. It also exemplified the real possibilities for ] our GLBT community have full access to information political advancement of GLBT equality in eyery state~ ] about March management and finances. More favorable bills were introduced in state legislatures, ¯ see Letters, p. 10 ¯ �Arkansans Challenge: After learning she was a Lesbian, he refused to her and told her to leave his office, she told Gay Foster Care Ban l treat the Concord Monitor. LITFLE ROCK (AP) - Six people are suing the state, seeking to overturn a state policy that bans , Gays from serving as foster parents. TheArkansas : Child Welfare Agency Review Board approved ¯ the banlast month. It also prevents heterosexuals from serving as foster parents, if a homosexual lives in their home. "This prohibition imposes a significant burden on (the plaintiffs’).., intimate, highly personal relationships with their partners, as they will not be allowed to serve as foster parents unless,they terminate those intimate relationships," says the lawsuit filed in Pulaski County Chancery Court: Department .of Human Services spokesman Joe Quinn said the state expected the issue to go to court. "I don’t think there was ever much doubt," he said. The state averages 2,600 foster children daily in about 700 homes, Quinn said. He said the state doesn’t keep track of how many foster parents are homosexuals. Board member Wanda Gooden said before the ban was approved that it was "my strong conviction that children thrive best in two-parent homes where there is a father and mother." Ms. Gooden said the new rulewonld not significantly reduce the number of foster families in Arkans as. According to the law suit, the plaintiffs are two Eureka Springs men who adopted children ages 6 and 2 and want to be foster parents; two Little Rock men who want to serve as foster parents; a Fayetteville woman who wants,,to be a foster parent and a Fayetteville man who has a homosexual son living at home. Fewer But More Vicious Attacks BOSTON (AP) - The number of hate cnmes against Gays in Massachusetts dropped last year, but the attacks that did happen were more vicious, according to state figures. There was a 36% drop in the number of hate crimes against Gays and Lesbians, Bisexuals and Transgenders reported to police and other organizations, said the Fenway Community Health Center in Boston. But there was a 13 % increase in attacks that caused serious injury, and a 5% increase in attacks with a weapon. Nationally, the number of hate crimes against Gays was down 4%last year from 1997, but cases of violence increased 12%. The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs said 33 Gay men and women were, killed in hatemotivated attacks last year, twice the number in 1997. The coalition said two of those killed were in Boston, but police said they were not certain those killings were hate crimes. Friends said a27-year-old Gay man committed suicide last October, about one year after two men beat him in Boston’s South End and carved an "F" on his shoulder with a knife. "Let’S not be fooled by the numbers" showing a decrease in hate crimes, said Attorney GEneral Thomas Reilly. "I see a very frightening increase in violence.’" ¯ David Shannon of the Fenway center’s Violence Recovery Program said that since the killing in October of a Gay college student in Laramie, Wyo., "there has been ahigher visibility of hate crimes against Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Transgenders." "There has also been increased targeting and violence," he said. Dentist Refuses to Treat Lesbian FRANKLIN, N.H. (AP) - Tricia Thompson had been going to the same dentist for two years. Dr. Jay Roper had done her fillings and cleanings and repatred cracked teeth. He s always bee nice," she said. Or he was until two weeks ago, when Thompson came in for a root canal and Roper questionedher abouther sexual orientation. Katharine Daley, executive director of the state Human Rights Commission, said for a dentist to refuse to treat someone because,of their sexual orientauon is illega! in New Hampshire. Thompson said she may file a civil rights complaint against Roper. ~f the commission finds he i!legally discriminated against her, he could be fined up to $10,000 and ordered to pay compensatory damages. Thompson said when she first signed up as Roper’s patient, she put a former partner’s name on the"spouse" lineofher registrationform. The name was clearly a woman’s. About a month ago, when Thompson went "ln with a bad toothache, she was asked to fill out a new card, ~he said. She put down the name of her new partner; they had performed a commitment ceremony in February. Roper then told her she needed a root canal, put in a temporary filling and told her to return March 23. By the time she came back, accompanied by her partner, the temporary filling had come out and her tooth was in pain. B efore taking her into his office, Roper held up the registration card she’d filled out and told her he had questions about it, she said. Thompson and her partner said Roper asked whether Thompson’s "spouse" was the woman with her. She said yes. He asked whether she had been married to her previous partner, then divorced and remarried. When she said yes, he asked if she had a marriage license. She said she asked him, "What business is it of yours?" He shot. back, "Do you have AIDS or something?" she said. She said she didn’t, but she also told him she did not like his questions. Roper shook his head, told her, "I.don’t believe in it," and insisted he had the right to refuse anyone treatment, she said. Roper then put her file, her registration card and chart on the counter and told her to take it and leave the office. Thompson said she reminded him she had been his patient for years. But he said he hadn’t previously realized that her partner was a woman, she said. "Basically, he kicked me out of his office and said have a nice life," Thompson said. ’He didn’t even ask me how my tooth was." Roper confirmed that he denied Thompson treatment: ’qZor my own personal reasons, yes,’’ he told the Monitor. ’~ecaus e of my own personal philosophy, yes." Asked what his philosophy was, Roper replied, "I’hat stays in the office." Asked if he routinely informed patients about his philosophy, he responded, "What philosophy?" Roper said he told Thompson she could file a complaint with the state dental board if she was unhaplSy withhis decision. The American Dental Association’s "Principles of Ethics," which govern New Hampshire dentists, say they cannot refuse to treat patients on the basis of race, creed, color, sex or national origin. It does not mention sexual preference, but does say, ’‘The dentist’s primary obligations include dealing wi~ people justly and delivering dental care without prejudice." A spokesman at ADA headquarters said the issue of withholding treatment because of a patient’s sexual preference had ne~er come " up before. However, New Hampshire law is dear, Daley -" said. In New Hampshire, health providers are : considered a "public accomodation;" and equal ¯. access to public accomodations for Gays and ¯ Lesbians is protected by state law, she said. ¯ Gay Priest Being : Considered As Bishop ¯ WEARE, N.H.(AP) - The Rev. Canon Gene ". 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We wanted someone who would be apastor to all our clergy and their families and he’ s known for his work in clergy wellness," she told The Concord Monitor. Robinson, assistant to Bishop Douglas Theuner of the Diocese of New Hampshire and a priest for 25 years, finished third last year in his bid to become bishop of the Diocese of Newark, N.J. "As honored as I felt to be nominated in Newark, I’m overwhelmed at the privilege of being nominated in a diocese like Rochester and the courage they have shown in nominating me," he said. "The way I can help Gay and Lesbian people the most is by being a good bishop, not a Gay bishop," he said. But his sexuality will be alightning rod for some. At the international level, the church has taken a strong stand against homosexuality. A majority of Anglican bishops at the Lambeth Conference of Bishops in England last year declared homosexuality contrary to scripture. While that group has no authority over the Episcopal Church the Anglican communion in the United States, it has pressured American bishops to conform. Thatpressure also comes from within. The conservative Episcopalians United takeissue with Robinson, believing homosexuality sinful. The group worries his dection could cause rifts in the church. ’’We expect a higher standard of our leaders than our members," said its board chairman, the Rev. Sandy Greene of Christ Church in Denver, Colo., who supports ministries that encourage peopl9 to renounce their homosexuality. Robinson was married with two children when he acknowledged he was Gayin 1986. Henow lives with his partner, Mark Andrew. In early June, he and2Madrew will meet with voting delegates throughout the diocese. On June 19, the diocese’s clergy and three lay people from each of the 54 congregations will vote on a candidate, who needs a simple majority from both groups to win. Should Robinson be elected, he faces an even bigger hurdle. To be ordained bishop, he must be "consented to" by a simple majority of the nation’s Episcopal bishops as wall as standing committees, comprised of laity and clergy. The church went through a similar controversy in 1994 when it elected the first female bishop, Barbara Harris of the Diocese of Massachusetts. Yet it hasn’t rejected a bishop elected by a diocese since thelate 1800s. James DeKovan, rejected twice, now is a church saint. New Haven Police Targeting Gays NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - Police here admit they are targeting bJacks, Hispanics, women, Gays and Lesbians - not as suspects, but as candidates to join the force. At a time when images of police brutality have been seared into the American psyche, the New Haven Police Department is recruiting the very people who have often been seen as their victims. The department began its campaign recently, printing advertisements in alternative publications and distributing fliers to inner city organizations, churches, and a commumty center for Gays and Lesbians. The fliers say, "I want you" in bold letters and feature photographs of minority and women officers. ’’We want populations thathave been traditionally underserved by police and underrepresented in police departments," said Kay D. Codish, director of training and education. Similar recnfitment drives have had mixed results in San Francisco, Boston and elsewhere, said Penny Harrington, director of the National Center for Women & Policing in Los Angeles and former chief of the Portland, Ore., police department. "A lot of women and minorities do not see policing as a place for them. In the media, on television, they’re frequently shown in subsidiary roles," Harrington said. "If an agency is serious, they have to go out and target." Hubert Williams, director of the Police Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based research organization, said mistrust of police in some minority communities has reached crisis proportions because of "racial profiling," allegations that police make traffic stops and detain people based on race. "In order for the police officers to do theirjob, they must have public support," said Williams, f6rmer director of police in. Newark, N.J. "You have ¯ " populations that see the police in hostile ways, that ¯ they’re not there to protect and to serve, but to control and : ¯ ¯ oppress." James Mclver of the National Orgamzation of Black ¯ ." Law Enforcement Executives in Alexandria. Va., said ¯ ¯ studies show that a police force that reflects the community ¯ ¯ it serves demographically is less likely to have accusations ¯ of police brutality lodged against it. He pointed to two : ¯ recent cases in New York City. Four police officers have ¯ been charged in the fatal shooting of Amadou Diallo, an ¯ unarmed West African, and four other city officers are ¯ charged with sodomizing a Haitian suspect. ¯ According to the U.S. Justice Department Bureau of ¯ Statistics, there are about 664,000 full-time police officers ¯ in the country. At the municipal level, the latest figures ¯ : available show that roughly 11% are black, 6% are ¯ ¯ Hispanic, and about 9% are women. The federal ¯" government does not keep track of officers’ sexual ¯¯ "orientation. New Haven’s 447-member department ¯ already is diverse compared to national statistics, with : ¯ ¯ 39% being minorities and 16% female. ¯ In a newspaper editorial earlier this month, Police ¯ ¯ Chief MelvinWearing said thereis no quota and minorities ¯ ¯ " ¯ don’t get extra points on their applications just for being ¯ who they are. "Our goal is simply to increase the number ¯ of applicants from those groups that, in the past, have not : ¯ presented themselves for consideration in substantial ¯ " ¯ numbers," he said. ¯ However, police union officials have questioned the ¯ recruitment effort and some have said they fear white ¯ ¯ male candidates will feel unwelcome to apply for the 40 ¯ ¯ job openings. "If you start encouraging one certain group, ¯ ¯ others might feel slighted. We would like to see an open ¯ recnfitment. The key is that tlmy be qualified,’7 said Frank ¯ Lombardi, vice president of the local union. Most, if not ¯ : ¯ all, police departments say they are "’equal opportunity employers," but Codish believes law enforcement agencies ¯ must go further by advertising in unlikely places such as women’s health clinics and day care centers. ¯ Catholics Attack Boston Partners Benefits BOSTON (AP) - City paramedic Kay Schmidt works ¯ hard and thinks she deserves healthinsurance benefits for ¯ her familyjust like any other city worker. But the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts says its members don’t ¯ want the city to subsidize Lesbian relationships like ¯ Schmidt’s. The Supreme Judicial Court heard arguments ¯ in the Catholic Action League’s challenge to the city’s ¯ domestic parmer policy. The court’s ruling could affect ¯ Boston and other communities that offer benefits for ¯ domestic partners. Springfield, Northampton, Brookline ¯ and Cambridge also provide domestic partner benefits. The question before the state’ s highest court was whether ¯ Boston had the authority to extendhealth benefits to those ¯ not stipulated by state law. "Providing these health ¯" insurance benefits complements the state law, it certainly ¯ doesn’t defeat its purposes," said Jennifer Levi, of the Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, who argued ¯ before the court on behalf of Schmidt. ¯ Vincent McCarthy, representing the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts, said the city needed to get ¯ permission from the Legislature, but failed last year when ¯ Gov. Patti Cellucci vetoed the measure. Mayor Thomas ." Menino then signedanexecutive orderputting themeasure ¯ into effect. ’"What they’re trying to do now is an end run ¯ around the Legislature," McCarthy told the court. ¯ McCarthy, counsel for the American Center for Law ¯ and Justice, whichdescribes itsdf as a.nonprofit pro" family organization, said the city’s executive order was ¯ legally and morally wrong. "It encourages heterosexual : and homosexuals to form what, in essence, are common ¯ law relationships which are illegal in Massachusetts, ¯ without the responsibilities of marriage, and really ¯ discourages people from getting married as well," ¯ McCarthy said. The SJC took the arguments under ¯ advisement. ." Boston defines domestic partners as two people, of at ¯ least 18 years of age, who are not married, but who share ¯ living expenses so that one assumes responsibility for the ¯ welfare of the other. It is not limited to Gay couples. ¯ Schmidt, speaking outside the courthouse with her ¯ partner Diane Pullen and their 8-month-old daughter, ¯ said she was not looking for special privileges as a : Lesbian, but the benefits her co-workers enjoy. She said ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ : ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ : ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ : ; ; ¯ ¯ ¯ .. ¯ ¯ ¯ they decided Pullen would stay home with the baby and their 7-year-old child. They said it was perfect timing when the city began offering health benefits for domestic partners in November. Were they to lose that benefit, the two women said Pullen would likely have to return to work and the two would pay for day care for the baby. Responding to those critical of their"lifestyle," S chmidt said, "We are two parents rinsing two children. I work, we’re a family. There’s no way anybody can deny we’re a family. And why shouldn’t we have affordable health insurance like any other family, like your family?" Federal Hate Crimes Bill Uncertain WASHINGTON (AP) - Legislation that would broaden the federal hate crimes law by including offenses based on sexual orientation faces an uncertain future despite President Clinton’s call for lawmakers to pass it this year. A similar bill, which Clinton also pushed, died in the last Congress. Neither the House nor the Senate or any of the appropriate commi ttees voted onit. The White House and other supporters hope public outrage over recent wellpublicized hate crimes will help advance the measure tbis time around. But opposition, however, appears so strong that a lead sponsor, Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., doubts whether Congress will approveit. "We have to face the reality that it’ s a very tough sell," Specter, a former local prosecutor, said in a recent interview. "After a while you can develop a majority (of votes)but I think we’re a long way from it." Senate Judiciary Committee hearings are expected later this month. At a recent White House ceremony, Clinton said Congress should pass the bill this year and "send a message to ourselves and to the world that we are going into 21st century determined to preach and to practice what is right." The Hate Crimes Prevention Act would add disability, gender and sexual orientation to federal anti-bias laws and make it easier for the Justice Department to inv eslagate and prosecute such offenses. Current law prohibits crimes based on race, color, religion or national origin. Eight state have no hate crimes laws. Laws in 21 states cover sexual orientation, 22 state laws include gender and 21 cover disability. Richard Socarides, Clinton’s civil rights adviser, said the White House was more optamistic this time because of public sentiment over the killings and the upcoming Senate hearings ,The signs are better than ever before," he said. David Smith, spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign, a Gay and Lesbian political advocacy group, cited a Gallup poll, conducted in mid-Febrnary, that found that 70% of the public favors having a hate crimes law in their state. ’’We would be very happy for there to be no need for this legislation," he said. Some opponents believe federal Intervention is unnecessary, because states already are prosecuting allegations of hate crimes, and discriminatory. Social conservatives,meanwhile, view thebill as creating speci~d protections for Gays. "By including hate crimes enhancement for some groups, the message is that the government cares more about those victims than other people," said Robert H. Knight, senior director for cultural studies at the conservative Family Research council. Among the recent hate-crime cases: - In Texas, white supremacist John William King was sentenced to death in February for dragging James Byrd Jr., who was black, to his death behind a pickup truck in June 1998. Two other men await trial in the slaying. - In Wyoming, Russell Henderson, one of two young men charged in the beating death of Matthew Shepard, a Gay college student, pleaded guilty Monday to murder andwas se~itencedtotwoconsecudvelifetermsinprison. - In Alabama, two men face murder charges in the Feb. 19 killing of Billy Jack Gaither, who was Gay. Police say he was beaten with an ax handle and burned to death because he allegedly made a pass at one of the men. �he, too, is dead. So when Coburn Calls For "¯ believes MacGuffie, who had decided to become a H IV Prog ram A udits "- "medi missiona ,"touredthedis°aseinfested areas of western Kenya 12 years OKLAHOMA C1TY (AP) - Questions " ago, sheunderstoodhow muchits residents about spending pmctices and other aspects " were suffering. 1,,was appalled at what, of federal AIDS/HIV programs have . they didn’t have, said the 75-year-old prompted U.S. Rep. Tom Cobum and two plastic surgeonfrom New City, New Y ork. Republican colleagues to request an audit ¯ She returned home and founded the " Society for Hospital and Resources of those programs. Coburn, a practicing physician from ¯ Exchange to improve health care for westem Kenyaby sta_,aing clinics, donating Oklahoma, House Majority Leader Dick Armey of Texas and Commerce medical equipment and educating Committee Chairman Tom Bliley of " residents how to avoid disease. Kenya’s Virgima sent a letter requesting the audit " government provides little medical care to the General Accounting Office on ¯ for many rural districts, leaving private Tuesday. They question spending ¯ groups like SHARE to care,f0r the _ps~o.pl,e. Inrecognition of SHARE s work, Lion s practices and other aspects of the programs. ¯ Club International named MacGnffie its "X2ongress has a moral obligation to 1998 Humanitarian of theYear, anhonor those suffering with AIDS/HIV to ensure ¯ previously given to Mother Teresa and that the nearly $9 bilfion directed to federal ¯ Jimmy Carter. The award comes with a $200,000 grant. AIDS programs is s,p,ent for purpos.~ for On a recent trip, she and other SHARE this it is intended, Coburn said m a ¯ prepared statement. "Over the past five ¯ volunteersfromNewYorktreatedpatients years I have encountered too many and sprinkled donations throughout instances where federal AIDS/HIV funds " Nyanza province, about 160 miles (250 ". kms) west of the capital, Nairobi. They have been misused." In addition to requesting any evidence ¯ gave money to expand a local hospital. on misuse Of federal AIDS funds, the ¯ They paid the school fees for AIDS orphans. They donated drugs to treat letter requests a report on whether ¯ disparities existinAIDS funding regarding children wit.h, disfiguring Birkitts Lvmphoma. "It s a greater need here than race or gender, what criteria are used to ~ .,h ....l~e" said Eleanore Schafer, a determine AIDS Drug Assistance Pro.gra~. N’~e~v~’~]t~y’;o~ial worker who set. up distributions and whether tkose criteria ¯ SHARE’s program for sponsoring favor any particular region, and information regarding compliance with orphans. ~ David Violante, a paramedic from federal laws within the programs.. ¯ Wallkill, New York, was on his fifth visit Other requests made in the letterinclude information on how much money from- ¯¯ to train Kenyans in emergency medical federal AIDS programs is used to pay for ¯ techniques. He met MacGuffie nine years overhead and other non-care related ¯ when she taught a course for his paramedics class, andthree years later she activities rather than on direct treatment ¯ persuaded him and three other paramedics of patients. ¯ to visit Kenya. "She just has so much " passioninitandputssomuchenergyint° it, that probably impressed me more than Black Men 7x More Likely For AIDS " anything," Violante said. ¯ local paramedics and brought over MONTGOMERY, Ala. 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She remains blacksdon tknow they areimected, they determined to continue working in Kenya might believe the disease is still one of ¯ as tong as Americans support her. homosexual white males, said Jane ¯, Editor’s Note: SHARE, c/o Martha Cheeks, AIDS director at the state Health MacGuffie, 591 S. Mountain Rd., New Department. A former public health City, New York. USA, 10956. worker in Jefferson County, Ms. Cheeks Dentist Settles HIV Bias Lawsuit recalled working with the first people i,n Birmingham to be affected by HIV, which causes AIDS. Most were homosexual white males. BOSTON (AP) -A dentist and his office The disease is now striking more heax[ily ...... exuals ¯ "We’re seeing manager will pay a combined $60,000 for among black laetelu~zthis as aleading causeof death for Africanallegedly committing Medic~’," d fr, aud and discriminating against people who were American males ages 25 to 44, and that’ s HIV-positive, the attorney general’s office got to stop," she said. She said the state said. Dr. Guillermo Recinos, 38, and has spen{ $1.6 million On HIV/AIDS education programs since 1993, but more ¯ Yolanda Jereidini, 46, were sued in civil court in October 1998 by the attorney must be done. "It’s not working," she ¯ general’s office. They were accused of said. "We need to join commumty efforts ~ violating federal discrimination laws by to address this at a local level." ¯ refusing to treat patients who were HIVpositive. They also allegedly told employees not to take patients who wereHIV-positive at their clinic in the city’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood. When one dentist in the ¯ office took a patient who was HIVpositive, Recinos andJereidinididn’tgive ¯ ¯ ¯ KISUMU, Kenya (AP) - Dr. Martha ¯ ,’Bobby" MacGuffie has known pain. Two of her sons died of the AIDS they ¯ HIV Fight in Kenya contracted from blood transfusions. Their older brother, crushed by the deaths, disappeared into a haze of drugs. She Power To Do Good. 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The remaining $8,450 will be : donated to the Battered Children and : Women’s program at the Elizabeth Stone ¯ House in Jamaica Plain. Under the terms ¯ ¯ of the Medicaid fraud settlement approved by Kottmyer, Recinos alone will pay ¯ $40,000 in civil penalties and restitution. : private market, which represents five ¯ Botswana, South Africa’s wealthier to be given to fight AIDS. months of wages for an average South " neighbor to the north, has introduced free UNAIDS says 95% of the people living ¯ AZT treatment for infants born to HIVAfrican. ¯ with the AIDS virus are in developing The Centers for Disease Control and ¯ positive mothers, said Vicki Ehrich ¯ countries, most of them in Africa. Prevention in Atlanta recommends the ¯ spokeswoman for Glaxo Wellcome, which ¯ Agency officials said developing three-drug therapyforhealthcare workers ¯ produces AZT. ." countries are also contributing to the who have been exposed to HIV through Glaxo Wellcome wants to supply the ¯ campaign against AIDS. The study contaminated needles because some ¯ South African government with the drug ¯ showed domestic spending varied from a ¯ studies have found AZT alone has for $65 perbirth, orone-third of its market low of 8% in the Caribbean and 9% in prevented them from contracting the virus. ¯ price. But the government says that’s too Africa to 57% in Asia, 67% in Latin ¯ "The state has removed the death : expensive. ’°We cannot afford this type of America and 79% in Eastern Europe. sentence" for crime, said Johannesburg intervention," said Khangelani journalist Charlene Smith. "Now we are ¯ Hlongwane, spokesman for the South asking them to remove the death sentence ¯ African Health Ministry. for rape survivors." Smith, who wrote ¯ Physicians at state-rim hospitals have recently about being raped and her ¯ clashed with the government on theissue. attempts afterward to obtain AIDS -related ¯ ’oWe’re trying to convincethegovernment BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Asia’s medical treatment, spoke at a news economic crisis is worsening Thailand’s that it’s actually cost effective," said Dr. ¯ conference sponsored by women’s groups ¯ Avy Violari, a pediatrician at Chris Hani ¯ AIDS crisis, experts said, predicting that ¯ more than 100,000 Thai children will be who represent rape victims. : Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto. Doctors and others have also ." The United Nations AIDS program ." orphaned by the disease by the end of the complained about a decision by South ¯ estimates that about 600,000 HIV ¯ year 2000. Africa’s Health Ministry last year to shut ¯ infections are spread during childbirth ¯ Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai, down pilot projects to treat HIV-positive ¯ worldwide, but no figures for South Africa ¯ opening Thailand’s annualNationalAIDS expectant mothers in the last month of ." were available. Transmission of HIV ¯ Seminar, told hundreds of researchers and pregnancy with AZT, which reportedly ¯ through sexual assault has been less ¯ health workers that the government will ¯ can reduce by half the transmission rate of studied, partlybecause rape and AIDS are ¯ scrimp to find now-scarce funding to keep ¯ : HIV to newborns. the AIDS epidemic under control. not as widespreadin Europe and the United A woman in South Africa is three times : States, wheremostresearchis carried out, ¯ But Wirut Poolcharoen, a Health ¯ ¯ morelikely to be raped than in the United ¯ ." Ministry official, acknowledged that Smith said. ¯ States, and South African men are much ¯ Thailand’s government does not know ¯ JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) how to cope with an expected explosion Women’s groups criticized the South : more likely to be infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, said Nthabiseng in the number of AIDS orphans. Most are ¯ ¯ African government Thursday for failing Mogale, head of People Opposed to taken care of by their grandparents or to provide medical treatment they say Women Abuse. South African women are other family members. "The number of could help prevent victims of rape from ¯ : entitled to treatment as a human right, ¯ GENEVA (AP) - Spending by donor orphans whose parents die of AIDS will contracting the AIDS virus from their : countries to combat AIDS in developing ¯ double by the end of the year 2000,"Wirnt Mogale said. ¯ attackers. ¯ One in eight South African adults is ~ countries is failing to keep pace with the ¯¯ said. "The government does not yet know The activists are demanding the ¯ infected with HIV. The rate is tWice that ¯ spreadofthe disease, now infecting nearly how to carry such a huge burden to ensure government provide rape victims with a for pregnant women, the government has ¯ 6 millionpeople worldwide each year, the ¯ the well-being of these children." . " three-drug cocktail of AZT, 3TC and a said. Police say about 65,000 women and ¯ United Nations said recently. ¯" Statisticians at Mahidol University protease inhibitor Crixovan. The three"it is alarming that AIDS is expanding girls are assaulted every year, but activists ¯ released a report showing that in 1997, the drug cocktail is available for $820 on the ¯ three times faster than the funding to ¯ year that recession struck Thailand and insist the number is much higher. control it," said Dr. Peter Piot, executive : much of Southeast Asia, the country had director of UNAIDS, the Joint U.N. 34,349 AIDS orphans, about a quarter of Program on HIV/AIDS. Piot called on them under age five. By the end of 2000, ¯ industrialized nations to do more to fight the report predicts the total figure will be the disease in developing countries. ¯ 116,508childrenorphanedbyAIDS,with The agency said wealthy countries’ 30,845 of them under five¯ support for the global fight against AIDS Acquired immune deficiency syndrome IS being vastly outpacedby the epldennc, ¯ claimed 51,000 lives in Thailand in 1997 which has infected 47 million people over alone, according to research presented by the past two decades. That figure includes Bangkok’s prestigious Chulalongkorn those who have already died from the ¯ University. Death figures were not ¯ disease and those hying with HIV, the available for 1998. "It takes years for AIDS-causing virus. ~ p.eople to realize they have contracted the Funding to fight AIDS in developing virus, and its consequences are thereby countries was $273 million in 1997, less ¯ affecting quality of life of their family than double the $165 million spent in ¯ members and of society as a whole,"Wirnt 1990, it said. During the same period, the said. number of people living with HIV around In the early years after AIDS was the world more than tripled to 30.3 million ¯ discovered, Thailand refused to ¯ acknowledge it had a single case of the from 9.8 million. UNAIDS said a study by the Harvard disease, fearing damage to the lucrative University School of Public Health found prostitution industry that is a mainstay the United States was "by far the largest ¯ both of tourism and the sex lives of many tnbutor to the lnternat~onal campaign, ¯ Thai men. A change of attitude coupled giving $135.2 million-in 1997. But it said ¯ with aggressive condom distribution and that other countries ranked higher when ¯ education programs brought the epidemic their contributions were measured against ¯ somewhatundercontrolbythemid_ 1990s, the size of their economies. Norway gave ¯ but the gains are eroding due to cuts in the $ 93 for each $1 million of its gross national health budget in ’the recession-era product; the Netherlands gave $92. ¯ economy. The government’s spending on Denmark was third at $52 per 1 million of ¯ AIDS pre~iention has fallen about 25% to its gross national product, followed by ¯ 1.4 billion baht ($39 miillion) Since 1997. Sweden at $49. Australia gave $31, Canada ¯ Thailand needs to prepareitself to handle $21, Britain $19, Belgium $18, United ¯ the social and economic consequences of States $17, Finland $10, Switzerland and : AIDS and the HIV virus that leads to it, Germany $6 and Japan $2. ¯¯ said Supachai Kunarattanapruek, an Industrialized countries are spending adviser to the Health Ministry. I P Medical Excellence. Compassionate Care less than 1% of their development aid on ¯ Though Thailand spends little on longthe fight against AIDS, according to : term care for AIDS sufferers, the country UNAIDS. ’oWeighed against the global will pay a high price for the loss of catastrophe of the AIDS epidemic, the economically active people, experts said. ¯ level of spending for HIV prevention About two-thirds of the country’s AIDS around the world is minimal," Piot said. ¯ sufferers are 25-39 years old, their prime He said in order for any aid to benefit ¯ working years. ¯ developing countries, more money needs ¯ Economics Making :HIV Fight Harder So. African Women Criticize Govt. :$ for HIV Falling Behind Its Spread Medical Excellence And Compass.ionate Care S nce 1926. ¯ ¯ ST. JOHN MEDICAL CENTER �It’s the end of the season but things are ¯ relationship between the artist and patron, hardly slowing down. Tulsa Opera will ¯ and includes the museum’s patron, end its season with our favorite opera, " Thomas Gilcrease who with John D. Mozart’s Magic Flute. Performances are : Rockefeller, Jr. was a patron of artist May 1,6 & 8 at 8pm, except on Thursday, ¯ JosephHenry Sharp. Formoreinformation the6thandare or directions in the Chapthe to man Music museum, call Hall. This 596-2700 or in work, visit the German with website at translations www~ shown above T u 1 s a the stage, has Philharmonic not been seen will wrap up It in Tulsa in Chamber more thanl0 Classics years and the season with cast looks to pieces by be excellent. Bizet, Ravel It is, of course and Haydn on a fairy tale, May 7th at the complete with Waiters Arts an evil queen, Center at 319 East 21st Street and of course, Holland Hail we can all relate to that, can’t we? Don’t " School. Three local Episcopal choirs are ¯ featured, Saint John’s, Saint Dtmstan’s miss it. Switchinggearsfromtheartstoreligion, ¯ and Trinity’s. For tickets and moreinfo., those radical, free thinking, wild eyed " call 747-7445. liberals, those Presbyterians are going to ¯ Also, check out the Philharmonic’s havethenationalconferencefortheMore ¯ DesignerShowcaseat319East21stStreet. Light Presbyterians (the official,ly Gay- : It’s a great way to see what the latest in friendly ones) in Oklahoma’City at " high "foofI3"’ and decorating is and to OklahomaCityUniversity’sAngieSmith ," support a great organizatxon. This is the Memorial Chapel, NW 23rd and 26th year for the showcase and the 50th Blackwelder, on May 21-23. The program : year for the Philharmonic. Tickets are $10 begins with a dinner and worship service ¯ and it’s open Tues. to Sat. from 10-4pro at 6pm on Friday. Workshops are : and Thurs. from l0-8pm, Sundays l-4pm scheduledfrom8amto 10pmonSaturday ¯ but don’t get ther after 3pm or 7pm on and Sunday will be devoted to a"ministry ¯ Thurs. if you want to get in. FYI, no ¯ of presence." Speakers include Chris cameras and it’s not handicapped Glaser, Janie Spahr, Scott Anderson and accessible. more.Info:JohnMcNeese,405-848-2819 " Finally ourregular entertaiment writer or john33 @ix.netcom.com , shares the following with credit to "News Moving to the arts but still with a " oftheWeird"andofcourse, Rolling Stone: religious theme, Philbrook Museum opens : "Prominent ’Christian’ radical right an Italian Old Masters drawing exhibit in psychologist Patti Cameron told Rolling May.TheexhibitfeaturesworksbyCrespi, Stone magazine that he feared Gay sex Luti, Cambiaso andCantafiniandTiepolo would supplant heterosexual sex unless a and will hang from May 9 to Sept. 12. vigilant society repressed it. ’Marital sex Philbrook is at 2727 Rockford Rd. tends toward the boring,’ he said. Gilcrease Museum continues to ’Generally, it doesn’t deliver the kind of eelebrateits50thanniversarywithashow sheer sexual pleasure that homosexual opening on May 16th. ’q’aos Artists and sex does.’ ’If all one seeks is an orgasm,’ Their Patrons,1898 -1950" was organized he said, ’the evidence is that men do a by the Snite Museum at Notre Dame U. betterjobonmen, andwomenonwomen.’ but draws on the collections at the Metro’Homosexuality,’ he said, ’seems too politan, the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa powerful to resist.’ " Fe, the Harwood Museum of the Amazing. Time to set up more University of New Mex-ico in Taos, recruitment stations. With publicity like Chicago’s Art Institute and more. The this,ourplantorulethewofldwillproceed show parti-cularly explores the much faster... - TFN editors TOHR & Cimarron Alliance present Designer Showcase TULSA-The Council OakMen’s Chorale will present it’s spring concert "MUSIC" to be held on May 7 and 8, 1999, at All Soul’s Unitarian Church, 2952 S. Peoria. Concerts on both evenings will begin at 7 PM. Advance tickets are available from The Pride Store, chorale members or by contacting the COMC Ticket Office at 585-COMC. Tickets will also be available atthedoor. Tickets areS 10.00andadvance purchase is recommended due to sdl-out audiences at previous events. The program will feature a variety, of music from"Swell the Full Chorus" by G. F. Handel, to 60’s sensation’q’umArotmd, Look at Me". "Our audiences have come to expect the Standard choral repertoire ¯ with an occasional twist of humor that ¯ only the men of Council Oak can do so ¯ eloquently.., trust me, concert-goers will not be disappointed," said Rick Former, ¯ Jr., Artistic Director. Recently, members of Council Oak ¯ Men’s Chorale performed on the floor of ¯ the Oklahoma State House of ¯ Representatives as a lobbying effort for passage of House Bill 1211. 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So that leaves you with the option of removing the old counter top and replacing Workshop topics will include: Breaking it with prdaminated counters, or tiling the Silence - White, Mrican American, over the old laminate, if it is only ugly but not warped or popping up. You can also ¯"¯ Hispanic and Native American Women remove the old counter top, replace the ¯ Speak Out; Expanding Clinical Trials and Treatment Research for Women; Special surface and tile from scratch, but why ¯ Issues for Children in Families Affected don’t we save that kind of labor for later? The easiest option may be replacing the ¯" by HIV/AIDS; The lank Between HIV Infection, Violence Against Women, counter tops. If you have a relatively uncomplicated lay out, with counters no ¯ Homelessness and Substance Abuse; and more than 10 foot long at a run, then you ~ HIV Programs for Women: A Fdnder’s can go and buy the counter top from a ¯ Perspective. ’This conference will allow large home improvement store. Some will ~ us a chance to look at the progress that has do the miter cut and cutouts for sink, range ~ been made over the years, and the or whatever; others won’t, but can ¯ challenges which still confront us when ~ dealing with women and AIDS," says recommend someone who will do two ¯ Nicklas. miters [one comer] and a sink cutout for Conferenceregistrationfeeis $35before about $40,whichisn’tbad:Itis remarkably ¯ ¯ May 20 or $40 after May 20. The fee for easy to install these counters yourself if ¯ the luncheon only is $15. Special student YcoachOU have a simple L, and the store will you on what to do. The back splashes ," rates are available. Seating is limited. Some confidential scholarships for come pre-rolled in most cases, so you can ¯ finish them off with a smart little bead of ¯" housing, transportation and conference fees are available for HIV positive women. caulk. ¯ Call 585-5551 ext. 231 to receive an If your counter top layout is more ¯ application. A respite room and child eare complicated or longer, you will have to have the counter tops custom made, and ¯¯ are available for HIV positive women. For more information or to register, call possibly even installed by a contractoI ¯ 585-5551. but that will be p art of your review process. �by Esther Rothblum. Ph.D. . Research begins to happen when the There has been some speculation about : governmentputs funds behindit, andright whether Lesbians are at higher or lower ¯ now the Institute of Medicine of the riskforbreastcaneerthanareheterosexual : National Academy of Science has women. Buttherehasbeenlittleresearch. ;. publishedareportOnLesbianhcalthwhich will stimulate research on Now Dr. Deborah Bowen, a The theory goes Lesbian health issues. Dr. psychologist at the Fred Bowen said: "It’ s expensive Hutchin~n Cancer Research that ff Lesbians to do this kind of research. Center and a member of the have a harder You have to have lots of Lesbian Health Research money to call up 20,000 ¯ Institute, is conducting tlme finding women, and with breast research on breast cancer that affordable and cancer you have to call a lot includes Lesbians. of women in order to reach "Five years ago, this was affirmative some who have the disease." guess-work; there was no Dr. Bowen’s research team cheek-ups, data," shetold me in a recent asks about sexual interview. "At my Cancer then they may he now orientation in both paper and Center, we do a lot of pencil surveys and in research about the causes of less likely to have telephone interviews. They breast cancer and how to ask this in two ways - by mammo~rams prevent breast cancer. There are many experts on breast or to interact with asking about identity (do women identify as cancer, so I had a lot of a health provider heterosexual, bisexual, colleagues I could talk to Lesbian, or other) and also about my ideas about in a Way that by asking about sexual Lesbians and breast cancer." would help with behavior. "ff we only ask the In talking with Lesbians, former, we lose women who Dr. Bowen realized that the early diagnosis. have sex with women but common perception was that don’t identify as Lesbian, breast cancer was more So it may be that and .if we just ask about frequent among Lesbians Lesbians aren’t at sexual behavior we lose and that perception was women who are not currently frightening to Lesbians. As hi’her risk for a scientist, she knew there breast eaneer, just sexually active," she explained. was no proof yet one way or Dr. Bowen thinks there the other. "That’s when I that Lesbians are two camps of thoughts in began thinking that we could don’t get good the Lesbian community make some in-roads into about breast cancer. ,One this," she said, "either by health eare . . . has to do with reproductive collecting new data on Lesbians or else by including questions ¯ factors. Fewer Lesbians have children than about sexual orientation into existing ¯¯ do heterosexual women. The ’fewer’ can range from about 36% to about 60% of studies." Dr. Bowen has done both - she Lesbians who have had children. Whereas has written research grants to fund studies specifically on Lesbians and breast cancer ¯¯ with heterosexual women it’s actually and also begun to examine sexual ¯ quitehigh-between 80-90% of all women have had children. Not having had children orientationin somelarge-scale community : or having had children late aright be a surveys on hundreds of thousands of ¯ factor in developing breast cancer. women. ¯ Pregnancy might cease certain hormones "The biggestriskfactor for getting breast ¯ that are linked to the development of cancer is being a woman," Dr. Bowen said, "and the second biggest risk factor is ¯ breast cancer." "The other camp of thought has to do age. Even though we hear a lot about ~¯ with acces s to reliable, good, open, access younger women getting breast cancer, it ¯ to health care," Dr. Bowen said, "and is really a disease of older women. And the problem is that very few people have ¯¯ Lesbians may not have such access. We studied older women who are past ¯ know that if cancer is caught at a later stage when it has had more chance to menopause. So we don’ t even know much ¯ growandspreadtootherpartsofthebody, about breast cancer in women in general." Other risk factors for breast cancer are ¯ it’ s harder to treat and can’t be treated as having a family history of breast cancer. ~ wall. The theory goes that if Lesbians "Having a close or even a distant relative : have a harder time finding affordable and who has had breast cancer is now known ," affirmative check-ups, then they may be to ~put women at higher risk for breast ¯¯ less likely to have m~mmograms or to c~._cer, but we don’t know much about ¯ interact with a health provider in a way that wouldhelp with early diagnosis. Soit why this is so," Dr. Bowen continued. "Much of the research has focused on ¯¯ may be that Lesbians arCh’ t at higher risk women Who have multiple relatives with ¯ for breast cancer, just that Lesbians don’t get good health care and are likely to be breast cancer~ but that only accounts for ¯ diagnosed with breast cancer at a later abOut 4% of all women. What about the woman who had a great-atmt Matilda who ¯ stage when it is harder to treat." I asked Dr. Bowen what she would had breast cancer? How does Aunt ¯"¯ reconamend that health care professionals Matilda’ s breast cancer transfer to her?" ¯ do to increase the comfort of Lesbian Cancer researchers are also. beginning to learn more about environmental ¯ patients. Her suggestions: "The person exposures, "the toxins, chemicals, and :¯ who comes to a doctor has to trust that doctor and she has to feel comfortable maybe even the radiation that we experience, some of it naturally occurring ¯ bringing scary problems to that doctor. and some it put there by technology" as ¯ And I’m hypothesizing that one of the Dr. Bowen described it, "but we don’t ~ problems bringing up sexual orientation how andwe don’ tknow when the exposure : in a health care setting is that you aright to these environmental factors has to occur ¯ feel okay saying you have a cold or a see Psyche, p. 13 in order to become arisk for breast cancer." : stomach ache, A UTHENTIC FRESH ITALIAN RAINBOW CUSINE TROUT IGTA Call 341.6866 member ’ [ .~~.~~ International of Eureka Springs Voted Number One in Arkansas! Tours SormoreinSormation. 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Garnett, 437-2~,~A 3733 S. Memorial, 6600344 1216 S. Harvard, 587-1778 Sapulpa Location: 109 N. Mission, 227-2322 Free & Anonymous Finger Stick Method By &for, but not exclusive to the Lesbian; Gay, & Bisexual Communities. Monl &Thurs., 6-8 pro,. Daytime testing: Mon-Thurs. by appt. H 0 P HIV Outreach, Prevention & Education 834-TEST(8378), 3501 E. Admiral Place by Lamont Lindstrom. Ph.D. ¯ romantic attraction and love is indeed an Ahinad is looking for a boyfriend in "¯ alien idea in societies where families originateonlythrougharrangedmamages. Califoruia.RaisedinPakistaninawealthy, Like Parivaraj’s Gay schoolboys, rural farnilv he immigrated to the US a ¯ " Ahrnad, some-how, has also learned to few years Ego. Ahinad telephones home desire a boyfriend. Sex on the regularly to talk with his ~rester n stories corner before going home to parents and sisters. He misses wife and kids is no longer his family but he’s not going of romantic good enough. . back. His parents expect him Previously, in many love, and the to marry and if he returns to societies, even if you were a Pakistan he knows he ..would emergence of a man-loving-man, there was find tfimself quickly caught up no obvious alternative to what in an arranged mamage with separate Gay ¯ all men did. You accepted the some woman selected by his woman that your parents identity are father. So he remains in San arranged for you and you Francisco, despite his homepowerful served your family by sickness, hoping to arrange his fathering children. notions that ownmamage- but withaman. In future, however, Ahmad’ s problem is shared have spread there may be more and more by the characters of a recently Ahmads who are unwilling to published novel that deals with Oobally. go along with traditional Gay lifein India, P. Parivaraj’ s ¯ " expectations. Western stories of romantic Shiva and Arun. In this book, a group of Hindu and Muslim schoolboys face :¯ love and the emergence of a separate Gay difficult challenges related to their ¯ identity are powerful notions that have spread globally. homosexuality. They can only be honest , When one of Parivaraj’s young men with each other about their desires that breaks with his parents by confessing that they hide from family and even their ¯ ¯ he loves men, they think he must be a closest friends. After leaving school, one is fired when ¯ transvestite prostitute -the only local to try his boss discovers his sexual orientation. ¯ gender category they have available t All of them are pressured by family to ¯ tounderstandhim. Buthe sno. Although marry and have children. One is rejected ¯ he may not call it thus, he has adopted the Western identity "Gay" that is by his father when he refusesto do so. : fundamentally defined by a romantic Another gives in and is only able to have ¯ awkward sex with his new wife by thinking ¯ desire for boyfriends. Those of us who celebrate individuality -. of his boyfriend. He soon kills himsdf. ¯ andlovemight applaud Abroad’ s coura.ge Marriage has failed to quell his ¯ at defying his father, abandoning his homosexual desire. mother and sisters, and casting himself I discussed Shiva and Arun with a Gay colleague who has lived in India. Based :¯ into Gay-dating hell - that horribly lonely on his experience (some of thi.s rather ¯ search for romance. In my more paranoid moments, intimate), .my colleague argued that the ¯ novel’ s tragic suicide is unbelievable. He ¯ however, I worry about the recent proliferation and spread of all sorts ofnew has met hundreds of happily married social identities, including "Gay." The homosexual Indian men who juggle parallel lives with wife and children in ¯ global economic system in large part public, and discrete sexual encounters with ¯ depends on the cultivationof multiple and men in private. Almost all Indian and ¯ splintered identities that serve-as niche markets for its goods. Pakistani men - whether they desire : So, in addition to all the foods, and women or men - marry without complaint ¯ clothing, and furniture, and art, and music as the normal, human thing to do. Those ¯ who want sex with men can easily pick up ¯ that Ahmad seems to need to buy in order to demonstrate his Gayness, I pray thathe partners by cruisi,ng in appropriate places. can manage to snag a boyfriend. But he Stephen Murray s 1997 book, Islamic : knows that they can cost a lot. Homosexualities, describes street corners ¯ already Lamont Lindstrom is a professor of in Karachi where men drive by to find ¯ dates. ¯ anthropology at the University of Tulsa. However, this semester he is teaching at I asked Ahmad why he just didn’t give "~ the University of California, in Berkeley. in and go home, make his dad happy by getting married, and find an occasional lover on the highway roundabouts. He replied gloomily that he couldn’ t do this. He wants instead to live as what he really ¯ but not that you want the provider to feel is, a Gay man. He is exiled in California, your breast, for example. Lesbians might torn between family duties and personal also worry that the provider might force desire. Shiva andArun taps into this sentiment ¯ them to use high-tech solutions for their problem when they would prefer to begin - a model of Gayness that is recently ¯ "diffusing" (as anthropologists put this) ¯ with alternative solutions. Lesbians often have good reason got to trust ’the system’ from West to East. Parivaraj seemingly ¯ and right now the solutions we have for rejects the conclusion that Indians have ¯ breast cancer have to with technology, borrowed Western patterns of sexuality. : such as chemotherapy, radiation, or None of his characters identifies himself ¯ as"Ga,. v" Pather , they are "men who love ¯ surgery." She also recommends that Lesbians look for open, trustworthy men." Still,he clearly has adopted Western ¯ providers if these exist’ in their concepts of individuality and romantic communities. love. Two of his boys manage to find ¯ : Esther Rothblum is Professor of happiness in the end. They fall in love, Psychology at the University of Vermont leave their families, and move in with i and Editor Of the Journal of Lesbian their boyfriends to establish at least quasi: Studies.ShecanbereachedatJohnDewey public homosexual households. : Hall, UniversityofVermont, Burlington, The notion of long-term household relations between two men founded in : VT, email: esther.rothblum@uvm.edu. �Good Food, Good Service, If the hate crimes bill passes the Senate, where it has been in committee, it will ¯ come before Bush who can either veto it or sign it into law. "We hope the state Senate and Governor B ush will follow the lead of the House and the people of Texas and pass hate crimes legislation," said Birch. At aWashington press conference last month, family members of two hate crimes victims announced their support for federal and state hate crimes legislation. Both Judy Shepard, mother of University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard, and Darrell Verrett, nephew of Jasper, Texas resident James Byrd Jr., urged Bush to pass the Texas legislation. As reported in The Dallas Morning News, in 1997 - the most recent year for available statistics- 360 hate crimes were reported in Texas. The Department of Public Safety reported that 167 crimes were directed against African-Americans; 64 against Gays and Lesbians; 22 against Hispamcs; and 21 against Jews. The effort to pass hate crimes legislation is led by Dianne Hardy Garcia, executive director of the Lesbian and .Gay Rights Lobby of Texas and state Rep. Senfronia Thompson, D~Texas, Chair, Judicial Affairs Committee. ’q~he incredible leadership of Dianne Hardy Garcia and Representative Senfronia Thompson has made it po,s.sible for the House to-take this great stride forward," said Birch. ’q’his is a textbook example of how effective engagement in thepolitical process through lobbying and education can have a significant societal impact. Today, millions of Texans are one step closer to receiving protection from hate violence." Only 21 states have hate crimes laws that include sexual orientation and eight s.tates have no hate crimes laws. Nationally, since 1981, hate crimes have nearly doubled. In 1997 - the FBI’s most recent reporting period - race-related hate crimes were by far the most common, representing nearly 60% of all cases. Hate crimes based on religion represented 15% of all cases. And hate crimes against Gay, lesbian and bisexual Americans increased by 8% - or about 14% of all hate crimes reported. The Scripps Howard poll of 1,003 adults was conducted by telephone, March 30April 17. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. The home can hold up to 6 or 7 kids from infants to older, and is filled with plenty, of toys. and a nice, little backyard for play. The operation will be licensed and bonded, and one of the morns is qualified to work with special education and hearing impaired children. And in a very 90’s touch, they are considering adding an internet camera which would allow parents who have web access at work to log into a web site and checkon~ their kids!. GLAD, Ga)~. & ~bian-Daycare ~il1 als0 ~b~a [~t[¢: 1:~§~ ;expensi.ve~ than~ .. comparable:qUality opera.tions. The ~ ¯ ~rogram .which is due openversus mid-May ill charge $100 per to week the $125phis which Teresa and Joan found to ¯ be more common. And they are willing to : provide evening and weekend care by ¯ ¯ special arrangement. GLAD,’s orgamzers will be having a special garage sale on ¯ May 7th & 8th to help kick off the program. : For more information, call 808-8026. ¯ No Anti-Gay Attitude Tulsa’s never had that many choices for late night dining but now, with Burger Sisters,just opened the last week of April, Tulsa’s Gay community not only can get good food but be treated right in the process.. John Rothrock and Steve Walley, owners of the Silver Star, just down the way in the same shopping center, have opened a "comfortable, clean" restaurant. Rothrock notes that the restaurant welcomes all, Gays, straights, young and old but especially, it will be a place where Gay people can be free and comfortable to hold hands or to come in late from the clubs in drag or leather and not be hassled. In other words, straight people are welcome - as long as they behave themselves ! Rothrock notes, "it’s time for Gays to grasp the respect we’ve earned.., not tO be ashamed..." and he adds, "when you eat here, you don’t have to hide who you are. Burger Sisters, which opens at 6am offers a typical, "downhome" breakfasts, hamburgers, fries, salads as wall as a daily dinner special. Monday to Thursday, the cafe will be open till 10pro. On Friday and saturday, they’ll stay open till 4am and Sunday, the hours will be 10am - 3pro (all subject to some change, after all they’ve been open only a few days when this goes to press). At this point, the cafe accepts only cash, no credit cards but their prices are very reasonable. Burger Sisters is located at 1545 So. Sheridan, just north a few doors from the Silver Star. Tel: 8351207. Four Years They’re There, One Night They’re Gone According to some of their now exstaff, Concessions, for more than four years one of Tulsa’s largest dance clubs closed precipitously the last Saturday of April. 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Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data newspaper periodical Text Any textual data included in the document American MedicaiAssociatiOn: Gay TeensAt Higher Suicide Risk National Organizations Fight Television War WASHINGTON - Gay and lesbian youths are at high risk for attempting suicide, according to anew study by Dr. Robert Garofalo ofthe Children’s Hospital, Boston. The study, published in April in the American Medical Association’s Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine, found that students who are Gay, lesbian, bisexual or not sure of their sexual orientation are 3.41 times more likely to report a suicide attempL Data for the study came from the Massachusetts 1995 Centers forDiseaseControl(CDC)YouthRiskBehaviorSurvey, which included questions about sexual orientation. The study said that factors which may exacerbate this problem, are "psychological stresses such as marginalization, isolation, and rejections" "These statistics underscore that anti-Gay prejudice is a life-threatening problem confronting this country;’ said David M. Smith, Commtntieations Director of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC0, the largest national Lesbian and Gay political organization, with members throughout the country. "Suicides, and violence against Gay people will continue as long as extreme fightwing groups continue to dehumanize GayAmericans see Gay Teens;p.10 London Gay Pub Bombed Hampshire Man Arrested LONDON - Three people died and more than 70 were injured, many seriously, in a nail bomb explosion at a crowded Gay barin London’s Soho area. The device wentoff at 6:37pmwithout any apparent warning in the Admiral Duncan pub inOldCompton Street. It blew out windows, sending glass anddebris flyinginto the street. Hundreds ofpeoplewereevactuatedandeyewimesses reported seeing injured bodies lying on the pavement. Many suffered severe injuries and at least two people had limbs blown off. A 22-year-old engineer, David Copeland, from Hampshire appeared in a west London court a week later facing three counts of murder and three counts of causing explosions with intent to endanger life in three separate nail bomb attacks in London. However, Copeland does not have any ties to the Nazi groups Combat 18 and the White Wolves that had been claiming responsibility for the bombings which have killed three people and injured more than 100. Police believe he had been working on his own. They said that he wasnotresponsible for the hate mail sent to ethnic community ldaders and minority groups since the firstbomb was detonated in aBrixton street on April 17, injuring 39 people. A second bomb, in the midst of the Bengali community in Brick Lane, Fast London, exploded a week later. The attack on the Admiral Duncan, aimed at hurling the Gay community which thrives in the streets around Soho square, see Pub Bombing, p. 11 |1| DIRECTORY/LEI"I’ERS P. 2 EDITORIAL P. 3 mmm US & WORLD NEWS P. 4 ~IEALTH NEWS P. 6 ~ i~NTERTAINMENT P. 8 (~OMMUNITY CALENDAR P. 9 DO-IT-YOURSELF-DYKE P. 11 DYKE PSYCHE P. 12 "" GAY STUDIES P. 13 Serving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual + Transgendered Tulsans, Our Families + Friends Tulsa’s Largest Circulation Community PaperAvailable In More Than 75 City Locations Gay Parade PermitApproved TulsaActivist Dies TULSA, Okla. (AP/T~N) - The parade will go on. After twice delaying consideration of a permit for the Gay pride parade, the City Council unanimously approved the permit May 20th. Four citizens testified against granting the permit and three in favor. Those opposing the permit made references to "unhealthy lifestyles" and implied connections between the school shooting in Littleton, Colorado and allowing the parade permit. However, City Councilor Art Justiss had directed all speakers to limit their remarks only to those concerning the parade and that anyremarks about "lifestyles" would be ruled out of order. Progressive Alliance co-chair and longtime environmental activist, B.J. Medley spoke in support of the parade, citing Barney Frank as one of her heroes. Not one but two Libertarian party activists spoke in favor. One noted that if the parade were ofsci-fi fans,thecontroversywouldnotbetakingplace. Libertarian Scott Pearson noted he and his wife and child would march with the parade because of their respect for freedom and tolerance for those who are different. West Tulsa City Councilor Darla Hall sniped that Gays will have to answer to Godfor their "lifestyle" andhoped that they are as prepared to met GOd as they are for their parade. "We cannot single out a group and limit them in ways that we do not limit other groups," Councilor Brady Pringle said. He said the parade permit was not a moral issue, but a legal one. Pringle noted that the average street dosing for parades was two hours (this permit requested 2 1/2 hours). Councilors acknowledged that they wererequired tobe content neutral and merely to assure that all administrative standards had been met. However, Pringle stated that the bad news for callers objecting to granting the parade permit was that the city had been "too consistent" in granting permits to any and all, and that now not to grant the permit would dearly be based on content. Pringle also stated that granting the permit did not constitute "an endorsement ofthe Gay and Lesbian lifestyle" and suggested that putting off granting the permit just called more attention to a divisive issue. Pfingle also added that it served "to further a cause that none of the councilors wish to advance." Parade organizers had threatened to sue if the permit, which allows the dosing of streets for theparade, was denied. Organizers noted i~.~.a press release that the permit application was "lost" twice by city staff over a several month period, see Parade, p.3 Arkansas PFLAG Mom Praises Court Decision FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Carolyn Wagner, a PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) Regional Director and resident of Fayetteville, Arkansas praised last month’s U.S. Supreme Court decision which says schools may be liable in student-on-studentharassment. Wagnerhad successfully pressed federal officials to recognize and intervene against sexual harassment directed at Gay and Lesbian students. The 5-4 ruling reversed a federal appeals court decision that said Title IX, a federal law, never applies to student-on-student harassment. Abuse ofGay and Lesbian students can often involve sexual harassment, as well as other types of violence. "This" landmark decision by the highest court in our land reinforces that federally-funded schools must address and stop student-on-student harassment that interferes with their access to education," said Wagner. "This is a critical tool for all youth and their parents to help secure a hostile-free learning environment for all students," said Wagner, who with her husband, Bill, has worked closely with PFLAG since 1996 to meet with, and to be heard by, federal officials on the issue. "We are relieved to hear that the Supreme Court is making it crystal dear to schools that they have an obligation to protect all of our children," PFLAG Executive Director Kirsten Kingdon noted. The Supreme Court ruling that peer-on-peer sexual harassment was included under Tide IX strengthened the main tool currently available to Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered students. The Wagners helped secure a historic agreement last year-between federal education officials and Fayetteville Public Schools which says that the Arkansas school district must take specific steps to handle various forms of sexual harassment, including sexual harassment directed at Gay and Lesbian students. The agreementcamein response to a complaint brought by their son, Willi, who charged that the local school system did not act after he was harassed repeatedly and beatenup by a gang of students. The Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund represented him in the complaint. The decision last June was the first time new Tide IX guidelines, issued in 1997, have been applied to sexual harassment directed at Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered students. Phil Wiley Worked on Gay & HIV Issues by Tom Neal, editor &publisher TULSA - Phil’s gone but not forgotten. In a near northside Black Baptist church, we gathered to mourn, to praise, to laugh and to cry for the loss of one of Tulsa’s most remarkable men. Survived by his longtime companion of 28 years, Vernon L. Jones, his morn and dad, Ester Mac Stanley Wiley, Willard Robert Wiley, Sr., brothers, a sister, aunts, uncles, cousins,nephews, niecesand step-daughter Lenita, Phillip Amett Wiley’s passing was noted bynoless thanfive pastors, the Reverends Maxwdl, Davis, Bailey, LaCour and the Reverend Leslie Penrose who gave the eulogy. Phil was nearly 45. He was born June 16, 1954 and died at Saint John Hospital on May 16, 1999. He’d been living with kidney disease, diabetes and with being HIV positive. And while it was kidney disease that took him ultimately, see Phil, p. 3 HIV/AIDS Events Red Ribbon Run & Regional Women + AIDS Conference TULSA - Saturday, June 12, the second annual Red Ribbon Run will open registration at 7am with the mens run to start at 8am and the womens at 8:30am. The event includes a 5 kilometer run, race walk and casual walk, all at LaFortune Park. Registration will be held at the southeast shelter with parking at the south parking lot. The event is $12 pre-registered or $8 without a t-shirt,,and $15 and $10 that day. This is aUSATFsanctioned eventandall proceeds benefit InterfaithAIDS Ministries and the Regional. AIDS Interfaith Network. All contributions are welcome even from non-runners. For more information, call 438-2437. Then on Monday, June 14, the Second Regional Conference on Women and AIDS will be held on The University of Tulsa campus, in the Chapman Activity Center, at 440 South Gary Avenue. .The comprehensive, one-day program hopes to raase awareness, promote discussion and provide opportunities fornew directions inHIVprevention, care and treatment for women. "In the Arms of the Angels," a documentary produced by the National AIDS Fund Americorps Team Tulsa, will open the conference at 8:30 a.m. with a look at women and AIDS. Patty Lather, author of "Troubling the Angels," will give the keynote address at 8:45 a.m. In addition to a series of workshops, the conference will feature a panel of HIV positive women who will share their stories. Judith Billings of the President’s Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS will give the luncheon address. Sandra McDonald, the founder of Outreach, Inc., will present the dosing address on"WhatWe Can Do to Be a Force for Change." Tulsa Clubs & Restaurants *Bamboo Lounge, 7204 E. Pine *Boston Willy’s Diner, 1742 S. Boston Burger Sisters Restaurant, 1545 S. Sheridan *Empire Bar, 1516 S. Peoria *Full Moon Cafe, 1525 E. 15th *Gold Coast Coffee House, 3509 S. Peoria *Jason’s Dell, 15th & Peoria *Lola’s, 2630 E. 15th *Polo Grill, 2038 Utica Square *St. Michael’s Alley Restaurant, 3324-L E. 31st *Silver Star Saloon, 1565 Sheridan *Renegades/Rainbow Room, 1649 S. Main *TNT’s, 2114 S. Memorial *Tool Box, 1338 E. 3rd 832-1269 592-2143 835-1207 599-9512 583-6666 749-4511 599-7777 749-1563 744-4280 745-9998 834-4234 585-3405 660-0856 584-1308 Tulsa Businesses, Services, & Professionals Advanced Wireless & PCS, Digital Cdlular 747-1508 *Affinity News, 8120 E. 21 610-8510 *Assoc. in Med. & Mental Health, 2325 S. Harvard 743-1000 Kent Balch & Associates, Health & Life Insurance 747-9506 *Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 8620 E. 71 250-5034 *Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 5231 E. 41 665-4580 Body Piercing by Nicole, 2722 E. 15 712-1122 *Borders Books & Music, 2740 E. 21 712-9955 *Borders Books &,Music, 8015 S. Yale 494-2665 Brookside Jewelry, 4649 S. Peoria 743-5272 *CD Warehouse, 3807c S. Peoria 746-0313 Cherry St. Psychotherapy, 1515 S. Lewis 581-0902, 743-4117 Community Cleaning, Kerby Baker 622-0700 Tim Danid, Attorney 352-9504, 800-742-9468 *Deco to Disco, 3212 E. 15th 749-3620 *Devena’s Gallery, 13 Brady 587-2611 Doghouse on Brookside, 3311 S. 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Peoria, Ste. 633 747-7672 Puppy Pause II, 1060 S. Mingo 838-7626 *Peace Of Mind Bookstore, 1401 E. 15 583-1090 The Pride Store, 1307 E. 38, 2nd floor 743-4297 Rainbowz on the River B+B, PUB 696, 74101 747-5932 Richard’s Carpet Cleaning 834-0617 Teri Schutt, Rex Realtors 834-7921,747-4746 *Scribner’s Bookstore, 1942 Utica Square 749-6301 Paul Tay, Car Salesman 260-7829 *Tickled Pink, 3340 S. Peoria 697-0017 *Tulsa Book Exchange, 3749 S. Peoria 742-2007 *Tulsa Comedy Club, 6906 S. Lewis 481-0558 *Venus Salon, 1247 S. Harvard 835-5563 Fred Welch,LCSW, Counseling 743-1733 *Whittier News Stand, 1 N. Lewis 592-0767 Tulsa Agencies, Churches, Schools & Universities AIDS Walk Tulsa, PUB 4337, 74101 579-9593 *All Souls UnitarianChurch, 2952 S. Peoria 743-2363 Black & White, Inc. PUB 14001, Tulsa 74159 587-7314 Bless The Lord at All Times Christian Center, 2207 E. 6 583-7815 *B/IJGFr Alliance, Univ. of Tulsa Canterbury Ctr. 583-9780 *Chamber of Commerce Bldg., 616 S. Boston 585-1201 *Chapman Student Ctr., University of Tulsa, 5th H. & Florence *Church ofthe RestorationUU, 1314N.Greenwood 587-1314 *Commtmity ofHopeUnited Methodist, 2545 S. Yale 747-6300 *Commtmity Unitarian-Universalist Congregation 749-0595 *Council Oak Men’s Chorale 585-COMC (2662) *Delaware Playhouse, 1511 S. Delaware .712-1511 *Demoeratie Headquarters, 3930 E. 31 742-2457 Dignity/Integrity of Tulsa - Lesbian & Gay Catholics & Episcopalians, PUB 701475, 74170-1475 355-3140 *Fellowship Congreg. Church, 2900 S. Harvard 747-7777 918.583.1248, fax: 583.4615, POB 4140, Tulsa, OK 74159 e-mail: TulsaNews@ earthlink.net website: http://users.aol.com/TulsaNews/ Publisher + Editor: Tom Neal Writers + contributors: James Christjohn, Jean-Claude de Flambeauchaud Barry Hensley, J.-P. Legrandbouche, Lamont Lindstrom Esther Rothblum, Mary Schepers, Adam West Member of The Associated Press issued on or before the 1st of each month, the entire contents of this ~uow,~balincadtiomn aaryenportobteectreedprboyduUcSedcoepityhreirgihntw19h9o8leboyr in part without written permission from the publisher. Publication of a name or photo does not indicate a person’s sexual orientation. Correspondence is assumed to be for publication unless otherwise ~ted,_rnust be signed & becomes the sole property of TJ.€~ Each reader is entitled to 4 copies of each edition at distribution points. Additional copies are available by calling 583-1248. ¯ *Free SpiritWomen’s Center, call for location &info: 58%4669 ¯ Friend For A Friend, PUB 52344, 74152 747-6827 ¯ Friends in Unity Social Org., PUB 8542, 74101 582-0438 ¯ ¯ *HIV ER Center, 4138 Chas. Page Blvd. 583-6611 *HIV Resource Consortium, 3507 E. Admiral 834-4194 ¯ *Holland Hall School, 5666 E. 81st 481-1111 ¯ HOPE, HIV Outreach, Prevention, Education 834-8378 ¯ ¯ *House of the Holy Spirit Minstries, 3210e So. Norwood Interfaith AIDS Ministries 438-2437, 800-284-2437 ~ *MCC United, 1623 N. Maplewood 838-1715 ¯ NAMES Project, 3507 E. Admiral Pl. 748-3111 ¯ NOW, Nat’l Org for Women, PUB 14068, 74159 365-5658 ~ OK Spokes Club (bicycling), PUB 9165, 74157 : *Our House, 1114 S. Quaker 584-7960 ¯ PFLAG, PUB 52800, 74152 749-4901 ¯ *Planned Parenthood, 1007 S. Peoria 587-7674 : Prime-Timers, P.O. BOX 52118, 74152 ". *R.A.I.N., Regional AIDS Interfaith Network 749-4195 ¯ Rainbow Business Guild, PUB 4106, 74159 665-5174 *Red Rock Mental Center, 1724 E. 8 584-2325 ¯ O’RYAN, support group for 18-24 LGBT young adults ¯ O’RYAN, Jr. support group for 14-17 LGBT youth ¯ St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church, 4045 N. Cincinnati 425-7882 ¯ St. Dunstan’s Episcopal, 5635 E. 71st 492-7140 ¯ *St. Jerome’s Parish Church, 205 W. King 582-3088 *Tulsa Area United Way, 1430 S. Boulder 583-7171 ¯ TNAAPP(Native American men), Indian Health Care 582-7225 : Tulsa County Health Department, 4616 E. 15 595-4105 : Confidential HIV Testing - by appt. on Thursdays only ¯ TulsaOkla. for Human Rights, c/o The PrideCenter 743-4297 ¯ T.U.L.S.A. Tulsa Uniform/Leather Seekers Assoc. 838-1222 ¯ *Tulsa City Hall, Ground Floor Vestibule ". *Tulsa Community College Campuses ¯ *Tulsa Gay Commumty Center, 1307 E. 38, 74105 743-4297 ~ *OSU-Tulsa (formerly UCT, formerly Rogers U. whoever...) ": BARTLESVILLE : *Bartlesville Public Library, 600 S. Johnstone 918-337-5353 ¯ OKLAHOMA CITY/NORMAN ¯ *Borders Books &Music, 3209NWExpressway 405-848-2667 : *Borders Books & Music, 300 Norman Center 405-573-4907 ¯ TAHLEQUAH ¯ *Stonewall League, call for information: 918456-7900 : *Tahleq,mh Unitarian-UniversalistChurch 918-456-7900 ¯ *Green Country AIDS Coalition, POB 1570 918-453-9360 NSU School of Optometry, 1001 N. Grand ¯ HIVtesting every other Tues. 5:30-8:30, call for dates ¯ EUREKA SPRINGS, ARKANSAS : *Autumn Breeze Restaurant, Hwy. 23 501-253-7734 ¯ *Jim & Brent’s Bistro, 173 S. Main 501-253-7457 ¯ DeVito’s Restaurant, 5 Center St. 501-253-6807 ¯ *Emerald Rainbow, 45 &l/2 Spring St. 501-253-5445 ¯ MCC of the Living Spring 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 : Sparky’s, Hwy. 62 East 501-253-6001 ¯ *White Light, 1 Center St. 501-253-4074 ¯ FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS5 *Edna’s, 9 S. School Ave. 501-442-2845 : JOPLIN, MISSOURI ¯ *Spirit of Christ MCC, 2639 E. 32, Ste. U134 417-6234696 ¯ * is where you can findTFN. Notall are Gay-owned butall are Gay-friendly. ¯ To: Dr. Dean P. VanTrease, President .¯ Tulsa Community College Original Letter Date: February 3, 1998 ¯ A few months ago, I read your TCC ¯ Strategic Vision with great interest, ¯ particularly Section VII. This part states ¯ that TCC will reflect the pluralistic ¯ community they se.rveandthattheCollege ¯ will conduct workshops on diversity. I ¯ have some concerns about this based on ¯ negative experiences with other Tulsa : institutions which have defined diversity ¯ narrowly, usually just as racial issues. ¯ . However, Lesbians and Gay men also are ¯ part of the diversity of our city, and in ¯ particular, I would suggest that TCC has - greatly benefited from our cxmtribudon~ as students, staff and faculty. I hope that ¯ your workshops also will address issues ¯ of sexual orientation. ¯ ¯ I am also concerned about TCC’s lack of a comprehensive non-discrimination ¯ policy (on page 57 of your fall class ¯ schedule).While I suspect that in practice TCCmostly does not discriminateagainst ¯ Lesbians, Gay men or Heterosexuals on ¯ the basis of sexualorientation, the lack of : an explicitnon-discriminationpolicy puts ¯ Lesbians and Gay men at risk - never ¯ knowing whether or not we may be the : target of discrimination and clearly ¯ knowing that there exists no recourse if ¯ such occurs. Heterosexuals haveonly very ¯ rarely been persecuted because of their °¯ heterosexuality, and therefore, the issue ¯ weighs less heavily on them. While federal and state laws do not ." mandate the inclusion of "sexual ¯ orientation" in non-discrimination ¯ ¯ statements, these laws do not prevent private or public institutions from adding ¯ thelanguage- federal law sets aminimum ¯ standard for non-discrimination, nora ¯ maximum. Public and private institutions ¯ likeThe Universities ofTexas, Michigan, ~ Wisconsin,California, as well as Harvard, ¯ Yale, Stanford have long had these ~ policies. You may have noted also that ; Rogers University (ed. ’s note: now OSU- ¯ Tulsa) recently adopted this language. ¯ I hope to hear from you that TCC will ¯ update its non-discrimination policy. : Thank you. - Tom Neal, publisher/editor In response to your inquiries concerning : TCC’s Affirmative Action policy, we would like to inform you that one of the goals ofTCCas statedin theTCCStrategic Vision is that "employees will accurately reflect the pluralistic community they serve." TCC is fully compliant with both Federal and State guidelines with respect to Affirmative Action. The College also seeks to promote diversity among its student body through many recruitment programs, student organizations, and several academic advisement/counseling services. Thank you for your interest in TCC. - Dean P. VanTrease, Ph.D. Editor: Makes you wonder why it took 14 months and calls to two powerful state senators to get even this lame response - it’s not as though he bothered to answer what he was asked. But the refusal to answersuggests bias is aproblem atTCC. Letters Policy Tulsa Family News welcomes letters on issues which we’ve covered or on issues you think need to be considered. You may request that your name be withheld but letters must be signed & have phone numbers, or be hand delivered. 200 wordletters are preferred. Letters to other publications will be printed as is appropriate. by Tom Neal, editor &publisher It doesn’t happen very often, but it’s certainly welcome to hear that others agreed with Tulsa Family News’ assessment of Chastity Bono’s lame performance at the Red Ribbon Gala. Some of these other critics include include a number of the event’s orgamzers. They were quick to let us know that only a tiny amount of funds from the event went to Ms. Bono. In fact, it appears that only a couple of hundred went to pay her hotel bill. All other costs associated with her visit are the responsibility ofevent co-sponsor, the Tulsa Chapter ofPFLAGandtheir"anonymous donor" thoughyouprobably won’t need three guesses to know who that is. Unfortunately, PFLAG, Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays has been less forthcoming in correcung its factual error crediting PFLAG volunteer, Tim Chilean as the single person responsible for Tulsa’s Gay community center. This is what they published in their newsletter, even after they weremade aware of their error at the Red Ribbon Gala: "It was his idea for [a] Community Center and his dream is now a reality, a place for persons to come together to talk, to meet, to dream. A Safe place for young people to gather, a library, a store... " Of course, the editor of the PFLAG newsletter is none other than Chilean. This misattributionofcreditwas madewhilePFLAGgave Chilean a Swan Award for community service. As PFLAG was told, Chilean’s other work merits recognition on its own without giving him all the credit for shared efforts. Chilean was part of the team that created the Center but it was not his dream, idea or work exclusively. And he was voted out as TOHR president because of questions about whether a community center under his leadership would genuinely represent the broader community’s interests or that of Tulsa’~Gay ruling class. Come on, PFLAG, you’re credibility is on the line. Check your facts - it’s really easy, get it right and say you’re sorry. still HIV played a role because of the nearly total .ban on organ transplants for people who are HIV positive. The service was fairly long filled with music, and testimonials from friends and family. Jessie Scott broke our hearts with an exgmsite version of "God Is" backed by the choir of Paradise Baptist Church. Regina Tyler and Sandra McClellan sang with equal joy and sorrow. Testimonials were given by his dear friend, Diane Zike of InterfaithAIDS Ministries, Hilary Kitz of the Office of the Mayor of Tulsa, Janice Nicklas of the Community Service Council, Midge Elliott, longtime HIV/AIDS specialist, and Sharon Thoele of Tulsa CARES and members of hisTamily. ManY "Phil stories" were told. Janice Nicklas told of going on wild car tides out to meet then Vice-president Dan Quayle. Others told of hearing him speak about HIV and AIDS. He would say,"I’m your worst nightmare: I’m Black. I’m Gay. And I have AIDS. Now that that is out of the way, let’s talk." Phil devoted himself to making the world better. His friends cannot have been surptised that even after death, his activist spirit was at work. In its June 1st edition, The Tulsa World featured a lengthy story on Phil Wiley, and the issues involved in organ transplants for people who are HIV positive. The story was frank mad fair t(~ Phit, to Vernort, to Phil’s morn and dad. Phil would have liked it. Editor’s note: this article is a personal reflection more than a newstory. Phi! was a39iend and o.hero, a source of encouragement and bdvice as has been Vernon Jones. My life is richer for having know them and 1. was honored to count Phil as afriend, and to continue to count Vernon as one. - Tom Neal. Tulsa Oklah~mans fox~ Human Rights, Inc. contrasted their expe~tiencc:with that of Nelson’s Buffeteria, which received a street closing inless than24hours withouteven completing the multi-step application process. The June 12 parade will be the first for the local Gay community,, though several marches have been held. US Congressman, the Honorable Barney Frank, Democratfrom Massachusetts will serve as grand marshal and will speak at a dinner the eveuing ofthe parade at tli~ Greenwood Cultural Center and at a prayer breakfast at .7:30 am at Fellowship Congregation Church, 29th and Harvard, Sunday, June 13. :- Lastmonth, I wrote about ¯ ¯ .The Tulsa WorldhighYlghtmg some of the progress : the newspaperhas madeand ¯ also some areas where improvement is needed. ¯ And ironically, this last ¯ month, I’veheardfrom two ¯ unconnected individuals about how Roxanna and : Bob Lorton, the principal ¯ ownersofTheTulsaWorM, ¯ are not only not prejudiced ¯ but are even rather Gay- " friendly. Indeed. ¯ I suppose the mani- ¯ .festation ofthis goodregard ¯ ~s The World’s blatantly bigoted, specifically anti- ¯. Gaypolicies.Afterall, since the paper is privately ¯ owned, those who create ." and enforce those preju- ¯ diced policies answer ¯ directly and only to the ¯ Lortons. And since those ¯ policies have received ¯ significant negative publicity in the past years, their ¯ deliberate, continued exis- ¯ tence can only indicate ¯ some sort of ongoing approval. : Perhaps, another area that Some ofmy best friends are jews. Some ofmy best friends are black. Some ofrny bestfriends are faggots. Some ofmy bestfriends are dykes. - Yeah, right. ¯ indicates theirwarmregard ¯ for us Gay people is the ¯ failure for more than five years of the University of " ¯ Tulsa, on whose board they sit and on which they have " ¯ significant influence as major fundraisers, to a~lopt a ¯ ¯ non-discriminationpolicy pledging minimal fairness to ¯ Lesbians and Gay men, not to mention Bisexuals and " ¯ Transgendered individuals. ~ Let us not forget also their complicity in the hiring of ¯ the allegedly reformed homophobe, TU president, Bob ¯ ¯ Lawless. Does anyone think it was accidental that of all " ~ the newspapers in the Southwest The Tulsa World was " ¯ the only one NOT to report on Lawless’ scandal at ¯ Texas Tech about his anti-Gay attitudes? Even the " ¯ wretched Daily Oklahoman covered that nasty history. " ¯ Let:sgetreal. TheTulsaWorldandtlfisfanfily, which ¯ ¯ ¯ has become, by most people’s standards, enormously ¯ wealthy through the inflated profits which mainstream : ¯ newspapers have reaped over the years, have great " ¯ influence in this provincial litde city. ¯ Andthe reality is that these people, and the others like : : them wh~make up what flatulently claim to be"Tulsa " ¯ society" do say that "some" of their "best friends" are " ¯ Gay - they hire us to do their flowers, decorate their ¯ : houses, paint their portraits, cater their parties, and plan ." ¯ their wedi:ling§,and girl! - dotheir hair ± all While they " ." call us faggots behi.nd our backs, and give money to " people-like Jim Inhofe ,and Don Nickles and Steve ¯ ,:. Largent-~politicianswho dlikelyputnsinconcentration. ; : ,. camps, if they thought they could get away with it. : ¯ But let me be clear, I don’t really want to pickjust on ¯ ¯ theLortons. They are hardly alone among the guilty, but ¯ they do occupy a position of singular responsibility. " They really, really couldprovide theleadership for civil " ¯ rights that this town so desperately needs. And it would ¯ hardly imperil their fortune or daily print monopoly. ¯ : However, so they won’t feel alone as named among : the guilty, let us single out in shame some others: " ¯ First and foremost, in the list for rank and unreformed ¯ hypocrisy is, of course, the National Conference for ¯ Community and Justice, which claims ~t cares about ¯ civil rights while it’s running as fast as it can in the " : .opposite direction. The organization is tremendously ¯ ¯ successfulinits Southern Hills Country Club fundraisers ,_ When it’s aft said and done, you either are part of the solution or you are the problem. And the message to the Lortons, to Mayor Susan Savage, Rabbi Sherman, NCCJ’s Nancy Day, to the so-tailed Democratic leadership, is that you must take as stand: either you support fundamental human rights - even for Gay people, or, if you choose to do nothing, if you choose only to cover your ass or to sit on it, then you don’t even have as much as integrity as the Klan. They, no matter how repulsive, at least are morafly consistent. What they talk, they walk. : (isn’tit convenient forNCCJ that Southern Hills finally ¯ decided a few years ago to let afew Jews, Catholics and Blacks in?) and in making Tulsa’s elite feel like it is less racist and bigoted than it really, really is but NCCJ has steadfastly refused to include Lesbians and Gay men within its work for justice despite repeated r.equests. And at least m one documented case, it’s deliberately discriminated against Tulsa’s Gay community. Some of the fault for this lies at the feet of NCCA leader Rabbi Charles Sherman, who is openly discussed in Tulsa’s tiny but vocal Gay Jewish community as "having aproblem with us." So it should hardly comeas a surprise thatNCCJ gave its award for "human rights promoter" of the year, last year to, guess who? - BobLorton! whosebusiness engages in disctiminatory practices. I’ve come to the conclusion that I’d rather deal with groups like the Westside Ministerial Alliance and the Klu Klux Klan than groups like the National Conference for "Commtmity and Juslice" because with the Klan and the evangelical Biblebased hate mongers, at least there’s no doubt where you stand. Better the evil on which you can depend, than those who talk and talk the talk but who never walk it. Who else should be called out for our hall of shame? How about Oklahoma’s Democrat Party? Is the best thing that we can say about Oklahoma Democrats is that Oklahoma Republicans are worse? Now in fairness, the Tulsa County Party has been welcoming of Lesbians and Gay men but how do you explain the support for noted anti-Gay bigot, Mike Mass as S tate Democratic party chair by Sally Frasier, a non- Gay member of Oklahoma’s Lesbian and Gay political action committee, the Cimarron Alliance? It suggests that Ms. Frasier’s involvement in Cimarron’s may be more about trying to control the direction ofGay dollars into Democratic coffers rather thanany real commitment to civil tights. She sure managed to get some big bucks for Tulsa Mayor Susan Savage despite Savage’s wretched track record on issues that concern Lesbian andGayTulsans, like diversi ty tmiuing forTulsapolice, or voluntarily tracking of hate crimes. After all it’s important to remember that no matter how many horrible things Oklahoma Republicans have been saying about us for all these years, it’s been Democratic majorities in both houses, combined with not that long ago, Democratic governors, who’ve had the votes and whohave failed to pass hate crime reform, ci’~fl andfamilyrights protections forOkl~0maLesbiahs and Gay men. Republicans make talk nasty about us; Democrats just do us dirty. . And isn’t interesting ~ at hov¢ the. pro-civil, rights Democratic party planks adopted at local levels mysteriously did not appear in state, level documents until Gay party activists (credit on this, I’m told, goes to Tim Chilean) noted, the omission? When it’s all said and done, you either are part of the solution or you are the problem. And the message to the Lortons, to Mayor Susan Savage, Rabbi Sherman, NCCJ’s Nancy Day, to the so-called Democratic leadership, is that you must take as stand: either you supportfundamentalhumanrights - evenforGaypeople, or, if you choose to do nothing, if you ch,oose only to cover your ass or to sit on it, then’you don t even have as much as integrity as the Klan. They, no matter how r~epulsive, at l~t are morally consistent. What they talk, they walk. - Tom Neal, editor & publisher Florida Adoption Ban Challenged MIAMI (AP) - The American Civil Liberties Unionhas filed a class-action lawsuit to overturn Florida’s law against Gay adoptions, the only such statewide ban in the nation. TheACLU was also joined by a child advocacy group in the lawsuit filed Wednesday in Key WeSt. "They trustGays and Lesbians to befoster care parents but not adoptive parents," said Howard Simon, executive directorof theACLUin Florida. ."What we want is to remove that blanket prohibition.., so that they wouldbe evaluated-as to their fitness and suitability to be adoptive parents just like everybody else,’~ Simon said. George Waas of state Attorney General Bob Butterworth’s office declined to comment. Florida is the only state with a law that bans homosexuals from adopting children. Lastmonth, New Hampshire repealed its ban on Gay adoptions. At least two states - Arkansas and Utah - have state agency rules preventing adoption by Gay people. The lead plaintiff in the Florida suit is Steve Lofton, a 41-year-old registered nurse. He and his partner of 15 years, also a registered nurse, have raised three foster children ages 8 to 11 from birth. Two are HIV-positive; the third, born positive, no longer tests positive for the virus that causes AIDS. The family recently moved to Oregon° NY State Gay Senator Makes Issues Personal ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Somewhat sheepishly, state Sen. Tom Duane rose to his feet in the Senate one day this month and apologized to a colleague fbr not having complained about a provision in his bill sooner. The measure would provide for state. reimbursement for counsding to the spouse, child or stepchild of a crime victim. Duane asked the sponsor, Sen. Michael Nozzolio of Seneca County, if domestic partners - the unmarried partners of heterosexuals and homosexuals alike - were eligible under the legislation. They are not, Nozzolio said. If Duane’s own domestic partner is murdered, would Duane be’eligible for counseling? No was the eventual answer from Nozzolio. Duane pleaded with Nozzolio to amend the bill. Nozzolio refused. Duane conceded that he should have noticed the omission earlier, arid was not springing"some kind ofa surprise attack" on Nozzolio by only now complaining about it on the floor of the Senate. "You might find this hard to believe," Duane said. "I have been Gay for longer than I have not been Gay, but it’s not the first thing I think about in the morning." Still, Duane’s sexual orientation is an undeniable aspect of his personality, never far from the surface in both how he goes about his job as legislator and how others regard him. That and the fact he is infected with HIV, the virus which causes AIDS. Duane and the state Senate, dominated as it is by conservative Republicans from suburban and upstate New York, would seemlike an awkward fit. Butnearly five months into his first term in Albany, the Democrat from Manhattan says he has been treated well by his new colleagues and he believes his presence has had an effectinnndgingforward abill toughening penalties for hate crimes and another providing more civil rights for Gays and Lesbians. "Neither all of the other senators nor I knew exactly what to expect," Duane, 44, said. "But I think that time together and familiarity has in some ways lessened the mystery about each other." Twice so far on the floor of the Senate when hate-crime related bills were being discussed, Duane has spoken at length about the three times he was assaulted by people spouting anti-Gay epithets. "I’m not even going to talk about all the times I’ve been verbally harassed," he said each time. ] Matt Foreman of the Gay advocacy group ,’ Empire State Pride Agenda said having a sitting ¯ senator offering suchpowerful testimony cannot i help but have an effect on softening attitudes, ¯ even in the Senate, which Foreman derides as ¯ "one of the last bastions ofignorance andbigotry gamst Gay people. It is a whole new dynmmc i for us to have up here a senator who can go peer- . to-peer and talk to people about our issues," ¯ Foreman said. ¯ Senators and spectators alike listened with ¯ "rapt attention" when Duane talked about Gay- : bashing incidents he was involved in, according ¯ to Foreman. "It becomes real," Foreman said. ¯ "HIV issues become real, and living with AIDS ¯ becomes real when a colleague is facing those : issues himself. My sense is people thought he ¯" was going to be a radical... If anything, Tom can ¯ be one of the most charming and funny people in the w0rld." Duane said he may be impassioned, but he is still not all that comfortable discussing his homosexuality or HIV-positive status. That is despite spending seven years on the New York City Council as an advocate for Gays and people living with AIDS before being elected to the Senate last November. "When I decide to raise the issues, I have to take a somewhat deeper breath than I do when I am going to speak on other issues because it is so personal and it has come with along-term personal struggle with the whole issue of being out," Duane said. "It still doesn’ t come naturally," he added. "I have to put together my inner forces to be able to get up and speak on Lesbian-Gay issues and AIDS issues with the self-assurance and spirit that I think it needs to move my colleagues." One issue where Duane has had no effect is on changing the state Senate’ s policy ofnotextending benefits to the domesticphrtners ofits employees. The Democrat-controlled state Assembly does so, and so does the executive branch of government under orders of Republican Gov. George Pataki. But the Senate does not. Its majority leader, Joseph Bruno, once referred to homosexuality as an "abnormal lifestyle." "It sends a signal that discrimination is tolerated," Duane said of the policy. "It provides a disincentive to people not to be more out front.. ¯ It is blatant discrimination." Family benefits are designed for married couples and their children and there are no plans to change the policy, Bruno spokesman John McArdle said. Methodist Anti-Gay Witchhunt Continues DENVER (AP) - A Methodist layman has accused a Denver-areabishop ofbreaking church law by al.lowing a minister to officiate at samesex tmions. Mel Brown of Johnstown filed the complaint against Bishop Mary Ann Swenson with the denomination’s College of Bishops. The charge centers on the activities of the Rev. Toni Cook, pastor of St. Paul’s United Methodist Church on Capitol Hill, who acknowledges she has officiated at same-sex unions for"committed, ¯ lo.v’.mg couples." Brown said church law bars ¯ mlmsters from officiating at same-sex unions. ¯ He claimed Ms. Swenson is guilty "of ¯ disobedience to the order and discipline." The ¯ church’s Book of Discipline, says bishops are to ¯ "teach and uphold the theological traditions of ¯ the United Methodist Church." The church’s ¯ highest court, the Judicial Council, ruled earlier ¯ this year a person could face church charges for ¯ officiating at same-sex unions. Any church court : proceeding would be lengthy. If Ms. Swensonis ¯ found guilty of disobeying church law, she may : be removed from her position. : Ms. Swenson said she has felt "Mel Brown’s : rage" for several years. The filing of charges is ." just another step in his efforts to force-her ¯ resiguadon, she claimed. Ms. Swenson said she : is "not aware of actualities or specifics" about ¯ Ms. Cook’s ministry, but added that "there’s ¯ been no criticism of her work by the Kelly Kirby, CPA, PC Certified Public Accountant a professional corporation 4021 7_47-5466 S. Harvard, Suite 210, Tulsa 74135 MCC-United formerly Family of Faith & Greater Tulsa MCC Joined as one body of believers. Come celebrate with us. Sunday Services, 11 am 1623 North Maplewood, 838-1715 GLAD (~ay & Lesbian Affordable Daycare) Joan & Teresa Wright P.O. BOX 54281 Tulsa. Oklahoma 74155 (918) 808-8026 Mingo Valley Flowers 9413 E. 31st St. Tulsa 74145 918-663-5934 fax: 663-5834 800-44d-5934 Family Owned & Operated Sandra Hill M.S. Licensed Professional & National Certified Counselor, Certified Hypnotherapist Psychotherapy & Clinical Consultation After Hours Appvoainiltambelents 2865 E. Skelly Drive Suite 215, 745-1111 HOUSE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT Sun. Worship, 10:45 am, Sunday School, 9:30 am Wed. Bible Study, 7 pm note our new address 3210b S. Norwood Info., call 224-4754, Chris & Sharon Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Community ofHope 2545 South Yale Sundays at 11am Info: 749-0595 A Voicefor Freedom & Tolerance superintendent or her congregation." "It’s not my job to be a policeman," Ms. Swenson said. Ms. Cooksaid sheis "dumbfounded"about the charges. "I believe my job as pastor is to offer the same pastoral support, sacraments and rituals to all members and that includes Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals and Transgendered people.Wedon’thave second-class citizens at St. Paul’s," she said. St. Paul’s declared several years ago thatitis open to all people, .includingGays. Brown’s chargeswereforwarded to Bishop William Dew of Phoenix, who said that no bishop has ever faced charges for allowing a minister to officiate at same-sex unions. In the past several years, a minister in Chicago and one in Nebraska were tried in church courts forperforming such unions. One was found guilty andonewas foundinnocent. "To chargea supervisor (bishop) after the fact may not go directly to the issue (of same-sex union)," Dew said. Church law requires Dew to ask the parties to meet to resolve their differences. If that fails, a three-member committee is named which will meetwith the two parties. If that committee decides the charges are grave, an investigative committee will meet to decide whether a church trial is warranted. "In all my 63 years I’ve never seen a bishop on trial," said Dew. "A person should be absolutely clear and serious about charges against a bishop." Brown, a semi-retired farm supply dealer, said he filed the charges against Ms. Swenson rather than Ms. Cook"to getmorenational attention. Mary AnnSwensun should resign." Hepreviously calledforherresignationin 1996 because she, along with 14 other Methodist bishops, publicly supported the right ofpracticingGays to be ordained. The 15, who made the dissent statement during the church’s national convention in Denver, said they would follow church law that bans such ordinations. Over the years Brown has written letters to Ms. Swensbn to complain about her salary, how she spends vacation time and how she votes on church issues. Massachusetts Gay Bashers Sentenced NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (AP) - Three men have been sentenced to jail for a Main Street attack on a Gay man a year ago. Jameson Conz, 19, of Northampton; Zachary Keefe, 20, ofNorthampton, andJoshuaPhelps, 22,pleaded guilty in Hampshire Superior Court to assault and battery with intent to intimidate a person because of his sexual orientation. Conz, who had gone to high school with the 19-year-old victim, and Keefe were ordered to serve 18 months of a 21/2-year jail sentence. Phelps was ordered to serve six months of a 2 1/2-year sentence. After shouting anti-Gay slurs, the three beat and kicked the victim on May 24, 1998, according to prosecutor Renee Steese. "The incident was an unprovoked act of violence against an individual simply walking back to his truck after work," Steese told thejudge. "Ithad a very traumatic effect on the victim." Oregon House Considers Anti-Gay Marriage Bill SALEM, Ore. (AP) - A key state lawmaker has warned that a court decision giving Gay public employees the same benefits as married workers could dear the way for same-sex marriages in Oregon. Rep. Kevin Mannix, R-Salem, has proposed an amendment to the state constitution to define marriage as only the union between amanand a woman. The measure would also bar the courts from requiring that unmarried partners be entitled to domesticbenefits. Mannix said that the measure is aimed an Oregon Court of Appeals ruling last year that banned discrimination against homosexuals in the workplace and required governments to provide insurance benefits to same-sex domestic partners of government employees. ThedecisionwasbasedonaPorflandnursingprofessor’ s case against Oregon Health Sciences University, where she has worked for 12 years. Christine Tanner, a mother Of two who in a long-term.relationship with another woman, told the House Judiciary-Civil Committee that Mannix’s proposal would erase that ruling. "Please, pleasedonotsendamessagetomychildren that, somehow, their family is less-than equal in the eyes of the state," she said. ¯ Jean Harris of Basic Rights Oregon, a group that fights ¯ anti-Gay measures, saidtheproposal was a thinly disguised ’ ¯ attempt at discriminating against homosexuals. "We : already can’t get married - so why push this out?" she : asked. "It’s about keeping us from having benefits." ¯ Mannix said the appeals court ruling leaves room for : others who are barred from marriage - like first cousins ¯ - to also ask for rights that have been reserved for ¯ heterosexual married couples. Hecalled the appeals court ¯ ruling "perverse reasoning," and said most Oregonians -" would support a constitutional amendment, which the : courts could not change. "What we are doing is taking a : position of neutrality," he .said. "But we are drawing a ¯ firmlineinprotecting a traditional family unit: marriage." Others said barring same-sex marriages would protect : children from being raised outside of the "secure ¯ environment ofaheterosexual umon. Weare not taking ¯ the institution of marriage as seriously as we ought to," : said Jerry Propst, a Baptist minister from Hillsboro. "The ¯ institution of marriage is a sacred trust." ." Dave Fidanque, director of Oregon American Civil ¯ Liberties Union, argued that the proposal would ¯ discriminate against Gay Oregouians - and that it has : taken years to remove other discriminatory provisions ¯ from the state constitution. ’q’his proposal would permit ¯ discrimination against a class of citizens in our state,"he : said. "It would be as much of a mistake as past ¯ discrimination." The measure is HJR29. Bank Closeto Opening ¯ PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) - G&L Bank has entered the ¯ final phase of the federal approval process and is looking ~ toward a possible fall opening as the nation’s first bank : designed primarily for homosexual customers. ¯ Thebank, whoseinitials stand forGay and Lesbian, has : received a "deemed complete" letter on its application ." with the Office ofThrift Supervision, saidG&Lpresident : St_even Dunlap. That means the federal agency has 60 ¯ days to approve or deny the bank’s request to operate. ." "We have no reason to believe we won’t get an up sign," ¯" said bank president G. Kay Griffith. G&Lofficers earlier ¯ had hoped for a spring opening, but the approval process : has taken longer than anticipated. : In addition to focusing on homosexuals, G&L would ¯" beamongoulyafewbanksoperatingnationallyprimarily ¯ on the Internet and the first to offer consumer loans via e- : commerce, saidGriffith, aformer NationsBankexecutive : and bank consultant. The downtown bank plans to hold ¯ an open house over the Memorial Day weekend, when : thousands of Gays and Lesbians traditionally flock to i Pensacola area beaches. A similar open house last year attracted 1,400 visitors from 21 states, Dunlap said. G&L ¯ also is getting interest from Blacks and unmarried heterosexual couples who are looking for"a bank which : doesn’tdiscriminate agaiustanybody,"Dunlap said. Many ¯ .banks refuse to consider dual incomes when unmarried ~ .couples apply for loans or mortgages, he said. ¯ Black Gay Church Thrives : CHICAGO (AP) - For Black homosexuals, many .of ~ whom say they feel misunderstood by other Blacks as ¯ well as the white Gay commtmity, one church offers a ¯ haven where they can worship without fear of discrimination. : Men with men, women with women, their children and ! parents are all welcome at the Church of the Open Door, say its founders, the Rev. Alma Faith Crawford and her . : partner, the Rev. Karen Hurt. The two pastors started the church, whichis affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist ¯ Association, three years ago as a Bible study group in their apartment. Since then, the congregation has grown to 275 and has : settled into its own red brick house of worship in the : Chicago Lawn neighborhood on the city’s southwest : side. At a time when many faiths are divided over the inclusion of Gays and Lesbians and the ramifications of ¯ same-sex marriages, Open Door is the only place of : worship in Chicago founded specifically for those who i are both Gay and Black. Members say they joined Open Door after feeling :¯ unwelcome in other churches. "They will takemymoney - but they won’t let me into heaven," said Lloyd Kelly, 38. ¯ Kelly said he eventually grew fired of pastors and priests ¯ : elsewhere saying that homosexuals will bum in hell. ¯ Among the Open Door congregation are also members : who previously attended churches that were open to Gays and Lesbians but were predominantly white and not always culturally sensitive. "It’s not that the Gay white church letme down; the difference is that here my culture as an African-American is celebrated," said Elandria Henderson, 50, who drives across the city to attend Sunday services at Open Door. The church’s two flagsa rainbow banner of Gay pride and the red, Black and green African-American heritage- are symbolic of most of its congregation. But Open Door’s founders say they also want others in the diverse working class neighborhood who have felt the sting of discrimination to feel welcome. "We want to cross those bridges that divide us as African-Americans, as immigrants, as peopledue to class, education or sexual orientation," Crawford said. To that end, the church offers English as a second language and computer training in its annex. Church leaders also have worked with neighbors to rid the area of drug dealers and to start a block club. It is the church’s commuuity involvement, police say, that has likely prevented any protests over what many might consider a controversial congregation. "They want to be good neighbors,"said police Sgt. John Andrews. "Sofar they’re been proactive and productive." Virginia "Sodomy" Law Challenged ROANOKE, Va. (AP) - A Gay activist invited four of Roanoke’s top law enforcement officials to join him in a private act of sodomy, arguing if they don’t prosecutehim for soliciting sex, then they cannot prosecute 18 men charged with allegedly seeking Gay sex in a city park. Franklin Kameny, 74, a longtime Washington, D.C., Gay activist sent letters last week to Circuit Judges Richard Pattisall and Robert Doherty, Assistant Commonwealth’sAttorney Alice Ekirchand Police Chief Arias "Joe" Gaskins. The goal of the letters, he said in a telephone interview, is to bring attention to "these antiquated sodomy laws in Virginia... which malc.e felons of virtually every adult member of the populous of the state." "It raises the question that if they’ve been solicited and they don’t respond, how can they charge otherpeople for solicitin~?" he said. The four letter recipients have either ruled in’he park sex cases or been involved in prosecuting the men. Ms. Ekirch said she received the letter, which she believes does violate the law against solicitation. She declined to comment further, citing the ongoing cases. The other recipients also have declined to comment. Kameny was notprosecuted afterhe wentonan Alexandria Gay issues radio show in December and solicited the entire state of Virginia for sodomy. For years, Roanoke police have brought misdemeanor charges against "cruisers" who sought anonymous Gay sex in the park and other public places. Police said complaints from citizens about blatant sexual activity in WasenaPark led them to seek felony sodomy indictments against the men in the latest cases. In his letter, Kameny invited the f.our officials "to engage withmein an act or acts of sodbmy of your choice and as defined by Section 18.2-361 of the Virginia Code, in some indisputably private place in the state ofVirginia, at a time of our mutual convenience.’" Kameny wrote that the letter would be "published and publicized, with intent to embarrass each of you individually and by name, and to bring you into public contempt and ridicule nationally, as well as to make a contemptible laughingstock of your benighted, barbaric, backward state." Theletter is similar to one Kameny wrote to Washington officials in 1972 as part of a three-decade movement to have the district’s sodomy law repealed. It finally was repealed in 1993, with Kameny writing the statute. Kameny said he "would be absolutely delighted" to be arrested because it would afford him the opportunity to make a media circus of a probable extradition hearing in Washington, and each subsequent hearing in the case. In open court, he said, he would solicit the judge for sex, forcing him to disqualify himsdf from the case, and continue soliciting everyjudge broughtin to hear the case until no state judges remained eligible. Kameny also has posted e-mails on the Internet urging others to solicit law enforcement personnel in Roanoke. "You push whenever you have the opportunity and hope something comes of it," he said. Florida Adoption Ban Challenged MIAMI (AP) - The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a class-action lawsuit to overturn Florida’s law against Gay adoptions, the only such statewide ban in the nation. TheACLU was also joined by a child advocacy ~roup in the lawsuit filed Wednesday in Key WeSt. "They mastGays and Lesbians to be foster care parents but not adoptive parents," said Howard Simon, executive directoroftheACLUin Florida. ."What we want is to remove that blanket prohibition.., so that they wouldbe evaluatedas to their fitness and suitability to be adoptive parents just like everybody else,’Y Simon said. George .Waas of state Attorney General Bob Butterworth’s office declined to comment. Florida is the only state with a law that bans homosexuals from adopting children: Lastmonth, New Hampshire repealed its ban on Gay adoptions. At least two states - Arkansas and Utah - have state agency rides preventing adoption by Gay people~ The lead plaintiff in the Florida suit is Steve Lofton, a 41-year-old registered nurse. He and his partner of 15 years, also a registered nurse, have raised three foster children ages 8 to 11 from birth. Two are HIV-positive; the third, born positive, no longer tests positive for the virus that causes AIDS. The family recently moved to Oregon. NY State Gay Senator Makes Issues Personal ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Somewhat sheepishly, state Sen. Tom Duane rose to his feet in the Senate one day this month and apologized to a colleague for not having complained about a provision in his bill sooner. The measure would provide for state. reimbursement for counsding to the spouse, child or stepchild of a crime victim. Duane asked the sponsor, Sen. Michael Nozzolio of Seneca County, if domestic partners - the unmarried partners of heterosexuals and homosexuals alike - were eligible under the legislation. They are not, Nozzolio said. If Duane’s own domestic partner is murdered, would Duane be’eligible for counsding? No was the eventual answer from Nozzolio. Duane pleaded with Nozzolio to amend the bill. Nozzolio refused. Duane conceded that he should have noticed the omission earlier, and was not springing "somekind ofa surprise attack" on Nozzolio by only now complaining about it on the floor of the Senate. "You might find this hard to believe," Duane said. "I have been Gay for longer than I have not been Gay, but it’s not the first thinS I think about in the morning." Still, Duane’s sexual orientation is an undeniable aspect of his personality, never far from the surface in both how he goes about his job as legislator and how others regard him. That and the fact he is infected with HIV, the virus which causes AIDS. Duane and the state Senate, dominated as it is by conservative Republicans from suburban and upstate New York, would seemlike an awkward fit. Butnearly five months into his first term in Albany, the Democrat from Manhattan says he has been treated wall by his new colleagues and he believes his presence has had an effectinnudging forward abill toughening penalties for hate crimes and another providing more civil rights for Gays and Lesbians. "Neither all of the other senators nor I knew exactly what to expect," Duane, 44, said. "But I think that time together and familiarity has in some ways lessened the mystery about each other." Twice so far on the floor of the Senate when hate-crime related bills were being discussed, Duane has spoken at length about the three times he was assaulted by people spouting anti-Gay epithets. "I’m not even going to talk about all the times I’ve been verbally harassed," he said each time. -" Matt Foreman of the Gay advocacy group ¯ Empire State Pride Agenda said having a sitting ¯ senator offering such powerful testimony cannot ¯ hdp but have an effect on softening attitudes, ¯ even in the Senate, which Foreman derides as ¯ "one of the las t bastions ofignorance andbigotry gamst Gay people. It is a whole new dynaunc i for us to have up here a senator who can go peer- . to-peer and talk to people about our issues," ¯ Foreman said. ¯ Senators and spectators alike listened with ¯ "rapt attention" when Duane talked about Gay- " bashing incidents he was involved in, according : to Foreman. "It becomes real," Foreman said. ¯ "HIV issues become real, and living with AIDS ¯ becomes real when a colleague is facing those : issues himself. My sense is people thought he ¯ was going to be a radical... If anything, Tom can : be one of the most charming and funny people in ¯ the w0rld." ¯ Duane said he may be impassioned, but he is ¯ still not all that comfortable discussing his ¯ homosexuality or HIV-positive status. That is despite spending seven years on the New York ¯ City Council as an advocate for Gays and people ¯ living with AIDS before being elected to the ¯ Senate last November. "When I decide to raise ¯ the issues, I have to take a somewhat deeper ¯ breath than I do when I am going to speak on : other issues because it is so personal and it has ¯ come withalong-termpersonal struggle with the ¯ whole issue of being out," Duane said. "It still ¯" doesn’t come naturally," he added. "I have to put together my inner forces to be able to get up and ¯ speak on Lesbian-Gay issues and AIDS issues ¯ with the self-assurance and spirit that I think it ¯" needs to move my colleagues." ¯ One issue where Duane has had no effect is on changing the state Senate’s policy ofnotextending ¯ benefits to the domesticpartners ofits employees. ~ The Democrat-controlled state Assembly does ¯ so, and so does the executive branch of ~ government under orders of Republican Gov. ¯ George Pataki. But the Senate does not. Its ¯ majority leader, Joseph Bruno, once referred to ¯ homosexuality as an "abnormal lifestyle." "It ¯ sends a signal that discrimination is tolerated," : Duane said of the policy. "It provides a ¯ disincentive to people not to be more out front.. ¯ . It is blatant discrimination." Family benefits are ¯ designed for married couples and their children ~ and there are no plans to change the policy, ¯ Bruno spokesman John McArdle said. ¯ Methodist Anti-Gay " Witchhunt Continues ¯ DENVER (AP) - A Methodist layman has ¯ accused a Denver-areabishop ofbreaking church ." law by.al,lowing a minister to officiate at same- . sex umons. Mel Brown of Johnstown filed the : complaint against Bishop Mary Ann Swenson ¯ with the denomination’s College of Bishops. ¯ The charge centers on the activities of the Rev. ¯ Toni Cook, pastor of St. Paul’s United Methodist ¯ Church on Capitol Hill, who acknowledges she ¯ has officiated at same-sex unions for"commiRed, ¯ loving couples." Brown said church law bars ¯ ministers from officiating at same-sex unions. ¯ He claimed Ms. Swenson is guilty "of ¯ disobedience to the order and discipline." The ¯ church’s Book of Discipline, says bishops are to ¯ "teach and uphold the theological traditions of " the United Methodist Church." 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Ms.Cooksaidsheis"dumbfounded,’aboutthecharges. ¯ "I believe my job as pastor is to offer the same pastoral " support, sacraments and rituals to all members and that includes Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals and Transgendered ¯ people.Wedon’thave second:class citizens at St. Paul’ s," she said. " St. Paul’s declared several years ago thatitis open to all " people, including Gays. Brown’s charges wereforwarded ¯ to Bishop William Dew of Phoenix, who said that no bishop has ever faced charges for allowing a minister to officiate at same-sex unions. In the past several years, a mi.’nister in Chicago and one in Nebraska were tried in church courts forperforming such unions. One was found guilty andone was foundinnocent. "To chargea supervisor (bishop) after the fact may not go directly to the issue (of same-sex union)," Dew said. Church law requires Dew to ask the parties to meet to resolve their differences. If that fails, a three-member committeeis named which will meet with the twoparties. If that committee decides the charges are grave, an investigative committee will meet to decide whether a church trial is warranted "In all my 63 years I’ve never : seen a bishop on trial," said Dew. "A person should be ¯ absolutely dear and serious about charges against a -" bishop." Brown, a semi-retired farm supply dealer, said he filed the charges against Ms. Swenson rather than Ms. Cook"to getmorenational attention. Mary AnnSwenson should resign." Hepreviously calledforherresignationin 1996 because she, along with 14 other Methodist bishops, publicly supported the right ofpracticingGays to be ordained. The 15, who made the dissent statement during the church’s national convention in Denver, said th,e~( would follow church law that bans such ordinations. Over the years Brown has written letters to Ms. Swenson to complain about her salary, how she spends vacation time and how she votes on church issues. Massachusetts Gay Bashers Sentenced NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (AP) - Three men have been sentenced to jail for a Main Street attack on a Gay man a year ago. Jameson Conz, 19, of Northampton; Zachary Keefe, 20, ofNor~harapton, andJoshuaPhelps, 22,pleaded guilty in Hampshire Superior Court to assault and battery with intent to intimidate a person because of his sexual orientation. Conz, who had gone to high school with the 19-year-old victim, and Keefe were ordered to serve 18 months of a 21/2-yearjail sentence. Phelps was ordered to serve six months of a 2 1/2-year sentence. After shouting anti-Gay slurs, the three beat and kicked the victim on May 24, 1998, according to prosecutor Renee Steese. "The incident was an unprovoked act of violence against an individual simply walking back to his truck after work," Steese told thejudge. "It had a very traumatic effect on the victim." Oregon House Considers Anti-Gay Marriage Bill SALEM, Ore. (AP) - A key state lawmaker has warned that a court decision giving Gay public employees the same benefits as married workers could dear the way for same-sex marriages in Oregon. Rep. Kevin Mannix, R-Salem, has proposed an amendment to the state constitution to define marriage as only the union between amanand a woman. The measure would also bar the courts from requiring that unmarried partners be entitled to domesticbenefits. Matmix said that the measure is aimed an Oregon Court of Appeals ruling !ast year that banned discrimination against homosexuals in the workplace and required governments to provide insurance benefits to same-sex domestic partners of government employees. Thedecisionwas basedonaPortlandnursingprofessor’s case against Oregon Health Sciences University, where she has worked for 12 years. Christine Tanner, a mother of two who in a long-term relationship with another woman, told the House Judiciary-Civil Committee that Mannix’s proposal would erase that ruling. "Please, please donot sendamessage tomychildren that, somehow, their family is less than equal in the eyes of the state," she said. Jean Harris of Basic Rights oregon, a group that fights anti-Gay meusttres, said theproposal was a thinly disgnised attempt at discriminating against homosexuals. "We already can’t get married - so why push this out?" she asked. "It’s about keeping us from having benefits." Mannix said the appeals court ruling leaves room for others who are barred from marriage - like first cousins - to also ask for rights that have been reserved for heterosexual married couples. Hecalled the appeals court ruling "perverse reasoning," and said most Oregonians would support a constitutional amendment, which the ¯ courts could not change. "What we are doing is taking a : position of neutrality," he .said. "But we are drawing a ¯ firmlineinprotectingatraditionalfamilytmit: marriage." : Others said barring same-sex marriages would protect ¯ children from being raised outside of the "secure : environment"ofaheterosexual union. "We are not taking ¯ the institution of marriage as seriously as we ought to," : said Jerry Propst, aBaptistminister from Hillsboro. "The : institution of marriage is a sacred trust." _" Dave Fidanque, director of oregon American Civil ¯¯ Liberties-Union, argued that the proposal would discriminate against Gay Oregonians - and that it has taken years to remove other discriminatory provisions from the state constitution. "This proposal would permit discrimination against a class of citizens in our state," he said. "It would be as much of a mistake as past ¯ discrimination." The measure is HJR29. ",Gay Bank Closeto Opening ¯ PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) - G&L Bank has entered the : final phase of the federal approval process and is looking : toward a possible fall opening as the nation’s first bank _" designed primarily for homosexual customers. ¯ Thebank,whose initials standforGay andLesbian,has ¯ received a "deemed complete" letter on its application ," with the Office ofThrift Supervision, saidG&Lpresident ¯ Steven Dunlap. That means the federal agency has 60 ¯ days to approve or deny the bank’s request to operate. ¯ "We have no reason to believe we Won’t get an up sign," ¯" said bank president G. Kay Griffith. G&Lofficers earlier , had hoped for a spring opening, but the approval process i has taken longer than anticipated. ¯ In addition to focusing on homosexuals, G&L would : beamong only afew banks operating nationallyprimarily ¯ on the Intemet and the first to offer consumer loans via e- ¯" commerce, said Griffith, aformer NationsBank executive : and bank consultant. The downtown bank plans to hold ¯ an open house over the Memorial Day weekend, when : thousands of Gays and Lesbians traditionally flock to ~ Pensacola area beaches. A similar open house last year ." attracted 1,400 visitors from 21 states, Dunlap said. G&L ¯ also is getting interest from Blacks and unmarried ¯" heterosexual couples who are looking for "a bank which : doesn’tdiscriminate againstanybody,"Dunlap said. Many ~ banks refuse to consider dual incomes when unmarried : .. couples apply for loans or mortgages, he said. ¯ Black Gay Church Thrives CHICAGO (AP) - For Black homosexuals, many of whom say they feel misunderstood by other Blacks as ¯ well as the white Gay community, one church offers a ¯ haven where they can worship without fear of ¯ discrimination. Men with men, women with women, their children and : parents are all welcome at the Church of the Open Door, ¯ say its founders, the Rev. Alma Faith Crawford and her : partner, the Rev. Karen Hurt. The two pastors started the ¯ church, whichis affiliated with the Unitarian Universalis! ¯ Association, three years ago as a Bible study group ~n their apartment. ¯ Since then, the congregation has grown to 275 and has : settled into its own red brick house of worship in the ¯ Chicago Lawn neighborhood on the city’s southwest side. At a time when many faiths are divided over the inclusion of Gays and Lesbians and the ramifications of : same-sex marriages, Open Door is the only place of ¯ worship in Chicago founded specifically for those who ¯ are both Gay and Black. ¯ Members say they joined Open Door after feeling ¯ unwelcome in other churches. "They will takemymoney ¯ but they won’t let me into heaven," said Lloyd Kelly, 38. Kelly said he eventually grew tired of pastors and priests : elsewhere saying that homosexuals will burn in hell. Among the Open Door congregation are also members : who previously attended churches that were open to Gays and Lesbians but were predominantly white and not always culturally sensitive. "It’s not that the Gay white church letme down; the difference is that here my culture as an African-American is celebrated," said Elandria Henderson, 50, who drives across the city to attend Sunday services at Open Door. The church’s two flagsa rainbow banner of Gay pride and the red, Black and green African-American heritage- are symbolic of most of its congregation. But Open Door’s founders say they also want others in the diverse working class neighborhood who have felt the sting of discrimination to feel welcome. "We want to cross those bridges that divide us as African-Americans, as immigrants, as peopledue to class, education or sexual orientation," Crawford said. To that end, the church offers English as a second language and computer training in its annex. Church leaders also have worked with neighbors to rid the area of drug dealers and to start a block club. It is the church’s community involvement, police say, that has likely prevented any protests over what many might consider a controversial congregation. "They want to be good neighbors," said police Sgt. JohnAndrews."Sofar they’ve been proactive and productive." Virginia "Sodomy" Law Challenged ROANOKE, Va. (AP) - A Gay activist invited four of Roanoke’s top law enforcement officials to join him in a private act of sodomy, arguing if they don’ t prosecutehim for soliciting sex, then they cannot prosecute 18 men charged with allegedly seeking Gay sex in a city park. Franklin Kameny, 74, a longtime Washington, D.C., Gay activist sent letters last week to Circuit Judges Richard Pattisall and Robert Doherty, Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Alice Ekirchand Police Chief Arias "Joe" Gaskins. The goal of the letters, he said in a telephone interview, is to bring attent~" on to "these anta" quated sodomy laws m¯ Virginia.. which make felons of virtually every adult member of the populous of the state." "It raises the question that if they’ve been solicited and they don’t respond,how can they charge other peoplefor soliciting?" he said. The four letter recipients have either ruled in the park sex cases or been involved in prosecuting the men. Ms. Ekirch said she received the letter, which she believes does violate the law against solicitation. She declined to comment further, citing the ongoing cases. The other recipients also have declined to comment. Kamenywas notprosecuted afterhewentonan Alexandria Gay issues radio show in December and solicited the entire state of Virginia for sodomy. For years, Roanoke police have brought misdemeanor charges against "cruisers" who sought anonymous Gay sex in the park and other public places. Police said complaints from citizens about blatant sexual activity in Wasena Park led them to seek felony sodomy indictments against the men in the latest eases. In his letter, Kameny invited the f,our officials "to, engage withmein an act or acts of sodbmy of your choice and as defined by S ection 18.2-361 of the Virginia Code, in some indisputably private place in the state ofVirginia, at a time of our mutual-convenience.’" Kameny wrote that the letter would be "published and publicized, with intent to embarrass each of you individually and by name, and to bring you into public contempt and ridicule nationally, as well as to make a contemptible laughingstock of your benighted, barbaric, backward state." Theletter is similar to one Kameny wrote to Washington officials in 1972 as part of a three-decade movement to have the district’s sodomy law repealed. It finally was repealed in 1993, with Kameny writing the statute. Kameny said he "would be absolutely delighted" to be arrested because it would afford him the opportunity to make a media circus of a probable extradition hearing in Washington, and each subsequent hearing in the case. In open court, he said, he would solicit the judge for sex, forcing him to disqualify himself from the case, and continue soliciting everyjudge broughtin to hear the case until no state judges remained digible. Kameny also has posted e-mails on the Internet urging others to solicit law enforcement personnel in Roanoke. "You push whenever you have the opportunity and hope something comes of it," he said. superintendent or her congregation." "It’s not my job to be a policeman," Ms. Swenson said. Ms. Cooksaid sheis"dumbfounded"aboutthe charges. "I believe my job as pastor is to offer the same pastoral support, sacraments and rituals to all members and that includes Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals and Transgendered people.Wedon’thave second-class citizens at St. Patti’s," she said. St. Paul’s declared several years ago thatitis open to all people, including Gays. Brown’s charges wereforwarded to Bishop William Dew of Phoenix, who said that no bishop has ever faced charges for allowing a minister to officiate at same-sex unions. In the past several years, a minister in Chicago and one in Nebraska were tried in church courts forperforming such unions. One was found guilty andonewas foundinnocent. ’~To charge a supervisor (bishop) after the fact may not go directly to the issue (of same-sex union)," Dew said. Church law requires Dew to ask the parties to meet to resolve their differences. If that fails, a three-member committeeis named which will meetwith the two parties. If that committee decides the charges are grave, an investigative committee will meet to decide whether a church trial is warranted. "In all my 63 years I’ve never seen a bishop on trial," said Dew. "A person should be absolutely clear and serious about charges against a bishop." Brown, a semi-retired farm supply dealer, said he filed the charges against Ms. Swenson rather than Ms. Cook"to getmorenational attention. Mary AnnSwenson should resign." Hepreviously calledforherresignationin 1996because she, along with 14 other Methodist bishops, publicly supported theright of practicing Gays to be ordained. The 15, who made the dissent statement during the church’s national convention in Denver, said they would follow church law that bans such ordinations. Over the years Brown has written letters to Ms. Swe~on to complain about her salary, how she spends vacation time and how she votes on church issues. Massachusetts Gay Bashers Sentenced NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (AP) - Three men have been sentenced to jail for a Main Street attack on a Gay man a year ago. Jameson Conz, 19, of Northampton; Zachary Keefe, 20, ofNorthampton, andJoshnaPhelps, 22, pleaded guilty in Hampshire Superior Court to assault and battery with intent to intimidate a person because of his sexual orientation. Conz, who had gone to high school with the 19-year-old victim, and Keefe were ordered to serve 18 months of a 21/2-year jail sentence. Phelps was ordered to serve six months of a 2 1/2-year sentence. After shouting anti-Gay slurs, the three beat and kicked the victim on May 24, 1998, according to prosecutor Renee Steese. "The incident was an unprovoked act of violence against an individual simply walking back to his truck after work," Steese told thejudge. "Ithad a very traumatic effect on the victim." Oregon House Considers Anti-Gay Marriage Bill SALEM, Ore. (AP) - A key state lawmaker has warned that a court decision giving Gay public employees the same benefits as mamed workers could clear the way for same-sex marriages in Oregon. Rep. Kevin Mannix, R-Salem, has proposed an amendment to the state constitution to define marriage as only the union between aman and a woman. The measure would also bar the courts from requiring that unmarried partners be entitled to domesticbenefits. Mannix said that the measure is aimed an Oregon Court of Appeals ruling last year that banned discrimination against homosexuals in the workplace and required governments to provide insurance benefits to same-sex domestic partners of government employees. Thedecisionwas basedonaPortlandnursingprofessor’ s ease against Oregon Health Sciences University, where she has worked for 12 years. Christine Tanner, a mother Of two who in a long-term relationship with another woman, told the House Judiciary-Civil Committee that Mannix’s proposal would erase that ruling. "Please, pleasedonot sendamessage tomychildren that, somehow, their family is less than equal in the eyes of the state," she said. - Jean Harris of Basic Rights Oregon, a group that fights anti-Gay measures, said the proposal was a thinly disguised attempt at discriminating against homosexuals. "We already can’t get married - so why push this out?" she asked. "It’s about keeping us from having benefits." Mannix said the appeals court ruling leaves room for others who are barred from marriage - like first cousins - to also ask for rights that have been reserved for heterosexual married couples. Hecalled the appeals court ruling "perverse reasoning," and said most Oregonians would support a constitutional amendment, which the courts could not change. "What we are doing is taking a position of neutrality," he said. "But we are drawing a firmlineinprotecting atraditional family unit: marriage." Others said barfing same-sex marriages would protect children from being raised outside of the "secure environment"ofaheterosexual union. "We are not taking he institution of marriage as seriously as we ought to," said Jerry Propst, a Baptist minister from Hillsboro. ’q’he nstitution of marriage is a sacred trust." Dave Fidanque, director of Oregon American Civil Liberties .Union, argued that the proposal would discriminate against Gay Oregonians - and that it has taken years to remove other discriminatory provisions from the state constitution. ’q’his proposal would permit discrimination against a class of citizens in our state," he said. "It would be as much of a mistake as past discrimination." The measure is HJR29. Gay Bank Closeto Opening PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) - G&L Bank has entered the final phase of the federal approval process and is looking toward a possible fall opemng as the nation’s first bank designed primarily for homosexual cnstomers. Thebank, whoseinitials stand forGay and Lesbian, has received a "deemed complete" letter on its application withthe Office ofThrift Supervision, saidG&Lpresident Steven Dunlap. That means the federal agency has 60 days to approve or deny the bank’s request to operate. "We have no reason to believe we won’t get an up sign, said bank president G. Kay Griffith. G&Lofficers earlier had hoped for a spring opening, but the approval process has taken longer than anticipated. In addition to focusing on homosexuals, G&L would beamong only afew banks operating nationally primarily on the Internet and the first to offer consumer loans via ecommerce, saidGriffith, aformer NationsBank executive and bank consultant. The downtown bank plans to hold an open house over the Memorial Day weekend, when thousands of Gays and Lesbians traditionally flock to Pensacola area beaches. A similar open house last year attracted 1,400 visitors from 21 states, Dunlap said. G&L also is getting interest from Blacks and unmarried heterosexual couples who are looking for "a bank which doesn’tdiscriminate againstanybody,"Dunlap said. Many banks refuse to consider dual incomes when unmarried couples apply for loans or mortgages, he said. Black Gay Church Thrives CHICAGO (AP) - For Black homosexuals, many of whom say they feel misunderstood by other Blacks as well as the white Gay community, one church offers a haven where they can worship without fear of discrimination. Men with men, women with women, their children and parents are all welcome at the Church of the Open Door, say its founders, the Rev. Alma Faith Crawford and her partner, the Rev. Karen Hutt. The two pastors started the church, whichis affiliated with the Unitarian Universali.st Association, three years ago as a Bible study group m their apartment. ¯ Since then, the congregation has grown to 275 and has ¯¯ settled into its own red brick house of worship in the ¯ Chicago Lawn neighborhood on the city’s southwest side. At a time when many faiths are divided over the ¯ inclusion of Gays and Lesbians and the ramifications of ¯ same-sex marriages, Open Door is the only place of ¯ worship in Chicago founded specifically for those who ." are both Gay and Black. Members say they joined Open Door after feeling unwelcome in other churches. "They will takemy money : but they won’t let me into heaven," said Lloyd Kelly, 38. : Kelly said he eventtmlly grew tired of pastors and priests : elsewhere saying that homosexuals will bum in hell. ¯ Among theOpen Door congregation are alsomembers ¯ who previously attended churches that were open to Gays and Lesbians but were predominantly white and not always culturally sensitive. "It’s not that the Gay white church letme down; the difference is that heremy culture as an African-American is celebrated," said Elandria Henderson, 50, who drives across the city to attend Sunday services at Open Door. The church’s two flagsa rainbow banner of Gay pride and the red, Black and green African-American heritage- are symbolic of most of its congregation. But Open Door’s founders say they also want others in the diverse working class neighborhood who have felt the sting of discrimination to feel welcome. "We want to cross those bridges that divide us as African-Americans, as immigrants, as people due to clas s, education or sexual orientation," Crawford said. To that end, the church offers English as a second languageand computer training in its annex. Church leaders also have worked with neighbors to rid the area of drug dealers and to start a block club. It is the church’s comrmmity involvement, police say, that has likely prevented any protests over what many might consider a controversial congregation. "They want to be good neighbors,"saidpolice Sgt. JohnAndrews."Sofar they’ve been proactive and productive." Virginia "Sodomy" Law Challenged ROANOKE, Va. (AP) - A Gay activist invited four of Roanoke’s top law enforcement officials to join him in a private act ofsodomy, arguing if they don’ t prosecutehim for soliciting sex, then they cannot prosecute 18 men charged with allegedly seeking Gay sex in a city park. Franklin Kameny, 74, a longtime Washington, D.C., Gay activist sent letters last week to Circuit Judges Richard Pattisall and Robert Doherty, Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Alice Ekirchand Police Chief Atlas "Joe" Gaskins. The goal of the letters, he said in a telephone interview, is to bring attention to"these antiquated sodomy laws in Virginia... which make felons of virtually every adult member of the populous of the state." "It raises the question that if they’ve been solicited and they don’t respond,how can they charge other people for soliciting?" he said. The four letter recipients have either rnled in the park sex cases or been involved in prosecuting the men. Ms. Ekirch said she received the letter, which she believes does violate the law against solicitation. She declined to comment further, citing the ongoing cases. The other recipients also have declined to comment. Kamenywas notprosecuted afterhewentonan Alexandria Gay issues radio show in December and solicited the entire state of Virginia for sodomy. For years, Roanoke police have brought misdemeanor charges against "cruisers" who sought anonymous Gay sex in the park and other public places. Police said complaints from citizens about blatant sexual activity in WasenaPark led them to seek felony sodomy indictments against the men in the latest eases. In hi.s letter., Kame.ny invi.ted the.four of.ficials "to engage withmein an act or acts of sodb~ny of your choice and as defined by Section 18.2-361 of the Virginia Code, in some indisputably private place in the state of Virginia, at a time of our mutual convenience." Kameny wrote that the letter would be "published and publicized, with intent to embarrass each of you individually and by name, and to bring you into public contempt and ridicule nationally, as well as to make a contemptible laughingstock of your benighted, barbaric, backward state." Theletter is si rail ar to one Kameny wrote to Washington officials in 1972 as part of a three-decade movement to have the district’s sodomy law repealed. It finally was repealed in 1993, with Kameny writing the statute. Kameny said he "would be absolutely delighted" to be arrested because it would afford him the opportunity to make a media circus of a probable extradition heating in Washington, and each subsequent hearing in the case. In open court, he said, he would solicit the judge for sex, forcing him to disqualify himself from the case, and continue soliciting everyjudge brought in to hear the case until no state judges remained eligible. Kameny also has posted e-mails on the Intemet urging others to solicit law enforcement personnd in Roanoke. "You push whenever you have the opportunity and hope something comes of it," he said. Thymus Gland May : Offer AIDS Hope LOS ANGELES (AP) - An immune ¯ system gland once thought to be inactive ". in adults actually continues to function : late in life, according to research that ¯ couldlead tonew waysofreactivating the : natural defenses of AIDS and cancer ] patients. " The thymus, a pinkish-gray organ near the heart, is the primary source of germ- : fighting T cells. It was believed to be ] active only during fetal development and childhood before slowly turning into fat : in adults. The research reported in the ] journal Immunity suggests that although ~ the gland’s productivity slows with age, it ¯ remains active nonetheless. "It gives us hope thai if we can find ways to boostup the activity ofthe thymus, we could speed up the replacement of T cells"lost to the AIDS virus, stud Beth D. Jamieson, a biologist at the University of California, Los Angeles AIDS Institute who led the study. "There’s still a source available forT cells, which wasnotthought to be the case previously.’" Drugs also could be developed for" cancer patients whose immune systems have been destroyed by chemotherapy. But tests ofpossible treatments are at least two years away, Jamieson said. David Schwartz, professor of mol.ecular microbiology-immunology at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, said the study offers important information that will be "very useful for understanding how we can generate new immune responses as we get older." "It means we don’t have to rely on T cells that are produced in the first decade of our lives," he said. Previous studies showed that new T cells were being producedby AIDS patients who had been taking potentcombinations ofAIDS drugs. But it was not known where in the body those cells were being created. The research found that the thymus continues to turn stem cells produced .by bone marrow into T cells that recogmze the body’s foreign invaders and eider attackthemdirectly orproduce antibodies to finish them off. The UCLA researchers studied more than a dozen thymuses from organdonors andpeoplewhohad sections of their glands removed during heart surgery. Although agi.’ng does not appear to decrease the effecttveness of the new T cells,it does lead to areductionin quantity. The oldest subject in the testing was 56. for75% of HIV eases among Mississippi women. Blacks make up 12% of the U.S. population and 45% of new AIDS cases, according to statistics from the Centers for Disease Control Prevention. State statistics show "the trend for African Americanwomenhas beenonaconsistent rise and that is disturbing," Thompson said. "AfricanAmericanwomenconslatute the fastest and only increase in population in terms of morbidity with HIV disease," he said. Cultural mores about the medical community, a lack of medical care and money to pay forit and thenumber ofmen who are having sex with both men and women are among the reasons HIV is growing amongBlackwomen,Thompso.n said. But the state health department is ¯ committed to working toward reversing ¯ the trend. "We’re trying to funnel federal ¯ prevention funds into community based ¯ organizations that work very dosdy with ¯ African American women to detect what ¯ places them at the greatest risk and what ¯ can be done to prevent that risk," ¯ Thompson said. ¯ Fivemillion dollars in state and federal ¯ funds are also available to assist HIV and AIDS patients receive medicine, he said. ¯ Data shows education is critical to ¯ decreasing the transmission of the HIV virus, Thompson said. "It’s encouraging ¯ to look at the trend over time and look at ¯ where the money has been placed," he ¯ said. "African ,amaerican women are a ¯ number onepriority for f.unding so maybe ¯ in the next several years we will see these ¯ . numbers will go down." Women also need tobecome advocates ¯ mddemandbetterfunding and educational programs, said Tylene Harrell, resource coordinator for the National Black Women’s Health Project in Washington, . D.C. It is critical to address cultural and economic issues that affect the Black ¯ women because social issues affect their behavior and their behavior can put them at risk, Thompson said. "Poverty, sexual abuse, family planning, virtually every thing that happens in the state affects people’s behavior," he said. Modifying behavior and examining relationships are essential to preventing the spread of HIV, said Jackyie Coleman, director of assistance with the National Minority AIDS Council in Washington D.C. "We must discuss the meaning sex, the roles of men and women and trust issues, Coleman said. Jordan agrees. "Love cankill," she said. "It was somebody that I thought I loved and cared for thathad done this to me. But I got over that. I amnot the victimbecause I didn’t do what I should have done. We ¯ need to start investigating partners before we get involved with them." Arming ¯ people with information and knowledge ¯ is apart of Jordan’s life mission now that ¯ ¯ she has contracted the virus. "I want to egapower boys, girls, men and women to ¯ know what’s out there." she said. "ff you ¯ don’t take charge of your life you give ¯ ¯ somebody else charge to destroy your life." BlackWomen Need Info. to Fight AIDS JACKSON, Miss. (AP)-Seven years ago when Betty Jordan was told she had contracted the HIV virus she was devastated anduninformed. "WhenI found out I had HIV I didn’t even know what HIV and AIDS was," she said Friday at the Women with a Mission AIDS forum for Black women sponsored by State Department of Health. "When they told me what it was I said ’youjusthanded me adeath sentence that I don’tknow anything about,’ "Jordan said. Jordan, a 47-year-old AIDS educator from Hattiesburg, is one of the many Black women in the state who live with HIV and AIDS. Black women make up 21% of Mississippi’s population living with the virus, that causes AIDS, said Craig Thompson, director of the STD/ HIV division of the state health department. Thompson said Black women account ¯ High Court Lets HIV PrOtections Stand : WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme ¯ Court rejected an appeal Monday by a ¯ Maine dentist who was sued for refusing ¯ t’o treat a woman in his office because she ¯ had the virus that causes AIDS. The court ¯ turnedawaywithoutcommentDr. Randon ¯ Bragdon’s contention that filling a cavity ¯ in Sidney Abbott’s tooth at his office Power Do Good. Supporting Local Community Events Is Something Everyone Can Do. PSO has served the electrical needs of our customers here for almost 80 years now. But we also serve broader needs. By contributing to the education of our By supporting cultural events in communities. And by working h.andin- hand with business and government to strengthen our economy. 