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Her experience was dramatized in a recent television fihn which diva Barbara Streisand produced. TFN asked Laurie Cooper, a Lesbian and also amember of the US Reserves, to interview Greta Cammermever. Q: In your lecture you talked about the strategy of "dehumanizing the enemy’" - making it easier to hate them. With the visibili~,, ofyourfilm "Serving In Silence" and "rehumamzing the enemy" andshowing people that gays are human, does itfrustiateyou thatprogress seems to be made so slowly? see Cammermeyer, page 3 Montana: Police Were to Register Convicted Gays HELENA, Mont.-The Montana state Senate gave m to a popular outcry and stripped a provision from a sex-offendermeasure tlmt would have forced anyone convicted of homosextml acts to register with police officials for the remainder of their lives. A voice vote to remove the provision without further debate followed au outpouring from constituents fnrious about the proposed legislation. The measure would have placed consenting gay and lesbian adults in the same category as murderers and rapists. The bill had initially been approved by the Senate on only the day before by a storming vote of 41 to 8, even though both supporters and opponents of the measure agreed that it probably would have hadno actual impact. Although same-sex sex - even mnong consenting adults - is a felony m~der Montana law, there are no indications anyone has ever been convicted in the state under thc statutes. The proposed measure created a fitror~ter state Senator A! Bishop- said homosext~d acts are"even worse than a violent Sexual act.’" see Montana. page 3 Lesbian/Gay Community Center Campaign Begins Tim Gillean, president ofTulsaOklahomans forHuman Rights (TOHR), announced the beginning ofa fundraising campaign for a community center for Tulsa’s Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual communities. Aftermonths of work with donors, bankers and community activists and organizations, Gillean noted that an appropriate building has been located and that negotiations art Uiide~ way with possible tenants and major donors. "We have secured a promise of a matching funds ~ant- that would match accumulated donations made by members of our see Center, page 7 Youth at Risk: Understanding & Supporting Gay, Lesbian & Bisexual Youths; Planned Parenthood Hosts Workshop on April 28 Planned Parenthood of Eastern Oklahoma & Western Arkansas, Inc. will present a one-day workshop on April 28, on understanding and supporting Gay, Lesbian & Bisexual Youth. Joel W. Wells, Ph.D. professor of Family and Consumer Sciences at the Univer_sity of Northern Iowa, a noted author about homosexuality and see Youth, page 7 Radio Host Ann Williams: Talkshows & Censorphip Ann Williams fascinated members of Tulsa s Gay & Lesbian business organizauon, Rainbow Business Gt~ild, with her plans for "liberal," and possibly even Lesbian/ Gay talk radio in her new job as program director for Taylor Satellite Talk (TST). This new service of Tulsabased Taylor Communications is a direct-to-home satellite network scheduled to begin in June. Williams, who was joined by her spouse, photographer Jim O. Williams, also spoke about what she felt were the see Williams, page 7 Evangelist Robertson Slams Anti-Gay Violence VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - Pat Robertson, who has rarely had anytlfing positive to say about gays and lesbians, took a brief, haJting Step during the broadcast of his "700 Club" television program to deuounce violence against homosexuals. "We abhor violence against homosexnals," Robertson said. "We would counsel strongly, in relation to homosexuality, that yon can hold vonr religious beliefs withont beating people up and being violent." Mel White, a Metropolitan Community Church miuister who had fasted 23 days in jail after being arrested for trying to have a lueetmg with Robertson, called Robertsou" s statement small but very real victory.’" When Robertson fiually agreed to drop trespassing charges against Wlfite and meet the MCC pastor iu his jail cell, one of the things Wlfite asked was that Robertson, for ~vhom he was once a ghost writer, shonld publicly denounce antigay violence. "I con~atulate Pat on saying the words we’ve ~vaited so long to hear," \\qfite said ,alter the broadcast. Gingrich: Gays Should Have No Rights in Court WASHIN’GTON-After a public meeting about Lesbian & Gay issues with his sister, Candac’e Gingrich, who is Lesbian, House Speaker Newt Gingrich rm~kled gay rights activists by saying the next day that workers who are fired because they are homosexual should not’have a right to file discrimination lawsnits in federal courts. When he appeared with Iris sister immediately after their meeting to answer reporters" questions, the House Speakerhad nrged tolerauce for homosexnals in America. But at a press conference ,alter being lobbied by his sister, Gingrich suggested the courts should apply their own "kind of "don’t ask, don’t tell" policy to such bias snits based on sexual orientation, and that gaypositive counseling programs in public school were used to "recrnit" homosexuals. Saying that although employers should not ask, Gingrich said employees should-not have any legal recourse in the courts if they were fired because of their sextml orientation. "I don’ t think that" s grounds for federal legal involvemem," Gingrich said. see Gingrich, page 3 Tim Gillean, DavidLhevine& Kelly Kirby,photo: Cooper Cty. Demo. Party Adds Gays at Biennial Comm. Meeting by Laurie Cooper On April 1st at Hale High School, the Tulsa County Democrats held their biennial Central Committee Meetinff. The theme of the meeting was "Children, Compassmn and Caring"; this theme provided a stark contrast to the potentially brutal and destructive agenda of the Republican "Contract with America". Included in the order of business during the four hour meeting was: * election of county party officers for a two year term; * election of state central committee members, and * passage of resolutions to be forwarded to the state and congressional district meetings. Elected to two year terms as Count)" officers were Dr. David Lhevine, Chair; Laurie Phillips, Co-Chair; aud Eric Bolusky, Secretary. Dr. Lhevine’s nomination as Chair was offered by Gary Underwood. In January and February, Mr. Underwood had shared with TiDHR members the usefulness of becoming involved with the political process As a continuauon of this outreach effort, Dr. Lhevine attended the March monthly meeting ofTOHR and shared his vision of the future of the Tulsa County Democratic part3", continued on page 3 Anti-Gay Violence Documented MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Ho~nosexnals bore the brunt of bias-lnotivated violence m the U.S. last year, according to the atmual study Klanwatch Project of the Sonthem Poverty Law Center. In its annnal report to lmv e~fforcement agencies, the Klanwatch Project also warned that the white supremacist ~oup Aryan Nation is expanding ral~idly after years of decline Klanwatch saidit determined that and-gay bias lay behind 25% of the hate-based assaults and nearly two-thirds of the homidides it tracked. The group determines motivation by exanfining a numbei of factor’s including statements made by the assailant, the de~ee of force used, crime location, robber)," and statemeuts made by friendg and community leader~. Utah’s Anti-Marriage Bill SALTLAKECITY - Gov. Mike Leavitt has signed a bill passed recently by the Utah LeNslature that bars recognizing same-sex marriages, even if legally performed elsewhere. Activists in the. state have begun orgamzlng to fight the bill see Utah. page 11 Judge Says Pentagon Policy Unconstitutional NEW YORK - The Clinton administration" s colnpromise "’don’t ask, don’t tell’" military policy on gays and lesbians ih the armed forces has been declared unconstitutional by a federal district court judge ~:ho ruled the policy violates the free speech and due process rights of homosexuals in the conntrv’s military services. Federal Judge Eugene Nickerson of U.S. see Military, page 7 U.N. Asks About Civil Rights for U.S, Gays NEW YORK - The United Nations Human Rights Committee heard for the first time representatives of the U.S. Justice Department outline the mixed civil rights status of homosexuals in the United States. Deval Patrick, Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division of the Justice see UN, page 3 918-832-0233 ~ub~is !ditor POB 4140 Tom Neal Assistant Editor Tulsa, Oklahoma Jmnes Christjohn 74159-0140 Writers/contributors Kharma Amos Laurie Cooper Maureen Curtin Staff Photographer Tu]saNews@aol.com JD Jamett Issued on or before the 15th of each month, the,’entire contents of this publication are protected by US copyright 1995 by Tulsa Famil v News mid may not be reproduced either in whole or in part without written pemfission from the publisher. Publication of a uame or photo does not indicate that person’s sexual orientauo~: Correspondeuce is assumed to be for publicatiou unless otherwise noted, must be signed & becomes the sole property of Tulsa Family News. All correspondence should be sent to tile address above. Each reader is entitled to one free copy of each editiou at distribution locations. Addi tional copies are available at Tomfooleo.’ ! Steve Largent.- Full of It? Dear Editor: The headline "US Rep. I_argent Open to Jobs Protection Bill" on the front page of the last Tulsa Family News canght my eye, for it implies that Rep. Largent lnay indeed have a social conscience. And the last sentence of the article accomp,’mying the headline states "that some observers i~fferred that Largent ~night consider supporting a nondiscrimination bill that protects Lesbians m~d Gay men," once he researches it. I doubt it. I have a letter from Rep. Largent dated March 6, two days after meeting with Lesbiaus and Gays in Tulsa, in which he makes the following statements: 1. "\Vhile I am strongly supportive of each individual’s Constitutional civil rights, I do not believe that some segments of our society should have greater rights thaa~ others based on their sex, age, race, level of abilities, or behavior.’" 2. "’. . I do not believe ’sexual orientation" qualifies as a criteria for special civil rights laws. No one" s behavior should qualify them for special protection by thglcourts.’" 3. "I am sa~fied that current civil rights legislation prrYides a sufficient level of constitutional protection to serve each and every member of our society regardless of their sex, age, race, religion or level of ability." Frown these statements, cleaf-ly Mr. Largent will see the Eanploy~nent Non-Discrimi-nation Act not as providing fairness,but asproviding greater rights. I do not take comfort in Mr. Largent" s seeming concern that it is wrong to fire a Gax man for no cause other than his sexual orientatirn, because I tl~ak his concern is as shoddy as is Iris reasoning. Sii~.cerely, Les Ennnett Dear Mr. E~mnett: Thank you for contacting me with your views. I always al~preciate hearing from people I work for and represent. When I took the oath of office, I pledged to "defend and uphold the Constitution." I firmly intend to do so. While I ,’un strongly supportive each individual’s Constitutional civil rights, 1 do not believe that some segments of our society should have greater rights thau others based on their sex, age, race level of abilities, or behavior. H.R. 382 attempts to make"sexnal preference" a new protected minority-classification under the nation" s civil fights laws. There are m,’mv reasons to oppose such laws. First, I do not believ~ "’sexual orientation" qualifies as a critefia for special civil rights protection. No one" s behavior should quali~’ them for special protection by the courts. Allowing such would violate the constitutional principle of .equal protection under the law--opening a pandora" s box for any type of behavior to qualify for civil rights protection. Second, large segments of the country hold deep moral and religious beliefs regarding the appropriateness of leNtimizing offensive behavior. By protecting certmn types of behavior through legislation, the federal governmen! lnav be mandating associations mad practices that create violations of conscience for many citizens. I mn satisfied thai’current civil }ights leNslation provides a sufficient level of constitutional protection to serve each and every member of our society regardless of their sex, age’, race, religion or level of ability. Thmak you again for 3our colmnents. I would appreciat~ 3our prayers and further suggestions regardiug this or other issues on your lnind. Sincerely, Steve Imrgent Thanks Again, Tulsa! I’m writing to thank yon once again for your support&generosity. "Ful~a has been on the fore[¥ont for some time in supporting its titleholders & charities statewide. On March 17th, you turned out at the Silver Star & gave $435.00 formy travel fund to compete in Chicago at International Mr. Leather Memorial Day weekend. Special Thanks to Amie Holder, Link, Pat Wilson (Sluticia), Steve Tucker, Green, Country Cloggers, & T.U.L.S.A. for putung on the event. Also, a very special thamks to the owners of the Silver Star mad my sponsors, Steve & John, for allowing the fundraiser to go on at their club. In addition to this fnndraiser, theTool Box techificiaa~s have held 2 fun&’aisers at the Tool Box in the past 6 mouths, including a garage.sale on April 1 st that brought in over S265.00. Thank you Roy \Vilcoxin & Tool Box Teclmicians for your continued support as well I will continue to serve you with honor & pride. If there is anything you n~ed me to do to support other causes or chariues, just ask. Yours tufty, Larry Everett Mr OK Leather 1995 Miscellany According to the Newsletter of the Tulsa Chapter of PFLAG, Youth Services of Tulsa is holding a volunteer gaining for its educational/social/support gronp for Lesbian. Gay, Bisexual or questiomng youth 15-20 on Saturday, April 22, from 9am to 4pro in the colfference room of Youth Services of Tulsa~ 302 So. Chevemae. For info: call Lisa at 582-6061. Gay & Lesbian young adults may be interested in the 2rid ammal Anytown, Oklahoma, a hmnan relations camp that looks at prejudice reduction. This Anytown will be held July 23-29 at Cmnp Waluhili on Lake Fort Gibson. The cost of the progrmn is $190 but some scholarships are available. Applications must be received by May 15. For info. call 583-1361. Tulsa Area Prime Timers will meet Sun. Mav 7 at 4pro at the Resource Ctr. 4t54 S. Harvard. After the meeting, this ~oup for Gay & Bisexual men over 40 will Share a pot luck dimmer. On April 23 the group will go the the Azalea Festival in ~Muskogee Also "a gardening group is forming. For more iofo, call 747-8121 or write POB 52118, Tulsa 74152-0118. In closing, the Log Cabin Corral, a Gav Republican newsletter reprints the following with credit to Mad magazine: The Contract with America (truthful post-election version) WE promise to revive the policies ofReaganomics (despite the fact they tripled the national debt) hoping that maybe they’ll work this time around! WEpromiseto throw everyone in America to the mercy of the Free Market System...E~XCEPT for our friends the Defense Contractors. Tobacco Growers and S&L Operators ! WEpromise to pass a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Clubs & Restaurants *Bad Boys Club. 1229 S. Memorial *Ban’accnda’s Wild NightsiDom~a’s Crazy Days 2405 E. Adnfiral *Concessions. 3340 S. Peoria *Lola’s. 2630 E. 15th *Mela’opole, 1902 E. 11 *Silver Star Saloou, 1565 Shefidan *Renegades, 1649 S Main *TNT’s, 2114 S. Memofial *Time n’Tiuae Again. 1515 S. Memorial *Tool Box, 1338 E. 3rd *Whittier Cal’e, 416 S. 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Sheridan \Vestcopa Salon, Lincoln Plaza Organizations B L;G Alliance, University of Tulsa 835-5(/83 582-4340 744-0896 749-1563 587-8811 834-4234 585~3405 660-0856 664-8299 584-1308 582-2400 250-5034 492-4918 743 -5272 254-2100 591-0597 592-1521 838~8503 592-3317 341-6866 599-8070 742-1992 587-8108 584-3112 664-2951 342-4252 592-7700 587-8333 838-7626 496-2410 584-0337 749-6301 747-3322 832-0233 583-1500 583-9780 Interfaith AIDS Ministries *HI\; Resource Consortium, 4154 S. Harvard, Ste. H- 1 NAMES PROJECT, 4154 S. Harvard, Ste. H-1 P-FLAG, POB 52800 74152 Prime-Timers, P.O. Box 52118 Rainbow Business Guild Rainbow Village, POB 50403, 74150-0403 Save the Nation, Indian Health Care Shanti Hotline Tulsa O"ldalmmans lbr Hmnan Rights, (TOHR) POB 52729 74152 TOHR (Jay HelpLine (hffo.) 743-429"7 T.U.L.S.A. Tulsa Uniform,Leather Seekers Assoc. 838-1222 438-2437, 800-284-2437 749-4194 748-3111 749-4901 74128 254-2100 599-8423 584-4983 749-7898 Professionals Associates in Medical & Mental ttealth, 1560 E. 21 743-1000 Kent Batch & Associates, Health & Life Insurance 747-9506 Chem" St. Psychotherapy Assoc. 1515 S. Lewis 581-0902, 743-4117 Fideli’ty Home Health (are, Inc. Coweta 486-1174 Sandra J. Hill, MS, Psychotherapy, 2865 E Skelly 745-1111 Tim Daniel, Attorney 352-9504, 800-742-9468 Leanne M Gross, Fina~]cial Plmufing 744-0102 Kelly Kirby, CPA, POB 14011, 74159 747-5466 Mohawk Living Center, 3910 Park Rd: 425-1354 Jonathan & Dee Nicholas. Realtors 749-3000, 800-539-7767 Richard Reeder, MS; Psychotherapy 581-0902, 743-4117 Religious & Educational Organizations Bless The Lord At All Times Christian Ctr 2627B E. 11 628-0594 *Community of Hope, 1347 N. Yale 838-7232 *Family of Faith MCC, 5451-E So. Mingo 622-1"441 *MCC of Greater Tulsa, 1623 N. Maplewood 838-1715 Dignity/Integrity 298-4648 *Canterbury Ministry Center, University of Tulsa 583-9780 *Chapman ~tudent Center. U~fiversitv of Tulsa *Tulsa City Hall, Cafeteria Vestibule-. Grouud Floor *Universitx Center at Tulsa *indicates a distribution poiut Constitution...so xve can avoid dealing with the defict for years while it’s out being approved by the 37 states necessary to ratify it~ WEpromise to talk up a storm about the need for health care reform while simultaneously accepting millions of dollars from insurance lobbyists to keep fl~c whole rotten system the way It IS .... WE promise above all to accuse anyone who disagrees with us of being unAmerica, to blast the "!iberal" media for reporting auything negative about us... [and it goes on - TFN] Cammermeyer cont’dfrom p. 1 A: I think what has been exciting to me is to remember where we started mad where I started five years ago. Myattordeys saying, "Grete, there isn’ t asnowball’ s chance that anywhere the courts are going to rule in our favor or that anything is going to happen and all we can hope for is that enougl~ cases going through the courts that the government will be forced to sort oflook at this Issue again." Whathappened instead was that it seemed to be the right time and the right place an our point in society... I spent about six weeks lobbying and saw changes take place in Congress over those six months [ofthe moratorium]. Tiffs issue of human sexuality had never been talked about by old petple like us. The-youth of today were talking about human sexuality alfthe time... So, what we have is an old population of people who are setting the staudards andthe laws who are out of touch with the reality and morals of today’ s generation. Weare being offered a forum because the kids of today are saying "What’ s the problem?" I don’ t expect that anything is going to change overnight but there are some things that have - the world recognizes that there are gays and lesbians in the military. Like it or not they are there. Q: When all ofthese issues came about, did you have a way of putting yourself through what I call a "Lesbian 101" in order to educate yourself about the community? A: Some of that I am not going to respond to. Some ofit I will. We will leave the "’I01" out and talk about it in the context when I first separated from the military and the reception when I was asked t’o speak at the gay rights, rally. It ~v.as over~vhelming to have 20,000 people g~ve me a standing ovation for the first tmie and this was days after my actual scparatiou... I’m still learning and I read, and I have gotten books from the 50’ s of what fern and butch and all of these things what they meant and what the culture was at the time and women’ s friendships and how those have changed over time. So, it is like trying to mnnerse myself in culture that, first, I never kaaew existed and, then secondly, that I am a part of and realize that there is a diversity in this culture as well as the diversity as in any other and it doesn’ t mean that you have to buy into all of it. Q: In recognition that this is Oklahoma, the "’Buckle ofthe Bible Belt", is there a specific role that religion or spirituali& playsfor you? A: l)iane and I are active in the Church of Religions Science at tiffs time. I think that it is through that spiritual basis that onr lives have been totally changed. I used to feel that my world was measured byexternal validation and that it was somehow a giving up of myself to the coutrol of others. Wheu I had to shed my rod form, part of what happeued was that ao longer did I need that external validation of who 1 was, and what becmne more salient was that tuner meaning, that sense of inner peace and feeling that there is nothing that I cannot do if I mn supposed to be doing it. I don’ t think that yon will ever find me regretting even the toughest decisions having to do with [such things as] any divorce, that those were the best decisions of the time and that there had to be.a reason why I had to go through this pare. Q: There are some very powerful comments and thoughts yot; shared [in the book] about Vietnam. With those feelings about Vietnam, have you in your own mind resolved them? A: You know, I was thinking just the other day of how much I have resolved them. I have come to the point of having extraordinary respect for the resistors, which speaks to how far I have come from feeling that they were traitors and skipping out of their responsibility to the American way - and coming to understand, because ofmy own experience of late of having to challenge the military that I love and the country that I love. And seeing that the people who felt so strongly about the horrors ofVietnam, theymade the decision to leave the country rather than fight an immoral war, immoral in theireyes. Being where I am now, having to leave the military and fight it because I believe that it is unconstitutional - the law as it exists now- that with every breath I will continue to fight for overturning that particular ban....it has given me a new respect for the difficulties they [the resistors] had in making those decisions to leave- and I must say that I could never have imagined myself saying that three or four years ago. It’ s actually the first time I have ever said it to anybody. Q: Last night somebody had asked you ifyou had thought aboutapolitical career. Since integrity isso important to you, how in the world can you be a politician? A: I don’ t know rather or not there is a match. I do believe inthe"Peter Principle" and so there is a certain concern that I have abouta mismatchbetweenwhateverfuture careerImay have and the type ofleadership style that I have and how I like to work a system for the good of an individual... that’ s why I’mnot really quite sure ofhow I will move, whether it will be to first See about a political appointment and see whether or not I could tolerate it or whether it would be so binding and against my belief system, because I do have very strong feelings about iL Q: You commented last night that you lost your military career but you gained your freedom, as you coined it, "In Your Face Freedom." Ifyou.had a message to us what would your message be? A: We do end up sort of compartmentalizing people by the roles that they are allowed to have in society and that those roles are created by the dominant society mad that part of learning about other people and about other ways of being, other non-traditional families, is to opeu ourselves up to that. And What I have decided that we ought to focus on is that on October 1 lth, National Coming Out Day, that something new is that the gay community is to invite a heterosexual couple home for dinner. With that we open up that dialogue of"Our home is just like yours" and be~n to break down the wall of separation. And what we have glory in, I think, is that the ufix of friends that we have is from the breadth of all combinations - that we are not bound in a heterosexOal world, we are not boundin a ....homosexual world, butrather that wehave both. It’ s more a matter of "We’ re all here" - and it’s an acknowledgement of the egalitarian position that we all share. Gingrich cont’dfrom p. 1 don’t think you have a right of filing a federal lawsnit or of getting the federal government to protect you based on your sexual behavior." He went on to say, "You have had, clearly, examples of what is, in effect, recruitment ~n so-called counseling programs. So I’m Very cautious about the idea that you want to have active h0mo~xuals in junior high school and high school explaining to young people that they have all these various wonderful options." Ehzabeth Birch, of the Human Rights Campaign Fund, said, "His remarks are disingenuous after he appeared...with his sister.~.and told the truth about American famihes.. Montana cont’dfrom p. 1 Hundreds of people flooded the Capitol and the governor’ s office with phone calls, faxes and letters denouncing the bill. Despite its dramatic about-face, the state Senate nevertheless rejected an opportunity at the same time to suspend the floor rules and debate repealing the state’ s deviate sexual conduct statute, one of the country’ s most draconian anti-gay laws, carrying a possible lO-year prison sentence and fines of up to $50,000. UN cont’dfrom p. 1 Department, admitted to the committee that bias because of race, ethnic origin, gender and orientation continue to be problems in the U.S. Patrick told the committee, which is gathering information from U.S. officials on the United States’ ratification of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, that the problems ~’vereff t simply the results of historical bias in the country but "current, real life, pernicious discrimination of the here and now." Patrick assured the committee that the Clinton administration remains committed to the goal of expanding opporttufities for all American citizens in education, employment and the economy, and that there would be ~’no retreat from that commimaent." Robin Kane, of the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force, praised Patrick as a "’very articulate spokesperson...who undei:stands the limitations that are placed on the Justice Departu~ent because of lack ofcivil rights laws [for Lesbians &G~ys]" "A TRIUMPH! ONE OF THE BEST AND MOST PROVOCATIVE FILMS OF THE NEW YEAR]" -Peter Travers. ROLLING.STONE ONE MAN IS ABOUT I0 CHALLENGE 2000 YEARS OF TRADITION, ES Movies 8, Opens April 19th 68th & Memorial, 250-4513 Utah cont’dfrom p. 1 legally, and many rights advocates have begun what’s being called "Olympics Out of Utah," an effort to convince Olympic Game officials not to select the state, widely considered a leading contender, as the site of the 2002 winter games. Democrats cont’dfrom p. 1 Kelly Kirby, Tim Gillean, Ken Draper,Rob Hill, Laurie Cooper and Bruce Lewis were among the precinct officers who attended the Committee meeting. Kelly Kirby and Rob Hill were also nominatedand electedbyprecinctofficials to serve on thestate Cer~tral Comm~:~iee. The State Central Committee develops the statewide political platform’l~r the Democratic Party. As one of the last items of the meeting’ s agenda, fourteen party platform resolutions were adopted. The text of Resolution #7 is provided in its entirety: "Be it resolved that the Tulsa County Democrat party supports fairness and justice for all individuals or groups regardless of age, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, race or disability. We support equal rights in public accomodations, employment, and housing for all Americans.’" The Democratic Party is seeking the involvement of people who believe that equal rights extend to all individuals. Volunteer opportunities with the Tulsa Cry. Democratic Party and with the Young Democrats can be investigated by calling the Democratic headquarters at 742-2457. TRIUMPHANT SUCCESS! A stinging comedy of sex and politics!" -Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE "1RRESISTIBLE!" -Kevin Thomas,.LOS ANGELES TIMES "DELIGHTFUL! A warm, sentimental film from one of Cuba’s major directors!" -Caryn.James, THE NEW YORK TIMES SAVOR THE FLAVOR Movies 8 Opens 4/28 News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Louisville Leaders Held for Civil Disobedience I,OUISVILLE, Ky. - Police arrested 25 activists on trespassing charges in the I Jouisville Board of Aldermen chiuubers alter they refused to leave when the aldermen voted 7 to 4 against a proposed antidiscrimination measure that would have added sexual orientation to the city’s anti-bias ordinance As soon as it was clear that the aldermen had rclected the racism’e, I protester ~l~ray~d a can of air freshener in the ,air and yelled, "The stenchin this morn is foul!" Some 50 people then stood in silent protest holding signs reading, "’Waiting for Justice" until police warned them they would be arrested. Aboul 25 of the demonstrators refused to leave and were then arrested. Carla Wallace of the Fairness Campaign, wlfich has pushed for the measure for the past 4 years, said of the protest, "’There comes a time in the life of every civil rights movement.., to stand before the body politic and demand accountability for crimes committed ~]nder protection of law. Our refusal to passively accept this assault to our freedom is an affirmation of our commitment to the high and noble task before us."In addition to Wallace, others arrested at the protest included;: Everett Hoffman, executive, director of the ACLU of Kentucky;. Dr. George Edwards of the Southern Presbyterian Seminary; Dr. Hal Warheim, a theology professor also with the senfinary; Jane lIope :rod Reba Coffman, board members of P-FLAG in Louisville, and attorney Eric Grmfinger. Gays Raise $2.5 Mil. for San Francisco Library SAN FRANCISCO - San Franosco’s new public library is currently being constructed at city expense. But because of bu~tget constraints, the city added no new funds to the librarY’s budget for new acquisitions, meaning the new library would have to be filled with little more than the material the old library already had on its shelves. But an enterprising citizens’ advisory conunittee set up a special fundraising effort directed at -affinity groups" to help finance new materials and resources at the new facility - including a .proposed new gay and lesbian resources center. In a burst of gay civic pride, gays and lesbians in the city Contributed some $2,596,822 toward the new "’gay wing" at the library - the largest amount raised among any of the groups supporting various specialized facilities in the new library. The figure represents about a third of the total $7,938,504 raised for new facilities at the library. Lesbian Mayor of S.F.? SAN FRANCISCO ~ Itlooks as if the woman Sen. Jesse Hehns likes to refer to as "’that damn lesbian" is on the verge of deciding whether or not to ~ake what would be the first senous bid by an openly gay politician for the city’s mayoral seat. Roberta ,~kchtenberg told reporters from her office in Waslfington, D.C., in early April that she may leave the increasingly hostile political environment of the nation’s capital, where she is ea~ assistant secretary for civil rights in the Department of Housing and Urban Development, to possibly enter the mayoral race this November. "’I am very seriously considering it and will make my decision within a matter of a fe~, days,’" Achtenberg sai.d. Achtenberg madehistory in 1993 when the then city supervisor faced U.S. Senate confirmation to the HUD post. During the televised Senate debate over her confirmation, which normally would have generated little attention, anti-gay legislators repeatedly attacked Achtenberg’s nomination with Helms leading the offensive, referring to her as a "damn lesbian’" because she rode in the city’s gay pride march along with her long-time partner, Judge Mary Morgan, and their son. Gingrich to Lead San Francisco Pride Parade SAN" FRANCISCO - San Francisco’s Lesbian & Gay Freedom Day Parade this June took a sudden turn toward becoming a "perfect family thing" with the announcement that the grand marshal for the huge event will be Candace Gingrich, the half-sis{erofHouse Speaker Newt Gingrich. Robert Allen, president of the parade committee, said, "She was selected primarily because of the statement itmakes and the media response.... I think it’S really a treaf that she’s not afraid to say he" s full of shit. ~[t’ s the perfect family thing. Gingnch, who will be one of four marshals-in the 25th annual event, becmne an instant celebrity earlier tiffs year when she went, on a highly publicized lobbying mission to her brother" s Capitol Hill offices in behalf of the Human Rights Campaign Fund. ’Tales of the City ’ Wins PeabodyAward ATHENS, Ga. - The Britishproduced television mini-series of Amfistead Maupin" s ."Tales of the City," which aired on the .PBS network last year has won a Peabody Award for its portrayal of San Francisco in the mid- 1970s PBS pulled out of producing the follow-up "’More Tales ofCity"despite the oriNnal nfiniseries" enormous popularity and critical acclaim after "Tales’" came under intense criticism by conservative pressure ~oups and politicians. Mayor Fined for Refusing ’Gay Pride’ Proclamation HAMILTON’, Canada - Bob Morrow, the mayor of Hamilton, has been fined $5,000 by the Ontario Human Rights Commission for refusing to issue a gay pride proclmnation in the city in 1991. Morrow personally will have to pay the fine because such proclamations are in the hands of the mayor, not the city government in general. Death Threats Against Greg Louganis WASHINGTON - The Washington Post reports that due to death threats against Greg Louganis since disclosing that he has AIDS, the Lambda Rising bookstore in Washington said it had to take added security precautions for his book-signmg appearance there. Some 2,000 people showed up and more than 300 people had to be turned away due to the crowd. Louganis’ recently published autobiography, Breaking the Surface, is already in its 7th printing, the publisher said. Court Rules Against Gay Couple for Bank Loan LOS ANGELES -U.S. District Judge Mariana Pfaelzer has ruled that the California Federal Bank was within its rights in refusing to give a special discountedhome loan to Jeffrey Bagley, a bank vice president,_and his partner. Judge Pfaelzer gave summary -judgment to the bank in the lawsuit filed by Bagley against his employer. The bank contended that Bagley did not quality for the special discounted loans, which are a standard benefit the bank offers its mm-ried employees, because he and Iris partner are not legally married. Maine Postpones Rights Measure AUGUSTA, Maine Gay rights advocates ~n Maine have announced that they will not introduce a statewide antidiscmnination measure in the legislatm:e this yezr, concerned that voters who are already faced with an anti-gay ballot measure wotdd find a competing measure confusing. "This issue is too important to risk confusing matters by putting a partially competing measure (the antidiscrimination bill) on the ballot as well," Patricia Ryan of the Maiue Human Rights Commission said. "We believe voters will say that Maine, as a state, won’ t discriminate, and we want them to have a clear shot at that issue." Attorneys for the Maine Human Rights Commission determined the gay rights bill probably would be declared a "competing measure" to the anti-gay ballot referendum and would therefore have to go before the voters as wellifit was brought before the legislature. British Priests Blessing Secret Gay Marriages -- LONDON The London Times reports that a number of Church of England priests - as many as 60 of them -have been secretly conducting marriage ceremonies for same-sex couples in churches around England, even though the priests face expulsion if they are discovered by church officials. The paper reported that the priests have conducted hundreds ofgay and lesbian unions despite being officially prohibitedby the Church of England. "I had no idea they were having the ceremonies in church," Ven George Austin, the archdeacon of York told the Times. "It’ s such a perversion ofa church wedding that you shouldn’t even have to point out it is wrong." St. Patrick’s Day Parades NEW YORK - Making good on a promise that they would indeed march in the annual St. Patrick’ s Day parade, some 70 gay rights activists were arrested as they attempted to have their own march in New York. A U.S. District Courtjudged had turned down a request by the Irish Lesbian & Gay Organization to overturn a rule barring the group from participating in the city parade and the 2nd Circuit Court ofAppeals uphddthe lowercourt decision on Mar. 16. In Cambridge, Mass., a large contingent frmn the Irish- American Gay, Lesbian & Bisexual Group of ’Boston, marched peacefully in the city’s St. Patrick’s Day parade there. BOSTON - South Boston’s controversial "protest" St. Patrick" s Day march, which has already become the cause of a case headed to the U.S. Supreme Court because organizers refused to allow Irish gays and lesbians to participate, also turned down a request by a group of former military members with HIV or AIDS to join the event as well. When asked why the ailing veterans were being excluded, Jo!m Hurley of the South Boston War Veterans Council, declined to comment, saying only that the organizers of the protest don’t give reasons for who is and isn’t allowed to march. Classical CO for Gay Men LOS ANGELES - A CD from a major recording company explicitly being marketed to gay men has been launched by WarnerClassics - and Beethoven will never be quite the same. Described as "75 minutes of musical passion for men." the CD is called "Sensual Classics Too," following up on the title of an earlier - and heterosexualoriented - popular disk Warner released in 1992 and that is still on the classical music charts. Making it even clearer who the intended audience for the disk is, the cover shows two hairy-armed men half-undressed and tenderly holding each other. It’{ enough to get your classical motor running -which is exactly what Warner wants. Lesbians Blocked from Conference on Women NEW YORK In an unusual alliance, China and the Vatican are blocking women’s groups they disapprove of- including lesbian organizations - from attending amajor United Nations conference on women slated for Kelly Kirby Certified Public Accountant Lesbians & Gays face many special tax sttuatlons whether single or as couples. We are proud to serve our communities with sensitive & timely information. 747-5466, POB 14011, Tulsa 74159 Photography- J.D. Jamett 621-5597 $30/hour - in, call for out rates Licensed Massage Therapist Specializing in: ¯ Pager: 672-2035 ¯ Therapeutic ¯ Shiatsu ¯ Sports News Briefs News later this year. Hundreds of delegates and non-gov.ernmental organizations (NGOs) havebeen meeting at U.N. headquarters in New York, reviewing the credentials of delegates to the conference to be held in Beijing in September. China has used its position as host ofthe conference to denY credentials to women’s groups from Taiwan and Tibet - neither of:which China recognizes as indepe-ndent nations. The :Vatican also raised objections inan effort to exclude women’ s groups that don’ t agree with the Catholic Church’s positions on abortion, birth control and homosexuality. Delegates from China seconded the Vatican’s objections to lesbian groups, citing its own laws against homosexuality. Another Custody Battle DETROIT - Carol Hess, a lesbian who helped rear the 2 children of her deceased lover, is fighting the children’s father, Russel Overton, in court for custody ofthetwo boys. Overton won provisional custody of the 2 children earlier in March, but Judge William Giovan has now given Hess weekend visitation rights and said he will shortly decide if Hess has any legal .standing to ask for custody of the 10- and 13-year-old sons o fher partner of20 years, Leigh Porter, who died in January.. Gays & Government Security Clearances WASHINGTON - A General Accounting Office review of 3 U.S. government departments and 5 federal agencies has concluded that the federal government has stopped using homosexuality as a reason for refusing security clearances to civiliml employees mid contractors. The GAO reviewed records from the U.S. State, Defense and Energy Departments, as well as the FBI, the Office of Personnel Manage- ~nent, the U.S. Infornlation Agency, the Secret Service and the Customs Service. Ahnost ,all feder,’d agencies in the past had routinely refused to give gays and lesbians security clearance, ~naintailfing that homosexuals were snbject to being blackmailed. Trouble Over Benefit Plan at CalTech/JPL PASADENA, Calif. - A number of major U.S. universities - Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News including Harvard, Stanford, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - have extended domestic partner benefits to their gay andlesbian staffers withlittle or no controversy. But plans by the California Institute of Technology (CalTech) to begin offering same-sex partner benefits beginning May 1 may set off a firestorm,~The plan would extend health insurance benefits to the same-sex partners of the school’ s staff and faculty~ although opposite-sex couples would be not be eligible because the university says such couples have the option of legally marrying. The controversy over the plan, however, is arising largely because CalTech, along with its best-known facility, the Jet Propulsion Laboratories, are the largest employers in the region andbecauseJPLis heavily involved in both governmentrelated research and the public school system. Conservative anti-gay critics of the move have been bombarding members of Congress in an effort to derail the benefit proposal. Opponents say they don’t want school children in the area to see gay and lesbian relationships as the same as heterosexual marriage and they are telling members of Congress that they don’t want federal tax money that goes to CalTech andJPLused to provide benefits to homosextml partners. "’Our institutions should, in whatever way possible, help mmntain heterosexual Inarriage as ,’m ide,’d," said one critic. Best Actor Oscar "Nominee Always Out LOS ANGELES Popular British actor Nigel Hawthorne, ~vho has been nominated for an Academy Award for his role in "’The Madness of King George,’" told the Advocate that he is gay mid that he has "’never been a closet queen.’" The 65-year-old Ha~vthorue, who is perhaps bestknowll to Americans for Iris role on the popular British-made TV series "Yes, Minister," said he will be attendiug die glitzy Oscar ceremonies with his long-time partner, writer Trevor Beathmu. Interviewed in the British newspaper Today, Beuthanl was eqnally candid about their relationship. "\Ve’ re just a dear old married couple. It’s not a qnestion of Nigel mid me coining out we’ ve uever been in," he said. "Heterosext/~L& Proud" Campaign in Australia BRISBANE, Australia - The Australian newsmagazine Brother Sister reports that an organization calling itself the International Heterosexual Foundation is planning to ldunch a $4 million anti-gay ad campaign in the country. The publication says the group’s national advertising campaign will be aimed at teena:gers’, ~ing electronic and print spots, because it is "deeply concerned with the overt propagation of deviant sexual practices." The campaign reportedly is being called "Heterosexual and Proud Of It." A spokesperson for the foundation said the campaign was aimed to counter what it says is pro-gay material being put before the public by AIDS agencies. "Enormous amounts of public monies are being spent to promote homosexu,~lity under the gmse of HIV/AIDS awareness," Kris Picketing 0f the group said. Drag Queen ’Ring’Foiled LAS VEGAS - Police in Las Vegas have charged two transvestites with stealing clothing from the Rare Breed store, and said the 2 are part of a ring of drag queen thieves who authorities believe have stolen thousands of dollars worth of women’s clothes and jewelry. Police said the 2, whom they refused to identify because of their on-going investigation, were involved with up to 5 other transvestites who shoplifted merchandise from local stores that they later ~old in order to buy drugs. Transsexual Brit Takes Case to European Court BRUSSELS, Belgium - A woman identified in official records as "’P" has filed a complaint with die European Court of Justice, charging that she was fired from her job with the Cornwall County Council in Great Britain after she told supervisors she was undergoing a sex-change operation. A British labor panel said "P’" was not protected trader the countD,’ s sex discrimination laws, mid the county council said die woman was not fired because of the surgery but because it had too many workers. In her complaint before the European Court, how ever, the woman claims the council had offered h~r a salary rinse and a new contract before she said she was undergoing the sex change. The womanis asking the European C6urt to determine whether transsexuals are protected under European Union statutes, even if national laws don’ t extend such protections. Swedish Sports StarGay STOCKHOLM-WhenSwedish authorities announced that a nee- Nazi skinhead had confessed to the Mar. 11 brutal stabbing death oficehockey star Peter Karlsson, one of the reasons given by the 19-year-old for killing Karlsson was that the 2 9-year-old hockey pro had made sexual advances to him. Police say Karlsson was stabbed more than 60 times in nearby Vasteras after he had left a local discotheque to go home. It is the 2nd brutal slaying of a gay man in the Stockholm area in the~past few months. Bomb Threat at Canadian Bookstore VANCOUVER-Canada’ s gayoriented Little Sister’ s bookstore has been the object of a bomb threat, that the store’s manager believes is the work of an antigay extremist religious fanatic. The single-page hand-written letter threatened "a day of reckoning," with references to Sodom and Gomorrah and other religious allusions. Little Sister’ s manager Janine Fnller denounced the threat, which police respondedto quickly, saying, "I think people who are true Christian~ would condemn that kind of sentiment of hate.’" In February, the store also received a telephoned bomb threat. Police checked the store thoroughly then, but found no explosives - but they did warn workers at Little S~ster’s to be watctfful of suspicious parcels and cus toulers. No One Can Get Rep. Frank’s Name...Straight WASHINGTON - Rep. Barney Frank - or at least how politicos pronotmce his name - has setoff another flap. In Jmn|ary, die Rep. Dick Armey, the 2nd. ranking House Republican, referred to the openly gay Frank as "Barney Fag" during a radio interview, which he later.said was a slip of the ton~le. Now James Carville, a prominent Democratic Party consultant who helped orchestrate President Clinton’s 1992 presidential bid, referred to the Massachusetts Democrat as "Barney Fife," the inept and incompetent depmy in die Audv Griffith television show. Ironically, Carville was criticizing Armey for his "Barney Fag" mistake when he refen:ed to Frank as "Barney Fife "" Carville said he had an excuse for his slip of the tongue, :however, since h( is president of ah Andy Griffith Show Fan Club andh"ad be,eli thinkifiglabout the r Bamey Fife characte~-~ffhen hc made the :mistake. "Wbat did Dick Armey have on his mind when he said what he did’?" Carville asked Vive La Difference! French Say Gay Pres. OK PARIS - The Paris newspaper Liberation has reported the results of a poll of some 1002 registered French voters" views of the upcoming presidential campaign. The paper reported that the Illico-Radio FG poll indicated that 85% of the respondents agreed that TV campaigns aimed specifically at gay men to help stem the spread of HIV were needed. Perhaps even more surprising, the poll also found that 71% of those mlsweri~ig pollsters’ questions indicated,they would vote for a presidential candidate, even if it was disclosed he had had a gay relationship. British Airline Goes After Gay Market SAN FRANCISCO - Virgin Atlantic Airways. the imiovativc mid enterprising British airline noted for such amemties as mflight massages and personal video screens, is now offering gay- and lesbian-themed tour packages from the U.S. to London, with fly-ons to Paris and Amsterdmn. The three-night four-day tours, which industr~ watchers say is a first for a majo’r airline, start at $679 and are promoted with such up-front names as "’Out in London" s West End" and"London Proper~G ay Paree." The packages include round-trip airfare, hotel accolmnodations from tourist to first class, transfers, theater tickets in London, contiuenud breakfasts mid other little perks. Elizabeth. Hlinko of Virgin Aflandc said "’Gays and lesbimas are a wonderful group of people who enjoy traveling..That’s a group we want to attract to our airline. "" Low or Old Low How aboitt a new look for your love nest? Come see Bryan, Ken or Tim at our fab~dous designer showroom with definitely NOT designer prlees! Budget ~Vindow Treatments & MORE! ~,~,,t~, e,,,~,,, G~a ~.... 7116 S. lM][in~o, ~te. 109. 254-2100 1438 S. Boston, Tulsa m Health Briefs Health Briefs Health Briefs Health Briefs Health Briefs Health Briefs Fast HIV Test Found i BRUSSELS - Belgian scientists s~y that they have developed an HIV test that can directly detect the presence of HIV in just a few days of being infected instead of the usual months-long wait required before current tests are effective at detecting antibodies produced by the body. "Usually you have to wait about 3 months after exposure before knowing whether you are HIV-positive,’.’said Prof. Jose Rem~cle of Namur University.."But.with this one we ¢~a detect.the virus: a day, or:so later. 7: The,ne.~ ~test,differs. from: o~ers in that it check~specifically far HIV; ~rather than antibodies which ’can 0nly be detected several months following infection. The manufacturer is seeking approval for sales elsewhere in Europe and the U.S. The tests are expected to cost about $10 each. HIV Contact Tracing Suggested ATLANTA - A study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention underscored the way HIV can spread .to insidiously. Researcl~ers at the University of Pittsburghlinked a single prisoner with HIV with 50 other people who were also infected either through shared hypodermic needles or sex. Even more worrisome, the scientists found that of the 50 who had been infected, 24 were unaware they were infected. The researchers and CDC officials said the study indicates that contact tracing, especially of drug users and prisoners infected with HIV, may be of value in fighting ~e spread of HIV. -Setback in Vac._cine Research WASHINGTON- ,am experimental AIDS vaccine that appeared to work in adult monkeys kills newborn monkeys, scientists report in the current issue of the journal Science. Earlier studies with adnlt monkeys were encouraging to researchers "! who thought a weakened version of HIV itself conld be used in the vaccine. But the study - which used a weakened form of the virus in monkeys - suggests that such a strategy could actually lead to infection instead "’This approach to un AIDS vaccine is fnll of hidden danger,’" said Dr. Ruth Ruprecht of Harvard University m~d" the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Rupre.cht’s.team administered awacciue of HIV with:key genes.removed-to:4 newborn,monkeys: Althongh none~v.ere exposed, to full HIV, 2 ofthe monkeys died of~the diseaseand 2 now, have severe.. ~ immune deficiency. EPA StudyingParasite in Water WASHINGTON - Carol Browner, administrator of the Enviromnental Protection Agency, has called for research on how to protect drinking water supplies in the U.S. from the cryptosporidium parasite. The EPA has already set tip a special study ~oup on the microbe which has b~.en s.hown to be extremely infectious, even ru rmnute amounts. The parasite can cause severe diarrhea in healthy adults, but it can be fatal to individu~s with weakenedimmtme systems, such as people with AIDS. Doubts About Early AIDS Case NEW YORK - New medical evidence suggests that what was believed to be the earliest documented case of AIDS may not in fact have been the disease. EXamination of Stored tissue samples taken from David Carr, a man who died in 1959 from mysterious symptoms, prompted 2 University of Manchester doctors in 1990 to attribute the symptoms to AIDS. But .when Dr. David Ho, head of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Ceuter in New York, recently tested the samples, he cotdd only isolate HIV in one smnple that had been sent to trim. Further testing showed the tissues sent .to Ho were from at least two different people. In Ho’s opinion, there is no longer proof that Carr died of AIDS. Althongh Uuiversity ofManchester officials reject Ho’s findings, the university is planning further investigation. Poor ~Prospects for AIDS Drug LONDON "--New, highly resistaifi Strains ofHIV ~re dirmning hop~ that aigroniising new dhsg Of tltugs WilI be able to control the deadly virus as effectively as researchers’had hoped just a few months ago. Researchers reported in the-British medical journal Nature that some strains of the virus are now able to simultaneously ward off the effects of as many as six drug compotmds. Although researchers say the new findings aren" t the end of the road for the potent class ofdrugs known as protease inhibitors, the latest discovery, is a serious setback for what had been considered an encouraging strategy for combating the deadly virus. Protease inhibitors, which work by preventing the AIDS virus from replicating, are under study by several companies. Scientists at Merck Research Laboratories in West Point, Pa., say it now appears that extended use of such drugs can create strains of the virus that are a thousand times more resistant than the original virus. Case of Infant HIV Remission LOS ANGELES - According to a report in the New England Journal ofMedicine, the white blood cells of a baby apparently have succeeded where every drug and potential vaccine against HIV have so far failed. According to researchers reporting in the journal, the tufidentified infant has become the first thorouglfly documented case of an individual whose own natural body defense may have fought off the infection. Dr. Yvom~e Bryson ofthe UCLA AID~ Institute said, "It used to seem like heresy to say that you could potentially even eli~nin~te the virus. And now I think that we caasay .that that is a possibility. ?’ Th~ repoi’t sh~ th~ 16~l~y kb(th’~: vi~u~ from his’ infected mothefaiad’~Xmnifiafi0ns afte~ birth c01ffimiedflifit h~Was itffected. Retesting again at age two months, the baby still tested positive for the virus. Bu! tests at age 13 months revealed that the virus had disappeared. The infant is now five years old and he continues, the scientists say, to show no signs of HIV and is tlwiving. Researchers said they were initially skeptical of the test resul’ts and suspected a clinical error. But they retrieved all the child’s original blood samples and did extensive doublechecking. They found no mistakes, and no virus in the little boy. Screening for HIV Subtypes BOSTON - Max Essex, chair of Harvard University’s AIDS Institute, toldaregional colfference on AIDS that the U.S. should begin blood screening to determine if extremely ilffectious subtypes of HIV that are fueling spread of the virus among heterosexuals in Africa and Asia are in this country as well. "We don’t really know if they are in the U.S.," Essex said. "It’s logical to assume that they should be." Essex said it is critical that the highly infectious virus subtypes be identified FI_DELITY HO_/v E HEALTH CARE, INC. 113 E. 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Seymour-Taylor, CADC Richard Reeder, MS 1515 South Lewis Tulsa, OK (918)-743-4117 (918)-581-0902 Diverse Community More Health Briefs because they may not become apparent until an epidemic is full-blown. HIV Infection in the Elderl~ ATLANTA - Two studies, both of them small, published in AIDS Clinical Care suggest HIV among people over 60 may go undiagnosed longer because doctors don’t consider the elderly at risk for infection, and that how older Americans get HIV may be very different than most health .care, wqrkers ,think. One study of patients~ages. 60 .to 83 with HIV. at.an Atlanta h0spithl:f0und that ifi 15of the 20 cases~,where~ithe s6urc~ Oi~ transmission was 16a6~ni-Hi~-w~ ~6ntractedddaer through:Sex: or by Iv drug use. Blood tran~filSi6iis, ~ffer~ .the r0Ui~ "~ tram.mission in ouly 3 of the cases. :In the 2nd study, researchers examined sernm samples of 170 elderly patients who died between 1992-93 at New York’s Harlem Hospital. The researchers found that6% -of themen and-:-9% of:~the women were infected with HIV, although mostor all of the infections .were um,uspected at time of death. The studies authors suggested that health care workers., should rake sexual anddrug use histories of elderly patients. House,Cuts AIDS Housing $ WASHINGTON -~ The House. of RepreSentativeshas:approved some $17.1 billion in-federal Spending cuts, including eliminating federal funding for Housing Opportunities for People with AIDS (HOPWA). An amendment offered by Rep. Christopher Shays (RrConn.) to restorethe $186 million inHOPWAfunds was blocked by Republican lawmakers. White HOuse Chief of staff Leon Panetta promises apresidential Veto of the bill in its present form,. m,,,tary con,’d rom, p. 1 District Court in Brooklyn ruled that the 1993 policy that Congress forced the administration to adopt violates the freedom of speech of the sxx gay and lesbian military personnel who brought the suit and discriminates against homosexuals. Matt Coles, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union representing the.6 service members, said the guidelines, .which are part. of the: National Defense Authorization Act of 1993, were based entirely, on prejudice and-e~pecied-negative ~tions of heterosexual members of the military. The act violated gay and lesbian officers’ constitutional rights to free speech and .equal protection under the law; he argued m court. "Congress -betrayed the- Constitutionby caving in to the prejudices of others," Coles said. Government attorneys-had arg,ued that the unique~demands of~[Jaenatior;~:armed forces rbxtuire Special rUles. The attorneys " forthegovernment argued thatoverturning the policy could damage military effectiveness. Judge Nickerson agreed with lawyers for the six that they. v~ere in effect being forced to live a li:e in order to serve their country. Judge Nickerson ruled that"the policy.., is not only inherently deceptive, it also offers powerful inducements to homosexuals to lie." He added that the current policy "craftily sought to avoid the First Amendment" and "twisted the English language in ways that are nothing less than Orwellian." In rejecting the government’s arguments, Judge Nickerson wrote: "Even if defendants do believe that heterosexual service members will be so ups~et by a.co-- orker s mere statement ofhomosexuality as not to #ork co-operatively in the unit, ..,suda a belief does not justify a discriminatory policy." Pentagon spokesman Ken Bacon said after the decision that the government would appeal the ruling. "We bdieve our policy is constitutional and we intend to defend the policy," he said. "The Department [of Defense] has told the Department of Justi~ that we want them to appeal, the policy. ¯ Despite the ~meq~ivocal nature ofJudge Nickerson’ s. ruling, it oul.y applies to the two active duty service members and four reservists in the case itself and does.not. keep the military.from-continuing.to7 discharge other gays and lesbians who come out. It is the first direct constitutional challenge to the compromise Don~t Ask Don’t Tell policy, accepted by Presl Clinton. Center - " ~ cOnt’dfromp: l " communities up to $10,000," said Gillean. "However, to make this ~zork, weneed suppor’t .from everyone -in our. communities. The d0nationof $10 from 100 people is important as is the $1000 from one-. We welcome one-time donations butm0ntllly pledges, even of $5 or $10 a month are critical to making this dream a reality." Gillean added that TOHRis discussing. setting up a direct debit and credit card debit system to make donating on a monthly -pledge basis easier. Any donations directed to the .Community Center will be limited to that project, and sinceTOHRis.a tax-exempt organization~. :can .be tax-deductable. For more information, call TOHR at 743-4297. YOuth cont’dfrom p. 1 homophobia, and award-winning consultant will lead the workshop. It is open to health professionals, social service providers, therapists and clergy. The Planned Parenthood Training Institute offers this workshop as aresponse to the alarming rate of suicide in Lesbian/ Gay/Bisexual youth and to the experiences of Planned Parenthood’s Lesbian mad-Gay volunteers and workers who sought mid found little support from their schools, churches Or homes. The miss:ion of Planned Parenthood hasat:its~hearvnot ;: only.fami!yplauning and reproducti~,e choice, but:~ials6 the.empowerm.ent.