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Bragdon, who did not return a message left at his Bangor, Maine, office, had urged the nation’s highest court to use the case to clarify when disabled people can be treated differently under a federal antiprejudice law, the Americans with Disabilities Act. The ADA protects the disabled against discrimination in jobs, housing andpublicacenmmodations. The same Maine dispute was the subject of a major Supreme Court decision just last June, whenthejustices saidpeopleinfected with HIV can sue under that 1990 law. That decision was the court’s first ever involving the human immunodeficiency virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome. It was praised by Gay civil-rights activists. In returning the Maine case to a federal appeals court~be justices said then that a health-care provider’s actions should be judged according to "the objectivereasonableness of the views of health-care professionals without deferring to their individual judgments." Public health authorities say ilieNis no documented case ofa dentist contracting theAIDS virus from apatient. Bragdon contended he should be allowed to use his ownjudgment on how to safely treat suchpatients. Hehad offered to fill Abbott’s cavity at ahospital near his office, but the procedure would have cost more there. When the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals restudied the case, it ruled in December that Abbott’s legal victory in the discrimination case should stand andthat no tlial was necessary. She had won a judgment saying Bragdon should stop discriminating but received no monetary award. High Schooler May Help Cure AIDS AMES, Iowa (AP) -Ahigh school junior who moved to the United States just six years ago is winning someofthe country’s top scholarships and conducting research his teachers say could help win the fight againstAIDS. When Feng Zhang came to Iowa six years ago with his mother, he spoke no English, but was eager to learn the language - and more. "I didn’t know how big this thing was I was getting into," he says. "I just felt fortunate to have the oppormnity."Today, Feng is a 17-year-old junior at Roosevelt High School in Des Moines. In tile past three years he has won $54,000 in cash and scholarships. The highlight came in Philadelphia earlier this month, when he captured the $40,000 first-place award in an international science fair sponsored by Intel Corp. That makes him one of the top student scientists in the world. Experts say Feng’s research offers clues about stoppmg theAIDS virus. "This has an applicationth;at could truly be revolutionary," says Dr. Robert Donato, Are You Gay. or Bisex.ual? Are You Nat,ve Amer,can? Suppo~ Group is here for you! ¯ Evening sup~ group meetings ¯ Relationship workshops ¯ Sho~ trips, outings and retreats ¯ Free HIV testing For information call Tulsa Native American AIDS Prevention Project at 582-7225 Ext. 208 or 218 ,I WORKING CLASS HEROES.IMAGES FROM THE POPULAR CULTURE ,it Fred Jones Jr, Museum of Art 410 W, Royal TSe University of Oklahoma one of thejudges. Feng says he has always known his mission. ’q?he purpose was to get a good education and to do what I can for the people around me," he says. He learned that early, in the Chinese city of Shijiazhuang, a sister city of Des Moines, in the province of Hebei, a sister state of I0wa. His parents are chemical engineers, his mother a computer expert as wall. His father also is a university administrator. Feng remembers what they told him, day after day: "Do the best you can do. Be the best you can be. And do something for humanity." "Definitely. That’s the meaning of being alive," be said. Feng’s mother, ShujunZhou, says she noticedhis uncanny ability to memorize names as a toddler. In 1989, as a visiting scholar at the University of Dubuque, she decided the United States offered more advanced educational and technological opporttmities for her bright son. She accepted ajob in Des Moines and brought Feng, her only child, with her. The boy’s father remained in China. Marilyn Ritz, who teaches English as a second language at Callahan Middle School, was in her office when Feng, his mother and a sponsor arrived. "What’s your name?" she asked him. No response. "He hadno cluewhatI was talking about," she says. The school had a part-time teacher who spoke some Chinese. The rest was up to Feng. He listened for key words, thenlooked themupin his Chinese- American dictionary. "I wanted to learn to commumcate as soon as possible so I could learn other things," he says. Says Ritz: "Before long, he was getting everything." But while Feng is a serious student, "he also has a nonsenous side to him," says Sean Stanek, 17, a classmate who also won an award in the Intcl competition. "He’s not like one of those Type-A personalities." Feng will tell you he’s not perfect. He plays no musical instrument, has no hook shot, and enjoys Saturday morning cartoons, particularly Bugs Bunny. But Stanek expects big things fromhi s friend."He’ s the future,"he says. "He’s bound to discover something profound." Maybe he already has. Two years ago Feng began studying at the Human Gene Therapy Research Institutein Des Moines. For his science fair project this year, Feng chose to study a retrovirus similar to HIV, the AIDS virus. While AZT and protease inhibitors try to prevent the duplication of the AIDS virus, Feng wondered if it was possible to genetically interfere with the creation ofthe virus andrenderitharmless. The results are promising. Can Feng’s work lead to an AIDS cure? "I’m not sure," he says. "I’d have to be very lucky to do that." John Levy, a staff scientist at the institute, plans to have Feng’s research published in a scientific paper. "This could have enormous implications," he says. Feng’s not sure what to do next or where to attend college. He would like to combine his interests in biology and computers and see where that leads him. U.Pittsburgh Leads HIV Research PITTSBURGH (AP) - To the Gay men they sought for blood samples, the University ofPittsburgh researchers were known as the "vampires," people who lurked in the basements and back rooms of bars with needles at the ready. They worked in cooperation with bar owners ¯¯ who plied subjects with free beer. They enlisted the help of popular barflies who ¯ goaded other patrons into participating. ¯ They became the lifeblood of a ¯ pioneering researchproject, now 15 years ¯ old, that has changed treatment for HIV ¯ and offered a definitive glimpse of its : history. ’qqae study raised the awareness ; level,"Gay bar owner Chuck Home said. ¯ "Just being involved in the study and ; goingevery sixmonths andkeeping (HIV) ¯ prominent in your mind, there was a ¯ tendency to lean to safe sex. "I fear to ¯ ¯ think how many other people we would have lost if we hadn’t had the study." ; Pitt’s researchers began looking for ~ study participants in 1982, two years ¯ beforeHIV-the virus that causes AIDS - ¯ was identified, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ¯ reported in Sunday’s edition. That initial. ¯ effort won them the opportunity to take : part in the national Multicenter AIDS ¯ Cohort Study, also known as MACS, in : 1983. The study officially began the ¯ following year in Pittsburgh,LosAngeles, ¯ Chicago and Baltimore. At the end of ¯ 1982, only three AIDS cases had been : identified in Allegheny County, far fewer ¯ than in other cities. But the National ¯ Institutes of Health, which awarded four- " year grants toMACS sites,was impressed ¯ with the Pitt team’s ability to find study ¯ volunteers and wanted a low-incidence city for comparison. Researchers were ¯ helped by Gay bar owners, who promote ¯ the studyin their businesses and paid their ¯ staff to attend AIDS education classes so ¯ they could educate customers. The bar ¯ owners also helped set up recruitment ¯ tents atholiday picnics that attractedmore than 3,000 Gay men. ¯ Honse, co-owner of Images and the ¯ Holiday Bar, both in Pittsburgh, recalled ¯ a Gay Philadelphia bar owner who asked ¯ him why he would want to chase, away ¯ business by reminding people about the ¯ virus. "When people die, they don’t buy ¯ any drinks at all. They’re not ever coming ¯ back," Honse remembered telling him. : Nationwide, more than 5,600 Gay men ¯ have participated in the MACS study, ¯ including 1,242 from the Pittsburgh area. ¯ Of those involved in MACS, 1,685 ." volunteers have died, 214 from the ¯ Pittsburgharea. The studycontinues today. ¯ ¯ Twice ayear, participants give samples of blood, semen, urine, feces and throat ¯ secretions, and can participate in other ." studies about psychological aspects of ¯ HIV infection. New data is used to learn : about the role ofgenedcs andimmunology ¯ in the disease’s progression. MACS data ¯ set the standard formeasuring when HIV ¯ develops into full-blown AIDS and ¯ focused attention on the role of T-cells. : Dr. John Mellors, director ofPitt’s HIV/ ¯ AIDS program, tested the idea that viral ¯ levels in the blood reflect disease : progression, as opposed to measuring its ¯ progress solely with T-cells. His findings : led to a review of stored blood samples ¯ from more than 1,600 MACS volunteers, ¯ and life-saving drug regimens now are ¯ based on viral load as well as T-cell count. ¯ "pittsburgh has been right there at the : center of MACS, provi,,ding leadership : and active participation,’ said Dr. Sten ¯ Vermund of the University ofAlabamain : Birmingham. He watched over the study : for the NIH from 1988to 1994. This year, ¯ Pittsburgh was chosen as a testing site for : AIDSvax, an AIDS-prevention vaccine. Wemaybemovinginto snmmerbutthe ¯ arts are as busy as ever. One of Tnlsa’s : great traditions is snmmer films on the ¯ lawn at Philbrook. Gates open at 7pm for : .picnicking and the films begin at dusk, ". usually about 9pro. It’s only $5 ($3 if ". you’re a member). The first film is "The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek," a 1944 comedy by Preston Sturges. Early in July (7/2), Shirley MacLaine stars with John Forsythe in Hitch-cock’s ’q’he Trouble with Harry." Down at Tbe Performing Arts Center, Theatre No_rib presents the gospel musical, Gospel at Colonus based on Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colodus,f~omJune 24-27in the Doenges Theatre. Theatre Tulsa is doing something but as usual, that organization continues its several year policy of discriminating against Tulsa’s Lesbian and Gay press, and therefore, Gay theatre-goers, and still only provides information to some media. You’dthinkby now they’d get it. 33 cents, I guess is too much extra to spend for some free press. However, our thanks go to American Theatre Companywho’vebeengreat to work with in the last few months. ATC will be presenting Shakespeare in the Park with the greatbard’ s "As You Like It" rnnning June 10-12 and June 17-19 at Manion Park,3003 East56th Street, direcdy behind Nimitz Middle and Grimes Elementary Schools. This is anotherpicmcopportumty and tickets are only $6. Slxmsors are the Oklahoma Arts Council, Fox 23, KCFM and Z104 and one of those other aewspapers out there. ATC will also present a musical premiere, "Big Blondes" on July 9-24 at thePAC’s WilliamsTheatre. BigBlondes featuresMaeWest, Marlene Dietrich,and Marilyn Monroe and is directed by, of course, Jim Queen. Imagine that. The d-the p~t l~ve ml,htr "white," it’s ~ee to ~a little sn~~ there. N~ ff ~*~ i~*t do ,o~tM~O a~ut the eomp~sory heter~xuality -oh wait, we fo~t, hom~ls of any ~to~l si~n~ and even ~ tkere we~, here O~ho~ w~re not ~gto a~ut them. fo~t Dr. Davy Goble ~ve us ym~ of hom~fr~ Tul~ ~story. Definitely one not to miss. Early this month, theArts &Humanities Council will be presenting Chautauqua, Voices ofRagtime, Visions ofour Future Past at OSU-Tulsa, 700 No. Greenwood. Interestingly, these free presentations which feature amateur recreations of historical figures have added this year, a Black historical figure, Madame Walker, a selfmade millionaire entrepreneur. The Chautauqua’s of the past have been mighty "white," so it’s nice to see a little diversity sneaking in there. Now if we could just do something about the compulsory heterosexuality -oh wait, we forgot, there werenohomosexuals ofany historical siguifieance and even ff there were, here in Oklahoma, we’re not going to talk about them. Don’t forgetDr. DnnnyGablegave us 100 years of homo~free Tulsa history. And while we’re picking on the Arts & Humanities Council, any one want to bet that this year’s "Wedding Sampler in the Tradition of Harwelden" remains as oblivious to the emergence of I_~sbian and Gay Unions as the first one? Not that the issue hasn’t been brought to their attention both by this newspaper and by one of theirreally, really cool board members. We’ll see. Also, the big arts organization have announced their upcoming seasons. The Opera’s going traditional with, alas, no Mozartthis year. TulsaBallet will provide the Oklahoma premiere "Lady of the Camellias" based on the novel by AlexandreDumas. This storywas also the inspiration for Garbo’s Camille and Verdi’s La Traviata. Tulsa Ballet will open its season early in October with Anna Karenina and will close the season with Carmina Buranain April 2000. - TFN entertainment editor TOHR & Cimarron Alliance present A Black Tie Optional Dinner with US Congressman Barney Frank 4th District, Massachusetts Saturday, June 12, 1999 Greenwood Cultural Center 322 North Greenwood Dinner and cash bar cocktails: $50 Dinner and cocktails with the Congressman: $125 Information: 743-4297 & goddesses tlairtIappTtlour Tuesday Thursday 3pmtoSpm 835-5563 1247 S. Harvard,Tulsa, NearTO TheShefaFund, aPhiladelphiafoundation has started a new initiative to move the Jewish community beyond mere acceptance a~dinclusionofGay,Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Jews toa stance ofwelcoming and celebration. The Pooled Fund for Jewish Community Activism on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Issues is now seeking proposals in its t-h-St year of grantmaking. The Shefa Fund anticipates granting $40,000 in 1999, with grants in the range of $5-20,000. "The Jewish community has made strides toward more inclmive policies regardingGay andLesbianJews andtheir families;’said Sue Hoffman, Shefa Fund Associate Director and manager of the grantmakingprogram."Buttheexperience of young teem and families with Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual members indicates that the Jewish community still does not o welcome- let alone celebrate- our lives :¯ and leadership potential." Acenrding tothe ShefaFmadpresident, : Jeffrey Dekro, "the point is that Gay, ¯ Lesbian and Bisexual oppression is a : mainstream Jewish issue. The expansion ¯ of rituals that we seek would expand the ¯ -range of ritmal for dl Jews; the visibility ¯ that we seek would increase visibility for : a/t Jews in their communities; the anti- " violence activism that we seek would ; increase the safety of a/l Jews. This is about expanding possibilities and ¯ inmgrating identities." ¯ Priority will be given to projects that ¯ promote social change, rather than ; providing community SerVlCe~. ¯ Formoreinfo. contact: TheShefaFund, ¯ 805 E Willow Grove Ave., Wyndmoor, ¯ PA 19038, tel: 215-247-9704, fax: 215- ¯ 247-1015 or by e-mail: : shefafnd@libertynet.org Housekeeping& Gardening Service Contact Paul on: (918) 582 846O POB 3150 Tulsa, OK, 74101 Want to get involved? Need to get tested for HIV? Need a Coming Out Support Group? Call 743-GAYS Tulsa Gay Community Services Center 1307 E. 38th at Peoria, 2nd floor PRIDE ’99 "PRIDEFUL PAST... POWERFUL FUTURE! TULSA’S FIRST ANNUAL 1PARADE W/GRAND MARSHALL REP. 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OK Spoke Club, Gay & Lesbian Bike Organizalio~ Long tides: 7am, 6/5 & 6/19 and short ride: 6:30pm, 6/9 from Zeigler Park. Long ride: 9am, 6/26 and short ride: 6:30pm, 6/23 from Tulsa Gay Community Center. Write for info: POB 9165, Tulsa, OK74157 lfyour organization is not listed, please let us know. Call 583-1248 orfax 583-4615. by Barry Hensley Tulsa City County Library System One group often overlooked in the Gay community is Gay and Lesbian Aftican- Ameticans. There is finally beginning to be somerecognitionofthis ignoredgroup, and Keith Boykin’ sbookfills animportant need. "One More River to Cross" is divided into chapters on various topics, includingBlack Homophobia, Gay Racism, Faith in the Lives of Black Americans, andAreBlacksand Gays the Same? In discussing Black homophobia, Boykin review how some Black leaders, including Eldtidge Cleaver, Frances Welsling andMinister Louis Farrakhan, who have associatedhomosexuality with the decline of the Black community. In one of the more improbable examples,Boykin quotes controversial walter ShahrazadAli (author of’q’he Blackwoman’s Guide to Understanding the Black Man’) as she claims that all movement Black male homosexuals "’... cook, sew and bake and are emerges as the determined to be a better woman than all the women they know." Many interesting topics are citedhere, including homophobia in rap music and instances of Black magazines and parade organizers rejecting participation by Black, Gay groups. In the chapter on Gay racism, Boykin points to several national Gay organizations, such as the Human Rights Campaignandthe National Gay&Lesbian Task Force, and is astounded that , although they claim to stand for equality for all, they have very few Black employees. The Gay media, also, is a target: "like its heterosexual counterpart, the white Gay media usually projects Eurocentric images of beauty that transmit messages inferiority to Black and others who do not Boykln cites several other instances where the terms "Black" and "Gay" are interehan~ah]e. eorre]ation between the Black eivll rightsmovement and the Gay elvll rights and anti-Gay harassment flourishes uncheckedin ournation’s schools." Smith added that despite the evidence in the AMA report that stigmatization can have devastating consequences for Gay youth, the"extremetightcontinuedtheir ongoing attacks this week by unveiling an anti- Gay television ad in Washington." - HRC has singled out a television ad, which aired on UPN’s Washington affiliate. The ad whichHRCcharacterizes as "anti-Gay" is an extension of last summer’s $500,000 "Truth In Love" newspaper campaign. The ad shows a son thanking his mother for telling him what she regards as the truth about homosexuality, and that he could change through the help of an "ex-Gay" ministry. "My son found out the trdth, he could walk away from homosexuality. But he found outtoo late. Hehas AIDS," says the actor pla~ing the ad’s "morn." TheHumanRights Campaigncountered the "truth In Love" ad with their own advertisement. The 45-second HRC ad titled "Baby" urges parents to teach their most intriguing argument in this book. ¯ " fit the white stereotype. ¯ "Are Blacks and Gays the Same?" : includes an interesting quote from former ¯. Texas senator John Tower, commenting ¯ on the 1964 Civil Rights Act: "[it would] ¯ deny to millions of employers and : employees any freedom to speak or act on the basis of their religious convictions or their deeprooted preferences for associating or not associating with certain classifications of people." Boykin’s comment: ’q’he complaints rings loudly-today against homosexuals as they did yesterday against Aftican- AmeticallS." The argument that was used in the "Gays in the military" controversy ofafew years ago, first emerged as integration of the US Armed Forces in the 1940’s was discussed. In 1948, opponents of integration said, "The presence of Black soldiers in the Army would create disharmony and drive away whites." In the 1990’s version, "hiding behind the amorphous, catchall ,phrase, of ’unit cohesion, supporters of the Gay ban argue that Lesbians and Gay men serving openly wouldmake other soldiers feel uncomfortable." Boykin cites. several other instances where the terms "Black" and "Gay" ¯ are interchangeable. ¯ The correlation between the Black civil rights movement and the Gay civil rights ¯ movement emerges as themostintriguing ¯ argument in this book. While the other ¯ chapters peak the reader’s curiosity and ¯ interest, they pale in comparison to the ¯ sections on these similar movements for ¯ equality. ." Check for "One More River to Cross" ¯ at your local branch library or at the ¯ Readers’ Services department, 596-7966 at the Central Library. : This review first ran in Tulsa Family ¯ News, vol. 4, no. 3, February 1997. ¯ kids tolerance and to not discriminate. ¯ Produced l~y TBWA/Chiat/Day, it ¯ featured an infant with a narrator asking ¯ who will teach the baby the important ¯ joys and lessons of life. "Behold wonder. ¯ Who will teach him to tie his shoes? To ¯ ride abicycle?To find faces in the clouds? ¯ Who will teach him to love and respect ¯ people for who they are.., unless they’re ¯ Gay? Who will teach him that? Will ¯ you?" ¯ ¯ HRC’s Smith added, "these suicide statistics show that it is imperative to ¯ reach Gay andlesbian youthwith positive ¯ images to counter the barrage of anti-Gay : material put forth by the far tight...We ¯ hope our ad and other similar efforts ¯ contribute toward creating a societywhere the next generation of Gay and Lesbian : youth can live relatively free of the : indignities and violence that many of : today’s youth face." ¯ HRC’s ad ends with a line saying : "choose tolerance," and an imagereading ¯" "In memory of Matthew Shepard, 1976- ~ 1998." Neither the "Truth In Love" ¯ campaign nor HRC have announced any "- plans to air these commercials outside the : Washington, D. C. area. Red Rock Tulsa Free Confidential HIV Testing Walk-in Clinics Tuesday Testing, 5 -8 pm Pride Center, 1307 East 38th Wednesday Testing, 5-8 pm Red Rock, 1724 East 8th Daytime appointments available. 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Well, save that for later; right now we need to concentrate on finding the square footage ofyourkitchen floor, then we’ll discuss your options for flooring materials in our last installment on freshening up your kitchen on a shoestring - well, maybe two shoestrings. To determine your square footage, multiply length times width. That’s easy enough if your floor is a plain square or rectangle, but if you have an "el" shape or something more funky, you’ll have to break it up into areas and add the numbers. I always add a few extra square feet to the sum just to be on the safe side. You will find, as you look around for flooring, that the costis usually figuredi9, square feet; even carpeting Is beginning to go this way. It’s about time. Your DIYD like uniformity - preferably on someone else. But we digress again. We will look at your options only on the vinyl flooring, since anything more ambitious, such as tile or Petgo, really belongs in your real kitchen rehab; it is too cost-prohibitive for this project. But if you insist on it, darling, your DIYD’s admonitions are for naught. Thatleaves us with sheet vinyl [one piece] or peel and stick squares. The peel and sticks have several advantages - they’re relatively inexpensive and easy to install, there are lots of .cglors and styles, and they are readily available. You will need to start from a spot in the center of the room and work outward, as you do in file. Also, lay it out "dry" and make any adjustments that will keep youfromcutting httle bits ofsquares. You will want to start down the middle of has instead brought it closer together withinitself, and also with the rest ofSoho community, according to Nick Laurence, of the American Retro store in Old Compton Slreet. He said the spiritin Soho over the weekend had been one of "high resilience." Mr Laurence said: "One of the real positive things to come out of this is that people’s initial reaction has been one of humanity." A service of remembrance was held in the gardens of Soho’ s St Anne’s church, and began at 6:40pro - the time the bomb went off. Clare Herbert, the rector of St Anne’s, said: "In that act of proud reflection we very much hope the people of Soho, of this community which offers a welcome to so many people and which has been so badly shocked will come ¯ an aisle and work outwards if that is a : consideration. Think of where the eye ¯ falls in looking down an aisle- thelength. ¯ You don’t want to stray off, and this is very critical if the aisle connects two ¯ rectangles. ¯ You’ll want toremoveany quarterround Your DIYD leh you on your knees languishing at her feet last month - oh, don’t move yet! I’m not finished with you. I want to see what you can do with your tape measure. Are you thinking naughty thoughts? ~rell, save that for later; right now we need to concentrate on finding the square [ootage of your kitchen floor, then we’ll discuss your options for flooring materials... and thenreplace itwhen you’re finished; you’ll probably have to put in new, since it doesn’t rip off gracefully, it will also help hold your vinyl tiles in place. This is a good time for a warning about vinyl tiles - they have a bad habit of"floating", so keep the following tips in mind: buy the thickest, sturdiest ones you can find and can afford; keep everything fight - where you join them, where they butt the wall, and so on; and don’t try to cheat by not putting any under the fridge or the stove. ff the existing flooring is in good shape, with no tears, ridges orbumps, youcan apply the tiles right over the top. Make sure the floor is Joan Crawford immaculate. Use a square and a board and utility knife to cut your edge files, and remember - snug!!! For sheet flooring, Armstrong makes some that you can do yourself. It comes with a kit so that you can make a template of your floor, cut it out, then glue it down. There is a video that gives you the particulars. This is arewarding project for anyone who has somebasic skills, fearlessness and good anal retentiveness. For those of you who are less intrepid or who have a more challenging kitchen layout, haveit installed. Itdoesn’t take long and the cost increase is relatively minimal. Take time to shop around; some of the discount flooring houses can ¯ be a good value, but be careful andbe sure ¯ to ask for references and then call them. ¯ Sonow yourkitchen has been repainted, ¯ the new counter tops are gleaming, and the floor looks so lovely - it’s time to show : it off. Have a nice dinner. Invite your ¯ DIYD. She’ll be so proud of you. ¯ together with the other community that ¯ has been shocked and injured, the Gay ¯ community." ¯ In Sohd Square, people from across ¯ London have come to lay flowers for ¯ those killed and injured. On the Sunday ¯¯ justafter thebombing, thousands ofpet.pie packedinto Soho Squarenear thebombed ¯ pub to mourn those hurt. Angela Mason, ¯ a director of the Gay and Lesbian lobby ¯ group, Stonewall, told the’crowd of 2,000 : people: "Nobody, butnobody, is going to ¯ bomb us back into the closet." The chairman of the Commission for : Racial Equality, Sir Herman Ouseley, ¯ warned in a TV interview that ethnic ¯ commumties could rise up against"racial : terrorism." "I think you have got to ¯ understand the way in which some ¯ communities have been under siege for a ¯ longperiod oftime- it’s notjust areaction : to the bombing," he said. by Esther Rothblum : is aperception thatroleplays are somewhat Lesbians, like other women, face : fake, butinfacttheyeanbeverypowerful." challenges finding affordable andquality ¯ I asked Dr. White what some good -health care. But are there particular " opening questions are for doctors who difficulties being a Lesbian patient in the : want to be sensitive to Lesbian patients. health care system? I "Youcanstartbyasking’are interviewed Dr. Jocelyn White, a physician who has .conducted research on Lesbians’ access to health care. "Lesbians face all the typical issues such~having health insurance, traveling somedistanceforhealthcare, finding child care while they visit a health care provider, or being able to take time off from work," she said. "In addition there is a specific domestic partner, issue that Lesbians have, because unlike heterosexual women who are legally married, few Lesbians can be insured under their parmer’s policY. But the real issue is providers’ inability to communicate sensitively and .effectively with their patients. Also, providers often have a lack of knowledge about the health issues of Lesbians." Dr. White has found that many providers would like ito have Lesbian patients but don’t have theknowledge or experience to be good providers. She and her "It’s very interesting for the heterosexual doctors and nurses to have to play the ¯role of a Lesbian," said Dr. White, "because they have to start trying to identify with what it feels like to be a Lesbian patient who has d’doctor say something to them that is insensitive. colleagues have traveled around the country educating health care providers in how to communicate effectively with Lesbian patients and increase their .knowledge base of Lesbian health care Issues. She says "inmy workshops I give a talk on the primary care of Lesbian patients. Wetalk aboutparenting, comingout, HIV, sexually transmitted diseases, cancer risk and screening, depression, substance abuse, domestic violence, hate crime violence, and social issues. Many of the doctors who come to these workshops will go on to teach these issues to their students and medical residents, so it’s important for me to teach communication skills." In one of Dr. White’s role-plays, a workshop leader will play a Mexican- American data entry technologist who comes in wanting to talk about parenting options. "The task of a workshop participant is to determine her sexual orientation and discuss options such as insemination, consider appropriate referrals, and deal with these issues sensitively," Dr. White said, "The person playing therole ofthe patientis scripted to present somechallenges."Otherworkshop participants are asked to be observers and comment on what they saw andfelt during the role play. InanOther role play, the worksh0pleader plays thepart ofapatient who has breast cancer, and tells the doctor that her partner no longer wants to have sex with her. "It’s very interesting for the heterosexual doctors and nurses to have to play the role ofa Lesbian," said Dr. White, "because they have to start trying to identify with what it feels like to be a Lesbian patient who has a doctor say something to them thatis insensitive. There you partnered, married, single, or divorced?’ rather than launching right in with such questions as’whatkind of birth control do you use?’ she answered. "You can ask ’do you have a significant other?’ or ’who is in your family?’ in order to demonstrate that you are open to hearing about broader definitions of relationships and families. She added, "You want to learn aboutthe social history of the patient and it’s also important to be comfortable taking a sexual history if necessary. Few doctors are comfortable taking a sexual history, even if they do it every day, because we don’t talk much about sex in our culture. Sexual questions by doctors need tomakeit clear to the patient that an), response is possible." Dr. White has surveyed Lesbians about advice they wouldgive doctors. "Almost to a person they all said ’don’t assume I’m heterosexual’ so we need to ¯ workonbreakingdown thoseassumptions : of heterosexuality," she said. LesbiAn : respondents also told ofnegahveincidents : with their doctors. Dr. White described ¯ one of these anecdotes: "One woman had severe vaginal hemmoraghing and went to the. emergency room. The doctor, assuming she was heterosexual, asked about birth control and pregnancy. When she told the doctor she was a Lesbian, he flushed, got embarrassed, terminated the interview, left the cubicle, andnevercame back. A different woman came back and completed the pelvic exam. The Lesbian patient was horrified and felt humiliated. She immediately sought out a Lesbian doctor." Another anecdote: "A Lesbian was in a motorcycle accidentin which she collided head on with a bus. She told the doctor she was a Lesbian, and he putin 100 sutures in her leg without novocaine. He didn’t xray her skull, even though she had lost consciousness during the accident, and missed a skull fracture. So this doctor committed assault and battery as well as malpractice and now he is being investigated." In sum, Dr. White’s mission is to hdp doctors provide better care for Lesbian patients and help Lesbians feel goodabout themselves so that they know their fights in the doctor’s office. She encourages Lesbians to keep looking foragooddoctor and. keep moving on until they find a doctor they can be happy with. She tells Lesbians to talk with their friends about doctors who are trusted in their community, or else go to talks given by doctors and ask questions about affirmative doctors. "We deserve a good doctor..It’s our right and we should not tolerate poor health care. We should just walk out if the doctor is homophobic, and IGTA member Call 341.6866 International ToHrsformoreinformation. AUTHENTIC FRESH 1TALIAN RAINBOW CUSINE TROUT ofEureka Springs Voted Number One in Arkansas! (501) 253-6807, Closed Wednesday 5 Center Street, Eureka Springs, AR 72632 Red Rock Tulsa O’RYAN Oklahoma Rainbow Young Adult Network Outreach Program Thurs. 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Harvard, 587-1778 Sapulpa Location: 109 N. Mission, 227-2322 Free & Anonymous Finger Stick Method By &for, but not exclusive to the Lesbian, Gay, & Bisexual Communities. Mon. & Thurs., 6-8 pm, Daytime testing: Mon-Thurs. by appt. H 0 P E HIV Outreach, Prevention & Education 834-TEST(8378), 3501 E.Admiral Place by Lamont Lindstrom, Ph.D. Sunday, I sat on the curb of Long Beach’s OceanAvenueto watch the city’s annual Gay pride parade. Noisy bar floats, too.thy politicians ridinginnew BMW’ers, various "Miss Things" and "Mr. Thats," drill teams, baton twirlers, bands, community service organi-zation members, church choirs singing on flatbed trucks, and family of all sorts passedonbymarching down the avenue. A few feet up the street, huddled together in a vacant lot, a clutch ofprotesters from one of the more apocryphal Christian sects heckled the paraders. They howled out occasional threats of damnation and hellfire. They waggled their signs and bellowed hoarse abuse’ at passing muscle boys inmuscle cars whb, in turn,honked their horns to drown out the chatter of these volunteer Jeremiahs. The emergence y space and the assertion - by parading - of rights to this territory are even newer... These battles continue over equal rights to publle space... One symbolic curbside barricade, and one bored, roly-poly cop, separated the hecklers from the heckled. This sole whi te woodenbarricade made me think about the social meanings of space. Anthropologists are interested in the ways in which people spatially organize their societies. Anthropologist Edward Hall c.alled this study Of the meaning and use of space "proxemics." He investigated how we communicate nonverbally by arranging ourselves and our possessions in various spatial poses. Parades, for example, are fascinating ritual events. People’s organized movement through space sends important messages. It is no surprise that governments get nervous at parades and do their best to regulate and control these. Parades reveal the existence of communities with at least enough unity andpurpose tomarch together. Andgroup unity-and purpose may threaten powersthat- be. Marches across a landscape also assert fights to that territory. Parades, although symbolic, are serious political events in that they display claims to place. In Northern Ireland, competing Catholics and Protestants parade through each other’s neighborhoods sparking violence and death. Closer to home, the circumnavigation of the University of Oklahoma’s football field by that Sooner Schooner after every touchdown is a similar sort of ritual claim to place. Like small town Fourth of July parades everywhere, this movement symbolically displays people’s rights to occupy territory - land claims that, in Oklahoma, are still a little uneasy in that they are often less than a century old. The emergence of "Gay space" and the assertion ~- by parading- of rights to this territory are even newer. Until recently, few Gay spaces existed. And where they did - Gay bars, bookstores, beaches, and the like - people still had continually to protect themfrom invasionandregulation by saaightpolitical authority. These battles continue overequal rights to public space, or room on library shelves, or signage on Peoria Avenue in Tulsa. That white barricade on Long Beach’s Ocean Avenue separated two territories and two claims. In the street, Gays and Lesbians asserted theirunified community and their claims to occupy Long Beach. Behind the barricade in the vacant lot, the heterosexual hecklers contested theseGay claims, struggling to reassert their own control over the territory. Although the barricade kept their bodies out of the Gay street, they ydled and preached - casting their voices up into the air above the avenue to compete with those of the marchers. Straight attempts to regain control by limiting and regulating Gay space, for the moment at least, have weakened. Gay space is expanding. ".Gay ghettos"l~.ve grown up rn every major Americancity. Publishers such as Damronand Spartacus make money by providing guidebooks to Gay spaces around the world. Gay pride marches down city streets are increasingly visible ritual events. These parades show off the Gay community and assert its ; rights to occupy local territory. The tables : even, here and there, have turned. Some ¯ denizens ofSanFrancisco’s Castro District ; now complain that their neighborhood is ," attracting too many straight residents and : businesses. Theydemand that cityplanners ¯ pass regulations to keep troublesome heterosexuals out of the Gay ghetto. :/ Some paraders marched along the : avenueholding hands, as didmany couples also on the green near downtown Long : Beach where the pride celebration was : headquartered. ¯ Hand-holding is another powerful : proxemic message about sexual identity : and love. My friend Devre observed that : he had once felt uncomfortable holding ¯ men’s hands in public. Now he demands -" more Gay space. He wants to live in a ; place where he can hold his partner’s : hand. ¯ The"gaying"ofpublic space, however, : can bring violent response from those : desperate to protect heterosexual control of the landscape. But a passing parade at !easttemporarily Gays’ space. I hold hands mpart of the city where otherwise I might have second thoughts. I look across that barricade to another place which is no longer mine. On my side, though, I am holding a boyfriend’s hand. : of The Journal Of The Gay And Lesbian ¯ MedicalAssociationandco-editorofThe ¯ Lesbian Health Book. She teaches at Legacy Portland Hospital and is amember ; of the Lesbian Health Research Institute. : Esther Rothblum is Professor of ¯ Psychology at the University of Vermont ." and Editor of The Journal of Lesbian ¯ Studies. She can bereachedatJohn Dewey ¯ Hall, University of Vermont, Burlington, ¯ VT, email: esther.rothblum@uvm.edu. .we should report these doctors to the insurance company or the HMO." Dr. Whitehas found that Lesbians happy with their health care tend to have high oelfesteem and a sense that quality health care is their right. She hopes to teach other Lesbians that this is their right as well. Dr. JocelynWhitepractices as ageneral internist in Portland, Oregon. Sheis editor | | Use Free. 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Title A name given to the resource [1999] Tulsa Family News, June 1999; Volume 6, Issue 6 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. 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In addition to the House vote, a new poll shows that the vast majority of Texas residents support hate crimes legislation... "Reason and principle triumphed in the Texas legislature today," said Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Executive Director Elizabeth Birch. ’‘Texas lawmakers took a giant step towards combating hate violence against all residents of the state." The Human Rights Campaign is the largest national Lesbian and Gay political organization. A new Scripps Howard poll for The Dallas Mormng News revealed that 72% of Texans support hate crimes legislation. According to the newspaper, the poll said that the public supports the inclusion of all groups currently included in the legislation: 81% for race; 80% for women; 78% for religious groups; and 76% for Gay people, see Texas, p. 14 TU Hosts Women + AIDS Regional Conference TULSA- The Second Regional Conference on Women and AIDS will be held on The University of Tulsa campus Monday,June 14,in the Allen ChapmanActivity Center, located at 440 South Gary Avenue. The conference is a comprebensive, one-day program to raise awareness, promote discussion and provide opportunities for new directions in HIV prevention, care and treatment for women. "We will gather together in the spirit of concern for our community," says Jauice Nicklas, Senior Planner of the Commttnity Service Council and Conference Spokesperson. According to Nicklas, the conference will benefit everyone - women living with HIV and AIDS, people who deal with women’sissues, educators, policymakers, youth organizations,health and social service providers, family members, volunteers and concern.ed citizens. "In the Arms of the Angels," a documentary produced by the National AIDS Fund Americorps Team Tulsa, will open the conference at 8:30 a.m. with a look at women and AIDS. Patty Lather, author of "Troubling the Angels," will give the keynote address at 8:45 a.m. In addition to a series of workshops, the conference will feature a panel of HIV positive women who will share their stories. Judith Billings of the President’s Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS will give the luncheon address. Saiadra McDonald, the founder of Outreach, Inc., will present the closing address on "What We Can Do to Be a Force for Change." see Women, p. 11 MJ DIRECTORY/LETTERS EDITORIAL ~I~I~. ~ "" US & WORLD NEWS HEALTH NEWS ENTERTAINMENT COMMUNITY CALENDAR DO-IT-YOURSELF-DYKE DYKE PSYCHE GAY STUDIES P. 2 p. $ P. 4 P. 6 P. 8 P. 9 P. 11 P. 12 P. 13 Restaurant Open But Concessions Closes by Tom Neal TULSA - Maybe it’s just spring but a couple of new Gay owned and oriented businesses have, or are about to open this month. And one ofTul sa’ s most visible Gay businesses has unexpectedly dosed. From Lesbian Baby Boom, Comes Gay Daycare The origin of GLAD, Gay & Lesbian Affordable Daycare, reflects the frustrations of two new moms, Teresa and Joan, 33 and 32 years old, trying to find good daycare for their 4 month old son, Joseph (Joey) while they worked. For Teresa, the final thing that convinced her to leave her 7080 hour a week managerial position to start a home based business was a conflict about getting time off when their son was sick. But for both, there was more. After their son was bom, they explored many alternatives for infant care. Some options using relatives or friends just didn’t work out. Many of the day care operations which they reviewed just didn’t seem to be very good. And most had inflexible rules and were very expensive, with high deposits, inflexible contracts and schedules. For example, many day care operations require a year round contract with perhaps only 10 days off allowed. Any more days off have to be paid for regardless of whether the child is at the center or not. For these morns, one of whom is a teacher and has the summer off, it makes no sense to pay for care year-round. However, if they don’t, they take the risk that no place will be available in the fall again. Furthermore, Joan and Teresa also were concerned about raisxng their son in an enviroment where he will not be mistreated because he has two morns. And they know that they are not the only Gay parents who have these concerns. At some of the day care centers they inspected they were asked, "where’s the father" and were received with not very well disguised hostility. They say that they’v e sometimes felt they had ~o say they were"sisters" in order to be treated fairly. So finally, after thoroughly researching state requirements, they just decided tO start their own daycare in their cozy midtown bungalow, see Businesses, p. 14 Red Ribbon Gala + SwanAwards TULSA, Okla. (AP/TFN) - Some members of Tnlsa’s Gay community say they were pleased Chastity Bono visited this weekend because the author has helped mainstream Americans become more tolerant. "Just by her coming to Tulsa, it means a great deal to us. It helps people to come together," said Nancy McDonald, who recently was national president of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG). B ono was the keynote speaker Saturday night, April 17th at the Red Ribbon Ball, an annual black-tie gala that benefits Tnlsa CARES, the Center for AIDS Resources, Education and Support. The event attracted more than 250 to the Downtown Doubletree. Bono, the Openly Lesbian daughter of Sonny and Cher, formerly served as the entertainment media director of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance’Against Defamation. She was involved in controversy for suggesting that the television show of Lesbian comedian, Ellen Degeneres, was "too Gay." Bono, 30, spent part of the day autographing copies of her book "Family Outing," which details how she and others revealed their sexual orientation to their families. Also, at the Gala, the co-sponsoring organization, the Tulsa Chapter of PFLAG, Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians & Gays presented their annual Swan awards. Among those honored were State Rep. DOn Ross, the Revs. Leslie Penrose and Gary Blaine, The Tulsa World, represented by editorial board writer David Averill, and PFLAG board member Tim Gillean. The award to Gillean was met with consternation by two former TOHR presidents attending the Gala,’Deb Starnes and Tom Neal, as PFLAG credited him as ’~he founder" of the Community Center. Both noted that Gillean helped start the Center, particularly doing early fundraising but that after he was voted out as TOHR president, he had dropped his member at the time when the building was found and leased. "No single person can claim the Center; Kelly Kirby was president when we began, Tim certainly did a great deal but Deb Statues, Midge Elliott and I sweated blood to get that building open, walls tom down and the place painted. Tim’s done enough other work that PFLAG doesn’t have to rip anyone off to honor him," said Neal. PFLAG president and Swan award presenter, Jan Allen, stated that she was not aware of the history of the Center and that PFLAG had not intended to slight any of the Center’ s organizers. Pride ’99 Shaping Up: Picnic, Parade & More US Rep. Frank to be Grand Marshall of First Tulsa Parade + Community Unitarians Host First Gay UU Pastor TULSA - Tulsa’s Pride ’99 organizers have confirmed that openly Gay US Congressman, Barney Frank of Massachusetts not only will attend this year’s June 12th event but will serve as grand marshall of Tulsa’s very first Lesbian/Gay pride parade. The parade will begin at 10 am at Tulsa’s Gay Community Services Center at 38th & Peoria and will go north on Peoria to 31st Street. From there it will go west to Riverside Drive and will continue north to Veterans (Boulder) Park, the site of the Picnic as it was last year. The principle sponsors for this year’s event are Bud Light and MCC United. The picnic will be from noon until 5pm again. Bud Light will be providing a large tent to provide some shelter from the sun as wall the sound system. Local drag diva Kris Kohl is organizing entertainment. These range from a local band, an appearance by the Council Oaks Mens Chorale, various female impersonators and titleholders, and more. Refreshments as always will be free. Congressman Frank will also be the guest of honor at a dinner Saturday evening at the Greenwood Cultural Center at 322 No. Greenwood near the OSU-Tnlsa campus. Thedinner will be hosted joindy by TOHR/Tulsa’s Gay Community Services Center and by the Cimarron Alliance, Oklahoma’s Gay and Lesbian political action committee. Cocktails begin at 7pm and dinner will be at 8. Dinner and a cash bar cocktail pre-party will be $50/person and dinner and a complimentary cocktail reception with Congressman Frank will be $125/ person, see Frank, p. 3 "One Fool" Play Coming To Eureka Springs, AR EUREKA SPRINGS, Ark. - As part of the May Festival of the Arts, OneFool, a one-woman, oneact play will be presented Tuesday and Wednesday, May 25-26, 8 p.m. at Center Stage (on Spring Street m the downtown Historic Distric0. The play, featuring Orlando improv-actress, Catherine Goodison, was written by Terry Baum and will be directed by Lewis Routh. ’One Fool is a riotously funny play about a woman’s search for the ’one love’ with whom she can live forever," says director Routh. ’‘This wild odyssey takes her across the world and into your heart." Catherine Goodison began her acting career in 1994 under the direction of Lewis Routh in the play Bar Dykes, where she played the role ofabig butch. She and Routh have worked together on several projects since that time, including the 1994 showing of One Fool in Orlando. Goodison, whose comedic talenthas foundits way tomany of Florida’s stages, including the famed Fringe Festival, has been a featured performer with Act Out Theatre and the Improvabilities comedy troupe. As part of the troupe, her most memorable roles include Lucy in You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown, and the roles of the Nanny and the school teacher in Baby With The Bath Water, both plays directed by Routh. Playwright Terry Bantu is the founder of Lilith, the San Francisco Women’s Theater, and was its artistic director from 1975 to 1980. During that time, she co- wrote and/or directed every production. Moonlighting, which she directed and co-wrote, toured Europe to great acclaim in 1979. Baum wrote Dos Lesbos with Carolyn Myers, which ran for two years in San Francisco and was nominated for several awards. 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The reasons for my resignation stem from three basic issues, which have¯ continued to grow over time. First, I have significant political disagreements with the March call and planning, which ha~’e not been addressed. Secondly, I have grown increasingly skeptical of the value of this event for the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender (GLBT) movement at this time. And finally, I cannot endorse certain decisions made by the Board. Although I have great trust and affection for each of you individually, it does not assuage my concerns and questions. I now believe I will be most helpful to the community from outside the Board. Since the initial call for the March, grassroots activists have consistently challenged us as national leaders. Their concerns address the credibility and legitimacy of the March and they have demanded an opening of the March process for greater discussion. The questions have been on whether to march, what agenda to march for, and how best to use the tremendous platform and visibility that such marches provide. Despite my political disagreements with the call and process, I agreed to serve on the March Board, believing my participation could change the course of the process. I also felt that as a representative of the oldest national political organization, and one of the few explicitly progressive national GLBT groups, my voice was needed in the March planning process. I stated at the time that I would remain on the Board as long as my. presence represented the best interests of Task Force members, our constituents, and the movement as a whole. Since I joined the Board, my participation has been challenged by members and activists with whom we have deep and longs tanding relationships. Individuals from all perspectives have intensively engaged me, the Task Force staff, and our Board. I took their concerns to heart and carried them in my work on the March Board. During my tenure, I voted in the minority on key resolutions on personnel issues, the naming of the March, and the broadening of the planning effort to allow more people a seat at the table. I helped lead the successful effort to ensure that funds raised by the March would go to statewide organizations, people of color organizations and other constituents underrepresented in our movement. However, the Board has ¯ largely ignored the fundamental issues that lead me into become involved: why we should march, the agenda, and the involvement of the entire GLBT commnnity. I cannot serve on a Board that will not open itself to greater input and see Letters, p. 3 Letters Policy Tulsa Family News welcomes letters on issues which we’ve covered or on issues you think need to be considered. You may request that your name be withheld but letters must be signed & have phone numbers, or be hand delivered. 200 word letters are preferred. Letters to other publications will be printed as is appropriate. �Talking with people inthe community, I was relieved to learn that I was hardly the only one who was disappointed with the celebrated Chastity Bono. Ms. Bono was "the keynote speaker" at the recent Red Ribbon Gala benefiting Tulsa CARES, our local co-ordinating organization for HIV/AIDS services. The dinner was nice enough and the attendance was about double that of last year’s inaugural event. The organizers dearly deserve praise for their efforts. But Ms. Bono was, to be kind, unimpressive, both as a speaker and at her book signing at Tnlsa’s Gay Community Services Center. To a number of observers at the Center, it appeared that Ms. Bono had little interest in being there. At the dinner, she fredy admitted that she’d made no effort to prepare any.remarks -and that degree of preparation showed. Two things saved her performance. First, it was mercifully short, and second, she did have a good, if scatological, anecdote about confronting the Rev. Fred Phelps of "godhatesfags" infamy in Topeka at a booksigning. Her appearance may indeed have helped the event. Attendance at the Red Ribbon Gala was about double but then that might have happened just from being the second year for the event. Her appearance does raise questions, though, about America’s preocuppation with celebrity and notoriety. After meeting Ms. Bono, it’ s hard not to regard her as a v cry ho-hum ’~v onderbread dyke" (as one of my Lesbian friends put it) who but for the accident of her birth would hardly be getting a second hearing,!et alone a book contract. Ms. Bono’s elevation seems to exemplify the worstAm~rican tendency to Value notoriety over any shred of content. But what really raises some concern about her appearance was learning that despite her having reduced her appearance fee by one-half, it still cost almost $10,000 for her irresistible charms. Our sou~,,ce indicates that Ms. Bono normally charges $15,000 for her appearances" but that du~ to her friendship with the daughter of PFLAG’s Nancy McDonald, Bono reduced it to only $7,500, plus expenses, of course. This is what many wouM call a damn fine racket. One would hope that the organizers came up with aspecial donor to take on these expenses andno harm was-done to the genuine financial needs of Tulsa CARES. And no doubt organizers will argue that it wonld not have been nearly as successful without her appearance. But all I can think of is how much medicine or food that $10,000 might have bought for persons living with AIDS Hello, the peop!e, this is supposed to be all about? Maybe that $10k s money that would not have come into this effort except for supporting Ms. Bono in the fashion to which she’s become accustomed. But then, maybe, just maybe, it could have been given to care-giving, and surely, there are speakers, ones who actually prepare their remarks and who have something worth saying, who’d speak for, say, only two or three thousand. Makes you wonder, don’t it? - Tom Ne.al, editor & publisher Several special ’levels. of participation in the event are available with,the most cxdflsiCe being the Platinum table ($ 2500), which includes six seats at a table with Congressman Frank. There will be only one Platinum table. Also Offered is the Gold level, a table with 8 seats and an invitation to the cocktail party with the Congressman ($1500), a SilVer level ($250) which is two seats and cocktails, and a Bronze level ($500), a table for 8 and the .cash bar cocktail party. For tickets or for more information, call 743-4297. Also, Sunday morning Congressman Frank will probably be attending an interfaith prayer breakfast. Details for that event will be announced soon. Also in honor of Lesbian and Gay Pride, Community Unitarian Universalist Cohgtegation (cuuc) has invited the:Rev. DougStrong.of Community UU Church ~h ~iano~ T~xas to be guest minister attheir Sunday, May 16th, 1 lain service. After the service, all are invited to’join CUUC and Community of Hope ~for a potluck picnic cookout.~ The service and picnic .will be at Community of Hope Church, 2545 So..Yale where CUUC meets regularly. Guests are encouraged to bring both lawn chairs and food to share or t6 cook. The Rev. S trong i s a 6th generation Uni taft an-Univ ers ali s t and an openl~ Gay. man who has served congregations in Maine, Massachusetts, Virginia, California, Wisconsin and Arizona. Mr. Strong was the first openly Gay man to be called to serve as a pastorAn the history of the UnitarianUniversalism f~iith. Thiswas in 1980 inAugusta, Maine.- by Tom Neal Editor & Publisher The Tulsa WorM really is gettmg better. Whileit’s not of the quality of The Dallas Morning News or other such papers,itis shedding some of its more parochial qualities. Of course, since the state’s only other major daily is The ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ " ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ " ; ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ : ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ : advertise my gift shop, tomfoolery! which now has transmuted into The Pride Store at Tulsa’s Gay Community Center. The World’s anti-Gay policy stung PFLAG, Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, more recently when the orgamzation placed an advertisement Oklahoman, now officially recognized as supporting fair treatment for Lesbians and the worst paper an the United States as The Tulsa World Gays but was not allowed to spell out their Oklahomans have long known, it’s never full legal name because, of course, it really is Settln$ been hard for The World to look better. includes the forbidden word: "gay". better. While it’s not More investigative journalism is being In contrast, The Worm accepted an allowed at The World. So instead of just advertisement from West Tulsa churches of the quality of supporting the status quo, an elected attacking Gay people but The ~VorM The Dallas official like Dist. 4 City Councilor Anna allowed the churches to use the word Falling is being held accountable for her "gay"! It’s bad enough that they have the Morrdn¢ News liberal spending of public dollars on bigoted policy but worse that they enforce or other such "working" vacations or for possible it selectively. conflicts of interest she may have had And it only adds injury to insult that The papers, it is sheddln$ when her spouse was applying for public World, counter to the pohcies of the best some of its more monies which theCouncil would have to media corporations in the country, has no approve. non-discrimination policy that includes paroehlaJ qualities. This last month, The Worm also printed "sexual orientation" to protect the Lesbian Of course, slnee the a week series of in,depth stories about and Gay reporters and staff. Nor has the state’s only other Tnlsa’s Latino communities. This series corporation seen fit to provide equal pay is similar to ones done aboutTulsa s Black for equal work by providing benefits for major daily is communities. All this is very well and the families of Lesbian and Gay workers. good. Tulsa’s "establishment," our Tl~e Oldal~oman, In a day when health care is so expensive wealthy, our influential have long taken and benefits become a significant part of now offleially advantage of Tulsa’s minority comthe "total employment package", this is no reeoSnlzed as the munities without sharing the benefits, little issue. But maybe it shouldn’t be too surprising without sharing the decision-making worst paper in the process,-most often not acknowledging that The Worm doesn’t recognize the United States as even the existence of our communities. families of their Gay workers since part-0f The fact that The WorM, the ultimate The World’s anti-Gay policy also includes Oklahomans have establishment mou~piece of Tiflsa, the a refusal to print engagement, anniversary lon$ known, country club paper par excellence, is now or tmion announcements for Gay and willing to acknowledge the existence of Lesbian couples. Several years ago, v~fien it’s never been hard Latino, Black, Indian and Asian I asked Joe Worley about thi~ discrifor commlmil~es is.progress. minatory policy, he responded by asking But the real proof of The World’s The World if all I had to do each day was to dreamup commitment to journalistic fundamentals, hard questions for The Tulsa World. The to look better. i.e. covering the community as it is. rather answer to thatis "no"but the issue remains. than as its ownership wants to present it, will come Would The WorMban such ads from interracial couples ? when The World does a similar piece on Tulsa’s Gay, Those relationships were once not recognized as legal, Lesbian, Bi and Transgendered’communities. in many states. Ironically, more than five years ago, World reporters All this might not be that surprising for a corporation were set to do such a series. I discussed aspects of the which has barely integrated its newsroom racially, and proposalwithTulsaWorldreporters,JanetPearsonand which was cited for (and settled) an EEOC (Equal David Fallis. The proposal was killed by-then executive Employment Opportunity Commission) complaint for editor, Bob Haring. And while I believe Joe Worley, racist hiring practices (this according to their own current executive editor, is fundamentally a fair person, pages). It still doesn’t make it right. in general, and in particular towards.Gay people, it So while we are making progress with The World, appears that he is constrained by the prejudices of the they really have a still some way to go. And as daily paper’s ownership. newspapers struggle to retain their relevancy in an The Tulsa World’s owners and top business increasingly media-diverse culture, organizations like management are responsible for the newspaper’s many The World will have to lose their country-club year’ s old and quite official anti-Gay advertising policies. narrowness, with its largely useless and clearly I first encountered these policies in the middle 80’s pretentious regular columns devoted to who attended when a Lesbian businesswoman tried to advertise her what soiree, and their outdated view of how-minority Gay oriented book and gift shop. I later encountered the Tulsans, Gay as well as racial and religious groups, are exact same policy almost 10 years laterwhen I tried to to be treated, and look at our world as it really is. more allies were reached and involved, more media coverage was generated in every state on GLBT issues than had ever been achieved at the state level. Because : scrutiny from the communities we claim to represent. ¯ . of its overwhelming success, the campaign is likely to ¯ ° Thesecondreasonformyresiguationisthatlcontinue ¯ be repeated in years to come, perhaps even annually. : to doubt the value of this March at this time. I honor the "" The National Gay and Lesbiafi Task Fbrce has ¯ valueofour previous nafi6nal Marches andacknowledge ¯ committedthevastmajorityofitsresources to deepening them as having been political turning points in the lives and growing political power in every state. The time I of many current leaders and activists. However, the ¯ have spent on the March Boardhas taken away from my effectiveness of sflCh dn enormous commiimeiit ofiJme ¯ °iniportani work ~t( ~he state and i~tl level. I need to and resources at a moment when more and more energy ¯ concentrate my energies on. NGLTF’s efforts to build is demanded of the GLBT movement at the state and this state-by-state movement and on advocating for our local level is questionable. Nothing so dramatically ¯ grassroots constituents at the national level This is the reinforced this as the success of Equality Begins at ¯ heart and soul Of our work and it requires us to have the ¯ courage of our convictions. Home. ¯ ’Held one month ago and sponsored by the Federation Finally as a Board member, I have had personal ¯ of LGBT Statewide Political Organizations and the financial responsibility and liability for the non-profit Task Force, EBAH was supported by national and local ¯ corporation producing the March. I am concerned that groups, including the March Board. It demonstrated the ¯ the March is not moving forward in a strategic manner. ¯ incredible power ofinveslingin state and local movement I am also concerned that neither the Boardmembers nor building. It also exemplified the real possibilities for ] our GLBT community have full access to information political advancement of GLBT equality in eyery state~ ] about March management and finances. More favorable bills were introduced in state legislatures, ¯ see Letters, p. 10 ¯ �Arkansans Challenge: After learning she was a Lesbian, he refused to her and told her to leave his office, she told Gay Foster Care Ban l treat the Concord Monitor. LITFLE ROCK (AP) - Six people are suing the state, seeking to overturn a state policy that bans , Gays from serving as foster parents. TheArkansas : Child Welfare Agency Review Board approved ¯ the banlast month. It also prevents heterosexuals from serving as foster parents, if a homosexual lives in their home. "This prohibition imposes a significant burden on (the plaintiffs’).., intimate, highly personal relationships with their partners, as they will not be allowed to serve as foster parents unless,they terminate those intimate relationships," says the lawsuit filed in Pulaski County Chancery Court: Department .of Human Services spokesman Joe Quinn said the state expected the issue to go to court. "I don’t think there was ever much doubt," he said. The state averages 2,600 foster children daily in about 700 homes, Quinn said. He said the state doesn’t keep track of how many foster parents are homosexuals. Board member Wanda Gooden said before the ban was approved that it was "my strong conviction that children thrive best in two-parent homes where there is a father and mother." Ms. Gooden said the new rulewonld not significantly reduce the number of foster families in Arkans as. According to the law suit, the plaintiffs are two Eureka Springs men who adopted children ages 6 and 2 and want to be foster parents; two Little Rock men who want to serve as foster parents; a Fayetteville woman who wants,,to be a foster parent and a Fayetteville man who has a homosexual son living at home. Fewer But More Vicious Attacks BOSTON (AP) - The number of hate cnmes against Gays in Massachusetts dropped last year, but the attacks that did happen were more vicious, according to state figures. There was a 36% drop in the number of hate crimes against Gays and Lesbians, Bisexuals and Transgenders reported to police and other organizations, said the Fenway Community Health Center in Boston. But there was a 13 % increase in attacks that caused serious injury, and a 5% increase in attacks with a weapon. Nationally, the number of hate crimes against Gays was down 4%last year from 1997, but cases of violence increased 12%. The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs said 33 Gay men and women were, killed in hatemotivated attacks last year, twice the number in 1997. The coalition said two of those killed were in Boston, but police said they were not certain those killings were hate crimes. Friends said a27-year-old Gay man committed suicide last October, about one year after two men beat him in Boston’s South End and carved an "F" on his shoulder with a knife. "Let’S not be fooled by the numbers" showing a decrease in hate crimes, said Attorney GEneral Thomas Reilly. "I see a very frightening increase in violence.’" ¯ David Shannon of the Fenway center’s Violence Recovery Program said that since the killing in October of a Gay college student in Laramie, Wyo., "there has been ahigher visibility of hate crimes against Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Transgenders." "There has also been increased targeting and violence," he said. Dentist Refuses to Treat Lesbian FRANKLIN, N.H. (AP) - Tricia Thompson had been going to the same dentist for two years. Dr. Jay Roper had done her fillings and cleanings and repatred cracked teeth. He s always bee nice," she said. Or he was until two weeks ago, when Thompson came in for a root canal and Roper questionedher abouther sexual orientation. Katharine Daley, executive director of the state Human Rights Commission, said for a dentist to refuse to treat someone because,of their sexual orientauon is illega! in New Hampshire. Thompson said she may file a civil rights complaint against Roper. ~f the commission finds he i!legally discriminated against her, he could be fined up to $10,000 and ordered to pay compensatory damages. Thompson said when she first signed up as Roper’s patient, she put a former partner’s name on the"spouse" lineofher registrationform. The name was clearly a woman’s. About a month ago, when Thompson went "ln with a bad toothache, she was asked to fill out a new card, ~he said. She put down the name of her new partner; they had performed a commitment ceremony in February. Roper then told her she needed a root canal, put in a temporary filling and told her to return March 23. By the time she came back, accompanied by her partner, the temporary filling had come out and her tooth was in pain. B efore taking her into his office, Roper held up the registration card she’d filled out and told her he had questions about it, she said. Thompson and her partner said Roper asked whether Thompson’s "spouse" was the woman with her. She said yes. He asked whether she had been married to her previous partner, then divorced and remarried. When she said yes, he asked if she had a marriage license. She said she asked him, "What business is it of yours?" He shot. back, "Do you have AIDS or something?" she said. She said she didn’t, but she also told him she did not like his questions. Roper shook his head, told her, "I.don’t believe in it," and insisted he had the right to refuse anyone treatment, she said. Roper then put her file, her registration card and chart on the counter and told her to take it and leave the office. Thompson said she reminded him she had been his patient for years. But he said he hadn’t previously realized that her partner was a woman, she said. "Basically, he kicked me out of his office and said have a nice life," Thompson said. ’He didn’t even ask me how my tooth was." Roper confirmed that he denied Thompson treatment: ’qZor my own personal reasons, yes,’’ he told the Monitor. ’~ecaus e of my own personal philosophy, yes." Asked what his philosophy was, Roper replied, "I’hat stays in the office." Asked if he routinely informed patients about his philosophy, he responded, "What philosophy?" Roper said he told Thompson she could file a complaint with the state dental board if she was unhaplSy withhis decision. The American Dental Association’s "Principles of Ethics," which govern New Hampshire dentists, say they cannot refuse to treat patients on the basis of race, creed, color, sex or national origin. It does not mention sexual preference, but does say, ’‘The dentist’s primary obligations include dealing wi~ people justly and delivering dental care without prejudice." A spokesman at ADA headquarters said the issue of withholding treatment because of a patient’s sexual preference had ne~er come " up before. However, New Hampshire law is dear, Daley -" said. In New Hampshire, health providers are : considered a "public accomodation;" and equal ¯. access to public accomodations for Gays and ¯ Lesbians is protected by state law, she said. ¯ Gay Priest Being : Considered As Bishop ¯ WEARE, N.H.(AP) - The Rev. Canon Gene ". 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We wanted someone who would be apastor to all our clergy and their families and he’ s known for his work in clergy wellness," she told The Concord Monitor. Robinson, assistant to Bishop Douglas Theuner of the Diocese of New Hampshire and a priest for 25 years, finished third last year in his bid to become bishop of the Diocese of Newark, N.J. "As honored as I felt to be nominated in Newark, I’m overwhelmed at the privilege of being nominated in a diocese like Rochester and the courage they have shown in nominating me," he said. "The way I can help Gay and Lesbian people the most is by being a good bishop, not a Gay bishop," he said. But his sexuality will be alightning rod for some. At the international level, the church has taken a strong stand against homosexuality. A majority of Anglican bishops at the Lambeth Conference of Bishops in England last year declared homosexuality contrary to scripture. While that group has no authority over the Episcopal Church the Anglican communion in the United States, it has pressured American bishops to conform. Thatpressure also comes from within. The conservative Episcopalians United takeissue with Robinson, believing homosexuality sinful. The group worries his dection could cause rifts in the church. ’’We expect a higher standard of our leaders than our members," said its board chairman, the Rev. Sandy Greene of Christ Church in Denver, Colo., who supports ministries that encourage peopl9 to renounce their homosexuality. Robinson was married with two children when he acknowledged he was Gayin 1986. Henow lives with his partner, Mark Andrew. In early June, he and2Madrew will meet with voting delegates throughout the diocese. On June 19, the diocese’s clergy and three lay people from each of the 54 congregations will vote on a candidate, who needs a simple majority from both groups to win. Should Robinson be elected, he faces an even bigger hurdle. To be ordained bishop, he must be "consented to" by a simple majority of the nation’s Episcopal bishops as wall as standing committees, comprised of laity and clergy. The church went through a similar controversy in 1994 when it elected the first female bishop, Barbara Harris of the Diocese of Massachusetts. Yet it hasn’t rejected a bishop elected by a diocese since thelate 1800s. James DeKovan, rejected twice, now is a church saint. New Haven Police Targeting Gays NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - Police here admit they are targeting bJacks, Hispanics, women, Gays and Lesbians - not as suspects, but as candidates to join the force. At a time when images of police brutality have been seared into the American psyche, the New Haven Police Department is recruiting the very people who have often been seen as their victims. The department began its campaign recently, printing advertisements in alternative publications and distributing fliers to inner city organizations, churches, and a commumty center for Gays and Lesbians. The fliers say, "I want you" in bold letters and feature photographs of minority and women officers. ’’We want populations thathave been traditionally underserved by police and underrepresented in police departments," said Kay D. Codish, director of training and education. Similar recnfitment drives have had mixed results in San Francisco, Boston and elsewhere, said Penny Harrington, director of the National Center for Women & Policing in Los Angeles and former chief of the Portland, Ore., police department. "A lot of women and minorities do not see policing as a place for them. In the media, on television, they’re frequently shown in subsidiary roles," Harrington said. "If an agency is serious, they have to go out and target." Hubert Williams, director of the Police Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based research organization, said mistrust of police in some minority communities has reached crisis proportions because of "racial profiling," allegations that police make traffic stops and detain people based on race. "In order for the police officers to do theirjob, they must have public support," said Williams, f6rmer director of police in. Newark, N.J. "You have ¯ " populations that see the police in hostile ways, that ¯ they’re not there to protect and to serve, but to control and : ¯ ¯ oppress." James Mclver of the National Orgamzation of Black ¯ ." Law Enforcement Executives in Alexandria. Va., said ¯ ¯ studies show that a police force that reflects the community ¯ ¯ it serves demographically is less likely to have accusations ¯ of police brutality lodged against it. He pointed to two : ¯ recent cases in New York City. Four police officers have ¯ been charged in the fatal shooting of Amadou Diallo, an ¯ unarmed West African, and four other city officers are ¯ charged with sodomizing a Haitian suspect. ¯ According to the U.S. Justice Department Bureau of ¯ Statistics, there are about 664,000 full-time police officers ¯ in the country. At the municipal level, the latest figures ¯ : available show that roughly 11% are black, 6% are ¯ ¯ Hispanic, and about 9% are women. The federal ¯" government does not keep track of officers’ sexual ¯¯ "orientation. New Haven’s 447-member department ¯ already is diverse compared to national statistics, with : ¯ ¯ 39% being minorities and 16% female. ¯ In a newspaper editorial earlier this month, Police ¯ ¯ Chief MelvinWearing said thereis no quota and minorities ¯ ¯ " ¯ don’t get extra points on their applications just for being ¯ who they are. "Our goal is simply to increase the number ¯ of applicants from those groups that, in the past, have not : ¯ presented themselves for consideration in substantial ¯ " ¯ numbers," he said. ¯ However, police union officials have questioned the ¯ recruitment effort and some have said they fear white ¯ ¯ male candidates will feel unwelcome to apply for the 40 ¯ ¯ job openings. "If you start encouraging one certain group, ¯ ¯ others might feel slighted. We would like to see an open ¯ recnfitment. The key is that tlmy be qualified,’7 said Frank ¯ Lombardi, vice president of the local union. Most, if not ¯ : ¯ all, police departments say they are "’equal opportunity employers," but Codish believes law enforcement agencies ¯ must go further by advertising in unlikely places such as women’s health clinics and day care centers. ¯ Catholics Attack Boston Partners Benefits BOSTON (AP) - City paramedic Kay Schmidt works ¯ hard and thinks she deserves healthinsurance benefits for ¯ her familyjust like any other city worker. But the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts says its members don’t ¯ want the city to subsidize Lesbian relationships like ¯ Schmidt’s. The Supreme Judicial Court heard arguments ¯ in the Catholic Action League’s challenge to the city’s ¯ domestic parmer policy. The court’s ruling could affect ¯ Boston and other communities that offer benefits for ¯ domestic partners. Springfield, Northampton, Brookline ¯ and Cambridge also provide domestic partner benefits. The question before the state’ s highest court was whether ¯ Boston had the authority to extendhealth benefits to those ¯ not stipulated by state law. "Providing these health ¯" insurance benefits complements the state law, it certainly ¯ doesn’t defeat its purposes," said Jennifer Levi, of the Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, who argued ¯ before the court on behalf of Schmidt. ¯ Vincent McCarthy, representing the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts, said the city needed to get ¯ permission from the Legislature, but failed last year when ¯ Gov. Patti Cellucci vetoed the measure. Mayor Thomas ." Menino then signedanexecutive orderputting themeasure ¯ into effect. ’"What they’re trying to do now is an end run ¯ around the Legislature," McCarthy told the court. ¯ McCarthy, counsel for the American Center for Law ¯ and Justice, whichdescribes itsdf as a.nonprofit pro" family organization, said the city’s executive order was ¯ legally and morally wrong. "It encourages heterosexual : and homosexuals to form what, in essence, are common ¯ law relationships which are illegal in Massachusetts, ¯ without the responsibilities of marriage, and really ¯ discourages people from getting married as well," ¯ McCarthy said. The SJC took the arguments under ¯ advisement. ." Boston defines domestic partners as two people, of at ¯ least 18 years of age, who are not married, but who share ¯ living expenses so that one assumes responsibility for the ¯ welfare of the other. It is not limited to Gay couples. ¯ Schmidt, speaking outside the courthouse with her ¯ partner Diane Pullen and their 8-month-old daughter, ¯ said she was not looking for special privileges as a : Lesbian, but the benefits her co-workers enjoy. She said ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ : ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ : ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ : ; ; ¯ ¯ ¯ .. ¯ ¯ ¯ they decided Pullen would stay home with the baby and their 7-year-old child. They said it was perfect timing when the city began offering health benefits for domestic partners in November. Were they to lose that benefit, the two women said Pullen would likely have to return to work and the two would pay for day care for the baby. Responding to those critical of their"lifestyle," S chmidt said, "We are two parents rinsing two children. I work, we’re a family. There’s no way anybody can deny we’re a family. And why shouldn’t we have affordable health insurance like any other family, like your family?" Federal Hate Crimes Bill Uncertain WASHINGTON (AP) - Legislation that would broaden the federal hate crimes law by including offenses based on sexual orientation faces an uncertain future despite President Clinton’s call for lawmakers to pass it this year. A similar bill, which Clinton also pushed, died in the last Congress. Neither the House nor the Senate or any of the appropriate commi ttees voted onit. The White House and other supporters hope public outrage over recent wellpublicized hate crimes will help advance the measure tbis time around. But opposition, however, appears so strong that a lead sponsor, Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., doubts whether Congress will approveit. "We have to face the reality that it’ s a very tough sell," Specter, a former local prosecutor, said in a recent interview. "After a while you can develop a majority (of votes)but I think we’re a long way from it." Senate Judiciary Committee hearings are expected later this month. At a recent White House ceremony, Clinton said Congress should pass the bill this year and "send a message to ourselves and to the world that we are going into 21st century determined to preach and to practice what is right." The Hate Crimes Prevention Act would add disability, gender and sexual orientation to federal anti-bias laws and make it easier for the Justice Department to inv eslagate and prosecute such offenses. Current law prohibits crimes based on race, color, religion or national origin. Eight state have no hate crimes laws. Laws in 21 states cover sexual orientation, 22 state laws include gender and 21 cover disability. Richard Socarides, Clinton’s civil rights adviser, said the White House was more optamistic this time because of public sentiment over the killings and the upcoming Senate hearings ,The signs are better than ever before," he said. David Smith, spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign, a Gay and Lesbian political advocacy group, cited a Gallup poll, conducted in mid-Febrnary, that found that 70% of the public favors having a hate crimes law in their state. ’’We would be very happy for there to be no need for this legislation," he said. Some opponents believe federal Intervention is unnecessary, because states already are prosecuting allegations of hate crimes, and discriminatory. Social conservatives,meanwhile, view thebill as creating speci~d protections for Gays. "By including hate crimes enhancement for some groups, the message is that the government cares more about those victims than other people," said Robert H. Knight, senior director for cultural studies at the conservative Family Research council. Among the recent hate-crime cases: - In Texas, white supremacist John William King was sentenced to death in February for dragging James Byrd Jr., who was black, to his death behind a pickup truck in June 1998. Two other men await trial in the slaying. - In Wyoming, Russell Henderson, one of two young men charged in the beating death of Matthew Shepard, a Gay college student, pleaded guilty Monday to murder andwas se~itencedtotwoconsecudvelifetermsinprison. - In Alabama, two men face murder charges in the Feb. 19 killing of Billy Jack Gaither, who was Gay. Police say he was beaten with an ax handle and burned to death because he allegedly made a pass at one of the men. �he, too, is dead. 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Kenya’s Virgima sent a letter requesting the audit " government provides little medical care to the General Accounting Office on ¯ for many rural districts, leaving private Tuesday. They question spending ¯ groups like SHARE to care,f0r the _ps~o.pl,e. Inrecognition of SHARE s work, Lion s practices and other aspects of the programs. ¯ Club International named MacGnffie its "X2ongress has a moral obligation to 1998 Humanitarian of theYear, anhonor those suffering with AIDS/HIV to ensure ¯ previously given to Mother Teresa and that the nearly $9 bilfion directed to federal ¯ Jimmy Carter. The award comes with a $200,000 grant. AIDS programs is s,p,ent for purpos.~ for On a recent trip, she and other SHARE this it is intended, Coburn said m a ¯ prepared statement. "Over the past five ¯ volunteersfromNewYorktreatedpatients years I have encountered too many and sprinkled donations throughout instances where federal AIDS/HIV funds " Nyanza province, about 160 miles (250 ". kms) west of the capital, Nairobi. They have been misused." In addition to requesting any evidence ¯ gave money to expand a local hospital. on misuse Of federal AIDS funds, the ¯ They paid the school fees for AIDS orphans. They donated drugs to treat letter requests a report on whether ¯ disparities existinAIDS funding regarding children wit.h, disfiguring Birkitts Lvmphoma. "It s a greater need here than race or gender, what criteria are used to ~ .,h ....l~e" said Eleanore Schafer, a determine AIDS Drug Assistance Pro.gra~. N’~e~v~’~]t~y’;o~ial worker who set. up distributions and whether tkose criteria ¯ SHARE’s program for sponsoring favor any particular region, and information regarding compliance with orphans. ~ David Violante, a paramedic from federal laws within the programs.. ¯ Wallkill, New York, was on his fifth visit Other requests made in the letterinclude information on how much money from- ¯¯ to train Kenyans in emergency medical federal AIDS programs is used to pay for ¯ techniques. He met MacGuffie nine years overhead and other non-care related ¯ when she taught a course for his paramedics class, andthree years later she activities rather than on direct treatment ¯ persuaded him and three other paramedics of patients. ¯ to visit Kenya. "She just has so much " passioninitandputssomuchenergyint° it, that probably impressed me more than Black Men 7x More Likely For AIDS " anything," Violante said. ¯ local paramedics and brought over MONTGOMERY, Ala. 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She said the state said. Dr. Guillermo Recinos, 38, and has spen{ $1.6 million On HIV/AIDS education programs since 1993, but more ¯ Yolanda Jereidini, 46, were sued in civil court in October 1998 by the attorney must be done. "It’s not working," she ¯ general’s office. They were accused of said. "We need to join commumty efforts ~ violating federal discrimination laws by to address this at a local level." ¯ refusing to treat patients who were HIVpositive. They also allegedly told employees not to take patients who wereHIV-positive at their clinic in the city’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood. When one dentist in the ¯ office took a patient who was HIVpositive, Recinos andJereidinididn’tgive ¯ ¯ ¯ KISUMU, Kenya (AP) - Dr. Martha ¯ ,’Bobby" MacGuffie has known pain. Two of her sons died of the AIDS they ¯ HIV Fight in Kenya contracted from blood transfusions. Their older brother, crushed by the deaths, disappeared into a haze of drugs. She Power To Do Good. 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Prevention in Atlanta recommends the ¯ spokeswoman for Glaxo Wellcome, which ¯ Agency officials said developing three-drug therapyforhealthcare workers ¯ produces AZT. ." countries are also contributing to the who have been exposed to HIV through Glaxo Wellcome wants to supply the ¯ campaign against AIDS. The study contaminated needles because some ¯ South African government with the drug ¯ showed domestic spending varied from a ¯ studies have found AZT alone has for $65 perbirth, orone-third of its market low of 8% in the Caribbean and 9% in prevented them from contracting the virus. ¯ price. But the government says that’s too Africa to 57% in Asia, 67% in Latin ¯ "The state has removed the death : expensive. ’°We cannot afford this type of America and 79% in Eastern Europe. sentence" for crime, said Johannesburg intervention," said Khangelani journalist Charlene Smith. "Now we are ¯ Hlongwane, spokesman for the South asking them to remove the death sentence ¯ African Health Ministry. for rape survivors." Smith, who wrote ¯ Physicians at state-rim hospitals have recently about being raped and her ¯ clashed with the government on theissue. attempts afterward to obtain AIDS -related ¯ ’oWe’re trying to convincethegovernment BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Asia’s medical treatment, spoke at a news economic crisis is worsening Thailand’s that it’s actually cost effective," said Dr. ¯ conference sponsored by women’s groups ¯ Avy Violari, a pediatrician at Chris Hani ¯ AIDS crisis, experts said, predicting that ¯ more than 100,000 Thai children will be who represent rape victims. : Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto. Doctors and others have also ." The United Nations AIDS program ." orphaned by the disease by the end of the complained about a decision by South ¯ estimates that about 600,000 HIV ¯ year 2000. Africa’s Health Ministry last year to shut ¯ infections are spread during childbirth ¯ Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai, down pilot projects to treat HIV-positive ¯ worldwide, but no figures for South Africa ¯ opening Thailand’s annualNationalAIDS expectant mothers in the last month of ." were available. Transmission of HIV ¯ Seminar, told hundreds of researchers and pregnancy with AZT, which reportedly ¯ through sexual assault has been less ¯ health workers that the government will ¯ can reduce by half the transmission rate of studied, partlybecause rape and AIDS are ¯ scrimp to find now-scarce funding to keep ¯ : HIV to newborns. the AIDS epidemic under control. not as widespreadin Europe and the United A woman in South Africa is three times : States, wheremostresearchis carried out, ¯ But Wirut Poolcharoen, a Health ¯ ¯ morelikely to be raped than in the United ¯ ." Ministry official, acknowledged that Smith said. ¯ States, and South African men are much ¯ Thailand’s government does not know ¯ JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) how to cope with an expected explosion Women’s groups criticized the South : more likely to be infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, said Nthabiseng in the number of AIDS orphans. Most are ¯ ¯ African government Thursday for failing Mogale, head of People Opposed to taken care of by their grandparents or to provide medical treatment they say Women Abuse. South African women are other family members. "The number of could help prevent victims of rape from ¯ : entitled to treatment as a human right, ¯ GENEVA (AP) - Spending by donor orphans whose parents die of AIDS will contracting the AIDS virus from their : countries to combat AIDS in developing ¯ double by the end of the year 2000,"Wirnt Mogale said. ¯ attackers. ¯ One in eight South African adults is ~ countries is failing to keep pace with the ¯¯ said. "The government does not yet know The activists are demanding the ¯ infected with HIV. The rate is tWice that ¯ spreadofthe disease, now infecting nearly how to carry such a huge burden to ensure government provide rape victims with a for pregnant women, the government has ¯ 6 millionpeople worldwide each year, the ¯ the well-being of these children." . " three-drug cocktail of AZT, 3TC and a said. Police say about 65,000 women and ¯ United Nations said recently. ¯" Statisticians at Mahidol University protease inhibitor Crixovan. The three"it is alarming that AIDS is expanding girls are assaulted every year, but activists ¯ released a report showing that in 1997, the drug cocktail is available for $820 on the ¯ three times faster than the funding to ¯ year that recession struck Thailand and insist the number is much higher. control it," said Dr. Peter Piot, executive : much of Southeast Asia, the country had director of UNAIDS, the Joint U.N. 34,349 AIDS orphans, about a quarter of Program on HIV/AIDS. Piot called on them under age five. By the end of 2000, ¯ industrialized nations to do more to fight the report predicts the total figure will be the disease in developing countries. ¯ 116,508childrenorphanedbyAIDS,with The agency said wealthy countries’ 30,845 of them under five¯ support for the global fight against AIDS Acquired immune deficiency syndrome IS being vastly outpacedby the epldennc, ¯ claimed 51,000 lives in Thailand in 1997 which has infected 47 million people over alone, according to research presented by the past two decades. That figure includes Bangkok’s prestigious Chulalongkorn those who have already died from the ¯ University. Death figures were not ¯ disease and those hying with HIV, the available for 1998. "It takes years for AIDS-causing virus. ~ p.eople to realize they have contracted the Funding to fight AIDS in developing virus, and its consequences are thereby countries was $273 million in 1997, less ¯ affecting quality of life of their family than double the $165 million spent in ¯ members and of society as a whole,"Wirnt 1990, it said. During the same period, the said. number of people living with HIV around In the early years after AIDS was the world more than tripled to 30.3 million ¯ discovered, Thailand refused to ¯ acknowledge it had a single case of the from 9.8 million. UNAIDS said a study by the Harvard disease, fearing damage to the lucrative University School of Public Health found prostitution industry that is a mainstay the United States was "by far the largest ¯ both of tourism and the sex lives of many tnbutor to the lnternat~onal campaign, ¯ Thai men. A change of attitude coupled giving $135.2 million-in 1997. But it said ¯ with aggressive condom distribution and that other countries ranked higher when ¯ education programs brought the epidemic their contributions were measured against ¯ somewhatundercontrolbythemid_ 1990s, the size of their economies. Norway gave ¯ but the gains are eroding due to cuts in the $ 93 for each $1 million of its gross national health budget in ’the recession-era product; the Netherlands gave $92. ¯ economy. The government’s spending on Denmark was third at $52 per 1 million of ¯ AIDS pre~iention has fallen about 25% to its gross national product, followed by ¯ 1.4 billion baht ($39 miillion) Since 1997. Sweden at $49. Australia gave $31, Canada ¯ Thailand needs to prepareitself to handle $21, Britain $19, Belgium $18, United ¯ the social and economic consequences of States $17, Finland $10, Switzerland and : AIDS and the HIV virus that leads to it, Germany $6 and Japan $2. ¯¯ said Supachai Kunarattanapruek, an Industrialized countries are spending adviser to the Health Ministry. I P Medical Excellence. Compassionate Care less than 1% of their development aid on ¯ Though Thailand spends little on longthe fight against AIDS, according to : term care for AIDS sufferers, the country UNAIDS. ’oWeighed against the global will pay a high price for the loss of catastrophe of the AIDS epidemic, the economically active people, experts said. ¯ level of spending for HIV prevention About two-thirds of the country’s AIDS around the world is minimal," Piot said. ¯ sufferers are 25-39 years old, their prime He said in order for any aid to benefit ¯ working years. ¯ developing countries, more money needs ¯ Economics Making :HIV Fight Harder So. African Women Criticize Govt. :$ for HIV Falling Behind Its Spread Medical Excellence And Compass.ionate Care S nce 1926. ¯ ¯ ST. JOHN MEDICAL CENTER �It’s the end of the season but things are ¯ relationship between the artist and patron, hardly slowing down. Tulsa Opera will ¯ and includes the museum’s patron, end its season with our favorite opera, " Thomas Gilcrease who with John D. Mozart’s Magic Flute. Performances are : Rockefeller, Jr. was a patron of artist May 1,6 & 8 at 8pm, except on Thursday, ¯ JosephHenry Sharp. Formoreinformation the6thandare or directions in the Chapthe to man Music museum, call Hall. This 596-2700 or in work, visit the German with website at translations www~ shown above T u 1 s a the stage, has Philharmonic not been seen will wrap up It in Tulsa in Chamber more thanl0 Classics years and the season with cast looks to pieces by be excellent. Bizet, Ravel It is, of course and Haydn on a fairy tale, May 7th at the complete with Waiters Arts an evil queen, Center at 319 East 21st Street and of course, Holland Hail we can all relate to that, can’t we? Don’t " School. Three local Episcopal choirs are ¯ featured, Saint John’s, Saint Dtmstan’s miss it. Switchinggearsfromtheartstoreligion, ¯ and Trinity’s. For tickets and moreinfo., those radical, free thinking, wild eyed " call 747-7445. liberals, those Presbyterians are going to ¯ Also, check out the Philharmonic’s havethenationalconferencefortheMore ¯ DesignerShowcaseat319East21stStreet. Light Presbyterians (the official,ly Gay- : It’s a great way to see what the latest in friendly ones) in Oklahoma’City at " high "foofI3"’ and decorating is and to OklahomaCityUniversity’sAngieSmith ," support a great organizatxon. This is the Memorial Chapel, NW 23rd and 26th year for the showcase and the 50th Blackwelder, on May 21-23. The program : year for the Philharmonic. Tickets are $10 begins with a dinner and worship service ¯ and it’s open Tues. to Sat. from 10-4pro at 6pm on Friday. Workshops are : and Thurs. from l0-8pm, Sundays l-4pm scheduledfrom8amto 10pmonSaturday ¯ but don’t get ther after 3pm or 7pm on and Sunday will be devoted to a"ministry ¯ Thurs. if you want to get in. FYI, no ¯ of presence." Speakers include Chris cameras and it’s not handicapped Glaser, Janie Spahr, Scott Anderson and accessible. more.Info:JohnMcNeese,405-848-2819 " Finally ourregular entertaiment writer or john33 @ix.netcom.com , shares the following with credit to "News Moving to the arts but still with a " oftheWeird"andofcourse, Rolling Stone: religious theme, Philbrook Museum opens : "Prominent ’Christian’ radical right an Italian Old Masters drawing exhibit in psychologist Patti Cameron told Rolling May.TheexhibitfeaturesworksbyCrespi, Stone magazine that he feared Gay sex Luti, Cambiaso andCantafiniandTiepolo would supplant heterosexual sex unless a and will hang from May 9 to Sept. 12. vigilant society repressed it. ’Marital sex Philbrook is at 2727 Rockford Rd. tends toward the boring,’ he said. Gilcrease Museum continues to ’Generally, it doesn’t deliver the kind of eelebrateits50thanniversarywithashow sheer sexual pleasure that homosexual opening on May 16th. ’q’aos Artists and sex does.’ ’If all one seeks is an orgasm,’ Their Patrons,1898 -1950" was organized he said, ’the evidence is that men do a by the Snite Museum at Notre Dame U. betterjobonmen, andwomenonwomen.’ but draws on the collections at the Metro’Homosexuality,’ he said, ’seems too politan, the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa powerful to resist.’ " Fe, the Harwood Museum of the Amazing. Time to set up more University of New Mex-ico in Taos, recruitment stations. With publicity like Chicago’s Art Institute and more. The this,ourplantorulethewofldwillproceed show parti-cularly explores the much faster... - TFN editors TOHR & Cimarron Alliance present Designer Showcase TULSA-The Council OakMen’s Chorale will present it’s spring concert "MUSIC" to be held on May 7 and 8, 1999, at All Soul’s Unitarian Church, 2952 S. Peoria. Concerts on both evenings will begin at 7 PM. Advance tickets are available from The Pride Store, chorale members or by contacting the COMC Ticket Office at 585-COMC. Tickets will also be available atthedoor. Tickets areS 10.00andadvance purchase is recommended due to sdl-out audiences at previous events. The program will feature a variety, of music from"Swell the Full Chorus" by G. F. Handel, to 60’s sensation’q’umArotmd, Look at Me". "Our audiences have come to expect the Standard choral repertoire ¯ with an occasional twist of humor that ¯ only the men of Council Oak can do so ¯ eloquently.., trust me, concert-goers will not be disappointed," said Rick Former, ¯ Jr., Artistic Director. Recently, members of Council Oak ¯ Men’s Chorale performed on the floor of ¯ the Oklahoma State House of ¯ Representatives as a lobbying effort for passage of House Bill 1211. The work ¯ performed there, ’Wile Voice," was an ¯ original composition by chorale member : Greg Davis, and will also be given its ¯ concert premiere on May 7 & 8. -" . Don’t miss the opportunity to enjoy an ¯ evening of beautiful and exciting music ¯ performed by Tulsa’s all-male chorus, ¯ Council Oak Men’s Chorale. A Black Tie Optional Dinner with US Congressman Barney Frank 4th District, Massachusetts Saturday, June 12, 1999 Greenwood Cultural Center 322 North Greenwood Dinner and cash bar cocktails: $50 Dinner and cocktails with the Congressman: $125 Information: 743-4297 1 WORKIHG CLASS HEROES.IMAGES FROM THE POPULAR CULTURE Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art 410 W. Boyd The University of OklaSoma fIaJrttappyHour Tuesday&Thursday J t, g goddesses 3pm toSpm 835-5563 1247 Si Harvard, Tulsa, Near TO �PRIDE ’99 "PRIDEFUL PAST... POWERFUL FUTURE! TULSA’S FIRST ANNUAL PARADE W/GRAND MARSHALL REP. 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That’s the the tile that if you go with down-side of a drawn out, point, there are lower-end, cheaper tiles festage by stage renovation usually lots of the most part and then use the until you’re finished, you just horrendously expensive have to putup with it. Hm, that other "fatally" accent tiles, the job will be sounds like a straight girl’s more economical overall, and commentary on sex, but we there, so quite attractive, to boot. You just won’t go there. Instead, we’ll go to the old happy erulsln~. will be applying a thinset mortar, then your tiles and drawing board and look at our Honey, they then grouting the next day. options for counter tops. As don’t call it Consider using a darker grout, usual, it will be time to review the budget and sharpen the old "Homo" Depot or avoid white all together, because darlings,itjust doesn’, t pencil when it comes down to age well, even after sealing for nothln’. making your choice. The the grout. And if you tile, you constraints of this column The DIYD will seal the grout, won’t you? don’t allow me to teach you The DIYD does not tolerate about installing prelaminated blushes to whining from those who counter tops or tiling, but admit that choose not to follow her sage fortunately, there are several large home improvement more than tool wisdom. The DIYD cannot recommend highly enough stores who will help you out with classes and videos, so for lust earrles her that you buy a long level and using it for setting up your the skilled and intrepid, your tldther on a lines. Also, lay out the tiles ¯ options- and savings- will be dry and see if a little regular basis. greater. And strictly from an rearranging of the cross lines aesthetic view point, there are , won’t make for an easier job. Sometimes usually lots of other ’Tamily" there, so happy cruising. Honey, they don’t call it ¯ working off of true center is not best, "Homo" Depot for nothin’.The DIYD : especially if you’re cutting tiny pieces of file. blushes to admit that more than tool lust ¯ Realizing she hasn’t been of much carries her thither on a regular basis. But your DIYD digresses. Yes, you can : practical help at all, the DIYD wishes you call in Surface Doctor or a resurfacing : a fond bon voyage on your trip to the company of that ilk, but by the time it’ s all ¯ home improvement center until she said and done, you might just as wall pay : astounds and amazes youagainnextmonth for a new surface. Of course, check it out : when she has you on your knees on the floor. The mere thought of it makes her anyway, but please review your options before buying.Dating should be the same ¯ purr with anticipation... way, but hopefully, you’ll show a bit : more discipline - if you’re the impetuous sort. 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Some will ~ us a chance to look at the progress that has do the miter cut and cutouts for sink, range ~ been made over the years, and the or whatever; others won’t, but can ¯ challenges which still confront us when ~ dealing with women and AIDS," says recommend someone who will do two ¯ Nicklas. miters [one comer] and a sink cutout for Conferenceregistrationfeeis $35before about $40,whichisn’tbad:Itis remarkably ¯ ¯ May 20 or $40 after May 20. The fee for easy to install these counters yourself if ¯ the luncheon only is $15. Special student YcoachOU have a simple L, and the store will you on what to do. The back splashes ," rates are available. Seating is limited. Some confidential scholarships for come pre-rolled in most cases, so you can ¯ finish them off with a smart little bead of ¯" housing, transportation and conference fees are available for HIV positive women. caulk. ¯ Call 585-5551 ext. 231 to receive an If your counter top layout is more ¯ application. A respite room and child eare complicated or longer, you will have to have the counter tops custom made, and ¯¯ are available for HIV positive women. For more information or to register, call possibly even installed by a contractoI ¯ 585-5551. but that will be p art of your review process. �by Esther Rothblum. Ph.D. . Research begins to happen when the There has been some speculation about : governmentputs funds behindit, andright whether Lesbians are at higher or lower ¯ now the Institute of Medicine of the riskforbreastcaneerthanareheterosexual : National Academy of Science has women. Buttherehasbeenlittleresearch. ;. publishedareportOnLesbianhcalthwhich will stimulate research on Now Dr. Deborah Bowen, a The theory goes Lesbian health issues. Dr. psychologist at the Fred Bowen said: "It’ s expensive Hutchin~n Cancer Research that ff Lesbians to do this kind of research. Center and a member of the have a harder You have to have lots of Lesbian Health Research money to call up 20,000 ¯ Institute, is conducting tlme finding women, and with breast research on breast cancer that affordable and cancer you have to call a lot includes Lesbians. of women in order to reach "Five years ago, this was affirmative some who have the disease." guess-work; there was no Dr. Bowen’s research team cheek-ups, data," shetold me in a recent asks about sexual interview. "At my Cancer then they may he now orientation in both paper and Center, we do a lot of pencil surveys and in research about the causes of less likely to have telephone interviews. They breast cancer and how to ask this in two ways - by mammo~rams prevent breast cancer. There are many experts on breast or to interact with asking about identity (do women identify as cancer, so I had a lot of a health provider heterosexual, bisexual, colleagues I could talk to Lesbian, or other) and also about my ideas about in a Way that by asking about sexual Lesbians and breast cancer." would help with behavior. "ff we only ask the In talking with Lesbians, former, we lose women who Dr. Bowen realized that the early diagnosis. have sex with women but common perception was that don’t identify as Lesbian, breast cancer was more So it may be that and .if we just ask about frequent among Lesbians Lesbians aren’t at sexual behavior we lose and that perception was women who are not currently frightening to Lesbians. As hi’her risk for a scientist, she knew there breast eaneer, just sexually active," she explained. was no proof yet one way or Dr. Bowen thinks there the other. "That’s when I that Lesbians are two camps of thoughts in began thinking that we could don’t get good the Lesbian community make some in-roads into about breast cancer. ,One this," she said, "either by health eare . . . has to do with reproductive collecting new data on Lesbians or else by including questions ¯ factors. Fewer Lesbians have children than about sexual orientation into existing ¯¯ do heterosexual women. The ’fewer’ can range from about 36% to about 60% of studies." Dr. Bowen has done both - she Lesbians who have had children. Whereas has written research grants to fund studies specifically on Lesbians and breast cancer ¯¯ with heterosexual women it’s actually and also begun to examine sexual ¯ quitehigh-between 80-90% of all women have had children. Not having had children orientationin somelarge-scale community : or having had children late aright be a surveys on hundreds of thousands of ¯ factor in developing breast cancer. women. ¯ Pregnancy might cease certain hormones "The biggestriskfactor for getting breast ¯ that are linked to the development of cancer is being a woman," Dr. Bowen said, "and the second biggest risk factor is ¯ breast cancer." "The other camp of thought has to do age. Even though we hear a lot about ~¯ with acces s to reliable, good, open, access younger women getting breast cancer, it ¯ to health care," Dr. Bowen said, "and is really a disease of older women. And the problem is that very few people have ¯¯ Lesbians may not have such access. We studied older women who are past ¯ know that if cancer is caught at a later stage when it has had more chance to menopause. So we don’ t even know much ¯ growandspreadtootherpartsofthebody, about breast cancer in women in general." Other risk factors for breast cancer are ¯ it’ s harder to treat and can’t be treated as having a family history of breast cancer. ~ wall. The theory goes that if Lesbians "Having a close or even a distant relative : have a harder time finding affordable and who has had breast cancer is now known ," affirmative check-ups, then they may be to ~put women at higher risk for breast ¯¯ less likely to have m~mmograms or to c~._cer, but we don’t know much about ¯ interact with a health provider in a way that wouldhelp with early diagnosis. Soit why this is so," Dr. Bowen continued. "Much of the research has focused on ¯¯ may be that Lesbians arCh’ t at higher risk women Who have multiple relatives with ¯ for breast cancer, just that Lesbians don’t get good health care and are likely to be breast cancer~ but that only accounts for ¯ diagnosed with breast cancer at a later abOut 4% of all women. What about the woman who had a great-atmt Matilda who ¯ stage when it is harder to treat." I asked Dr. Bowen what she would had breast cancer? How does Aunt ¯"¯ reconamend that health care professionals Matilda’ s breast cancer transfer to her?" ¯ do to increase the comfort of Lesbian Cancer researchers are also. beginning to learn more about environmental ¯ patients. Her suggestions: "The person exposures, "the toxins, chemicals, and :¯ who comes to a doctor has to trust that doctor and she has to feel comfortable maybe even the radiation that we experience, some of it naturally occurring ¯ bringing scary problems to that doctor. and some it put there by technology" as ¯ And I’m hypothesizing that one of the Dr. Bowen described it, "but we don’t ~ problems bringing up sexual orientation how andwe don’ tknow when the exposure : in a health care setting is that you aright to these environmental factors has to occur ¯ feel okay saying you have a cold or a see Psyche, p. 13 in order to become arisk for breast cancer." : stomach ache, A UTHENTIC FRESH ITALIAN RAINBOW CUSINE TROUT IGTA Call 341.6866 member ’ [ .~~.~~ International of Eureka Springs Voted Number One in Arkansas! Tours SormoreinSormation. 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Garnett, 437-2~,~A 3733 S. Memorial, 6600344 1216 S. Harvard, 587-1778 Sapulpa Location: 109 N. Mission, 227-2322 Free & Anonymous Finger Stick Method By &for, but not exclusive to the Lesbian; Gay, & Bisexual Communities. Monl &Thurs., 6-8 pro,. Daytime testing: Mon-Thurs. by appt. H 0 P HIV Outreach, Prevention & Education 834-TEST(8378), 3501 E. Admiral Place by Lamont Lindstrom. Ph.D. ¯ romantic attraction and love is indeed an Ahinad is looking for a boyfriend in "¯ alien idea in societies where families originateonlythrougharrangedmamages. Califoruia.RaisedinPakistaninawealthy, Like Parivaraj’s Gay schoolboys, rural farnilv he immigrated to the US a ¯ " Ahrnad, some-how, has also learned to few years Ego. Ahinad telephones home desire a boyfriend. Sex on the regularly to talk with his ~rester n stories corner before going home to parents and sisters. He misses wife and kids is no longer his family but he’s not going of romantic good enough. . back. His parents expect him Previously, in many love, and the to marry and if he returns to societies, even if you were a Pakistan he knows he ..would emergence of a man-loving-man, there was find tfimself quickly caught up no obvious alternative to what in an arranged mamage with separate Gay ¯ all men did. You accepted the some woman selected by his woman that your parents identity are father. So he remains in San arranged for you and you Francisco, despite his homepowerful served your family by sickness, hoping to arrange his fathering children. notions that ownmamage- but withaman. In future, however, Ahmad’ s problem is shared have spread there may be more and more by the characters of a recently Ahmads who are unwilling to published novel that deals with Oobally. go along with traditional Gay lifein India, P. Parivaraj’ s ¯ " expectations. Western stories of romantic Shiva and Arun. In this book, a group of Hindu and Muslim schoolboys face :¯ love and the emergence of a separate Gay difficult challenges related to their ¯ identity are powerful notions that have spread globally. homosexuality. They can only be honest , When one of Parivaraj’s young men with each other about their desires that breaks with his parents by confessing that they hide from family and even their ¯ ¯ he loves men, they think he must be a closest friends. After leaving school, one is fired when ¯ transvestite prostitute -the only local to try his boss discovers his sexual orientation. ¯ gender category they have available t All of them are pressured by family to ¯ tounderstandhim. Buthe sno. Although marry and have children. One is rejected ¯ he may not call it thus, he has adopted the Western identity "Gay" that is by his father when he refusesto do so. : fundamentally defined by a romantic Another gives in and is only able to have ¯ awkward sex with his new wife by thinking ¯ desire for boyfriends. Those of us who celebrate individuality -. of his boyfriend. He soon kills himsdf. ¯ andlovemight applaud Abroad’ s coura.ge Marriage has failed to quell his ¯ at defying his father, abandoning his homosexual desire. mother and sisters, and casting himself I discussed Shiva and Arun with a Gay colleague who has lived in India. Based :¯ into Gay-dating hell - that horribly lonely on his experience (some of thi.s rather ¯ search for romance. In my more paranoid moments, intimate), .my colleague argued that the ¯ novel’ s tragic suicide is unbelievable. He ¯ however, I worry about the recent proliferation and spread of all sorts ofnew has met hundreds of happily married social identities, including "Gay." The homosexual Indian men who juggle parallel lives with wife and children in ¯ global economic system in large part public, and discrete sexual encounters with ¯ depends on the cultivationof multiple and men in private. Almost all Indian and ¯ splintered identities that serve-as niche markets for its goods. Pakistani men - whether they desire : So, in addition to all the foods, and women or men - marry without complaint ¯ clothing, and furniture, and art, and music as the normal, human thing to do. Those ¯ who want sex with men can easily pick up ¯ that Ahmad seems to need to buy in order to demonstrate his Gayness, I pray thathe partners by cruisi,ng in appropriate places. can manage to snag a boyfriend. But he Stephen Murray s 1997 book, Islamic : knows that they can cost a lot. Homosexualities, describes street corners ¯ already Lamont Lindstrom is a professor of in Karachi where men drive by to find ¯ dates. ¯ anthropology at the University of Tulsa. However, this semester he is teaching at I asked Ahmad why he just didn’t give "~ the University of California, in Berkeley. in and go home, make his dad happy by getting married, and find an occasional lover on the highway roundabouts. He replied gloomily that he couldn’ t do this. He wants instead to live as what he really ¯ but not that you want the provider to feel is, a Gay man. He is exiled in California, your breast, for example. Lesbians might torn between family duties and personal also worry that the provider might force desire. Shiva andArun taps into this sentiment ¯ them to use high-tech solutions for their problem when they would prefer to begin - a model of Gayness that is recently ¯ "diffusing" (as anthropologists put this) ¯ with alternative solutions. Lesbians often have good reason got to trust ’the system’ from West to East. Parivaraj seemingly ¯ and right now the solutions we have for rejects the conclusion that Indians have ¯ breast cancer have to with technology, borrowed Western patterns of sexuality. : such as chemotherapy, radiation, or None of his characters identifies himself ¯ as"Ga,. v" Pather , they are "men who love ¯ surgery." She also recommends that Lesbians look for open, trustworthy men." Still,he clearly has adopted Western ¯ providers if these exist’ in their concepts of individuality and romantic communities. love. Two of his boys manage to find ¯ : Esther Rothblum is Professor of happiness in the end. They fall in love, Psychology at the University of Vermont leave their families, and move in with i and Editor Of the Journal of Lesbian their boyfriends to establish at least quasi: Studies.ShecanbereachedatJohnDewey public homosexual households. : Hall, UniversityofVermont, Burlington, The notion of long-term household relations between two men founded in : VT, email: esther.rothblum@uvm.edu. �Good Food, Good Service, If the hate crimes bill passes the Senate, where it has been in committee, it will ¯ come before Bush who can either veto it or sign it into law. "We hope the state Senate and Governor B ush will follow the lead of the House and the people of Texas and pass hate crimes legislation," said Birch. At aWashington press conference last month, family members of two hate crimes victims announced their support for federal and state hate crimes legislation. Both Judy Shepard, mother of University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard, and Darrell Verrett, nephew of Jasper, Texas resident James Byrd Jr., urged Bush to pass the Texas legislation. As reported in The Dallas Morning News, in 1997 - the most recent year for available statistics- 360 hate crimes were reported in Texas. The Department of Public Safety reported that 167 crimes were directed against African-Americans; 64 against Gays and Lesbians; 22 against Hispamcs; and 21 against Jews. The effort to pass hate crimes legislation is led by Dianne Hardy Garcia, executive director of the Lesbian and .Gay Rights Lobby of Texas and state Rep. Senfronia Thompson, D~Texas, Chair, Judicial Affairs Committee. ’q~he incredible leadership of Dianne Hardy Garcia and Representative Senfronia Thompson has made it po,s.sible for the House to-take this great stride forward," said Birch. ’q’his is a textbook example of how effective engagement in thepolitical process through lobbying and education can have a significant societal impact. Today, millions of Texans are one step closer to receiving protection from hate violence." Only 21 states have hate crimes laws that include sexual orientation and eight s.tates have no hate crimes laws. Nationally, since 1981, hate crimes have nearly doubled. In 1997 - the FBI’s most recent reporting period - race-related hate crimes were by far the most common, representing nearly 60% of all cases. Hate crimes based on religion represented 15% of all cases. And hate crimes against Gay, lesbian and bisexual Americans increased by 8% - or about 14% of all hate crimes reported. The Scripps Howard poll of 1,003 adults was conducted by telephone, March 30April 17. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. The home can hold up to 6 or 7 kids from infants to older, and is filled with plenty, of toys. and a nice, little backyard for play. The operation will be licensed and bonded, and one of the morns is qualified to work with special education and hearing impaired children. And in a very 90’s touch, they are considering adding an internet camera which would allow parents who have web access at work to log into a web site and checkon~ their kids!. GLAD, Ga)~. & ~bian-Daycare ~il1 als0 ~b~a [~t[¢: 1:~§~ ;expensi.ve~ than~ .. comparable:qUality opera.tions. The ~ ¯ ~rogram .which is due openversus mid-May ill charge $100 per to week the $125phis which Teresa and Joan found to ¯ be more common. And they are willing to : provide evening and weekend care by ¯ ¯ special arrangement. GLAD,’s orgamzers will be having a special garage sale on ¯ May 7th & 8th to help kick off the program. : For more information, call 808-8026. ¯ No Anti-Gay Attitude Tulsa’s never had that many choices for late night dining but now, with Burger Sisters,just opened the last week of April, Tulsa’s Gay community not only can get good food but be treated right in the process.. John Rothrock and Steve Walley, owners of the Silver Star, just down the way in the same shopping center, have opened a "comfortable, clean" restaurant. Rothrock notes that the restaurant welcomes all, Gays, straights, young and old but especially, it will be a place where Gay people can be free and comfortable to hold hands or to come in late from the clubs in drag or leather and not be hassled. In other words, straight people are welcome - as long as they behave themselves ! Rothrock notes, "it’s time for Gays to grasp the respect we’ve earned.., not tO be ashamed..." and he adds, "when you eat here, you don’t have to hide who you are. Burger Sisters, which opens at 6am offers a typical, "downhome" breakfasts, hamburgers, fries, salads as wall as a daily dinner special. Monday to Thursday, the cafe will be open till 10pro. On Friday and saturday, they’ll stay open till 4am and Sunday, the hours will be 10am - 3pro (all subject to some change, after all they’ve been open only a few days when this goes to press). At this point, the cafe accepts only cash, no credit cards but their prices are very reasonable. Burger Sisters is located at 1545 So. Sheridan, just north a few doors from the Silver Star. Tel: 8351207. Four Years They’re There, One Night They’re Gone According to some of their now exstaff, Concessions, for more than four years one of Tulsa’s largest dance clubs closed precipitously the last Saturday of April. 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Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data newspaper periodical Text Any textual data included in the document Texas House Passes Hate Crimes Bill WASHINGTON-TheTexas HouseofRepresentatives passed a bill late in March (vote count: 83 to 61, including the support of 9 Republicans) that would enhance penalties for hate motivated violence directed against a person because of their race, gender, religion or sexual orientation. In addition to the House vote, a new poll shows that the vast majority ofTexas residents support hate crimes legislation... "Reason and principle triumphed in the Texas legislature today," said HumanRights Campaign (HRC) Executive Director Elizabeth Birch. ’‘Texas lawmakers took a giant step towards combating hate violence against all residents of the state." The Human Rights Campaign is the largest national Lesbian and Gay political organization. A new Scripps Howard poll for The Dallas Mormng News revealed that 72% of Texans support hate crimes legislation. According to the newspaper, the poll said that the public supports the inclusion of all groups currently included in the legislation: 81% for race; 80% for women; 78% for religious groups; and 76% for Gay people, see Texas, p. 14 TU Hosts Women + AIDS Regional Conference TULSA-The Second Regional Conference onWomen and AIDS will be held on The University of Tulsa campus Monday,June 14,intheAllen ChapmanActivity Center, located at 440 South Gary Avenue. Theconferenceis a comprebensive, one-dayprogram to raise awareness, promote discussion and provide opportunities for new directions in HIV prevention, care and treatment for women. "We will gather together in the spirit of concern for our community," says Jauice Nicklas, Senior Planner of the Commttnity Service Council and Conference Spokesperson. According to Nicklas, the conference will benefit everyone - women living with HIV and AIDS, people whodeal with women’sissues, educators, policymakers, youth organizations,healthand social service providers, family members, volunteers and concern.ed citizens. "In theArms oftheAngels," a documentary produced by the National AIDS Fund Americorps Team Tulsa, will open the conference at 8:30 a.m. with a look at women and AIDS. Patty Lather, author of "Troubling the Angels," will give the keynote address at 8:45 a.m. In addition to a series of workshops, the conference will feature a panel of HIV positive women who will share their stories. Judith Billings of the President’s Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS will give the luncheon address. Saiadra McDonald, the founder of Outreach, Inc., will present the closing address on "WhatWe Can Do to Be a Force for Change." see Women, p. 11 MJ DIRECTORY/LETTERS P. 2 EDITORIAL p. $ ~I~I~. US & WORLD NEWS P. 4 HEALTH NEWS P. 6 ~ ENTERTAINMENT P. 8 COMMUNITY CALENDAR P. 9 DO-IT-YOURSELF-DYKE P. 11 DYKE PSYCHE P. 12 "" GAY STUDIES P. 13 Serving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual + Transgendered Tulsans, Our Families + Friends Tulsa’s Largest Circulation Community PaperAvailable In More Than 75 City Locations Gay Businesses Open + Close Lesbian-Owned Daycare and Gay-Owned Restaurant Open But Concessions Closes by Tom Neal TULSA - Maybe it’s just spring but a couple of new Gay owned and oriented businesses have, or are about to open this month. Andone ofTulsa’ s most visible Gay businesses has unexpectedly dosed. From Lesbian Baby Boom, Comes Gay Daycare The origin of GLAD, Gay & Lesbian Affordable Daycare, reflects the frustrations of two new moms, Teresa and Joan, 33 and 32 years old, trying to find good daycare for their 4 month old son, Joseph (Joey) while they worked. For Teresa, the final thing that convinced her to leave her 70- 80 hour a week managerial position to start a home based business was a conflict about getting time off when their son was sick. But for both, there was more. After their son was bom, they explored many alternatives for infant care. Some options using relatives or friends just didn’t work out. Many of the day care operations which they reviewed just didn’t seem to be very good. And most had inflexible rules and were very expensive, with high deposits, inflexible contracts and schedules. For example, many day care operations require a year round contract with perhaps only 10 days off allowed. Any more days off have to be paid for regardless of whether the child is at the center or not. For these morns, one of whom is a teacher and has the summer off, it makes no sense to pay for care year-round. However, if they don’t, they take the risk that no place will be available in the fall again. Furthermore, Joan and Teresa also were concerned about raisxng their son in an enviroment wherehe will not be mistreated because he has two morns. And they know that they are not the only Gay parents who have these concerns. At some of the day care centers they inspected they were asked, "where’s the father" and were received with not very well disguised hostility. They say that they’ve sometimes felt they had~o say they were"sisters" in order to be treated fairly. So finally, after thoroughly researching state requirements, theyjust decided tO start their owndaycare in their cozy midtown bungalow, see Businesses, p. 14 Red Ribbon Gala + SwanAwards TULSA, Okla. (AP/TFN) - Some members of Tnlsa’s Gay community say they were pleased Chastity Bono visited this weekend because the author has helped mainstream Americans become more tolerant. "Just by her coming to Tulsa, it means a great deal to us. It helps people to come together," said Nancy McDonald, who recently was national president of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG). Bono was the keynote speaker Saturday night, April 17th at the Red Ribbon Ball, an annual black-tie gala that benefits Tnlsa CARES, the Center forAIDS Resources, Educationand Support. The event attracted more than 250 to the Downtown Doubletree. Bono, the Openly Lesbian daughter ofSonnyandCher, formerly served as the entertainment media director of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance’Against Defamation. She was involved in controversy for suggesting that the television show of Lesbian comedian, Ellen Degeneres, was "too Gay." Bono, 30, spent part of the day autographing copies of her book "Family Outing," which details how she and others revealed their sexual orientation to their families. Also, at the Gala, the co-sponsoring organization, the Tulsa Chapter of PFLAG, Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians & Gays presented their annual Swan awards. Among those honored were State Rep. DOn Ross, the Revs. Leslie Penrose and Gary Blaine, The Tulsa World, represented by editorial board writer David Averill, and PFLAG board member Tim Gillean. The award to Gillean was met with consternation by two former TOHR presidents attending the Gala,’Deb Starnes and Tom Neal, as PFLAG credited him as ’~he founder" of the Community Center. Both noted that Gillean helped start the Center, particularly doing early fundraising but that after he was voted out as TOHRpresident, he had dropped his member at the time when the building was found and leased. "No single person can claim the Center; Kelly Kirby was president when we began, Tim certainly did a great deal but Deb Statues, Midge Elliott and I sweated blood to get that building open, walls tomdown and the place painted. Tim’s done enough other work that PFLAG doesn’t have to rip anyone off to honor him," said Neal. PFLAG president and Swan award presenter, Jan Allen, stated that she was not aware of the history of the Center and that PFLAG had not intended to slight any of the Center’s organizers. Pride ’99 Shaping Up: Picnic, Parade & More US Rep. Frank to be Grand Marshall of First Tulsa Parade + Community Unitarians Host First Gay UU Pastor TULSA - Tulsa’s Pride ’99 organizers have confirmed that openly Gay US Congressman, Barney Frank of Massachusetts not only will attend this year’s June 12th event but will serve as grand marshall of Tulsa’s very first Lesbian/Gay pride parade. The parade will begin at 10 am at Tulsa’s Gay Community Services Center at 38th & Peoria and will go north on Peoria to 31st Street. From there it will go west to Riverside Drive and will continue north to Veterans (Boulder) Park, the site of the Picnic as it was last year. The principle sponsors for this year’s event are Bud Light and MCC United. The picnic will be from noon until 5pm again. Bud Light will be providing a large tent to provide some shelter from the sun as wall the sound system. Local drag diva Kris Kohl is organizing entertainment. These range from a local band, an appearance by the Council Oaks Mens Chorale, various female impersonators and titleholders, and more. Refreshments as always will be free. Congressman Frank will also be the guest of honorat adinner Saturday evening at the Greenwood Cultural Center at 322 No. Greenwood near the OSU-Tnlsa campus. Thedinner will be hosted joindy byTOHR/Tulsa’s Gay Community Services Center and by the Cimarron Alliance, Oklahoma’s Gay and Lesbian political action committee. Cocktails begin at 7pm and dinner will be at 8. Dinner and a cash bar cocktail pre-party will be $50/person anddinner and a complimentary cocktail reception with Congressman Frank will be $125/ person, see Frank, p. 3 "One Fool" Play Coming To Eureka Springs, AR EUREKA SPRINGS, Ark. - As part of the May Festival of the Arts, OneFool, a one-woman, oneactplay will bepresentedTuesday andWednesday, May25-26, 8 p.m. at Center Stage (on Spring Street m the downtown Historic Distric0. The play, featuring Orlando improv-actress, Catherine Goodison, was written by Terry Baum and will be directed by Lewis Routh. ’One Fool is a riotously funny play about a woman’s search for the ’one love’ withwhomshe canlive forever," says director Routh. ’‘This wild odyssey takes her across the world and into your heart." Catherine Goodison began her acting career in 1994 under the direction ofLewis Routhin the play BarDykes, where she played the role ofabig butch. She and Routh have worked together on several projects since that time, including the 1994showing ofOneFool in Orlando. Goodison, whosecomedic talenthas foundits way tomany ofFlorida’s stages, including the famed Fringe Festival, has been a featured performer with Act Out Theatre and the Improvabilities comedy troupe. As part of the troupe, her most memorable roles include Lucy in You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown, and the roles of the Nanny and the school teacher in Baby With The Bath Water, both plays directed by Routh. Playwright Terry Bantu is the founder of Lilith, the San Francisco Women’s Theater, and was its artistic director from 1975 to 1980. During that time, sheco-wroteand/ordirectedeveryproduction. Moonlighting, which she directed and co-wrote, toured Europe to great acclaim in 1979. Baum wrote Dos Lesbos with Carolyn Myers, which ran for two years in San Francisco and was nominated for several awards. 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School Ave. 501-442-2845 : JOPLIN, MISSOURI ¯ *Spirit of Christ MCC, 2639 E. 32, Ste. U134 417-6232696 ¯ * iswhereyoucanfindTFN.NotallareGay.ownedbutallareGay-friendly. NGLTF Leader :Resigns From Millennium March It is with great regret that I resign as a member of the Board of Directors of the Millennium March on Washington, effective immediately. The reasons for my resignation stem from three basic issues, which have¯ continued to grow over time. First, I have significant political disagreements with the March call and planning, which ha~’e not been addressed. Secondly, I have grown increasingly skeptical of the value of this event for the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender (GLBT) movement at this time. And finally, I cannot endorse certain decisions made by theBoard. Although I have great trust and affection for each of you individually, it does not assuage my concerns and questions. I now believe I will be most helpful to thecommunityfrom outside the Board. Since the initial call for the March, grassroots activists have consistently challenged us as national leaders. Their concerns address the credibility and legitimacy of the March and they have demandedanopening of the Marchprocess for greater discussion. Thequestions have been on whether to march, what agenda to march for, and how best to use the tremendous platform and visibility that such marches provide. Despitemypolitical disagreements with the call and process, I agreed to serve on the March Board, believing my participation could change the course of the process. I also felt that as a representative of the oldest national political organization, and one of the few explicitly progressive national GLBT groups,myvoice was needed in theMarch planning process. I stated at the time that I wouldremain onthe Board as long as my. presence represented the best interests of Task Force members, our constituents, and the movement as a whole. Since I joined the Board, my participation has been challenged by members and activists with whom we have deep andlongstanding relationships. Individuals from all perspectives have intensively engaged me, the Task Force staff, and our Board. I took their concerns to heart and carried them in my work on the March Board. During my tenure, I voted in the minority on key resolutions on personnel issues, the naming of the March, andthebroadening of theplanning effort to allow more people a seat at the table. I helped lead the successful effort to ensure that funds raised by the March would go to statewide organizations, people of color organizations and other constituents underrepresented in our movement. However, the Board has ¯ largely ignored the fundamental issues that lead me into become involved: why we should march, the agenda, and the involvement of the entire GLBT commnnity. I cannot serve onaBoard that will not open itself to greater input and see Letters, p. 3 Letters Policy Tulsa Family News welcomes letters on issues which we’ve covered or on issues you think need to be considered. Youmay request that your name be withheld but letters mustbe signed&have phonenumbers, or be hand delivered. 200 word letters are preferred. Letters to other publications will be printed as is appropriate. Talking with people inthe community, I was relieved to learn that I was hardly the only one who was disappointed with the celebrated Chastity Bono. Ms. Bono was "the keynote speaker" at the recent Red Ribbon Gala benefiting Tulsa CARES, our local co-ordinating organization for HIV/AIDS services. The dinner was nice enough and the attendance was about double that of last year’s inaugural event. The organizers dearly deserve praise for their efforts. But Ms. Bono was, to be kind, unimpressive, both as a speaker and at her book signing at Tnlsa’s Gay Community Services Center. To a number of observers at the Center, it appeared that Ms. Bono had little interest in being there. At the dinner, shefredy admitted that she’dmadenoeffort to prepare any.remarks -and that degree of preparation showed. Two things saved her performance. First, it was mercifully short, and second, she did have a good, if scatological, anecdote aboutconfronting the Rev. FredPhelps of "godhatesfags" infamy in Topeka at a booksigning. Her appearance may indeed have helped the event. Attendance at the Red Ribbon Gala was about double but then that might have happened just from being the second year for the event. Her appearance does raise questions, though, about America’s preocuppation with celebrity and notoriety. AftermeetingMs. Bono, it’ s hard not to regard her as a vcryho-hum ’~vonderbread dyke" (as one ofmy Lesbian friends put it) who but for the accident of her birth would hardly be getting a second hearing,!et alone a book contract. Ms. Bono’s elevation seems to exemplify the worstAm~rican tendency to Value notoriety over any shred of content. But what really raises some concern about her appearance was learning that despite her having reduced her appearance feeby one-half, it still cost almost $10,000 for her irresistible charms. Oursou~,,ce indicates thatMs. Bononormally charges $15,000 for her appearances" but that du~ to her friendship with the daughter of PFLAG’s Nancy McDonald, Bono reduced it to only $7,500, plus expenses, of course. This is what many wouM call a damnfine racket. One wouldhope that the organizers came up with aspecial donor to take on these expenses andno harm was-done to the genuine financial needs of Tulsa CARES. And no doubt organizers will argue that it wonld not have been nearly as successful without her appearance. But all I can think of is how much medicine or food that $10,000 might have bought for persons living with AIDS - Hello, the peop!e, this is supposed to be all about? Maybe that $10k s money that would not have come into this effort except for supporting Ms. Bono in the fashion to which she’s become accustomed. But then, maybe, just maybe, it could have been given to care-giving, and surely, there are speakers, ones who actually prepare their remarks andwhohave something worth saying, who’d speakfor, say, only two or three thousand. Makes you wonder, don’t it? - Tom Ne.al, editor &publisher Several special ’levels. of participation in the event are available with,the most cxdflsiCe being the Platinum table ($2500), whichincludes six seats at a table with Congressman Frank. There will be only one Platinum table. Also Offered is the Gold level, a table with 8 seats and an invitation to the cocktail party with the Congressman ($1500), a SilVer level ($250) which is two seats and cocktails, and a Bronze level ($500), a table for 8 and the .cash bar cocktail party. For tickets or for more information, call 743-4297. Also, Sunday morning Congressman Frank will probably be attending an interfaith prayer breakfast. Details for that event will be announced soon. Also in honor of Lesbian and Gay Pride, Community Unitarian Universalist Cohgtegation (cuuc) has invited the:Rev. DougStrong.of Community UU Church ~h ~iano~ T~xas to be guest minister attheir Sunday, May 16th, 1 lain service. After the service, all are invited to’join CUUC and Community of Hope ~for a potluck picnic cookout.~ The service and picnic .will be at Community of Hope Church, 2545 So..Yale where CUUC meets regularly. Guests are encouraged to bring both lawn chairs and food to share or t6 cook. TheRev. Strong is a 6th generationUnitaftan-Universalist and an openl~ Gay. man who has served congregations in Maine, Massachusetts, Virginia, California, Wisconsin and Arizona. Mr. Strong was the first openly Gay man to be called to serve as a pastorAn the history of the Unitarian- Universalism f~iith. Thiswas in 1980 inAugusta, Maine.- by Tom Neal Editor & Publisher The Tulsa WorMreally is gettmg better. Whileit’s not of the quality of TheDallas Morning News or other such papers,itis shedding someofits moreparochial qualities. Ofcourse, since the state’s only other major daily is The Oklahoman, now officially recognized as the worst paper an the United States as ¯¯ Oklahomans have long known, it’s never been hard for The World to look better. ¯ More investigative journalism is being ¯ allowed at The World. So instead of just ¯ supporting the status quo, an elected ¯ official like Dist. 4 City Councilor Anna ¯ Falling is being held accountable for her ¯ liberal spending of public dollars on ¯ "working" vacations or for possible " conflicts of interest she may have had ¯ when her spouse was applying for public ¯ monies which theCouncil would have to ¯ approve. ¯ This last month, The Wormalso printed ¯ a week series of in,depth stories about ¯ Tnlsa’s Latino communities. This series is similar to ones doneaboutTulsa s Black ¯ communities. All this is very well and ¯ good. Tulsa’s "establishment," our ¯ wealthy, our influential have long taken ¯ advantage of Tulsa’s minority com- " munities without sharing the benefits, ; without sharing the decision-making ¯ process,-most often not acknowledging ¯ even the existence of our communities. ¯ The fact that The WorM, the ultimate ¯ establishment mou~piece of Tiflsa, the : country club paper par excellence, is now ¯ willing to acknowledge the existence of Latino, Black, Indian and Asian commlmil~es is.progress. But the real proof of The World’s commitmenttojournalistic fundamentals, i.e. covering the community as it is. rather advertise my gift shop, tomfoolery! which now has The Tulsa World really is Settln$ better. While it’s not of the quality of The Dallas Morrdn¢ News or other such papers, it is sheddln$ some of its more paroehlaJ qualities. Of course, slnee the state’s only other major daily is Tl~e Oldal~oman, now offleially reeoSnlzed as the worst paper in the United States as Oklahomans have lon$ known, it’s never been hard for The World to look better. than as its ownership wants to present it, will come when The World does a similar piece on Tulsa’s Gay, Lesbian, Bi and Transgendered’communities. ¯ Ironically, more than five years ago, Worldreporters ¯ were set to do such a series. I discussed aspects of the ¯ proposalwithTulsaWorldreporters,JanetPearsonand ¯ David Fallis. The proposal was killed by-then executive ¯ editor, Bob Haring. And while I believe Joe Worley, ¯ current executive editor, is fundamentally a fair person, ¯ in general, and in particular towards.Gay people, it ¯ appears that he is constrained by the prejudices of the ¯ paper’s ownership. ¯ The Tulsa World’s owners and top business ¯ management are responsible for the newspaper’s many ¯ year’ s oldandquite official anti-Gay advertisingpolicies. : I first encountered these policies in the middle 80’s when a Lesbian businesswoman tried to advertise her Gay oriented book and gift shop. I later encountered the exact same policy almost 10 years laterwhen I tried to : scrutiny from the communities we claim to represent. ¯ ° Thesecondreasonformyresiguationisthatlcontinue : to doubt the value of this March at this time. I honor the ¯ valueofour previous nafi6nal Marches andacknowledge them as having been political turning points in the lives of many current leaders and activists. However, the effectiveness of sflCh dn enormous commiimeiit ofiJme and resources at a moment when more and more energy is demanded of the GLBT movement at the state and local level is questionable. Nothing so dramatically reinforced this as the success of Equality Begins at Home. ’Held one month ago and sponsored by the Federation of LGBT Statewide Political Organizations and the Task Force, EBAH was supported by national and local groups, including the March Board. It demonstrated the incrediblepowerofinveslinginstate and localmovement building. It also exemplified the real possibilities for political advancement of GLBT equality in eyery state~ Morefavorable bills wereintroducedin state legislatures, transmuted into The Pride Store at Tulsa’s Gay Community Center. The World’s anti-Gay policy stung PFLAG, Parents, Families andFriends ofLesbians andGays, morerecently when the orgamzation placed an advertisement supporting fair treatment for Lesbians and Gays but was not allowed to spell out their full legal name because, of course, it includes the forbidden word: "gay". In contrast, The Worm accepted an advertisement from West Tulsa churches attacking Gay people but The ~VorM allowed the churches to use the word "gay"! It’s bad enough that they have the bigoted policy but worse that they enforce it selectively. And it only adds injury to insult that The World, counter to the pohcies of the best media corporations in the country, has no non-discrimination policy that includes "sexual orientation" to protect the Lesbian and Gay reporters and staff. Nor has the corporation seen fit to provide equal pay for equal work by providing benefits for the families of Lesbian and Gay workers. In a day when health care is so expensive and benefits become a significant part of the "total employment package", this is no little issue. But maybe it shouldn’t be too surprising that The Worm doesn’t recognize the families of their Gay workers since part-0f TheWorld’s anti-Gay policy also includes arefusal to print engagement, anniversary or tmion announcements for Gay and Lesbian couples. Several years ago, v~fien I asked Joe Worley about thi~ discriminatory policy, he responded by asking if all I had to do each day was to dreamup hard questions for The Tulsa World. The answer to thatis "no"but the issue remains. Would The WorMban such ads frominterracial couples? Those relationships were once not recognized as legal, in many states. All this might not be that surprising for a corporation which has barely integrated its newsroom racially, and which was cited for (and settled) an EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) complaint for racist hiring practices (this according to their own pages). It still doesn’t make it right. So while we are making progress with The World, they really have a still some way to go. And as daily newspapers struggle to retain their relevancy in an increasingly media-diverse culture, organizations like The World will have to lose their country-club narrowness, with its largely useless and clearly pretentious regular columns devoted to who attended what soiree, and their outdated view of how-minority Tulsans, Gay as well as racial and religious groups, are to be treated, and look at our world as it really is. more allies were reached and involved, more media ¯ coverage was generated in every state on GLBT issues than had ever been achieved at the state level. Because ¯ . of its overwhelming success, the campaign is likely to ¯ be repeated in years to come, perhaps even annually. "" The National Gay and Lesbiafi Task Fbrce has ¯ committedthevastmajorityofitsresources to deepening ¯ and growing political power in every state. The time I have spent on the March Boardhas taken awayfrommy ¯ °iniportani work ~t( ~he state and i~tl level. I need to ¯ concentrate my energies on. NGLTF’s efforts to build this state-by-state movement and on advocating for our ¯ grassroots constituents at the national level This is the ¯ heart and soul Of our work and it requires us to have the ¯ courage of our convictions. ¯ Finally as a Board member, I have had personal ¯ financial responsibility and liability for the non-profit ¯ corporation producing the March. I am concerned that ¯ theMarch is notmoving forward in a strategicmanner. ¯ I am also concerned that neither the Boardmembers nor ] our GLBT community have full access to information ] about March management and finances. ¯ see Letters, p. 10 Arkansans Challenge: Gay Foster Care Ban l LITFLE ROCK (AP) - Six people are suing the state, seeking to overturn a state policy that bans , Gays from serving as foster parents. TheArkansas : Child Welfare Agency Review Board approved ¯ the banlast month. It also prevents heterosexuals from serving as foster parents, if a homosexual lives in their home. "This prohibition imposes a significantburden on (the plaintiffs’).., intimate, highly personal relationships with their partners, as they will not be allowed to serve as foster parents unless,they terminate those intimate relationships," says the lawsuit€filed in Pulaski County Chancery Court: Department .of Human Services spokesman Joe Quinn said the state expected the issue to go to court. "I don’t think there was ever much doubt," he said. The state averages 2,600 foster children daily in about 700 homes, Quinn said. He said the state doesn’t keep track of how many foster parents are homosexuals. Board memberWandaGooden said before the ban was approved that it was "my strong conviction that children thrive best in two-parent homes where there is a father and mother." Ms. Gooden said thenew rulewonld not significantly reduce thenumberoffoster families in Arkansas. According to the lawsuit, the plaintiffs are two Eureka Springs men who adopted children ages 6 and 2 and want to be foster parents; two Little Rock men who want to serve as foster parents; a Fayetteville woman who wants,,to be a foster parent and a Fayetteville man who has a homosexual son living at home. Fewer But More Vicious Attacks BOSTON (AP) - The number of hate cnmes against Gays in Massachusetts dropped last year, but the attacks thatdidhappenweremore vicious, according to state figures. There was a36% drop in the number of hate crimes against Gays and Lesbians, Bisexuals and Transgenders reported to policeandother organizations, said theFenway Community Health Center in Boston. But there was a 13%increase in attacks that caused serious injury, and a 5% increase in attacks with a weapon. Nationally, the number of hate crimes against Gays was down 4%last year from 1997, but cases of violence increased 12%. The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs said 33 Gay men and women were, killed in hatemotivated attacks last year, twice the number in 1997. The coalition said two of those killed were in Boston, but police said they were not certain those killings were hate crimes. Friends said a27-year-oldGay man committed suicide last October, about one year after two men beat him in Boston’s South End and carved an "F" on his shoulder with a knife. "Let’S not be fooled by the numbers" showing a decrease in hate crimes, said Attorney GEneral Thomas Reilly. "I see a very frightening increase in violence.’" ¯ David Shannon of the Fenway center’s Violence Recovery Program said that since the killing in October of a Gay college student in Laramie,Wyo., "therehas been ahigher visibility of hate crimes against Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Transgenders." "There has also been increased targeting and violence," he said. Dentist Refuses to Treat Lesbian FRANKLIN, N.H. (AP) - Tricia Thompson had been going to the same dentist for two years. Dr. Jay Roper had done her fillings and cleanings and repatred cracked teeth. He s always bee nice," she said. Or he was until two weeks ago, when Thompson came in for a root canal and Roperquestionedherabouthersexual orientation. After learning she was a Lesbian, he refused to treat her and told her to leave his office, she told the Concord Monitor. Katharine Daley, executive director of the state Human Rights Commission, said for a dentist to refuse to treat someone because,of their sexual orientauon is illega! in New Hampshire. Thompson said she may file a civil rights complaint against Roper. ~f the commission finds he i!legally discriminated against her, he could be fined up to $10,000 and ordered to pay compensatory damages. Thompson said when she first signed up as Roper’s patient, she put a former partner’s name on the"spouse" lineofher registrationform. The name was clearly a woman’s. About a month ago, when Thompson went "ln with a bad toothache, she was asked to fill out a new card, ~he said. She put down the name of her new partner; they had performed a commitment ceremony in February. Roper then told her she needed a root canal, put in a temporary filling and told her to returnMarch 23. By the time she came back, accompaniedby her partner, the temporary filling had come out and her tooth was in pain. Before taking herinto his office, Roper heldup the registration card she’d filled out and told her he had questions about it, she said. Thompson and her partner said Roper asked whether Thompson’s "spouse" was the woman with her. She said yes. He asked whether she had been married to her previous partner, then divorced and remarried. When she said yes, he asked if she had a marriage license. She said she asked him, "What business is it of yours?" He shot. back, "Do you have AIDS or something?" she said. She said she didn’t, but she also told him she did not like his questions. Roper shook his head, told her, "I.don’t believe in it," and insisted he had the right to refuse anyone treatment, she said. Roper then put her file, her registration card and chart on the counter and told her to take it and leave the office. Thompson said she reminded him she had been his patient for years. But he said he hadn’t previously realized thatherpartner was awoman, she said. "Basically, he kicked me out of his office and said have a nice life," Thompson said. ’He didn’t even ask me how my tooth was." Roper confirmed that he denied Thompson treatment: ’qZor my own personal reasons, yes,’’ he told the Monitor. ’~ecause ofmyownpersonal philosophy, yes." Asked what his philosophy was, Roper replied, "I’hat stays in the office." Asked ifhe routinely informed patients about his philosophy, he responded, "What philosophy?" Roper said he told Thompson she could file a complaint with the state dental board if she was unhaplSy withhis decision. TheAmerican Dental Association’s "Principles of Ethics," which governNew Hampshire dentists, say they cannot refuse to treat patients on the basis of race, creed, color, sex or national origin. It does not mention sexual preference, but does say, ’‘The dentist’s primary obligations include dealing wi~ people justly and delivering dental care without prejudice." A spokesman at ADA headquarters said the issue of withholding treatment because ofa patient’s sexual preference had ne~er come " up before. However, New Hampshire law is dear, Daley -" said. In New Hampshire, health providers are : considered a "public accomodation;" and equal ¯. access to public accomodations for Gays and ¯ Lesbians is protected by state law, she said. ¯ Gay Priest Being :: Considered As Bishop ¯ WEARE, N.H.(AP) - The Rev. Canon Gene ". Robinson again is a finalist for bishop and if he ~ becomes the spiritual leader of the Diocese of ¯ Rochester, N.Y., he will be the first openly Gay : bishop in the 2.5 million-member Episcopal : Church of America~ ¯ Robinson oneoffive nominees from a field of ¯ 86 applicants for the bishopric, was cited by the Kelly Kirby CPA, PC Certified Public Accountant a professional corporation 74-7-5466 4021 S. Harvard, Suite 210, Tulsa 74135 MCC-United formerly Family of Faith & Greater Tulsa MCC Joined as one body of believers. 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"I’m hoping it doesn’t become a big issue," said Janet Farnsworth, president of the Diocese of Rochester’s Standing Committee. "We wanted a person who would lead us spiritually and a person who was willing to speak out on social issues. We wanted someone who would be apastorto all our clergy and theirfamilies andhe’ s known for his work in clergy wellness," she told The Concord Monitor. Robinson, assistant to Bishop Douglas Theuner of the Diocese of New Hampshire and a priest for 25 years, finished third last year in his bid to become bishop of the Diocese of Newark, N.J. "As honored as I felt to be nominated in Newark, I’m overwhelmed at the privilege of being nominated in a diocese like Rochester and the courage they have shown in nominating me," he said. "The way I can help Gay and Lesbian people the most is by being a good bishop, not a Gay bishop," he said. Buthis sexuality will be alightningrodfor some. Atthe international level, the church has taken a strong stand against homosexuality. A majority of Anglican bishops at the Lambeth Conference of Bishops in England last year declared homosexuality contrary to scripture. While that group has no authority over the Episcopal Church - the Anglican communion in the United States, it has pressured American bishops to conform. Thatpressure alsocomesfromwithin. Theconservative Episcopalians United takeissue with Robinson, believing homosexuality sinful. The group worries his dection could cause rifts in the church. ’’We expect a higher standard of our leaders than our members," said its board chairman, the Rev. Sandy Greene of Christ Church in Denver, Colo., who supports ministries that encourage peopl9 to renounce their homosexuality. Robinson was married with two children when he acknowledged he was Gayin 1986. Henow lives with his partner, Mark Andrew. In early June, he and2Madrew will meet with voting delegates throughout the diocese. On June 19, the diocese’s clergy and three lay people from each of the 54 congregations will vote on a candidate, who needs a simple majority from both groups to win. Should Robinson be elected, he faces an even bigger hurdle. To be ordained bishop, he must be "consented to" by a simple majority of the nation’s Episcopal bishops as wall as standing committees, comprised of laity and clergy. The church went through a similar controversy in 1994 when it elected the first female bishop, Barbara Harris of the Diocese of Massachusetts. Yet it hasn’t rejected a bishop electedby adiocese since thelate 1800s. James DeKovan, rejected twice, now is a church saint. New Haven Police Targeting Gays NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - Police here admit they are targeting bJacks, Hispanics, women, Gays and Lesbians - not as suspects, but as candidates to join the force. At a time when images of police brutality have been seared into the American psyche, the New Haven Police Department is recruiting the very people who have often been seen as their victims. The department began its campaignrecently, printing advertisements in alternative publications and distributing fliers to inner city organizations, churches, and a commumty center for Gays and Lesbians. The fliers say, "I want you" in bold letters and feature photographs of minority and women officers. ’’We wantpopulations thathave beentraditionally underserved by police and underrepresented in police departments," said Kay D. Codish, director of training and education. Similar recnfitment drives have had mixed results in San Francisco, Boston and elsewhere, said Penny Harrington, director of the National Center forWomen& Policing in Los Angeles and former chief of the Portland, Ore., police department. "A lot of women and minorities do not see policing as a place for them. In the media, on television, they’re frequently shown in subsidiary roles," Harrington said. "If an agency is serious, they have to go out and target." Hubert Williams, director of the Police Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based research organization, said mistrust of police in some minority communities has reached crisis proportions because of "racial profiling," allegations that police make traffic stops and detain people based on race. "In order for the police officers to dotheirjob, they musthavepublic support," saidWilliams, f6rmer director of police in. Newark, N.J. "You have " populations that see the police in hostile ways, that they’re not there to protect and to serve, but to control and ¯ oppress." ." James Mclver of the National Orgamzation of Black Law Enforcement Executives in Alexandria. Va., said ¯¯ studies show thatapolice force that reflects the community it serves demographically is less likely to have accusations ¯ of police brutality lodged against it. He pointed to two ¯ recent cases inNew York City. Four police officers have ¯ ¯ been charged in the fatal shooting ofAmadou Diallo, an unarmed West African, and four other city officers are ¯ charged with sodomizing a Haitian suspect. ¯ According to the U.S. Justice Department Bureau of ¯ Statistics, there are about664,000 full-timepolice officers ¯ in the country. At the municipal level, the latest figures : available show that roughly 11% are black, 6% are ¯ Hispanic, and about 9% are women. The federal ¯" government does not keep track of officers’ sexual "orientation. New Haven’s 447-member department ¯ already is diverse compared to national statistics, with ¯ 39% being minorities and 16% female. ¯ In a newspaper editorial earlier this month, Police ¯ ChiefMelvinWearingsaid thereis noquotaandminorities ¯ don’t get extra points on their applications just for being ¯ who they are. "Our goal is simply to increase the number ¯ of applicants from those groups that, in the past, have not ¯ presented themselves for consideration in substantial ¯ numbers," he said. ¯ However, police union officials have questioned the recruitment effort and some have said they fear white ¯ male candidates will feel unwelcome to apply for the 40 ¯ job openings. "Ifyoustartencouraging one certaingroup, ¯ others might feel slighted. We would like to see an open ¯ recnfitment. The key is that tlmy be qualified,’7 said Frank ¯ Lombardi, vice president of the local union. Most, if not ¯ all, police departments say they are "’equal opportunity ¯ employers,"butCodishbelieves lawenforcement agencies must go further by advertising in unlikely places such as women’s health clinics and day care centers. Catholics Attack Boston Partners Benefits BOSTON (AP) - City paramedic Kay Schmidt works ¯ hardand thinks she deserves healthinsurance benefits for ¯ her familyjust like any other city worker. Butthe Catholic Action League of Massachusetts says its members don’t ¯ want the city to subsidize Lesbian relationships like ¯ Schmidt’s. The Supreme Judicial Court heard arguments ¯ in the Catholic Action League’s challenge to the city’s ¯ domestic parmer policy. The court’s ruling could affect ¯ Boston and other communities that offer benefits for ¯ domestic partners. Springfield, Northampton, Brookline ¯ and Cambridge also provide domestic partner benefits. ¯ Thequestionbefore the state’ s highest courtwaswhether Boston had the authority to extendhealth benefits to those ¯ not stipulated by state law. "Providing these health ¯" insurance benefits complements the state law, it certainly ¯ doesn’t defeat its purposes," said Jennifer Levi, of the Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, who argued ¯ before the court on behalf of Schmidt. ¯ Vincent McCarthy, representing the Catholic Action ¯ League of Massachusetts, said the city needed to get permissionfromthe Legislature, but failed last year when ¯ Gov. Patti Cellucci vetoed the measure. Mayor Thomas ." Menino then signedanexecutive orderputting themeasure ¯ into effect. ’"What they’re trying to do now is an end run ¯ around the Legislature," McCarthy told the court. ¯ McCarthy, counsel for the American Center for Law ¯ and Justice, whichdescribes itsdf as a.nonprofit pro- " family organization, said the city’s executive order was ¯ legally and morally wrong. "It encourages heterosexual : and homosexuals to form what, in essence, are common ¯ law relationships which are illegal in Massachusetts, ¯ without the responsibilities of marriage, and really ¯ discourages people from getting married as well," ¯ McCarthy said. The SJC took the arguments under ¯ advisement. ." Boston defines domestic partners as two people, of at ¯ least 18 years of age, who are not married, but who share ¯ living expenses so that one assumes responsibility for the ¯ ¯ welfare of the other. It is not limited to Gay couples. Schmidt, speaking outside the courthouse with her ¯ partner Diane Pullen and their 8-month-old daughter, ¯ said she was not looking for special privileges as a : Lesbian, but the benefits her co-workers enjoy. She said ¯ they decided Pullen would stay home with the baby and ¯ their 7-year-old child. They said it was perfect timing : when the city began offering health benefits for domestic ¯ partners in November. Were they to lose that benefit, the ¯ two women said Pullen would likely have to return to ¯ work and the two would pay for day care for the baby. Responding to those critical of their"lifestyle," Schmidt ¯ said, "We are two parents rinsing two children. I work, : we’re a family. There’s no way anybody can deny we’re a family. And why shouldn’t we have affordable health insurance like any other family, like your family?" ¯ Federal Hate Crimes Bill Uncertain ¯ WASHINGTON (AP) - Legislation that would broaden ¯ the federal hate crimes law by including offenses based ¯ on sexual orientation faces an uncertain future despite ¯ President Clinton’s call forlawmakers to pass it this year. : A similar bill, which Clinton also pushed, died in the last ¯ Congress. Neither the House nor the Senate or any of the ¯ appropriatecommittees voted onit. TheWhite Houseand ¯ other supporters hope public outrage over recent well- " publicized hate crimes will help advance the measure tbis ¯ time around. : But opposition, however, appears so strong that a lead ¯ sponsor, Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., doubts whether " Congress will approveit. "Wehave to face the reality that ¯ it’ s a very tough sell," Specter, a former local prosecutor, ¯ said in a recent interview. "After a while you can develop ¯ a majority (of votes)but I think we’re a long way from it." ¯ Senate Judiciary Committee hearings are expected later this month. At a recent White House ceremony, Clinton said ¯ Congress should pass the bill this year and "send a : message to ourselves and to the world that we are going into 21st century determined to preach and to practice what is right." The Hate Crimes Prevention Act would add disability, gender and sexual orientation to federal anti-bias laws andmakeit easierfor the Justice Department to inveslagate ¯ and prosecute such offenses. Current law prohibits crimes ¯ based on race, color, religion or national origin. Eight ¯ state have no hate crimes laws. Laws in 21 states cover ¯ sexual orientation, 22 state laws include gender and 21 ¯ cover disability. ¯ Richard Socarides, Clinton’s civil rights adviser, said ¯ the White House was more optamistic this time because ¯ of public sentiment over the killings and the upcoming ¯ Senate hearings ,The signs are better than ever before," ¯ he said. ¯ David Smith, spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign, a Gay and Lesbian political advocacy group, ¯ cited a Gallup poll, conducted in mid-Febrnary, that ¯ found that 70% of the public favors having a hate crimes : law in their state. ’’We would be very happy for there to ¯ be no need for this legislation," he said. ¯ Some opponents believe federal Intervention is ¯ unnecessary, because states already are prosecuting ¯ ¯ allegations of hate crimes, and discriminatory. Social conservatives,meanwhile, view thebill as creating speci~d ¯ protections for Gays. "By including hate crimes : enhancement for some groups, the message is that the ¯ government cares more about those victims than other ¯ people," said Robert H. Knight, senior director for cultural ¯ studies at the conservative Family Research council. ¯ Among the recent hate-crime cases: - In Texas, white supremacist John William King was : sentenced to death in February for dragging James Byrd ; Jr., who was black, to his death behind a pickup truck in ; June 1998. Two other men await trial in the slaying. ¯ - In Wyoming, Russell Henderson, one of two young ¯ men charged in the beating death of Matthew Shepard, a ¯ Gay college student, pleaded guilty Monday to murder .. andwas se~itencedtotwoconsecudvelifetermsinprison. ¯ - In Alabama, two menface murder charges in the Feb. ¯ 19 killing of Billy Jack Gaither, who was Gay. Police say ¯ he was beaten with an ax handle and burned to death because he allegedly made a pass at one of the men. Coburn Calls For "¯ bMealiceGveusffieh,ew, htoohoa, disdecdiedaedd.toSboecowmheena HIV ProgramAudits "- "medi missiona ,"touredthedis°ase- infested areas of western Kenya 12 years OKLAHOMA C1TY (AP) - Questions " ago, sheunderstoodhow muchits residents about spending pmctices and other aspects " were suffering. 1,,was appalled at what, of federal AIDS/HIV programs have . they didn’t have, said the 75-year-old prompted U.S. Rep. TomCobumand two plastic surgeonfromNew City,New York. Republican colleagues to request an audit ¯ She returned home and founded the of those programs. " Society for Hospital and Resources Coburn, a practicing physician from Exchange to improve health care for Oklahoma, House Majority Leader Dick Armey of Texas and Commerce Committee Chairman Tom Bliley of " Virgima sent a letter requesting the audit " to the General Accounting Office on ¯ Tuesday. They question spending ¯ practices and other aspects of the programs. "X2ongress has a moral obligation to those suffering with AIDS/HIV to ensure thatthenearly$9bilfion directed to federal AIDS programs is s,p,ent for purpos.~ for this it is intended, Coburn said m a prepared statement. "Over the past five years I have encountered too many instances where federal AIDS/HIV funds have been misused." In addition to requesting any evidence on misuse Of federal AIDS funds, the letter requests a report on whether disparities existinAIDS funding regarding race or gender, what criteria are used to determineAIDS Drug AssistancePro.gra~. distributions and whether tkose criteria favor any particular region, and information regarding compliance with federal laws within the programs.. Other requests madein theletterinclude information on how much money fromfederal AIDS programs is used to pay for overhead and other non-care related activities rather than on direct treatment of patients. Black Men 7x More " passioninitandputssomuchenergyint° it, that probably impressed me more than Likely For AIDS " anything," Violante said. MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Public " Violanteesdmatedhehadtrainedabout health officials are sounding an alarm, for Alabamablack males,whoare seventtmes more likely than white males (o contract the virus that causes AIDS. The, Department of Public Health, which held a news conference last month to discuss the problem, said the spread of the disease has reachedcrisis proportions amongblack men. The dan,g,er .lies in the f.ac,t that. m~any blacksdon tknow they areimected, they might believe the disease is still one of homosexual white males, said Jane Cheeks, AIDS director at the state Health Department. A former public health worker in Jefferson County, Ms. Cheeks recalled working with the first people i,n Birminghamto be affectedby HIV, which causes AIDS. Most were homosexual white males. Thediseaseis now strikingmoreheax[ily among blac.k.la.e.te.lu.~ezx-uals ¯ "We’re seeing this as aleading causeofdeathfor African- American males ages 25 to 44, and that’ s got to stop," she said. She said the state has spen{ $1.6 million On HIV/AIDS education programs since 1993, but more must be done. "It’s not working," she said. "Weneed to join commumty efforts to address this at a local level." HIV Fight in Kenya KISUMU, Kenya (AP) - Dr. Martha ,’Bobby"MacGuffiehas knownpain.Two of her sons died of the AIDS they contractedfromblood transfusions. Their older brother, crushed by the deaths, disappeared into a haze of drugs. She ¯ westemKenyaby sta_,aing clinics, donating medical equipment and educating residents how to avoid disease. Kenya’s government provides little medical care for many rural districts, leaving private groups like SHAREto care,f0r the _ps~o.pl,e. Inrecognition ofSHARE s work, Lion s ¯ Club International named MacGnffie its 1998 Humanitarian of theYear, anhonor ¯ previously given to Mother Teresa and ¯ Jimmy Carter. The award comes with a $200,000 grant. ¯ On a recent trip, she and other SHARE ¯ volunteersfromNewYorktreatedpatients and sprinkled donations throughout " Nyanza province, about 160 miles (250 ". kms) west of the capital, Nairobi. They ¯ gave money to expand a local hospital. ¯ They paid the school fees for AIDS orphans. They donated drugs to treat ¯ children wit.h, disfiguring Birkitts Lvmphoma. "It s a greater need here than ~.,h....l~e" said Eleanore Schafer, a N’~e~v~’~]t~y’;o~ial worker who set. up ¯ SHARE’s program for sponsoring orphans. ~ David Violante, a paramedic from ¯ Wallkill, New York, was on his fifth visit ¯ to train Kenyans in emergency medical ¯ ¯ techniques. HemetMacGuffie nine years when she taught a course for his ¯ paramedics class, andthree years later she ¯ persuadedhimand threeotherparamedics ¯ to visit Kenya. "She just has so much ¯ 500 local paramedics and brought over hundreds of thousands of doll.ars worth of ] donated backboards, stretchers, cervical ¯ collars and other trauma equipment. MacGuffiehas spent millions here, she ~ said, wheedling donations from drug ¯. companies, civic groups and corporations. ¯ Shehas raised.tens of thousands ofdollars ¯ from her Rockland County neighbors and ¯ collected single dollars fromchildren she ¯ lectured to at schools. She remains determined to continue working inKenya ¯ as tong as Americans support her. ¯, Editor’s Note: SHARE, c/o Martha MacGuffie, 591 S. Mountain Rd., New City, New York. USA, 10956. Dentist Settles HIV Bias Lawsuit BOSTON (AP) -A dentist and his office manager will pay a combined $60,000 for allegedly committing Medic~’,"dfr,aud and discriminating against people who were HIV-positive, the attorney general’s office said. Dr. Guillermo Recinos, 38, and Yolanda Jereidini, 46, were sued in civil ¯ court in October 1998 by the attorney ¯ general’s office. They were accused of ~ violating federal discrimination laws by ¯ refusing to treat patients who were HIV- ¯ positive. ¯ They also allegedly told employees not ¯ ¯ to take patients who wereHIV-positive at their clinic in the city’s Jamaica Plain ¯ neighborhood. When one dentist in the ¯ office took a patient who was HIVpositive, Recinos andJereidinididn’tgive Power To Do Good. Supporting Local Community Events Is Something Everyone Can Do. PSO has served the electrical needs our customers here for almost 80 years now. But we also serve broader needs. 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The remaining $8,450 will be donated to the Battered Children and Women’s program at the Elizabeth Stone House in Jamaica Plain. Under the terms ofthe Medicaidfraud settlementapproved by Kottmyer, Recinos alone will pay $40,000 in civil penalties and restitution. So. African Women Criticize Govt. JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - Women’s groups criticized the South African government Thursday for failing to provide medical treatment they say could help prevent victims of rape from contracting the AIDS virus from their attackers. The activists are demanding the government provide rape victims with a three-drug cocktail of AZT, 3TC and a protease inhibitor Crixovan. The threedrug cocktail is available for $820 on the ¯ private market, which represents five ¯ months of wages for an average South ¯ African. ¯¯ The Centers for Disease Control and ¯ Prevention in Atlanta recommends the three-drug therapyforhealthcare workers ¯ who have been exposed to HIV through ¯ contaminated needles because some ¯ studies have found AZT alone has prevented themfromcontracting the virus. "The state has removed the death ¯ sentence" for crime, said Johannesburg : journalist Charlene Smith. "Now we are : asking them to remove the death sentence ¯ for rape survivors." Smith, who wrote ¯ recently about being raped and her ¯ attempts afterward to obtainAIDS-related ¯ medical treatment, spoke at a news conference sponsoredby women’s groups : who represent rape victims. : Doctors and others have also ¯ complained about a decision by South ¯ Africa’s Health Ministry last year to shut ¯ ¯ down pilot projects to treat HIV-positive expectant mothers in the last month of : pregnancy with AZT, which reportedly can reduceby half the transmission rate of : HIV to newborns. ¯ A womanin South Africa is three times ¯ morelikely to be raped than in the United ¯ States, and South African men are much : more likely to be infected with HIV, the ¯ virus that causes AIDS, said Nthabiseng Mogale, head of People Opposed to WomenAbuse. SouthAfricanwomenare : entitled to treatment as a human right, ¯ Mogale said. ¯ One in eight South African adults is ¯ infected with HIV. The rate is tWice that ." for pregnant women, the government has said. Police say about 65,000 women and ¯ girls are assaultedevery year, but activists insist the number is much higher. Medical Excellence And Compass.ionate Care S nce 1926. ¯ ¯ ST. JOHN MEDICAL CENTER I P Medical Excellence. Compassionate Care ¯ Botswana, South Africa’s wealthier " neighbor to the north, has introduced free ¯ AZT treatment for infants born to HIV- ¯ positive mothers, said Vicki Ehrich ¯ spokeswomanfor Glaxo Wellcome, which ¯ produces AZT. Glaxo Wellcome wants to supply the ¯ South African government with the drug ¯ for $65 perbirth, orone-third ofits market ¯ price. But the government says that’s too : expensive. ’°We cannot afford this type of intervention," said Khangelani ¯ Hlongwane, spokesman for the South ¯ African Health Ministry. ¯ Physicians at state-rim hospitals have ¯ clashed with the government on theissue. ¯ ’oWe’re trying to convincethegovernment ¯ that it’s actually cost effective," said Dr. ¯ Avy Violari, a pediatrician at Chris Hani : Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto. ." The United Nations AIDS program ¯ estimates that about 600,000 HIV ¯ ¯ infections are spread during childbirth worldwide, butnofigures for SouthAfrica ." were available. Transmission of HIV ¯ through sexual assault has been less ¯ studied, partlybecause rape and AIDS are ¯ not as widespreadin Europeand the United : States, wheremostresearchis carried out, ¯ Smith said. :$ for HIV Falling Behind Its Spread ¯ GENEVA (AP) - Spending by donor : countries to combat AIDS in developing ~ countries is failing to keep pace with the ¯ spreadofthe disease, now infecting nearly ¯ 6 millionpeople worldwide each year, the ¯ United Nations said recently. ¯ "it is alarming that AIDS is expanding three times faster than the funding to control it," said Dr. Peter Piot, executive director of UNAIDS, the Joint U.N. Program on HIV/AIDS. Piot called on industrialized nations to do more to fight the disease in developing countries. The agency said wealthy countries’ support for the global fight against AIDS IS being vastly outpacedby the epldennc, which has infected47 million people over the past two decades. That figure includes those who have already died from the disease and those hying with HIV, the AIDS-causing virus. Funding to fight AIDS in developing countries was $273 million in 1997, less than double the $165 million spent in 1990, it said. During the same period, the number of people living with HIV around the worldmore than tripled to 30.3 million from 9.8 million. UNAIDS said a study by the Harvard University School of Public Health found the United States was "by far the largest tnbutor to the lnternat~onal campaign, giving $135.2 million-in 1997. But it said that other countries ranked higher when their contributions weremeasured against the size of their economies. Norway gave $93 for each $1 million ofits gross national product; the Netherlands gave $92. Denmark was third at $52 per 1 million of its gross national product, followed by Swedenat $49. Australiagave $31, Canada $21, Britain $19, Belgium $18, United States $17, Finland $10, Switzerland and Germany $6 and Japan $2. Industrialized countries are spending less than 1% of their development aid on the fight against AIDS, according to UNAIDS. ’oWeighed against the global catastrophe of the AIDS epidemic, the level of spending for HIV prevention around the world is minimal," Piot said. He said in order for any aid to benefit ¯ developing countries, more money needs to be given to fight AIDS. UNAIDS says 95% of the people living ¯ with the AIDS virus are in developing ¯ countries, most of them in Africa. ¯ Agency officials said developing ." countries are also contributing to the ¯ campaign against AIDS. The study ¯ showed domestic spending varied from a low of 8% in the Caribbean and 9% in ¯ Africa to 57% in Asia, 67% in Latin America and 79% in Eastern Europe. ¯ Economics Making :HIV Fight Harder BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Asia’s economic crisis is worsening Thailand’s ¯ AIDS crisis, experts said, predicting that ¯ more than 100,000 Thai children will be ." orphaned by the disease by the end of the ¯ year 2000. ¯ Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai, ¯ opening Thailand’s annualNationalAIDS ¯ Seminar, told hundreds ofresearchers and ¯ health workers that the government will ¯ scrimp to findnow-scarce funding to keep the AIDS epidemic under control. ¯ But Wirut Poolcharoen, a Health ." Ministry official, acknowledged that ¯ Thailand’s government does not know ¯ how to cope with an expected explosion ¯ in the number ofAIDS orphans. Most are taken care of by their grandparents or other family members. "The number of ¯ orphans whose parents die of AIDS will ¯ double by the end ofthe year 2000,"Wirnt ¯ said. "The government does not yet know ¯ how to carry such a huge burden to ensure ¯ the well-being of these children." ¯" Statisticians at Mahidol University released a report showing that in 1997, the ¯ year that recession struck Thailand and : much of Southeast Asia, the country had 34,349 AIDS orphans, about a quarter of them under age five. By the end of 2000, ¯ the report predicts the total figure will be ¯ 116,508childrenorphanedbyAIDS,with 30,845 of them under five¯ Acquiredimmunedeficiency syndrome ¯ claimed 51,000 lives in Thailand in 1997 alone, according to research presented by ¯ Bangkok’s prestigious Chulalongkorn University. Death figures were not ¯ available for 1998. "It takes years for ~ p.eople to realize they have contracted the ¯ virus, and its consequences are thereby affecting quality of life of their family ¯ members and of society as a whole,"Wirnt said. ¯ In the early years after AIDS was discovered, Thailand refused to ¯ acknowledge it had a single case of the disease, fearing damage to the lucrative ¯ prostitution industry that is a mainstay both of tourism and the sex lives of many ¯ Thai men. A change of attitude coupled ¯ with aggressive condom distribution and ¯ ¯ education programs brought the epidemic somewhatundercontrolbythemid_ 1990s, ¯ but the gains are eroding due to cuts in the ¯ health budget in ’the recession-era economy. The government’s spending on ¯ AIDS pre~iention has fallen about 25% to ¯ 1.4 billion baht ($39 miillion) Since 1997. ¯ Thailandneeds toprepareitselftohandle ¯ the social and economic consequences of : AIDS and the HIV virus that leads to it, ¯ said Supachai Kunarattanapruek, an ¯ adviser to the Health Ministry. Though Thailand spends little on long- : term care for AIDS sufferers, the country will pay a high price for the loss of ¯ economically active people, experts said. About two-thirds of the country’s AIDS ¯ sufferers are 25-39 years old, their prime ¯ working years. It’s the end of the season but things are ¯ relationship between the artist and patron, hardly slowing down. Tulsa Opera will ¯ and includes the museum’s patron, end its season with our favorite opera, " Thomas Gilcrease who with John D. Mozart’s Magic Flute. Performances are : Rockefeller, Jr. was a patron of artist May 1,6 &8 at 8pm, except onThursday, ¯ JosephHenry Sharp. Formoreinformation the6thandare or directions in the Chap- Designer Showcase to the man Music museum, call Hall. This 596-2700 or work, in visit the German with website at translations www~ shown above T u 1 s a the stage, has Philharmonic not been seen will wrap up It in Tulsa in Chamber more thanl0 Classics years and the season with cast looks to pieces by be excellent. Bizet, Ravel It is, of course and Haydn on a fairy tale, May 7th at the complete with Waiters Arts an evil queen, 319 East 21st Street Center at and of course, Holland Hail we can all relate to that, can’t we? Don’t " School. Three local Episcopal choirs are miss it. ¯ featured, Saint John’s, Saint Dtmstan’s Switchinggearsfromtheartstoreligion, ¯ and Trinity’s. For tickets and moreinfo., those radical, free thinking, wild eyed " call 747-7445. liberals, those Presbyterians are going to ¯ Also, check out the Philharmonic’s havethenationalconferencefortheMore ¯ DesignerShowcaseat319East21stStreet. Light Presbyterians (the official,ly Gay- : It’s a great way to see what the latest in friendly ones) in Oklahoma’City at " high "foofI3"’ and decorating is and to OklahomaCityUniversity’sAngieSmith ," support a great organizatxon. This is the Memorial Chapel, NW 23rd and 26th year for the showcase and the 50th Blackwelder, onMay21-23. Theprogram : year for the Philharmonic. Tickets are $10 begins with a dinner and worship service ¯ and it’s open Tues. to Sat. from 10-4pro at 6pm on Friday. Workshops are : and Thurs. from l0-8pm, Sundays l-4pm scheduledfrom8amto 10pmonSaturday ¯ but don’t get ther after 3pm or 7pm on and Sunday will be devoted to a"ministry ¯ Thurs. if you want to get in. FYI, no of presence." Speakers include Chris ¯ cameras and it’s not handicapped Glaser, Janie Spahr, Scott Anderson and accessible. more.Info:JohnMcNeese,405-848-2819 " Finally ourregular entertaiment writer or john33 @ix.netcom.com , shares the following with credit to "News Moving to the arts but still with a " oftheWeird"andofcourse, Rolling Stone: religious theme, Philbrook Museum opens : "Prominent ’Christian’ radical right an Italian Old Masters drawing exhibit in psychologist Patti Cameron told Rolling May.TheexhibitfeaturesworksbyCrespi, Stone magazine that he feared Gay sex Luti, Cambiaso andCantafiniandTiepolo would supplant heterosexual sex unless a and will hang from May 9 to Sept. 12. vigilant society repressed it. ’Marital sex Philbrook is at 2727 Rockford Rd. tends toward the boring,’ he said. Gilcrease Museum continues to ’Generally, it doesn’t deliver the kind of eelebrateits50thanniversarywithashow sheer sexual pleasure that homosexual opening on May 16th. ’q’aos Artists and sex does.’ ’If all one seeks is an orgasm,’ Their Patrons,1898 -1950" was organized he said, ’the evidence is that men do a by the Snite Museum at Notre Dame U. betterjobonmen, andwomenonwomen.’ but draws on the collections at the Metro- ’Homosexuality,’ he said, ’seems too politan, the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa powerful to resist.’ " Fe, the Harwood Museum of the Amazing. Time to set up more University of New Mex-ico in Taos, recruitment stations. With publicity like Chicago’s Art Institute and more. The this,ourplantorulethewofldwillproceed show parti-cularly explores the much faster... - TFN editors TOHR & Cimarron Alliance present A Black Tie Optional Dinner with US Congressman Barney Frank 4th District, Massachusetts Saturday, June 12, 1999 Greenwood Cultural Center 322 North Greenwood Dinner and cash bar cocktails: $50 Dinner and cocktails with the Congressman: $125 Information: 743-4297 1 WORKIHG CLASS HEROES.IMAGES FROM THE POPULAR CULTURE Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art 410 W. Boyd The University of OklaSoma TULSA-TheCouncil OakMen’s Chorale will present it’s spring concert "MUSIC" to be held on May 7 and 8, 1999, at All Soul’s Unitarian Church, 2952 S. Peoria. Concerts on both evenings will begin at 7 PM. Advance tickets are available from The Pride Store, chorale members or by contacting the COMC Ticket Office at 585-COMC. Tickets will alsobeavailable atthedoor. Tickets areS 10.00andadvance purchase is recommended due to sdl-out audiences at previous events. The program will feature a variety, of musicfrom"Swell the Full Chorus"by G. F. Handel, to 60’s sensation’q’umArotmd, Look at Me". "Our audiences have come to expect the Standard choral repertoire ¯ with an occasional twist of humor that ¯ only the men of Council Oak can do so ¯ eloquently.., trust me, concert-goers will not be disappointed," said Rick Former, ¯ Jr., Artistic Director. ¯ Recently, members of Council Oak Men’s Chorale performed on the floor of ¯ the Oklahoma State House of ¯ Representatives as a lobbying effort for ¯ passage of House Bill 1211. The work performed there, ’Wile Voice," was an ¯ original composition by chorale member : Greg Davis, and will also be given its ¯ concert premiere on May 7 & 8. -" . Don’t miss the opportunity to enjoy an ¯ evening of beautiful and exciting music ¯ performed by Tulsa’s all-male chorus, ¯ Council Oak Men’s Chorale. Jg t, goddesses fIaJrttappyHour Tuesday&Thursday 3pm toSpm 835-5563 1247 Si Harvard, Tulsa, NearTO PRIDE ’99 "PRIDEFUL PAST... POWERFUL FUTURE! TULSA’S FIRST ANNUAL PARADE W/GRAND MARSHALL REP. BARNEY FRANK (D) BEGINS@ 10:00 AM @ 38th & PEORIA ENDING AT VETERANS PARK TULSA’S EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL PICNIC VETERANS PARK: -NOON - 5:00 JUNE 12th PRESENTED BY: TULSA OKLAHOMANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS SPONSORED BY: BUD LIGHT & MCC UNITED FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL 918-743-4297 Sing Out, Sing Out, Wherever You Are! Our voices comfort those in pain Our voices combat oppression Our voices educate the ignorant Our voices inspire Our voices win freedom The Council Oak Men’s Chorale is a dedicated group of gay men united to present a positive image for ourselves, our community and society as a whole through excellence in the performance of choral music. Open Rehearsal Monday, May 17, 7 PM Hope Unitarian Church -For information on becoming a member call (918) 585-COMC Now it is time for our voices to be heard. ~= SUNDAYS Bless the Lord At All Times Christian Center Sunday School - 9:45am, Service - 11 am, 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815 Community of Hope (Welcoming), Service - 6pro, 2545 S. Yale, 585-1800 Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation Service - llam, 2545 S. Yale, 749-0595 Church of the Restorhtion Unitarian Universalist Service - 11am, 1314 No. Greenwood, 587-1314 Metropolitan Community Church United Service, llam, 1023 North Maplewood, Info: 838-1715 House of the Holy Spirit Ministries, Inc. Sunday School - 9:45am, Service - 10:45am, 3210b So. Norwood Parish Church of St. Jerome (Evangelical Anglican Church in America) Mass - 1 lam, 205 W. King (east of No. Denver), Info: 582-3088 University of Tulsa BisexuaULesbian/Gay/Transgendered Alliance 6:30 pm, Meets at the Canterbury Ctr., 5th & Evanston, 583-9780 Council Oak Men’s Chorale, rehearsals at 5pro, Info: 585-COMC (2662) ~ MONDAYS Mixed Volleyball, Helmerich Park, 71st & Riverside, 6pm, call Shawn at 243-5190. I!IV Testing Clinic, Free & anonymous tesdng. No appointment required. Walk in testing: 7-8:30pm, 834-TEST (8378) 3501 E. Admiral (east of Harvard) HIV Rap Sessions at Bless the Lord At All Times Christian Center 7:30pm, 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815 PFLAG, Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians & Gays 2nd Mon/each mo. 6:30pm, Fellowship Congregational Church, 2900 S. Harvard Women/Children & AIDS Committee, call for meeting date, noon, 585-5551 ~ TUESDAYS AIDS Coalition of Tulsa, call for next meeting date~ 1430 S. Boulder, 585-5551 Live And Let Live, Community of Hope United Methodist, 7:30pro, 2545 S. Yale Multienltural AIDS Coalition, call for next meeting date. 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Admiral Oklahoma Rainbow Young Adult Network (O’RYAN) Support/social group for 18-24’s, call Red Rock Mental Health at 584-2325 Substance Abuse Support Group for persons with HIV/AIDS, Info: 834-4194 ~= FRIDAYS SafeHaven, Young Adults Social Group, tst Fri/each mo. 8pm, Pride Ctr., 1307 E. 38th ~ SATURDAYS Narcotics Anonymous, 11 pm, Community of Hope, 1703 E. 2nd, Info: 585-1800 Lambda A-A, 6 pm, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th, 2nd fl. ~P OTHER GROUPS T.U.L.S.A. Tulsa Uniform & Leather Seekers Association, info: 838-1222 Gal-A-Vanting, Womens Social & Cultural Group Call for info: Mary at 743-6740, Kathy at 322-6322, or Barb at 459-6825. OK Spoke Club, Gay & Lesbian Bike Organization. Long and short rides. Write for info: PUB 9165, Tulsa, OK 74157 Ifyour organization is not listed, please let us know. Call 583-1248 orfax 583-4615. READ ALL ABOUT IT Reviewed b2 Barry Hensley Tulsa City-County Library Major publishers are finally beginning to recognize the importance of lavender money! Thepopular series ofJ. K. Lasser’s financial guides now includes Gay and Lesbian topics, and none too soon. It is often mentioned, by political friends andfoes alike, that Gays and Lesbians have a lot of expendable income. Here is a book to help you put together a rosy financial future, regardless ofhow much money you’re making right now. Through aseries of charts and sample worksheets, you’ll learnhow toprepareforbuying a house, starting a business, saving for a vacation and, yes, retirement. Although many people share similar financial goals, Lesbians and Gay men need to approach the topic differently than straight ¯ people. The most obvious concerns are the legal barriers that prevent Gay andLesbian couples from participating in the financial benefits of .marriage. In addition, most rnsurance and benefit programs do not yet include same sex couples. Although some people are not planning to retire, some of us are! There~sagoodchapteronpreparing for retirement. (Hint: As youalready know, the earlier you start, the easier it will be.) The scary part of this is estimating how long you’ll live after retirement, and how much income you will need. The charts to determine these figures are fairy simple, I can no longer accept the personal risk my participation on the Board requires. I hope that my colleagues, many of whom are working very hard and responsibly, will push for information and accountability in the planning process. In dosing, I want to assure you that the- Task Force will be visible at the Millennium March on Washington to encourage Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered people from around the country to continue their work through state andlocal organizing. They will come to Washington to experience thepower of gathering in their nation’s capital, to feel strength in numbers, and to create a show of force for the GLBT community. We will be persistent in our efforts to ensure that the energy and momentum of the March cames to local communities. The fmancial commitments madebythe March .Board to organizations dedicated to statewide organizingand people of color organizing could:be the finest legacy the March will leave to our movement. If significant changes are made in the March planning and organizing, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force will gladly considerrejoining theplanning efforts for the Millennium March on Washington. In the meantime, we will advocate for the inclusibn of our entire community in the March process and for the linking ofour agenda to those of other movements for social justice. We hope ¯ although you will need to check with the ¯ Social Security Administration to ¯ determine your probable Social Security ¯¯ benefits during retirement.When youplug the numbers in, you’ll probably be ¯ horrified toseehow muchmoney, adjusted ¯ for inflation, you will need for a Although many similar f’inanelal goals, Lesbians and Gay men need to approael~ t]ae topic dffIerently tha. straiSht ~ple. The most concerns are l~al that prevent Gay and L~blan "~ouvl~ from ~rtlei~tln$ the flnanelal benefit~ .o~ marriage. comfortable retirement. Start saving right now ! Achieving your financial goals is never easy, and rarely fun. There is a chapter on investing money in mutual funds, stocks,moneymarkets, etc., thatis sure to please all of you business majors and numbercrunchers. For therest of us, however, it is astonishingly boring, but necessary reading. Different insurance situations (life, property, auto, disability) are also addressed, as is the inevitable topic of estate planning. As difficult as it may be, it is necessary for every individual to have a valid, up to date will. The possible legal disputes that arisefrompoorestate planning canquickly wipe out any assets you may have built. Don’t let it happen to you, or your significant other! Although the topic is never muchfun, it is vitally important that everyone, regardless of orientation, age or marital : status, address their financial planning needs. This is a good, basic book to help you start thinking about the unthinkable. ." Cheek for this title and others on similar ¯ topics at your local library, or call the Readers Services departmentatthe Central ~ Library at 596-7966. : theseissues will be reflected in the March : planning and agenda. ¯ - Kerry Lobel, Executive Director ¯ MaineTown Passes Rights Protections ¯ FALMOUTH, Maine (AP) - The Town ¯ Council has unammously adopted an ¯ ordinance that bars discrimination based ¯ on sexual orientation, but a conservative ¯ activists says he will try to overturn the : decision in a June referendum. The 7-0 ¯ vote followed remarks by speakers on ¯ both sides of the civil-rights issue. ¯ Mark Finks, a leader of the opposition, : vowed to continue a petition campaign ¯ that would seek to overulrn the ordinance ¯ in a June election. ¯ Councilor Jacob Manheimer said he ¯ wouldnot be intimidated by Finks’ threat. ¯ "Let’s adopt the ordinance, but put it ¯ squarely to the people if they want to ¯ repeah"t,"he stu" d. CouncM" orJohnHobson ¯ said the vehemence of the ordinance’s ¯ opponents convinced him the law was ." necessary. Councilor Dolores Vail told ." the crowd ofnearly 50people that she has ¯ a grown Gay son who straggled with his ¯ identity as a teen-ager. She said shehoped ¯ the ordinance will help families accept ." Gay members and stop "people beating ¯ upontheirchildrenanddisowuing them." ¯ The ordinance prohibits discrimination ." based.on sexual orientation in areas of ¯ employment, housing, credit, education ¯ and public accommodations. Red Rock Tulsa Free Confidential HIV Testing Walk-in Clinics Tuesday Testing, 5 -8 pm Pride Center, 1307 East 38th Wednesday Testing, 5-8 pm Red Rock, 1724 East 8th Daytime appointments available. 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Now that you’ ve gotten ),our cupboards in the kitchen all spruced up, it’s amazing how, well. dingy the counter tops look now. And the sink looks about as stained as Redneck Bubba’s teeth, what there are of them. That’s the down-side of a drawn out, stage by stage renovation - until you’re finished, youjust have to putup with it. Hm, that sounds like a straight girl’s commentary on sex, but we just won’t go there. Instead, we’ll go to the old drawing board and look at our options for counter tops. As usual, it will be time to review the budget and sharpen the old pencil when it comes down to making your choice. The constraints of this column don’t allow me to teach you about installing prelaminated counter tops or tiling, but fortunately, there are several large home improvement stores who will help you out with classes and videos, so for the skilled and intrepid, your ¯ options- and savings- will be greater. And strictly from an aesthetic view point, there are usually lots of other ’Tamily" there, so happy cruising. Honey, they don’t call it "Homo" Depot for nothin’.The DIYD blushes to admit that more than tool lust carries her thither on a regular basis. But yourDIYD digresses. Yes, you can call in Surface Doctor or a resurfacing company of that ilk, butby the time it’ s all said and done, you might just as wall pay for a new surface. Of course, check it out anyway, but please review your options before buying.Dating should be the same way, but hopefully, you’ll show a bit more discipline - if you’re the impetuous sort. So that leaves you with the option of removing the oldcounter top andreplacing it with prdaminated counters, or tiling over the old laminate, if it is only ugly but not warped or popping up. You can also remove the old counter top, replace the surface and tile from scratch, but why don’t we save that kind of labor for later? The easiest optionmaybe replacing the counter tops. If you have a relatively uncomplicated lay out, with counters no more than 10 foot long at a run, then you can go and buy the counter top from a largehomeimprovement store. Some will do themitercut and cutouts for sink,range or whatever; others won’t, but can recommend someone who will do two miters [one comer] and a sink cutout for about $40,whichisn’tbad:Itis remarkably easy to install these counters yourself if YcoachOUhave a simple L, and the store will youonwhatto do. The backsplashes come pre-rolled inmost cases, so you can finish them off with a smart little bead of caulk. If your counter top layout is more complicated or longer, you will have to have the counter tops custom made, and possibly even installed by a contractoI butthat will bepartof yourreview process. : Tiling over is an option if the counter is ¯ basically sound - the base must be : absolutely sound and solid to work. : Darlings, I know some of us prefer to be more loose and fluid, but save that viewpoint for the finer things in life. Once again, yourhomeimprove-ment store will bemore than happy to help out And strletly from an aesthetle v~ew point, there are usually lots of other "fatally" there, so happy erulsln~. Honey, they don’t call it "Homo" Depot for nothln’. The DIYD blushes to admit that more than tool lust earrles her tldther on a regular basis. with classes, advice and other resources - they want to sell you the materials, remember? Keep in mind when buying the tile that if you go with lower-end, cheaper tiles fethe most part and then use the horrendously expensive accent tiles, the job will be more economical overall, and quite attractive, to boot. You will be applying a thinset mortar, then your tiles and then grouting the next day. Consider using a darker grout, or avoid white all together, because darlings,itjustdoesn’, t age well, even after sealing the grout. And if you tile, you will seal the grout, won’t you? The DIYD does not tolerate whining from those who choose not to follow her sage wisdom. The DIYD cannot recommend highly enough that you buy a long level and using it for setting up your lines. Also, lay out the tiles dry and see if a little rearranging of the cross lines , won’t make for an easier job. Sometimes ¯ working off of true center is not best, : especially if you’re cutting tiny pieces of file. ¯ Realizing she hasn’t been of much : practical help at all, the DIYD wishes you : a fond bon voyage on your trip to the ¯ home improvement center until she : astounds and amazes youagainnextmonth : when she has you on your knees on the floor. The mere thought of it makes her ¯ purr with anticipation... : ¯" Hispanic and Native American Women ¯ Speak Out; Expanding Clinical Trials and ¯ Treatment Research for Women; Special ¯ Issues for Children in Families Affected ¯" by HIV/AIDS; The lank Between HIV Infection, Violence Against Women, ¯ Homelessness and Substance Abuse; and ~ HIV Programs for Women: A Fdnder’s ¯ Perspective. ’This conference will allow ~ us a chance to look at the progress thathas ~ been made over the years, and the ¯ challenges which still confront us when ~ dealing with women and AIDS," says ¯ Nicklas. ¯ Conferenceregistrationfeeis $35before ¯¯ May 20 or $40 after May 20. The fee for the luncheon only is $15. Special student ," rates are available. Seating is limited. ¯ Some confidential scholarships for ¯" housing, transportation and conference fees are availableforHIV positivewomen. ¯ Call 585-5551 ext. 231 to receive an ¯ application. Arespiteroom and child eare ¯ are available for HIV positive women. ¯ Formore information or to register, call ¯ 585-5551. Workshop topics will include: Breaking the Silence - White, Mrican American, by Esther Rothblum. Ph.D. . Research begins to happen when the There has been some speculation about : governmentputs funds behindit, andright whether Lesbians are at higher or lower ¯ now the Institute of Medicine of the riskforbreastcaneerthanareheterosexual : National Academy of Science has women. Buttherehasbeenlittleresearch. ;. publishedareportOnLesbianhcalthwhich Now Dr. Deborah Bowen, a psychologist at the Fred Hutchin~nCancerResearch Center and a member of the Lesbian Health Research ¯ Institute, is conducting researchonbreastcancerthat includes Lesbians. "Five years ago, this was guess-work; there was no data," shetoldme in a recent interview. "At my Cancer Center, we do a lot of research about the causes of breast cancer and how to prevent breast cancer. There are many experts on breast cancer, so I had a lot of colleagues I could talk to about my ideas about Lesbians andbreast cancer." In talking with Lesbians, Dr. Bowen realized that the commonperception was that breast cancer was more frequent among Lesbians and that perception was frightening to Lesbians. As a scientist, she knew there was no proof yet one way or the other. "That’s when I beganthinking thatwecould make some in-roads into this," she said, "either by collecting new data on Lesbians or else by including questions about sexual orientation into existing studies." Dr. Bowen has done both - she has written research grants to fund studies specifically onLesbians andbreast cancer and also begun to examine sexual orientationin somelarge-scale community surveys on hundreds of thousands of women. "Thebiggestriskfactorforgetting breast cancer is being a woman," Dr. Bowen said, "and the second biggest risk factor is age. Even though we hear a lot about younger women getting breast cancer, it is really a disease of older women. And the problem is that very few people have studied older women who are past menopause. So wedon’ t evenknow much about breast cancer in womenin general." Other risk factors for breast cancer are having a family history of breast cancer. "Having a close or even a distant relative who has had breast cancer is now known to ~put women at higher risk for breast c~._cer, but we don’t know much about why this is so," Dr. Bowen continued. "Much of the research has focused on women Who have multiple relatives with breast cancer~ but that only accounts for abOut 4% of all women. What about the womanwhohada great-atmtMatildawho had breast cancer? How does Aunt Matilda’ s breast cancer transfer to her?" Cancer researchers are also. beginning to learn more about environmental exposures, "the toxins, chemicals, and maybe even the radiation that we experience, some ofit naturally occurring and some it put there by technology" as Dr. Bowen described it, "but we don’t how andwedon’ tknow whenthe exposure to these environmental factors has to occur inorder tobecomeariskforbreastcancer." The theory goes that ff Lesbians have a harder tlme finding affordable and affirmative cheek-ups, then they may he less likely to have mammo~rams or to interact with a health provider in a Way that would help with early diagnosis. So it may be that Lesbians aren’t at hi’her risk for breast eaneer, just that Lesbians don’t get good health eare . . . will stimulate research on Lesbian health issues. Dr. Bowen said: "It’ s expensive to do this kind of research. You have to have lots of money to call up 20,000 women, and with breast cancer you have to call a lot of women in order to reach somewhohave thedisease." Dr. Bowen’s research team now asks about sexual orientation inboth paper and pencil surveys and in telephone interviews. They ask this in two ways - by asking about identity (do women identify as heterosexual, bisexual, Lesbian, or other) and also by asking about sexual behavior. "ffwe only ask the former, we lose women who have sex with women but don’t identify as Lesbian, and .if we just ask about sexual behavior we lose womenwho are notcurrently sexually active," she explained. Dr. Bowen thinks there are two camps of thoughts in the Lesbian community about breast cancer. ,One has to do with reproductive ¯ factors. FewerLesbians have children than ¯ do heterosexual women. The ’fewer’ can ¯ range from about 36% to about 60% of Lesbians whohave had children. Whereas ¯¯ with heterosexual women it’s actually quitehigh-between 80-90% of all women ¯ havehad children. Nothaving had children : or having had children late aright be a ¯ factor in developing breast cancer. ¯ Pregnancy might cease certain hormones ¯ that are linked to the development of ¯ breast cancer." ~ "The other camp of thought has to do ¯ with access to reliable, good, open, access ¯ to health care," Dr. Bowen said, "and ¯ Lesbians may not have such access. We ¯ know that if cancer is caught at a later ¯ stage when it has had more chance to ¯ growandspreadtootherpartsofthebody, ¯ it’ s harder to treat and can’t be treated as ~ wall. The theory goes that if Lesbians : have a harder time finding affordable and ," affirmative check-ups, then they may be ¯ less likely to have m~mmograms or to ¯ interact with a health provider in a way ¯ that wouldhelp with early diagnosis. Soit ¯ may be that Lesbians arCh’ t at higher risk ¯ for breast cancer, just that Lesbians don’t ¯ get good health care and are likely to be ¯ diagnosed with breast cancer at a later ¯ stage when it is harder to treat." ¯" I asked Dr. Bowen what she would ¯ reconamend that health care professionals ¯ do to increase the comfort of Lesbian ¯ patients. Her suggestions: "The person : who comes to a doctor has to trust that ¯ doctor and she has to feel comfortable ¯ bringing scary problems to that doctor. ¯ And I’m hypothesizing that one of the ~ problems bringing up sexual orientation : in a health care setting is that you aright ¯ feel okay saying you have a cold or a : stomach ache, see Psyche, p. 13 IGTA Calmlem3b4er1.686’6[ .~~.~~ International ToursSormoreinSormation. Red Rock Tulsa O’RYAN Oklahoma Rainbow Young Adult Network Outreach Program Thurs. 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His parents expect him to marry and if he returns to Pakistan he knows he ..would find tfimself quickly caught up in an arranged mamage with some woman selected by his father. So he remains in San Francisco, despite his homesickness, hoping to arrange his ownmamage- but withaman. Ahmad’ s problem is shared by the characters of a recently publishednovel that deals with Gay lifein India, P. Parivaraj’ s ~restern stories of romantic love, and the emergence of a separate Gay identity are powerful notions that have spread Oobally. Shiva and Arun. In this book, a group of Hindu and Muslim schoolboys face difficult challenges related to their homosexuality. They can only be honest with each other about their desires that they hide from family and even their closest friends. After leaving school, one is fired when his boss discovers his sexual orientation. All of them are pressured by family to marry and have children. One is rejected by his father when he refusesto do so. Another gives in and is only able to have awkwardsex withhis new wifeby thinking -. of his boyfriend. He soon kills himsdf. Marriage has failed to quell his homosexual desire. I discussed Shiva and Arun with a Gay colleague who has lived in India. Based on his experience (some of thi.s rather intimate), .my colleague argued that the novel’ s tragic suicide is unbelievable. He has met hundreds of happily married homosexual Indian men who juggle parallel lives with wife and children in public, and discrete sexual encounters with men in private. Almost all Indian and Pakistani men - whether they desire womenormen- marry without complaint as the normal, human thing to do. Those who want sex withmen can easily pick up partners by cruisi,ng in appropriate places. Stephen Murray s 1997 book, Islamic Homosexualities, describes street corners in Karachi where men drive by to find dates. I asked Ahmad why he just didn’t give in and go home, make his dad happy by getting married, and find an occasional lover on the highway roundabouts. He replied gloomily that he couldn’ t do this. He wants instead to live as what he really is, a Gay man. He is exiled in California, torn between family duties and personal desire. Shiva andArun taps into this sentiment - a model of Gayness that is recently "diffusing" (as anthropologists put this) from West to East. Parivaraj seemingly rejects the conclusion that Indians have borrowed Western patterns of sexuality. None of his characters identifies himself as"Gav,." Pather, they are "menwho love men." Still,he clearlyhas adoptedWestern concepts of individuality and romantic love. Two of his boys manage to find happiness in the end. They fall in love, leave their families, and move in with their boyfriends to establish at least quasipublic homosexual households. The notion of long-term household relations between two men founded in corner before going home to wife and kids is no longer good enough. . Previously, in many societies, even if you were a man-loving-man, there was no obvious alternative to what ¯ all men did. You accepted the woman that your parents arranged for you and you served your family by fathering children. In future, however, there may be more and more Ahmads who are unwilling to go along with traditional ¯ " expectations. Western stories of romantic : love and the emergence of a separate Gay ¯ identity are powerful notions that have ¯ spread globally. , When one of Parivaraj’s young men breaks with his parents by confessing that ¯ he loves men, they think he must be a ¯ transvestite prostitute -the only local ¯ gender category they have available to try ¯¯ tounderstandhim. Buthe snot. Although ¯ hemay not call it thus, he has adopted the Western identity "Gay" that is : fundamentally defined by a romantic ¯ desire for boyfriends. ¯ Those ofus who celebrate individuality ¯ andlovemight applaud Abroad’ s coura.ge ¯ at defying his father, abandoning his mother and sisters, and casting himself : into Gay-dating hell - that horribly lonely ¯ search for romance. ¯ In my more paranoid moments, ¯ however, I worry about the recent ¯ proliferation and spread ofall sorts ofnew social identities, including "Gay." The ¯ global economic system in large part depends on the cultivationof multiple and ¯ splintered identities that serve-as niche ¯ markets for its goods. : So, in addition to all the foods, and ¯ clothing, and furniture, and art, andmusic ¯ that Ahmad seems to need to buy in order ¯ to demonstrate his Gayness, I pray thathe can manage to snag a boyfriend. But he : already knows that they can cost a lot. ¯ Lamont Lindstrom is a professor of ¯ anthropology at the University of Tulsa. ¯ However, this semester he is teaching at "~ the University ofCalifornia, in Berkeley. ¯ but not that you want the provider to feel your breast, for example. Lesbians might also worry that the provider might force them to use high-tech solutions for their ¯ problem when they would prefer to begin ¯ with alternative solutions. Lesbians often ¯ have good reason got to trust ’the system’ ¯ and right now the solutions we have for ¯ breast cancer have to with technology, : such as chemotherapy, radiation, or ¯ surgery." She also recommends that ¯ Lesbians look for open, trustworthy ¯ providers if these exist’ in their ¯ communities. : Esther Rothblum is Professor of Psychology at the University of Vermont i and Editor Of the Journal of Lesbian : Studies.ShecanbereachedatJohnDewey : Hall, UniversityofVermont, Burlington, : VT, email: esther.rothblum@uvm.edu. If the hate crimes bill passes the Senate, where it has been in committee, it will ¯come before Bush who can either veto it or sign it into law. "Wehope the state Senate and Governor Bush will follow the leadoftheHouseand the people of Texas and pass hate crimes legislation," said Birch. At aWashington press conference last month, family members of twohate crimes victims announced their supportforfederal and state hate crimes legislation. Both Judy Shepard, mother of University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard, and Darrell Verrett, nephew of Jasper, Texas resident James Byrd Jr., urged Bush to pass the Texas legislation. As reported in The Dallas Morning News, in 1997 - the most recent year for available statistics-360 hate crimes were reported in Texas. The Department of Public Safety reported that 167 crimes were directed againstAfrican-Americans; 64 against Gays and Lesbians; 22 against Hispamcs; and 21 against Jews. Theeffort to pass hate crimes legislation is led by Dianne Hardy Garcia, executive director of the Lesbian and .Gay Rights Lobby of Texas and state Rep. Senfronia Thompson, D~Texas, Chair, Judicial Affairs Committee. ’q~he incredible leadership of Dianne Hardy Garcia and Representative SenfroniaThompsonhas madeit po,s.sible for the House to-take this great stride forward," said Birch. ’q’his is a textbook example of how effective engagement in thepolitical process throughlobbying and education can have a significant societal impact. Today, millions ofTexans are one step closer to receiving protection from hate violence." Only 21 states have hate crimes laws that include sexual orientation and eight s.tates havenohate crimes laws. Nationally, since 1981, hate crimes have nearly doubled. In 1997 - the FBI’s most recent reporting period-race-related hate crimes were byfarthemostcommon,representing nearly60% ofall cases. Hate crimes based on religion represented 15% of all cases. And hate crimes against Gay, lesbian and bisexual Americans increased by 8% - or about 14% of all hate crimes reported. The Scripps Howardpoll of 1,003 adults was conducted by telephone, March 30- April 17. It has amargin of error ofplus or minus 3 percentage points. The home can hold up to 6 or 7 kids from infants to older, and is filled with plenty, of toys. and a nice, little backyard for play. The operation will belicensed andbonded, and one of the morns is qualified to work with special education and hearing impaired children. And in a very 90’s touch, they are considering adding an internet camerawhichwouldallow parents who have web access at work to log into a web site and checkon~ their kids!. GLAD, Ga)~. & ~bian-Daycare ~il1 als0 ~b~a [~t[¢: 1:~§~ ;expensi.ve~ than~ comparable:qUality opera.tions. The ~riollgrcahmar.gwehi$c1h0i0s dpueer two eoepkenvemrsidu-sMtahye $125phis which Teresa andJoan found to be more common. And they are willing to provide evening and weekend care by special arrangement. GLAD,’s orgamzers will be having a special garage sale on May7th&8thto help kickofftheprogram. For more information, call 808-8026. Good Food, Good Service, No Anti-Gay Attitude Tulsa’s neverhad that many choices for late night dining but now, with Burger Sisters,just opened the last week ofApril, Tulsa’s Gay community not only can get good food but be treated right in the process.. John Rothrock and Steve Walley, owners of the Silver Star, just down the way in the same shopping center, have opened a "comfortable, clean" restaurant. Rothrock notes that the restaurant welcomes all, Gays, straights, young and old but especially, it will be a place where Gay people can be free and comfortable to hold hands or to come in late from the clubs in drag or leather and not be hassled. In other words, straight people are welcome - as long as they behave themselves ! Rothrock notes, "it’s time for Gays to grasp the respect we’ve earned.., not tO be ashamed..." and he adds, "when you eat here, you don’t have to hide who you are. Burger Sisters, which opens at 6am offers a typical, "downhome" breakfasts, hamburgers, fries, salads as wall as a daily dinner special. Monday to Thursday, the cafe will be open till 10pro. OnFriday and saturday, they’ll stay open till 4am and Sunday, the hours will be 10am - 3pro (all subject to some change, after all they’ve been open only a few days when this goes to press). At this point, the cafe accepts only cash, no credit cards but their prices are very reasonable. Burger Sisters is located at 1545 So. Sheridan, just north a few doors from the Silver Star. Tel: 835- 1207. Four Years They’re There, One Night They’re Gone According to some of their now exstaff, Concessions, for more than four years one of Tulsa’s largest dance clubs closed precipitously the last Saturday of April. Andindeed, the business signs have been removed from the building. One local bar observer said that rumors in the club crowd suggested that the business was plagued by legal costs associated with an ongoing lawsuit. A member of the former bar staff stated that they were givenjust one hour notice of the loss of their jobs. Other members of the Gay community suggest that the owners of Oklahoma City’s Angles have been said to be trying to expand their operation into Tulsa for a number ofmonths. Theirnames also have been mentioned as possible buyers of Concessions’ equipment or lease. However, other real estate watchers wonder if the gentrification of Brookside may result in that space being leased to other uses. Under the direction of Lewis Routh, OneFoolis fast-paced and wildly original. 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Gay US Congres.sman Crime Amendment, HB1.211 :: TULS, FranktoAttend Pr,de’99 A -.~Wl~i,’le some details remain unresolved, by Tim Talley and Tom Neal WASHINGTON (AP) - Oregon Sens. Ron.Wyden and Gordon Smith are renewing their campaign for an expanded, federal hate crimes statute, hoping that public outrage over the torture and murder of black and Gay men will spur passage. "This is about drawing a line in the sand and saying America.is too good.., to look the other way in the face of violent, hate-filled acts," said Wyden, a Democratic cosponsor of the Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 1999, a replica of last year’s bill. Last month in Texas, John William King, a white supremacist, was sentenced to death for chaining a black man, James Byrd Jr., behind a pickup truck and dragging him to his death. Two men have been charged in the October slaying of Gay colleg.. , student Matthew .Shepard, who was pistol-whipped and’lashed to a fence m Wyoming. Two men also have been charged with beating to death a Gay textile worker, Billy Jack Gaither, in Alabama last month and burning his body on a pile of tires. Sen. Gordon Smith, another cosponsor of the bill, said that as a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee he often travels abroad and deplores hate crimes in other nations, see Federal, p. 3 OKLAHOMA CITY (AP/TFN)- Hate crimes legislationis dead : Tulsa s Pride 99 organizers have announced that in the Oklahoma Legislature this year following defeat of a bill : .openly .Gay US...Congress.man, Barney Frank of Mass,ach,nsetts will .attend this that originally sought to add sexual orientation to the state’s list year s June 12th event. of hate erimes, An unprecedented number of supporters, including members ~ongressman Frank is _one of me most respected l)emoof Gay and Lesbian groups and representatives of religious _cra~cme..mbers of ~e,,United organizations such as TulSa Metropolitan Ministry, went to the ~ tate.s Hou,s e ox,,~, epreCapitol early in March to encourage lawmakers to support House sentataves ana is well ~nown Bill 1211. for his skilled and often But the bill’s sponsor, Tulsa Rep. Don Ross said there was not scathing debate. enough bipartisan support to add sexual orientation to the Mitchell Savage, member Oklahoma Hate Crimes Act. "I said from the beginning I would of Tulsa Gay Community not allow this issue to become a partisan wedge issue, used Services Center’s Pride ’99 planning committee, exclusively against Democrats in the next election," Ross said. also noted that in addition to attending the annual The vote killing the bill followed more than an hour of Tulsa Pride Picnic, planned again.for Veterans sometimes passionate debate between supporters, who said that Park at 18th and Boulder, organizers are working certain classes of people deserve special protection, and opponents on a dinner at which the Congressman would likely who argued that all citizens should be treated equally under the speak and possibly a Sunday morning event. law. The bill’s final version would have made a first-offense hate Congressman Frank was graduated in 1962 from crime a felony and provided for enhanced penalties when~iolence Harvard University and taught undergraduates there was used but did not add "sexual orientation" to the existing law. while studying for a Ph.D. Before completing his Rep. Leonard Sullivan said the measure was divxsive and Ph.D. degree, Frank became Chief Assistant to singled out certain groups for special treatment. The Oklahoma Mayor Kevin White of Boston. In 1972, Hate Crimes Act distinguishes offenses committed because of Congressman Frank was elected to the race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin and disability. But Massachusetts Legislature, where he served for supporters said special status has been given to crimes against eight years, until 1980. During that time, he entered children and women, and that similar recognition is needed for Harvard Law School in September, 1974 and other groups because of who or what they are. graduated in 1977. In 1980, Congressman Frank "The law is an equalizing force," argued Ross, who is one of was elected to the US House of Representatives. In three Black House members. "The idea of equal protection is a a recent evaluation of Congress, The Almanac of very noble concept," but it is up to lawmakers to make it work, American Politics said "Frank is one of the said Rep. Russ Roach, D-Tulsa. "This legislation protects all intellectual and political leaders of the Democratic people," added Rep. John Sellers, D-Enid. Party in the House, political theorist :andpit bull at Ross’ substitute bill deleting ~exual orientation was drafted in the same time." Frank serves on the Judiciary and response to the Christian Coalition opposition. Toure said fear, the Banking Financial Services Committees. hatred and misunderstanding are to blame for dropping sexual For more information, contact the Community orientation from the measure. "I never knew the hatred toward Center at 743-4297. Gay people as I do now," Ross said. Alabama Man Murdered in Anti-Gay Hate crime BTW Boasts OK’s First Gay-Straight Alliance BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - An overflow crowd of mourners filled Covenant Metropolitan Community Church, honoring the memory of Billy Jack Gaither while also calling for an end to hatred against Gays. There was no standing room at the 225-seat church as 17 speakers mostly clergy - decried Gaither’s death. A handful of anti-Gay protesters picketed outside. Steven Eric Mullins, 25, and Charles Monroe Butler, 21,.confessed to beating the 39-year-old Sylacauga man to death with an ax handle last month and setting his body on fire atop kerosene-soaked tires because, they claimed, he made a pass at one of them. Gaither’s body was discovered by a passer by Feb. 20 in Coosa County, a day after he was beaten and burned. "Mullins and Butler stated the reason they killed him was because he was a homosexual," said Coosa County sheriff’s deputy Al Bradley. "We believe this to be the true motive." Mnllins and Buffer remain in the Coosa County jail. Gaither met with the two men in Sylaeanga, a community about 40 miles southeast of Birmingham, on the night he was killed, police said. He had last been seenin a bar he frequented. According to the statements, Mullins called Gaither and asked him to go to the bar, where they met and.apparently left together, Johnson said. Authorities said the men apparently took Gaither . to a remote location, where the murder took place. ", The memorial service drew people of all races and ¯ ages, from all across the state, see Alabama, p. 13 ¯ DIRECTORY)LETtERS P. 2 ¯ EDITORIAL P. $ ¯ US & WORLD NEWS P. 4 ¯ HEALTH NEWS P. 6 ¯ ENTERTAINMENT P. 8 ¯ COMMUNITY CALENDAR P. 9 by Tom Neal TULSA - Elsewhere in the United States, high school Gay-Straight Alliances have often been met with considerable controversy. In Utah, some school districts got rid of all their campus organizations rather than allow a group which tries to support Gay young adults and foster tolerance andunderstanding. However, Booker T. Washington High School, Tulsa’s magnet showpiece school, appears to have avoided much of that sort of uproar and is thought to be the first high school with such an organization in the state of Oklahoma. Former Sapulpa High School student, Will Allen and Emily Sizemore began the work of creating a Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) latein 1998, meeting withformer BTW principal Mr. Stevens andt’mding a faculty sponsor, Doug Gronberg. Then in January this year, after creating flyers and making an public announcement on the school intercom, they held their first meeting. Much to the astonishment of Allen and Sizemore, 40 students showed up. In fact, Allen stated that the turnout was notable especially since that that first meeting conflicted with a tryout for the Washington Drama Club’s production of West Side Story: Apparently BTW’s Gay population is well represented in theDramaClub and therefore, many who might otherwise have been expected to attend weren’t able. Allen also notes that similar groups in Chicago and Boston frequently don’thave as many attending. Allen said that the GSA is comparable to other studentchapters on thecampus, suchas theNAACP see BTW,.p. 13 New Campaign for Federal Hate Crimes Law Passage DO-IT-YOURSELF-DYKE DYKE PSYCHE GAY STUDIES P. 11 P. 12 P. 14 ¯ ¯ ¯ o : ¯¯ ¯ : TOHR’ Steve Horn shivers with Cimarron Alliance’ Terry ¯ Gatewood andfriend at Equality Begins at Home Capitol rally, ¯ ¯ ¯ Reverend Leslie Penrose Resigns as Methodist Pastor ."¯ TULSA - On March 5,1999, the pastor of Community of Hope ¯ Base Shalom Congregation, the Reverend Leslie Penrose ¯¯ submitted a letter to Oklahoma MethodiSt Bishop, Bruce Blake ¯ initiating her withdrawal from the Methodist Church: The following is selections of her letter which circulated by e-mail in ¯ ¯ the Tulsa community: : Dear Friends and Colleagues, ¯ It is with prayers for its future well-being, that I initiate the processofwithdrawingfromtheUnitedMethodistChurch. The ¯ primary reason for my withdrawal after 18 years offull time ¯¯ ministry is the increasing focus on complaints and charges ¯ regarding my ministry of blessing same-sex covenant relationships.ltseemsthattheoptionshavefinallybeenreduced : to either withdrawing or preparing for trial. I simply will not ¯ participate inputting God’s grace- or myprivilege as apastor : to bless andcelebrateany andevery relationship where thefruits : of the spirit bear witness to that grace - on trial. Nor will I hide ¯ or lie about the ministry I do. From the time six years ago when I was sent by the Oklahoma Conference to create a reconciling base community ministry in Tulsa, see Penrose, p. 13 �Tulsa Clubs & Restaurants 832-1269 *Bamboo Lounge, 7204 E. Pine 592-2143 *Boston Willy’s Diner, 1742 S. Boston 744-0896 *Concessions, 3340 S. Peoria 599-9512 *Empire Bar, 1516 S. Peoria 583 -6666 *Full Moon Care, 1525 E. 15th 749-4511 *Gold Coast Coffee House, 3509 S. Peoria 585-3134 *Interurban Restaurant, 717 S. Houston 599-7777 *Jason’s Deli, 15th & Peoria 749-1563 *Lola’s, 2630 E. 15th 744-4280 "*Polo Grill, 2038 Utica Square *St. Michael’s Alley Restaurant, 3324-L E. 31st 745-9998 834-4234 *Silver Star Saloon, 1565 Sheridan 585-3405 *Renegades/Rainbow Room, 1649 S. Main 660-0856 *TNT’s, 2114 S. Memorial *Tool Box, 1338 E. 3rd 584-1308 " 918.583.1248, fax: 583.4615, POB 4140, Tulsa, OK74159 e-mail: TulsaNews@ earthlinlc net wobsito: http: [/users.aol.comiTulsaNews! Publisher + Editor: Tom Neal Writers + contributors: James Christjohn, Jean-Claude de Flambeauchaud Barry Hensley, J.-P. Legrandbouche, Lamont Lindstrom Esther Rothblum, Mary Schepers, Adam West God Would Never Advocate Hate I am not pointing fingers. I am pointing and pitching in. ¯It rained, and was quite cold and m~serable at Saturday ’s ("Equality Begins At Home") rally on the capitol steps..The graves of our Gay and African American martyrs inAlabama,Jasper, andWyoming are cold, lonely, and miserable. Why were Member of The Associated Press there only aprox. 300 folks at the capitol demanding that our innocent people’s Issued on or before the 1st of each month the entire contents of this executions stop? Where were you? pgblication are protected by US copyright 1998 by T~ ~:..~. N~ ,~ and may not be reproduced either in whole or in part without I will speak for myself. When Mathew ¯ Shepard died, Tulsa had a candlelight written permission from the publisher. ,Pub!ica.ti.o.n of~a name or . photo does not indicate a person’s sexua onentauon. ~,orresponvigil for him. It rained, and was nasty out Tulsa-Businesses, Services, & Professionals " . that evening, therefore, I decided toremain dence ~s assumed to be for publication unless otherwise noted,.rpust 747-1508 ¯ Advanced Wireless & PCS, Digital.Cellular 610-8510 " in the comfort of my warm home. After *Affinity News, 8120 E. 21 746-4620 " points. Additional copies are available by calling 583-1248. . seeing the number of folks from the Dennis C. Arnold, Realtor Westboro Baptist Church, that endured *Assoc. in Med. & Mental Health, 2325 S. Harvard 743-1000 ." the freezing rain at Mathew’s funeral - in 747-6827 Kent Batch & Associates, Health & Life Insurance 747-9506 ¯ :riend For A Friend, POB 52344, 74152 250-5034, " order to spew out hate and condemnation 582-0438 ~’Bames & Noble Booksellers, 8620 E. 71 712d122 : :riends in Unity Social Org., POB 8542, 74101 to the cold body of an innocent child- I felt 583-6611 Body Piercing by Nicole, 2722 E. 15 712-9955 : *HIV FaR Center, 4138 Chas. 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Maplewood 838-1715 749-3620 Are the "moral majority" of our lawmakers "748-3111 *Deco to Disco,.3212 E. 15th 587-2611- ¯ NAMES Project, 3507 E. Admiral P1. hate mongers? I Thank God for MC 365-5658 *Devena’s Gallery, 13 Brady 744-5556 "~ NOW, Nat’! Org. forWomen, POB 14068, 74159 Smothermon, Keith Smith, Paul Barby, Doghouse on Brookside, 3311 S. Peoria 838-8503 " OK Spokes Club (bicycling), POB 9165, 74157 and their likes. We need more folks like 584-7960 *Elite Books & Videos, 821 S. Sberidan *Our House, 1114 S. Quaker 584-0337, 712-9379 .: them at our capitol, to defend the rights of 749-4901 *Ross Edward Salon, 2447 E. 15th 744-9595 ¯ PFLAG, POB 52800, 74152 "minorities". We deserve better. Those 587-7674 *Floral Design Studio, 3404 S. P~eori~a _~ ~,~ 62823709. : *Planned Parenthood, 1007 S. Peoria who have died because of ignorant hate 743 -4297 Cathy Furlo~g_~ PIilD., 1980 Utica bq. lvte~. ~u. 742-1460 " *The Pride Center, 1307 E. 38, 2nd floor, 74105 deserved better. *Gloria Jeati s Gourmet Coffee, 1758 E. 21st Perhaps the world does not fully 459-9349 ¯ Prime-Timers, P.O. Box 52118, 74152 749-4195 Leanne M. Grbss, Insurance & financial planning 744-7440 ¯ *R.A.I.N., Regional AIDS Interfaith Network understand that hate crimes are committed 665~5174 Mark T. Ha~by,.Attorney : ¯ Rainbow Business Guild, POB 4106, 74159 every day. Our minority citizens are scared *Sandra Ji Hill, M~, Psychotherapy, 2865 E. Skelly 745-1111 584-2325 341-6866 " ~Red Rock Mental ¯Center, 1724 E. 8 to report attacks against themselves as *international T_o.urs O’RYAN, support.group for 18-24 LGBT young adults 712-2750 : such, because of further condemnation, or Jacox Animal Clinic, 2732 E. 15th O’UV~,N Jr suonort group for 14-17 LGBT youth . 582-3018 for lack of concern by law enforcement. 425 78 *Jared’s Antiques, 1602 E. 15th 747-0236 " St. Aidan’ s Eptscopal Church, 4045 N. Cmcaunat~ 492-7140 ¯¯ Folks are scared to speak up for equal David Kauskey, Country Club Barbering 599-8070 " *St. Dunstan’s Episcopal, 5635 E. 71st 582-3088 ¯ rights - for fear of what few rights they *Ken’s Flowers, 1635 E. 15 747-5466 : *St. Jerome’s Parish Church, 205 W. King currently have - will be torn away from 583-7171 Kelly Kirby, CPA, 4021 S. Harvard, #210 *Tulsa Area United Way, 1430 S. Boulder ¯ them as a result. Receiving a pink slip 585-1234 582-7225 *Living ArtSpace, 19 E. Brad), 584-3112 ". TNAAPP (Native American men). Indian Health Care ¯ from your employment, and adeath threat *MidtownTheater, 319 E. 3rd 663-5934 " Tulsa County Health Departme_nt, 4616 E. 15 , 59,5-4105 : because of standing up for.equal rights !s Mingo Valley Flowers, 9720c E. 31 Confidential HIV Testing - by appt. on Thursdays omy 664-2951 ~ i reality. I know from experience. There ~s *Mohawk Music, 6157 E 51 Place Tulsa Okla. for Human Rights, c/o The Pride Center 743.4297 747-6711 ~ ~ plenty of behind the scene workthatnee~,s Novel Idea Bookstore, 51st & Harvard 747-7672 ~ T.U.L.S.A. Tulsa Uniform/Leather Seekers Assoc. 838-1222 ¯ to be done, that will make a difference m David A. Paddock, CPA, 4308 S. Peoria, Ste. 633 838-7626 ¯ *Tulsa City Hall, Ground Floor Vestibule : your salvation - and the lives of those in es Puppy Pause II, 1060. S. Mingo 583-1090 ¯ *Tulsa Community College Campus ¯ danger of ignorant violence. *Peace of MindBookstore, 1401 E. 15 ~ 743429’7 : *Rogers University (formerly UCT) I know of many hate crimes committed ¯ The Pride Store, 1307 E. 38, 2rid floor 747-5932 : BARTLESVILLE in Tulsa alone- which have not received Rainbowz on the River B+B, POB 696, 74101 918-337-5353 ¯ the attention they deserve. I am aware of 834-0617 : ,BartlesvillePublicLibrary,600S. Johnstone Richard’s Carpet Cleaning ¯ "minority" children that were victims of 834-7921, 747.4746 : OKLAHOMA CITY/NORMAN Teri Sehutt, Rex Realtors 582-7748 I~ate crime - which cannot tell ". *Borders Books & MusiC, 3209 NW Expressway 405-848-2667 ¯~ violent Christoph~ Spra_~g, attom__e_Y:~ 16 ~S. Main,#308 their parents for fear of getting kicked out 749-6301 *Seribner s Bookstore, 1942 Utaca bquare *Borders Books & Music, 300 Norman Center 405-573.4907 260-7829 ~ ¯ of their ho,,m_es. Obvi,o_nsly the general Paul Tay, CarSalesman 697-0017 ". TAHLEQUAH 918-456-7900 " public says oh well,it s jt£st another fag, *Tickled Pink, 3340 S. Peoria *Stonewall League, call for information: : 742-2007 918-456-7900 ¯ or blackie". Is the buckle of the bible belt *Tulsa Book Exchange, 3749 S. Peoria ~Tahlequah Unitarian-Universalist Church .481-0558 ’.¯ 918-453-9360 ¯ so. tight.that it is r~.tri_cting blood flow to *Tulsa Comedy Club, 6906 S. Lewis ’*G~een Coun AIDS Coalition, POB 1570 743:1733 ; the brains of those who consider Fred.Welch, LCSW, Counseling ....... NSU School of Optometry., I001N. Grand ¯ themselves "do-gooders"? God would 592-0767 ¯ HIVtesting every Other Tues. 5:30t8:30, call for dates *Whittier News Stand, 1 N. Lewis ; ¯ never advocate hate. Never. Tulsa Agencies, Chumhes, Schools & Universities The general media image of the Gay, 579-9593 : EUREKA SPRINGS, ARKANSAS 501-253-7734 .’~ AIDS Walk Tulsa, POB 4337, 74101 Bi, Lesbian, and transgendered 743-2363 ’.’ *Autumn Breeze Restaurant, Hwy: 23 501-253-7457 *All Souls Unitarian Church, 2952 S. Peoria community is out cruising River Park, 587-7314 : *Jim & Brent’s Bistro, 173 S. Main 501-253 -6807 Black & White, Inc. POB 14001, Tulsa 74159 molesting little boys, and spreading AIDS. 583-7815 ¯ DeVito’s Restaurant, 5 Center St." 501-253-5445 Bless The Lord at All Times Christian Center, 2207 E. 6 583-9780 :. *Emerald Rainbow; 45 &l/2 Spring St. Wall, I have not used the parks for sex, 501-253-9337 *B/L/G/T Alliance, Univ. of Tulsa Canterbury Ctr. ¯ MCC of the Living Spring and see Letters, p. 3 585-1201 501-253-2776 *Chamber of Commerce Bldg., 616 S. 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Ave. *Democratic Headquarters, 3930 E. 31 bers, or be hand delivered. 200 word lelDignity/Integrity of Tulsa- Lesbian & Gay Catholics &, ters are preIerrea." ~ "~’u~t.ters to other ¯ " " 3_5.523_1.--42~. ;. *~Spin ’ "t o~. Christ MCC 417-623-4696 ., ..... ~2639 E. 32, Ste. U134 Ep~scopahans, P OB 701475 , 74170-1475 . ¯ " - will be rinteo , tswl~ere ¢oucanrmaTFN-N°’~au~’eGa’’owne~s _ as ~ is ap~ a prop_n[~.: propna~e. ¯ Fellowship Congreg. Ctxurch,2900 S. H~vard~ . ~ ~4,~-,~7~7, , . ¯ Free S~iht Women’ s Center, call for locauon ~ ~mo: ~o/-~,u~ �myfather and I did, is quite the education. But next time we need to get more of us there! ~shocked many with his.suggestion that th~ solution to the Oklahoma StateCapitol as a local part ofanational event, But back to the blasphemous and scandalous, I have Equality Begins at Home. The turnout really Wasn’ t that bad ¯ .famine in Ireland, then under English domination, was ¯ to wonder how quickly hate crimes laws would pass if considering that, in inimi table Oklahoma spring fashion, the " for the Irish merely to eat their children. Swift, an " the situation were reversed? ¯ Irishman himself,, indeed was being just a wee bit What if we organized some gangs of Gay men to get weather had turned very, very chilly and rainy. It also w asn’t ¯ alittle drunk and liein wait outside of notorious "straight" bad considering how the event’s Oklahoma City organizers ¯ sarcastic and his essay is still readin literature classes as an example of that type of essay. bars, and when we see some guy walking had failed thoroughly to get the word out to the statewide It is the spirit of Swift that I’d like to community. to his car alone, jump him and beat him ¯ invoke for part of this essay but I realize Their failure actually is rather surprising because those senseless. Orwhensome straight couple or nlzed ome that these words taken out of context as organizers, Paul Thompson of the self proclaimed statewide the nerve to flaunt their sexuality to lie in has OGLPC, the Oklahoma Gay & Lesbian Political Caucus, ¯¯ they no doubt will be, will likely provoke publicly, by holding hands or kissing, what wait outside of shock and dismay and anger. All that said, if we drove up on the sidewalk to run them and Paula Hand Brown, an editor and reporter for The Gayly ¯ I’d like to talk about hate crimes and hate Oklahoman are easily two of the most experienced Gay civil down orjnst pulled a gun and shot at them? notorious ¯ crimes legislation, specifically that which fights activists in Oklahoma City. At the very least, we could scream "straight"-bars, epithets at them so that they’ll know how The event itself was only symbolic. The Capitol was ¯¯ was considered last month in our legislature. locked and our only audience was, wall, ourselves and a few hated and repulsive they are. And if that’s ¯ First, let us praise The Very Honorable not good enough to intimidate those media types. The real lobbying w as that done at the beginni n g some guy walking "straight" guys, we might prevail on some of the month under the direction of Keith Smith and Nancy ¯ Don Ross, one of Tulsa’s state to his ear alone, McDonald when the Capitol was unlocked and legislators ¯ representatives who introduced HB 1211. of our lipstick Lesbians to chat them up in ¯ He can be cranky but as he once told me jump him and beat a bar, pretending to be "straight" and then were in attendance. But at least Oklahoma could say we were lure them out to where they can be beaten there; we were one of those states around the country that did ¯ (and proved it), he’s one of our few him senseless? _" dependable friends in the Oklahoma an "Equality Begins at Home" (EBAH) event. or murdered or tortured - whatever. But the event was marred by a few parochial and petty ¯ House. He’s also been supportive of Or when some How long do you think it would take for ¯ increased funding for people living with hate legisl.ation which included aspects which by themselves are not that important but %traight" couple sexualcrimes orientation to pass? Though our which point to flaws in our national and state movement. ¯ AIDS. has the nerve to So, take some time to thank him - like legislature wouldlikely0uly makeitillegal Th~se are the sorts of flaws that, frankly, often make u~as :’ your momma said, it doesn’t take that for us to beat up "straight" boys but leave effective in hindering our movement as our enemies. flaunt their ¯ long to write a thank you note. Also don’t fine for them to kill us. One problem to which this newspaper has particular sexuality publicly, it just Mind you I do not advocate any of the objection is the failure of these experienced and media savvy ¯ forget him when the next election cycle by holding hands violence mentioned above; we all know it organizers to provide this newspaper with the most basic ¯¯ comes up. Send him a checkif you can, or information about the event. While TFN earlier published volunteer. If we don’t take care of our or kissing, what if would be wrong. I think it is a testament to the decency of most Gay people that we " information about EBAH basedon the press releases provided ¯ friends, who will? by the national sponsors, the National Gay & Lesbian Task : And to highlight the positive, the we drove up on the face the injustice and indignity with which we are treated with as much patience and Force and the Federation of Stat,ewide LGBT Political ¯¯ progress HB1211 made is greater than sidewalk to run kindness as we do. I can’t believe that it’s Organizations, Thompson and. Brown apparently did not anything that came before. That’s not just them down or just because we have no choice. provide even the simplest press release telling precisely ¯ my assessment but that of a Tulsa area ¯ Republican representative. He’ll be pulled a gun and when the event was going to be held. Consider this: in the early years of the ¯ happier if I’ll leave him unnamed, but as Now in fairness, they claim that they telephoned TFN but AIDS holocaust, we had little hope; there shot at them. ¯ he said, just getting the bill out of oddl y neither I nor any other TFN staff ever found a mess age were no or few effective treatments; we on our office number, our wireless voicemail,our e-mail, our ¯ committee counts as progress. He added that a few years " had a government that was damning even more to death fax machine, or even by that old fashioned method, by post! ¯¯ ago, most of the people talking with us would not even ¯ through its actions that were indifferent at best, and have let us in the door. more often hostile, and yet we never saw any of our Some might suggest that Ms. Brown, an employee of a ¯ Again to recognize those whose work is making ¯ people resorting to violence - civil disobedience, yes, somewhat rival newspaper and Mr. Thompson, wall known to be dosdy tied to that newspaper might have had an ¯ much of that difference, we need to thank Keith Smith ¯ but more did not happen as is the case with desperate and ¯ who lobbies for our communities on his own while he oppressed people in much else of the world. Even the interest in not sharing the information fully. ¯ Certainly, we at Tulsa Family News also acknowledge does his other paid lobbying work. One day, if we are ~ Jews became terrorists as old Palestine went on its way ¯ that if the only part of rtmning this business and getting a really smart as a community, we’ll figure out how to pay ¯ to becoming Israel. My old friend Peter and I have wondered how it is that ¯ issue put together was to track down information from ¯ Keith so that he can do even more. Tulsa Metropolitan Ministry deserves great praise for ¯ none of those who might well have seen the world as negligent community organizers, then we could have chased ¯ providing the initial leadership on this bill, particularly without hope, sought vengeance or acted in violence? the information down as wall. However, we do have some ¯ the Reverends Mildred Banks, Gary Blaine, Gaff KecnyAfter all, when faced with the evil that Jesse Helms and other events we have to cover as well. For the record, others like that represent, why no one of us sought to Thompson and Brown did later telephone TFN and actually ¯¯ Mulligan and no doubt others whose names I don’t send him or the many in Congress like him to the hell know. Attorney General Drew Edmondson and former leave messages but only after we had gone to press and only they surely deserve? after we complained to NGLTF organizers. : District Attorney Bill LaFortunealso were tremendousl)~ But in the words of an old Holly Near song, "we are But the real issue for Oklahoma in the "Equality Begins at ¯ helpfui. a gentle, angry people, and we fighting, fighting for our Home" effort is not just that of poor communications. Part of Also, I would be remiss in not specifi .ca!,ly honoring Nancy McDonald for spearheading Tulsa S efforts on lives..." and maybe our persistence, along with the the EBAH effort was a grant of to each participating state of HB 1211. Standing 0utside the chamber of the Oklahoma righteousness of our cause will move even the hardened $5,000. In Oklahoma, this $5K went to the Oklahoma Gay ¯ House of Representatives with these two and~others, as & Lesbian Political Caucus (OGLPC). hearts of Oklahoma towards justice someday. Now if you just go by their name, you might assume that radio programming, the (seemingly)blackmailing they are genuinely a statewide-organization. However, the Christian c~alition, and other attractive sprinkles of organization in practice only ha~ ~ad a real impact in.central ignorance. Prejudice words such as "faggot, blackie, Oklahoma City. In that area, they have been fairly effective. Icert~ainly there are no more Gays interested in little nigger, colored~ and queer" should never be allowed in An active OGLPC member claims that they have about 150 boys than the heterosexual community. AIDS has no hateful media - of any sort. This is the dawn of a new members, though they claim to have a mailing list of 7,000. sexual preference. The words "Gay" and"black" are not century political correctness changes - are we still He surprisingly was unable to provide any number for Tulsa Neanderthals? I think that we have evolved enough to needed as verbs. In media, when we talk about an members. And what many Gay and Lesbian civil rights cease advocating senseless -hate towards our brothers activists believe, both in Tulsa and OKC, is that OGLPC ¯" "average" citizen, we do not say"andin the news today, and sisters. really is just a OKC group. It’s never had any impact on ~ a white, heterosexual groi~p of’Christians gathered in a ." local church to discuss how to stop theGays from killing Please make plans to attend the Pride ’99 Gay pride Tulsa politics. parade on June 12th. Perhaps we will be more inclined Let us compare this with the Cimarron Alliance which, ¯ straight folks". Please. Why do we allow our radio stations to advocate hate to attend a function of such ~xtreme value - if the although much newer, hasboth Tulsa and other non~OKC ¯ via Gay jokes andracial slurs?Why does the FCC allow weather is bright and sunny. We need to make it known members, and a track record of doing significant work to our leaders that hate crimes are not acceptable. Pride ." them that’’freedom of speech"? Why are websites such outside of OKC. ’99 will be a wonderful vehicle to portray the equality The obvious question is why did NGLTF give $5K to an ¯¯ as the Gay Nazis, skinheads, KKK, Westboro Baptist, we deserve and demand. Equal rights are just that and Larry the Cable Guy allowed? They all seem to organization whichhad little credibility as a genuine statewide equal, not special. organization, and which for years has seemed to be little ." inciteignorantintolerance, hate, and sometimes violence ¯ Please become more involved in advocating equality more than an extension of the personality of Paul Thompson ¯¯ - but when asked about what is in writing- they refuse v~a organizations such as T.O.H.R., N.A.A.C.P., overThe Cimarron Alliance withits documentable successes ¯ to admit it is hate. "We should be outraged and alarmed, because theideas canlead to violent crimes"- as stated P.F.LA.G., and others. You will be, and feel like, a across the state? ¯ in the 3/28/1999 USA Weekend included in your Sunday better person for your efforts. Here’s where petty local politics meets petty national I am not pointing t’mgers. Just pointing and pitching politics. NGLTF knew quite wall that OGLPC was not ¯ papers. The minds of our innocent children are being " soiled by seemingly innocent media: Crayons using in. widely considered credible as a statewide organization. Conform and be dull. - Ned T. Bruha, Tulsa see Equality, p.lO ¯ peach as skin tone, bandages are peach- for skin tone, �Anti-Gay Stand Loses Church Its Building BROCKTON, Mass. (AP) - A dispute over Gay Christians has put a priest and his parishioners who oppose same-sex marriages on the street, so the evicted congregation held services right on the sidewalk. The Rev. Thomas Morris and about a dozen members of his flock prayed outside on a recent Sunday, despite their eviction by a judge in their ongoing dispute with the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts. Morris and his congregation at St. Paul’s Church opposed the diocese’s 1994 decision to sanction same-sex unions and ordain noncelibate homosexuals as priests. In opposition, the congregation began withholding fees it was bound to pay the diocese. Diocese officials maintained the dispute was not about beliefs or issues. "What this is about is this church needs a priest in good standing with the bishop and other churches in the diocese," said the Rev. Donald Parker, the diocese vicar. The diocese is overseen by Bishop Thomas Shaw. In the decision, Judge Charles J. Hely said his ruling settled a legal issue about property, not a religious issue. In 1995, Morris’ predecessor at St. Paul’s, the Rev. James R. HAles,was defrocked after the diocese found him guilty of sexual misconduct. But many members of the church stand by HAles, and say the charges against him were concocted as punishment for his stance against homosexuality. Gay Irish Not Welcome in Bronx Parade Either NEW YORK (AP)= Members of a Gay organization got a Bronx cheer when they tried to join the first St. Patrick’ s Day-parade held in that borough in 70 years. Six people, including state Sen. Tom Duane and City Councilwoman Christine Quiun, were arrested Sunday after a.doze~! supporters of the Lavender and Green’Al!ian.