~of individuals tO ldad healthy; happy and ~se×ually fulfilling lives, regardless of sexual orientation. Planned Parenthood -hopes to be at the forefront of advocacy for Lesbian/Gay issues. Formoreinformation, call the Education DepL at 587-1101, ext..4. Williams : cont’dfrom p. 1 reali reasons, she was forced off the air . ¯from KWGS. Williams noted.that she received positive comments even when she aired "controversial" programs (for -example, Gay & Lesbian issues) but that it appeared that station management had censoredherdue topressure from a Radical Right TU donor, perhaps also .with the Christian Coalition targeung her underwriters..Station manager Frank Cristal also threatened her with immediate censorship if Williams saidanything on theair after.she was giyen notice. I NeXt RBG meeting is Tues. April 25 ] 7pmat the Whittier Cafe; 1. . ’ Call 254-2100, RSVP. 745-1111 Accepting Medicare. Medicaid. private pay andprivate insurance. Oklahoma owned and operated. Where have people living with AIDS in the Tulsa area gone to receive skilled nursing care ~n a homelike, loving setting? Until now - no where...... Announcing the opening ofMohawk Living Center, a facility specializing in caring for people living with AIDS. Overlooking beautiful Mohawk Park in North Tulsa, our facility is dedicated to caring for PLWA’s and improving their quality of life through skilled nursing care delivered by a staff of dedicated professionals The staff at Mohawk Living Center invite you to come & tour our new facility. To arrange a tour or.for more information, call our offices at 918~125-1354 Mohawk Living Center 3910 Park Road ¯ Tulsa, OK¯ (918) 425-1354 Know Your Rights! Estate Planning, Adoptions, Personal Injury, Criminal Law, Bankruptcy & Workers Com.pensation 1-800-742-9468 or 918-352-95.04 128 East Broadway, Drumright, Oklahoma Weekend and evening appointments are available. ~Letter from the Pm~ddent: As I reflect on the last month I feel like I’ve been on a roller coaster ride. We began the period since our last reporter waiting to he~r about the 3 grant proposals we had applied for: We waited and inquired to no avail. Then on March 24th the newscame, we had received all3 of thegrants. This made us.feel wonderful as this really expands the outreach of TOHR. During our bdef moments of excitement we realized that the grant begin on April 1st. This meant we needed to start implementation immediately. A Human Resource committee is now in place and job descriptions are being written. We will be hiring an additional full time person. During this pedod we also heard fror~ the,local grant we. had wdtten 2 letters of interest for and thesehaVe to bO’totally repackaged.and submitted as full proposals by the!4th of -- Apdl, Still, this is all good for TOHR. I will keep you updated. .The Community Centeris go ng full steam ahead andwe are accepting donations now. What we will be requesting is monthly pledges as well as one timedonations. The monthly pledges will be and integral part of the financing package. Please think about what would be comfortable for you and make the pledge or donation today. We have located a building that will work very well for the Center and have put together a proposed monthly budget for anyone who is interested. To continue my ride on the roller coaster, we had some lively debate at the April membership meeting that quite frankly left me confused and shell shocked. When I accepted this position it was with the vision that the community needed to be more cohesive. I have worked very hard to achieve this goal and continue to do so daily. This meeting made me question the effectiveness of my efforts. I found myself conducting a meeting with more than a fdendly debate taking place. Being a first time board member, I was not equipped to diffuse this discussion. I simply ended it. I apologize to anyone I offended or that felt suppressed by my action. It was all I knew to do. Let me say now that as President of TOHR my vision remains the same, to unify the community to resolve matters that affect us. There will be times when one of us does not understand the actions of others. We are all working for a common goal and should stay focused on that goal.. Our goal will not be achieved until we all work together. TOHR is a community based organization and every member is requested to participate in our meetings and events, but matters of personal conflict should remain just that. Remember the vision is to unite, for united is the only way we can achieve our goals. Please come to a meeting or TOHR sposored event, we rely on your participation and support to expand our programs. Until next month. Tim Bash-Back Training April 29th 10am to 12pm $ i 5 per person A great self defense class that can benefit each of us. Come in your sweats and your tennis shoes, "’The Gathering Place" 4154 South Harvard Helpline Training and Update April 22nd, 10:00- 12:00 Training for all current and nexv volunteers. All volunteers need to attend "The Gathcring Place" 4154 South Call for Committee Anyone interested in.serving on a committee for creating conversation and exploring ways TOHR can help with implementation and passage of the Report from the Human Rights Committee, Please call the Help Line and leave your name and number. 743-4297 It’s Follie time again ! An.vone interested in volunteering for the Follies Committee or interested in sharingthier talent with the rest ofour Tulsa Family, please call L.v~n at 743-0132 BISEXUAL, LESBIAN AND GAY ISSUES INFORMATION AND REFERRALS 743-GAYS (4297) By and for but not exclusive to the Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Communities. Daytime Testing Monday-Thursday by Appointment 749-4194 Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights HIV TESTING CLINIC FREE ANONYMOUS Finger Stick Method Membership Application Name Address State Zipf- I I would like to volunteer help wi~: [] HIV Counselor [] E~nt Planning and Pare. Preparations Every Thursday Evening 7:00-8:30 p.m. 4154 So. Harvard Suite H-1 [] Yes I want.to be a oontributing member of Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights. Please accept pa)~x~cnt as described below: [] $10 Limited lnoome/Student M~mbership [] $20 Regular Memb~hip [] $35 Organizational/Household Membership I-I $100 Sustainin8 Membership [] I am currently reaei,dn8 TOHR mailings and the Tulsa F,amib" Nest,s [] I am not on tl~ mailing list [] Lesbhn/Gay/Bisexuai HolpLin¢ [] Executive 8mrd Member [] Mon~.v Mcain~ Suppoa The Sadie Hawkins Women’s Dance was a blast. TOHR would like to thank everyone who made the dance possible. The turnout was great and we got some nc~" member & made some new friends. TOHR ~ill continue to support these events so ifyou have an idea let us "know. Additional thanks go to: Carol & Sue for the great music. Renee for taking tickets, Miriam for being the boss, Marvita for the balloons, chairs, tables, Dee for the balloons, Joan for tickets, Laurie for ¢ver~.C.hing, Melanie for all her help, Jim & Don for serving drinks, Tim & Ken for manning the TOHR booth, Pam for the soda, R~’. Alico Jones for the coasters, the Black & \Vhite Committee for providing child care & general support, Aaron for child care and all of you who participated in the dance. Thanks. ¢ommunitp enter Monthly Pledges Center Stage One Time Donations $100 Mo. $75 Mo. $50 Mo. 545 Mo. $40 Mo~ $35 Mo. $20 Mo. $10 Mo. Mail to TOHR P.O. Box 52729 Tulsa OK. 74152 Altn: Cehter Spotlight $2500 - $5000 Lead Actor $1500- $2499 gfpportingA~: $750 - $1499 Cast Member $300- $749 Audience $100 - $299 Extra $ ISuNDAYS I BLESS THE LORD AT ALL TIMES CHRISTIAN CENTER - SUnday School 9:45, Moming. Worship::Service 1-1:00." 2627-B East 11th. Call 583-7815 for Info. BLGA - University of Tulsa. 6:30 p.m. Canterbury Center. COMMUNITY OF HOPE (United Methodist) - Faith and Struggle Group - discussion group, subjects vary. 5:00 p.m. Evening Worship Service 6:00. 1347 North Yale. Call 838- 7232 for Info. FAMILY OF FAITH MCC - Morning Worship Service 11:00. 5451-E South Mingo. Call 622-1441 for Info. MCC OF GREATER TULSA - Morning Worship Service 10:45 1623 North Maplewood. Call 838-1715 for Info. THE BANNED - GayBand - Practice weekly in OKC. Call 838-2121 for Info. IMONDAYS " " " : I BIBLE STUDY- 6:30:p.m. Comm0nity of Hope. 1347 North Yale. Call 838-7232 for Info. LAMBDA BOWLING LEAGUE - Bowling begins at 8:45. Sheridan Lanes 3121 South Sheridan. 1TuEsDAYs I MINISTER’S CLASS - Bless the Lord at All Times Christian Center. 7:30 p.m. 2627-B East 1 lth. Call 583-7815 for Info. Wednesdays AUTHORITY OF THE BELIEVER - Bible Study 7:00. MCC of Greater Tulsa 1623 North Maplewood. Call 838-1715 for Info. BLESS .THE LORD AT ALL TIMES 7:00 - 8:30 pm Results Hours: 7:00 - 9:00 CHRISTIAN CENTER - Choir Practice 7:00, pm, Call 749-4194 for Info, 2627-B East 1 lth. Call 583-7815 for Info, FAMILY OF FAITH MCC - Potluck 6:30, PRAYER.TIME-7:00.p,m, MCC~ofGreater Bible Study 7:00, Choir Practice 8:00, 5451- Tulsa.¯ 1623 .North Maplewood~ Call 838- E.South Mingo, Call 622-1441 for Info, 1715 for Info. ITHURsDAYs I TULSA FAMILY-CHORALE = Weekly 16-STEP EMPOWERMENT GROUP FOR practice 9:30. Lola’s. 2630 E. 15th Street. WOMEN - 7:00, Women’s support group, Community of Hope, 1347 North Yale, Call 838-7232 for Info, CO-DEPENDENCY SUPPORT GROUP - Weekly meeting 7:30, Family of Faith MCC, 5451-E South M[ngo, Cal! 622-1441 for Info, (Regula[ Meetings begin Mamh 23) HIV TESTING - TOHR Clinic, Free and Anonymous testing using fingerstick method. No appointment required, Walk in test hours: ISATURDAYS I NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS - Meets weekly at 11:00 pm, Provides confidential support for recovering addicts, Community of Hope, 1347 North Yale, Call 838-7232 for Info, IAPRIL 15 I DANCE CLASS - Community of Hope. 8:00. 1347 North Yale. Call 838-7232 for Info. IAPR~L 16/EASTERI "HOPE IS ALIVE" - Easter Cantata. 11:00 a.m. Family of Faith. 5451-E South Mingo. Call 622-1441 for Info, IAPRIL 17 I RESCUING THE BIBLE - 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Allen Chapman Activity Center (TU) - 440 South Gary - Third of an eight week course. Sponsored by TOHR/Community of Hope/BLGA (TU). Call 838-7232 for Info, IAPRIL 18 I TOHR BOARD MEETING - 7:00 p.m. TOHR Office. 41st & Harvard. Call 743- 4297 for Info. IAPRIL 19 I FAMILY AIDS SUPPORT GROUP - Bi- Monthly meeting. 6:30 4154 South Harvard - Lower Level. Call 749-4901 for Info. IA P R I L 2 1 .I FEED THE HOMELESS -. Community of Hope. 1347 North Yale. Meet at church at 5:30 and caravan to Day Center for the Homeless. Call 838-7232 for Info. IAPRIL 24 I RESCUING THE BIBLE - 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Allen Chapman Activity Center (TU) - 440 South Gary Fourth of an eight week course. Sponsored by,.,. ~ TOHR{Community of Hope/BLG~,(TU). ,Call 838-7232 for Info. IA.e p, L 29 I DANCE CLASS - Community of Hope. 8:00 p.m. 1347 North Yale, Call 838-7232 for Info. IMAY 1 I RESCUING THE BIBLE - 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Allen Chapman Activity Center (TU) - 440 South Gary. Fifth of an eight week course. Sponsored by TOHPJCommunity of Hope/BLGA (TU). Call 838-7232 for Info. IMAY 2 I TOHR MEMBERSHIP - Monthly meeting 6:30 social hour 7:00 p.m. meeting. "The Gathering Place" - 4154 S. Harvard, Ste. H. Call 743-4297 for Info. IMAY 3 I FAMILY AIDS SUPPORT GROUP Meeting. 6:30 p.m. PFLAG. 4154South Harvard - Lower Level. Call 749-4901 for Info. IMAY 4 I NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER - A Spin off of the Christian Right’s Nat’,l Day of Prayer. Gay and Lesbian community will meet to pray for an end to prejudice and discrimination in the church. Call 622- 1441 for more Info. IMAY 6 I GAY MAYDAY - Celebration in Oklahoma City. Featuring musical entertainment by THE BANNED, Oklahoma’s Gay Band, For Carpool Info. call 838-2121. WOMEN’S SATURDAY NIGHT SUPPER CLUB - 6:30 p.m. Hong Kong Restaurant 4307-B South Sheddan, IMAY 7 I PRIME TIMERS - Monthly Meeting 4:00 p.m. - "The Gathering Place" 4154 South Harvard, Ste. H. Call 747-8121 for info. PFLAG 1011102 - Monthly meeting 6:30- 7:30’p.m:- 4154 South Harvard, Ste~.H. Call 749-4901 for Info. RESCUING THE BIBLE - 6:30 - 8:30 p:m. Allen Chapman Activity Center (TU) - 440 South Gary. Sixth of an eight week course. Sponsored by TOHR/Community. of Hope/BLGA (TU). Call 838-7232 for Info. SPOUSES For spouses of Gay/Les/Bi/Trans. 7:00-7:30 p.m. social 7:30-8:30 meeting. Call 749-4901 for Info. Sponsored by PFLAG. IMAY 13 I DANCE CLASS - Community of Hope. 8:00 p.m 1347 North Yale. Call 838-7232 for Info. IMAY 1s I RESCUING THE BIBLE - 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Alien Chapman Activity Center (TU) - 440 South Gary. - Seventh of an eight week course: Sponsored by TOHPJCommunity of Hope/BLGA (TU). Call 838-7232 for Info, IMAY 16 TOHR BOARD MEETING. 7:00 p.m. TOHR Office. 41st & Harvard. Call 743- 4297 for Info. IMAY 17 I FAMILY AIDS SUPPORT GROUP Meeting. 6:30 p.m. PFLAG. 4154 South Harvard - Lower Level. Call 749-4901 for Info. IMAY 1 8-21 I MCC .DISTRICT CONFERENCE - South Central District(OK, TX, LA, AR) Southern "Hills Mardott at 71st and Lewis. Workshops/Services/Banquet. Keynote: Rev. Elder Nancy Wilson: Call 622-1441 for more Info. [MAY 19-21 I HERLAND SPRING RETREAT - Women’s Retreati Roman Nose State Park. Sponsored by Hedand ofOklahoma City. IMAY 22 RAINBOW BUSINESS GUILD - Monthly Meeting 7:00 p.m. Call 254-2100 for location. RESCUING THE BIBLE - 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Allen Chapman Activity Center (TU) - 440 South Gary. - Final week of an eight week course. Sponsored by TOHR/Community of Hope/BLGA (TU). Call 838-7232 for Info. "~ IMAY 26 28 I GREAT PLAINS REGIONAL RODEO - OK State Fairgrounds in Oklahoma City. Call 405-943-0843 for more Info. IMAY 27 I DANCE CLASS - Community of Hope. 8:00 p.m. 1347 North Yale. Call 838-7232 for Info. IMAY 29 I FEED THE HOMELESS - Community of Hope. 1347 North Yale. Meet at church at 5:30 p.m. and caravan to Day Center for the Homeless. Call 838-7232 for Info, S C E L L A N E O U S I ROU P. MEETINGS LAGPAC - Lesbian-and Gay Political Action Committee. Call 838-1222 for Info. LOG CABIN REPUBLICANS - Gay and Lesbian Republican Group. Call 832-0233 for Info. - SWAN’~ Sirigle Women’s Activity Network. TOHR CLINIC - In addition to Thursday Clinic Hours (see Thursdays), offers daytime testing by appointment Monday - Thursday from 10 am - 5 p.m. Call 749- 4194 for appointment. TOHR HELPLINE - Staffed daily 8:00 ,p.m. - 10:00 p.m. Call 743-GAYS. TULSA - Tulsa Uniform .and Leather Seekers Association. Call 838-1222 for Call 405~720-0044 for Info. IM , , 2 1. i REV. ELDER NANCY WILSON - Evening Service - 6:00 p.m. at Family of Faith MCC - 5451-E South Mingo: Also featuring Tulsa Family Chorale. Call 622-1441 for Info. !.nfo. ,, WEDNESDAY NIGHT WOMEN’S SUPPER CLUB Meets-at varying locations the 2rid or 3rd Wednesday of each month. . Do:you.have a.group ,or event _that should be listed in the TOHR Community Calendar? Ifso, please Call us at 838-2121; " Every effort Was made to ensurethe accuracy and completeness of this calendar, however, neither Tulsa Family News nor TOHR assumes responsibility for errors or omissions. QUALITY VE "~TISVIATICATION? " ’- ..........HOWDOESA Viaticafion is:the process through which :a person.... - SETTLEMENT.WORK? living withan terminal illness can receive a cash payment -fr0mthe facevalUe of their insurance policy.- ~-:. Withyourwritten permission, we gather medical and " insurance records with which to determine your policy’s WHOIS:ELIGIBLE FOR A -- value. Then, a setflemnt offer is presented toyou, You may always decline the offer with no obligation: VIATICAL SETTLEMENT? whatsoever. Should you accept the offer, payment is .... made directly to you. You pay nothing else on your . Generally, t0be eligible for a viatical settlement you policy, and you owe us nothing. must have a documentable terminal illness, and life insurance coveragein either an individual term, whole ~e, orag~ouppolicy. IS VIATICATING MY HOW MUCH IS MY POHCY WORTH? POLICY THE RIGHT HOWISSO~HWEST : VIATICAL DIFFERENT? Today, many ¢ompanie.s offer viadcal setdements, doing business only by bulk advertising and. 1-800 numbers. Theytlansfer yo,urimurancean0medical.records by mail, and do business from another statel At Southwest¥iatical., webefieve you should be assured of. complete confidentiality and the.best possible service by working with us in person, face-to,face. We are involved on a community lkvel, and are responsible directly to our local community. By .working with yOuin,pers’~m; but at the same time CHOICEFOR ME? h~ving access to nationwide financial resources, we are IVlany factors influence whether viaticating your life ~ able to deliver the best: Value: on your policy :available ......... ’-<The value:bf~~;6u~ :iife i.ii~i~fan~e-p01iey4n-a vi~itieal. ,:,.~..insuran.~:~S~.the~b~s~ financial alternative available for ~. tod,~y..And because o~ o~ established reso~ces, we can ;-) .~:~ ~etflemem. is determined by-the, specifics Of your.p01icy.::!,: ’you. Sofithwest-Viaticalcan digcuss all ofthefactors with : 7 deliver a.set~ement in less than a third, the time o.ther . ,:.andyour uikique medical situati6n. Not every p0li*yd:~ 2.?; ~ou~dy01i~{dnl~er~on,indetailandc~mreco~end -:~ ~ companie~ ,take. bY m~il, typically in f~wer than30.days. suitable for viatication, but settlement offers typically an experienced. Certified Financial Planner to assist you ’We!ll do what it. takes ~ inplanning~e.best°utc°mefr°mY0uruniquefinancial: to findthe hestsolution for you, your.poli~y and medica! history ........ situation.. . " Southwest South Harvard East 41st Street I 4146 Suite F-5 2919 Welborn Dallas, Texas 75219 800/559-4790 Tulsa Office 4146 So. Harvard, Suite F-5 Tulsa, OK 74135-2610 918-747-3320 by Beverly H¢zey, MCCofGreater Tulsa In February, I talked about Paul’ s letter to the Romans. This is the text used most frequently by Christians who argue against homosexuality and the article discussed the words in the text. I would like to discuss why Paul felt it necessary to talk about homosexuality at all. At this time, homosexuality between men was an accepted part of life in Roman and Greek cultures. In Romans, Paul indicates that homosexuality was socially unacceptablejust as long hair was socially unacceptable. In two passages in this chapter, Paul uses strong language to discuss sin. They occur before and after the section on homosexuality but not in it. In Verse 18 of the first chapter, Paul talks about the "ungodliness and wickedness" of people who suppress the truth. "Ungodliness" and "wickedness" are the translation of the Greek words asebeia and adibia. Adibia occurs again in verse 29. This verse lists several things that are ethically wrong, but no sexual offenses. Paul refers to cleanliness or purity laws in Leviticus are still part of Jewish life. It is obvious that Paul is making an issue.of Jewish purity laws here. Jesus was never concerned about purity laws and the Gentile Romans had no such concerns - so w.hy is Paul bringing it up? In verses 22-25, Paul accuses the Christians inRome ofidolatl~. His concern was that they still had their idols and were worshipping them as well .as God. Paul then states two results of their idolatry: one is uncleanness, mad the other, real sin. Paul calls their sexual deeds degra~ting, shameful, dishonorable. He calls their other deeds wickedness, evil, malice. The terminology itself shows a deliberate contrast between what is socially unacceptable and what is ethically wrong. Three times Paul repeats this phrase, "God gave them up." This phrase separates Paul’s lecture into different sections. He begins verse 24 with, "therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity." Paul is introducing the first effect of their idolatry. Paul digresses in praise of God but .......;~ ,: brings himself "~J~" nf-fs.:ta~dm¯ ~ back in verse 26 by repeating his phrase, "for these reasons God gave them up to degrading passions." In verse 28, Paul starts talking about the second effect of idolatry, "God gave .them up to a base mind and things that should not be done." This list is what Paul really considers sin but there is nothing sexual in the list. The question arises whether Paul really disapproves of homosexuality. Paul’s letter addresses two groups: gentile Christians and Jewish Christians. Paul was about to journey to Rome to vi sit the Church and he was paving the way for his visit. Keep in mind, whether Christians should keep Jewish purity laws was a hot debate. The "Council of Jerusalem" as recorded in Acts 15, decreed that Gentiles converted to Christians need not be circumcised nor keep other Jewish laws Just like the church today with its denominations fighting over doctrine, the church then fought over doctrine. Jewish Christians believed that they were superior kcomes with 1 moonroof, 2 airbags, 6 stereo speakers, aad a slewofaccolades. "lhmda’s labors resulted in a new ~ar that’s the strongest, safest, quietest, best i~crtbrming, and most fl~cl-ct~cicnt Accord ever7 ,llotorTivm~ I’~bmarv 1994 "Few cars ot’[’cr ~ts astute a I)]cnd o|’slnoofll ride and adroit road handlintz. "l’hc most frequent remark t’rom editors exiting tim Accord after their drives: ’N<~x\" that is a great ride? "" (;arm~dDrivez January 199-I "\Vhilc l londa goes a~z~.mst the mainstream trcntb, the latest Accord is (}no of die best-engineered cars t~day-with a SCIISC 0~" purpose that sets it apart t~off~ the crowd? Popuhv’,~irm~: ~ lay 1994 "Few vehicles have capn~rcd the hearts and minds ofAmcricat~ mttonmbilc buyers like the I londa ..\ccord7 ,llotorTivm/. I’~bruarv 1994 AccordEXSedan don carlton because of their purity laws and were t~Nt~g~,to i,mpose them Oll Gentile ~hrist~ans. Paul was known to side with the Gentile Christians but he had to be tactful to try not to offend anyone. Part of his letter to the Romans addresses Jewish Christians, playing on their sense of superiority. He wants to win their good will, so he seemingly takes their side by putting down the Gentiles for their homosexual acts. By chapter 2, Paul has :. gently turned th~"conversation arotmd and .- is rebuking those,,who judge others. His ~ language gets and naive rg~adl.n~ ot~ stronger as he 3900 S. Memorial ¯ Tulsa, OK 74145 (918) 622-3636 the Scripture has led many sincere ~ollower~ dJesus astray. They oppose and oppress lesbian and gay people in the name of the Apostle Paul." - Father Daniel A. Helmlnlah points out their real sil~~ of the JewishChristians. Theg-- steal commit adultery, and rob temples. Paul calls for purity of the heart. Likewise, Paul doesn’t let the Gentile Christians off the hook. In chapter 9, he rebukes them for feeling they are superior to the Jewish Christians. In actuality, Paul’s reference to homosexuality serves as a rhetorical function alone. He chose homosexuality because it was not a sensitive issue. The debate over clean and unclean food was a hot issue as well as whether circumcision was required for conversion to Christianity. Homosexuality was a point of differenCe, but apparently there was no argument over it. The Gentiles were well aware of the Jews’ attitude toward homosexuality, but they shrugged the whole thing off. In chapter 2, verse 22, Paul even condenms.the .Icws for judging the Geutiles lbr their idolatry. Thc wholc pu~ose of Romans is a lcct;,’c on thc sin ofjud~ng others. Ronmns 14: 13-14 says. "let us ~eretbre no longer pass judgcmcnt on one mlother, but resolve instead never to pnl a stumbling block or laindrancc m the wav of another. I know and am persuaffed in the Lord Jesus that nothing ~s unclean in itself; but it is unclcm~ I’or anyone who flfi~s it nnclean. "" In his book entitled, What the Ihbh, Really Says About Homose.ruali~, b~ l)r. D~el A. HelmiNg, a Roman {?a~mlic priest, wfites:"A long-standing and naivc reading of the Scripture has led man~ sincere followers of Jesus astray. Thcv op~se~doppress lesbian~dgay peoplc in ~e nmne of ~e A~sfle Paul. Bolstcrcd by sociN prejudice and zeNous iu thcir sex~ self-fighteotmness, C~sfians havc been misreading Paul’s letter to lhc Romps ~d rejecting members of the C~sfi~ co~u~tv because of it. "" Yet, to ins~e ~e t~fity of ~lievers was a major reason for Paul’ s writings. Paul insisted on fM~ andlove as ~e dfings that really matter ~n Christ. By nusunderstanding Paul’s argument, people unwittingly rely on tastes and customs .instead of the Word of God. They ~guc about what"s dirty or unclean,.disputc who’s pure and impure, aud pll heterosexuM against homosexuM. Tiros. they divide and splinter the church ovcr what does not matter in Cl~st. In God’s name they foment hatred mid [’ncl oppressio~ ~d disrnpt ,sodiety at largc. They comet a grave injusfi~ - the very offehse that Patti’ s letter meant to cotmter. Metropolitan Community Church of Greater Tulsa Where God [rplifts All-People Sunday Service. 10:45 ~nn Wednesday Service. 6:30 pm Home Cell"Gronps, 2nd & 4th Suuda\ s 1623 No..X Iaplewood, Tulsa 74115. 838-1715 ¯ Sunday Services 11:00 am ¯ Wednesdays 6:30 pm Potluck 7:00 pm Bible Study ¯ 8:00 pm Choir Practice I To do justice, love mercy & to walk humbly With our God... Micah 6:8 ] I 5451-E S. Mingo ¯ Tulsa, OK74146 . (918) 622-1441 Bless The Lord At All Times CHRISTIAN CENTER Sunday School, 9:45 Tues. Minister’s Class, 7:30 Sunday Services, 11 am & 6:30 pm Wed. tntercessionary Prayer, 7 pm 2627-B East 11th, 583-7815, messages, Eddie Cook, pastor Because everyone has a right to be blessed by God! 2 ,[ READ ALL ABOUT IT bv Barry Henslev Tulsd Ci&-Co’un~. Library The results of the November 1992 elections included the passage of an unprecedented piece of legislation "known as Amendment 2, in Colorado. It effectively banned any city or town in the state, including the three which already .had gay rights laws,, from including the :words sexual orientation in auv antidiscrimination !aws. This amendment passed by 53% of the vote after a divisive campmgn led by the group Colorado for Fmnily Values. In "Gas" Politics vs Colorado and America,:" author Stephen Bransford explains ONE side of the story of the origins of this law and the impassioned people who focused most of their daih" lives during the election can~paign to fife passage of this amendment. Bransford explains his theory that this law was really just a necessary correction of unfairand restrictive gay fights laws which he alleges preveuted average citizens from fully realizing their rights to religious freedom. He believes that protecting gay citizens from tmreasonable haras_sment, firings and denial of housing, places an excessive burden ou other c~tizens who may have a personal or religious right to discmninate. In short, gay rights laws infringe on personal freedo~ns more than Amen&nent 2 infringes on the rights of gay citizens to equal treatment under the law. Br~asford’ s writing sUle is elementary, with many one mad two-word sentences. He often slants his arguments by using [the. author says about Colorado’s Amendment 2]: "It had yielded a polltleal vletory for fairness & justlee, not a moral Vletory for the reli4ous tight " His next sentence: "’Th~ " Colorado approach reeo$nlzed the fact thdt. llke h or not. Amerlea has retreated from its Judeo-Chrlstlan roots." He is apparently unable to see the eontradletlon. incomplete information and iaflannnatolx language. Situations are superficiallY, explained to appeal to basic fear~. Sympathetic readers will nod in agreement. Others will easily note contradictions throughout the book. An example of this is when Bransford claims that neither morals uor religious bias had an3 part of Alnendment 2’ s passage: "It had yielded a political victory for faimess mad justice, not a moral victory for the ,religious right." His next sentex~ce: "The Colorado approach recognized the fact that, like it or not, America has retreated from its Judeo-Christian roots." He is appareutly tmable to see the contradiction. Bransford’s astonislnuent at a Colorado judge blocking enforce~nent of 2 results in tiffs: "Like the assumption of ixmocence, why cau’ta good law be constitutional until proven otherwise?". His criteria for determining what is a "’good" law, other than majority rule, is not explained. The U.S. Supreme Court recentlya~eed to decide tiffs case, and the result will have a widespread impact. This book is an important exmnple of the mindset and logic of the people who calnpaigned so vehemently to pass Amendment 2. Should tiffs subject arise locally, this book will provide a valtmble eyeopener for you to share with relatives, coworkers and politicians. Check the Central Library Readers Service departmeut at 596-7966 for tiffs title mad books on the other side of tiffs debate, such as "Created Equal: Why Gay Rights Matter to America" by Michael Nava, and "’A More Perfect Union: Why Straight America Must Stand Up for Gay Rights" by Richard Mohr. Other recent.titles of interest include: *"Uncharted Lives: Understanding the Life Passages of *"Science of Desire: The Search for the Gay Gene" by Dean Hanaer Gay Men" by Stmfley Siegel *"Soldier Of the Year" by Jose Zuniga *"Queer mad Loathing" by David Feinberg *"Dance Against Time"’by Diane Sohvav Elder Nancy Wilson at Family Of Faith The Reverend Elder Nancy L. Wilson will be presenting a special message at . Fatnily of Faith Metropolitan Commmffty Church, 5451-E South Mingo, on Sunday, May 21st at 6:00 p.m. Rev. Wilson, who will be in Tulsa for the South Central District Conference hosted at the Mamott Southern Hills from May 18 - 21, is : currently the Vice MOderator of the Univers~ Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches and €he Senior Pastor of Metropolitan~-C0mm~nity Church of Los Ang¢l~s. ; - ~: - :~ . Nancy Wilson has been active in the Universal Fellowship siuce 1972. She was first elected to the Board of Elders of the Universal Fellowslfip of Metropolitan Community Churches in 1976, and has subsequently been re-elected to four consecutive terms. Rev. Wilson has recently completed work on gay and lesbian theology and her book, Outing the Bible, will be publishedby Harper/Collins in the sunlmerof this year. Elder Wilson has been the UFMCC representative in front of the National Council of Church~s at the General Assembly mad the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches. She remains in the forefront of human fights issues. Family of Faith welcomes the Reverend Elder Nancy Wilson as she comes to present a message to the gay and lesbian religious community of Tulsa Tulsa -Family Chorale, Tulsa’ s gay and lesbian chorus sponsored.by Lola’s, will be performing at the service. Everyone is welcome to attend. For more information, please call 622-1441. WE UNDERSTAND. TWO WORDS TOO SIMPLE TWO SECONDS 2 That’s all the time it takes to say ’,We Understand" But how often do .you hear your real estate agent say them? Experience the power of TWO! The Nicholas Team. Jonathan & Dee Nicholas and their team of licensed associates will make buying and selling a home a positive experience. So, TAKE TWO and call us in the Morning! Jonathan & Dee Nicholas " (918) 749-3000 "Selling the Dream, the Nicholas Team!" RE/MAX Metropolitan, REALTORS 6400 S. Lewis, Tulsa, OK 74136 Club RSVP Puerto Vallarta, Mexico April 23-30 and November tl-l& ’95 From 595 lncludef: 7 night6 accommodation. All meal& Imported & domeftic beverage6. ~ Club RSVP celebrity entertainment.. Club RSVP activitie& *Per oer6on double occupancy price ba6ed on A19ril 23 Club RSVR ~it:ooalll to t:ooalll. Gratuitie6 are included. Call International Tours 9/8-34/-686~ Bud Wharton, Mortgages By Design, Inc. AuthorofSellTrac2000. asales training" program for loan officers and Realtors, Bud Wharton is a national speaker, sales trainer and mortgage banker. Bud addresses thousands of industry professionals each year, training in the area~, ofbusiness development, technical expertise and motivation. The American Dream has been expressed in mlmerous ways over time, but nolle has come to have more meamng or to provoke more action than that of home ownership. A sense of prid~ and security, of permanence and belonging, as well as having invesunent, eqtuty, tax shelter & retirement benefits - all contribute to the desire and motivation to own one’s own home. As a commtmity ofGay men & Lesbians, we find ourselves to be as diverse as the general population in seeking to attain balance in our lives. Often confronting the personal struggles of fitting in, transition or knowing where we belong, we hesitate to establish ourselves in traditional ways. Is this because we don’t want to’? Not necessarily! More.times than not it, is a matter Of being equipped with sufficient knowledge and information from which to base an intelligent decision or form a positive direction. In other words, when we or anyone can come to grips with "how" we can achieve any goal, be it home ownership, career advancement or a satisfying personal relationship, the ability to realize that goal increases 100%. Home ownership is something each of us can experience. Yet within the American Gay culture, there exists a considerably lower percentage of home ownership "compared to other social ~oups. Understanding why this occurs is as simple as understanding traditional American values of how and when home ownership plays into the life eqtmtion. For many it is when they find themselves involved in a committed relationship. Raising a fanfily,hedging against inflation, saving tax dollars or building equit) vs payi,ng rent’can also be sufficient to p_r~voke the decision - it’s time to enjoy h’~ine ownership. Interestingly, ag~, position in life, or economic status have little or nothing to do with one’s ability to own their own home. Usually it is those other value oriented factors aforementioned. Perhaps your goal is to build that perfect dream home or ....Choosing a Realtor can become ~noveuptoalarger almost as stressful as findln, tl~t home situated in a d i f f e r e n perlTeet property....Who are they? neighborhood. Are they working for me? Will- Maybe it’s a they understand the needs, values matter of diversifying yourinvesor security issues of Gay people? tment potential and rental pro-. perty is your goal. Whatever it is, from first time homebuyer to property baron, nothing happens until action is taken. Where does the process begin? In today’s econolmcenvironment, with your mortgage lender! Doesn’t it make sense to start with where the money comes from in order to establish what can realistically buy and borrow? ]~his procegs is referred to as prequalification. Essentially it is a process of analyzing income, d~bt, and your credit history to determine a maximum loan amount and property value suited to your financial profile. Tiffs consultation service is typically providedat no cost and should deliver to you a wealth of information, options mad choices (including a cost estimate mad breakdown specific to projected purchase price) from which to base your decisions. Knowing what you can then achieve, it’s time to visit with a Realtor. All too often tlfis process is mistakcnly rcvc~:scd Choosing a Realtor can bccoulc almost as stressflil as finding that perfcct propcrty.,. mad a flood of questions cross your ufind. Who are they? Are they worki’ng lk)r mc? Do they ki~ow how to truly negotiate on my behalf? \\’ill they laldcrstand thc uccds. values or security issncs of gay pcoplc? Are they a property specialist m thc arca or neigl~borhood I ,’an intcrcsted iu? Arc they more interested in making the salc or mb~d"ng a satisfied customer? Ifyou cannot . put these.questions to rest in making one of the biggest economic decisions of vonr life, it’s time tostep.back: Going into a bad situation would be like-receiving an improper medical diagnosis from a lcss than competent practitioner - vou’rc uncomfortable! This is anotli’e~ good reasou to start with your mortgage lender, as they work with Realtors every &U and have a keeu perception, based on experience, who can best represent your needs. Over the COlmng tuonths in this cohunn. TheHomefront, ~ve will cxplorc various aspects of the home ownership process and experience. The next subject will be credit and yore" rating. More people think their credit is worse than it really is by mortgage lending standards, hi many cas~s it is easier to get a home mortgage than it is to get a VISA card! No credit does not equal bad credit, and bad credit Is morc appropriately defined byits severity. \Vc will discuss how for~vi]lg a lender can bc and those special alternate’loan programs designed to overcome credit challenges. (editors #tote: Bud Wharton ts vice president ofMortgages By Design. hw. Claremore, OK - serving all of Green Country.) PRID.E Renting and considering Buying? Moving up or Investing? Credit Problems? Mortgages By Design will custom fit the right home loan to YOUR needs! ~- -~ /t - ~ ;i~i / \ ~ No. Cost Credit Counseling ~’No 1st Time Home Buyer Lock & Shop 0% to 3% Down Pre-Qualifying Construction Best Interest Rates Refinancing We want to show you how you can experience the American Dream of owning your own home. Because we’re not trying to sell you anything (we provide a service) you can expect No Pressure, No Hassle and No Hidden Agendas. Our goal is to create solutions! If you need a Realtor who will workfor YOU, we can help take the guess work out of the selection process and gladly refer you tosomeone most suited to your likes and needs. For Detail~ CalL" BUD WHARTON Vice President Branch Manager (918) 342~4252 Serving Tulsa and Surrounding Communities Mortgages By Design Gives Back To Our Community For e~ch Ioen d(~,ed, we w~l donate $100.00 to Tulsa OkJahomans For Human Rights or to ~e foundalJon of your choice. FINANCINGTHEALL AMERICAN DREAM Responsible Roommate- Wanted ’for a Taste Jim Red Earth Bears Spring Activities Red Em-th Bem’s was ofliciallv bona on DecefliSai: 11.1994. Anal being less thm~ four monflls old still qualifies us for cub slams (besides, if you feel like a cub. you m’e a cub). But we" re a very big cub& we" re getting large’r by dm month. We have close to 5b paid members and over a lnmdred on our mailing list uow. The steeriug committee decided daere" s uo mason to have only one REB event each moud]. April & May will bear muldple opportmfi tie~ for bears, cubs and their adufirers to get together. And remember, you don" t have to be a member of Red Earth Bem’s (REB) to participate in may of our outiugs. ofLocal Flavor" & Brent Invite You to Chelsea’s_ On Saturday, ~i\pril 22. the Show Me Bears (SMB) re’five in OKC. The next day REB will host ,’m al’temoon B5~()B cookout for the St Louis Club. This. potluck cookout is set for lfigh uoon to 3pm. This event is ,also the deadliue for folks to turn in their ideas for the REB logo. Ou Sat.. April 29. REB plans to lffke in the Wichita Mouutains in SW OK. The trail head is about 1,Q hours from OKC so we" 11 leave at 7:30am in order to savor some quality mountaiu moruiug time. We’ll hike d~rot|gh forests, grasslmlds mad a beautiflfl water-filled canyon Afterwards, we’ll eat al the fmnous Meets restaur,’mt. We’ll arrive back in OKC around eight or mue o" clock. The next day. Sun. April 30, REB will go bowling. Tiffs is fine make-up event originally plmmed in Marcia. We’ 11 meet at Brmlswick Heritage Bowl just south of N’W 122nd mid Pem~ in OKC at lpln. The finals of a gay bowling toummneut coiucides with our bowliug so the 1,’rues Serving Lunch & Dinner. Noon to 10pro Eclectic Menu * Moderate Prices FOR SALE: Beautifully remodeled lake home. ~end $.~.95 eheek or money order Approximatel.v 4 miles north of Wagoner, near entrm~ce to recreation park. Ideal for weekenders or year ’round 6528 D-I E ]Ol~,l Adult Acco/nnlodalions tranquil living. Features include large rec room, living-bedroom Tul~,~, OK 741~I,3-675-1 Frank Green, Jr. Host combo with fireplace, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, kitchen plus dining room. Patio. Large 10t; Must enelo~.~ )’our signatur~ and Eureka Springs, Arkansas 72632 chain-link fence. Mature trees statement staling: that ~u~21. Priced at only $26,500 for quick _,._~...~__~__j_._.~_~._~_~_.€.__.~_._.€.___~___,,_.~ sale. Come see for 3,ourself’. Phone 462-7265 ¯art ~’ontest ~ Pool Shootout Manual Drive Train & Axles Engine Performance Electrical Systems Suspension & Steering Motor Home Rental & Repair Heating & Air Conditioning Fleet Service Available Free or low-cost towing OU Sat. May 6, First Splash in Austiu always attracts a healflay bear contingent. A low-priced package tliat includes tent accolnmodations mid food is available. Call Jerolne Scheer at the REB phone number - 405- 732-9808. On Suu. afternoon, May 21, a Bear Bust is plmmed for ]Levis in OKC. During the Memorial Day weekend. REB heads to the very woofy gay rodeo in OKC wifla a pool party on Monday.. Fiually, a cmnping trip ts plammd for Lake Tlmnderbird ou Jmm 10th, mid the Gay Pride.festivities will end the month. Other summer activities include a weekeud trip to Tulsa (Tulsa REB folks: tell us what to do tlfis weekend) mad a Bear Hug at the Habmaa hm in Aug. or Sept. The REB Newsletter is published with your help of ma manual lnembership fee of ten dollars. REB’s address is Red Earth Bears, PO Box 57561, OKC, OK 73157-7561. 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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. 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 Serving Tulsa’s Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual Communities - Our Families of the Heart May 15 - June 14, 1995, Volume 2, Issue 6 400 Expected at So. Central MCC District Conference Precious in God’s Sight: Sacred Earth, Sacred People The Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches (MCC) will hold tlie 1995 annual conference for its South Central District on May !8-21 at Tulsa’s Southern Hills Marriott. 1902 East 71st Street, 493-7000. During the conference, participants will elect a District Coordinator at the District Business meeting as well as worshiping together. The Reverend Elder Nancy Wilson, pastor ofMCC Los Angeles will speak at the opening and see Conference, page 3 Family of Faith Welcomes New Pastor Nancy Horvath The Reverend Nancy Horvath began as pastor ofMCC Family of Faith Sunday May 7. Horvath, recently pastor of MCC Joie de Vivre in Baton Rouge, Louisiana is joined in Tulsa by her spouse, Barb Horvath-Zurn and their3 year old son,Zach. TFNrecently had the opportunity to discuss her background, her experiences in Baton Rouge and hopes for and challenges of Tulsa with Pastor see Horvath. page 3 Tulsa Gay Churches Honor 44th National Day of Prayer TULSA, OK - The Metropolitan Community Churches ofTnlsa, Family ofFaith MetropolitanCommunity Church and°the Metropolitan Community Church of" Greater Tulsa honored the 44th National Day of Prayer Thursday, May 4 in a ceremony at Bartlett Square in downtown Tulsa. Pastors Alice Jones and Nancy Horvath with a small number of lay people prayed for greater tolerance and respect for.all persons...... ; Thefollowing is of the statement read to the participants and onlookers: "We pray for an end to the hatred of which the Oklahoma City bombing, the most recent massacre in see Prayer, page 11 Pride ’95 Logo - Artist: Kelly Vandiver Tulsa Pride Picnic- Sunday June 18th, Mohawk Park OKC Parade- June 24th TOHR Follies- June 30th The Tulsa Pride Picnic will be held on Sunday, June 18, at Mohawk Park in Shelter #6 off of Cherokee Drive. Beginning at noon, the picnic will offer free drinks, food will be available at low cost and community organizations and businesses will offer information and goods at booths under the trees During the afternoon, volleyball and softball games will be.held and atz2pm; Tulsa Family- Chorale and the OklahOma city Gay Marching Band will perform. Volunteers are needed to help with food and with clean-up. Community organizations or businesses see Pride, page 14 Lesbian Clinton Official to Run For SF Mayor WASHINGTON - The Clinton administration has lost its highest ranking openly gay official with the announcement that Roberta Achtenberg would resign her post as an assistant secretary in the Department of Housing and Urban Development. In her letter of resignation to Presiden! Clinton, Achtenberg said she would step down effective April 30. Achtenberg will return to her home in San Francisco where she is expected to run for mayor see Lesbian Mayor, page 3 Researchers: AIDS Education Efforts Work SAN FRANCISCO- According to health researchers at the University of California at San Francisco, there is growing evidence that a substantial decrease in the rate of ttlV infection can be and has been achieved through intensive prevention efforts aimed at those most at risk in the AIDS epidemic, and that the major stumbling block to curbing the spread of the virus among vulnerable populations are outmoded social policies. The report, published,in the Journal see Education, page 7 Civil Rights Protections Proposed in Poland WARSAW - Prompted by pressures toconform to the mandates of the European Union, which the country wants to join, a special commission that is working on drafting a post- Communist constituuon for Poland has included legal protections th at would extend protections based on sexual orientation. Sixteen of the 29 parliamentary deputies who are drafting the constitution voted to include the constitutional see Poland, page 7 Major Victory in Oregon SALEM, Ore. - The Oregon Court of Appeals has ruled that local and county governments cannot pass laws that discriminate against gays. The ruling strikes down ann-gay rights ordinances passed in some 27 Oregon cities and counties during the past 2 years and upholds alaw passed by the state legislature prohibiting such local measures. The appeals court panel unanimously ruled that the state legislature has preemptive rights over matters of "substantive policy" issues such as civil rights legislation. Ex-Klan Leader Wants PWA’s to be Tattooed LOS ANGELES - David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader who also served as a Lomsiana state representative, recently told The Advocate that people infected with AIDS should be tattooed in the genital area, "maybe even with glow-in-thedark ink." Duke, ~vhois currently considenngrunningforgovernor of Louisiana, explained that the AIDS tattoos would serve as a warning to prospective sexual partners. Duke also said he see Duke. page 3 Work Equality Project NE\V YORK - New York state Assemblywoman Deborah Glick, the state’s only openly gay le~slator and the co-chair of the International Network of Lesbian & Gay Officials,joined withNew York City Councilman Tom Duane and San Francisco Supervisor Carol Migden and the Wall Street Project in launching a program to promote non-discrimination policies by businesses and institutions throughout the country. Known as the "Equality Principles on Sexual Orientation," the guidelines are designed to see Work Project, page 3 Hope Candle Light Tour: Big Bucks for AIDS Care & OK HIV/AIDS Conference TULSA, OK - Organizers of the fifth Hope Candlelight Tour hope to raise nearly $100,000 for two AIDS service organizations: St. Joseph’s House and tLaAN, Regional AIDS Interfaith Network of EaStern Oklahoma. Despite heavy rains that lowered attendance on May 6 & 7. respectable crowds made their way from several elegma~ homes that had been opened in one of Tulsa’s most elite neighborhoods, see Hope, page 11 TOHR Endorses Lesbian/ Gay Marriage Resolution Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights (TOHR) unanimously endorsed at its April membership meeting a resolution calling for Lesbians and Gay men to marrx legally. The resolution reads: Because marriage is. a fundamental right under our Constitution, and becasue the Constitution guarantees equal protection of the law, see Resolution, page 3 Rainbow Business Guild Chooses 1995 Officers Tulsa’s Lesbian/Gay & Lesbian/Gay friendly business organization, Rainbow Business Guild, elected new officers at its April meeting. Founding officers, Tim Gillean, Frank Going & Kevin Palmer turned over leadership to Leanne Gross, and Bud Wharton, co-chairs, Barbara Bellar, secretary, and Tom Neal, treasurer. RBG will hold its next meeting on Monday, May 22 at 7pm at the. O!iveGarden Restmarant at Utica Square. Dinner dues fi~e $10. Rainbow BuSiness Grild ig~open to business owners, professionals, company empl~.~;e~~ students and others interested in business with a Lesbian Gay perspective. For more info. call 832-0233. Virginia High Court Rules Against Lesbian Mom RICHMOND, Va. - The Virginia Supreme Court split 4- 3 in ruling that Sharon Bottoms could be denied custody of her 3-year-old son Tyler because she is a lesbian and her sexual orientation could lead to the child facing social condemnation growing up. The court overturned a state appeals court ruling that wouldhave allowed Bottoms to get custody of her son, whose custody is being challenged by the woman’s mother. In the court majority decision, Justice A. Christian Compton said, "The mother is an unfit custodian at this time, and the child’s best interests would be promoted by awarding custody to the grandmother.’" Elizabeth Birch, executive director of the Human Rights Campaign Fund, said of the decision, "’Anyone who truly cares about families should be morally outraged that the government has taken a child from his own loving mother because of ether people’s pre judices. This is an anti-famil v decision that is clearly notin th~ best interests of the child." Virginia activists are see Mom, page 7 Military Update Court Victory for Sailor AI,EXANDRL~, Va. - Navy Lt. Paul Thomasson has become the latest member of the U.S. armed forces to challenge the "don’t ask, don’t tell" policy. Thomasson’s lawyers argued in court that the policy not only is a violation of constitutional guarantees of free speech, but that the Navy by enforcing it against Thomasson would be kicking out "one of its finest" service members. Thomasson, in addition to his stellar record first as a pilot and later in a Washington, D.C. staff post, has received glowing commendations from former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Colin Powell whom he hel.ped prepare for congressional testimony, among other Navy brass. The Navy is trying to discharge Thomasson, however, because the day after the new see Military, page 7 918-832-0233 Publisher~ditor POB 4140 Tom Neal Assistant E~litor Tulsa, Oklahoma James Christjohn 74159-01z10 Writers/contributors Kharma Amos Laurie Cooper Maureen Curtin Staff Photographer TulsaNews@aol.com JD Jamett Issued on or before the 15th of each month, the entire contents of this publication are protected by US copyright 1995 by Tulsa F~mily News and may not be reproduced either in whol~m’in@art wi.thout written permission from the publisher. Public~ti0n of a name or photo does not indicate that person’s sexual orientation. Correspondence is assumed to be for publication unless otherwise noted, must be signed & becomes the sole property of Tulsa Family News. All correspondence should be sent to the address above. Each reader is entitled to one free copy of each edition at distribution locations. Additional copies are available atTomfoolery! Civil Rights For Tulsa Lesbians & Gay Men Who Decides What’s Best for Us? by Tom Neal. publisher i’diversity"training that includes followed up to see what Savage Many of you remember the raucous and bruising public hearings held almost a year ago by the City of Tulsa’s Human Rights Commission and its Standing Committee on Sexual Orientation. Some of you may know that these two bodies revised their report and sent it to our Mayor, M. Susan Savage and to our City Council. Few of you probably know what, if anything, has happened since then. The report had several recommendations. One called on the City Council to mnend our current human rights ordinance to add the words, sexual orientation. This would protect heterosexuals, homosexuals and "bisexuals from invidious discrimination. Court rulings thus far have held that discrimination based on actual or perceived sexual orientation is illegal only where the term, sexual orientation or its equivalent, affectional orientation, etc. is explicitly used. At this time, our City Council is overwhelmingly hostile to such protections. . The other recommendations, however, were not directed at the City Council. These recommendahons call for our Mayor to issue executive orders banning discrimination in c~ty hiring, to order our police dept. to begin Issues of sexual orientation and to collect hate crime statistics for attacks based on actual or perceived sexual orientation Officially, at least, none of these actions have been taken now five months later. ...we, as a community, must learn how to get involved in the polltleal proeess....while we’re waiting for the [Sexual Orientation] Committee sehmoaze civil rights protections into being, call your councilperson and the mayor... You may be thinking of many of the same questions Tulsa Family News has been asking, i.e., what progress has been made, and if nothing, why not? You may want to know who’s representing us, and what kind of job are they doing. You may be surprised at how little is going on. Afew members of the Standing Committee on Sexual Orientation met with the Mayor, but apparently haven’t has done. Apparently they didn’t even ask her to do much, i.e., implement the reco~rmiendations of the report that call for action on the part of the Mayor, not the City Council. Savage has since refused to protect city employees from discrimination (seeTFN v.2 #4). Savage also promised toissue a generic condemnation of discrimination. These sorts of statements rarely do Lesbians and Gay menany good, since the statements are usually seen as applying to "legitimate" minorities and women. Where we’re not explicitly included, we "re usually excluded. Committee members should have rejected this idea as soon as Mayor Savage said it. So who are the folks - representing us? They i~n,c.lude Dennis Neill and Kelly Kirby, past presidents of Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights (TOHR); Nancy McDonald of local & regional PFLAG; Bill Hinkle, also of PFLAG, and others. These folks are individuals of courage who have histories of fighting for fair treatment of Lesbians and Gay men. It seems we have goodfolks trying to represent our interests, but are they? Some of this group seem to have selected a stealth strategy. see Who Decides, page 3 by Robert Bray Right aroun~l this time of year I get my annual reminders that my loving relationship with my partner John is not worth much in the eyes of society. Perhaps it’s my income tax returns, which givemeno opdon except to file single because our union is not "valid." Or maybe it’s the mailbox of invitations atmouncmg the June weddings of my straight friends and relatives. Or it could be all those glowing bride and groom advertisements just in time for the upcoming nuptial season. Marriage has been onmymind a lot lately. To be honest, I’m not certain if it’s my wedding I’mpondering (wehaven’tbegun those discussions ye0. But the subject of same-sex marriage is rapidly rising into the consciousness of many Americans and has already made national headlines and front-page news around the country. And it’s clearly in the cross-sights of the Radical Right. Aggressive pre-emptive strikes against same-sex marriage have already been launched in at least three states with more attacks expected. Alaska, Utah and South Dakota have or are now facing pro-active bans on same-sex marriage. They clearly are designed to head off an affirmative ruling expected later this year or early 1996 on a pending gay marriage casein Hawaii. A Congressional threat may be forthcoming, too. Newt Gingrich rarely misses an opportunity to demean gay relationships. In 1992, the Republican Party specifically stated an oppositaon to same-sex marriages in its Platform. The issue is sure to be raised as we enter a new election cycle. The Radical Right plans to capitalize on society’s vigorous opposition to same-sex marriage and use it as a fundraising and political orgamzing weapon to streng~en its "traditional family values agenda. Expect more attacks on not only same-sex marriage but also gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender families, including foster parenting, adoption and child custody. It’s time for our side to sound the alarm. We are asking for the equal right to marry the one we love and care for, just as non-gay Clubs & Restaurants *Bad Boys Club, 1229 S. Memorial *Barraccuda’s Wild Nights/Donna’s Crazy Days 2405 E. Admiral *Concessions, 3340 S. Peoria *Lola’s, 2630 E. 15th *Metropole, 1902 E. 11 *Silver Star Saloon, 1565 Sheridan *Renegades, 1649 S. Main *TNT’s, 2114 S. Memorial *Time n’Time Again, 1515 S. 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They suggested that if wejust kept the public and the press uninformed, that we could avoid conflict and get this ordinance passed. Obviously neither happened. We would argue that this approach is not only undemo~ cratic, but is politically naive. Tulsa Family News recognizes that the members of the Standing Committee on Sexual Orientation have no legal obligation to meet with our community organizations, nor to solicit the breadth of opinion from those I whom they proport to represent. j However, we suggest that the Standing Committee has a powerful ethical obligation to discuss their strategies with those whose rights remain denied. Practically speaking, this "behind the scenes maneuvering" will not be enough at some point and they will need us. You would think that these folks would be going to TOHR, toour churches, to Prime Timers, to the Women’s Supper Clubs and other groups to let our communities know where we stand and what’w~ need to do to help. Besides giving them the support they need, we, as a community, must learn how to get involved in the political ] process.Wehave the opportunity cont’dfrom p. 2 to show the city that we’re part of this city. In the meantime, while we’re wa~ for the Committee schmooze civil fights protections into being, call your coun-cilperson and the mayor. Ask to meet with your connselor and the Mayor. It’s your right. Mayor Savage: 596-7411, fax: 596-9010, City Council: 596- 1990. For those interested in getting involved in theseissues, TOHR has established a Civic Affairs committee to organize community efforts. It will meet next on Monday, June 5 at 7pm at the Gathering Room of the HIV Resource Consortium. TFN editorials represent the views of the writer- not those of advertisers nor other contributors. Letters are welcome. Marriage cont’dfrom p. 2 people prefer that they -- and not the state should have the right to decide whether and whom to marry. The subject of same-sex marriage offers many political challenges and organizing opportunities and numerous questions for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender activists. It’s time for that dialogue to begin. Questions that may need to be considered as we move this issue forward: ¯ Do we really need or want the right to marry? ¯ Do bisexual activists have a different view ofthis subject than gay and lesbian people? ¯ Are there differences in the way gay men and lesbians analyze the institution of marriage? ¯ What about concerns that the institution of marriage itself gay or straight -- perpetuates a moral hierarchy with different economic and social privileges? -- Those in couples (viewed as "’monogamous") receive social and economic rewards because of their implied moral status. Meanwhile, single people (viewed as "’promiscuous") do not. This community discussion and dialogue must also include an awareness of the orgamzing and education efforts of grassroots groups, including the Hawaii Equal Rights Marriage Project and NaMamoo Hawai’i. Na Manlo, a new statewide civil rights group of indigenous gay, lesbian, bisexual aud transgender people, is doing work around homophobia, racism and classism and how they connect to the marriage issue. As we advance the issue of our right to marry, we must not perpetuate themyththatmarriage is the only way that "true" families are organized. Weneed To have and to hold. It’s about havlnd the rights andresponsibilities of leSM and soeietal reeognltlon of our loving unions. to advance simultaneously both our right to marry and a redefinition of "family" that is an honest reflection of the diversity of family structures extended families, step-families, single par.e.nt households, grandparents rinsing grandchildren, divorced parents, adopted children, foster families. Wemust nnite with-the majority of others who do not fit the model that is considered "traditional." What is your role in the samesex marriage battle? There are manyways togetinvolved. First, help get the word out. Educate the public. Tell your faniily, friends and coworkers about same-sex marriage issues. Sponsor a community forum on tllis topic. Write letters to die editor and get the press to cover the subject. Also, you can take action. Consider organizing a marriage license "’refuse-in" at your local city clerk office. Get an organization you are involved in to sign on to the Lambda Marriage Resolution a document supported by numerous national organizations, including Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF), Latino/a Lesbian & Gay Organization, National Center for Lesbian Rights, Gay & Lesbian Parents Coalition International, and many more. Tohave andtohold. It’s about having the rights and responsibilities of legal and societal recognition of our loving umons. It’s about holding close not only our loved ones, but also the democratic principles of fairness and equality often denied us because ofwho we are and whom we love. And most of all, it’s about creating and strengthening diverse families and forming relationships free of discrimination and prejudice. Robert Bray is longtime staff member of the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force. TOHR co,,edfrom p. Resolved, the State should permit Gay cmd Lesbian couples to marry and share fully and equally in the rights and responsibilities ofmarriage. This resolution sponsored by Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force, Na " " seenext column to right Work. cont’dfrom p. 1 "provide a framework for an ethical standard that all corporations, universities, and other institutions can voluntarily -embrace in their business practices." Businesses that sign the principles would commit themselves to not discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation orH1V status in sales, purchasing or employmentpractices. The 8- point non-discrimination policy statement states: "To become successful in the ever-competitive world of business, a company must strive to create anenvironment in which all employees are treated with respect. Through the cultivating of diversity in the wprkplace, a company can draw fully upon the potential, for creativity and commitment represented by all its employees. Implementation of these Equality Principles on Sexual Orientation are an important step in that direction. 