~ce stepped into the parade. "I’m an Irish person, I’m a Gay person, I’m here to try to march," Duane sai& % Lavender and Green Alliance founder BrendanFay said his group"originally "got a call to say we were welcome, but then we learned the welcome was being rescindedY The ~Bronx parade’s chairman, patrick Devine, d~d nrt ieturn telephone calls left at his home scekin~o crniment and did not make himself fi)aifable to reporters at.flae~ parade ..... Another gr.oup, the Irish Lesbian and. Gay Organizafion,’hhs fifed unsuccessfully to join t13~ big St. Patriek~sD~y??Parade down Fifth Avenue in Manhattan f0t th(last half-dozen years criir~fruqfngs have held ~that the.private organizauons thaVsponsor parades may ch0.Os¢ which groups march Quim~,Duane, Fay and the others were arrested after the first marching band passed by and they stepped into the parade behind the Lavender ~and Green banner. They were stopped by a line of police officers and informed they would be arrested if they failed to l~ave. A few stepped aside, but others stood fast and were led away to a police-wagon and handcuffed before being charged with disorderly conduct."Let them march!" shouted a few supporters. "’Shame!" called out Jimmy McNulty,who was among those arrested. "Why are we not welcome?" Several dozen spectators cheered when the parad~ resumed without the Gay group. "It’s an immoral lifestyle," said spectator Martin O’Grady. "If they wanted to march, the), could have marched without their banner," said Fannie Sclafani. "t have nothing against them, but it’s a community parade." Mary McGarry also said they shouldn’t have tried to crash the parade. "I have best friends who are Gay, but the parade is not about sexual orientation. It’s about being proud to be Irish," she said. The parade had the feel of a small-town event, featuring cheerleaders from parochial high schools, kilted bagpipers, babies in strollers decorated with Irish flags and groups like the Throgs Neck Homeowners, which consisted of a dozen ladies wearing off-white cable-knit fishermen’s sweaters. Spectators were sparsdy scattered along the mileand-a-half route along East Tremout Avenue. It was in sharp contrast to the annual Fifth Avenue parade, with its glitzy floats, booming drum corps and rowdy crowds. S tanley Rygor was among a half-dozen people who stood on a sidewalk behind the Lavender and Green banner after the arrests took place. "They want them back in the closet. They want them to be anonymous," said Rygor, whose wife is Irish. He said his son died of AIDS five years ago, and he dealt with his grief by becoming an activist. "I’m here," he added, "in memoriam to him." OKLAHOMA COMMUNICATIONS Gay Vets Want to March Free Car Adaptor & Leather Case with New Cell Phone FERNDALE, Mich. (AP) - A group of Gay military veterans are taking steps to march in this Detroit suburb s Memorial Day parade. A group of Ferndale s Gay veterans hope to join members of Friends and Neighbors of Femdale (FANS), a Gay group that has received tentative approval to enter the parade, according to a parade organizer. Femdale’s parade leaders have so far downplayed the significance of including Gays. "As far as I know, they are planning to meet all our reqmrements," Barbara Earl, a secretary with the Femdale Memorial Association, told the Detroit Free Press for a story Monday. The association puts on the annual parade, one of the region’ s biggest and oldest, dating to at least 1919. Organizers say they will strictly enforce a requirement limiting any show of a group’ s identity to a display of its nagne. If enforced, that would mean FANS will march with no explicit banner proclaiming it is an orgamzation of Gays. "It’s not a day to promote your own agenda," Ms. Earl said. "This is a day for the veterans." Gay group leaders in Ferndale said they are ctmfortable blending in with the parade’s usual array ofhonor guards, scout troops, high school bands and politicians. "We wouldn’t want to do anything to incite controversy," said Chuck Simon, president of FANS, which has about 80 dues-paying members and a mailing list of several hundred. Parade rules require participants to refrain from displaying their own messages and instead stick to OffiCial Slogans, which this year are "Lest we forget" arid "’Fgt _those who gave their all." Navy veteran Ken Warnock, 32, who co-owns the Jn~ 4 ~’G~y. ~0oksto~e in F~rndale, told the Free Pre~;’fimi he will march in Ferndale’s parade with a ¯ mix ofpridd and bft-terhess. In 1987, Warnock, then - 20, was a hrgpital Corpsman aboard a Navy ship when he was. broughL.hefore his commanding officer, q~esfioned abouthis sexual orientation and th]:eafen,ed "’ With~perjury iia~e, fie said. He resisted the Navy s " in~esfigatirnfor months, Wamock said. Ultimately, he.r¢cgived a lessZthan2honorable discharge - not q~-t.e as bad as a ~dishon0rable discharge, he said. On Memorial Day, Warnock probably won’t wear ¯ his sailor s umform- it s gettang a htfle t~ght - but beplans to carry an American flag while keeping a watchful eye for anyone angry at Gay participants. Despite his wariness, he said the inclusion of Gay marchers "speaks very well for Ferndale.’" Femdale Mayor Chuck Goedert said he was unaware of the Memorial Day plans but supports the inclusion of FANS members and Gay veterans. "There are a lot of groups that participate in our parade to honor those who served. I don’t know why this would be any different," he said. Ohio Diocese to Reach Out to Gay Catholics CINCINNATI (AP) - The Archdiocese of Cincinnati is creating a ministry for homosexual Catholics and their families. "The church wants to support the homosexual person but not homosexual activity," said spokesman Dan Andfiacco said. "There is a need for pastoral care of homosexual persons. The archdiocese wants to meet that need, and not cede teiritory to ministries that don’t support the teaching of the church." In recent years, Roman Catholic groups nationwide have started Gay ministries such as DIGNITY, New Ways Ministry, and Parents, Friends & Family of Lesbians & Gays. 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During those discussions, there was a"sense of urgency" among parents that the archdiocese have a minis try for G ay ah~t Lesbian Catholics and their famili es, Leslmey said. The Catechism of the Catholic Church holds that homosexual activity is "contrary to the natural law" and,objectively disordered," but thathomosexuals should be "accepted with respect, compassion and sensitivity." Gay Dallas Church To Televise Infomercial DALLAS (AP) - A federal court settlement announced Friday has cleared the way for Cathedral of Hope, the nation’s largest Gay church, to air a controversial infomercial on broadcast superstation WGN-TV. Under the settlement, Cathedral of Hope will pay the Chicagobased cable station $35,000 for showing the program five times. The half-hour video includes testimonials by members, scenes of worship at the 3,000-member church and discussions with the families of church members. Cathedral of Hope claimed the Chicago-based station reneged on a contract to air the church’s program last August. Church officials said the station pulled the infomercial shortly before the air date for unspecified reasons. WGN officials argued that they weren’t obligated to air the program because the station did not have binding contract with the church. The Dallas church filed alaw suit in October, claiming that WGN accepted the a $13,000 check, made several suggestions that the church followed and then broke its contract and returned the check after deciding the subject was too controversial. The Rev. Michael Piazza said he was pleased with the settlement. "Of course our desire was for it to have been aired last year," said Piazza, senior pastor at Cathedral of Hope. "But we’re very grateful to be able to resolved it." Pia77a told The Dallas Morning News that every other broadcast outlet approached by the church had refused to air the program. ’qqaey don’t have to give you reasons, but a couple of the media buyers told us that stations were afraid the conservative religious programming would be withdrawn if ours was shown," he said. The minster said Cathedral of Hope was attracted to WGN because the station airs on cable outlets in the rural areas surrounding Dallas and Fort Worth. Maryland Gov. Supports Civil Rights Bill for Gays ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Gov. Parris Glendening testified for the first time before a legislative committee last month, describing his late brother’s hardship hiding his homosexuality and urging delegates to outlaw discrimination based on sexual orientation. Glendening’s brother Bruce served 19 years in the Air Force, including three tours in Vietnam. But as the decorated veteran lay dying of AIDS - when the pain was so great that it hurt to touch his skin - Bruce Glendening said it was more painful to keep his sexual orientation hidden for so long in order to keep his job, Gleiadening testified. "He lived in fear.. ," the governor told the House Judiciary Committee. "This has weighed on me a long tame... I’m here to ask if we could make this state a more fair and just society." Afterward, the audience applauded his three-minute speech. One of several people in the audience who shook Glendening’ s hand as he left was Silvia Rodriguez, chairwoman of the state Human Relations Commi ssion, who said no other governor showed such courage in her 15 years with the group. "He knows this is just and fair for all the people of Maryland," she said. Delegates Sheila Hixson and Leon Billings, both Montgomery County Democrats, have failed to get the bill approved for six years, but they have not had such a prominent supporter before. Onlookers packed the hearing room and one wall was lined with television cameras. The bill would add sexual orientation to a law that bans discriminationin housing and employment because of aperson’s race, religion or gender. "The issue is simply a matter of intolerance and bigotry," Ms. Hixson said. Baltimore City and Montgomery, Prince George’s and Howard counties have similar laws governing 49 percent of the state’s population. Glendening said Prince George’s County hasn’t suffered since it enacted the law in 1991 while he was chief executive. "Western civilization hasn’t collapsed because of the bill," he said. Glendeningleft before delegates asked questions about the bill. Several delegates appeared critical of it. Delegate Emmett Bums, a Baptist pastor, said complaints from homosexuals would flood the Human Relations Commission and create further delays for Blacks and women who suffer discrimination. In the hearing’s testiest exchange, Billings retorted that everyone can suffer discrimination. Commission officials said 1 to 3% of complaints in counties that have the law concern sexual orientation, Advocates argued that nobody should be discriminated against for any reason. "We’re trying to cast the net as broadly as possible," Billings said. Teens Protest Gay Story in Dawson’s Creek WILMINGTON (AP) - More than 30 teen-agers gathered outside Wilmington’s EUE Screen Gems Studios to protest the homosexual subject matter of thelocally filmed television show Daw son’s Creek. Members of Youths Against the Promotion of Homosexuality held placards Thursday reading "Jack and Jill, Not Jack and Bill" and "Hollywood: No More Gay Promo." Screen Gems’ employees were greeted with chants of "Don’t Holly-weird me!" as they drove into the studios’ parking lots. "We’re sick and tired of Hollywood trying to force its pro-homosexual values down teen-agers’ throats on shows like Dawson’s Creek," said Robert Hales, 17. "This show is 100 times worse than Ellen because they’re targeting high school kids with their ’pro-Gay’ propaganda." Ellen, which starred Lesbian comedian Ellen DeGeneres, created a national stir two years ago when the main character announced she was a.Lesbian. The protests about Dawson’s Creek center around a 16-year-old character who announced in a recent episode thathe was homosexual. Kerr Smith, whose character Jack was introduced on Dawson’s Creek this season, said the show simply explores common adolescent themes. "’Everybody knows that Dawson’s Creek addresses prevalent issues about teen-agers, and one of them is homosexuality," he said. "It’s in the schools now. Ten years ago, it wasn’t talked about but now it is." Killer Pleads Guilty LOS ANGELES (AP) - A man accused of murdering five Gay men because he thought it would stop the spread of AIDS abruptly ended his trial by pleading guilty to the charges, prosecutors said. Juan Chavez, 34, avoided a possible.death sentence in the capital case by unexpectedly changing his plea about 1 1/2 weeks into trial, prosecutor Mike Duarte said. He is scheduled to be sentenced June 21. Duarte told jurors during the trial that Chavez lured the men to their homes supposedly for sex and then robbed and strangled them Chavez coufessed to the murders while serving a prison sentence for an unrelated 1996 kidnapping. In September of that year, he was charged with strangling the five men in 1986 and 1989. �11 Year Old with AIDS Speaks Out olds. "Either we’re really gettingd.u.m.b.er, or some of us in this room are notdomgI ourjobs, Sdverm said. ’ ’ ~ Eiders offered-a familiar litany of su ,~gestions,inclUding universal acces s to health care and free needle-exchange ¯ )rograms, both of which seem as far from ¯ reality as when she left office in 1994. CARSON CITY (AP) - Eleven-year-old Michael Dowling wasn’t supposed to live this long and he knows it. "I was born HIV-positive. My morn was told that I’d probably dieby the timeI was three years old," Michael told the Assembly as they designated Wednesday, March 24 as HIVAIDS Awareness Day inNevada. He stood ¯ next to his adopted mother’s friend, Assemblywoman Barbara Cegavske, RLas Vegas, as he addressed the legislators. The boy was born in Las Vegas to a drug-addicted mother who passed her disease along to him before she gave birth. Now, l~fichael has been adopted and is also living with full-blown AIDS. Michael said he has to make a trip to Washington,D.C., every couple of months so he can get two sho~ of a medication called IL2 every day for a week. "I go to the National Institutes of Health. The doctors and nurses, there are the people that have kept me alive. If not for them I would be dead,? Mi.chael said,. Despite his disease, the youngster says he is planningto live afull and independent life. "I plan to. grow up.and be a doctor. I do not plan to be disabled and live off welfare and_have Medicaid pay my doctor’s bills," he added. People.,~ith AIDS need Nevada’s help to find "good jobs and insurance to pay their medical bills," he said. After his speech, the entire 42-member Assembly and dozens of observers in the gallery stood~to applaud. "Mikie is not supposed to be alive. He’s such a fighter, he’s incredible," Cegavske said. AIDS Researcher Struggles for $ BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) - Researcher Peter Duesberg has become a scientific outcast because of his unorthodox AIDS theories. But he’s still in business, thanks to a fund-raising approach as unconventional as his beliefs. Duesberg, who maintains that AIDS is not caused by the human immunodeficiency virus but by illegal drugs and the AIDS medication AZT; has been raising money from private sources for some years, living from check to check. But his fund-raising took on added urgency ast November when he.feared he was about to lose his lab at the University of California at Berkdey for lack of money. Friends of Duesbergsprang into acuon, soliciting donations by way of the Internet and an ad in the alumni magazine. The ad brought in a stream of small contributions, which along with $200,000 in foundation money and some other big individual donations amounted to $325,000, enough to eke out another year of operations. Duesberg is grateful for the kindness of friends and strangers but said it’s a hard way to make a living. "You also begin to see how easy itis if you just conform," he said. Twelve years ago, Duesberg filled out grant applications and the government sent him checks. Back then, Duesberg was a member of the elite National Academy of Scienees, winner of a 1985 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Former U.S. Outstanding Investigator Award from the Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders opened National Institutes of Health and aleading the nation’ s annual HIV/AIDS conference authority on retroviruses, a family that by urging the public to fight growing includes the AIDS virus. complacency about the disease. "We all But after he published his HIV theory, have to be in this battle until it’s over, and his reputation tanked. The mainstream I want you to know it’s not over," Eiders AIDS community has rebuffed his told about 2,000 people at the opening of theories, saying it is clear that HIV does the National HIV/AIDS Update cause AIDS and that arguing otherwise Conference. dangerously undercuts the safe-sex Few doubted that among the hundreds message. "Whatever inroads we have of veteran AIDS health care providers and made to help people to practice safer sex public health workers in the crowd. But or to exchange needles - that all goes out now, Elders reminded them, there’s anew the window," said David Evans of Project problem: growing public complacency. Inform, an advocacy group in San Lulled by encouraging early results from Francisco. new drag therapies, many Americans have Since 1987, Duesberg has had 20 grant decided AIDS is no longer much of a applications turned down. A spokesman threat, said Dr. Mervyn Silverman, the for the NIH declined to comment. As a former San Francisco public health czar tenured professor of molecular and cell and chairman of the AIDS conference, ¯ biology, Duesberg still has his salary and which runs through tomorrow. He cited survey results that suggest people must be :¯ position at Berkeley. But without grant tuning out to all the AIDS awareness ¯ money, he cannot operate a lab, which is crucial to continuing his research. campaigns. ¯ The private donauons can t overcom The deadly virus is nearly always another problem: no students. Duesberg ¯ contracted through exchange of blood or ¯ said students visit early in the semester body fluids, often during unprotected ¯ andseeminterested.Butafterafew weeks, sexual activity or from sharing intravenous ......... "The ’re told b the Y Y drag paraphernalia. 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Henri Brooks said she ¯ changed her mind after the Health ¯ Department estimated the tests would cost ," Tennessee taxpayers almost $5 million a ¯ year. : She amended the bill to require county ¯ court clerks to make information about venereal diseases - such as chlamydia, : syphilis, gonorrhea and hepatitis B available to marriage license applicants. "We are not trying to be Big Brother or ¯ say who should and should not marry. All : we want to do is be responsible as ¯ policymakers," the Democrat said. "The : ones who have to pay for these health- : related illnesses end up being the ¯¯ taxpayers." ¯ The bill,, approved by a House : subcommittee, also requires that a small sign be conspicuously located in the area : AIDS. Kathy Nelson, executive coordinator for the AIDS Legal Resource Project will conduct the seminar at the Tulsa Gay Community Services Center at 38th and Peoria, 2nd floor. The AIDS Legal Resource Project was created three years ago to help provide people living with HIV/AIDS with the resources to meet the challenges in their lives. The Project provides free legal assistance to those who qualify through a network of 150 private attorneys statewide. The Project can assist those qualified in receiving denied Social Security benefits .and in addressing health, life or disability Insurance discrimination. Ms..Nelson is an alumna of Oklahoma State University and Oklahoma City University School of Law. She has had a private practice in oil and gas law, family law, estate planning and probate law. She also serves on the board of directors for CarePoint, Inc. a non-profit consortium for HIV/AIDS health care and support in Oklahoma City. Info: 743-4297. �by James Christjohn Broadway dance. And a relative-of mine, "Spirit - A Journey in Dance, Drums Raymond Christjolm was one of the and Song" combines the power of ° singers! Broadway choreography and contem- ° The cast includes 20 dancers with both porary music with the songs, chants and o modem and traditional training, including Indian Nation dancers dances born of Native arrayed in fancy dress Act I eontlnues with American culture to tell of feathers, beads and the story of one bones. The orchestra "An Ea~le Above." in ¯ person’s- andanation’s features both modem - search for renewal by wlaleh Ron Anquoe and traditional Nativeexploring ancestral American instruments, (Kiowa tribe, Oh|ahoma) roots. a string section and This multicultural per[orms t]ae ritual percussionists playing performance event, a variety of drums. The Ea~le Dance which debuted on PBS 40-voice Green Bay as part of the March to convey the le~eud d and Oneida Nation 1999 pledge drive and Girls’ Choir provides will be released on the Ea$|e Feather. additional vocals. video April 20, was The program also provldln~ the youn$ man conceived by Peter features soloists Buffett, working in with [~uow|ed~e and Robert Mirabal (also collaboration with very handsome), a courage [or the journey. Chief Hawk Pope. renowned NativeBuffett composed the American flautist, music for the pivotal vocalist and percussionist; Ron Anquoe, Fire Dance scene in Kevin Costner’s a traditionally trained Eagle Dancer who Oscar-winning film "Dances with is a member of the Kiowa Tribe of Wolves." "Spirit - A Journey in Dance, Oklahoma; and Chief Hawk Pope, a Drums and Song" features the vocalist, lyricist and composer who is choreography and stage direction of T,o.nyPrincipal Chief of the Shawnee Nation, winner Wayne Cilento, who blends his United Renmant Band of Ohio. Chief demanding trademark "urban dance" Hawk Pope narrates. Joanne Shenandoah, movement with traditional Native Oneida Nation of the Iroquois American dance. confederacy, adds her beautiful voice to And by the~ way, the video is worth the proceedings. getting just to view the dancers. They are "Spirit - A Journey in Dance, Drums all beautiful, with appeal to Gay men, and Song" opens Act I with "Urban Lesbians, straight folk.., something fol Overtures" as a group of city dwellers everyone! And boy can they move! 01~ reacts robotically to the stressful sounds yeah, themusic’s great, too; the CD is of daily life. Determined,to escape this available now, and I highly recommend it. chaos, one young man decides in "Fire Peter has been one of the few artists te Dance" to look back to his roots and successfully blend ancient music with search for a new way to live. In modem. U sually, when that blend is made, "Coashelleaqu (The Shawnee Letter)," a it comes out a mess, but he’s done an Native-American grandfather encourages excellent job of retaining the impact of the him to begin this journey of renewal. ancient with the feel of the modem, rising "Hidden Heritage" celebrates the 500 above time and space to create anew form Indian Nations. that is emotionally satisfying on a level ActI continues with"An Eagle Above," few reach. Loreena McKennitt is the only in which Ron Anquoe (Kiowa tribe, other artist I would say that about in her Oklahoma) performs the ritual Eagle blending of ancient and modem Critic Dance to convey the legend of the Eagle influences on her CD’s. But I digress, Feather, providing the young man with back to "Spirit: A Journey...". knowledge and courage for the journey. Taped during the show’s premiere "Passage," Robert Mirabal’s haunting performance weekend at the Weidner flute solo, continues the young man’s Center in Green Bay, Wisconsin,"Spirit quest to embrace the past. Act I ends with A Journey in Dance, Drums and Song" Spirit Dance, bnngmg together dancers features more than 80 performers from the traditional Native-American and dancers, choir, percussionists and contemporary urban cultures for a orchestra - selected from the worlds of celebration, see Spirit, p. 10 Native-American performance and by Allan Smithee, special contributor Anyone see "Footloose" whileit wasin town? It had all the appeal of a really bad high school play. Bad script, awful choreography and songs worthy of maybe two verses stretched out till one thought the record player had broken and was skipping, all added up to an evening of dreck, despite the cast’s sometimes overenergetic performances -and especially the nights when one cast member was off key. It is usually against my principles to walk out on a show, no matter how bad I hold that it’s rude to the actors and people around you - but Footloose is one I would have walked out on after the first 30 minutes. I find it ironic that local homophobe and religious bigot Larry Payton, famous for censoring shows and rewriting them to make them safe for the good Baptist families of Tulsa to see would bring in a show that pretty much rips the views of fundie-brand organized religion. In case some of you are too young to remember the film, it’s based on an incident in Elmore, OK wherein dancing was made illegal by virtue of a powerful minister in town who held that dancing would lead to all kinds of sinful behavior. In the film and play, a kid from Chicago challenges the dictatorial evil minister, and wins the right to hold a school dance. As a film, it was worth a couple hours at the dollar movie. As a musical, well, it’s not worth that much. But Tnlsans seemed to like it - the shows were sold out. Maybe it’s that even a bad touring show beats anvthin~ on TV9 At any rate, the cast was ~mlfor~v cute,’so that hellxd a little. Tulsa C.A.R.E.S. in association with PFLAG presents Chastity Bono at the 2nd Annual Red Ribbon Ball Saturday, April 17th 7:30pm, dinner + entertainment, tickets begin at $75/person/all proceeds benefit Tulsa C.A.R.E.S., Information: 834-4194 Spring Concert May 7 & 8, 1999 7:00 PM All Soul’s Unitarian Church 2952 S. Peoria COUNCIL OAK MEN’S CHORALE For tickets contact a chorale member or call the COMC Ticket Office. Tel (918)585-COMC Visa MasterCard Discover �~ SUNDAYS Bless the Lord At All Times Christian Center Sunday School - 9:45am, Service - 11 am, 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815 Community of Hope (Welcoming), Service - 6pro, 2545 S. Yale, 585-1800 Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation Service - 1 lain, 2545 S. Yale, 749-0595 Church of the Restoration Unitarian Universalist Scrviee - 1 lain, 1314 No. Greenwood, 587-1314 Metropolitan Community Church United (formerly Family of Faith & MCCGT)Service, llam, 1623 North Maplewood, Info: 838-1715 House of the Holy Spirit Ministries, Inc. Sunday School - 9:45am, Service - 10:45am, 3210b So. Norwood Parish Church of St~ Jerome (Evangelical Anglican Church in America) Mass - 1 lam, 205 W. King (east of No. Denver), Info: 582-3088 University of Tulsa Bisexual!Lesbian/Gay/Transgendered Alliance 6:30 pro, Meets at the Canterbury Ctr., 5th & Evanston, 583-9780 Council Oak Men’s Chorale, rehearsals at 5pm, Info: 585-COMC (2662) ~ MONDAYS ¯ HIV Testing Clinic, Free & anonymous testing. No appointment required. Walk in testing: 7-8:30pm, 834-TEST (8378) 3501 E. Admiral (east of Harvard) HIV Rap Sessions at Bless the Lord At All Times Christian Center 7:30pro, 2207-E. 6th, 583-7815 PFLAG, Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians & Gays 2nd Mort/each mo. 6:30pm, Fellowship Congregational Church, 2900 S. Harvard Women/Children & AIDS Committee, call for meeting date, noon, 585-5551 ~ TUESDAYS AIDS Coalition of Tulsa, call for next meeting date. 1430 S. Boulder, 585-5551 Live A~d Let Live, Community of Hope United Methodist, 7:30pm, 2545 S. Yale Multicultural AIDS Coalition, call for next meeting date. Urban League, 240 East Apache, 584-0001 Rainbow Business Guild, Business & prof. networking group. Meets typically the last Tuesday of each month. Info: 743-4297 PrimeTimers, mens group, Pride Center, 1307 E. 381h Coming Out Support Group (TOHR/HOPE) Tuesdays, 6 pm, Pride Center, 1307 E. 381h, info: 743-4297 ~ WEDNESDAYS Bless The Lord At All Times Christian Center Prayer & Bible Study, 7:30 pm 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815 House of the Holy Spirit Ministries, Inc. Service - 7pm, 3210b So. Norwood Tulsa Native American Mens Support Group~ more information, call 582-7225 TCC Gay & Lesbian Association of Students (GLAS), Call for info: 595-7632. Lambda A-A, 7 pm, 1307 E. 381h, 2nd fl. ~= THURSDAYS HOPE, HIV Outreach, Prevention, Education Anonymous HIV Testing, Testing: 7 - 8:30pm 834-8378, 3507 E. Admiral Oklahoma Rainbow Young Adult Network (O’RYAN) Support/social group for 18-24’s, call Red Rock Mental Health at 584-2325 Substance Abuse Support Group for persons with HIV/AIDS, Info: 834-4194 American Theatre Company ~"_FRIDAYS presents in its 50th anniversary year Safe Haven, Young Adults Social Group, 1st Fri/each mo. 8pm, Pride Ctr., 1307 E. 38th ~ SATURDAYS Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman April 9, 10, 14, 15, 16 + 17 at 8 pm April 11 at 2pm, $11-14 John Williams Theatre Tulsa Performing Arts Center Lisa Wilson Directing, Ken Spence as Willie Loman This ad donated by Tulsa Family News. Narcotics Anonymous, 11 pm, Community of Hope~1703 E. 2nd, Info: 585-1800 Lambda A-A, 6 pm, Pride Center, 1307 E. 381h, 2nd ft. ~ OTHER GROUPS T.U.L.S.A. Tulsa Uniform & Leather Seekers Association, info: 838-1222 Gal-A-Vanting, Womens Social & Cultural Group, Call for info: Mary at 743-6740, Kathy at 322-6322, or Barb at 459-6825. OK Spoke Club, Gay & Lesbian Bike Organization. [nfo: POB 9165, Tulsa 74157, Short rides: Meet at Zeigler Park, 3903 West 4th. 6:30pro, 4/21, Sand Springs ride and 4/28, Riverside fide. Long rides: 4/17, 7am, 20 mi. ride, and 4/24, 9am 20 mi. ride. Meet at the Community Center parking lot, 38th & Peoria. If your organization is not listed, please let us know. Call 583-1248 or fax 583-4615. �: ¯ : : : ¯ : ¯ Oklahoma went to OGLPC. What did OGLPC do with thosedollars? They rented a bus to bring Tulsans to the rally, and they rented portapots and got the necessary, permits for the event. But interestingly they also hired and paid Ms. Paula Hand Brown to help co-ordinate the event. And they used the funds to pay for It is a fabulous number to see. R makes you want to stand up and cheer, even if it is a video: Act II of"Spirit- A Journey in Dance, Drums and Song" begins with two numbers - "The Place Where Crying : advertising in various publications, albeit Begins" and "The Dream" - offering a ¯ not this one. (For the record, TFN sensual exploration of the relationship of : frequently donates ads completely free of man and woman in a more natural world. : charge to community non-profit "Aubenaubee (Prelude to Rebirth)" begins : organizations unlike our rivals who the young man’s journey back to his own ¯¯ typically provide at most a 20% discount.) Also, OGLPC is permitted, according to world; m The Thunderbird, he returns as anewly enlightened member of society. : NGLTF organizer, Dan Haws, to keep In the final number, the two cultures - ¯¯ any leftover funds to subsidize their traditional and urban contemporary - dance ¯ organizational work. Perhaps, OGLPC will transcend its past in unison, recovering the true spirit of and prove worthy of the $5K they were America. The showitselfwas a seamless blending : granted. Butif the reasoning for choosing of ancient and modem, combining to tell : them over Cimarronis true, then OGLPC a story that many of us can relate to today : and Oklahoma’s communities have of alienation from roots, a discontent ¯ become once againpawns in the games of with where man in general is today in the :¯ our"national" organizations. The bottom line is the money should go world, and a yearning for reconnection to ¯ to those who can most effectively use it. the earth in an age where the earth has become one more commodity to exploit. ; And you have to wonder if those who It held me spellbound. Seamlessly :¯ can’t evenissue a simplepress release, are the ones who can make the best use of the integrating music, dance, ..and storytelling, it moved me to tears-- something that ¯ money. doesn’t usually happen at all, especially withregards to avideotapedperformance. It was beautiful. I have been in communication with the composer/ creator, Peter Buffett, and, he has " "I speak out abroad, I must not be silent at home," the Republican said. In a positive mentioned the possibility of brfilging the live show here in the fall. (ya heard it here : sign for supporters, Senate Judiciary first, folks!)If that happens, don’t miss it. ¯ Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, has It willbe an experience that will touch you :¯ scheduled hearings on the legislation for deeply, as theatre was meant to do. And if ¯ next month. But it still faces a difficult road. Some the video is able to move me to tears (along with several others I spoke with ¯¯ co.ngr.es .sional Republicans have expressed that saw i0,imagine what animpact seeing ¯ mxsgxvmgs that the legislation is unnecessary because dozens of states have the performance live wouldhave! Usually ~ laws protecting the groups identified in I find videos of plays, especially musical performances, lacking. Something is lost ¯¯ the bill. Backers are also concemed that social in the translation from live to tape. Not so : conservahves may construe the legislation in this case. Peter’s other CD’s are well worth ¯¯ as extending special protections to homosexuals. "This is not a bill that will, picking up: "Spirit Dance", from which ] in one way, advantage one group over many of the numbers in "Spirit: A Journey..." were taken, is great, and the ; another," said Wyden. "I can’t believe soundtrack to "500 Nations" is another ¯¯ any members of the United States Senate want to be soft on violence." winner. Joanne Shenandoah has a number Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Aden of CD’ s out, and "Matriarch" is one of my Specter, R-Pa.., another bill cosponsor, favorites of hers. Robert Mirabal has CD’s said he wasn’t as optimistic as some of his out as wall, and he is fantastic. Peter tends colleagues. "A lot of opponents.., pick to get lumped in the "New Age" out hate crimes legislation for a great deal although his music far surpasses the image of criticism," he said. "This is a tough bill that particular labding conjures up, While to get very much support." the other artists are found, at least in Under the bill, current law would be Borders, under "Native American". Other expanded so the Justice Department could places might have them under "World prosecute crimes based on a person’s Music". They knew so because for the last two sexual orientation, gender or disability. Now, the statute only covers crimes based on race, color, religion or national origin. Also, the bill would make federal prosecution of hate crimes eas~er. Current law limits prosecution to situations whexe the victim is targeted for engaging in certain, federallyprotectedactivities,such as serving on a jury, voting or attending public school. Over 40 states have hate crimes statutes, but only 21 cover sexual orientation, 22 cover gender and 21 cover disability, years, a representative of Tulsa ¯ Oldahomans for Human Rights (TOHR) ¯ had participated in the planning for this : eventand in the creation of the Federation. ¯ FromTOHR, NGLTFknew thatCimarron ¯ was the only Oklahoma group genuinely : doing statewide organizing, So why would ¯ they give $5,000, a huge sum for a small ~ and under orgamzed state like Oklahoma, ¯ according to the White House, which to those less likely to put it to good use? ¯ supports the bill. Senator Edward Kennedy, Democrat Well, it turns out that a number of the : individuals who are involved with ¯ Massachusetts, the bill’s lead author, said Cimarron have also worked closely with ¯ the measure wouldn’t undermine the role NGLTF’s semi-rival, the Human Right ¯¯ of the states in prosecuting hate crimes, Campaign (HRC). 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Now, heln~ most of you want me to get on It is also wise, if economical with that damned project you possible, to find hardware that w ere left hanging with a couple does not equate is similar to the old as regards screw hole placement. If you of months ago, and so I shall. with being. The DIYD is perfectly cheesy, so wall don’t have to drill anything confident that you have not new, why bother? Put a little the rather " been squandering the interwood filler in the hole, or break enthusia~tle vening months but have quite a match stick off in it, then diligently been scoping ideas dyke with the attach your new hardware. Always remember to look at to steal and make your own in ~tn of our Kitchen remodel on the how the hardware you are Rust-o-leurn removing was attached, shoestring. Now, being especially hinges. This is not economical does not equa[e please with being cheesy, so will the frivolous advice! eooIher"jets. rather enthusiastic .dyke with Another option you ,’i-,’I have is resurfacing, and this the can of Rust-o-leum please ....... t ne DIYD promises that can yield some remarkable cool ~her jets. The DIYD promises that she shall get her results. If you are handy and she shall get shining moment when we rather intrepid, you can handle discuss refurbishing the garage the job yourself. They have sale find garden furniture. You supplies and instructional videos at Homo Depot and have 0aonesfly] assessed both your finances and the state’of other stores of that ilk. If ref~rbishin~ you’ve a bit extra tucked back your cupboards ? Decided what you can live with stylistically’? th..e garage sale in the cookie jar and a low reserve of patience for chaos, Then lef’s get cooking. find g.arden We will be working on the by all means look into having ~urniture. the job done by professional assumption that your cabinets resurfacers. They can even take care of are sturdy enough and laid out in amanner that is endurable until the money for the that god awful formica counter-top while Dream Kitchen appears (The pessimistic they’re at it. As usual, get lots of quotes, side of the DIYD cautions.that any time demand references, and check them before you have spare money, either your house making this choice. or your car will find out about it, so be The option of last resort would be sneaky! A friend of hers adds "girlfriend" stripping and refinishing the cabinets. You should choose this only if a)your cabinets to this .corollary.). Given those two assumpuons, you have options. And we are fabulous but just dark or dingy;b) you all love options, don’t we? have prior refinishing skills; c) You have an infinite reservoir of patience; d) your The easiest approach may be to repaint your cupboards, put up new hinges, and beloved has an infinite reservoir of pathandles and a bit of tasteful shelf paper. ience. No dream of glowing wood cabine.ts Yes, you still have to prep things for is worth a week on the couch - alone. The successful results. Sorry. You will need to dog will be in your place in bed. It can be lightly sand the surfaces and clean them, that bad, darlings. then put on a primer coat. NOT Water As usual, it all sounds so very easy in based! That raises the grain of the wood or print, but ~rd up your channing loins, separates the veneer..Oil based only. This dare to be anal retentive and methodical might be a good time to review the past and you’ll find the work rewarding. I’ll be articles on painting and brush care. I will back next month when we deal with the always recommend that you "extinguish walls - if you’ve finished climbing them pilot lights on the range if you have them by then: and to open windows and doors for good ventilation. Solvents are just ugly. Then use Kilz brand paint; it is trouble-free as oil based paint goes, and dries in an hour or less. The DIYD strongly recommends and confabulations of underwear taking one cabinet door at a time off when collectors - and they establish all those repainting, and then adding the new hinges thousands of websites and chatrooms on and handles when putting it hack on. Or the Intemet. Anthropologists call these you can take the cabinets off all at once, "special interest ~oups" and, despite but mark them or handle them in some pessimistic impresszons that nobody in other methodical way. Especially in older the country anymore talks to their folks and neighbors, the number of interest homes, all things are not equal. One coat of primer then, unless you get groups in this country has expanded astronomically since the 1950s. some bleed-through, then apply two coats. Where once people hid their fetishes as When that’s all dry, you can paint on your finish paint. The DIYD urges you to invest painfully embarrassing, now, like Jay, we in a semi-gloss or gloss formulated happily call ourselves fetishists and especially for kitchens. These paints can proudly broadcast our fascinations. So I stand up to the moisture, and you’ll really feel like I’m in good company when I’ve be grateful when you go to wipe off that got Jay working on my toes with a dreamy errant cake batter. Put in your shelf paper look in his eyes. It’s my contribution to and the you’re ready for those new hinges the modem American Way. we discuss �A UTHENTIC 1TALIAN FRESH RAINBOW C USINE TRO UT ." here are strong spirited to start with,.and by Esther Rothblum The Antarctic is the coldest, highest, ¯¯ stronger still upon leaving. BeingaLesbian was not a contributing factor, whereas and driest continent on earth. Unlike the ¯ persistence, flexibility, emotional and Arctic, which consists of frozen water physical strength are more important. surrotmded by land, the Antarctic is land There is a joke that usually goes around surrounded by water. Land is colder than ¯ town toward the middle of water, so the Antarctic has Tkere is a joke the season: How do you get temperatures ranging from that usually goes a date with a woman? 40 degrees Fahrenheit in the Answer: be one. There are warmest part of the continent around town approximately 36% females in summer to minus 100 toward the middle working in the Antarctic degrees Fahrenheit (.not program. Yes, there are other including the wind chill of the season: Lesbians in town, and a very factor) in the winter. 98% of How do you small handful of Gay men. the continent is covered with The men are quite closeted. ice, and in fact the Antarctic get a date with This was a military base at contains 90% of the world’s a woman? one time and there are still ice. The ice is several miles plenty of military influences thick in parts of the Antarctic Answer: be one. since so many ex-military interior, so that the altitude There are currently work for Antarctic is similar to high mounSupport Associates, the tainous regions. Even though approximately civilian contracting firm in the Antarctic contains 68% 30g females the Antarctic. The Lesbians of the world’s freshwater are generally out, but several working in the locked up as ice, the almost total lack of precipitation Antaretle program. are not. This is a generally classifies it as a desert. Frequent blizzards and high winds form ¯¯ accepting environment, mainly since we all have to work andlive together forlong "white outs" that make it difficult to see, and the view is often a monotonous sheet ¯ periods of dme. If someone doesn’t agree ¯ with a lifestyle, it’s futile to fightit. I do of white snow and ice. Why would anyone choose to go to this ¯ not try to hide my sexuality, but I don’t ¯ flaunt it either. There is always a fear that barren continent? In 1913, explorer Ernest Shackleton placed an ad in a newspaper : one won’t get rehired because of it. . that stated: "Men wanted for haTardous ¯ However, this seems to be residual from journey. Small wage, bitter cold, long ; living in northern society, and not well ¯ founded in the hiring practices of this months of complete darkness . . . Safe return doubtful.., and recognition in case ¯ company. If there are any prejudices, I of success." He received about 5,000 ¯¯ would say it is against women in general, not just against Lesbians. There is no applications. Most people who have come "to the : attempt by the U.S. Antarctic Program to ice" in recent decades engage in scientific ¯ be Lesbian-affirmative, of which I am research or support those who do. About ¯ aware. I have worked at the U.S. McMurdo a dozen nations have built permanent : research "stations" in the Antarctic.For ¯ Station on the Antarctic continent for three several years, I conducted research on ¯" seasons so far. Each year the circle of women in the Antarctic. I wanted to study : friends increases: friends of friends tell women who take risks, and the Antarctic : friends, and end up coming work herewith seemed the ideal setting. This work ¯ us. Each year there seem to be more males resulted in the recent book Women in the : who gravitate to our circle. These are Antarctic (Haw orth Press, 1998), co-edited : straight men who feel more comfortable with Jacqueline Weinstock and Jessica ¯¯ striking friendships with us, mosdy since we are"safe." There is no concern that we Morris. ¯ will want anything more than a friendship. Only one woman that we interviewed Email is the best way to keep in touch for this book came out as a Lesbian, and ¯ she was part of an all-w omen’s expedition :¯ withcommuffityfromhome. I amgratefnl to those who write and keep me informed that skied to the South Pole. Our research ¯ of happenings, and gossip, and events team did not feel we could ask our participants about their sexual orientation. ¯ such as the Rainbow Chorus concerts. I In those days the U.S. Navy transported :¯ was quite involved with them before coming to work down here. This is such personnel to the Antarctic (these days, it’ s ¯ an isolated place, very little outside the Air Force) and as a result we were concerned that our participants might not ¯ stimulation from color (th!ngs are brown want to come out to us as Lesbian or ¯ or white), smells (only the smell of fuel), and life (nothing grows here naturally Bisexual. But we speculated that there might be : other than some algaes). We see some some Lesbians among the women who ¯¯ seals andmaybe somepenguins at the end of the summer season. News from home live and work in the Antarctic. So I was intrigued to read an article entifled"Below ". or small care packages from friends are the Ice: An Antarctic Journal" by Peggy ¯ treasured like a long lost love’s return. Malloy in a recent issue of Weird Sisters, ¯¯ Anything, and everything, is a special gift. This is also the time when I have a Colorado Lesbian newspaper. I emailed ¯ more contact with friends than usual, as I Peggy in the Antarctic (the wonders of technology!) and she responded as ." can sit at the computer and drop a quick ¯ note to say, "hi, how are you doing?" follows: Peggy Malloy can be contacted via For most people who come to work in : ¯ email: malloyma@hotmail.eom. Esther Antarctica, it is the sense of adventure that draws us to this extreme environment. ¯¯ Rothblum is Professor of Psychology at Most of us would never have the money to ¯ the University of Vermont and Editor of the Journal ofLesbianStudies. Shecanbe be a tourist-visitor; and we would not be ¯ reached at Dewey Hall, University of able to learn to love ffduring such a short visit, as many of us have done over the ¯¯ Vermont, Burlington, Vermont. email: esther.rothblum@uvm.edu. seasons. Those who get through a season IGTA member Call 341.6866 nternationa Tours :ormoreinformation. of Eureka Springs Voted Number One in Arkansas! 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"We are amazed so many felt you needed to be here just as we felt we needed to be here." Speakers called on the audience to speak out against hatred and chastised people who use the Bible to justify hate against homosexuals. "We’re here to celebrate this evening that God is not hate, but God is love," said the Rev. Lawton Higgs St. of United Methodist Church of the Reconciler. Roger Lovette, pastor of the Baptist Church of the Covenant, encouraged people to remember Gaither as a person, not a symbol. "He was like the rest of us with hopes, dreams and needs," Lovette said. Rodney Max, co-chairman of the Coalition Against Hate Crimes, urged legislators to pass alaw including offenses motivated by homosexuality on the state’s list of hate crimes. "That should never, ever happen again in this state," Max said. After the two-hour memorial service inside the church, people lit small candles and stood outside singing ’~his Little Light of Mine." Across the street, a small group of protesters from Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., held anti-Gay signs in protest. "We are outraged at this violent crime, but the issue is the homosexuals are exploiting it," said Westboro’s pastor, the Rev. Fred Phelps. "It is no longer merely an event for the family and friends to grieve." Protesters held signs saying "Billy Jack Gaither bums in hell.’" Max Griffies, 9, stood near the church’ s step holdin,,g a sig,n declaring, "God loves all people. Max smother, Leah Griffies, said she wanted her son "to know you don’t kill people, regardless of who they are, and especially for what they believe in." The message seemed to sink in as Max watched the protestors across the street. "Itmakes me feel disgusted because everybody is created equal and all people are created by God," he said. Police originally charged Mullins and Butler with murder, which carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment .with a chance for parole. However, grand jurors upgraded the charge to capital murder, which cames only two possible penalties: electrocution or life without parole. In Washington, DC, the Human Rights Campaignissued the following comments: "in 1997, (the latest FBI statistxcs available) Alabama reported no hate crimes to the FBI for any category. Reporting of statistics is voluntary under to the Hate Crimes Statistics Act of 1990. Alabama’s hate crimes law does not cover sexual orientation. ’This case in Alabama shows the great inconsistency between states in tracking and prosecuting hate crimes We call on Congress to pass the Hate Crimes Prevention Act, to set a uniform federal response for hate crimes and signal that anti-gay violence is unacceptable in our society,’ said Human Rights Campaign Political Director Winnie Stachelberg." Kevin Ivers, director of public affairs .for Log Cabin Republicans added, ’’There IS something wrong in society when gay people are continually murdered in this maimer, and our leaders have amoral duty ~o address it.., The leaders of both parties must speak out with eqtml forceagainst the anti-gay hatred and intolerance that is feeding such crimes. . Every political leader, especially those who seek-the presidency, must reflect on why this is happening, and what they can do to,.h,elp stop it from continuing." but that still some homophobic remarks were expressed by afew teachers to classes after the announcement was made. and flyers went up. However, since a large part of the group’s mission is to educate faculty and other students, Allen characterized these negative remarks as something to be expected, until Gay and Lesbians students and is sues become more visible. BTW’s GSA typically meets during an intermittent free period in the school schedule and the group often discusses issues or plans for upcoming events. One such event is the "Day of Silence" on April 7th which is intended to be a day of protest in support of civil rights for Gay and Lesbian persons. Washington’s Sizemore is actually the key organizer for the US and Canada. Also, the BTW GSA is planning to participate in the upcoming Tulsa Pride Parade. And Booker T. Washington’s example has paved the way for GSA’s in at least two other Tulsa high schools. Smaller and more informal groups have come together at Central and East Central High Schools. All of these groups have joined together in an organization, S.A.F.E. - Student Alliance for Equality which meets at the Tulsa Gay Community Services Center (the Pride Center). For more information, messages may be left for the Booker T. Washington GayStraight Alliance or S.A.F.E. at the Tulsa Gay Community Services Center, 743GAYS (4297). those who gathered to becomd~othe Community of Hope have i~orked to be honest about who we are and what our ministry is. without insisting that others agree with or embrace our ministry, We have consistently insisted that ministries of healing and hope, and not, Gay advocacy, be ourfocus; while at the.same time naming that homophobia and inhospitality are antithetical to the Gospel, and refusing to be silent in the face of them. We have asked only for tolerance and respect, and have tried to offer the same. However. increasinly, the goodness and dignity of Gay and Lesbian persons and their loving, committed relationships are so consistently and ’officially’ devalued and dishonored within in this Conference and by this denomination, that I can no longer maintain my affiliation with integri&. Secondly, I have decided to withdraw because the ministries of justice and compassion to which God’s church has been called and in which this congregation is engaged, are too urgent and too important for us to faithfully allow any more time or energy to be diverted by denominational arguments about whether or not Gay and Lesbian persons are part of the body of Christ, Since the day this congregation was called into being, Gay and Lesbian persons have been BEING the body of Christ - offering their gifts and graces, their time and energy, their hearts and hands, in loving service to God and neighbor see Peurose, p. 14 Buy any Sprint PCS Phone and get $.25 of!!* Everyone ts approvedt. All Sprint PCS-service plans include: ¯ Free Voicemail ¯ Free Caller ID ¯ Free Call Waiting ¯ Free 3 way calling ¯ No activation fee ¯ No contract reouired ¯ 100% Sorint PCS Nationwide Network Tulsa Locations: 2001 S. Garnett, 437-2444 3733 S. Memorial, 660034~ 1216 S. 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And yet, women, men, and ¯¯ informyou thatlam initia,ting theprocess children in Oklahoma, in the US, and ¯ of withdrawalfrom Zhe United Methodist Church in order to transfer my ministerial around the world continue to be robbed of life every day by hunger, homelessness, ¯ orders to another denominate’on. 1 have chosen to begin this process because I abuse, addiction, and violence, while the UMC spends more and more of its time ¯ cannot remain faithful to the Gospel and ¯ honor the requirement of the United andresourcesfight~ng over who is allowed to love who. Internal struggles over control ¯¯ Methodist Church not to celebrate and and authority, have seduced our Church ¯ blesssamesexcovenantrelationships.As one who has been baptized to "resist. into forgetting its call to be the bearers of ¯ injustice and oppression" and ordained God’s gospel ofhope and love to a hurting worM. I am weary of the ’forgetting’ and : to"lookaftertheconcernsofChristabove the fighting, and want my life and our ¯ all," I am called and charged to offer the ministry as a community offaith to once ¯ full ministry of the church--including the again be about ’remembering Jesus’ in ¯ blessing ofdovenant relationships- to all ways that honor the life he lived among : God’s people, including those who are ¯ Gay or Lesbian. I will do nothing less. and for us. - Rev. Leslie Peurose Therefore, on Thursday afternoon, : the larger supernatural reality of god. The by Lamont Linstrom, Ph.D. My feet are looking niighty fine these : sexual fetishist similarly misdirects.his days. I~have been seeing a new friend ¯ attention only to this or that body part or named Jay, who calls himself a foot : object, and also misunderstands the fetishist. And he has been working these ¯ broader, complex whole of human ¯ sexuality. The foot fetishist sucks toes, toes down to hubs, almost. Jay describes foot-worshipping parties he has attended : but ignores everything above the ankle. where shoes and boots and soqks go flying ¯ The hair fetishist gets tangled and stuck in all directions. He has intro~oced me to : up there and never moves along towards foot magazines. The personal ads are ¯ "normal" sex. The 19th century anthropologist and remarkable. They come with photographs showing everyone thrusting his best foot ¯¯ psychologist both shared the belief that they could indeed define normal religion forward into the camera lens. And websites, too. The intemet is one big ¯ and natural sexuality. Whatever fell short fetish supermarket: rubber and latex here, ¯¯ of this standard could be defined away as feet over there, underwear at the back. Or ¯ artificial - just a fetish. Lucky for us, maybe, things are much more complicated uniforms:-I have another friend with a closet full of uniforms. I never know if : nowadays. Some complications have he’s going to show up dressed in Boy ¯¯ come along with 20th century Hedonism. While hardly triumphant (especially in Scout drag, or as Marine, or perhaps a ¯ Oklahoma),latterday influentialhedonists water meter reader. While Jay was mass_aging my feet one : like Dr. Ruth proclaim that all forms of afternoon I thought about the word "fetish" ¯¯ sexual behavior are good, as long as nobody gets hurt. And even that can be - a term oddly shared by anthropology, ¯ good, too, as long as a person wants to get psychology, and sexology. Sigmund Freud himself seems to have been the first to : hurta,ndiftheboundaries andgroundrules borrow "fetish" from 19th century ¯¯ (we Americans are so legalistic) are negotiated beforehand. anthrol~i0gy. 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Thus, the fetish originally was a man-made, artificial : the economy. Sex nowadays is also complicated by image of-God that African devotees ¯¯ the duty our culture demands of us to believed to have divine powers. The term ¯ cultivate our individuality. Fetishes here is still used occasionally in anthropology and beyond to refer to sacred objects. My ¯ are extremely useful. They help Bay Area newspaper, for example, last ¯¯ differentiate ourselves as unique individuals. If you remain stuck in plain week contained an advertisement for an ¯ old boring vanilla sex, you are just a upcoming sale of Pueblo Indian jewelry which featuredZuni fetishes- these small, ¯ cypher in the crowd. You need a focus, an carved animal figures sold as both :¯ angle. Somespecial way to define yourself when filling outoneofthosebearortwink decorative and spiritual. I am not sure why Freud borrowed ¯ codes one sometimes sees flaunted in fetish to describe sexual kinkiness. We ¯¯ email signature files. 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Ron.Wyden and Gordon Smith are renewing their campaign for an expanded, federal hate crimes statute, hoping thatpublic outrage over the torture and murder of black and Gay men will spur passage. "This is about drawing a line in the sand and saying America.is too good.., to look the other way in the face of violent, hate-filled acts," said Wyden, a Democratic cosponsor of the Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 1999, a replica of last year’s bill. Last month in Texas, John William King, a white supremacist, was sentenced to death for chaining a black man, James Byrd Jr., behind a pickup truck and dragging him to his death. Two men have been charged in the October slaying of Gay colleg..€, student Matthew .Shepard, who was pistol-whipped and’lashed to a fence m Wyoming. Two men also have been charged with beating to death aGay textile worker, Billy Jack Gaither, in Alabamalast month and burning his body on a pile of tires. Sen. Gordon Smith, another cosponsor of the bill, said that as a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee he often travels abroad and deplores hate crimes in other nations, see Federal, p. 3 Alabama Man Murdered in Anti-Gay Hate crime BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - An overflow crowd of mourners filled Covenant Metropolitan Community Church, honoring the memory of Billy Jack Gaither while also calling for an end to hatred against Gays. There was no standingroom at the 225-seat church as 17 speakers mostly clergy - decried Gaither’s death. A handful of anti-Gay protesters picketed outside. Steven Eric Mullins, 25, and Charles Monroe Butler, 21,.confessed to beating the 39-year-old Sylacaugaman to death with an ax handle last month and setting his body on fire atop kerosene-soaked tires because, they claimed, he made a pass at one of them. Gaither’s body was discovered by apasserby Feb. 20in CoosaCounty, a day after he was beaten and burned. "Mullins and Butler stated the reason they killed him was because he was ahomosexual," said Coosa County sheriff’s deputy Al Bradley. "We believe this to be the true motive." Mnllins and Buffer remain in the Coosa County jail. Gaither met with the two men in Sylaeanga, a community about 40 miles southeast of Birmingham, on the night he was killed, police said. Hehad last been seeninabarhefrequented. According to the statements, Mullins called Gaither and asked him to go to the bar, where they met and.apparently left together, Johnson said. Authorities said the men apparently took Gaither to a remote location, where the murder took place. 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An unprecedented number of supporters, including members ~ongressman Frank is _one of of Gay and Lesbian groups and representatives of religious me most respected l)emoorganizations such as TulSa Metropolitan Ministry, went to the _cra~cme..mbers of ~e,,United Capitol early in March to encourage lawmakers to support House ~ tate.s Hou,s e ox,,~,epre- Bill 1211. sentataves ana is well ~nown But the bill’s sponsor, Tulsa Rep. Don Ross said there was not enough bipartisan support to add sexual orientation to the Oklahoma Hate Crimes Act. "I said from the beginning I would not allow this issue to become a partisan wedge issue, used exclusively against Democrats in the next election," Ross said. The vote killing the bill followed more than an hour of sometimes passionate debate between supporters, who said that certain classes ofpeople deserve special protection, and opponents who argued that all citizens should be treated equally under the law. The bill’s final version would have made a first-offense hate crime afelony and providedfor enhanced penalties when~iolence was used but did not add "sexual orientation" to the existing law. Rep. Leonard Sullivan said the measure was divxsive and singled out certain groups for special treatment. The Oklahoma Hate Crimes Act distinguishes offenses committed because of race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin and disability. But supporters said special status has been given to crimes against children and women, and that similar recognition is needed for other groups because of who or what they are. "The law is an equalizing force," argued Ross, who is one of three Black House members. "The idea of equal protection is a very noble concept," but it is up to lawmakers to make it work, said Rep. Russ Roach, D-Tulsa. "This legislation protects all people," added Rep. John Sellers, D-Enid. Ross’ substitute bill deleting ~exual orientation was drafted in response to the Christian Coalition opposition. Toure said fear, hatred and misunderstanding are to blame for dropping sexual orientation from the measure. "I never knew the hatred toward Gay people as I do now," Ross said. TOHR’ Steve Horn shivers with Cimarron Alliance’ Terry Gatewood andfriend at Equality Begins at Home Capitol rally, Reverend Leslie Penrose Resigns as Methodist Pastor TULSA - On March 5,1999, the pastor of Community of Hope Base Shalom Congregation, the Reverend Leslie Penrose submitted a letter to Oklahoma MethodiSt Bishop, Bruce Blake initiating her withdrawal from the Methodist Church: The following is selections of her letter which circulated by e-mail in the Tulsa community: Dear Friends and Colleagues, It is with prayers for its future well-being, that I initiate the . processofwithdrawingfromtheUnitedMethodistChurch. The ", primary reason for my withdrawal after 18 years offull time ¯ ministry is the increasing focus on complaints and charges ¯ regarding my ministry of blessing same-sex covenant relationships.ltseemsthattheoptionshavefinallybeenreduced ¯ to either withdrawing or preparing for trial. I simply will not ¯ participate inputting God’s grace- or myprivilege as apastor ¯ ¯ to bless andcelebrateany andevery relationship where thefruits ofthe spirit bear witness to that grace - on trial. Nor will I hide ¯ or lie about the ministry I do. ¯ From the time six years ago when I was sent by the Oklahoma ¯ Conference to create a reconciling base community ministry in Tulsa, see Penrose, p. 13 for his skilled and often scathing debate. Mitchell Savage, member of Tulsa Gay Community Services Center’s Pride ’99 planning committee, also noted that in addition to attending the annual Tulsa Pride Picnic, planned again.for Veterans Park at 18th and Boulder, organizers are working on a dinner at which the Congressman would likely speak and possibly a Sunday morning event. Congressman Frank was graduated in 1962 from Harvard University andtaughtundergraduates there while studying for a Ph.D. Before completing his Ph.D. degree, Frank became Chief Assistant to Mayor Kevin White of Boston. In 1972, Congressman Frank was elected to the Massachusetts Legislature, where he served for eight years, until 1980. During that time, he entered Harvard Law School in September, 1974 and graduated in 1977. In 1980, Congressman Frank was elected to the US House of Representatives. In a recent evaluation of Congress, The Almanac of American Politics said "Frank is one of the intellectual and political leaders of the Democratic Party in the House, political theorist :andpit bull at the same time." Frank serves on the Judiciary and the Banking Financial Services Committees. For more information, contact the Community Center at 743-4297. BTW Boasts OK’s First Gay-Straight Alliance by Tom Neal TULSA - Elsewhere in the United States, high school Gay-Straight Alliances have often been met withconsiderable controversy. In Utah, some school districts got rid of all their campus organizations ¯ rather than allow a group which tries to supportGay o young adults andfoster tolerance andunderstanding. : However, Booker T. Washington High School, ¯ Tulsa’s magnet showpiece school, appears to have ¯ avoided much of that sort of uproar and is thought : to be the first high school with such an organization ¯ in the state of Oklahoma. ¯ Former SapulpaHigh School student, Will Allen ¯ and Emily Sizemore began the work of creating a ¯ Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) latein 1998, meeting ." withformerBTWprincipal Mr. Stevens andt’mding ¯ a faculty sponsor, Doug Gronberg. ¯ Then in January this year, after creating flyers ¯ and making an public announcement on the school ¯ intercom, they held their first meeting. ¯ Muchto the astonishmentofAllen and Sizemore, ¯ 40 students showedup. In fact, Allen stated that the ¯ turnout was notable especially since that that first : meeting conflicted with a tryoutfor the Washington ¯ Drama Club’s production of West Side Story: ¯ Apparently BTW’s Gay population is well ¯ represented in theDramaClub and therefore, many ¯ who might otherwise have been expected to attend ¯ weren’t able. Allen also notes that similar groups in : Chicago and Boston frequently don’thave as many ¯ attending. : Allen said that the GSA is comparable to other : studentchapters on thecampus, suchas theNAACP ¯ see BTW,.p. 13 Tulsa Clubs & Restaurants *Bamboo Lounge, 7204 E. Pine *Boston Willy’s Diner, 1742 S. Boston *Concessions, 3340 S. Peoria *Empire Bar, 1516 S. Peoria *Full Moon Care, 1525 E. 15th *Gold Coast Coffee House, 3509 S. Peoria *Interurban Restaurant, 717 S. 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Why were there only aprox. 300 folks at the capitol demanding that our innocent people’s executions stop? Where were you? I will speak for myself. When Mathew Shepard died, Tulsa had a candlelight vigil for him. It rained, and was nasty out thatevening, therefore, I decided toremain in the comfort of my warm home. After seeing the number of folks from the Westboro Baptist Church, that endured the freezing rain at Mathew’s funeral - in order to spew out hate and condemnation to the coldbody ofaninnocent child- I felt like aninsensitive, amoral, spineless snake for staying.home. Where were you? Howmany morefolks are going tohave to die in order for you / us to see that we need to attend these functions? The hate crime law was turned down- even in the state where Mathew Shepard was killed. Arethe"moral majority" ofourlawmakers hate mongers? I Thank God for MC Smothermon, Keith Smith, Paul Barby, and their likes. We need more folks like them at our capitol, to defend the rights of "minorities". We deserve better. Those who have died because of ignorant hate deserved better. Perhaps the world does not fully understand thathate crimes are committed every day. Ourminority citizens are scared to report attacks against themselves as such, because offurther condemnation, or for lack of concern by law enforcement. ¯ Folks are scared to speak up for equal ¯ rights - for fear of what few rights they ¯ currently have - will be torn away from ¯ them as a result. Receiving a pink slip ¯ from your employment, and adeath threat : because of standing up for.equal rights !s i reality. I know from experience. There ~s ~ plenty ofbehind the scene workthatnee~,s ¯ to be done, that will make a differencem : your salvation - and the lives of those in ¯ danger of ignorant violence. ~ I know ofmany hate crimes committed ¯ in Tulsa alone- which have not received ¯ the attention they deserve. I am aware of ¯ "minority" children that were victims of ¯ violent I~ate crime - which cannot tell ~ their parents for fear of getting kicked out ¯ of their ho,,m_es. Obvi,o_nsly the general " public says oh well,it s jt£st another fag, ¯ or blackie". Is the buckle of the bible belt ¯ so. tight.that it is r~.tri_cting blood flow to ; the brains of those who consider ¯ themselves "do-gooders"? God would ¯ never advocate hate. Never. .’~ The general media image of the Gay, Bi, Lesbian, and transgendered community is out cruising River Park, molesting littleboys, and spreading AIDS. Wall, I have not used the parks for sex, and see Letters, p. 3 Letters Policy Tulsa Family News welcomes letters on issues which we’ve covered Or on issues you think need to be considered. You may request that your name be withheld but letters must be signed &hay e phone numbers, or be hand delivered. 200 word lel- ¯ " " OB 701475 74170-1475 3_5.523_1.--42~. ; *~ ’ "t o~ Christ MCC ~2639 E. 32, Ste. U134 417-623-4696 ters are preIerrea~." "~’u~t.ters to other Ep~scopahans, P , ., . Spin . ..... . ¯ " - will be rinteo as is a propna~e. ¯Fellowship Congreg. Ctxurch,2900 S. H~vard~ . ~ ~4,~-,~7~7, , , tswl~ere¢oucanrmaTFN-N°’~au~’eGa’’owne~~ s ap~prop_n[~.: ¯Free S~iht Women’ s Center, call for locauon ~~mo: ~o/-~,u~ . theOklahomaStateCapitol as a local partofanational event, Equality Begins at Home. The turnout really Wasn’ t that bad considering that, in inimi table Oklahoma spring fashion, the weather had turned very, very chilly and rainy. It also wasn’t bad considering how the event’s Oklahoma City organizers had failed thoroughly to get the word out to the statewide community. Their failure actually is rather surprising because those organizers, Paul Thompson of the self proclaimed statewide OGLPC, the Oklahoma Gay & Lesbian Political Caucus, and Paula Hand Brown, an editor and reporter for The Gayly Oklahomanare easily two of the mostexperienced Gay civil fights activists in Oklahoma City. The event itself was only symbolic. The Capitol was locked and our only audience was, wall, ourselves and afew media types. Thereal lobbyingwas thatdoneatthebeginning of the month under the direction of Keith Smith and Nancy McDonald when the Capitol was unlocked and legislators werein attendance. But atleastOklahomacould say we were there; wewere one of those states around the country that did an "Equality Begins at Home" (EBAH) event. But the event was marred by a few parochial and petty aspects which by themselves are not that important but which point to flaws in our national and state movement. Th~se are the sorts of flaws that, frankly, often make u~as effective in hindering our movement as our enemies. One problem to which this newspaper has particular objectionis thefailure ofthese experienced andmedia savvy organizers to provide this newspaper with the most basic information about the event. While TFN earlier published " informationaboutEBAHbasedon the press releases provided by the national sponsors, the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force and the Federation of Stat,ewide LGBT Political Organizations, Thompson and. Brown apparently did not provide even the simplest press release telling precisely when the event was going to be held. Now in fairness, they claim that they telephoned TFN but oddly neither I nor any otherTFN staffever found amessage onour office number, our wireless voicemail,our e-mail, our fax machine, or even by that old fashioned method, by post! Some might suggest that Ms. Brown, an employee of a somewhat rival newspaper and Mr. Thompson, wall known to be dosdy tied to that newspaper might have had an interest in not sharing the information fully. Certainly, we at Tulsa Family News also acknowledge that if the only part of rtmning this business and getting a issue put together was to track down information from negligentcommunity organizers, then wecould have chased the information down as wall. However, we do have some other events we have to cover as well. For the record, Thompson and Brown did later telephone TFN and actually leave messages but only after we had gone to press and only after we complained to NGLTF organizers. But the real issue for Oklahomain the "Equality Begins at Home" effort is notjust that ofpoor communications. Part of the EBAH effort was a grant of to each participating state of $5,000. In Oklahoma, this $5K went to the Oklahoma Gay & Lesbian Political Caucus (OGLPC). Now if you just go by their name, you might assume that they are genuinely a statewide-organization. However, the organization in practice only ha~~ad a real impact in.central Oklahoma City. In that area, they have been fairly effective. An active OGLPC member claims that they have about 150 members, though they claim to have a mailing list of 7,000. He surprisingly was unable to provide any numberfor Tulsa members. And what many Gay and Lesbian civil rights activists believe, both in Tulsa and OKC, is that OGLPC really is just a OKC group. It’s never had any impact on Tulsa politics. Let us compare this with the Cimarron Alliance which, although much newer, hasboth Tulsa and other non~OKC members, and a track record of doing significant work outside of OKC. The obvious question is why did NGLTF give $5K to an organizationwhichhadlittle credibility as agenuine statewide organization, and which for years has seemed to be little more than an extension of the personality of Paul Thompson overTheCimarronAlliance withits documentable successes across the state? Here’s where petty local politics meets petty national politics. NGLTF knew quite wall that OGLPC was not widely considered credible as a statewide organization. see Equality, p.lO ~shocked many with his.suggestion that th~ solution to ¯ .famine in Ireland, then under English domination, was " for the Irish merely to eat their children. Swift, an ¯ Irishman himself,, indeed was being just a wee bit ¯ sarcastic and his essay is still readin literature classes as an example of that type of essay. It is the spirit of Swift that I’d like to ¯ invoke for part of this essay but I realize that these words taken out of context as ¯¯ they no doubt will be, will likely provoke shock and dismay and anger. All that said, ¯ I’d like to talk about hate crimes and hate ¯ crimes legislation, specifically that which ¯ was considered last month in our ¯ legislature. ¯ First, let us praise The Very Honorable ¯ Don Ross, one of Tulsa’s state ¯ representatives who introduced HB 1211. ¯ He can be cranky but as he once told me ¯ (and proved it), he’s one of our few _" dependable friends in the Oklahoma ¯ House. He’s also been supportive of ¯ increased funding for people living with ¯ AIDS. So, take some time to thank him - like :’ your momma said, it doesn’t take that ¯ long to write a thank you note. Also don’t ¯ forget him when the next election cycle ¯ comes up. Send hima checkif you can, or ¯ volunteer. If we don’t take care of our ¯ friends, who will? : And to highlight the positive, the ¯ progress HB1211 made is greater than ¯ anything that came before. That’s notjust ¯ my assessment but that of a Tulsa area ¯ Republican representative. He’ll be ¯ happier if I’ll leave him unnamed, but as ¯ he said, just getting the bill out of ¯ committee counts as progress. Headded that afew years ¯ ago,most of the people talking with us would not even ¯ have let us in the door. ¯ Again to recognize those whose work is making ¯ much of that difference, we need to thank Keith Smith ¯ who lobbies for our communities on his own while he ¯ does his other paid lobbying work. One day, if we are ¯ really smart as a community, we’ll figure outhow to pay ¯ Keith so that he can do even more. ¯ TulsaMetropolitanMinistry deserves great praise for providing the initial leadership on this bill, particularly ¯ the Reverends Mildred Banks, Gary Blaine, Gaff Kecny- ¯ Mulligan and no doubt others whose names I don’t ¯ know. Attorney General Drew Edmondson and former : DistrictAttorney Bill LaFortunealso were tremendousl)~ ¯ helpfui. Also, I would be remiss in not specifi.ca!,ly honoring Nancy McDonald for spearheading Tulsa S efforts on HB 1211. Standing 0utside thechamberoftheOklahoma ¯ House of Representatives with these two and~others, as or nlzed ome to lie in wait outside of notorious "straight"-bars, some guy walking to his ear alone, jump him and beat him senseless? Or when some %traight" couple has the nerve to flaunt their sexuality publicly, by holding hands or kissing, what if we drove up on the sidewalk to run them down or pulled a gun and shot at them. myfather and I did, is quite the education. Butnext time we need to get more of us there! But back to the blasphemous and scandalous, I have ¯ to wonder how quickly hate crimes laws would pass if " the situation were reversed? ¯ What if we organized some gangs of Gay men to get alittle drunkand liein waitoutside ofnotorious "straight" bars, and when we see some guy walking to his car alone, jump him and beat him senseless. Orwhensome straight couple has the nerve to flaunt their sexuality publicly, byholding hands or kissing, what if we drove up on the sidewalk to run them down orjnstpulled agunand shot atthem? At the very least, we could scream epithets at them so that they’ll know how hated and repulsive they are. And if that’s not good enough to intimidate those "straight" guys, wemight prevail on some of our lipstick Lesbians to chat them up in a bar, pretending to be "straight" and then lure them out to where they can be beaten or murdered or tortured - whatever. How long do you think it would take for hate crimes legisl.ation which included sexual orientation to pass? Though our legislature wouldlikely0uly makeitillegal for us to beat up "straight" boys but leave it just fine for them to kill us. Mind you I do not advocate any of the violence mentioned above; we all know it wouldbe wrong. I think it is a testament to the decency of most Gay people that we face the injustice and indignity with which we are treated with as much patience and kindness as we do. I can’t believe that it’s just because we have no choice. Consider this: in the early years of the AIDS holocaust, we had little hope; there were no or few effective treatments; we " had a government that was damning even more to death ¯ through its actions that were indifferent at best, and more often hostile, and yet we never saw any of our ¯ people resorting to violence - civil disobedience, yes, ¯ butmoredidnothappenas is the casewithdesperate and oppressed people in much else of the world. Even the ~ Jews became terrorists as old Palestine went on its way ¯ to becoming Israel. ¯ My old friend Peter and I have wondered how it is that ¯ none of those who might well have seen the world as without hope, sought vengeance or acted in violence? After all, when faced with the evil that Jesse Helms and others like that represent, why no one of us sought to send him or the many in Congress like him to the hell they surely deserve? But in the words of an old Holly Near song, "we are a gentle, angry people, and we fighting, fighting for our lives..." and maybe our persistence, along with the righteousness of our cause will move even the hardened hearts of Oklahoma towards justice someday. radio programming, the (seemingly)blackmailing Christian c~alition, and other attractive sprinkles of ignorance. Prejudice words such as "faggot, blackie, nigger, colored~ and queer" should never be allowed in hateful media - of any sort. This is the dawn of a new century political correctness changes - are we still Neanderthals? I think that we have evolved enough to cease advocating senseless -hate towards our brothers and sisters. Please make plans to attend the Pride ’99 Gay pride parade on June 12th. Perhaps we will be more inclined to attend a function of such ~xtreme value - if the weather is bright and sunny. Weneed to make it known to our leaders that hate crimes are not acceptable. Pride ’99 will be a wonderful vehicle to portray the equality we deserve and demand. Equal rights are just that - equal, not special. ¯ Please become more involved in advocating equality v~a organizations such as T.O.H.R., N.A.A.C.P., P.F.LA.G., and others. You will be, and feel like, a better person for your efforts. I am not pointing t’mgers. Just pointing and pitching in. Conform and be dull. - Ned T. Bruha, Tulsa Icert~ainly there are no more Gays interested in little boys than the heterosexual community. AIDS has no sexual preference. The words "Gay" and"black" arenot needed as verbs. In media, when we talk about an ¯" "average" citizen, we do not say"andin thenews today, ~ a white, heterosexual groi~p of’Christians gathered in a ." local church to discuss how to stop theGays fromkilling ¯ straight folks". Please. Why do we allow our radio stations to advocate hate ¯ via Gayjokes andracial slurs?Why does theFCC allow ." them that’’freedom of speech"? Why are websites such ¯ as the Gay Nazis, skinheads, KKK, Westboro Baptist, ¯ and Larry the Cable Guy allowed? They all seem to ." inciteignorantintolerance,hate, and sometimes violence ¯ - but when asked about what is inwriting- they refuse ¯ to admit it is hate. "We shouldbe outraged andalarmed, ¯ because theideas canlead to violent crimes"- as stated ¯ in the3/28/1999USAWeekendincludedin your Sunday ¯ papers. The minds of our innocent children are being " soiled by seemingly innocent media: Crayons using ¯ peach as skin tone, bandages are peach- for skin tone, Anti-Gay Stand Loses Church Its Building BROCKTON, Mass. (AP) - A dispute over Gay Christians has put a priest and his parishioners who oppose same-sex marriages on the street, so the evicted congregation held services right on the sidewalk. The Rev. Thomas Morris andabout adozen members of his flock prayed outside on a recent Sunday, despite their eviction by a judge in their ongoing dispute with the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts. Morris and his congregation at St. Paul’s Church opposed the diocese’s 1994 decision to sanction same-sex unions and ordain noncelibate homosexuals as priests. In opposition, the congregation began withholding fees it was bound to pay the diocese. Diocese officials maintained the dispute was not about beliefs or issues. "What this is about is this church needs a priest ingood standing with the bishop and other churches in the diocese," said the Rev. Donald Parker, the diocese vicar. The diocese is overseen by Bishop Thomas Shaw. In the decision, Judge Charles J. Hely said his ruling settled a legal issue about property, not a religious issue. In 1995, Morris’ predecessor at St. Paul’s, the Rev. James R. HAles,was defrocked after the diocese found him guilty of sexual misconduct. But many members of the church stand by HAles, and say the charges against him were concocted as punishment for his stance against homosexuality. Gay Irish Not Welcome in Bronx Parade Either NEW YORK (AP)= Members of a Gay organization got a Bronx cheer when they tried to join the first St. Patrick’ s Day-parade held in that borough in70 years. Six people, including state Sen. Tom Duane and City Councilwoman Christine Quiun, were arrested Sunday after a.doze~! supporters of the Lavender and Green’Al!ian.~ce stepped into the parade. "I’m an Irish person, I’m a Gay person, I’m here to try to march," Duane sai& % Lavender and Green Alliance founder BrendanFay said his group"originally "got a call to say we were welcome, but then we learned the welcome was being rescindedY The ~Bronx parade’s chairman, patrick Devine, d~d nrt ieturn telephone calls left at his home scekin~o crniment and did not make himself fi)aifable to reporters at.flae~ parade..... Another gr.oup, the Irish Lesbian and. Gay Organizafion,’hhs fifed unsuccessfully to join t13~ big St. Patriek~sD~y??Parade down Fifth Avenue in Manhattan f0t th(last half-dozen years criir~fruqfngs have held ~that the.private organizauons thaVsponsor parades may ch0.Os¢ which groups march Quim~,Duane, Fay and the others were arrested after the first marching band passed by and they stepped into the parade behind the Lavender ~and Green banner. They were stopped by a line of police officers and informed they would be arrested if they failed to l~ave. A few stepped aside, but others stood fast and were led away to a police-wagon and handcuffed before being charged with disorderly conduct."Let themmarch!" shouted a few supporters. "’Shame!" called outJimmy McNulty,who was among those arrested. "Why are we not welcome?" Several dozen spectators cheered when the parad~ resumed without the Gay group. "It’s an immoral lifestyle," said spectator Martin O’Grady. "If they wanted to march, the), could have marched without their banner," said Fannie Sclafani. "t have nothing against them, but it’s a community parade." Mary McGarry also said they shouldn’t have tried to crash the parade. "I have best friends who are Gay, but the parade is not about sexual orientation. It’s about being proud to be Irish," she said. The parade had the feel of a small-town event, featuring cheerleaders from parochial high schools, kilted bagpipers, babies in strollers decorated with Irish flags and groups like the Throgs Neck Homeowners, which consisted of a dozen ladies wearing off-white cable-knit fishermen’s sweaters. Spectators were sparsdy scattered along the mileand- a-half route along East Tremout Avenue. It was in sharp contrast to the annual Fifth Avenue parade, with its glitzy floats, booming drum corps and rowdy crowds. Stanley Rygorwas among a half-dozen people who stood on a sidewalk behind the Lavender and Green banner after the arrests took place. "They want them back in the closet. They want them to be anonymous," said Rygor, whose wife is Irish. He said his son died of AIDS five years ago, and he dealt with his grief by becoming an activist. "I’m here," he added, "in memoriam to him." Gay Vets Want to March FERNDALE, Mich. (AP) - A group of Gay military veterans are taking steps to march in this Detroit suburb s Memorial Day parade.Agroup of Ferndale s Gay veterans hope to join members of Friends and Neighbors of Femdale (FANS), a Gay group that has received tentative approval to enter the parade, according to a parade organizer. Femdale’s parade leaders have so far downplayed the significance of including Gays. "As far as I know, they are planning to meet all our reqmrements," Barbara Earl, a secretary with the Femdale Memorial Association, told the Detroit Free Press for a story Monday. The association puts on the annual parade, one of theregion’ s biggest and oldest, dating to at least 1919. Organizers say they will strictly enforce arequirement limiting any show of a group’ s identity to a display of its nagne. If enforced, that would mean FANS will march with no explicit banner proclaiming it is an orgamzation of Gays. "It’s not a day to promote your own agenda," Ms. Earl said. "This is a day for the veterans." Gay group leaders in Ferndale said they are ctmfortable blending in with the parade’s usual array ofhonor guards, scout troops, high school bands and politicians. "We wouldn’t want to do anything to incite controversy," said Chuck Simon, president of FANS, whichhas about 80 dues-paying members and a mailing list of several hundred. Parade rules require participants to refrain from displaying their own messages and instead stick to OffiCial Slogans, which this year are "Lest we forget" arid "’Fgt _those who gave their all." Navy veteran Ken Warnock, 32, who co-owns the Jn~ 4 ~’G~y. ~0oksto~e in F~rndale, told the Free Pre~;’fimi he will march in Ferndale’s parade with a ¯ mix ofpridd and bft-terhess. In 1987, Warnock, then - 20, was a hrgpital Corpsman aboard a Navy ship when he was. broughL.hefore his commanding officer, q~esfioned abouthis sexual orientation and th]:eafen,ed "’ With~perjury €iia~e, fie said. He resisted the Navy s " in~esfigatirnfor months, Wamock said. Ultimately, he.r¢cgived a lessZthan2honorable discharge - not q~-t.e as bad as a ~dishon0rable discharge, he said. On Memorial Day, Warnock probably won’t wear ¯ his sailor s umform- it s gettang a htfle t~ght - but beplans to carry an American flag while keeping a watchful eye for anyone angry at Gay participants. Despite his wariness, he said the inclusion of Gay marchers "speaks very well for Ferndale.’" Femdale Mayor ChuckGoedert saidhewas unaware of the Memorial Day plans but supports the inclusion ofFANS members and Gay veterans. 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Themini stry is an outgrowth of community meetings that Auxiliary Bishop Carl M0eddel led in October to discuss the U.S. bishops’ document on homosexuality, "Always Our Children." During those discussions, there was a"sense of urgency" among parents that the archdiocese have a ministryforGay ah~tLesbianCatholics and theirfamili es, Leslmey said. The Catechism of the Catholic Church holds thathomosexual activity is "contrary to thenatural law" and,objectively disordered," but thathomosexuals should be "accepted with respect, compassion and sensitivity." Gay Dallas Church To Televise Infomercial DALLAS (AP) -A federal court settlement announced Friday has cleared the way for Cathedral of Hope, the nation’s largest Gay church, to air a controversial infomercial onbroadcast superstationWGN-TV. Under the settlement, Cathedral ofHope will pay the Chicagobased cable station $35,000 for showing the program five times. Thehalf-hour video includes testimonials by members, scenes ofworship atthe3,000-memberchurch and discussions with the families of church members. Cathedral ofHope claimed the Chicago-based station reneged on a contract to air the church’s program last August. Church officials said the station pulled the infomercial shortly before the air date for unspecified reasons. WGN officials argued that they weren’t obligated to air the program because the station did not have binding contract with the church. TheDallas church filed alawsuitin October, claiming thatWGN accepted the a $13,000 check, made several suggestions that the church followed and then broke its contractandreturned the check after deciding the subject was too controversial. The Rev. Michael Piazza said he was pleased with the settlement. "Of course our desire was for it to have been aired last year," said Piazza, senior pastor at Cathedral of Hope. "But we’re very grateful to be able to resolved it." Pia77a told The Dallas Morning News that every other broadcast outlet approached by the church had refusedto air the program. ’qqaey don’t have to give you reasons, but a couple of the media buyers told us that stations were afraid the conservative religious programming would be withdrawn if ours was shown," he said. The minster said Cathedral of Hope was attracted to WGN because the station airs on cable outlets in the rural areas surrounding Dallas and Fort Worth. Maryland Gov. Supports Civil Rights Bill for Gays ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Gov. Parris Glendening testified for the first time before a legislative committee last month, describing his late brother’s hardship hiding his homosexuality and urging delegates to outlaw discrimination based on sexual orientation. Glendening’s brother Bruce served 19 years in the Air Force, including three tours in Vietnam. But as the decorated veteran lay dying of AIDS - when the pain was so great that it hurt to touch his skin - Bruce Glendening said it was more painful to keep his sexual orientation hidden for so long in order to keep his job, Gleiadening testified. "He lived in fear.. ," the governor told the House Judiciary Committee. "This has weighed on me a long tame... I’m here to ask ifwe couldmake this state amore fair and just society." Afterward, the audience applauded his three-minute speech. One of several people in the audience who shookGlendening’ s handas heleftwas SilviaRodriguez, chairwomanofthe stateHumanRelations Commi ssion, who said no other governor showed such courage in her 15 years with the group. "He knows this is just and fair for all the people of Maryland," she said. Delegates Sheila Hixson and Leon Billings, both Montgomery County Democrats, havefailed to get the bill approved for six years, but they have not had such a prominent supporter before. Onlookers packed the hearing room and one wall was lined with television cameras. The bill would add sexual orientation to a law thatbans discriminationin housing and employment because of aperson’s race, religion or gender. "The issue is simply a matter ofintolerance and bigotry," Ms. Hixson said. Baltimore City and Montgomery, Prince George’s and Howard counties have similar laws governing 49 percent of the state’s population. Glendening said Prince George’s County hasn’t suffered since it enacted the law in 1991 while he was chief executive. "Western civilization hasn’t collapsed because of the bill," he said. Glendeningleftbefore delegates asked questions about the bill. Several delegates appeared critical ofit. Delegate Emmett Bums, a Baptist pastor, said complaints from homosexuals would flood the Human Relations Commission and create further delays for Blacks and women who suffer discrimination. In the hearing’s testiest exchange, Billings retorted that everyone can suffer discrimination. Commission officials said 1 to3% of complaints in counties that have the law concern sexual orientation, Advocates argued that nobody should be discriminated against for any reason. "We’re trying to cast the net as broadly as possible," Billings said. Teens Protest Gay Story in Dawson’s Creek WILMINGTON (AP) - More than 30 teen-agers gathered outside Wilmington’s EUE Screen Gems Studios to protest the homosexual subject matter of thelocally filmed television show Dawson’s Creek. Members of Youths Against the Promotion of Homosexuality held placards Thursday reading "Jack and Jill, Not Jack and Bill" and "Hollywood: No More Gay Promo." Screen Gems’ employees were greeted with chants of "Don’t Holly-weird me!" as they drove into the studios’ parking lots. "We’re sick and tired of Hollywood trying to force its pro-homosexual values down teen-agers’ throats on shows like Dawson’s Creek," said Robert Hales, 17. "This show is 100 times worse than Ellen because they’re targeting high school kids with their ’pro-Gay’ propaganda." Ellen, which starred Lesbian comedian Ellen DeGeneres, created a national stir two years ago when the main character announced she was a.Lesbian. Theprotests aboutDawson’s Creek center around a 16-year-old character who announced in a recent episode thathe was homosexual. Kerr Smith, whose character Jack was introduced on Dawson’s Creek this season, said the show simply explores common adolescent themes. "’Everybody knows that Dawson’s Creek addresses prevalent issues about teen-agers, and one of them is homosexuality," he said. "It’s in the schools now. Ten years ago, it wasn’t talked about€but now it is." Killer Pleads Guilty LOS ANGELES (AP) - A man accused of murdering five Gay men because he thought it would stop the spread of AIDS abruptly ended his trial by pleading guilty to the charges, prosecutors said. Juan Chavez, 34, avoided a possible.death sentence in the capital case by unexpectedly changing his plea about 1 1/2 weeks into trial, prosecutor Mike Duarte said. He is scheduled to be sentenced June 21. Duarte told jurors during the trial that Chavez lured themen to theirhomes supposedly for sex and then robbed and strangled them Chavez coufessed to the murders while serving a prison sentence for an unrelated 1996 kidnapping. In September of that year, he was charged with strangling the five men in 1986 and 1989. 11 Year Old with AIDS Speaks Out CARSON CITY (AP) - Eleven-year-old Michael Dowling wasn’t supposed to live this long and he knows it. "I was born HIV-positive. My morn was told that I’d probably dieby the timeI was three years old," Michael told the Assembly as they designatedWednesday, March24as HIVAIDS Awareness Day inNevada. Hestood ¯ next to his adopted mother’s friend, Assemblywoman Barbara Cegavske, RLas Vegas, as he addressed thelegislators. The boy was born in Las Vegas to a drug-addicted mother who passed her disease along to him before she gave birth. Now, l~fichael hasbeen adoptedand is also living with full-blown AIDS. Michael said he has to make a trip to Washington,D.C., every couple ofmonths so he can get two sho~ of a medication called IL2 every day for a week. "I go to the National Institutes of Health. The doctors and nurses, there are the people that have kept me alive. If not for them I would be dead,? Mi.chael said,. Despite his disease, the youngster says heis planningto live afull andindependent life. "I plan to. grow up.and be a doctor. I do not plan to be disabled and live off welfare and_have Medicaid pay my doctor’s bills," he added. People.,~ith AIDS need Nevada’s help to find "good jobs and insurance to pay their medical bills," he said. After his speech, the entire 42-member Assembly and dozens of observers in the gallery stood~to applaud. "Mikie is not supposed to be alive. He’s such a fighter, he’s incredible," Cegavske said. Surgeon General at HIV/AIDS Meeting SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Former U.S. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders opened the nation’ s annualHIV/AIDS conference by urging the public to fight growing complacency about the disease. "We all have to be in this battle until it’s over, and I want you to know it’s not over," Eiders told about 2,000 people at the opening of the National HIV/AIDS Update Conference. Few doubted that among the hundreds of veteranAIDS health care providers and public health workers in the crowd. But now, Elders reminded them, there’s anew problem: growing public complacency. Lulledby encouraging early results from new drag therapies,many Americans have decided AIDS is no longer much of a threat, said Dr. Mervyn Silverman, the former San Francisco public health czar and chairman of the AIDS conference, which runs through tomorrow. He cited survey results that suggest people mustbe tuning out to all the AIDS awareness campaigns. The deadly virus is nearly always contracted through exchange of blood or body fluids, often during unprotected sexual activity or from sharing intravenous drag paraphernalia. In a survey taken in 1991, 41% still wrongly assumed that HIV could be contracted from sharing a drinking glass with an infected person. In 1997, the same misconception was found in 55% of those surveyed. Similarly, 34% of those surveyed in 1991 won-ied about catching the AIDS virus from a public toilet seat, as compared to 41°/0 in 1997. 87% ofyoung Americans believe they are at no risk of contracting HIV. Yet about one in four of every new infection occurs in the same age group, 17- to 22-yearolds. "Either we’re really gettingd.u.m.b.er, or some of us in this room are notdomgI ourjobs, Sdverm said. ’ ’ ~ Eiders offered-a familiar litany of su ,~gestions,inclUding universal access to health care and free needle-exchange AIDS Researcher Struggles for $ ¯¯ )rograms, both ofwhich seem as far from reality as when she left office in 1994. BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) - Researcher Peter Duesberg has become a scientific outcast because of his unorthodox AIDS theories. But he’s still in business, thanks to a fund-raising approach as unconventional as his beliefs. Duesberg, who maintains that AIDS is not caused by the human immunodeficiency virus but by illegal drugs and the AIDS medication AZT; has been raising money from private sources for some years, living from check to check. Buthis fund-raising tookonaddedurgency ast November when he.feared he was about to lose his lab at the University of California at Berkdey for lack of money. Friends of Duesbergsprang into acuon, soliciting donationsby way of the Internet and an ad in the alumni magazine. The ad brought in a stream of small contributions, which along with $200,000 in foundation money and some other big individual donations amounted to $325,000, enough to eke out another year of operations. Duesberg is grateful for the kindness of friends and strangers but said it’s a hard way to make a living. "You also begin to see how easy itis if youjust conform," he said. Twelve years ago, Duesberg filled out grant applications and the government sent him checks. Back then, Duesberg was a member of the elite National Academy of Scienees, winner of a 1985 Outstanding Investigator Award from the National Institutes of Health and aleading authority on retroviruses, a family that includes the AIDS virus. But after he published his HIV theory, his reputation tanked. The mainstream AIDS community has rebuffed his theories, saying it is clear that HIV does cause AIDS and that arguing otherwise dangerously undercuts the safe-sex message. "Whatever inroads we have made to help people to practice safer sex or to exchange needles - that all goes out the window," said David Evans of Project Inform, an advocacy group in San Francisco. Since 1987, Duesberg has had 20 grant applications turned down. A spokesman for the NIH declined to comment. As a tenured professor of molecular and cell ¯ biology, Duesberg still has his salary and : position at Berkeley. But without grant ¯ money, he cannot operate a lab, which is ¯ crucial to continuing his research. ¯ The private donauons can t overcom ¯ another problem: no students. Duesberg ¯ said students visit early in the semester ¯ andseeminterested.Butafterafew weeks, ..th.ey.t.aa.e.a.wa.y. "TheY’re told bY the ¯ graduate advisers and by their peers they ¯ may not be able to get ajob, I may not be ¯ able to pay them,,,a,n_,_d it would be bad for their reoutations, he said. ¯ Stuar’t Lynn, head of Duesberg’s ¯ division said the Berkeley ,c~_mmumty ¯ hasn’t o~tracized Duesberg. ’ Ev,eryb.o.dy~ kind of looks at him an amusea sort oz. way," Lynn said. "Berkele,,y has alotmore radical people than Peter. ¯ Duesberg said his lab and money ¯ problems reflect his one-man battle with Medical Excellence And Compass.ionate Care S nce 1926. ¯ ¯ ST. JOHN MEDICAL CENTER Medical Excellence ¯ ComlxtSsionate Care John Serrot, MSW LEAH HUNT, MSW Cherry Street Psychotherapy Associates 1515 S. Lewis (918) 743-4117 JUDY SEYMOUR, CADC JOHN SERROT, MSW Serving a Diverse Community Are You Gay or Bisexual? 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"Most people don’t realizehow an-freeweare to do sciencein America," he said. ’q’hey can afford to give mill.ions, but they cannot afford to give me $100,000 or $200,000 to prove them wrong." Condom Program in Cambodia Works PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - Declaring a pilot program to increase condom use in Cambodia a success, the World Health Organization and the Ministry of Health announced plans on Friday foranationwide campaign to tackle the impoverished country’s skyrocketing AIDS rate. Targeting commercial sex workers who are the mainlinkin the spread of sexually transmitted diseases in Cambodia, the "100% Condom-Use Program" has significantly increased condom use in brothels in thepilot’s targetarea, according to a preliminary report released ahead of nextweek’s National Conference onHIV/ AIDS. Prostitutes in the seaside town of Sihanoukville, 185 km (115 miles) southwestofPlmomPerth, wereinstmcto byhealth workers in October to require all their customers to wear condoms. Ifmen refused to comply, the sex workers were encouraged to report them to police. "Many sex establishments are actively participating and there has been a rise in the distribution and use of condoms," Health Secretary of State Mare Bun Heng said Friday. "We are pleased with these results and.., this year we would like to expand the program nationwide." The condom program was inspired by a similar campaign in Thailand that increased condom use in sex establishments from 15% in 1989 tomore than90%in 1992, preventing an estimated 2 million HIV cases, according to the WHO. Cambodiahas the highestHIV infection rate in Asia, with 50 to 70 people believed to become infected every day. Recent studies have estimated that 3% of the adult population in Cambodia is infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. State Won.’t Require HIV Marriage Test NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Memphis lawmakeris no longer pushing legislation that would require couples wanting to get married in Tennessee to be tested for the HIV virus and other sexually transmitted diseases. Rep. Henri Brooks said she changed her mind after the Health Departmentestimated the tests wouldcost Tennessee taxpayers almost $5 million a year. She amended the bill to require county court clerks to make information about venereal diseases - such as chlamydia, syphilis, gonorrhea and hepatitis B - available to marriage license applicants. "We are not trying to be Big Brother or say who should and should not marry. All we want to do is be responsible as policymakers," the Democrat said. "The ones who have to pay for these healthrelated illnesses end up being the taxpayers." The bill,, approved by a House subcommittee, also requires that a small sign be conspicuously located in the area ¯¯ Wherepeopleapply formarriagelicenses. It would read: "AIDS KILLS. HIV and : other sexually transmitted diseases can ¯" occurwithoutyourknowledge. Don’trisk ¯ thelifeofsomeoneyoulove.BETESTED : NOW." : In addition, the bill requires the Health : Department to make annual reports to the ¯ Legislature on the status of HIV and -" sexually transmitted diseases by gender : and ethnicity. ¯ Brooks said sheproposed thelegislation ¯ ¯ because one of her constituents found out her husband was HIV positive after they : mamed. She said she may renew .her ¯ efforts for testing later. Harvard to Study AIDS in Africa ¯ BOSTON (AP) - The Harvard AIDS Institute has been given a $2.5 million : grant to research the AIDS epidemic ¯ devastating southern Africa. The grant ¯ from the Oak Foundation will support a ¯ three-year program on research and ¯ vaccine development. The grant will also ¯ support a demonstration project to test : drugs nsed to block mother-to-infantHIV : transmission. ¯ The AIDS Institute’s basic research ¯ involves sequencing the genes found in ¯ theHIV strainprevalentinsouthernAfrica. ¯ No place in the world has been harder hit : by AIDS than southern Africa. In ¯ Botswana, Namibia, Swaziland and : Zimbabwe, up to one-quarter of people aged 15-49areinfected withHIV 0rAIDS. AIDS has killed 10 million people in sub- " Saharan Africa - 90% of the world’s ¯ AIDS deaths. Another 20 million are : expected to die, Harvard researchers ¯ added. ¯ Max Essex, chairman of the Harvard ¯ AIDS Institute, and his colleagues have ." beenresearchingAIDS inAfricaformore ¯ than a decade. The Oak Foundation, an international philanthropy, has offices in ¯ Boston, Geneva, London and Harare, ¯ Zimbabwe. : Know Your Legal Rights :A Seminar for People ¯ Living with HIV and AIDS ¯ ¯ TULSA- TulsaOklahomans for Human Right, theTulsaGay Community Services ¯ Center and the Oklahoma Lesbian and ¯ Gay Lawyers Association (OLGLA) are hosting a seminar at 7pro on April 22 on legal issues for people living with HIV/ ¯ AIDS. Kathy Nelson, executive co- . ordinator for the AIDS Legal Resource ¯ Project will conduct the seminar at the Tulsa Gay Community Services Center at : 38th and Peoria, 2nd floor. ¯ The AIDS Legal Resource Project was ¯ created three years ago to help provide ," people living with HIV/AIDS with the ¯ resources to meet the challenges in their : lives. The Project provides free legal ¯ assistance to those who qualify through a network of 150private attorneys statewide. : The Project can assist those qualified in receiving denied Social Security benefits .and in addressing health, life or disability ¯ Insurance discrimination. : Ms..Nelson is an alumna of Oklahoma ¯ State University and Oklahoma City : University School of Law. She has had a : private practice in oil and gas law, family ¯ law, estate planning and probate law. She ¯ also serves on the board of directors for ¯ CarePoint, Inc. a non-profit consortium : for HIV/AIDS health care and support in : Oklahoma City. Info: 743-4297. by James Christjohn Broadway dance. And a relative-of mine, "Spirit - A Journey in Dance, Drums Raymond Christjolm was one of the and Song" combines the power of ° singers! Broadway choreography and contem- ° The cast includes 20 dancers with both porary music with the songs, chants and o modemand traditional training, including dances born of Native Indian Nation dancers Americanculture to tell Act I eontlnues with the story of one ¯ person’s- andanation’s "An Ea~le Above." in - search for renewal by wlaleh Ron Anquoe exploring ancestral roots. (Kiowa tribe, Oh|ahoma) This multicultural per[orms t]ae ritual performance event, which debuted on PBS Ea~le Dance as part of the March 1999 pledge drive and to convey the le~eud d will be released on the Ea$|e Feather. video April 20, was conceived by Peter provldln~ the youn$ man Buffett, working in with [~uow|ed~e and collaboration with Chief Hawk Pope. courage [or the journey. Buffett composed the music for the pivotal Fire Dance scene in Kevin Costner’s Oscar-winning film "Dances with Wolves." "Spirit - A Journey in Dance, Drums and Song" features the choreography and stage direction ofT,o.nywinner Wayne Cilento, who blends his demanding trademark "urban dance" movement with traditional Native American dance. And by the~ way, the video is worth getting just to view the dancers. They are all beautiful, with appeal to Gay men, Lesbians, straight folk.., something fol everyone! And boy can they move! 01~ yeah, themusic’s great, too; the CD is availablenow, and I highlyrecommendit. Peter has been one of the few artists te successfully blend ancient music with modem. Usually, whenthatblendis made, it comes out a mess, but he’s done an excellentjob ofretaining the impact of the ancient with the feel of the modem, rising above time and space to create anew form that is emotionally satisfying on a level few reach. LoreenaMcKennitt is the only other artist I would say that about in her blending of ancient and modem Critic influences on her CD’s. But I digress, back to "Spirit: A Journey...". Taped during the show’s premiere performance weekend at the Weidner Center inGreen Bay, Wisconsin,"Spirit - A Journey in Dance, Drums and Song" features more than 80 performers - dancers, choir, percussionists and orchestra - selected from the worlds of Native-American performance and by Allan Smithee, special contributor Anyone see "Footloose" whileit wasin town? It had all the appeal of a really bad high school play. Bad script, awful choreography and songs worthy ofmaybe two verses stretched out till one thought the record player had broken and was skipping, all added up to an evening of dreck, despite the cast’s sometimes overenergetic performances -and especially the nights when one cast member was off key. It is usually against my principles to walk out on a show, no matter how bad - I hold that it’s rude to the actors and people around you - but Footloose is one I would have walked out on after the first 30 minutes. I find it ironic that local homophobe and religious bigot Larry Payton, famous arrayed in fancy dress of feathers, beads and bones. The orchestra features both modem and traditional Native- American instruments, a string section and percussionists playing a variety ofdrums. The 40-voice Green Bay and Oneida Nation Girls’ Choir provides additional vocals. The program also features soloists Robert Mirabal (also very handsome), a renowned Native- American flautist, vocalist and percussionist; Ron Anquoe, a traditionally trained Eagle Dancer who is a member of the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma; and Chief Hawk Pope, a vocalist, lyricist and composer who is Principal Chief of the Shawnee Nation, United Renmant Band of Ohio. Chief HawkPopenarrates. Joanne Shenandoah, Oneida Nation of the Iroquois confederacy, adds her beautiful voice to the proceedings. "Spirit - A Journey in Dance, Drums and Song" opens Act I with "Urban Overtures" as a group of city dwellers reacts robotically to the stressful sounds of daily life. Determined,to escape this chaos, one young man decides in "Fire Dance" to look back to his roots and search for a new way to live. In "Coashelleaqu (The Shawnee Letter)," a Native-American grandfather encourages him to begin this journey of renewal. "Hidden Heritage" celebrates the 500 Indian Nations. ActI continues with"AnEagleAbove," in which Ron Anquoe (Kiowa tribe, Oklahoma) performs the ritual Eagle Dance to convey the legend of the Eagle Feather, providing the young man with knowledge and courage for the journey. "Passage," Robert Mirabal’s haunting flute solo, continues the young man’s quest to embrace the past. Act I ends with Spirit Dance, bnngmg together dancers from the traditional Native-American and contemporary urban cultures for a celebration, see Spirit, p. 10 for censoring shows andrewriting themto make them safe for the good Baptist families of Tulsa to see would bring in a show that pretty much rips the views of fundie-brand organized religion. In case some of you are too young to remember the film, it’s based on an incident in Elmore, OK wherein dancing was made illegal by virtue of a powerful minister in town who held that dancing would lead to all kinds of sinful behavior. In the film and play, a kidfrom Chicago challenges the dictatorial evil minister, and wins the right to hold a school dance. As a film, it was worth a couple hours at the dollar movie. As a musical, well, it’s not worth that much. But Tnlsans seemed to like it - the shows were sold out. Maybe it’s that even a bad touring show beats anvthin~ on TV9 At any rate, the cast was ~mlfor~v cute,’so that hellxd a little. Tulsa C.A.R.E.S. in association with PFLAG presents Chastity Bono at the 2nd Annual Red Ribbon Ball Saturday, April 17th 7:30pm, dinner + entertainment, tickets begin at $75/person/all proceeds benefit Tulsa C.A.R.E.S., Information: 834-4194 Spring Concert May 7 & 8, 1999 7:00 PM All Soul’s Unitarian Church 2952 S. Peoria COUNCIL OAK MEN’S CHORALE For tickets contact a chorale member or call the COMC Ticket Office. 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Ifyour organization is not listed, please let us know. Call 583-1248 orfax 583-4615. It is a fabulous number to see. R makes you want to stand up and cheer, even if it is a video: Act II of"Spirit- A Journey in Dance, Drums and Song" begins with two numbers - "The Place Where Crying Begins" and "The Dream" - offering a sensual exploration of the relationship of man and woman in a more natural world. "Aubenaubee(Prelude to Rebirth)" begins the young man’s journey back to his own world; m The Thunderbird, he returns as anewly enlightenedmemberof society. In the final number, the two cultures - traditional andurbancontemporary - dance in unison, recovering the true spirit of America. The showitselfwas a seamless blending of ancient and modem, combining to tell a story that many of us can relate to today of alienation from roots, a discontent with where man in general is today in the world, and a yearning for reconnection to the earth in an age where the earth has become one more commodity to exploit. It held me spellbound. Seamlessly integratingmusic, dance, ..and storytelling, it moved me to tears-- something that doesn’t usually happen at all, especially withregards to avideotapedperformance. It was beautiful. I have been in communication with the composer/ creator, Peter Buffett, and, he has mentioned the possibility of brfilging the live show here in the fall. (ya heard it here first, folks!)If that happens, don’t miss it. It willbe an experience that will touch you deeply, as theatre was meant to do. Andif the video is able to move me to tears (along with several others I spoke with that saw i0,imagine whatanimpactseeing the performance live wouldhave! Usually I find videos of plays, especially musical performances, lacking. Something is lost in the translation from live to tape. Not so in this case. Peter’s other CD’s are well worth picking up: "Spirit Dance", from which many of the numbers in "Spirit: A Journey..." were taken, is great, and the soundtrack to "500 Nations" is another winner. Joanne Shenandoahhas anumber ofCD’s out, and "Matriarch" is one ofmy favorites ofhers. RobertMirabal has CD’s out as wall, and he is fantastic. Peter tends to get lumped in the "New Age" although his musicfar surpasses theimage that particular labding conjures up, While the other artists are found, at least in Borders, under "Native American". Other places might have them under "World Music". They knew so because for the last two years, a representative of Tulsa Oldahomans for Human Rights (TOHR) had participated in the planning for this eventand in the creation oftheFederation. FromTOHR,NGLTFknew thatCimarron was the only Oklahoma group genuinely doing statewideorganizing, Sowhy would they give $5,000, a huge sum for a small and under orgamzed state like Oklahoma, to those less likely to put it to good use? Well, it turns out that a number of the individuals who are involved with Cimarron have also worked closely with NGLTF’s semi-rival, the Human Right Campaign (HRC). And rumor has it that NGLTF didn’t want to help an "HRC" organization. So, the money which conid really, really have made a difference in : Oklahoma went to OGLPC. ¯ WhatdidOGLPCdowiththosedollars? : They rented a bus to bring Tulsans to the : rally, and they rented portapots and got : the necessary, permits for the event. But ¯ interestingly they also hired and paid Ms. : PaulaHandBrown to help co-ordinate the ¯ event. And they used the funds to pay for : advertising in various publications, albeit ¯ not this one. (For the record, TFN : frequently donates ads completely free of : charge to community non-profit : organizations unlike our rivals who ¯ typically provide atmosta20%discount.) ¯ Also, OGLPC is permitted, according to : NGLTF organizer, Dan Haws, to keep ¯ any leftover funds to subsidize their ¯ organizational work. ¯ Perhaps, OGLPC will transcend its past and prove worthy of the $5K they were : granted. Butif the reasoning for choosing : them over Cimarronis true, then OGLPC : and Oklahoma’s communities have ¯ become once againpawns in the games of : our"national" organizations. ¯ The bottom line is the money should go ¯ to those who can most effectively use it. ; And you have to wonder if those who : can’tevenissue a simplepress release, are ¯ the ones who can make the best use of the ¯ money. " "I speak out abroad, I must not be silent at home," the Republican said. In a positive : sign for supporters, Senate Judiciary ¯ Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, has : scheduled hearings on the legislation for ¯ next month. ¯ But it still faces a difficult road. Some ¯¯ co.ngr.es.sionalRepublicans have expressed mxsgxvmgs that the legislation is ¯ unnecessary because dozens of states have ~ laws protecting the groups identified in ¯ the bill. ¯ Backers are also concemed that social : conservahves may construe thelegislation ¯ as extending special protections to ¯ homosexuals. "This is not a bill that will, ] in one way, advantage one group over ; another," said Wyden. "I can’t believe ¯ any members of the United States Senate ¯ want to be soft on violence." Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Aden Specter, R-Pa.., another bill cosponsor, said he wasn’t as optimistic as some of his colleagues. "A lot of opponents.., pick out hate crimes legislation for a great deal of criticism," he said. "This is a tough bill to get very much support." Under the bill, current law would be expanded so theJustice Department could prosecute crimes based on a person’s sexual orientation, gender or disability. Now, the statute only covers crimes based on race, color, religion or national origin. Also, the bill would make federal prosecution ofhate crimes eas~er. Current ¯ law limits prosecution to situations whexe ¯ the victim is targeted for engaging in : certain, federallyprotectedactivities,such ¯ as serving on a jury, voting or attending ¯ public school. : Over40 states havehate crimes statutes, ¯ but only 21 cover sexual orientation, 22 ~ cover gender and 21 cover disability, ¯ according to the White House, which ¯ supports the bill. : Senator Edward Kennedy, Democrat - ¯ Massachusetts, the bill’s lead author, said ¯ the measure wouldn’t undermine the role ¯ of the states in prosecuting hate crimes, ¯ jnstbringinvestigative andother resources ¯ of the federal government to bear where ¯ necessary. 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No, I suppose most of you want me to get on with that damned project you werelefthanging withacouple of months ago, and so I shall. The DIYD is perfectly confident that you have not been squandering the intervening months but have quite diligently been scoping ideas to steal and make your own in our Kitchen remodel on the shoestring. Now, being Now, heln~ economical does not equate with being. cheesy, so wall the rather " enthusia~tle dyke with the ~tn of Rust-o-leurn economical does not equa[e please with being cheesy, so will the eooIher"jets. rather enthusiastic .dyke with ,’i-,’I the can of Rust-o-leum please....... t ne DIYD cool ~her jets. The DIYD promises that she shall get her shining moment when we discuss refurbishing the garage sale find garden furniture. You have 0aonesfly] assessed both your finances and the state’of yourcupboards? Decidedwhat you can livewith stylistically’? Then lef’s get cooking. We will be working on the assumption that your cabinets are sturdy enough and laid out in amanner that is endurable until the money for the Dream Kitchen appears (The pessimistic side of the DIYD cautions.that any time you have spare money, either your house or your car will find out about it, so be sneaky! A friend of hers adds "girlfriend" to this .corollary.). Given those two assumpuons, you have options. And we all love options, don’t we? The easiest approach may be to repaint your cupboards, put up new hinges, and handles and a bit of tasteful shelf paper. Yes, you still have to prep things for successful results. Sorry. Youwill need to lightly sand the surfaces and clean them, then put on a primer coat. NOT Water based! That raises the grain of the wood or separates the veneer..Oil based only. This might be a good time to review the past articles on painting and brush care. I will always recommend that you "extinguish pilot lights on the range if you have them and to open windows and doors for good ventilation. Solvents are just ugly. Then use Kilz brand paint; it is trouble-free as oil based paint goes, and dries in an hour or less. The DIYD strongly recommends taking one cabinet door at a time offwhen repainting, and then adding thenew hinges and handles when putting it hack on. Or you can take the cabinets off all at once, but mark them or handle them in some other methodical way. Especially in older homes, all things are not equal. One coat of primer then, unless you get somebleed-through, then apply two coats. When that’s all dry, you can paint on your finish paint. TheDIYDurges you to invest in a semi-gloss or gloss formulated especially for kitchens. These paints can stand up to the moisture, and you’ll really be grateful when you go to wipe off that errant cake batter. Put in your shelf paper and the you’re ready for those new hinges promises that she shall get we discuss ref~rbishin~ th..e garage sale find g.arden ~urniture. and handles. Regardless of which option you choose, you will probably want new h,ardware on the cupboards and drawers. It s amazing how much it spiffs things up; it is also amazing how much it costs when you add them all up, so take a count of what you need, then use your calculator when you go shopping. It is also wise, if possible, to find hardware that is similar to the old as regards screw hole placement. If you don’t have to drill anything new, why bother? Put a little woodfiller in the hole, orbreak a match stick off in it, then attach your new hardware. Always remember to look at how the hardware you are removing was attached, especially hinges. This is not frivolous advice! Another option you have is resurfacing, and this can yield some remarkable results. If you are handy and rather intrepid, you can handle the job yourself. They have supplies and instructional videos at Homo Depot and other stores of that ilk. If you’ve a bit extra tucked back in the cookie jar and a low reserve of patience for chaos, by all means look into having the job done by professional resurfacers. They can even take care of that god awful formica counter-top while they’re at it. As usual, get lots of quotes, demandreferences, and check thembefore making this choice. The option of last resort would be stripping and refinishing the cabinets. You should choose this only if a)your cabinets are fabulous butjust dark or dingy;b) you have prior refinishing skills; c) You have an infinite reservoir of patience; d) your beloved has an infinite reservoir of patience. Nodream ofglowing wood cabine.ts is worth a week on the couch - alone. The dog will be in your place in bed. It can be that bad, darlings. As usual, it all sounds so very easy in print, but ~rd up your channing loins, dare to be anal retentive and methodical and you’ll find the work rewarding. I’ll be back next month when we deal with the walls - if you’ve finished climbing them by then: and confabulations of underwear collectors - and they establish all those thousands of websites and chatrooms on the Intemet. Anthropologists call these "special interest ~oups" and, despite pessimistic impresszons that nobody in the country anymore talks to their folks and neighbors, the number of interest groups in this country has expanded astronomically since the 1950s. Where once people hid their fetishes as painfully embarrassing, now, like Jay, we happily call ourselves fetishists and proudly broadcast our fascinations. So I feel like I’m in good company when I’ve got Jay working onmy toes with a dreamy look in his eyes. It’s my contribution to the modem American Way. by Esther Rothblum The Antarctic is the coldest, highest, and driest continent on earth. Unlike the Arctic, which consists of frozen water surrotmded by land, the Antarctic is land surrounded by water. Land is colder than water, so the Antarctic has Tkere temperatures ranging from ." here are strong spirited to start with,.and ¯¯ stronger stilluponleaving. BeingaLesbian was not a contributing factor, whereas ¯ persistence, flexibility, emotional and physical strength are more important. ¯ There is ajoke that usually goes around is a joke town toward the middle of the season: How do you get 40 degrees Fahrenheit in the warmestpartofthe continent in summer to minus 100 degrees Fahrenheit (.not including the wind chill factor) in the winter. 98% of the continentis covered with ice, and in fact the Antarctic contains 90% of the world’s ice. The ice is several miles thick in parts oftheAntarctic interior, so that the altitude is similar to high mountainous regions. Even though the Antarctic contains 68% of the world’s freshwater locked up as ice, the almost total lack of precipitation classifies it as a desert. Frequent blizzards and high winds form "white outs" that make it difficult to see, and the view is often a monotonous sheet of white snow and ice. Why would anyone choose to go to this barren continent? In 1913, explorerErnest Shackleton placed an ad in a newspaper . that stated: "Men wanted for haTardous journey. Small wage, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness . . . Safe return doubtful.., and recognition in case of success." He received about 5,000 applications. Most people who have come "to the ice" in recent decades engage in scientific research or support those who do. About a dozen nations have built permanent research "stations" in the Antarctic.For several years, I conducted research on womenin the Antarctic. I wanted to study women who take risks, and the Antarctic seemed the ideal setting. This work resulted in the recent book Women in the Antarctic(HaworthPress, 1998), co-edited with Jacqueline Weinstock and Jessica Morris. Only one woman that we interviewed for this book came out as a Lesbian, and shewas part ofan all-women’s expedition that skied to the South Pole. Our research team did not feel we could ask our participants about their sexual orientation. In those days the U.S. Navy transported personnel to the Antarctic (these days, it’ s the Air Force) and as a result we were concerned that our participants might not want to come out to us as Lesbian or Bisexual. But we speculated that there might be some Lesbians among the women who live and work in the Antarctic. So I was intrigued to readan article entifled"Below the Ice: An Antarctic Journal" by Peggy Malloy in a recent issue of Weird Sisters, a Colorado Lesbian newspaper. I emailed Peggy in the Antarctic (the wonders of technology!) and she responded as follows: For most people who come to work in Antarctica, it is the sense ofadventure that draws us to this extreme environment. Most ofus wouldnever have themoney to be a tourist-visitor; and we would not be able to learn to love ffduring such a short visit, as many of us have done over the seasons. Those who get through a season that usually goes around town toward the middle of the season: How do you get a date with a woman? Answer: be one. There are approximately 30g females working in the Antaretle program. a date with a woman? Answer: be one. There are approximately36% females working in the Antarctic program. Yes, there are other Lesbians in town, and a very small handful of Gay men. The men are quite closeted. This was a military base at one time and there are still plenty ofmilitary influences since so many ex-military currently workfor Antarctic Support Associates, the civilian contracting firm in the Antarctic. The Lesbians are generally out, but several are not. This is a generally ¯ accepting environment, mainly since we ¯ all have to work andlive together forlong ¯ periods of dme. If someone doesn’t agree ¯ with a lifestyle, it’s futile to fightit. I do ¯ not try to hide my sexuality, but I don’t ¯ flaunt it either. There is always a fear that : one won’t get rehired because of it. ¯ However, this seems to be residual from ; living in northern society, and not well ¯ founded in the hiring practices of this ¯ company. If there are any prejudices, I ¯ would say it is against women in general, ¯ not just against Lesbians. There is no : attempt by the U.S. Antarctic Program to ¯ be Lesbian-affirmative, of which I am ¯ aware. : I have worked at the U.S. McMurdo ¯ StationontheAntarctic continentfor three ¯" seasons so far. Each year the circle of : friends increases: friends of friends tell : friends,andendupcomingworkherewith ¯ us. Each year there seem to bemoremales : who gravitate to our circle. These are : straight men who feel more comfortable ¯ striking friendships with us,mosdy since ¯ we are"safe." There is no concern thatwe ¯ will wantanythingmorethan afriendship. ¯ Email is the best way to keep in touch : withcommuffityfromhome. I amgratefnl ¯ to those who write and keep me informed ¯ of happenings, and gossip, and events ¯ such as the Rainbow Chorus concerts. I : was quite involved with them before ¯ coming to work down here. This is such ¯ an isolated place, very little outside ¯ stimulation from color (th!ngs are brown or white), smells (only the smell of fuel), ¯ and life (nothing grows here naturally : other than some algaes). We see some ¯ seals andmaybe somepenguins at the end ¯ of the summer season. News from home ". or small care packages from friends are ¯ treasured like a long lost love’s return. ¯ Anything, and everything, is a special ¯ gift. This is also the time when I have ¯ more contact with friends than usual, as I ." can sit at the computer and drop a quick ¯ note to say, "hi, how are you doing?" : Peggy Malloy can be contacted via ¯ email: malloyma@hotmail.eom. Esther ¯ Rothblum is Professor of Psychology at ¯ the University of Vermont and Editor of ¯ theJournal ofLesbianStudies. Shecanbe ¯ reached at Dewey Hall, University of ¯ Vermont, Burlington, Vermont. ¯ email: esther.rothblum@uvm.edu. IGTA member Call 341.6866 nternationa Tours:ormoreinformation. 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"We’re here to celebrate this evening that God is not hate, but God is love," said the Rev. Lawton Higgs St. of United Methodist Church of the Reconciler. Roger Lovette, pastor of the Baptist Church of the Covenant, encouraged people to remember Gaither as a person, not a symbol. "He was like the rest of us with hopes, dreams and needs," Lovette said. Rodney Max, co-chairman of the Coalition Against Hate Crimes, urged legislators to pass alaw including offenses motivatedbyhomosexuality on the state’s list of hate crimes. "That should never, ever happen again in this state," Max said. After the two-hour memorial service inside the church, people lit small candles and stood outside singing ’~his Little Light of Mine." Across the street, a small group of protesters from Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., held anti-Gay signs in protest. "We are outraged at this violent crime, but the issue is the homosexuals are exploiting it," said Westboro’s pastor, the Rev. Fred Phelps. "It is no longer merely an event for the family and friends to grieve." Protesters held signs saying "Billy Jack Gaither bums in hell.’" Max Griffies, 9, stood near the church’ s step holdin,,g a sig,n declaring, "God loves all people. Max smother, Leah Griffies, but that still some homophobic remarks were expressed by afew teachers to classes after the announcement was made. and flyers went up. However, since a large part of the group’s mission is to educate faculty and other students, Allen characterized these negative remarks as something to be expected, until Gay and Lesbians students and is sues become more visible. BTW’s GSA typically meets during an intermittent free period in the school schedule and the group often discusses issues or plans for upcoming events. One such event is the "Day of Silence" on April 7th which is intended to be a day of protest in support of civil rights for Gay and Lesbian persons. Washington’s Sizemore is actually the key organizer for the US and Canada. Also, the BTW GSA is planning to participate in the upcoming Tulsa Pride Parade. And Booker T. Washington’s example has paved the way for GSA’s in at least two other Tulsa high schools. Smaller and more informal groups have come together at Central and East Central High Schools. All of these groups have joined together in an organization, S.A.F.E. - Student Alliance for Equality which meets at the Tulsa Gay Community Services Center (the Pride Center). For more information, messages may be left for the BookerT. Washington Gay- Straight Alliance or S.A.F.E. at the Tulsa Gay Community Services Center, 743- GAYS (4297). said she wanted her son "to know you don’t kill people, regardless of who they are, and especially for what they believe in." The message seemed to sink in as Max watched the protestors across the street. "Itmakes mefeel disgusted because everybody is created equal and all people are created by God," he said. Police originally charged Mullins and Butler with murder, which carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment .with a chance for parole. However, grand jurors upgraded the charge to capital murder, which cames only two possible penalties: electrocution or life without parole. In Washington, DC, the Human Rights Campaignissued the following comments: "in 1997, (the latest FBI statistxcs available) Alabama reported no hate crimes to the FBI for any category. Reporting of statistics is voluntary under to the Hate Crimes Statistics Act of 1990. Alabama’s hate crimes law does not cover sexual orientation. ’This case in Alabama shows the great inconsistency between states in tracking and prosecuting hate crimes We call on Congress to pass the Hate Crimes Prevention Act, to set a uniform federal response for hate crimes and signal that anti-gay violence is unacceptable in our society,’ said Human Rights Campaign Political Director Winnie Stachelberg." Kevin Ivers, director of public affairs .for Log Cabin Republicans added, ’’There IS something wrong in society when gay people are continually murdered in this maimer, and our leaders have amoral duty ~o address it.., The leaders of both parties must speak out with eqtml forceagainst the anti-gay hatred and intolerance that is feeding such crimes. . Every political leader, especially those who seek-the presidency, must reflect on why this is happening, and what they can do to,.h,elp stop it from continuing." those who gathered to becomd~othe Community of Hope have i~orked to be honest about who we are and what our ministry is. without insisting that others agree with or embrace our ministry, We have consistently insisted that ministries of healing and hope, and not, Gay advocacy, be ourfocus; while at the.same time naming that homophobia and inhospitality are antithetical to the Gospel, and refusing to be silent in the face of them. We have asked only for tolerance and respect, and have tried to offer the same. However. increasinly, the goodness and dignity of Gay and Lesbian persons and their loving, committed relationships are so consistently and ’officially’ devalued and dishonored within in this Conference and by this denomination, thatI can no longer maintain myaffiliation with integri&. Secondly, I have decided to withdraw because the ministries of justice and compassion to which God’s church has been calledand in which this congregation is engaged, are too urgent and too important for us to faithfully allow any more time or energy to be diverted by denominational arguments aboutwhether or not Gay and Lesbian persons are part of the body of Christ, Since the day this congregation was called into being, Gay and Lesbian persons have been BEING the body of Christ - offering their gifts and graces, their time and energy, their hearts andhands, in loving service to God and neighbor - see Peurose, p. 14 while the Church has debated their acceptability. "Anyone who does the will of God is my brother or sister"(Mark 3: 35), Jesus said. That debate was settled long ago. And yet, women, men, and children in Oklahoma, in the US, and around the world continue to be robbed of life every day by hunger, homelessness, abuse, addiction, and violence, while the UMC spends more and more of its time andresourcesfight~ng over who is allowed to love who. Internal struggles over control and authority, have seduced our Church intoforgetting its call to be the bearers of God’sgospel ofhopeandlove to a hurting worM. I am weary ofthe ’forgetting’ and the fighting, and want my life and our ministry as a community offaith to once again be about ’remembering Jesus’ in ways that honor the life he lived among andfor us. Therefore, on Thursday afternoon, by Lamont Linstrom, Ph.D. My feet are looking niighty fine these days. I~have been seeing a new friend named Jay, who calls himself a foot fetishist. And he has been working these toes down to hubs, almost. Jay describes foot-worshipping parties he has attended where shoes andboots and soqks goflying in all directions. He has intro~oced me to foot magazines. The personal ads are remarkable. They come withphotographs showing everyone thrusting his best foot forward into the camera lens. And websites, too. The intemet is one big fetish supermarket: rubber and latex here, feet over there, underwear at the back. Or uniforms:-I have another friend with a closet full of uniforms. I never know if he’s going to show up dressed in Boy Scout drag, or as Marine, or perhaps a water meter reader. While Jay was mass_aging my feet one afternoon I thought abouttheword"fetish" - a term oddly shared by anthropology, psychology, and sexology. SigmundFreud himself seems to have been the first to borrow "fetish" from 19th century anthrol~i0gy. Scholars of West African religion had.firstused thewordto describe religip~s..objects from Ghana - small carvings, amulets, and’the like-thatpeople bdieve&~were inspirited with divinity. Feti~h deriYes from the Latin facticious whi.