1. Explicit prohibitions against discrimination based on sexual orientation will be included in the company’s written employment policy statement. 2. Discrimination against HIV positive employees or those with AIDS will be strictly prohibited. 3. Employee groups, regardless of sexual orientation, will be given equal standing with other employee associations. 4. Diversity training will include sexual orientataon issues. 5. Spousal benefits will be offered to domestic partners of employees, regardless of sexual orientation, on an equal basis with those granted to married employees. 6. Company adve.rtisi~ag policy will bar negative sexual orientation stereotypes and will not discriminate in media advertising on the basis of sexual orientation. 7. Companies will not discriminate in the sale and purchase of goods and services on the basis of sexual orientation. 8. Written non-discrimination policies on sexual orientation must be disseminated throughout the company. A senior company official will be appointed to monitor compliance corporate wide. Mamo o Hawaii mid the Hawaii Equal Rights Marriage Project. A Hawaii court decision may legalize same gender marriage by the end of this year or early next vear. 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Jesse Helms (R-NC) portraying her as a "’dangerous radical" and "dmnn lesbian." In her letter to the. President, Achtenberg thanked Clinton for his support in "’a challenging confirmation process." But she went on to say that "I feel the need to return to the city I Call home.’" Conf. cont’dfrom p. l closing services onThu~sdav and Sun.day. Others leading worship services are the Reverend Sandi Robinson, president, Samaritan College, Judy Dale, district coordinator, Great Lakes District-UFMCC, the Reverend Renee Phillips, pastor of MCC. Lubbock and the Reverend Dexter Brecht, pastor of Vieux Carre MCC New Orleans. Saturday night,afterabanquet, there will be a dance. Both Tulsa congregations, MCC Greater Tulsa and MCC Family of Faith. plan hospitality suites for conference participants: The Reverend Elder Nancy Wilson will speak on Sunday evening, May 21st at Family of Faith. For more information about the conference, call 838-1715 or 622-1441. Duke cont’dfrom p. 1 believed HIV was first transmitted when a human had sex with a monkey in Africa. Puppy Pause II All Breeds Dog Grooming llth & Mingo 838-7626 Open Tuesday - Saturday at 8am. Call for appointments. Walk-ins also welcome. News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News UK Gay Military Ban and controversial exception. Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Rep. anti-bias policies in their offices, tojunior and senior lfigh schools, Becomes Political Issue~ LONDON - A spokesman for! the British Defense Ministry told Parliament that the country’s policy of excluding gays from the British armed forces had the full support of the Conservative Party government and that ,allowing gays in the nation’s military was "not compatible with securing the ailns of the armed forces." The Labor Party had earlier called for ending the ban on gays and lesbians in the country’ s military as part of the party’s official platform. David Clark, the defense spokesman lbr the Labor Party, called the exclusionary policy an"infringement on civil liberties" and added, "’It is important in the modern world that military law is as near as possible in accord with civilian law. "" Bias Charged at N.M. Job Corps Center ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.- Despite complaints to adininistrators of harassment, threats and assaults aimed at gay and lesbians students and staff, acuvists in the Lesbian Avengers .charge that the managers of the U.S. Job Corps in Albuquerque have refused to do anything to put a halt to the anti-gay activities. The National Gay & Lesbian Task Force has ~lso charged that administrators of thc Job Corps center there have not returned repeated phone calls about the on-going troubles at the center. The Job Corps is a division of the U.S. Labor Department and teaches young people various employment skills. NEA Nixes Grant for Lesbian-Themed Play SANFRANCISCO - The National Endowmentforthe Arts has rejected the recommendation by its peer advisory panels and voted against funding a stage adaptation of a novel by San Francisco-based lesbian writer Jewell Gomez. The $13,000 grant was to have gone to pay for the African-American performance troupe Urban Bush Women’s production Of Gomez’s "’Bones and Ash: A Gilda Story.’" Peer review panel recommendations are rarely rejected. The case of the "NEA Four"- Andreas Serrano, Holly flughes, Tim Miller and Karen Fiuel v - was a highly publicized Gomez herself said she believes the endowmentrejected the grant because her story has a lesbian protagonist. "We were pretty much ~xpecting [approval of the grant] because we had gotten Phase.Two approval, and to not get Phase Three is weird, unless you really screwed up or something,’" she said. Waybourn Leaves Victory Fund WASHINGTON - Gay rights activist William Waybourn, founder of the Gay & Lesbian Victory. Fund. has announced he will retire as the head of the Washington, D.C.-based PAC. A long-time Dallas activist, Waybourn said in a prepared statement that he had no irmnediate plans, but was leaving the 4-year-old Victory Fund to promote new ideas in the agency. "It is my philosophy that organizations tltrive .best when new leadership and fresh ideas are enconraged,’" lie said. ’Creating Change’ Conferen ce Announced WASHINGTON-The National Gay & Lesbian Task Force has annotmced that its 8th annual Creating Change conference will take place Nov. 8-12 in Detroit. Among the issues slated to be covered durin.g.the conference are: orgamzlng in rural communities, organizing people of faith, same-sex marriage rights, anti-violence work, and organizing in the workplace. For additional information and registration, contact NGLTF at (202) 332-6483, ext. 3329. Lesbians at White House Conference WASHINGTON-Attending the White House Conference on Aging as delegates May 2-5 are long-time lesbian activists Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, cofounders of the Daughters of Bilitis. The couple will introduce a resolution during the conference calling for for greater vis!bility, for lesbian and gay aging issues in future conferences. The White House conference agenda had originally included lesbian and gay issues when published in October 1994; but when the final agenda was published this February, the item had been dropped. Martin and Lyon were named as delegates to the conference by Sen. Dianne Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) respectivel,W. Sexually ’Ambiguous’ UK Bishop Elevated LONDON - David Hope, the Bishop of London who recently ackalowledged under pressure from British activists that he is sexually "an~biguous", has been named by Prime Minister Jolm Major as the next Archbishop of York, the 2ndhighest clergy man in the Church of England. "People should not be stereotyped sexually and sonle may describe themselves as being homosexual," Hope said in March after being urged by the fights ~oup Outrage to co~ne out. "For some the area is slightly grayer, and that is the sort of area I find my self in." Following the azmouncelnent of his elevation, Hope said he would use his new position to resolve differences about homosexuality within the church. "It is my business to insure that all who are involved are given a proper voice and a proper ear, and there is a proper process of listening to the debate," he said. "At the present _ time I am just a little concerned that the debate is causing rather mor e heat than light. "’ Members of Congress Keep Anti-Bias Policies \VASHINGTON - The Human Rights Campaign Fund announced at a press conference that 287 of the 535 members of the U.S. Congress do not discriminate against gays and lesbians in employment in their staff office positions. The HRCF survey reported that 223 of 435 House members and 64 of 100 senators had signed nondiscrimination affirmations. Absent from the HRCF list were House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-Texas). GOP presidential candidate and Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole of Kansas, however, was included on the non-bias listing. Speaking at a news conference, Elizabeth Birch, HRCF’s executive director, said it was "encouraging that the critical bloc of moderate swing votes in this Congress supports the concept ofequal treatment."Last year a similar HRCF survey reported that 296 members of Congress - 225 House members and71 senators - agreed to similar Jury Rejects AIDS Fear Defense BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Jurors hearing a murder case rejected the defense offered by attorneys for Edgardo Arrona, 21, that he had shot a gay man, Oscar Anderson, 53, to death because he feared he had been exposed to HIV ,and been forced into years of sex and drugs by the older ~nan. Arrona confessed to shootinv Anderson last Auoust bnt claruled lie had done so beeause the older man, a teacher, had lured lfim into sex and drug use as a teenager and lie was concerned about contracting AIDS. Although Anderson in fact was HIV positive, Arrona has continued to test negative for the virus. Prosecutors, whom the jury a~eed with in finding Arrona gnilty, had argued that the younger man had continued to return to Anderson’s apartment for several years withont showing any indic,~tions he wasn’ t a willing participant. Philly Woos Gay Travel Assn. Convention PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia’s Convention and Visitors Bureau has joined with PrideFestin an effort to draw the 1997 annual convention of the International Gay Travel Association to the "City of Brotherly Love." The IGTA convention is expected to bring more than 1,000 travel agents and tourism specialists to wherever it holds its annual meeting. The city’s Convention & Visitors Bureau is one of a handful around the country - including New York and San Francisco - that have in the past few years begun actively luring gay and lesbian tourists and travelers-. PrideFest, the city’s annual gay pride celebration, is slated for May 7-10 in 19~7. Apple Settles Dispute SANJOSE, Calif,-The SanJose Mercury Newsreports that Apple Computer has agreed to keep a CD-ROM history textbook that it will be distributing after a public outcry that Apple wascensoring material about abortion and homosexuality. In the reported agreement with the VoyagerCompany ofNew York, Apple with include the CD textbook "Who Built America?" in bundled software it distributes but will not include it in bundles it sells to elementary schools. Apple got caught in the embarrassingPRflap inFebnmry when Voyager charged that Apple had insisted it remove "cOntroversial" material .about abortion and homosexuality. Spokespersons-for both Apple and Voyager said they were reasonably happy with the agreement they had reached on distributing the CD textbook. Death Threat Against Journalist Deb Price SANJOSE, Calif.- OutNowL the San-Jose gay and lesbian uewspaper, reports that the announcement of a scheduled Jnne 24 visit by syndicated columnist Deb Price for a booksigmng has led to a telephone death tlweat. The paper reports that the death threat, which has been handed over to police, was called in to the answering machine at the Sisterspirit Bookstore in the city’s Billy DeFrank Lesbian & Gay Community Center after the upcoming booksigning was announced. OutNow! quoted part of the phone threat as saying, "I just want to say, if Deb Price appears at your bookstore on June 24th, I’ll personally colne in and shoot her. I tlfink fags are wrong. I think this is the stupidest thing that ever happened; feminist rights groups, f ing gay rights groups make me sick; f ing I’ll shoot her; got that?" The paper said Price had been informed of the threat and had no intention of altering her plans for the booksigning for her new book, And Say Hi to Joyce: America’ s First Gay Column Comes Out." Gingrich to Lead HRCF ’Coming Out Day’ Job WASHINGTON - Candace Gingrich, the lesbian half-sister of House Speaker Newt Gingrich, has been hired by the Washington D.C.-based gay aud lesbian lobbying group the Human Rights Campaign Fund to head up its National Coming Out Project. The project culminates Oct. 11 with National Coming Out Day, an event that got launched several years ago in New Mexico and has since become a popular event nationwide to encourage gay and lesbian visibility. Gingrich, 28, kicks offhernewjob on April 25 Kelly Kirby Certified Public Accountant Lesbians & Gays face many special tax situations whether single or as couples. We are proud to serve our communities with sensitive & timely information. 747-5466, POB 14011, Tulsa 74159 Photography J.D. damett 621-5597 14~8 S. Boston, Tulsa News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News with a town meeting in Seattle as rejection of ICA’s anti-gay I Sheila Kuehl that would have timber industry lobbyist just 4 part ofa34-city tour encouraging participation in National Coming Out Day. School Board Member Defeats Opponents LOS ANGELES - Openly gay Los Angeles school board memberJeffHorton, targeted for defeat by religious rightsupported opponents, handily won reelection, garnering 61% of the vote, more than his 2 fundamentalist-backed candidates combine d. His opponents, Peter Ford who was being backed by the Traditional Values Coalition, and Linda Jones, the Christian Coalition candidate, had focused on unseating Horton because of his support for gay-positive programs in the city’s huge school system. Students Protest Mel White Speech GREEN BAY, Wisc. - Conservative student Republicans at the University of Wisconsin have objected to school officials over using student fees to payfor an upcoming speech to be given by the Rev. Mel White, a minister with the Metropolitan Community Church and one-time ghost writer for Pat Robertson. TheRepublican students charged that the $4,000 fee for White’ s speech was "’fiscally inappropriate" because of tight budgets at the school. But representatives of the unive.rsity.’ s lesbian and gay orgamzatlon said the conservative students just didn’ t "want the lifestyle discussed." The school says it hasno plans to cancel White’ s scheduled May 4 appearance on campus. Another Idaho Anti-Gay Ballot Measure BOISE, Idaho - The Idaho Statestnan reports that the Idaho Citizens Alliance will soon introduce another anti-gay initiative only 5 months after voters in the state rejected the organization’ s first anti-gay measure. The paper quoted an !CA spokesman who said the new anti-gay ~neasure would not deal with employment but would aim at restricting how public libraries and schools deal with materials relating to homosexuality. Rights activists say such a ballot measure would be a waste of time and money after last November’s voter initiative. ’Morality Police" Attack Gays in Palestine NABLUS, West Bank - The Reuter news service reports that 3 Palestiman men kidnapped a 51-year-old man from his shop and shot him in the legs 6 times because they believed him to be gay. The news agency quoted unnamed sources that said the men were part of a group of "morality police" who had recently begun kidnapping gays and prostitutes in the WestBank, 2 others of whom were also shot in the legs. Serial Killer’s Victims May Have Been Gay SAN FRANCISCO- Police say they believe a British man, already suspected of crisscrossing the globe under false identities in a string of killings, may have targeted victims who were.gay or bisexual ina series of grisly torture-murders with links from Mexico to Thailand to San Diego and San Francisco. Authorities say John Martin Scripps, 35, of Hertfordshire, England, traveled around the world after escaping from a jail in Great Britain on drug charges and is wanted in connection with at least three murders - and wanted for questioning about the mysterious disappearances of others. Singapore police say they believe Scripps, who was arraigned in Singapore on April 18 on charges of killing Gerard Lowe, a South African man whose dismembered remmns were recovered from a harbor in March, used a 10,000-volt stun gun on his victims before killing and mutilating them. Authorities say Scripps is also a suspect in the murders of Timothy McDowall,32, in Mexico; Sheila Damude and her 22-year-old son Darin in Thailand; and Tommy Wenger, 25, in San Francisco. Gay Poet Immortalized BOSTON- Earlier this year, the opera. "Ha?r.vey Milk" had its premiere ~n Texas, memorializing the openly gay politician’ s life. In April, another opera got its world premiere ~n Boston immortalizing another gay icon - Civil War poet Walt Whitman. ComposerPeter Child says his new opera, "’Reckoning Time: A Song of Walt Whitman," represents the struggle of an artist to live and work with in3e~g.~ty during an era of turmOl£.With librettist ¯ Alan Brody, Child has fashioned Whitman’.s life intoanallegorical opera written for the concert stage, making generous use of the poet’s own essays, letters, poetry and other writings. In "Reckoning Time: A Song of Walt Whitman," the tide role is sungbyabaritone. PeterDoyle, Whitman’s longtime working class lover, speaks his part, with the exception of one simple love song. The plot of the work evolves through the dialogue between the two performers. Aussie ’Gaymes’ Hit By Far-Right Protesters ADELAIDE, Australia - The Australian gay newspaper Brother/Sister reports that anti-- gay protesters broke into a public pool where the annual Australian National Gaymes was slated to hold a swimming event and used a dye to stain the pool purple. An anonymous caller phoned local newspapers and television stations and said the vandalism was the responsibility of the farright National Action orgamzati’on. ’Consumer Reports’ Rates Condoms WASHINGTON - The May Issue of Consumer Reports includes the findings of its test of reliability of condoms. The consumer magazine tested 6,500 latex condoms, representing 37 brands. The magazine reports sbme surprising findings: Several types of theTrojanbrand, for example, frequently failed the air-inflation test, a basic check of condom elasticity. The magazine also found that some brands that advertise as being "’stronger" were in fact not as strong as others in its tests. Others that promote themselves as "thin" weren’t particularly thin, the magazine reports, and some of the thinnest broke more easily. The best performing brands, according to Consumer Reports, were Sheik Excita Extra Ribbed, Ramses Extra Ribbed and Sheik Classic. The magazine named Protex’s Touch condom as the "’best buy.’" Cal. Legis. Punts Gays SACIL~kMENTO, Calif. - The California Assembly" s education committee refused on a party~ line split 8-8 vote to send to the legislature a bill spousored by lesbian Assembly Member added sexual orientation to the state’s educational anti-bias laws. Opponents of the measure objected that the measure would give "special rights" to gays and lesbians and denounced homo~ sexuals as "ungodly" and "dirty." Kuehl urged the committee to send the measure on to the Assembly, declaring that the "witnesses for the opposition make our argument for us. Listen to what they said here. This is exactly the hatred we face every day. This is the .reason we need this bill. This is the moral decay at the heart of our society, that breeds hate and division.’" Domestic Partners OK’d CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - The Chapel Hill Town Council has unanimously passed a domestic partners measure covering municipal employees. The measure, the second of its kind in North Carolina, provides for family leave and sets up limits on the work relationships of city workers and their domestic partners. The measure also allows city residents to register their domestic partnerships, whether same-sex or oppositesex, for a $50 fee but extends no direct benefits. Kansas City Considers Gay Rights Measure LAWRENCE,Kan. -Lawrence, seat of the Umversity of Kansas, has become the first city in the state to extend anti-bias protections based on sexual Orientation. The Lawrence City Commission voted 3-2 to ad~t sextud orientation to the city’s existing anti-discrimination ordinance, which bars bias in employment, housing and public accommodation. The measure must still pass a 2rid reading before the commissioners, but there have been no indications the vote is likely to change when the added language comes up again in early May. Calif. Lobbying Offices Target of Bomb Threat SAC1La,MENTO, Calif. - The offices of the LIFE Lobby, a gay and AIDS lobbying organization in Califonfia’ s state capital, were evacuated after an anonymous caller telephoned a bomb tllreat and warned the lobby’ s workers to "’get out of the building unless you want to die." Following closely on the April 24 mailbomb killing in Sacrmnento of a blocks from LIFE Lobby’s offices and the tragic bombing in Oklahoma City, authorities took no chances and evacuated the entire building. No explosive device was found. Laurie McBride, LIFE’s executive director, said the caller had "wanted to let us kiaow that in tiffs climate of political violence. we are hated.’" Kentucky Mayor Refuses to Sign Anti-Bias Order LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Louisville Mayor Jerry Abramson has refused to sign an executive ordcr extending anti-bias protectious to city workers based on scxnal orientation. Abramson said statc law restricts control over personnel policies and practiccs in Kentucky to city councils. boards of aldermen and other legislative bodies, not chicf executives of the cities. He citcd a legal.opinion by the city" s law director in refusing to sign the executive order. But gay rights activists disagreed and chargcd that Abramson was ducking thc issue. Eric Graninger, legal counsel for the Fairness Campaign~ said, "While thc aldermen can set minimum job requiremerits for city employees, the mayor~legally add more." Graninger.said the city’s law director was "’building a legal closet for the mayor to hide in.’" Far-Right Group Wants ’Pro-Famil y Contract’ WASHINGTON-TheCllristim~ Action Network held a press conference in the nation’ s capital and proposed a "Pro-Family Contract with America." The- CAN "’Contract" calls for reviving a total ban On ~ays mid Iesbians in the armed forces and would restrict federal funds from going to school districts tlial provide positive counseling for gay or lesbian students. CAN called on Congress to enact its ’:’Contract" or face the prospect Of a 3rd ~arty being formed. Rich Tafel, execunve directory of the Gay lobbying group Log Cabin Republicans, warned the GaP leadership, however, that the far-right wing" s agenda would divide the party and undermine the GaP’s prospects for keeping its narrow congressional majority. "If the Christian Action Network is trying to pick a fight, they’ll get one," Tafel saidl $30/hour - in, call for out rates Pager: 672-2035 KiM Licensed Massage Therapist Specializing in: ¯ Therapeul~i¢ ¯ Shiatsu ¯ Sports Nathanael Mattingly salon estetica 749-0777 The Queen of the Galaxy presents the best damn hair in town! 3509 S. Peoria - 2nd Level - Tulsa, OK 74105 Health Briefs Health Researchers Find No HIV Risk from Health Care Worl~ers ATLANTA - In the largest study of AIDS transmission from health care workers to patients done to date, scientists found.no evidence that the vires was passed to pataents, according to a report in the Annals oflnternal Medicine. Many people in the U.S. have been concerned about the possible risk of infection after the Centers for Disease Control & Prcvenuon determined 3 years ago that a Florida dent[st., transmitied HIV to 6 ofhis patients. The new study by the CDC covered more than 221,000 ~a~ients of 64, physicians, dentists and other health care.workers who are infected with the virus. The researchers found only 113 infected patients out of the 22,000 examined, and of those epidemiological and genetic evidence showed that all came from other sources, not from any of the health care workers. 2 Pilots Sue United Airlines LOS ANGELES - T~vo pilots have filed an employment discrimination lawsuit against United Airlines, charging that the airline barred them from flying because they are infected with HIV. The case is the first of its "kind filed by commercial airhne pilots under the" Americans With Disabilities Act, according to the pilots’ lawyers and some AIDS organizations. United, the largest airline in the U.S., !nsists.that, in the interest of public safety, it acted correctly in grounding the pilots under regulations set by the Federal Aviation Administration. The suit, filed infederal courtby R. Christopher Prilliman of Dallas and PaulRafalowski of Laguna Beach, Calif., c6ritends that the pilots Briefs Health Briefs Health Briefs Health Briefs Health Briefs were grounded after the airline learned they were HIV-positive, despite the fact that they passed physicals given by United~. and the FAA earlier in 1994. Uuited~S medical director, Dr. Gary Kohn, said the airline received information from the pilots’ doctors last year "that led us to believe they had a disqualifying condition" under FAA standards. Although he declined to comment on the case, an FAA spokesperson said that being HIV-positive does not preclude a pilot from being approved for flying. CMV Retinitis Drug Effective CHICAGO -Small injected doses.of an experimental drug. have proven to be effective in checking the devastating eye damage common among people with AIDS, according to researchers at the Uuiversitv of California. According to reports i’n Ophthalmology and the American Journal of Ophthalmology, 3 small diuical trials showed the anti-viral drug cidofovir, which is also -known as HPlVlPC, stopped the progress of CMV retinitis for months. Dr. William R. Freeman, an ophthalmologist at the University of California at San Diego, and his colleagues reported in thejournals that the drug has proven so effective at this stage in the limited diuical trials that more than ~ hundred patients, in San Diego are now receiving "maintenance" injections regularly. What is not known yet, however, is whether cidofovir will be effective over a prolonged period of time or if patients may begin to develop a resistance to it. Dentists and HIV Infection CHICAGO - According to a survey published in the Journal ofthe American Dentcd Association, while more dentists are willing~o treat patients whoare infected ~"with HIV, many are still reluctant to have such patients. The survey reported that 67% of the dentists surveyed would treat such patients, even if they could refer them to other health care workers..A similar survey in 1986 found only about 47% of the dentists said they would trea! infected patients. But the survey alsofound that32% said they wouldnot pick dentistry again as a medical career because of fears of being exposed to HIV. And 75% of the dentists also said they were afraid to show any willingness to treat HIV-positive patients .out.of concerns they might lose other patients. Hormone May Curb KS Tumors LONDON -Ahormone found inpregnant women, known as human chorionic gonadotropin, may have an important role in treating Kaposi’s sarcoma, a skin and blood vessel cancer that affects ma~.y patients with HIV, according to a report ~n the British journal Nature. Dr. Robert GaHo and other researchers with the National Cancer Institute report that the hormone kills KS in the test tube, and that in experiments with mice it reduced tumors caused by injections of KS cells. The NCI scientists found that the injected KS cells, which normally cause tumors in mice, were not able Xo do so if they had been exposed to the hormone before being injected. Mice that had been treated with the hormone for a week prior to being injected with KS cells also did not develop tumors or developed small ones, the researcher reported. The scientists also presented cases of 2 women who had KS, but whose cancer lesions inexplicably disappeared during or after pregnancy. "This is the first demonstration of an antirumor property of (the hormone), and offers a new strategy for treating patients with Kaposi’s sarcoma," the scientists said. Condom Breakage Questioned WASHINGTON - Tests of the new polyurethane Avanti condom have produced conflicting results, and the Food &Drug Administration, which approved Avanti for sale in the U.S..in 1991, has called for further testing: Regular latex condoms break in about 2% of the cases, according to FDA tests, and Avanti’s manufacturer London International/ Schmid Labs had presented the FDA with its o.wn studies that showed breakage rates ran~ng between 0.4% and 2.1% when it applied for approval to sdl the condom ~n the U.S. But 5 subsequent studies by the National Institute of Child Health & Human Development and conducted by the Los Angeles Regional Family Planning. Council found failure ratesfor the Avanti ranging from 4% to 15% with an overall breakage rate of 9.6% - so high a rate that the council stopped testing the Avanti in 1994 even though all its studies had involved fairly small numbers of couples. Dr. Susan Alpert of the FDA, however, defended the agency’s approval of the Avanti polyurethane condom, even if it turns out to have a higher breakage rate, because up to 7% of the American population is allergic to latex. Cancers Linked to Virus BOSTON - A newly discovered type of herpes virus causes 2 cancers associated with AIDS according to a report in the New England Journal of Medicine. FI-DELITY HO-AAE HE- LTH CARE, INC. 113 E. Paul St. Pauls Valley, OK 73075 (405) 238-6487 Main Office 905 No. Highway 51 Coweta, OK 74429 (918) 486-1174 (800) 999-3442 7319 No. MacArthur Okla. City, OK 73132 (405) 722-0551 Caring for Life We provide comprehensive home health services 24 hour per.day, seven days as week. The range of services include: Skilled nursing services (RN’ s, LPN’ s) Home health aides Physical Therapy Speech Therapy Occupational Therapy Medical Social Serv.ices In-home psychiatric care Non-emergency transportation Private duty nursing Companion sitter services This list is not all inclusive. Please contact our offices at 800-999-3442 with specific treatment issues. Timothy W. Daniel Attorney at Law Know Your Rights! Estate Planning, Adoptions, Personal Injury, Criminal Law, Bankruptcy & Workers Compensation ¯1-800-742-9468 or 918-352-9504 128 East Broadway, Drumright, Oklahoma Weekend and evening appointments are available. Health Briefs HeaLth According to scientists from Columbia University, both B cell lymphoma and Kaposi’s sarcoma, are caused by a herpes . vmas known as KSHV, 1st discovered in skin lesions of patients with KS. Drs. Yuan Chang and Patrick Moore report that the newly identified virus causes all KS cancers, not just those in people with ¯ AIDS. They.also report f’mding the cancer virus cells in 8 patients who suffered from AIDS,associated B cell lymphoma, a canCer of the body’s immune system. ’Reasonable,Pricing’ Requirement Dropped WASHINGTON-TheNational Institutes of Health (NIH) has dropped its~ requirement that U.S. drug manufacturers charge a "reasonable" price for products developed in conjunction with government-sponsored research. NIH Director Harold Varmus said the agency found that "the pricing clause has driven the industry away from potentially beneficial scientific collaborations" with government researchers "without providing an offsetting benefit to the public?’Under the clause, adoptedin 1989 amid protests over the price of the AIDS drug AZT, the public was supposed to benefit from drugs produced with the advantage of taxpayer-funded research. Once the policy was implemented, however, companies held backfrom using NIH research because they could not guarantee that they would regain an investment in product development, said Carl Feldbaum, president of Biotechnology Industry Organization. HIV Protein Discovery WASHINGTON - Researchers have Briefs Health Briefs discovered how an HIV protein, called Vpr, forces its way into ceils. Vpr enters the cell’s nucleus more quickly than other proteins andmakes the cell help do itsjob, found Univ. of Pennsylvania pathologist David Weiner. Vpr hijacks a protein naturally present in human cells, one that moves specific steroid hormones through calls: Tests showed that some of these steroids activate HIV production and suppress immune cells, Weiner reported in the April 11 issue of Proceedings ofthe NationalAcademy ofSciences. W~en Vpr was, added, the protein used the steroids’ cellular pathway to getto the call nucleus and prompted steroid overproduction to help it produce HIV. Weiner found that the abortion drug RU-486, which is known to block steroid overproduction in other diseases, also blocked Vpr. HIV-infected cells treated with RU-486 produced 70 percent less virus than untreated cells, he found. Weiner warned, however, that it is still too early to know whether the drug would work in humans. ~ Test to Predict AIDS Onset? PITTSBURGH, Pa. - Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh reported in the Annals oflnternal Medicine that theyhave developed a new HIV test that may help doctors predict how soon people infected with the virus will develop AIDS. According to Dr. John Mellors, director of the Pitt Treatment Evaluation Union that developed the "branched DNA signal amplification" test, it may also .help physicians decide whatcourse oftreatment is best for each patient. The new test measures the amount of HIV in the blood stream, a reliable indicator ofhow rapidly the individual will become ill with AIDS. Education cont~dfrom p. 1 ’b~the American MedtcalAssoctatton, was prepared by scientists at the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies-at UC-San Francisco, directed by Thomas Coates and Jeff Stryker. "Carefully tailored, targeted, credible, and. persistent" AIDS education eampaigus; the report says, haveproven highly successful in dramatically reducing-the spread Of HIV. The report says thai in San Francisco, an estimated 8,000 people were infected with HIV in 1982 when the epidemichad barely begun~ But 10 years Iater- with intehse preverition efforts, particularly-among gay.and bisexual-men, in ethnic communities and among intravenous drug users - the annual infection rate had dropped to 1,000, according to the city’s health department. As many as 40,000 to 80,000 new HIV infections are reported annually in the United States, and the numbers are rising steadily inmostothercities because"AIDS is largely a disease of behaviors" and few communities have faced the problem candidly, the report’s authors argue. "Education and prevention efforts for. AIDS continue to be limited by society’s unwillingness to explore and discuss frankly sexual and drug-use behaviors that risk the spread of HIV infection," they say. Military cont~dfrom p; 1 policy wentinto effect last year he notified his c.ommanding officer in writing, "I am gay’. Gay Sailor to Remain In Navy= BALTIMORE’- U.S. District Judge Joseph Young has ordered the Navy not to discharge Lt: Richard Selland, who told .his commanding officer in 1993 that he was gay. Judge Young granted Selland an injunction ~that orders the Navy allow the gay sailor toremain in the Navy while he continues his court battle againstthe Pentagon,s "’don’t ask, don’t tell" policy that continues to exclude gay and.l~sbian military personnel. Mom €ont’dfrom p. 1 collecting letters denouncing the decision. In addition, the Metropolitan Connnunity Church (MCC) had declared this Mother’s Day, May 18, a "national day of prayer" for Bottoms and her partner, April Wade. Poland cont’dfrom p. l protections; 6 opposed the prohibitions; 7 deputies abslained. The commission has recently added a number of liberal provisions aimed at bringing Poland’s 43- year-old constitution up to date and more in line with requirements of the European Parliament, which already mandates nondiscrimination based on sexual orientation. Only one other nation - South Africa - has included constitutional protections specifically aimed at barring bias agaxnst gays and l~sbians. Accepting Medicare, Medicaid. private pay andprivate insurance. Oklahoma owned and operated. Where have people living with AIDS in the Tulsa area gone to receive skilled nursing care in a homelike, loving setting? Until now - no where...... Announcing the opening of Mohawk Living Center, a facility specializing in caring for people living with AIDS. Overlooking beautiful Mohawk Park in North Talsa, our facility is dedicated to caring for PLWA’s and improving their quality of life through skilled nursing care delivered by a staff of dedicated professionals. The staff at Mohawk Living Center invite you to come & tour our new facility. To arrange a tour or for more information, call our offices at 918-425~1354 Mohawk Living Center 3910 Park Road ¯ Tulsa, OK- (918) 425-1354 ~1995 - Design One Associates / Per~pectiv~ Magazine Sandra J. Hill, M.S. SUDD ENLY THE COH ETITORS ALL LO OK LIKE WA ,NABES. ~MITSUBISHI The New ThinKtng ,n Automobiles" Air conditioning, alloy wheels, am/fm cassette with 6 speakers, power sunroof, dohc - 16 valve & much morel. From $15,695 Reporter Tulsa Oldahomans for Human Rights. P.O. Box 52729 Tulsa, OK 74152 May/June 1995 Volume 15 Number 5 The views e.~pressed elsewhere in Tulsa Fame.Iv News are not necessarily the views ofTOHR. Permission is granted to reprint information contained within the TOHR Reporter page along with other itemv, under the b.vh’ne. "submitted by TOHR ". contained elsewhere in Tulsa Family Ne~,s. ~ Letter from the President: Another month has gone by and what a great one it has benn. I would like to thank everyone who has made a monthly pledge or donation to the Community Center. We .are still working very hard to make this vision a reality. Remember the monthly pledges are an integral part of our financing package so please give it some thought as we can all benefit from a Community Center. T.O.H.R. is continuing to grow and our programs are expanding. We have appointed Claudette Peterson as directorof HIV Programs. Claudette will supervise the additiona employees and administer Ihe grants currently in place as well as the ones we are still waiting to hear from. Let’s all welcome Claudette and give her a big THANK. YOU for her hard work, Claudette has already proven herself to be an invaluable asset to T.O.H.R. through her previous position as Clinic Director, I would like to thank Rob Hill for the educational Seminar presented to the Helpline volunteers. We plan to repeat thisseminar inthe very near future so that those who were unable to attend will have the ability to participate. Thanks again Rob. ¯ picnicThperideever~picniCLet youjrUiSstpRiDEaroundshowthe comethrfiosarndfestiveWe needdayinV°luntepearSrkth.e to man the .T.O.H.R. booth and help clean up the park. Your participation will insure this to be the best T.O.H.R; FOLLIES 1995 is well into the planning stage with the date setfor June 30th at All Souls in Emerson Hall. This will be one of our largest fundraisers of the year so let’s all come out and support the 6rganization as well as the performers. The money from the Follies goes to supporting ortgoing programs of T.O.H.R. Please attend the monthly meeting or a T.O.H.R. sponsored event, we rely on your participation to continue these programs. Thanks, Tim BISEXUAL, LESBIAN AND GAY ISSUES INFORMATION AND REFERRALS 743-GAYS (4297) By and for but not exclusive to the Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Communities. 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ITUESDAYS " ¯ MINISTER’S CLASS - Bless the Lord at All Times Christian Center. 7:30 p.m. 2627- B East 11th. Call 583-7815 for Info. IWEDNESDAYS AUTHORITY OF THE BELIEVER - Bible Study 7:00. MCC of Greater Tulsa 1623 North Maplewood. Call 838-1715 for Info. BLESS THE LORD AT ALL TIMES CHRISTIAN CENTER - Choir Practice 7:00. 2627-B East 1 lth. Call 583-7815 for Info. FAMILY OF FAITH MCC - Potluck 6:30. Bible Study 7:00. Choir Practice 8:00. 5451-E South Mingo. Call 622-1441 for Info. ITHuRsOAYs 16-STEP EMPOWERMENT GROUP FOR WOMEN - 7:00. Women’s support group. Community of Hope. 1347 North Yale. Call 838-7232 for Info. CO-DEPENDENCY SUPPORT GROUPWeekly meeting 7:30. Family of Faith MCC. 5451-E South Mingo. Call 622- 1441 for Info, HIV TESTING - TOHR Clinic. Free and Anonymous testing using flngerstick method. No appointment required. Walk in test hours: 7:00 - 8:30 pm. Results Hours: 7:00 - 9:00 pm. Call 749-4194 for Info. PRAYER TIME - 7:00 p.m. MCC of Greater Tulsa. 1623 North Maplewood. Call 838-1715 for Info. TULSA FAMILY CHORALE Weekly practice 9:30 pro. Lola’s. 2630 E. 15th St. !SATURDAYs I NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS - Meets weekly at 11:00 pm. Provides confidential support for recovering addicts. Community of Hope. 1347 North Yale. Call 838-7232 for Info. IMAY 13 I CAR WASH - To benefit Family of Faith MCC. Quik Trip on 71st across from Sam’s. Donations only. DANCE CLASS - Community of Hope. 8:00 p.m. 1347 North Yale. Call 838-7232 for Info. IMAY 15 I RESCUING THE BIBLE -6:30 - 8:30 p.m. .Community of Hope - 1347 North Yale. Seventh of an eight week course. Sponsored by TOHPJCommunity of Hope/BLGA (TU). Call 838-7232 for Info. IMAY 16 I TOHR BOARD MEETING. 7:00 p.m. TOHR Office. 41st & Harvard. Call 743- 4297 for Info. IMAY 17 I FAMILY AIDS SUPPORT GROUP Meeting. 6:30 p.m. PFLAG. 4154 South Harvard - Lower Level. Call 583-5147 for Info. IMAY 18-21 I MCC DISTRICT CONFERENCE - South Central District IOK, TX, LA, AR) Southern Hills Marriott at 71st and Lewis. Workshops/Services/Banquet. Keynote: Rev. Elder Nancy Wilson. Call 622-1441 for more Info. IMAY ls-21 I HERLAND SPRING RETREAT - Women’s Retreat. Roman Nose State Park. Sponsored by Heriand of Oklahoma City. Call 405-720-0044 for Info. IM,Y 21 I INT’L AIDS CANDLE LIGHT MEMORIAL SERVICE. Call 438-2437 for more info. REV. ELDER NANCY WILSON - Evening Service - 6:00 p.m. at Family of Faith MCC - 5451-E South Mingo. Also featuring Tulsa Family Chorale. Call 622-1441 for Info. IM, Y =2 I RAINBOW BUSINESS GUILD - Monthly Meeting 7:00 p.m. Call 254-2100 for location. RESCUING THE BIBLE - 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Community of Hope. 1347 North Yale. Final week of an eight week course. Sponsored by TOHR/i3ommunity of Hope/BLGA (TU). Call 838-7232 for Info. IMAY 26 I WOMEN’S COFFEE HOUSE Java Dave’s. 3310 South Peoria. 6:30 - 9:00 p.m. Call Beeper 646-6455 for more info. IU,Y 26 - 28 I GREAT PLAINS REGIONAL RODEO - OK State Fairgrounds in Oklahoma City. Call 405-943-0543 for more Info. DANCE CLASS - Community of Hope. 8:00 p.m. 1347 North Yale. Call 838-7232 for Info: IMAY 29 FEED THE HOMELESS - Community of Hope. 1347 North Yale. Meet at church at 5:30 p.m. and caravan to Day Center for the Homeless. Call 838-7232 for lnfo. IJ u N E 3 WOMEN’S SUPPER CLUB - Hong Kong Restaurant - 4307 B South Sheridan Road. 6:30 p.m. PFLAG BOARD MEETING.. 7:00 p.m. Call 742-8565 for more info. IJUNE 5 LAGPAC - The Gathering Place.. ~,154 South Harvard. Meets directly following TOHR Ad Hoc Meeting. Call 838-1222 for more Info. TOHR AD HOC COMMITTEE ON CIVIC AFFAIRS - Organizational Meeting. Need ~volunteers from other organizations. 7:00 p.m. The Gathering Place. 4154 South Harvard. Call 838-2121 for more Info. TOHR MEMBERSHIP MEETING. Monthly Meeting. 6:30 Social 7:00 p.m. Meeting. The Gathering Place. 4154 South Harvard. Ste. H. Call 743-4297 for lnfo. FAMILY AIDS SUPPORT GROUP Meeting. 6:30 p.m. PFLAG. 4154 South Harvard - Lower Level. Call 583-5147 for Info. IJ u N E 8 ! GREEN COUNTRY FOR HUMAN RIGHTS LEAGUE. Muskogee Library. 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Call 682-8204 for more Info. IJUN. 10 I DANCE CLASS - Community of Hope. 8:00 p.m, 1347 North Yale. Call 838-7232 for Info. OK FLAMES WOMEN’S BASKETBALL - Union High School. $5/ticket. 7:30 p.m. Call beeper 646-6455 for more info. iJ U N E 1 2 I PFLAG PICNIC. 6:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. Call 749-4901 for more info. IJUN. 1= 14 I OKLAHOMA HIV/AIDS CONFERENCE - Sponsored by HIV Resource Consortium. Workshops, Speakers, etc. Space is limited to first 300. Doubletree at Warren Place. Call 74g-4194 for more info. IJu. 14 I WEDNESDAY N;GHT WOMEN’S SUPPER CLUB- La Nortena. 6408 South Peoria. 6:30 p.m. IJ u N E 21 COMMUNITY CHURCH SERVICES. MCC of Greater Tulsa. Special for Gay Pride Week. Also includes Family of Faith MCC and other area churches. 1623 North Maplewood. Call 838-1715 for Info. FAMILY AIDS SUPPORT GROUP Meeting. 6:30 p.m. PFLAG. 4154South Harvard - Lower Level: Call 583-5147 for Info. ~ IJuN~ 24 --,- DANCE CLASS - Community of Hope. 8:00 p.m. 1347 North Yale. Call 838-7232 for Info. I u.. 25 GAY PRIDE PARADE. Oklahoma City. Assemble from 12:00 - 2:00 at the park. Parade ends at Habana Inn with a party. IJUN 2S I RAINBOW BUSINESS GUILD - Monthly Meeting 7:00 p.m. Call 254-2100 for location. IJUNE 29 I FEED THE HOMELESS - Community of Hope. 1347 North Yale. Meet at church at IJ u N E 17 COMMUNITY-WIDE GOSPEL SING - Kick off pride week with a gospel sing at Family of Faith MCC 5451-E South Mingo. WIll include MCC Tulsa and other area churches. Call 622-1441 for more info. OK FLAMES WOMEN’S BASKETBALL - McLain High School. $5/ticket. 7:30 p.m. Call beeper 646-6455 for more info. IJ UNE 18 TULSA PRIDE PICNIC - Annual Gay Pride Celebration held at Mohawk Park. Food/DrinWFun/Games/EntertainmenL Also booths and information distribution. Minimal charges for food this year, Beer still free. 12:00 - 6:00. Call 832-0233 for Info. IJu. 20 TOHR BOARD MEETING. 7:00 p.m. TOHR Office. 41st & Harvard. Call 743- 4297 for Info. 5:30 p.m. and caravan to Day Center for the Homeless. Call 838-7232 for Info. ROU P MEETINGS LAGPAC - Lesbian and Gay Political Action Committee. Call 838-1222 for Info, LOG CABIN REPUBLICANS - Gay and Lesbian Republican Group. Call 832-0233 for Info. SWAN - Single Women’s Activity Network. TOHR CLINIC - In addition to Thursday Clinic Hours (see Thursdays), offers daytime testing by appointment Monday - Thursday from 10 am - 5 p.m. Call 749- 41 94 for appointment. .TOHR HELPLINE - Staffeddaily 8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. Call 743-GAYS. TULSA- Tulsa Uniform and Leather Seekers Association, Call 838-1222 for Info, WEDNESDAY NIGHT WOMEN’S SUPPER CLUB - Meets at varying locations the 2nd or 3rd Wednesday of each month. ¯ . Do you have a group or event that should be listed in the TOHR Community Calendar? If so, please call us at 838-2121. Every. effort was made to ensure the accuracy and completeness of this calendar; however, neither Tulsa Family News nor TOHR assumes responsibility for errors or omissions. UALITY " OF LIFg AI TERNATIVE WHAT IS VIATICATION? Viatication is the process through which a person living with an terminal illness can receive a cash payment from the face value of their insurance policy. WHO IS ELIGIBLE FOR A VIATICAL SETTLEMENT? Generally, to be eligible for a viatical settlement you must have a documentable terminal illnesS, and life insurance coverage in either an individual term, whole "life, or a group p~31icy. How MUCH IS MY POLICY WORTH? The value of your life insurance policy in a viatical settlement is determined by the specifics of your policy and ~0ur unique medical situation. 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Harvard, Suite F-5 Tulsa, OK 74135-2610 918’747,3320 Y READ ALL ABOUT IT by Barry Hensley Supervisor, Circulation Department Tulsa City-County Library Author Robert Donaghe’s first novel, Common Sons, is just the thing if you’re looking for some light, spring reading with a message. In the small town of Common, New Mexico, in 1965, Joel Ree~is going to high school and workingon the family farm. A strong, bright boxer, Jot strikes up a friendship with Tom, the quiet son of the new preacher. Eventually, straight laced Tom makes a very public, drunken pass at Joel and they both must come to terms with feelings that they don’t understand. Joel, an agnostic, rather easily accepts the realization of his homosexuality as normal, while Tom, after years of very strict indoctrinatxon, is torn apart emotionally. Eventually, through the support of the school coach, Joel’s family, a Unitarian mimster and a younger classmate, Joel and Tom realize that their dedication and love for one another is more important than what the rest of the town thinks. The pivotal characters in this story are the boys’ fathers. Joel’s dad at first assumes that Joel i~ just going through a phase, but soon realizes the seriousness of the relationship between Jot and Tom. He also understands that his boy has not changed, only the perception of his son has changed, and Joel’s courage and character are still intact. Tom’s father, howeve{, is a rather simplistic stereotype of a ruthless patriarch whose religious belief controls every fiber of his being. Tom is ultimately banned from his family and virtually adopted by Jod’s parents. The thought processes of these characters may help readers understand what some families go through when these situations By c.hoosln~ to remam...Joe.and Tom make the important statement that runrdn~ to the coasts is not the way to chan~e hearts and minds and prove t~e relationship. T~s is an uplfftln ovel that emph~zes the im~rtanee o~ f mlhes and eommunltles reeo nlzln the dfffergnt forms of love and eommhment. arise. In contrast to Tom’s father, the Unitarian minister is also an important character. He tries to convinceTomthat the biblical references to homosexuality refer to a lack of commitment or binding in relationships. Tom soon realizes that his relationship with Joel does not fit this criteria, since they are loyal and dedicated to each other. The interesting setting of this book, not in an urbanareaoragay ghetto, but in a rural village, makes this book unique among current gay fiction. At the end of the book, a younger classmate has moved to San Francisco and writes Joel andTom, chastising them for staying in their "hick town." By choosing to remain in Common, Joel and Tom make the important statement that running to the coasts is not the way to change hearts and minds and prove the validity of their relationship. This is an uplifting novel that emphasizes the importance of families andcommunities recognizing the different forms of love:and commitment. Common Sons is an old fashioned love story with humor and some interesting plot twists that make an entertaining read. Other authors of Lesbian and Gay fiction available at the Tulsa City-County Library include: JosephHansen, Katherine V. Forrest, Robert Ferro, Isabel Miller and Paul Russell. Check for rifles by these authors at the ~ Readers Services department of the Central Library, or call 596-7966. These bookstores welcome Tulsa Family News & your trade: Barnes & Noble, 71st near Memorial Media Play, 71st near Mingo Scribner’s, Utica Square Can’t find us at your favorite bookstore? Ask them why. Horvath cont’dfrom p. 1 Horvath. Before g~ing to Joie de Vivre, Horvath ,kad .prayed; "send me anywhere, but not the South, Lord." Originally from Minneapolis, and coming into the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches from a Presbyterian background, Horvath had some culture shock amving in South Louisiana, in the heart of Jimmy Swaggart ministry. Joie de Vivre’s congregation was diverse. Part French Catholic, part Baptist with some Pentacostal thrown in, Horvath found herself merging traditions- empowering Baptists and Pentacostals to genuflect and Catholics to raise their hands in praise as each felt moved to do so. Horvath said that local Catholic priests had fewer objections to their parishioners being involved with a Gay/Lesbian inclusive congregarion than to those folks leaving the Catholic Church - Gay was ok but if you leave the Catholic Church, you’re going to hell! Pastor Horvath adds that the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches (UFMCC) allows joint membership in an MCC church as well as another - such another Protestant or Catholic congregation. Horvath is committed to a "strong empowermentof the laity" and to growing the churches she leads. In Baton Rouge, a city of about 350,000, attendance rose from an average of 19 per Sunday to 70 per Sunday. While Horvath notes that MCC’s are not a "Gay churches," they are open and affirming of all, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, and Heterosexual. She adds that while the Church cannot be closeted and fill its mission of a healthy way to be Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Transgendered, individuals who cannot be open can be part of the church. ?Sexuality and sex are gifts from God. God created sex to be pleasureful though it can be abused to hurt ourselves andto hurt others..." Horvath and her spouse, Barb hope to serve as role models of healthy ways of being Lesbian and Gay. Family of Faith services are held on Sundays at l lain, on Wednesdays a potluck dinner is held at 6:30, followed by Bible study at 7pm. Prayer p. 1 Rwanda, and the ongoing violence in Bosnia are the most .horrible examples. We also pray to end the more subtle forms of hate that poison our communities. We condemn the anti-Arab sentiment thai began to show its ugliness just after the Oklahoma City bombing. We are grateful that our Lesbian and Gay communities were not falsely accused because we know that such an accusation would provide the excuse for violence based on the hate that already exists. While we pray for fair treatmentforall people, wepray especially for an end to the prejudices of heterosexism, sexism and racism in the Church. We pray that the Church will no 16nger allow itself to be used as men’s and women’s means of oppressing others who are different from themselves." The National Day of Prayer was coordinated by Focus on the Family, a radical right religious/political organization. Tulsa Congressman Steve Largent serves on the advisory board for the effort. Other groups in Tulsa marked the day With a lunch at a downtown hotel attended by Cathy Keating, wife of Oklahoma’s governor and Terry Largent, the wife of Congressman Largent. OPEN! ¯ Save 50% & More on New Books. ¯ Choose from thousands of new and used books. 1130 South Harvard 587-7799 Open M-F 10-7, Sat. 1,0-6 Sun. 12-5 Metropolitan Community Church of Greater Tulsa Where God Uplifts All People Sunday Service, I0:45 am Wednesday Service; 6:30 pm Home Cell Groups, 2nd & 4th Sundays 1623 No. Maplewood, Tulsa 74115, 838-1715 ¯ Sunday Services 1 I:00 am ¯ Wednesdays 6:30 pm Potluck 7:00 pm.Bible Study ¯ 8:00 pm Choir Practice ] To dojusttce, love mercy & to walk humbly with our God... Micah 6:8 5451-E S. Mingo ¯ Tulsa, OK 74146 . (918) 622-1441 FAMILY FINANCES Your Credit Record by Leanne Gross Cash worked just fine for our ancestors. They would go to the market, select what they needed, & hand their dollars, rubles, or plasters over to the merchant. In some societies, barter was the practice: a bushel of corn for a bucket of fish. A receipt or a paper trail for tax purposes was not part of the transaction. Today, it’s not unusual to carry just enough cash to make it to the next automated teller machine. Credit has evolved into the currency of choice. Between gas, groceries, department stores and major credit grantors like VISA, Master Card & American Express, most of us are toting an ever-growing ~senal of shiny plastic debit car~.s in our wallets. That, no matter how you feel about the phenomenon, makes your credit ’history more important than ever. Because creditors are in the business of making money, they issue cards only to people deemed worthy credit risks. Before granting approval, your application is always screened by a commercial credit bureau. There are three major national companies with offices in most large cities: Equifax Credit Information Services, Trans- Union Credit Information Corp. & TRW Corp. All creditors have slightly different criteria for granting credit. Generally, it’s based on a point-scoring system keyed to factors such as income, level of education,how long you’velived at your present address, what kinds of assets & checking/ savings accounts you have, your promptness in paying bills and similar socio-economic information. CCCS, a non-profit organization supported by major credit grantors & corporations, offers free counseling service and budget planning through office across America. Call 800-388- CCCS to find out where the nearest office is. If it looks like you’re going to fall behind to the point where you may not be able to meet you monthly minimum payments, you should immediately notify the credit grantor. If you have a good reason & you expect to be able to solve the problem in a reasonable amount of time, most ~orantors are open to working mething out. Thecredit grantor wants to collect his/her money at the least cost possible. If he/she knows up front what the problem . tlbe ~ltAccomrnodatio~ Frank Green, J.r. Host 50 Wall Street Eureka Springs, Arkansas 72632 501/253-8281 "for a Taste ofLocal Flavor" Jim & Brent Invite.You to Chelsea’s Corner Cafe & Bar Care: Gay-owned Bar: Gay-friendly 253-7457 273-6723 #10 Mountain at Center Historic Downtown Eureka Springs Arkansas Serving Lunch & Dinner, Noon to 10pm Eclectic Menu * Moderate Prices is & when he/she can reasonably expect to be paid, hetshe.won’t have to invest ~ap.~ore time or money into g~d~"’that ~count collected. The U.S. Federal Trade commission cautions against relying on commercial credit repair companies that offer to miraculously clear up any financial troubles you might run into. The only thing that can repair a credit history is time & the reconciliation of your debts. Credit repair companies may be able to help you to manage your debts (for a fee), but so can nonprofit groups like CCCS, credit unions, & community extension services affiliated with local tmiversities. Though they utilize massive data banks & sophisticated computer systems, creditbureaus are run by human beings. An occasional mistake in your credit historyis possible. Ifyou’vebeen denied credit for no apparent reason, you have the right, under the fair credit reporting act, to ask the bureau for an explanation & a copy of your file if you act within 30 days. ffyou choose to dispute the accuracy of anything ~n your file, you need to notify the bureau in writing, explaining the diso:epancy. The credit bureau then investigates the matter. If their claim cannot be verified or is found to be inaccurate, the information you’ve challenged will then be deleted from your report. On the other hand, if you disagree with the results of their investigation, you have the right to have a brief statement explaining your side of the story added to your file. For this reason,many financial counselors recommend that you examine your credit bureau report every 3 - 4 years. All credit bureaus are required to forward a copy of the consumer’s file upon request. If the request isn’t tied to a specific appeal, there is usually a $10 - $15 charge. Like it or not, the mountain of junkmail credit card solicitations we receive every week is evidence thatthe credit culture is here to stay. In many ways, cash&barter systems weremuch simpler. Stuffing a fish in those envelopes would be impractical. AWADAGIN PRATT A Piano Powerhouse.t Friday, June 9 7 p.m. Chapman Music Hall Tulsa PAC Tickets: $10-$12 adults ¯$10-$8 chil&’eniseniors Call: 596-7111 Winner, 1992 International Nautnburg Piano Competition His sold-out Tulsa debut last year was among the most talked about performances of the season. RAIN-Oklahoma, an interfaith AIDS service organization, is seeking an Executive Director (position based in Oklahoma City). Successful applicant will have a demonstrated ability to work within and across cultural lines and within the religious community. Otherrequirements include aBachelor’s Degree, three years experience in the field of HW/AIDS, experience in personnel management in the human services setting, Oklahoma certification as an AIDS Educator (or the ability to obtain same). Salary range - $30,000-35,000 and benefits, depending on experience. Resumes to ED Search Committee, 924 N. Robinson, Oklahoma City OK 73102. RAIN is an equal opportunity employer. . RSVP Tropical Caribbean Feb. 11-18,1996, $795-1950 Deep Caribbean Feb. 18-25,1996, $795-1950 Mexican Riviera March 17-24,1996, $795-2495 French Canada June 30 - July 7,1996, $895-2295 Call International Tours 9z8-34z-6866 The Homefront I BUD WHARTON Author of SellTrac 2000, a ¯sales training programfor loan officers and Realtors, Bud Wharton is a national speaker, sales trainer and mortgage banker. Bud addresses thousands of industry professionals each year, training in the areas of business development, technical expertise and motivation. Buying a home is something mostofus look forward to. All to often, the "looking forward to" ends in a reluctance to pursue the dream based on our assumed knowledge ofhow bad our credit .report looks. This is so prevalent in American thinking that consumers continue to believe their credit rating will be the #1 reason for credit denial. The gay andlesbianculture is notimmune from this notion either and it is often compounded by the ~’vSinCgOnbcaedpticornetdhiattabreeinsgogmaeyhaonwd synonymous terms. Nothing could be further from the truth. Yes, credit is important but it is not all-important! In fact the real problem in dealing with credit issues in the mortgage process is not so much how bad the creditis, but rather the lenders inability to help the borrower understand just how to address .the problem successfully. This ~s somewhat philosophical in nature, the difference being attitude: why vs. why not or basic solution orientation. A good analogy as to how to deal with credit issues (or at least our perception of what equals unacceptable credit) is to understand the common denominator between some forms of religion and credit. An excellent analogy as both subjects yield a reward based on the assumption of goodness, acceptance or approval. Becausewe sometimes screw-up, we find ourselves in need of forgiveness. Religion advocates prayer and contrition to reconcile ourselves, thus fulfilling the forgiveness equation and the slate is wiped clean. Credit on the other hand offers a similar concept as absolution for bad credit can be achieved using similar principles, except the prayer part must be written as opposed to spoken. Who are we writing to? The underwriter (God) of course who has the power to grant understanding and c’onciliatibn based on circum~anees, ones pattern of credit use or abuse and what is being done or has been done since the last incident to correct the problem. The power is really in your argument! Easy-does-it! Simply pray in writing vs. orally. Your ability to articulate in writing is important, but not to the degree that you need to be a Pulitzer "Rdi~ion advocates prayer and contrltlon_Credlt on the other hand offers a similar concert, as absolution for ba~l eredlt can be aehleved..." Prize winning author. This.is where your lender can help. Think of them as your attorney presenting your case before a judge. They should know how to do flaeir job and represent you; articulatingin terms andmethods of argument acceptable to reason and logic compelling the underwriter to understand and accept your viewpoint. Why bring it up? Your goal is home ownership. Standing between you and that goal may be your credit report or your perception of your credit standing. If there is an obstacle, any obstacle, it’s important to understand that the obstacle, whatever it is, does not mean an automatic no. When confronting this situation it is important to think in terms of over, under, around or through! That’s how problems are solved. Andif your loan officer doesn’t understand that ~e you need another loan officer. After all, who do they think you are anyway, the customer? If you’ve been staying away from exploring the opportunity of owning your own home because of what you think your credit looks like; stop and get it together. Here’s what you need to do. First of all, contact your mortgage lender and ask to be prequalified for a home loan Make an appointment to meet with them. If they want to do it all over the phone, they obviously don’t care enough about you, the customer, to invest the time in meeting with youpersonally. The personal meeting is important. You’ve got a sales job to do and part of that is being comfortable that this loan officer is capable of understanding your circumstances and needs and your developing confidence in them. Not all loan tracers are created equal.* Second, you want them to pull a credit report and there are two types of reports. The first is a basic credit profile pulled from three different bureaus and should be done for you at no cost. The second type of report is more extensive and involves the reporting agency verifying employment, checking public records and interviewing you the borrower for accuracy of data. This report costs about $60.00. Anyone who’s up to speed in today’s business environment can have your full credit report (the first type mentioned) in a matter of a minute or two and again, there should be no cost for this service. If the lender wants to charge you, again it’s time to find a service oriented lender willing to invest in you as their prospective customer. As you review the report with your loan officer be open and candid about whatever might be disclosed. This will allow you both to brainstorm strategies in structuring your explanation of any derogatory information. If you have experienced a bankruptcy, don’t worry about it, just explain it. Solutions to this are commonplaceand it doesn’t take an entire lifetime to recover. Included in this prequalification will be an analysis of your income and employment history. Combined with your credit profile, you may qualify formore than youever imagined; and sooner too[ But then there’s the cash requirements. How much do you need and do you really have to save it up? This is the subject ofournext discussion here on THE HOMEFRONT. (Editors Note: Bud Wharton is Vice President ofMortgages By Design, Inc., Claremore. OK; serving all ofGreen Country.) WE UNDERSTAND. TWO WORDS TOO SIMPLE TWO SECONDS 2 That’s all the time it takes to say "We Understand" But how often do you hear your real estate agent say them? Experience the power of T~O! The Nicholas Team. Jonathan & Dee Nicholas and their team of licensed associates will make buying and selling a home a positive experience. So, TAKE TWO and call us in the Morning[ Jonathan & Dee Nicholas (918) 749-3000 "Selling the Dream, the Nicholas Team!" RE/MAX Metropolitan, REALTORS 6400 S. Lewis, Tulsa, OK 74136 PRIDEoyo mp Renting and considering Buying? Moving up or Investing?Credit Problems? i t~ ~" Mortgages By Design will custom fit the right home loan to YOUR needs! No Cost Credit Counseling 1st Time Home Buyer Lock & Shop 0% to 3% Down Financing the AllAmerican Dream No Cbst Pre-Qualifying Construction Best Interest Rates Refinancing Mortgages By I~ign Gives Back To Our Community For each10an closed, we will donate $100.00 to Tulsa 0klahomans For Human Rights or tolthe foundation of your choice. ForDetail~ CalL" BUD WH,ARTON Vice President~./Branch Manager (918) 342-4252 Serving Tulsa and SurroundingCommunities Sat. 5/13, 11pm Bad Girls Are Back! Robbie Walker, K~is Kohl, Natasha Hall & GuesL, Sun. 5/14, Tim’s 8th Annual 36th Birthday Taurus, Mother’s Day & Full Moon Blowout Sat. 5/27, Hollywood Creations (5 hot guys!) BAD BOYZ CLUB 1229 So, MEMORIAL, 835-5083 TU SA’S HUGE PATIO BAR MO.RE " New CDs $16.99-I 1.99 " pre-owne.d. CDs $7.99-8.99 W.e II give you $4,88 TOr your used Cds. Pride cont’dfrom p. 1 interested in having a booth should contact Tomfoolery! at 832-0233. ....Follies~ A TOHR tradition continues. The plans for the 1995 TOHR follies are well under way. Follies has been one of TOHR’s largest fund-raisers. This year’s theme is "Priscilla: Queen of the Desert", & it will mark the follie’s 15th year. The Follies will be held on Friday, June 30th, at All Souls Unitarian Church, 2952 S. Peoria. The doors open at 7:30pm with the show starting at 8:00pm. Advance tickets are $8.00, & they can be purchased at Tomfoolery (in the Silver Star Saloon at 1565 S. Sheridan); Floral Design Studios, 3404 S. Peoria; & Budget Window Treatments, 7116 S. Mingo. Tickets will also be available the day of the Gay Pride Picnic at the TOHR booth. It’s not too late to be a part of this wonderful event. For more information, call the TOHR helpline at 743-4297. u ...,_,o~e cont’dfrom p. 1 Several of Tulsa’s most well known community volunteers, Joan Flint, Terry Williams, and Peggy Helmerich lent their names and energy to the event. Businessman Charles Faudree came up with the idea originally and was joined by P.S. "Pat" Gordon, Judy Fisher, Francis Fisher, Julie Kruger, Ouida Merrifield, Sally Minshall, Monnie Mooberry, Patty Orbison, Nancy Renberg, Francesanne Tucker and Nancy Vaughn on the organizing committtee. Patrons were entertained at a May 4 event held in several homes that were not on the general tour. The final patrons event will be held at George Kravis’ new home on June 21. Many, many businesse contributed to this event but Michael Bennett, Steve Wright, Rusty Brumble, and Mark Lackey (Lackey of Cuisine by Design) were recognized for their contributions. The 1995 Oklahoma .HIV/AIDS Conference will be presented by the HIV Resource Consortium. on June 12-14 at the Doubletree Hotel, Warren Hace. The conference title is "Caring...for each other, sharing...our stories, and nurturing...our spirit." Space is limited. Call Beverly Stanley at 749-4194 formore information. Gay Mothers’ Support Group A self-led support group for Gay morns is meeting to deal with the ma~y challenges and issues facing Lesbian mothers. The group is free and open to all Gay morns. It meets Thursdays at 7pro at member’s homes. Call for info. 742-1313. 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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 Serving Tulsa’s Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual Communities - Our Families of the Heart June 15 -July 14, 1995, Volume 2, Issue 7 FRIENDS IN UNITY AFRICAN-AMERICAN MEN OF DIVERSE SEXUAL ORIENTATION by Tom Neal In the African-American community, there are men who have sex with othermenbut who do not see themselves as Gay or Bisexual. These men may never be reached by messages target Gay & Bi men about safer sex and HIV/AIDS. Reaching these men is part of the mission of Friends in Unity Social Organization (FUSO), a three year old community based organization (CBO) that is run by and for African-American men of diverse sexual See FUSO, page 16 British Court Rejects Military Ban Challenge LONDON - Britain’s High Court has reluctantly thrown out a bid to allow homosexuals to serve in the armed forces. The court rejected a legal challenge by four service members dismissed for being gay. However, the judge said the Bfiti.shpol icy probably wotfldn’t survive much longer because it was "against the fide of history." Jeanette Smith, Graeme Grady, JohnBeckett and Duncan Lustig-Prean challenged the Defense Ministry in the High Court, but lost the appeal - although not without moral support from the court. Lord Justice Simon Brown said he was refusing the application with "hesitation and with regret" but he said that the decision on the future of the policy must lie with others, specifically with the government and with Parliament. After the court ruling, the four discharged service members and their supporters held a press conference where spokeswoman Angela Mason said they were considering an appeal of the twojudge High Court ruling. The imnistry saidit was satisfied with the ruling. Defense Ministry spokeswoman Ailsa McIntyre said at a press conference following the court ruling, "We See British, page ]2 IN REMEMBRANCE: MARK VICKERS HIV/AIDS ACTIVIST Rec~auy Tulsa lost one of its most passionate activists to complications of AIDS. Mark Vickers, who had only recently turned 38, left Tulsa and his world a better place. Mark was best known for his work as an HIV/AIDS activist. According to one of his friends, the Rev. Leslie Penrose, Mark became involved in HIV/AIDS issues in the middle 80’s. Mark was involved in the formation of the HIV Resource Cousorfitwn even "before it had that name. seepage 6 Canadian Court OKs Same-Sex Adoptions TORONTO - An Ontario Court has cleared the way for four lesbian couples to adopt children, in what may be a landmark decision in the country. "There is a huge emotional advantage to a child to be adopted and not to just be in thejoint custody, but to have two people that they know for absolutely sure are their parents and will always be their parents no matter what," said Miriam Kanfman. Kaufman is the biological mother of 2 children, Jacob and Abiva, but her partner Roberta Benson of Toronto had no legal fight to adopt the youngsters before Judge James Paul Nevins of the Ontario Court’ s provincial division, declared adoption limited to opposite-sex couples was discriminatory. The judge issued adoption orders for all the couples in the case. Four lesbian couples won similar adoption rights in the case. All four cases involved couples in which one of the women was the biolo~cal parent of the children. It remains unclear how the court ruling might affect gay and lesbian couples trying to adopt when that’s not the case. Brenda Cossman, a family-law professor at York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School, said the ruling becomes powerful ammmfition See Canada, pare 12 .TULSA FAMILY NEWS COMMUNITY AWARDS See Awards, page 3 EDITORIAL/LETTERS, PAGE 2 DIRECTORY, PAGE 2 NEWS BRIEFS, PAGE 4 HEALTH BRIEFS, PAGE 6 TOHR REPORTER, PAGE 10 EVENTS CALENDAR, PAGE 11 FINANCIAL ADVICE, PAGE12 YOUR HOROSCOPE, PAGE 18 PRIDE PI.CNIC OKC PARADE TOHR FOLLIES Pride Logo by Kelly Vandiver Lesbian/Gay Pride Celebrations kick off officially in Tulsa with the annual Pride PiCnic held at Mohawk Park Pavilion no. 6. The picnic begins at noon. The organizers of this year’s picnic have designated the Gay & Lesbian Commumty Center as the beneficiary of any funds raised. As in-the past, beverages are free and there is no admission fee except a $1 per car charged by the park at the p~k entrance. Organizers are requesting a $2 TULSA ACTIVISTS ATTEND DALLAS LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE Over the Memorial Day weekend, several Tulsa activists journeyed to Dallas to brush.up on leadership skills at the 2nd Leadership Lambda Conference held at the Anatole Hotel. Tulsa Oklahomans ’for Human Rights (TOHR) president, Tim Gillean, Bud Wharton, co-chair of the Rainbow Business Guild. businessman Rick Phillips and Tom Neat, Tulsa Family News publisher attended a variety of workshops, ranging from the nuts & bolts of political campaign organizing to time management, and fundraising. The keynote speaker was former debutant, former CBS news producer and ACT-UP Lesbian activist, Ama Northrop. Other nationally known work~ shop leaders were Evan Wolfson, a top attorney withLambdaLegal Defense and Education Fund. Dallas board member of the Human Rights Campaign Fun (HRCF) Lori Masters and others representing Dallas organidonation for food which after zationsandWashingtOnoneslike PERSONALS, PAGE 19 ~seet~a~e 6 , ’~ the Gay &Lesbian Victory Fund. Administration Won’t Enter Amend, 2 Case WASHINGTON - The Clinton Administration has declined to join in an important Supreme Court case that is expected determine whether states can prohibit local legislation protecting lesbians and gay men against discrimination. U.S. Attorney General Janet Rent said the administration has decided not to participate in the Supreme Court case involving Colorado’s Amendment 2 because the federal government is not ~ party to the law in question. Voters in Colorado narrowly approved the ballot measure whichwas subsequently declared unconstitntional by the state’s Supreme Court. The measure passed by popular vote in 1992 specifically bans laws that prohibit discrimination against gay, lesbian and bisexual individuals. "There was nofederal program orfederal statute involved,"Reno said, "and so we determined thal at this point the federal government should not participate.’" Amendment 2, which has spawned a handful of similar state and local measures prohibiting gay rights protections around the country, would ban all Colorado and local la~vs or regulations that protec~ See Colorado. page 13 Anti-Gay Court Ruling in Cincinnati’s Measure CINCINNATI-Cincilmafi’ s onagain, off-again anti -gay measure is now back in place following a federal appeals court ruling. The U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a lower court erred when it overturned a measure that city voters approved in 1993 which excludes sexual orientation as a basis for civil rights protecnons. Last year a U.S. District Court declared the referendum unconstitutional because it attempts to deny civil liberties of an identifiable group of people. The appeals court ruling, however, said homosexuals are "an unidentifiable group or class of individuals whose identity is defined by subjective and unapparent characteristics such "as innate desires, drives and thoughts.’" Gay rights advocates were stamaed by the ruling and said they would appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, which is already slated to hear a similar case resulting from Colorado’s Amendment 2. Rhode Island OKs Anti-Bias Law PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Rhode Island has become the ninth state in the country to approve legislation prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation when the state Senate, after 11 years of trying, narrowly approved the measure on a 2~- 21 vote. The "bill, which has already been approved by the state House of Representatives, now goes to Gov. Lincoln Almond, a Republican, who has already indicated he would sign the measure into law. The bill bars discrimination in the s tate in employment, housing, public accommodations and credit. Religious organizations are exempt from the state law. Opponents of the civil rights bill attempted without luck to add a series of amendments, including one that would have forced the issue to a state ballot vote and another that would have specifically excluded the Boy Scouts of America. Photos Inside: i Follies Revue& Family of Faith National Conf. ~i~rter~" Delegates, ¯ seepage 12 918-832-0233 PUB 4140 Tulsa, Oklahoma 74159-0140 TulsaNews@aol~E0m Publisher/Editor Issued on or before the 15th of each month, the’:.~nti*r~:~onten’ts of Tom Neal this publication are protected by US copyright 1995 by Tulsa Family Assistant Editor News and may not be reproduced either in whole or in part without James Christjohn written permission from the publisher. Publication of a name or Writers/contributors phi0 does not indicate that person’s sexual orientation. Kharma Amos U0rrespondence is assumed to be for publication unless other- Laurie Cooper wise noted, must be signed & becomes the sole property of Tulsa Maureen Curtin Family News. All correspondence should be sent to the address Staff Photographer above. Each reader is entitled to on%free copy of each edition at JD Jamett distribution locations. Additional copies are available atTomfoolery! This for Tuls~:~~am~)!y News: But this uncharaE~ri~ti~iz bre~iity doesn’t mean thatit!’s~not .heartfelt or true. T~il ~a’~ :’Lesbian/Gay/Bi/ Transgendered Folks, Family & Friends are!~r.~tty..remarkable and wondel~t~~2’)~U-i 7:"/ " ¯ Whii~"~{~~h~nly perfect, we have much about which to be VIEL- . r sOlq = BP gE-HET rnen~ ~tasc_alinitj~ depends on IlleR three;- we, ~ lis folks w:hose hard Work and dedication we’ve seen andwantyoU all to know abotit) They’ve accomplished. much and there’s more being planned.of which -to be proud. Tulsa’s.a great town,that’s jus.t going tO get bett~r with each of us helping. - Tom Neal, editor OOPS! Tulsa~Family News made a mistake-in ourMay issue, v.2 #6. We announced the date of the Oklahoma City Pride Parade as Saturday, June 24. It is ac.tgally Sunday, June 25. We regret this and hope you, our readers, were not inconvenienced. . Tulsa Fatnily News wouldlike to assure our readers that the inclusion of the announcement of a Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights (TOHR) Civic Affairs committee meetingat the, end of the editorial, Civil Rights for Tulsa Lesbians & Gay Men. Who Decides What’s Best for Us? in no way represented the views of TOHR nor should readers infer that the commi ttee shared our editorial opinion. While Tulsa Family News hoped we had made this distinction clear by identifying the columnas the editor’s opxmon and by a disclaimer at the end of the column, we regret, that some folks may have perceived it otherwise. Although I rarely agree with vour opinions, I must applaud your recent editorial regarding "Civil Rights for Tulsa Lesbians & Gay Men: Who Decides What’s Best for Us?". Until the Human Rights Commission’s hearings last year, I was not politically involved at all. However, when I learned that my rights and the rights of my family were being talked about, I felt it my obligation to become involved. I find it hard to believe that I was the only person who got involved and worked up about the Gay Rights issue only to be left out of the decision making. To those of us who are not in the know, or who don’t run in the circles of people that are privileged enough to hear about what is going on behind the scenes, it seems as if the ball has been dropped. While I am sure that the same people who have always been fighting for Gay rights are still doing their part and doing it to the best of their ability, their failure to inform the commtmity at large and ask for more involvement does not promote involvement from those who have not been previously involved. In fact, when people like me who are interested in doing their part can’t even seem to find out what is happening, who to talk to etc., it nearly promotes political apathy. I understand that experience and tact are useful characteristics in people who are trying to change things in the face of the difficulty that comes from politics. But, I believe that each and every person in our community has useful skills and life experiences that will aid our fight against discrimination. Not necessarily do I want to be the person sitting and chatting with the Mayor, but I do feel like a meaningful discussion between the entire Gay/Lesbian community of Tulsa and the people who are leading the struggle would benefit everyone. Thank you for brining this issue out of the closet. It is my hope that this will indeed strike up a dialogue. We’ve given the Mayor and the City Council plenty of time with which to ponder the Human Rights Commission’s recommendations. Now, it’s time we talk about what to do next. Debbie Harding, Tulsa Tulsa Family News has not provided subscripuons directly prior to this issue. We have encouraged folks who wouldlike to receive Tulsa Family News by mail to join Tulsa Oklahomans for HumanRights.(TOHR). This has been our way of supporting TOHR since a membership in TOHR entitles the member to a monthly delivery of this paper. Recently, we have a complaint aboutnotreceiving Tulsa Family News quickly enough by mail. 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If there are folks whom you think should be recognized next year, please write us with their names and good/bad deeds. Thank you. Thumbs Up Award: Ric & Kelly Kirby - Service to community - TOHR & HIV AdvOcacy Nancy & Joe McDonald - Service to community - PFLAG Lisa Pottorf - Lesbian/Gay/Bi,Youth Outreach Kharma Amos - Service to community - Family of Faith MCC Derrick Davis & RF Renfro - Service to community - FUSO - -- Dennis Nei,lt, BiltHinkle .&-Barbara Longwirth - Service to community - Human Rights Commission Alice Jones - Eongtime Service to community - MCC Greater Tulsa Brian Jackson - Service to community - HI3/advocacy Janice Nicklas - Service to community - HIV advocacy Phil Wiley & Vernon Jones - Service to community - HIV advocacy & more Alice Wilder Bates - Service to community - A .Friend for A Friend Marty Newman.- Service to community - Black & White & more The Tulsa Worm for its improved coverage of Lesbian & Gay issues. Tulsa Congressman Steve Largent - for a historic 1 st meeting with his Gay & Lesbian constituents. Thumbs Down Award: Java Dave’s & Dave Neighbors - for responding to bias against Lesbian/Gay patrons by trying to get rid of Lesbian/Gay and other "alternative" patrons and for censoring community newspapers. City Councilor John Benjamin - for promoting prejudice and for a general disregard for human rights in Tulsa The Martin ,Luther King Jr. Commemorative Society - for failing to apologize for’the anti-Gay comments of their speaker at the King ceremonies. Thursday. June 29 7:00- 9:00 p.m. Downtown Library Room next to Aaronson Auditorium Senators Don Nickles & James Inhofe - This meeting is called b,y concerned. Gay/Lesbian citizens. This is a meeting to facilitate communication between every existing Gay & Lesbian Group in Tulsa. - for refusing to meet with their Lesbian & Gay constituents. lfyou are livin-o in Tulsa and are parr of the Gay. /Lesbian communi~ the ~ulsa World for its anti-Gay advertising policies. YOU NEED TO BE AT THIS ;V~EETI.N(;. li= ii-1/-,!3 ,/) II lil July l)pens June I~, I (~am-I Opnn, June ~/4-,_-11), I~am-midni~ht, I-4, ~am.midni~ht, July ~, I(~am-~pm News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Gramm Woos Religious Right With Military Issue LYNCHBURG, Va. - Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Texas) told the graduating .class at Jerry Fal well’ s Liberty University that hc would support overturning the "don’ t ask, don’ t tell" policy of allowing gays and lesbians in the armed forces in an apparent effort by the GOP presidential hopeful to shore up support among the religious right wing of the party. ’~Let’ s overturn Bill Clinton’s destructive and unworkable policy on gays-in the military," Gramm told the Liberty University commencement audience, although he did not specify what policy he supported. The current policy, however, was a compromise reached between Clinton and Senate conservatives-includingGramm - after Clinton said he wanted to end the ban on homosexuality in the country’ s military altogether. Grmnm also said he supports prayer in public schools, restrictions on abortions, and rejection of a UN treaty on children" s rights because it does not define a fetus as a child Phil Gramm’s Blue Movie Investment? WASHINGTON - Sen -Phil Grmmn. who als0"Said at Liberty University that .the country is facing a "moral’crisis," has de~fied investing money 20 years ago in a soft-pore film entitled "’Truck Stop Women." Gramm’ s former brother-in-law, George Caton, told the New Republic that Gramm had invested money in the fihn in 1974. Caton also said the film was never made mad that he offered to return Gramm" s money to him, but ttmt the Texas conservative had i nstead insisted that it be invested in a film making fun of former President Richard Nixon. Gramm denied investing either in the porn film or knowing anything about an anti-Nixon picture. ’Homos’ in the Military WASHINGTON - Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningharn (R-San Diego) turned the sometimes acrimonious House of Representatives floor debates into a particularly nasty affair Thursday, May 11, by saying that the people who back an environmental bill before Congress are the same people who "want to put homos in the military." "Is there any shocking doubt?" Cunningham said on the House floor. "The same.people that would vote to cut defense $177 billion, the same ones that would put homos in the military, the same ones that would not fund..." At this point Rep. Patricia Schroeder, a Democrat from Colorado, tried to object by calling "Mr. Chairman, Mr. Chairman" several times. But Cunninghamcuther offabruptly, saying, "No I will not sit down, socialist." Rep. Barney Frank(DMass.) said on the House floor, "Trying to prove anything to the Member from California goes beyond the pale of my oath [of office], and I won’ t try. I will say that we are not here talking about the merits .of that issue [gays in the military]. We are talking about the gratuitously bigoted formulation of it by which it was injected into this debate.’" Later Cunningham showed up at a press conference called by the Human Rights Campmgn Fund and was invited by Elizabeth Birch, HRCF’s executive director, to apologize for his remarks. Cunningham said, "If the term ’homos in the military’ is offensive, I apologize." He insisted, however, that he has not changed his mind about opposing gays and lesbians in the armed forces. General Motors Puts Ads in Gay Magazine DETROIT-General Motors has become the 1st of the country’s "Big Three" automakers to advertise in the gay press in the U.S. The May issue of Out magazine includes a 2-page ad ffr GM’s Saturn auto. It is the . same ad layout GM currently uses in otherpublications around the country. A spokesperson for the automaker said the advertising decision was based simply on "another opportunity to ~each a group within our market - that is, people wh~ would Wobably purchase an import." British Police Force Begins Gay Recruiting BRIGHTON, England - The pofice in the British south-coast county of East Sussex have made history in the United Kingdom by becoming the first constabulary in .the country to solicit gays and lesbians to join its force. Sussex police have put ads in Brilain’ s gay Pink Paper inviting gays and lesbians to apply for some 350 vacancies currently openin the force. Wlfile Britain’ s military forces exclude homosexuals, the country’s police services have no such prohibition. But the Sussex police are the first in British history to actively recruit gays and lesbians as officers. Mark Lamb, head ofpersonnel with the Sussex police Said, "Society is coming around to the idea that the sexuality of an individual is no big deal and we share that view." East Sussex includes several popularvacation spots, such as Beachy Head, Rye and Brighton, which has a large and politically active community. The move by the Sussex police followed a meeting between John Smith, head of the Brighton Police, and gay and lesbian activists. Buddhists to Perform Same-Sex Weddings LOS ANGELES - The World Tribune,. the newspaper of the Soka Gakkai International Buddhist Association, has reported that the religious group will now perform wedding services for same-sex couples, the same as it now does for opposite-sex couples. The newspaper quoted Fred Zaitsu, SGI’s general director, who said the change reflected the Buddhist "spirit of nondiscrimination and equality." Soka Gakkai International is the largest Buddhist religious group in the United States. Dyke March in New York NEW YORK - New York’s Lesbian Avengers is planning another Dyke March, slated as part of this year’s New York Gay Pride events on Saturday, June 24. Last year’ s International Dyke March drew some 20,000 women. The theme of this year’ s march is "Snatch the Power." County Revokes Human Rights Protections. TAMPA, Fla. - The Hillsborougia County Commission has decided on a 4-3 vote to repeal the "sexual orientation" section of the county’s human rights ordinance. Activists had expected the repeal move after 2 new conservative members were elected to the commission in last year’ s elections. Rights activists said they would challenge the repeal in court. Cammermeyer Honored by Jewish Women SEATTLE Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer was one of 3 women given the Hannah SolomOn Award by the National Counfil of Jewish Women. Cammermeyer, the highest ranking officer to challenge the military ban on gay and lesbian service members, was selected for the honor in recognition of her work for the rights and freedoms of others. Justice Dept. Settles Military Suit with Pruitt WASHINGTON - The Justice Department has settled a 1983 lawsuit filed by Dusty Prultt that would change her status from an involuntary discharge from the U.S. Army because she said she was a lesbian to a voluntary retirement with therankofmajor. Pruitt, a minister with the Metropolitan Community Churchin Lakewood, Calif., said she was ."overjoyed" with the proposed settlement, which would allow her to be eligible for retirement benefits. North Carolina Film Festival Controversy DURHAM, N.C. - Headed by leaders ofthe county Republican Party and theChristian Coalition, scores oflocal anti-gay protesters showedup attheDurhamCounty Commission Monday, May 22, to demand that plans to hold a gay film festival in June at the Carolina Theatre should be halted. Virginia Bunton, secretary of the Durham County Republican Party, told the commissioners, "We would prefer that the community notbe exposed to this lifestyle.... We’re supposed to be protecting our citizens from some things they need to be protected from, and that includes pornography." Bunton said she had seen none of the films slated to be shownas part of the film festival held in conjunction with the annual North Carolina Pride ’95 celebrationJune 9-12in Durham. Even so, Bunton said she intends to ask the state Attorney General t o preview the films to determine if they are pornography under North Carolina law. The county commissioners ducked a direct attack of the film festival, and instead passed a resolution asking the Carolina’ s trustees to provide "parental guidance" for films that had no ratings and to consider "downplaying’" its. advertising for the festi val’s offerings: - " " " - Transsexuals Get 2 ID’s LONDON-With typical British sang-froid, the LondonTransport system has announced that it will begin issuing 2 ID cards to transsexuals who are in the processing of changing their gender. One card will show the eardholder dressed as a male, the other as a female to help tickettakers in the city’s subway system. To qualify for the dual ID cards, the individuals must be under the care of a physician or psychiatrist. Amnesty Charges Rights Violations in Romania BUCHAREST - Amnesty International, the human rights watchdog group based m London, has strongly criticized whatit says are continuing rights violations in Romania 5 years after the overthrow of the repressive regime of Nicolea Ceausescu. Amnestycondemned what it says are restrictions on the rights of free speech, the illtreatment or torture of prisoners and thedetentionofhomosexuals simply because of their sexual orientation. Amnesty acknowledged thatthings haveimproved for many people in Romania since Ceausescu was deposed, but complained that government assurance that human rights would be protected had not been honored and that abuses were continuing in the country. ALA Group Announces 1995 Book Awards CHICAGO - The American Library Association’s Gay, Lesbian & Bisexual Book Awards Committee has announced the winners of its 1995 book awards. The top winners were: "Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence" by Marion Dane Bauer; "Skin: Nathanael Mattingly salon estetica 749-0777 The Queen of theGalaxy presents the best damn hair in town! 3509 $. Peoria- 2nd Level - Tulsa, OK 74105 Kelly Kirby Certified Public Accountant Lesbians & Gays face many special tax situations whether single or as couples. We are proud to serve our communities with sensitive & timely information. 747-5466, POB 14011, Tulsa.74159 ¯ News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Talldng About Sex, Class & I~lealth studied 741 gay men in ntence simply:~for.......being state Senate rejected Hurley’s legalrights since it would almost Literature" by Dorothy Allison; "Uncommon Heroes: A Celebration of Heroes & Role Models for Gay & Lesbian Americans" by Phillip Sherm an and Samuel Bernstein. The awards will be formally presented at the 25th anniversary ALA’ s Gay, Lesbian&Bisexual Task Force conference in Chicago on June 24. GLAAD Takes on Mel Gibson’s Latest Film LOS ANGELES ~ The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) took to the streets to hand out leaflets outside theaters in a half-dozen cities protesting the opening of the Mel- Gibson film "Braveheart." Ellen Carton, GLAAD’s executive directory said, "We can’ t fmd any heart in ’Braveheart.’ There’ s nothing brave about prejudice and violence." GLAAD said the portrayal ofthe gay EnglishKing Edward II in the film was "a throwback to the classic celluloid ’queer’ played for laughs." The film. opened at theaters around the country on May 24. Lesbian Rights Group Gets Huge Grant SAN FRANCISCO - The National Center for Lesbian Rights here has received a whopping $450,000 grant from the Joyce Mertz-Gilmore FoundationinNewYork. NCLR is a public interest law group that fights discrimination against lesbians thro.ughout the U.S. The group says it will use part of its new funding to beef up membership, with a goal of 15,000 new members by 1997. Part of the membership drive will include setting up its own home pages on the Internet’ s .World Wide Web where it hopes ~t can reach thousands ofwomen with access to few support resources. Discrimination Adds to ¯Health Problems NEW YORK - According to a report in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, gay men who directly experience homophobia, anti-gay violence or discrimination are 2 to 3 times as likely to suffer from depression, anxiety, stressrelated sexual problems, suicidal thoughts and other negative pressures. Researchers at the Columbia School of Public New York City and concluded that the men who experienced anti-gay discrimination or violence suffered significantly greatermental distress than those whodonot. The s tudy also found that those who also blamed their own homosexuality as the cause of the discrimination or violence were even more likely to experience emotional stress. The researchers also found that gay men who had gone through such anti-gay experiences dealt with the stress more effectively ff they "felt connected to the gay community." Museum’s Multicultural Wedding Exhibit OAKLAND, Calif. - The Oakland Museum has just opened a historical exhibit covering wedding customs from Native American traditional ceremonies to contemporary same-sex holy unions. The multicultural exhibit includes material from the Museum’s large historical collection of photographs, costumes and memorabilia, as well as materials onloanfrom othermuseums and private collections. The exhibit tracks how couples meet, engagement customs, prewedding, celebrations, nuptial ceremomes and honeymoons, with short histories of how the customs evolved. Among the wedding garments, ranging from a Japanese kimono to a 19th century embroideredladdalgown from Turkey, are the matching pair of colorful shirts worn by two men during their wedding. Gay Albanian Group Gets Official Recognition TIRANE, Albania - Injust over one year after forming in 1994, the Gay Albania Society has moved from being a secretive, illegal association in what was once the hardest of the hard-line Communist nations, to helping convince the national parliament to repeal its anti-gay laws earlier this year, tonow winning official recognition, the Open Media Research Institute has reported. Tlie Gay Albania Society was secretly formed with an anonymous membership in March 1994. By the beginning of this year, the society had been instrumental in convincing the Albanian Parliament to drop Article 137, which carried a maximum 10 year prison se homosexual." When the new penal code went into effect at the beginning of June, the Albania government also extended formal recognition of the Gay Albania Society as a registered citizens’ associationrepresenting the interests of a class of the COuntl’y. Lesbian Parental Case Goes to N.Y, High Court NEW YORK - The New York Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, has begunhearings that will decide whether one partner of same-sex couples can adopt the biological child of the other partner. The case involves a lesbian who is attempting to adopt the 5-year-old biological daughter of her mate. The 2 women, identified only as P.I. and G.M. in court documents, have been a couple for 19 years. The women Want to have joint parental rights to their daughter because only a legal parent can make certain decisions for a child under state law. Beatrice Dohrn of the Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund, which is handling the appeal, said the case was being appealed to New York’s highest court because it would "determine whether children with 2 gay parents may ever have a legally recognized relationship with both their moms or dads," Earlier this year, alower court refused to grant the adoption, insisting that if it granted G.M. parental rights it would have to deny P.I., who is the biological mother, her rights as the girl’ s mother. Gay Conference Costs Iowa University DES MOINES, Iowa-The Iowa le~slatur,e has stripped the state’ s university system of some $100,000 in funding which may - or may not - have been the result of a successful international gay studies conference held last year at the University of Iowa. Earlier in May, state Rep. Charles Hurley sponsored an amendment to the state’s $752 million university budget that would have prohibited any state funded educational institutions ofhigher learning from spending public funds for "’encouraging or supporting homosexuality as a positive alternative lifestyle."’ The anti-gay amendment passed the House by a 50-21 vote. The amendment, but went on to cut $100,000 that it had planned to include in university budgets this year. Hurley and other legislators - said the funding cut was a result of the University of Iowa’ s "InQueery/InTheory/ InDeed" academic conference in November 1994. Campuslesbian & gay groups said they would continue to sponsor the conference despite the near passage of the measure. Country’s Largest Gay Meg Hits the Internet NEW YORK - Out magazine, the country’s largest selling lesbigay news publication, has entered the cyber universe of the Internet’s increasingly popular World Wide Web that will for the first time in gay publishing history be sponsored by Apple Computer. Out has set up its "Web site" on the Internet in time for June’s gay pride celebrations around the country, and will include regularly updated pride information from a score of lesbian and gay publications in New York, Washington D.C./Seattle, Los An geles, San Francisco, and other cities. The World Wide Web site address for the publication is: http://www.out.com and wil! include reader forums where Internet readers can carryon discussions with others on the Web. Mayor, City Attorney Want Gay Couple to Get Marriage License ITHACA, N.Y: - The Ithaca (N.Y.) Journal has reported that Mavor Benjamin Nichols and Cit~ Attorney Charles Guttman both want the city council to order thecity clerk to issue a marriage license to 2 gay men who plan on getting married late in June. The couple, Toshav Greene and Phillip Storrs, applied for the license in May and ended up. meeting with a number of the city’s elected leaders, many of whom say they now agree the city should issue the license. Nicholsin fact urged the city council to pass a resolution calling on the state to !.egalize same-sex marriages. It is uncertain whether the license will actually be issued, and perhaps more important, what such a license would legally mean in terms of the couple’s inevitably lead t6 a court case in the state. Green and Storrs say they will go ahead with their planned Jewish wedding ceremony on June 22 whether they get the license or not. ¯Annual Conference of Gay & Lesbian-Jews NEW YORK - The annual International Conference of Gay & Lesbian Jews will meet in New YorkJuly 27-30 at the New York Sheraton Hotel. Themed "Gay & Lesbian Jews: Taking Our Place in the 21st Century," the conference expects more ll~an 1,000 people to attend, and will feature a keynote address of Yael Dayan, a member of the Israeli Knesset Or parliament. The confab is being hosted by New York’s Congregauon Beth Simchat Torah and additional informationis available byphone at: (212) 929-9498. West Virginia University OKs Domestic Partners MORGANTOWN,W.Va.-The University of West Virginia has approved a school domestic parmers policy that will, for the first time in the state, include the partners of regastered same-sex staff, faculty and students. Qualified couples who register their relationship through the university will be eligible for a variety of benefits. BROOKSIDE JEWELRY 4649 South Peoria -743-5272 -.’,: Corner of 48th & Peoria 9:30 - 5, Monday-Friday Shop Where You Are Appreciated! Ross EDWARD 1438 S. Boston, Tulsa $30/hour - in, call for out rates ~Llcense~ Specializing in: ¯ Pager: 672-2035 ¯ Therapeutic ¯ Shiatsu ¯ Sports Fight for Your Rights Mee;ting. TULSA, OK - Local activists begin grassroots civil fights effort to address the stalled City of Tulsa Human Rights Cormnittee Report on Civil Rights based on sexual orxentation. On Monday evening, June 5, a steering cohamittee was formed to call a community-wide meeting. Steering Committee members, Bob Ritz, Kharma Amos, Debbie Harding and Tom Neal have called a meeting, FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHTS - A communttv meetingfor Civil Rightsfor Lesbians an’d Gays; for Thursday, June 29 from 7:00 pm until 9:00 pm at the Downtown Tulsa City/County Public Library in the room adjacent to Aaronson Auditorium. Because Tulsa has so many community organizations, steering committee members feel that the most appropriate way to organize is to have a forum where representatives from each of the existing orgamzations and members of the Gay; Lesbian community at large can meet to discuss publically goals and strategies. FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHTS - A community meeting for Civil Rights for Lesbians andGays will begin withareview of what’s happened since the emotional Human Rights Commission’s public hearings held in May 1994. The steering committee hopes that out of this meeting will Come goals and tasks that all parts of the community can support. The organizers hope that this meettng will help pull the Gay/Lesbian community together into a cohesive, action-oriented group. Clubs, churches, organizations, ~,-zd businesses are encouraged to have representation at this meeting. For more information, call 838-2121. Vickers cont’dfi’om p. 1 Mark also served on the board of directors for Regional AIDS Interfaith Network, the Oklahoma United Methodist AIDS Task Force and the Tulsa AIDS Coalition. He founded Rainbow Village, a project focused on providing shelt, r to persons living with AIDS. In 1993 his work was recognized with the Richard Shackleford HIV Memorial Award and with the United Way Evergreen Spirit Award. Mark also helped to change profoundly the response of the r~nite-d-Methodi~t Church of Oklahoma to HIV/AIDS. He met with Oklahoma’s bishop and with leaders of the Oklahoma United Methodist Conference. He also helped to found Community of Hope, a worship community" of the United Methodist Church. At their recent conference, Oklahoma Methodists honored Mark Vickers with an extremely rare moment of silence and prayer. Mark is remembered by his spouse of7 years, Brad Mulholland. Last July, Brad and Mark celebrated a Blessing of Commitment with Community of Hope. Many, many friends and family cherish his life and good works which testify to the strength of his commitment. Jeffrey A. Beal, MD Ted Campbell, LCSW Ginny Butler, RN MS Specialized in HIV Care Providing Comprehensive Primary Care Medicine and Psychotherapeutic Services We have many insurance provider affiliations - ifyou belong to an insurance program that does not list us as providers, call us and we will apply. 1560 East 21st Street, Suite 210 Monday - Friday, 9:30,4:30 pm, 743-1000 Tulsa Police Dept. Seeks Help on Case TULSA- Detective Vema Wilson of the Tulsa Police Dept. is seeking any information readers might have regarding the murder of the late Chris WilcuttYormerly of Bartlesville. Wilcutt, who frequently cross-dressed, went by the name of "Roxy." He was last seen walking east on llth St., leaving Metropole at about 1 am early on Sunday, Feb. 26. Police describeWilcutt as Caucasian, 5’-9", 220# with brown hair & hazel eyes. When last seen he was wearing a black dress with gold trim and a blond/red wig. Any information about his movements on Sat. Feb. 25 or early Sun. Feb. 26 is sought by Tulsa Police. You may call Detective Wilson at 596-9142 or call anonymously at 596-COPS. Tulsa Pride, OKC Parade & TOHR Follies expenses will go to the Bnildmg Fund. Picnic goers are encouraged to bring some extra cash because a number of community organizations and businesses will have booths with food, information or merchandise. Sales at these booths benefits the individual organization/business. On Sat. June 17, several Tulsa churches are having a gospel sgng-fest and on Wed. June 21, the MCC’s are having a joint worship service. On Friday, June 23, fabulous Dallas comic, Paul Williams, will perform at ConcessionS. On the following Sunday, the State-wide Pride Parade will be held in Oklahoma City, beginning at Memorial Park atNW 35 & Classen and ending at the Habana Inn. Several Tulsa businesses are planning floats. TOHR will hold its i5th annual Follies on June 30. A number of other events are planned for the remainder of the June, please consult the community calendar for details. Cherry Street Psychotherapy Associates 1 51 5 South Lewis Are you looking for a relaxed, amicable, private atmosphere for therapy? Our office provides a level of confidentiality and comfort that enhances the therapeutic process. For further information call 743-4117 Leah Hunt, MSW Judy Seymour-Taylor, CADC Della Blackburn, CADC Richard Reeder, MS Serving a Diverse Community Accepting Medicare, Medicaid. private pay andprivate insurance. Oklahoma owned and operated. Where have people living with AIDS in the Tulsa area gone to receive skilled nursing care in a homelike, loving setting? Until now - no where..... ; Announcing the opening ofMohawk Living Center, a facility specializing in caring for people riving with AIDS. Overlooking beautiful Mohawk Park in North qfialsa, our facility is dedicated to caring for PLWA’s and improving their quality of life through skilled nursing care delivered by a staff of dedicated professionals The staff at Mohawk Living Center invite you to come & tour Our new facility. To arrange a tour or for more information, call our offices at 918-425-1354 Mohawk Pride Center 3910 Park Road ¯ Tulsa, OK. (918) 425-1354 QUALITY OF LIFE ALTERNATIVE WHAT IS VIATICATION? Viatication is the process through which a person living with an terminal illness can receive a dash payment from the face value of their insurance policy. WHO IS ELIGIBLE FOR A VIATICAL SETTLEMENT? Generally, to be eligible for a viatical settlement you must have a documentable terminal illness, and life insurance coverage in either an individual term, whole life, or a group policy. HOW MUCH IS MY POLICY WORTH? The value of your life insurance policy in a viatical settlement is determined by the specifics of your policy and your unique medical situation. Not every policy is suitable for viaticatlon, but settlement offers typically range from 60% to 90% ofa policy’s face value, depending on the specifics of your policy and medical history. HOW DOES A SETTLEMENT WORK? With your written permission, we gather medical and insurance records with which to determtne your policy’s value. Then, a settlemnt offer is presented to you. You may always decline the offer with no obligation whatsoever. Should you accept the offer, payment is made directly to you. You pay nothing else on your policy, and you owe us nothing. IS VIATICATING MY POLICY THE RIGHT CHOICE FOR ME? Many factors influence whether viaticating your life insurance is the best financial alternative available for you. Southwest Viatical can discuss all of the factors with you and yourfamily in person, in detail and can recormnend an experienced Certified Financial Plmmer to assist you in plmming the best outcome from your mfique finmacial situation. HOW IS SOUTHWEST VIATICAL DIFFERENT? Today, many companies offer viatical settlements, doing business only by bulk advertising and 1-800 numbers. They transferyourinsurance andmedicalrecords by mail, and do business from another state. At Southwest Viatical, we believe you should be assured of complete cortfidentiality and the best possible senice bv working with us in person, fac,e-to-face. We are involved on a community level, ~nd are responsible .directly to our local community. By working with you in person, but at the same time having access to nationwide financial resources, we .are able to deliver the best value on your policy available today, An&because~of our established resources, we c,’m deliver a settlement in less than a third the time other companies take by mail, t3pically in fewer than 30 days. We’ll do what it takes to find the best solution for yOu. Sou.thwest 7 Home Office 800-559-4790 Kelly Kirby Oklahoma Representative POB 14011 Tulsa, OK 74159-1011 918-747-3320 Health Briefs Health Possible Major Breakthrough in HIV Fight SAN FRANCISCO - Researchers with the University of California at San Francisco reported at the annual convention of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology that a "designer drug" known as a protease inhibitor may help keep HIV from replicating and mutating in the body. Dr. Charles Cralk told the convention that the computer-designed drug, which has only been tested in laboratories so far, apparently blocks a crucial enzyme m HIV, making it impossible for the virus to reproduce itself and mutate. In laboratory tests, the drug kept HIV from infecting new calls in test tubes and prevented it from duplicating itself in already-invaded cells. If the protease inhibitor works as effectively in humans as it has in the laboratory, Craik and his colleagues believe it could be the most important breakthrough in fighting HIV and AIDS to date. Hospital Costs for AIDS Spiral WASHINGTON - According to a study by the National Public Healthand Hospital I Institute, the hospital costs of individual ~atients with AIDS can be as high as 260,000 per year, and in some urban hospitals can occupy more than 7% of the available beds daily. The study also found that patients with AIDS average 12 hospital days per stay, significantly above the 7.2 day average stay for other patients, Because many patients with AIDS depend on Medicaid, Medicare or other public funds to pay for their care, the study concludes that if Congress makes large cuts in Medicaid ’Medicare funding many hospitals will have to restrict care ofAIDS Briefs Health Briefs Health Briefs Health patients. More Blacks/HispanicsWith HIV ATLANTA - The Centers for Disease~ Control & Prevention has reported that; the number of new AIDS cases among white gay men has fallen off between 3% and 20% in 3 U.S. cities most hard hit by the epidemic - New York, Los Angeles and San Fran cisco - during the past 5 years. The number of AIDS cases among black gay men in those same cities, however, has risen dramatically in the same period. In San Francisco the number of infections grew 53%, in New York 49%, andin Los Angeles 48% since 1989. Nationally, the number of new cases among gay men grew 31% during the past 5 years, the CDC data indicates, while the national figures increased 79% among black gay men and 61% among Hispanic gays. Infants with HIV May Live Years CHICAGO - Babies born with HIV may live for many years, even until they are teenagers, without getting sick and it may take that long before anyone realizes they carry the virus, a new study published in the journal Pediatrics says. Most pediatricians have believed that AIDSinfected newborns die by the time they’re toddlers, researchers say. Dr. Samuel Grubman led a study of 42 children ages 9 to 15 who were"born with HIV and treated at Children’s Hospital of New Jersey in Newark in June 1993. Ten of the children showed no symptoms of the infection, while 8 showed some minor signs of illness - but not _enough to be diagnosed. Thirty-six of the 42 showed no signs of illness until they were at least 4 years old, Dr. Gmbman reported. One 14- year-old ~d in her program was infected FI-~ELITY HQN~E HE-ALTH CA-RE, INC. Tulsa Office 486-1174 800-999-34/!2 Weprovide comprehensive home health services 24 hours/day, seven days/week. The range ofservices include: Skilled nursing services (RN’s; LPN’s) Home health aides, Physical Therapy Speech Therapy, Occupational Therapy Medical Social Services, In-home psychiatric .care Non-emergency transportation, Private duty nursing and Companion sitter services. This list is not all inclusive. Please contact our offices with specific treatment issues. with HIV at birth and is still "not sick at all." " ......... HIV Home Test Worthwhile SAN FRANCISCO - Researchers at the University of California at San Francisco haveurgedthe U.S. government to approve a kit that allows people to test themselves for HIV in their own homes - citing a new study indicating that millions might be likely to use it. According to the survey of nearly 21,000 people by the UCSF scientists published in the New England Journal ofMedicine, 29% said they would probably use the home test if it were available. The survey also found that of people considered "at risk" for infection, 42% said they would use the home test, and31% indicated they wouldpreferusing the home test rather than other options. Dole to Co-Sponsor Ryan White CARE Measure WASHINGTON - The Log Cabin Repubficans, the gay and lesbian lobbying organization, has announced that Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole of Kansas has agreed to sign as a co-sponsor of the Ryan White CARE Reauthorization Act. Rich Tafel, LCR’s executive director, said, "This is a major victory for gay Republicans and the AIDS community. I"m confident that Sen. Dole will remain personally involved in the effort to pass [the measure] quickly, and will be a unifying influence among the Republicans in the Senate." CDC Ends Newborn HIV Testing WASHINGTON - In a starding move, U.S. officials have ended the anonymous testing of newborns for HIV. The Briefs Health Briefs cancellation of the $10million HIV testing program was announced ata congressional hearing shortly before a congressman urged Congress to require authorities to inform all mothers of the results of the tests. The tests have been conducted anonymously in 45 states since 1988. FBI Spied on AIDS Groups WASHINGTON - Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by the Center for Constitutional Rights indicate that the FBI has kept a number of AIDS and gay rights organizations under surveillance since the early 1980s when the g~oup ACT UPbegan. The FBI denied spying on the groups and said it merely passed information along to local authorities about possible violence by members of the groups. Among the organizations the FBI kept records on - in addition to ACT UP - were: the Gay Men’s Health Crisis, the Coalition for Lesbian & Gay Rights, and Senior Action in a Gay Environment, a social services agencyforoldergays andlesbians. Despite the FBI’s denials, the agency released 0nly 22 of its 199 pages of files on ACT UP, claiming the rest of the file was confidential because of "ongoing lawenforcement activity" involving ACT UP. Anesthetic: Another Possible HIV Transmission Route SYDNEY - HIV can exist for as long as 4hours in anesthetic, according to a report published in the Medical Journal of Australia. The researchers who did the report say their findings could explain how 4 women in Australia became infect ed with HIV in a single day in 1989 while Now Open! 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Medical Group Endorses Needle Exchanges CHICAGO - The annual convention of the Illinois State Medical Society has called for legislation that would legally allow "responsible commumty groups" to set up needle-swap programs in the state. Dr. RaymondHoffman, the society’s president, called needle-exchange programs a "potentially useful tool to curb the spread ofHIV" without increasing the use of illegal drugs. Needle-Swap Program ,Works BALTIMORE - Baltimore’s needle .exchange program has been so successful an attracting IV drug users to swap used hypodermic needles for clean ones that Dr. Peter Beilenson, the city’s health commissmner, wants to double thenumber ofneed le-swap sites in the city. The city’ s program, launched at the beginning of this year, had expected to attract about 500 people during its first year of operation, Instead, the program has drawn some 2,300 people during its first5months of operation. The city’s monitoring of the programs also indicates that IV drug users Briefs Health Briefs Health Briefs Health Briefs are now shanng needles half as often as before. House Military Subcommittee OKs Anti-HIV Measure WASHINGTON - The national security military personnel subcommittee of the House of Representatives has voted to approve anamendment sponsoredby Rep. Robert Dornan (R-Calif.), the subcommittee chairman, that would bar abortions at armed forces hospitals and authorize discharging military personnel infected with HIV. The nation’s armed forces currently prohibit individuals with HIV from joining; but troops diagnosed after.recruitment are permitted to continue serving as long as their health allows and are not allowed to serve outside tile U.S. The Defense Department and the Department of the Army both oppose Doman’s measure, which would mandate honorable discharge within 6 months of diagnosis. Calif. Assembly OKs Medicinal Marijuana Measure SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The California Assembly has narrowly OKed legislation by a 41-30 vote that would permit p.hysicians to prescribe marijuana cigarettes for patients who are terminally or chronically ill, although a number of conservative legislators objected that the bill wouldpromote drug usein the state. If the measure in fact does become law, physicians would be able to prescribe marajuana for their patients with AIDS, cancer, glaucoma or multiple .sclerosis. The bill still requires approval by the Senate and the signature bf Gov. Pete Wilson f0 become law. Last year Wilson Timothy W. Daniel Attorney at Law Know Your Rights! Estate Planning, Adoptions, Personal Injury, Criminal Law, Bankruptcy & Workers Compensation 1-800-742-9468 or 918-352-9504 128 East Broadway, Drumright, Oklahoma Weekendand evening appointments are available. .