€.k once.meant "handmade" or "man~0~tU~ed" (e.g., see also "factory," and "factotum"). The word’s connations of "artificial," in the original sense of "made" or "constructed, "expanded to absorb secondary meanings of "unreal" or "fake"-or "false." Thus, the fetish originally was a man-made, artificial image of-God that African devotees believed to have divine powers. The term is still used occasionally in anthropology and beyond to refer to sacred objects. My Bay Area newspaper, for example, last week contained an advertisement for an upcoming sale of Pueblo Indian jewelry whichfeaturedZuni fetishes- these small, carved animal figures sold as both decorative and spiritual. I am not sure why Freud borrowed fetish to describe sexual kinkiness. We can guess, however, that he shared the same sorts of. European cultural biases that led to th~ earlier anthropological use of the word. The savage religious devotee focuses his attention on the artifical fetish - the man-made object - and thus misses ¯ March 4, I submitted the following ¯ statemen¢ to.Bishop Blake: ~ " Bishois.Bruce Blake ¯¯ Oklahoma Annual Conference United Methodist Church ¯ It is with a deep trust in God’s steadfast ¯ and unconditional love that 1 write to ¯ informyou thatlaminitia,ting theprocess ¯ ofwithdrawalfrom Zhe United Methodist ¯ Church in order to transfer my ministerial ¯ orders to another denominate’on. 1 have chosen to begin this process because I ¯ cannot remainfaithful to the Gospel and ¯ honor the requirement of the United ¯ Methodist Church not to celebrate and ¯ blesssamesexcovenantrelationships.As ¯ one who has been baptized to "resist. ¯ injustice and oppression" and ordained : to"lookaftertheconcernsofChristabove ¯ all," I am called and charged to offer the ¯ full ministry ofthe church--including the ¯ blessing ofdovenant relationships- to all : God’s people, including those who are ¯ Gay or Lesbian. I will do nothing less. : - Rev. Leslie Peurose the larger supernatural reality ofgod. The : sexual fetishist similarly misdirects.his ¯ attention only to this or that body part or : object, and also misunderstands the ¯ broader, complex whole of human ¯ sexuality. The foot fetishist sucks toes, : but ignores everything above the ankle. ¯ The hair fetishist gets tangled and stuck : up there and never moves along towards ¯ "normal" sex. The 19th century anthropologist and ¯ psychologist both shared the belief that ¯ they could indeed define normal religion ¯ and natural sexuality. Whatever fell short ¯ of this standard could be defined away as ¯ artificial - just a fetish. Lucky for us, ¯ maybe, things aremuchmorecomplicated : nowadays. Some complications have ¯ come along with 20th century Hedonism. ¯ While hardly triumphant (especially in ¯ Oklahoma),latterday influentialhedonists : like Dr. Ruth proclaim that all forms of ¯ sexual behavior are good, as long as ¯ nobody gets hurt. And even that can be ¯ good, too, as long as a person wants to get : hurta,ndiftheboundaries andgroundrules ¯ (we Americans are so legalistic) are ¯ negotiated beforehand. ¯ Jay finds sexuality in toes just as West Africans discover divinity in beads and : wood. So fixations .on feet, jocks, : underwear, underarms, hair, rubber sheets ¯ - it’s all reoently wonderful. ¯ Well, perhaps not that kid living down the street who’s discovered to have 2000 ¯ pairs ofwomen’s panties hiddenunderhis ~ bed thai he’s stolen from neighborhood ¯ clotheslines. Butmostly fetishes are good. Isn’t the right toa feti~h protected in the ¯ Constitution? At least they contribute to : the economy. ¯ Sex nowadays is also complicated by ¯ the duty our culture demands of us to ¯ cultivate our individuality. Fetishes here ¯ are extremely useful. They help ¯ differentiate ourselves as unique ¯ individuals. If you remain stuck in plain ¯ old boring vanilla sex, you are just a ¯ cypher in the crowd. Youneed a focus, an : angle. Somespecial way to define yourself ¯ whenfilling outoneofthosebearortwink ¯ codes one sometimes sees flaunted in ¯ email signature files. But the American ¯ desireforindividuality and our cultivation ¯ of sexual fetishes also eventually leads ¯ around to American sociability. Those ¯ fetishes are shared. Fetishists quickly go ¯ to work organizing societies of foot ¯ fanciers, seeAnthro, p. 11 BODY WORSHIP GWM, into body worship, looking for a WM, 35-40, who’s into body budding. (Tulsa) ~10314 I’M WORTH THE CALL Looking for a one-night stand with a very muscular, well-endowed top. If interested, give me a call. (Tulsa) ~r13401 NEED BEEF Looking for a Guy, 35+, with lots of muscle. If you’re Tulsa’s answer to John Holmes or Hulk Hogan, leave me a message. (Tulsa) ’~’13126 GIVE ME THE BEEF If you’re Tulsa’s answer to Larry Holmes or Hulk Hogan, give me a call. I think you’ll find this call worth your while. 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At the Capitol, Keith Smith, a lobbyist with the Oklahoma ACLU and Sierra Club is help~g to coordinate lobbying. Keith can be reached through Peggy Leininger in State Senator Bemest Cain’s office. Keith may also be reached at 405-840-2219 and by e-mail at OKSmith@aol.com. Mrs. McDonald has noted that parents are particularly effective in reaching state legislators. M.C. Smothermon, who recently ran for US Congress is herself the mother of a hate crime victim and is encour- . aging any parents who’may wish to come to the Capitol to contact her at 405-340-7015. see Lobby, p. 3 by Tim Talley & Tom Neal OKLAHOMA CITY (AP/TFN) - A proposal to add sexual orientation to the list of hate crimes in Oklahoma is being criticized by opponents who question whether it will deter antiGay assaults. House Bill 1211 would add sexual orientation to the list of groups in the state’s hate ~wimes law, which already includes race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin and disability. "I think we’re going in the wrong direction," Ken Wood, executive director of the Oklahoma Christian Coalition, said Wednesday after the House Judicial Committee voted 5-3 for HB 1211 y Rep. Don Ross, D-Tulsa. I think xt creates an inequality of justice. This elevates particular groups to a higher status," Wood said. Keith Smith, a spokesman for the American Civil Liberties Union, said the measure is supported by many Oklahoma religious organizations. The bill’s passage by the House committee says "violence and hatred against certain groups is unacceptable," Smith said. But passage by the full Legislature "will be an uphill battle," he said. Opponents attacked the measure for "endorsing Gay lifestyles." ’¢l~ais is more about having a homosexual lifestyle as a normal lifestyle in contravention of 6,000 years of history," Rep. Bill Graves, R-OKC, said. "It goes against the Christian religion." Ross saidthe bill is a response to the beating death of Matthew Shepard, a gay college student in Wyoming who was pistolwhipped, robbed and lashed to a fence in October. Police said Shepard was attacked, in part, because he was homosexual. ’q’hey thought you were dangerous because you were different," Ross said as he read from a letter that Ross said he wrote to Shepard’s spirit. "You didn’t parade your lifestyle," Ross said. "Matthew, you were still in the closet.""I’m sorry for the misfits in our society," said Ross, who closed debate by recmng the Lord’s Prayer. .Critics, including Rep. Ray Vaughn, R-Edmond, said the hate crimes law has not stopped race- and religion-based attacks. "How would it be effective in stopping hate crimes against ; homosexuals?’"Vaughn said . "r(seems to me we’~e creating "a : special class of Oklahoma citizens. We’re all entitled to the same ¯ respect." see HB 1211, p. 3 Despite Murder, Wyoming Rejects Hate Crime Bill Methodist Anti-Gay Marriage Witchhunt Reaches Oklahoma Call To Action! Tues., M.arch 2, 8-5 HB 1211 Lobby D.ay at OK State Capitol CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - Four months after Gay college student Matthew Shepard was beaten to death, a move to pass hate crimes legislation in Wyoming was killed in committee. Wyoming is one nine states without bias crimes laws, and lawmakers have rejected similar measures four times since 1995. After Shepard’s death, calls for a bias crimes law increased - Republican Gov. Jim Geringer for the first time supported it. Geringer said that he was disappointed the legislation did not reach the Senate floor for debate, but he added that no law can change how people think about each other. Two measures died in the Senate Judiciary Committee. Both would have increased the maximum fine for a felony by up to $5,000 and raised the maximum prison term by up to five years if prosecutors could prove the crime was motivated by bias. State Sen. John Schiffer, the Judiciary chairman, said he hoped supporters of bias crime legislation would come back in future sessions with legislation that would have broader support. Opponents said they objected to listing motivating factors, such as race, religion and sexual orientation, saying the bills offered special protection to certain groups. Others said no new laws are needed, just strict enforcement of existing measures. Wende Barker, state coordinator for theWyoming Bias Crimes Coalition, said she was disappointed but not surprised and planned to try to push for such laws again next year. MJ ~ Z~ mm DIRECTORY/LETTERS EDITORIAL US & WORLD NEWS HEALTH NEWS C OMMUNITY CALENDAR BOOK REVIEW DO-IT-YOURSELF-DYKE DYKE PSYCHE/GAY STUDIES CLASSIFIEDS + WEERWOLF -- P, 2 p, $ P. 4 P. 6 P. 9 P. 10 P. 11 P. 12 P. 13 ¯ : .. ¯ -" ¯¯ ¯ ," "¯ ¯ ." ¯ ¯ ¯ ." ¯ ¯ "_ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ TULSA- Tulsa C.A.R.E.S. (Center for AIDS Resources, Education and Support), formerly known as the HIV Resource Consortium, will hold its second annual fundraising dinner; the Red Ribbon Gala on Saturday, April 17th at 7:30 at the Downtown Doubletree Hotel. The event will feature a keynote address by Chastity Bono, author and Lesbian and Gay media activist. Bono’s address will emphasize the need for compassion and broad community support in the fight against AIDS. Proceeds from the event will support Tulsa C.A.R.E.S. which is the principal care-giving consortium for people living with HIV and AIDS in northeastern Oklahoma. More than 500 clients receive food, counseling, housing, medical prescription assistance from the agency. Bono’s participation in the Gala is co-sponsored by the Tulsa Chapter of PFLAG. Bono will also attend a booksigning in the early afternoon (time tba) on April 17 at the Tulsa Gay Community Services Center to benefit the Center. Also on April 17, local diva Audra Sommers will present Benefit 99, A Connection of Love from 68pm at the Parish Church of St. Jerome, 205 West King. Featured artists include Ernestine Dillard, Gregory Hyde, Link Filion, Rebecca Ungerman, Jonathan Brown and the Council Oak Men’s Chorale. Tickets are $25. Info: 836-5447. Vandal Invades Center Verbally Abuses Volunteer + Trashes Hail TULSA - Late last month, a man entered the Tulsa Gay Community Services Center, formerly known as The Pride Center, shouting obsenities at the volunteer, Shawn, who was staffing The Pride Store that evening: The man, a white male was described as being just over 6 foot tall and about 230 pounds with military style short red hair and a full beard and mustache. Shawn stated that the intruder stormed in the store, waving a Pride flag that he’d grabbed from a display near the stairs. She Said his message was essentially, "how dare you f--king faggots come to my town, you need to get the f--k out"and "I know what you look like; I’ll be back to finish what I started." Shawn then coolly asked him whether he felt better now and then the intruder stormed down the hall breaking a framed print and a floor lamp. Shawn called 911 while the intruder was breaking things in the hall. Tulsa Police responded promptly and Shawn said the officers were very professional and supportive but are not classifying the incident as a hate crime: Normally, Center volunteers workin teams; however, the other volunteer had stepped out to bring back fast food for dinner. Center board members have begun fundraising to purchase a surveillance system for the Center in response to the assault. TULSA - Tulsa United Methodist pastor, the Reverend Leslie Peurose of Community of Hope, has had formal charges brought ¯ against her for signing a statement of support for the Holy Union " ceremony between two California women, Ellie Charlton and ¯ ¯ Jeanne Barnett in Sacramento on January 16, 1999. Penrose, along with the Rev. Susan Ross of Perkins, Oklahoma signeddocumentsofsupportfortheceremonylistingtheirnames ¯ asas"officiantsinabsentia."Nearly80Methodistelergypartici_ ¯ pated in the widely publicized service to support the couple and " toprotestreeentdecisionsoftheUnitedMethodistChurchtoban ¯ its clergy from officiating or performing such services or from ¯ such services from being held in Methodist owned facilities. ¯ Boyce Bowden, spokesperson for the Oklahoma Conference, " United Methodist Church, acknowledged that charges had been " brought against Penrose but refused to provide any further information characterizing the issue as a "personnel issue" and therefore subject to employment confidentiality rules. Bowden did notmention charges brought against Ross. The Rev. Peurose was unable to comment officially. However, the charges were brought against Peurose and Ross ¯ TULSA -The Tulsa Area Prime Timers, a local by Jake P. Barker of First United MethOdist Church of Eufaula : mens group, will hold its annual silent auction on Barker is apparently tied to anti-Gay elements in the Methodist ¯ Saturday, March 13 from 5-9pmin the Neal-Padgett Church and copies of his complaint, as well as official responses : Hall of the newly renamed Tulsa Gay Community have appeared verbatim on the website of "The Confessing : Services Center, formerly known as The Pride Movement" (http://shell.surfsouth.com/~j warrene/news/ ¯ Center. The event is held to raise funds for the ¯ Community Center and features a variety of obok_disobey2.html) So while the Oklahoma Conference office and Oklahoma ¯ jeets from art, to collectables and even to services. Tulsa Area Prime Timers is the local chapter of Bishop Blake has no comment, the full text of the Conferenee’s ¯ response to Barker is available on the intemet. an international mens organization. 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Page Blvd. 712-9955 *Borders Books & Music, 2740 E. 21 834-4194 " ~nat has happened several times - unpro*HIV Resource Consortium, 3507 E. Admiral 494-2665 voked attacks. *Borders Books & Music, 8015 S. Yale 481-1111 *Holland Hall School, 5666 E. 81st 743-5272 In another instance, I was nearly forced Brookside Jewelry, 4649 S. Peoria 834-8378 HOPE, HIV Outreach, Prevention, Education 746-0313 off a highway by a carfnl of kids yelling *CD Warehouse, 3807c.S. Peoria HIV Testing, Men/Thurs. 7-9pm, daytime by appt. only anti-Gay slurs. It is not hard to imagine Cherry St. Psychotherapy, 1515 S. Lewis 581-0902, 743-4117 *House of the Holy Spirit Nfinstries, 3210e So. Norwood 622-0700 that, considering the Mathew Shepard Community Cleaning, Kerby Baker Interfaith AIDS Ministries 438-2437, 800-284-2437 352-9504, 800-742-9468 case, I was lucky. Tim Daniel, Attorney 838-1715 *MCC United, 1623 N. Maplewood 749-3620 In school, I was the victim of several *Deco to Disco, 3212 E. 15th 748-3111 NAMES Project, 3507 E Admiral P1. 587-2611 assaults due to the fact I was perceived as *Devena’s Gallery, 13 Brady 365-5658 NOW, Nat’l Org. for Women, POB 14068, 74159 744-5556 being Gay - long before I knew I was. I Doghouse on Brookside, 331LS. Peoria OK Spokes Club (bicycling), POB 9165, 74157 838-8503 have never been one to carry flags and *Elite Books & Videos, 821 S. Sheridan 584-7960 *Our House, I 114 S. Quaker 584-0337, 712-9379 .proclaim my sexual orientation with a *Ross Edward Salon, 2447 E. 15th 749-4901 PFLAG, POB 52800, 74152 744-9595 bullhorn in a parade, so these attacks, *Floral Design Studio, 3404 S. Peoria 587-7674 *Planned Parenthood, 1007 S. Peoria 628-3709 especially here in Tulsa, were a surprise Cathy Furlong, Ph.D., 1980 Utica Sq. Med. Ctr. 743-4297 *The Pride Center, 1307 E. 38, 2nd floor, 74105 742-1460 and an unpleasant reminder of a very *Gloria Jean’s Gourmet Coffee, 1758 E. 21st Prime-Timers, P.O. Box 52118, 74152 459-9349 difficult childhood. Learme M. Gross, Insurance & financial planning 749-4195 *R.A.I.N., Regional AIDS Interfaith Network 744-7440 I know several men who were physiMark T. Hamby, Attorney 665-5174 Rainbow Business Guild, POB 4106, 74159 cally attacked, even as recently as this *Sandra J. Hill, MS, Psychotherapy, 2865 E. Skelly 745-1111 584-2325 *Red Rock Mental Center, 1724 E. 8 341-6866 year, in settings - urban neighborhoods, *International Tours O’RYAN, support group for 18-24 LGBT young adults 712-2750 daylight - that were surprisxng and upsetJacox Animal Clinic, 2732 E. 15th O’RYAN, Jr. support group for 14-17 LGBT youth 582-3018 ting - and undeserved. If the bill passes, *Jared’s Antiques, 1602 E. 15th 425-7882 St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church, 4045 N Cincinnati 747-0236 then we can begin to effectively works David Kauskey, Country Club Barbering 492-7140 *St. Dunstan’s Episcopal, 5635 E. 71st 599-8070 towards eradicating, or limiting this sort *Ken’s Flowers, 1635 E. 15 582-3088 *St. Jerome’s Parish Church, 205 W. King 747-5466 of unacceptable violence. Kelly Kirby, CPA, 4021 S. Harvard, #210 583-7171 *Tulsa Area United Way, 1430 S. Boulder 585-1234 Please help this bill make it through. Be *Living ArtSpace, 19 E. Brady 582-7225 TNAAPP (Native American men), Indian Health Care 584-3112 a part of the history that promoted a posi*Midtown Theater, 319 E. 3rd 595-4105 Tnlsa County Health Department, 4616 E. 15 663-5934 tive, better; peaceful world, not a part of Mingo Valley Flowers, 9720c E. 31 Confidential HIV Testing - by appt. on Thursdays only 664-2951 history that ignored the hatred in this *Mohawk Music, 6157 E 51 Place Tulsa Okla. for Human Rights, c/o The Pride Center 743-4297 747-6711 world and allowed it free reign. Novel Idea Bookstore, 51st & Harvard ~f.U.L.S.A. Tulsa Uniform/Leather Seekers Assoc. 838-1222 747-7672 - name witheld by request, Tulsa David A. Paddock, CPA, 4308 S. Peoria, Ste. 633 *Tulsa City Hall; Ground Floor Vestibule 838-7626 cc: Don Ross Puppy Pause II, 1060 S. Mingo *Tulsa Columunity College Campuses 583-1090 *Peace of Mind Bookstore, 1401 E. 15 Talking points for HB1211 *Rogers University (formerly UCT) 743-4297 The Pride Store, 1307 E. 38, 2nd floor It’ s not about "special rights ;"it’ s about 747-5932 BARTLESVILLE Rainbowz on the River B+B, POB 696, 74101 stopping violence - Oklahoma’s current 834-0617 *Bartlesville Public Library, 600 S. Johnstone 918-337-5353 ¯ Richard’ s Carpet Cleaning laws arenotprotecting citizens adequately. OKLA HOMA CITY/NORMAN Teri Schutt, Rex Realtors 834-7921, 747-4746 Many crimes, such as murder,vary the 582-7748 Christopher Spradling, attorney, 616 S. Main, #308 *Borders Books &Music, 3209 NWExpressway 405-848-2667 penalties depending on the motive of the 749-6301 *Scribner’s Bookstore, 1942 Utica Square *Borders Books & Music, 300 Norman Center 405-573-4907 perpetrator. A stronger hate crimes law is 260-7829 Paul Tay, Car Salesman TAHLEQUAH 697-0017 no different. 918-456-7900 *Tickled Pink, 3340 S. Peoria No Oklahomans should fear violence 742-2007 : *Stonewall League, call for information: 918-456-7900 0 *Tulsa Book Exchange, 3749 S. Peoria because of who they are. Hate crimes are 481-0558 . *Tahlequah Unitarian-Universalist Church *Tulsa Comedy Club, 6906 S. Lewis 918-453-9360 a form of terrorism: Hate crimes are in743-1733 ¯ *Green Country AIDS Coalition, POB 1570 Fred Welch, LCSW, Counseling NSU School of Optometry, 1001 N. Grand tended to frighten and silence not only the 592-0767 *Whittier News Stand, 1 N. Lewis !tlVtesting every other Tues. 5:30-8:30, call for dates actual victims, but all members of the Tulsa Agencies, Churches, Schools & ,Universities targeted group. Perpetrators of hate crimes 579-9593 ¯ EUREKA SPRINGS, ARKANSAS 501-253-7734 AIDS Walk Tulsa, POB 4337, 74101 seek to "make examples" of their victims. *Autumn Breeze Restaurant, Hwy. 23 743-2363 501-253-7457 *All Souls Unitarian Church, 2952 S. Peoria Oklahomans recognize the importance 587-73.14 ¯ *Jim & Brent’s Bistro, 173 S. Main 501-253-6807 Black & White, Inc. POB 14001, Tulsa 74159 of standing strongagainstthosewhowonld : DeVito’s Restaurant, 5 Center St. ¯ 583-7815 501-253-5445 "-Bl~ss The Lord at All Times Christian Center. 2207 E. 6 583-9780 ¯ *Emerald Rainbow, 45 &l/2 Spring.St. spread fear through violence. *B/L/G/T Alliance, Univ. of Tulsa Canterbury Ctr. ¯ MCC of the Living Spring 501-253-9337 -: Points provided by Gay Community 585-1201 *Chamber of Commerce Bldg., 616 S. Boston 5131-253-2776 Services Center Advocacy Committee. ¯ Geek to Go!, PC Specialist, POB 429 *Chapman Student Ctr., University of Tulsa, 5th PI. & Florence ¯ 501-253-5332 Old Jailhouse Lodging, 15 Montgomery ¯" Letters. Policy *ChurchoftheRestorationUU, 1314N.Greenwood 587-1314 ¯ Positive Idea Marketing Plans 501-624-6646 ". Tulsa Family News welcomes letters on *Community of Hope United Methodist, 2545 S. 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Harvard *Free SpiritWomen s Center, call forlocation &info: 587-4669 �¯ Eureka Springs Plans April Diversity Celebration However, as of press time, Barker had already posted on ¯ the internet a further letter of complaint to the Oklahoma Conference pursuing charges and a church trial against " Penrose and Ross. In fact, a lay observer of these proceedings alleged that Barker’ s complaints were being seen on the internet for wide public viewing prior to even being received " at the Oklahoma Conference and before Ross and Penrose " ¯ even knew they were being accused. The text of the letter follows with only the deletion of the ¯ charges against Ross. Those allegations are identical to th0ge made against Peurose. : Reverend Paul Bowles and Reverend Grayson Lucky ¯ Re: Reverend Susan Ross and Rev. Leslie Penrose ¯ It is obvious we disagree in your comment "we can only interpret their signatures as expressions ofpersonal opin- ¯ ion". I believe that you err in this conclusion. In this case the ¯ aforementioned clergy (Ross & Penrose) did in fact violate ¯ the stated position of the Social Principles regarding same sex unions as defined by the Social Principles, which as you ¯ know, have been declared, in this instance, as having the ¯ force of law, by the Judicial Council. By engaging in a ¯ defiant challenge to the stated position of The United Meth- ¯ odist Church they have more than indicated their willing- ¯ ness and ability to violate the covenant entered into at the ¯ time of their ordination. ¯ This breaking ofcovenant was evidenced by thefollowing ¯ method: ~ 1. Attaching or causing to be attached their names and ¯ ¯ professional titles to a document containing a list of indii viduals engaged in a behaviorprohibited by a ruling of the ¯ Judicial Council. : In addition to my previous complaints, which still stand, I ¯ am nowfiling these additional complaints against Rev. Ross and Rev. Penrose: ." Reverend Penrose: Allegation: 1. BOD Parag. 2624f: ." "dissenination [dissemination] of doctrines contrary to ¯ the established standard.of doctrine of the Church" ¯ Rev. Penrose did, on or about January 16th, 1999 attach ¯ or caused to be attached, her name and professional title to ¯ ¯ a document in support ofsame sex unions, this is in violation of Paragraph 3043, quoted in part, "since the practice of " homosexuality is gncompatible with Christian teaching..." ° and Paragraph 65g "... Although we do not condone the ¯ practice ofhomosexuality and consider this practice incom- ° patible with Christian teaching.., ". this action expressed, diseminated [disseminated] and otherwise revealed to the ¯ church that her doctrines were contrary to the currently ¯ stated doctrine as Contained in the Book Of Discipline and " Social Principles. ¯ 2. BOD Parag. 2624g: "Relationships or behavior that ¯ undermines the ministry of another pastor" ¯ Rev. Penrose did, on or about January 16th, 1999 attach " or cause to be attached her name and professional title to a " document that encourages breaking the ordination covenant as defined by Paragraph 2624b. By her behavior she undermined and renderedfor naught the teaching offellow " United Methodist pastors seeking to be faithful to the disCi- ¯ pline of The United Methodist Church and their ordination ¯ covenant. : These two clergy have defiantly and unrepentantly vio- "lated their vows of ordina~on. 1 am insisting that they be ¯ disciplined appropriately. If you as the district superinten- ¯ dents are unable or unwilling to discipline these two clergy : persons then I have no other recourse than to demand a ¯ church trial before a jury as defined by the BOD. ¯ Sincerely, Jake Barker Rt. 4 Box 951A Eufaula, OK 74432 co: Bishop Bruce Blake " Although the Rev. Peurose declined to comment, lay individuals associated with Commtmity of Hope noted that these charges were not unexpected, especially after the Oklahoma Conference forced the Rev: Kathy McCally of Oklahoma City to leave the denomination. Ms. McCally ~: transferred her ordination to the United Church of Christ --" (UCC), the only "mainline" Christian denomination that~ ¯ ordains openly Lesbian and Gay persons. Furthermore, Oklahoma Bishop Bruce Blake was one of ¯ the leaders in the effort to "criminalize" Methodist clergy ¯ who perform same-gender unions. Prior to his efforts, the restriction on such ceremonieswas a part of the Methodist : Social Discipline, seen as guidance to the thinking of the ¯ ¯ Church but not church law. Now those who dissent from this view can be charged and prosecuted for alleged violations as ¯ ¯ is happening with the Revs. Peurose and Ross. See associated editorial, this page. ¯ ¯ A few weeks ago, a local woman wrote The Tulsa World to protest a recent article about Lesbian and Gay issues featuring PFLAG. She challenged a statement claiming that her part of the Church, the Methodists, was one of several Christian groups that have official positions in support of civil rights for Gay people. She is, of course, wrong. Twenty-seven years ago, in 1972, the United Methodist General Conference adopted a statement saying, "homosexuals no less than heterosexuals are persons of sacred worth... [and] we insist that all persons are entitledto have their human and civil rights ensured." Her ignorance is not entirely the lady’s fault. The Church, Methodist and other parts, in Oklahoma and many other places, have done little to honor this civil rights commitment, or to affirm the sacred worth of Gay and Lesbian persons. For example, every year, the Oklahoma House passes bills clearly attacking the fundamental civil rights of Lesbian and Gay Oklahomans. Yet not once since this newspaper began publishing has the Oklahoma Conference of the United Methodist Church ever raised its voice against these state-sponsored assaults. . That is not only our recollectionbut also thebegrudglng recollection of Bryce Bowden, communications director and spokesman for the Oklahoma Uuited Methodist Conference. Not oncehas the Conference (OUMC) ever taken any proactive step towards supporting civil rights protections. Rumor is, however, that the OC may be supporting HB 1211, the "hate crimes" amendment. Twenty-sevenyearslater, that, atleast, wouldbeastart. However; while the OUMC has failed to honor this longstanding civil rights commitment, no less than the Bishop of the Oklahoma Conference, Bruce Blake, led the efforts to turn the "guidance" of the Methodist Social Principles which opposed same-gender union ceremonies into prosecutable church law. It is this new law under which Tulsa pastor, the Reverend Leslie Peurose, is accused of wrongdoing. The actions of United Methodists indicate leadership that seeks to punish those few brave Methodists who would treat Lesbians and Gay men as equal human beings. It is leadership that has not even tried to "ensure human and civil fights" but worse hash’ t even bothered to tell its general membfrship that they indeed have an obligation to work for such civil rights. " To judge fi:om their actions, their hollow rhetoric of "loving the ’sinner’ and hating the ’sin,’ " should be replaced with "we hate you people," and "we hate that you make us confront the hypocrisy of our words and actions." No, it’ s not in keeping with "Christian values" and it makes them very uncomfortable but it sure looks like the truth. But to do so would require that these good Methodists view themselves as less than righteous people - which ain’t gging to happen. For me, I sometimes think I’d rather deal with an honest Klansman than some of these ,,ood people. You might despise what the Klansman values but at least you know his words and actions are going to be consistent. With "good Christian folk," you just never know. - Tom Neal, editor/publisher ¯ Featuring aQuiltdisplay, Dancing + Kite-Flying EUREKA SPRINGS, AR - They’re doing it again in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, and you’re invited! The ¯ - fourth Diversity Celebration Weekend is scheduled for ¯ April 9-11, and several new events will make this the biggest and best yet. With great pride and respect, the Celebration organiz¯ ers are bringing three sections (24 panels) of the AIDS : Quilt to Eureka Springs. After an opening ceremony on Thursday evening, April 8, the quilt will be on display at the Unitarian Clmrch Friday and Saturday, with the closing ceremony and folding of the quilt taking place at the .Sunday morning Unitarian service. Friday night, the Celebration will kick off with a " dance from 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. in the Ozark Room of the Basin Park Hotel hosted by MCC of the Living Spring. On Saturday, you can walk the streets of this ¯ quaint village on a guided historic tour or hike on your own in the spring air at Lake Leatherwood. If you have a great kite that needs a workout, "Go Fly a Kite" at, Pond Mountain Lodge from 4:30-7:30 p.m. And in the afternoon, when you’re ready to slow down a bit for a light bite to eat and some great coffee, head down to Mud St. Espresso Cafe for continuous music by local and visiting Gay/Lesbian/friendly artists. Now remember when you really wanted to take your boyfriend or girlfriend to your prom, but you had to settle for an opposite sex date or stay home? Well, on Saturday night from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. in the Ballroom atop the Basin Park Hotel, you can bring whomever you like to the "Pro~n of Your Dreams." Break out the corsages and boutonnieres and dance to the music of DJ Jon Caswcll. And be sure to capture this special moment on film with the prom photographer. (Formal attire is encouraged, but not required.) Or if you’re looking for more of a club atmosphere, Center Street South will be jumping with live entertainment frown 10pro- 2an~. Sunday, you’ll have time to sleep in and catch some brunch before the weekend wraps up with the Tea Dance and Drag Show at Center S tage from 2-6 p.m. Jon will spin tunes, and the Girls from Tnlsa will delight all with their terrific performances. That’s it in a nutshell. For a schedule of activities and events, or to find a list of Gay-owned or friendly businesses, check out the Eureka Springs Diversity Cooperative and Celebration website at www.shimaka.com/eureka/diversity, call The Emerald Rainbow at (501) 253-5445 or e-mail emrain@ipa.net. Make your reservations now! Attorney General Drew Edmondson said the legislation provides harsher punishment for individuals whose attacks are based on who or what their victim is. Edmondson also cited studies by medical and psychological groups while stating that homosexuals "are made to have the orientation they have." Graves said sodomy is illegal in the state and questioned whether Edmondson was trying .to legitimize "Gay lifestyles." "I’m not talking about lifestyle. I’m not talking about activity," Graves said. "We don’t expect them to be arrested for what they are." Graves, a frequent critic of Gays and Lesbians who has authored many bills targeting homosexuals, revealed during debate that window s in cars driven by him and hi s son have been shattered and his dog poisoned. He said he also has If you cannot go to Oklahoma City, you can write your legislator at the following address: The Honorable (then name of Representative) : received obscene phone calls,.,"I can’t prove who did it, Room (insert Representatives office number) _. whether homosexuals did it, Graves said. 2300 N. Lincoln Boulevard The bill now goes to the full House for debate. ¯ Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73105-4808. To find the name of your legislator, you may call the Tulsa County Election Board (or your county election board) at 596-5780. If you give them the address at which you are registered to vote, they will give you the names of your representatives. Also if you are not registered to vote or have moved, they can assist yon in getting registered to vote. To speak with your representative or their assistants, call 800-522-8502 for the Oklahoma House of Representatives and ask for your representative’s office. Call, write, fax, or e-mail your support for Editor’s note: a special thanks to Ned Bruha of Oklahoma House Bill 1211 TOHR/Tulsa Gay Community Services Center’s AdvoCall the House for your representative: 800-522-850: cacy committeefor some ofthe information listed above. "¯ Lobby like your life i depends on it- it does. Say No to Hate Violence �Anti-Marriage Bill Moves Forward in Colorado DENVER (AP) - The latest effort to ensure Colorado does not have to recognize gay and lesbian marriages legalized elsewhere was approved by the Senate and sent to the House of Representatives. Other states have passed similar law s as pre-emptive strikes against efforts to legalize same-sex marriages. Challenges to laws restricting marriage between a man and a woman are pending in Hawaii, Alaska and Vermont. Senate Bill 159 would reaffirm the law defining marriage as a licensed union between one man and one woman. Even more important to proponents is the section saying gay and lesbian marriages legalized by other states would not be valid in Colorado. This is the third try by Sen. Marilyn Musgrave, RFort Morgan, to get a bill passed. Past measures were vetoed by former Gov. Roy Romer. But Gov. Bill Owens, who took office in January, has said he would support the legislation. Musgrave and others fear that if other states allow same-sex marriages, Colorado would have to honor the umons unless the state is specifically barred from doing so. States have traditionally recognized marriages performed in other states. The so-called full faith and credit clause of the U.S. Constitution directs states to respect each others’ laws. Congress also adopted a law allowing states to ignore same-sex marriages legalized elsewhere. Opponents predict the state and federal laws eventually will be overruled by the U.S. Supreme Court. Lesbian-Film Controversial in India good cause in Berkeley and I thought what fun to do one we could laugh at. Of course there is a very serious subtext to the humor and that is that when you see bigotry and self-righteonsness out there you really need to stand up to it even when it’s absurd," she said. A spokeswoman for Falwell did not rettm~ a telephone call from The Associated Press Monday. But the president of Itsy Bitsy Entertainment Co., which licenses the Teletubbies in the United States, did have a response: Leave Tinky Winky alone. Kenn Viselman said lie appreciates the show of support, but he doesn’t think political statements of any stripe have a place in the gentle world of Teletubbies. "He’s not Gay. He’s not straight. He’s ust a character in a children’ s series," Visdman said. Tinky Winky turbulence began earlier this month with an article in the National Liberty Journal, edited and published by Falwell, calling Tinky Winky a homosexual role model. "He is purple - the Gaypride color; and his antenna is shaped like a triangle - the Gay-pride symbol," the story said, also noting that Tinky Winky carries a purse (actually his magic bag, show spokesmen point out). Tinky Winky is one of the four stars of Teletubbies, a British show aimed at toddlers. The Teletubbies, a bit like brightly colored oversized teddy bears with benign baby faces, have antennas of sorts sprouting from their fuzzy heads and television screens in their tummies. They spend their days mainly dancing, playing (falling down is a favorite pastime) and watching short videos showing real children engaged in various pursuits. OKLAHOMA COMMUNICATIONS Local- Long Distance Cellular- Paging 747-1508 Free Car Adaptor & Leather Case with New Cell Phone Want to get involved? Need to get tested for HIV? Need a Coming Out Support Group? Call 743-GAYS the Pride Center 1307 E. 38th at Peoria, 2nd floor Your Gay Community Center Lousiana Anti-Sex Law Struck Down NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A state appeals court has struck down a 194-year-old Louisiana law that made BOMBAY, India (AP)- Theater owners who want to oral and anal sex a felony, saying the law violated the screen a controversial film about lesbian love can privacy rights of consenting adults. The decision adds have police protection if they think they need it, to the growing list of U.S. states that have s truck down Bombay’s right-wing government said last month. sodomy laws based on rights to privacy granted in "I don’t think security will be necessary, but if they state constitutions. ask for police protection it will be provided," The Louisiana court on reversed the 1996convicMaharashtra Chief Minister Narayan Rane told retion of Mitchell E. Smith. He had been accused of porters a week after censors cleared the film "Fire" raping a woman but found guilty under the state’s without any cuts. "crimes against nature" statute only of having her Rane’s 81~v 8ena had sent small groups of violent perform oral sex. "There can be no doubt that the right protestersinto theaters into the Maharashtracapital of of consenting adults to engage in private non-comBombay and the national capital of New Ddhi to mercial sexual activity, free from governmental indisrupt screenings of "Fire" last year. Frightened terference, is protected by the privacy clause of the theater owners pulled the film, though it continued Louisiana Constitution," the court held. Courts in showing to packed houses elsewhere in India. Shiv Georgia, Kentucky, Montana and Tennessee previSena protesters had said the film, which explores the ously had reached the same conclusion in interpreting sexual relationship of two women caught in unhappy their respective state constitutions and striking down marriages, was an affront to India’s centuries-old sodomy laws. Hindu culture. Since the U.S. Supreme Court held in 1986 in a In an attempt to defuse the controversy after the Georgia case that consenting adults have no federal violence in Bombay and New Delhi, the government sent "Fire" back to censors who must vet every film ¯ constitutional right to private homosexual conduct, activists have turned to individual state constitutions shown in India and who had already passed "Fire." to find protection from the sodomy laws. The U.S. Last week, the Bombay-based censor reiterated no Constitution does not mention the word "privacy," cuts were necessary. ¯ but the Supreme Court since 1965 has recognized that With renewed approval from the censor, the film such a right predates the 1787 document itself. Howwill be screened in 17 theaters all over Bombay, ever, many state constitutions expressly grant a right distributor Balkrishna Shroff stated. to privacy. Suzanne Goldberg, senior staff attorney with the ¯ l_ambda Legal Defense Fund in New York City, was ¯ jubilant about the decision. "These-laws have no : legitimate purpose and that’s what courts are starting BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) - A city famous for radical ¯ to recognize," she said. ’°The government should not politics is drumming up power to the purple with a ¯ be in the business of policing private sexual behavresolution backing Tinky Winky, the children’s TV ~ ior." The decision will be appealed, said prosecutor character attacked by the Rev. Jerry Falwell as a ¯ Tim McElroy. purse-toting symbol of Gay pride. "We take umbrage at the threat to personal style and choices implicit in Mr. Falwell’s designation of Tinky Winky as an inappropriate role model," dedares the resolution, expected to be passed by the City Council tonight. "Long live Tinky Winky and : SANTA FE (AP)-A New Mexico Senate committee : recently approved legislation that outlaws Gay marlong live freedom from self-righteousness!" Councilwoman Polly Armstrong, who is sponsor- " riages and penalizes anyone who performs them. The ing the resolution, said she wanted tO make a point ¯¯ bill passed the Senate Public Affairs Committee on a and have some fun in a city known for taking stands ¯ vote of 5-3. It goes to the Judiciary Committee. It defines marriage as a contract between"one man and on everything from nuclear proliferation (against) to ¯ one woman"and says a same-sex marriage wouldnot human rights in Burma (for). 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Norwood Info., call 224-4754, Chris & Sharon at Community of Hope United Methodist 2545 South Yale Sundays at llam Info: 7490595 A Voice for Freedom & Tolerance �Announcing the new MCC-United formerly Family of Faith & Greater Tulsa MCC Join together as one body of believers Come celebrate with us. Sunday Services, 11 am 1623 North Maplewood, 838-1715 MARK T. HAMBY Attorney Bankruptcy & Civil Matters Call for More InformatiOn 744-7440 Fax 744-9358 1500 Nations Bank, 15 West Sixth Tulsa, Oklahoma 74119 be recognized in New Mexico even if it were valid elsewhere. Anyone who performed a same-sex marriage ceremony could be fined $50, under the legislatiorL Supporters said New Mexico should join 29 other states that have passed similar bills: Its opponents said it was unnecessary, unconstitutional and punitive. "This bill was notbom out of fear and ignorance... Tbis bill simply defines what a marriage is," replied its sponsor, Sen. Leonard Lee Rawson, R-Las Cruces. Mass. Religious Leaders Support Gay Marriage BOSTON (AP) - Carmen DeBenedictis is safe sleeping in the arms of either of her two daddies. But the parents of the newly adopted 6-week-old feel less secure about the family situation. That’s because, as a Gay couple, Don Picard and Robert DeBenedictis aren’t legally married. And there are lawmakers on Beacon Hill who want to keep it that way. "It’s strange. Carmen is our next of kin, but we’re not next of kin to each other," Picard said. The unconventional Medford family attended a rally at the Statehouse where dozens of religious leaders called for the state to recognize same-sex marriages. About 150 religious leaders have signed a declaration of support for the right of Gays to marry. The group includes Jews, Quakers, Baptists, Episcopalians, Unitarians, Catholics and others. "The most fundamental human right, after the necessities of food clOthing and shelter, is the right to affection and the supportive love of another person," the declaration begins. But the movement faces opposition on Beacon Hill. "I am not for Gay marriages," Gov. Paul Cellucci bluntly declared recently. Rep. John Rogers, D: Norwood, .is drafting a bill that would more clearly define marriage in Massachusetts. The language in the bill would require that a marriage be between a man and a woman, thereby prohibiting same-sex couples to malty. THE ANIMAL HOUSE Reptiles ¯ Birds ¯ Small Mammals Fish ¯ Dog & Cat Supplies Grooming ¯ Pond Supplies 4414 S. Peoria Ave ¯ Tulsa, OK 74105 (918) 747-0606 Paul Tay Car Salesman My friends crashed into a deer with their new Ford Explorer. They just bought it from me less than 3 months ago. Neither the truck nor the deer survived. But. my friends called at 2 a.m. I loaned them my car for 3 days. Great excuse to ride my bicycle to work. 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Many of the ministers said they perform Gay marriage ceremonies. "I am deeply troubled that...I as a clergyman see the marriages that I officiate at are not being legally recognized by this commonwealth," said Rabbi Howard Berman. Picard and DeBenedictis said they were united in a spiritual ceremony. But a legal ceremony would give them peace of mind. They said they face the same obstacles as other Gay couples who want to be legally married: spousal insurance benefits and being considered next of kin if the other is injured or dies. "It’s strange that the state is excited we are adopting a baby but they are resisting letting us get married," Picard said. Gays Protest Anti-Gay Immigration Policies NEW YORK (AP) - A Gay and Lesbian group protested U.S. immigration policies, saying the govemment discriminates against same-sex couples when granting visas to foreigners. "Love knows no borders," dozens of protesters chanted behind police barricades outside the Immigration and Naturalization Service in lower Manhattan. The demonstration was organized by the Lesbian and Gay Immigration Rights Task Force, a New Yorkbased advocacy group. The group claims green cards are routinely granted to heterosexual foreigners who marry U.S. citizens, while same-sex applicants are rejected. "We often face an excruciating choice - our parmers can either live an ocean apart or stay surreptitiously in the U.S. without proper papers and under threat of deportation," said Carl Goodman, an American whose partner is Peruvian. "I love an alien," said a sign hoisted by one protester, and another man with an Australian partner held up a red placard asking, "Can my husband come over and stay?" The INS called the protest misguided. "This is not an immigration issue," said spokesman Russ Bergeron. He said it’s a question of"the invalidity of same-sex marriage under existing U.S. law. Any person who is legally married has the right to file a petition for their spouse to immigrate." At least 10,000 Gay couples are affected, said task force attorney SuTanne Goldberg. The task force wants Congress to establish a special category - such as a legally registered partnership that would qualify a foreigner with a longtime partner to live in the United States, Goldberg said. Ten countries recognize same-sex relationships for the purposes of immigration, including Canada, Britain and Austr~ia. Ariz. Gov. to Legislature Issues, Not Bedrooms PHOENIX (AP) - Gov. Jane Hull wants lawmakers to give more attention to matters of import and less to bedroom issues such as medical benefits for Gays. "I may morallyfeel one way, but I do not believe that I need to pass laws to put my beliefs on the record," Mrs. Hull, a former House speaker, said during her radio talk show. Mrs..Hull had been asked about a bill (HB2524) that would bar the state and universities from extending medical benefits to "domestic partners" of homosexuals. Cities and towns could extend those benefits only if doing so were approved by voters. Tucson and Pima County are the only two government employers that offer domestic partners benefits in Arizona. The bill sponsored by Rep. Karen Johnson, R-Mesa, led to a heated and personal exchange in the House last week as the bill passed the Government Reform Committee narrowly. Such efforts are an inappropriate expenditure of lawmakers’ time and energy, and they should not be limiting what benefits cities and towns may provide, Mrs. Hull said. "I wish that we could get down to talking about what’s really important," she said. "We ought to be looking at state responsibilities, not worrying about what goes on in cities and counties and towns and bedrooms. The legislators are there to worry about the future of the state of Arizona and I would prefer that that’s what they did." Johnson said she was disappointed with the governor’s remarks and will continue to push her bib despite seeing little likelihood it will pass. Lawmakers do have a role in laws dealing with morality, especially when public tax dollars and activities barred by Arizona law are involved, she said. "I feel we’re here to support the nuclear family,"Johnson said. "I don’ t think our tax money should be used to subvert the nuclear family." New Zealand Lesbian to Pay Child Support HAMILTON, New Zealand (AP) - A Lesbian recently gave up her legal fight against paying child support after a High Court ruling. The former Hamilton woman, who lives in Wellington, will have to make child support payments to her former partner after the High Court upheld an earlier Hamilton Family Court ruling. The High Court judges did not comment on whether same-sex marriages should be recognized in law. The Family Court had stated she must pay child support for the children she helped bring up. The landmark decision has wide-ranging implications for other same-sex relationships and those where the adults in parental roles have no biological link to their children. The women’s names and details have been suppressed, as are those of the children. �Common Chemical. Mutant forms quickly arise through rangenetic changes that are able to resist May Help Block HIV i dom the most powerful drugs. HERSHEY, Pa. (AP)-A substance found ¯ In recent months, doctors have increasin many shampoos and toothpastes might : ingly turned to individual resistance testhold the key to stopping the spread of : ing. A study released recently shows this sexually-transmitted viruses that cause ¯ pays off: Analyzing patients’ viruses for AIDS, genital herpes and genital warts, : genetic signs of resistance seems to imresearchers from the Pennsylvania State ." prove treatment outcomes. University and two other institutions said . ¯ Estimates vary, but perhaps 30% to 60% of all people taking the AIDS drug on Thursday. cocktails are considered treatment failThe discovery that sodium dodecyl sulures, because HIV can still be found in fate, or SDS, can kill such viruses, could their blood. Either their virus never disaphave major worldwide public_health impeared completely or it rebounded. plications, said lead researcher Mary K. Without the tests, doctors often must Howett, professor of microbiology and immunology at Penn State’s Milton S. rely on trial and error to put together fresh combinations of medicines. Coming up Hershey Medical Center. with these strategies, sometimes called She wasjoinedin the study by researchsalvagetherapy, is an increasingly imporers from the University of Pennsylvania tant part of long-term AIDS care. and Biosyn Inc., a Philadelphia-based bio"It’s clear the test helps you choose technology research and development more active drugs for patients who are company. The group published its findfailing therapy," said the study’s director, ings in the February issue of the journal Dr. John Baxter of Cooper Hospital in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. Camden, N.J. He presented the latest data "This is potentially very exciting," Thursday at the 6th Conference on Daniel Malamud, professor of biochemRetroviruses and Opportunistic Infections. istry at Penn, told The Patriot~News in - Dr. Douglas Richman of the University Harrisburg. "We have to remember that of California, San Diego, estamated that these are studies in the test tube and in as many as two dozen of these tests are animal models. There.have been many now on the market, although they have promising drugs in the laboratory that just received little testing to make sure they do don’t make it to the marketplace because any good. "Personally, I think it’s premahumans are different." ture," he said. Human trials of SDS could begin within In Baxter’s study, financed by the Naa year, Ms. Howett said, and within two to tional Institute of Allergy and Infectious five years could lead to the dc.velopment Diseases, doctors performed genetic of inexpensive over-the-counter products analysis on the viruses of 78 patients who that women could apply intravaginally had failed treatment, while a comparison prior to intercourse to protect themselves group of 75 received their usual care. or their sexual partners from infection. The test analyzed viral genes that proThe research, conducted the past two duce two essential proteins- protease and years, was funded through the National reverse transcriptase. Both of these proInstitute of Allergy and Infectious Disteins are targets Of standard AIDS drugs. eases and the Jake Gittlen Cancer ReWhen the genes become mutated, they search Institute. Researchers have applied produce forms of these proteins that elude for a patent on the discovery, Ms. Howett the effects of the medicines. said. Such a product, if approved, easily After analyzing the tests and determincould be used in creams, gels; foams and ing the specific mutations in each patient’ s ointments or applied to condoms, sponges virus, Baxter and two other virologists or other types of contraceptives. then made treatment suggestions to the In addition to potentially curbing the patients’ doctors. spread of AIDS, use of the substance The doctors precisely followed the vicould stop the spread of the-human rologists" advice only about half the time, papillomaviruses, or HPV, that cause genialthough 83 % said the information influtal warts. enced their treatment decisions. Such warts can turn to cervical and At the study’s start, median viral levels uterine cancer, which cause 5,000 deaths were 28,000 copies per milhliter of blood. among women in the United States each All were switched to new drug regimens, year and 250,000 deaths annually around but those whose viruses were tested did the globe. Cervical cancer is the No. 1 much better. Their viral levels dropped to cause of cancer-related deaths in women 815, compared to 7,950in the comparison in developing nations. group. After eight weeks, half of those in HPVs afflict one out of four women. In the test group had no measurable virus in addition to being a potential source of their blood, compared with one-quarter of cancer, they can cause physical lesions the other patients. and emotional stress. Baxter said the testing may be useful to Alkyl sulfates, the family of chemicals ¯ tailor first-time treatment for those who to which SDS belongs, are found in high concentrations in most toothpastes, sham- ¯¯ are newly infected with HIV. This could poos and skin product. That could bode ¯ become especially important if viruses that areimmune to multiple drugs become well for the product as it moves toward ¯ more widespread, as many fear. possible approval by the U.S. Food and A French study, conducted by Dr. Pierre Drug Administration. Dellamoniea of University Hospital Cen¯ tet in Nice, was released at an AIDS ¯ conference in Glasgow, Scotland in No- vember. It produced similar results using ." a genetic test developedby Visible GenetCHICAGO (AP) - Deciphering the ge- ¯ ics Inc. netic code of each patient’s AIDS virus appears to help doctors tailor treatments to improve the chance of thwarting HIV’s dogged ability to develop resistance. One of the elements that makes HIV CHICAGO (AP)-The tentative results of such a difficult foe is the sloppy way it a small human experiment offer a glimmakes copies of itself. Each new version mer of possibility that the body’s own is slightly different from its predecessor. 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He has remained company is in the final stage of developfree of HIV for two years, ment of a drug that would fuse Ziagen, a "I don’t see why others cannot become ¯ new AIDS drug that won Food and Drug the Berlin patient," said Dr. Franco Loft, Administration approval in December, head of the Research Institute for Genetic with Epivir, or 3TC, and Retrovir, or and Human Therapy at Georgetown UniAZT. versity in Washington. Glaxo Wellcome - based in the United Lori’s team is one of a few exploring Kingdom but with U.S. headquarters in the idea that it may be possible to wean North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park people away from the demanding regi- expects to submit an application for men of AIDS medicines without actually marketing approval to the FDA later this curing them of their infections. Lori preyear. sented his findings at the 6th Conference The combination follows the footsteps on Retrovirnses and Opportunistic Infecof Glaxo’ s Combivir, a"cocktail therapy", tions. that allows patients to take a variety of Some physicians are skeptical. They drugs in prescribed combinations. fear AIDS patients who learn ofthese Combivir, which combined 3TC and AZT attempts will stop taking the drugs on into one pill, posted $443 million in worldtheir own- with potentially deadly consewide sales in 1998, including $325 milquences. "My concern is that this will be lion in the United States. Glaxo is already overplayed," said Dr. Robert Schooley of the leading producer of AIDS drugs. the University of Colorado, a conference orgamzer. "It sounds good to patients. Who wouldn’t want to stop treatment? But the real question is whether you can change the immune response. I worry WOODWARD, Okla. (AP) - A man who pataents will stop therapy. Whenever that allegedly spit intentionally into an open happens, in my experience, the vim s comes knuckle wound on a police officer and roaring back.’" then told the officer he was HIV-posifive Loft calls the approach stop and go. The has tested negative for the virus that causes idea: Treat people with standard AIDS AIDS, authorities say. Prosecutors said drugs until all signs of HIV vanish from Dusfin L. Clower, 18,’wouldn’t face addithe bloodstream. Withhold the medicines tional charges because of the spitting inciuntil the virus returns. Then give the drugs dent. The decision was made after a courtagain, Keep repeating the cycle until evenordered test determined Clower wasn’t tually the virus never comes back, HIV-positive. Clower appeared before It probably won’t be eradicated enAssociate District Judge ]~inson Barefoot tirely, so the theory goes, but the body’s to present the preliminary blood test reimmune defenses will be able to keel~ it sults from the state Department of Health. from the explosive growth that is HIV’s Clower was arrested following a fight killing trademark. in a restaurant parking lot in Woodward Loft has tried the approach so far on on Jan. 17. He struggledwith Officer Matt three patients. While it’s still too soon to .Lehenbaur and allegedly intentionally spit know whether it will work, Loft finds the into the split-open knuckle. Lehenbaur first few weeks’ results promising. The said in an affidavit that Clower told him interval before the virus returns is lengthafter he spit on him that he was HIVening. Furthermore, he said that in more positive. aggressive experiments on monkeys, the Clower still faces felony charges of only practical nonhuman substitute for assault and battery on a police officer and AIDS research, the approach seems to attempting to escape custody. keep the virus at bay for good. The next step is a much larger study involving 40 to 80 patients, he said. Dr. Bruce Walker is conducting similar early-stage experiments on patients at Massachusetts General Hospital in BosDALLAS (AP) - Of $3 million in donaton. "We really don’t have any data yet to tions to the Tanqueray Texas AIDS Ride suggest that this (stopping and starting last year, 85% went toward expenses, therapy) is something we should be doorganizers confirm. The costs included ing," he said. office space, advertising and the $280,000 "I would not put one of my patients on fee of the for-profit producer, Pallotta this," said Dr. Roger Pomerantz of ThoTeamworks of Los Angeles, The Dallas mas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Morning News reported. The 15%, or "People have talked about this, but it’s the $450,000, that went to beneficiaries was first time I’ve seen anyone have the guts far below both projections and industry to try it." standards for such activities.i In Loft’s study, three patients took a Chris Cole, national director of combination of the drugs DDI, Pallotta’s AIDS rides, said Pallotta generhydroxyurea and indlnavir. The first time ally projects that it will return about 50% .they stopped treatment, the virus returned of proceeds to participating charities, as it m one week. Doctors treated them again projected in Texas last year and has delivand stopped. This time the virus stayed ered elsewhere. Even that rate is unimawayfor21/2weeks. Againdoetors started . pressive to Daniel Borochoff, president and stopped the drugs. The virus disap- _" of the National Institute of Philanthropy. peared for six to eight weeks. ." He urges a minimum of 65%. No one knows how long this will go on ¯ Producers of the 575-mile jaunt are or whether eventually these cycles will promising to cut expenses and attract more put the virus into permanent retreat. No Extra Criminal Charges for Spitter AIDS Ride Nets Only 15% to Charity participants so that the second-year event, set for next October, is more successful. �is an exhibit, Symbols of Faith Les Ballets Trockadero ¯¯ January and Belief, Art of the Native American NORMAN ROCKWELL: An American Portrait de Monte Carlo : Church. The show features paintings, Dancing the fine line between high art ¯ drawings, photographs, objects and conandhighcamp,Les Ballets Trockadero de ¯ temporary art from the Native American Church traditions. The Monte Carlo have deNative American lighted audiences Church developed in around the world. In the late 1870’s with a parodies of famous ritual based on the conclassical works, from sumption of peyote Swan Lake to Giselle, cactus. For thousands and of the choreograof American Indian phy oflsadora Duncan, people, the Church has George Balanchine, provided the spiritual and Martha Graham, and social basis for they offer performeaningful lives amid mances which both the disruptions and disdance afficionados and locations of 20th cencomplete dance novices tury life. Grounded in enjoy. Les Trockaderos beolder tribal religions Tr ;kade from the plains region, gan in 1974 and have Les Ballets Trockadero the Church was the f’Lrst performedin dancefesde Monte Carlo, March 16 only native religious movetivals from New York, ment organized and Spoleto, Italy, Vienna, dessiminated on the Paris to the Nether-.. model of western lands. Their tours have Christian denominataken them across the tions. US, Europe, South Just openAmerica andrepeatedly ing at the end of Februacross Japan. ary, is a different asAnd while the reperpect of America: Nortoire and casts of Les man Rockwell: An Trockaderos may American Portrait. change, the .original This exhibit features all concept remains con332 magazine covers stant: a company of prothe artist did for the S atfessional male dancers urday Evening Post performing the full overaperiodfrom 1916 range ofballetandmodto 1963. Even as ern dance repertoire. Rockwell helped preThe humorous sight of Norman Rockwell: An American serveAmericanmyths, male bodies delicately Portrait at Gilcrease, 2/19-5/2 he recreated them and balancing in toe shoes made them new for folas swans, sylphs and lowing generations. water sprites delight, After you’ve seen Les amuse and still serve Les Trockaderos origiTrockaderos de Monte Carlo do their Swan nal purpose: to being Lake, don’t you think the pleasure of dance you ought to see Tulsa to the widest possible Ballet do the original? audience. You have that chance, For tickets or more April 9-11. Call 749information, call 5966006 for tickets. 7111. Outside Tulsa, Also March 6, 11 & call 800-364-7111 or 13, Tulsa Opera will online contact, present Dialogues of www.tulspac.com the Carmelites, starring Now open at the City the Metropolitan of Tulsa’s Gilcrease Opera’s Rosalind Elias. Museum, are two exAlphonse Mucha, the Spirit of Call 587-4811 for tickceptional, if divergent, Art Nouveau, 4/25 - 6/20 ets and information. exhibits. Opening in May 2, 1999 3 Performances Only! April 9-11 Tulsa Performing Arts Center Sponsored by Bank of Oklahoma and the Tulsa World TICKERS NOW ON SALE! _ T. U. L. S. A. Hosts Review + Fundraiser The Tulsa Uniform and Leather Seekers Association (T.U.L.S.A.) will host the second annual charity fundraising event called"After the Leather, the Great Leather Campout" on Friday, March 19. Making special guest appearances will be ahost of Tulsa and Oklahoma City entertainers and tifle-holders from numerous pageants and contests. The event, which organizers hope will be a ongoing effort, will take place at the Silver Star Saloon, beginning promptly at 10pm and will benefit three local charities: Our House, Tulsa C.A.R.E.S. Food Chain and the Tulsa Gay Community Services Center, formerly known as The Pride Center. Also this year a silent auction will take place beginning at 9pm. The regular auction will offer autographed portraits of Patti LaBelle, Cher, Susan Lucci, Rosie 0’Donnell, Troy Aikman, Reba McIntire, Travis Tritt, George Straight, Robin Williams, Michael J. Fox, Diana Ross, Hulk Hogan, Alec Balwin, Bruce Willis and others. A highlight of the auction will be an autographed CD of Sir Elton John. T.U.L.S.A. officers hope that this year’s ¯ event will outperform last year’s which raised Over $2500 for charity. For any additional information, please call Randall at 1-918-762- 3212, or contactT.U.L.S.A, atPostOffice Box 33076, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74102 or www.tulsaleather.com 1998-1999 SEASON BROCHURES CALL �Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo March 16 at 8 p,m. Chapman Music Hall TULSA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Tickets $10-$30 Dancing the fine line between high art and high camp, Les Bdllets Trockadero de Monte Carlo delights audiences around the world. ~- Les Bal ets Trockadero is the world’s foremost all-male comic ballet company. Sponsored in part by: OKLAHOMA ~ SUNDAYS Bless the Lord At All Times Christian Center Sunday School - 9:45am, Service - 11 am, 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815 Community of ttope (United Methodis0, Service - 6pm, 2545 S. Yale, 585-1800 Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation Service - 1 lain, 2545 S. Yale, 749-0595 Church of the Restoration Unitarian Universalist Service - 1lain, 1314 No. Greenwood, 587-1314 Metropolitan Community Church United (formerly Family of Faith & MCCGT)Service, 1 lain, 1623 North Maplewood, Info: 838-1715 House of the Holy Spirit Ministries, Inc. Sunday School - 9:45am, Service - 10:45am, 3210b So. Norwood Parish Church of St. Jerome (Evangelical Anglican Church in America) Mass - 11am, 205 W. 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He makes a bit a money as an impresario, running a stable of male strippers and also stripping occasionally himself. I met Corey at Oakland’s one AfricanAmerican gay bar during one of his shows. He was kept busy picking up his strippers’ tips as they dropped these onto the floor. A wise precaution, I thought. The bar’s neighborhood was none too good. Who knows how many quick-fingered drunks in need of a refill might help themselves to a stray bill or two peeking out from gstring or sock? Deflecting a hustle, I nonetheless gave Corey afide home to his aunt’s house on Fruitvale Ave. We chatted about his two children, my children, Arkansas and Oklahoma, his girlfriends, problems in California, and his dream of opening a club in Hne Bluff featuring the music tapes and CDs he has collected. Corey claimed that only oneof the eight guys who had bared all that evening was gay. Yeah, right... I’m thinking. 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A friend of mine said her toilet ran all the time and that it was going to cost $50.00 to have it repaired, so she ought to just go ahead and buy a new one. Well, for about $7.00 and a half hour of time and with some of those tools you rushed out and bought after my last column, you can have a quiet, efficient toilet ¯ Now, that’s something to contemplate! The plumbing section at Homo Depot or Builder’s Queer or any other hardware store Will have a universal repair kit that includes afloat and a rubber stopper. Yes, these are the mysterious working parts of the toilet. You may now be nonplused. Don’t worry that the float doesn’t look like the one in your tank - you know, the copper rod with the little floaty thing attached. That was, quite honesty, called the "ball cock", so if I say your ball cock is dripping, don~t take it pei:sonally. They are a thing of the past, at least as far as plumbing is concerned. This should be all that you need, but it does prompt me to a standard warning - anytime you work on your plumbing, you may need to make extra trips for other parts you didn’t think you’d need. That’s because pipe fittings do rust, and those nice little chrome water cut-off valves under the tank have a bitchy way of just twisting off when you try to shut them off. But that isn’t always the case, so dick your heels together three times and wish real hard. The first step is to get your tools together. You’ll need an adjustable crescent wrench and a pair of channel lock pliers, and it doesn’t hurt to have a pipe wrench on hand, either. If you don’t have these tools or the task is too daunting already, find a handy dyke, buy her some beer and cook her something fabulous and turn her loose. It’ll still be cheaper than the plumber. Have some paper towels or rags ready, because the toilet will leak, sometime and somewhere. Next, turn off the water. Most of the time, there is that chrome shut off valve under the tank and running into the wall. It probably hasn’t been moved in years, so expect some resistance (kind of reminds me of an ex...); you might have to wrap a rag around the handle and use your channel locks - genfl!! - and turn the handle counter-dockwiseuntil itcloses completely. Ifitdoesn’t turn or, more likely, the handle twists off but the valve doesn’t move, grab your keys and head for the hardware store - but we’ll address that in a little while. Assuming you have successfully dosed the valve, flush the toilet to drain the tank and mop up the water remaining in the bottom of the tank. This will also get those nasty deposits out of the bottom that can cause problems later, so that’s a plus. Undip the little hose that empties into that tube in the center of the tank, remove the ball cock (if you have one) or float assembly, and then comes the fun part: removing the vertical water supply line into your tank. This is attached to the float assembly. You have to loosen a threaded collar on the bottom of the tank directly under that vertical inlet tube. Use your channel locks and remember that you’re working upside down and that it will unscrew the opposite of what you’d normally expect. Well, it’ s still counterclockwise to loosen, but only if you’ re on your head. This is the time you’ll appreciate whether or not your toidy is in a tight spot or not. The cussing is directly proportionate to the amount of workspace you have. Welcome to Plumber’s World.Take the collar off, remove the vertical water supply tube and mop up the water on the floor. Replace it with the new float device and tighten the collar over the bottom. It will have a new rnbber or plastic tube that you clip onto the outlet pipe - pretty much opposite ofthe removal. You may have to adjust that ’~Fea enp"at the top of the float so you can put tlae toilet lid back on, but that’s simply accomplished by twisting it up or down as needed. You can also control the water levd this way, but don’t get too chintzy with the water supply, or you’ll regret it. Reattach the water supply from the shutoff up to the tank and you’re ready for the next step. Now, remove the old rubber stopper that’s attached to the handle. Take the little chain loose and then remove the flapper - it usually is attached to the stem of the outlet tube by a couple of little rubber or plastic ears and comes off easily. The rubber on the flapper can be kind of slimy, so use a rag to hold it when you’re taking it off. Replace it with the new flapper in the kit just the opposite of how you removedit. Thelittle chain needs a bit of slack, but not too much or it winds around the lever from the handle and the water will still run and annoy the hell out of you. There are pretty good instructions on the package, complete with illustrations, so don’t fed too confused. However, the first kit I used forgot to tell.me about that locking collar on the bottom of the tank, and was I one frustrated lezzie until I figured it out! If you’re still uncomfortable doing this job but are determined to learn, find someone patient enough to coach you while youdo the work. It’s a great way to learn this stuff. If you have trouble with the shut off you have two options - yell for help or replace it yoursdf. This is where the pipe wrench come in handy. You have to be able to shut the water off at the curb; the valve for your main water supply is in the meter box by the curb and the bar on top of the valve needs to be turned 180 degrees to shut it off. You can use a large wrench, but you can buy a device called a water key that makes it easier; it has a long hand, which is nice if your meter box is full of questionable water. They 0nly cost about $8.00 and are priceless when you really need them, so consider investing in one. After turning off the water, flush the toilet. If it fills back up, the main water isn’t off and you’ll have to try again. If the water is off, put some rags under the valve, grasp the pipe going into the wall with a pipe wrench and turn the collar of the valve see DIYD, p.13 �by Esther Rothblum . ¯ all the copies of Liane’s book he could Recently a number of books have been " find, along with the printing plates, and published about the Lesbian identity or ¯ had them destroyed. Too late - the book femalerelationships of prominent women ¯ had already been circulated widely. who lived in earlier historical periods. " "The greatestpassion of Bamey’s youth, .Mary Eichbauer was living however, was Ren~e Vivien in Paris when she became Natalie’s affair (born Pauline Tam), like aware that much of the work herself, an expatriate in Paris with Vivlen was of Natalie Barney (1876(Tam was born in England). 1972) had never before been tempestuous and The first chapter of Souvepublished in English. She nirs Indiscrets describes involved frequent received permission to transtheir affair in detail. Natalie’ s late some of Bamey’s writ.separations. affair with Vivien was teming and to find an English and involved freAlthough they loved pestuous audience for this work. quent separations. Although Eichbauer" described each other dearly, they loved each other dearly, Natalie Bamey’s life and they were essentially incomwork to me in a recent corre- they were essentially patible. Natalie refused to spondence: "In her last book, incompatible... She pass upany chance for pleaSouvenirs Indiscrets (Indissure that came her way, and and Barney are creet Memories), Natalie so Ren~e eventually left her says that shehad always felt hurled not far from for another woman. In the drawn to women, from her end, Ren~e died young, a ¯ inch other inthe earliest days. In the first victim of anorexia and alcochapter, ’Renre Vivien,’ she Passy Cemetery... holism. She and Barney are describes an intense crush buried not far from each she.had on a beautiful young cousin, how " other in the Passy Cemetery in Paris." she loved to be close to her and comfort ¯ As Barney says in Souvenirs: "Our opher (the young woman was pining for : posed natures contrived to make us suffer some young beau). Natalie fell in loee " at each Other’ s hands for a long time. This with a school friend when she was six- " resulted for her in a fertile inspiration and teen, at a time when her family lived in ¯ for myself in aninstructive defeat. Unable Washington, D,C. and she was being : to live with her or without her, I do not courted for her beauty (and her father’s " know which was most painful: our danmoney) by more than a few young men. ¯ gerona meetings, our separations, or our She and her friend Eva Palmer (heiress to ¯ attempts at infidelity. Like so many other abiscuit fortune) spent a summer together : lovers, we had still more of those ’terrible in Bar Harbor pla~ng naked in the woods " adieus one goes back on’ and those exaltat nymph (Eva) and shepherd (Natalie). .’ ing reunions that did not last. Apart, but Afterthatsummer, theirrespectablefanfi: ¯ irresistibly attracted to each other, only to lies made sure they were placed in sepa- ." lose each other once again, our persistent rate boarding schools. : love endured all the phases of a fatal "Ironically, her father’s own egotism ¯ attraction that perhaps only death could flna!!y gaveBamey the chance she needed : end. I still loved Ren~e, but with a vanto begin her preferred way of life. Albert : quished love, enslaved by the circumBarney was so eager to get back to his ¯ stances that she had allowed to have their beloved London (which Natalie always ¯" way with us... (Souvenirs Indiscrets)" thought of as a male city, as opposed to ~ Eichbauer states: "Natalie’s .life was Paris, which was ruled by women), and so ¯ more important to her than her writing. bored with the business of parenting, that : She described the procxss of writing a he left Natalie staying at a boarding house : book as one of cleaning out her desk under scant supervision, supposing her to ¯. drawers. Her writingis seldom sustained; be occupied, with shopping and ’fittings’ ¯ she expressed herself in sharp lightningfor a gown intended for her Washington : bolts of intelligence. In her introduction ’debut.’ Instead, Natalie visited Carmen, : to Souvenirs, she says, ’If too little of the an artist’s model who had posed for her ¯ love I invoke appears in this book, it is mother. The beautiful Carmen welcomed : because I have better spent it elsewhere. Natalie into her bed (Natalie’s first time) " Here there remain only fragments.’" and educated her in some of the ways of ¯ Because of the importance of her salon, the world. (According to Jean Chalon, ¯ Barney is mentioned, at least in passing, Natalie wasn’t quite sure that she could in most accounts of American expatriates make love to a woman without getting " in Paris. Here are the books by and about pregnant!) She walked home from her " Barney that Eichbauer recommends and first meeting with Carmen repeating to ¯ that are most readily available: herself, spellbound: ’I have a mistress, I " Natalie Barney. Adventures ofthe Mind. have a mistress.’ ¯ Tr. John Spaulding Gatton. New York: "Next, she fell madly in love with one ¯ New York University Press, 1992. Liane de Pougy, a celebrated courtesan. Natalie Barney. The One Who is LeLiane took Natalie for a ride in her car- [ gion, or A.D. ’s Afterlife. riage through the Bois de Boulogne, and " 1930; Orono, Me.: U of Maine, National their affair was launched. Later, Liane ¯ Poetry Foundation, 1987. wrote Idylle.Sap,.hique ( ~apphic ldyll), a " Natalie Barney. A Perilous Advantage: novelabouther Flossie, thefirstofmany : The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney. Edliterary tributes that would be dedicated tO ; ited and translated by Anna Livia. IntroBarney over the years (Ren~e Vivien, ¯ duction by Karla Jay. Norwich, Vt.: New Djuna Barnes, Radclyffe Hall and Lucie " Victoria Pub., 1992. Karla Jay. Delarue-Mardrus wrote novels featuring : The Amazon and the Page: Natalie Barney as a character, and quite a bit of [ Clifford Barney and Rende Vivien. poetry was dedicated to her). 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No Peeping Toms, no hidden videocams in Mary Eichbauer lives and writes in northrestrooms, no voyeurs, no exhibitionists, ern California. Her annotated translation no pornography, no one works to snatch ¯ of Bamey’s "Rente Vivien"’ will appear an illicit glimpse at this or that body part. in a forthcoming issue of The Journal of The body, sexually, is a bore in places ¯ Lesbian Studies. where it is never hidden- where exposure ¯ Esther Rothblum is Prof. ofPsychology causes neither guilt nor shame nor desire. ¯ at the Univ. of Vermont andEditor ofI’he Or rather, body touch and smell may be ¯ Journal of Lesbian Studies. She can be sexualized but never mere looking, where ¯ reached at John Dewey Hall, Univ. of nudity is the norm. ". Vermont, Burlington, VT, email: The details of modesty and display vary ¯ esther.rothblum@uvm.edu. from one culture to another. Many have commented on American fixation on the female breast. Who knows if it’s childrearing customs, our relations with mom, or our marital relations that have super- : with a crescent wrench. If the parts are charged theAmerican breast, the epitome ¯ rusted together, you can have a real wresbeing Barbie’s big and pointy boobs. : fling match. Once the val~ce is off, remove In much of the South Pacific, women’s ¯ the tube from the valve from breasts traditionally were neither erog- ¯ the bottom of the toilet with the crescent enous nor hidden. Male desire focused ¯ wrench. Take everything to the hardware instead on meaty thighs. I’ve walked by ¯ store, handittothehapless clerkinplumbmany bare-breasted women who mod- ¯ ing and tell them you want "this". Go estly busy themselves smoothing down ¯ ahead and get a new water inlet hose ¯ their grass-skirts. you’ll be sorry later if you don’t. Also On Tanna, where I lived for a munber of ¯ pick up a roll of the Teflon tape they sell years, tmditionalmale dress consisted sim- ¯ m plumbing. Check out and cuss some ply of a "penis-wrapper." Men wrapped : more, because this is costing more than theirpenes in leaves and fixed these up- ¯ the replacement kit, but remember that right to a barkcloth belt. Penis-wrappers ¯ theplumber would be charging youlabor, had disappeared for years until a roving ¯ and that hurts. photographer from National Geographic ¯ Back at home, wrap a couple of turns of passed through the island one year and ¯ Teflon tape clockwise around the threads convinced a number of guys to strip back on the pipe sticking out of the wall. Use down into penis-wrappers to make his your wrenches again to attach the shut-off South Sea photos appear more authentic valve snuggly in place; wrap the threaded to his American viewers. Since then, some end on the valve with Teflon tape and of these men have maintained the wrapper attach the water inlet hose. Rule of thumb as a political statement of their in plumbing - if it’s threaded, use Teflon traditionality vis-ii-vis their Christian tape on it. This helps give a good seal and neighbors. also makes it a lot easier if you have to Nearly all male body parts on Tanna are remove these parts again in the future. boring, and never eroticized. No one, cerNow you can proceed with your toilet taiuly, would toss dollars bills around to repairs as above. Once everything is atcatch a glimpse of male belly or butt. The tached and snug, turn your water back on glans penis is the only body part that men and admire your handiwork! are ashamed to display. 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Tues., M.arch 2, 8-5 HB 1211 Lobby D.ay at OK State Capitol TULSA - State and local community organizers led in Tulsa by former national Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) president, Nancy McDonald, have called for an emergency lobby day at the State Capitol on Tues., March 2 in support of HB 1211 amending Oklahoma’s "hate crime" statute. At the Capitol, Keith Smith, a lobbyist with the OklahomaACLU and Sierra Club is help~g to coordinate lobbying. Keith can be reached through Peggy Leininger in State Senator Bemest Cain’s office. Keith may also be reached at 405-840-2219 and by e-mail at OKSmith@aol.com. Mrs. McDonald has noted that parents are particularly effective in reaching state legislators. M.C. Smothermon, who recently ran for US Congress is herself the mother of a hate crime victim and is encouraging any parents who’may wish to come to the Capitol to contact her at 405-340-7015. see Lobby, p. 3 Despite Murder, Wyoming Rejects Hate Crime Bill CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - Four months after Gay college student Matthew Shepard was beaten to death, amove to pass hate crimes legislation in Wyoming was killed in committee. Wyoming is one nine states without bias crimes laws, and lawmakers have rejected similar measures four times since 1995. After Shepard’s death, calls for a bias crimes law increased - Republican Gov. Jim Geringer for the first time supported it. Geringer said that he was disappointed the legislation did not reach the Senate floor for debate, but he added that no law can change how people think about each other. Twomeasures died in the Senate Judiciary Committee. Both would have increased the maximum fine for a felony by up to $5,000 and raised themaximumprison term by up to five years if prosecutors could prove the crime was motivated by bias. State Sen. John Schiffer, the Judiciary chairman, said he hoped supporters of bias crime legislation would come back in future sessions with legislation that would have broader support. Opponents said they objected to listing motivating factors, such as race, religion and sexual orientation, saying the bills offered special protection to certain groups. Others said no new laws are needed, just strict enforcement of existing measures. Wende Barker, state coordinator for theWyoming Bias Crimes Coalition, said she was disappointed but not surprised and planned to try to push for such laws again next year. MJ DIRECTORY/LETTERS P, 2 EDITORIAL p, $ ~ US & WORLD NEWS P. 4 HEALTH NEWS P. 6 Z~ COMMUNITY CALENDAR P. 9 BOOK REVIEW P. 10 DO-IT-YOURSELF-DYKE P. 11 DYKE PSYCHE/GAY STUDIES P. 12 mm CLASSIFIEDS + WEERWOLF P. 13 -- Serving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual + Transgendered Tuisans, Our Families + Friends Tulsa’s Largest Circulation Community PaperAvailable In More Than 75 City Locations Oklahoma HouseCommittee Approves Hate Crime Bill by Tim Talley & Tom Neal OKLAHOMA CITY (AP/TFN) - A proposal to add sexual orientation to the list of hate crimes in Oklahoma is being criticized by opponents who question whether it will deter anti- Gay assaults.House Bill 1211 would add sexual orientationto the list of groups in the state’s hate ~wimes law, which already includes race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin and disability. "I think we’re going in the wrong direction," Ken Wood, executive director of the Oklahoma Christian Coalition, said Wednesday after the House Judicial Committee voted 5-3 for HB 1211 y Rep. Don Ross, D-Tulsa. I think xt creates an inequality of justice. This elevates particular groups to a higher status," Wood said. Keith Smith, a spokesman for the American Civil Liberties Union, said the measure is supported by many Oklahoma religious organizations. The bill’s passage by the House committee says "violence and hatred against certain groups is unacceptable," Smith said. But passage by the full Legislature "will be an uphill battle," he said. Opponents attacked the measure for "endorsing Gay lifestyles." ’¢l~ais is more about having a homosexual lifestyle as a normal lifestyle in contravention of 6,000 years of history," Rep. Bill Graves, R-OKC, said. "It goes against the Christian religion." Ross saidthe bill is a response to the beating death of Matthew Shepard, a gay college student in Wyoming who was pistolwhipped, robbed and lashed to a fence in October. Police said Shepard was attacked, in part, because he was homosexual. ’q’hey thought you were dangerous because you were different," Ross said as he read from a letter that Ross said he wrote to Shepard’s spirit. "You didn’t parade your lifestyle," Ross said. "Matthew, you were still in the closet.""I’m sorry for the misfits in our society," said Ross, who closed debate by recmng the Lord’s Prayer. .Critics, including Rep. Ray Vaughn, R-Edmond, said the hate crimes law has not stopped race- and religion-based attacks. "How would it be effective in stopping hate crimes against ; . homosexuals?’"Vaughn said. "r(seems to me we’~e creating "a : special class of Oklahoma citizens. We’re all entitled to the same ¯ respect." see HB 1211, p. 3 Methodist Anti-Gay Marriage Witchhunt Reaches Oklahoma TULSA - Tulsa United Methodist pastor, the Reverend Leslie Peurose of Community of Hope, has had formal charges brought ¯ against her for signing a statement of support for the Holy Union " ceremony between two California women, Ellie Charlton and ¯ Jeanne Barnett in Sacramento on January 16, 1999. ¯ Penrose, along with the Rev. Susan Ross ofPerkins, Oklahoma ¯ signeddocumentsofsupportfortheceremonylistingtheirnames ¯ : asas"officiantsinabsentia."Nearly80Methodistelergypartici_ ¯ .. pated in the widely publicized service to support the couple and " ¯ toprotestreeentdecisionsoftheUnitedMethodistChurchtoban ¯ -" its clergy from officiating or performing such services or from ¯ ¯ such services from being held in Methodist owned facilities. ¯ ¯ Boyce Bowden, spokesperson for the Oklahoma Conference, " United Methodist Church, acknowledged that charges had been " ," brought against Penrose but refused to provide any further ¯" information characterizing the issue as a "personnel issue" and ¯ therefore subject to employment confidentiality rules. Bowden did notmention charges brought against Ross. The Rev. Peurose ." was unable to comment officially. ¯ However, the charges were brought against Peurose and Ross ¯ ¯ by Jake P. Barker of First United MethOdist Church of Eufaula Barker is apparently tied to anti-Gay elements in the Methodist ." Church and copies of his complaint, as well as official responses ¯ have appeared verbatim on the website of "The Confessing ¯ Movement" (http://shell.surfsouth.com/~jwarrene/news/ ok_disobey2.html) "_ So while the Oklahoma Conference office and Oklahoma ¯ Bishop Blake has no comment, the full text of the Conferenee’s ¯ response to Barker is available on the intemet. ¯ The heart of the response of Conference’s response is that ¯ participation in a banned same-gender union or relationship ¯ blessing requires the clergy to be physically present. Therefore ¯ the signatures of Penrose and Ross constitute only a permissible ¯ expression of their opinion rather than a violation of Methodist ophne. Theletterwas signedby Paul Bowles, Tulsa District Superintendent, and Grayson Lucky, Stillwater District Superintendent, see Methodists, p. 3 Chastity Bono to Speak atApril Red Ribbon Gala TULSA- Tulsa C.A.R.E.S. (Center for AIDS Resources, Education and Support), formerly known as the HIV Resource Consortium, will hold its second annual fundraising dinner; the Red Ribbon Gala on Saturday, April 17th at 7:30 at the Downtown Doubletree Hotel. The event will feature a keynote address by Chastity Bono, author and Lesbian and Gay media activist. Bono’s address will emphasize the need for compassion and broad community support in the fight against AIDS. Proceeds from the event will support Tulsa C.A.R.E.S. which is the principal care-giving consortium for people living with HIV and AIDS in northeastern Oklahoma. More than 500 clients receive food, counseling, housing, medical prescription assistance from the agency. Bono’s participation in the Gala is co-sponsored by the Tulsa Chapter of PFLAG. Bono will also attend a booksigning in the early afternoon (time tba) on April 17 at the Tulsa Gay Community Services Center to benefit the Center. Also on April 17, local divaAudra Sommers will present Benefit 99, A Connection ofLove from 6- 8pm at the Parish Church of St. Jerome, 205 West King. Featured artists include Ernestine Dillard, Gregory Hyde, Link Filion, Rebecca Ungerman, Jonathan Brown and the Council Oak Men’s Chorale. Tickets are $25. Info: 836-5447. Vandal Invades Center Verbally Abuses Volunteer + Trashes Hail TULSA - Late last month, aman entered the Tulsa Gay Community Services Center, formerly known as The Pride Center, shouting obsenities at the volunteer, Shawn, who was staffing The Pride Store that evening: The man, a white male was described as being just over 6 foot tall and about 230 pounds with military style short red hair and a full beard and mustache. Shawn stated that the intruder stormed in the store, waving a Pride flag that he’d grabbed from a display near the stairs. She Said his message was essentially, "how dare you f--king faggots come to my town, you need to get the f--k out"and "I know what you look like; I’ll be back to finish what I started." Shawn then coolly asked him whether he felt better now and then the intruder stormed down the hall breaking a framed print and a floor lamp. Shawn called 911 while the intruder was breaking things in the hall. Tulsa Police responded promptly and Shawn said the officers were very professional and supportive but are not classifying the incident as a hate crime: Normally, Center volunteers workin teams; however, the other volunteer had stepped out to bring back fast food for dinner. Center board members have begun fundraising to purchase a surveillance system for the Center in response to the assault. ¯ Prime Timers to H.old Gay Center Fundra,ser ¯ TULSA -The Tulsa Area Prime Timers, a local : mens group, will hold its annual silent auction on ¯ Saturday, March 13 from 5-9pmin the Neal-Padgett : Hall of the newly renamed Tulsa Gay Community : Services Center, formerly known as The Pride ¯ Center. The event is held to raise funds for the ¯ Community Center and features a variety of ob- ¯ jeets from art, to collectables and even to services. ¯ Tulsa Area Prime Timers is the local chapter of an international mens organization. Originally the ¯ group restricted membership to men 40 and above and their partners. Now the organization is open to ¯ men 21 and above. For more information about the ¯ silent auction or Prime Timers or to donate an item for the auction, call 627-2359. Tulsa Clubs & Restaurants *Bamboo Lounge, 7204 E. Pine *Boston Willy’s Diner, 1742 S. 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U134 501-253-7734 501-253-7457 501-253-6807 - 501-253-5445 501-253-9337 5131-253-2776 501-253-5332 501-624-6646 501-253-6001 501-253-4074 501-442-2845 417-623-4696 * is where you canfind TFN. Notall areGay-owned but all are Gay.friendly. Carbon Copy Mary Easely, Member Oklahoma House of Representatives Dear Mrs. Easely, As a man who happens to have been a victim of hate crimes based on sexual orientation, I would urge you to support house Bill 1211, simply because it’s the right thing to do. You may or may not agree with certain issues surrounding the subject, but surely you can realize that to be killed or maimed simply because of what others perceive you to be is wrong. We need a means to combat that sort of behavior in this city, and this bill is an ~mportant step in addressing that. Since moving to this state in 1993, I have been verbally attacked withepithets ranging from "faggot" to "f***ing queer" while simply-walking down the street with a friend. We were doing nothing untoward, simply walking and talking. ~nat has happened several times - unprovoked attacks. In another instance, I was nearly forced off a highway by a carfnl of kids yelling anti-Gay slurs. It is not hard to imagine that, considering the Mathew Shepard case, I was lucky. In school, I was the victim of several assaults due to the fact I was perceived as being Gay - long before I knew I was. I have never been one to carry flags and .proclaim my sexual orientation with a bullhorn in a parade, so these attacks, especially here in Tulsa, were a surprise - and an unpleasant reminder of a very difficult childhood. I know several men who were physically attacked, even as recently as this year, in settings - urban neighborhoods, daylight - that were surprisxng and upsetting - and undeserved. If the bill passes, then we can begin to effectively works towards eradicating, or limiting this sort of unacceptable violence. Please help this bill make it through. Be a part of the history that promoted a positive, better; peaceful world, not a part of history that ignored the hatred in this world and allowed it free reign. - name witheld by request, Tulsa cc: Don Ross Talking points for HB1211 It’ s not about "special rights ;"it’ s about ¯ stopping violence - Oklahoma’s current laws arenotprotecting citizens adequately. Many crimes, such as murder,vary the penalties depending on the motive of the perpetrator. A stronger hate crimes law is no different. No Oklahomans should fear violence because of who they are. Hate crimes are a form of terrorism: Hate crimes are intended to frighten and silence not only the actual victims, but all members of the targeted group. Perpetrators ofhatecrimes seek to "make examples" of their victims. Oklahomans recognize the importance ¯ ofstanding strongagainstthosewhowonld spread fear through violence. Points provided by Gay Community Services Center Advocacy Committee. -: ¯" Letters. Policy ". Tulsa Family News welcomes letters on : issues which we’ve covered or on issues ¯. youthinkneedtobeeonsidered.Youmay ¯ request that your name be withheld but ¯ letters mustbe signed&have phonenum- : bers, or be hand delivered. 200 word leti ters are preferred. Letters to other publications will be printed as is appropriate. However, as of press time, Barker had already posted on the internet a further letter of complaint to the Oklahoma Conference pursuing charges and a church trial against " Penrose and Ross. In fact, a lay observer of these proceedings alleged that Barker’ s complaints were being seen on the internet for wide public viewing prior to even being received " at the Oklahoma Conference and before Ross and Penrose " even knew they were being accused. ¯ The text of the letter follows with only the deletion of the charges against Ross. Those allegations are identical to th0ge made against Peurose. Reverend Paul Bowles and Reverend Grayson Lucky Re: Reverend Susan Ross and Rev. Leslie Penrose It is obvious we disagree in your comment "we can only interpret their signatures as expressions ofpersonal opinion". I believe thatyou err in this conclusion. In this case the aforementioned clergy (Ross & Penrose) did infact violate the statedposition ofthe Social Principles regarding same sex unions as defined by the Social Principles, which as you know, have been declared, in this instance, as having the force of law, by the Judicial Council. By engaging in a defiant challenge to the statedposition ofThe United Methodist Church they have more than indicated their willingness and ability to violate the covenant entered into at the time of their ordination. This breaking ofcovenant was evidenced by thefollowing method: 1. Attaching or causing to be attached their names and professional titles to a document containing a list of indii viduals engaged in a behaviorprohibited by a ruling ofthe Judicial Council. In addition to myprevious complaints, which still stand, I am nowfiling these additional complaints againstRev. Ross and Rev. Penrose: Reverend Penrose: Allegation: 1. BOD Parag. 2624f: "dissenination [dissemination] of doctrines contrary to the established standard.ofdoctrine of the Church" Rev. Penrose did, on or about January 16th, 1999 attach or caused to be attached, her name andprofessional title to a documentin supportofsame sex unions, this is in violation of Paragraph 3043, quoted in part, "since the practice of " homosexuality isgncompatible with Christian teaching..." ° and Paragraph 65g "... Although we do not condone the ¯ practice ofhomosexuality andconsider thispractice incom- ° patible with Christian teaching.., ". this action expressed, diseminated [disseminated] and otherwise revealed to the ¯ church that her doctrines were contrary to the currently ¯ stated doctrine as Contained in the Book OfDiscipline and " Social Principles. ¯ 2. BOD Parag. 2624g: "Relationships or behavior that ¯ undermines the ministry ofanother pastor" ¯ Rev. Penrose did, on or about January 16th, 1999 attach " or cause to be attached her name andprofessional title to a " document that encourages breaking the ordination covenant as defined by Paragraph 2624b. By her behavior she undermined and renderedfor naught the teaching offellow " United Methodistpastors seeking to befaithful to the disCi- ¯ pline ofThe United Methodist Church and their ordination ¯ covenant. : These two clergy have defiantly and unrepentantly vio- "- lated their vows of ordina~on. 1 am insisting that they be ¯ disciplined appropriately. Ifyou as the district superinten- ¯ dents are unable or unwilling to discipline these two clergy : persons then I have no other recourse than to demand a ¯ church trial before ajury as defined by the BOD. ¯ Sincerely, Jake Barker Rt. 4 Box 951A Eufaula, OK 74432 co: Bishop Bruce Blake " Although the Rev. Peurose declined to comment, lay individuals associated with Commtmity of Hope noted that these charges were not unexpected, especially after the Oklahoma Conference forced the Rev: Kathy McCally of Oklahoma City to leave the denomination. Ms. McCally ~: transferred her ordination to the United Church of Christ --" (UCC), the only "mainline" Christian denomination that~ ordains openly Lesbian and Gay persons. ¯ Furthermore, Oklahoma Bishop Bruce Blake was one of the leaders in the effort to "criminalize" Methodist clergy who perform same-gender unions. Prior to his efforts, the restriction on such ceremonieswas a part of the Methodist Social Discipline, seen as guidance to the thinking of the Churchbut notchurch law. Now those who dissentfrom this view can be charged and prosecutedfor alleged violations as is happening with the Revs. Peurose and Ross. ¯ See associated editorial, this page. ¯ A few weeks ago, a local woman wrote The Tulsa World to protest a recent article about Lesbian and Gay issues featuring PFLAG. She challenged a statement claiming that her part of the Church, the Methodists, was one of several Christian groups that have official positions in support of civil rights for Gay people. She is, ofcourse, wrong. Twenty-seven years ago, in 1972, the United Meth¯ odist General Conference adopted a statement saying, "homosexuals no less than heterosexuals are persons of : sacred worth... [and] we insist that all persons are ¯ entitledto have their human and civil rights ensured." ¯ Her ignorance is not entirely the lady’s fault. The Church, Methodist and other parts, in Oklahoma and ¯ many other places, have done little to honor this civil ¯ rights commitment, or to affirm the sacred worth ofGay ¯ and Lesbian persons. For example, every year, the OklahomaHouse passes ¯ bills clearly attacking the fundamental civil rights of ¯ Lesbian and Gay Oklahomans. Yet not once since this ¯ newspaperbegan publishinghas theOklahomaConfer- ¯ ence of the United Methodist Church ever raised its ¯ voice against these state-sponsored assaults. ¯ . That is not only our recollectionbut also thebegrudg- ¯ lng recollection of Bryce Bowden, communications ¯ directorand spokesmanfor theOklahomaUuited Meth- ~ odistConference. Notoncehas the Conference (OUMC) ¯ ever taken any proactive step towards supporting civil ¯ rights protections. Rumor is, however, that the OC may ¯ be supporting HB 1211, the "hate crimes" amendment. : Twenty-sevenyearslater, that, atleast, wouldbeastart. ¯ However; while the OUMC has failed to honor this longstanding civil rights commitment, no less than the ." Bishop of the Oklahoma Conference, Bruce Blake, led ." the efforts to turn the "guidance" of the Methodist ¯ Social Principles which opposed same-gender union ¯ ceremonies into prosecutable church law. It is this new ¯ law under which Tulsa pastor, the Reverend Leslie ¯ Peurose, is accused of wrongdoing. ¯ The actions of United Methodists indicate leadership that seeks to punish those few brave Methodists who would treat Lesbians and Gay men as equal human beings. It is leadership that has not even tried to "ensure human and civil fights" but worse hash’ t even bothered to tell its general membfrship that they indeed have an obligation to work for such civil rights. " To judge fi:om their actions, their hollow rhetoric of "loving the ’sinner’ and hating the ’sin,’ " should be replaced with "we hate you people," and "we hate that you make us confront the hypocrisy of our words and actions." No, it’ s not in keeping with "Christian values" and it makes them very uncomfortable but it sure looks like the truth. But to doso would require that these good Methodists view themselves as less than righteous people - which ain’t gging to happen. For me, I sometimes think I’d rather deal with an honest Klansman than some of these ,,ood people. You might despise what the Klansman values but at least you know his words and actions are going to be consistent. With "good Christian folk," you just never know. - Tom Neal, editor/publisher If you cannot go to Oklahoma City, you can write your legislator at the following address: The Honorable (then name of Representative) ¯ Eureka Springs Plans April Diversity Celebration ¯ Featuring aQuiltdisplay, Dancing + Kite-Flying EUREKA SPRINGS, AR - They’re doing it again in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, and you’re invited! The ¯ - fourth Diversity Celebration Weekend is scheduled for ¯ April 9-11, and several new events will make this the biggest and best yet. ¯ Withgreat pride and respect, the Celebration organizers are bringing three sections (24 panels) of the AIDS : Quilt to Eureka Springs. After an opening ceremony on Thursday evening, April 8, the quilt will be on display at the Unitarian Clmrch Friday and Saturday, with the closing ceremony and folding of the quilt taking place at the .Sunday morning Unitarian service. Friday night, the Celebration will kick off with a " dance from 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. in the Ozark Room of the Basin Park Hotel hosted by MCC of the Living Spring. On Saturday, you can walk the streets of this ¯ quaint village on a guided historic tour or hike on your own in the spring air at Lake Leatherwood. If you have a great kite that needs a workout, "Go Fly a Kite" at, Pond Mountain Lodge from 4:30-7:30 p.m. And in the afternoon, when you’re ready to slow down a bit for a light bite to eat and some great coffee, head down to Mud St. Espresso Cafe for continuous music by local and visiting Gay/Lesbian/friendly artists. Now remember when you really wanted to take your boyfriend or girlfriend to your prom, but you had to settle for an opposite sex date or stay home? Well, on Saturday night from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. in the Ballroom atop the Basin Park Hotel, you can bring whomever you like to the "Pro~n of Your Dreams." Break out the corsages and boutonnieres and dance to the music of DJ Jon Caswcll. And be sure to capture this special moment on film with the prom photographer. (Formal attire is encouraged, but not required.) Or if you’re looking for more of a club atmosphere, Center Street South will be jumping with live entertainment frown 10pro- 2an~. Sunday, you’ll have time to sleep in and catch some brunch before the weekend wraps up with the Tea Dance and Drag Show at Center S tage from 2-6 p.m. Jon will spin tunes, and the Girls from Tnlsa will delight all with their terrific performances. That’s it in a nutshell. For a schedule of activities and events, or to find a list of Gay-owned or friendly businesses, check out the Eureka Springs Diversity Cooperative and Celebration website at www.shimaka.com/eureka/diversity, call The Emerald Rainbow at (501) 253-5445 or e-mail emrain@ipa.net. Make your reservations now! Attorney General Drew Edmondson said the legislation provides harsher punishment for individuals whose attacks are based on who or what their victim is. Edmondson also cited studies by medical and psychological groups while stating that homosexuals "are made to have the orientation they have." Graves said sodomy is illegal in the state and questioned whether Edmondson was trying .to legitimize "Gay lifestyles." "I’m not talking about lifestyle. I’m not talking about activity," Graves said. "We don’t expect them to be arrested for what they are." Graves, a frequent critic of Gays and Lesbians who has authored many bills targeting homosexuals, revealed during debate that windows in cars drivenby himand hi s son have been shattered and his dog poisoned. He said he also has Room (insert Representatives office number) 2300 N. Lincoln Boulevard Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73105-4808. To find the name of your legislator, you may call the Tulsa County Election Board (or your county election board) at 596-5780. If you give them the address at which you are registered to vote, they will give you the ¯ names of your representatives. Also if you are not registered to vote or have moved, they can assist yon in ¯ getting registered to vote. : To speak with your representative or their assistants, ¯ call 800-522-8502 for the Oklahoma House of Repre- ¯ sentatives and ask for your representative’s office. ¯ Editor’s note: a special thanks to Ned Bruha of ¯ TOHR/Tulsa Gay Community Services Center’s Advo- ¯ cacy committeeforsomeofthe information listedabove. : received obscene phone calls,.,"I can’t prove who did it, _. whether homosexuals did it, Graves said. ¯ The bill now goes to the full House for debate. ¯" Lobby i depends like your life on it- it does. Say No to Hate Violence Call, write, fax, or e-mail your support for Oklahoma House Bill 1211 Call the House for your representative: 800-522-850: Anti-Marriage Bill Moves Forward in Colorado DENVER (AP) -Thelatest effort to ensure Colorado does not have to recognize gay and lesbian marriages legalized elsewhere was approved by the Senate and sent to the House of Representatives. Other states havepassed similar laws as pre-emptive strikes against efforts to legalize same-sex marriages. Challenges to laws restricting marriage between a man and a woman are pending in Hawaii, Alaska and Vermont. Senate Bill 159 would reaffirm the law defining marriage as a licensed union between one man and one woman. Even more important to proponents is the section saying gay and lesbian marriages legalized by other states would not be valid in Colorado. This is the third try by Sen. Marilyn Musgrave, RFort Morgan, to get a bill passed. Past measures were vetoed by former Gov. Roy Romer. But Gov. Bill Owens, who took office in January, has said he would support the legislation. Musgrave and others fear that if other states allow same-sex marriages, Colorado would have to honor the umons unless the state is specifically barred from doing so. States have traditionally recognized marriages performed in other states. The so-called full faith and credit clause of the U.S. Constitution directs states to respect each others’ laws. Congress also adopted a law allowing states to ignore same-sex marriages legalized elsewhere. Opponents predict the state and federal laws eventually will be overruled by the U.S. Supreme Court. Lesbian-Film Controversial in India BOMBAY, India (AP)-Theater owners who want to screen a controversial film about lesbian love can have police protection if they think they need it, Bombay’s right-wing government said last month. "I don’t think security will be necessary, but if they ask for police protection it will be provided," Maharashtra Chief Minister Narayan Rane told reporters a week after censors cleared the film "Fire" without any cuts. Rane’s 81~v 8ena had sent small groups of violent protestersinto theaters into the Maharashtracapital of Bombay and the national capital of New Ddhi to disrupt screenings of "Fire" last year. Frightened theater owners pulled the film, though it continued showing to packed houses elsewhere in India. Shiv Sena protesters had said the film, which explores the sexual relationship of two women caught in unhappy marriages, was an affront to India’s centuries-old Hindu culture. In an attempt to defuse the controversy after the violence in Bombay and New Delhi, the government sent "Fire" back to censors who must vet every film shown in India and who had already passed "Fire." Last week, the Bombay-based censor reiterated no cuts were necessary. With renewed approval from the censor, the film will be screened in 17 theaters all over Bombay, distributor Balkrishna Shroff stated. Liberal California City Supports Tinky Winky BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) - A city famous for radical politics is drumming up power to the purple with a resolution backing Tinky Winky, the children’s TV character attacked by the Rev. Jerry Falwell as a purse-toting symbol of Gay pride. "We take umbrage at the threat to personal style and choices implicit in Mr. Falwell’s designation of Tinky Winky as an inappropriate role model," dedares the resolution, expected to be passed by the City Council tonight. "Long live Tinky Winky and long live freedom from self-righteousness!" Councilwoman Polly Armstrong, who is sponsoring the resolution, said she wanted tO make a point and have some fun in a city known for taking stands on everything from nuclear proliferation (against) to human rights in Burma (for). "We jump on every good cause in Berkeley and I thought what fun to do one we could laugh at. Of course there is a very serious subtext to the humor and that is that when you see bigotry and self-righteonsness out there you really need to stand up to it even when it’s absurd," she said. A spokeswoman for Falwell did not rettm~ a telephone call from The Associated Press Monday. But the president of Itsy Bitsy Entertainment Co., which licenses the Teletubbies in the United States, did have a response: Leave Tinky Winky alone. Kenn Viselman said lie appreciates the show of support, but he doesn’t think political statements of any stripe have a place in the gentle world of Teletubbies. "He’s not Gay. He’s not straight. He’s ust a character in a children’ s series," Visdman said. Tinky Winky turbulence began earlier this month with an article in the National Liberty Journal, edited and published by Falwell, calling Tinky Winky a homosexual role model. "He is purple - the Gaypride color; and his antenna is shaped like a triangle - the Gay-pride symbol," the story said, also noting that Tinky Winky carries a purse (actually his magic bag, show spokesmen point out). Tinky Winky is one of the four stars ofTeletubbies, a British show aimed at toddlers. The Teletubbies, a bit like brightly colored oversized teddy bears with benign baby faces, have antennas of sorts sprouting from their fuzzy heads and television screens in their tummies. They spend their days mainly dancing, playing (falling down is a favorite pastime) and watching short videos showing real children engaged in various pursuits. Lousiana Anti-Sex Law Struck Down NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A state appeals court has struck down a 194-year-old Louisiana law that made oral and anal sex a felony, saying the law violated the privacy rights ofconsenting adults. The decision adds to the growing listof U.S. states thathave struckdown sodomy laws based on rights to privacy granted in state constitutions. The Louisiana court on reversed the 1996conviction of Mitchell E. Smith. He had been accused of raping a woman but found guilty under the state’s "crimes against nature" statute only of having her perform oral sex. "There canbenodoubt that the right of consenting adults to engage in private non-commercial sexual activity, free from governmental interference, is protected by the privacy clause of the Louisiana Constitution," the court held. Courts in Georgia, Kentucky, Montana and Tennessee previously had reached the same conclusion in interpreting their respective state constitutions and striking down sodomy laws. Since the U.S. Supreme Court held in 1986 in a Georgia case that consenting adults have no federal ¯ constitutional right to private homosexual conduct, activists have turned to individual state constitutions to find protection from the sodomy laws. The U.S. ¯ Constitution does not mention the word "privacy," but the Supreme Court since 1965 has recognized that such a right predates the 1787 document itself. However, many state constitutions expressly grant a right to privacy. ¯ Suzanne Goldberg, senior staff attorney with the l_ambda Legal Defense Fund in New York City, was ¯ jubilant about the decision. "These-laws have no : legitimate purpose and that’s what courts are starting ¯ to recognize," she said. ’°The government should not ¯ be in the business of policing private sexual behav- ~ ior." The decision will be appealed, said prosecutor ¯ Tim McElroy. : New Mexico May Ban ¯ Same Gender Marriages : SANTA FE (AP)-A New Mexico Senate committee : recently approved legislation that outlaws Gay mar- " riages and penalizes anyone who performs them. The ¯ bill passed the Senate PublicAffairs Committee on a ¯ vote of 5-3. It goes to the Judiciary Committee. It ¯ defines marriage as a contract between"one man and ¯ one woman"and says a same-sex marriage wouldnot OKLAHOMA COMMUNICATIONS Local- Long Distance Cellular- Paging 747-1508 Free Car Adaptor & Leather Case with New Cell Phone Want to get involved? Need to get tested for HIV? Need a Coming Out Support Group? Call 743-GAYS the Pride Center 1307 E. 38th at Peoria, 2nd floor Your Gay Community Center Capitol Lobby Day Tuesday, March 2 2300 N. 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Anyone who performed a same-sex marriage ceremony could be fined $50, under the legislatiorL Supporters said New Mexico should join 29 other states that have passed similar bills: Its opponents said itwas unnecessary, unconstitutional andpunitive. "This bill was notbom out of fear and ignorance... Tbis bill simply defines what a marriage is," replied its sponsor, Sen. Leonard Lee Rawson, R-Las Cruces. Mass. Religious Leaders Support Gay Marriage BOSTON (AP) - Carmen DeBenedictis is safe sleeping in the arms of either of her two daddies. But the parents of the newly adopted 6-week-old feel less secure about the family situation. That’s because, as a Gay couple, Don Picard and Robert DeBenedictis aren’t legally married. And there are lawmakers on Beacon Hill who want to keep it that way. "It’s strange. Carmen is our next of kin, but we’re not next of kin to each other," Picard said. The unconventional Medford family attended a rally at the Statehouse where dozens of religious leaders called for the state to recognize same-sex marriages. About 150 religious leaders have signed a declaration of support for the right of Gays to marry. The group includes Jews, Quakers, Baptists, Episcopalians, Unitarians, Catholics and others. "The most fundamental human right, after the necessities of food clOthing and shelter, is the right to affection and the supportive love of another person," the declaration begins. But the movement faces opposition on Beacon Hill. "I am not for Gay marriages," Gov. Paul Cellucci bluntly declared recently. Rep. John Rogers, D: Norwood, .is drafting a bill that would more clearly define marriage in Massachusetts. The language in the bill wouldrequire that a marriagebe between amanand a woman, thereby prohibiting same-sex couples to malty. So far, Hawaii is the only state where Gay marriages havebeenupheld in the courts. ButCongress responded withthe Defense of Marriage Actin 1996, which denied federal recognition of Gay marriage and allowed states to ignore the unions of Gay couples married in other states. So far, 29 states have banned homosexual marriage. Tile Massachusetts religious leaders said they would fight to make sure Gay marriages performed legally in other states are recognized here. The declaration presented by clergy compares the ban on Gay marriages to previous bans on interracial marriages and laws prohibiting blacks to marry. Many of the ministers said they perform Gay marriage ceremonies. "I am deeply troubled that...I as a clergyman see the marriages that I officiate at are not being legally recognized by this commonwealth," said Rabbi Howard Berman. Picard and DeBenedictis said they were united in a spiritual ceremony. But a legal ceremony would give them peace of mind. They said they face the same obstacles as other Gay couples who want to be legally married: spousal insurance benefits and being considered next of kin if the other is injured or dies. "It’s strange that the state is excited we are adopting a baby but they are resisting letting us get married," Picard said. Gays Protest Anti-Gay Immigration Policies NEW YORK (AP) - A Gay and Lesbian group protested U.S. immigration policies, saying the govemment discriminates against same-sex couples when granting visas to foreigners. "Love knows no borders," dozens of protesters chanted behind police barricades outside the Immigration and Naturalization Service in lower Manhattan. The demonstration was organized by the Lesbian and Gay Immigration Rights Task Force, a New Yorkbased advocacy group. The group claims green cards are routinely granted to heterosexual foreigners who marry U.S. citizens, while same-sex applicants are rejected. "We often face an excruciating choice - our parmers can either live an ocean apart or stay surreptitiously in the U.S. without proper papers and under threat of deportation," said Carl Goodman, an American whose partner is Peruvian. "I love an alien," said a sign hoisted by one protester, and another man with an Australian partner held up a red placard asking, "Can my husband come over and stay?" The INS called the protest misguided. "This is not an immigration issue," said spokesman Russ Bergeron. He said it’s a question of"the invalidity of same-sex marriage under existing U.S. law. Any person who is legally married has the right to file a petition for their spouse to immigrate." At least 10,000 Gay couples are affected, said task force attorney SuTanne Goldberg. The task force wants Congress to establish a special category - such as a legally registered partnership - that would qualify a foreigner with a longtime partner to live in the United States, Goldberg said. Ten countries recognize same-sex relationships for the purposes of immigration, including Canada, Britain and Austr~ia. Ariz. Gov. to Legislature Issues, Not Bedrooms PHOENIX (AP) - Gov. Jane Hull wants lawmakers to give more attention to matters of import and less to bedroom issues such as medical benefits for Gays. "I may morallyfeel one way, but I do not believe that I need to pass laws to putmy beliefs on the record," Mrs. Hull, a former House speaker, said during her radio talk show. Mrs..Hull had been asked about a bill (HB2524) that would bar the state and universities from extending medical benefits to "domestic partners" of homosexuals. Cities and towns could extend those benefits only if doing so were approved by voters. Tucson and Pima County are the only two government employers that offer domestic partners benefits in Arizona. The bill sponsored by Rep. Karen Johnson, R-Mesa, led to a heated and personal exchange in the House last week as the bill passed the Government Reform Committee narrowly. Such efforts are an inappropriate expenditure of lawmakers’ time and energy, and they should not be limiting what benefits cities and towns may provide, Mrs. Hull said. "I wish that we could get down to talking about what’s really important,"she said. "We ought to be looking at state responsibilities, not worrying about what goes on in cities and counties and towns and bedrooms. The legislators are there to worry about the future of the state of Arizona and I would prefer that that’s what they did." Johnson said she was disappointed with the governor’s remarks and will continue to push her bib despite seeing little likelihood it will pass. Lawmakers do have a role in laws dealing with morality, especially when public tax dollars and activities barred by Arizona law are involved, she said. "I feel we’re here to support the nuclear family,"Johnson said. "I don’ t think our tax money should be used to subvert the nuclear family." New Zealand Lesbian to Pay Child Support HAMILTON, New Zealand (AP) - A Lesbian recently gaveup her legal fight against paying child support after a High Court ruling. The former Hamilton woman, who lives in Wellington, will have to make child support payments to her former partner after the High Court upheld an earlier Hamilton Family Court ruling. The High Court judges did not comment on whether same-sex marriages should be recognized in law. The Family Court had stated she must pay child support for the children she helped bring up. The landmark decision has wide-ranging implications for other same-sex relationships and those where the adults in parental roles have no biological link to their children. The women’s names and details have been suppressed, as are those of the children. Common Chemical. May Help Block HIV i HERSHEY, Pa. (AP)-A substance found ¯ in many shampoos and toothpastes might : hold the key to stopping the spread of : sexually-transmitted viruses that cause ¯ AIDS, genital herpes and genital warts, : researchers from the Pennsylvania State ." University and two other institutions said . ¯ on Thursday. The discovery that sodium dodecyl sulfate, or SDS, can kill such viruses, could have major worldwide public_health implications, said lead researcher Mary K. Howett, professor of microbiology and immunology at Penn State’s Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. Shewasjoinedin the studybyresearchers from the University of Pennsylvania and BiosynInc., aPhiladelphia-basedbiotechnology research and development company. The group published its findings in the February issue of the journal Antimicrobial Agents andChemotherapy. "This is potentially very exciting," Daniel Malamud, professor of biochemistry at Penn, told The Patriot~News in Harrisburg. "We have to remember that these are studies in the test tube and in animal models. There.have been many promising drugs in the laboratory thatjust don’t make it to the marketplace because humans are different." Humantrials ofSDS couldbegin within a year, Ms. Howett said, and within two to five years could lead to the dc.velopment of inexpensive over-the-counter products that women could apply intravaginally prior to intercourse to protect themselves or their sexual partners from infection. The research, conducted the past two years, was funded through the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Jake Gittlen Cancer Research Institute. Researchers have applied for a patent on the discovery, Ms. Howett said. Such a product, if approved, easily could be used in creams, gels; foams and ointments or applied to condoms, sponges or other types of contraceptives. In addition to potentially curbing the spread of AIDS, use of the substance could stop the spread of the-human papillomaviruses, orHPV, thatcause genital warts. Such warts can turn to cervical and uterine cancer, which cause 5,000 deaths among women in the United States each year and 250,000 deaths annually around the globe. Cervical cancer is the No. 1 cause of cancer-related deaths in women in developing nations. HPVs afflict one out of four women. In addition to being a potential source of cancer, they can cause physical lesions and emotional stress. Alkyl sulfates, the family of chemicals to which SDS belongs, are found in high concentrations inmosttoothpastes, shampoos and skin product. That could bode well for the product as it moves toward possible approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Genetic Testing For AIDS Treatment CHICAGO (AP) - Deciphering the genetic code of each patient’s AIDS virus appears to help doctors tailor treatments to improve the chance of thwarting HIV’s dogged ability to develop resistance. One of the elements that makes HIV such a difficult foe is the sloppy way it makes copies of itself. Each new version is slightly different from its predecessor. Mutant forms quickly arise through randomgenetic changes that are able to resist the most powerful drugs. In recent months, doctors have increasingly turned to individual resistance testing. A study released recently shows this pays off: Analyzing patients’ viruses for genetic signs of resistance seems to improve treatment outcomes. Estimates vary, but perhaps 30% to 60% of all people taking the AIDS drug cocktails are considered treatment failures, because HIV can still be found in their blood. Either their virus never disappeared completely or it rebounded. Without the tests, doctors often must rely on trial and error to put together fresh combinations of medicines. Coming up with these strategies, sometimes called salvagetherapy, is an increasingly important part of long-term AIDS care. "It’s clear the test helps you choose more active drugs for patients who are failing therapy," said the study’s director, Dr. John Baxter of Cooper Hospital in Camden, N.J. He presented the latest data Thursday at the 6th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections. - Dr. Douglas Richman of the University of California, San Diego, estamated that as many as two dozen of these tests are now on the market, although they have received little testing to make sure they do any good. "Personally, I think it’s premature," he said. In Baxter’s study, financed by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, doctors performed genetic analysis on the viruses of 78 patients who had failed treatment, while a comparison group of 75 received their usual care. The test analyzed viral genes that produce two essential proteins- protease and reverse transcriptase. Both of these proteins are targets Of standard AIDS drugs. When the genes become mutated, they produce forms of these proteins that elude the effects of the medicines. After analyzing the tests and determining the specificmutations in eachpatient’ s virus, Baxter and two other virologists then made treatment suggestions to the patients’ doctors. The doctors precisely followed the virologists" advice only about half the time, although 83% said the information influenced their treatment decisions. At the study’s start, median viral levels were 28,000 copies per milhliter ofblood. All were switched to new drug regimens, but those whose viruses were tested did much better. Their viral levels dropped to 815, compared to 7,950in the comparison group. After eight weeks, half of those in the test group had no measurable virus in their blood, compared with one-quarter of the other patients. Baxter said the testing may be useful to ¯ tailor first-time treatment for those who ¯¯ are newly infected with HIV. This could become especially important if viruses ¯ thatareimmunetomultiple drugs become ¯ more widespread, as many fear. AFrench study, conductedby Dr. Pierre Dellamoniea of University Hospital Cen- ¯ tet in Nice, was released at an AIDS ¯ conference in Glasgow, Scotland in No- - vember. It produced similar results using ." agenetictestdevelopedby VisibleGenet- ¯ ics Inc. Stopping Treatment to Stop AIDS? 