~eLq.~d a similar measure because he said ’’at ~;~uld not work unless the federal government also ended its ban on prescribing marijuana cigarettes. Hillary Clinton Launches Pediatric HIV Campaign WASHINGTON-Citing a study showing that treatment can reduce the risk of mothers transmitting HIV-to their newborns, Hillary Rodham Clinton has launched a campaign urging pregnant women to get tested for the virus. The campaign, designedby the Pediatric AIDS Foundation, "will .reach out and give women the information they need to protect their own health and the health of their children," she said. Clinton also said that, according to the National Institutes of Health study, almost 6,000 American women infected with HIV give birth annually and, without treatment, 20% to 25% of those babies are born infected.. AIDS Fundraiser Expects $5M HOLLYWOOD - The 2nd annual California AIDS Ride, a 550-mile bicycle trek from San Francisco to Hollywood that has just ended, is expected to raise more than $5 milli on, making it the largest AIDS fundraiser in the U.S. Among the some 1,800 bike riders, about 10 have AIDS and up to 250 are HIV-positive. Celeb Judith Light of the TV comedy "Who’s the Boss?" said after the 7-day ride, "It looked impossible, but it was possible because of everyone’s commitment." Gelid Moves to Univ. of Maryland BETHESDA, Md. - Dr. Robert C. Gallo, one of the country’s best-known and most controversial AIDS researchers, will set up his Institute of Human Virology atthe University of Maryland’s Medical Biotechnology Center in the hopes of attracting other prominent scientists and biotechnology finns to contribute their discoveries. Gallo said that the institute will .workonbasic researchanddeveloping vacones, gene therapies, and new drugs to fight HIV - as well-as gain a deeper understanding of the biology behind the virus. Gallo had been with the National Institutes of Health for 30 years. HIV-Infected Women at Higher Risk for Cervical Cancer TORONTO- Early data-from the Canadian Women’s HIV Study Group indicates that women infected with HIV are at greater risk of being stricken with severe cervical cancer than uninfected women. The study group’s preliminary data found that half of some 300 women infected with HIV that were examined also had HPV - the human papilloma virus associated with cervical cancer. Dr. Catherine Hankins, one of the study’s chiefinvestigators, also said that a fifth of the women examined had squamous dysplasia, an early indicator associated with the cancer. The rates found in the study were at least double those expected in the general population. AIDS Project-k.A. Looking for Conservative PR Firm LOS ANGELES - One of the first acts of Allen Carrier after taking over as director of communications for the AIDS ProJect- Los Angeles is to try to find a public relations firm in. Washington D.C. with solid links to the Republican Party. Carrier says APLA wants a GOP-cormected PR firm to conduct an HIV education campaign aimed at members of Congress. APLA is the 2rid largest AIDS agency in the U.S. with a $20 million yearly budget. Trees, Sunshine, Laughter, Fun, Community, Challenge! AHA! WHEE! Woman for Woman A Ropes Course Day Saturday, July 15, 8am, 5p~n " $30, meals included, Camp Loughridge in Sapulpa Offered by Nancy Vitali, ropes instructor & Mary Todd, president; Learning Unlimited Corp. Call LUC at 622-3292for questions Or to enroll. I~~i Feb. 11r~8;,l:996, $795-1950 _-R$VP I Feb. 18-25,1996, $795-1950 Mexican Riviera I~ March 17-24., 1~996, $795-2495 French Ca~ June 30 - July7; 1996, International Tours 9z8-34/-6866 e Best Little Homo in Texas Gay Comic Paul J. Williams Friday, June 23 One Show Only $5 Tickets 10 pm Concessions Nightclub - 3340 S. Peoria - 744-0896 One Dollar of Every Tickel Sold is Douated to the TOHR Building Fuad Advauce Tickets Available - Budget Wiudow Treat~nents. 7116 S. Miugo & Floral Desiga Studios, 3404 S. Peoria & From TOHR Members HIV TESTING CLINIC FREE & ANONYMOUSE FINGER STICK METHOD By and for, but not exclusive to the lesbian, gay & bisexual communities New Hoursfor Your Convenience! Monday & Thursday Evening Daytime Testing 7 to 8:30pm for Testing Monday-Thursday 7 to 9:00pm for Results By Appointment Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights 918-749-4194 4154 South Harvard Suite H-1 Call for Directio/as ~ ~ . .~ ..,~’~, ~. - ~~ ....A.Corn~~erviceB.ro.uQ.h.t.to You by..T~,OHR and Tui.~a Fatal1" New~ " ~ " CO-DEPENDENCY SUPPORT GROUP - Weekly ~ting 7:30? E~{~ 0~ Ea[th MCC. ~51-E South Mingo. Ca1162~’~:~1 for Info. HIV TESTING - TOHR~Ii~;’ "Free and BLESS THE IORD..AT, ALL TIMES CHRISTIAN CENTER- Sunday School 9:45, Morning Worship Service 11:00. 2627-B East 11th. Call 583-7815 for Info~ BLGA - University of Tulsa. 6:30 p.m. Canterbury Center. COMMUNITY OF HOPE (United Methodist) - Evening Worship Service 6:00. 1347 North Yale, Call 838-7232 for Info. FAMILY OF FAITH MCC - Morning Worship Service 11:00. 5451-E South Mingo. Call 622-1441 for Info. .MCC OF GREATER TULSA - Morning Worship Service 10:45 1623 North Maplewood. Call 838-1715 for Info. THE BANNED - Gay Band - Practice weekly HIV TESTING :~.TOHR Clinic. Free and;; Anonymous testing using fingerstick method. No appointment required. Walk in test hours: 7:00 - 8:30 pm. Results Hours: 7:00 - 9:00 pm. Call 749:4194 for Info, LAMBDA .BOWLING LEAGUE - Bowling begins at 8:45. Sheridan Lanes 3121 South Sheridan. ITUESDAYS I MINISTER’S CLASS - Bless the Lord at All Times Christian Center. 7:30 p.m. 2627-B East 1 lth. Call 583-7815 for Info. AUTHORITY OF THE BELIEVER - Bible Study 7:00/ MCC of Greater Tulsa 1623 North Maplewood. Call 838-1715 for Info. BLESS THE LORD. AT ALL TIMES CHRISTIAN CENTER - Choir Practice ~7:00. 2627-B East 11th. Call 583-7815 for Info. FAMILY OF FAITH ’MCC - Potluck 6:30. Bible Study 7:00. Choir Practice 8:00. 5451- E South Mingo. Call 622-1441 for Info. ITHURSDAYS 16-STEP EMPOWERMENT GROUP FOR WOMEN - 7:00. Women’s support group. Community of Hope. 1347 North Yale, Call Anonymous testing usingfingerst!pk method. No appointment required. Walk in test.hours: 7:00 - 8:30 pm. Results Hours: 7:00 -.9:00 pm. Call 749:4194 for Info. PRAYER TIME - 7:00 p.m. MCC of Greater Tulsa. 1623 North Maplewood;~,. Call 838- 1715 for Info. TULSA FAMILY CHORALE Weekly practice 9:30 pm. Lola’s. 2630 E. 15th St. ISATURDAYS I NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS - Meets weekly at 11:00 pm. Provides confidential support.~ for recovering addicts. Community of Hope, IJ u N E 1 4 I FAMILY AIDS SUPPORT GROUP Meeting. 6:30 p.m. PFLAG. 4154- Ij u N E 3 o I !J u L Y 1 8 I WEDNESDAY NIGHT WOMEN’S SUPPER CLUB - La Nortena. South Harvard - Lower Level Call 583- TOHR FOLLIES TOHR’s annual TOHR BOARD MEETING. 7:00 p.m. 6408 5147 for Info. entertainment extravaganza. Many new TOHR Office. 41st & Harvard. Call South Peoria. 6:30 p.m. performers. 8:00 p.m. All Soul’s 743-4297 for Info. IJ.u N E 1 7 COMMUNITY-WIDE GOSPEL SING - Kick off pride week with a gospel sing at Family of Faith MCC, 5451-E South Mingo. Will include MCC Tulsa, Bless the Lord at All Times, Community of Hope and other area churches. Call 622-1441 for more info. OK FLAMES WOMEN’S BASKETBALL - McLain High School. $5/ticket. 7:30 p.m Call beeper 646-6455 for more info. FAMILY OF FAITH SPAGHETTI DINNER - 5:30 p.m. prior to Gospel Sing. Donations only. 5451-E South Mingo. Call 622-1441 for info. Unitarian Church. 2932 South Peoria Call 743-4297 f0rTicket Information. WOMEN’S COFFEE HOUSE - Java Dave’s. 3310 South Peoria. 6:30 - 9:00 p.m. Call Beeper 646-6455 for more info. IJ U LY 5 I FAMILY AIDS SUPPORT GROUP - Meeting. 6:30 p.m. PFLAG, 4154 South Harvard- Lower Level. Call 583- 5147 for Info, IJ u N E 18 25 VVV GAY PRIDE WEEK IJ UNE 18 TULSA PRIDE PICNIC - Annual Gay Pride Celebration held at Mohawk Park, Shelter #6. Food/Drink/Entertainment. Also booths and information distribution. Minimal charges for food this year. Beer still free. 12:00- 6:00. Ceremony and exhibition softball/volleyball begin at 2:00. Call 832-0233 for Info. IJ UNE 20 TOHR BOARD MEETING. 7:00 p.m. TOHR Office. 41st & Harvard. Call 743-4297 for Info. IJ.,u N~E 2 1 I COMMUNITY CHURCH SERVICES. MCC of Greater Tulsa. Special for Gay Pride Week.. Also includes Family of Faith MCC and other ~area churches, 1623 North Maplewood. Call 838-1715 for Info. IJUNE 23 I GAY COMEDY NIGHT Paul J. Williams will appear to benefit TOHR. $5 Cover - Advance tickets or at the door. 10:00 p.m..at Concessions. 3340 South Peoria. Call 744-0896 for Info, IJUN E 24 CHURCH GARAGE SALE - Family of Faith members put on a very large garage sale. Call 622-1441 for address, etc. DANCE CLASS - Community of Hope. 8:00 p.m. 1347 North Yale. Call 838- 7232 for Info. IJ u N E 25 I GAY PRIDE PARADE. Oklahoma City. Assemble from 12:00 - 2:00 at the park. Parade ends at Habana Inn with a party. IJu N E 27 RAINBOW BUSINESS GUILD - Monthly Meeting 7:00 p.m. Olive Garden - $10. Call 254-2100 for Info, IJ UN E 29 FEED THE HOMELESS - Community of Hope. 1347 North Yale. Meet at church IJ ULY 8 DANCE CLASS - Community of Hope. 8:00 p.m. 1347 North Yale. Call 838- 7232 for Info. FESTIVAL OF PRAISE - 1st ever MCC musical festiva (MCC’s from OK, TX, LA). Lawton OK. 1:00 4:00. Followed by weiner roast. For Carpool information call 622-1441. IJULY 10 I PFLAG 101/102 Monthly meeting 6:30-7:30 p.m. 4154 South Harvard, Ste. H. Call 749-4901 for Info. SPOUSES For spouses of Gay/Les/Bi/Trans. 7:00-7:30 p.m. social 7:30-8:30 meeting. Call 749-4901 for Info.. Sponsored .by PFLAG. at 5:30 p,m, and caravan to Day Center TOHR for the Homeless, Call 838-7232 for Info, FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHTS Community meeting for Civil Rights for Lesbians & Gays, Every organization should have a representative and YOU NEED TO BE THERE, 7:00 - 9:00 p,m, Downtown Library, Lecture room next tO Aaronson Auditorium, Call 838-2121 for more info, MEMBERSHIP MEETING. Monthly Meeting. 6:30 Social 7:00 p.m, Meeting. "l"he Gathering Place. 4154 {JULY 19 I FAMILY AIDS SUPPORT GROUP Meeting. 6:30 p.m, PFLAG. 4154 South Harvard - Lower Level. Call 583- 5147 for Info, IJULY 22 I DANCE CLASS - Community of Hope. 8:00 p.m. 1347 North Yale. Call 838- 7232 for Info. IJULY 24 I RAINBOW BUSINESS GUILD - Mor~thly Meeting 7:00 p.m, Call 254-2100 for Info. IMISCELLAN EOUS GROUP MEETINGS GLAS Gay & Lesbian Student Association - TJC Southeast Campus. Call 631-7632 for info. LAGPAC- Lesbian and Gay Political Action Committee. Call 838-1222 for Info. LOG CABIN REPUBLICANS - Gay and Lesbian ~Republican Group. Call 832- 0233 for jnfo, SWAN Single Women’s iActivity Network. TOHR CLINIC- In addition to.Thursday Clinic HOurs (see Thurs~lays)~ offers daytime testing by appointment Monday - Thursday from 10 am - 5 p,m. Call RIGHTS LEAGUE. Muskogee Library:. Info. 6:00-p.m. - 9:00 p,m. Write P.O. Box WEDNESDAY NIGHT WOMEN’S 614 - Muskogee, OK 74402 for more SUPPER. CLUB - Meets at varying Info. locations :~the 2rid or 3rd Wednesday of each month. Do you have a group or event that should be listed in the TOHR Community Calendar? If so, please c~ll us at 838-2121. I Every effort was made to ensure the accuracy and completeness of th s calendar; however, neither Tulsa Family News nor TOHR assumes responsibility for errors or omissions. Colorado cont’dfrom p. 1 are obviously very pleased that the policy of excluding homosexuals from the armed forces has been examinedin deptlj during the judicial review and that the court has concluded that it is lawful." In argmng against the policy, attorney for the four, David Pannick, told the High Courtjustices that the main reason behind the ban is simply that some service members feel uncomfortable around .homosexuals, a prejudice that’s been used .m the pastaboutblack andJewishmembers m the armed forces. "’I invite your Lordships to conclude that this purported justification is quite simply a disgrace," he told Lord Justice Simon Brown of the court. "The armed forces are pandering to the worst types of prejudice about wholly irrelevant characteristics." British Defense Ministry officials maintain that homosexuals pose a problem for the military because their presence couldundermine moraleandeffectiveness. The ministry also argues that gays and lesbians pose a potential security risk - an argument th at even U.S. military officials have abandoned for lack of evidence. Canada cont’dfrom p. 1 for activists fighting for equal rights in the courts throughout Canada. "I think that even thoughit strictly speakingisn’t going to. be binding in other provinces," she said, "it shows that the arguments are not without legal precedent now and in fact are qmte reasonable and I think will certainly help them make their cases." Mixed. Ruling from Canada’s Supreme Court OTTAWA-TheCanadian Supreme Court has ruled that same-sex couples are not eligible for the same public spousal pension benefits as other cot!pies in the country. The high court ruling, however, also concludes that discrimination based~ on sexual orientation is prohibited unde~’ Canada’s Charter of Rights - the first time the country’s Supreme Court has d.efinitively ruled on the issue. The court ruled 5-4 that James Egan and John Nesbit, a British Columbia gay couple whohave lived together since 1948, are not entitled to receive spousal pension benefits under Canada’ s Old Age Security Act. The court concluded that the refusal to extend the pension benefits to the couple amounted to discrimination in violation of the Charter of Rights, but that the exclusion was justifiable discriminauon because the legislature’s goal in setting up the co untry’s pension system was to help poorer elderly women. The court also said that Parliament had decided to extend certain financial support to married couples, which the court concluded is by its nature a heterosexual institution. Canadian Appeals Court Overturns Sodomy Law TORONTO - An Ontario appeals court has unanimously ruled that a law making consensual anal intercourse illegal unless the two people are mamed or above the age of 18 is a violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The 3- judge Ontario Court of Appeals ruled that the criminal code provision violates the Charter because it penalizes gay men. Justice Rosalie Abella said in her opinion that the law "arbitrarily disadvantages gay men by denying to them until they are 18 a choice available at the age of 14 for those who are not gay, namely their choice of sexual expression with a consenting parmer to whom they are not married." Community Photos Kharma Amos & the Rev. Nancy Horvath ofFamily ofFaith MCC have been chosen and on the So. Central District Committee. respectively. Photo: Neal ,for leadership positions at the nan’onal Metropolitan Community Church conventz’on Folks from Follies Revue ’95 which benefits H1WA1DS services. Photo: Jamett ¯ ’ PRIDEofo mz,,. Falrn ss. 1s Renting and considering Buying Moving u orlnvestin’~ Non-,Part _ " " l,q91n. Credit Problems. Mortgages By Design w,l, custom fit the right home loan to YOUR needs! . " BUDWHARTON S~ng T~a a~ ~. Su~unding Communiti~ I For Detail.% CalL" Vice President/Branch Manager Surrounding Communities This groundbreaking project showed broad bipamsan support for the pnnople that lesbian and gay people should not b~ singled out for dtscnmanauon. Call or write your Senators and Representative and ask ~em to join their collnagucs and ban discrimination in their ernployment prances, Call the Capitol Switchboard Today: 202-224-3121 Leading file Fight at the National Levd for Lesbian and Gay Equ,~lity. I101 14thStreet. NW Suite200 Washing~on. DC 20005 Financing the AllAmerican Dream IIIColorado co.t, o=p. 1 homosexuals from discrimination. The ¯ state Supreme Court ruled last year ~at the measure is unconstitutional becaus’e it violates the fundamental right for a class of individuals to participate equally in the political process. HRCF Reacts to Justice Dept. Decision on Amendment 2 .WASHINGTON-Below is apress release Issued by the Human Rights Campaign Fund regarding the Justice Department’s decision not to enter a brief in the U.S. Supreme Court appeal of Colorado’s antigay Amendment 2: The Clinton Administration has refused to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down Colorado’s anti-gay Amendment 2 as the high court prepares to decide on the constitutionality of the discriminatory measure. The Haman Rights Campaign Fund (HRCF) and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the nation’s leading civil rights coalition, hadrequested that the Administration file a friend~ofthe- court brief calling on the Supreme Court to overturn Amendment 2. "This was a bad legal and political decision," said HRCF Executive Director Elizabeth Birch. "Staying silent in this case gives aid and comfort to extremists who wouldn’t support the President under any circumstances, and gravely disappoints fair-mindedAmericans. Most people support equal rights for lesbian and gay people and oppose the kind of discrimination embodied in Amendment 2." Amendment 2 is the ,ordy-statewide.- anti-gay measure passed by voters. Last year, voters in Idaho and Oregon defeated anu-gay initiatives in the midst of the Republican sweep. The 1992 Colorado measure would overturn local laws prohibiting discriminationand prevent state and local governments from passing similar laws in the future. Colorado’s Supreme Court last year. struck down Amendment 2 as unconstitutional, declaring that the measure denied supporters of equal rights for lesbian and gay people the basic right to participate in the democratic process. "The issue before the court is one of fundamental fairness, and whether any group of Americans should be denied access to the democratic process," Birch said. "The federal government has a dear interest in standing up for these fundamental principles.We are extremely disappointed in this decision, but in the end the Supreme Court will decide on the merits of the case."HRCF was the largest single financial contributor to the legal challenge against Amendment 2. The nation’s largest lesbian and gay political organization, HRCF works to end discrimination, secure equal rights, and protect the health and safety of all Americans. NGLTF Statement on Reno’s Amendment 2 Decision WASHINGTON - The following is a press statement issued by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force after U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno’s announcement: According to Justice Department officials, the Department does frequently file briefs even in those cases where no federal program or statute is involved. ~The Att0me~Geia~al i01d the press that she did not consider the political issues belfind the case, and instead focused on constitutional questions and federal intervention. However, published reports kcomes with 1 moonroof, 2 airbags, 6 stereo speakers, and a slewofaccolades. "l{onda’s labors resulted in a nc\v car that’s tim strongest, satEst. quietest, best perfbrmin.~, and most flmI-efficient Accord ever:" Motor’l)rnd. 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President Bill Clinton last year denounced ballot measures such as Colorado’s Amendment 2 as discriminatory and divisive, saying at the time that "those who would legalize discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or any other grounds are gravely mistaken about the values that make our nation strong." "Clearly, we’re angry that this Administration would refuse to take a stand against discrimination," said Kerry Lobel, Deputy Director at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. "The President denounced these types of ballot measures last year. It’s dismrbingto see the President reject this chance to back up those comments with decisive action, especially when this is one of the most important gay-related cases to ever reach the Supreme Court. We look to the President to actonprinciple, notjust speak about it." Colorado’s Amend. 2 dangerously allows the majority of voters to limit the civil rights and political access of one group of citizens - in this case, gay men, lesbians and bisexuals. Amend. 2 permits discrimination against certain citizens, and then blocks those citizens from using the established legislative r process to seek relief from that discrimination.These are the issues that will be facing the Supreme Court as it decides the fate of Amendment 2.’" Calif. Attorney General Supports Amend. 2 SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California Attorney General Dan Lungren has stunned rights activiffts in the state by joining 6 other attorneys general from around the country in asking the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold Colorado’s antigay ballot measure. Lungren told reporters that he was not endorsing Amend. 2 itself, but had signed an amicus (friend of the court) brief asking that the country’s high court overturn the Colorado Supreme Court ruling that declared Amend. 2 unconstitutional because it was overly broad and vague. He said he signed the amlcus brief because the Colorado court had declared that any "independently identifiable group" is entitled to equal protection in ~eConstitution. This, Lungren said, could g~ve constitutional protections to "deadbeat dads,blue-eyed people, bald people, fat people" and others. Robert Bra~ of the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force said in a prepared statement: "It is disingenuous for the California Attorney General to imply that by granting gay people protection from discrimination, it opens the door for any ’special interest group’ to seek rights...’. Lungren xs playing the politics of scarcity:.. [and] implies that by expanding protections to some, it-disprivileges others." Metropolitan Community Church of Greater Tulsa Where God Uplifts All People Sunday Service, 10:45 am Wednesday Service, 6:30 pm Home Cell Groups, 2nd & 4th Sundays 1623 No. Maplewood, Tulsa 74115, 838-1715 ¯ Sunday Services 11:00 am ¯ Wednesdays 6~30 pm Potluck 7:00 pm Bible Study ¯ 8:00 pm Choir Practice I To do justice, love:mercy & to walk humbly with our God... Micah 6:8 I | 5451-E S. Mingo ¯ Tulsa, OK 74146 . (918) 622-1441 Sports From A Lesbian/Gay Perspective NBA Star’s Candid Ta~ in ’Sports Illustrated" NEW YORK - Dennis Rodman, the flamboyant San Antonio Spurs player, made the cover this Sports Illustrated- in itself not particularly newsworthy, even if the orange-haired Rodman is gussied up in a bright tank top, metallic hot pants and a dog collar studded with rhinestones. More noteworthy - especially considering the often up-tight macho world of professional sports - are Rodman’s fairly candid views on homosexuality. The pro basketball hop,pster told the magazine that he oftel~ goesTo gay bars, has no problems hugging or kissing men friends and, although saying he has never had sex with another man, said, "I visualize being with another man." Rodman is quoted in the magazine as saying, "Everybody visualizes being gay ~ they think, ’Should I do it or not?’ The. reason they can’t is because they think it’s unethical. They think it’s a sin. Hell, you’re not bad if you’re gay, and it doesn’t make you any less of a person." CBS Sportscaster Rankled by Lesbians in Pro Golf WILMINGTON, Del. - CBS-TV sportscaster Ben Wright has been ordered to a meeting with the CBS Sports department in New York and at least temporarily pulled from reporting on the Ladies Profe~,ssional Golf Assn. championshipi~in Delaware after a Delaware newspaper quotedhim as saving that "lesbians.i~ the sport hurt women s golf" and are:turning it into a "butch game" which would cause sponsors to drop women’s golf. Wright was also quoted by the Wilmington N~ws-Joumal as saying that women are "handicappe,~ by having boobs" because it makes it difficult for them "to keep their left arm straight... Their boobs get in the way." LPGA officials said they knew of. no problems with sponsors because of any concerns over lesbians in tournamentplay. RobinKaneof_the~__~National Gay &Lesbian Task Force sai&, "Lesbians don’t hurt women’s golf- BenWrighthurts women’s golf, and his own profession as well. Such outrageous and demeamng comments certainly raise questions about Wright’s ability to cover women’s sports fairly." KOIN-TV of Portland, Ore., broadcast coverage of the 1991 Masters Golf Tournament that included an ethnic slur in referring to a Japanese golfer. In the footage aired by the station, Wright remarks, "" former champions aplenty - Watson and Nicklaus at 4-under, with the Jap Ozaki, who is striking a blow for the foreigners.’" AIDS Takes High Five’ Baseball Player OAKLAND, Calif. - Glenn Burke, the openly gay former Oakland Athletics and Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder, has died of complications related to AIDS. Burke was widely believed among teammates to be gay whenhe startedplaying pro baseball in 1976, and after quitting the game reader duress in 1980 he said he believed he had been shoved out of the game because of homophobia in pro sports. In addition to a short but impressive career with both the A’s and the Dodgers, Burke is credited with starting one of the most popular and common signals of victory in professional sports today - the "high-five" sign. READ ALL ABOUT IT suggested readings, included in the book, are excerpts from books ("One. Teenager by Barry Hensley in Ten," "Long Time Passing: Lives of Circulation Supervisor Older Lesbians," "No Turning Back") Tulsa City-County Library and periodicals ("Christian Century," One of the most sensitive topics facing "Christopher Street"). gays,lesbians andbisexualsinour society This book also includes examples of is how religion deals with sexual Services for the gay positive church, which orientation.Theconstant,negativerhetoric can be adapted to local Situations. These that comes from some powerful leaders include Communion Services, Services has led many gay people to dismiss of Healing for Those Affected by AIDS organized religion, parti- and Services of Union for cularly Christianity. Homo- One o[ the most homosexual couples. The sexuality and Christianity final part of "The Welare sometimes assumed to sensitive topics coming Congregation"is an bemuttmlly exclusive. "The faeln~ Gays, elaborate bibliography Welcoming Congregation" Leslalans and which has over 70 entries of addresses this and other Bisexuals in our books, films, sermons and pertinent issues with a periodicals of interest. structure of guidelines for soeiety is laow This bookis notjustfor congregations attempting to religion deals organized churches. It will include gay persons in their with sexual also be helpfnl for people, churches, of any sexual orientation, Although published by orientation. The who are searching for just the Unitarian Universalist constant, ne~atlve the right spot to fulfill their Association, ~airdy for use rlaetorie that commitment of faith. It in UU churches, these includes many examiguidelines can be used by comes,,,fr°m some nations of biblical passages any group or denomination, powerlul leaders that are often used to deny Beginning with suggestions laas led many homosex,aals equality, and for determining where your how thosepassages are often congregation stands On the Gay people to- used out--of context and topic of sexual orientation, dismiss or~anlzed ultimately contradict other this guide continues with ten religion.... passages. As a result, this is detailed workshops to help good information to draw understand the unique on when a biblical debate problems and concerns of homosexuals, on sexual orientation arises. Workshop topics include "Gender This:pra~tical"guide; While not foi:"use Socialization and Homophobia," "Biblical in every religious situation, is a thought - Perspectives on Homosexuality" and provoking attempt to create a positive "How Homophobia Hurts Heterosexuals." religious environment for homosexuals. Each workshop explanation includes what It is a welcome resource. materials will be needed, how to structure Check for "The Wel coming the workshop, how much time each part Congregation" in the Readers Services of the workshop should take and what department on the 2nd floor of Central readings participants need to read. The Library, or call 596-7966. J O,fi,,~er recent library additions of interest include: J | [ *, The Unofficial Gay Manual," by Kevin Dilallo and Jack Krumholtz I II-* ,,’Bx" sexuah’ty:AReaderandSourcebook,"edited byT,,h,omasGeller I’ * ,,?IDS and HIV Progr,,a~,s and Services for Libraries,’ by W. Bernard Lukenbill I * Breaking the Surface,’ by Greg Louganis Ask a bookseller about . - % corporate and teacher’s off discounts in addition to Current NY Times our other discount prices!! Papbrback Bestsellers % Current NY Times All Hardcover Books* Hardcover Bestsellers *except Bargain Books FAMILY FI.NANCES THE TRUTH ABOUT LIFE INSURANCE by Leanne Gross The question I am asked most often is "why doI, a single person withno children need. life insurance?" Our community has a vital need for life insurance !! 1. Even if we put both parties’ names on property and/or assets, the partner left behind will have to pay taxes on the half of the property or assets she inherits. Ask your lawyer. You will be surprised. Life insurance proceeds are tax free. If .you do nothing else, buy enough life insurance to cover taxes and fees so your partner can keep what you have both worked so hard to acquire. .2. A life insurance beneficiary has the greatest chance of receiving the ~roceeds than any other option on the market. There are a few legal cases where the family contested; however, thejudge usually tries to honor the wishes of the deceased, especially if there arejointassets involved. Notei The owner of a life policy can". change the beneficiary by simply signing a form. So, should the relationship not endure the bumpy road, a life policy beneficiary can always be changed. A life insurance p~licy is the best and simplest way to assure your wishes are carried out and your partner will be cared forwhen you are gone.What a wonderful honor to present to your mate. What wonderful peace of mind for you. 3. Because Of the AIDS threat, a life insurance policy could be the answer to a stable financial lifestyle. Today, if one contracts an incurable disease, there are avenues to sell your policy or cashin your policy to maintain your present lifestyle. Life insurance is designed for the living as well as the ones left behind. There are too many misleading stories about life ~nsurance and the benefits available, so, on that note, let’s discuss the facts about life coverage. Nolonger are therejust two types oflife insurance policies available. Companies have discovered there is a need for a var~.’ety of life coverage plans to fit the .variety of lives. A person trained in life insurance will be able to assist in selecting the policy which best fits your needs. However, to understand the basics, I will discuss term life insurance and cash value life insurance. Term is like renting an apartment. Rent ¯ is cheaper. How.ever, you pay and pay, never owning your own home, never having an asset, never building your financial standingl A cash value life policy is like buying your home. A little more expensive, but you will buildupequity within your policy. The cash value will be available to you or , ,.y~u can~use one of the many options such a~’ a) paid-up additional lille coverage b) stop-payments and let the policy pay for itself c) use the cash for personal use through a draw and/or loan. Note: When you use the cash in a policy, this act will affect the value of your policy (the amount your beneficiary would receive). Why would anyone purchase a cash value plan? 1. The cash build up.in the policy is a wonderful feature for the living. If cash is needed, it is available for the asking. No loan applications. No begging, at the bank. 2. Cash value policies are level premiums. A very important feature. No .surprise.s. Term poli~ies are available with mcreasmg or decreasing premiums. Increasing premiums continue to cost you more andmore with each year. Decreasing premiums will decrease through time. However, no more premiums means no more coverage. You may be in bad health or too old to replace your plan. Be careful! 3. The cash whic~ builds within the cash value plan.accumulates tax-deferred. As your money earns additional cash .through interest and ~v!dends paid by the Insurance company, ~t ~s not taxed until withdrawn. Therefore, aninsurancepolicy can also help you to save for retirement or college. You can kill two birds with one stone.......Life Insurance and Retirement Plan for one premium. Don’t misunderstand me, life insurance should not be your only retirement plan or .savings avenue. You must first have the insurance need (whichwehave discussed). A cash value policy can just help with retirement and/or savings, whereas a term policy doesn’t allow you any options other than life coverage. This leads to a cormnon debate: Buy Term and invest the difference. To make a long story short, in 10 to 15 years, a cash value policy will OU! perform buying Term and investing the difference, due mainly to tax advantages. Run the numbers for yourself, I have. I HRCF Launches Membership Drive WASHINGTON - Pointing out how dramatically far-right anti-gay organizations like the Christian Coalition have outstripped lesbian and gay rights groups, theHumanRights Caml~aignFund (HRC.F) has announced that it is launching a massive membershi p drive during June at gay pride events in more than 100 cities in 47 states around the countr)i. With 100,000 members currently, HRCF nevertheless notes that the Christian Coalition has a claimed membership of 1.5 million people. "Thelargest right-wing group has 10 times as many members as the largest organizafi,on fighting for Gay and Lesbian equality,’ said Brian Albert, who is heading up the hundreds of volunteers who will be canvassing for new members during June. ’qlae more people who come out for equal rights and join HRCF, the better ,we’ll be able to fight the battles ahead. Membership rathe group is $20 per year. The group’s address is: Human Rights Campaign Fund, PO Box 1396, Washington DC 20013. HRCF will have a representative at the Tulsa Pride Picnic on Sunday, June 18 to provide information and the opportunity to become a member. 832.0233 ¯ ] 565 S. Sheridc~n, inside the Silver Stor S~loon ¯ ! 0pro - ] am Thursdays & Sundoys ¯ ] 0pro - 2ore Fridays & Soturd0ys FUSO orientation. R.F. Renfro, public relations officer.for FUSO, says that the organization seeks to promote unity, education, cultural awareness, with a specific goal "to buildbridges where gaps exist and tear down the walls of bad communication thathavedivided us." Its mission statement adds that the organization seeks to be a progressive force within the African-American commumty. R.F. Renfro and Derrick Davis work with Metropolitan Tulsa Substance Abuse Services (MTSAS). They do most of the Tulsa HIV/AIDS outreach that targets men of color of diverse sexual orientation. Davis also works with Morton Comprehesive Services as a case manager. Renfro expressed his frustration with the many obstacles to providing both preventative education and providing access to services for persons living withHIV orAIDS. These issues range from racism in Tulsa generally, and racism in Tulsa’s Lesbian/Gay communities specifically, to. religiously based anti-Gay prejudice Ln the African- American commtmity tO a lack of access to knowledge and resources regarding HIV/AIDS services and programs. Renfro quotes a friend, Ernestine Hill, formerly of the Oklaho.ma State Dept. of Health, as sayzng, "you have to meet people where they are." He elaborates that is the reason for avoiding labels like Gay or Bisexual which may be more accepted in the non-Black communities. In the African- American community, especially among younger men, the attitude may be that they don’t consider themselves homosexual. A man having sex with anothermanmight say to himself or to others, "I’m just freaking" or "I’m just getting off" while considering himself to be heterosexual. One particular difficulty in providing education and services in Tulsa’s African-American cornmtmity is thelack ofprivacy. With many members of the community working in health services in clinics or hospitals all over the city, it is often difficult to maintain confidentiality. This potential for exposure to loved ones, friends, family and church creates such fear in individuals that Renfro knew of a number of cases where individuals had avoided getting life-saving/enhancing treatment because of privacy concerns. Many of the fears relating to family and church are compounded by attitudes of the African-American church toward homosexuality. Renfro states that the,_c~rches,,seem quite willing tO:~’cc~tithe~ from homosexual members and to accept their participation as long as the church doesnrt have to "know" about those members’ sexual orientation, or about HIV or AIDS. Renfro knows of cases It all boils down to respeetlng cultural dlfferenees, then finding common ground. where not only a person living with AIDS was forced to leave a church, along with his family. He also notes that a fdw congregations, in particular, Shiloh Baptist, have been very open in dealing with HIV/AIDS issues. Renfro, who was ordained in January at Bless The Lord at All Times Christian Center, has learned not to argue theology With ministers who say homosexuality is an abomination. He relies personally on a view that God knew him before he knew himself, and counts on God correcting anything which God finds displeasirig in him. In addition to current educational efforts, FUSO is seeking its Internal Revunue Service tax-exempt status so that it can expand its services. In the longer term, it hopes to have its own building on the north side of Tulsa where it can provide information, testing" and counseling, a food pantry and medical equipment. Presently, many of those services are available at the HIV Resource Consortium. However, its location is a problem and it can be an intimidating place because people of color don’t see volunteers or staffmembers who are of color or even posters or magazines featuring people of color, such as the "Protect the Blood" campaign which targets African-Americans. Right now, FUSO is setting up a support group for persons living with HIV/AIDS, and also hopes to host meetings where local speakers, such as JeffBeal, M.D., can speak about local clinical trials of experimental treatments and new drug therapies. Interestingly, Renfro finds that the AIDS epidemic has opened a door for Gay issues in the African-American community, as well as finding some common ground beyond real, cultural differences. The disease doesn’t care if you’re White, Black, Jewish, Catholic, Methodist, etc. Another part of FUSO is community building. An informal tradition of "families" or mentoring occurs. Renfro notes that it is.hard to be young, Black, male and Gay-. He adds it is hard enough to be accepted in the larger community (Tulsa), and even harder to deal with possible rejection in the African- American community. One of the benefits to mentoring is that itgives olderfolks an opportunity to let the younger ones know that there is more to being Gay than j.ust sex, that there are models for love and relationships. Friends in Unity Social Organization also seeks to be a leader for African-Americans in the Lesbian/Gay communities. Renfro states other Lesbian and Gay organizations and their leadership should not assume they know the needs of African- Americans, or presume to speak for them. He adds that they are willing to engage in discussion about their needs and broader community issues. He says that he is proud to be a Black man who loves Black men, that he is proud of his culture and will not compromise who he is. It all boils down to respecting cultural differences, then finding common ground. For more information about Friends in Unity Social Organization, write POB 8542, Tulsa, OK 74101 or call 425- 4905. otography J.D. Jamett 621-5597 ). Wlnitti o ooe Q 416 S Lew~s s Now serving Sunday breakfast, 7am-2pm ROOMMATE , tll ,e ,. GF looking for roommate, u Accommodations Midtown Tulsa, 3/1.5/1 Central H&A, washer/dryer Frank Green, Jr. Host Cable, all utilities for $300 50 Wall Street a month. 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Everett, who is also Mr. Oklahoma Leather this year, represented Tulsa’s Silver Star Saloon and is the first Oklahoma resident to win the ritle. Larry, who is 34, is a member ofTool Box Technicians and an honorary member ofTulsa Uniform and Leather Seekers Associates. Larry is active in several community rights and HIV care organizations and has worked in local and state Republican politics. He has traveled over 6,000 miles representing the state of Oklahoma. The contest was held in Chicago’s Congress Theater.- In addition to prize winning leathermen from around the world (London, Amsterdam, Toronto, and the US), the cohtest featured entertainment by video star, Jeff Stryker, Mark Davis and Michael Griffith. Also, the 1st Intemarional Mr. Leather, David Kloss of San Francisco, who won in 1979, walked down the rtmway sixteen years later to thunderous applause. First runnerup was A1 Reese of San Diego & Peter Schoonheim of Amsterdam was 2nd rmmer-up. JUNE 25th Folllow us to OKC t?or The Gag Pride Parade JULY 1 st Invitational VolleybM1 Tournament And at 10:30 that evenfing~Var~etj¢ Show: Singers, Magicians, and Drag :Divas.~ 11229 So Memorial, .835050~g3 TULSA’S HUGE PATJ[© gAP N The first family of lesbian and gay travel guides proudly announces its newest addition! The first and only fulk~olor gay and lesbian accommodations guide.- Features 450 pages of ephotographs, detailed descriptions, multiple .cross index, and much more. ~ ° DAMRON MA!.L ORDER The ultimate resource forgay and lesbian travelle~ around the world. ~ For-a free catalog call ~.~,~,~ (800) 462~654 o or write: Damron Company ~ ¢:~ ~ ~ii::i:: ....~ PO Box 422458 San Francisco. CA 9414T2458 SALOON June 16 Sid Spenser, lopm, $3 cover June 25 Sadie Brooks & the Ft. Smith Invasion July 13 Miss Northeastern Oklahoma USofA Pageant August 1~ Miss Gay Oklahoma USofA At-Large Pageant Sundays Show Nite at the Star with Fallon Scott ~834"4234, 1565 S. Sheridan!iW_~Sun. 7~-;2~a;:m..:.’;~~ ’!’:"::"~!!?-Y!’!!’!-e"-~!?-::":"-~5~?:":":":"?:":"57!~!:":"-’-~~-"~!!?-’:":":":"??:!!?!’!’!’--"!:~:!:££-7:.:~::%2!:--"£-:£-"--":?!!!:!-::£-9"!!:!~:~.!,_-9!-"!!’::__.._~ Dallas Gay Comic to Appear Junei 23 ¯at Concessions Paul J. Williams,"TheBest LittleHomo in Texas" will perform his nationally acclaimed stand-up comedy routine at Concessions, 3340 S. Peoria on Friday, June 23 at 10 pm. An openly Gay comic, Williams has appeared at a number of leading comedy dubs across the United States. Humor with a Southern flair, Texasbased comic Williams has a strong following for his hilarious views on growing up in the South. Formerly with the wildly successful comedy group, Less Miserable, Paul has created his own show oforiginal characters and stand-upcomedy entitled The Best Little Homo in Texas. Paul’s stand-up covers everything from his being a "creative" child in .a conservative Southern Baptist home to his experiences as a single, Gay white male. In between, Paul introduces you to several different characters who are based loosely on people he has known. Concessions, The Perspective and !nfemo Productions teamed up to bring Williams toTulsaforOldahomaGayPride Week. Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights (TOHR) has been selected by the producers to receive $1 of each ticket sold as adonation to theTOHRfundto establish a Gay and Lesbian Community Center. Tickets are $5. Advance tickets are now on sale at ConcesSions Nightclub, Budget .Window Treatments,and Floral Design Studios and from TOHR Members. Tickets will also be on sale at the TOHR booth at Tulsa’s Pride Picnic, June 18. ARIES March 21-April 20 If there are sensitive topics you’ve been avoiding, now is the time to speak your mind. Family relationships areparticnlarly positive. Stand up for yourself on big issues. Keep the peace flowing by letting the little stuff go by. TAURUS April 20-May 21 You’re full ofenergy and, though you’re working hardnow, you arebeing rewarded for it too. People around you support your efforts. !f you have been thinking about taking a gamble, now is the time to begin your venture. GEMINI May 21-June 22 You’ll have more money coming in than usual this month, and cash flows out just as fast. Partners can be a financial drain. Help out; just don’t go overboard with your generosity. Yes, your lover really does understand you! Don’t fear the commitment. CANCER June 22-July 23 Your present partner isn’t really there " for you--probably because (s)he is going through a personal crisis and needs the help more .than you do. If you’re just beginning a relationship, hold back. There’s more baggage, than you need. LEO July 23-August 23 You’ve had some setbacks recently. Though that phase is over, it’s lime to look at the consequences of your actions and make sense of it all. Don’t beat yourself up; just decide where you to go from here. VIRGO August 23-September 23 You may be tempted to end a long standing relationship, but it’s better to talk it out. Your serious partnerships are trying to shift to anew level; don’t chicken out because it seems like too much work. LIBRA ~1ou Sceapntemmabkeer 2g3r-eOatctsotbriedre2s3in your career; but the gratification doesn’t come fast enough. It may seem like you’re just plodding along, but. the nose to the grindstone approach is exactly what will bring you to success. SCORPIO October.23-November 23 A project you completed some time ago finally pays off--just when you had almost given up hope. Spend some of the coming, coming, coming vicious, vicious, vicious vicious, vicious;, vicious vicious, vicious, vicious s~n, soon, soon Thum,, June 22 $5 Cover Male & Female Contestants Sun,, June 25 $2 Cover S~cial Guest. 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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 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 June 15-July 14, 1995 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource James Christjohn Kharma Amos Laurie Cooper Maureen Curtin JD Jamett Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Image Online text PDF 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 Oklahoma---Tulsa United States Oklahoma Tulsa United States of America (50 states) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Tom Neal/Tulsa Family News Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context https://history.okeq.org/items/show/499 Relation A related resource Tulsa Family News, May 15-June 14, 1995; Volume 2, Issue 6 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://history.okeq.org/collections/show/24 1995 aboution adoption African Americans AIDS/HIV AIDS/HIV research AIDS/HIV testing Amendment 2 American Library Association Amnesty International anti-bias law anti-gay legislation arts and entertainment attorneys Barry Hensley Bars Black and White Party Buddhism businesses California AIDS Ride censorship churches civil rights Community Awards custody Dave Fleischer Dennis Rodman Domestic Partnership Don't Ask Don't Tell estate planning Family Finances Family of Faith National Conference Delegates Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Fight For Your Rights Follies Revue Friends in Unity Social Organization (FUSO) fundraising Gay Albania Society Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) Gay Lesbian and Bisexual Book Awards Grethe Cammermeyer Hannah Solomon Award hate speech health Hillary Clinton homophobia horoscopes Human Rights Campaign Fund International Conference of Gay and Lesbian Jews International Mr. Leather Larry Everett Latinx Leadership Lambda /conference Leanne Gross Lesbian Avengers letters to the editor Mark Vickers marketing marriage medical malpractice medical marijuana military inclusion Murder National Center for Lesbian Rights National Council of Jewish Women National Gay and Lesbian Task Force needle exchange Out Magazine parade Parents Paul J. 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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 Serving Tulsa’s Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual Communities - Our Families of the Heart Lesb, ian Couple Appl=es for Tulsa Marriage License TULSA, OK - Kharma Amos & Debbie Harding raised eyebrows and awareness with their application for a marriage license at the Tulsa County Courthouse. AccompaniedbyTulsaFamily News publisher, TomNeal andreporters from channels 2, 6 & 8 as well as radio KVOO, KRMG and The Tulsa World, the two women presented their blood tests and requestedamarriagelicense. TulsaCounty Clerk staffrefused the application, stating that Oklahoma statutes limit marriage to opposite gender couples. see License, page 5 Black & White Inc, Dining & Dancing For Charity Dollars TULSA, OK - Black & White Charities, Inc. will again throw the parties of the summer, all to raise funds for worthy community charities. This year’s event will gather dollars to benefit Project Open Mind of Parents, Friends & Family of Lesbians & Gays (PFLAG), The HIV Resource Consortium and Tulsa’s Lesbian/ Gay Community Center project. Project Open Mind is a public education media campaign by PFLAG National See Black & White, page 5 Britain May End Military Ban on Lesbians & Gays LONDON - The London Telegraph reports that Britain’s ban against homosexuals, in the country’s armed forces, just upheld by Great Britain’s High Court, appears to be headed toward an end nonetheless. According to the paper, Armed Forces Minister Nicholas Soames has recommended to Defense Secretary Malcolm Rifkind that an independent panel review the policy andwork out some "compromise" of the outright ban currently in place. The Telegraph quoted an unnamed senior Defense Ministry source as saying, "Although in theory the team wil!~ start with a blank sheet, it will be the means b~ which a compromise is achieved. We need a way out of this, mad commissioning the smdy is the way.A possible com~ promise would be to end the ban in support areas but mainiain it where service personnel are operating in close confines and in dangerous circumstances." Defense Ministry officials apparently feel that the complete ban against gays and lesbians in the armed forces is no longer sustainable. In June, the High Court upheld the ban, but even so the justices expressed discomfort with the prohibition. "’It seems to See British. page 10 OKC Parade, Tulsa PhotoS: JD Jamett & Tom Neal Rainbow Village Housing for PLWA’s TULSA, OK - Over 40 people worshiped, planted a tree and worked in the sweltering Oklahoma sturtmer heat to get Rainbow Village, a 60+ year old house ready for its first residents Saturday, July 8 was the final"work day" for volunteers, Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Straight, who came together under the leadership of volunteer co-ordinator, see Village, page 5 Supreme Court Rains on Boston’s Parade WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court has rnled that private organizations that hold parades have a constitutional fight to exclude any group they want to from participating in the event. In a setback for gay and lesbian rights activists, the unanimous decision ruled that organizers of private parades are allowed under the Constitution’s free speech guarantees of the First ,amaendment to keep any .group they wantfrom participating m a parade. The decision insists that parades are inherently a form of free expression and that states cannot require sponsors to alter their message by including any group thatwants to participate. The case the cottrt ru!ed on started in !992 when the Irish- American Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Group of Boston was refused permission to march in the £1ty’s annnal St. Patrick’s’ Day Parade. The Supreme Court’s ruling on Monday, June 19, overturned the lower court decisions, saying that the veterans have the right to select parade contingents and to determine whether each unit’s message is ]n agreement with theoverall theme and aims of the parade. See Boston, page 10 July 15 - August 14, 1995, Volume,2, Issue 8 & Muskogee0 Pride Green Country Human Rights League TOHR Follies Draw Crowd & Net $1700+ Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights (TOHR) held its 15th Follies, a volunteer revue to raise fnnds for the human rights organization, see TOHR Reporter, page 8 Task Force Endorses Proposed Anti-Bias Law WASHINGTON-The National Gay & Lesbian Task Force released the following statement about the re-introduction of proposed legislation barring dis- ’crimination in the workplace based on sexual orientation. The statement is attributed to Melinda Paras, NGLTF’s executive director, "On behalf of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, I am pleased to endorse the Emp!oyment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) of 1995. The bill would ban employment discrinnnation onthe basis of sexual orientation. Such a measure would permit all Americans to work without regard to sexual orientation.’" "This long overdue legislation would make illegal the discfinfination present in the lives of Americans everyday. The fight to work is the co’rne~stone of the American dream., yet far too many hard working people are refused work, fired, or harassed because of theirperceived sexual orientation.’" "Sexual orientation does not effect a person’s ability to contribute in the workplace yet gay, lesbian, and bisexual people continue to be’isolated, stigmatized and persecuted in and out of the workplace. Without this measure, the threat of legal discrimi- See Task Force, page lO New Community Group Organizing TULSA, OK - FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHTS - A community meetingfor Civil Rights for Lesbians and Gays, was held on Thtirsday, June 29 and attracted over 25 community activists to discuss the stalled City of Tulsa HumanRights Committee Report on Civil Rights based on sexual orientation and more. The gathering was remarkable for havingmuchmorediverse representation than is typical a.t meetings ofTulsa community orgamzataons. Women and men were nearly equally represented and members ofFUSO, Tulsa’s African-American men’s group and several Tulsa’s Lesbian/Gay~ Bi youth attended as well. The purpose of the forum was to create .a venue wh.ere representatives from exist~ mg orgamzauons and members of the Gay/Lesbian community at large could meet to discuss publically goals and strategies for the communities. Several action areas emerged and participants volunteered according to their interests. These sub-committees included: political action organizing (contact: Laurie Cooper), speakers bureau (contact: Tom Neal), youth issues (contact: Thomas Knott & John Ayers) as well as several others: These meetings are open to all who share these goals. The next meeung is July 20.7pro also at the Central Library. For more information, call 838-2121. Incident at White House Prom pts Official Apology WASHINGTON - The \Vhite House issued a letter from President Clinton addressed to the 45 gay and lesbian officials who had attended ameeting with high level administration officials at the Executive Offices in June, The Clinton letter apologized for what the president called "inappropriate and insensitive treatment" after White House guards put on blue rubber gloves ~o admit the guests. Althoughit was somewhat tarnished and overshadowed by the glove flap, the meeting with administration officials was an unprecedented occasion. With nearly half the country’ s elected openly gay officials there, it was the first time such a delegation had been invited to the White House to meet with top adininistration officials President Clinton himself was not present. The 4-hour private discussion included Housing Sec. Henry Cisneros, Health & Human Services Sec. Donna Shalala, White House Counsel Abner Mikva, and Clinton aide G~orge Stephanopoulos. Officials promised support for many issues but said that change is slow. Aside from the glove flap, gay and lesbians leaders expressed disappointment with the administration’s failure to stand up see White House, page 3 Safe Space on the Internet for Gay Youth by Chris Thomas OutNOW.t- San Jose, California The "Dmnien Starr case" has called attention to some of the pitfalls awaiting teenagers who use computer networks to communicate with faceles s strangers around the world. For a young person beginning to question their sexual orientauon, such anonymity can sometimes be a liberating factor. Butcyberspace is filled with diversions and traps that can engulfa naive net- surfer, and the challenge is to find those spots which offer genuine help and safety. One such place is the Youth Assistance Organization, see Youth Net. page 3 INSIDE LETTERS, PAGE 2 DIRECTORY, PAGE 2 NEWS BRIEFS, PAGE 4 HEALTH BRIEFS, PAGE 6 CALENDAR, PAGE 9 FINANCES, PAGE 12 HOROSCOPES, PAGE 12 PERSONALS, PAGE 15 918-832-0233 Publisher/Editor Issued on Or before the 15th of each month, the~aNg,contents of POB 4140 Tom Neal this publication are protected by US copyright 19~’by ~’~alsa Famfly Assistant Editor News and may not be reproduced either in whole or in part without Tulsa, Oklahoma James Christjohn written permission from the publisher. Publication of a name or ’74!59-0140 Writers/contributors ph,],ote does not indicate that persoffs sexual orientation. Kharma Amos L;orrespondence is assumed to be for publication unless otherwise Laurie Cooper noted, must be signed & becomes the sole propertv of Tulsa Farnil v Maureen Curtin News. All correspondence should be sent to the address above. Each Staff Photographer reader is entitled to one free copy of each edition at distribution TulsaNews@aol.com JD Jamett points. Additional copies are available at Tomfoolery~ Carbon Copy: S. Savage 200 Civic Center Tulsa OK 74103 Mayor Savage: Let me take the opportunity to. introduce myself. My name is Timothy J. Miller, & I am representing myself along with many others like myself in not only Tulsa, but the metropolitan area. In the past I have worked for a very prominent Tulsa family in the property management fields as Director of Administration, successfully managed a .distinguished apartment community,. & am currently a manager for a large regional restaurant chain. I consider myself to be fair, openminded, & objective. I am writing as a concerned constituent, & feel I am not being fully represented in City .Government. About 5 to 6 months ago, a report was sent to youwith recommendations dealing with the Civil Rights of Lesbians & Gays: As of yet, I have seehlittle response to tiffs report, not onlyby the City Council, but the Mayor’ s office as well It is time to see these issues as critical. Executive orders must be given to ban discri.mination of any kind, including sexual orientation, pertaining to city hirragas well as those aireaay employed by the city, including the police & fire departments. The time has also come to add the words "sexual orientation" to our human fights ordinance. I believe this measure would easily pass with you actively supporting the issue. With your active support of these issues, I believe that not only would Tulsa benefiL but the metropolitan area as well. .Othercity governments seeTulsa as a guiding light. It is time tbr Tulsa to move boldly ahead & become the forenmn~r it has always been. Timothy J Miller The Savage response: Dear Mr. Miller: Thankyoufor your letter about the recommendations from the Human Rights Commission. As you may know under the terms of the Tulsa City Charter all changes to the ordinance must be approved by the council. Members of the Sexual Orientation Committee of the Human Rights Commission who have spoken to council members do not share your belief that the changes would pass easily. see next col. below Youth Speak Youth Speak Out on Bias All cultures or groups of people have a stereotype. We’ ve all heard how Blacks are lazy; Jews are stingy; Women are too emotional; and. especially how Gays are perverts or pansies. Well, while in some cases these may betrue, not everyone is like that. Stereotypes help perpetuate a negative image. The images everyone gets, even some Gays, persuade them to avoid the fact that we a re all human. We, as a group, need to form a bond and stick together, helping each other. Something that the Gay youth needs to understand is that they can be anyone they want to be. Anyone can be feminine or masculine;’ male or female; just as long as they have a mentor gniding them, giving sports tips, make-up tips & mainly emotional support. The main point is ~that we are all a diverse group of people, & this is why we need’ to value our friends & family; yet not base our lives on stereotypes alone... Thomas Knott, A.K.A. Terra Starr Editor’s note: Thomas is a youth activist in Tulsa. Selective ID’ing at Bars? As a semi-regular patron ofall Tulsa bars, itbothers me greatly that "selective carding" still seems exists in 1995. I have no problem at all producing my driver’s license when asked to do so, but I feel (out Of respect) that all members ofmy party be asked to do so. Furthermore, as a courtesy to all bar patrons, everyone should be required to show identification. There are times that I have seen people who I know are underage allowed into bars without showing ID while I have been asked to show mine. It really angers me to be told by a doorperson that "He looks 21 & you don’t." Could you please tell me what a 21-year-old looks like? It is my hope that this letter will bring an important issue to the eyes of barmanagers &owners before it gets out of hand. Sincerely, K. Green For those who would like to receive discreet home delivery of Tulsa Family News, please send $15 for a 12 month subscription, $8 for 6 months. Theexisting City ofTulsapersounel policies specifically ban discrimination & encourage all hiring to be on the basis ofmerit. Our 4000 employees are a diverse representative group &we work diligently to encourage an accepting workplace. M. Susan Savage, Mayor Editor’s note: the Mayor implies current city policies provideprotections basedon sexual orientation - they do not do so. Personnel policies do not require action by the City Council butcan bechangedby the Mayor. Or at least that is what many right wing activists claim, and can we blame them? being gay certainly is not immoral, however the Gay community could definitely stand some xmprovement. Take for instance Riverside drive, almost every night one can spot at least three or four different men cruising the walk for a one night trick. I have even had the unfortunate experience of seeing two men engaged in sex with one another right there in the mens room. This hardly speaks well for the commumty. And how many men find themselves employing the term "fish" when in reference to women. A lack of sexual attraction is not just cause for such vile disrespect. Sexism isjust as wrong as homophobia, yet it appears to be more prevalent in the Gay community than in the general community. Hear any good racist jokes recently? I have and they are absolutely disgusting. I think that it is apalling that one can rant and rave about how they want equal rights, and then make racial slurs that would put KKK members to shame. Members of our community are constantly demanding equal rights for themselves, but it is very rare to see a Gay-or Bisexual male take a strong and firm stand againstsexism; or to see someone who is white stand up and fight racial predjudice And the thing that d~fines Gay men is not tricking in the bathrooms of Riverside. If we don’ t want critism from the general public, then we shouldn’ tgive them anything to criticize in the first place. "It is hard to give respect to someone who does not return it to others." - John Ayers Tulsa Clubs & Restaurants *Bad Boys Club, 1229 S. Memorial 835-5083 *Wild Nights, 2405 E. Admiral 582-4340 *Concessions, 3340 S. Peoria 744-0896 *Lola’s, 2630 E. 15th 749-1563 *Silver Star Saloon, 1565 Sheridan 834-4234 *Renegades, 1649 S. Main 585-3405 *TNT~ s, 2114 S. Memorial 660-0856 *Time n’Time Again, 1515 S. Memorial 664-8299 *Tool Box, 1338 E. 3rd 584-!308 *Whittier Cafe, 416.S. Lewis 582-2400 *Interurban, 717 S. Houston 585-3134 Tulsa Businesses, Services, & Professionals Associates in Medical & Mental Health, 1560 E. 21 743-1000 Kent Balch & Associates, Health & Life Insurance 747-9506 *Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 8620 E. 71 250-5034 Brookside Jewelry, 4649 So. Peoria 74325272 Budget Window Treatments, 7116 So. Mingo, Ste. 102 254-2100 *Columbia Place, 1519 E. 15 587-5803 Creative Collection, 1521 E: 15 592-1521 Cherry St. Psychotherapy Assoc. 1515 S. Lewis 581-0902, 743-4117 Tim Daniel, Attorney 352-9504, 800-742-9468 *Devena’ s Gallery for Photography, 13 E. Brady 587-2611 *Elite Books & Videos, 821 S. Sheridan 838-8503 Fidelity Home Health Care, Inc. Coweta 486-1174 Leaune M. Gross, Financial Planning 744-0102 *Heirloom Designs, 2814 E. 15 742-5665 *Sandra J. Hill, MS, Psychotheral~y, 2865 E. Skelly 745-1111 *Imaginations, Lincoln Plaza, 15th & Peoria 584-4606 International Tours 341-6866 Ken’s Flowers, 1635 E. 15 599-8070 Kelly Kirby, CPA, POB 14011, 74159 747--5466 Loup-Garou, 2747 E. 15 742-1992 Major Affairs 587-8108 Massoud’s Jewlery, The Farm, 51st & Sheridan 663-4884 *Midtown Theater, 319 E. 3 584-3112 *Mohawk Music, 6157 E 51 P1 664-2951 *Mohawk Pride Center, 3910 Park .Rd. 425- !354 Mortgages by Design 342-4252 Pounds & Francs, 1706 S. Boston 587-8333 Puppy Pause II, l lth & Mingo 838-7626 Royal Travel, 6927 S. Canton 496-2410 *Ross Edward Salon, 1438 S. Boston 584-0337 *Scribnef s Bookstore, 1942 UticaSquare 749-6301 Southwest Viatical, 4146 S. Harvard, Ste. 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Nearly an hour of the meeting time involved a"heated dialogue" with Mikva about the Clinton administration’s decision earlier in June not to join in a legal challenge of a Colorado anti-gay rights measure now up for review by the U.S. Supreme Court. The measure bans laws and policies designedto protect homosexuals from discrimination. Bruce Lehman, commissioner of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and one ofthe Clinton admini stration’ s openly gay officials, said he had urged the White House to attack the Colorado measure. Even¯ so, Lehman said, the meeting itself was "just another one of the many firsts" in the Clinton administration that benefit the gay and lesbian community. Meanwhile, the White House announced that it had appointed Marsha Scott - a close Clinton associate - to a new, first-ever post as liaison to the gay community. White House officials were both embarrassed and exasperated by the glove¯ incident that marred the first-ever "goodwill" meeting June 13 with the gay and lesbian officials from around the country at a time when President Clinton’s standing among gays and lesbians is probably lower than it has ever been. ~ Eljay Bowron, director of the Secret 5ev¢i~c~, apologized for a "regrettable" mistake when _guards blue rubber gloves to allow the delegation in for the meeting. Bowron said AIDS education efforts in the agency would be stepped up. The guards put on the gloves after they learned the gay group was scheduled to pass through ~the eastern entrance of the White House. Oregon state Rep. George Eighmey later said a guard had told him, when asked why the guards wore gloves, that they were wearing them "to protect ourselves" - apparently from HIV. Reaction among the lesbian and gay officials attending theWhite Housemeetrag, which actually took place at the ExecutiveOfficenearby, ranged frompolitical perplexity to livid outrage. "It’s a mixed bag,’" said Susan Leal, a county supervisor from San Francisco, who helped to arrange the meeting. She said having the meeting with top-level administration officials was a breakthrough in itself, but added that she wasn’t overwhelmed by any concrete results. Tom Ammiano, another San Francisco supervisor attending the .meeting, was more blunt: "If the Clinton administration can’t take care of its own people, if its level of understanding is so low, how can they take care of us? I’ve lost my own lover to AIDS, and this is one of the basest, ignorant, homophobic reaction to AIDS I can imagine. A first-grader will tell you that you’re not going to get AIDS by putting someone’s camera through a metal detector...." Pride-Photos The Rev. Leslie Penrose, Brad Mulholland & volunteers plant a tree to honor the memory ofRainbow Villagefounder, Mark Vickers. Photo: Neal Metropolitan Community Church ofGreater Tulsa booth at Tulsa’s Pride Picnic in Mohawk Park. Photo: JD Jamett Family ofFaith Metropolitan Community Church at the statewide Lesbian/Gay Pride Parade in Oklahoma City. Photo: Neal Black & White Charities, Inc. booth at Tulsa’s Lesbian/Gay Pride Picnic in Mohawk Park. Photo: JDJamett Youth Net cont’dfromp. 1 a group with several Bay Area connections. "We give youth questioning their sexuality an option; rather than run away to a city hoping to find others like themselves, youth will have a safe place to turn to one another," says Christian Williams, 19, a co-founder ofYAOand a student intern at SunMierosystems Inc. in Mountain View. YAO, which also goes by the name "youth.org" for its Intemet site, went online in February with the donation ofthree computer workstations from Sun. YAO didn’thappen over mght; it was a project long envisioned by co-founder Reid Fishler, 19, owner of Long Island Information Inc.,. a New York-based Intemet services provider. "We are special because of one thing," says Fishler. "We are teens helping teens. We are not adults who have decided that we should "give some thing back to the community’; we are teens who have all made it through or are making it through, life as a gay, lesbian, or bisexual teenager." While recent media focus has been on the negative aspects of what can happen when gay youth roam the Internet, people at YAO see a positive side to all the attention. "We feel such incidents only reinforce theimportance of services like ours," says Williams. "For youth who have been abandoned by their families or, worse, thrown out for who they are, YAO can serve as both aresource ofagencies and services to turn to for help, as an alternative to the streets, and as a place to receive the emotional healing and support - the understanding that comes from another .young pelson." Many of the YAO volunteers are involved in other safe spaces for gay teens on the Internet. Mary L. Gray, 25, is a graduate student at San Francisco State University and is a co-moderator of the Usenetnewsgroup soc.support.youth.gaylesbian- bi, which was formed in 1994 following the largest vote ever in support of a new newsgroup in the more than 10- year history of Usenet. Fishier, Williams, and others also moderate areal-time Relay Chat channel called #gayteen. The channel is moderated to ensure that "’net sex" doesn’t take place, and that it remains asafe place for gay and questioning youth. Over 500 us’ers have registered on the channel, which is protectedby several "bots," automatons which help enforce the policies of the elaannel and keep undesirable or disruptive individuals from violating the space. And YAO is teaming up with other gay youth groups to make evenmore resources available. OutProud is a San Jose based youth service which recently established an Internet presence after two years on America Online. The group has developed a database of over 3,500 contacts for gay and questioning youth, and YAO has indexed the database and made it availsee Youth Net, page 13 Open Arms Open Minds Open Hearts Saint Aidan’s 4045 No. Cincinnati, 425-7882 Saint John’s 4200 So. Atlanta PI., 742-7381 Trinity 501 So. Cincinnati, 582-4128 The Episcopal Church Welcomes You ?. News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Anti-Bias Law in Florida PT. LAUDERDALE Following a heated 5-hour Broward County Commission meeting, the body voted to adopt an antibias measure prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation in the county by a 6-1 margin. Anti-gay fundamentalists immediately said they would launch an effort to gatherenough signatures to repeal the ordinance. Britain’s Ch. 4 - Premieres ’Dyke TV’ LONDON - The chief executive of Britain’s Channel 4 TV, Michael Grade, has defended the station’s increasingly controversial lineup ofprogramming after it premiered the latest in a string of programs dealing with sexual issues that culminated in mid- June with the debut of "Dyke TV.’" a 15 hour-long late-night show specifically aimed at the country’s lesbian community. Grade denied charges that the independent network was prorooting pornography or appealmgto prurient interests inlaunchlug the programs and said it was all part of the station’s responsibility to "’reflect society." "’People are fascinated by sex," Grade said. "’It’s a question of whether you take a healthy interes~ mad explore that in a seriousminded way, or whether you do it in an unhealthy way, which is to exploit people." Technicality Allows 2 BritishWomento Wed IJONDON - The London tabloid The People has reported on what it called the country’s first sanae-sex marriage sched’uled for Junc 28 The paper reported that t’he marriage between Tracie-Mme Scott mad Tina-Louise Dixon was possible because Scott, a former merchant semnan mad the father of 3 children, is still technically male under British regulations - even though he has had a sexchange operation. Victory Fund Gets New Chief Announced WAStllNGTON David Clarenbach, a former Wisconsin state representative who held a seat in the state legislature for 9 tcrms, has been named to repl acc William Waybourn as exc~ tivc director of the Gay & Lcsbian Victory Fund. In a press statement, C arenbach said "One of my goals as to bring an outsxde-the- B’eltway wake-up call to the nation’s .capitol. The rest of the country is way ahead of Washington in recognizing the contributions of gay and lesbian citizeus. In a related matter, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) announced that Waybourn had joined the mediawatchdog group as its new managing director. Lesbian Launches Mayoral Bid SAN FRANCISCO - Roberta Achtenberg, who left a post as undersecretary for civil rights in the Department of Housing and Urban Development in the Clinton Administration earlier this year, officially launched her campaign to become the first openly gay mayor of San Francisco. Achtenberg, a lesbian rights attorney and former county supervisor, faces an uphill battle in a crowded fidd that includes incumbent Mayor Frank Jordan andformer CaliforniaAssembly Speaker Willie Brown, perhaps the state’s most influential Democrat. "She will be the first lesbian big-city mayor in the country," said Christine Kehoe, a San Diego city councilwoman who hdped kick off the campaign drive here. "And that’s why we’re here this morning. Roberta shows whatwe can achievewhen we participat e fully in the life of our community." Rights Measure in N.H; CONCORD, N.H. - A measure has been introduced in the New Hampshire Legislature that would prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientauon in the state. A similarmeasure failed when introduced in the legislature 2 years ago after strong objection from church leaders. Hearings are not expected to begin on the proposed legislation until the end of this year. One Aussie Leader: Pro Gay Marriage SYDNEY - Governor-General Sir Bill Hayden, Queen Elizabeth’s appointed Crown officer in Australia, drew wildly mixed reactions for a recent speech in which he endorsed the idea of same-sex marriages, adoptions by gay and lesbian couples, and legally allowing euthanasia for terminally ill patients who want it. Some church 1e~leYg~md p61iticians in the country denounced Hayden’s suggestions, whichare considered the most progressive made by any major government official anywhere in the world to date. A government spokesperson said Hayden’s speech reflected his own views, and not those of either the Australian government or Queen Elizabeth. Hayden’s recommendation that gay men be routinely tested for HIV, however, drew harsh criticism from AIDS groups in the country as unnecessary for proper healthcare safety. Other Aussie Leader: Against Gay Marriages SYDNEY - The Australian gay publication Brother Sister reports that Prime Minister Paul Keating has rebuffed a recent call by Australian Governor General Bill Hayden to legally recognize same-sex relationships and to extend adoption rights to gays and lesbians in the country. Keating is quoted as saying in Parliament,"I havemy own personal views; social views on these things, but these are not a matter ofgovemmentpolicy.We don’tmakelaws governing these things." Hayden, who represents the British Crown as the nominal head of state in the Commonwealth country, earlier endorsed both same-sex mamages and legal adoption rights for gays andlesbians. "When society took the decision to no longer regard the practice of homosexuality as a threat to established, monogamous marriage, regarded as the cornerstone ofsociety for so long, certain inevitable consequences followed." Hayden said during a speech. "Certain rights flowed to homosexuals in the wake of that decision and unanticipated changed to community Standards followed.’" The Governor General’s office later made it clear, hrwever, that Hayden was not speaking for the government orQueen Elizabeth, whom he represents in the €ountry. Town Nixes ’Gay Pride’ ALAMEDA,Calif.-A normally "routine" proclamation designating June as Gay Pride Monthhas been rejected in this community on the east side,of the San Francisco Bay after anti-gay conservatives turned out in the hundreds to pack a city council meeting. The resolution, usually anuncontroversial matter, failed even to receive a second at the council meeting The council hearing on the proposed proclamataon lasted nearly 4 hours. Religious conservatives claimed the rejected proclamation was victory for "traditional family Values." Canadian Province May Allow Joint Adoption VICTORIA, British - Canadian news sources report that the provincial government in British Columbia has introduced legislation that would permit same sex couples to adopt children the same as heterosexual couples. The proposed change in the province’s adoption regulations would let both partners legally adopt a child, giving them joint parental rights and responsibilities. Quebec and Saskatchewan provinces both permit gay and lesbian couples to adopt children already, and an Ontario provincial court has declared that province’s restrictaons against same-sex couples adopting children to be unconstitutional. Coors Adds Domestic Partners Benefits BOULDER, Colo. - The University of Colorado newspaper, the Colorado Daily, has reported that the Coors Brewing Company of Golden, Colo., once the objectof an intensenational boycott by gays and lesbians, has voted unanimously to extend employee benefits to the samesex domesticpartners ofits workers. Since the widespread boycott of the 1970s and 1980s, the company has added non-discrimanation protections based on sexual orientation to its employment guidelines, and the brewcry also has a company-sanctioned gay andlesbianemployee group. "’There are still a lot of unanswered questions about the relationship between the Coors family, the [Coors] Foundation, and the company," Sue Anderson of Equality Colorado. told the paper. "But if we’re ’just talking about the corporation, this is a great move forward." Members of the Coors family and its private Coors Foundation have backed a wide variety of archconservative and anti-gay groups and politiciahs for decades, which led initially to the boycott. The Coors Brewing Company, however, has since gone out of its way to distinguish itself from the financial giving of the family and the foundation. Amnesty International Cites Police Abuses LONDON - The London-based human rights watchdog group Arunesty International has publicly called on the govermnent of Albania to live up to its obligations and agreements under international law and put a halt to abuses of its citizens, including political prisoners, Greeks living in the country, and homosexuals. "In certmn cases the ill-treatment has been so severe that it has amounted to torture," a statement from AI said. "In at least five cases the victim died, apparently as a result of the injuries they suffered." The organization also called on the government to set up methods of responding to citizen complaints of police abuse and brutality to deal with the problem. Guinness To Do Gay Ads LONDON - The Financial Times of London has reported that Guirmess, the famed British brewery best known for its stout ales,, plans to begin using a gay male couple in some of its future TV ad campaigns in the United Kingdom to promote its popular alcoholic beverages. Although the firm did not give details of the TV advertising, it did indicate that the TV spots would make it clear that the 2 men in them were gay men. The finn also said it would use the popular conntry-western tune "Stand By Your Man" in the ads. ILGA World Conference RIO DE JANEIRO - The 17th world conference of the International Lesbian & Gay Association ended in Brazil on Sunday, June 25, with a gay pride parade along Rio’ s Copacabana beach. During the week-long conference of more than 300 delegates representing countries from around the globe, ILGA took the following actions: - Denounced anti-gay violence in Latin America - including Brazil itself - and condenmed the execution of gays and lesbians in some Islamic countries; - Praised the decriminalization of homosexual sodomy in the BROOKSIDE JEWELRY 4649 South Peoria 743-5272 Corner of 48th & Peoria 9:30 - 5, Monday-Friday Shop Where You Are Appreciated! 14~38 S. 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D’Emilio’, ahistory professor with the University of North Carolina, has the task of transforming the Policy Institute imo a full-fledged research organization by recruiting gay rights theorists, academics, researchers, activists and others to the rese arch "think In apress statement, D’Emilio said: "I am committed to building the NGLTF Policy Institute into an indispensable source of reliable, useful and necessary information, on gay/lesbian/bisexual public policy issues. We want to use the wealth of expertise in our community to build a reservoir of materials for activists in the fidd.’" No. Cal. LesbiGay Prom HAYWARD, Calif. - This unlikely community, just east of San FranciSco, was the spot on Friday evening, June 30, of t!}..e first gay and lesbian prom in Northern California "Pride: A Deeper Love" took place at the Ceutemtial Hall here, replete with with an espresso and soft drinks bar, potted palms, anindoorfountain, and a miniautre replica of tile. Eiffel Tower to recreate the ambiance of a Paris sidewalk cafe. The youth prom was sponsored by the I_ambda Youth Group and drew several hundred lesbian, gay and bisexual youths - mostly high school studeuts - from throughout the San Francisco bay area. Couples May Ado pt in DC WASHINGTON - The District of Columbia’s Court of Appeals has ruled that unmarried couples - including same-sex couples - can legally adopt children the same as married couples. The court made its rifling in the case of 2 gay men, identified in court documents as BruceM. andMark D., overturning a lower court ruling that denied the men the right to adopt a young girl. The court found that "unmarried couples living together in a committedpersonal relationship, News Briefs News Briefs News whether of the same sex or of opposite sexes, are eligible to petition the cou~t for a decree of adoption" and the capital’ s adoption law "expressly authorizes adoptions by any person without limitations.’" Toronto Parade Largest in North America TORONTO - Demonstrating a level of gay pride that most Americans only associate with cities like Los Angeles, SanFrancisco and New York, Toronto"s annual Gay Pride Parade this year apparently became thelargest such event in North America, outstripping the gigantic gay pride celebrations of its southern neighbor for the first time. Police estimated that between 500,000 and 600,000 spectators showed up for the Sunday, July 2 parade that also drew more than 50~000 participants. Police estimates of the 3 largest gay pride parades in the U.S. put spectator numbers at between 300,000 a nd 500,000. The Toronto parade first started in 1980 when it drew only 2,500 people. Politicos in this year’s eventincluded openly gayMember of Parliament Svend Robinson and Toronto Mayor Barbara Hall. California Court Upholds Hate Crime Law SAN FRANCISCO - California’s Supreme Court has upheld the state’s hate crimes law as constitutional and has ruled thatit does not violatefree speech rights. The unanimous court ruling rejected the arguments by the attorney of2 women charged in the beating of 2 gay men in San Francisco in 1990. The appeal argued that the state’s hate crimes law violated the women’s free speech guarantees because it was vague. The state high court rejected the argument, saying thatwords which indicate an "intent to inflict evil, injury or damage on another" are not protected by constitutional free speech guarantees. "Violence and threats of violence .. fall outside the protection of the First Amendment because they coerce by unlawful conduct, rather than persuade by expression," thecourtruled. "As such, they are punishable because of the state’s interest in protecting individuals from the fear of violence, the disruptio~ fear engenders and the possibil- Briefs ity’the threatened violence will Gay Marriages: Tale of Two Cultures AMSTERDAM-Twoindependent polls {eleased on the same date- onein the U.S., the other in Holland - give an indication of the difference in attitudes in the 2 countries. In Holland, 73% of those polled said they thought gay and lesbian couples should be allowed to legally marry - an astoundingly largeportion ofthe population that surprised even many Dutch activists. The U.S. poll, conducted by EPIC-MRA-Mitchell Research, found that only 33% of Americans thought same-sex couples should be allowed to get married, while 63% opposed gay and lesbian marriages. Lesbian Camp Ruled Not a Nuisance OVEIT, Miss.-Chancery Court Judge FrankMcKenziehas ruled thatCamp Sister Spiritwas not a "private nuisance" in rejecting the caseofa group oflocal townspeople who had accused the lesbian- feminist retreat of causing disruptions an d trying to "recruit" their daughters into a"lesbian lifestyle." McKenzie said in his ruling that seminars and music festivals at Camp Sister Spiritmayhave disrnptedneighbors to a degree, but that the retreat’s activities did not constitute a "nuisance." The attorney representing the townspeople who brought the complaint against the camp said all the ruling meant was that the camp just "hasn’t gotten out of hand at this point." ’Gay Gene’ ResearchQuestioned SAN FRANCISCO - Dr. Dean Hammer, the openly gay National Cancer Institute researcher who reported finding a genetic marker associated with male homosexuality, is apparently under government scrutiny for possibly manipulating datain the study. Hammer confirmed for news sources that his 1993 study was being reviewed by the federal Office of Research Integrity and that he had been ordered not to comment further. Genetic scientists, however, have reported that a colleague in Hammer’s NCI lab had looked through the data in Hammer’s reports and found that the government researcher had not included some of the material in his final report. Theomitted data could we aken the statistical significant of Hammer’s finding or possibly have changed the findings altogether. The question of the reliability of Hammer’s findings .could be even more crucial because a neurogeneticist at the University of Western Ontario in Canada finished a similar study recently of more than 40 sets of gay brothers and found no link between the genetic marker and sexual orientation. Village cont’dfromp. 1 Rusty Langley Stumpff, to make real the vision of Rainbow.Village founder Mark Vickers. Rainbow Village is a non-profit dedicated to providing housing for persons living with AIDS (PLWA’s). After months of delays and difficulties in raising funds for the renovations of the house, work was able to completed because of donated materials from Cowan Construction and donated labor from many folks,in particular, LeonKubian, a professional contractor. At mid-day, the work crew stopped to join the Rev. Leslie Penrose in a blessing of the house, room by room and to plant a tree in remembrance of Mark Vickers who died just in May of this year. Brad Mulholland, Mark’s spouse, remarked on the bittersweetness of finally seeing Mark’s dream realized. Midway though the ceremony, aneighborhoodresident stopped to complain abouthaving ahouse for people with AIDS, which for him equalled "Gays" in the neighborhood. Ironically, the first residents of this house happen to be heterosexuals living withAIDS, not Gays. Though the neighbor refused to give his name, he threatened to complain to the city because he felt the house would violate zoning restrictions. Rainbow Village board president, Cathy Mulholland, responded that up to 8 unrelated individuals could live in a single family zonedhouse and that there should be no problems. Cathy Mulholland also noted that Tulsa has a significant need for housing for PLWA’s. There may be as many as 90 persons needinghousing and Mulholland added that up to 84% ofPLWA’s here are in danger of becoming Nathanael Mattingly salon estetica 749-0777 The Queen of the Galaxy presents the best damn hair in town! 3509 $, Peoria - 2nd Level - Tulsa, OK 74105 homeless. Both Cathy Mulholland and Rusty Langley Stumpff mentioned that all the funds to renovate Rainbow Village have come in small amounts from the community. Although applications are continuing to be made, no major grants have yet to be secured. Donations of money, materials and time/labor are welcome. For information, call 742-2201. taffy cont’dfrom p. 1 to counter anti-Lesbian/Gay prejudice. Some of the seed money for the project was do~ nated by Barbra Streisand and Tulsa is one of three test sites for shaping the campaign. The HIV Resource Consortium is an umbrella organization that seeks to provide comprehesive HIV/AIDS services, ranging from case management to providing space for other organizations, such as the TOHR HIV Testing Clinic and RAIN, Regional AIDS Interfaith Network which organizes care teams for persons living with AIDS (PLWA’s). The Lesbian/Gay Community Center is a project spearheaded by Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights (TOHR). The goal is to rent or buy a facility where all parts of the communities and organizations can meet formally or informally. Black & White Charities, Inc. will hold two events: a patrons appreciation on Friday, July 28 at Philbrook Museum and the Black & White Party itself on Saturday, July 29 at the Pavilion on Expo Square. 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A significant number of people state they would use a home test to determine if they are infected with HIV, it the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) licenses the diagnostic kits, according to a University of California San Francisco (UCSF) study published in the May 11 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). If thehomekits are approved, the easier access and greater privacy they provide wouldincrease thenumberofpeople tested forHIV infection, says a UCSFresearcher who co-authored a separate essay on this subject published in the same NFJM issue. The FDA currently is considering whether or not to approve test kits that would allow blood collection at home, according to Kathryn Phillips, PhD, a researcher at the UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) and lead author of the UCSF study, The over-the-counter test kits would likely be sold atdrug stores and, or through mail order. After pricking a finger and putting a drop of blood on a filter paper, users of the home test would mail the sample to a laboratory and call to find out their results They wouldreceive telephone counseling after providing a codenumber from the test kit. The entire process would be anonymous. UCSF researchers examined how the availability of home-access HIV tests .might change the numbers and character- ]st~cs of people tested for infection and where they went to be tested. Data came from a large household survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of more than 20,000 Among other questions, respondents were asked how likely they would be to use home HIV testing and, if it were available, whether they would choose to use a home test, go to a doctor’s office or clinic, or not be tested. 29% stated that they wouldbe "very" or "somewhat" likely to use home tests. Of this group,7%percent said they had never been tested (excluding testing for blood donation). 42% of the respondents with HIV risk factors said they wouldbe"very" or "somewhat" likely to use home tests; 63% of this group said they had never been tested (excluding testing for blood donation). 22% of all respondents and 31% of those at risk; said+they would choose a home test over the alternatives. In comparison, 18% of the respondents and 34% of those at risk reported having been tested for HIV infection (excluding testing for blood donation)between 1985 and the time the survey was conducted. The survey defined persons ’at risk’ as .hemophiliacs, men who have sex with men, intravenous drug users, those who trade sex for money, sex partners of persons at risk, those who had blood transfusions between 1977-1985, and those who have a self-perceived chance of having or contracting AIDS. 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Many factors influence whether viaticating 3’our life insurance is the best financialalternative available for yo-u. Southwest Viatical can discuss allof thefactorswith youand yourfamily in person, in detail and canrecommend an experienced Certified Financial Planner to assist you in plamfing the best outcome from your tmique financial situation. HOW IS SOUTHWEST VIATICAL DIFFERENT? Today, many companies offer viatical settlements, doing business only by bulk advertising and 1-800 numbers. They transfer ),ourinsurance andmedical records by mail, and do business from another state. At Southwest Viatical, we believe you should be assured of complete confidentiality and the best possible service by working with us in person, face-to-face. We are involved on a community level, and are responsible directly to our local community. By working with you in person, but at the same time having access to nationwide financial resources, we are able to deliver the best value on your policy available today. And because of our established resources, we can deliver a settlement in less than a third the time other compaafies take by mail. t)pically in fewer than 30 days We’ll do what it takes to find the best solution for you. Southwest Home Office Dallas,. Texas 800-559-4790 Kelly Kirby Oklahoma Representative POB 14011 Tulsa, OK 74159-1011 918-747-3320 Reporter .Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights ¯ P.O. Box 52729 Tulsa, OK 74152 July/August 1995 Volume 15 Number 7 The vhq~w expressed elsewhere in Tul,~a Family News are tltff nece.~saril)’ the vie*tw o.fTOl IR. Pet?nission is granted to reprint in,f!)rmalion cotltaitted wilhin the TOI IR Reporler page along with other itent~’, tolthrr the byline. "mtbmitted by TOI IR ". contained elsewhere in Tulsa Family News. TOHR Follies Thank You’s from the Executive Board Lynn Smith - Chairperson Renee Anthony - CO-Chairperson Sheryl Dagang for being the fabulous Master/Mistress of Ceremonies. The Entertainers A Special Thank you to Bill Lewis a!k/a/Lola, Russlyn Moore, Paris Grey, Victoria Towers, Emma Zahn, Anita Richards, Kelly Green, Diannah Nacole, Vivian & Tara TNeal for their creative and fabulous costumes and renditions that set the stage tbr our Priscilla themel Thank you to Linda Stevens for bringing friends from the Follies Revue. Jennifer Sanco, Kris Rittanaier & Tracy Watson Our addilional thank vous to other performers including: t.tell’en Back, Jessie Scott. Beverly Ball, Jimnaie H0ose. llelga, The Tulsa Family Chorale, Miriam Childers, Kevin Barentine, Kharma Arnos, and friends Danny Hale. Steve Eberle, David Parsons & Kathlene Golden. Thanks to Raghena for making the trip from Dallas to share her talents with her Tulsa Family. The Volunteers Without the tireless energy, of our volunteers this event could not have been the success that it was. Thanks to: Pamela Newberry and Terry, Rich Webb, Gemini, Joseph Chavez, David Haynes, Wes Waggoner, Charles Campbell, Kathlene Golden and Jill Hoyt. Tulsa’s own youth group including Thomas, Edgar, Antwaine & John. The Donors John Rothrock and Steve Walley from the Silver Star, Gregory and Wayne from Floral Design of Tulsa, Kathlene Golden from Unity Center, Gourmet on the Go, Whittier Care, Promenade General Cinema, Merle Norman Studios and Anthony Klatt of the Perspective. We would like to thank the businesses who sold advance tickets for the Follies: Tomfoolery, Floral Design of Tulsa and Budget Window Treatments. All Soul’s Unitarian for the use of their facility. To ever3., one \vho attended this years Follies you were a great audience. Thank you. Wanted: Persons who are interested in taking a six week Watercolor class taught by local mtist Kelly Vandiver. The cost of the classwill be $75 not including supplies. $15 dollars of the $75 tuition will be tax deductible as a donation to T.O.H.R,. To register please call the helpline at 743-.4297 and leave your name and nnmber with the volunteer or on the voice mail. TOHR - August meeting will be on Bartlett Square. Bring a picnic basket and )’our dancing shoes. August I st, i 995. IVlusic and beverages will be provided. 7:00pro Ill ? Getin step with TOHR and Hillcrest step aerobic class to begin this fail. Watch your TOHR Reporter for fiu-ther details. Quick Note: 1 ~vould like to thank Tom Neal and the Tulsa Family News for their support ofTOHR and the Reporter during this past year. A Newsletter that has been established to serve TOHR’s community center and other non-profi| organizations will be the ne\v home for the Reporter. HIV TESTING CLINIC FREE & ANONYMOUSE FINGER STICK METHOD By and for, but not exclusive to the lesbian, gay & bisexual communities Monday & Thursday Evening 7 to 8:30pm for Testing 7 to 9:00pro for Results Daytime Testing Monday-Thursday By Appointment Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights 918-749-4194 4154 South Harvard Suite I-t-1 Call for Directions BLACK WHITE INC. ,_C ,OMMUNITY CALEND .R SUNDAYS Bless the Lord At All Times Christian Center Sunday School, 9:45 am Worship Service, 11 am 2627-B East 1 lth. Info: 583=7815 Community of Hope (United Methodis0 Worship Service, 6 pm 1347 No. Yale, 838-7232 Family of Faith Metro. Comm. Church Worship Service, 11 pm 5451-E South Mingo. Info: 622-1441 Metro. Comm. Church of Greater Tulsa Worship Service, 10:45am 1623 No. Maplewood Info: 838-1715 TheBanned,OKGay Band Practice weekly in OKC Info: 838-2121 Bisexual/Lesbian/Gay Alliance - Univ. of Tulsa Meeting, 6:30 pm Canterbury, 5th&Evanston Info: 583-9780 MONDAYS HIT Testing TOHR Clinic Free & anonymous testing using fingerstick method. No appointment required. Walk in testing: 7-8:30 pm Results Hours: 7-9 pm Info: 749-4194 Lambda Bowling League Bowling begins at 8:45. Sheridan Lanes 3121 South Sheridan TUESDAYS Minister’s Class" Bless the Lord at All Times Christian Center 7:30 pm 2627-B East 1 lth Info: 583-7815 WEDNESDAYS Authority OfThe Believer Bible Study, 7 pm MCC of Greater Tulsa 1623 North Maplewood Call 838-1715 for info. Bless The Lord At All Times Christian Center Choir Practice 7 pm 2627-B East 1 lth Call 583-7815 for info. Family Of Faith MCC Potluck 6:30 pm Bible Study 7 pm Choir Practice 8 pm 5451-E South Mingo. Call 622-1441 for info. THURSDAYS 16-Step Empowerment Group For Women Women’s support group Community of Hope 1347 North Yale Call 838-7232 for info, Co-Dependency Support Group Weekly meeting, 7:30. Family.of Faith MCC. 5451-E South Mingo Call 622-1441 for Info. HIT Testing TOHR Clinic Free & anonymous testing using fingerstick method. No appbintment required. Walk in test hours: 7 - 8:30 pm Results Hours: 7 - 9 pm Call 749-4194 for info. Prayer Time MCC - Greater Tulsa, 7 pm 1623 North Maplewood. Call 838-1715 for info. Tulsa Family Chorale Weekly practice, 9:30 pm Lola’s 2630 E. 15th St. SATURDAYS Narcotics Anonymous Meets weekly at 11 pm Provides confidential support for recovering addicts. Community of Hope. 1347 North Yale Call 838-7232 for info. SUNDAY, JULY 16 1995 Miss Gay Northeastern Oklahoma USofA Pageant Silver Star Saloon, 10 pm 1565 So. Sheridan, Info: 838-3701 TUESDAY, JULY 18 Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights Board Meeting, 7 pm (open to members) TOHR Office, 40th & Harvard, 2nd fl. Info: 743-4297 WEDNESDAY, JULY 19 Family AIDS Support Group, 6:30 pm 4154 South Harvard, Gathering Room Info: 583-5147 THURSDAY, JULY 20 FIGHTFOR YOUR RIGHTS Community Civil Rights Meeting YOU NEED TO BE THERE 7-9 pm, Downtown Library, ground level meeting room, info: 838-2121 SATURDAY, JULY 22 Community ofHope Dance Class, 8 pm 1347 North Yale, Info: 838-7232 TUESDAY, JULY 25. Rainbow Business Gui/d, 7 pm Olive Garden, Utica Sq. Info: 832-0233 FRIDAY, JULY 28~ Black & White Charities Patron Gala Philbrook Museum, Info: 587-7314 SATURDAY, JULY 29 Community ofHope Feed the Homeless 1347 North Yale, 5:30 pm Info: 838:7232 Black & White Saturday Night Dance Pavilion at Expo Square, Fairgrounds $20 advance, $25 door, Info: 58%7314 TUESDAY, AUGUST 1 TOHR Party on the Square Picnic, 7-10 pm, Bartlett Square Info: 743-4297 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2 Family AIDS Support Group, 6:30 pm 4154 So. Harvard, Info: 583-5147 SATURDAY, AUGUST 5 Community ofHope Dance Class, 8 pm 1347 North Yale, Info: 838-7232 TUESDAY, AUGUST 8 Log Cabin Republicans, 7 pm Tulsa Centrai Library, Ground Floor Info: 832-0233 Need Help Selling Your Artwork ? . The The Artists’ Guide to Selling e is your answer $17.95 (includes handling & OK taxe~) Mail Check w return address info to: Artht~’ Guide, C/O Slash Pine Publishing ® Box 904186 Tulsa, OK 74105 Expect delivery within 10 days after check dears Developed from Fortune S00 Training and 15 year~ Saleg experience, ~md degigned to meet the ~peeifie naed~ of a~tiniz. SUNDAY, AUGUST 13 1995 Miss Gay Oklahoma USofA At-Large Pageant Silver Star Saloon, 9 pm 1565 So. Sheridan, Info: 838-3701 MONDAY, AUGUST 14 PFLAG 1011102, 6:30-7:30 pm 4154 So. Harvard, Ste. H, Info: 749-4901 SPOUSES For spouses of Gay/Les/Bi/Transgenders 7:00 pm social, 7:30-8:30 meeting Sponsored by PFLAG, Info: 749-4901 TUESDAY, AUGUST 15 Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights Board Meeting, 7 pm (open to members) TOHR Office, 40th & Harvard, 2nd ft. kffo: 743-4297 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16 Family AIDS Support Group, 6:30 pm 4154 So. Harvard, Info: 583-5147 SATURDAY, AUGUST 19 Community ofHope Dance Class, 8 pm 1347 North Yale, Info: 838-7232 TUESDAY, AUGUST 22 Rainbow Business Guild, 7 pm Dinner Meeting, Info: 832-0233 SATURDAY, AUGUST 26 Prime Timers 2nd Anniversary/ Write for info: P.O. Box 52118, 74128 Feast with Friends The NAMES Project Tulsa Area Finale at So. Hills Marriott, 748-3111 TUESDAY, AUGUST 29 Community ofHope Feed the Homeless 1347 North Yale, 5:30 pm Info: 838-7232 Gay & Lesbian Student Association TJC Southeast Campus, Info: 631-7632 Lesbian & Gay Pol. Action Committee Info: 838-1222 SWAN-Single Women’sActivityNetwork Call 832-2121 TOHR Anonymous HIT Testing Clinic Daytime testing by appt. M:Th., 10-5 pm Info: 749-4194 TOHR Helpline, Daily 8-10 pm For info. or to volunteer: 743-GAYS Tool Box Technicians Leather organization, Info c/o The Tool Box: 584-1308 T.U.L.S~4, Tulsa Uniform &LeatherSeekersAssoc. Info: 838-1222 Wed. Night Women’s Supper Club Varying locations 2nd or 3rd Wed. each month. Info: Helpline: 743-GAYS Task Force co. diromp. 1 nation paralyzes us in our jobs and prevents us from living as full and ,~qual citizens. "At the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, we often work with activists lobbying their local and state governments to pass anti-discrimination legislation. While many states and muuicipalities have banned discrimination based on sexual orientation, some opponents have pointed to the lack of federal legislation when justifying their own inaction or opposition to such measures. Weseekfederal action through passage of ENDA that would send a message across the country that discrimination is unacceptable and illegal. "Discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation violates the American values of equality and fairness. The Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 1995 recognizes discrimination and would alleviate the fear of many Americans in the workplace. It is an important step toward full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people." Editor’ s note:no Oklahoma Congressman has endorsed ENDA, though Cong. Largent is now reviewing the legislation. Britain con d omp. me improbable, whatever this court may say, that the existing policy can survive much longer," said Lord Justice Simon Brown, one of the judges in that ease. Boston cont’dfrom p. 1 The court’ s decision said that gays and lesbians have a fight to march in parades a;s individuals, but italso ruled thatno one can force parade sponsors to alter their message by including the views of another group. by Pat Morehead that Ralphies’ world cuts into their own mess? So, save your money either at the For those readers who are looking for the standard fare of Political Correctness relative to the Gay Community in TUlSa, look elsewhere. Summer is here and it’ s just too damn humid to worry with political correctness. I was politically incorrect when I failed to attend the Mohawk Pride Picnic. But I spent a lovely afternoon on the patio with several cool Bloody Bulls and my latest copy of Field and Stream. I did take a few minutes to scan theJune Family News. I have to tell you I’m not really concerned about the court ruling regarding the Boston St. Patricks Day Parade. So gays can tmarch, big deal. We seem to have missed the point somewhere along the way. If you’re not welcome somewhere, then stay the hell away! I’ve used that simple formula for decreasing stress, I highly recommendit to everyone. Besides, if we want to have a parade, we may wantto exclude certain types, fight? I’m not trying to be bitchey about this but I mean really, give it a rest. Thanks to Rush Tunbaugh and Newtie and Ralphie Reed, common civility has gone the way of the DODO. I was raised to at least pretend to be civil to people I don’ t care for or about. It was calledCommon Courtesy. Everything has become so "in your face" these days. Every dog has his day, and today Rush, Newtie and Ralphie are ha,v,ing,~eirs. Unfortunately I expect their day to go on for some while to come. We are not going to stop these guys from making our lives miserable for awhile. So, back off! Let them make asses out of themselves and their followers. As soon as people see Timothy W. Daniel Attorney at Law Know Your Rights! Estate Planning, Adoptions; Personal Injury, Criminal Law, Bankruptcy & Workers Compensation 1-800-742-9468 or 918-352-9504 128 East Broadway, Drumright, Oklahoma Weekend and evening appointments are available. regularlives, people will get sick and tired of him and his sort and dump them for something different. Speaking of something different, can anyone explain "Legends of the Fall"? I rentedit expecting to see something inter- So, here’s my plan for our eommunlty. Let’s start our -own Ch~eh. We’ll do eorrespontienee tie~rees anti we can all become Ministers. That Way we can ~et every tax ~vantage aveable,& we can du~ ~ple out of v~t sums of ~o~ey in the name of~n~ng our m~ssxons . ~nee we all have money, then ~e can make the ~uled Let me knowffyou have any ide~ for the ~hureh name. esting from Brad Pitt. Ifnot acting wise, at least his butt! Pitt has been very interesting since I first noticed him in "Thelma and Louise". But I haven’t the slightlest idea about what was going on in Legends. I don’t even think the Director had the slightest idea about what was going on there. I mean, at least if you’ ve got Brad Pitt, use his sex appeal if nothing else. All we got was a poorly composed 3 second medium wide group shot of Pitt in the middle of what I presume was supposed to be a menage a tois. Jeez, at least give us Pitt butt. Three seconds out that whole video store or on TCI and give Legends a pass. Unless you’ reintoAnthony Hopkins, at least, he he did some acting. I suggest you rent "Thelma and Louise" and eatch Pitt in the motel scene. WhichbringsmetoTCI. Whenitcomes to TCI,just bend over and expect it rough. Rather than worrying about parades in Boston we ought to be spending time getting any other cable outlet in here. Why is it that there is no Cable Access available to the public, but 158 religious programmers can monopolize half the damn channels? That’ s a rhetorical question. Weall know why, the pray-a-vision folks buy all the available time. So, here’ s my plan for our community. Let’s start our own Church. We’ll do correspondence degrees and we can all become Ministers. That way we can get every tax advantage available, and we candupepeople outOfvastsums ofmoney in the name of funding our "missions". Once we all have money, then we can make the rules ! Let me know if you have any ideas for the Church name. On a serious note though, we could invest some time in setting up a Non- Profit Arts Group which is designed to serve Gay and Lesbian area artists, writers and performers. That would be something that could actually have an impact on the local communityin terms ofgiving Gay and Lesbian Artists a fair shot. Let me know your thoughts on that one also. As for me, I’m heading to kitchen to mix up some more Bloody Bulls, then get naked in the hot tub and ponder the real meaning of Pitts’ butt. Hummm, maybe we could do a fund raiser based on a best l~utt contest. Now there’ s an idea perfect for summer in Tulsa. As soon as I find the limes, I’ll put some more thought into that! Pat Morehead is a Tulsan whose commentaries focus on art, politics & more. Metropolitan Community Church of Greater Tulsa Where God Uplifts All People Sunday Service, 10:45 am Wednesday Service, 6:30 pm Home Cell Groups, 2nd & 4th Sundays 1623 No. Maplewood, Tulsa 74115, 838-1715 Unique Gifts in Lincoln Plaza corner of 15th & Peoria 584-4606, M-S 10-8, Sun. 12-5 Aroma Lamps Aromatherapy for your home or office. Many fragrant oils and scented candles to choose from. Test cant’dfrom p. d Phillips says these findings are "counter intuitive" because preventive services and other home tests are usually morelikely to be used by people with more education and higher incomes. "It’s striking that people who may have the greayest need for testing but the least access to HIV testing and medical care may bemorelikely than someother groups to use home tests," she says. Theavailability ofhometests may cause a shift.in the locations where HIV testing is conducted in the United States, Phillips says. About 20 percent of tests (excluding tests before blood donations) are performed at public clinics; 31 percent in doctor’s offices, health maintenance organizations, or employer clinics; and 25 percent athospitals and outpatient clinics, according to the study. "The use of home tests by people who would otherwise have been tested at public clinics may free up resources for other activities," Phillips says. "However, testing should still be available at public clinics." It is estimated that users of the home test would pay between $30 and $40, whereas it costs the federal government approximately $50 per test at public clinics andprivate doctors may charge clients $50 ormore for HIV testing. Counsding and testing consumed the largest portion- $103 million - of the HIV prevention budget of the CDC in 1992. Reviewed by Barry Hensley Supervisor, Circulation Department Tulsa City-County Library One of the biggest controversies surrounding the gay rights movement today is the act known as outing- one person. publicly identifying another, closetedperson 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 lesbian or gay. Because they are not prepared to acknowledge their orientation, they lead double lives to disguise the truth from friends, families and coworkers. "Outing Yourself," by Michelangelo Signorile, recognizes the difficulty of these situations and provides a step-by-step program for making the journey from "Identifying Yourself" to "Not Thinking About It at All." Signorile outlines 14 steps, under six general parts whichinclude"OulingYourself to Yourself," "Outing Yourself to Other Gay People," "Outing Yourself to Your Straight Friends," "Outing Yourself to Your Fanfily," "Outing Yourself to Your Coworkers," and, finally, "Coming Out Every .Day," which includes ways to help others undertakethe same journey. Signoril’e 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 bea pain in the neck," and Mark Thompson, who commented, "Basically, coming out is a death and rebirth experience. To come out, something has to diewhatever itwas you thought your were...In a sense, you’reldlling aformer constructed identity and creating a new 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. "Basicafly, coming out is a death and rebirth experience. To come out, something has to die- whatever it was you thought your were...In a sense, you re killing a form.er construeted identity and creating a new one. As the journey continues, the author documents ~ue experiences which reveal the common frustrations related to homophobia and the act of "deprogramming yourself" from stereotypes and the myths that cause lesbians and gays to feel out of place in a straight society. In "Meeting Other Gay People," the reader is .reminded that today, with gay community centers, organizations, newspapers and computerbulletin boards, the gay baris no longer the primary gathering place. Thereis alist ofrelated books, many of which are in the library, which should be consulted to further explain the sometimes complex and contradictory fedings that many people experience. In’What First Talk," Signorile prepares readers for the inevitable questions and concerns that arise when having that important chat’with parents orother family members. He acknowledges that it is not always wise to come out to parents immediately. Timing is everything, and i.t may be best to postpone your conversalaon. As you get near the end of the book, which dea~s 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 neg~itive comments and concentrate on having a truthful, uplifting and educational conversation. Signorile has also authored "Queer in America" and numerous colnmns for national periodicals.Afew years ago,hehad a notorious reputation for outing public figures, but he has mellowed considerably and.this book is a patient and understanding guide, free from harsh judgements or urgings to Sacrifice oneself for "the cause.+’ Check for"Outing Yoursdf" and other related books in the Readers Services, 2rid floor, Central Library, or call 596-7966. SAULDLDELNO IYK TLHI.EKECWOMANPENTAIBTOESR.S ~MITSUBISHI The New Thinking n Automobiles+ Air conditioning, alloy wheels, am/fm cassette with 6 speakers, power sunroof, dohc - 16 valve & much morel From $15,695 ¯ Sunday :Services 11:00 am ¯ Wednesdays 6:30 pm Potluck 7:00 pm Bible Study ¯ 8:00 pm Choir Practice I To love & to walk humbly with our God... Micah 6:8 I I do justice, mercy 5451-E S. 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You may have some minor battles with co-workers and employees, but your recreational activilaes will definatdy make you forget any jobrelated stress. CANCER June 22-July 23 You have been involved with an odd bunch ofpeoplefor quite awhilenow, and this has maderelationships a struggle. It’ s time to take an honest look at your beliefs about romance, love and sex. If you’ re not getting what you want and it can’t be fixed, time to say "bye bye." LEO July 23-August 23 You are likely to experience power struggles with family members and with anyone who shares your home. You want to be your flamboyant, generous self; they’ d apparently prefer you to be a dull and stifled slave. Try not to be an unreasonable drama queen. With a little sdfcontrol, you’ll win out. VIRGO August 23-September 23 You’re great at being the power behind the throne because you intuitively know how to provide just the right kind of support. However, now is the time for you to stand in the limelight yoursdf. Tremendously creative ideas can come to you now..Just lighten up, let them in, and put them to use. LIBRA September 23-October 23 You may receive a financial offer you can’ t refuse, but look at the situation with an honest and critical eye. Someone is likely to be playing hot and heavy with your emotions. If you act without think= ing carefully first, you’re liable to do things you’d never consider otherwise and you’ll regret it. SCORPIO October 23-November 23 Passion rears its head at work, and you may be Crazed with desire for the sweet thing who shares your shifL Think it over before you lunge. It may not be a great idea to mix business with pleasure. Working with friends on a money-making venture can bring success; divert your obsession into your work. SAGITTARIUS Nov. 23-Dec. 22 Existing relationships have an eerie quality of familiarity to them. Yes, you’re being manipulated in the same old way and no, it’ s not your imagination. A new relationship started now is likely to turn out the same way. Think about why you keep attracting this mistreatment. Isn’ t it getting boring? CAPRICORN Dec. 22-January 21 Life has not exactly been easy for you lately, but you only have to pass one more hurdle before you get a break. Someone is likely to appear’with a "fool prool~’ investment scheme thatplays onyour desire for status. Don’ t get crazed with greed and say "yes." You’ll only be starting a new drama. AQUARIUS Jan. 21-February 20 Old conflicts may reappearnow, but don’ t worry; they’re only resurfacing so you can have the chance to resolve and diminate them once and for all. It’ s a good time for you to get rid of all your hidden fears and addictions. You’ re about to start a new cycle; you may as well do it on a level playing field. PISCES February 20-March 21 Now is the best possible time to use visualization to achieve your goals, but how much thought have you given to what you actually want? Come out of the fog and create your long,term wish list. You have a natural gift for creative thought. Add a little structure and put your gift to use. PRIDEofo nm Renting and considering Buying? Moving up or Investing? Credit Problems? Mortgages By Design will custom fit the right homeloan to YOUR needs! 1~ LENDER Financing the AllAmerican Dream ForDetail~ CalL. BUD WHARTON Vice President/Branch Manager (918) 3424252 Serving Tulsa and Surrounding Communities Tropical Caribbean Feb. 11-18,1996, $795-1950 Deep Caribbean Feb. 18-25,1996, $795-1950 Mexican Riviera March 17-24,1996, $795-2495 French Canada Jun~ 30 -July 7,1996, $895-2295 International Tours 9/8-34/-6866 RSVP On the Road with Melissa Etheridge by L. Cooper, roving groupie In May of 1989, I attended a concert at the Cain’s Ballroom - the singer’s name was Melissa Etheridge and her debut album was a self titled work which was released in 1988 on Island Records. Rumor had it that she had been discovered while playing in the Lesbian bars of Los Angeles. The issue of her sexuality has finally been resolved to many women’s satisfaction (particularly after her fans suffered through the femme phase of the "’Never Enough" album). Since the Cain’ s experience, I have had the privilege of seeing four additional MEperformances. Her Grammy nominations, four albums and an appearance at Woodstock II have resulted in media exposure and main stream visibility. As acknowledgement of her popularity, Etheridge serves as the cover girl for the June 1995 issue of Rolling Stone. It is a rare opportunity for our generation to watch the development of such a talented and, now, out artist. I wondered whether Etheridge could. gracefully survive the transition to large capacity arenas. Her ability to intimately connect with her audience in smaller venues has been legendary. On June 25th, Etheridge did not disappoint her fans as she provided her usual kick ass, high energy performance during an appearance at the Nissan Pavilion located in Stone Ridge, Virginia. The threat of rain did not dampen the spirit of the audience who travdled from MD, VA, WVA, DE, NJ, NY, DC, PA, and, of course, OK. In Photograph~ J.D. Jamett 621-5597 fact, Mother Nature’ s thunder and lightning served as an additional special.effects background for the evening’s performance. Opening for Etheridge was Paula Cole, a talented, unusual and quirky performer. Cole, whose 1994 debut album "Harbinger" provides a good listen, primed the Pavilioncrowd with support from her two memberband. Her30 minute, six song set Alexander Graham Bell could not have possibly pereelved what a hot, seduetlve, sexually ehar ed woman could do with his invention. ended with a tribute to all the women in the audience. "Watch the Woman’s Hands", written by Cole, brought the audience to its feet and resulted in a standing ovation for the singer. After a fifteen minute intermission and equipment swap, the main show actually started on time. This disproved common wisdom that concerts and lesbians cannot meet intended schedules. At the stroke of 9 pm, Melissa burst onto the stage and charged into arousing rendition of "All American Gift’. The Pavilion stage is flanked by a big screen on either side. A memorable sight is ME’ s sly smirk and bedroom eyes magnified about a thousand times. Ably backed by John Shanks on guitar and keyboard, Mark Browne on bagg~tttar, aiid Dave Beyer on drums, ME used a well mixed play list which included songs from all fouralbums spiced with a sampling of new material. One of these new songs, "All the Way to Heaven" is a cut from her next album which is due to be released in November of this year. Etheridge also covered AC. DC’s classic hormone pounding "You Shook Me All NighrLong" and, with the line, " ...she knocked me out with those American thighs....", the Pavilion female factor howled and screamed in umson. Her song "You Used to Love to Dance" segued into an extended play which utilized a telephone as a prop. Alexander Graham Bell could not have possibly perceived what a hot, seductive, sextmlly charged woman could do with his invention. Our butts barely touched the seats during the foot stomping 2 1/2 hours. Etheridge ended her 18 song performance with "Bring Me Some Water"; we were not ready to let her go and we brought her back for two encores. The first encore was. a rocking "Like the Way I Do" from the 1988 album MeliSsa Etheridge and her second encore was the more gentle and almost lullaby-like ’Walking to My Angel" from the 1993 album Yes I Am. Her energy and her connection with her fans has certainly not decreased with time nor has it been reduced by the larger venue - Melissa Etheridge is a proven performer who continues to stimulate, captivate and mesmerize her audience. (Her current tour ends in Houston on July 9th.) Youth Net eont’d omp. 3 able on the World Wide Web, searchable by both ZIP code and area code. YAOis also working with the Lavender Youth Recreation and Information Center, a gay youth resource group based in San Francisco, to bring them onto the Internet and to make LYRIC’ s staff of 25 trained peer counselors available for YAO’ s own peer support service. "Two years ago, this was all a dream," says Fishier, "a place where I would feel welcome on the Interact, where I would not feel as though I was different or that I was a piece of meat. Now, youth.org is a reality.’" Coming to terms with one’ s sexual orientation is always difficult, and Williams says it can become a matter of life or death for teens, as evidence suggests that as many as 30 percent of the youth to emigrate to urban areas such as San Francisco and New York are attempting to escape persecution because of their sexual identity. "Just one step of intervention could make all the difference in the world," he says. "Together, we can drown out the destruction of society’s hatred and homophobia." YAO can be reached on the World Wide Web at the URL http:// www.youth.org/ Gay and questioning .youth can receive counseling through e-mail by sending to help@youth.org OutProud! "Can be reached at http:// www.outproud.org/outproud/ (all one line) or at P.O. Box 24589, San Jose, CA 95154. Whittier Care 41(3 S Lew s Tulsa. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource [1995] Tulsa Family News, July 15-August 14, 1995; Volume 2, 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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Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Serving Tulsa’s Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual Communities - Our Families of the Heart National News Clinton Ends Anti-Gay Security Restrictions WASHINGTON - President Clinton on Friday, Aug. 4, signed an executive order that bans bias against homosexuals in issuing federal security clearances. Clinton’s move is one that has long been sought by gay rights advocates. Under the Clinton executive order, which takes effect immediately, a security clearance can not be denied solel, on the basis of sexual orientation. \~qaite House spokesman Mike McCurry said the order standardizes criteria throughout the federal See Order. page12 The directors ofBlack & White. Inc. celebrate their largest attendance Washinton State Official yet at the 1995 Patrons Gala at Philbrook Museum, photo: Jamett Condemned for Bias The NAMES Project Fundraisers AUGUST 11, !995- Dr. Dexter Amend, Spokane County Coroner in Washington State, has invoked gays-and-child-molestation stereotypes by blaming the sexual abuse and lnurder of a 9-year-o!d gift on homosexuals because an autopsy showed the victim had been sexually molested, including sodomized. "She’s been sodomized over and over and sodomy i s a homosexual act. it is," said Dr. Amend. an elected official. ’q’o have everybody ttfink ho~nosexuality is OK is a bunch of baloney. I don’t care see Official, page 3 Hawai’i Marriage Case Delayed HONOLULU - Hawai’i Circuit Court Judge Kevin Chang has put off for a full year the legal case that may decide whether same-sex couples in Hawaii can legally marry or not. At the same time, however, Judge Chang refused to change a state supreme court order that requires the state to show a "compelling interest" in order to deny marriage licenses to gays and lesbians - a difficult tegal test to meet in most cases. The new trial date is July 15, 1996. U.S. Grants Asylum to Iranian Gay Man NEW YORK - The U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Service has determined that an Iranian gay man now living in Brooklyn and identified only as ’~A.T.," has a %veil-founded fear of persecution" if he is deported back to Ins native country. Granting political asylum to themzabrought praisefromgay rights activists. ’~Persecution of lesbians and gay men around the world has escalated to epidemic proportions," said Suzanne B. Goldberg of the Lambda Legal Defense &Education Fund, wInchrepresented"A.T." in the case. ’TIns ruling reflects our nation’s commitment to providing refuge for all persecuted persons~ including lesbians & gay men, who meet the strict digibility requirements for political asy- Ohio Activists Appeal to SupremeCourt CINCINNATI - Ohio activists have appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court in an effort toovermm a federal appeals court ruling that allows a 1993 voter-approved city amendment prohibiting civil rights protections from including homosexuals t o stand. The anti-gay amendment, which is similar to Colorado’s Amend. 2, was approved by the city’s voters after the city council had passed an anti-bias measure barring discrimination based on sexual orientation, race, sex, and other characteristics. The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in May that gays and lesbians were not an "identifiable class" like other minority groups and could not therefore be granted civil rights protections. Feast for Friends - 8/26 The Sum of Us- 9/5+6 In preparation for the return of the Quilt in October, The NAMES Project. Tulsa Chapter is holding two fundiaisers. Its mmual Feast for Friends is a series of dimmers held at private homes around the city with individuals inviting their guests to make contributions comparable to what they would spend if they were to go out to dinner. The guests from the many dinners come together for a dessert finale at the Southern Hills Marriott. see NAMES, page 3 Tulsa Could Host State Gay Conf. Organizers of the Oklahoma Pride Conference ~vill hold their next planning meeting on Saturday, August 19 at the University of Tulsa’s ~klan Chapman Activity~Center at 1 lain. Tulsa-orgamzers will bring a proposal to the meeting that the next statewide conference be held in Tulsa. Conference organizers have tentatively set the date for this next conference to be Feb. 17-18, 1996. This meeting is open to all who are interested in helping with the project. The first OK Pride Conference was held at the University of Oklahoma in the summer of 1994. Speakers included then-executive director of the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF), Peri Jude Radecic, Mandy Carter, longtime activist now working with the Human Rights Campaign Fund and the Black Gay & Lesbian Leadership Conference and Robert Bray, media gnru for NGLTF. For more information, call 832-0233. Friends In Unity Labor Day Fete Friends in Unity Social Orgamzation (FUSO), an organization for African-American men of diverse sexual orientation, will hold its annual picnic on Saturday, September 2, followed by its banquet on Sunday, the 3rd. This picnic will honor the 4th anniversary of FUSO but is the 16th picnic. This tradition began with a group of~riends but has developed in to a community tradition. Invitations have been extended to people in St. Louis, Dallas, Little Rock, Kansas City as well as Oklahoma City. FUSO has also announced a fundraising drive to support its efforts to provide HIV care and services and education to the African- American community. For more information, call 425-4905. New Civil Rights Organization Fight for Your Rights commiUee has taken the name Green Country Pride and will hold its next meeting on Thursday~ August 24 at 7pm at the Tulsa Central Library at 4th & Denver. The organization adopted a mission statement at its July meeting: toimprove the quality oflifein GreenCotmtry-(northeastemOklahoma) - for LGBT people, our families and friends through,education, communication, and organization within our community and the community at large. Several action committees have been established: a speakers bureau to help educate non-Gay people about Lesbian/Gay/ Bi and Transgendered issues, a Community Leadership committee to try to create better communication among the various orgamzations and part of the communities and a youth committee winchhas already found a safe space for Gay youth to hold quarterly dances. For more information, call 838-2121. August 15 - September 14, 1995, Volume 2, Issue 9 Tulsa Organizers of Human Rights Conf. Leave Out Local Gays TULSA, OK - IAOHtLa~, the International Associafon of Official Human Rights Agencies brought attendees from across the United States and abroad to Tulsa for its 47th Almual Conference held at the Southern Hills Marriott on August 5- t 1. Speakers included Sanford Cloud, Jr. president of the National Conference ffonnerly the Nat’l Conf. of Christians & Jews) and Gov. Frank Keating. Local orgamzations like the NAACP, the Tulsa Urban League and the lo’cal office of the National Colfference were invited and had exhibits at the conference. Missing were any local Lesbian/Ga\ orgamzations, such as Tulsa Oklahomans for Hu’- man Rights (TOHR). TOHRpresident.Tim Gillean said that organization had not received any information about the possibility of exhibition ;pace. Claude Rogers, president ofIAOHRA. responded defensively to questions that Gay issues and folk were not represented. \~qaen asked abont the lack of Gay topics in the conference agenda, he stated that many issues, like hate crimes, were relevant to Lesl~ians and Gay men. Rogers did provide a cop3 of the conference program which included copies of pro-Gay resolutions from last vear’s conference in Tampa. Bill Carlon. an openly ~ay ~nan from the Austin, Texas Human Rights Co~mnission. said Gay issues were discussed in the Tulsa workshOl;S he httended pmnafily becanse he’said he made a point to raise them. The Tulsa Executive Coxmnittee which was responsible for local organizing had no member representing Tulsa Lesbian/Gay coxmnunities and the larger advisory board had only one openly Gay pel~son, Demlis Neill. Neill told TFN that while h~ was asked some months ago to be involved, he was not a~vare that the advisory board ever met nor did anything. Dept. ofHuman Rights director, Dymme Mason who was involved in the conference planning claimed that "everyone was invited" but could name only Dennis Neill specifically as being involved in the planning. City of Tulsa staff were paid by the City winle helping with conference organizing according tO Hilary Kitz, aide to Mayor Susan Savage. Conference chair, Jerry Goodwin of the Oklahoma Eagle, did not return phone calls to TFN to explain the failure to involve local Gay organizations. Several Gay Conference attendees stated that they felt the problems at this year’s conference would be better addressed at next year’s event wInch will be held in Ft. Worth, Texas. Interfaith AIDS Ministries Holds ’Old Fashioned’ Carnival Interfaith AIDS Ministries will hold an carnival on Saturday, August 19 from 10am to 6pm at 1515 S. Lewis in the parking lot of Cherry Street Psychotherapy Associates. The carnival will feature food, entertainment, a "fortune teller" and games, notably a dunking tank. Several community activists, Janice Nicklas, Ric Kirby, Sharon Thoele and others have agreed to risk dunking for the cause. InterfaithAIDS Ministries provides spiritual support and has provided a24-hourHIV/AIDS information line. For more information, call 438-2437. EDITORIALS PAGE 2 ||| DIRECTORY PAGE 2 NEWS BRIEFS PAGE 4 HEALTH BRIEFS PAGE 7 CALENDAR PAGE 9 FINANCES PAGE 10 HOROSCOPES PAGE 14 PERSONALS PAGE 15 918-832-0233 POB 4140 Tulsa, Oklahoma 74159-0140 TulsaNews@aol.com Publisher/~dltor Issued on or before the 15th of each month, the’d~tff~"~onten}s of Tom Neal this publication are protected by US copyright 1995 by Tulsa Family Assistant Editor News and may not be reproduced either in whole or ~n part withotit James Ghristjohn written permission from the publisher. Publication of a name or Writers/contributors photo does not indicate that person’s sexual orientation. Kharma Amos Correspondence is assumed to be for publication unless otherwise Laurie Cooper noted, must be signed & becomes the sole property of Tulsa Family Maureen Curtin Ne~vs. All correspondence should be sent to the addres s above. Eac[a Staff Photographer reader is entitled to one free copy of each edition at distribution JD Jamett poirits. Additional copies are avai lane at Tomfoolery! by John D ’Emilio The Republican Party’s Contract with America--and its younger sibling, the Contract with the American Family .have dominated political reportmg for most of the ’year. Because both have chosen to sidestep head-on discussion of homosexuality, gay issues have slipped from the national media’s radar screen.For many gay men, lesbians and bisexuals this must come as a welcome relief, a moment of respite in a hard political season. Who, after all, could enjoy being the target of the kind of rhetoric generated in the lastfew years at the Republican convention in Houston, in the Senate hearings on the military’s exclusion poll cies, or in tire fight over the NEA? The lull, howe~er, is more apparent than reaL; Congress is not the only bodythat legislates. In the fifty states, there was no Contract ~;¢ith America to discipline local right-wing political leaders, but in many of them there is an infrastructure of gay organizations eager to moveforward their quest for respect and equality. The rcsult is that state capital,s rather than Congress have become the battleground upon ~,.hich the issue of equal rights for gays is being fought. The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute recently released a study of state legislation. Because the survey is the first of its kind, it is impo~- sine to determine whether the .action level is greater or less than m recent years. But what can be said with certainty is that legislative debates about the place of gay’, lesbian and bisexual citizens in society are extensive. At least 97 gay-related measures moved forward in 33 states. In 30 states, anti-gay measures received serious consideration, while 18 states advanced nondiscrimination bills of one sort or another. The news, both good and bad, can tell us much about the political strength of the gay community and of its most outspoken opponents. The brightest spot was RhodeIsland, whichbecame the ninth state to enact a statewide civil rights measure banning discrimination based on sexual orientation. The clearest pattern of gay-friendly activity was the tendency, expressed in fifteen states, to include sextml orientation among a list of categories needing protection against discrimination. They tended to cluster around two broad areas of policy-making legislation: health care and hate crimes. In Massachusetts; for instance, several bills whichprohibit discrimanation in the delivery of various kinds of health services made it through committee. Forclose observers ofgay politics, these results should provide some measure of comfort. The AIDS crisis has propelled activists out of their community and into the center of the health-care rid& Their work, and that of the women’s andlesbian health care movements, is reaping dividends. In the same way, activists since the early 1980s have fought vigorously to call attention to anti-gay hate violence. At the state andnational level, theyhave workedclosely in coalitions with other targeted groups to have hate crimes recognized as aform of violence needing special remedies. Meanwhile, the national climate ofdivisiveness and intolerance is playing itsdf out in state politics. Even in states like New York, Californiaand Massachu- .seas, where the gay community ~s wall organized and has long been visible, anti-g~, measures were able to receive a hearing. In other states, right-wing Republicans had an eas~er time transsee Politics. page 11 by Ira Glasser ° The merchants of virtue have been very busy lately telling us we are in a period of steep moral decline. Comparedwith the "50s, they say, America has lost its moral compass. I disagree. I think we are a more moral nation today than we were then. As evidence of moral decline, the merchants of virtue cite a variety ofbehaviors: the increasingly explicit sex and violence depicted in movies and popular music: the growing tendency of people to have sex and make babies without the sacrament of mamage; the recreational use of disapproved psychoactive substtmces like marijuana; and, yes, the choice some women make sometimes to terminate their. pregnancies. They also like to cite the growing legitimacy of gay’ andlesbian relalionships and the idea that family, love and commitment can take many fornls. Andof course there is the everpopular issue of school prayer. At the root of our moral decline, we are told, is the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in 1962 that state-sponsored prayers in public schools were an unconstitutionaI government intrusion on a family’s right to determine their children’s reli~ous upbringing. The merchants of virtue want to amend the Constitution to over- A nation’s morality used to be measured by its elvle virtue - how soeiety treated its eltlzens, whether justlee and fairness prevailed, whether ]~eople were free to pursue tml~plness in their own way and whether it was sa~e to he different from the majority. turn that decision. They believe that if children were exposed to daily school prayer rituals, as once they were, we might at least take a first step back on the road to national morality. But are these behavioral phenomena the appropriate criteria to use in measunng a nation’s morality? Significantly, every one of these phenomena involve personal behavioral decisions. They don’t like some of the choices filmmakers and record companies are making and necessarily, of course, they" don’t like the choices consumers are makingin deciding inlargenumbers to_ see those movies and buy those records. They don:t like some people’s sexual choices or their preference for marijuana over martinis or their decisions about whether to have a baby or whom to love. And they would prefer people to be more pious, especially in public. Anation’s morality used to be measured by its civic virtue - how society treated its citizens, whetherjustice andfairness prevailed, whetherpeople were free to pursue happiness in their own way and whether it was safe to be different from the majority. see Glasser, page 12 For those who would like to receive discreet home delivery of Tulsa Family News, please send $15 for a 12 month subscription, $8 for 6 months. Tulsa Clubs & Restaurants *Bad Boys Club, 1229 S. Memorial *Concessions, 3340 S. Peoria Ground Zero. 311 E. 7th. 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It’s a horrible, unbelievable tl~ing that this ctfild went through and they (homosexuals) destroyed her life.’" His comments have outraged local human rights commission members and gay and lesbian citizens in Spokane and nationwide, and have called into question Dr. Amend’ s ability to perform his job as a medical official. The controversy has also stirred up scrutiny of homophobia and AIDSphobia in the medical profession in general. The body of young Rachel Carver was found near the Spokane River on June 15. The gid’s disappearance and murder has shocked the local community. Police arrested heruncle, Jason Wickenhagen, who confessed to the killing. The autopsy indicated the girl had been beaten to death and repeatedly sexually assaulted. KXLY Television local news reported that court records show Rachel’sfather, uncle and her mother’s boyfriend are all suspected of molesting her over the years. Although there i~ no evidence whatsoever that Rachel Carver was ever abused by a homosexual, Dr. Amend took the opportunity of releasing his autopsy report to condemn gays and blame them for th~ spread of AIDS. Dr. Amend’s comments, as reported by KXLY and the Spokesman-Review, inelude: "It’s a crime that we don’t expose the homosexual community, and it is not just a simple...aberrant sexual activity. It is significant when it takes in innocent minds like this Carver gal~ :’I think it (homosexuality) is an aberrant sex activity that is promoted by the thoughts and sensations that are associated with the sex act that drive people to do...abaormal things and animalistic things and as a result bring about cancers and death on the part of the recipients and the active individuals." Until now, nobody has ever blamed or linked the death ofRachel Carver to homosexUality or AIDS. In follow-up interviews in the Spokesman-Review and other local media, Dr. Amend said, "AIDS is a disease that comes from anal intercourse and homosexuals have anal intercourse. As a physician, my job is to try to control disease. ’’It can’t be normal considering the impact it has on the lifestyle and death of people with AIDS...the bottom line, it (AIDS) wouldn’t have started if there wasn’t homosexual activity that brought whatever causes AIDS...reactivity of sperm in the rectum or whatever," said Amend. There was no indication from the autopsy report whether Rachel Carver had HIV orAIDS, nor was there an explanation from Dr. Amend of why he was directly linking HIV to this murder case. The Spokane Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has called for Dr. Amend’s resignation, saying, ."Dr. Amend has scapegoated an entire group of people. His comments are personal in nature and devoid of fact. Most sex crimes are not perpetrated by gays or lesbians, but by heterosexual males. Homosexuality and pedophilia are not the same thing. The SHoRC welcomes the opportunity to help the public distinguish between the myth and reality regarding our gay and lesbian neighbors." Members of the local gay commumty are now considering a recall campaign against Amend. Robert Bray, spokesperson and field organizer with the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF), the nation’s oldest gay, lesbian and bisexual civil rights group, released the following statement: Party Pics: Black &White-Party & More Dr., Amend’s bigoted mid unconscionable comments are revolting; medically unsound and dangerous. He is fueling an environment of harassment and violence and has endangered the lesbian, gay and bisexual.citizens of Spokane. His p,.oiso~ ous prejudice and erroneous ’facts" prevent him from serving the health and medical wall-being of his community. We call on citizens of Spokane, the soentificmidhealth professions, and all people of conscience to stop this medical monstrosity. Dr. Amend makes two wildly inaccurate assumptions. First, that sexual abuse is only a gay phenomenon, and, second, being gay equals AIDS. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control, the World Health Organization, and.numerous national and international medical groups report that HIV affects men, women and children regardless of their sexual orientation. AIDS is the leading cause of death for Americans between the ages of 18 and 40. HIV does not discriminate, Dr. Amend does. The July 1994 issues of Pediatrics, the jonmal of the American Academy of Pediatrics and child welfare workers, reports that a child’s risk of being molested by a heterosexual may be more than 100 times greater than being abusedby a homosexual, lesbian or bisexual. The report, conducted by the University of Colorado, states, "No evidence is available from this data that children are at greater risk to be i molested byidentifiable homosexuals than by other adults," said the report. Dr. Amend’s assertions about the victimization of young Rachel are based on loathsome and medically indefensible stereotypes and mistruths. They are also seriously insensitive. Althou~,,h he is enrifled to his personal opinions, he cannot use his public health position to spew bigotry. Ima~neif you are the traumatized parent of a person who has died of AIDS, or of adeceased gay son or daughter, and you must take the body to Dr. Amend. It boggles the mind at how shockrag, tragic and incompassionate Dr. Amend’s statements are to the family of Rachel Carver & the citizens of Spokane. We support the call for his immediate resignation. We also call on public offi- Cials of Spo-kane particular the County ,Commissioners -- and clergy, elected officials, the media, medical, child welfare and educational leaders of the community to condemn the doctor’s statements. Silence equals complicity and allows bigotry to perpetuate. Photos: JD Jamett Unfortunatdy, Dr. Amend’s comments reveal a larger problem not endemic to Spokane. He is ali~ensed doctor as well as an elected Official. Despite the advances inmedical and scientific research onAIDS and homosexuality, prejudice and bigotry still permeate the medical profession. Blind prejudice allows physicians such as Dr. Amend to practice medicine and matriculate through the medical acadelmc system. Therefore, we also call on the American Medical Association and other professional coroner, medical school and health professional groups, especially those in the state Of Washington~ to con’- demnhomophobic andAIDSphobicrhetoric of its practitioners such as Dr. Amend. We urge them to implement ongoing trainings that sensitize medical practitioners to the facts about being gay. NAMES cont’dfromp. 1 In September, Movies 8 will host two special screening of the film, "The Sum of Us". The film is based on an Australian play about the lives oftwomen, a "straight" father and his Gay son. The Sept. 5 showing will be followed by a reception at the Holiday Ima Holidome and a second benefit Screening will be held on Sept. 6. For more info. call 748-3111. News B.... riefs News Briefs. News. Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Zimbal~qb.,B6bk Fair allege they possess under the document as "nihilistic" and originalERAin guaranteeing the thinks are important to the com- ExcludesGa-ys . rubri(sofindividualfreedomand thredatened to urgethe comltry’s equal rights of women - and munity where she has lived for HARARE, Zimbabwe-Thefu- !humanrights,indudingthefree- largerCatholicp~,p~tiontovote would assure a constitutional more than 10 years. tureofsub-SaharanAfrica’slarg- dom of the press to write, pub- against the b"on~tJtution if right to abortion and the equal Prosoeutor Dumped est publishing event, theZimba- lishandpublicizetheirliterature changes aren’t made. rights of gays and lesbians. bwe International :Book Fair, onthem?" Gay-Friendly Baptist Patricia Ireland, NOW’s presi- After Anti-Gay Remarks appears to.be.up in the air fol- In a press statement, GALZ Churches May BePurged dent, said,"It’soneofthosetimes SAN FRANCISCO-Califorma lowing the expulsion of a gay said it was "deeply concerned by when we’re going to try very Attorney General Dan Lungren and lesbian rights group and PresidentMugabe’sstatementon SAN FRANCISCO - The hard to be leaders rather than hastakenAndrewLoomis,astate opening day remarks., by Presi- homosexuals at theoffici,al open- American Baptist Church, the followers.of our movement." deputy attorney general, off a dent Robert Mugabe who de~ ing of the ZIBF’95. This year’s smallest of the Baptist denomi~ federal bias lawsuit case after scribed homosex~alz. ~ as Book Fair was intended to pro- nations in the U.S. with only ..~T:he. new.., proposed ERA, ...... which is in draft form .within Loomis defended the discharge ¯,sodomists,,aiid,,Oerv~t~.~vh0 mote..dialbgiieab0uthum~an;i~ht som(~ 1.25 million members na- NOW currently, says that "’atl of a gay man ~fr0m the.~ed wah~:t~ h~v~ ~e~ ii~. ~ub~ic ~d i~uess0itisunfoi:tunat~fllatthe donWide, may be poised to bepersons shall l~ve equal rights tbrces bexzause~’theConstifiition are ’~extree,m,ly...o.u.trageo"us.-~~" and~~’ top government officials re- gin. a purge Of local congregaand privileges without discrimi- does no,trecog~ize anything sperepugnmat. ’: ’ ’ S~c~lOl~nandfr~e discussion lions that accept gays mad lesbi.-~ nation on account of sex, race, cial ~bbut lfi~ owfffa~orite-~aasty Ti~ tileme o~t~iS year;S bobk needed to reduce prejudice ans among their ranks.. Backers sexual .orientation, marital sta- habitS" and apparently comparfair ironically is "human rights Phelps Kin Convicted of the move to oust the churches ms, etlmicity, national origin, iug homosexuals to child mosay they are "in direct opposiand freedom Of expression" and EMPORIA, Kan. - A Lyon color or indigence." After de- lesters. tion to the national principle was expected to draw represen- County, Kansas, jury has found bate, the NOW delegates added "Uudisputably homosexual adopted by the [American] Bap- tative of some 450 publishers Benjamin Phelps, a grandson of 2more categories to thelist- age acts are despised by a great protist Church" that "homosexualfrom more than 40 countries, notorious anti-gay picketer Fred and disability. Ireland saidofthe portion of the voters," L0omis ity is a sin." The Gay and Lesbian Associa- Phelps, guilty of battery for spit- _ new proposal, "We’re not naive wroteindefendingthedischarge Four S an Francisco area don of Zimbabwe (GALZ) had tingonJeroldBergerduringone There’s not one of us that of Lt. Andrew Holmes from the churches are the first targets of .... California National Guard. ,already been given a booth at the of the many demonstrations led does not know we are starting at lair to distribute educational lit- an expulsion campaign by other ground-zero." The 1 st ERA was Those oters have acted through by Phelps and his family mem- Baptist pastors that will be taken erature, but in late July, under bets. The Phelps grandson is 20 passed by Congress in 1972, but their president and their ConupinSeptember whenthe Amerigovernment pressure, the orga- years old and is the first of the narrowly failed to be ratified by gress to rid themselves of those canBaptist’swestemboardholds mzers of the book fair canceled extremist family picketers to be enough states to be added to the acts. In truth, there is no further its regular annual meedng. Out the GALZ reservation. Interna- convictedofacrimesincePhelps Constitution. justificationformostchaptersof tional rights .organizations of that regional board meeting thecriminallaw. And therefore," begandemonstratingagainstho- could come a call for a national Pastor Fired for sharply condemned the expul- mosexuals in 1991. Loomis wrote in a footnote to s~on of GAI_Z, a protest letter convention of the denomination Mari~ing L~bian Couple the court document, "it is still While the conviction is likely signed by hundreds of interna- to decide if gay-friendly Ameri- PATCHOGUE,N.Y.-TheCon- okay to be "prejudiced’ or ’bi- to be appealed by the family, the - - - can Baptist churches can remain gregationalChurchofPatchogue ased" against crirmnals, such as tionalliterary and publishing fig- younger Phelps faces a possible in the ABC or not. on Long Island has voted 84-67 molesters and pederasts, and to ures- including Nobel literature maximum $1,000 file and 6- l_e,aders of the churches that to fire the church’s pastor, the fire them forit." winners Nadine. Gordimer of month jail term on the charge, South Africa and Wole Soyinka accept gays,who formed theAs- Rev. RenwickJackson. Jackson Lungrenalsosaidhewassend- Phelps followers and family QfNigeria- was sent to the fair’s sociation ofWelcoming andAf- was dismissed by the congrega- ing a personal letter of apology members are being tried in 6 orgmtizers, and 4~ members of firming Baptists in 1992 which tion because he married a les- forLoomis’remarkstoU.S.Dis- other cases in the county resultnowincludes some30ABCcon- bian couple in the church which trict Judge Saundra Brown the fair’s governing board re- ing from protest activities by.the gregations in the U.S,, are pre- was first set up in this country Armstrong who is the presiding signedinprotest.Inaddition, the far-right minister, pared to fight the effort to oust more than 200 years ago by judge hearing Holms’ challenge Pt.~blisliing Assn. of South Af- Polish Church: Anti-Gay themfrom the regional groupof American colonists who were to the so-called "don’ t ask, don’t nca (PASA), .the largest exhibi- WARSAW- In whatmay be its AmericanBaptistcongregatious. looking for a "free and open tell" policyexcludinghomosexu- for at the fair, broke off negotia- most aggressive move into Eu- The Rev. Jim Hopkins of the place" to worship, als fromthe military. Lungren’s lions for a.joint sub-continent ropean politics in decades, the Lakeshore Ave. Baptist Church Transsexual Runs for office =nade the announcement l~x~k fair being discussed for Catholic Church in Poland is in- inOakland,Calif.,saidhewould of Loomis’ removal from the next.year and threatened to comcreasingly becominginvolvedin fight the move to purge the 4 City Council plete’ly withdraw from the Zim- case after stateAssembly =Memthe government affairs of Po- churches in order "to keep that SAN BRUNO, Calif. ~- Alice ber JohnVasconcellos (D-Santa babwe,fairnext vear. land, according to a _report in the hallmark of Baptist religious Barnesannouncedhercandidacy Clara) demanded an apology In hi.s. openinff remarks at the New York Times. According to freedomfrombeingtakenaway." foroneof2openseatsontheSan from the state attorney general bookfair,Mugabesaid "Ifindit the paper, the church is even Lakeshore, along with New Bruno city council, saying she for what Vasconcellos called cxtrcmelyoutrageousandrepug- considering making an official Community of Faith Church in wanted to get on to "real cam- Loomis’ "hateful, homophobic nant to. my human conscience endorsement in the country’s SanJose, theFirstBaplistChurch paign issues" - which is why attack." that such i~mnoral and revulsive presidential elections later this of Berkeley and the San Leandro Barnes also-announced at the org,’ufivahons, like those of ho- year. During the lengthy process British Activists Protest Community Church, are the 4 same time that she is a transmoscxuals who offend both ofhammeringoutPoland’scon- churches, sexual. Barnes said she wasn’t Bishop’s Address against the law of nature and the stitution, church officials got NOW Proposes New ERA bringing"mytranssexualisminto LONDON - The British gay nlorals of religious beliefs es- theirway ondefiningthechurch- this...but I’m being realistic, rightsgroupOutRage!disrnpted poused by our society, should PHILADELPHIA - Flying di- That’s why I confronted it right the farewell sermon of the Rt. state relationship, and are now rectly against what many politi- up front." In a prepared state- Rev. John Taylor, the out-going have anx advocates in our midst insisting on anti-abortion provi- cal analysts see as a more conand even elsewhere in the sions and specific constitutional ment, Barnes said, "My life’s Bishop of St. Albans at the ca- servative swing in America, the world...If we accept homosexu- languageprohibitinghomosexu- challenge has been difficult and thedral northofLondon. The 10- alitvasaright,asisbeingargued National Organization for " alsfromteachinginthecountry’s Women at its annual convention personal. I makeno secret of it. minute demonstration was to It has not been a factor in my protest the bishop’s support of by the association of sodolnists public school system, has not only resurrected a proand scxual perverts, what moral Proposals currently included contributing to San Bruno’s the so-called"ex-gay group," the fiber sh~dlonr society ever have posed Equal RightsAmendment in the draft constitution would progress. It is not a campaign Courage Trust. In a press state~ deny o~gmtized drug addicts, to the federal Constitution, it is issue." In her campaign for a ment,GlennHaltonofOutRage! prohibitdiscriminationbasedon also suggesting a revised veror even those given to bestialJty, sexual orientation, but church seat on the council, Barnes said said, "Today’s action sends a the rights they might claim and sion that goes far beyond the ,, leaders have denounced the she wants to focus on issues she message to the Church of En- 1438 S. Boston, Tulsa Kerry $28/hour MASSAGE THERAPIST "Tension, Stress, or Injury" YMCA 515 S. Denver Tues.-Fri (12-8pm) (918) 583-6201, Ext. 19 News ,Briefs News Briefs-News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News gland that the lesbian and gay commumty will not stand by as the Chinch allows other gay peopletobedamagedinthename of their religion by’funda mentalist bigots. Weare seeking an unequivocal condemnation ofthe actions ofthe ex-gay groups from the church and will not stop our campaign of disruption until the church acknowledges its moral responsibilities." Anti-Gay Measure Ruled Unconstitutional BOISE, Idaho - Idaho’s Attorney General Alan Lance, a Republican, has issued a formal "certificate ofreview"including his opinion that the latest proposed anti-gay initiative by the Idaho Citizens Alliance is unconstitutional. Voters in the state rejected a similar ICA anti-gay amendment last year, which the attorney general at the time also considered unconstitutional. Brian Bergqnist, who led the organization against the 1994 ICA measure, said, "This opinion is devastating to the ICA because now two attorney generals, a Democrat and a Republican, have both advised them that their anti-gay initiative proposals are unconstitutional." Louganis’ New Role NEW YORK - The New York Times reports that Olympic diving champion Greg Louganis will be starring soon in the off- Broadway play by Dan Butler, "The Only Thing Worse You .Could Ha~e Told Me.’"The pi;iy is described as a "view of contemporary gay life as shown through several characters in 14 vignettes." Lougams has appeared in other theater productions, including mostnotably the hit "Jeffrey." Austria Activists to Out Catholic Bishops VIENNA - The Austrian gay rights organization, Vienna Homosexual Initiative (HOSI), has said it would out 4 of the country’s Catholic bishops at a press conference on Aug. 1 in what would be the first case of outing clergy in the overwhelmingly Catholic country. HOSI spokesperson Kurt Krickler said, "We’re not having a go at anyone, ,we’re just trying to show that bishops can be gay too." The HOSI activists say they decided on the more drastic measure of outing 4 of the country’s 16 bishops after Parliament delayed aproposal to lower the age b~ consent for homosexual acts from 18 to 14 years ofage, equalizing the consent laws with heterosexuals. The Catholic Church in Austria has been wracked with controversy since April.when an ex- Catholic schoolboy chargedthat Cardinal Hans Hermann Groer, the Archbishop of Vienna and the Austrian church’s primate, sexually mOlestedhim years ago. U. Of Texas May Offer Partners Benefits AUSTIN, Texas - When the Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple Computers took steps to open a facility in the suburbs near the Texas state capital last year, the company’s domestic partners policies erupted in months of controversy that eventually led to city voters repealing Austin’s domestic partner ordinance. Now, the Student Advisory Groupat the University ofTexas at Austin says it is considering recommending that the university’s board ofregents add partners benefits, perhaps as early as this September. Student leaders have said the benefits could range from library and sports passes for spouses to student family housing and health insurance benefits. Canadian Gov’t Admits Anti-Gay Discrimination OTrAWA - According to a report in the Toronto Globe & Mail, atforneys fighting a court case by the Canadian Union of Public Employees to extend survivor benefits to partners of same-sex couples, admitted in court that the government does in fact discriminate against gay and lesbian couples in benefits. But Brian Saunders, a government attorney, said the issue should be settled gradually by Parliament and notby the courts. "Parliament must be allowed to take an incremental approach to equality issues," Saunders told thejudge hearing the union case. Lesbians Win Bias Case VANCOUVER, Canada- Vancouver gynecologist Gerald Korn has been ordered to pay $3,000 in fines plus damages to a lesbian couple for refusing to artificially inseminate one of the women because they are lesbians. Dr. Tracy Potter and her partner, attorney SandraBenson, filed a complaint with the BritishColumbialmmanrights council after Kom refu_s,e~,insemination services Because of the couple’s sexual orientation. Kom had originally claimed he had refused his services because he didn’t want to get involved in any .possible child custody disputcs if the couple later separated. But the council ruled that he had refused to gi."ve the couple the kinds of serv|ces routinely available to heterosexuals solely because they are lesbians. Gay Em ployee Groups Gaining Ground SALT LAKE CITY - Accord- .ing to a report in the Salt Lake Tribune, gays and lesbians are organizing in the workplace not only nationally buteven in conservative Utah. While such gay and lesbian employee groups ,are fairly common in major urban areas with large and active gay populations, the paper reports that late last year, when American Express Travel Related Services in New York authorized minority employee groups at the firm,, the Utah branch was the first to organize a gay workers group - Gay & Lesbian Organization to Build Equality (GLOBE). Despite the state’s stannchly conservative image, govenmaent workers with Salt Lake County have also formed the Gay & Lesbian Employees Assn. (GLEA), and last year workers with AT&T’s Lesbian and Gay United Employees (LEAGUE), alsofornaally organized ~at the ’tdephone giant’s offices in Utah. in May, US West’s EmployeeAssn: forGays & Lesbians (EAGLE) also hosted a regional conference of other EAGLE groups. Ultimately, the gay and lesbian employee groups say it is the company itself that benefits from such worker organizations since they help generate a sense of loyal~ty. "It’s much easier now for employees to be out in the work force mid not worry about repercussious from the boss," says Richard Cottino at US West. "They know file company is behind them "" Compromise on Rights Revision in Salt Lake City SALT LAKE CITY - Under pressure from local mid national gay rights activists, the Salt Lake County Board of Cormnissloners voted not to remove protections against discrimination based on sexual orientation in county governmentand services. The Gay and Lesbian-Utah Democrats in Salt LakeCity had threatened to lead:a nationwide boycott if the commissioners gutted the county’s anti-bias ordinance: County officials said they wanted tomakethechanges to avoid potentially costly lawsuits byunmamedcounty workers’sdeking insurance benefits under the anti-discrimination code. Under political pressure, the commisSibn decided not to adopt broader revisions that would have removed all references to protected classes, including sexual orientation, and instead made changes that re~ strict some county worker benefits and services not specifically required by state or federal law. Because domesdc partner benefits aren’t mandated by either Utah or U.S. law, the compromise measure would exclude the county from. being required to provide partner benefits to unmarried or gay and lesbian couples. But it would not remove existing explicit protections based on sexual orientation or marital status. Ill a news statement, Michael Aaron, chair of GLUD, said, "We’re pleased that the board has agreed to keep the protection of equal-employment rights for bisexual, gay and lesbian people ~n county government. But, it’s discouraging to us that ,this action further destabilizes samesex partnerships andfamilies.by making it morse difficult for:bisexual, gay and lesbian.county employees to receive the same benefits like health care for their same-sex partners.’" Sports Bar Bias Lawsuit CHICAGO - A popular sports bar in the Chicago suburb of Harwood Heights, the Sidelines, has settled a discrimination lawsuit filed by 4 gay men - Steven Kleinedler, Robert Castillo, Craig Teichen and John Pelmycuff. In March 1994, the owner of Sidelines had the 4 men arrested because they were dancing with each other at the bar. The disorderly conduct charges against the 4 men were later dismissed, but they filed a complaint with the Cook County Commission on Human Rights, charging discrinlination based on sexual orientation. The bar will have to pay the 4 men aal undisclosed amount in damages and attorneys’ fees, a $2,000 fine to Cook County, and put upnotices in the popular, predominately straight bar promising to abide by the county’s anti-bias code, which prohibits disc rimination based on sexual orientation. State Official Comes Out MONTPELIER, Vt. - Ed Flanaga~2 Vermont?s state attditor, has Come out during an interview with the Burlington (Vt.) FreePress. Flanagan has held the auditor’s post for more than 2 years, turning the usually donothing post into a high-profile office that’s criticized many of the state’ s toppoliticians for what Flanagan sees as a failure ofsome state officials to serve the public interest adequately. Flanagan said he had decided to take the step of going completely public after marching in this year’s gay pride parade in Burlington and because of what he sees as growing anti-gay bias nationally. "I think .public bigotry creates a moral obligation to respond publicly," he said. Ex-Congressman From Mississippi Dies of AIDS SILVER SPRING, Md. - Jon Hinson, the.former Mississippi member of,~ongress mad conservadve Republican; has died of an AIDS-related illness. Hinson resigned hisHouse seat during hi.s 2nd term, ’of office after he was arrested on charges of having sex with another mma in a federal office building in 1981: Hinson acknowledged that he was in.fac~ gay’after his resignation and went oh to Work for the gay rights moV(m~nt. He helped found the statelrbbying group Virginians for Ju’sffce and Fairfax Lesbian &Gay°~itizens Assn. Lesbian Sunday ’Si~hool Teacher Forced to Quit GLASGOW, Scotland - Le~ley Craise, an openly lesbian Sunday school teacher, has been forced to leave the Presbyterian Church of Scotland after telling teenagers in her Bible classes that Goddidn’t have to be viewed as a male. 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Both drugs arein afamily of medications known as protease inhibitots, which are being tested by about a dozen drug companies. Early studies indicate the drugs can remove a significant amount of HIV from the bloodstream, although the virus that remains appears to devdop resistance to them~ Merck & Co. notified some 130,000 doctors that it will give Crixivan to about 1,400 patients in later stages ofAIDS without charge. Supplies are limited, Merck officials say, because of the difficulty ofmaking the drug, so the company is restricting the distribution to those with extremely impaired immune systems.Those interested in the Merck program can call 1-800-497-8383. Study Raises Questions About Early Medical Intervention LONDON - A study published in the British Medical Journalindicates that the limited array of AIDS medications appears to delay the onset of symptoms early in the infection, but may actually shorten the survival time of people with the disease in the long term. The Study examinedthehealthhistories of436people -.339 who began taking anti-AIDS medicines shortly after first learning they were infected with HIV, and 97 who didn’t begin taking medications until they had already developed full-blown AIDS and Briefs Health Briefs Health Briefs Health become gravely ill. Dr. Mark Poznansky, the lead researcher in the study, reports that people who started treatment early on in the infection experienced fewer ailments related to AIDS. But the study also found that once they became seriously ill, they lived on average a year less than patients whohad not begin treatment until they were severely sick with AIDS-related illnesses. The study raise~ questions ofwhetherthe short-termbenefits ofwarding off symptoms outweighs the shortened life span. Vitamin A May Help HIV Babies WASHINGTON - A report published in the current issue of the American Journal ofPubtic Health by researchers in South Africa suggests there may now be hope for giving newborns infected with HIV a better lifeby ~vingthemmoderately large doses of vitamin A. The Natal University. doctors studied 118 infants born to HIVpositive mothers. Half the babies were ~ven vitamin A, while the other half were given placebos. All the infants who received the vitamin A supplements - regardless of their HIV status - had fewer illnesses. According to Dr. Anna Coutsoudis, a Natal University pediatrics professor and lead author of the study, the vitaminA made a much larger difference among the infants infected with HIV. If other researchers confirm the effectiveness of vitamin A, it could substantially reduce hospital and health-care costs for infants infected with the virus. Senate Rebuffs Helms on AIDS WASHINGTON- The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly approved continued funding for the Ryan WhiteCAREAct,which had been delayed by Sen. Jesse Helms (RN. C.) for month~. AIDS, Helms had said, is a disease perpetuated by "the offensive "madrevolting conduct of gay men." Helms, one of the most homophobic members of Congress, tried unsuccessful to turn the reauthofizafion of the bill into a referendum on homosexuality, charging that "Congress is falling all over itself to do ~vhat the homosexual lobby is almost hysterically demanding that Congress do." Helms also insisted that the federal government spends more money on AIDS than it does on,cancer and heart disease. But even fellow Republicans disputed Helms figures. "HIV/AIDS receives $5.4 billion, cancer $15 billion, and heart disease $34billion," said Kansas Sen. Nancy Kassebaum (R.) on the Senate floor. As chair of the Labor and Human Resources Committee her figures apparently impressed the senators moie than Helms’ attacks on gays and lesbians. In the end, Helms could get only 2 other Senators - Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) and Robert Smith (RN. H.) - to side with him in the 97-3 lopsided vote to refund the act. President Clinton lashed out at Sen. Jesse Helms, saying it was "luSt wrong" for the North Carolina Republican to advocate curlingfederal AIDS researchfunds for the deadly epidemic because he believes that people who have it are immoral. "The gay people who have AIDS are still our sons, our brothers, our cousins, our citizens. They’re Americans, too," Clinton said in a speech at Georgetown University. "They’re obeying the law and workinghard. They’re entitled to be treated like everybody else.’" Russia Stalls HIV Testing Law MOSCOW-Claiming that the necessary paperwork and administrative procedures had not yet been worked out, the Russian Briefs Health Briefs foreign and health mimstries have announced that the country’s new ~nandatory. HIV testing law had not gone into effect o n Aug. 1 as it had been slated to. The legislation would require all foreign visitors staying in the country for more than 3 months, along with some Russian citizens, to certify that they are not infected with HIV. The 2 government nnnistries have had ongoing troubles working out the details of the complex and somewhat vague law between them. Flu Shots May Stimulate HIV LOS ANGELES Scientists at the University of California’ s Los Angeles AIDS Institute report in the current issue of the journal Blood that even the mild stimulauon to the body’s immune system that results fromaninfluenza vaccinationmay stimulate the growth of HIV in infected individuals. Dr. William O’Brien of UCLA, who headed the research team, said the people infected with HIV should _ still get flu shots because"actual infection with influenza may be more damaging." But he added that patients with advanced AIDS may not be good candidates to receive flu vaccinations. "’Perhaps these patients should not be vaccinated." he said, noting that they do not respond well to the flu shots. FDA OK’s Baboon Marrow Swap SAN FRANCISCO - Researchers at the University of California at San Francisco and the University of Pittsburgh have received approval from the Food and Drug Administration to go, ahead with a bonemarrow transplant from a baboon to Jeff Getty, a38-year-oldman with AIDS. The untested mad potentially dangerous transplant procedure is intended to help rebuild see Health Briefs, page 13 Fi_~ELITY HO_tv~E H E_ALTH CA_RE, INC.. Tulsa Office 486-1174 800-999-3 . .2 Weprovide comprehensive home health services 24 hourslday, seven daysiweek. The range ofservices include: Skilled nursing services (RN’s, LPN’s) iHome health aides, Physical Therapy Speech Therapy, Occupational Therapy Medical Social Services, In-home psychiatric care Non-emergency transportation, Private duty nursing and Companion sitter services. This list is not all inclusive. Please contact our offices with specific treatment issues. Jeffrey A. 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Over the past 10 years, college costs have increased, faster than the rate of inflation, whilefunds availablefor scholarships and financial aid have decreased. ¯ How do college bills get paid? ......... Motiiating college costs have forced parents and students to become more creativein their search for funding. There are three main ways to pay for college: Grants and/or scholarships. Financial grants are an unpredictable source of funds. Grants are usually based on financial-need tests that exclude many middle-income families. Also, it’s difficult to know whether or not your child will be eligible for scholarships in the future, Loans Banks, civic organizations, colleges, and federal and state governments sponsor loan programs. There are, however, two main drawbacks to borrowing for college: The amount of the loan is limited by thefamily’s (or the student’s) ability to repay and the loan (plus interest) becomes a long-term financial burden. Family Resources This category includes family savings, life insurance and student earning. Of course,family contributions vary, depending on the earmng of the parents and on the fees chargedby the school in question. Getting Started If you have college-bound children, start a savings plan as soon as possible. The best time to begin is when your child is born. But even if the child is already in school, it’s not too ]ate. No matter how little or how much you put aside, the sooner you develop a systematic savings plan, the more time you’ll have to accumulate the funds you.need, When you set up your funding plan, make sure that it’s: Realistic. You’ll need toknow-roughlythe total amount ofmoney your child will need to attend college. This information can be obatained from your local library, your financial advisor or the college in question (if known). Flexible. 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From a proposal in Oregon that would effeciively prohibitdoctors from performing alternative insemination on unmarried women--including lesbians - to a bill in Vermont that would ban adoption by unmarried couples and second-parent adoption, the Far Right is attempting to construct a barbed-wire fence of law and public policy. !ts purpose: to keep lesbians, gay men and bisexuals out of the territoly marked "children and family." The strategy speaks both to the history of gay oppression and to the contemporary state of lesbian and gay concerns. In the past, medical, legal, and religious discourse defined homosexuals in opposition to the heterosexual nuclear family. Inflammatory stereotypes definedqueers, .whether male or female, as predators seeking to invade the sanctum of thehome and to steal the young. For previous generations, the price of adopting a gay, lesbian or bisexual identity has often been to live outside the faniily. When a gay political agenda took shape after Stonewall, basic goals such as sodomy law repeal, civil rights protections, and the removal of the stigma of mental illness took precedence. But now, the gay community across the country is reclaiming family. Lesbians are choosing to have children, gay men are seeking to become foster parents, both men and women are insisting that their intimate partnerships be recognized by law. Lesbian, gay and bisexual parents want their children--and their children’s peers to be taught tolerance in school, while the parents and advocates of gay youth are insisting that the schools respond to the needs of their sexual minority students. In almost every area of public policy that impinges onfamily and youth, gay voices are being heard. These voices .are new, and not yet well orgauized.; And so the Radical Right has rushed into the void, playing-upon the emotional’ flashpoints that run through American :culture, and fomenting fear. It is not hard to do. With the crisis of family and community that Americans are living through, gay men, lesbians and bisexuals are easier, simpler-targets than a changing labor market with wage structures that compromise family stability, or school systems without the resources to educate. This year’s legislative record suggests that battles over family are likely to remain frontline conflicts. It also suggests that the gay community needs to apply to the arenaof family the lessons it has learned in its fight for health care and againsthate-motivated violence patient, deliberate, and sustained organization; broad-based education of sympathetic al - lies; and the careful articulation of an agenda rooted in the real needs of its members. Historian John D’Emilio is director of the Policy Institute at the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force in Washington, DC. Reviewed by Barry Hensley Supervisor, Circulation Department Tulsa City-County Library Currently,in our society, theword ’Tami! y" has a very specific meaning which includes a father, mother, children andthe extended, related family. This definition ofafamily follows a standard format during the family life cycle: courtship, marriage, children and anniversaries. Recently, lesbian and gay male couples have begun to create their own role models and traditions within the contextof their relationships, developing a broadened understanding of the word ’~famil y". In "The Lesbian- Family Life Cycle," author Suzatme Slater has produced a helpful guide to creating and maintaining a lesbian family. The first half of the book, which is an examinanon of ’~aaduring Realities of Lesbian Family Life," addresses stress, strengths and coping mechanisms, and lesbian families with children. The rest of the book is a stage-by-stage analysis of the lesbian life cycle. Stage One: Formation of the Couple, acknowledges that there are obstacles to overcome, such as isolation, lack of role models or mentors, the possibility of social stigma and, sometimes, a lack of compatibility. This chapter helps lesbians ...lesbian & male couples ~aaYve begun to create tl~eir own role models & traditions ...developing a broadenedur~der: - standl,n,~ of the word family" learn to create a persistent expectation that 10rig-term, devoted relationships are productive and possible.. Stage Two: Ongoing Couplehood, focuseson getting both partners to agree on commitment, living together, and the problems of distance.. Stage Three: The Middle Years, assumes that both partners persevere. The lesbian couple then experiences the unprecedented security and joy that deepened commitment has to offer. Stage Four: Generativity, looks beyond the earlier storms that partners have weathered and concentrates on other things, including, perhaps, children. Stage Five: Lesbian Couples Over Sixty-Five, describes a period.that can tast twenty years or more and includes retirement, financial and heal.th concerns and lesbian widowhood. ’The Lesbian Family Life Cycle" is a telpful guide, in a very readable format, which can help ’lesbian partners dare to redefine the very concept offamily and to design especially personalized approaches to their own family lives." Other new titles of interest include: ’Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present" by Neil Miller ’$:reedom, Glorious Freedom" by John J. McNeill ’Queer Spirits: A Gay Men~s Myth Book" by Will Roscoe TWO for ONE SALE! Enjoy the ultimate in technology with Mitsubishi autos & electronics. Buy any Mitsubishi car before Sept. 11 & get. a 20" stereo TV or 4-head hi-fi VCR! Come in to register for big screenTV give-away! Y 50wS cont’dfrqm p.