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Lori presented his findings at the 6th Conference on Retrovirnses and Opportunistic Infections. Some physicians are skeptical. They fear AIDS patients who learn ofthese attempts will stop taking the drugs on their own-withpotentially deadly consequences. "My concern is that this will be overplayed," said Dr. Robert Schooley of the University of Colorado, a conference orgamzer. "It sounds good to patients. Who wouldn’t want to stop treatment? But the real question is whether you can change the immune response. I worry pataents will stop therapy. Whenever that happens, inmyexperience, the vims comes roaring back.’" Loft calls the approach stop and go. The idea: Treat people with standard AIDS drugs until all signs of HIV vanish from the bloodstream. Withhold the medicines until the virus returns. Then give the drugs again, Keep repeating the cycle until eventually the virus never comes back, It probably won’t be eradicated entirely, so the theory goes, but the body’s immune defenses will be able to keel~ it from the explosive growth that is HIV’s killing trademark. Loft has tried the approach so far on three patients. While it’s still too soon to know whether it will work, Loft finds the first few weeks’ results promising. The interval before the virus returns is lengthening. Furthermore, he said that in more aggressive experiments on monkeys, the only practical nonhuman substitute for AIDS research, the approach seems to keep the virus at bay for good. The next step is amuchlarger study involving40 to 80 patients, he said. Dr. Bruce Walker is conducting similar early-stage experiments on patients at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. "We really don’t have any data yet to suggest that this (stopping and starting therapy) is something we should be doing," he said. "I would not put one of my patients on this," said Dr. Roger Pomerantz of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, "Peoplehave talked about this, but it’s the first time I’ve seen anyone have the guts to try it." In Loft’s study, three patients took a combination of the drugs DDI, hydroxyurea and indlnavir. The first time .they stopped treatment, the virus returned m one week. Doctors treated them again and stopped. This time the virus stayed awayfor21/2weeks. Againdoetors started . and stopped the drugs. The virus disap- _" peared for six to eight weeks. ." No one knows how long this will go on ¯ or whether eventually these cycles will put the virus into permanent retreat. Glaxo Wellcome Tries Combo Drugs RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. (AP) - Glaxo Wellcome is developing new treatments for AIDS that combine existing drugs into one-dosage medications. The world’s second-largest drug company is in the final stage of development of a drug that would fuse Ziagen, a new AIDS drug that won Food and Drug Administration approval in December, with Epivir, or 3TC, and Retrovir, or AZT. Glaxo Wellcome - based in the United Kingdom but with U.S. headquarters in North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park - expects to submit an application for marketing approval to the FDA later this year. The combination follows the footsteps ofGlaxo’ s Combivir, a"cocktail therapy", that allows patients to take a variety of drugs in prescribed combinations. Combivir, which combined3TCandAZT into one pill, posted $443 million in worldwide sales in 1998, including $325 million in the United States. Glaxo is already the leading producer of AIDS drugs. No Extra Criminal Charges for Spitter WOODWARD, Okla. (AP) -A man who allegedly spit intentionally into an open knuckle wound on a police officer and then told the officer he was HIV-posifive has tested negative for the virus that causes AIDS, authorities say. Prosecutors said Dusfin L. Clower, 18,’wouldn’t face additional charges because of the spitting incident. The decision was made after a courtordered test determined Clower wasn’t HIV-positive. Clower appeared before Associate District Judge ]~inson Barefoot to present the preliminary blood test results from the state Department of Health. Clower was arrested following a fight in a restaurant parking lot in Woodward on Jan. 17. He struggledwith Officer Matt .Lehenbaur and allegedly intentionally spit into the split-open knuckle. Lehenbaur said in an affidavit that Clower told him after he spit on him that he was HIVpositive. Clower still faces felony charges of assault and battery on a police officer and attempting to escape custody. AIDS Ride Nets Only 15% to Charity DALLAS (AP) - Of $3 million in donations to the Tanqueray Texas AIDS Ride last year, 85% went toward expenses, organizers confirm. The costs included office space, advertising and the $280,000 fee of the for-profit producer, Pallotta Teamworks of Los Angeles, The Dallas Morning News reported. The 15%, or $450,000, that went to beneficiaries was far below both projections and industry standards for such activities.i Chris Cole, national director of Pallotta’s AIDS rides, said Pallotta generally projects that it will return about 50% of proceeds to participating charities, as it projected in Texas last year and has delivered elsewhere. Even that rate is unimpressive to Daniel Borochoff, president of the National Institute of Philanthropy. He urges a minimum of 65%. Producers of the 575-mile jaunt are promising to cut expenses and attractmore participants so that the second-year event, set for next October, is more successful. Les Ballets Trockadero ¯ January is an exhibit, Symbols of Faith ¯ and Belief, Art of the Native American de Monte Carlo : Church. The show features paintings, Dancing the fine line between high art ¯ drawings, photographs, objects and conandhighcamp, Les Ballets Trockadero de ¯ temporary art from the Native American Monte Carlo have delighted audiences around the world. In parodies of famous classical works, from Swan Lake to Giselle, and of the choreography oflsadora Duncan, George Balanchine, and Martha Graham, they offer performances which both dance afficionados and complete dance novices enLjoeys.Trockaderos began in 1974 and have performedin dancefestivals from New York, Spoleto, Italy, Vienna, Paris to the Nether-.. lands. Their tours have taken them across the US, Europe, South America andrepeatedly across Japan. And while the repertoire and casts of Les Trockaderos may change, the .original concept remains constant: acompany ofprofessional male dancers performing the full range ofballetandmodern dance repertoire. The humorous sight of male bodies delicately balancing in toe shoes as swans, sylphs and water sprites delight, amuse and still serve Les Trockaderos original purpose: to being the pleasure of dance to the widest possible audience. For tickets or more information, call 596- 7111. Outside Tulsa, call 800-364-7111 or online contact, www.tulspac.com Now open at the City of Tulsa’s Gilcrease Museum, are two exceptional, if divergent, exhibits. Opening in Tr ;kade Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, March 16 only Norman Rockwell: An American Portrait at Gilcrease, 2/19-5/2 Alphonse Mucha, the Spirit of Art Nouveau, 4/25 - 6/20 Churchtraditions. The Native American Church developed in the late 1870’s with a ritual basedon the consumption of peyote cactus. For thousands of American Indian people, theChurchhas provided the spiritual and social basis for meaningful lives amid the disruptions and dislocations of 20th century life. Grounded in older tribal religions from the plains region, the Churchwas thef’Lrst native religious movement organized and dessiminated on the model of western Christian denominations. Just opening at the end of February, is a different aspect of America: Norman Rockwell: An American Portrait. This exhibitfeatures all 332 magazine covers the artist didfor the Saturday Evening Post overaperiodfrom 1916 to 1963. Even as Rockwell helped preserveAmericanmyths, he recreated them and made them new for following generations. After you’ve seen Les Trockaderos de Monte Carlo do their Swan Lake, don’t you think you ought to see Tulsa Ballet do the original? You have that chance, April 9-11. Call 749- 6006 for tickets. Also March 6, 11 & 13, Tulsa Opera will present Dialogues of the Carmelites, starring the Metropolitan Opera’s Rosalind Elias. Call 587-4811 for tickets and information. T. U. L. S. A. Hosts Review + Fundraiser The Tulsa Uniform and Leather Seekers Association (T.U.L.S.A.) will host the second annual charity fundraising event called"After the Leather, the GreatLeather Campout" on Friday, March 19. Making special guest appearances will be ahost of Tulsa and Oklahoma City entertainers and tifle-holders from numerous pageants and contests. The event, which organizers hope will be a ongoing effort, will take place at the Silver Star Saloon, beginning promptly at 10pm and will benefit three local charities: Our House, Tulsa C.A.R.E.S. Food Chain and the Tulsa Gay Community Services Center, formerly known as The Pride Center. Also this year a silent auction will take place beginning at 9pm. The regular auction will offer autographed portraits of Patti LaBelle, Cher, Susan Lucci, Rosie 0’Donnell, Troy Aikman, Reba McIntire, Travis Tritt, George Straight, Robin Williams, Michael J. Fox, Diana Ross, Hulk Hogan, Alec Balwin, Bruce Willis and others. A highlight of the auction will be an autographed CD of Sir Elton John. T.U.L.S.A. officers hope that this year’s ¯event will outperform last year’s which raised Over $2500 for charity. For any additional information, please call Randall at 1-918-762- 3212, or contactT. U.L.S.A, atPostOffice Box 33076, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74102 or www.tulsaleather.com NORMAN ROCKWELL: An American Portrait May 2, 1999 3 Performances Only! April 9-11 Tulsa Performing Arts Center Sponsored by Bank of Oklahoma and the Tulsa World TICKERS NOW ON SALE! _ 1998-1999 SEASON BROCHURES CALL Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo March 16 at 8 p,m. Chapman Music Hall TULSA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Tickets $10-$30 Dancing the fine line between high art and high camp, Les Bdllets Trockadero de Monte Carlo delights audiences around the world. ~- Les Bal ets Trockadero is the world’s foremost all-male comic ballet company. Sponsored in part by: OKLAHOMA THE POWER OF CONVICTION AND DRAMA ~ SUNDAYS Bless the Lord At All Times Christian Center Sunday School - 9:45am, Service - 11 am, 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815 Community of ttope (United Methodis0, Service - 6pm, 2545 S. Yale, 585-1800 Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation Service - 1 lain, 2545 S. Yale, 749-0595 Church of the Restoration Unitarian Universalist Service - 1lain, 1314 No. Greenwood, 587-1314 Metropolitan Community Church United (formerly Family of Faith & MCCGT) Service, 1 lain, 1623 North Maplewood, Info: 838-1715 House of the Holy Spirit Ministries, Inc. Sunday School - 9:45am, Service - 10:45am, 3210b So. 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Call 583-1248 orfax 583-4615. reviewed by Barry Hensley . sister andpulls out a shotgun to finish him Tulsa City-County Library . off. As he jumps into his pickup, never to What happens when a Gay male couple ¯ be seen again, he yells back to his wife,"a moves from New York City to Aiken, South Carolina to re- "Some merctmnts, man can only take so much temptation!" store a post civil war man- it seemed, couldn’t The religious aspect of rural sion?Almostanythingyoucan sell a pael~ of South Carolina was an eye ¯ imagine! Subtitled "A Resto- cigarettes.., opener for this sophisticated, rationComedy," this true story wltl~out invol~in~ urban Gay couple. Aiken is a is a wonderful memoir of two town that wears Christianity guys determined to restore a t]~e deity. Jesus on its sleeve, "Some metdilapidated work of art. was not only t]~elr chants,itseemed, couldn’tsell After searching across the savlor, ]ae was a pack of cigarettes , rent a country forjust the right piece tl~elr ~nanclal video, or launder a shirt withof property, the guys decided advlser.., out invoking the deity. Jesus that Joye was just the chat- was not only their savior, he lenge they needed. Built by Tl~ey call tlds was their financial adviserand robber baron William "talzln~ tl~e Lord’s marketing consultant." They Whitney,Joyecottagehasover name in ~aln." call this ".tak~,ng the Lord’s 60 rooms, 146 windows and name in gain. 128 doors¯ After being abandoned for " After three years of agonizing renovaover a decade, every room needed exten- - tion, Joye Cottage was finally ready for a sive work, and the house quickly became " grand opening. It came in the format of a a "money pit" and a "handyman special " ball, not unlike the kind Mr. Whitney from Hell¯" ¯ gave earlier in the century. After all they . We meet a tapestry of colorful charac- went through, the bookends with the guys ters who populate the lazy town of Aiken. " setting their sights on a 120 room housein Bubba, a construction engineer, took the Massachusetts! guys on an early tour of their unrestor.ed The subject of their being Gay rarely masterpiece. His comments along the way : arises, and the locals simply refer to them offer a glimpse into the culture of Aiken. " as "the boys¯" However, their campy re- As they pass the remains of a frog in the ¯ marks throughout the book remindus that basement, Bubbaexclaims"wherethere’s " they are constantly aware that Aiken is an frogs, there’s water!" In a effort to get " unusual setting for these longtime corncopies of keys made, Steve encounters a " panions. The authors have written several sweet lady in a hardware store who takes ¯ books together, and their masterpiece is up his afternoon by elaborately detailing " the Pulitzer Prize winner and National the exploits of her fourteen grandchil- " Book Award finalist, "Jackson Pollock". dren. This ain’t New York! : Their writing style is fun and witty¯ After Then, there’s a gardener, Ron, who ¯ your read this book, the idea of enclosing explains to the guys how women keep " the screened porch won’t seem as intimicoming on to him, but his religious beliefs " dating. and family responsibilities keep him on ¯ Check for this title at your branch lithe straight andnarrow. That is, of course ¯ brary, or call the Readers Services departuntil his wife catches him in bed with her . ment at Central Library.at 596-7966. by Lamont Lindstrom, Ph.D. Corey wants to go home to Pine Bluff, Arkansas. At the moment, he is living with an aunt in Oakland. He makes a bit a money as an impresario, running a stable of male strippers and also stripping occasionally himself. I met Corey at Oakland’s one African- Americangay bar during one ofhis shows. Hewas kept busy picking uphis strippers’ tips as they dropped these onto the floor. A wise precaution, I thought. The bar’s neighborhood was none too good. Who knows how many quick-fingered drunks in need ofarefill mighthelp themselves to a stray bill or two peeking out from gstring or sock? Deflecting a hustle, I nonetheless gave Corey afide home to his aunt’s house on Fruitvale Ave. We chatted about his two children,mychildren, Arkansas andOklahoma, his girlfriends, problems in California, and his dream of opening a club in Hne Bluff featuring the music tapes and CDs he has collected. Corey claimed that only oneofthe eight guys who had bared all that evening was gay. Yeah, right... I’m thinking. Actually, I am wondering about the psychology of straight-identified youngmen who are willing to be transformed into objects of homosexual desire for a thongful of dollars. Or perhaps it’s sociology, not ¯ psychology- stripping being a quick way : for the youthful, urban poor to make a few ¯ extra bucks. But it’s not just money. ¯ There’s something ,deeper than simple ¯ poverty thatmakes so-called straightboys find satisfaction, and perhaps even pleasure, in the desiring gaze of other men. ¯ Andmost of these were oldermen- the bar’s clientele running a little long in the ¯ tooth. And why were we there? We, with ¯ those slippery dollar bills? ¯ Here, we need anthropology, not Sociology. Cross-culturally, stripping is asso- ¯ ciated withrepression of sexuality and the ¯ human body. Salaciousness is impossible ¯ withoutguilty,hiddenbodies.Inthetradi- ¯ tional Arab word, harem and purdah and : female gowns and veils go along with ¯ belly dancing and other lubricious dis- : plays where those women get unveiled. : The body has long been a problem in ¯ America, too. Your great-grandma put : ruffs on her piano’s ruddy naked legs; ¯ your great-grandpa referred to his cocks ." as "roosters." But by the 1920s, strict : taboos onbodydisplayhad erodedenough ¯ so that people didn’t have to wear their : longjohns at thebeach any longer,women : lost their corsets, and Vaudeville per- : formers baredincreasingamounts offlesh. ¯ And now the cultural descendants of : Gypsy Rose Lee perform every Monday : night see Anthro, p. 13 Red Rock Tulsa Free Confidential HIV Testing Walk-in Clinics Tuesday Testing, 5 -8 pm Pride Center, 1307 East 38th Wednesday Testing, 5-8 pm Red Rock, 1724 East 8th Daytime appointments available. 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Kelly Kirby CPA, PC Certified Public Accountant a professional corporation It’s time to start on those 1998 taxes! As you know, Lesbians and Gay men face many special tax situations : whether single or ascouples. We can help! Elect~0nicfiling is available for faster refunds. 747-5466 4021 S. Harvard, Suite 210, Tulsa 74135 Editors note: Mary is still on sabatical this month butpromises thatshe will have a new columnfor the April issue. by Mary Schepers Toilets - Liberace thought them unglamorous, Edmund White finds them seductive, and most of the straight men I work with find them an inspirational device (well, they say they go in there to think deep thoughts, and it takes sooo long...). But the Do It Yourself Dyke, quite prosaically, sees only an afternoon project that isn’t as daunting as people make it out to be. And no small wonder that toilet repairs seem so mysterious - anything a plumber values so highly mustbe awfully complex and arcane. The DIYD merely replies "Poop-ola!" A friend of mine said her toilet ran all the time and that it was going to cost $50.00 to have it repaired, so she ought to just go ahead and buy a new one. Well, for about $7.00 and a half hour of time and with some of those tools you rushed out and bought after my last column, you can have a quiet, efficient toilet ¯ Now, that’s something to contemplate! The plumbing section at Homo Depot or Builder’s Queer or any other hardware store Will have a universal repair kit that includes afloat and a rubber stopper. Yes, these are the mysterious working parts of the toilet. You may now be nonplused. Don’t worry that the float doesn’t look like the one in your tank - you know, the copper rod with the little floaty thing attached. That was, quite honesty, called the "ball cock", so if I say your ball cock is dripping, don~t take it pei:sonally. They are a thing of the past, at least as far as plumbing is concerned. This should be all that you need, but it does prompt me to a standard warning - anytime you work on your plumbing, you may need to make extra trips for other parts you didn’t think you’d need. That’s because pipe fittings do rust, and those nice little chrome water cut-offvalves under the tankhave abitchy way of just twisting off when you try to shut them off. But that isn’t always the case, so dick your heels together three times and wish real hard. The first step is to get your tools together. You’ll need an adjustable crescent wrench and a pair of channel lock pliers, and it doesn’t hurt to have a pipe wrench on hand, either. If you don’t have these tools or the task is too daunting already, find a handy dyke, buy her some beer and cook her something fabulous and turn her loose. It’ll still be cheaper than the plumber. Have some paper towels or rags ready, because the toilet will leak, sometime and somewhere. Next, turn off the water. Most of the time, there is that chrome shut off valve under the tank and running into the wall. It probably hasn’t been moved in years, so expect some resistance (kind ofremindsme ofan ex...); you might have to wrap a rag around the handle and use your channel locks - genfl!! - and turn the handle counter-dockwiseuntil itcloses completely. Ifitdoesn’t turn or, more likely, the handle twists off but the valve doesn’t move, grab your keys and head for the hardware store - but we’ll address that in a little while. Assuming youhave successfully dosed the valve, flush the toilet to drain the tank and mop up the water remaining in the bottom ofthe tank. This will also get those nasty deposits out of the bottom that can cause problems later, so that’s a plus. Undip the little hose that empties into that tube in the center of the tank, remove the ball cock (ifyou have one) or float assembly, and then comes the fun part: removing the vertical water supply line into your tank. This is attached to the float assembly. You have to loosen a threaded collar on the bottom of the tank directly under that vertical inlet tube. Use your channel locks and remember that you’re working upside down and that it will unscrew the opposite of what you’d normally expect. Well, it’ s still counterclockwise to loosen, but only if you’re on your head. This is the time you’ll appreciate whether or not your toidy is in a tight spot or not. The cussing is directly proportionate to the amount of workspace you have. Welcome to Plumber’s World.Take the collar off, remove the vertical water supply tube and mop up the water on the floor. Replace it with the new float device and tighten the collar over the bottom. It will have a new rnbber or plastic tube that you clip onto the outlet pipe - pretty much opposite ofthe removal. You may have to adjust that ’~Fea enp"at the top of the float so youcan put tlae toilet lid back on, but that’s simply accomplishedby twisting itup or down as needed. You can also control the water levd this way, but don’t get too chintzy with the water supply, or you’ll regret it. Reattach the water supply from the shutoff up to the tank and you’re ready for the next step. Now, remove the old rubber stopper that’s attached to the handle. Take the little chain loose and then remove the flapper - it usually is attached to the stem of the outlet tube by a couple of little rubber or plastic ears and comes off easily. The rubber on the flapper can be kind of slimy, so use a rag to hold it when you’re taking it off. Replace it with the new flapper in the kit just the opposite of how youremovedit. Thelittle chain needs a bit of slack, but not too much or it winds around the lever from the handle and the water will still run and annoy the hell out of you. There are pretty good instructions on the package, complete with illustrations, so don’t fed too confused. However, the first kit I used forgot to tell.me about that locking collar on the bottom of the tank, and was I one frustrated lezzie until I figured it out! If you’re still uncomfortable doing this job but are determined to learn, find someone patient enough to coach you while youdo the work. It’s a great way to learn this stuff. If youhave trouble with the shut offyou have two options - yell for help or replace it yoursdf. This is where the pipe wrench come in handy. You have to be able to shut the water off at the curb; the valve for yourmain water supply is in themeterbox by the curb and the bar on top of the valve needs to be turned 180 degrees to shut it off. You can use a large wrench, but you can buy a device called a water key that makes it easier; it has a long hand, which is nice if your meter box is full of questionable water. They 0nly costabout $8.00 and are priceless when you really need them, so consider investing in one. After turning off the water, flush the toilet. If it fills back up, the main water isn’t offand you’ll have to try again. If the water is off, put some rags under the valve, grasp the pipe going into the wall with a pipe wrench and turn the collar of the valve see DIYD, p.13 by Esther Rothblum . ¯ Recently a number of books have been " published about the Lesbian identity or ¯ femalerelationships ofprominent women ¯ who lived in earlier historical periods. " .Mary Eichbauer was living in Paris when she became aware that much of the work of Natalie Barney (1876- 1972) hadnever before been published in English. She receivedpermission to translate some of Bamey’s writing and to find an English audience for this work. Eichbauer" described Natalie Bamey’s life and work to mein a recent correspondence: "Inherlastbook, Souvenirs Indiscrets (Indiscreet Memories), Natalie says that shehad always felt drawn to women, from her earliest days. In the first chapter, ’Renre Vivien,’ she describes an intense crush she.had on a beautiful young cousin, how " she loved to be close to her and comfort ¯ her (the young woman was pining for : some young beau). Natalie fell in loee " with a school friend when she was six- " teen, at a time when her family lived in ¯ Washington, D,C. and she was being : courted for her beauty (and her father’s " money) by more than a few young men. ¯ She and her friend Eva Palmer (heiress to ¯ abiscuitfortune) spent a summer together : in Bar Harborpla~ngnaked in the woods " at nymph (Eva) and shepherd (Natalie). Afterthatsummer, theirrespectablefanfi: ¯ lies made sure they were placed in sepa- ." rate boarding schools. : "Ironically, her father’s own egotism ¯ flna!!ygaveBamey the chance sheneeded : to begin her preferred way of life. Albert : Barney was so eager to get back to his ¯ beloved London (which Natalie always " thought of as a male city, as opposed to Paris, whichwas ruledby women), and so bored with the business of parenting, that heleft Natalie staying at a boarding house under scant supervision, supposing her to . be occupied, with shopping and ’fittings’ ¯ for a gown intended for her Washington : ’debut.’ Instead, Natalie visited Carmen, : an artist’s model who had posed for her ¯ mother. The beautiful Carmen welcomed : Natalie into her bed (Natalie’s first time) " and educated her in some of the ways of ¯ the world. (According to Jean Chalon, ¯ Natalie wasn’t quite sure that she could make love to a woman without getting " pregnant!) She walked home from her " first meeting with Carmen repeating to ¯ herself, spellbound: ’I have a mistress, I " have a mistress.’ ¯ "Next, she fell madly in love with one ¯ Liane de Pougy, a celebrated courtesan. Liane took Natalie for a ride in her car- [ riage through the Bois de Boulogne, and " their affair was launched. Later, Liane ¯ wrote Idylle.Sap,.hique ( ~apphic ldyll), a " novelabouther Flossie, thefirstofmany literary tributes that wouldbe dedicated tO Barney over the years (Ren~e Vivien, ¯ Djuna Barnes, Radclyffe Hall and Lucie " Delarue-Mardrus wrote novels featuring : Barney as a character, and quite a bit of [ poetry was dedicated to her). Bamey’s ¯ father never forgave her for causing such ° a scandal backhome. In fact, he boughtup : Natalie’s affair with Vivlen was tempestuous and involved frequent .separations. Although they loved each other dearly, they were essentially incompatible... She and Barney are hurled not far from ¯ inch other inthe Passy Cemetery... all the copies of Liane’s book he could find, along with the printing plates, and had them destroyed. Too late - the book had already been circulated widely. "The greatestpassion ofBamey’s youth, however, was Ren~e Vivien (born Pauline Tam), like herself, an expatriate in Paris (Tam was born in England). The first chapter of Souvenirs Indiscrets describes their affair in detail. Natalie’ s affair with Vivien was tempestuous and involved frequent separations. Although they loved each otherdearly, they were essentially incompatible. Natalie refused to pass upany chance for pleasure that came her way, and so Ren~e eventually left her for another woman. In the end, Ren~e died young, a victim of anorexia and alcoholism. She and Barney are buried not far from each other in the Passy Cemetery in Paris." As Barney says in Souvenirs: "Our opposed natures contrived to make us suffer at each Other’ s hands for a long time. This resulted for her in a fertile inspiration and formyselfin aninstructive defeat. Unable to live with her or without her, I do not know which was most painful: our dangerona meetings, our separations, or our attempts at infidelity. Like so many other lovers, wehad still more of those ’terrible adieus one goes back on’ and those exalt- .’ ing reunions that did not last. Apart, but irresistibly attracted to each other, only to lose each other once again, our persistent love endured all the phases of a fatal attraction that perhaps only death could end. I still loved Ren~e, but with a vanquished love, enslaved by the circumstances that she had allowed to have their ¯ way with us... (Souvenirs Indiscrets)" ~ Eichbauer states: "Natalie’s .life was ¯ more important to her than her writing. : She described the procxss of writing a : book as one of cleaning out her desk ¯ drawers. Her writingis seldom sustained; she expressed herself in sharp lightningbolts of intelligence. In her introduction to Souvenirs, she says, ’If too little of the love I invoke appears in this book, it is because I have better spent it elsewhere. Here there remain only fragments.’" Because of the importance of her salon, Barney is mentioned, at least in passing, in most accounts ofAmerican expatriates in Paris. Here are the books by and about Barney that Eichbauer recommends and that are most readily available: Natalie Barney. Adventures oftheMind. Tr. John Spaulding Gatton. New York: New York University Press, 1992. Natalie Barney. The One Who is Legion, or A.D. ’s Afterlife. 1930; Orono, Me.: U of Maine, National Poetry Foundation, 1987. Natalie Barney. A Perilous Advantage: : The Best ofNatalie Clifford Barney. Ed- ; ited and translated by Anna Livia. Introduction by Karla Jay. Norwich, Vt.: New Victoria Pub., 1992. Karla Jay. The Amazon and the Page: Natalie Clifford Barney and Rende Vivien. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988. see Barney, p. !3 IGTA member Call 341. 6866 International Tours/ormoreinformation. AUTHENTIC FRESH ITALIAN RAINBOW CUSINE TROUT ofEureka Springs Voted Number One in Arkansas! (501) 253-6807 Closed Wednesday 5 Center Street, Eureka Springs, AR 72632 COCONUT BEER BATTERED SHRIMP PRIME RIB FRESH CLAMS VEGIE STIR FRY COQUILE ST. JA~;IUES MAHI-MAHI RACKOFLAMB CHOCOLATE SOUFFLE Red Rock Tulsa O’RYAN Oklahoma Rainbow Young Adult Network Outreach Program Thurs. 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Mon. & Thurs., 6-8 pm, Daytime testing: Mon-Thurs. by appt. ¯ H O P E HIV Outreach, Prevention & Education 834,TEST(8378), 3501 E. Admiral Place in tawdry Oakland gay bars. ~ We maintain enough taboo] on nudity for strippers to make a living. The flesh still titillates. Salacious gazingatunclothed bodies remains an American form of sexual pleasure. But there are (or were until recently) somehumancultures where people have escaped the kinkiness of modesty. No one wears clothing or, if they do, it’s for reasons of comfort. No Peeping Toms, no hidden videocams in restrooms, no voyeurs, no exhibitionists, no pornography, no one works to snatch an illicit glimpse at this or that body part. The body, sexually, is a bore in places whereit is never hidden- where exposure causes neither guilt nor shame nor desire. Or rather, body touch and smell may be sexualized but nevermere looking, where nudity is the norm. The details ofmodesty and display vary from one culture to another. Many have commented on American fixation on the female breast. Who knows if it’s childrearing customs, our relations with mom, or our marital relations that have supercharged theAmerican breast, the epitome being Barbie’s big and pointy boobs. In much of the South Pacific, women’s breasts traditionally were neither erogenous nor hidden. Male desire focused instead on meaty thighs. I’ve walked by many bare-breasted women who modestly busy themselves smoothing down their grass-skirts. On Tanna, where I lived for amunber of years, tmditionalmale dress consisted simply of a "penis-wrapper." Men wrapped theirpenes in leaves and fixed these upright to a barkcloth belt. Penis-wrappers had disappeared for years until a roving photographer from National Geographic passed through the island one year and convinced a number of guys to strip back down into penis-wrappers to make his South Sea photos appear more authentic to his Americanviewers. Since then, some ofthesemenhavemaintained the wrapper as a political statement of their traditionality vis-ii-vis their Christian neighbors. Nearly all malebody parts onTannaare boring, and never eroticized. No one, certaiuly, would toss dollars bills around to catch a glimpse ofmale belly or butt. The glans penis is the only body part that men are ashamed to display. As soon as boys are circumcised (between ages of5 and 10 or so) they begin covering themselves - and uncircumcised boys are teased merci- : lessly should their glans peek out of their ." foreskins. Stripping as a profession has ¯ little futurein much of the world. ¯ In Oakland, though, those flying dol- ." lars are sending Corey home to Arkansas. Lamont Lindstrom is a Visiting Prof.of ". Anthropology at the Univ. of Cal~ornia,- ¯ Berkeley, during Spring Term, 1999 (lamont@yana.qal.berkeley.edu) Mary Eichbauer lives and writes in northern California. Her annotated translation ¯ of Bamey’s "Rente Vivien"’ will appear ¯ in a forthcoming issue of The Journal of Lesbian Studies. ¯ EstherRothblum is Prof. ofPsychology ¯ at the Univ. ofVermont andEditor ofI’he ¯ Journal of Lesbian Studies. She can be ¯ reached at John Dewey Hall, Univ. of ". Vermont, Burlington, VT, email: ¯ esther.rothblum@uvm.edu. : with a crescent wrench. If the parts are ¯ rusted together, you can have a real wres- : fling match. Once the val~ce is off, remove ¯ the tube from the valve from ¯ the bottom of the toilet with the crescent ¯ wrench. Take everything to the hardware ¯ store, handittothehapless clerkinplumb- ¯ ing and tell them you want "this". Go ¯ ahead and get a new water inlet hose - ¯ you’ll be sorry later if you don’t. Also ¯ pick up a roll of the Teflon tape they sell ¯ m plumbing. Check out and cuss some : more, because this is costing more than ¯ the replacement kit, but remember that ¯ theplumber would be charging youlabor, ¯ and that hurts. ¯ Back at home, wrap a couple of turns of ¯ Teflon tape clockwise around the threads on the pipe sticking out of the wall. Use your wrenches again to attach the shut-off valve snuggly in place; wrap the threaded end on the valve with Teflon tape and attach the water inlet hose. Rule of thumb in plumbing - if it’s threaded, use Teflon tape on it. This helps give a good seal and also makes it a lot easier if you have to remove these parts again in the future. Now you can proceed with your toilet repairs as above. Once everything is attached and snug, turn your water back on and admire your handiwork! 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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 March 1999 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource James Christjohn Jean-Claude de Flambeauchaud Barry Hensley J.P. Legrandbouche Lamont Lindstrom Esther Rothblum Mary Schepers Adam West Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Tom Neal/Tulsa Family News Relation A related resource Tulsa Family News, February 1999; Volume 6, Issue 2 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Image PDF Online text Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource newspaper periodical Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Tulsa(Oklahoma)---newspaper Tulsa---Oklahoma Oklahoma---Tulsa United States Oklahoma Tulsa United States of America (50 states) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context https://history.okeq.org/items/show/585 AIDS/HIV AIDS/HIV research arts and entertainment attorneys Barry Hensley Bars businesses churches Dave Fleischer Do-It-Yourself Dyke Dyke Psyche Entertainment Notes Esther Rothblum Eureka Springs gay bashing Gay Studies hate crime bill homophobia immigration James Christjohn Lamont Lindstorm Lobbying marriage Mary Schepers Methodist Church Murder Nancy McDonald National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Native Americans Partner Benefits performing arts PFLAG Read All About It Red Ribbon Gala representation restaurants sodomy laws Teletubbies Tom Neal Tulsa Area Prime Timers Tulsa CARES Tulsa Family News Tulsa Gay Community Services Center Tulsa Two-Spirited Indian Men's Support Group Tulsa Uniform and Leather Seekers Association vandalism https://www.history.okeq.org/files/original/a76aa3f42c4997984b267031cb304215.jpg 4ce3350a8a90452f34eb6de6450cae76 https://www.history.okeq.org/files/original/95edba45a60e722b7b5f51bf3586db22.pdf d715201121730e600f2247ffe681fe62 PDF Text Text Serving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual + Transgendered Tulsans, Our Families + Friends T ~~[~~_n~ Pa_l~er Available In More Than 75 Ci Locations Hate Crimes Amendment Has A Chance in OK Legislature Gays in the Military Update More "Gays" Leaving US Armed Forces WASHINGTON (AP) - The Air Force and Army report sharp increases in the number of troops discharged for homosexuality, and officials believe many are discontented non-Gay recruits looking for a way out. In releasing the figures, the Defense Department said it was satisfied with its "don’t ask, don’t tell" policy on homosexuality in the services. It asserted that the 1998 discharge numbers "align" with those of previous years, even though they reached an 11-year high. A watchdog group, the Servicemembers Legal Defense Fund, said the’figures were fresh evidence that Gays still are being mistreated in the 1.4-million-member active-duty military. "Commanders are still asking, pursuing and harassing people," said Dixon Osbum, the group’s co-executive director. ,,,~ The "don’t ask, don’t tell" policy, adopted in 1994, is supposed to allow Gays to serve if they keep their sexual orientation private. It punishes those who engage in homosexual acts or take actions that call attention to their orientation. But critics accuse the services of hunting down Gays and driving them out of the service. If a service member voluntarily states his or her homosexuality, discharge is automatic.. In the.case oLa recruit still in basic (raining, av0iuniary declaration of homosexuality means an admjuistrative discharge that does not carry a bad-conduct stigma. Under the Pentagon policy there are three grounds for discharge: if a service member voluntarily states that he or she is Gay; if someone is determined to have engaged in a homosee Military, p. 3 Maryland Judge Throws Out Sodomy Law BALTIMORE (AP) - A judge who rtded Baltimore’s 80-year-old anti-sodomy law does not apply to consensual acts has expanded the ruling to include anal as well as oral sex. The ruling by Circuit Judge Richard T. Rombto settles a 1997 clas s-action suit by the American Civil Liberties Union. "This is saying the government will not intrude in the bedroom," said Dwight Sullivan, a staff counsel for the ACLU’s Maryland chapter, which sued on behalf of several Gay men and Lesbians. State officials, who did not object to tLe ACLU’s efforts, said the ruling was largely symbolic because few if any state residents have been prosecuted for sodomy. ACLU officials, however, said the existence of the law posed a threat to privacy rights and left homosexuals vidnerable to job discrimination and unfair attacks in child custody cases. Thirty-one states have rep.ealed anti-sodomy laws, while 17 still have them on the books, including Virgiuia. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a Georgia case in 1986 that anti-sodomy laws are constitutional. In 1990, the Maryland Court Of Appeals ruied the law could not be used to prosecute consentual, nonpublic acts of oral sex, see Maryland, p. 14 DIRECTORY/LETTERS EDITORIAL US & WORLD NEWS HEALTH NEWS COMMUNITY CAL ENDAR BOOK REVIEW DO-IT-YOURSELF-DYK E DYKE PSYCHE CLASSIFIEDS + WEERWOLF P. 2 P. 3 P. 4 P; 6 P. 9 P. 10 P, 11 P. 12 P. 14 TMM - Metropolitan Ministry Endorses Amendment TULSA/OKLAHOMA CITY - Those who knew Matthew Shepard say that he would have wished that some good come out of evil. And it appears that, in Oklahoma at least, some good might come out of the horror of his murder. That at least is the conclusion drawn by some commumty activists who see the new willingness of Oklahoma political leaders to address hate crimes based on actual or perceived sexual orientation. Speaking anonymously, one clergy participantinTulsa Metropolitan Ministry, an influential local interfaith organization, indicated that Shepard’s murder is what helped shake the organization out of its unwillingness to address the concerns of Lesbians and Gay men. As she put it, they could no longer remain silent. And moving amazingly fast for such a diverse group, TMM adopted as one of its legislative goals for this 1999 session, the amendment of Oklahoma’s Malicious Intimidation Statute, otherwise known as the Hate Crimes law. In fact, abill (HB 1211) for this amendment has been introduced by Tulsa legislator, Don Ross. HB 1211 has a companion bill introduced in the Oklahoma Senate by Sen. Ben Brown, and Democratic party rumors have it that Speaker of the House, Loyd Benson has committed to support the bill. Oklahoma Attorney G~neral Drew Edmondson already has committed publicly to supporting this amendment as has former Tulsa County District Attorney see Hate.p. 13 Activists kick off Eq~mlity Begins at Home at fall conference. Thousands to Go to Capitols First Ever National Week of Action for Equality WASHINGTON, DC - January 25, 1999 - In the 30th aunivers.ary year of the S tonewall rebellion- the birth of the modern Gay rights movement - thousands of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender people will launch an unprecedented national week of action for equality. Equality Begins at Home, slated for the week of March 21 - 27, is a major initiative to push state lawmakers to support a platform of equality. Planning for these by local activists is well under way. In Oklahoma, Paul Thompson, of the Oklahoma Gay & Lesbian Political Caucus is co-ordinating the Oklahoma event at the State Capitol on Saturday, March 27. Paid can be reached at email: Gayoglpc@flash.net, or 405-791-0202. Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights (TOHR) is working to help organize Tidsans to go. From Montana to Maine, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender people will come out and speak up in simultaneous events nationwide, most of which will take place at state capitols. These actions will, mnong other things, build support for laws that counter hate violence, ban employment discrimination, provide for safe schools for all students, ensure.the right to adopt and become foster parents, and address health issues including HIV/AIDS. Equality Begins at Home is coordinated by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force .and organized by the Federation of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Statewide Political Organizations. As part of its coordinating efforts, the Task Force provided Federation member groups $5,000 each to support their Equality Begins at Home organizing efforts and hired a national coordinator for the event. Dozens of national organizations have signed on in support of this week of action. "Equality Begins at Home is not an end point but a beginning point. We are going to make our statewide organizations stronger, mobilize more people, register more voters, and demand greater accountability from our state legislators and policy makers," stated Kerry Lobel, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force executive director, see EBAH, p..13 Pride Center Announces One Recruit Short ofa Toaster Mem bers Drive and Gay Legal Rights Program TULSA - How do you feel about winning a very stylish toaster or toaster oven? That’s what Pride Center organizers want to know. They’re hoping that these possibilities will motivate you to join Tulsa’s Gay & Lesbian community center, the Pride Center and to persuade as many of your friends, family and acquaintances to do the same. Pride Center volunteers have organized a membership drive from Feb. 1 to March 31 that was inspired by Lesbian comedian, Ellen Degeneres, and they’re offering prizes for "recruiting" new community center members. Center spokesman, Greg Gatewood stated that any current or new member will receive "a toaster accessory" (what is that???) for bringing in five new members. Ten new members will win you a sleek new bagelcapable toaster. And if you get 25 new memberships, you’ll get, not just a toaster, but a toasteroven! However, the grand prize is airfare to an exotic seaside location so you can toast yourself in the tropical sun. Sound good? To win this you need to get at least 50 new memberships though the winner will be the person who gets the most memberships of 50 or mo~e by March 31 st. To join or to get more information, call the Center at 743-GAYS (4297). Beginning in Feb. specifically Feb. 18 at 7:30, the Oklahoma Lesbian and Gay Law Association will begin a series of free legal seminars for Lesbians and Gay men. These seminars are set up as informal discussions drawing on the skills of attorneys who specialize in areas of interest to the community. Tulsa attorney Camille Quiun will lead the first discussion on estate planning. The discussion will be geared toward both couples and individuals. Again for more information, call the Center at 743-GAYS (4297).. Other evenfs a( the ~enter include a Mardi Gras costume party on Feb. 13 with dancing to music by "Grandmaster DJ Tim." see Center, p. 14 GaI-A-Vanting TULSA - More than fourteen women met recently to plan monthly events for "Gal-A-Vanting, Ms. Adventures for Women." Gal-A-Vanting is a social and cultural organization for Lesbian women. The group seeks to provide social, cultural and selfexploration opportunities for women as wall as a venue for meeting and for developing a sense of The organization was the brainchild of two friends, Mary (also known as the Do-It-Yourself Dyke) and Joan, who decided that there was not enough for women to do in the Tulsa area and who, also, were tired of driving to Arkansas for women’s activities. They believed there would be enough interest in the Tulsa community to create an organization to provide activities here. Approximately 20 women have attended each of the activities hosted by Gal-A-Vanting in the past four months. There are now more than 65 women’s names on the mailing list. The organization has hosted a number of events, a "women and the arts evening" which featured poetry and various artist’s work, a dance, a drumming circle and a movie night. Monthly activities are planned for the second Samr.day ev. e.mng of each month. 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" & mfo ’ : 587-4669 * FreeSpiritWome’s n Center , call for location Carbon Copy KMOD Gay Bashing? ¯ Dear Phil and Brent, ¯ As a regular listener of your show, I am ¯ concerned about the words of intolerance ¯ directed toward the Gay community. Your Thursday shows seem especially filled ¯¯ ¯ with the promotion of hate as an acceptable behavior. Being reasonable people, ; and I assume residents of the Tulsa com-¯ mumty, I cannot understand your continued promotion of hate towards a large ¯ segment of-the Tulsa community. Hate ¯ speech equals hate crimes- aproven fact. : Your success as morning show hosts ¯ can only mean that there are a great num" ber ofpeople listening. The words youuse ¯ can drastically change the world of those ¯ who listen. Your words could be respon- sible for the next bashing or killing of a Gay person. Is this a responsibility you _" are ready to accept and bear for the re, mainder of your life? ¯ I, as you by now expect, will no longer ¯ be tuning into your show, and will encour¯ age my friends and acquaintances to turn ¯ the dial as well. After all, you are "the ¯ rainbow station." The rainbow has been : mmedinto aflag. That flag represents the ¯ pride of the Gay community. ¯ I would hope that KMOD would choose ¯ not to continue the verbal assault on our ¯ Gay citizens. I would offer that two orga¯ nizations I belong to, teach tolerance ; classes, and perhaps KMOD would liketo have some of this information. Your re" quest may be directed to me, or to the ¯ organizations directly. - Ned T. Bruha, Tulsa ¯ ce: TOHR PFLAG Great Issue Thelatest edition [January] of TFN was really a great issue. Thanks for the important work that you do. Keep it up. Our community needs it. This recentissue was a great example of the kind of quality our community is capable of. Anyone can be proud with that kind of leadership. Bravo. And thanks. - M.S. Tulsa In Memorium WASHINGTON - The Human Rights Campaign mourned the death of activist John Thomas, 51, who died on January 20. Mr. Thomas served on the HRC Board from 1982 to 1985 andplayed amajor part in HRC’s expansion in the Dallas area. His contributions with HRCincluded helping start the Dallas Black-Tie Dinner Committee. He helped found numerous organizations including the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund. Additionally, Mr. Thomas was former executive director.of the Foundation for Human Understanding and the Dallas Gay & Lesbian Community Center, now known as the John Thomas Gay & Lesbian Community Center. Letters Policy Tulsa Family News welcomes letters on issues which we’ve covered or on issues you think need to be considered. You may request that your name be withheld but letters must be signed & have phone numbers, or be hand delivered. 200 word letters are preferred. Letters to other publications will be printed as is appropriate. �sexual act; and in the case of same-sex marriage. "In virtually every self-initiated disclosure, the second statement made is, ’I’d also like to be discharged,"’ said David Smith, a spokesman at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas. He said this led officials to conclude that a growing number of recruits are using a Gay declaration to get out. Smith said commanders are legally prohibited from ques.tioning Air Force members about such voluntary statements. "You kind of have to take them at their word,".he said. T ’jae Gibson, an Air Force spokeswoman at the Pentagon, said an official review of discharges and personnel policies at Lacklandlast year found that most instructors and trainees there believed the acknowledgments of homosexuality were made to cut short an enlistment. Army officials said they "also suspect many Gay discharges in their service involve soldiers looking for a quick way out, but they do not consider the trend to be a major source of worry. Supreme Court Lets Military Policy Stand ¯ The Associated Press At Martin Luther King Day parades and prayer break, fasts, in their offices and in homes, many Blacks said ¯ they have a particular stake in the impeachment trial of s~dent Clinton- the best thing that has happened for ¯ Blacks in a long time." ¯ "If Clinton is removed from "Dr. Kin~ ¯ office, that’s a slap in the face would be ¯ for Black America," said Mikel ¯ Holt, editor of the Milwaukee suspect Of the ¯ CommunityJournal, a Black impeael~ment ¯ newspaper. ’.’That’s in essence, derailing the civil fights free- process l~eeause ¯¯ domtrain." he would be Clinton has long enjoyed ¯ Black support, both from the suspect of tl~e ¯ public and in Congress, beimpeaclters," ¯ cause he socializes and prays ¯ with Black people, appoints the Rev. Jesse ¯ them to high positions and unJackson said ¯ derstands the struggle of rac¯ ism, Black leaders said. a~ter a : " As the trial entered its secbreal~ast ond week, some summoned the : name and message of the slain l~onorin~ ¯ civil rights leader in Clinton’s ¯ defense - saying the two men in C]~iea~o. ¯ shared a common dream of Jackson ¯ equality, specffleally ¯ "Dr. King would be suspect mentioned ¯ of the impeachment process ~ because he would be suspect Senate ¯ of the impeachers," the Rev. ¯ JesseJacksonsaidafterabreak- 1MIajorlty leader WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court once again left intact the military’s "don’t ask, don’t tell" policy today, rejecting a challenge by two former servicemen discharged after declaring their, homosexuality. The court, without comment, turned away arguments by the men that the policy is based on prejudice agaiust homosexuals and violates their free-speech rights. This action, while not a definitive ruling, marked the fifth time in recent years that the highest court has rejected efforts to invalidate the policy. Every federal appeals court that has considered the issue has upheld the policy. This appeal was filed by National Guard 1st Lt. Andrew Holmes of Sacramento, Calif., and Navy Lt. Richard Watson. Holmes declared his homosexuality to. his commanding officer in 1993. Watson was serving in Bremerton, Wash.,in October 1994 when he submitted a written statement to his commanding officer that said, "’I have a homosexual orientation." Both men were discharged and sued in federal ¯ fasthonoringKinginChicago. courts. A judge in San Francisco ruled for Holmes and Trent Loft... ¯ Jackson specifically mendeclared the military policy unconstitutional. But a judge in Seattle ruled against Watson. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of ,¯ tioned Senate Majority leader reee_ntly linked. Trent Lott,who was recently Appeal s combined the cases and uphel d the "don" t ask, don’ t : linked by his uncle to an ultra- . . . to an ultratell" policy. conservative : conservatl/ve group accused of US Law Professors Fight .Military Policy ¯ promoting white supremacy. ~roup accused NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Hundreds of law professors are joining the fight to get Gays and Lesbians an equal place in i Lott denied last week he of promo~in~ was affiliated with thethat group the U.S. armed forces. The battlefield is a 1996 law thatlets ¯ and said he is opposed to racwhite the government take all federal student aid from schools : ismand white supremacy. which refuse to let military recruiters on campus. Scores of : Richard Bailey a historian supremacy¯ universities had barred recruiters to protest the "don’t ask, ¯ and author from Montgomery, don’t tell" policy, but let them back after President Clinton Alabama, said he too was suspect of some of Clinton’s signed the law by former U.S. Rep. Gerald Solomon. : critics. "I think (Blacks) are most uncomfortable with "If we had a recruiter who said, ’We won’t hire anyone : the way matters are being handled and with the key who’s black,’ there’s no doubt about us kicking them off ¯ players," he said. campus," said David V. Chavkin, director and associate ¯ "If the conservative people who are trying to impeach professor at American University’s Washington College of ¯ the president come into power, it will be a tumbaek of Law. "The notion that we should treat discrimination ¯ the dock for Afro-Americans," said Edward Lewis Jr., against our Gay and Lesbian and bisexual and trans~gender students as different is an outrage. The law school agreed in i president of the NAACP for Idaho, Nevada and Uiah. ¯ Any current alternative to Clinton could be worse 1997 to let military recruiters return after attorneys decided ," said Vicki Washington, director of Equal Opportunity that not only its 1,200 students, but all of the university’s and Diversity at theUniversity of Wisconsin-Extension undergraduates could lose their federal aid, including low- ¯¯ ¯ in Madison, Wis. "Of all of our presidents in the recent interest loans and work-study money. ¯ past, Clinton seems to be more in tune with the impact At the meeting, Chavkin was working a~ a table set up ¯ of historic discrimination and how it continues to have outside the Association of American Law Schools’ biggest ¯ both a political and economic impact on Afriean Ameri_ meeting rooms to sign up people willing to work for repeal and other people of color today," Washington said. of the law. When the AALS meeting ends, organizers hoped ..¯ cans To some, the impeachment itself is being driven by to have 100 law schools represented. - :~ fear of-minority power. "My question is, are they real[ U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., who plans to lead the hounding him for his personal transgressions, or (to repeal fight, thinks the law is very vulnerable, said Alan punish) him for making his administration the most Minuskin, a Boston College Law School professor. At one that the country’s ever known? That, to me, point, 138 campusesbarred military recnfiters. By late 1997;. i diverse seems the undeit0ne," said Victoria Mares Hershey, the list had dwindled to 18. 17 were in Connecticut, where ¯ first vice president of the NAACP in Portland, Maine. the policy against discrimination was part of state law. The Nan Stovall, another NAACP member from Portfederal law applies to all colleges and universities. The " land, said Clinton is "the best thing that has happened repeal push is starting in law schools because most either : for Blacks in a long time," she said. have longstanding rules of their own against discrimination or belong to the AALS, which had a rule since 1990 against dealing with any organization that discriminates. It changed that rule last year, under protest, because of the Solomon ¯ Q - What do Howdy Doodie, the Muppets and Steve Largent have in common? Amendment. Edwin J. Butterfoss, deah and professor of law at Hamline : A - They all have cute faces with painted-on grins, University in St. Paul, Minn., said, "...we have a lot more ¯ empty heads and someone else’s hand up their ass ¯ making their mouths move. work to do. It [the Solomon law] undermines a law school!s Too vulgar, but too, too funny not to print. What’s ability to enforce its own policies - not by attacking the "- dangerous about Largent is that he’s .not stupid at schools, but they’ re attacking the students." all.We don’t dispute the hand business though. - TN ¯ Via the Internet by Tom Neal. editor & publisher As a child, I learned much to my amazement that some families actually tried to avoid discussing controversial topics, especially at dimmer. Not mine. When friends wonder about my interest in discussing ethics and politics, all I need to do is to invite them to dinner and.turn my father loose on them. They’ll never wonder agmn. Note that I regard this familial inheritance of debate and discussion as a wonderful, wonderful legacy but it is, perhaps, an acquired taste. I share this bit of personal history in order to put the following in context. Since May, I’ve been.arguing at my family’s Sunday night dinners that Bill Clinton, based merely on the appearance of inappropriate conduct (that old lawyerly standard), shouldresign. That is, if he were a gentleman. Of course, we all know that if he had ever been a gentleman, or even were vaguely acqtminted with the notion, he wouldn’t be in this nasty PaulaJMonica/ Gennifer/whatever mess in the first place. But regardless of Bill’s spectacular lapses in judgment, many Gays and Lesbians, both of color and those with less color, are going to understand the sentiments of the adjacent editorial. If the ultra conservatives, "wing-nuts" as Tul sa Republican mayoral wanna-be, Terry Simonson, characterized them, get completely back into power, it will be a turning back the clock for Gay and Lesbian Americans as well as for African Americans. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott not only is dosdy tied to ultra racist organizations like the Concerned Citizens Council but has had his anti-Gay views well documented. And I suspect that the ccc is just about as anti-Gay as it is racist. And while Lott is now denying that he shares the CCC’s racist and white supremacy views, he’s not bothering to deny his heterosexist supremacy stances. Clearly, we Gay folks really haven’t gotten as far along in the fight for equality as non-Gay Blacks. I think it is safe to sa$ that the folks who hate Clinton because he treats Blacks more fairly than any previous president, also hate him because he’s treated Gay folks more fairly than any other too. Granted his record’s not perfect. He reneged on his promise to end our military’s ban on Gay soldiers. And his talk about AIDS is better than his walk has been much of the time. But he’s appointed more openly Gay individuals to significant governmental positions than ever before and he’s used his executive power to ban discrimination in civilian parts of our government. And look who’s out to get him: the slimiest of the slime: Bob Barr, Newt Gingrich, Helen Chenowith, Bob Livingston (something of a gentleman at least for resigning), and Henry Hyde, adulterers, fornicators and hypocrites all. Note also that all of these folks were big, big supporters of the Defense of Marriage Act that banned samegender marriages, if and when they should happen. Let me see, when did cheating on your spouse become part of supporting "traditional" marriage? Bill, of course, also signed this patently unconstitutional law. And one hears from time to time a runaor or two about our saintly First District representative, Steve Largent. One wonders what he’d say about his sex life under oath. After all, even if he’s been utterly faithful to his spouse, he was a great college athletic star and who hasn’t heard of a fomieating football player? Maybe at Brigham Young, and then only maybe. Last I checked, fornication was still illegal in Oklahoma though it is hardly one of our frequently enforced laws. However, I do have to give Henry Hyde some credit for redefining the notion of"youthful indiscretion." Mr. Hyde cheated onhis wife at the age of 41. This 41 yearold editor is delighted to learn that anything I do at this point in my life still has some hope of being declared a "youthful indiscretion." I do digress. The bottom line: I don’t like Bill,’s dishonesty, but I don’t like the behavior of most of the Congress. I don’t like Congress’ "witch hunt." The $50 million Stair spent could have bought a whole lot of drugs or food or housing to keep people living with AIDS alive, or done any number of genuinely worthy things for our country. Maybe we could just impeach them all. �Hormel Renominated WASHINGTON (AP) - President Clinton has renominated James Hormel as ambassador to Luxembourg, and a White House official said Tuesday the administration hopes "fairness will prevail" in the new Congress so he can be approved for the job. The Senate last year refused to vote on the nomination of Hormel after several conservative Republicans accused him of promoting homosexual views: The White House accused lawmakers of prejudice. Hormel, who is Gay, was appro,ced by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, but Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., didn’ t allow his nomination to come to the floor in the face of scattered GOP objections. White House spokesperson, Barry Toiv said Hormel was among a number of.renominations Clinton submitted to the new Congress, which began its work this month. If approved, Hormel wonld be the first openly Gay U.S. envoy. Chiistian right groups had’attacked Hormel, a vocal supporter of Gay rights and AIDS causes, over his sponsorship of aGay and Lesbian center at the San Francisco Public Library that bears his name. Republican critics called some of the material obscene and feared Hormel might promote a "Gay agenda" as ambassador to the tiny European nation. Hormel must go through the entire nomination process again, including approval at the committee level before a Senate vote. Florida County May Add Partner Benefits FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP)- Broward County may be on its way to extending to domestic parmers of county employees the same ,benefits that married couples now receive. A proposed ordinance would provide medical coverage to Gay, Lesbian and unmarried partners of county employees to the same extent as other employees and allow unmarried couples to legally register as domestic partners. The measure also would require contractors that handle at least S50,000 in business with the county to offer health benefits to partners of their own workers. If adopted later this year, Broward would join one other Florida county, more than 100 other state and local governments across the country and some corpora.tions that have given similar allowances to domestic partners. Some business owners in Broward, Florida’s secon&largest county, object to being told how to run their companies. However, the commission, which has already 6utlawed discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, appears receptive to the proposal. CornmissionCha~rwoman Ilene Lieberman said she supports most sections of the ordinance but had doubts about imposing the mandate on private comparties that do business with the county, County attorneys said the proposal may conflict with the state’s broad Defense of Marriage Act, the 1997 law that says same-sex marriages are not recognized in Florida. Supporters said domestic partnerships are not identical to marriages and the county’ s proposal says nothing about child custody, divorce, inheritance or other rights held by spouses. Robin Bodiford and Dean Trantalis, two lawyers and Gay civil rights activists, prepared the proposal with the Lambda Legal Defense Fund, a national Gay and Lesbian group. In Florida, the Monroe County Commission agreed in February 1998 to allow county workers to share Lheir employee benefits with their domestic partners. In Miami-Dade County, the state’ s largest county, the commission approved an ordinance last month barfing discrimination of homosextmls in the workplace and housing. graphic for fifth- and sixth-grade students, agreed to the change after a meeting with civil rights activists. It was too late to reprint the guides, which were to be mailed out to schools across the state by this week. lut the commission decided to send the deleted material to schools in a separate letter. Harry Knox, director of the Georgia Equality Project, a civil rights group said the new mailing also will include four extra teachers’ guides from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. The 15-member Holocaust comrmssion, fornted in 1986, is a state agency. It objected to passages in the 92-page guide "Triangles, Badges, & Stars: Remembering the Mosaic of Victims of the Holocaust." Gay civil rights groups were upset when the commission asked a law firm sponsonng the gnides to delete the material. The law firm reluctandy agreed and removed the passages from the Georgia version of the guide. Versions of the guide were’also produced for teachers in California and Florida. HOmosexuals are mentioned in at least four places in the 6,000 copies printed for Georgia middle school and high school teachers, said SylviaWygoda, director and chairwoman of the Holocaust commission. Vice chairman Alex Gross said commission members wanted only a few objectionable words removed, not entire paragraphs. Here are the para~aphs on Nazi treatment of homosexual Holocanst victims which the Georgia Com: unssion on the Holocaust asked to be deleted: "German male homosexuals were targeted and arrested because they would not breed the master race: they were an affront to the Nazi macho image." "’The doors of the third (cattle) car open and the homosexuals spill forth, males only, because as Hirnmler concluded, ’Lesbians can give birth.’ The taunting jeers, and blows of the guards stun the men. They will stay a night and then be rerouted to Sachsenhausen mad Buchenwald to be with their kind. The pink triangle they will soon wear is a result of a judgment that they have broken Article 175A, by sexual act, by kissing, by embracing, by fantasy and thought. Some will be given an opp_ortunity to recant by successfully completing sexual activity with a woman in the camp brothel. Most others will find themselves tormented from all sides as they struggle to avoid being assaulted, raped, worked and beaten to death." Right-Winger Seeks to Ban Gay Student Clubs PHOENIX (AP) - A group of conservative Republican lawmakers is backing a bill that would ban support groups for homosexual students from public school grounds. The measm’e would require school districts to ban any student orgamzation that promotes a specific sexual orientation, sexual activity or any kind of criminal activity, t’We don’ t allow Playboy clubs on ,c,~tmpus to promote heterosexuality," said Rep. Linda Gray, R-Glendale, one of the bill’s backers. "Why should we have Gay clubs to promote homosexuality." A 3-year-old Gay student group at Desert View High School in the Suunyside Unified S chool District has not caused any problems, said Alan Storm, the district’s director of student services. The group’s five members have helped educate students, teachers and others about discrimination, Storm said. "There arCh’ t even discussions about sex," Storm said. Storm added the bill was a bad idea because it jeopardizes federal funding for schools. The federal Equal Access Act requires school s to allow all extracurricular groups to use their facilities. Backers of the federal law said it was meant to keep schools from banning meetings of Bible-study and other Christian groups. Holocaust Coverup Uncovered Gay Teen Sues Hospital Over ’Outing’ ATLANTA (AP) - Material about Nazi persecution of homosexuals, edited out of a teachers’ guide about the Holocaust, will be sent to Georgia schools in a separate letter. 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Osmond of Towanda, Glendening is showing real leadership, in not only said he believes the suit to be the first of its kind in recognizing that fact but addressing it," Ms. Conaty Pennsylvania. ’‘This has been a springboard for a bunch : said. of health-care providers in the area to doubly safeguard : their policies so that this doesn’t happen to them,;; Osmond said. Congdon said he realized he was Gay about a month before the suicide attempt. He told no one, terrified of ¯ CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) - City Commisthe consequences of coming out to his parents and to a rural, conservative community. Severely depressed, : sioner Nancy Evans knows there mightbe fallout at Congdon ingested 33 Tylenols in the early morning ¯¯ the voting booth after the City Council decided to hours of Feb. 1, 1998, went to school, and took 10 more. ¯ offer protection to homosexuals under the Cedar Rapids civil rights ordinance. The City Council Congdon told the treating physician at Troy Community Hospital that he tried to kill himself because he was ¯ ,~oted 3-2 early to make the addition, protecting ¯ homosexuals from discrimination in education, Gay. Thelawsuit alleges that Smith- the mother of one of : honsing, credit, employment and public accommo¯ dation. Congdon’s football teammates -examined Congdon’s "This could very well cost an election. I undermedical records and then told "third persons" that he ¯ . stand that,’" Evans said. "But cost is not what’s was Gay. ¯ important. If I believe this stands for intolerance, if Returning to school later, "Everybody just stared at I believe this is injustice, then I have an affirmative me,". he said. "I’d get approached by several students and they would say, ’We heard you’re a faggot, is that ¯ duty toact,nomatterwhatitcosts." Evans and Dale Todd both mentioned the November elections when true?’ I would just say, ’Believe whatever you want,’ ¯ they discussed their votes in favor of the ordinance. because I was afraid I’d get beat up." Congdon left Mayor Lee Clancey joined them in the majority. school less than a month after returning. Commissioners Don Thomas and Ole Munson Troy High School Principal Bob Grantier said he did ¯ not know Congdon was being harassed. "If that was ¯ voted against the change. The Rev. Larry Johnson, ¯ a spokesman for conservative Christiar~s in Cedar reported, which it was not, it would have been dealt : Rapids, saidhewill try to rally political support for with. Bottom line," he said. Congdon expects to take his high-school equivalency ¯ a new set of candidates. Johnson said, "This thing is very offensive to a lot of people. We want to exam in the summer and attend college next fall as a ¯ investigate to see what we can come up with as far criminal justice major. Congdon’s story was featured last month in an ESPN documentary on Gay athletes. ¯ as overturning this." He also wrote about his experience for a San Francisco-based magazine for Gay teen-agers. "I’m being very public with it to raise awareness. We do have a problem in today’s society and there is hate out there toward us and other ethnic and religious backgrounds," ¯ CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - Elizabeth Janeway and ¯ her husband wanted to become foster parents, but he said. "Something has to be done." : said they couldn’ t stomach the state’ s ban on Gay ¯ adoptive and foster parents. When they applied in 1991, the state asked them if they had any homo" sexuals in their family, Mrs. Janeway told a House ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Gov. Parris Glendening, ¯ committee. "I felt sick answering the question," prompted by memories of a brother who died of AIDS i She said. "Not sick because we have a Gay son and after hiding his homosexuality throughout a long mili- ¯¯ a Lesbian daughter, but because of what the question implied about our children." tary career, will sponsor legislation this y~ar to ban ¯ Rep. Raymond Buckley, D-Manchester, wants discrimination against Gays and Lesbians. Glendening has endorsed similar legislation in the past, but this year ¯¯ that to end. He has sponsored a bill to repeal a 1987 law that bans Gays and Lesbians from adopting and it will be part of his official administration legislative ¯ serving as foster parents. "This law was enacted package. His bill would add sexual orientation to a law that already bans discrimination in housing and em- ¯ during a time of great fear," Buckley said. "Thank" fully, we know much more today than we did a .ployment because of sex, age, race and religion. ¯ decade ago." The ban was passed at "the height of Kathleen Nieberding-Ryan, who has lobbied for the bill the past few years, said the governor’ s decision to ." the season of hate," he said. New Hampshire is one make it part of his program "will help break down some ¯ of only two states with such restrictions; Floridais of our barriers." "I’ve worked on this bill for a long : the other. A crowd of more than 80 doctors, ministers, time," said Ms. Nieberding-Ryan, lobbyist for Mary- ¯ foster parents, Gay civil fights activists and others land NOW and former lobbyist for the Free State Justice Campaign, an organization representing Gays and Les- ¯ gathered to urge the committee to send the bill to the House for a vote. bians. "Each year we’ ve inched closer and closer, but Buckley blames the passage of the ban on fears could not secure the one or two votes needed for : passage," she said. ¯ fed by the surge of AIDS during the 1980s and mistaken belief that homosexual parents would Richard Dowling, head of the Maryland Catholic molest their adopted or foster children. During the Conference, said the church has opposed the bill in the legislative debate in 1987, one supporter of the ban past and probabl y will do so again. "In our tradition, argued that Gay people wanted to "raise their own discrimination against any person in regard to basic meat" to sexually molest. "This law was enacted human fights is a sin," Dowling said. He said that despite the lack of a single complaint, not one shred includes people whose sexual orientation is homosexual, "but orientation and practice are not the same.’" ¯ of evidence, without a single incident of concern," "Whether intended or not, this legislation would have ¯ Buckley said. The law also requires heterosexual couples wish.the eff~t of legitimating homosexual practice, and that, ¯ m our view, is something government Should not do," . ing to adopt or be foster parents to sign a form stating no adult in the household is homosexual. Dowling said. Glendening said it was difficult for his brother to live ~ "This law does more thanmerely prohibit Gays and with the knowledge that his’ career in the Air Force ¯ Lesbians from adopting or serving as foster parents," Buckley said. "It intrudes into the homes of would be ruined if his homosexuality had been discovered. "No one should be in fear of their job, no matter ¯ heterosexual couples as well." Buckley would not say whether he thought the what their occupation, because of their sexual orienta- ¯¯ bill was likely to pass, only that he hopes the tion," he said. But ~fracy Conaty, communications director for the : Legislature has progressed since the original mea¯ sure passed. ¯ Anti-Bias Vote May.Lead ¯ to Voter Retaliation Anti-Gay Adoption Law Reconsidered Maryland Governor Offers Anti-Bias Bill �Dr. ML King Would Have Fought AIDS LAS VEGAS (AP) - Martin Luther King Jr. did not live to see the scourge of AIDS, but if he had, he would have been a leader in the battle against the disease, health care experts and religious leaders believe. "Of course he would have been out there talking about AIDS and advocating programs to help stop the spread Of HIV ," said the Rev Lionel Starkes, an HIVi AIDS counselor for the Clark County Health District. Starkes was a member of a panel that discussed the subject "AIDS: What Would Be Dr. King’ s Involvement?" The panel was part of activities in observance of the national holiday honoring King’s birthday. Ulysess Palrose, HIV/AIDS care coordinator for Sierra Health Services, said that nationwide, the number of people dying from AIDS has declined, as have the number of people infected with HIV. But the number of blacks contracting the vires has increased. ’T m not an expert on Dr. Martin Luther King, and I don’ t know all there is to know about AIDS, but all I do know tells me that he would be a drum major" in the fight against HIV, particularly in regard to the African American commumty, Palrose said. According to national statistics, 43 percent of new HIV/AIDSpatients are black. Blacks constitute about 13 perccgt of the population. More than 50 percent of all babies and women infected with HIV are ’black. Scientist Develops New HIV Treatment LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) -A University of Kentucky (UK) scientist holds patents on two new methods for treating AIDS and cancer with drugs that have been around for years. Trials of the cancer therapy are at least two years away, but the AIDS therapy could be tested on human patients later this year in South AfDr. Vincent Gallicchio, a cell biologist and associate dean of research in UK’s College of Allied Health Professions, developed and patented the AIDS treatment independently. Gallicchio came up with the cancer therapy in partnership with Milton Yatvin, professor of radiation oncology at the Oregon Health Science Center. They jointly hold the patent on this treatment. In combatting AIDS, Gallicchio proposes a combination of AZT or DDI- two anti-viral drugs now prescribed for the disease - and lithium, a drug used for decades to treat manic depression. Research has shown that lithium, in addition to its beneficial effects on mental illness, stimulates the human immune system. AIDS kills people by destroying their immunity. Therefore, Gallicchio thinks that an AZT-lithium "cocktail" might stabilize AIDS patients by charging up their immune systems. Gallicchio and Yatvin plan to attack cancer with a new kind of drug-delivery system, putting standard chemotherapy agents inside naturally occurring human immune cells called "macrophages." Theoretically, the macrophages would carry the highly toxic chemotherapy drugs directly to the site of the cancer, leaving healthy tissue unharmed. Lithium was first suggested for medical use 50 years ago, and approved by the FDA for use in manic depressive patients about 1970. "We’ re sort of the first to put two and two together," said Gallicchio who, in addition to his UK post, heads the International Society for Lithium Research, a.scientific group devoted to learning more about the drug. One reason lithium’ s potential in AIDS hash’ t been researched before, Gallicchio said, is economics. Lithium is cheap. So, there’ s been little economic incentive for pharmaceutical finns to explore its potential in AIDS because profits wouldn’t be great. Lithium’s toxicity also has been problem, but Gallieehio says that’s been solved. Gallicchio plans to test his idea in South Africa, where selected AIDS patients will be given his lithium cocktail. South Africa was chosen as the test site, he said, because its AIDS incidence rate is one of the world’s highest. In battling cancer, Gallicchio and his pamier, Y atvin, envision a system in which .powerful drugs would zip straight to the site of the disease, like homing pigeons, ignoring healthy tissue. To achieve that, they would use macrophages. Macrophages are large immune cells, which are manufactured in the bone marrow and then migrate to the body’ s orgaus. Each organ has its own macrophage, and each macrophage somehow knows which organ it is assigned to. A liver macrophage knows it’ s supposed to go to the liver; a brain macrophage knows it’ s supposed to travel to the brain, and so INTRODUCING OUR NEW ASSOCIATE! John Serrot, MSW Cherry Street Psychotherapy Associates 1515 S. Lewis (918) 743-4117 HUNT MSW JUDY SEYMOUR CADC JOHN SERROT, MSW a Diverse Community Are You Gay or Bisexual? Are You Native American? Tulsa’s Two-Spirted Indian Men’s Support Group is here for you~ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ Evening support group meetings Relationship workshops Short trips, outings and retreats Free HIV testing on. Gallicchio and Yatvin propose to use this macrophage "homing instinct."To treat, say, liver cancer, you could pm chemotherapy drugs inside liver macrophages, which then would carry them straight to the cancer. The plan would be to grow macrophages in an artificial environment, combine them with cancer drugs, then deliver the mixture into cancer patients intravenously. But Gallicchio says it will be about two years before trials in humans. First, researchers must prove the approach works in animals, and that it poses no hazards to patients. For information call Tulsa Native American AIDS Prevention Proiect at 582-7225 Ext. 208 or 218 Charity to Help Children with AIDS tCAMPALA, Uganda (AP)- Funds raised by Rotary International will pay for projects devoted to children affected by polio and AIDS-related diseases, the organization’s president said recently. Speaking to reporters before the opening of Rotary’ s International Summit on Africa, James Lacy of Cookeville, Tenn., said the organization would also fund facilities that offer corrective plastic surgery and finance micro-credit facilities, job training and educational programs. More than 400 Rotary members from 23 nations have gathered for the three-day conference opened by Prime Minister KintuMusoke, who read a statement from President Yoweri Museveni. "I’m glad ¯ that President Lacy has chosen poverty as ¯ the main theme of the conference," ¯ Museveni said in his statement. "Poverty : is a great problem in Africa, andwehope ; you will offer practical solutions to it." ¯ Lacy, 68, said Rotary’s efforts would : focus this year on children and their health. : "I came here to see the problems faced by : children and to see exactly where we can ¯ help," he said. : Rotary has committed more than $313 : million since 1985 to the goal of eradicat- The perfect balance of luxury and utility. 3350 South Memorial ¯ (918) 664-3350 1-800-722-7686 "~ CHRYSLER-PLYMOUTH �ing polio worldwide. The organization said more than 80 million children under the age of five have received oral polio vaccine as part of the vaccination program in sub-Saran Africa. HIV+ Soldier Guilty of Assault by Sex Providing Physical, Occupational Speech Therapy in the Tulsa Community since 19914.. Orthopedic and Work InJuries are our specialty. Most insurance accepted. Appointments m,,ade 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. M-F. Call us today at 58 -1233. Medical Excellence And Compassionate Care ..Since 1926. ST. JOHN MEDICAL CENTER I ~ M~dical Excellence ¯ Coml~ssiomt~ Care ABERDEEN, Md. (AP) - An HIV-posifive Army private from New York City was sentenced to three years in military prison after pleading guilty to aggravated assault for having unprotected sex. Gerland Squires, 21, also will receive a bad-conduct discharge from the Army and forfeit all pay and benefits. Her rank was immediately reduced from private first class to private. After a 1997 blood test revealed Ms. Squires had HIV, her commander at Aberdeen Proving Ground ordered her to use condoms and tell her sexual partners that she carried the AIDS virus. But Ms. Squires did not tell eight men she was HIV-positive and had unprotected sex with four of them, prosecutors said. She told a ninth man she had the virus but did not insist he use a condom. None of the nine men- six enlisted and three civilians - has tested positive for the virus. Ms. Squires,cryingonthe witness stand, told jurors she had sex to escape her fear and confusion about having HIV and passing it on to-her daughter, who is now 9 months old. She said she feared rejeclion if she told her sex partners she has HIV. Aberdeen Proving Ground, about 40 miles north of Baltimore, was the site of the biggest sex scandal in U.S. mililary history in 1997. Twelve drill instructors were accused of forcing female subordinates to have sex. One instructor was cleared, and the remaining 11 either were convicted or re’signed. India’s Challenge: AIDS Treatment NEW DELHI, India (AP) - On paper at least, India is ready to cope with the consequences of increasing AIDS cases. It hopes to avoid being overwhelmed by not just the disease, but by fear and ignorance. P.L. Joshi, deputy director of the government’s National AIDS Control Organization, confidently fingers a thick, plastic-bound sheaf of tables and prose that detail how nearly 1 million medical workers, from hospital janitors to surgeons, will be trained to care for AIDS patients. But Joshi acknowledges the training has barely begun, and those patients today face being alined away by hospitals or, when they are admitted, find that doctors and nurses refuse even to touch them. "’There is an element of fear," Joshi said. "People think that if they handle these patients, they will get the disease. Discrimination can only be taken care of by a strong training program." Experts say India’s nearly 1 billion people are in only the early stages of an AIDS epidemic that already has swept over Europe and America and decimated Africa, where in some places a quarter of the population is infected with the AIDS virus. .Joshi and his colleagues in India’ s campmgn against AIDS have focused on education and prevention, hoping to keep the infection rate down. Now they acknowledg.e they also must face the challenge of canng for people with full-blown AIDS and those infected with the virus. The World Bank predicts that already snuggling medical systems in developing countries like India will be so swamped by AIDS it will be impossible for people with other diseases to get care. India’ s government estimates 5 million people, less than 1% of Indians, are infected with the AIDS virus. That is considered low by many experts because it is based on very limited testing, but even that figure means one of the world’ s poorest countries has more infected people than any other nation. The estimate of infected Indians has increased steadily from 2.5 million in 1996, spreading mainly through heterosexual sex into the general public from high-risk groups like prostitutes and intravenous drug users. Joshi’s agency says the number of full-blown AIDS cases has soared from six in 1986 to 3,167 in 1996 to around 5,000 in 1998. Knowledge about the disease is lacking among most Indians,including health professionals. Four years ago, India’ s largest and most prestigious hospital, the AllIndia Institute of Medical Sciences, surveyed its more than 7,000 employees about AIDS. Dr. Bir Singh, head of AIDS training at the institute, said he found many staffmembers did not follow even simple procedures like using needles properly to ensure they did not prick themselves with tips contaminated with a patient’s blood. Worse, Singh found doctors and nurses infected with the prejudices about AIDS that are common in the rest of India. A disease linked to sex and drugs in this conservative society is deeply shameful, and those infected with the virus are often treated as if they deserve to die. "The moment it becomes known that a person on a ward is HIV-positive, fear engulfs the ward. That fear is still rampant. That shows the ignorance among the medical community," he said. "If the time comes, God forbid, when one in four patients is HIV+, what will we do?" Sahara, a private residential drug treatment program supported by international aid groups, already faces that problem. Director Neville Selhore estimates a third. of the 120-130 recovering drug addicts living at Sahara’s house in south New Delhi are infected. "In 1990, a lot of the people here started to fall ill," said Selhore’ s wife and co-director, Elizabeth. They soon learned the increasing cases of tuberculosis and shingles pointed to the spread of the AIDS virus and took on the task of treating that as well as addiction. Over the years, the Selhores have developed a matter-of-factness about AIDS that would be striking anywhere. The couple and their young sons live at Sahara along with the recovering addicts. The boys "know about the disease, and they’ re cool," Selhore said. "They see how we deal with it. They know there are onlv so many ways it can be transmitted." At the 16-bed clinic that Sahara opened earlier this year, attendants pat patients’ hair or help them walk with casual affection. They counsel the patients not to share medications like ointment, to use condoms, to stay healthy. Pop music plays in the background. With books and board games on a shelf in a room that doubles as parlor and nurse’ s office, the atmosphere is that of an unusually calm and orderly college dorm. The message is simple: People with the AIDS v~rus can live a normal life if they are armed with information. "We teach people to take care of themselves. Because how many people can the government and orgamzations like this take care of?" �Tulsa is blessed with quite afew excel- " eration just hasn’t seemed to work. lent arts organizations and it’s been the " Villain no. 1: American Theatre Comgood fortune of this pany. Repeated calls to newspaper to-be able to Kitty Roberts have rework with most of sulted in no response. them. Tulsa Family Ms. Roberts apparently News was honored esthinks The Tulsa World pecially to have been a reaches everyone with media sponsor for whom she needs to Philbrook’s Year of bother. I mean if someEurope in 1998. We’ve one calls repeatedly to also had the pleasure of say they’ll give you working with some free press if you Gilcrease, the Philharonly will send a press monic, Tulsa Ballet, release, ’why not? Tulsa Opera and again Surely this is not a case the Tulsa Performing of bias since a promiArts Center Trust nent member of this (TPACT). company is a Gay man. All of these orgamPerhaps once they zations recognize that, coul d not hav e afforded stereotypes not withPhilbrook’s new Beads exhibit the extra stamps but in standing, Tulsa’s Lespromises to be interesting these days of faxes and bian and Gay commue-mail, what gives? nities do support the arts, perhaps even beyond our numbers. As the lovely Camille Sartain, formerly of TPACT and now working at Gilcrease has stated, it just doesn’t make sense for arts organizations not to reach out to the GaycommuSo it makes you wonder about the folks who just don’t seem to get it! Ani]’they mostly seem to be theater types, amazingly enough. Tulsa Family News continues to have difficulty with several organizations whom, we will name in hope that we .might shame them into treating Gay people fairly. It doesn’t seem that it could hurt since politely asking for their coop- ¯ Villain no. 2: Theatre Tulsa! run by a ¯ wall-known Gay man whom you can see ¯ at Renegades’ pool tables regularly. Re" peated visits in person have not persuaded these folks to share info. about their per" formances. Now some with more wicked ¯ tongues than I might say that no self" respecting Gay would want to see some of the ponderous theatrical warhorses this ¯ company produces- still tastes do vary in ¯ ourcommtmity. Notealso, thateveaacall ." to TF board president Dan Call stillhasn’t ¯ moved the mountain. ¯ Villain no. 3: Celebrity Attractions. 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Vilmure is aware of the Toby Sligh is one of those characters, dangers Of being Gay and being young. heroes really, who comes along only once He’s aware of everything that scares us. a generation or so. Like Ishmael or Pip or However, unlike most of us who are afraid, Hamlet, he brings out all of this author faces the fear with 0ur fears and dreams andhopes Tol~ Sli~h is one introspection and grace and and desires. Don’t get me of those dignity. Toby does not run wrong, Daniel Vilmure, the away from his fears in the end, ~lmracters, author of Toby’s Lie is not yet and that is what saves his life. heroes really, a Melville or Dickens. He’s This is a coming of age novel, nowhere near Shakespeare. ~ho come alon~ but Toby grows up like most But when this promising of us do not - Toby learns to only once a young author decided to make stand up for himself. This is a a worthwhile character, he requality that is sadly lacking in ~eneratlon or so. ally overshot his mark. the Gay community, no matLike Ishmael or Toby is in love with Ia~., the ter how many snappy queens one-eyed rich kid that has the Pip or Hamlet, he you know. "most popular" spot at their I’d like to digress a little brin~s out. all of Jesuit-run Catholic school. here, so forgive mein advance. our fea~s and Toby wants to take Ian to the This is after all my last review prom. This causes quite a stir, dreams and hopes for you (I’m moving to New which gets Toby even more York!). Do you remember and desires. confused thanhis mother movBlaxploitation?Those horrening out of the house for mysterious rea- ¯ dous movies, books and television shows ¯ (Yes, Shaftwasjustas awful as Blacula!) sons. ¯ It confuses him more than the beautiful that poured onto the market when enterLatin priest who may or may not be the ." tainment moguls realized that Black child molester of young Toby’s dreams. It ¯ people liked TVtoo? confuses him more than his theoretically ¯ I’d like to send you a warning. Beware drug-dealing best friend. It confuses him ¯¯ of Queer-ploitation. The signs of its aralmost as much as his relationship with rival arehere (was In andOutor To Wong the AIDS-stricken priest that’]ae visits at ¯ Foo really for us, even if they were much lan’s behest in the local hospital. ¯ loftier than Blacula?). I came across it Toby’s life gets thrown around in a ¯ most recently when I started a book for whirlwind of strange friends, stranger fam- ¯ this very review. The book is called Eye ¯ ily and familiar strangers. It is how Toby Contact and it is a mystery with a Gay ¯grows tofignreeverything out, andaceept ¯ protagonist. After my years of schooling the strangeness, that makes him a hero. ¯ and intelligent discourse about literature, ¯ And make no mistake - to the young Icouldonly thinkofonewordthatsummed people growing up Gay in this world ¯ up this book: stupid. l’oby Sligh should be a hero. ¯" Don’t be fooled by the attractive halfWhat struck me most about Toby’s Lie . naked man on the cover- his picure is not ¯ worth the price. Or the support a purchase was the fact that it’s a cleverly disguised AIDS novel. Don~t be put off. We’ve all ¯ shows to the publisher who would put out had enough of our emotions being jerked : a badly-written, ill-conceived novel, just around by badly written, overly soap op- ¯ because they discovered Gay people read era-ish, ’woe-is-me’ plays, movies, books, ¯ tOO. articles, poems, and television specials. ¯ Be careful what you buy. Just because a But we should not become disinterested : book has a Gay protagonist, does not by a work that truly captures what AIDS ¯ mean it is good to buy. Don’t let them has done to our community (by ’commu- ¯ think they can sell us Good Times when nity’ I mean Earth, not the local ’ghetto’). ¯ we could be purchasing Will and Grace. This problem is not over, and Toby’s ¯ Buy Toby’s Lie or Blue Coyote (reviewed ¯ Lie reminds us of that. Finally, an author last month), rather than something that reminds us, touches us, in a way that ¯ has a pretty chest on the cover and no provokes thought instead of stifling it. muscle inside. ]’oby’s problems are many. He’s bomThank you for reading my reviews and ¯ barded on all sides by the schemes and lies take care of us. of everyone he knows. He’s not innocent. ¯ Adam West is no longer a resident of But he is honest.., in a way that few of us ¯ Tulsa or Oklahoma, having relocated the are ever tndy so: Toby is willing to say ¯ Batcave to the state of New York. He ¯ what he fears. And in the end when the practically has no credentials, and he fear of AIDS piles on top of all the others, ¯ certainly no longer has a job. l’oby greets it with true courage. What Toby’s Lie tinally brings us is a ¯ Editor’s note: Tulsa Family News would ¯ unique novel in Gay literature. 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Our editor suring tape called the Our editor laughs laughs lasciviously and "’E-Z Rule" that not offers his own suggesonly has the cry. ptic laselvlously and dons, which I won’t hashmarksbetweenthe dignify by repeating, o~ers ]~is own inches but also the acWhether your ambitual measurement in suggestions, whleh I tions extend no further number (i.e. 1/8, 1/2, than installing mini5/8,etc.)foraquickand won’t dignify blinds, or whether it easy fix on just where by repeating, involves "project fanyou are. I confess that, tasies" on a regular baprior to owning an E-Z Wl~etber your sis, some basic tools Rule, I sometimes had ambitions extend no should bc standard in to count out the hash any home. marks to verify my ~urtl~er than To begin with; a few measurement, ttome installing mlni-bllnds, of the DIYD’s basic repairs don’t have to rules: first, buy the best be that painful - oh, - or wl~etl~er it involves tools you can afford, memories of Sister "project fantasies" Trust me on this one; it Mary Agnes’ s math does make a difference, class!Al ways try to use on a regular basis, and it’s a worthwhile the measuring tool maxim to follow, even each time; this is really some basic tools if you must occasioncritical ff you are meastandard ally resort to layaway suring things that need should, be ordelayedgratffieation, to fit together, as I i~i any borne, Second, honor your found out to my distools and save yoursdf alot of frustration: may in my early handy-dyke days. Seems there there’s always some variation even keep your tools together and organized, They deserve b~tter than to be chucked with something as standard as measureunceremoniously into your standard junk ment. Of course, size queens have known drawer, or under the seat of your car, or this for years. horrors! - propping up a potted plant. A few wrenches are also he~udy to have Third, think about the tasks you do most about. My recommendations: one pair of normal pliers; one pair of slip joint phers often and- buy the necessary tools first, A screwdriver set is almost a given. If youdon’t thinkitis essential tohavemore than just one, used indiscriminately for everything, please bear with me. Bare minimum, four screwdrivers: large and small each of a fiat blade and a Phillips head (cross shaped) screwdriver. Myself, I like four.of each type as a minimum, frommonstroustominute;mosttaskswill fall somewhere in the middle, but its great to have the extremes (no, not the Supremes) on hand when you need them. Using the proper type .and size screwdriver helps prevent the frustration of cam-out (or"wallerin’ out", as I was raised to say) when you are halfway finished driving a screw and can neither go further nor back it out. When selecting screwdrivers, it is easy to ignore Rule no. 1: Darlings, don’t do it! Cheap drivers bend, break and lose head integrity, which also ¯ contributes to cam-out. You didn’t save : much money if you blow through a set of : screwdriverseveryyear.Finally,useyour ¯ ° drivers to drive screws only. They are neither cold chisels noricepicks norham- ¯ mers. A proper hammer should also be in ° your basic tool box anyway. There are all " sortsofhammers-finishing,framiug,ball ¯ peen, etc. If you only have one hammer, ¯ make it acarpenter’s hammer. It candrive " or pull nails, nudge a stubborn board into " place, even demolish that tacky Pepto ¯ pinktile tub surround. Once again, review ¯ Rule no. 1. A cheap hammer will beat you ¯ like a stepchild if you useit for any length of time. A hammer should feel well-bal- ¯ anced in your hand and comfortable to : grip. Stanley makes a good hamm,er, but " (channel locks); and one pair of adjustable locking pliers (vise grips). This is a bare minimum. If you are going to get serious about home repairs, I’d also suggest a small set of combination box end/ open end wrenches in the standard (not metric) size, a pair of needle nose pliers, some wire cutters (aka, "Dykes" -Inn), and at least one pipe wrench. However, the bare minimum will take care of most basic j obs. Referring back to Rule no. 2, do yourself and your tools a favor and keep them together.I’mnotjustbeingabitanalhere; I’m still looking for tools I used to rehab my house. Suggestions: a tool drawer in the house; a peg board with hooks in the garage; a plastic bucket or trays with handles or a gatemouth bag. The there’s my favorite, the tool brit. I always keep a hammer, a couple of screwdrivers, ameasuring tape and a small pair of vise grips in mine, along with a carpenter’ s pencil. I can just grab that little darling and get started on any basic tasks right away. It also holds the nails, screw, drill bits, etc. that I’ll be using specific to that task. Tins brings me to a cautionary tale. My friend C. was on a ladder nailing some sidingrecenfly;shecarfiedhernailsinthe time-honored yet dangerous method between her lips. She and the ladder took a tumble, a nail went down her throat, resulting in a $3500 trip to the ER. In that Light, a tool belt is also very economical. If this st0ry doesn’ t convince of the merits of a tool belt, please consider its aesthetics: a tool belt has a certain butchly charm that almost defies description. Just ask the men and women who know. �by Esther Rothblum ¯ publishers. One publisher said they had Irecentlyhadaconversation~vithElana : too many Jews on their list already!" Dykewomon about her latest book Be- " When Elana was doing a reading of a yond the Pale, a novd about the lives of ¯ section of the book, an editor who hapRussianJewishLesbianswhoimmigrated " pened to be in the audience knew of antoNorthAmericanattheturn other woman who was "~rhen I was 12 or of the century. Elana searching for Lesbian mateDykewomontmsalwaysbro18,I tried tol~ll rial to adapt for her ken new ground. Her book storytelling performances. myself. I was one of Riverfinger Woman was one "My section was then drathose statistics of of the first Lesbian novels, matized," Elana told me. "I Beyond the Pale won the saw this woman, Helen adolescent Les[rians 1998 Lambda Literary Mintz, performing it once who attempt su~elde. Award for Lesbian fiction, and I was floored. It’ s amaz"~hen I was I asked her how she be. ing to see someone act your came a writer. "I was always work. She performed it in institutionali~d, writing. I was a writing Vancouver where the ediI realked tlmt child," she said."When I was tors of Press Gang Publish12 or 13, I tried to kill myers heard it and wrote to me writers didn’t kave self. I was one of those staaskingmeif they could contistics of adolescent Lesbi- to be 0endered in the sider publishing the book." ans who at[empt suicide, same way that 01rls As Elana continued WhenI was institutionalized, -. work on the book, she had to and boys did. I realized that writers didn’ t researchmany aspects of life at the turn of the century. "I had toread the have to be gendered in the same way that really dry stuff," she said, "like the history . girls and boys did. That is, I could choose of the grain trade in Odessa. I couldn’t go to be neither a traditional girl nor boy; I could be a writer." Elana.found that she to Russia, so I was looking for descripcould be eccentric and free in that m.le as tions of streets and figuring out what daily a writer, life was like. My girlfriend Susan In college at the California Institute of Levenkind is a librarian and she was very Arts, Elana met a number of experimental good at finding tbings out for me. I would poets and became active in Gay liberaread a book and then use their bibliogration. One of her teachers knew someone phy as a starting point. I learned how to be an historian." A friend gave her a book in publishing. ’¢Fhis was 1971, and they were starting a slightly pornographic seabout the Women’ s Trade Union League, ties for housewives to cash in on the new which turned out be quite a Lesbian orgafeminist sexuality," Elana remembered, nization. She went to labor libraries, and laughing, "and told me to write up my even looked up the transportation system in New York City at the turn of the cenexperiences. I wrote the first third of the tury. book in !8 straight hours. I wanted to write a Lesbian novel with a happy endAt book readings, Elana prefers seetlons of her book that describe the poing." But the publisher said it was not groins in Russia. "I also like to read the what they were looking for. By this time Elana had moved to the sectionsthathavealittlesexinthem,"she said. For example, when Chava and Rose women’ s community in Northampton, Massachusetts. The feminist publisher fall in love: "Rose leaned towards me, put her hand Daughters Inc. had sent flyers around on my cheek to turn my face so we could townand afriendrecommended that Elana see each other... ’So if you want to and I send her book to that new company. They accepted Riverfinger Woman which came want to, who starts?’ I pulled the tenement air down to the out in print in 1974, one year after they published Rubyfruit Jungle. The Naiad bottom of my lungs. This was harder than goingout on strike. I moved my lips onto Press reprint of Riverfinger Woman conRose’ s. Together. We had been lying in eludes with an essay detailing Elana’s bed together for more than two years. process in getting this book published, Elana went on to publish three more ¯ Careful.Cousins. Leftside, rightside, I’m worn out, me too, goodnight. books before her current novel. They Will Know Me By My Teeth was a colleclion of No, I changed my mind as the kissengulfed our faces and my hands found short stories which she self-published in the soft flesh of her shoulders and pressed 1976. She also published a book of poems entitled Fragments From Lesbos. In 1995 her close. This was easier than going on Onlywomen Press published her book of strike. This was easier than anything." poems Nothing Will BE As Sweet As The The response from readers has been Taste. Elana also had a long stint as an wonderful. ’T ve gotten lots ofletters saying ’This is my grandmother’s Story’ or editor of the feminist periodical Sihister Wisdom. ’now I understand my history’ or heterosexualwomenintheir70s or80s wholove Beyond the Pale began over ten years this story," said Elana. ago as a poem. After she had written that poem, Elana felt that there was a longer . The "Lammies" (Lambda Literary story there. "So I started to think who ¯ Awards) are to Lesbian writing what the these two women would be and who their ¯ Oscars are to Hollywood. Elana’ s award familieswouldbe, whatwouldmakethem " for Lesbian fiction is the eqnivalent of the migrate. I started to read old books about " best actress award in the Oscars. She was travellors in Russia at the turn of the : awarded the most recent Lammy for Lescentury. The depths of the anti-Semitism ¯ bian fiction. For further information, contact Elana in these books was stnnning to me." "I wrote what became the midwife’s " Dykewomon at dyke@sfsu.edu. Beyond story, and decided this could be a novel. ¯ the Pale was published in 1997 by Press When the first half of the book was done, " Gang Publishers, 225 East 17th Ave., I got some unencouraging responses from " Vancouver, B.C. VSV IA6, Canada. A UTHENTIC FRESH ITALIAN RAINBOW C US1NE TR O UT IGTA member Call 341.6866 International of Eureka Springs Voted Number One in Arkansas] Tours (501) 253-680Z Closed Wednesday 5 Center Street, Eureka Springs, AR 72632 formoreinformation. COCONUT BEER BATTERED SHRIMP PRIME RIB FRESH CLAMS VE(;IE STIR FRY COG;tUILE ST. JAGIUES MAHI-MAHI RACKOF LAMB CHOCOLATE SOUFFLE Red Rock Tulsa O’RYAN Oklahoma Rainbow Young Adult Netxvork Outreach Program Thurs. 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Equality Begins at Home will bolster the infrastructure of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender movement within the states - where the heart of the struggle for equality lies - and lead to greater success in the overall struggle for equality. Each state organization will develop events to highlight priority issues: * In California, activists will focus on defeating an anti-Gay ballot measure to be put before voters next year. Events will include a rally and youth lobby day. * In New Hampshire, activists will hold a rally at the state capitol to focus attention on the need to repeal a state law banning Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender people from adopting children. * In Nebraska, organizers will target workplace discrimination. They will hold a lobby day and circulate a "Workplace Fairness Petition" to business owners Free & Anonymous Finger Stick Method By &for, but not exclusive to the Lesbian, Gay, & Bisexual Communities. 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There’s not much point in writing about this sort of event two weeks after it’s over. It would be one thing if their decisions were made on serious business rationale such as reach of a publication or the cost for a particular market segment. But Payton openly admits that he is motivated by religion; that is, as a Southern Baptist he feels it’s his religious duty to discriminate against Gay readers. Now what was it that Jesus said? Love your neighbor as yourself, wasn’t it? Is that how he would want to be treated? Note, however, that he doesn’t hesitate to use Gays when it is to his advantage, say, like many of the people with whom he does business: the actors, the theatrical companies, even a member of his own staff. The one time he advertised with this newspaper for The Phantom of the Opera was because we contacted The Phantom company who -~magine, were mostly Gay men. It seems they thought reaching out to us was a good idea. Oh well, don’t look to see info. about these companies anytime soonif we judge from past performance. But we always hold out hope for redemption, that these hard hearts might be softened. Meanwhile don’t miss the new shows at Philbrook. Drop by Gilcrease too when throughout the state. "The battleground for equality has moved to the states, and so have we," said Paula Ettelbrick, Equality Begins at Home national coordinator. "We are throwing down the gauntlet and demanding that state officials resist the right wing’s efforts to deny us our basic fights as citizens," Ettelbrick added. Equality Begins at Home is part of a campaign to counter the growing muscle of the right wing and its anti-Gay attacks. In the last few years, the right has passed dozens of anti-Gay laws in dozens of states. In addition, 1998 was one of the most vicious years in recent memory. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott likened homosexuality to kleptomania and sex addiction. Congress introduced a number of mean-spirited anti-Gay measures. Rightwing groups launched a major advertising campaign attacking Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender people. In addition, voters approved anti-Gay ballot measures in Alaska; Hawaii; Fayetteville, Arkansas; Fort Collins, Colorado; and Ognnquit, Maine "Our demands are simple and in line with basic American values: the right to be safe, to have a family, to hold a job, and to participate fully as citizens. It’ s exactly what every American wants and deserves," said Gina Reiss, co-chair of the Federation of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Statewide Political Orgamzations and executive director of New Jersey Lesbian and Gay Coalition. For a calendar of events for Equality Beg ins atHome, please view our web site at http://www.equalitybeginsathome.org Note also that February will be quite the month for dance with the Tulsa Ballet seemingly getter better with ev cry performance (2/5-7 The Green Table. Equinoxe and Jardi Tancat) and Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo in for just one, mind you, just one fabulous "men in tights" performance on March 16th. Don’t miss it! - TFN entertainment editor Bill Laforttme. In Republican circles, it’s said that Gov. Frank Keating has suggested that he would not oppose the amendment. Also the following bills were introduced in the Oklahoma House: HB1224- An Act relating to children; amending 10 O.S. Supp. 1998, Section 7503-1.1, which relates to eligibility to adopt a child; making persons in certain cohabitation relationship ineligible to adopt a child. Author - Pope, Tim. HB 1707 - An Act relating to children: amending 10 O.S. Supp. 1998, Section 7503-1.1, which relates to eligibility to adopt; prohibiting certain persons from adopting children. Author - Graves, Bill HB 1314 - An Act relating to the Oklahoma Department of Libraries; mandating certain policies related to identification and separation of sexually explicit materials. 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(McAlester) 1~21629 Plans for 1999 include a creative arts Center spokesman, Greg, adds that the night in .February both for the artistically inclined and the not so artistically indined, a bingo night in March, dance lessons in February, a Sadie Hawkins dance in May, a camping and float trip in June, a spirituality and healing arts night in July, a Casino night in August, a,.weekend in Eureka Springs in October, movie night in November, and a hiatus in December (since so much else is going on anyway) and then in January 2000, a progressive potluck dinner. Additionally the group has planned a Memorial Day alternative picnic and softball game for May. "We tried to create a wide diversity of ideas and activities knowingthat not every one enjoys the same kind of things," said Joan. "It was also suggested to have mid-month bike rides, walking groups, bowling nights and other sports related Center also is hosting regular Pride Dances activities ." Joan added, "we hope to attract singles, couples and break down some of the barriers women have for attending. All of our activities have a small fee to help offset printing and postage and site rental costs. We are also planning fund raisers for different organizations." To learn more about Gal-A-Vanting or to get the mailing list, call Mary at 7436740, Kathy at 322-6322, or Barb at 4596825. every other Saturday at 8pro. The Center ¯ now has a pool table to supplement the ¯ ping-pong and foosball tables it had be" fore. ¯ : ¯ : : ¯ ¯ : ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ : ¯ ¯ : . : : : ¯ Also, Center legal counsel, Kerry Lewis, shared that the board of directors of Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights, the parent organization of the Pride Center, had responded to the eviction notice of the Center’s landlord. - Without delving into the legal partieularities, the board responded to the notice saying that the Center was withinits rights under thelaw to post its signs and that the landlordhad Wrongfully terminated their lease. The gist of the matter, according to Lewis is that all rights go to the tenant unless specifically restricted by the landlord. Lewis stated too that the landlord and his attorney had failed to show up at a meeting that was scheduled to try to re- solve the conflict. 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Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data newspaper periodical Text Any textual data included in the document Gays in the Military Update More "Gays" Leaving US Armed Forces WASHINGTON (AP) -TheAir Force andArmyreport sharp increases in the number of troops discharged for homosexuality, and officials believe many are discontented non-Gay recruits looking for a way out. In releasing the figures, the Defense Department said it was satisfied with its "don’t ask, don’t tell" policy on homosexuality in the services. It asserted that the 1998 dischargenumbers "align" with those ofprevious years, even though they reached an 11-year high. A watchdog group, the Servicemembers Legal Defense Fund, said the’figures were fresh evidence that Gays still are being mistreated in the 1.4-million-member active-duty military. "Commanders are still asking, pursuing and harassing people," said Dixon Osbum, the group’s co-executive director. ,,,~ The "don’t ask, don’t tell" policy, adopted in 1994, is supposed to allow Gays to serve if they keep their sexual orientation private. It punishes those who engage in homosexual acts or take actions that call attention to their orientation. But critics accuse the services of hunting down Gays and driving them out of the service. If a service member voluntarily states his or her homosexuality, discharge is automatic.. In the.case oLa recruit still in basic (raining, av0iuniary declaration of homosexuality means an admjuistrative discharge that does not carry a bad-conduct stigma. Under the Pentagon policy there are three grounds for discharge: if a service member voluntarily states that he or she is Gay; if someone is determined to have engaged in a homosee Military, p. 3 Maryland Judge Throws Out Sodomy Law BALTIMORE (AP) - A judge who rtded Baltimore’s 80-year-old anti-sodomy law does not apply to consensual acts has expanded the ruling to include anal as well as oral sex. The ruling by Circuit Judge Richard T. Rombto settles a 1997 clas s-action suit by theAmerican Civil Liberties Union. "This is saying the government will not intrude in the bedroom," said Dwight Sullivan, a staff counsel for the ACLU’s Maryland chapter, which sued on behalf of several Gay men and Lesbians. State officials, who did not object to tLe ACLU’s efforts, said the ruling was largely symbolic because few if any state residents have been prosecuted for sodomy. ACLU officials, however, said the existence of the law posed a threat to privacy rights and left homosexuals vidnerable to job discrimination and unfair attacks in child custody cases. Thirty-one states have rep.ealed anti-sodomy laws, while 17 still have them on the books, including Virgiuia. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a Georgia case in 1986 that anti-sodomy laws are constitutional. In 1990, the Maryland Court Of Appeals ruied the law could not be used to prosecute consentual, nonpublic acts of oral sex, see Maryland, p. 14 DIRECTORY/LETTERS P. 2 EDITORIAL P. 3 US & WORLD NEWS P. 4 HEALTH NEWS P; 6 COMMUNITY CAL ENDAR P. 9 BOOK REVIEW P. 10 DO-IT-YOURSELF-DYK E P, 11 DYKE PSYCHE P. 12 CLASSIFIEDS + WEERWOLF P. 14 ST~ervin~g Lesb[ian~, Gay,~Bisex_ual +nT~ranPsa_gl~eenrdAevraeidlabTluelIsnaMnso,reOTuhraFna7m5iClieis +LoFcraietinodnss Hate Crimes Amendment Has A Chance in OK Legislature TMM - Metropolitan Ministry Endorses Amendment TULSA/OKLAHOMA CITY - Those who knew Matthew Shepard say that he would have wished that some good come out of evil. And it appears that, in Oklahoma at least, some good might come out of the horror of his murder. That at least is the conclusion drawn by some commumty activists who see the new willingness of Oklahoma political leaders to address hate crimes based on actual or perceived sexual orientation. Speaking anonymously, one clergy participantinTulsa Metropolitan Ministry, an influential local interfaith organization, indicated that Shepard’s murder is what helped shake the organization out of its unwillingness to address the concerns of Lesbians and Gay men. As she put it, they could no longer remain silent. And moving amazingly fast for such a diverse group, TMM adopted as one of its legislative goals for this 1999 session, the amendment of Oklahoma’s Malicious Intimidation Statute, otherwiseknown as the Hate Crimes law. In fact, abill (HB 1211) for this amendment has been introduced by Tulsa legislator, Don Ross. HB 1211 has a companion bill introduced in the Oklahoma Senate by Sen. Ben Brown, and Democratic party rumors have it that Speaker of the House, Loyd Benson has committed to support the bill. Oklahoma Attorney G~neral Drew Edmondson already has committed publicly to supporting this amendment as has former Tulsa County District Attorney see Hate.p. 13 Activists kick off Eq~mlity Begins at Home at fall conference. Thousands to Go to Capitols First Ever National Week ofAction for Equality WASHINGTON, DC - January 25, 1999 - In the 30th aunivers. ary year of the S tonewall rebellion- the birth of the modern Gay rights movement - thousands of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender people will launch an unprecedented national week of action for equality. Equality Begins at Home, slated for the week of March 21 - 27, is a major initiative to push state lawmakers to support a platform of equality. Planning for these by local activists is well under way. In Oklahoma, Paul Thompson, of the Oklahoma Gay & Lesbian Political Caucus is co-ordinating the Oklahoma event at the State Capitol on Saturday, March 27. Paid can be reached at email: Gayoglpc@flash.net, or 405-791-0202. Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights (TOHR) is working to help organize Tidsans to go. From Montana to Maine, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender people will come out and speak up in simultaneous events nationwide, most ofwhich will take place at state capitols. These actions will, mnong other things, build support for laws that counter hate violence, ban employment discrimination, provide for safe schools for all students, ensure.the right to adopt and become foster parents, and address health issues including HIV/AIDS. Equality Begins at Home is coordinated by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force .and organized by the Federation of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Statewide Political Organizations. As part of its coordinating efforts, the Task Force provided Federation member groups $5,000 each to support their Equality Begins at Home organizing efforts and hired a national coordinator for the event. Dozens of national organizations have signed on in support of this week of action. "Equality Begins at Home is not an end point but a beginning point. We are going to make our statewide organizations stronger, mobilize more people, register more voters, and demand greater accountability from our state legislators and policy makers," stated Kerry Lobel, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force executive director, see EBAH, p..13 Pride CenterAnnounces OneRecruitShortofa ToasterMembers Drive and Gay Legal Rights Program TULSA - How do you feel about winning a very stylish toaster or toaster oven? That’s what Pride Center organizers want to know. They’re hoping that these possibilities will motivate you to join Tulsa’s Gay & Lesbian community center, the Pride Center and to persuade as many of your friends, family and acquaintances to do the same. Pride Center volunteers have organized a membership drive from Feb. 1 to March 31 that was inspired by Lesbian comedian, Ellen Degeneres, and they’re offering prizes for "recruiting" new community center members. Center spokesman, Greg Gatewood stated that any current or new member will receive "a toaster accessory" (what is that???) for bringing in five new members. Ten new members will win you a sleek new bagelcapable toaster. And if you get 25 new memberships, you’ll get, not just a toaster, but a toasteroven! However, the grand prize is airfare to an exotic seaside location so you can toast yourself in the tropical sun. Sound good? To win this you need to get at least 50 new memberships though the winner will be the person who gets the most memberships of 50 ormo~e by March 31 st. Tojoin or to get more information, call the Center at 743-GAYS (4297). Beginning in Feb. specifically Feb. 18 at 7:30, the Oklahoma Lesbian and Gay Law Association will begin a series of free legal seminars for Lesbians and Gay men. These seminars are set up as informal discussions drawing on the skills of attorneys who specialize in areas of interest to the community. Tulsa attorney Camille Quiun will lead the first discussion on estate planning. The discussion will be geared toward both couples and individuals. Again for more information, call the Center at 743-GAYS (4297).. Other evenfs a( the ~enter include a Mardi Gras costume party on Feb. 13 with dancing to music by "Grandmaster DJ Tim." see Center, p. 14 GaI-A-Vanting TULSA - More than fourteen women met recently to plan monthly events for "Gal-A-Vanting, Ms. Adventures for Women." Gal-A-Vanting is a social and cultural organization for Lesbian women. The group seeks to provide social, cultural and selfexploration opportunities for women as wall as a venue for meeting and for developing a sense of The organization was the brainchild of two friends, Mary (also known as the Do-It-Yourself Dyke) and Joan, who decided that there was not enough for women to do in the Tulsa area and who, also, were tired ofdriving to Arkansas for women’s activities. They believed there would be enough interest in the Tulsa community to create an organization to provide activities here. Approximately 20 women have attended each of the activities hosted by Gal-A-Vanting in the past four months. There are now more than 65 women’s names on the mailing list. The organization has hosted a number of events, a "women and the arts evening" which featured poetry and various artist’s work, a dance, a drumming circle and a movie night. Monthly activities are planned for the second Samr.day ev.e.mng of each month. 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School Ave. 501-442-2845 ¯ JOPLIN, MISSOURI *Spirit of Christ MCC, 2639 E. 32, Ste. U134 41%623-4696 * is where you can find TFN. Notall are Gay-owned but all are Gay-friendly. Carbon Copy KMOD Gay Bashing? ¯ Dear Phil and Brent, ¯ As a regular listener of your show, I am ¯ concerned about the words of intolerance ¯ directed toward theGay community. Your ¯ Thursday shows seem especially filled ¯ with the promotion of hate as an acceptable behavior. Being reasonable people, ; and I assume residents of the Tulsa com- -¯ mumty, I cannot understand your continued promotion of hate towards a large ¯ segment of-the Tulsa community. Hate ¯ speech equals hate crimes- aproven fact. : Your success as morning show hosts ¯ can only mean that there are a great num- " ber ofpeople listening. The words youuse ¯ can drastically change the world of those ¯ who listen. Your words could be respon- - sible for the next bashing or killing of a Gay person. Is this a responsibility you _" are ready to accept and bear for the re- , mainder of your life? ¯ I, as you by now expect, will no longer ¯ be tuning into your show, and will encour- ¯ age my friends and acquaintances to turn ¯ the dial as well. After all, you are "the ¯ rainbow station." The rainbow has been : mmedinto aflag. That flag represents the ¯ pride of the Gay community. ¯ I wouldhope thatKMODwouldchoose ¯ not to continue the verbal assault on our ¯ Gay citizens. I would offer that two orga- ¯ nizations I belong to, teach tolerance ; classes, and perhapsKMOD would liketo have some of this information. Your re- " quest may be directed to me, or to the ¯ organizations directly. - Ned T. Bruha, Tulsa ¯ ce: TOHR PFLAG Great Issue Thelatest edition [January] ofTFN was really a great issue. Thanks for the important work that you do. Keep it up. Our communityneeds it. This recentissue was a great example of the kind of quality our community is capable of. Anyone can be proud with that kind ofleadership. Bravo. And thanks. - M.S. Tulsa In Memorium WASHINGTON - The Human Rights Campaign mourned the death of activist John Thomas, 51, who died on January 20. Mr. Thomas served on the HRC Board from 1982 to 1985 andplayedamajorpart in HRC’s expansion in the Dallas area. His contributions withHRCincludedhelping start the Dallas Black-Tie Dinner Committee. He helped found numerous organizations including the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund. Additionally, Mr. Thomas was former executive director.of the Foundation for HumanUnderstandingandthe Dallas Gay & Lesbian Community Center, now known as the John Thomas Gay & Lesbian Community Center. Letters Policy Tulsa Family News welcomes letters on issues which we’ve covered or on issues you think need tobe considered. Youmay request that your name be withheld but letters mustbe signed&have phone numbers, or be hand delivered. 200 word letters are preferred. Letters to other publications will be printed as is appropriate. sexual act; and in the case of same-sex marriage. "In virtually every self-initiated disclosure, the second statement made is, ’I’d also like to be discharged,"’ said David Smith, a spokesman at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas. He said this led officials to conclude that a growing number of recruits are using a Gay declaration to get out. Smith said commanders are legally prohibited from ques- .tioning Air Forcemembers about such voluntary statements. "You kind of have to take them at their word,".he said. T’jae Gibson, anAir Force spokeswoman at the Pentagon, said an official review of discharges and personnel policies at Lacklandlast year found that most instructors and trainees there believed the acknowledgments ofhomosexuality were made to cut short an enlistment. Armyofficials said they "also suspect many Gay discharges in their service involve soldiers looking for a quick way out, but they do not consider the trend to be a major source of worry. Supreme Court Lets Military Policy Stand WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court once again left intact the military’s "don’t ask, don’t tell" policy today, rejecting a challenge by two former servicemen discharged after declaring their, homosexuality. The court, without comment, turned away arguments by the men that the policy is based on prejudice agaiust homosexuals and violates their free-speech rights. This action, while not a definitive ruling, marked the fifth time in recent years that the highest court has rejected efforts to invalidate the policy. Every federal appeals court that has considered the issue has upheld the policy. This appeal was filed by National Guard 1st Lt. Andrew Holmes ofSacramento, Calif.,andNavy Lt. Richard Watson. Holmes declared his homosexuality to. his commanding officer in 1993. Watson was serving in Bremerton, Wash.,in October 1994 when he submitted a written statement to his commanding officer that said, "’I have a homosexual orientation." Both men were discharged and sued in federal courts. A judge in San Francisco ruled for Holmes and declared the military policy unconstitutional. But ajudge in Seattle ruled against Watson. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals combined the cases andupheldthe "don"t ask, don’t tell" policy. US Law Professors Fight .Military Policy NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Hundreds of law professors are joining the fight to get Gays and Lesbians an equal place in the U.S. armed forces. The battlefield is a 1996 law thatlets the government take all federal student aid from schools which refuse to let military recruiters on campus. Scores of universities had barred recruiters to protest the "don’t ask, don’t tell" policy, but let them back after President Clinton signed the law by former U.S. Rep. Gerald Solomon. "If we had a recruiter who said, ’We won’t hire anyone who’s black,’ there’s no doubt about us kicking them off campus," said David V. Chavkin, director and associate professor at American University’s Washington College of Law. "The notion that we should treat discrimination against our Gay and Lesbian and bisexual and trans~gender students as different is an outrage. The law school agreed in 1997 to let military recruiters return after attorneys decided that not only its 1,200 students, but all of the university’s undergraduates could lose their federal aid, including lowinterest loans and work-study money. At the meeting, Chavkin was working a~ a table set up outside the Association of American Law Schools’ biggest meeting rooms to sign up people willing to work for repeal of the law. When theAALS meeting ends, organizers hoped to have 100 law schools represented. U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., who plans to lead the repeal fight, thinks the law is very vulnerable, said Alan Minuskin, a Boston College Law School professor. At one point, 138 campusesbarred military recnfiters. By late 1997;. the list had dwindled to 18. 17 were in Connecticut, where the policy against discrimination was part of state law. The federal law applies to all colleges and universities. The repeal push is starting in law schools because most either have longstanding rules of their own against discrimination or belong to the AALS, which had a rule since 1990 against dealing with any organization that discriminates. It changed that rule last year, under protest, because of the Solomon Amendment. EdwinJ. Butterfoss, deah andprofessor oflaw at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minn., said, "...we have a lot more work to do. It [the Solomon law] undermines a law school!s ability to enforce its own policies - not by attacking the schools, but they’re attacking the students." ¯ The Associated Press AtMartin LutherKing Day parades and prayer break- , fasts, in their offices and in homes, many Blacks said ¯ they have a particular stake in the impeachment trial of s~dent Clinton- the best thing thathas happened for ¯¯ Blacks in a long time." "If Clinton is removed from "Dr. Kin~ ¯ office, that’s a slap in the face would be ¯ forBlack America," said Mikel ¯ Holt, editor of the Milwaukee suspect Of the ¯ ¯ CommunityJournal, a Black impeael~ment newspaper. ’.’That’s inessence, derailing the civil fights free- process l~eeause ¯¯ domtrain." he would be Clinton has long enjoyed ¯ Black support, both from the suspect of tl~e ¯ public and in Congress, be¯ cause he socializes and prays impeaclters," ¯ with Black people, appoints the Rev. Jesse ¯ them to high positions and un- Jackson said ¯ derstands the struggle of rac- ¯ ism, Black leaders said. a~ter a : " As the trial entered its secondweek, some summonedthe breal~ast : name and message of the slain l~onorin~ ¯ civil rights leader in Clinton’s ¯ defense - saying the two men in C]~iea~o. ¯ shared a common dream of Jackson ¯ equality, specffleally ¯ "Dr. King would be suspect ¯ of the impeachment process mentioned ~ because he would be suspect ¯ of the impeachers," the Rev. Senate ¯ JesseJacksonsaidafterabreak- 1MIajorlty leader ¯ fasthonoringKinginChicago. Trent Loft... ¯ Jackson specifically men- , tioned Senate Majority leader reee_ntly linked. ¯ Trent Lott,who was recently : linked by his uncle to an ultra- . . . to an ultra- : conservatl/ve group accused of conservative ¯ promoting white supremacy. ~roup accused i Lwoastt adfefniliieadteldaswt iwtheethkethgartouhpe of promo~in~ ¯ and said he is opposed to rac: ismand white supremacy. white : Richard Bailey a historian supremacy¯ ¯ and author from Montgomery, Alabama, said he too was suspect of some of Clinton’s : critics. "I think (Blacks) are most uncomfortable with : the way matters are being handled and with the key ¯ players," he said. ¯ ¯ "If the conservativepeoplewho are trying to impeach the president come into power, it will be a tumbaek of ¯ the dock for Afro-Americans," said Edward Lewis Jr., i president of the NAACP for Idaho, Nevada and Uiah. ¯ Any current alternative to Clinton could be worse ," said Vicki Washington, director of Equal Opportunity ¯ and Diversity at theUniversity of Wisconsin-Extension ¯ in Madison, Wis. "Of all of our presidents in the recent ¯ past, Clinton seems to be more in tune with the impact ¯ of historic discrimination and how it continues to have ¯ bothapolitical and economic impact onAfriean Ameri_ .. cans and other people of color today," Washington said. ¯ To some, the impeachment itself is being driven by - :~ fear of-minority power. "My question is, are they real[ hounding him for his personal transgressions, or (to punish) him for making his administration the most i diverse that the country’s ever known? That, to me, seems the undeit0ne," said Victoria Mares Hershey, ¯ first vice president of the NAACP in Portland, Maine. Nan Stovall, another NAACP member from Port- " land, said Clinton is "the best thing that has happened : for Blacks in a long time," she said. ¯ Via the Internet ¯ Q - What do Howdy Doodie, the Muppets and Steve Largent have in common? : A - They all have cute faces with painted-on grins, ¯ empty heads and someone else’s hand up their ass ¯ making their mouths move. Too vulgar, but too, too funny not to print. What’s "- dangerous about Largent is that he’s .not stupid at all.We don’t dispute the hand business though. - TN by Tom Neal. editor &publisher As a child, I learned much to my amazement that some families actually tried to avoid discussing controversial topics, especially at dimmer. Not mine. When friends wonder about my interest in discussing ethics and politics, all I need to do is to invite them to dinner and.turn my father loose on them. They’ll never wonder agmn. Note that I regard this familial inheritance of debate and discussion as a wonderful, wonderful legacy but it is, perhaps, an acquired taste. I share this bit of personal history in order to put the following in context. Since May, I’ve been.arguing at my family’s Sunday night dinners that Bill Clinton, based merely on the appearance of inappropriate conduct (that old lawyerly standard), shouldresign. That is, ifhe were a gentleman. Of course, we all know that if he had ever been a gentleman, or even were vaguely acqtminted with the notion, he wouldn’t be in this nasty PaulaJMonica/ Gennifer/whatever mess in the first place. But regardless of Bill’s spectacular lapses in judgment, many Gays and Lesbians, both of color and those with less color, are going to understand the sentiments of the adjacent editorial. If the ultra conservatives, "wing-nuts" as Tul sa Republican mayoral wanna-be, Terry Simonson, characterized them, get completely back into power, it will be a turning back the clock for Gay and Lesbian Americans as well as for African Americans. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott not only is dosdy tied to ultra racist organizations like the Concerned Citizens Council but has had his anti-Gay views well documented. And I suspect that the ccc is just about as anti-Gay as it is racist. And while Lott is now denying that he shares the CCC’s racist and white supremacy views, he’s not bothering to deny his heterosexist supremacy stances. Clearly, we Gay folks really haven’t gotten as far along in the fight for equality as non-Gay Blacks. I think it is safe to sa$ that the folks who hate Clinton because he treats Blacks more fairly than any previous president, also hate him because he’s treated Gay folks more fairly than any other too. Granted his record’s not perfect. He reneged on his promise to end our military’s ban on Gay soldiers. And his talk about AIDS is better than his walk has been much of the time. But he’s appointed more openly Gay individuals to significant governmental positions than ever before and he’s used his executive power to ban discrimination in civilian parts of our government. And look who’s out to get him: the slimiest of the slime: Bob Barr, Newt Gingrich, Helen Chenowith, Bob Livingston (something of a gentleman at least for resigning), and Henry Hyde, adulterers, fornicators and hypocrites all. Note also that all of these folks were big, big supporters of the Defense of Marriage Act that banned samegender marriages, if and when they should happen. Let me see, when did cheating on your spouse become part of supporting "traditional" marriage? Bill, of course, also signed this patently unconstitutional law. Andone hears from time to time a runaor or two about our saintly First District representative, Steve Largent. One wonders what he’d say about his sex life under oath. After all, even if he’s been utterly faithful to his spouse, he was a great college athletic star and who hasn’t heard of a fomieating football player? Maybe at Brigham Young, and then only maybe. Last I checked, fornication was still illegal in Oklahoma though it is hardly one of our frequently enforced laws. However, I do have to give Henry Hyde some credit for redefining the notion of"youthful indiscretion." Mr. Hyde cheated onhis wife at the age of 41. This 41 yearold editor is delighted to learn that anything I do at this point in my life still has some hope of being declared a "youthful indiscretion." I do digress. The bottom line: I don’t like Bill,’s dishonesty, but I don’t like the behavior of most of the Congress. I don’t like Congress’ "witch hunt." The $50 million Stair spent could have bought a whole lot of drugs or food or housing to keep people living with AIDS alive, or done any number of genuinely worthy things for our country. Maybe we could just impeach them all. Hormel Renominated WASHINGTON (AP) - President Clinton has renominated James Hormel as ambassador to Luxembourg, and a White House official said Tuesday the administration hopes "fairness will prevail" in the new Congress so he can be approved for thejob. The Senate last year refused to vote on the nomination of Hormel after several conservative Republicans accused him of promoting homosexual views: The White House accused lawmakers of prejudice. Hormel, who is Gay, was appro,ced by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, but Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., didn’ t allow his nomination to come to the floor in the face of scattered GOP objections. White House spokesperson, Barry Toiv said Hormel was among a number of.renominations Clinton submitted to the new Congress, which began its work this month. If approved, Hormel wonld be the first openly Gay U.S. envoy. Chiistian right groups had’attacked Hormel, a vocal supporter of Gay rights and AIDS causes, over his sponsorship ofaGay and Lesbian center at the San Francisco Public Library that bears his name. Republican critics called some of the material obscene and feared Hormel might promote a "Gay agenda" as ambassador to the tiny European nation. Hormel must go through the entire nomination process again, including approval at the committee level before a Senate vote. Florida County May Add Partner Benefits FORTLAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP)-Broward County may be on its way to extending to domestic parmers of county employees the same ,benefits that married couples now receive. A proposed ordinance would provide medical coverage to Gay, Lesbian and unmarried partners of county employees to the same extentas other employees and allow unmarriedcouples to legally register as domestic partners. The measure also would require contractors that handle at least S50,000 in business with the county to offer health benefits to partners of their own workers. If adopted later this year, Broward would join one other Florida county, more than 100 other state and local governments across the country and some corpora. tions that have given similar allowances to domestic partners. Some business owners in Broward, Florida’s secon& largest county, object to being told how to run their companies. However, the commission, which has already 6utlawed discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, appears receptive to the proposal. CornmissionCha~rwoman Ilene Lieberman said she supports most sections of the ordinance but had doubts about imposing the mandate on private comparties that do business with the county, County attorneys said the proposal may conflict with the state’s broad Defense of Marriage Act, the 1997 law that says same-sex marriages are not recognized in Florida. Supporters said domestic partnerships are not identical to marriages and the county’ s proposal says nothing about child custody, divorce, inheritance or other rights held by spouses. Robin Bodiford and Dean Trantalis, two lawyers and Gay civil rights activists, prepared the proposal with the Lambda Legal Defense Fund, a national Gay and Lesbian group. In Florida, the Monroe County Commission agreed in February 1998 to allow county workers to share Lheir employee benefits with their domestic partners. In Miami-Dade County, the state’ s largest county, the commission approved an ordinance last month barfing discrimination of homosextmls in the workplace and housing. Holocaust Coverup Uncovered ATLANTA (AP) - Material about Nazi persecution of homosexuals, edited out of a teachers’ guide about the Holocaust, will be sent to Georgia schools in a separate letter. The Georgia Commission on the Holocaust, which had previously deemed the material too sexually graphic for fifth- and sixth-grade students, agreed to the change after a meeting with civil rights activists. It was too late to reprint the guides, which were to be mailed out to schools across the state by this week. lut the commission decided to send the deleted material to schools in a separate letter. Harry Knox, director of the Georgia Equality Project, a civil rights group said the new mailing also will include four extra teachers’ guides from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. The 15-member Holocaust comrmssion, fornted in 1986, is a state agency. It objected to passages in the 92-page guide "Triangles, Badges, & Stars: Remembering the Mosaic of Victims of the Holocaust." Gay civil rights groups were upset when the commission asked a law firm sponsonng the gnides to delete the material. The law firm reluctandy agreed and removed the passages from the Georgia version of the guide. Versions of the guide were’also produced for teachers in California and Florida. HOmosexuals are mentioned in at least four places in the 6,000 copies printed for Georgia middle school and high school teachers, said SylviaWygoda, director and chairwoman of the Holocaust commission. Vice chairman Alex Gross said commission members wanted only a few objectionable words removed, not entire paragraphs. Here are the para~aphs on Nazi treatment of homosexual Holocanst victims which the GeorgiaCom: unssion on the Holocaust asked to be deleted: "German male homosexuals were targeted and arrested because they would not breed the master race: they were an affront to the Nazi macho image." "’The doors of the third (cattle) car open and the homosexuals spill forth, males only, because as Hirnmler concluded, ’Lesbians can give birth.’ The taunting jeers, and blows of the guards stun the men. They will stay a night and then be rerouted to Sachsenhausen mad Buchenwald to be with their kind. The pink triangle they will soon wear is a result of ajudgment that they have broken Article 175A, by sexual act, by kissing, by embracing, by fantasy and thought. Some will be given an opp_ortunity to recant by successfully completing sexual activity with a woman in the camp brothel. Most others will find themselves tormented from all sides as they struggle to avoid being assaulted, raped, worked and beaten to death." Right-Winger Seeks to Ban Gay Student Clubs PHOENIX (AP) - A group of conservative Republican lawmakers is backing a bill that would ban support groups for homosexual students from public school grounds. The measm’e would require school districts to ban any student orgamzation that promotes a specific sexual orientation, sexual activity or any kind of criminal activity, t’We don’ t allow Playboy clubs on ,c,~tmpus to promote heterosexuality," said Rep. Linda Gray, R-Glendale, one of the bill’s backers. "Why should we have Gay clubs to promote homosexuality." A 3-year-old Gay student group at Desert View High School in the Suunyside Unified School District has not caused any problems, said Alan Storm, the district’s director of student services. The group’s five members have helped educate students, teachers and others about discrimination, Storm said. "There arCh’ t even discussions about sex," Storm said. Storm added the bill was a bad idea because it jeopardizes federal funding for schools. Thefederal Equal Access Actrequires school s to allow all extracurricular groups to use their facilities. Backers of the federal law said it was meant to keep schools from banning meetings of Bible-study and other Christian groups. Gay Teen Sues Hospital Over ’Outing’ PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A Gay Bradford County teen-ager who attempted suicide last February is suing the hospital that treated him, claiming news of his sexual orientation was leaked by an employee, Cindy Smith, and eventually spread to his high school. Smith could not be reached by press time, but Troy OKLAHOMA COMMUNICATIONS Local- Long Distance Cellular- Paging 747-1508 Free Car Adaptor & Leather Case with New Cell Phone Want to get involved? Need to get tested for HIV? 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He told no one, terrified of the consequences of coming out to his parents and to a rural, conservative community. Severely depressed, Congdon ingested 33 Tylenols in the early morning hours of Feb. 1, 1998, went to school, and took 10 more. Congdon told the treating physician at Troy Community Hospital that he tried to kill himself because he was Gay. Thelawsuit alleges that Smith- the mother of one of Congdon’s football teammates -examined Congdon’s medical records and then told "third persons" that he was Gay. Returning to school later, "Everybody just stared at me,". he said. "I’d get approached by several students and they would say, ’We heard you’re a faggot, is that true?’ I would just say, ’Believe whatever you want,’ because I was afraid I’d get beat up." Congdon left school less than a month after returning. Troy High School Principal Bob Grantier said he did not know Congdon was being harassed. "If that was reported, which it was not, it would have been dealt with. Bottom line," he said. Congdon expects to take his high-school equivalency exam in the summer and attend college next fall as a criminal justice major. Congdon’s story was featured last month in an ESPN documentary on Gay athletes. He also wrote about his experience for a San Francisco- based magazine for Gay teen-agers. "I’m being very public with it to raise awareness. We do have a problem in today’s society and there is hate out there toward us and other ethnic and religious backgrounds," he said. "Something has to be done." Maryland Governor Offers Anti-Bias Bill ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Gov. Parris Glendening, prompted by memories of a brother who died of AIDS after hiding his homosexuality throughout a long military career, will sponsor legislation this y~ar to ban discrimination against Gays and Lesbians. Glendening has endorsed similar legislation in the past, but this year it will be part of his official administration legislative package. His bill would add sexual orientation to a law that already bans discrimination in housing and em- .ployment because of sex, age, race and religion. Kathleen Nieberding-Ryan, who has lobbied for the bill the past few years, said the governor’ s decision to make it part of his program "will help break down some of our barriers." "I’ve worked on this bill for a long time," said Ms. Nieberding-Ryan, lobbyist for MarylandNOWand former lobbyist for the Free State Justice Campaign, an organization representing Gays and Lesbians. "Each year we’ ve inched closer and closer, but could not secure the one or two votes needed for passage," she said. Richard Dowling, head of the Maryland Catholic Conference, said the church has opposed the bill in the past and probabl y will do so again. "In our tradition, discrimination against any person in regard to basic human fights is a sin," Dowling said. He said that includes people whose sexual orientation is homosexual, "but orientation and practice are not the same.’" "Whether intended or not, this legislation would have .the eff~t oflegitimating homosexual practice, and that, m our view, is something government Should not do," Dowling said. Glendening said it was difficult for his brother to live with the knowledge that his’ career in the Air Force would be ruined if his homosexuality had been discovered. "No one should be in fear of their job, no matter what their occupation, because of their sexual orientation," he said. But ~fracy Conaty, communications director for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force in Washing- , ton, said discrimination "is a fact of life for many Gay and Lesbian people." "This law is needed ¯ because it is still legal in the state of Maryland to ; fire somebody simply because they are Gay, Lesbian, bi-sexual or trans-gendered," she said. "Gov. Glendening is showing real leadership, in not only recognizing that fact but addressing it," Ms. Conaty : said. :¯¯ Anti-Bias Vote May.Lead to Voter Retaliation ¯ CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) - City Commis- : sioner Nancy Evans knows there mightbefallout at ¯ the voting booth after the City Council decided to ¯ offer protection to homosexuals under the Cedar ¯ Rapids civil rights ordinance. The City Council ¯ ,~oted 3-2 early to make the addition, protecting ¯ homosexuals from discrimination in education, : honsing, credit, employment and public accommo- ¯ dation. ¯ "This could very well cost an election. I under- . stand that,’" Evans said. "But cost is not what’s ¯ important. If I believe this stands for intolerance, if I believe this is injustice, then I have an affirmative ¯ duty toact,nomatterwhatitcosts." Evans and Dale Toddboth mentioned the Novemberelections when ¯ they discussed their votes in favor of the ordinance. Mayor Lee Clancey joined them in the majority. ¯ Commissioners Don Thomas and Ole Munson ¯ voted against the change. The Rev. Larry Johnson, ¯ a spokesman for conservative Christiar~s in Cedar : Rapids, saidhewill try to rally political support for ¯ a new set of candidates. Johnson said, "This thing is very offensive to a lot of people. We want to ¯ investigate to see what we can come up with as far ¯ as overturning this." Anti-Gay Adoption Law Reconsidered ¯ CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - Elizabeth Janeway and ¯ her husband wanted to become foster parents, but : said they couldn’ t stomach the state’ s ban on Gay ¯ adoptive and foster parents. When they applied in 1991, the state asked them if they had any homo- " sexuals in their family, Mrs. Janeway told a House ¯ committee. "I felt sick answering the question," i She said. "Not sick because we have a Gay son and ¯ a Lesbian daughter, but because of what the ques- ¯ tion implied about our children." ¯ Rep. Raymond Buckley, D-Manchester, wants ¯ that to end. Hehas sponsored a bill to repeal a 1987 ¯ law that bans Gays and Lesbians from adopting and ¯ serving as foster parents. "This law was enacted ¯ during a time of great fear," Buckley said. "Thank- " fully, we know much more today than we did a ¯ decade ago." The ban was passed at "the height of ." the season of hate," he said. New Hampshire is one ¯ of only two states with such restrictions; Floridais : the other. ¯ A crowd of more than 80 doctors, ministers, foster parents, Gay civil fights activists and others ¯ gathered to urge the committee to send the bill to the House for a vote. : Buckley blames the passage of the ban on fears ¯ fed by the surge of AIDS during the 1980s and mistaken belief that homosexual parents would molest their adopted or foster children. During the legislative debate in 1987, one supporter of the ban argued that Gay people wanted to "raise their own meat" to sexually molest. "This law was enacted despite the lack of a single complaint, not one shred ¯ of evidence, without a single incident of concern," ¯ Buckley said. ¯ Thelaw also requires heterosexual couples wish- . ing to adopt or be foster parents to sign a form stating no adult in the household is homosexual. ~ "This law does more thanmerely prohibit Gays and ¯ Lesbians from adopting or serving as foster parents," Buckley said. "It intrudes into the homes of ¯ heterosexual couples as well." ¯ Buckley would not say whether he thought the ¯ bill was likely to pass, only that he hopes the : Legislature has progressed since the original mea- ¯ sure passed. Dr. ML King Would Have Fought AIDS LAS VEGAS (AP) - Martin Luther King Jr. did not live to see the scourge ofAIDS, but ifhe had, he would have been a leader in the battle against the disease, health care experts and religious leaders believe. "Of course he would have been out there talking about AIDS and advocating programs to help stop the spread Of HIV ," said the Rev Lionel Starkes, an HIVi AIDS counselor for the Clark County Health District. Starkes was a member of a panel that discussed the subject "AIDS: WhatWouldBe Dr. King’ s Involvement?" The panel was part of activities in observance of the national holiday honoring King’s birthday. Ulysess Palrose, HIV/AIDS care coordinator for Sierra Health Services, said that nationwide, the number of people dying from AIDS has declined, as have the number of people infected with HIV. But the number of blacks contracting the vires has increased. ’Tmnot an expert on Dr. Martin Luther King, and I don’ tknow all thereis to know aboutAIDS, but all I doknow tellsme that he would be a drum major" in the fight against HIV, particularly in regard to the African American commumty, Palrose said. According to national statistics, 43 percent ofnew HIV/AIDSpatients are black. Blacks constitute about 13 perccgt of the population. More than 50 percent of all babies and women infected with HIV are ’black. Scientist Develops New HIV Treatment LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) -A University of Kentucky (UK) scientist holds patents on two new methods for treating AIDS and cancer with drugs that have been around for years. Trials of the cancer therapy are at least two years away, but the AIDS therapy could be tested on human patients later this year in South Af- Dr. Vincent Gallicchio, a cell biologist and associate dean of research in UK’s College of Allied Health Professions, developed and patented the AIDS treatment independently. Gallicchio came up with the cancer therapy in partnership with Milton Yatvin, professor of radiation oncology at the Oregon Health Science Center. They jointly hold the patent on this treatment. In combatting AIDS, Gallicchio proposes a combination ofAZT or DDI- two anti-viral drugs now prescribed for the disease - and lithium, a drug used for decades to treat manic depression. Research has shown that lithium, in addition to its beneficial effects on mental illness, stimulates the human immune system. AIDS kills people by destroying their immunity. Therefore, Gallicchio thinks that an AZT-lithium "cocktail" might stabilize AIDS patients by charging up their immune systems. Gallicchio and Yatvin plan to attack cancer with a new kind of drug-delivery system, putting standard chemotherapy agents inside naturally occurring human immune cells called "macrophages." Theoretically, the macrophages would carry thehighly toxic chemotherapy drugs directly to the site of the cancer, leaving healthy tissue unharmed. Lithiumwas first suggestedformedical use 50 years ago, and approved by the FDA for use in manic depressive patients about 1970. "We’ re sort of the first to put two and two together," said Gallicchio who, in addition to his UKpost, heads the International Society for Lithium Research, a.scientific group devoted to learning more about the drug. One reason lithium’ s potential in AIDS hash’ t been researched before, Gallicchio said, is economics. Lithium is cheap. So, there’ s been little economic incentive for pharmaceutical finns to explore its potential in AIDS because profits wouldn’t be great. Lithium’s toxicity also has been problem, but Gallieehio says that’s been solved. Gallicchio plans to test his idea in South Africa, where selected AIDS patients will be given his lithium cocktail. South Africa was chosen as the test site, he said, because its AIDS incidence rate is one of the world’s highest. In battling cancer, Gallicchio and his pamier,Yatvin, envision a system in which .powerful drugs would zip straight to the site of the disease, like homing pigeons, ignoring healthy tissue. To achieve that, they would use macrophages. Macrophages are large immune cells, which are manufactured in the bone marrow and then migrate to the body’ s orgaus. Each organ has its own macrophage, and each macrophage somehow knows which organ it is assigned to. A liver macrophage knows it’ s supposed to go to the liver; a brain macrophage knows it’ s supposed to travel to the brain, and so on. Gallicchio and Yatvin propose to use this macrophage "homing instinct."To treat, say, liver cancer, you could pm chemotherapy drugs inside liver macrophages, whichthen would carry them straight to the cancer. The plan would be to grow macrophages in an artificial environment, combine them with cancer drugs, then deliver the mixture into cancer patients intravenously. But Gallicchio says it will be about two years before trials in humans. First, researchers mustprove the approach works in animals, and that it poses no hazards to patients. Charity to Help Children with AIDS tCAMPALA, Uganda (AP)-Funds raised by Rotary International will pay for projects devoted to children affected by polio and AIDS-related diseases, the organization’s president said recently. Speaking to reporters before the opening of Rotary’ s International Summit on Africa, James Lacy of Cookeville, Tenn., said the organization would also fund facilities that offer corrective plastic surgery and finance micro-credit facilities, job training and educational programs. More than 400 Rotary members from 23 nations have gathered for the three-day conference opened by Prime Minister KintuMusoke, whoread a statement from President Yoweri Museveni. "I’m glad ¯ that President Lacy has chosen poverty as ¯ the main theme of the conference," ¯ Museveni said in his statement. 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(AP) - An HIV-posifive Army private from New York City was sentenced to three years in military prison after pleading guilty to aggravated assault for having unprotected sex. Gerland Squires, 21, also will receive a bad-conduct discharge from the Army and forfeit all pay and benefits. Her rank was immediately reduced from private first class to private. After a 1997 blood test revealed Ms. Squires had HIV, her commander at Aberdeen Proving Ground ordered her to use condoms and tell her sexual partners that she carried the AIDS virus. But Ms. Squires did not tell eight men she was HIV-positive and had unprotected sex with four of them, prosecutors said. She told a ninth man she had the virus but did not insist he use a condom. None of the ninemen- six enlisted and three civilians - has tested positive for the virus. Ms. Squires,cryingonthe witness stand, told jurors she had sex to escape her fear and confusion about having HIV and passing it on to-her daughter, who is now 9 months old. She said she feared rejeclion if she told her sex partners she has HIV. Aberdeen Proving Ground, about 40 miles north of Baltimore, was the site of the biggest sex scandal in U.S. mililary history in 1997. Twelve drill instructors were accused of forcing female subordinates to have sex. One instructor was cleared, and the remaining 11 either were convicted or re’signed. India’s Challenge: AIDS Treatment NEW DELHI, India (AP) - On paper at least, India is ready to cope with the consequences of increasing AIDS cases. It hopes to avoid being overwhelmed by not just the disease, but byfear and ignorance. P.L. Joshi, deputy director of the government’s National AIDS Control Organization, confidently fingers a thick, plastic-bound sheaf of tables and prose that detail how nearly 1 million medical workers, from hospital janitors to surgeons, will be trained to care for AIDS patients. But Joshi acknowledges the training has barely begun, and those patients today face being alined away by hospitals or, when they are admitted, find that doctors and nurses refuse even to touch them. "’There is an element of fear," Joshi said. "People think that if they handle these patients, they will get the disease. Discrimination can only be taken care of by a strong training program." Experts say India’s nearly 1 billion people are in only the early stages of an AIDS epidemic that already has swept over Europe and America and decimated Africa, where in some places a quarter of the population is infected with the AIDS virus. .Joshi and his colleagues in India’ s campmgn against AIDS have focused on education and prevention, hoping to keep the infection rate down. Now they acknowledg. e they also must face the challenge of canng for people with full-blown AIDS and those infected with the virus. The World Bank predicts that already snuggling medical systems in developing countries like India will be so swamped by AIDS it will be impossible for people with other diseases to get care. India’ s government estimates 5 million people, less than 1% of Indians, are infected with the AIDS virus. That is considered low by many experts because it is based on very limited testing, but even that figuremeans one of the world’ s poorest countries has more infected people than any other nation. The estimate of infected Indians has increased steadily from 2.5 million in 1996, spreading mainly through heterosexual sex into the general public from high-risk groups like prostitutes and intravenous drug users. Joshi’s agency says the number of full-blown AIDS cases has soared from six in 1986 to 3,167 in 1996 to around 5,000 in 1998. Knowledge about the disease is lacking amongmostIndians,including health professionals. Four years ago, India’ s largest and most prestigious hospital, the All- India Institute of Medical Sciences, surveyedits morethan7,000 employees about AIDS. Dr. Bir Singh, head ofAIDS training at the institute, said he found many staffmembers did not follow even simple procedures like using needles properly to ensure they did not prick themselves with tips contaminated with a patient’s blood. Worse, Singh found doctors and nurses infected with the prejudices about AIDS that are common in the rest of India. A disease linked to sex and drugs in this conservative society is deeply shameful, and those infected with the virus are often treated as if they deserve to die. "The moment it becomes known that a person on a ward is HIV-positive, fear engulfs the ward. That fear is still rampant. That shows theignorance among the medical community," he said. "If the time comes, God forbid, when one in four patients is HIV+, what will we do?" Sahara, a private residential drug treatment program supported by international aid groups, already faces that problem. Director Neville Selhore estimates a third. of the 120-130 recovering drug addicts living at Sahara’s house in south New Delhi are infected. "In 1990, a lot of the people here started to fall ill," said Selhore’ s wife and co-director, Elizabeth. They soon learned the increasing cases of tuberculosis and shingles pointed to the spread of the AIDS virus and took on the task of treating that as well as addiction. Over the years, the Selhores have developed a matter-of-factness about AIDS that would be striking anywhere. The couple and their young sons live at Sahara along with the recovering addicts. The boys "know about the disease, and they’ re cool," Selhore said. "They see how we deal with it. They know there are onlv so many ways it can be transmitted." At the 16-bed clinic that Sahara opened earlier this year, attendants pat patients’ hair or help them walk with casual affection. They counsel the patients not to share medications like ointment, to use condoms, to stay healthy. Pop music plays in the background. With books and board games on a shelf in a room that doubles as parlor and nurse’ s office, the atmosphere is that of an unusually calm and orderly college dorm. The message is simple: People with the AIDS v~rus can live a normal life if they are armedwithinformation. "Weteachpeople to take care of themselves. Because how many people can the government and orgamzations like this take care of?" Tulsa is blessed with quite afew excel- " eration just hasn’t seemed to work. lent arts organizations good fortune of this newspaper to-be able to work with most of them. Tulsa Family News was honored especially to have been a media sponsor for Philbrook’s Year of Europe in 1998. We’ve also had the pleasure of working with Gilcrease, the Philharmonic, Tulsa Ballet, Tulsa Opera and again the Tulsa Performing Arts Center Trust (TPACT). All of these orgamzations recognize that, stereotypes not withstanding, Tulsa’s Lesbian and Gay commuand it’s been the " Philbrook’s new Beads exhibit promises to be interesting Villain no. 1: American Theatre Company. Repeated calls to Kitty Roberts have resulted in no response. Ms. Roberts apparently thinksTheTulsaWorld reaches everyone with whom she needs to bother. I mean if someone calls repeatedly to say they’ll give you some free press if you only will send a press release, ’why not? Surely this is not a case of bias since a prominent member of this company is aGay man. Perhaps once they couldnothave afforded the extra stamps but in these days of faxes and e-mail, what gives? nities do support the arts, perhaps even beyond our numbers. As the lovely Camille Sartain, formerly ofTPACT and now working at Gilcrease has stated, it just doesn’t make sense for arts organizations not to reach out to the Gaycommu- So itmakes you wonder about the folks who just don’t seem to get it! Ani]’they mostly seem to be theater types, amazingly enough. Tulsa Family News continues to have difficulty with several organizations whom,we will name in hope that we .might shame them into treating Gay people fairly. It doesn’t seem that it could hurt since politely asking for their coop- ¯ Villain no. 2: Theatre Tulsa! run by a ¯¯ wall-known Gay man whom you can see at Renegades’ pool tables regularly. Re- " peated visits in person have not persuaded these folks to share info. about their per- " formances. Now some with more wicked ¯ tongues than I might say that no self- " respecting Gay would want to see some of the ponderous theatrical warhorses this ¯ company produces- still tastes do vary in ¯ ourcommtmity. Notealso, thateveaacall ." toTFboard president Dan Call stillhasn’t ¯¯ moved the mountain. Villain no. 3: Celebrity Attractions. We ¯ save the worst for last. ¯ see Celebrity, p. 13 Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo March 16 at 8 p.m, Chapman Music Hall TULSA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Tickets $1 O-$30 Dancing the fine line between hiqh art and high camp, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo delights audiences around the world. ~ Les Ballets Trockadero is the world’s foremost all,male comic ballet company. Sponsored in part by: OKLAHOMA ,Join us. For a of 2Oth century classics. CELEBRATE THE 20TH CENTURY WITH THREE CONTEMPORARY BALLETS, ALL CHOREOGI~&PHED BY MODERN [3AY DANCE MAVENS. FROM KURT JOOSS’ BRI LLIANT CLASSIC TO NACHO DUATO’S CURRENT HIT. MOV[MENT ON THE CUTTING EDGE. BODIES IN ACTION. BOTH ARTISTICALLY AND ATHLETICALLY. DANCE IN PURSUIT OF WHAT’S NEXT. MUCH TO THE DELIGHT OF OUR AUDIENCE MEMBERS. THE GREEN TABLE. THE MORE THINGS CHANGE. THE MORE WAR STAYS THE SAME. 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Harvard, Suite 21.0, Tulsa 74135 Sing Out, Sing Out, Wherever You Are! couNciL oak Our voices comfort those in pain Our voices combat oppression Our voices educate the ignorant Our voices inspire Our voices win freedom The Council Oak Men’s Chorale is a dedicated group of gay men united to present a positive image for ourselves, our community and society as a whole through excellence in the performance of choral music. i For information on becoming a member call (918) 585-COMC Now it is time for our voices to be heard. ~= SUNDAYS Bless the Lord At All Times Christian Center Sunday School - 9:45am, Service - 11 am, 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815 Community ofHope (United Methodist), Service - 6pm; 2545 S. Yale, 585-1800 Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation Service - 1 lam, 2545 S. 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Call 583-1248 orfax 583-4615. by Adam West Toby Sligh is one of those characters, heroes really, who comes along only once a generation or so. Like Ishmael or Pip or Hamlet, he brings out all of 0urfears anddreams andhopes and desires. Don’t get me wrong, Daniel Vilmure, the author of Toby’s Lie is not yet a Melville or Dickens. He’s nowhere near Shakespeare. But when this promising young author decided to make a worthwhile character, he really overshot his mark. Toby is in love with Ia~., the one-eyed rich kid that has the "most popular" spot at their Jesuit-run Catholic school. Toby wants to take Ian to the prom. This causes quite a stir, which gets Toby even more confusedthanhis mothermoving out of the house for mysterious reasons. It confuses him morethan the beautiful Latin priest who may or may not be the child molester ofyoungToby’s dreams. It confuses him more than his theoretically drug-dealing best friend. It confuses him almost as much as his relationship with the AIDS-stricken priest that’]ae visits at lan’s behest in the local hospital. Toby’s life gets thrown around in a whirlwindofstrangefriends, strangerfamily and familiar strangers. It is how Toby ¯grows tofignreeverything out, andaceept the strangeness, that makes him a hero. And make no mistake - to the young people growing up Gay in this world l’oby Sligh should be a hero. What struck me most about Toby’s Lie was the fact that it’s a cleverly disguised AIDS novel. Don~t be put off. We’ve all had enough of our emotions beingjerked around by badly written, overly soap opera- ish, ’woe-is-me’ plays, movies, books, articles, poems, and television specials. But we should not become disinterested by a work that truly captures what AIDS has done to our community (by ’community’ I mean Earth, not the local ’ghetto’). This problem is not over, and Toby’s Lie reminds us of that. Finally, an author reminds us, touches us, in a way that provokes thought instead of stifling it. ]’oby’s problems are many. He’s bombarded onall sides by the schemes and lies of everyone he knows. He’s not innocent. But he is honest.., in a way that few of us are ever tndy so: Toby is willing to say what he fears. And in the end when the fear ofAIDS piles on top of all the others, l’oby greets it with true courage. What Toby’s Lie tinally brings us is a unique novel in Gay literature. Vilmure has not succumbed to the need to whine that our supposed classics (like E.M. Forster, Edmund White or Andrew Ric Poston, OklahomaMr. Leather will host a multi-family garage sale to help with his titleholder travel fund. This event will be held in Jenks at 420 West Eighth .on Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 20-21, from 7am to dark. Donations of furniture, clothes, magazines, etc. will be accepted and can be picked up by calling 299-6442. Tol~ Sli~h is one of those ~lmracters, heroes really, ~ho come alon~ only once a ~eneratlon or so. Like Ishmael or Pip or Hamlet, he brin~s out. all of our fea~s and dreams and hopes and desires. Holleran) have. Vilmure is aware of the dangers Of being Gay and being young. He’s aware of everything that scares us. However, unlikemostofus who are afraid, this author faces the fear with introspection and grace and dignity. Toby does not run away fromhis fears in the end, and that is what saves his life. This is a coming of age novel, but Toby grows up like most of us do not - Toby learns to stand up for himself. This is a quality that is sadly lacking in the Gay community, no matter how many snappy queens you know. I’d like to digress a little here, soforgivemeinadvance. This is after all my last review for you (I’m moving to New York!). Do you remember Blaxploitation?Thosehorren- ¯ dous movies, books and television shows ¯¯ (Yes, Shaftwasjustas awful as Blacula!) that poured onto the market when enter- ." tainment moguls realized that Black ¯ people liked TVtoo? ¯ I’d like to send you a warning. Beware ¯¯ of Queer-ploitation. The signs of its arrival arehere (was In andOutor To Wong ¯ Foo really for us, even if they were much ¯ loftier than Blacula?). I came across it ¯ most recently when I started a book for ¯ this very review. The book is called Eye ¯ Contact and it is a mystery with a Gay ¯ protagonist. After my years of schooling ¯ and intelligent discourse about literature, ¯ Icouldonly thinkofonewordthatsummed ¯ up this book: stupid. ¯" Don’t be fooled by the attractive half- ¯. nakedman on the cover- his picure is not worth the price. Or the support a purchase ¯ shows to the publisher who would put out : a badly-written, ill-conceived novel, just ¯ because they discovered Gay people read ¯ tOO. ¯ Be careful what you buy. Just because a : book has a Gay protagonist, does not ¯ mean it is good to buy. Don’t let them ¯ think they can sell us Good Times when ¯ we could be purchasing Will and Grace. ¯ Buy Toby’s Lie or Blue Coyote (reviewed ¯ last month), rather than something that ¯ has a pretty chest on the cover and no muscle inside. ¯ Thank you for reading my reviews and take care of us. ¯ Adam West is no longer a resident of ¯ Tulsa or Oklahoma, having relocated the ¯ Batcave to the state of New York. He ¯ practically has no credentials, and he ¯ certainly no longer has ajob. ¯ Editor’s note: Tulsa Family News would ¯ like to thank Adamfor his work as a book ¯ reviewer and to wish him good luck and ¯ much warmth as he moves to the frozen northland.s. ¯ Poston, as Oklahoma Mr. Leather, has ¯ traveled to 14 community events in the ¯ last H weeks. He’sbeentotheDistrictof ¯ ¯ Columbia twice, San Francisco and the Mid:Atlantic redon. Poston wants corn- ¯ munity members to know that he is avail- : abletoassistinbenefitsandalsohasgiven ¯ seminars on Gay family structurerecently ¯ to Red Rock and to PFLAG. He will be ¯ going to IML, Intemational Mr. Leather ¯ inMay, hoping to continue theOklahoma ¯ tradition of Leather leadership. 748.5304 THE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART We knowyou’re going to love this[ Restaurant & Cabaret 310 East First Street 918-599-9949 Massage Therapy Services V Edgar O. Cruz, L.M.T. 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Boyd Street, Norman, OK 405/325-3272, Free Admission, Museum Store Organized by the Frederick R.Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and made possible with the assistance of OAC, the NAHC HoteLrMotel Tax and the NEA. Editor’s note: our DIYD expert is in an " try a few out, as there is some slight alternative universe this month, at least . variation even within a similarlot ofhamaccording to her answering machine. She ~ mers. promises to return to earlh orbit with a o A tape measure is handy to have as new column next month. In the meantime, well, since accurate measurements help we repeat this useful column from last ensure successful projects. My advice is March. to buynothing less than by Mary Schepers Everyone al6 ft and preferably a Everyone needs a needs a t0oll~it. 25 ft. There is a meatoolkit. Our editor suring tape called the laughs lasciviously and Our editor laughs "’E-Z Rule" that not offers his own sugges- laselvlously and only has the cry.ptic dons, which I won’t hashmarksbetweenthe dignify by repeating, o~ers ]~is own inches but also the ac- Whether your ambisuggestions, whleh I tual measurement in tions extend no further number (i.e. 1/8, 1/2, than installing mini- won’t dignify 5/8,etc.)foraquickand blinds, or whether it easy fix on just where involves "project fan- by repeating, you are. I confess that, tasies" on a regular ba- Wl~etber your prior to owning an E-Z sis, some basic tools Rule, I sometimes had should bc standard in ambitions extend no to count out the hash any home. ~urtl~er than marks to verify my To begin with; a few measurement, ttome of the DIYD’s basic installing mlni-bllnds, repairs don’t have to rules: first, buy the best - or wl~etl~er it involves be that painful - oh, tools you can afford, memories of Sister Trust me on this one; it "project fantasies" Mary Agnes’ s math does make adifference, class!Always try to use and it’s a worthwhile on a regular basis, the measuring tool maxim to follow, even some basic tools each time; this is really if you must occasion- critical ff you are meaally resort to layaway should, be standard suring things that need ordelayedgratffieation, i~i any borne, to fit together, as I Second, honor your found out to my distools and save yoursdfalot offrustration: may inmy early handy-dyke days. Seems keep your tools together and organized, there there’s always some variation even They deserve b~tter than to be chucked with something as standard as measureunceremoniously into your standardjunk ment. Of course, size queens have known drawer, or under the seat of your car, or - this for years. horrors! - propping up a potted plant. A few wrenches are also he~udy to have Third, think about the tasks you do most about. My recommendations: one pair of often and- buy the necessary tools first, normal pliers; one pair of slip joint phers A screwdriver set is almost a given. If (channel locks); and one pair of adjustyoudon’t thinkitis essential tohavemore able locking pliers (vise grips). This is a than just one, used indiscriminately for bare minimum. If you are going to get everything, please bear with me. Bare serious about home repairs, I’d also sugminimum, four screwdrivers: large and gest a small set of combination box end/ small each of a fiat blade and a Phillips open end wrenches in the standard (not head (cross shaped) screwdriver. Myself, metric) size, a pair of needle nose pliers, I like four.of each type as a minimum, some wire cutters (aka, "Dykes" -Inn), frommonstroustominute;mosttaskswill and at least one pipe wrench. However, fall somewhere in the middle, but its great the bare minimum will take care of most to have the extremes (no, not the Supremes) basic jobs. on hand when you need them. Referring back to Rule no. 2, do your- Using the proper type .and size screw- self and your tools a favor and keep them driver helps prevent the frustration of together.I’mnotjustbeingabitanalhere; cam-out (or"wallerin’ out", as I was raised I’m still looking for tools I used to rehab to say) when you are halfway finished my house. Suggestions: a tool drawer in driving a screw and can neither go further the house; a peg board with hooks in the nor back it out. When selecting screw- garage; a plastic bucket or trays with drivers, it is easy to ignore Rule no. 1: handles or a gatemouth bag. The there’s Darlings, don’t do it! Cheap drivers bend, my favorite, the tool brit. I always keep a break and lose head integrity, which also ¯ hammer, a couple of screwdrivers, ameacontributes to cam-out. You didn’t save : suring tape and a small pair of vise grips much money if you blow through a set of : in mine, along with a carpenter’ s pencil. I screwdriverseveryyear.Finally,useyour ¯ can just grab that little darling and get drivers to drive screws only. They are ° started on any basic tasks right away. It neither cold chisels noricepicks norham- ¯ also holds the nails, screw, drill bits, etc. mers. that I’ll be using specific to that task. A proper hammer should also be in ° Tins brings me to a cautionary tale. My your basic tool box anyway. There are all " friend C. was on a ladder nailing some sortsofhammers-finishing,framiug,ball ¯ sidingrecenfly;shecarfiedhernailsinthe peen, etc. If you only have one hammer, ¯ time-honored yet dangerous method - make it acarpenter’s hammer. It candrive " between her lips. She and the ladder took or pull nails, nudge a stubborn board into " a tumble, a nail went down her throat, place, even demolish that tacky Pepto ¯ resulting in a $3500 trip to the ER. In that pinktile tub surround. Once again, review ¯ Light, a tool belt is also very economical. Rule no. 1. A cheap hammer will beat you If this st0ry doesn’ t convince of the merits like a stepchild if you useit for any length ¯ of a tool belt, please consider its aesthetof time. A hammer should feel well-bal- ¯ ics: a tool belt has a certain butchly charm anced in your hand and comfortable to : that almost defies description. Just ask the grip. Stanley makes a good hamm,er, but " men and women who know. by Esther Rothblum ¯ publishers. One publisher said they had Irecentlyhadaconversation~vithElana : too many Jews on their list already!" Dykewomon about her latest book Be- " When Elana was doing a reading of a yond the Pale, a novd about the lives of ¯ section of the book, an editor who hap- RussianJewishLesbianswhoimmigrated " pened to be in the audience knew of antoNorthAmericanattheturn "~rhen I was 12 or other woman who was of the century. Elana searching for Lesbian mate- Dykewomontmsalwaysbro- 18,I tried tol~ll rial to adapt for her ken new ground. Her book myself. I was one of storytelling performances. Riverfinger Womanwas one "My of the first Lesbian novels, those statistics of section was then dramatized," Elana told me. "I Beyond the Pale won the adolescent Les[rians saw this woman, Helen 1998 Lambda Literary who attempt su~elde. Mintz, performing it once Award for Lesbian fiction, and I was floored. It’ s amaz- I asked her how she be- "~hen I was . ing to see someone act your came a writer. "I was always institutionali~d, work. She performed it in writing. I was a writing Vancouver where the edichild," she said."When I was I realked tlmt tors of Press Gang Publish- 12 or 13, I tried to kill my- writers didn’t kave ers heard it and wrote to me self. I was one of those statistics of adolescent Lesbi- to be 0endered in the askingmeif they could consider publishing the book." ans who at[empt suicide, same way that 01rls As Elana continued WhenI was institutionalized, -. and boys did. work on the book, shehad to I realized that writers didn’ t researchmany aspects oflife have to be gendered in the same way that at the turn of the century. "I had toread the . girls and boys did. That is, I could choose really dry stuff," she said, "like the history to be neither a traditional girl nor boy; I of the grain trade in Odessa. I couldn’t go could be a writer." Elana.found that she to Russia, so I was looking for descripcould be eccentric and free in that m.le as tions of streets and figuring outwhat daily a writer, life was like. My girlfriend Susan In college at the California Institute of Levenkind is a librarian and she was very Arts, Elanamet anumber of experimental good at finding tbings out for me. I would poets and became active in Gay libera- read a book and then use their bibliogration. One of her teachers knew someone phy as a starting point. I learnedhow to be in publishing. ’¢Fhis was 1971, and they an historian." A friend gave her a book were starting a slightly pornographic se- about the Women’ s Trade Union League, ties for housewives to cash in on the new which turned out be quite a Lesbian orgafeminist sexuality," Elana remembered, nization. She went to labor libraries, and laughing, "and told me to write up my even looked up the transportation system experiences. I wrote the first third of the in New York City at the turn of the cenbook in !8 straight hours. I wanted to tury. write a Lesbian novel with a happy end- At book readings, Elana prefers seeing." But the publisher said it was not tlons of her book that describe the powhat they were looking for. groins in Russia. "I also like to read the By this time Elana had moved to the sectionsthathavealittlesexinthem,"she women’ s community in Northampton, said. For example, when Chava and Rose Massachusetts. The feminist publisher fall in love: Daughters Inc. had sent flyers around "Rose leaned towards me, put her hand townand afriendrecommended thatElana on my cheek to turn my face so we could send her book to thatnew company. They see each other... ’So if you want to and I accepted Riverfinger Woman whichcame want to, who starts?’ out in print in 1974, one year after they I pulled the tenement air down to the published Rubyfruit Jungle. The Naiad bottom of my lungs. This was harder than Press reprint of Riverfinger Woman con- goingout on strike. I moved my lips onto eludes with an essay detailing Elana’s Rose’ s. Together. We had been lying in process in getting this book published, bed together for more than two years. Elana went on to publish three more ¯ Careful.Cousins. Leftside, rightside, I’m books before her current novel. They Will worn out, me too, goodnight. KnowMeByMy Teeth was a colleclion of No, I changed my mind as the kissshort stories which she self-published in engulfed our faces and my hands found 1976. She also published abook ofpoems the soft flesh of her shoulders and pressed entitled Fragments From Lesbos. In 1995 her close. This was easier than going on Onlywomen Press published her book of strike. This was easier than anything." poems Nothing Will BE As Sweet As The The response from readers has been Taste. Elana also had a long stint as an wonderful. ’T ve gotten lots ofletters sayeditor of the feminist periodical Sihister ing ’This is my grandmother’s Story’ or Wisdom. ’now I understand my history’ or hetero- Beyond the Pale began over ten years sexualwomenintheir70s or80s wholove ago as a poem. After she had written that this story," said Elana. poem, Elana felt that there was a longer . The "Lammies" (Lambda Literary story there. "So I started to think who ¯ Awards) are to Lesbian writing what the these two women would be and who their ¯ Oscars are to Hollywood. Elana’ s award familieswouldbe, whatwouldmakethem " for Lesbian fiction is the eqnivalent of the migrate. I started to read old books about " best actress award in the Oscars. She was travellors in Russia at the turn of the : awarded the most recent Lammy for Lescentury. The depths of the anti-Semitism ¯ bian fiction. in these books was stnnning to me." For further information, contact Elana "I wrote what became the midwife’s " Dykewomon at dyke@sfsu.edu. Beyond story, and decided this could be a novel. ¯ the Pale was published in 1997 by Press When the first half of the book was done, " Gang Publishers, 225 East 17th Ave., I got someunencouraging responses from " Vancouver, B.C. VSV IA6, Canada. IGTA member Call 341.6866 International Toursformoreinformation. AUTHENTIC FRESH ITALIAN RAINBOW CUS1NE TROUT ofEureka Springs Voted Number One in Arkansas] (501) 253-680Z Closed Wednesday 5 Center Street, Eureka Springs, AR 72632 COCONUT BEER BATTERED SHRIMP PRIME RIB FRESH CLAMS VE(;IE STIR FRY COG;tUILE ST. JAGIUES MAHI-MAHI RACKOF LAMB CHOCOLATE SOUFFLE Red Rock Tulsa O’RYAN Oklahoma Rainbow Young Adult Netxvork Outreach Program Thurs. Nights Meet Others in a Safe Enviroment Call for meeting times and place: 918-584-2325 The Pride Store 1307 E. 38th, 2nd floor in the Pride Center, 743-4297 6-9 pm, sunday - Friday 12-9 pm, Saturday all sales benefit the Pride Center Compatibility reports for you and your friends or lovers. 599-0717 THE POWER OF CONVICTION AND DRAMA . Free & Anonymous Finger Stick Method By &for, but not exclusive to the Lesbian, Gay, & Bisexual Communities. Mon. & Thurs., 6-8 pm, Daytime testing: Mon-Thurs. by appt. H O P E HIV Outreach, Prevention & Education 834-TEST(8378), 3501 E.Admiral Place Red Rock Tulsa Free Confidential HIV Testing Walk-in Clinics Tuesday Testing, 5 -8 pm Pride Center, 1307 East 38th Wednesday Testing, 5-8 pm Red Rock, 1724 East 8th Daytime appointments available. Call for more information: 918-584-2325 Open Arms Open Minds Open Hearts Saint Aidan 4045 No. Cincinnati, 425-7882 Saint Dunstan 5635 East 71st, 492-7140 Saint John 4200 So. Atlanta Place, 742-7381 Trinity 501 So. Cincinnati. 582-4128 The Episcopal Church Welcomes You "It is this organizing at the state level that will ultimately counter the hostility and gridlock we have come to know from our nation’s capital," she added. Never before in the history of the Gay rights movement has there been a coordinated political campaxgn of actions in all 50 states as well as the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Equality Begins at Homerepresents anew phase of the movement - a focus on state orgamzing and legislatures. The vast majority of debates and decisions about Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender equality occur in state legislatures. Equality Begins atHome will bolster the infrastructure of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, andTransgendermovement within the states - where the heart of the struggle for equality lies - and lead to greater success in the overall struggle for equality. Each state organization will develop events to highlight priority issues: * In California, activists will focus on defeating an anti-Gay ballot measure to be put before voters next year. Events will include a rally and youth lobby day. * In New Hampshire, activists will hold a rally at the state capitol to focus attention on the need to repeal a state law banning Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender people from adopting children. * In Nebraska, organizers will target workplace discrimination. They will hold a lobby day and circulate a "Workplace Fairness Petition" to business owners Early on, Tulsa Family News was’told not to expect fair treatment from this operation due to the religious prejudices of the owner, Larry Payton. And true to that warning, Payton never has taken Tulsa’s Gay community seriously as part of his market. They do send out press releases sometimes but at least on one occasion only after the deadlines for every monthly pul~- lication had passed. There’s not much point in writing about this sort of event two weeks after it’s over. It would be one thing if their decisions were made on serious business rationale such as reach of a publication or the cost for a particular market segment. But Payton openly admits that he is motivated by religion; that is, as a Southern Baptist he feels it’s his religious duty to discriminate against Gay readers. Now what was it that Jesus said? Love your neighbor as yourself, wasn’t it? Is that how he would want to be treated? Note, however, that he doesn’t hesitate to use Gays when it is to his advantage, say, like many of the people with whom he does business: the actors, the theatrical companies, even a member of his own staff. The one time he advertised with this newspaper for The Phantom ofthe Opera was because we contacted The Phantom company who -~magine, were mostly Gay men. It seems they thought reaching out to us was a good idea. Oh well, don’t look to see info. about these companies anytime soonif wejudge from past performance. But we always hold out hope for redemption, that these hard hearts might be softened. Meanwhile don’t miss the new shows at Philbrook. Drop by Gilcrease too when throughout the state. "The battleground for equality has moved to the states, and so have we," said Paula Ettelbrick, Equality Begins atHome national coordinator. "We are throwing down the gauntlet and demanding that state officials resist the right wing’s efforts to deny us our basic fights as citizens," Ettelbrick added. Equality Begins at Home is part of a campaign to counter the growing muscle of the right wing and its anti-Gay attacks. In the last few years, the right has passed dozens of anti-Gay laws in dozens of states. In addition, 1998 was one of the most vicious years in recent memory. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott likened homosexuality to kleptomania and sex addiction. Congress introduced a number of mean-spirited anti-Gay measures. Rightwing groups launched a major advertising campaign attacking Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender people. In addition, voters approved anti-Gay ballot measures in Alaska; Hawaii; Fayetteville, Arkansas; Fort Collins, Colorado; and Ognnquit, Maine "Our demands are simple and in line with basic American values: the right to be safe, to have a family, to hold ajob, and to participate fully as citizens. It’ s exactly what every American wants anddeserves," said Gina Reiss, co-chair of the Federation of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Statewide Political Orgamzations and executive director of New Jersey Lesbian and Gay Coalition. For a calendar of events for Equality Beg ins atHome, please view our web site at http://www.equalitybeginsathome.org Note also that February will be quite the month for dance with the Tulsa Ballet seemingly getter better with ev cry performance (2/5-7 The Green Table. Equinoxe and Jardi Tancat) and Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo in for just one, mind you, just one fabulous "men in tights" performanceon March 16th. Don’t miss it! - TFN entertainment editor Bill Laforttme. In Republican circles, it’s said that Gov. Frank Keating has suggested that he would not oppose the amendment. Also the following bills were introduced in the Oklahoma House: HB1224- An Act relating to children; amending 10 O.S. Supp. 1998, Section 7503-1.1, which relates to eligibility to adopt a child; making persons in certain cohabitation relationship ineligible to adopt a child. Author - Pope, Tim. HB 1707 - An Act relating to children: amending 10 O.S. Supp. 1998, Section 7503-1.1, which relates to eligibility to adopt; prohibiting certain persons from adopting children. Author - Graves, Bill HB 1314 - An Act relating to the Oklahoma Department of Libraries; mandating certain policies related to identification and separation of sexually explicit materials. Author - Graves, Bill HB 1703 - An Act relating to state government; prohibiting certain discrimanation;. Authors - Graves, Bill HB 1703 - An Act relating to state government; prohibiting certain discrimination; to any individual ol group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national operation in public employment, education, or contracting. Author - Graves, Bill Plans for 1999 include a creative arts night in .February both for the artistically inclined and the not so artistically indined, a bingo night in March, dance lessons in February, a Sadie Hawkins dance in May, a camping and float trip in June, a spirituality and healing arts night in July, a Casino night in August, a,.weekend in Eureka Springs in October, movie night in November, and a hiatus in December (since so much else is going on anyway) and then in January 2000, a progressive potluck dinner. Additionally the group has planned a Memorial Day alternative picnic and softball game for May. "We tried to create a wide diversity of ideas and activities knowingthat not every one enjoys the same kind of things," said Joan. "It was also suggested to have mid-month bike rides, walking groups, bowling nights and other sports related activities ." Joan added, "we hope to attract singles, couples and break down some of the barriers womenhave for attending. All of our activities have a small fee to help offset printing and postage and site rental costs. We are also planning fund raisers for different organizations." To learn more about Gal-A-Vanting or to get the mailing list, call Mary at 743- 6740, Kathy at 322-6322, or Barb at 459- 6825. but specifically shielded only heterosexual, and nothomosexual, activity. The decision prompted protests by Gay civil rights activists, who said the ruling denied them eq]aal rights. The Court of Appeals also was silent on anal sex, which remained illegal for everyone in the state. The ACLU asked Rombro to declare the law unconstitutional, but the judge instead ruled the Court of Appeals’ decision on oral sex should extend to homosexual activity as well. In the final ruling, Rombro agreed that private, consensual anal sex also cannot be prosecuted under the law. AlthoughACLU leaders had originally planned to lobby the Maryland General Assembly to rescind or amend the old law, Sullivan said the organization is now satisfied with the judge’s ruling. Andrew H. Baida, an assistant attorney general, said state officials want to keep the old law to help prosecute cases of sexual .assault,prostitution or sex inpublicplaces. Center spokesman, Greg, adds that the Center also is hosting regular Pride Dances every other Saturday at 8pro. The Center ¯¯ now has a pool table to supplement the ping-pong and foosball tables it had be- " fore. Also, Centerlegal counsel, Kerry Lewis, ¯ shared that the board of directors of Tulsa : Oklahomans for Human Rights, the par- ¯ ent organization of the Pride Center, had : responded to the eviction notice of the : Center’s landlord. ¯ - Without delving into the legal partieu- ¯ larities, the board responded to the notice : saying that the Centerwas withinits rights ¯ under thelaw to post its signs and that the ¯ landlordhadWrongfully terminated their ¯ lease. The gist of the matter, according to ¯ Lewis is that all rights go to the tenant : unless specifically restricted by the landlord. ¯ Lewis stated too that the landlord and ¯ his attorney had failed to show up at a : meeting that was scheduled to try to re- . solve the conflict. : Lewis added that the landlord had been : asked to respond in a timely fashion, or : else, the board would seek legal redress ¯ for the damages already suffered by the : Center. ¯ Editor’s note: TFN will provide our ¯ readers an update to this conflict in our ¯ March issue. Classifieds - how to work them: First 30 words are $10. Each additional word is 25 cents. Options for your ad: Bold headline - $1, all capital letters - $1, all bold & capital letters - $2, ad in box - $2, Ad reversed - $3, tear sheet mailed - $2 Blind P.O. Box - $5 Please type or print your ad. Count the words - word is a group of letters or numbers separated by a space. TFNreserves the right to edit or refuse any ad. No refunds. 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But this year that will change. Organizers ofTulsa’s anmml Pride events have scheduled Tulsa’s first Gay Pride parade for ¯ June 12. The parade is tenta¯ tively scheduled to begin ¯ at the Pride Center, the ¯ Gay commuuity center at @KJ MA ¯ 38th & Peoria and will ¯ move up Peoria through ¯ Brookside to 31st St. Then the parade will follow 31st Tulsa! to Riverside Drive and continue to Veterans Park Shepard Murder Update Murder Accessory Pleads Guilty ’99 TULSA - The Pride Center, Tulsa’s Gay & Lesbian Community Center, has been served with an eviction notice by its landlord. TheCenter, which is a program of Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights, Inc. (TOHR) a tax-exempt, educational not-for-profit corporation, was charged by the new building owners with violating its lease by hanging new vinyl signs on the south and west faces of the upper floor, stated Center spokesperson, Greg Gatewood. The signs read,"Gay Commumty Center and Pride Store, Benefiting The Gay Communit)-". Gatewood, who is a member of the TOHR board of directors, indicated that the lease did require getting .prior permission for any building signs from the building owner, and that the owner alleges that permission was not requested. Gatewood also noted that the owner objected to the vinyl banner or "temporary" quality of the signs. He says the owner claims he has no objection to the content of the signs, i.e. their "Gayness." Gatewood did say that the organization has had a similar vinyl sign up without objection from the prior landlord until it was stolen and that other tenants have had a variety of similar signs up. However, on advice of their legal counsel, board members have removed the signs until they can hold a board meeting and determine a suitable response to the building owner. Some real estate observers have speculated that the move on the part of the new landlord may be motivated by the desire to move out a lower paying tenan! and lease the space at a higher rate. Gatewood said that the TOHR board will meet within the next two weeks. He added that the signs, otherwise, have been quite successful in bringing for the 18th annual Pride PRIDE LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) - A woman whose boyfriend picnic. was accused in the murder of Gay University of WyoBecause of the higher ming student Matthew Shepard has become the first cost involved in organizperson to be convicted in the case. Chasity Vera Pasley, ing a parade (fees for po20, pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact to lice assisfance, street closfirst-degree murder. ings, etc.) organizers are IT’S TIME FOR TULSA! "The impetus behind this plea was Ms. Pasley’s MAKE A DIFFERENCE AND seeking major corporate JOIN YOUR COMMUNITY alone," said her lawyer, Maribeth Galvan, who also told IN SUPPOP£flNG THIS EVENI~. sponsorship beyond that the court her client could testify about what she knew CALL 743.4297 FOR. INFO! which they’ve received about the attack. Shepard, 21, suffered 18 blows to the head after he (former corporate supwas lured out of a downtown Laramie bar Oct. 7, tied to porters have included a fence androbbed. Earlier testimony indicated Shepard American Airlines, was singled out party because he was Gay. Coors, Budweiser and Ms. Pasley’s boyfriend, Russell Arthur Henderson, Pride Activities Graphics Miller as well as Pepsi21, and another man, Aaron James.iMcKinney, 21, are Cola). Sponsors are sought atthe $2000, S 1000 and $500 level as accused of first-degree murder, kidnapping and aggrawell as at a $250 non-profit level. Major sponsors will receive vated robbery. Both pleaded innocent and will be tried high visibility in all event materials (program, t-shirts, and other separately next year. promotional materials). McKiuney’s girlfriend, Kristen LeAnn Price, 19, was Withmore corporate support, organizers hope to provide a tent also charged with accessory after the fact to first-degree for better shelter from the heat ¢and murder. !~Is. Pricepleaded innocent and will go on ~rial .. e ’ " " ...... ~:~:- ’ " ’~ - potentially, any rain).Also ¯ theCentertothe~attent~onofmor,epeople,localan& Ma,, 24 ¯ Afithorities said "~’e w"<’~ ~’o~2~ a;~Z~x ~.~ "-’ xpa~ea-:..ente~tamment,~s-p~annea with lon~fim~ TUfsa dive, ~" ou~50f-towners. Oat~V~0~ ~dso S~id ~hat financial r’ : fundraiser and community activist. Miss Kris Kohl helping to support for the Center is up though many more bloody clothing worn by Henderson. ¯ orgamze those efforts. For more information, call Ric Martin. members need to join in order to reach their goal of At the hearing, posecutor Cal Rerncha told District ¯ parade chair, or 2vfitchell Savage, picnic chair, at 743-4297. 1,000 supporters by the end of the year. Judge Jeffrey A. Donnell that if Pasley’s case had gone to trial, the state would have produced evidence to indicateHenderson and McKinney had attacked Shepard with "premeditated malice," and "inflicted pain and torture On this individual." "Pleadings for his life fell on deaf ears," Rerucha said. see Shepard, p. 10 ¯ OKLAHOMA CITY- OLGLA, the Oklahoma Lesbian and Gay TULSA - She has a familiar face but it’s in a new Law Associauon will present a Continuing Legal Educatioh location. Lisa Pottorf, seen by many in Tulsa’s seminar this next March (date and location to be announced), Lesbian and Gay co~mnunities as a guardian angel SALEM, Ore. (AP) - A December Oregon Court of "WhereAre We & Vvqaere Do We Go From Here- How to Handle for Gay and Lesbian youngsters, is now with Red Appeals ruling has effectively outlawed job discrimina- ; Lesbian and Gay Law Issues", in Oklahoma City. Featured Rock Behavioral Health Services’ Tulsa office. tion based on sexual orientation across the state, state speakers will be longtime Lesbian political and legal activist, Her position was formerly held by Betsy Murphy officials said. Paula Ettelbrick. Ettelbrick was formerly the Legal Director for who came from Red Rock’s Oklahoma City proThe ruling involved a lawsuit by three lesbian emLambda Legal Defense and Education" Fund, a national civil grams to open their Tulsa office. ployees at Oregon Health Sciences University who fights litigation organizauon. She now selwes as Legislative The Tulsa office began a program for young claimed their domestic partners were entitled to ben- ¯ Comisel for the Empire State Pride Agenda, a statewide Lesbian adults that became known as O’RYAN, Oklahoma efits. Though the school began offering such benefits ." and Gay political organization in the State of New York. Ettelbrick Rainbow Young Adult Network, an outreach orgalast June, the court nailed down the university’s obligaalso teaches "Sexuality and the La~ at the Umversxty of Michinization for Lesbian, Gay, Bi and questioning 18tions. State government also began offering gay partner gan Law School and New York University Law School. She will 24 year olds. benefits to its 45,000 employees in June. speak on "Legislatively Lawyering?" The organization later created a program called The "denial of insurance benefits to the unmarried : Also speaking will be Suzanne Goldberg, a staff attorney for O’RYAN Jr. to provide support for youths from ¯ partners of its homosexual employees" violated the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund who has been 14-18 years old. As part of the O’ RYAN efforts, the equal protection provisions of the Oregon Constitution, involved in numerous cases involving the legal rights of Lesbian group IS now holding a drop-in time at the Pride said a unanimous three-judge panel. and Gay citizens. Currently she is representing several Arkansas Center every Tuesday from 2:30 - 5pm. The state attorney general’s office said the ruling puts ¯ citizens in a challenge to the Arkansas "’sodomy" law. She is also Pottoff acts much like a surrogate morn to most sexual orientation on the same level as gendeT discrimicounsel in the case of Equality Foundation of Greater Cincinnati of those who attend the group, though she, as she " ¯ nat~ion. ’q’his tells Oregonians that discrimination based v. City of Cincinnati, to contes t an anti-gay ballot measure similar ¯ ° puts it, is ably assisted by Ken Draper, who began on sexual orientation in employment, public and pri- ¯ to Colorado,s Amendment 2, which was struck down by the U.S. ¯ working with the program as a volunteer. vate, is illegal," said Deputy Attorney General David Supreme Court in Romer v. Evans. Ms. Goldberg’s CLE topic is ¯ Red Rock also does free, confidential HIV testSchuman. "’Update on Legal Issues Affecting Lesbians and Gays". . ing at the Pride Center on Tuesdays from 5-8 pm ¯ Basic Rights Oregon, see Oregon, p. 10 Other topics will include, "’Employment Discrimination Against ¯ and at their offices at 1724 Fast Sth on Wednesdays ¯ Lesbians and Gays," "Jury Nullification of Legal Protections for ¯ from 5-8pm. Their office which is adjacent to the DIRECTORY/LETrERS P. 2 ¯ Lesbians and Gays," and "Best Interest of the Child: Custody ¯ EDITORIAL Center for the Physically Limited also provided P. 3 ¯ mental health support for that organization. US & WORLD NEWS P. 4 ¯ Issues for Lesbian and Gay Parents.’" Jimmy Goodman of Crowe & Dunlevv’s Oklahoma City HEALTH NEWS P. 6 ¯ COMMUNITY CALENDAR P. 9 office and Kerry Lewis from Rhodes, Hieron’ymus, Jones, Tucker BOOK REVIEW P. 10 & Gable in Tulsa will moderate the sessions¯ DO-IT-YOURSELF-DYKE P. 11 The OLGLA is a statewide organization for attorneys who are ~ DYKE PSYCHE P. 12 ¯ supportive ofthelegal issues facing Lesbians and Gays.-Formore GAY STUDIES: ANTHROPOLOGY ¯ inlbmaation, call Kerry Lewis at 918-582-1173. P. 13 ¯ Oregon Bans Workplace Bias CLASSIFIEDS + WEERWOLF P. 14 Law Group .To Offer Gay Red Rock Efforts for Issues Sem,nar ,n OKC Gay Youth Expand �Tulsa Clubs & Restaurants 832-1269 *Bamboo Lounge, 7204 E. Pine Remember Matthew Shepard 918.583.1248, fax: 583.4615, POB 4140, Tulsa. OK 74159 592-2143 *Boston Willy’s Diner, 1742 S. Boston by Donating Books to the e-mall: TulsaNews@ earthlink.net 744-0896 *Concessions, 3340 S. Peoria website; http://users.aol.com/TulsaNews/ University of Wyoming 599-9512 *Empire Bar, 1516 S. Peoria Publisher + Editor: 583 -6666 *Full Moon Cafe, 1525 E 15th A Different Light bookstore is offering Tom Neal 749-4511 *Gold Coast Coffee House, 3509 S. Peoria a unique way to honor Matthew Shepard. Writers + e0ntributors: 585-3134 *Interurban Restaurant, 717 S. Houston Customers can purchase any new hardJames Christjohn, Jean-Claude de Flambeauchaud 599-7777 *Jason’s Ddi, 15th & Peoria cover book and donate it "In Memory of Barry. Hensley, J.-P. Legrandbouche, Lamont Lindstrom 749-1563 *Lola’s, 2630 E. 15th Matthew." Esther Rothblum, Mary Schepers, Adam West 744-4280 *Polo Grill, 2038 Utica Square The collection of books will then be *St. Michael’s Alley Restaurant, 3324-L E. 31st 745-9998 Member of The Associated Press sent to the Universtiy of Wyoming, where 834-4234 *Silver Star Saloon, 1565 Sheridan Shepard was a student. Each donated Issued on or before the 1st of each month, the entire contents of this 585-3405 *Renegades/Rainbow Room, 1649 S. Main book will have a bookplate stating, ’q’his by.TJ .6.60.-0856 .book was donated in memory of Matthew ¯ *TNT’s, 2114 S. Memorial ~4uc,~blication are not protected by US copyright 1998 or in part without arid may be reproduced either in whole 584-1308 *Tool Box, 1338 E. 3rd~ " Shepard: 1976-1998." written pemaission from the publisher. Publication of a name or A list of suggested titles is available at Tulsa Businesses, Services, & Professionals photo does not indicate a person’s sexual orientation. Corresponthe store, including books specifically re747-1508 Advanced Wireless & PCS, Digital Cellular dence is assumed to be for publication unless otherwise noted,_rpust quested by the University of Wyoming be signed & becomes the sole property of TJ.~ *Affinity News, 8120 E. 21 610-8510 Each .reader is entitled to 4 copies of each edition at distribution library. A Different Light is at 8853 Santa 746-4620 Dennis C. Arnold, Realtor Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood. points. Additional copies are available by calling 583-1248. *Assoc. in Med. & Mental Health, 2325 S. Harvard 743.-1000 For more details, call 310.854.6601. Kent Balch & Associates, Health & Life Insurance 747-9506 - via e-mail 747-6827 250-5034 Friend For A Friend, POB 52344, 74152 *Barnes & Noble Booksdlers, 8620 E. 71 Editor’s note: A Different Light is one of 582-0438 712-1122 Friends in Unit3’ Social Org., POB 8542, 74101 Body Piercing by Nicole, 2722 E. 15 the US’s oldest Gay & Lesbian indepen583-6611 712-9955 *HIV ER Center, 4138 Chas. Page Blvd. *Borders Books & Music, 2740 E. 21 dent bookstores with locations in Los 834-4194 494-2665 ¯ *HIV Resource Consortium, 3507 E. Admiral *Borders Books & Music, 8015 S. Yale Angeles and New York City. 481-1111 743-5272 *Holland Hall School, 5666 E. 81st Brookside Jewdry, 4649 S. Peoria 834-8378 746-0313- ¯ HOPE, HIV Outreach, Prevention, Education *CD Warehouse, 3807c S. Peoria HIV Testing, Mon/Thurs. 7-9pm, daytime by appt. only Cherry St. Psychotherapy, 1515 S. Lewis 581-0902, 743-4117 ¯¯ Scouting for All 622-0700 *House of the Holy Spirit Minstries, 3210e So. Norwood Community Cleaning, Kerby Baker Dear Scouting For All Supporters, 352-9504, 800-742-9468 ¯ Interfaith AIDS Ministries 438-2437, 800-284-2437 Tim Daniel, Attorney So far over this last year Scouting For 838-1715 749-3620 ¯ *MCC of Greater Tulsa, 1623 N. Maplewood *Deco to Disco, 3212 E. 15th All has collected dose to 28,000 signa748-3111 587-2611 ¯¯ NAMES Project, 3507 E. Admiral P1. *Devena’s Gallery, 13 Brady tures. My goal is one million. I am asking 365-5658 744-5556 NOW, Nat’l Org. for Women, POB 14068, 74159 Doghouse on Brookside, 3311 S. Peoria you all to stand with me in my effort to end ¯ OK Spokes Club (bicycling), POB 9165, 74157 838-8503 *Elite BoOks & Videos, 821 S. Sheri,dan discrimination by the Boy Scouts of 584-7960 : America against Gay kids and adults. 584-0337, 712-9379 ." *Our House, 1114 S. Quaker *Ross Edward Salon, 2447 E. 15th ’" 749-4901 ¯ 744~9595 ¯¯ PFLAG, POB 52800, 74152 *Floral Design Studio, 3404 S. Peoria My dad and I, with the help of friends, 587-7674 : collected dose to 3,000 signatures in New 628-3709 *Planned Parenthood, 1007 S. Peoria Cathy Furlong, Ph.D., 1980UticaSq. Med. Ctr. ¯ 743-4297 ¯" York and over 5,000 signatures in San 742-1460 *The Pride Center, 1307 E. 38, 2nd floor, 74105 *Gloria Jean’s Gourmet Coffee, 1758 E. 21st 459-9349 Prime-Timers, P.O. Box 52118, 74152 Learme M. Gross, Insurance & financial planning ¯ Francisco in just 3 days. Alex, a tender749-4195 : foot scout in the midwest who is support744-7440 ¯ *R.A.I.N., Regional AIDS Interfaith Network Mark T. Hamby, Attorney 665-5174 ~ ing me, collectb,d 400 signatures himsdf. Rainbow Business Guild, POB 4106, 74159 " *Sandra ~. Hill, MS~ Psychotherapy, 2865,E. Skelly 745-1111 584-2325 : Alex is 12 years old! 341-6866 ¯ *Red Rock Mental Center, 1724E. 8" ".~ .... *International .Tours ¯ Every signature helps and represents’a O’RYAN, support group for 18-24 LGBT young adults 712-2750 ¯ Jacox Animal Clinic, 2732 E. [5th ¯ voice of protest. If we really want to see O’RYAN, Jr. support group for 14z17 LGBT youth 582~3018 ¯ *Jared’s Antiques, 1602 E. 15th 425-7882 : this policy of discrimination change I am 747-0236. St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church, 4045 N. Cincinnati David Kauskey, Country Club Barbering 492-7140 ] asking all of you to step up our efforts of 599-8070 ¯ *St. Dunstan’s Episcopal, 5635 E. 71st *Ken’s Flowers, 1635 E. 15 582-3088 : getting signatures. I am asking each of 747-5466 ¯ *St. Jerome’s Parish Church, 205 W. King Kelly Kirby, CPA, 4021 S. Harvard, #210 583-7171 ¯ you to collect at least 100 signatures. *Tulsa Area United Way, 1430 S. Boulder 585-1234 *Living ArtSpace, 19 E. Brady By collecting signatures you also edu582-7225 ~ 584-3112 ¯ TNAA PP (Native American men), Indian Health Care *Midtown Theater, 319 E 3rd 595-4105 : cate the public that a great youth organiza663-5934 ." Tulsa County Health Department, 4616 E. 15 Miugo Valley Flowers, 9720c E. 31 Confidential HIV Testing - by appt. on Thursdays only 664-2951 ¯¯ ¯ tion in America, the Boy Scouts of *Mohawk Music, 6157 E 51 Place Tulsa Okla. for Human Rights, c/o The Pride Center 743-4297 : America, has one thing wrong about it. 747-6711 Novel Idea Bookstore, 51st & Harvard ¯ 747-7672 T.U.L.S.A. Tulsa Uniform/Leather Seekers Assoc. 838-1222 -" It teaches us scouts to discriminate David A. Paddock, CPA, 4308 S. Peoria, Ste. 633 583-1090 : *Tulsa City Hall, GroundFloor Vestibule against people who they say are different *Peace of Mind Bookstore, 1401 E. 15 743-4297 ¯¯ *Tulsa Community College Campuses - who they say don’t have family values. The Pride Store, 1307 E. 38, 2nd floor 747-5932 *Rogers University (formerly UCT) How can the Boy Scouts of America say Rainb0wz on the River B+B, POB 696, 74101 834-0617 ¯ BARTLESVILLE that? They must not know any Gay people Richard’s Carpet Cleaning like I do. If they did they’d change their Teri Schutt, Rex Realtors 834-7921,747-4746 : *Bartlesville Public Library, 600 S. Johnstone 918-337-5353 582-7748 ": policy against Gays tomorrow. Christopher Spradling, attorney, 616 S. Main, #308 OKLAHOMA CITY/NORMAN 749-6301 I am asking your help to make the Boy *Scribner’s Bookstore, 1942 Utica Square ¯ 260-7829 ¯ *Borders Books & Music, 3209 NW Expressway 405848-2667 Scouts a better program that’s for all kids. Paul Tay, Car Salesman 697-0017 ¯ *Borders Books & Music, 300 Norman Center 405-573-4907 To get blank copies of the petition, go to *Tickled Pink, 3340 S. Peoria TAHLEQUAH 742-2007 out website at: *Tulsa Book Exchange, 3749 S. Peoria ¯ *Stonewall League, call for information: 918-456-7900 481-0558 *Tulsa Comedy Club, 6906 S. Lewis http ://www.scouting~forall.org/ ¯ 918-456-7900 *Tahlequah Unitarian-Universalist Church 743-1733 petition.htm Fred Welch, LCSW, Counsding ¯ *Green Country AIDS Coalition, POB 1570 918-453-9360 592-0767 and print out as many copies as you need. *Whittier News Stand, 1 N. Lewis : NSU School of Optometry, 1001 N. Grand There’s an address at the bottom where Tulsa Agencies, Churches, Schools & U niversities HIVtesting every other Tues. 5:30-8:30, call for dates : you can mail completed petitions back to 579-9593 ¯ AIDS Walk Tulsa, POB 4337, 74101 US. EUREKA SPRINGS, ARKANSAS 743-2363 *All Souls Unitarian Church, 2952 S. Pe0iia ¯ *Autumn Breeze Restaurant, Hwy. 23 I’m proud to be a scout. I’m just doing 501-253-7734 587-7314 Black & White, Inc. POB 14001, Tulsa 74159 what the Boy Scouts of Americahas taught 501-253-7457 583-7815 *Jim & Brent’s Bistro, 173 S. Main Bless The Lord at All Times Christian Center, 2207 E. 6 me to do, to help make the earth a better 501-253-6807 583-9780. ¯ DeVito’s Restaurimt, 5 Center St. *B/L/G/T Alliance, Univ. of Tulsa Canterbury Cir. place for all people - not just some people. 501-253-5445 *Emerald Rainbow, 45 &l/2 Spring St. 585-1201 *Chamber of Commerce Bldg., 616 S. Boston Thanks. - Steven Cozza 501-253-9337 *Chapman Student Ctr., University of Tulsa, 5th P1. & Florence ¯ MCC of the Living Spring ¯ Geek to Go!, PC Specialist, POB 429 13 year-old Life Rank Scout 501-253-2776 *Church of the Restoration UU, 1314 N.Greenwood 587-1314 501-253-5332 *Community of Hope United Methodist, 2545 S. Yale 747-6300 ¯¯ Old Jailhouse Lodging, 15 Montgomery Letters Policy 501-624-6646 *Community Unitarian-Universalist Congregation 749-0595 ¯ Positive Idea Marketing Plans Tulsa Family News wdcomes letters on 501-253-6001 Sparky’s, Hwy. 62 East 585-COMC (2662) *Council Oak Men’s Chorale issues which we’ve covered or on issues 501-253-4074 712-1511 : *White Light, 1 Center St. *Ddaware Playhouse, 1511 S. Delaware ~ you think need to be considered. Youmay 742-2457 ¯ FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS5 *Democratic Headquarters, 3930 E. 31 ¯ request that your name be withhdd but Dignity/integrity of Tulsa - Lesbian & Gay Catholics & 501-442-2845 ¯ *Edna’s, 9 S. School Ave. ¯ letters must be signed & have phonenum355-3140 " Episcopalians, POB 701475,74170-1475 JOPLIN, MISSOURI "- bers, or be hand delivered. 200 word let¯ 622-1441 *Family of Faith MCC, 5451-E So. Mingo ¯ *Spirit of Christ MCC, 2639E. 32, Ste. U134 417-623-4696 ters are preferred. Letters to other publi747-7777 *Fellowship Congreg. Church, 2900 S. Harvard ¯ * is where you can find TFN. Not all are Gay-owned but all are Gay-friendly. ¯ cations will be printed as is appropriate. * Free Spirit Women’ s Center, call for location & info: 587-4669 �by Tom Neal, publisher & editor To those who’ve been watching Brookside’ s increasingl y upscale redevelopment, it should come as little surprise that The Pride Center would be threatened with eviction. Since it opened, one local developer and his partners have made the old John Zink industrial site (about a mile south of the Center) into moderately expensive homesites, office and retail spaces. Across the street from the Center, an old warehouse was renovated into a trendy bakery and fancy medical offices. The success of Brookside’s north end dearly is spurring developers to move south along Peoria. Therefore, when the building in which the Pride Center is located was sold recently to owners associated with the Brook Restaurant, it struck some as ’~andwriting on the wall". The current tenants, most of whom are on limited budgets, were likely to get priced out as the new owner sought to renovate the spaces and lease them for more money. Few thought that this wguldhappenright away since the Center has a three year lease that began in late 1997. However, as the article on page one indicates, the landlord claims that the Center organizers hung signs (Gay Community Center and Pride Store) in violation of their lease and therefore he is seeking to break the lease. Center spokesman, Greg Gatewood says that the owner claims he is not troubled by the content of the signs (i.e. Gay) but rather the quality of the signs (vinyl versus some othe~material) and lack of prior permission. Center organizers note that these signs were not new but merely were replacements for earlier authorized signs which had been Stolen. Center organizers also note that other tenant businesses have similar vinyl signs. Obviously, as a non-profit organization, the Pride Center, and its parent organization, Tulsa Okl~i~omans for Human Rights, Inc. has limited funds for rent. The notion of a community center has been a challenge for Tulsa’s Gay and Lesbian community which often seems very, very fragmented. Support for the Center has, frankly, not been what it should be. Fortunately, that has been changing. Slowly, people have been realizing that .the Center is thtre. In fa~t; the Signs~:liavebeen successful,in attracting new locals and out-of-towners to the Center. No doubt, Center organizers and their capable legal comasel will do their best to resolve this matter in a manner that is fair to all parties. And hopefully, anti=Gay bias is not really part of the issue. But the lesson we need to draw from this is that we need to start now on a building fund endowment with which we can own our space. Then any decisions to move will be ours. Some will say that is unrealistic- that we don’t have the resources. They said much the same about the Pride Center once. Frankly, there are individuals in our community who could substantially underwrite such an endowment. I won’t name names, though many of you know them wall enough. In the larger community, there are also resources such as the newly formed. Tulsa Community Foundation spearheaded by banker George Kaiser. This new organization is drawing on the resources and generosity of some of Tulsa’s most prominent families and businesses, S chusterman, B ank of Oklahoma, Williams, Zarrow, Bartmann, Bama Cos., Helmerich & Payne, etc. just to mention specifically the families and businesses that have ties to Gay Tulsans. Kaiser has said that he supports treating Lesbian and Gay Tulsans fairly and implied that this foundation would likely do.the same. Let us contrast this with Tulsa Area United Way’s funding of organizations, like the homophobic Boy Scouts of America, which promotes religiously-basedprejuAt a national level, there are foundations that will specifically assist Lesbian and Gay groups or projects, such as the Kellogg Foundation, the Ford Foundation and the Gill Foundation. The latter should be high priority for Tulsans since it specifically targets "rural" projects and Foundation guidelines classify anything under 1.5 million as rural ! And it can’t hurt that several prominent Tulsans now claim close ties to Tim Gill, creator of Quark software and founder of the Gill Foundation. However, to get from here to there, we are going to have to start seeing a future. Too often we’ve just reacted to one assault or another, whether it was a directly physical one, the ongoing emotional battering that just being Gay in America entails, or the bullying and/or cowardice of our elected officials. Now is the time to build for our future. If you want to help the Community Center, call 743GAYS (4297). It’sasadcommentary on our fine state that the annual : progress. gathering of "our elected representatives" should be ¯ Now here’s what you can do to make a difference: fraught with dread by Oklahoma’s Lesbian and Gay ." Cimarron reports that Oklahoma House leadership has citizens, our families and our friends. made several committee chair assignments Cimarron . . . is We know we can count on at least one or to fair minded individuals. In particular, one two virulently anti-Gay bills. These usually beginning to do committee which is often the gate through are patently unconsfitutonal but they’ll get some good at lca~t which anti-Gay legislation passes, has been the votes of all but one or two of members of w~tk Democratlc assigned to Tulsan Betty Boyd. Mrs. Boyd, the Oklahoma House because those memknown to many in Tulsa for her work as a Party leader~. bers are too cowardly to vote for anything television journalist, needs to hear from us. Some of tlds is that resembles treating Gay Oklahomans A few years ago, interviewing her after she just the result ot~ like equal human being. Fortunately, usu(and every other member of the House save ally the Oklahoma Senate behaves more one) voted for an anti-Gay bill, she said that money - no wisely. the.call from TFN was literally the first she’d matter what tke And Cimarron Alliance, despite having received about Lesbian and Gay issues. This, entirely too many pretentious queens for my dPollt.iclans say, despite the fact that I personally know a" onatmns do buy number of her Lesbian and Gay constituents~ taste (note that I’m not referring toits Tulsa representatives), is beginning to do some the cars o~ most Bottom line: you won’t be represented ungood at least with Democratic Party leaders. pollt-ldans. Don’t less you call!!! Some of this is just the result of money - no The other thing you can do is to send believe me~ Look matter what the politicians say, political Cimarron some money. Many of us have at tke source o~ donations do buy the ears of most politilittle to spare and many of us wonder if political dollars, cians. Don’t believe me? Look at the source becoming a member of the Cimarron PAC of political dollars, then look at who benefits then look at who (political action committee) at.$20 a month from majority of those votes. is "do-able." However, the Cimarron Founbenefits., . But just as much a part of what’s helping at the Capitolis the ongoing work of a Cimarron officer, Keith Smith who lobbies for several progressive organizations. Smith and I have disagreed on issues before, and may again, but it is his steady presence, quietly voicing the concerns of Lesbian and Gay Oklahomans as he does his other work, that has won us some. ¯ ~ : ¯ ¯ dation, the tax-exempt group associated with the PAC sets no minimum on donations. It is the entity that sponsored the bus stop advertisements, "Gay or Straight, Everyone Deserves a Job" both here and in Oklahoma City. Every bit helps. So when you’re thinking about buying that new sweater, CD, or going out to eat again, consider w.hat price our freedom is worth. by James Christjohn . " much later. I suddenly wasn’t able tO breathe, and the ThisChrislmas Eve, somethinghappenedthatehanged~ ". cal~ .tiaras.t. had .gotten~me .tO ~that pointvevaporate& 1 my life~ I was celebrating the holiday with friends, and ." started hyperventilating. About this time, my phone suddenly felt compelled to return to my rang - it was Tom, readytocomegetme, and I called 911. apartment. I didn’t have to; I could have askingaslewofquestious.Inbetweengasps Looking back, stayed the night, but it was important to of air, I told him "I’m fine, you don’t need return to that place. I got home, noticed a I can laugh -"I’m (gasp) to come (gasp) get me. (gasp) I’ll be strange smellin theentry hall. Acrid, almost over (gasp) after (gasp) while." So he said, in a smoRe ~illed oily. I entered my abode, and thought "Boy, doubtfully, "OK... Grab what you need and apartment, at do I need to dean my glasses!" Then I come on over." xxyy street." looked over the frames, and saw that the The fireman came out and said the "You’re at xxyy haze was not from dirty glasses, but smoke guydownstairshadbeenusingaspaceheater sothick, Icouldn’tseetotheothersideofthe (Was I the only one using my gas heater?) Street.~" "Yes, apartment. I immediately went to the gas tied into two extension cords; The cords xxyy street." "Is heater, shut it down. Well, that didn’t helpwere lightweight (heating appliances need that in Tulsa.~’" I called 911. Looking back, I can laugh heavyweight extension cords, and its’s best "Yes. it is in "I’m in a smoke filled apartment, at xxyy not to use any with them). They were coiled Tulsa!!!" "So street.""You’reatxxyyStreet?""Yes,xxyy~ up (the heater was only 4 feet from the street." "Is that in Tulsa?" "Yes, it is. in outlet.) and overheated, which caused them You’re at xx~D" to ignite. Tulsa!!!~’ "So You’re at xxyy Street. Tulsa,\" Street. Tulsa. and~ou reinasmokefilledroomg"’"Yesttl;" .... I went into the apartment after the and you’re in a "Well, sir, if the room is smoke filled, you fire folk sucked out some of the smoke (yes, o smoke might want to vacate the premises." "I am obvious place of one of my trademark reroom.~’’ "Yes!!!" ready to do just that, as soon as I get off the marks isn’t it?) and looked around. What to phone with you!" She got the hint. "~v’ell, sir, ff tke take?How does one decide? I wanted to take I left taking my cordless phone, andknockit all. Allthe gifts that are symbols of the room is smoke ing on all the doors. No one came out, or love and people that gave them to us; the ~iled, you mi~kt even opened the door. I heard the sirens of prized possessions that we .surround ourwant to vacate the fire trucks approaching. I calmly called selves with, all symbols really, but symbols tke premises." "I my landlord, and informed his answering that remind us of who we are, and the ones machine of the events. I then called my ex, am ready to do we love. I settled on a picture morn sent me Tom, andleftamessageonhismachine.The just tlmt, as soon for Christmas - a photo of me taken in 1970, fire folk arrived. (One of whom was very holding my prize possession at the time - a as I ~et off tke attractive - funny wha! you notice under diecast model of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. It suchcircumstances.)They went through my pkone w~tk you.p’ was all I could think of to take at the time, Ske got tke ldnt. apartment, and couldn’t find a fire-just lots because I knew it was irreplaceable. And a of smoke. They looked in the attic, noting memento of a rare time in my childhood that the smoke was throughout the building. At that : when I was happy. So off I went. point, I thought, "What am I doing in here’?" I decided ¯ I never knew how devastating something like this to leave the building again, and then as I was going ¯ could be. Panic attacks are no small thing - I never down, both I and the hunky firefighter heard smoke : understood them until now. A smell reminiscent of that alarm, finally going off in the apartment below mine. ¯ smoke can tighten my chest to the point of not being They busted in the door, and smoke billowed out. " able to breathe. Tears come unbidden, for no reason. My worst fear is dying by fire - due to probably : Fear of being alone leads you to surround yourself with haviug been hiu-nt at the stake in a previous life. (Those :- people, to reassure yourself in some way that you are of you who know me will probably agree.) I had never ¯ alive, that you didn’t end up dying after all. It’s irratiohad a panic attack, so I didn’t know what hit me until " nal, you know it, see Viewpoint, p. 14 �Utah to Look at m~}., ~hat no one is doing ~:m’~ < o~.v pcopb~ :}~~ouid i[ differenOy.’" Most hare crime taws. Suazo sad. es*ablish protected classes o~ people, saying m-~ o~fender faces e~ced penalties if the victim is targeted due to ra~, et~q 06 gin, color, religious *’filia~on or sexuN ofientanon. But 6e SNt ~e Democrat stud prosecutors have told ~m Ut~fs hate mine law - wNch went into eff~t in 1992 - is too vague ~d lacks tee6 because it does not define ~tegofies of prot~ted people. Ut~’s law Nlows for e~d penNfies on ~sdeme,or offenses if ~e m~n~ intehds to imi~&te or tegofize someone ~d deprive them of 6eir constimfion~ rights. Su~o sNd ~at r~mres prosecutors to guess what is m 6e offender’s ~nd. "I don’t ~ you shoMd have to prove intent," he SNd. "It is ~fficMt m work wi~ 6e wW it r~ds." S~o stud leNslafive ~dysts have been reviewing 6e law to &leone what adjus~ents coMd be made. He sNd he does ~fidpate a fight on Capitol Hill. StiR, ~nofity leaders like Willi~s sw a more defiN~ve law is n~. She poifi)~ to sever~ lo~ ex~ples of hae tomes, including a cross bu~ng in Sdt ~e City ~at prompt~ federN ch~ges ~d filing of ch~ges agNnst a West Jor~ m~ for h~l~g raci~ slurs at a black womb. S~o a~d, saying people ~ no longer ~ford to i~ore hate tomes. "We have to fa~ reNities. There ~e hate ~oups out 6ere ~genng people for e~c backgro~d, cdor or lfestyl e. We n~d to face ~at fact." He sNd ~e reality is 6a U~ ~ tomes bring pe~e~a~ ag~nst ~oups of people. "We ~’t duck Gay Mens’ Killer Gets 168 Year Sentence ALBUQUERQUE (AP) - A 20-year-old killer smirked after being told through an interpreter that he probably would spend the rest of his life in prison in the deaths of three Gay men. Ricardo Rodriguez was the first of four defendants to go on trial in the 1997 slayings. He was sentenced to the maximum term - 168 years - after he was convicted in November on 13 counts, including firstdegree murder and kidnapping. With three consecutive life sentences, each 30 years without parole, and three consecutive 18-year terms for tirst-degree kidnapping, "in ~1 likelihood Mr. Rodriguez will die in prison," stag prosecutor Jody Curran. The bodies of Victor Monzon, 41, and Jesus Contreras, 30, were found bound, beaten and strangled in an Albuquerque motel in February 1997. The decomposed body of Osvaldo Travieso, 37, was found dumped along Interstate 25 near Santa Fe two weeks later. The four defendants were arrested m Salinas, Kan., driving Monzon’s car. Indian Police Harass Gays LUCKNOW, India (AP) - Police are preventing Gays from going to a park in the north Indian city of, LuCknow following protests from thepublic that they were having sex there, an official said Thursdw. Policemen have been posted at the GPO Park, a popular rendezvous for the city’s Gays, said police. spokesman R. S. Tomar. "Police will not allow male couples into the park if they kmow they are GWs... Pol icemen will ask them if they are Gay. If they hold hmxds or are demonstrative about their affection: we,ll suspect them of being Gay," he said in m~ interview State prosecutor S of parks violates :ivi; ri~i~vs, m~,> :.[i police ;krc OKLAHOMA CO~LIN[CAT~ONS pzoles[ the Dohcc Publicdisplay of a~ Iection cvcn b::~wecn a mm~ m~d a wom~m is rare in h:dia, where man} believe homosexuMs exists ouly in Westen~ nations Hawaii Marriage Update HONOLULU (AP) No further legislation is needed on same-sex marriage, according to the state attorney general" s office. Attoniey General Margery Bronster" s office submitted a brief to the state Supre~ne Court swing the consntutional amendinent approved bv voters last month validates the current state ban on same-sex mamage and that no further action is required. After the amendment was approved, the Supreme Court, Which is considering an appeal in the case, asked the state and attorneys for three Gay couples to submit briefs on how the amendment affects the case. Civil liberties attorney Dan Foley, who represents the couples, said he will submit a brief with a different op~mon. Senate Judiciary co-chairman Matt Matsunaga said le~slators will have to determine if approval of additional legislation.would help or hurt the attorney general’s case or make no difference. The Supreme Co.urt earlier ruled that the state’s ban on same-sex mamage ~s unconstatutional unless the state can show a compelling interest in Continuing the ban. During a subsequent trial, Circuit Judge Kevin Chang ruled that the state had failed to show a compelling reason for continuing the ban. The Supreme Court was considering the state’s appeal of that ruling, but put the case on hold pending outcome of the vote on the constitutional amendment. Two Banned Gay Books Restored BARRON, V¢is. (AP) - Two of four books banned because of vulgar language have been temporarily returned to school library shelves while educators search for a less explicit book on the same subject, homosexuality. The school board reached a compromise to restore thebooks,’q’woTeen-agers inTwenty" and "When Someone You Know Is Gay" for 90 days at the Barton High School library. School media director Irene Cooley was directed tofind a replacement book dealing with homosexuality, but without profanity and vulgarity. The books and two others were banned because school board members said they contained profane language. At its meeting, the board voted to continue the ban on the other books, "Baby Be-bop" and "The Drowning of Stephan Jones." The books were removed permanently because of "’pervasively vulgar language, educational unsuitability and failure of the book to reflect the community’s values," said Superintendent Vita Sherry. About 60 people turned out for the board’s meeting, with the crowd about evenly divided on whether to maintain the book ban. "If we allow books with this language, should we allow our children to speak like this?" said one supporter of the ban, Bill Balz. Opponent Mike Urseth said the ban infringed on intellectual freedom. "In tiffs case, the freedom to learn," Urseth said. "Please put the books back on the shelf." Board members said their action on the books was based on complaints of profane language, not be: cause they deal with homosexuality. 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Attorney Texas Sodomy Challenge Bankruptcy & Civil Matters Announcing the new HOUSTON (AP) - A challenge to Texas’s 119-yearold anti-sodomy law has been sent to a Texas appeals court, the latest step in a privacy rights case that could wind up before the U.S. Supreme Court. A decision by that court could effect anti-sodomy laws on the books in 18 states, including Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri. In the Texas case, John Lawrence, 55, and Tyrone Garner, 31, were arrested Sept. 17 in Lawrence’s apartment and charged with engaging in homosexual conduct, a misdemeanor. Both pleaded no contest last month, but appealed with a motion to quash the charges. Judge Sherman A. Ross dismissed the motions. Under an agreement reached with prosecutors, Lawrence and Garner again pleaded no contest. The judge fined them $200 each and allowed the immediate filing of their new appeals. The case may end up before the Supreme Court because Garner and Lawrence’s challenges are based on state and federal constitutional questions involving privacy rights. "I believe in the Constitution of the United States and I believe in the rights of all citizens," Lawrence said. "Would you like someone busting into your house?" Harris County deputies entered Lawrence’s apartment and found the men engaged in consensual sex. The deputies were res.ponding to a false report that someone was going crazy ~n the apartment and was armed with a gun, according to court documents. Although on the books for more than a century, the Texas sodomy law is rarely enforced. Gay activists hav( worked unsuccessfully for years to overturn the statute there and in 17 other states that have sodomy statutes barring consensual anal or oral sex. Five of those states, including Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri, specifically ban sodomy between same-sex partners, according to Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund Inc., a Gay-rights group based in New York. The Georgia Supreme Court in November struck down that state’s sodomy law, following similar decisions by courts in Kentucky, Montana and Tennessee, and sodomy laws in Arkansas and Louisiana are under currently attack in state courts. Kansas" law was upheld as constitutional earlier this year after a three-judge panel of the state Court of Appeals refused to overturn a municipal court misdemeanor convicuon involving a Topeka man. MCC-United Montana May Add Gays to Hate Crimes Law Call for More Information 1500 Nations Bank, 15 West Sixth Tulsa, O klahoma 74119 744-7440 Fax 744-9358 JAC OX ANIMAl, CLINIC Family’s Pet Physician DR. MALCOLM JACOX M-F7:30-7 Sat9-1 2732 East 15th Street Tulsa, Oklahoma 74104 tel: 712-2750, fax: 712-2760 Now Featuring Dog Grooming, Mon. - Fri. 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But the proposal faces opposition from conservatives, who say it would advance what they call "the homosexual agenda". Mazurek, a Democrat, is asking for two changes to the current hate-crimes law. First, sexual orientation would join the protected ranks of race, creed, religion, color, national origin and involvement in civil rights. And second, a harsher sentence would be allowed for those who commit a crime and choose their victim for those same reasons. "We hope this would prevent people from commitung what are already criminals acts against another person, solely because that person is Gay or Lesbian," said Mazurek. %~rhat we’re trying to do is ensure that people don’t become victims simply for something they believe in or a lifestyle they lead.’" The question of v~olence against Gays and Lesbians was stirred up this year after the murder in Laramie, Wyo., of Matthew Shepard, a University of Wyoming student who was openly Gay. Several human rights groups in Montana have said" the crime committed in Laramie could easily have happened here and anti-hate crime legislation is necessary to quash any notion that such crimes are acceptable. Similar attempts have failed in past legislative sessions. But this group of lawmakers may be more willing to make the change, one Republican leader said. "I want to keep an open mind about that 1 egislation," said S enate Majority Leader John Harp, R-K*dispel!. Harp said nobody could condone what happened to Shepard. Republican Gov. Marc Racicot has said he wonld sign anti-hate crime legislation that protects homosexuals. But the proposed changes will not come without opposition. Arlette Randash, a Helena resident who works as a lobbyist for the socially conservative Eagle Forum, said her group will fight against the measures. She said the changes are not needed because such acts already are illegal, and she sees the proposed change as a furtherance of a homosexual agenda. "I believe that hate crime legislation, in large part, is being used as a front to move the homosexual agenda forward so It is accepted by people as an accepted standard in our community," she added. Also, Randash said, "We don’t give people special status based on behavior alone." On the other hand, Mazurek said, it’s essential to let people know hate-driven actions aren’t acceptable. "We as a society are saying we are tolerant of people’s views and lifestyles," said Mazurek. Gay Man Assaulted in Rhode Island PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP)-Two men were charged with a hate crime in the assault of a man leaving a Gay and Lesbian bar in Providence. On Nov. 26, 19-year-old David E. Sheldon of East Providence and 18-year-old Taylor Grenier of Warren allegedly initiated the attack by yelling anti-Gay slurs at Diana Obidowski, The Providence Journal reported. Police report that the two teens had gotten bored at a party in East Providence and had driven downtown. When they saw Obidowski, they got out of their car, ran to him, knocked him down and kicked him in the head and ribs, police said. When Obidowski tried to run, the teens allegedly knocked him down agmn, kicked him and punched him in the. face. The incident ended when two Providence police cruisers arrived. ¯ Obidow ski, a 44-year-ol d Air Force veteran, was treated at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Providence. He had cuts that he said required 12 stitches. He was released the same day. Obidowski is a tall transvestite who wears ladies" size 13 shoes, but was not dressed as a woman on the night of the attack, television station WJAR in Cranston reported. The teens accused in the beating face simple assault charges in District Court under the state Hate Crimes Sentencing Act. The law, passed by the state legislature in July, requires offenders to receive sentences of at least 30 days in jail. Obidowski said he "’very, very impressed" with how police handled their investigation. ’qhey made me very comfortable," he told WJAR. There were 44 hate crimes last year, including 25 in Providence. According to Bay Windows, a Gay newspaper, there were at least six anti-Gay attacks in Providence last summer. Internet Bank to Target Gays and Lesbians PENSACOLA, Florida (AP) - When banks refused to finance his planned Gay and Lesbian resort, Steven Dunlap scrapped that idea and decided to start a financial institution that would welcome homosexuals instead of spurn them. The result is G and L Bank - the initials stand for Gay and Lesbian - expected to open here in the spring. Not only would it be the only bank in the United S tates catering specifically to homosexuals, it would be one o,f the first operating primarily via the Internet. q’he whole deal is to take banking away from you having to go to the bank and let us bring the bank to you," Dunlap said. He envisions Gays and Lesbians as an entry market but not the bank’s sole customer base. "Just like Federal Express is doing to overnight delivery, I expect to be the No. 1 brand name in the Interact banking arena," Dunlap said. Bold talk, but Dunlap, 42, has some unique business credentials to back it up. He went from selling watermelons see Bank, p. 11 �Reporting May Discourage Tests? expenditures on patients. "Compared to what we spend on all ~nds of other things, it’s just not that ATLANTA (AP) - Some Gay men are muchmoney" for the government to spend, avoiding testing for theAIDS virus in part " said project co-director Dr. Samuel A. Bozzette, a health care researcher at because they don’t want their names reRAND, the Santa Monica, California, ported to the federal government, accordthink tank overseeing the governmenting to a new study from the Centers for sponsored research. Disease Control and Prevention. The $20,000 tab is roughly one-third of The CDC said the survey, released rethe estimates from the early 1990s, when cenfly, underscores the need to continue firm figures were hard to come by, and government funding for anonymous HIV before the advent of AIDS drug cocktails testing, even as the agency asks states to that have proven powerfnlly effective in start keeping names of people who get fending off the disease and keeping patreated for the virus that causes AIDS. tients out of the hospital. The stud)’ was Earlier, theCDCpublishednew recom¯ conducted in 1996, just as the combinamendafions in which it asked all states to tion therapy was coming into widespread begin reporting HIV cases either with the use. It found 55% of people being treated person’ s name or anidentifying code. The for HIV were taking one of the newer CDCsaystheinformationwillhdphealth AIDS drugs by December 1996. Doctors officials track HIV cases before they be¯ >elieve use of the new drugs has since come full-blown AIDS. But some activrisen sharply. ists believe privacy concerns will steer The study estimated that only half of all some away from being tested at all. American adults infected with the AIDS The CDC surveyed 556 people in nine " virus saw their doctor at least once every states in late 1995 and 1996 who were six months. Many of those not getting considered at high risk forHIV but said they had not been tested, They included " are were unaware they were infected. However, an encoura~ng 85% of those homosexuals, intravenoUsdrug users and with full-blown AIDS were getting reguheterosexuals recruited from clinics for lar care, with most of them seeing AIDS sexually transmitted diseases. 19% said specialists. not wanting their names reported was one Early treatment can slow the disease, reason they had not been tested. Only 2% extend’lifespan and save money by reducsaid it was their main reason. Gay men ing hospitalizations. The study was publiving in states that already report~names lished in The New England Journal of were more concerned about privacy. 35% Medicine. It was based on interviews of of that group said name reporting was one 3,072 people treated in hospitals or docreasonthey avoidedtesting..Still, the.most tots’ offices in dozens of urban and rural common reason for not getung te.stext ~.vas -areas around the country. that people were afraid of learmng they were .IV-positive. Arkansas Accused Ukraine to Provide of Poor HIV Care Free HIV Medicines LrrrLEROCKC’ P -Ifyouhav AIDS ment has ordered the free distribution of medicine to those infected with the HIV virus and AIDS, a news report noted. In a recently released resolution, the Cabinet also introduced free medical examinations for .people suspected of carrying ¯ HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, the Interfax news agency reported. The report didnotspecifywhichmedicineswouldbe distributed. The number of people infected with HIV in Ukraine, a nation of 50 million people, has soared to 23,000 people, up from 18,500 in mid-1997, according to govemment statistics. 80%oftheinfeeted were intravenous drug users, ~l~ae official figure is larger than in any other former Soviet republic. Russia, with three times as many people, has reported 10,283 eases, though the actual figure is thought to be higher, In its resolution, the Cabinet also ordered the Foreign Ministry.to-make sure that foreign .citizens staying in Ukraine for more than three months have documents certifying they are not infected with HIV. Some 642 Ukrainians have contractedAIDS over thelast decade, and half of them have died, according to govemment data. AIDS CaroCosts John Serrot, MSW Cherry Street Psychotherapy Associates 1515 S. 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Rose says Atkansas has the "worst ADAP program." It is one of seven states - Arkansas, Alaska, Montana, North and South Dakota, Oregon and Wyoming - that contributes no money specifically for the treatment of AIDS and those with the HI¥ virus that causes AIDS. Of those seven states, all but Oregon have significantly fewer AIDS patients than Arkansas, and Oregon offers a special high-risk insurance program for AIDS patients, Rose says. Boiled down, Arkansas’ situation is grim, he adds. The Ryan White Center in Little Rock helps patients buy drugs, but the center is so strapped for money it has stopped taking new cases. ’%Vhat can we do?" says Susan Goggans, the center’s director of client services. "We can’t afford to pay ¯ foreverybody-we’vereachedastopping ¯ point." 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Through the drug assistance program, The1998 federal budget for Arkansas’ each of the center’s 272 clients take drugs AIDS Drug Assistance Program was $2.5 costing from $1,000-$2,000 every month. million. But federal help doesn’t go far enough to pay for the most expensive drugs, the protease inhibitors, and the center often relies on pharmaceutical companies’ patient assistance programs to provide the ¯ BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Size does drugs for free. Goggans says that because Arkansas ." matter - at least as far as Colombian AIDS does not cover purchases of protease in- : activists are concerned. The activists pahibitors, the Ryan White Center is in a ¯ raded an enormous inflated condom "drug crisis." Patients taking the life-giv- ~ through the streets of the country’s third largest city hoping to draw attention to the ing but expensive protease inhibitors of¯ threat of AIDS. ’The idea is for people to ten spend a large percentage of their time chasing the drugs - trying to eke out ¯¯ realize that the disease exists, that it’s here, and that it represents a far greater money from government agencies or get . " threat than the condom we’re displaydrugs donated from pharmaceutical companies. "It’s just not enough money," . ing,"Dr. John Jairo Palacio told reporters. The mock prophylactic, which weighed Goggans says. "We’re not doing what ¯ other states are doing. We’re not giving : roughly 3,000 pounds, stretched over a : half-mile down a holiday street fair in the best care we can." Since April 1997, the Center’s caseload ¯ Call acity of two million inhabitants. The huge plastic condom was the idea has nearly doubled from 156 to 272 be- ¯ cause more AIDS-HIV patients are seek- ¯¯ of doctors specializing in sexually-transmitted diseases at the Santiago de Cali ing treatment and living longer. But the $30,270 in federal funds the local center ¯ ¯ University and workers from drug rehareceives through the Ryan White Care ¯ bilitation programs. Palacio said the condom took two months to build at a cost Act has remained the same since early 1997. ¯ $13,000, and was paid for by the univerSomeAIDS and HIV patientsotry to get ¯ sity and a condom manufacturer. their medical treatment covered by Medicaid’s medically needy program. But many have incomes considered too high. Patients must.reapply every three months and often are left without coverage during PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - It’s been a the weeks their applications are reviewed tough 3ear for Patrick Biggers since he Also, patients can’t reapply before the was evicted from a homeless shelter in ¯ three-month coverage period is over. and Ellsworth two days before Clm stmas behave to wait two week~ to-~a moffth ca~ise he has the virus that causes AIDS. ,4 sometimeslonger until theircoverageis chef who worked at some of the uation’s renewed. finest restaurants, Biggers remains homeDr. Henry Masters, fonner medical di" les s and has been unable to return to work. rector for the health department’s AIDS He underwent triple bypass surgery three and sexually transmitted diseases divimonths ago. But unlike last year, Biggers, sion. now treats more than 250 AIDS and 36, was not alone on Christmas. And he HIV patients. Masters says the criteria to takes comfort in knowing that somettfing qualify for Medicaid were designed for good has emerged from his ordeal in people with one-time medical bills, not Ellsworth: a policy to promote AIDS those with chronicillnesses. "I believe the awareness and education that he hopes Medicaid system that we are using to deal might become a model for shelters in with HIV is the worst that could have ever Maine and across the country. been dremned up," Masters says. "It’s a The night of Dec. 23, 1997, when the very cumbersome program that results in manager of the Emmaus Center ordered people starting and stopping their HIV Biggers to leave, remains etched in his medicines. This is a recipe for disaster." memory. He was told that his HIV status If a patient on protease inhibitors takes posed a needless risk to residents and a break from the drugs, HIV can mutate staff. Biggers said his "dangerous behavand re-establish itself in drug-resistant ior" included talking about hi s condition, strains, making protease inlfibitors inefhandling a coffee cup, setting the table, fective. Even if patients manage to get the asking to pick up a baby and having sores drugs the)’ need between coverage perion the back of his hands, even though ods. the not -knowing whether they’ll be there was no fresh blood in sight. The 22covered in the future can be an all-conbed shelter arranged to put him up temposuming worry, Masters says¯ "It’s stressrarily in a hotel. fnl and I think it actually worsens their AIDS activists directed him to the immune function," Masters says. Mnerican Civil Liberties Union, which Officials with the state Human Services concluded that the Ea-nmaus Center vioDepartment-acknowledge the pro~am lated the Americans with Disabilities Act isn’t perfect. Roy Jeffus, assistant direcby discriminating against him because he tor of the department’s Medical Services is HIV-posifive and has hepatitis C. The Division, says Arkansas may seek a MedACLU filed a complaint on Biggers’ beicaid waiver that would all-ow patients half to the Maine Human Rights Commiswith chronic diseases, such as AIDS, to sion, asking H.O.M.E. Inc.~ the non-profit qualify for Medicaid even if their income operator of the Emmaus Center, to estab2 level or assets are too high. lish a non-discriminatory policy and be Also, Gary Horton, director of the Health required to pay Biggers $10,000 in damDepartment’s AIDS-STD Division, says ages. The case was quickly settled. the state next year expects to see a30% to H.O.M.E., which had replaced the shel40% reduction in the price of drugs from ter manager even before the complaint .pharmaceutical companies. 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Rounding out the program is Naco Duato’s Jardi Tancat whichwas Duato’s first ballet,. choreographed for Nederlands Dans Theater in 1983. "Duato, the Artistic Director for the Nasummer performances, tional Ballet of Spain, like Bartlesville’s anis one of the brightest nual OK Mozart Festistars in Europe and, in val, now known for its my opinion, one of the world class perf0rbest choreographers in mances. the world today," Tulsa AndinTulsa, LOOK, Ballet’s .Artistic DirecLight Opera Oklahoma tor, Marcello Angelini is seeking 100 singers related to TFN. "’He for its June 9-July 4th brings a new intensity season presented in to dance, a fluidity of TU’s Kendall Hall. movement never seen LOOK is holding audi: before, and a new way to express emotions on Sat. Jan. 16 & Sun. Jan. 17 from 2-5pro in TU’s Tyrrell Hall, room 302. ¯ tions that is so deep, so powerful, it will For more. information or to schedule an : change your vision of dance." The ballet is a collection of Maye audition, call 583-4267. folk songs, based on ancient At the end of January, who was dubed Spanish folk tales in which Philbrook will open two new by three couples are occupied exhibits, "Pure Vision: AmeriElla Fitzgerald. with the sowing, planting and can Bead Artists" and "Beads: threshing of their barren land "the greatest A Cross-Cultural Medium". while asking God for water to white female The first show .will present 60 make their crops grow. Jardi works by 28 artists. The works singer in the Tancat won Duato first prize vary from moe traditional world," at the International Choreonecklaces and bracelet forms will present graphic "~rorkshop in Cologne. to large-scale sculptures, conHe has received recognition "A Tribute to structions, and shrines. The throughout Europe for his talexhibit was co-ordinated by Frank Sinatra" ents as a dancer and choreogChris Knop Kallenberger and rapher. ¯ was curated by Sherry I~edy of the Leedy Also early in February, extraordinary Gallery in Kansas City and B.J. Shegaki, jazz vocalist, Marilyn Maye, will perform director of the Rochester Arts Center in at the PAC’ s John Williams Theatre. Maye Minnesota. Local support is from Philbrook’s Contemporary Cousortium. who was called by Ella Fitzgerald, "th,e, greatest white female singer in the world, The companion show will explore the will present "A Tribute to Frank Sinatra" use of beads in cultures from 15,000 BC in several shows Feb. 4-6 at Egyptian to ones from 100Les Ballets 8pm and Feb. 7 at 3pm. Maye 200 AD Syrian to Spiro Mound began her career in small clubs Troekadero de of 1,200 AD and 19th century Monte Carlo has and cabarets but since has perNorth American Native works. formed with orchestras from Early in February, Tulsa delighted audlTulsa to Phoenix to PhiladelBallet will present three enees around the phia. She first appeared on dances, The Green Table, world. Parodying television on the Steve Alien Equinoxe, Jardi Taneat (Feb. Show hnd appeared on Johnny elassleal works 5 & 6 at 8pro and Feb. 7 at 3pm Carson’s Tonight Show a from "Swan in the Chapman Music Hall of Tulsa’s Performing Arts Cen- Lake" to "Giselle" record 76 times. Tulsa has a tradition of bringing the great ter). and the choreogfemale vocalists of our time The Green Table, a critiraphy of Isadora and Maye’s appearance concally acclaimed dance drama tinues that. Dunean, George set in Germany during the rise Last but not least the famed Balanehine and of Adolph Hitler, is the center-. "drag" ballet, Les Ballets piece of the February program. Martha Graham, Trockadero de Monte Carlo Kurt Jooss’ ballet is as he inLes Troekaderos will grace the PAC’s Chapman tended it -- to show the world offer irresistible Music Hall on March 16, that the only w~nner of war is 1999. Dancing the fine line entertainment for death. between high art and high It opens With masked politidance afieionados camp, Les Ballets Trockadero cians sitting around a table in - and complete de Monte Carlo has delighted heated di s cus sion. There after, novices. audiences around the world. war breaks out and in the end, Parodying classical works from "Swan the same politicians, wearing the same Lake" to "Giselle" and the choreography masks, are seated at the same table forgetof Isadora Duncan, George Balanchine ting all the cruelties and casualties the war and Martha Graham, Les Trockaderos has caused. offer irresistible entertainment for dance Paired with The Green Table will be aficionados - and complete novices. The two more Oklahomapremieres that promtroupe combines a knowledge of dance ise to provide an exceptional evemng of with a wicked comedic sensibility -- a entertainment. James Canfield’ s Equinoxe buoyant and hilarious show. recalls underwater images of sea creaGirls (and you real girls too), you don’t tures which gracefully move with the want to miss this one at any cost! ocean’s ebb and flow and is set to a synthe- TFN entertainment editor sizer score by Jan-Michael Jarre. 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One character, Alex, Beln~ a child d Eventually, Alex comes to the touched many readers, and the southern understanding that he is Gay, author was swamped with reCal~ornla, and there is quite a bit of attenquests to continue his_ story. tion paid to the reaction of his Alex isn’t too Her new book, Blue Coyote, family. It is interesting to see follows the teenage Alex and pleased qth the different reactions of two his family to yet another new beln~ stueh in families when confronted with home, this time in Vermont. Vermont. He’s Gay children, siblings and Being a child of southern friends. Alex’s sister is an California, Alex isn’t too a difficult important character and posipleased with being stuck in time mal~in~ tively handles the realization Vdrmont. He’s had a difficult friends and that both she and her brother time making friends and had, at one time, had a crush doesn’t just mlss doesn’t just miss the beach, on Tito. but also his only tree, close the beach, but This is a good book for adults friend, Tito. He and Tito had kept in touch with each other alsohls only true, and young adults alike. You need not have read Twelve for awhile, but, suddenly, dose friend, Tito. Days in August before readTito’s letters stopped coming. ing Blue Coyote. Although it does conAlex attempts to track him down, but Tito tinue Alex’~ story, Blue Coyote stands seems to have simply disappeared. alone well. There isn’t any graphic sex Luckily, Alex’s father, a writer, has and only a few words that anyone could been offered work back in California, not find offensive. This is a tame but provocafar from Where they had once liyed. Amid tive read. Check for Blue Coyote at your some dissension Within the family, Alex local, branch library, or call i_he Readers and his father move back to California. Services department at 596-7966. ¯ This gives Alex a chance to try to locate the largest gay ri,g,,hts group in the state, hailed the ruling. The state court gave us a ban on discrinfination in employment stronger than anything we could introduce in the Legislature in 23 years," said Jean Harris, executive director of the orgamzation. "We love it. We’ll take it." The court turned aside the university’s argument that it made benefits available on equal terms to all married employees. The judges said that reasomng misses the point because homosexuals cannot marry. "Accordingly, the benefits are not made available on equal terms. The~y are made available on terms that, for gay and lesbian couples, are a legal impossibility," the court said. The court concluded that homosexualg are a distinct class and that it’s beyond dispute that they "have been and continue to be the subject of adverse social and political stereotyping and prejudice." Rerucha said Henderson and McKinney asked their girlfriends if they would provide an alibi for their whereabouts and "initially they did that." The alibi was "broken down by investigators" and testimony would have shown that the two women drove to Cheyenne 50 miles east - to dispose of clothing in a trash container and that Henderson’s bloody shoes were later placed in a relative’s storage shed in Laramie, Rerncha said. Ms. Pasldy had pleaded innocent two weeks earlier. At the end of the 17-minute heating, she was led from the court, head down, long hair hiding her face. No sentencing date was set, but Donnell indicated it would take about 45 days for a presentence report to be completed. Ms. Pa~e,’ faces up to three years in pr:~sou for the shelter’s staff that seeks to dispel myths about AIDS and clarify legal issues and disclosure reqmrements. "A lot of the discrimJnatiofi is based on fear and misinformation surrotmding these issues," said Mary Harney of the Down East AIDS Network. who helped develop the program. "There are still some people who think (HIV) can be passed by mosquitoes and that you can get it from a teacup if someone who has it has been drinking from that cup." Sister Lucille MacDonald, director of the Emmaus Center, acknowledged that the episode was stressful for everyone involved but said she was pleased .at how it was resolved. "We think a lot of important things will happen, education-wise, for residents and staff. That benefits all of us," she said. Biggers, who has struggled to get by on Social Security benefits, decided to forgo any financial recovery. ’’The goal was to change the policy," he said. "That was my goal from the very beginning.’" The ACLU said the impact of the settlement could spread beyond Hancock County and Maine, and perhaps be adopted by many shelters nationwide. "My guess is that the response will be good," said Matthew Coles, director of its AID!HIV Project in New York. "People who run homeless shelters are almost by definition good people who are trying to do something positive in the world and make it a better place. The problem is usually ignorance, not malice." Biggers, whose resttme includes some of Manhattan’s most acclaimed restaurants, was informed of the settlement as he prepared to spend Christmas Day alone for the second year in a row However after learning of his plight, the manager of a local restaurant invited hJlTl to join employees to help prepare the company’s am~ual Christmas dimaer for the needy. ’q’hafl!l be eA ce." 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Howallows us to deliver see Bank, p~ �Red Rock Tulsa O’RYAN ¯ Satire"¯ When I first started working in by Esther Rothblum I recently watched Janice Perry per- : Europe, Ifoundoutthatthereis awordfor form during National Coming Out Week : it-"kabarett". I use my .whole body to deliver the at the University of Vermont. By the time : monologues, as wall as costumes, singI asked her to describe her life and her ing; lighting and very strong work, she was off performI never intended facialgestures. I am performing in Switzerland. So we ing pieces with what I see to communicated over email. to ]~eeome a be the big themes - Greed, Here are her responses to "Lesl~ian Fear, Abuse of Power, Sex, my questions: War, Death and Taxes. I’m ER: tell me the story of comedian". not so interested in just tellhow you became a Lesbian ing jokes. I am presenting l l:le.~an comedian? strong content from a Lesperformin$ and JP: Is this a trick question? bian-feminist perspective in Because of course, there is ]~eeause my a highly comedic way. The the story of how I became a comedic aspect makes my sexuality is part Lesbian, and then the story work much more accessible of how I began performing. I of my llfe, it to many more people. never intended to become a ER: is there a particucomes out "Lesbian comedian". I belar performance that stands gan performing and because in tlae slaow, out as memorable? my sexuality is part of my jp: Last year (199~/) the undls~ulsed, life, it comes out in the show, Swiss queers organized a undisguised¯ Audiences demonstration in B em (the capitol) against don’t often see Lesbianism presented in the new constitution, and the refusal of the this way, it’s either ’%rOW, LOOK AT government to include equal rights for ME, I’M A BIG DYKE!!" or very covert. homosexuals as part of basic human rights. My missionis to present challenging work The organizers of the demo invited me to in a way that is accessible. come and perform. There were Swiss, Most, but not all, of my work is highly French, German, Italian speakers and me. exaggerated autobiography. I am always I came out on stage wearing a Statue of trying to find common denominators, tryLiberty crown and carrying a big penis ing to weave many different aspects into and said, "I want to.thank the Swiss Goveach piece. The major theme of a piece ernment for making me feel right at home about an IRS audit was power and abuse here. It’s so reassuring to "know that I will of power (this was pre-IRS refo.rm), and be discriminated against wherever I go." the fact that the auditor was conung on to Then I did a piece from the early 80’s me was the vehicle to exaggerate the about the constitution which says that the taxpayer’s fear and the auditor’s power. I preamble really should read like this:’ "vVe, wanted to unequivocally show the equathe MEN of the United States, in order to tion between sex and power and fear. That the auditor i~-a woman adds another layer. : form a more perfect union. . No, that should be, ’We, the WHITE MEN of the This piece also unequivocally describes United States.. ’ No, that should be ’We both the dedication required and the extremely dire financial situation of artists : theCONSERVATIVEWHITEMEN...’ in general. So there are many levds that ~ No, that should be ’We the RICH, CONare available to the audience. They can . SERVATIVE, WHITE, MEN . .’ No, take whatever they want from the perfor- 2 that should be ’We the OLD, RICH ,CONSERVATWE, XVHITE, MEN mance, While this is a theatrical exag- " "" They really got it. .... ER: is Janice Perry the performer different from Janice Perrry the individual? abuse her power. Do youfind yourselfperforming tofriends ER: What are the messages you are and lovers? bringing to Lesbians? JP: I am really h~cky in that I get to let JP: I want Lesbians and gays to see that out a lot of my desire for attention in my it really is okay to be out. That we can Work. Before I startedperforming on stage, present ourselves in public and not be ¯ I was performing all day long, because I " I ’ m not hi"ding any thin g , I’m killed for it. had no outlet for this creativity. It must not preaching anything, I’m just going have been hell to be around. I thank my about my’business of performing in a friends for putting up with me. Now I am perfectly natural way (orimperfecfly natumuch more relaxed in my personal life. ral). When I play in some sin_all t.ow, .n, .an,d Sometimes when I arrive at a theater the audience is mixed, as it often i s, I trunk where they don’t know my work, they that it is empowering for all of us. Interlook a bit worried, like - "Uh-oh, this is nalized homophobia is the real killer. just a normal 48 year old woman, and she I am also showing my total commitisn’t even wearing make-up and what ment to my work. My pe,rformance, is kind of show will this be?" When I go on more theatrical than stana-up comeay. stage, they are amazed by my energy, This is "kabarett" with a small "k" in the which is very intense. They can’t believe European tradition of powerful political it’s the same person. There is a definite statements launched from the platform of difference between my work and my pricomedy, rather than"Kabarett" with a big vate life. "K" or "Cabaret" with a "C" which is I lead a quiet life and I have many and usually women in glittery evening gowns vailed interests. I love nature, hiking, garsinging "Se~d in the Clowns". dening, cross-country skiing, bird-watchThis is why I am able to work so often ing. I’m an avid reader, I love the classics, in Europe. In 1982, when I first started, English social comedies from the 20’s there was either theater or stand-up in the and 30’s, fiction, history. I love music USA, and nothing in-between. I had no rock and roll, classical, heavy metal, oplanguage to describe my work. I called it era. see Psyche. p. 13 "Comedy - Rock - Music - Theater - Oklahoma Rainbow Young Adult Network Outreach Program Thurs. Nights The Pride Y Store1307 E. 38th, 2nd floor in the Pride Center, 743-4297 Meet Others in a Safe Enviroment Call for meeting nmes and place: 918-584-2325 6-9 pm, Sunday- Friday 12-9 pm, Saturday all sales benefit the Pride Center AUTHENTIC FRESH ITALIAN RAINBOW C USINE TR O UT IGTA member Call 341.6866 International Tours of Eureka Springs Voted Number One in Arkansas! (501) 253-6807, Closed Wednesday formoreinformation. 5 Center Street, Eureka Springs, AR 72632 geration of the truth, it is a true story. 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When I liv~ on T~a, V~tu, before I could Mk about ~ybody, I had to count ~em first. ~ere is a prono~ for "you", a different one for you-two , ~other one for "you-t~" ~d still ~other for "you- a mec~,~ism t~at we can employ er~t~vely to whh and eMllen~e our ~ender roles. Many Gay men dicuonanes before fadi~, away. Other dc-.gende~ed substitmes d~at have been proposed include s~ m~ and air. Gender in our pronoun system may sustmn inanities between men and regularly apply women butitis Nso am~hafemale pronouns Nsm ~at we ~ employ ehher to themselves creatively to play wi~ ~d chNlenge o~ gender roles. or to thelr M~y Gay men regM~lj (or enemies...). apply female pronouns Moreover, two sorts of When talkln~ about ther to ~emselves or to ~eir "we" must be distinguished my f~ends who do friends (or ene~es -"She’s on~msl~d.Our we blur not N1 ~at~"). ~en tNNng dra~, I no longer together two logically difabout my friends who do hedtate to ferent groups. Sometimes, drag, I no longer hesitate to when we say "we," we inuse "she" and "her." use "she" ~d "her." dude who we’ve speaking TNs is ~e in o~er c~tures whose to; but sometimes "we" excludes the pronoun systems Nso encode gender. speaker. For example, if I tell you that ~Nysis of ~e sp~h of a Gay ~uple "we’re going to kiss" this might mean that por~y~ in ~e first document~y film I about to plant one on you, or ~t could about Gay life in Jap~ R~en no Sobyo mean that I’m going neck with someone ("Rough S~eteh of a SpirN") shows else. On Tarma, separate pronouns exist that do not allow this ambigui.t},,; ,w.e’.’ includes vou;.the, other "we dales ~ more ~ermmne partner’re~ers to mmsm~ not. . with female or gender-neutral terms uses mate-marKeo pronouns (ore, jtoun, set, peopte use tnese woros to tam aoout washi). Just like Rapi and his ’T’ on Tanna, the world and about themselves. If we our self-construction depends on creative listen to how people do this, we can learn use of the pronouns that our language something of their underlying concepts provides. about human identity. There is always This appropriation of the other sex’s also a politics of pronouns. People use pronoun may be a male thing. I have not pronouns creatively in order to demonseen many studies of Lesbian use of "he." strate or to assert certain claims about (If anyone has come across he-women, themselves, and about others. My old please email me.) Some feminists might friend Rapi, who was the "big-man" or fault men for, once again, abridging leader of the village in which I lived, women’~s rights and experience by stealsurprised me one day with apronotm. He ing their "she." It seems to me, though, was tdling the story of one of his greatthat if one might attack gender hierarchy ~andfathers, who was also named Rapi, by spaying language - replacing he/she and he used the ’T" pronoun - "When I with thou-one can also undermine the smote the enemy back before Captain system by messing with its rules. I can call Cook arrived..." (and this was in 1774!). you he; or maybe this time I’ll call you It became clear to me that Tannesepeople, she. Remember, everyone must use her more so than we, incorporate into their condoms. sense of self their ancestors, particularly Lamont Lindstrom teaches anthropolif these were ancestral namesakes. Part of ogy at the University of Tulsa and my be their personhoodincludes these forebears. reached at lamont-lindstrom@utulsa.edu When recounting hi story which happened generations before they were born,, they talk about "what I did"in that these events are part of who they are today. The pronoun system on Tanna, despite I love to go to the theater. Dance. Visual its complexity, does not recognize genArts. Architecture. Archeology. Yoga. der. He, or she, and it are all called "in." Fashion. I’m very, interested in both preInequality between men and women on history and pop culture. I like to see what the island runs fairly deep, but this social is gomg on in "society," both regionally ineqtmlity is not reflected in the pronomiand globally, to try to identify the trends,, nal system. The relationship between linsee what is universal and then use this guist’ic form and social structure has been information in my work. In some way I’m long and fiercely debated. Whatever the always working, always noticing, observfacts about this might be, here in the US ing. But I can do it from the sidelines. I there has been a fairly successful camdon’t need to be the center. I get enough of paign to de-genderize our first person that onstage. pronouns. 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(AP) - A woman whose boyfriend was accused in the murder of Gay University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard has become the first person to be convicted in the case. Chasity Vera Pasley, 20, pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact to first-degree murder. "The impetus behind this plea was Ms. Pasley’s alone," said her lawyer, Maribeth Galvan, who also told the court her client could testify about what she knew about the attack. Shepard, 21, suffered 18 blows to the head after he was lured out of a downtown Laramie bar Oct. 7, tied to afence androbbed. Earlier testimony indicated Shepard was singled out party because he was Gay. Ms. Pasley’s boyfriend, Russell Arthur Henderson, 21, and another man, Aaron James.iMcKinney, 21, are accused of first-degree murder, kidnapping and aggravated robbery. Both pleaded innocent and will be tried separately next year. McKiuney’s girlfriend, Kristen LeAnn Price, 19, was ¯ Serving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual + Transgendered Tulsans, Our Families + Friends Tulsa’s Largest Circulation Community PaperAvailable In More Than 75 City Location-~ i Tulsa Plans 1st Ever Pride Parade, 18th Pride Picnic ¯ TULSA - For a number of years, Oklahoma’s only Gay Pride ¯" Paradehas beenin Oklahoma City. But this year that will change. Organizers ofTulsa’s anmml Pride events have scheduled Tulsa’s first Gay Pride parade for ¯ June 12. ¯ The parade is tenta¯ tively scheduled to begin at the Pride Center, the ¯ Gay commuuity center at @KJ MA ¯ 38th & Peoria and will ¯ move up Peoria through ¯ Brookside to 31st St. Then theparade will follow 31st to Riverside Drive and continue to Veterans Park for the 18th annual Pride PRIDE ’99 picnic. Because of the higher cost involved in organizing a parade (fees for police assisfance, street closings, etc.) organizers are IT’S TIME FOR TULSA! seeking major corporate MJOAINKEYAODUIRFFECROEMNCMEUNAINTDY sponsorship beyond that IN SUPPOP£flNG THIS EVENI~. which they’ve received CALL 743.4297 FOR. INFO! (former corporate supporters have included American Airlines, Coors, Budweiser and Miller as well as Pepsi- Pride Activities Graphics Cola). Sponsors are sought atthe $2000, S 1000 and $500 level as well as at a $250 non-profit level. Major sponsors will receive high visibility in all event materials (program, t-shirts, and other promotional materials). Withmore corporate support, organizers hope to provide a tent otherwise, have been quite successful in bringing also charged with accessory after the fact to first-degree for better shelter from the heat ¢and murder. !~Is. Pricepleaded innocent and will go on ~rial .. e ’ " " ...... ~:~:- ’ " ’~ - potentially, any rain).Also ¯ theCentertothe~attent~onofmor,epeople,localan& Ma,, 24¯ Afithorities said "~’e w"<’~ ~’o~2~ a;~rZ’ ~x ~.~ "-’ xpa~ea-:..ente~tamment,~s-p~annea with lon~fim~ TUfsa dive, ~" ou~50f-towners. Oat~V~0~ ~dso S~id ~hat financial : fundraiser and community activist. Miss Kris Kohl helping to support for the Center is up though many more bloody clothing worn by Henderson. ¯ orgamze those efforts. For more information, call Ric Martin. members need to join in order to reach their goal of Tulsa! At the hearing, posecutor Cal Rerncha told District Judge Jeffrey A. Donnell that if Pasley’s case had gone to trial, the state would have produced evidence to indicateHenderson and McKinneyhad attacked Shepard with "premeditated malice," and "inflicted pain and torture On this individual." "Pleadings for his life fell on deaf ears," Rerucha said. see Shepard, p. 10 Oregon Bans Workplace Bias SALEM, Ore. (AP) - A December Oregon Court of Appeals ruling has effectively outlawedjob discrimination based on sexual orientation across the state, state officials said. The ruling involved a lawsuit by three lesbian employees at Oregon Health Sciences University who claimed their domestic partners were entitled to benefits. Though the school began offering such benefits last June, the court nailed down the university’s obligations. State government also began offering gay partner benefits to its 45,000 employees in June. The "denial of insurance benefits to the unmarried partners of its homosexual employees" violated the equal protection provisions of the Oregon Constitution, said a unanimous three-judge panel. The state attorney general’s office said the ruling puts sexual orientation on the same level as gendeT discriminat~ ion. ’q’his tells Oregonians that discrimination based on sexual orientation in employment, public and private, is illegal," said Deputy Attorney General David Schuman. Basic Rights Oregon, see Oregon, p. 10 DIRECTORY/LETrERS P. 2 EDITORIAL P. 3 US & WORLD NEWS P. 4 HEALTH NEWS P. 6 COMMUNITY CALENDAR P. 9 BOOK REVIEW P. 10 DO-IT-YOURSELF-DYKE P. 11 DYKE PSYCHE ~ P. 12 GAY STUDIES: ANTHROPOLOGY P. 13 CLASSIFIEDS + WEERWOLF P. 14 ¯ parade chair, or 2vfitchell Savage, picnic chair, at 743-4297. ¯ Law Group .To Offer Gay Issues Sem,nar ,n OKC ¯ OKLAHOMA CITY-OLGLA, the Oklahoma Lesbian and Gay Law Associauon will present a Continuing Legal Educatioh seminar this next March (date and location to be announced), "WhereAreWe &Vvqaere DoWeGo From Here- How to Handle ; Lesbian and Gay Law Issues", in Oklahoma City. Featured speakers will be longtime Lesbian political and legal activist, Paula Ettelbrick. Ettelbrick was formerly the Legal Director for Lambda Legal Defense and Education" Fund, a national civil ¯ fights litigation organizauon. She now selwes as Legislative Comisel for the Empire State Pride Agenda, a statewide Lesbian ." andGaypolitical organization in the State ofNew York. Ettelbrick also teaches "Sexuality and the La~ at the Umversxty of Michigan Law School and New York University Law School. She will speak on "Legislatively Lawyering?" : Also speaking will be Suzanne Goldberg, a staff attorney for ¯ Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund who has been involved in numerous cases involving the legal rights of Lesbian and Gay citizens. Currently she is representing several Arkansas ¯ citizens in a challenge to the Arkansas "’sodomy" law. She is also ¯" counsel in the case of Equality Foundation of Greater Cincinnati ¯ v. City ofCincinnati, to contest an anti-gayballotmeasure similar to Colorado,s Amendment 2, which was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in Romer v. Evans. Ms. Goldberg’s CLE topic is ¯ "’Update on Legal Issues Affecting Lesbians and Gays". ¯ Other topics will include, "’EmploymentDiscriminationAgainst Lesbians and Gays," "Jury Nullification of Legal Protections for ¯ Lesbians and Gays," and "Best Interest of the Child: Custody ¯ Issues for Lesbian and Gay Parents.’" Jimmy Goodman of Crowe & Dunlevv’s Oklahoma City ¯ office and Kerry Lewis from Rhodes, Hieron’ymus, Jones, Tucker & Gable in Tulsa will moderate the sessions¯ The OLGLA is a statewide organization for attorneys who are ¯ supportive ofthelegal issues facing Lesbians and Gays.-Formore ¯ inlbmaation, call Kerry Lewis at 918-582-1173. PrideCenter Served With Eviction Notice TULSA - The Pride Center, Tulsa’s Gay & Lesbian Community Center, has been served with an eviction notice by its landlord. TheCenter, which is a program of Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights, Inc. (TOHR) a tax-exempt, educational not-for-profit corporation, was charged by the new building owners with violating its lease by hanging new vinyl signs on the south and west faces of the upper floor, stated Center spokesperson, Greg Gatewood. The signs read,"Gay Commumty Center and Pride Store, Benefiting The Gay Communit)-". Gatewood, who is a member of the TOHR board of directors, indicated that the lease did require getting .prior permission for any building signs from the building owner, and that the owner alleges that permission was not requested. Gatewood also noted that the owner objected to the vinyl banner or "temporary" quality of the signs. He says the owner claims he has no objection to the content of the signs, i.e. their "Gayness." Gatewood did say that the organization has had a similar vinyl sign up without objection from the prior landlord until it was stolen and that other tenants have had a variety of similar signs up. However, on advice of their legal counsel, board members have removed the signs until they can hold a board meeting and determine a suitable response to the building owner. Some real estate observers have speculated that the move on the part of the new landlord may be motivated by the desire to move out a lower paying tenan! and lease the space at a higher rate. Gatewood said that the TOHR board will meet within the next two weeks. He added that the signs, 1,000 supporters by the end of the year. Red Rock Efforts for Gay Youth Expand TULSA - She has a familiar face but it’s in a new location. Lisa Pottorf, seen by many in Tulsa’s Lesbian and Gay co~mnunities as a guardian angel for Gay and Lesbian youngsters, is now with Red Rock Behavioral Health Services’ Tulsa office. Her position was formerly held by Betsy Murphy who came from Red Rock’s Oklahoma City programs to open their Tulsa office. The Tulsa office began a program for young adults that became known as O’RYAN, Oklahoma Rainbow Young Adult Network, an outreach organization for Lesbian, Gay, Bi and questioning 18- 24 year olds. The organization later created a program called O’RYAN Jr. to provide support for youths from 14-18 years old. As part of the O’RYAN efforts, the group IS now holding a drop-in time at the Pride Center every Tuesday from 2:30 - 5pm. Pottoff acts much like a surrogate morn to most of those who attend the group, though she, as she ¯ ° puts it, is ably assisted by Ken Draper, who began ¯ working with the program as a volunteer. ¯ Red Rock also does free, confidential HIV test- . ing at the Pride Center on Tuesdays from 5-8 pm ¯ and at their offices at 1724 Fast Sth on Wednesdays ¯ from 5-8pm. Their office which is adjacent to the ¯ Center for the Physically Limited also provided ¯ mental health support for that organization. Tulsa Clubs & Restaurants *Bamboo Lounge, 7204 E. Pine *Boston Willy’s Diner, 1742 S. Boston *Concessions, 3340 S. Peoria *Empire Bar, 1516 S. Peoria *Full Moon Cafe, 1525 E 15th *Gold Coast Coffee House, 3509 S. Peoria *Interurban Restaurant, 717 S. Houston *Jason’s Ddi, 15th & Peoria *Lola’s, 2630 E. 15th *Polo Grill, 2038 Utica Square *St. Michael’s Alley Restaurant, 3324-L E. 31st *Silver Star Saloon, 1565 Sheridan *Renegades/Rainbow Room, 1649 S. Main ¯ *TNT’s, 2114 S. Memorial *Tool Box, 1338 E. 3rd~ " 832-1269 592-2143 744-0896 599-9512 583-6666 749-4511 585-3134 599-7777 749-1563 744-4280 745-9998 834-4234 585-3405 .6.60.-0856 584-1308 Tulsa Businesses, Services, & Professionals Advanced Wireless & PCS, Digital Cellular 747-1508 *Affinity News, 8120 E. 21 610-8510 Dennis C. Arnold, Realtor 746-4620 *Assoc. in Med. & Mental Health, 2325 S. 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Skelly 745-1111 *International .Tours 341-6866 Jacox Animal Clinic, 2732 E. [5th 712-2750 *Jared’s Antiques, 1602 E. 15th 582~3018 David Kauskey, Country Club Barbering 747-0236. *Ken’s Flowers, 1635 E. 15 599-8070 Kelly Kirby, CPA, 4021 S. Harvard, #210 747-5466 *Living ArtSpace, 19 E. Brady 585-1234 *Midtown Theater, 319 E 3rd 584-3112 Miugo Valley Flowers, 9720c E. 31 663-5934 *Mohawk Music, 6157 E 51 Place 664-2951 Novel Idea Bookstore, 51st & Harvard 747-6711 David A. Paddock, CPA, 4308 S. Peoria, Ste. 633 747-7672 *Peace of Mind Bookstore, 1401 E. 15 583-1090 The Pride Store, 1307 E. 38, 2nd floor 743-4297 Rainb0wz on the River B+B, POB 696, 74101 747-5932 Richard’s Carpet Cleaning 834-0617 Teri Schutt, Rex Realtors 834-7921,747-4746 Christopher Spradling, attorney, 616 S. Main, #308 582-7748 *Scribner’s Bookstore, 1942 Utica Square 749-6301 Paul Tay, Car Salesman 260-7829 *Tickled Pink, 3340 S. Peoria 697-0017 *Tulsa Book Exchange, 3749 S. Peoria 742-2007 *Tulsa Comedy Club, 6906 S. Lewis 481-0558 Fred Welch, LCSW, Counsding 743-1733 *Whittier News Stand, 1 N. Lewis 592-0767 Tulsa Agencies, Churches, Schools & U niversities AIDS Walk Tulsa, POB 4337, 74101 579-9593 *All Souls Unitarian Church, 2952 S. Pe0iia 743-2363 Black & White, Inc. POB 14001, Tulsa 74159 587-7314 Bless The Lord at All Times Christian Center, 2207 E. 6 583-7815 *B/L/G/T Alliance, Univ. of Tulsa Canterbury Cir. 583-9780. *Chamber of Commerce Bldg., 616 S. Boston 585-1201 *Chapman Student Ctr., University of Tulsa, 5th P1. & Florence *Church ofthe Restoration UU, 1314 N.Greenwood 587-1314 *Community ofHope United Methodist, 2545 S. Yale 747-6300 *Community Unitarian-Universalist Congregation 749-0595 *Council Oak Men’s Chorale 585-COMC (2662) *Ddaware Playhouse, 1511 S. Delaware 712-1511 *Democratic Headquarters, 3930 E. 31 742-2457 Dignity/integrity of Tulsa - Lesbian & Gay Catholics & " Episcopalians, POB 701475,74170-1475 355-3140 *Family of Faith MCC, 5451-E So. Mingo 622-1441 *Fellowship Congreg. Church, 2900 S. Harvard 747-7777 *Free SpiritWomen’s Center, call for location&info: 587-4669 918.583.1248, fax: 583.4615, POB 4140, Tulsa. OK 74159 e-mall: TulsaNews@ earthlink.net website; http://users.aol.com/TulsaNews/ Publisher + Editor: Tom Neal Writers + e0ntributors: James Christjohn, Jean-Claude de Flambeauchaud Barry. Hensley, J.-P. Legrandbouche, Lamont Lindstrom Esther Rothblum, Mary Schepers, Adam West Member of The Associated Press Issued on or before the 1st of each month, the entire contents of this ~4uc,~blication are protected by US copyright 1998 by.TJ arid may not be reproduced either in whole or in part without written pemaission from the publisher. Publication of a name or photo does not indicate a person’s sexual orientation. 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Quaker 584-7960 ¯ PFLAG, POB 52800, 74152 749-4901 ¯ *Planned Parenthood, 1007 S. Peoria 587-7674 ¯ *The Pride Center, 1307 E. 38, 2nd floor, 74105 743-4297 Prime-Timers, P.O. Box 52118, 74152 ¯ *R.A.I.N., Regional AIDS Interfaith Network 749-4195 Rainbow Business Guild, POB 4106, 74159 " 665-5174 ¯ *Red Rock Mental Center, 1724E. 8" ".~ .... 584-2325 ¯ O’RYAN, support group for 18-24 LGBT young adults ¯ O’RYAN, Jr. support group for 14z17 LGBT youth St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church, 4045 N. Cincinnati 425-7882 ¯ *St. Dunstan’s Episcopal, 5635 E. 71st 492-7140 ¯ *St. Jerome’s Parish Church, 205 W. King 582-3088 *Tulsa Area United Way, 1430 S. Boulder 583-7171 ¯ TNAAPP (Native American men), Indian Health Care 582-7225 ." Tulsa County Health Department, 4616 E. 15 595-4105 ¯ Confidential HIV Testing - by appt. on Thursdays only ¯ Tulsa Okla. for Human Rights, c/o The Pride Center 743-4297 ¯ T.U.L.S.A. Tulsa Uniform/Leather Seekers Assoc. 838-1222 : *Tulsa City Hall, GroundFloor Vestibule ¯ *Tulsa Community College Campuses ¯ *Rogers University (formerly UCT) ¯ BARTLESVILLE : *Bartlesville Public Library, 600 S. Johnstone 918-337-5353 ": OKLAHOMA CITY/NORMAN ¯ *Borders Books &Music, 3209NWExpressway 405848-2667 ¯ *Borders Books & Music, 300 Norman Center 405-573-4907 ¯ TAHLEQUAH ¯ *Stonewall League, call for information: 918-456-7900 ¯ *Tahlequah Unitarian-Universalist Church 918-456-7900 ¯ *Green Country AIDS Coalition, POB 1570 918-453-9360 : NSU School of Optometry, 1001 N. Grand : HIVtesting every other Tues. 5:30-8:30, call for dates ¯ EUREKA SPRINGS, ARKANSAS ¯ *Autumn Breeze Restaurant, Hwy. 23 501-253-7734 *Jim & Brent’s Bistro, 173 S. Main 501-253-7457 DeVito’s Restaurimt, 5 Center St. 501-253-6807 ¯ *Emerald Rainbow, 45 &l/2 Spring St. 501-253-5445 ¯ MCC of the Living Spring 501-253-9337 ¯ Geek to Go!, PC Specialist, POB 429 501-253-2776 ¯ Old Jailhouse Lodging, 15 Montgomery 501-253-5332 ¯ Positive Idea Marketing Plans 501-624-6646 ¯ Sparky’s, Hwy. 62 East 501-253-6001 : *White Light, 1 Center St. 501-253-4074 ¯ FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS5 ¯ *Edna’s, 9 S. School Ave. 501-442-2845 ¯ JOPLIN, MISSOURI ¯ *Spirit of Christ MCC, 2639E. 32, Ste. U134 417-623-4696 ¯ * is where you can find TFN. Notall are Gay-owned butall are Gay-friendly. Remember Matthew Shepard by Donating Books to the University of Wyoming A Different Light bookstore is offering a unique way to honor Matthew Shepard. Customers can purchase any new hardcover book and donate it "In Memory of Matthew." The collection of books will then be sent to the Universtiy ofWyoming, where Shepard was a student. Each donated book will have a bookplate stating, ’q’his .book was donated inmemory ofMatthew Shepard: 1976-1998." A list of suggested titles is available at the store, including books specifically requested by the University of Wyoming library. A Different Light is at 8853 Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood. For more details, call 310.854.6601. - via e-mail Editor’s note: A Different Light is one of the US’s oldest Gay & Lesbian independent bookstores with locations in Los Angeles and New York City. Scouting for All Dear Scouting For All Supporters, So far over this last year Scouting For All has collected dose to 28,000 signatures. My goal is one million. I am asking youall to standwithmeinmyeffort to end discrimination by the Boy Scouts of : America against Gay kids and adults. ¯ My dad and I, with the help of friends, : collecteddoseto3,000 signatures inNew ¯" York and over 5,000 signatures in San ¯ Francisco in just 3 days. Alex, a tender- : foot scout in the midwest who is support- ~ ing me, collectb,d 400 signatures himsdf. : Alex is 12 years old! ¯ Every signature helps and represents’a ¯ voice of protest. If we really want to see : this policy of discrimination change I am ] asking all of you to step up our efforts of : getting signatures. I am asking each of ¯ you to collect at least 100 signatures. ~ By collecting signatures you also edu- : cate thepublic thatagreat youthorganiza- ¯ tion in America, the Boy Scouts of : America, has one thing wrong about it. -" It teaches us scouts to discriminate against people who they say are different - who they say don’t have family values. How can the Boy Scouts of America say that?They mustnotknow any Gay people like I do. If they did they’d change their policy against Gays tomorrow. I am asking your help to make the Boy Scouts a better program that’s for all kids. To getblank copies ofthepetition, go to out website at: http://www.scouting~forall.org/ petition.htm and print out as many copies as you need. There’s an address at the bottom where you can mail completed petitions back to US. I’m proud to be a scout. I’m just doing whattheBoy Scouts ofAmericahas taught me to do, to help make the earth a better place for all people-notjustsomepeople. Thanks. - Steven Cozza 13 year-old Life Rank Scout Letters Policy Tulsa Family News wdcomes letters on issues which we’ve covered or on issues ~ you think need to be considered. Youmay ¯ request that your name be withhdd but ¯ letters mustbe signed&have phonenum- "- bers, or be hand delivered. 200 word letters are preferred. Letters to other publi- ¯ cations will be printed as is appropriate. by Tom Neal, publisher & editor To those who’ve been watching Brookside’ s increasingly upscale redevelopment, it should come as little surprise that The Pride Center would be threatened with eviction. Since it opened, one local developerandhis partners havemade the old John Zink industrial site (about a mile south of the Center) into moderately expensive homesites, office and retail spaces. Across the street from the Center, an old warehouse was renovated into a trendy bakery and fancy medical offices. The success of Brookside’s north end dearly is spurring developers to move south along Peoria. Therefore, when the building in which the Pride Center is located was sold recently to owners associated with the Brook Restaurant, it struck some as ’~andwriting on the wall". The current tenants, most of whom are on limited budgets, were likely to get priced out as the new owner sought to renovate the spaces and lease them for more money. Few thought that this wguldhappenrightaway since the Center has a three year lease that began in late 1997. However, as the articleon page one indicates, the landlord claims that the Center organizers hung signs (Gay Community Center and Pride Store) in violation of their lease and thereforeheis seeking to break the lease. Center spokesman, Greg Gatewood says that the owner claims he is not troubled by the content of the signs (i.e. Gay) but rather the quality of the signs (vinyl versus some othe~material) and lack of prior permission. Center organizers note that these signs were not new but merely were replacements for earlier authorized signs whichhad been Stolen. Center organizers also note that other tenant businesses have similar vinyl signs. Obviously, as a non-profit organization, the Pride Center, and its parent organization, Tulsa Okl~i~omans for Human Rights, Inc. has limited funds for rent. The notion of a community center has been a challenge for Tulsa’s Gay and Lesbian community which often seems very, very fragmented. Support for the Center has, frankly, not been what it should be. Fortunately, that has been changing. Slowly, people have been realizing that .the Center is thtre. In fa~t; the Signs~:liavebeen successful,in attracting new locals and out-of-towners to the Center. No doubt, Center organizers and their capable legal comasel will do their best to resolve this matter in a manner that is fair to all parties. Andhopefully, anti=Gay bias is not really part of the issue. But the lesson we need to draw from this is that weneed to startnow onabuilding fundendowment with which we can own our space. Then any decisions to move will be ours. Some will say that is unrealistic- that we don’t have the resources. They said much the same about the Pride Center once. Frankly, there are individuals in our community who could substantially underwrite such an endowment. I won’t name names, though many of you know them wall enough. In the larger community, there are also resources such as the newly formed. Tulsa Community Foundation spearheaded by banker George Kaiser. This new organization is drawing on the resources and generosity of some of Tulsa’s mostprominentfamilies andbusinesses, Schusterman, Bank of Oklahoma, Williams, Zarrow, Bartmann, Bama Cos., Helmerich & Payne, etc. just to mention specifically the families and businesses that have ties to Gay Tulsans. Kaiser has said that he supports treating Lesbian and Gay Tulsans fairly and implied that this foundation would likely do.the same. Let us contrast this with Tulsa Area United Way’s funding of organizations, like the homophobic Boy Scouts ofAmerica, whichpromotes religiously-basedpreju- At a national level, there are foundations that will specifically assist Lesbian and Gay groups or projects, such as the Kellogg Foundation, the Ford Foundation and the Gill Foundation. The latter should be high priority for Tulsans since it specifically targets "rural" projects and Foundation guidelines classify anything under 1.5 million as rural ! And it can’t hurt that several prominent Tulsans now claim close ties to Tim Gill, creator ofQuark software and founder of the Gill Foundation. However, to get from here to there, we are going to have to start seeing a future. Too often we’ve just reacted to one assault or another, whether it was a directly physical one, the ongoing emotional battering that just being Gay in America entails, or the bullying and/or cowardice of our elected officials. Now is the time to build for our future. If you want to help the Community Center, call 743- GAYS (4297). It’sasadcommentary on our fine state that the annual : gathering of "our elected representatives" should be ¯ fraught with dread by Oklahoma’s Lesbian and Gay ." citizens, our families and our friends. We know we can count on at least one or two virulently anti-Gay bills. These usually are patently unconsfitutonal but they’ll get the votes of all but one or two ofmembers of the Oklahoma House because those members are too cowardly to vote for anything that resembles treating Gay Oklahomans like equal human being. Fortunately, usually the Oklahoma Senate behaves more wisely. And Cimarron Alliance, despite having entirely too many pretentious queens formy taste (note that I’m not referring toits Tulsa representatives), is beginning to do some good at least with Democratic Party leaders. Some of this is just the result of money - no matter what the politicians say, political donations do buy the ears of most politicians. Don’t believe me? Look at the source ofpolitical dollars, then look at who benefits from majority of those votes. progress. Now here’s what you can do to make a difference: Cimarron reports that Oklahoma House leadership has Cimarron . . . is beginning to do some good at lca~t w~tk Democratlc Party leader~. Some of tlds is just the result ot~ money - no matter what tke dPoonlalttm.icnlasndsosabyu,y the cars o~ most pollt-ldans. Don’t believe me~ Look at tke source o~ political dollars, then look at who benefits., . made several committee chair assignments to fair minded individuals. In particular, one committee which is often the gate through which anti-Gay legislation passes, has been assigned to Tulsan Betty Boyd. Mrs. Boyd, known to many in Tulsa for her work as a television journalist, needs to hear from us. A few years ago, interviewing her after she (and every other member of the House save one) voted for an anti-Gay bill, she said that the.call fromTFN was literally the first she’d received about Lesbianand Gay issues. This, despite the fact that I personally know a" number ofher Lesbian and Gay constituents~ Bottom line: you won’t be represented unless you call!!! The other thing you can do is to send Cimarron some money. Many of us have little to spare and many of us wonder if becoming a member of the Cimarron PAC (political action committee) at.$20 a month is "do-able." However, the Cimarron Foun- But just as much a part of what’s helping dation, the tax-exempt group associated with at the Capitolis the ongoing work of a Cimarron officer, the PAC sets no minimum on donations. It is the entity Keith Smith who lobbies for several progressive orga- ¯ that sponsored the bus stop advertisements, "Gay or nizations. Smith and I have disagreed on issues before, ~ Straight, Everyone Deserves a Job" both here and in and may again, but it is his steady presence, quietly : Oklahoma City. Every bit helps. So when you’re thinkvoicing the concerns of Lesbian and Gay Oklahomans ¯ ing about buying that new sweater, CD, or going out to as he does his other work, that has won us some. ¯ eat again, consider w.hat price our freedom is worth. by James Christjohn . " much later. I suddenly wasn’t able tO breathe, and the ThisChrislmas Eve, somethinghappenedthatehanged~ ". cal~ .tiaras.t. had .gotten~me .tO ~that pointvevaporate& 1 my life~ Iwascelebrating the holiday with friends, and ." started hyperventilating. About this time, my phone suddenly felt compelled to return to my rang - it was Tom, readytocomegetme, and apartment. I didn’t have to; I could have I called 911. askingaslewofquestious.Inbetweengasps stayed the night, but it was important to Looking back, of air, I told him "I’m fine, you don’t need return to that place. I got home, noticed a I can laugh -"I’m (gasp) to come (gasp) get me. (gasp) I’ll be strange smellin theentry hall. Acrid, almost in a smoRe ~illed over (gasp) after (gasp) while." So he said, oily. I entered my abode, and thought "Boy, apartment, at doubtfully, "OK... Grab what you need and do I need to dean my glasses!" Then I come on over." looked over the frames, and saw that the xxyy street." The fireman came out and said the haze was not from dirty glasses, but smoke "You’re at xxyy guydownstairshadbeenusingaspaceheater sothick, Icouldn’tseetotheothersideofthe Street.~" "Yes, (Was I the only one using my gas heater?) apartment. I immediately went to the gas xxyy street." "Is tied into two extension cords; The cords heater, shut it down. Well, that didn’t help- that in Tulsa.~’" were lightweight (heating appliances need I called 911. Looking back, I can laugh - heavyweight extension cords, and its’s best "I’m in a smoke filled apartment, at xxyy "Yes. it is in not to use any with them). They were coiled street.""You’reatxxyyStreet?""Yes,xxyy~ Tulsa!!!" "So up (the heater was only 4 feet from the street." "Is that in Tulsa?" "Yes, it is. in You’re at xx~D" outlet.) and overheated, which caused them Tulsa!!!~’ "So You’re at xxyy Street. Tulsa,\ Street. Tulsa. to ignite. and~ou reinasmokefilledroomg."’".Ye.st.tl;"" and you’re in a I went into the apartment after the "Well, sir, if the room is smoke filled, oyou fire folk sucked out some of the smoke (yes, might want to vacate the premises." "I am smoke obvious place of one of my trademark reready to do just that, as soon as I get off the room.~’’ "Yes!!!" marks isn’t it?) and looked around. What to phone with you!" She got the hint. "~v’ell, sir, ff tke take?How does one decide? I wanted to take I left takingmycordless phone, andknock- room is smoke it all. Allthe gifts that are symbols of the ing on all the doors. No one came out, or ~iled, you mi~kt love and people that gave them to us; the even opened the door. I heard the sirens of prized possessions that we .surround ourthe fire trucks approaching. I calmly called want to vacate my landlord, and informed his answering tke premises." "I selves with, all symbols really, but symbols that remind us of who we are, and the ones machine of the events. I then called my ex, am ready to do we love. I settled on a picture morn sent me Tom, andleftamessageonhismachine.The just tlmt, as soon for Christmas - a photo ofme taken in 1970, fire folk arrived. (One of whom was very holding my prize possession at the time - a attractive funny wha! you notice under as I ~et off tke - diecastmodel ofChitty Chitty Bang Bang. It suchcircumstances.)They went throughmy pkone w~tk you.p’ was all I could think of to take at the time, apartment, and couldn’t find a fire-just lots Ske got tke ldnt. because I knew it was irreplaceable. And a of smoke. They looked in the attic, noting memento of a rare time in my childhood that the smoke was throughout the building. At that : when I was happy. So off I went. point, I thought, "What am I doing in here’?" I decided ¯ I never knew how devastating something like this to leave the building again, and then as I was going ¯ could be. Panic attacks are no small thing - I never down, both I and the hunky firefighter heard smoke : understood them until now. A smell reminiscent of that alarm, finally going off in the apartment below mine. ¯ smoke can tighten my chest to the point of not being They busted in the door, and smoke billowed out. " able to breathe. Tears come unbidden, for no reason. My worst fear is dying by fire - due to probably : Fear of being alone leads you to surround yourself with haviug been hiu-nt at the stake in a previous life. (Those :- people, to reassure yourself in some way that you are of you who know me will probably agree.) I had never ¯ alive, that you didn’t end up dying after all. It’s irratiohad a panic attack, so I didn’t know what hit me until " nal, you know it, see Viewpoint, p. 14 Utah to Look at m~}., ~hat no one is doing ~:m’~ < o~.v pcopb~ :}~~ouid i[ differenOy.’" Most hare crime taws. Suazo sad. es*ablish protected classes o~ people, saying m-~ o~- fender faces e~ced penalties if the victim is targeted due to ra~, et~q 06 gin, color, religious *’filia~ on or sexuN ofientanon. But 6e SNt ~e Democrat stud prosecutors have told ~m Ut~fs hate mine law - wNch went into eff~t in 1992 - is too vague ~d lacks tee6 because it does not define ~tegofies of prot~ted people. Ut~’s law Nlows fore~dpenNfies on ~sdeme, or offenses if ~e m~n~ intehds to imi~&te or tegofize someone~ddeprive them of 6eir constimfion~ rights. Su~o sNd ~at r~mres prosecutors to guess what is m 6e offender’s ~nd. "I don’t~you shoMd have to prove intent," he SNd. "It is ~fficMt m work wi~ 6e wW it r~ds." S~o stud leNslafive ~dysts have been reviewing 6e law to &leone what adjus~ ents coMd be made. He sNd he does ~fidpate a fight on Capitol Hill. StiR, ~nofity leaders like Willi~s sw a more defiN~ ve law is n~. She poifi)~ to sever~ lo~ ex~ples of hae tomes, including a cross bu~ng in Sdt~eCity ~at prompt~ federN ch~ges ~d filing of ch~ges agNnst a West Jor~ m~ for h~l~g raci~ slurs at a black womb. S~oa~d, saying people~nolonger ~ford to i~ore hate tomes. "We have to fa~ reNities. There ~e hate ~oups out 6ere ~genng people for e~cbackgro~d, cdor or lfestyle. Wen~d to face ~at fact." He sNd ~e reality is 6a U~~tomes bring pe~e~a~ ag~nst ~oups of people. "We ~’t duck Gay Mens’ Killer Gets 168 Year Sentence ALBUQUERQUE (AP) - A 20-year-old killer smirked after being told through an interpreter that he probably would spend the rest of his life in prison in the deaths of three Gay men. Ricardo Rodriguez was the first of four defendants to go on trial in the 1997 slayings. He was sentenced to the maximum term - 168 years - after he was convicted in November on 13 counts, including firstdegree murder and kidnapping. With three consecutive life sentences, each 30 years without parole, and three consecutive 18-year terms for tirst-degree kidnapping, "in ~1 likelihood Mr. Rodriguez will die in prison," stag prosecutor Jody Curran. The bodies of Victor Monzon, 41, and Jesus Contreras, 30, were foundbound, beaten and strangled in an Albuquerque motel in February 1997. The decomposed body of Osvaldo Travieso, 37, was found dumped along Interstate 25 near Santa Fe two weeks later. The four defendants were arrested m Salinas, Kan., driving Monzon’s car. Indian Police Harass Gays LUCKNOW, India (AP) - Police are preventing Gays from going to a park in the north Indian city of, LuCknow following protests from thepublic that they were having sex there, an official said Thursdw. Policemen have been posted at the GPO Park, a popular rendezvous for the city’s Gays, said police. spokesman R. S. Tomar. "Police will not allow male couples into the park if they kmow they are GWs... Pol icemen will ask them if they are Gay. If they hold hmxds or are demonstrative about their affection: we,ll suspect them of being Gay," he said in m~ interview State prosecutor S of parks violates :ivi; ri~i~vs, m~,> :.[i police ;krc pzoles[ the Dohcc Publicdisplay of a~ Iection cvcn b::~wecn a mm~ m~d a wom~m is rare in h:dia, where man} believe homosexuMs exists ouly in Westen~ nations Hawaii Marriage Update HONOLULU (AP) No further legislation is needed on same-sex marriage, according to the state attorney general" s office. Attoniey General Margery Bronster" s office submitted a brief to the state Supre~ne Court swing the consntutional amendinent approved bv voters last month validates the current state ban on same-sex mamage and that no further action is required. After the amendment was approved, the Supreme Court, Which is considering an appeal in the case, asked the state and attorneys for three Gay couples to submit briefs on how the amendment affects the case. Civil liberties attorney Dan Foley, who represents the couples, said he will submit a brief with a different op~mon. Senate Judiciary co-chairman Matt Matsunaga said le~slators will have to determine if approval of additional legislation.would help or hurt the attorney general’s case or make no difference. The Supreme Co.urt earlier ruled that the state’s ban on same-sex mamage ~s unconstatutional unless the state can show a compelling interest in Continuing the ban. During a subsequent trial, Circuit Judge Kevin Chang ruled that the state had failed to show a compelling reason for continuing the ban. The Supreme Court was considering the state’s appeal of that ruling, but put the case on hold pending outcome ofthe vote on the constitutional amendment. Two Banned Gay Books Restored BARRON, V¢is. (AP) - Two of four books banned because of vulgar language have been temporarily returned to school library shelves while educators search for a less explicit book on the same subject, homosexuality. The school board reached a compromise to restore thebooks,’q’woTeen-agers inTwenty" and "When Someone You Know Is Gay" for 90 days at the Barton High School library. School mediadirector Irene Cooley was directed tofind areplacement book dealing with homosexuality, but without profanity and vulgarity. The books and two others were banned because school board members said they contained profane language. At its meeting, the board voted to continue the ban on the other books, "Baby Be-bop" and "The Drowning of Stephan Jones." The books were removed permanently because of "’pervasively vulgar language, educational unsuitability and failure of the book to reflect the community’s values," said Superintendent Vita Sherry. About 60 people turned out for the board’s meeting, with the crowd about evenly divided on whether to maintain the bookban. "If we allow books with this language, should we allow our children to speak like this?" said one supporter of the ban, Bill Balz. Opponent Mike Urseth said the ban infringed on intellectual freedom. "In tiffs case, the freedom to learn," Urseth said. "Please put the books back on the shelf." Board members said their action on the books was based on complaints of profane language, not be: cause they deal with homosexuality. The American Civil Liberties [;mon of \Vi~c(msi~ ~onndation said ~n a statement ~t amic,,pates fili:..-t~ a ~’edera! lawsuit OKLAHOMA CO~LIN[CAT~ONS Want to ge~ involved? Need to get tested for HIV? Need a Coming Out Support Group? Call 743-GAYS the Pride Center 1307 E. 38th at Peoria, 2nd floor Your Gay Communi~ Center THE ANIMAL HOUSE Reptiles ¯ Birds ¯ Small Mammals Fish * Dog & Cat Supplies Grooming ° Pond Supplies 4414 S. 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But, my friends called at 2 a.m. I loaned them my ear for 3 days. Great excuse to fide my bicycle to work. They thanked me with a yummy sugar cookie. Kewl. Try that on the ’Net. Compassionate Service/Largest inventory in Oklahoma. 3 days/300 miles money back guarantee. 260-7829 Announcing the new MCC-United formerly Family of Faith & Greater Tulsa MCC Join together as one body of believers Come celebrate with us. Sunday Services, 11 am . 1623 North Maplewood, 838-1715 Herman Handyman, Inc. 835-9598 Home Remodeling and Repairs Drywall - Painting - Decks - Fences Tile - Shelving - Arbors- Etc. qeferences MasterCard & Visa Herman "Tony" Becker against the board’s book removal action after school resumes in January. Texas Sodomy Challenge HOUSTON (AP) - A challenge to Texas’s 119-yearold anti-sodomy law has been sent to a Texas appeals court, the latest step in a privacy rights case that could wind up before the U.S. Supreme Court. A decision by that court could effect anti-sodomy laws on the books in 18 states, including Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri. In the Texas case, John Lawrence, 55, and Tyrone Garner, 31, were arrested Sept. 17 in Lawrence’s apartment and charged with engaging in homosexual conduct, a misdemeanor. Both pleaded no contest last month, but appealed with a motion to quash the charges. Judge Sherman A. Ross dismissed the motions. Under an agreement reached with prosecutors, Lawrence and Garner again pleaded no contest. The judge fined them $200 each and allowed the immediate filing oftheir new appeals. The case may end up before the Supreme Court because Garner and Lawrence’s challenges are based on state and federal constitutional questions involving privacy rights. "I believe in the Constitution of the United States and I believe in the rights of all citizens," Lawrence said. "Would you like someone busting into your house?" Harris County deputies entered Lawrence’s apartment and found the men engaged in consensual sex. The deputies were res.ponding to a false report that someone was going crazy ~n the apartment and was armed with a gun, according to court documents. Although on the books for more than a century, the Texas sodomy law is rarely enforced. Gay activists hav( worked unsuccessfully for years to overturn the statute there and in 17 other states that have sodomy statutes barring consensual anal or oral sex. Five of those states, includingOklahoma, Kansas and Missouri, specifically ban sodomy between same-sex partners, according to Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund Inc., a Gay-rights group based in New York. The Georgia Supreme Court in November struck down that state’s sodomy law, following similar decisions by courts in Kentucky, Montana and Tennessee, and sodomy laws in Arkansas and Louisiana are under currently attack in state courts. Kansas" law was upheld as constitutional earlier this year after a three-judge panel of the state Court of Appeals refused to overturn a municipal court misdemeanor convicuon involving a Topeka man. Montana May Add Gays to Hate Crimes Law HELENA (AP) - Attorney General Joe Mazurek says he will proceed with plans to ask the 1999 Legislature to extend the state hate-crimes law to cover Gays and Lesbians. But the proposal faces opposition from conservatives, who say it would advance what they call "the homosexual agenda". Mazurek, a Democrat, is asking for two changes to the current hate-crimes law. First, sexual orientation would join the protected ranks of race, creed, religion, color, national origin and involvement in civil rights. And second, a harsher sentence would be allowed for those who commit a crime and choose their victim for those same reasons. "We hope this would prevent people from commitung what are already criminals acts against another person, solely because that person is Gay or Lesbian," said Mazurek. %~rhat we’re trying to do is ensure that people don’t become victims simply for something they believe in or a lifestyle they lead.’" The question of v~olence against Gays and Lesbians was stirred up this year after the murder in Laramie, Wyo., of Matthew Shepard, a University of Wyoming student who was openly Gay. Several human rights groups in Montana have said" the crime committed in Laramie could easily have happened here and anti-hate crime legislation is necessary to quash any notion that such crimes are acceptable. Similar attempts have failed in past legislative sessions. But this group of lawmakers may be more willing to make the change, one Republican leader said. "I want to keep an openmind about that 1 egislation," said Senate Majority Leader John Harp, R-K*dispel!. Harp said nobody could condone what happened to Shepard. Republican Gov. Marc Racicot has said he wonld sign anti-hate crime legislation that protects homosexuals. But the proposed changes will not come without opposition. Arlette Randash, a Helena resident who works as a lobbyist for the socially conservative Eagle Forum, said her group will fight against the measures. She said the changes are not needed because such acts already are illegal, and she sees the proposed change as a furtherance of a homosexual agenda. "I believe that hate crime legislation, in large part, is being used as a front to move the homosexual agenda forward so It is accepted by people as an accepted standard in our community," she added. Also, Randash said, "We don’t give people special status based on behavior alone." On the other hand, Mazurek said, it’s essential to let people know hate-driven actions aren’t acceptable. "We as a society are saying we are tolerant of people’s views and lifestyles," said Mazurek. Gay Man Assaulted in Rhode Island PROVIDENCE,R.I. (AP)-Twomenwere charged with a hate crime in the assault of a man leaving a Gay and Lesbian bar in Providence. On Nov. 26, 19-year-old David E. Sheldon of East Providence and 18-year-old Taylor Grenier of Warren allegedly initiated the attack by yelling anti-Gay slurs at Diana Obidowski, The Providence Journal reported. Police report that the two teens had gotten bored at a party in East Providence and had driven downtown. When they saw Obidowski, they got out of their car, ran to him, knocked him down and kicked him in the head and ribs, police said. When Obidowski tried to run, the teens allegedly knocked him down agmn, kicked him and punched him in the. face. The incident ended when two Providence police cruisers arrived. ¯ Obidowski, a 44-year-old Air Force veteran, was treated at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Providence. He had cuts that he said required 12 stitches. He was released the same day. Obidowski is a tall transvestite who wears ladies" size 13 shoes, but was not dressed as a woman on the night of the attack, television station WJAR in Cranston reported. The teens accused in the beating face simple assault charges in District Court under the state Hate Crimes Sentencing Act. The law, passed by the state legislature in July, requires offenders to receive sentences of at least 30 days in jail. Obidowski said he "’very, very impressed" with how police handled their investigation. ’qhey made me very comfortable," he told WJAR. There were 44 hate crimes last year, including 25 in Providence. According to Bay Windows, a Gay newspaper, there were at least six anti-Gay attacks in Providence last summer. Internet Bank to Target Gays and Lesbians PENSACOLA, Florida (AP) - When banks refused to finance his planned Gay and Lesbian resort, Steven Dunlap scrapped that idea and decided to start a financial institution that would welcome homosexuals instead of spurn them. The result is G and L Bank - the initials stand for Gay and Lesbian - expected to open here in the spring. Not only would it be the only bank in the United S tates catering specifically to homosexuals, itwould be one o,f the first operating primarily via the Internet. q’he whole deal is to take banking away from you having to go to the bank and let us bring the bank to you," Dunlap said. He envisions Gays and Lesbians as an entry market but not the bank’s sole customer base. "Just like Federal Express is doing to overnight delivery, I expect to be the No. 1 brandnamein the Interact banking arena," Dunlap said. Bold talk, but Dunlap, 42, has some unique business credentials to back it up. He went from selling watermelons see Bank, p. 11 Reporting May expenditures on patients. "Compared to what we spend on all Discourage Tests? ~nds of other things, it’s just not that ATLANTA(AP) - Some Gay men are muchmoney"for the governmentto spend, avoiding testing for theAIDS virus in part " said project co-director Dr. Samuel A. because they don’t want their names re- Bozzette, a health care researcher at ported to the federal government, accord- RAND, the Santa Monica, California, ing to a new study from the Centers for think tank overseeing the government- Disease Control and Prevention. sponsored research. The CDC said the survey, released re- The $20,000 tab is roughly one-third of cenfly, underscores the need to continue the estimates from the early 1990s, when government funding for anonymous HIV firm figures were hard to come by, and testing, even as the agency asks states to before the advent of AIDS drug cocktails start keeping names of people who get that have proven powerfnlly effective in treated for the virus that causes AIDS. fending off the disease and keeping pa- Earlier, theCDCpublishednew recom- tients out of the hospital. The stud)’ was mendafions in which it asked all states to ¯ conducted in 1996, just as the combinabegin reporting HIV cases either with the tion therapy was coming into widespread person’ s name or anidentifying code. The use. It found 55% of people being treated CDCsaystheinformationwillhdphealth for HIV were taking one of the newer officials track HIV cases before they be- AIDS drugs by December 1996. Doctors come full-blown AIDS. But some activ- ¯ >elieve use of the new drugs has since ists believe privacy concerns will steer risen sharply. some away from being tested at all. The study estimated that only half of all The CDC surveyed 556 people in nine American adults infected with the AIDS states in late 1995 and 1996 who were " virus saw their doctor at least once every considered at high risk forHIV but said six months. Many of those not getting they had not been tested, They included " are were unaware they were infected. homosexuals, intravenoUsdrug users and However, an encoura~ng 85% of those heterosexuals recruited from clinics for with full-blown AIDS were getting regusexually transmitted diseases. 19% said lar care, with most of them seeing AIDS not wanting their names reported was one specialists. reason they had not been tested. Only 2% Early treatment can slow the disease, said it was their main reason. Gay men extend’lifespan and save money by reducliving in states that already report~names ing hospitalizations. The study was pubwere more concerned about privacy. 35% lished in The New England Journal of of that group said name reporting was one Medicine. It was based on interviews of reasonthey avoidedtesting..Still, the.most 3,072 people treated in hospitals or doccommon reason for not getung te.stext ~.vas tots’ offices in dozens of urban and rural that people were afraid of learmng they -areas around the country. were .IV-positive. Arkansas Accused Ukraine to Provide of Poor HIV Care Free HIV Medicines LrrrLEROCKC’ P -Ifyouhav AIDS ment has ordered the free distribution of treatment for the deadly disease, Arkanmedicine to those infected with the HIV sas is a less than ideal place to be. The virus and AIDS, a news report noted. In a state is one of only ahandful that contrib~ recently released resolution, the Cabinet utes no money to help people with the also introduced free medical examina- AIDS virus buy thenew drugs for treating tions for .people suspected of carrying the disease, either through joint federal HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, the ¯ ~rograms or special state programs. It is one of 13 states that contributes no Interfaxnews agency reported. The report didnotspecifywhichmedicineswouldbe money to the joint federal-state AIDS distributed. Drug Assistance Program, according to The number of people infected with GaryRose, directorofpublicpolicyforan HIV in Ukraine, a nation of 50 million AIDS national network. Rose says Atpeople, has soared to 23,000 people, up kansas has the "worst ADAP program." from 18,500 in mid-1997, according to It is one of seven states - Arkansas, govemment statistics. 80%oftheinfeeted Alaska, Montana, North and South Dawere intravenous drug users, kota, Oregon and Wyoming - that con- ~l~ae official figure is larger than in any tributes no money specifically for the otherformer Soviet republic. Russia, with treatment ofAIDS and those with the HI¥ three times as many people, has reported virus that causes AIDS. Of those seven 10,283 eases, though the actual figure is states, all but Oregon have significantly thought to be higher, fewer AIDS patients than Arkansas, and In its resolution, the Cabinet also or- Oregon offers a special high-risk insurdered the Foreign Ministry.to-make sure ance program for AIDS patients, Rose that foreign .citizens staying in Ukraine says. Boiled down, Arkansas’ situation is for more than three months have docugrim, he adds. ments certifying they are not infected The Ryan White Center in Little Rock with HIV. Some 642 Ukrainians have helps patients buy drugs, but the center is contractedAIDS over thelast decade, and so strapped for money it has stopped takhalf of them have died, according to goving new cases. ’%Vhat can we do?" says emment data. Susan Goggans, the center’s director of client services. "We can’t afford to pay AIDS CaroCosts ¯ foreverybody-we’vereachedastopping ¯ point." Less Titan Tlaouglat " Theagen~y gets amonthly $30,270in AIDS Drug Assistance Program money Care for AIDS padents in the United " from the federal government. Usually, States is less expensive than generally : it’s gone on the first day of each month. In believed - about $20,000 per person per : addition, the center offers counseling, year, according to a new studY. 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Appointments made 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. M-F. Call us today at 58€-1233. Medical Excellence And Compass.ionate Care Since 1926. ST. JOHN MEDICAL CENTER Medical Excellence ¯ Compassionate Care tation assistance. Through the drug assistance program, each of the center’s 272 clients take drugs costingfrom $1,000-$2,000 every month. But federal help doesn’t go far enough to pay for the most expensive drugs, the protease inhibitors, and the center often relies on pharmaceutical companies’ patient assistance programs to provide the drugs for free. Goggans says that because Arkansas does not cover purchases of protease inhibitors, the Ryan White Center is in a "drug crisis." Patients taking the life-giving but expensive protease inhibitors often spend a large percentage of their time chasing the drugs - trying to eke out money from government agencies or get drugs donated from pharmaceutical companies. "It’s just not enough money," Goggans says. "We’re not doing what other states are doing. We’re not giving the best care we can." Since April 1997, the Center’s caseload has nearly doubled from 156 to 272 because more AIDS-HIV patients are seeking treatment and living longer. But the $30,270 in federal funds the local center receives through the Ryan White Care Act has remained the same since early 1997. SomeAIDS and HIV patientsotry to get their medical treatment covered by Medicaid’s medically needy program. But many have incomes considered too high. Patients must.reapply every three months and often are left without coverage during the weeks their applications are reviewed Also, patients can’t reapply before the ¯ three-month coverage period is over. and have to wait two week~ to-~a moffth - sometimeslonger until theircoverageis renewed. Dr. Henry Masters, fonner medical director for the health department’s AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases division. now treats more than 250 AIDS and HIV patients. Masters says the criteria to qualify for Medicaid were designed for people with one-time medical bills, not those with chronicillnesses. "I believe the Medicaid system that we are using to deal with HIV is the worst that could have ever been dremned up," Masters says. "It’s a very cumbersome program that results in people starting and stopping their HIV medicines. This is a recipe for disaster." If a patient on protease inhibitors takes a break from the drugs, HIV can mutate and re-establish itself in drug-resistant strains, making protease inlfibitors ineffective. Even if patients manage to get the drugs the)’ need between coverage periods. the not -knowing whether they’ll be covered in the future can be an all-consuming worry, Masters says¯ "It’s stressfnl and I think it actually worsens their immune function," Masters says. Officials with the state Human Services Department-acknowledge the pro~am isn’t perfect. Roy Jeffus, assistant director of the department’s Medical Services Division, says Arkansas may seek a Medicaid waiver that would all-ow patients with chronic diseases, such as AIDS, to qualify for Medicaid even if their income level or assets are too high. Also, Gary Horton, directorof the Health Department’s AIDS-STD Division, says the state next year expects to see a30% to 40% reduction in the price of drugs from .pharmaceutical companies. The state plans to reinvest the saved money in more drugs, including protease imhibitors, for an AIDS Dru/ Assistance Program, he says. In a&~i~iop.. ,’.he state will receive abou~ q~";:"o"tV,,’.!..’.)(0,: ) :uore ,ro~4 ~he icdc3:a! gcwemmerit for AIDS drugs next year, he says. The1998 federal budget for Arkansas’ AIDS Drug Assistance Program was $2.5 million. Colombians Stress Condom Use ¯ BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Size does ." matter- at least as far as ColombianAIDS : activists are concerned. The activists pa- ¯ raded an enormous inflated condom ~ through the streets of the country’s third largest city hoping to draw attention to the ¯ threat of AIDS. ’The idea is for people to ¯ realize that the disease exists, that it’s ¯ here, and that it represents a far greater ." threat than the condom we’re display- . ing,"Dr. John Jairo Palacio told reporters. ¯ Themockprophylactic, which weighed : roughly 3,000 pounds, stretched over a : half-mile down a holiday street fair in ¯ Call acity of two million inhabitants. ¯ The huge plastic condom was the idea ¯ of doctors specializing in sexually-trans- ¯ mitted diseases at the Santiago de Cali ¯ ¯ University and workers from drug rehabilitation programs. Palacio said the ¯ condom took two months to build at a cost ¯ $13,000, and was paid for by the univer- ¯ sity and a condom manufacturer. ¯ Homeless PLWA Changes Policy PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - It’s been a tough 3ear for Patrick Biggers since he was evicted from a homeless shelter in Ellsworth two days before Clmstmas beca~ ise he has the virus that causes AIDS. ,4 chef who worked at some of the uation’s finest restaurants, Biggers remains home- " les s and has been unable to return to work. He underwent triple bypass surgery three months ago. But unlike last year, Biggers, 36, was not alone on Christmas. And he takes comfort in knowing that somettfing good has emerged from his ordeal in Ellsworth: a policy to promote AIDS awareness and education that he hopes might become a model for shelters in Maine and across the country. The night of Dec. 23, 1997, when the manager of the Emmaus Center ordered Biggers to leave, remains etched in his memory. He was told that his HIV status posed a needless risk to residents and staff. Biggers said his "dangerous behavior" included talking about hi s condition, handling a coffee cup, setting the table, asking to pick up a baby and having sores on the back of his hands, even though there was no fresh blood in sight. The 22- bed shelter arranged to put him up temporarily in a hotel. AIDS activists directed him to the Mnerican Civil Liberties Union, which concluded that the Ea-nmaus Center violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by discriminating against him because he is HIV-posifive and has hepatitis C. The ACLU filed a complaint on Biggers’ behalf to the Maine Human Rights Commission, asking H.O.M.E. Inc.~ the non-profit operator of the Emmaus Center, to estab2 lish a non-discriminatory policy and be required to pay Biggers $10,000 in damages. The case was quickly settled. H.O.M.E., which had replaced the shelter manager even before the complaint was filed, did not dispute Biggers’ assertions and agreed to write a letter of apology, adopt the new policy and begin education and training. The agreemen~ set the s~a,,e.., for devdopmer_,t of a_. five-session I started to say that since it’s winter, Tulsa’s arts scene is happening big time but then if you think about it, pretty much ye.ar-round Tulsa is blessed with arts events of generally very good quality. Already early information is coming "out about spring and summerperformances, like Bartlesville’s annual OK Mozart Festival, now known for its world class perf0rmances. AndinTulsa,LOOK, Light OperaOklahoma is seeking 100 singers for its June 9-July 4th season presented in TU’s Kendall Hall. LOOKis holding auditions on Sat. Jan. 16 & Sun. Jan. 17 from 2-5pro in TU’s Tyrrell Hall, room 302. For more. information or to schedule an audition, call 583-4267. At the end of January, Philbrook will open two new exhibits, "Pure Vision: American Bead Artists" and "Beads: A Cross-Cultural Medium". The first show .will present 60 works by 28 artists. Theworks vary from moe traditional necklaces and bracelet forms to large-scale sculptures, constructions, and shrines. The exhibit was co-ordinated by Chris Knop Kallenberger and was curated by Sherry I~edy of the Leedy Gallery in Kansas City and B.J. Shegaki, director of the Rochester Arts Center in Minnesota. Local support is from Philbrook’s Contemporary Cousortium. The companion show will explore the use of beads in cultures from 15,000 BC Egyptian to ones from 100- 200ADSyrian to SpiroMound of 1,200 AD and 19th century North American Native works. Early in February, Tulsa Ballet will present three dances, The Green Table, Equinoxe, Jardi Taneat (Feb. 5 &6 at 8pro and Feb. 7 at3pm in the Chapman Music Hall of Tulsa’s Performing Arts Center). The Green Table, a critically acclaimed dance drama set in Germany during the rise of Adolph Hitler, is the center-. piece of the February program. Kurt Jooss’ ballet is as he intended it -- to show the world that the only w~nner of war is death. It opens With masked politicians sitting around a table in heated di scussion. Thereafter, war breaks out and in the end, the same politicians, wearing the same masks, are seated at the same table forgetting all the cruelties and casualties the war has caused. Paired with The Green Table will be twomoreOklahomapremieres thatpromise to provide an exceptional evemng of entertainment. James Canfield’ s Equinoxe recalls underwater images of sea creatures which gracefully move with the ocean’s ebb and flow and is set to a synthesizer score byJan-Michael Jarre. Canfield, ¯ a former dancer with Joffrey, is the Artistic Director at Oregon Ballet Theatre. Rounding out the program is Naco Duato’s Jardi Tancatwhichwas Duato’s first ballet,. choreographed for Nederlands Dans Theater in 1983. "Duato, the Artistic Director for the National Ballet of Spain, is one of the brightest stars in Europe and, in my opinion, one of the best choreographers in the world today," Tulsa Ballet’s .Artistic Director, Marcello Angelini related to TFN. "’He brings a new intensity to dance, a fluidity of movement never seen : before, and a new way to express emo- ¯ tions that is so deep, so powerful, it will : change your vision of dance." The ballet is a collection of Maye who was dubed by Ella Fitzgerald. "the greatest white female singer in the world," will present "A Tribute to Frank Sinatra" folk songs, based on ancient Spanish folk tales in which three couples are occupied with the sowing, planting and threshing of their barren land while asking God for water to make their crops grow. Jardi Tancat won Duato first prize at the International Choreographic"~ rorkshop inCologne. He has received recognition throughout Europe for his talents as a dancer and choreographer. ¯ Also early in February, extraordinary jazz vocalist, MarilynMaye, will perform at the PAC’ s JohnWilliams Theatre. Maye who was called by Ella Fitzgerald, "th,e, greatest white female singer in the world, will present "A Tribute to Frank Sinatra" in several shows Feb. 4-6 at Les Ballets Troekadero de Monte Carlo has delighted audlenees around the world. Parodying elassleal works from "Swan Lake" to "Giselle" and the choreography of Isadora Dunean, George Balanehine and Martha Graham, Les Troekaderos offer irresistible entertainment for dance afieionados - and complete novices. 8pm and Feb. 7 at 3pm. Maye began her careerin small clubs and cabarets but since has performed with orchestras from Tulsa to Phoenix to Philadelphia. She first appeared on television on the Steve Alien Show hnd appeared onJohnny Carson’s Tonight Show a record 76 times. Tulsa has a tradition of bringing the great female vocalists of our time and Maye’s appearance continues that. Last but not least the famed "drag" ballet, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo will grace thePAC’s Chapman Music Hall on March 16, 1999. Dancing the fine line between high art and high camp, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo has delighted audiences around the world. Parodying classical works from "Swan Lake" to "Giselle" and the choreography of Isadora Duncan, George Balanchine and Martha Graham, Les Trockaderos offer irresistible entertainment for dance aficionados - and complete novices. The troupe combines a knowledge of dance with a wicked comedic sensibility -- a buoyant and hilarious show. Girls (and you real girls too), you don’t want to miss this one at any cost! - TFN entertainment editor o in Oklahoma. 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Reviewed by Barry Hensley Tulsa City-County Library A few years ago, author Liza Ketchum wrote an award winning book for young adults titled Twelve Days in August. One character, Alex, touchedmany readers, and the author was swamped with requests to continue his_ story. Her new book, Blue Coyote, follows the teenage Alex and his family to yet another new home, this time in Vermont. Being a child of southern California, Alex isn’t too pleased with being stuck in Vdrmont. He’s had a difficult time making friends and doesn’t just miss the beach, but also his only tree, close friend, Tito. He and Tito had kept in touch with each other for awhile, but, suddenly, Tito’s letters stopped coming. Alex attempts to track him down, but Tito seems to have simply disappeared. Luckily, Alex’s father, a writer, has been offered work back in California, not far from Where they had once liyed. Amid some dissension Within the family, Alex and his father move back to California. ¯ This gives Alex a chance to try to locate Beln~ a child d southern Cal~ornla, Alex isn’t too pleased qth beln~ stueh in Vermont. He’s a difficult time mal~in~ friends and doesn’t just mlss the beach, but alsohls only true, dose friend, Tito. his long, lost best friend. This sets the stage for Alex to not only getinto avariety ofsituations inhis search for Tito, but also to realize that the trust and affection he has for his friend is actually infatuation. Eventually, Alex comes to the understanding that he is Gay, and there is quite a bit ofattention paid to the reaction of his family. It is interesting to see the different reactions of two families whenconfronted with Gay children, siblings and friends. Alex’s sister is an important character and positively handles the realization that both she and her brother had, at one time, had a crush on Tito. This is agoodbookfor adults and young adults alike. You need not have read Twelve Days in August before reading Blue Coyote. Although it does continue Alex’~ story, Blue Coyote stands alone well. There isn’t any graphic sex and only a few words that anyone could find offensive. This is a tame but provocative read. Check for Blue Coyote at your local, branch library, or call i_he Readers Services department at 596-7966. Better Than Ever, Pride Merchandise, Magazines & More 610-8510 8120 East 21 st (2lst+Memodal, next to Boot City) We buy back good used adult magazines. the largest gay ri,g,,hts group in the state, hailed the ruling. The state court gave us a ban on discrinfination in employment stronger than anything we could introduce in the Legislature in 23 years," said Jean Harris, executive director of the orgamzation. "We love it. We’ll take it." The court turned aside the university’s argument that it made benefits available on equal terms to all married employees. 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That benefits all of us," she said. Biggers, who has struggled to get by on Social Security benefits, decided to forgo any financial recovery. ’’The goal was to change the policy," he said. "That was my goal from the very beginning.’" The ACLU said the impact of the settlement could spread beyond Hancock County and Maine, and perhaps be adopted by many shelters nationwide. "My guess is that the response will be good," said Matthew Coles, director of its AID!HIV Project in New York. "People who run homeless shelters are almostby definition good people who are trying to do something positive in the world and make it a better place. The problem is usually ignorance, not malice." 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Then, after comparing your dream against your checkbook balance, do you weep copious tears of disappointment? Weep not, child; you are not alone. YourDIYD shares your frustration and offers comfort. Not a miracle, but comfort. Remember that as we go along. Yes, your fairy Do- It-YoursdfDyke-y has a trick or two in her magic wand (minds out of the toybox, children!) that canhelp you muddlealong with your current kitchen until you can save up and move up to something more delicious. It involves our pesky old friend, Elbow Grease, and dreams deferred, but the results of a kitchen face lift can Are you depressed, d~rllngs, because your kltehen is as drab. as that dishwater you’ve got your opera-!ength latex Platex gloves submerged Do you long for~ fantasy kltehen that makes Martha’s look llke something from suburban New Jersey? Then, after eomparlng your dream against your checkbook balance, do you ~eep eoplous tears of d~sappolntment? ~Veep not, child; you are not alone... Yes, your fairy Do-h- Yourseff Dyke-y has a trlek or two in her magle actually satisfy your .kitchenlust- rfioderately.: Not a rip and tear project, but a nip and rock. An eye wash, if you will. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again (quite possibly every month) a little paint can do wonders. That will be the coruerstone of our project, which your DIYD proposes to drag out shamelessly for the next few months. But first, put away your rose,tinted glasses and prepare for some coldhearted evaluations of what you have to work with. Obviously, ff)’our cupboards are cheap, flimsy and dilapidated, our success ~s going t~ be pretty limited, so keep it all in perspective. Also, match your budget with what can be accomplished, and learn how to scour the areaforbargains-outlets, resale stores, architectural salvage, etc. Then, if a rehab is in your relatively near future, you can buy a few nice things and carry them over on the redo. We are a creative lot, so let’s use it to our advantage. Don’ t be afraid to do the workin stages. Actually, it prolongs the enjoyment, and outside his father;s appliance store in Jonesboro, Arkansas, at age 8 to retirement in his early 30s after developing a series of novelty products. He made his real fortune, however, by sdling millions of Moonies. The chubby doll-size figures attach to car windows with suction cups like the ubiquitous Garfidd-the-cat stickons, but with a risque difference. "You squeezed the b,~b and the little guy mooned people, Dunlap said. "I got rich off of it and I quit." He movedin 1990fromMemphi s,Tennessee, to Navarre Beach, about 20 miles east of Pensacola, platming nothing more than to siton the sugar-white beach. How- Look at tak:t~g the opportunity to h~prove some essentials that don’timmediately leap to mind when y~u think about fluffing up the kitchen - it might be a good time to learn a little bit about wiring and dectrical, to the extent that you put in a new light fixture or replace the old outlets with GFCI (ground fault circuit interrupters), which are truly a safety must anywhere you have water. There are some good do it yourself books, complete with very necessary illustrations, to walk you through it, and ifyouhave a friend that is familiar with the process, flatter, pitch wand (minds out of the wooorwhateverelseit toybox, children!) rakes to enlisttheir help ¯ ¯ ¯ on the project. ¯ astainless steel sink 0r~iga~bage disposal. ~ Be wary about letting your fancy stray as ¯ far as a dishwasher - you’re heading into " more complicated territory there. Think about flooring options. ,and if your kitchen is in the darker coruer of your house, as is the DIYD’g, definitely thinklight. Notjust visual light, which is where the fixtures come in, but ¯¯- light surfaces -walls, cabinets, appliances. It might not be the right time to go withthe ¯ retro phase and install that avocado har- ¯ vest-tone range (but if you decide you must, the DIYD has a deal for you! Take my old range, please.) ~ Think about using a low-luster semi- " gloss paint - it makes clean ups easier and ¯ resists water and mildew and other dis- " tasteful things. And new finishing tech- ¯ niques open up a plethora of possibilities. ¯ Sleight of hand is very necessary in Eye Wash jobs. Ask any drag queen. ¯ So dream easy dreams until next month, ¯ when your DIYD helps you spiffy up ¯ those horrid, depressingly dark kitchen ¯ cupboards. ~ ever, after noticing thatthousands ofGays ¯ congregate on area beaches every Memo- " rial Day, he decided the panhandle could ¯ support a small Gayresort. Dtmlap and a motel developer took aplan to local bank- " ers about six years ago. "You could just ¯ see the color runoutoftheir faces,"Dunlap ¯ ¯ recalled. "My personal impression and observation was that they did not want [ anythiag to do with the financing solely ~ because it was a... ’Gay and Lesbian’ ¯ business." Dunlap, himself Gay, figured if that ¯ was happening hereit also washap~g to others elsewhere. Creating a b~ak~Jr ¯ such a geographicallywidespreadmarket ¯ niche would have been difficult at b~t ¯ before the Interuet. ’The Interuet~ allows us to deliver see Bank,p~ by Esther Rothblum I recently watched Janice Perry perform during National Coming Out Week at the University of Vermont. By the time I asked her to describe her life and her work, she was off performing in Switzerland. So we communicated over email. Here are her responses to my questions: ER: tell me the story of how you became a Lesbian comedian? JP: Is this a trick question? Because of course, there is the story of how I became a Lesbian, and then the story ofhow Ibeganperforming. I never intended to become a "Lesbian comedian". I began performing and because my sexuality is part of my life, itcomes outin the show, undisguised¯ Audiences don’t often see Lesbianism presented in this way, it’s either ’%rOW, LOOK AT ME, I’MA BIG DYKE!!" or very covert. Mymissionis topresentchallenging work in a way that is accessible. Most, but not all, of my work is highly exaggerated autobiography. I am always trying to find common denominators, trying to weave many different aspects into each piece. The major theme of a piece about an IRS audit was power and abuse of power (this was pre-IRS refo.rm), and the fact that the auditor was conung on to me was the vehicle to exaggerate the taxpayer’s fear and the auditor’s power. I wanted to unequivocally show the equation between sex and power and fear. That the auditor i~-awoman adds another layer. This piece also unequivocally describes both the dedication required and the extremely dire financial situation of artists in general. So there are many levds that are available to the audience. They can take whatever they want from the performance, While this is a theatrical exag- ¯ Satire"¯ When I first started working in : Europe, Ifoundoutthatthereis awordfor : it-"kabarett". I use my .whole body to deliver the : monologues, as wall as costumes, singing; lighting and very strong I never intended facialgestures. Iamperforming pieces with what I see to to ]~eeome a be the big themes - Greed, "Lesl~ian Fear, Abuse of Power, Sex, comedian". War, Death and Taxes. I’m not so interested in just telll l:le.~an ing jokes. I am presenting performin$ and strong content from a Lesbian- feminist perspective in ]~eeause my a highly comedic way. The sexuality is part comedic aspect makes my of my llfe, it work much more accessible to many more people. comes out ER: is there a particuin tlae slaow, lar performance that stands out as memorable? undls~ulsed, jp: Last year (199~/) the Swiss queers organized a demonstrationinBem (the capitol) against thenew constitution, and the refusal of the government to include equal rights for homosexuals as partofbasichumanrights. The organizers of the demo invited me to come and perform. There were Swiss, French, German, Italian speakers and me. I came out on stage wearing a Statue of Liberty crown and carrying a big penis and said, "I want to.thank the Swiss Government for making me feel right at home here. It’s so reassuring to "know that I will be discriminated against wherever I go." Then I did a piece from the early 80’s about the constitution which says that the preamble really should readlike this:’ "vVe, the MEN of the United States, in order to : form a more perfect union. . No, that should be, ’We, the WHITE MEN of the United States.. ’ No, that should be ’We : theCONSERVATIVEWHITEMEN...’ ~ No, that should be ’We the RICH, CON- . SERVATIVE, WHITE, MEN . .’ No, 2 that should be ’We the OLD, RICH ,CONSERVATWE,XVHITE,MEN geration of the truth, it is a true story. I .... " "" They really got it. WAS audited by a woman, who D!D ER: is Janice Perry the performer difabuse her power. ER: What are the messages you are bringing to Lesbians? JP: I want Lesbians and gays to see that it really is okay to be out. That we can present ourselves in public and not be ki¯ lled for i" t. I ’m not hi"ding anything, I’m not preaching anything, I’m just going about my’business of performing in a perfectly natural way (orimperfecfly natural). When I play in some sin_all t.ow,.n, .an,d the audience is mixed, as it often i s, I trunk that it is empowering for all of us. Internalized homophobia is the real killer. I am also showing my total commitment to my work. My pe,rformance, is more theatrical than stana-up comeay. This is "kabarett" with a small "k" in the European tradition of powerful political statements launched from the platform of comedy, rather than"Kabarett" with a big "K" or "Cabaret" with a "C" which is usually women in glittery evening gowns singing "Se~d in the Clowns". This is why I am able to work so often in Europe. In 1982, when I first started, there was either theater or stand-up in the USA, and nothing in-between. I had no language to describe my work. I called it "Comedy - Rock - Music - Theater - ferentfrom Janice Perrry the individual? Do youfindyourselfperforming tofriends and lovers? JP: I am really h~cky in that I get to let out a lot of my desire for attention in my Work. Before I startedperformingon stage, I was performing all day long, because I had no outlet for this creativity. It must have been hell to be around. I thank my friends for putting up with me. Now I am much more relaxed in my personal life. Sometimes when I arrive at a theater where they don’t know my work, they look a bit worried, like - "Uh-oh, this is just a normal 48 year old woman, and she isn’t even wearing make-up and what kind of show will this be?" When I go on stage, they are amazed by my energy, which is very intense. They can’t believe it’s the same person. There is a definite difference between my work and my private life. I lead a quiet life and I have many and vailed interests. I love nature, hiking, gardening, cross-country skiing, bird-watching. I’m an avid reader, I love the classics, English social comedies from the 20’s and 30’s, fiction, history. I love music - rock and roll, classical, heavy metal, opera. see Psyche. p. 13 Red Rock Tulsa O’RYAN Oklahoma Rainbow Young Adult Network Outreach Program Thurs. 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Are You Native American?/ r~.~/~:~ Tulsa’s Two-S pirited Indian Men’s Support Group is here for you! ~___J~J~.~2/ ~f’~ ~,--., Jl ¯ Evening support group meetings ¯ Relationship workshops ¯ Short trips, outings and retreats ¯ Free HIV testing For information call Tulsa Native American AIDS Prevention Project at 582-7225 Ext. 208 or 218 a mec~,~ism t~at we can employ er~t~vely to whh and eMllen~e our ~ender roles. Many Gay men regularly apply female pronouns ehher to themselves or to thelr (or enemies...). When talkln~ about my f~ends who do dra~, I no longer hedtate to or the ;ack d ~ereof (~ t). MaIU Austronesian languages (spoke~ from Hawm’i to Madagascar), conversely, possess 15 different subject pronoun. When I liv~ on T~a, V~tu, before I could Mk about ~ybody, I had to count~emfirst. ~ere is a prono~ for "you", a different one for you-two , ~other one for "you-t~" ~d still ~other for "you- Moreover, two sorts of "we" must be distinguished on~msl~d.Our we blur together two logically different groups. Sometimes, when we say "we," we in- use "she" and "her." dude who we’ve speaking to; but sometimes "we" excludes the speaker. For example, if I tell you that "we’re going to kiss" this mightmean that I about to plant one on you, or ~t could mean that I’m going neck with someone else. On Tarma, separate pronouns exist dicuonanes before fadi~, away. Other dc-.gende~ed substitmes d~at have been proposed include s~ m~ and air. Gender in our pronoun system may sustmn inanities between men and womenbutitis Nso am~ha- Nsm ~at we ~ employ creatively to play wi~ ~d chNlenge o~ gender roles. M~y Gay men regM~lj apply female pronouns ther to ~emselves or to ~eir friends (or ene~es -"She’s not N1 ~at~"). ~entNNng about my friends who do drag, I no longer hesitate to use "she" ~d "her." TNs is ~e in o~er c~tures whose pronoun systems Nso encode gender. ~Nysis of ~e sp~h of a Gay ~uple por~y~ in ~e first document~y film about Gay life in Jap~ R~en no Sobyo ("Rough S~eteh of a SpirN") shows that do not allow this ambigui.t},,; ,w.e’.’ includes vou;.the, other "we dales ~ more ~ermmne partner’re~ers to mmsm~ not. . with female or gender-neutral terms set, peopte use tnese woros to tam aoout the world and about themselves. If we listen to how people do this, we can learn something of their underlying concepts about human identity. There is always also a politics of pronouns. People use pronouns creatively in order to demonstrate or to assert certain claims about themselves, and about others. My old friend Rapi, who was the "big-man" or leader of the village in which I lived, surprised me one day with apronotm. He was tdling the story of one of his great- ~andfathers, who was also named Rapi, and he used the ’T" pronoun - "When I smote the enemy back before Captain Cook arrived..." (and this was in 1774!). It became clear tome thatTannesepeople, more so than we, incorporate into their sense of self their ancestors, particularly if these were ancestral namesakes. Part of their personhoodincludes these forebears. Whenrecounting history whichhappened generations before they were born,, they talk about "what I did"in that these events are part of who they are today. The pronoun system on Tanna, despite its complexity, does not recognize gender. He, or she, and it are all called "in." Inequality between men and women on the island runs fairly deep, but this social ineqtmlity is not reflected in the pronominal system. The relationship between linguist’ic form and social structure has been long and fiercely debated. Whatever the facts about this might be, here in the US there has been a fairly successful campaign to de-genderize our first person pronouns. In this politics of pronouns, college students may get marked down ifthey use "he" as the default in their essays. ~1~ polifical!y correct choice nowadays is "Ec or she" or even the grammatically uses mate-marKeo pronouns (ore, jtoun, washi). Justlike Rapi and his ’T’ onTanna, our self-construction depends on creative use of the pronouns that our language provides. This appropriation of the other sex’s pronoun may be a male thing. I have not seen many studies of Lesbian use of "he." (If anyone has come across he-women, please email me.) Some feminists might fault men for, once again, abridging women’~s rights and experience by stealing their "she." It seems to me, though, that if one might attack gender hierarchy by spaying language - replacing he/she with thou-one can also undermine the systemby messing with its rules. I can call you he; or maybe this time I’ll call you she. Remember, everyone must use her condoms. Lamont Lindstrom teaches anthropology at the University of Tulsa and my be reached at lamont-lindstrom@utulsa.edu I love to go to the theater. Dance. Visual Arts. Architecture. Archeology. Yoga. Fashion. I’m very, interested in both prehistory and pop culture. I like to see what is gomg on in "society," both regionally and globally, to try to identify the trends,, see what is universal and then use this information inmy work. In some way I’m always working, always noticing, observing. But I can do it from the sidelines. I don’t need to be the center. I get enough of that onstage. For further informauon and to schedule a perfornlance, contact: Janice Perry RD 1 Femsburgh~ Vermont 05456 jpakagal @aol.com but it doesn’t stop it from happening, and it’s frustrating to you, and the people around you. Some of it has passed, some ofithasn’t and will take time, and some of it will never go away or be forgotten. Right after, if I was alone, the chest would tighten, I couldn’t breathe and I would feel overwhelmed. Evenin agrocery store, whenTom and I went together, but separated, as we usually did, I found’mysdf alone on an aisle, and feltmy chest tighten - it scared the 1x;jeezus out of me. We passed a car emitting fumes with a similar odor to the smoke in the apartment, and I Was right back there. And in a panic attack. I thought, .’ffhis is silly. Stop it". Well, you can’t. I decided to stay at the apartment two days later. Tom was doubtful, again, but supportive. I did try to go back and face down my fear. Then, as I gotintomy smokybed (I’d left windows wide open for the two days, and it helped - a little. The smoke issomething that doesn’t go away easily.) Then the ’~vhat- ifs" started. What if I had gone home earlier (whichI had thought of doing) and gone to sleep? What if I hadn’t gone home till later? No one else called 911. In fact, the neighbor that finally did come out, said "Well, I smdled a funny smell, but didn’tpay any attention to it..." With neighbors like that, who needs enemies? What if... Then the big one hit: If I was in a smoky smelling apartment, and another fire started, how would I know another one had started? I mightjust chalk it up to the already smoky apartment I was in, and then what? An~twhatelsemightbeplUgged in...? So, I tookTom up on his very kind offer that if I became uncomfortable, I could come back to his place and stay. So, on this new years, take stock. Look at whoyourreal friends are. Tomhas been Wonderful., going far above and beyond the call of duty. Look at your extension cords. Are they the right kind for tbejob? Are they over loaded? Funny what you notice after an event like this - I was inRedLobsternot too long ago, and noticed that their xmas lights were connected by 3 extensions cords wound around a wooden beam. I watched them throughout dinner. And no matter how much one may grumble, I am aware of just how lucky I am to be here to grumble. I am lucky to still have my symbols, collected throughout my life, of the people who love me, and the people I love. I am lucky to have a friend like Tom. I am lucky to be alive. I’m not too thrilled at having so much stuff to dean, but I realize that I amlucky it’s there to be cleaned. It was time to move anyway, the neighbors were too noisy. 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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. 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The Beatles were soon to give the Eighth Day new significance with their "Eight Days a Week." Paul S's Glory Hole, with Its balcony and the whole works, was the first of 13 he would have in Tulsa. ihe straights ·had no Idea what a glory hole was, but newly arriving gays knew Instantly. Bob White had the Eighth Day and Gala at the time, but Fran and Jodie soon would take over. Fran, a former lady wrestler, had no trouble keeping the peace, although some of the pieces did get out of hand once in a while. Those were the days when the bars were mixed - girls and guys. I could be more specific by saying dikes and queens. The best fights were always by the dikes. Shirley P. always used part of her Indian money on her birthday to throw a big party at the Gala. And those were the days when you always knew when it was about time to leave. Fran or Jodie would yell out, "Hotel, motel time." C.J., Pe�gy's other half, put It a little differently. The Chicken C oop, still. open on Third Street, was an after-hours eating place for a lot of us. preceding Baker's by a few years.· And C.J. would regularly solicit business by yelling out, "Who's going to the Chicken Shit?" C.J., now deceased, was about as butch as they came, even sprouting a mustache once. Oh yes. she worked as a truck · driver. And Peggy was as pretty a femme as you ever would see. The Doghouse was on the corner of Seventh and Boulder, preceding the now-closed Holiday Inn by a few years. And If one of you was having a lovers' quarrel, it was a good place to wind up - In the Doghouse, get. It's main decoration was a huge reprint of the famous painting of dogs of all breeds having a poker game. Mt, ,The Taj Mahal, which later l�ould be across the street In the middle of the same block, was not even a dream yet. Norma would bring it along In a few years, first as the Adams Hotel bar, and then Its more famous site on Seventh Street. CH The Zebra Lounge, around the corner on Main Street, was a ·straight place. First "Bob" and then BIii Oliver would change that a few years later. Getting back to Norma, some of the best bar stories ever came out of the Taj when she first opened it. Totally serious, she told the story of how some of her lady friends saw her downtow n shopping and said they Just couldn't believe she was running a gay bar, to which she replied, ''Of course I am....All of my customers are happy." The next two I heard myself, A young man with a University of Hawaii T-shirt, and obviously the timid type, walked In one afternoon during happy hour and sat at a table next to me. Norma came over to wait on him, and he looked up before ordering and asked, "Ma'am, Is It safe for queens in here?" Norma replied, "My Lord, yes, honey chlle, they have those In England. We don't have them In this country." He got up and ran. Shortly after the Holiday Inn was opened across the street, a man who obviously had looked out the window and saw the bar, walked over. Janie, one of Norma's longtime friends, was working happy hour that afternoon•. Janie is about 4-foot-9, if she's that tall, and on the buxom side. The visitor from across the street observed what was going on for a few minutes, and· to an outsider, some of It could have been pretty shocking, and then stood up. Making sure he had the floor, he said, "Obviously this Is a gay bar, but who is that (pointing to Janie), Mickey Rooney In drag?" He finished his beer and left us with one of the best laughs ever. Janie took It In stride. Paul S. (The Glory Hole) later would have the Scubldu Downtown, the Scubldu East, on Sheridan, the old Thelma's Club at First and Elwood, the Queen of Hearts at Third and Frisco, and on and on. Some didn't stay open long enough for the name to register. Paul played the trombone and 1iked Contlnued ... Page -G- NOV. 1, 1990 11 PAGE 3 �.... BARS, continued > get up a small musical group to rovlde enterta.inment, partlcu­ trly at the Downtown Scubldu on ,outh Main. Gracie Y. would first enter ,e scene when Bill Oliver had the �ebra downtown. Bill also would ,ave the Doors and Caruso's. Gracie, · already . in her 'O's, played the piano · every ,aturday night. The oldies were ,er ·specialty, but she had a little 1ovelly number on the rlsque side vhcf would gladly play, putting ,vhoever's name was requested In :he lyrics. It started out with the 1ame submitted, say. "James," and Nent like this: "James couldn't get :t started •..11 The laughter started immediately and ''James" soon became embarrassed. But it was fun and we all loved it. Gracie later moved her act to the Bamboo and most of us followed. It gave Gene a partner. He was a solo dancer of some merit in those days - I watched him dance from one end of the bar to the other one night to the complete Carole King "Corazon." He was not the Latin from Manhattan but he gave a r=t�6 s Getting back to Paul S. (Glory Hole), he took it upon himself to lead the "Jane Ann Jayroe Parade" after she became the state's second "Miss America" - Norma Smallwood was the first. Paul had the Queen of Hearts at the time and regularly presented drag shows. And by far the best one who ever appeared was "Dawn Winters... On this particular evening, three of his best-dressed drag queens rode on the back of his convertible, legs crossed, and waved to the huge crowd along the parade route. A sign on both sides read,"Come to the Queen of Hearts - where boys will be girls. u The cops along the route seemed to get a bigger kick out of it than anyone. And speaking of cops, many years later at Tim;s Playroom, once t�e Gala and then the place to go, two of them came In on ohe of the coldest nights of the year with a foot of snow on the ground and stood under one of the he�ll vents for what seemed like forever. The dance floor was packed for Sunday night happy hour. I will never forget Walt Carlton (cancer), C arl Nagel (cirrhosis), and Bruce Hower.ton. Wayne Galutza, Newcombe Cleveland, to name a few. They were so brave in death. For . them, the long and winding road has ended. Our Job is to see that their trip wasn't In vain - that we, as gay Tulsans, ca11 rise up and prove to this city that we are some of its best .citizens. Tom P., Pearl to many of us, suggested to me -that we walk over and see what was going on. He knew both of them. "Looking for anything In particular," Tom asked, to which one of them replied, 0 Not a damn thing, Tom. It just happens that this Is one of. the warmest and safest spots in town right now." Tl_m Turner gave us three good bars during his ·Tulsa run, before moving to Florida. The Playroom may have been the best Tulsa ever had. Two Places You Must See Oral Roberta Prayer Tower & Genes Bamboo Lounge And we can't forget Jimmy and Roy, who have give the Tool Box a totally different meaning than the one in your car trunk. Tulsa's bars ·have been a never-ending song of love. Yes, there were some bad moments. I remember the time I watched Ronnie Dlttmore get in his old lover's oar In front of the Zebra. They had spent the evening inside trying to decide If there was enough left to start over again. The next morning I would read that Ronnie had been murdered. And two days later, another story told how the · ex-lover had killed himself on his father's grave in Kansas. mlb\lMOO@@ 7204 E. PINE NOO� - 2 AM IL@QJJOO@I!! 838-9323 DAILY DOLLAR PITCHERS SUNDAYS - OPEN TO CLOSE $2.00 WELLS $1.75 FROZEN DRINKS $1.00 RATTLESNAKES Tulsa's bars may never relive their old days. AIDS may have changed that forever. But the many fond memories will never die. -G- NOV. 1, 1990 PAGE 11 � 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 [Collection] Oklahoma LGBT+ History Description An account of the resource <strong>Physical Media:</strong> <br /><br /><br /><strong>Digital Media:</strong> 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 Thirty years on the Tulsa bar scene has been a long and winding road, to borrow a Beatles song tltle. 1959, IArwriavsingwelIcnomOedctobbyersucohf places as the Eighth bay and Gala, The Glory Hole, the Doghouse and a brand new one - that was the year Gene brought In the Bamboo. The Beatles were soon to give the Eighth Day new significance with their "Eight Days a Week." Paul S's Glory Hole, with Its balcony and the whole works, was the first of 13 he would have in Tulsa. ihe straights ·had no Idea what a glory hole was, but newly arriving gays knew Instantly. Bob White had the Eighth Day and Gala at the time, but Fran and Jodie soon would take over. Fran, a former lady wrestler, had no trouble keeping the peace, although some of the pieces did get out of hand once in a while. Those were the days when the bars were mixed - girls and guys. I could be more specific by saying dikes and queens. The best fights were always by the dikes. Shirley P. always used part of her Indian money on her birthday to throw a big party at the Gala. And those were the days when you always knew when it was about time to leave. Fran or Jodie would yell out, "Hotel, motel time." C.J., Pe�gy's other half, put little differently. The Chicken C oop, still. open on Third Street, was an after-hours eating place BY DICK SUAGEE for a lot of us. preceding Baker's by a few years.· And C.J. would regularly solicit business by yelling out, "Who's going to the Chicken Shit?" C.J., now deceased, was about as butch as they came, even sprouting a mustache once. Oh yes. she worked as a truck · driver. And Peggy was as pretty a femme as you ever would see. The Doghouse was on the corner of Seventh and Boulder, preceding the now-closed Holiday Inn by a few years. And If one of you was having a lovers' quarrel, it was a good place to wind up - In the Doghouse, get. It's main decoration was a huge reprint of the famous painting of dogs of all breeds having a poker game. Mt,CH,The Taj Mahal, which later l�ould be across the street In the middle of the same block, was not even a dream yet. Norma would bring it along In a few years, first as the Adams Hotel bar, and then Its more famous site on Seventh Street. The Zebra Lounge, around the corner on Main Street, was a ·straight place. First "Bob" and then BIii Oliver would change that a few years later. Getting back to Norma, some of the best bar stories ever came out of the Taj when she first opened it. Totally serious, she told the story of how some of her lady friends saw her downtown shopping and said they Just couldn't believe she was running a gay bar, to which she replied, ''Of course I am....All of my customers are happy." The next t wo I heard myself, A young man with a University of Hawaii T-shirt, and obviously the timid type, walked In one afternoon during happy hour and sat at a table next to me. Norma came over to wait on him, and he looked up before ordering and asked, "Ma'am, Is It safe for queens in here?" Norma replied, "My Lord, yes, honey chlle, they have those In England. We don't have them In this country." He got up and ran. Shortly after the Holiday Inn was opened across the street, a man who obviously had looked out the window and saw the bar, walked over. Janie, one of Norma's longtime friends, was working happy hour that afternoon•. Janie is about 4-foot-9, if she's that tall, and on the buxom side. The visitor from across the street observed what was going on for a few minutes, and· to an outsider, some of It could have been pretty shocking, and then stood up. Making sure he had the floor, he said, "Obviously this Is a gay bar, but who is that (pointing to Janie), Mickey Rooney In drag?" He finished his beer and left us with one of the best laughs ever. Janie took It In stride. Paul S. (The Glory Hole) later would have the Scubldu Downtown, the Scubldu East, on Sheridan, the old Thelma's Club at First and Elwood, the Queen of Hearts at Third and Frisco, and on and on. Some didn't stay open long enough for the name to register. Paul played the trombone and 1iked Contlnued... Page 11 -G- NOV. 1, 1990 PAGE 3 > get up a small musical group to rovlde enterta.inment, partlcu­ trly at the Downtown Scubldu on ,outh Main. Gracie Y. would first enter ,e scene when Bill Oliver had the �ebra downtown. Bill also would ,ave the Doors and Caruso's. Gracie, · already . in her 'O's, played the piano · every ,aturday night. The oldies were ,er ·specialty, but she had a little 1ovelly number on the rlsque side vhcf would gladly play, putting ,vhoever's name was requested In :he lyrics. It started out with the 1ame submitted, say. "James," and Nent like this: "James couldn't get :t started•..11 The laughter started immediately and ''James" soon became embarrassed. But it was fun and we all loved it. Gracie later moved her act to the Bamboo and most of us followed. It gave Gene a partner. He was a solo dancer of some merit in those days - I watched him dance from one end of the bar to the other one night to the complete Carole King "Corazon." He was not the Latin from Manhattan but he gave a r=t�6 s Getting back to Paul S. (Glory Hole), he took it upon himself to lead the "Jane Ann Jayroe Parade" after she became the state's second "Miss America" - Norma Smallwood was the first. Paul had the Queen of Hearts at the time and regularly presented drag shows. And by far the best one who ever appeared was "Dawn Winters... On this particular evening, three of his best-dressed drag queens rode on the back of his convertible, legs crossed, and waved to the huge crowd along the parade route. A sign on both sides read,"Come to the Queen of Hearts - where boys will be girls.u The .... BARS, continued cops along the route seemed to get a bigger kick out of it than anyone. And speaking of cops, many years later at Tim;s Playroom, once t�e Gala and then the place to go, two of them came In on ohe of the coldest nights of the year with a foot of snow on the ground and stood under one of the he�ll vents for what seemed like forever. The dance floor was packed for Sunday night happy hour. Tom P., Pearl to many of us, suggested to me -that we walk over and see what was going on. He knew both of them. "Looking for anything In particular," Tom asked, to which one of them replied, 0 Not a damn thing, Tom. It just happens that this Is one of. the warmest and safest spots in town right now." Tl_m Turner gave us three good bars during his ·Tulsa run, before moving to Florida. The Playroom may have been the best Tulsa ever had. And we can't forget Jimmy and Roy, who have give the Tool Box a totally different meaning than the one in your car trunk. Tulsa's bars ·have been a never-ending song of love. Yes, there were some bad moments. I remember the time I watched Ronnie Dlttmore get in his old lover's oar In front of the Zebra. They had spent the evening inside trying to decide If there was enough left to start over again. The next morning I would read that Ronnie had been murdered. And two days later, another story told how the · ex-lover had killed himself on his father's grave in Kansas. Tulsa's bars may never relive their old days. AIDS may have changed that forever. But the many fond memories will never die. I will never forget Walt Carlton (cancer), Carl Nagel (cirrhosis), and Bruce Hower.ton. Wayne Galutza, Newcombe Cleveland, to name a few. They were so brave in death. For . them, the long and winding road has ended. Our Job is to see that their trip wasn't In vain - that we, as gay Tulsans, ca11 rise up and prove to this city that we are some its best .citizens. Two Places You Must See Oral Roberta Prayer Tower & Genes Bamboo Lounge mlb\lMOO@@ IL@QJJOO@I!! 7204 E. PINE 838-9323 NOO� - 2 AM DAILY DOLLAR PITCHERS SUNDAYS - OPEN TO CLOSE $2.00 WELLS $1.75 FROZEN DRINKS $1.00 RATTLESNAKES -G- NOV. 1, 1990 PAGE 11 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 [1959-1990] Looking Back on the (Tulsa) Bars, A Brief History, by Dick Suagee Subject The topic of the resource Reflections of Tulsa Bars By Dick Suagee beginning with his arrival in Tulsa in October 1959 until November 1990. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Oklahoma Historical Society Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Oklahoma Historical Society Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Oklahoma Historical Society Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 10/1959 to 11/1990 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Dick Suagee Dick Suagee Oklahoma Historical Society Tulsa Gay Bars https://www.history.okeq.org/files/original/3c5534c471c21dd145842498ffa3bbb3.pdf b86fe35d10bfd959b7d694513b5ce89e PDF Text Text -GAY-ETY INT-TOWN. by loni broaddus The vertical file in the Tulsa Library public relations to be seen with a member of the oppostie sex. labeled "Homosexuality " contains few­ Another famous Tulsa hangout was er than thirty articles clipped from the Bishop's Restaurant and Bar, where Tulsa World and Tulsa Tribune. The earliest is dated August 1976; the head­ gays and straights socialized together. line reads "Homosexual Arrests In­ The stt:aight people naturally had no crease at Mohawk Park." Other arti­ idea there were homosexuals in their cles discuss a proposed civil rights midst-after all, this was during the ordinance requested by the gay com­ late 40s-early 50s. munity, claims of police harassment by "Bishop's Bar was quite gay-it was patrons of gay bars, clergymen views mixed," says M.C. "It was very typical on homosexuality, Metropolitan Com­ (during that time) to find good places munity Church ("MCC Grows Gay-ly that were mixed. In other words, you . . . "), and lesbian custody rulings. The didn't go into Bishop's Bar as a scream­ most recent article in this file is dated ing queen. You didn't go in there July 19, 1983 and concerns the drain­ dressed in cutoffs. Women didn't even ing of a city pool after its use by gays for wear slacks in those days. " Indeed, the an OHR swimming party. style for women was dresses and high­ The most thorough Journalism in­ heeled spikes, suits and ties for men. cluded is a series of three articles by The curb in front of Bishop's was a Keo Jackson on the entire front page gathering place for the 21-25 year-old of the City/State section of the Sunday crowd. There they'd hang around, World dated July 11, 1982. The first waiting for someone to come along article estimates a gay population in and maybe offer them a ride out to the Tulsa of 50,000 pe ople, further predict­ Blue Haven, or even the few blocks over to the St. Moritz, where the ing that the "subculture ... will double in number by 1990." The second article, jukebox played the big band sounds of "Gay Pride Replaces Stereotype," is Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey. filled with positive comments by John Dancing, however, was not allowed: Willis (owner of Zipper's) and Rev. Alice Oklahoma law prohibited dancing Jones (of MCC in Tulsa), as well as where beer was served. mentions of gay bars, activities, and After only about three months, the organizations. The final article tells us Blue Haven closed-a victim of the that the '"Fruit Loop' Showcases Dark miles in a time when mobility was not .,,.... �e. eaS\\y attained. Jackson's account ot gay \ite in 'Tu\sa Some time \ater, Thurman Glynn opened the Little Mexico Bar at about highlights the library's meager co\\ec­ ity. 18th and Boston. "That was a wild, sexual Homo on s article of tion pissy-elegant place," rememoers M. C. A sketchy history at best. "People just crammed into the Little And yet, we do have a story. Mexico Bar-so much fun. The win­ When Men Were Men dows were Spanish style . . . they Spikes the Wore and the Dykes opened out. We crawled in and out of man," society "cafe cribed A self-des those windows because it was so M.C. Parker has lived and played in we couldn't get through the crowded Tulsa since 1949, when he opened his front door!" Drive-In. Haven first gay bar, the Blue Ah, the good old days. Those were Prohibition days, and beer Even in the early 40s, Tulsa had at was the only alcoholic beverage sold least one gay bar. Called the Tropical legally. Bootleg whiskey was available, Gardens, it was run by two sisters in of course; M.C. sold it out of a briefcase in half-pints. what had once been a filling station. M.C. Parker owns a book called The Blue Haven was located south­ Snoot If You Must which mentions The west of Tulsa, near what is now Town Tropical Gardens, though not by name. West Shopping Center. It was one of Copyrighted in 1943, the book was four gay bars in Tulsa at the time­ written by writer and publisher Lucius though it also had a weekday hetero­ Beebe, who visited Oklahoma many sexual clientele comprised of nearby times to see his lover, who had been residents. M.C. explains, "(Gays) drafted and stationed here. couldn't come out on weeknights. Back Beebe writes: "Tulsa was not without in those days, not everybody had its charms. There was, for instance, a wheels ... even the 24-25 year-old boys nightclub that had formerly been a didn't have cars." gasoline filling s·tation and beer flowed out hung community So the gay out of all of-the compressed air hoses." downtown, sometimes at the Blue Note Time P.assed, but liqu9r by the drink on Denver,more often at the St. Moritz. didn't, and·many oTthe old bars closed The St.Moritz was located in the center down, or just faded into the past. By of the block where Cathey's Furniture is the 60s, many gays were partying at today, and according to M.C., was "the the Tai Mahal or the Zebra. Then there number one place to go." Lesbians had their own bar, the Milwaukee Tavern, were Gene's Bamboo and Friend's which was somewhere in the vicinity of Lounge (which later became Tracy's 15th and Cincinnati. For the most part, and then New Edition). These four however, gay men and lesbians ran bars stand out as the longest-running Gene's Ba mboo by 1 _____ !'round together; certainly it was s od gay bars in Tulsa; ------------- ----- ----· -•--- ... --- q· . -- far holds the record. Recently remo­ deled,the Bamboo still operates on the same side of town where it has been for nearly a q�rter of a century. Cleaning Oat the Closet• (Or: Oat of the Closet Into the Fire) Ttm Tumer is well known around Tulsa as the owner of Tim's Playroom. Before the Playroom, he managed The New Plantation,which was at 61st and Yale. And before that-he owned Jim's Anything Goes on 58th and Peoria­ which came after The Queen of Heart's, of which he owned half. But his bar career started at Friend's Lounge. He had been married; he had been working in the construction busi­ ness. One day he went into Friend's not knowing it was a gay bar. He played pool all afternoon with a group of les­ bians, who invited that night. Friend's owner, Tracy Mclaughlin, eventually hired Jim to bartend thei:�-.. Thq�.were the days of police harass­ ment. Cops seemed to show up at the gay bars whenever they were bored, entertaining themselves by writing up the bar owners for minor offenses, or occasionally just harassing the queers. "I remember really admiring people like Tracy McLaughlin . . . him espe­ cially, because I went to court with him several times," Ttm recalls. "He was actually going to bat for the entire community. He wasn't thinking at all of his business. At that time he was think­ ing 'Hey, they can't tell us to do that, they can't push us around like this.' And he never would hire attorneys. He went down and represented himself all time and he usually won." ' theBut a battle does not necessarily <Arih the war. In 1976, arrests we:re made in Mohawk Park for "soliciting to perform an unnatural sex act, outraging public decency, and sodomy." In 1977, thirteen men were arrested for Jayw�lking­ near a gay bar, of course. A couple of gay organizations had been atteinped in Tulsa, but the one that put Gay TµIsa on the map was the Tulsa Gay Community Caucus. In the early 70s, a series of hostile editorials appe ared in the Tulsa World. "They were all very anti-gay, blatantly so, for no reason," remembers John, a co-founder of TGCC who soon became its primary leader and spokesman. "Gay Lib had never been whispered about in the city in any way." The last editorial finally angered John to the point that he felt com pe lled to reply. He wrote a letter to the editor, a rebuttal which stated facts but never mentioned his own homosexuality. "That's really kind of what started it, strange as it may seem," explains John about the beginnir-igs of TGCC. "There had always been problems ... as far as housing, and police harassment." John's letter was printed the day he left for a two-week vacation. When he. returned, the embryo.group for TGCC was formed. John discussed the group and the situation with his boss, assur­ ing him that John would never bring the company name into it. "It took them three weeks, but they figured out a way to get rid of me." John promptly went to the Taj Mahal and spent the afternoon getting drunk on free beer. Since he had already las his job, John became the primary speaker for TGCC's newly formed Speaker's Bureau, appearing before churches and civic groups. "John was very upfront," says Tay Clare, a member of TGCC's inceptive group. "He was absolutely the best advocate for gay rights.!' John received surprising support for his efforts-as well as some disappoint­ ing lack of support. "We got more sup­ port from the non-gay community than c------, BAY BARS IN TULSA I ,1rt/1/ //II/If TROPICAL GARDENS: Early 40s. Operated by two sisters in what had once been a tilling station. ST. MORITZ: 1940s-50s. located on South Main. Was the place to go. Closed down alter a move in anticipation ot liquor by the drink-which did not pass. I BLUE NOTE: 40s-50s. located on North Denver. BLUE HAVEN: Opened Nov. 1949 by M.C. Parker. Located in southwest Tulsa. Closed alter 3 months due to location. MILWAUKEE TAVERN: 40s-50s. Lesbian bar. Located at about 15th and Cincinnati. BISHOP'S BAR: 40s-50s. Located downtown. M\xed crowd but a popular gay hangout. 11 LITTLE MEXICO: Late 50s. Owned by Thur· man Glynn. THE D06HOUSE: Owned by Bob Johnson. TAJ MAHAL: Late 50s. Original location downtown. Manager and his lover were mur­ dered in the sleeping quarters there-case never solved. The Taj eventually moved to the 11th Street location vacated by the 8th Day. ,'I ' 1- . ' ZE••Ar Downtolliin, .-,,,., ,,_ __. ,,_, the Ta/. Pink pool tallle. • IIIMIOO LOU#IE: Opened early 60s. Owned by Gene Covington. Still operating-oldest gay bar in Tulsa. 8th DAY Located on 11th Street al Lewis nexI door to. what is now a flower shop. GALA: Lesbian owned. Women's bar with niixed clientele. Located in what is now Tim's Playroom. First private club. Only entrance in the back. SKOO-BEE-DO: Owned by Paul Scott. FRIEND'S LOUNGE: Owned by Tracy Mclau· glin. Later called Tracy's, the New Edition. TIFFANY CLUB: Opened early 70s. QUEEN OF HEARTS: Opened 1974. Owners: Tim Turner and Paul Magruder. CARUSO'S RICK'S TIM'S ANYTHIN6 60ES: Owned by Tim Turner. 58th and Peoria. NEW PLANTATION: Owned by Tom Olson. managed by Tim Turner. 51st and Yale. • THE CLUB: Opened by owners of Gala. 12th and Memorial. Lesbian bar-originally attended by gay men also. Now called The Rustic Club. • TIM'S PLAYROOM: Owned by Tim Turner. Opened in July 1977. Located at 11th and Lewis under the Meadow Gold sign. • ZIPPER'S: Owned by John Willis. 33rd and Yale. Opened in 1979, • SEEKER'S CHOfCE: Lesbian bar on Admiral at Memorial. TULSA MINING CO.: On 11th Street. First alter-hours bar. Now Schlitzy·s. • TOOL IOX: Near downtown. Western bar. • OVER THE RAINBOW: At 11th and Garnett. Owned by Arlene Benson. Tulsa's largest les· bian bar-though clientele is mixed. • DANTE'S: Owned by Mark trom L.A. Located on 31st at:Harvard'. · • - ,. ' .. 2 ' ,, I l . . I .i • I •I I .I • I II I .. \ I •i ·! . • f.I i .I �. off the ground, an· OHR ·w· as ge. ttin9 started that would as w other servi·ce • unti·1 1·ts munity om been expected. One gay person exc y ga e rt th October On plained t at by coinmenting that "Most �!�ution just this year. h Ano �her of of these questions are checked 'no' - . go Issue er 25 19 the Premi _Edited because I have not let the fact that I·am streets. the it e h W�rld magazin etta Princ gay be known." by ed lish pub er Park b MC . Mr. Tulsa's "Se�ual Preference Study" (a.k.� fiudd, a�d with Tim Warren was an incredibly well_-researched, 1ss�e first that ctor, limm) as Sales Dire pioneering study. Copies were requestuncluded a nude male photo, gossip ed from and sent all over the count�. information, a gay directory, and more. But it was not enough to get an ord1It wasn't the first publication for Tulsa, nance passed protecting Tulsa's gay but was the one that survived the test of community. Eection time was too do� time. After a while the magazin e was for that much comfort. take n over by Jack Field and Stuart Instead, the Human Rig�ts ComSantifier; it grew, and eventually covermission recommended a pohcy sta!e• ed several states. ment-which meant that comparues . . Still another yout�ful orga ruzatio� doing business with the city could not which operat�s �s a vital par� of Tulsa s discriminate against employees on the gay community is Metr�pohtan �ombasis of sexual preference. It passed. munity Church. Started m Tuls� m �he The first step. mid-70s, M(;C has grown fr_om its first Unfortunately, the only step. If the storefront h ome to a quiet church idea was to consider the Ordinancebu!lding in northeast Tulsa. MC� offers which offered gays the only legal proan outreach to the gay community that tection-at a later date, all hope died many other churches ha ve not been with the electio · n of Jim Imhofe as Mayor able or willing to provide. MCC sponof Tulsa. sors rap groups, a children's church, ln i978 Jim Imhofe is quoted in the Tulsa Tribune as saying, "l don't think guest speakers, and socials. It ministers to gay youth and sponsors da nces for it's the government's place to be giving them. MCC fills needs that cannot be attention to the issue of homosexuality,particularly when it is treating homomet in bars-which were, for so long, sexuals _ as a mi nority, which means the only places to go to meet others like you give preferential treatment to the we did from the gay community. T he concept." gay community was very hostile. We Jim wasn't exactly on our side. were perceived a s rocking their secure boa t-even though their boat -was Passing the Torch (Or: Flaming Fiercely F orward) anything but secure." After several years spearhea ding the By 1976,_TGCC ha d decided it was ��� Gay Community Caucus, John time to sink or swim. Gay bars were �:;.;=-==aenrn�ely needed� break. ·He passed being bus ·tecn,early every night, and the rems on, but interest waned and letters to various city officials obtained TGCC soon became a page in Tulsa no results. So, in March, John appeared gay history. before Tulsa's Board of Commissioners Tulsa's n ext gay organization was · to "respectfully ask that the Tulsa City formed as a chapter of a n Oklahoma Commission a dopt a Municipal Ordi­ C�ty grou_p, _Oklahomans _for Human nance which will gua ra ntee the rights �ghts.In �ts m!anc�, OHR m Tulsa was of all homosexuals in this municipality viewed with d1sda m by many gays. It so that fea r and repression will no was called "cliquish" and members were longer enslave the minds of one of the. referred �o as "the Polo set." _But despi�e largest minorities in this community .. ." early a�1tudes,- OHR survive� an� 1s The Commissioners seemed unco mn ow an integral part of the community. fortable, with the exception of Poli ce A recent na!lle change to Tulsa Okla and Fire Commissioner Mike K e an. homans for Human Rights severed the .Mayor Lafortune didn't th· m k ;� ere umbilical to the OKC parent group, w as much of a problem ' a . . n d referred and TOHR .1s a strang organiz ation the ·m atte r to the Huma n R'1 9h ts that stands on its own merits. It aperCommission. ates the Help Line, provides a hospice . "The on ly trouble was• he h a d not service f or AIDS pati·ents, donates reckoned on Victor"a Myers " s booksto the library,prints a newsletter, _ John. "She ,;a·s-on the'Hum an Rig� :'5 and generally serves as an informational ts Commiss·,on. She was a 1aw . s tudent �nd ed_ucational forum for gay-related she picked it up and ran wit h the b�il · issues m Tulsa. and got the study going." ' . About the same tim e as the fledgling The study, officially titled "Se�ual c.:· ,,- .... 5 The II • LEATHER • NOVELTIES • CARDS • MAGS • A?SORTED GIFT ITEMS • GAY PRIDE T-SHIRTS GENERAL STORE Open 7 p.m. Nightly (located inside TIM'S PLAYROOM Special Sidewalk Sale - June 27th ..;.. .. . . . -. . ' -... speak. We are fifteen years, ot only ourselves. of care as a fir� n take to ruI ing w n , _ e dy ,, Stu ce Preferen ntrY· The u o c is 4p. t ing n We are grow for Tulsa, but a first i h a five m o nth ov Tulsa, perhaps, is growing up with us. study was con�uct. � i ther or not e Police harassment is almost nonexistent period "to determine in the areas t � eXIS em� robl substantial p compared to what it wa� ten years ago. ub. lic . a,,ccom· p ng, usi ho ent, employm of Mayor Young threw out the first soft­ " ctices. modations and police pra · ball at a gay gam e last year, and has w ere d. isOver 500 questionnaires made an appearance at MCC. The unity. to do a ��ntributed within the gay comm Tulsa press even manage agers, . Hotel and motel owners and m an on occasion. gays on y stor ntal rtment . d me real estate agencies and apa here, of exists still obia oph Jom ers JU complexes, as well as Tulsa_e�p�oy courSe . But it no long er debilitates us. ls were contact ed. Priv ate md1v1dua h We have supp ort netw orks; .we ave were called in a phone survey. Lett�rs places to go. were sent to cities across the U.S. with We have Gay Pride. laws pertaining to sexuality. begun to AII this research was done to deter­ mine. the extent-if any-to which homosexuals were being discriminated against, and to discover possible a p­ proaches to the issue. The respondents of the business commun ity for the most pa rt indicated that they would not or ha d not discrim­ inated against suspect or known homo­ sexua ls. However, those in business • were overwhelmingly against a city ordinance protecting homosexuals. Sixty-one percent of the general population felt that ga ys should not be fired due to their sexu al preferences, though the majority believed that gays should not be tea chers or ministers. The gay community itself reported less discrimination than might have us. In fact, it ha s only bee n during the past few yea rs that Tulsa has ha d so many different services to offer the gay community; a community that has al­ ways existed but has only, in the past MISS GAY TULSA ° A L/1/ of Thall Who HIVI warn /hi MIii Bly Tu/11 Crown .,..- compiled by M.C. Parker & Timm Warren NOTE: Some dates list more than one Queen. Thi_s is due 10 the fact thal more Jhan one pageant was h_eld m sotne years until the consolidation of pagean_ts m 1 � 82 br warPark Produclions. Miss Gay Tulsa �s a registered trademark of WarPar� Productions. Gala Holiday Inn East Blue Moon Blue Moon St. Augustine's Church Friend's Lounge 1974·75 Marcie Mayo 1975·76 Taja Queen of Hearts 1976·77 Leslie Fox Le Cabaret Trudy Tyler Le Cabaret 1977·78 Louise Kelly New Plantation 1978-791 Casey Starr PapillonLisa Goodman Foundain ° 197.9-80 Mr. Timm Friend's Lounge Rita Caruso's 1980-81 Leighann Quality Inn Ci anti Caruso's 1981 ·82 Tosha Turner Rick's Chi Chi Caruso's 1982·83 Helen Holiday Crash Landing 1983-84 Raven Madd Gaslight 1984-85 Stephanie Casady Old Lady on Brady Queen Sandy Feathers Jamie 1972·73 Cammie 1973·74 Dianne 1970·71 1971·71 � 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 [Collection] Oklahoma LGBT+ History Description An account of the resource <strong>Physical Media:</strong> <br /><br /><br /><strong>Digital Media:</strong> 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 -GAY-ETY INT-TOWN. far holds the record. Recently remo­ deled,the Bamboo still operates on the same side of town where it has been for Oat of the Closet Into the Fire) Since he had already las his job, John became the primary speaker for TGCC's newly formed Speaker's Bureau, appearing before churches and civic groups. by loni broaddus The vertical file in the Tulsa Library public relations to be seen with a Ttm Tumer is well known around Tulsa as the owner of Tim's Playroom. "John was very upfront," says Tay Clare, a member of TGCC's inceptive labeled "Homosexuality " contains few­ er than thirty articles clipped from the Tulsa World and Tulsa Tribune. The earliest is dated August 1976; the head­ line reads "Homosexual Arrests In­ crease at Mohawk Park." Other arti­ cles discuss a proposed civil rights ordinance requested by the gay com­ munity,claims of police harassment by patrons of gay bars, clergymen views an OHR swimming party. The most thorough Journalism in­ cluded is a series of three articles by Keo Jackson on the entire front page of the City/State section of the Sunday World dated July 11, 1982. The first article estimates a gay population in Tulsa of 50,000 people, further predict­ ing that the "subculture ... will double in number by 1990." The second article, "Gay Pride Replaces Stereotype," is filled with positive comments by John Willis (owner ofZipper's) and Rev.Alice Jones (of MCC in Tulsa), as well as mentions of gay bars, activities, and organizations. The final article tells us that the '"Fruit Loop'Showcases Dark �e. Jackson's account ot gay\itein 'Tu\sa legally. Bootleg whiskey was available, of course; M.C.sold it out of a briefcase in half-pints. The Blue Haven was located south­ west of Tulsa, near what is now Town West Shopping Center. It was one of four gay bars in Tulsa at the time­ though it also had a weekday hetero­ sexual clientele comprised of nearby residents. M.C. explains, "(Gays) couldn't come out on weeknights. Back in those days, not everybody had didn't have cars." So the gay community hung out downtown,sometimes at the Blue Note on Denver,more often at the St. Moritz. The St.Moritz was located in the center of the block where Cathey's Furniture is today, and according to M.C.,was "the number one place to go." Lesbians had their own bar, the Milwaukee Tavern, which was somewhere in the vicinity of 15th and Cincinnati.For the most part, member of the oppostie sex. "Bishop's Bar was quite gay-it was mixed," says M.C. "It was very typical (during that time) to find good places that were mixed. In other words, you didn't go into Bishop's Bar as a scream­ ing queen. You didn't go in there dressed in cutoffs. Women didn't even wear slacks in those days. " Indeed, the Blue Haven, or even the few blocks over to the St. Moritz, where the jukebox played the big band sounds of Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey. Dancing, however, was not allowed: Oklahoma law prohibited dancing where beer was served. After only about three months, the Blue Haven closed-a victim of the miles in a time when mobility was not eaS\\y attained. Some time \ater, Thurman Glynn opened the Little Mexico Bar at about 18th and Boston. "That was a wild, pissy-elegant place," rememoers M. C. dows were Spanish style . . . they opened out. We crawled in and out of those windows because it was so crowded we couldn't get through the front door!" Ah, the good old days. Even in the early 40s, Tulsa had at least one gay bar. Called the Tropical Gardens, it was run by two sisters in what had once been a filling station. M.C. Parker owns a book called Snoot If You Must which mentions The Tropical Gardens, though not by name. Copyrighted in 1943, the book was written by writer and publisher Lucius Beebe, who visited Oklahoma many times to see his lover, who had been drafted and stationed here. Beebe writes: "Tulsa was not without its charms. There was, for instance, a nightclub that had formerly been a gasoline filling st· ation and beer flowed out of all of-the compressed air hoses." Time P.assed, but liqu9r by the drink didn't, and·many oTthe old bars closed Before the Playroom, he managed The New Plantation,which was at 61st and Yale. And before that-he owned Jim's Anything Goes on 58th and Peoria­ whichcameafter The Queen of Heart's, But his bar career started at Friend's Lounge. He had been married; he had been working in the construction busi­ ness. One day he went into Friend's - not knowing it was a gay bar. He played pool all afternoon with a group of les­ bians, who invited that night. Friend's owner, Tracy Mclaughlin, eventually hired Jim to bartend thei:�-.. Thq�.were the days of police harass­ ment. Cops seemed to show up at the gay bars whenever they were bored, theycan't push us around like this.' And he never would hire attorneys. He went down and represented himself all ' the time and he usually won." the war. In 1976, arrests we:re made in Mohawk Park for "soliciting to perform an unnatural sex act, outraging public decency, and sodomy." In 1977,thirteen men were arrested for Jayw�lking­ near a gay bar, of course. A couple of gay organizations had been atteinped in Tulsa, but the one that put Gay TµIsa on the map was the Tulsa Gay Community Caucus. In the early 70s, a series of hostile editorials appeared in the Tulsa World. "They were all very anti-gay, blatantly so, for no reason," remembers John, a co-founder of TGCC who soon became its primary leader and spokesman. "Gay Lib had never been whispered about in the city in any way." The last editorial finally angered John to the point that he felt compelled to reply. He wrote a letter to the editor, a rebuttal which stated facts but never mentioned his own homosexuality. "That's really kind of what started it, strange as it may seem," explains John about the beginnir-igs of TGCC. "There had always been problems ... as far as housing, and police harassment." John's letter was printed the day he left for a two-week vacation. When he. returned,the embryo.group for TGCC was formed. John discussed the group and the situation with his boss, assur­ ing him that John would never bring the company name into it. "It took them three weeks, but they figured out a way to get rid of me." group. "He was absolutely the best advocate for gay rights.!' John received surprising support for his efforts-as well as some disappoint­ ing lack of support."We got more sup­ port from the non-gay community than c , BAY BARS IN TULSA I ,1rt/1/ //II/If TROPICAL GARDENS: Early 40s. Operated by two sisters in what had once been a tilling station. ST. MORITZ: 1940s-50s. located on South Main. Was the place to go. Closed down alter a move in anticipation ot liquor by the drink-which did not pass. I BLUE NOTE: 40s-50s. located on North Denver. BLUE HAVEN: Opened Nov. 1949 by M.C. Parker. Located in southwest Tulsa. Closed alter 3 months due to location. MILWAUKEE TAVERN: 40s-50s. Lesbian bar. Located at about 15th and Cincinnati. BISHOP'S BAR: 40s-50s. Located downtown. M\xed crowd but a popular gay hangout. LITTLE MEXICO: Late 50s. Owned by Thur· THE D06HOUSE: Owned by Bob Johnson. TAJ MAHAL: Late 50s. Original location downtown. Manager and his lover were mur­ the 11th Street location vacated by the 8th Day. ZE••Ar Downtolliin, .-,,,., ,,_ __. ,,_, the Ta/. Pink pool tallle. • IIIMIOO LOU#IE: Opened early 60s. Owned by Gene Covington. Still operating-oldest gay bar in Tulsa. 8th DAY Located on 11th Street al Lewis nexI door to. what is now a flower shop. GALA: Lesbian owned. Women's bar with niixed clientele. Located in what is now Tim's Playroom. First private club. Only entrance in the back. SKOO-BEE-DO: Owned by Paul Scott. FRIEND'S LOUNGE: Owned by Tracy Mclau· glin. Later called Tracy's, the New Edition. TIFFANY CLUB: Opened early 70s. QUEEN OF HEARTS: Opened 1974. Owners: Tim Turner and Paul Magruder. CARUSO'S RICK'S TIM'S ANYTHIN6 60ES: Owned by Tim Turner. 58th and Peoria. NEW PLANTATION: Owned by Tom Olson. managed by Tim Turner. 51st and Yale. • THE CLUB: Opened by owners of Gala. 12th and Memorial. Lesbian bar-originally attended by gay men also. Now called The Rustic Club. • TIM'S PLAYROOM: Owned by Tim Turner. Opened in July 1977. Located at 11th and Lewis under the Meadow Gold sign. • ZIPPER'S: Owned by John Willis. 33rd and Yale. Opened in 1979- , • SEEKER'S CHOfCE: Lesbian bar on Admiral at Memorial. TULSA MINING CO.: On 11th Street. First alter-hours bar. Now Schlitzy·s. • TOOL IOX: Near downtown. Western bar. • OVER THE RAINBOW: At 11th and Garnett. Owned by Arlene Benson. Tulsa's largest les· bian bar-though clientele is mixed. • DANTE'S: Owned by Mark trom L.A. Located ,'I ' 1- . ' ' .. 2 ' I ,, l .. I • I • I I •. II ..\I • ·!i .• fI i ------------- -- --- -- --· -•----- ... ---· on 31st at:Harvard'. · • - ,. . I c.:· ,,- .... 5 . been expected. 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We less discaryimcionmmunity itself reported 19° 7.9-80 Mr. Timm Friend's Lounge bo t-eve as rocking their secure 1980-81 Leighann CQauraulsitoy'sInn a n though their boat -was paIsnt ffeacwt,yiet has only been during the Cianti Caruso's ars that Tulsa has had so 1981 ·82 TCohsi hCahTurner Caruso's 1983-84 RHaevleenn HMoaliddday GCarasslihghLtanding gTGCC soon became a page in Tulsa Stephanie Casady Old Lady on Brady n t . . · d " . ' Open 7 p.m. Nightly (located inside TIM'S PLAYROOM Special Sidewalk Sale - June 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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