- 2 Measured that way, the ’50s wer~ a time of moral depravity transformed ’by the ’60s, a time of moral advance. Think about it: During the 1950s, racial segregation was the law of the land, enforced by state-sanctioned terror. People of dark skin color, for that reason alone, were not permittedto i~0te, Serve on-juries, enjoy, mainstream public accommodations like restaurants,movie theaters., ,h,otels and: swimfiiing ~pools,~euroll in ’white" public schools b~ e.Ven t~se certain public toilets. And they were not infrequently beatenorkilled ffthey tried. While all this w~ going on, children prayed every day in Southern schools. During the ’50s, women throughout the country were expected to be stay-home wives and mothers, denied equal opportunity in education andemployment and usually forced to risk degradation and death to terminate a pregnancy. It was not until 1965 that laws prohibiting even married couples from obtaining contraceptives were struck down. During the ’50s, gay men and lesbians lived secret lives, terrorized by the fear of revelation. Their most intimate, personal relationships were considered criminal in more than half the states. The disabled were hidden away as wall, their physical impediments disabilities compounded by imposed social and economicrestrictions. And free speech wasn’t so free either in the 1950s. Loyalty oaths prevailed, the attorney genera[~pt alist of disapproved political organi,~,~tions, the FBI infiltrated them and harass~d~p~ople whose views J. Edgar Hoover di~lh t like, and congressional committ~ summoned citizens to account for thei?:political beliefs and associations, recant and rat on their friends. Those who refused often lost theiijobs and some even went to jail: Signing the wrong petition or going to the wrong meeting was riskY business, despite what:¢ the First Amendment appeared to say. The ’60s changed muchof that. Jim Crow laws were dismantled and equal opportunity was guaranteed by enforceable laws for both women and racial nilnotifies. Other minorities were encouraged and emboldened by these startling gains and begantheir ownmovements for equal:¯rights. The government’s spying apparatus was dismantled .and discredited. Theroad to freedom and equal rights is arduous, and much of it still remains to be traveled. New road-blocks have been erected, threatening the progress made in the ’60s. Both the Supreme Court and congress are in full retreat on affirmative action remedies for race and gender discriminations. A purge of black members of Congress from the South is under way. Th6 separation of church and state, which protects religious freedom, ~s seriously threatened. The retreat back to the ’50s is certaluly under way. But were we a more moral nation when legalized racial segregation prevailed; when women were denied equal opportunity and forced to submit to back-alley butchers; when people were punished because o_f their polifical beliefs and associations? Abolishing these gross abuses of individual rights in so short a time was arguably the greatest moral advance this nation or any other nation has ever expe~ rienced. The notion that we are a less moral nation today than we were in the ’50s is a monument to historical revision- Ira Glasser is the executivedimctor of the American Civil Liberties Union. Cherry Street Psychotherapy Associates 1 51 5 South .Lewis Are you ¯looking for a relaxed, amicable, private atmosphere for therapy? Our office provides a level of confidentiafity and comfort that enhances the therapeutic process. For further- information call 743-4117 Leah Hunt, MSW Judy Seymour-Taylor, CADC Della Blackburn, CADC Richard Reeder, ~S Serving a Diverse Community Tropical Caribbean Feb. 11-18,1996, $795-1950 Deep Caribbean Feb. 18-25,1996, $795-1950 Mexican Riviera March 17-24,1996, $795-2495 French Canada June 30 - July 7, ! 996, $895-2295 Call International Tours 9z8-34/-6866 RSVP Methodist Comes Out ST. P,~UL, Minn. - The Rev. Jeanne PowerS, the associate general secretary of the 8-million-member United Methodist Church’s general commission on Chtistianunity andinterreligious concerns, told a meeting of UMC officials at Augsburg College that she has been a lesbian all her adult life and has served in the church despite rules against "selfavowed, practicing homosexuals." Powers, who is 63, made the revelation just one year before she is slated to retire as a "political act" to encourage church debate about ordaining gay & lesbian ministers. Powers is the highest ranking United Methodist Church official to reveal her homosexuality. ,I have been lesbian all my life," Powers said. ’~’ve never known my identity as otherwise." Powers Said she won’t resign as an ordained minister, nor will she turn overher ordination papers. If terminatedr as a minister,.Powers could lose some of her retirement benefits. Powers stopped short ofactually saying she is sexually active, a key point in the UMC prohibition, but she lives with her life partner and promised to answer any questions UMC officials may have. "If you’re called to do something, you take the risks," Powers said. ’~If I waited a year, until after my retirement, it would be too easy to discount me. What I need is a year to help the church struggle with this. If this act of resistance keeps the church restless about its understanding of homosexuality and the Christian faith, then I believe I will have continued my own commitment to working for justice and being a change agent in the church and the world. Order cont’dfrom p. ] governmentfor deciding who should have access to state secrets. McCurry noted in amaouneing the executive order that under the previous system, anindividual’s sexual orientation was often grounds for launching extensive background checks. The federal government, in fact, has a ~ long history of denying clearances to gays and lesbians: ... " Activists, :.many of whom backed Clintonwhenhe raft forpresidentin 1992, and whosesupport world help him in ~s expected re-election bid next year, ha;€~ long urged the administration to take tion to end discrimination against gay people in granting the important clearanceS. The order states simply, ’The United States government does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or sexual orientation in granting access to classified information." Leonard Hirsch, president of GLOBE (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Employees of the Federal Government), saidin thepress statement that the Clinton order "takes a very large step in removing the legal bartiers to equal treatment in the federal workforce. By explicitly including sexual orientationin thenon-disctimination statement, he finally expurgates decades of legal harassment and discrimination." 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The researchers are hoping tI~t l~tienew combinationw0uldhelp l~ulld anew immune system to fight the disease being challenged locally. Drug Task Force Under Fire WASHINGTON - The medical technology newspaper BioWorld Today reports that several key Clinton administration officials are increasingly frustrated with the work of the National Task Force on AIDS Drug Development, a federal panel set up 2 years ago to advise the government on AIDS drug treatment policies. The paper reports that Phil Lee, Assistant Secretary for Health, David Kessler, the FDA Commissioner, andHarold Varmus, director ofthe National Institutes ofHealth, and all members of the task force, have raised questions about whether the panel should be renewed When its current authorization expires in October. Non-administration members of the task force expressed frustrations with the panel as well. "In 2 years, we have nothing to point to,",Peter Staley of New York’s Treatment Action Group told the paper. But Staley said the fault wasn’t with the task force, but with the Clinton administration. "We had inadequate staff, a minuscule budget, a slow schedule, and not enough support from Kessler, ~ and Varmus," Staley said. More Condoms Needed in India NEW DELHI - The World Bank has urged the Indian government and health officials to emphasize malecontraception practices in the nation. The World Bank recommendation is aimed at both reducing the population gro.wth rate in the II!III robert owen freeman architectural & interior design consulting, architectural renderings pob 52621, tulsa, ok 7~,152 918.747.0880 Open Arms Open Minds Open Hearts Saint Aidan’s 4045 No. Cincinnati. 425-7882 Saint John’s 4200 So. Atlanta PI., 742-7381 Trinity 501 So, Cincinnati. 582-4128 The Episcopal Church Welcomes You world’s 2nd most populous nation.and at curbing the spread of HIV. 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The study also found no indication that either drug use or crimes related to drugs had increased because of the exchanges. Frisco Giants Fight AIDS SAN FRANCISCO - The Giants have announced that its Aug. 13 game against the Chicago Cubs will be the pro baseball team’ s 2nd annual "Until There’s a Cure Day" fundraiser to fight the AIDS epidemic. The Giants are the only major league team to designate a regular season game to fighting the epidemic. ,!~Y Pat Morehead Life is like a box of chocolate, sticky and messy. If you don’t believe me just ask Hugh Grant! While I was looking for my limes, Hugh was looking for something else. What is going on out in LA LA Land? I mean we know what was up with Hugh Grant, nudge nudge, wink wink. Now weknow thatCharli~ Sheen spent 53 grand.fo~? hogkers.,First off, credit ~oes to Hugh .f0~ ~ompa’~ftive shopping~. But what’s With these guys? Did they miss the orientation class on the benefits of Hollywo0dfamemad fortune?HughandCharl~e are my picks for Dumb and Dumber, Part Two. And speaking of Dumb and Dumber, somebody in the County Commissioners office should be in the running as well. You don’t fund an operating budget (i.e. a jail of all things ) with a Sales Tax. What happens when theeconomy takes a header and we all quit spending? Evidently the Comm.issioners have already forgotten the recess~onary period in the eighties. Besides, I’m not supporting any added tax when we can’t even get recognition from the Human Rights Commission. So when the September Jail vote comes along, everyone in our commumty should go vote "NO". And you thought the only thing I thought about was Brads" butt. Hooooo, Brads’ butt....sorry, momentarily distracted. So, while I’m on political news I can’t let Ms. Vicki Cleveland get off without a word. And believe me, after her successful NO POOR PEOPLE CAN LIVE IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD deal, she really got off. Course that’s about the only way she could get off. In an e~fort .to appear Politically Correct she is rumoured to be planning an additional ordinance. This will be a Community Block Grant Development Fund to foster Miflti-Cultural un: derstanding, In effect CBGD funds (read tax dollars) will be awarded to families in qualifying income brackets to help with multi-cut~ral unders,t?),n~ding. ., t-f Iunders~tand th(~r0gram,C0rre~tl.y, it will w~ork some.~)ng like this. Ira family in her neighiaorhood hire~ fin Asian Gardner, tlae f~ifiiy wiil re~i~,e $30~000 in CBGD money. AnHisp~aiC hired, as. a domestic will be worth $20,000 andan English Nanny will be worth $22,500. An additional CBGD amount of $10,000 will go to the same family if they hire a French Au Pair after filling one of the above mentioned catagories. To apply for this Federal money you must meet the following requirements: I) Live within 5000 feet of Southern Hills Country Club, 2) contribute $5,000.00 or more to the Republican party and 3) be personal friends with Ms. Vicki. And you thought she wasn’t doing her part to advance multi-cultural understanding. That’s it for now, campers. Me, I’m headed back to rmx up another batch of Bloody Bulls, get naked and relax in the hot tub there to ponder the greater questions of life, like where do I find that Internet File with the pictures of Brad Pitt. Have a nice August aa.d don’t for_oct to vote NO on the Jail S~ Tax. ~ "Pat Morehead is a T~i~an whose commentaries focus on arti~olitics & Brad Pitt’s derriere. These vi~_s are notnecessarily those of Tulsa Family News. At Tomfoolery, coming out is what we’re all about. We’re Tulsa’s. original gay" "........ ~:~!:: & lesbian gift shop, and we’ve got the best selection of T-shirts, rainbow gear and novelty items in town. 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I am thinking about forming an "appreciation society" for any or all of the above, depending on interrest in & response to this ad. Please send letters ofinterest to: Fandom,C/OTFN,POB 4140, Tulsa OK 74159. WANTED Gather Signatures on Casino Gaming Petition. Great Pay. Flexible Hours. 742-3827 CIVIL RIGHTS HELP? American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma 600 NW 23rd, Suite 104 OKC 73106 405-524-8511 LESBIANS GAY MEN -BISEXUALS...... TRANSGENDERED PERSONS Interested in commtmity activism & positive outreach to non- Gays. Opportunities to speak, organize, network, & change Northeastern Oklahoma for the better.GreenCo.untry Pride,next meeting 8/24, 7pro Tulsa Central. Library, 4th & Denver, Prevxew Room, info: 838-2121 To. This . . ~ . Yo~ The Men of the Southwest Two Dynamite Male Dancers Every Thursday NO COVER Mr. Robbie Walker & The Sunday Slam Domonique Daniels Paris Grey Kris Kohl Ivana B. Real Michelle Ross & Many More! 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Memorial, 835~5083 Open 2pro M,F, Noon Sat/Sun TULSA’S HUGE PAT][O BAR Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data newspaper periodical Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource [1995] Tulsa Family News, August 15-September 14, 1995; Volume 2, Issue 9 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. 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Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Tulsa Family News 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 August 15-September 14, 1995 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource James Christjohn Kharma Amos Laurie Cooper Maureen Curtin JD Jamett Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Tom Neal/Tulsa Family News 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 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/501 Relation A related resource Tulsa Family News, July 15-August 14, 1995; Volume 2, Issue 8 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://history.okeq.org/collections/show/24 African Americans AIDS Quilt AIDS/HIV AIDS/HIV discrimination AIDS/HIV drugs AIDS/HIV research AIDS/HIV treatment American Baptist Church anti-gay legislation arts and entertainment asylum attorneys Barry Hensley Bars Black and White Gala businesses Catholic Church churches civil rights contraception Dave Fleischer estate planning Family Finances Feast with Friends Federal Security Clearance Fred Phelps Friends in Unity Social Organization (FUSO) gay bashing gay clergy gay teachers Greg Louganis homophobia horoscope Interfaith AIDS Ministries International Association of Official Human Rights Agencies Leanne Gross LGBT politicians marriage NAMES Project National Organization of Women (NOW) needle exchange Newt Gingrich Oklahoma Pride Conference OutRage! parter benefits Pat Morehead performing arts personals Politically Incorrect rape representation restaurants sexual assault sexual orientation discrimination Suzanne Slater Tom Neal Tulsa Family News Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights HIV Testing viatication Zimbabwe International Book Fair https://www.history-okeq-org-red5.dev.unicomm.me/files/original/2b0cb6f2541df9319bd93d6a4f0ebf1e.jpg cdb5691959e47c2834087512c2ee1075 https://www.history-okeq-org-red5.dev.unicomm.me/files/original/b2cffeb289a07ced6b7ba78eedf20a4d.pdf fb90f8e5272ed4814d3749b149325cc3 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 Memorial Quilt on October 13-15 at the Tulsa Fairgrounds Expo Square Pavilion. For schedule, see p. 9. Gay Tulsa "Yellow Pages" Tulsa activists and entrepeneurs, Kharma Amos and Debi Harding have formed Pride Publishing and have launched Gay Tulsa, A Guide to Businesses Serving the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual &Transgendered Community of Tulsa and surrounding area. The Guide will be free, distributed in Tulsa clubs, other businesses, churches and non-profit organizations. Amos & Harding will publish tbe premiere edition of Gay Tulsa in October with an initial run of about 2500 copies. Amos added that Gay Tulsa will provide space for Tulsa not-for-profit organizations to describe briefly the,ir programs. She also noted that thus far non-Gay businesses had been more enthusiastic about advertising than some Lesbian and Gay ones. For more information about Gay Tulsa, contact Pride Publishing at 9727 E. 1 lth St. Ste. 128, Tulsa, OK 74128, or phone/fax to 838-2121 or e-mail to OKPridePub@aol.com. ACLU-Oklahoma Seeks,to Abolish OK "Sodomy" Law On August 24, attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma (ACLU-OK) presented arguments that challenge Oklahoma’s "crimes against nature" statute to the Oklahoma Courts of Criminal Appeals, Oklahoma’s highest court for criminal law issues. The case was an appeal of a guilty conviction of an Oklahoma City man arrested by an undercover Oklahoma City police man for describing his sexual predilections at the policeman’s urgings. Michael Camfield, develoment director for the ACLU-OK noted that although the citizen was charged with a misdemeanor: offering to engage in a lewd or lascivious act, the citizen actually did not offer to engage but merely described what he likes. Camfidd added that the OKC officer presented himselfas aGay man, making references to the See ACLU, page 11 Gay Volunteer Accepted in Leadership Tulsa Program TULSA, OK - For a number of years Leaderslfip Tulsa has provided training for individuals interested in contributing to Tulsa by serving on boards of not-for-profit organizations. Individuals are selected competitively for the costly program ($1200) and usually represent many of the best and brightest in Tulsa business and professions. In this year’s class~ for perhaps the first time, an ope~lly Gay man, Steve Eberle, was chosen. Eberle, a longtime volunteer with considerable experience on the boards of a number of organizations, had had the impression that Leadership Tulsa was primarily for individuals without much experience - unlike himself. But he was persuaded by Iris friend, Penny Painter (executive director of Resonance) to apply and has found that the program while great training for the inexperienced, can take an experienced board volunteer to a higher level. He adds that it’s broadened his exposure to individuals and organizations across the city. See Eberle, page 3 National News & More Pres. Candidate Bob Dole Rebuffs Gay Republicans CINCINNATI ~ In an effort to find.~’common ground," the gays and lesbians of the Log Cabin Republicans began their 6th national convention in Cincinnati, the object of calls for a national boycott by many rights activists because of the city’s passage of an anti=gay ballot me asure in 1993. Instead, the gay GOPers got a sharp rebuff from leading Republican presidential contender, Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas. In announcing the location of this year’s convention, Abner Mason, president of the Log Cabin Federation, said, "We are looking for common ground. A boycott is not going to accomplish what gay activists are looking for - greater awareness of gay individuals in America." But as the convention opened on Friday, Aug. 25, Sen. Dole’s presidential campaign office announced that it was returning a $1,~contribution from the Log Cabin Republicans. A spokesperson from Dole’s presidential campaign said it was the GOP senator’s policy not to accept money "from political groups that have an agenda that is not in line with Senator Dole’s position on the issues." Rich Tafel, executive director of the gay Republican organization, said the group was "extremely disappointed" by the Dole~ampaigu move. See relaied sto-ri-es: Dole, ]~. 12 Congressional Hearings on ’Gay Agenda’ Delayed .WASHINGTON-Aplan to conduct congressional hearlngs on Sept. 12 on homosexuality in public education has been at least delayed after rights activists called the secretive way the hearings were scheduled a "sideshow for right:Wing lobbyists: A House Economic & Educational Operations subconmfittee had quietly slated the hearings which will now be delayed until sometime between the end of September and the Thanksgiving recess. The hearings had been set up at the request of Lou Sheldon, head of the anti-gay Traditional Values Coalition of Anaheim, California to hear testimony from educators, parents and students who were concerned that the nation’s public schools were "promoting homosexuality" among students in sex education classes, counseling and other school activities. "We are convinced that there is a clear a_~enda that the See Sheldon, page 10 October 14, 1995, Volume 2, Issue 10 The Rev. Elder Troy Perry, founder of the Universal FellowshipofMetropolitan Community Churches (MCC), willpreach and ordain the Rev. Nancy Horvath at 11am, Sunday. At 6pm, Pastor Horvath will be installed formally as pastor ofFamily ofFaith MCC, 54th & Mingo. Tulsa AIDS Walk ’95 HRCF’s Eiiz. Birch Speaks i Targets Native Americans To Christian Coalition A new program, called the Tulsa Native American Tulsans will kick off AIDS Awareness month with Walk This Way, AIDS Walk Tulsa ’95 on Saturday, September 30. Registration will begin at 9ana and the Walk will step off at 10am from Boulder Park between 18th Street and 21st Street at Boulder. The walk will follow the Riverparks path to cross the Pedestrian Bridge and go along the west bank ofthe Arkansas River to retlma to Boulder Park over the 21st Street bridge. Walk This Way will benefit VNA - Visiting Nurse Association, TOHR Testing Clinic, MTSAS - Metropolitan Tulsa Substance Abuse Services, Inc. IndianHealth Care, IAM, Rainbow Village, HIV Resource Consortium, Hospice of Green Cotmtry, SJR, RAIN - Regional AIDS Interfaith Network, Ahalaya and MAC. For more info., call 587-7222. CommUnity of Hope to Celebrate & Bless Building After weeks ofworkin gutting and remodeling donated by members and friends and with donation of equipment and supplies, the Reverend Leslie Penrose and members of United Methodist Community of Hope, a Shalom Base Conm~tmity, will hold a service at 6pro on Sunday, September 17 to bless its new and larger facility at 1703 East 2nd Street. All are welcome. For more information, call 585-1800. AIDS Prevention Project : MCC-Tulsa Pastor Resigns TULSA, OK - The Reverend Alice Jones, longtime pastor of the Metropolitan Cormnunity Church of Greater Tulsa, announced her resignation from the pulpit in the middle of August. Speaking to Tulsa Family News, Pastor Jones said that she felt God was calling her elsewhere. UnderJones leadership, MCC-GreaterTulsapurchased and paid offits mortgage for its building using innovative financing techniques which Pastor Jones notes have been widely imitated in the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches. Church sources indicate that Pastor Jones is providing interim pastoral services while the congregation begins its search for new spiritual leader. This process is expected to take several months. LONDON-The British Defense Ministry has announced that it will begin reviewing the possibility of ending the ban on gays and lesbians serving in the country’s armed forces. The mimstry amlounced that all aspects of the military’s policy on homosexuals will be examined, including how the armed forces in other nations treat gays and lesbians. The ministry panel reviewing the issue will then hand its report and recommendations to the Defense Select Committee in 1996. See Brits, page 10 UK to Review Military Ban Washington- Some members of Pat Robertson’s Christian Coalition today joined with progressive clergy and other supporters of lesbian and gay equal rights to hear a speech by Human Rights Campaign Fund Executive Director Elizabeth Birch during the group’s amlual"Road to Victory" conference at die Washington Hilton. More than 300 people crowded into a ballroom tohear the head of the largest national lesbian mid gay orgamzation deliver an address in the form of an "open letter" to Christian Coalition members. The speech was held next to a Gramm for President luncheon, and just down the hall from die conference’s main ballroom where most of the 1996 GOP presidential hopefuls were addressing the two-day gathering. See HRCF. page 10 o AIDS Prevention Project (TNAAPP) has begun to provide education, testing support groups and other services to men who self-identify as Native American. The program will use materials developed at San Francisco’s ° American Indian AIDS Institute and also used by the American Indian Commtmity House in New York. A certificate of degree of Indian blood (CDIB) card is not required for this program. For more info., call Brian Jackson or Jason Shamblin at 584-4983. <) 18-583 - 1248 POB 4!40 Tulsa. Oldahoma 74159-014O FulsaNews@aol.com Publisher~di{or ~ss~md on or before the }.Sth of each month the ei~ire contents of Tom Nea.~ tins publication are protecied by US copyright 1995 b} Tulr, a Family Assistant Edito: News and may not be reproduced either in whole or in part without James Christjohn written permission from the pubhsner. Publication of a name or Writers/contributors photo does not indicate tha~ person’s sexual onentaho;, Kharma Amos Correspondence is assumedto be for publication unless otherwise Laurie Cooper noted, must be signed & becomes the sole property of Tulsa Family Shelly Roberts News. All correspondence should be sent to the address above. ]U.ach Staff Photographer reader is entitled to one iree copy of each edihon at distribution JD Jamett points. Additional copies are available at Tomfoolery bv Shelly Roberts I1 was something in her eves Or rather it was sometfiing that wasn" t in the eyes anymore. Terror Fury. Tears For five decades, shehad beet~ speaking her story. So perhap< the healing in tt~e telling had surgically separated emouon from her side of the podium had not. however lessened her Hllpa~..t A Polish Nazi pnson camp surv~vor she had come to teach us. Expecting tl~e worsL most us learned more. The devil was in these details in a far more forceful way thm~ any book. or movie or docu-footage, wtrich conid never qtfite bnng you close ,enough to absorb the realitieso The "knowledge that to stand in lhe front of the soupline.was to risk a bowl of thin, warm water as your nonnstunent. That the oppos~m end offered both the prolmse of the !ife-~vtng~ sparse vegetables from the bottom, but also nsk of the empty pot. That survival- might hinge on fronfliners and backliners combining meager portions so that all might continue. Horror after horror. Detailed after detailed indignity. I had come as a volmateer for traimng to join the Survivors of Shoatr"lthe Hebrew word for Holocaust) Video ProJect, begun by Steven Spielberg, to capture the testimony of holocaust surv i v ors. These depositions will be diuitallv transformed ~nto a multi-- tnedaa computer archive available to scholars and searchers worldwide I’ d. held a mJcrop~aone beiore So I signed on to learn the delicate disciphne of penmss~vc, noi)-intrusl’v(: 117[- terv~ewm,, that assists the remamecs it) express their expe. nenoa,~,: And it was impossible s~t throu~l~ the lecture about fateful clkonology ~dnotttfi~ of you ’:Hov. was ~t possible asked Professor of History. Aia~ Berger iniris onentatioh prescri- Ption ’Tor,amodem nation-state to ~y out the svsmmauc murder of a whole population, not for any crone, but for the mere crime of the condition of b~r~?’" i~ow ~at he Spe~s ofpeople born Jewish, but I Nso~ow ~at he. now more th~ ever, spe~s of people born homosexuN who were once ~e most despised of the bu~ates. And who, even now, without order or cogent org~7~on, ~e ~e most vulnerable to &e ex~emes of Muds of s~pegoafism ~at Nstory h~ shown ~ result from foundering ~ono~es, ~d extre~ sts o~upylng power. Professor Berger det~led a nationN logbook that on~ did, ~d could on~ agmn, have your n~e ~ved on it. He refers to "Jews." I ask you to ~spose "llonlosexNs". "The Jews," he smd~ "were In many ways, the writers, editors and publisher of Tulsa Family News have rather traditional goals. We hope to emulate the better newspapers of our country, providing a mix of news, entertainment, financial advice, and opimon, etc. albeit tailored to our communities: Lesbian, Gay; .Bisexual and Transgendered. And while we thank our advertisers for their support and the opportunity to promote their businesses and organizations, unlike some other publications, advertising is the means, not the end. For us, content is more than just something to fill the space between ads. Frankly, this ~s more work. It takes more time and greater skills to seek out the stories that affect our lives, our fanrilies and friends. Chin of the specific goals of TuL%~..?:amily News is to provide a forum for discussion about is- " sues andideas. Again this is fairly traditional for a newspaper. For Our ehallenCe to those who dlsa~ree with our positions is thls: ~et off your baeksldes and partlelpate in the dlalo~ue. All it takes to ~et your vlew read is to submit it via letter, fax or e-mail. If you care enough about where we’re ~oln~, if you care enough to eomplaln, eare enough to educate and persuade your peers. example, The Tulsa Wormregularly takes positions on issues andreaders, agreeing or disagreeing, write to share their views. diabolized, demomzed Judged less than human. In demonizauon, the v~ctim is bmu shed from your world, the vicUm is outside theum verse of mor~ obligati.on. If you flnnk thin ~meone ~s not hffmgm, subhum~ ami-hum~. a v~ms, a vermin, tnm~ you owe ~ha~ ttung, noflung h,.fact, it VOUr duly lO ~L~:’ ~terheadded t~a~ "theactof being bom.lew~sh was ~1 ~t took to be eligible for extentnaaon." i-.or the firs~ ume i, Nstory, O~rm itself was considered crime pumshable by death. At Dachau ~’ter the w~)rd "~cfime’" " was written ~e word ’Jew." (And, we ~ow.,"homosexuN.") The good DoctorNso outlined for us. o&er th~ fate. the Muds of factors ~at nright well have meant~edifferen~betw~n exten~ nauon,~dprotecuon, support ~d survivN: "~e prew~ status of Jews dete~ned &eir fate under Namsm. Acculturation, strong MnsNp ~es. ~ono~c toler~ce, goodinterperson~ relatiomhips with non-Jews, N1 of &ese were factors in dete~imng if you lived." ~eD~es, who gave up none of ~eir Jewish dfizem, sNd,"We help~ &e Jews bemuse ~ey we ~ew them as our fellow zeus, Now, I wonder how ~ere c~ be a single soul of us left who still prefers to live in N&ug? I see Shoah, page 3 " Tins is one of the ways in which ¯ a public dialogue and debate oc- ¯ curs in a commumty. This is ¯ particularly important in coin- ¯ munities such as ours - which is ¯¯ by its nature non-cohesive in its diversity. ¯ This is not, however, what’s been happening in LGBT Tulsa, ¯ unfortunately. We have a spec- ¯ tacular lack of dialogue about the challenges our communities face~ This is a problem. Some : have objected to the positions ] we’ve taken. That’s OK ¯ Our challenge to those who ¯ disagree with our positions is ¯ this: get off your backsides and participate openly in the dia- ¯ logue. All it takes to get yo.ur ¯ view read is to submit it vm ¯ letter, fax or e-mail, ff you care : enough about where we’re go- ¯ ing, if you care enough to com- , plain, care enough to educate ¯ and persuade your peers. Tulsa Clubs & Ftestaurama *Bad Bovz Club, 1229 S. Memonai 835-5081~ *Concessions, 3340, S Peoria 744-0896 Ground Zero. :3 ! ! E. 7ffi, (~emng soon where ~is w~s. 585-5622 *[.ola’s 2630 E !Stb 749-1563 *Silver Star SNoon~ 1565 Shend~ 834-4234 *Renegaaes, 1~9 S. Mmn 585-3405 *TNT’s. 2114 S. Memov’d 6~-0856 *Time’n’Time Agmn, 1515 S Memorial 6~-8299 *Tool Box. 1338 E. 3rd 5~-1308 *Wild Nignts. 2~5 E. Ad~ral 582-43~) Wild Fork~ !~ti~ Sq~e. 21 st & Utica 742 .O7!2 *Intemmm~ 7!7 >. 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T~sa UNfo~/~a~er Seekers Assoc. 838-1222 *Tulsa City HN1, C~etefia Vestibule, Gro~d >]oor *Umversi~ Center at TNsa DeVito’s Restaurant, 5 Center St. *Emerald Rainbow, 45&1/2 Spring St. *King’s Hi-Way, 96 Kings Highway, Hwy. 62W *Purple Iris Inn, Route 6, Box 339 *Southern Rose Bed & Breakfast, 9 Benton *The Woods, 50 Wall St. *The Diner, 2124 NW 39th *Jungle Red, The Habana Inn *Oasis Community Center, 2135 NW 39th *Triangle Association, 2136 NW 39th 501-253-6807 501-253-5445 800-231-1442 501-253~8748 501-253-2204 501-253-8281 405-528-5133 405-524-5733 405-525-2437 405-843-8378 For those who wouldlike to receive discreeth~me delivery of Tulsa Family News, please send 5 ~5 for a 12 months, 58 for 6 months. wonder how she or he, knowing the rising tide of current extreme religionists working toward government domination, can think that the pulled curtain is preferable or even viable? Who doesn’t fathom that to declare yourselfin the normal course of your business or industry, without fanfare orundueattention, and to work toward the normalizationand legalizationofourlives, creates a familiar safety that can never be achieved in hiding. That it works directly tO deflect the danger that could someday again require our having to secret ourselves, not in closets, but in holes under floorboards or in cellars. We say, frequently, in the Out Community, thatno one can hate you if they know you. The Jews say, "Never again." So should we. Let’s not be left out of history again. If you are a Jewish gay or lesbian holocaust survivor, and voti understand the benefit of having your experience on record, please contact the Shoah Foundation at 1-800/661-2092 or 818/777-7802. If you are a non-Jewish gay or lesbian survivor, or know someone who wishes she or he had a place to leave a record of what happened, please contact the foundation as well and strongly request that your voice be added to the documenta- [ion. Shelly Roberts is a nationally syndicated columnist, speaker, and author of TheDyke Detector, andHey, Mom, Guess What! Paradigm Publishing. Eberle notes that he knows of Gay men who have been part of Leadership Tulsain the past (and that he suspects a number of women in this year’s class are Lesbians), but he believes that they did not apply openly. In contrast, he applied as an openly Gay man as well as an HIV+ individtml. He feels that Leadership Tulsa really was seeking diversity in this class which is also notable for its racial and ethnic diversity as well as its gender balance. At a retreat held recently, the conversations were dominated by discussions about ¯ children, and Eberle was concerned about how coming out as both Gay and HIV+ would be received. To his surprise, he found acceptance from the members of his sub-group, and later, a women came out to him as the mother of a Gay son. As is typical ofLeadership Tulsa, Eberle was assigned to a board, both to learn from them and to provide them with the benefit of his experience, lie will be as- ¯ sisting the South Peoria Neighborhood Association When asked, he noted that Leaderstiip Tulsa does not send volunteers to any non-profit orgamzation that directly serves the Lesbian/Gay/Bi/Trans. communities. The only organization with historical ties to the Gay communiues is the HIV Resource Consortium. For more information, call Leadership Tulsa at 582-1296. On behalf of the AIDS Wa k Tulsa ’95 and the beneficiary agencies, thank you! 1. Collect contributions in advance of th e Walk. This saves you time. saves expenses associated with collecting money after the Walk and allows for the proceeds to be distributed more quickly. 2. Please make checks payable Io AIDS Walk Tulsa ’95-PFLAG: The canceled check will be the sponsor’S receipt. ¯ Ahalaya ¯ HIV Resource Consortium ¯ Hospice o¢ Green Country ¯ Indian Health Care ¯ Interfaith AIDS Ministrie~ " , Metropolitan Tulsa Substance Abuse Services Address and Phone Total PJedge CHIEF ~,VILMA MANKILLER l]onorary Chair " AIDS.Walk Tulsa ’95 -.Saturday, September 30, 1995 Boulder Park 18th & Boulder Tulsa, Oklahoma ¯ Multicultural AIDS Coalition 9:00 a.~. Check in and turn in ¯ ¯ Rainbow Village ¯ Regional AIDS Interfaith Network ¯ St. Joseph Residence ¯ TOHR Testing Clinic ¯ Visiting Nurse Association Pledges of Support 9:30 a.m. Opening Ceremonies 10:00 a.m. Step Off 1:00 p.m. Jaycees Battle of the Bands For more information, to obtain extra brochures or lo mail in pledges, please contacl: AIDS Walk ’95. 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Important: Participants under the age of .18 must have this form signed by a parent or guardian. Participant’s Signature/Date: Parent’s or Guardian’s Signature/Date News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs NeWs NCOD Founder Dies TF~qUQUE, N.M. - Psychologist Robert H Eichberg, cofounderofNational Coming Out Day in 1988, has died of AIDSrelated complications at age 50. Eichberg also wrote Coming Out: an Act of Love, which describes how people reveal their homosexuality. "His whole life’s work was about bridging the gap between gay and nongay communities, allowing people to discover who they are, and really encouraging them to go out and do something with that’knowledge," said Lynn Shepodd, president of the Santa Fe Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Pride Committee. Eichbe,rg’s activism started 2 decades ago whenhe established a political action committee for gay and women’s rights in Los Angeles. National Coming Out Day is celebrated each year on Oct. 11. Lesbians at Conference HUAIROU, China - At a news conference at the NGO forum going on parallel with the 4th World UN Conference on Women, lesbians attending as NGOdelegates said they wanted tomake contact with other lesbians in China and throughout Asia. Arjana Suvamananda, a lesbian from Thailand, said she and other members of the Asian Lesbian Network were eager to contact lesbians all over ASia. "It would not be wise to be specific if there are Chinese lesbian activists here in the forum. I can tell you, lesbians are everywhere, including in China,’" Suvamananda said. "’The reason we are networking with Chinese lesbians is to be able to share information and .strengthen the Chinese lesbian movementhere, which onits own will be able to make more and more lesbians come out in fighting for their rights," Palecia IIIIII robert owen freeman architectural & interior design consulting, architectural renderings pob 52621, tulsa, ok 74152 918.747.0880 ¯ Beverly Diski of the Gay Les- " bian Organization of ¯ Witwatersrand in South Africa, ¯ said. Anti-Gay Violence in Washington Schools SEATTLE - Among some 27 ¯ anti-gay incidents in Washington state schools during the past 5 years, 8 boys and gifts reported ! that they had been gang raped by ¯ fellow schoolmates in a survey ¯ prepared by the Safe Schools Coalition. ¯ Two girls, ages 13 and 14, ¯ reported they had been forced to have. sex with each other under football bleachers and had then ¯ been raped by each of the boys. In some of the assaults, the sin- ¯ dents reported they had been uri- ¯ nated on or vomited on by their ¯ attackers. Three of the anti-gay ¯ incidents reportedly took place ¯ inelementary schools inthe state. .. State schools superintendent ¯ Judith Billings said she would r~ ~ew the coalltton s findings. ¯ No Gay Godparent in OK ¯ LONDON - Simon Lawley, a ¯ 39-year-old man who was told ¯ he could, not be his nephew’s : godfather because he is gay, has ¯ called on the Archbishop ofCan- ¯ terbury to make a ruling on the ¯ issue that has outraged gays and church activists in England, ¯ Lawley wrote to The Rev. Dr. ¯ George Carey about the treat- . ment ofhis family and himself at ¯ St Peter’s Church in : Famborough, west of London. ¯ Church of England guidelines ¯ on godparents stipulate only that ¯ they must be Christians. : Lawley was asked by his sis- " ter, Lizzie Toms, if he would be ¯ a godparent to her son Freddie ¯ who was born in January. She ¯ asked the Rev. Beryl Phillips, ¯ one of St. Peter’s curates, about ¯ it but was told her gay brother ¯ was not be an acceptable godfa- ¯ ther. St. Peter’s officials stood ¯ behind their exclusion ofLawley, ¯ saying, "This church proclaims thatGodloves all people but that ¯ he also sets boundaries on our ¯ behavior. The Church is always being clobbered for not taking a ¯ moral stand. Now we are mak- ¯ ing our policy clear and being ¯ clobbered anyway." $25 Million Suit Filed in ¯ ’Jenny Jones’ Killing ¯ SOUTHFIELD, Mich. - The ¯ family of Scott Amedure,.who was killed after appearing on the ¯ TV talk program "The Jenny : J,ones, Show," have filed a $25 million lawsuit against the §yndieated show...AnAgx!ttre was,one : of several guest~~vho told other ¯ guests on the show that they had secret crushes on them, but in : Amedure’s case, the object of ¯ his crush was Jonathan Schmitz, ¯ who said he was heterosexual. Schmitzis currently being held on charges of killing Amedure, and claims he was led to believe the person with a secret crush on him was a woman, not a mail. Geoffrey Fieger, the lawyer representing Amedure’s family, ¯ said, "Jenny Jones is as negli- : gent as Schmitz in creating the ¯ scenario in which Scott was ¯ gulmed down." The suit claims, ¯ among other things, that ¯ Amedure and other guests were ¯ given alcohol before the pro- " gram to lower their inhibitions. ¯ School Board Bans ¯ Discussion of Gay Issues ¯ MERRIMACK, N.H. - Led by ¯ new.ly-elected far-right conser- ¯ vataves, the Merrimack school ~ board has narrowly approved by ¯ a3-2 vote a proposal that would ¯ prohibit teachers and counselors : from discussing homosexuality in a neutral light. The ban would ¯ prohibit any neutral discussion ¯ of homosexuality in the schools, ¯ bar instructional materials that ¯ discuss homosexuality from a ¯ neutral viewpoint, and prohibit ." suicidepreyentioncounseling (or : even referrals to counseling) for gay and lesbian students. : Austrian Cardinal Quits : Accused of Molestation ¯ VIENNA - Austria’s Roman ¯ Catholicprimate, Cardinal Hans Hermann Groer, has announced ¯ that he will step down from his ¯ post in September. Groer’s re- " tirementcomes amidperhaps the ¯ greatest Crisis the church in the ¯ F’~dominately Catholic country ¯ has ever faced. Groer has re- . fused to comment at all about ¯ accusations madeearlier this year ¯ that he had sex with a male stu- ¯ dent at a boarding school some ¯ 20 years ago. ¯ Josef Hartmann, who is now ¯" 37, said he had gone public with ¯ the accusations after Cardinal Groer said that men who abuse ¯ young boys could never enter ¯ heaven. Groer remained silent ¯ on the charges, and since then ¯ rights activists have also named ¯ several other leading Catholic ¯ clergy in the country whom they ¯ say are closeted homosexuals. Life Given NE Killing OMAHA, Neb. Marvin Nissen, who admitted killing Teena Brandon -.a woman who had posed as a man - along with 2 of her friends, has been sentenced to life in prison. Officials said Nissen, 22, and John Lotter, 24, raped Brandon afterlearning that she was a woman, then stabbed her to death to keep her quite about the rape. They said Nissen and Lotter also killed Lisa Lambert, 24,and Philip DeVine, 22, in rural Humboldt, Neb., because they were with Brandon at the time. Lotter has already been found guilty of 1 st degree murder in all three killings and faces possibly a death sentence. Lesbian Trapeze Artists! EDINBURGH, Scotland - The Edinburgh International Fringe Festival, which bills itself as the largest arts festival in the world,. has a reputation for outlandish acts among its 14,000 performances by groups from 700 troupes from 32 countries. But among the groups - that includes Alien Sex, Ian Coguito, Jeffrey Dahmer Is Unwell, and Strange Fruit Stageworks - the performers causing the greatest stir seem to be the Club Swing- Appetite, alesbian trapeze troupe from Australia. Club Swing- Appetitewas given the festival’s "’Moira" award - named after arch-conservative Edinburgh councilor Moira Knox - who called the lesbian circus act a "dirty-minded disgrace." The trapeze-flying lesbians immediately included Knox’s remarks in their advertising fliers and have been drawing record crowds to watch the act that they describe as "a feast of food, sex and orgasmic trapeze." Hawaii Bias Commission HONOLULU - Hawaii Gov. Ben Cayetano has named the commissioners who will study sexual orientationdiscrimination resultingfrom same-sex couples not being permitted to legally marry in the state. The panel will make recommendations on legislation next year to overcome the bias against same-sex couples, although most rights activists in the state insist the solution is for the state to simply allow gays andlesbians to marry. The comlmss~oners are: Tom Gill, former Lt. Governor and ¯ Congressman; K. Gomes, ¯ American Friends Service Com- . mittee (Quakers); R. Stauffer, ¯ AFSC; M. Britt, Hawaii State. Teachers Assn.; N. Kreidman, ¯ anti-violence activist; J. Hochberg, attorney with the antigay Rutherford Foundation; ¯ Marie Sheldon, attorney. ¯ Internarl Conference of Gay Police Officers : PALM SPRINGS, Calif. - The ¯ first Law Enforcement Gays & Lesbians International conference gotunderway in this South- " ern California resort city, drawing several hundred police officers from more than 100 different ¯ departments in 26 states and 6 countries. The conference was cosponsoredby the Los Angeles : Police Department with the Golden State Peace Officers : Assn., a California-based group of gay and lesbian officers. ¯ Among the public officials at- . tending a reception opening the ¯ conference were California. Lt. ¯ Gov. Gray Davis, LAPD Chief Willie Williams, Los Angeles Deputy MayorMike Keeley, and ¯ L.A. Police Commissioner Art ¯ Mattox. ¯ Group Hopesto Increase ¯ Visibility of Straights ¯ WASHINGTON - A new orga- ¯ nization, called And Justice for ¯ All, has been formed in the nation’s capital to increase the ¯ visibility of straights in the gay ¯ rights movement. Jonathan ¯ Zucker, the organization’s ex- ¯ ecutive director, said he hopes ¯ the group will be able to bring news. ofimportantdevelopments in the progress of the gay rights ¯ movement to non-gays. "’A lot of useful information is ¯ produced every day by lesbian, ¯ gay, bisexual, and transgender ¯ rights organizations," Zucker ¯ said. "Unfortunately, much of ¯ this information never reaches ¯ ¯ heterosexuals who would use it. AndJusticeforAll will focus on ¯ getting therein theloop and giv¯ ing them the tools they need to support this movement." The ¯ groups can be contacted at: And Justice for All, PO Box 53079, ¯ Washington, DC 20009; by ¯ phone at (202) 298-9362; or at : Jst4All@AOL.com. 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Twenty gay men and lesbians were taken away by police as they protested the Islamic rally and disrupted speakers from. the group. John Jackson of OutRage said, "Our protest was lesbian and gay selfdefense against Islamic fundamentalists who endorse the killmg by Iran of an estimated 4,000 homosexuals since 1980, and who threaten and intimidate gay students on college campuses in Britain.’" Italian Protest Called Over Verona Action VERONA, Italy - Verona may have been the Setting for Shakespeare’s"star-crossed lovers" Romeo and Juliet, but the city councilors have given a cold shoulder to gay and lesbian lovers. The Verona City Council, at the promptings of the right wing and of conservative Catholic leaders .has approved a resolution rejecting a European Parliament statement opposing discrimination against homosexuals. The anti-gay resolution adopted by the Verona council states in part: "’Apart from indi- "vidual moral and religious beliefs, homosexuality contradicts Natural Law itself. The application ofthe above mentioned [European Parliament] resolution, among other things, would have a negative effect upon the psychological development of young people who, in such promiscnous heterosexual and homosexual families, would see the falling of one of the basic foundations of the family,.that is: the stable union of a man and a woman?" The Verona resolution has no legal impact, but it has become the locus of Italian activists who have called for a demonstration against the Verona City Council on Sept. 30 by activists and gay aud lesbian travelers throughout the country. Veterans Affairs Dept. Bars Anti-Gay Bias WASHINGTON - The U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs has issued a policy statement prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation within the agency. The Veterans Affairs policy states that the department color, national origin, sex, reli- ¯ gion, age, disability, or sexual ¯ orientation in any of its person- ." nel policies, practices, and operations ." ¯ Episcopal Bishop to be : Tried forGay Ordination ¯ NEW YORK - In a highly un- ¯¯ usual move, the Episcopal Church in America has an- ¯ nounced that retired Bishop ¯ Walter Righter of Iowa will face ¯ a trial by 9 bishops on ecclesias- ¯ tical charges that he ordained an openly gay man in 1990. Righter ¯ ordained Barry Stopfel as an ¯ Episcopal deacon while Righter ¯ was servingas anassistantbishop ¯ in New Jersey. Stopfel was later ¯ ordained as a priest by Newark ¯ BishopShelby Spong.Inspiteof ¯ attempts by Episcopal Church ¯ leaders to avoid a church trial, ¯ several conservativebishops got ¯ the required approval of 75 of ¯ the church’s 2_97 bishops to force ¯ Righter to stand trial. Righter, ¯ who currently lives in New ¯ Hampshire, called the move ¯ "’outrageous." Dutch Gov’t ¯ Subsidizing Gay Games ¯ AMSTERDAM-TheDutchgay ¯ newspaper, De Gay Krant, re- " ports that the country’s Ministry of Health, Welfare & Sport has announced a grant of $62,500 to ¯ the Gay’Games slated to be held ¯ ~n Amsterdam in 1998. The ¯ Dutch governmentregularlysubsidizes organizers who Work to ¯ bring!arge-scale sporting events ¯ to the country. ¯ A ministry spokesperson said the governmenthopes that"more ¯ than before, attention will be ¯ given to sport for homosexuals, ¯ whichintumwill promote sport- ¯ ~ngpardcipationin general."The ¯ paper quoted Marc Janssens, an ¯ organizer with the Gay Games ¯ in Amsterdam, as saying the ¯ group hcped to raise some $625,000 to mount to interna- ¯ tional sporting competition. Lutherans Tired of Sex ¯ MINNEAPOLIS - After years ¯ of emotional, and often divisive ¯ debate, tlieEvangelicalLutheran ¯ Church in America has decided ¯ to indefinitely postpone work on ¯ a policy statement on sexuality ¯ because of its inability to reach ¯ any consensus on qnestions such ¯ as the ordination of gays and ¯ lesbians or the blessing of samesex mamages. The 5.2-million Kelly Kirby Certified Public Accountant Lesbians & Gays face many special tax situations whether single or as couples. We are proud to serve our communities with sensitive & timely information. 747-5466, POB 14011, Tulsa 74159 put off any statement on sexuality in 1997 because of"substantive differences" within the church. The council said many members of the churchwere simply "tired of the issue" which its members have wrangled withfor several years without resolution. Michigan Gay Resort Nixes Rights Protections SAUGATUCK, Mich. - The town council of the tiny Lake Michigan resort commumty of Saugatuck, southwest of Grand Rapids, has unanimously rejected ameasure thatwouldhave barred discrimination based on sexual orientation. The refusal to adopt the local legislation incensed many activists because the lakefront town of just under 2,000 people is a popular resort with gays and lesbians. The issue arose after an innkeeper in nearby Douglas, Mich., across the Kalamazoo River from Sangatuck, refused to rent a room to 2 gay men. The town council in Douglas then promptly adopted an anti-bias measure by 7-0, and raised the issue in nearby Sangatuck. ’Celluloid Closet’ Ready for Premiere SAN FRANCISCO -"The Celluloid Closet," the star-studded and long-awaited documentary by San Francisco film makers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, will have its world premiere September 6 at the Venice Film Festival, followed by North American showings at the Toronto International Film Festival and the New York Film Festival. "The Celluloid Closet" was produced by HBO and is expected to have a theatrical release in addition to its cable airing, Friedman said from Massachusetts, where he and Epstein are vacationing. ~The film also has been "unofficially invited" to the Sundance Film Festival next January, he added. Based on a 1981 book by the late film historian, writer and .media acdvist Vito Russo, "The Celluloid Closet" illustrates the history of gay imagery in Hollywood films, and features clips from more than 100 Hollywood movies.-Tom Hanks, Whoopi Goldberg, Susan Sarandon,Tony Curtis, Farley Granger and Shirley MacLalne, each ofwhom ¯ appearinfilmedinterviews. The ¯ film is narrated by Lily Tomlin ¯ using a script aut bored by ¯ Armistead Maupin. NEA Gives $20,000 to ¯ ’96 AIDS Quilt Display WASHINGTON - The federal ¯ NadonalEndowmentfortheArts ¯ has given $20,000 to the San Francisco-based NAMES ¯ Project in support of an October ¯ 1996 display of the AIDS Me¯ morial Quilt in the nation’s capi~ tal. Anthony Turuey, executive ¯ director of the NAMES Project, ¯ said the display is timed to "re- -’- cus the eyes of our leaders and American citizens" on theAIDS ¯ epidemic during the 1996 decdon. The display will be the first time in 4 years the 45,000-panel, .60-ton. quilt will be on display in ¯ ~ts entirety. ¯ Kentucky Beer Boycott LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Accord- ¯ ing to a report in The Letter, a ¯ Kentucky lesbian and gay paper, ¯ 9 local gay bars and restaurants ¯ have begun a boycott of several popular beers because of what ¯ activists.there called the "right ¯ wing activities"ofDonna Shedd, ¯ whose husband David ~s presi- ¯ dent of River City Distributing Inc. River City Distributing was targeted for the boycott because ¯ of Mrs. Shedd’s involvement in Kentucky’s Eagle Forum, the ¯ and-gaygroupheadedbyPhyllis Schlafly. Activists also noted that Mrs. Shedd served on the state Republican Party’s executive ¯ committee when last year it unanimously passed aresolution in favor of recriminilizing homosexuality in Kentucky. In addition to the popular bars and restaurants involved in the protest, die boycott is also being supported by Kentucky’s Fairness Campaign, the Pro-Choice Coalition, the Metropolitan Commtmity Churchand the Louisville chapter of Parents-Friends of Lesbians andGays (P-FLAG). ." Organizers say the boycottcould cost the distribution company as nmch as S15,000 per week in lost sales. Israel Refuses Partner’s Death Benefits JERUSALEM -The Israeli Ministry of Justice has announced ¯ that anational court has rejected the claim of Adir Steiner, 29, who had petitioned the courts to ¯ ceased army colonel, after the : Defense Ministry refused to extend the benefits to him. The court ruling, quoted by the min¯ istry, said that Steiner and Col. Doron Maisel, who died of cancer in 1991 while in the Israeli army, did "not constitute a nuclear family" and that Steiner ¯ was lherefore ineligible for Maisel’s death benefits. The 2 menhadbeen partners for8 years before Maisel died. : Shocking Gray Closes _. SAN ANTONIO, Texas - According to the Columbia, S.C., : gay newsmagazine In Unison, ; the Texas-basedmail-order firm Shocking Gray has shut down and intends to go into bank- ; ruptcy. In Unison quoted Ed Rhuebart, a New York buyer for the mall-order catalog finn, who said Shocking Gray had laid off its workers, discontinued processing telephone orders and locked its offices. GayNet News Service con- : firmed that the catalog company’s toll-free telephone ¯ number used by customers to ¯ order the finn’s up-scale and dis¯ tinctlygay-orientedmerchandise had bee~ disconnected with no : forwarding number. Rhuebart is ; quoted as telling In Unison that ¯ "’ShockingGray, the catalog, was doing fihe. Shocking Gray, the company, was not." Anti-Gay Minister Phelps ¯ Alleges Bomb Attack ¯ TOPEKA. Kan. Fred Phelps, : the leader of a small fundarnen : talist church noted for anti-gay picketing at funerals of people ~ who have died of AIDS, named ~ two men he charged had set offa bomb at the home of;one of his daughters in late August. Police : have made no arrests in the : bombing. Authorities said they would investigate Iris charges, although : they also said by aunounc~ng the ; names before giving them to oL ficials Phelps may have inter~ ; fered with their ability to ~nvestigate his accusations. No inju- ; ries were reported at the time of the August 27 bombing. Open Arms Open Minds Open Hearts Saint Aidan’s 4045 No. Cincinnati 425-7882 Saint John’s 4200 So. Atlanla Pl. 742-7381 Trinity 5Ol so. Cincinnati 582-4128 The Episcopal Church Welcomes You Cherry Street Psychotherapy ~ssoeiates 1 51 5 South Lewis Are you looking for a relaxed, amicable, pdvate atmosphere for therapy? Our office provides a level of confidentiafity and comfort that enhances the therapeutic process. 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"Women think that if they don’t have sex with men they don’t have to worry about annual checksups that would detect disease." She also said that lesbians often don’t believe they are at risk for sexually trans, mitred diseases. "There is a growing recognition that women and lesbians are at risk of getting AIDS through sexual behavior and needle-sharing," said one woman from Sweden attending the con, ference. The forum was told that health experts estimated that more than 20% of lesbians in the U.S. had sex with a high-risk partner, and that between I and 2% of all women with AIDS were lesbians. Emanuel urged lesbians to be identified in the community and to learn about issues related to their personal health. WHO Says Women Increasingly Hit by HIV BEIJING - At a press conference held by the World Health Organization during the 4th UN World Conference on Women in Beijing, women were told they face the gloomy reality ofbecoming infected with HIV more rapidly than men, in part because of their economic dependence on males. "Thebleakreality is that the sexual and economic subordination of women fuels the HIV/AIDS pandemic," WHO said in a position paper at the conference. The WHO document said that by the year 2000, there will be 14 million HIVinfected women and about 4 million women will have died from the disease worldwide. "The number of infected women with HIV is increasing more rap idly thanmenin Africa, in southernAsia," said WHO director-general Hiroshi Nakajima. Economics Alone Not Enough to Stem AIDS HUAIROU, China - Giving women greater economic clout isn’t enough to stop the spread of HIV among them because, of the complexities of different cultural environments throughout the world, the alternative NGO (non-governmental organization) conference runningparallel to the 4th UN World Conference on Women was told. Marina Mahathir, head of the Malaysian AIDS Council, said even women in highly educated and affluent societies often find that their independence ends in the bedroom. "This is when their hnsbands regard affluence and success as having many wives or mistresses," Mahathir said at a workshop on economics and women’ s susceptibility to HIV at the NGO forum, which had declared the day "Women and AIDS Day." Among the difficulties faced in different cultures that were discussed: - In Bangladesh, where polygamy is permitted, the International Centrefor Research on Women has only recently begun a campaign to try to persuade women not. to marry men who already have one or more wives. - In Canada, many African immigrants and refugee women have to become prostitutes. to earn a living because of limited emplo.y.ment opportunities, especially for non-cxuzens. - In Vietnam whereprostitution is commonplace, Thi Hwa, who works withsex workers, said many young prostitutes allow unprotected sex for a little extra money. "Many older men pay more for unprotected sex because they feel itwould not mak e much diffeience if theycontract AIDS as they believe they do not have long tO live anyway," Hwa said. - In many. poor countries with high unempl0yment,.:tike .Nepal and: Gu~yana where men go away to work, they get infected and return home to infect their wives. Ginny Bourassa of Women Organized to Respond to Life-Threatening Diseases (WORLD) and other NGO delegates agreed that the best way to deal with the growing HIV infection rate among women globally is through communitybased programs that can respond acco rding to local needs and problems. No Appeal Filed in Congressional AIDS Bias Case WASHINGTON - Rep. Barbara-Rose Collins (D-Mich.) missed the filing deadline to appeal the claim of a former aide in her office who said he was fired because thelawmaker thought hehad AIDS. Since " Collins did not appeal, Bruce Taylor will ¯ now receive compensation for more than ¯ 7 months’ back pay and attorney’s fees. ¯ Jim Davison, a media services adminis- ¯ trator for the House of Representatives, ¯ said heknew ofno other instance in which ¯ a member of Congress had had a case ¯ before the Office of Fair Employment ¯ Practices. Taylor claimed his firing last Decem- : bet - just 2 days after his malepartner died ¯ of AIDS - was in violation of the federal ¯ Americans with Disabilities Act. Thelaw ¯¯ protects individtmls who are perceived to ¯ beinfected or haveAIDS, as well as those who actually have the disease. According ¯ to Taylor, both Collins and her chief of ¯ staff repeatedly asked about his health ¯ before he was .fired. Although they deny : the allegations, the judge ruled that Tay- : lor was perceived to be infected and that ¯ Collins and her chief of staff had decid~’d : he "would require time off for health ~ reasons." ." Grim Predictions about HIV : GENEVA - Up to 40 million people will ~ be infected with HIV by the year 2000, ¯ according to an article published in the ¯ latest issue of the World Health Organi- ¯ zation Newsletter, and 90% of these new infections with be in developing coun- ¯ tries. The latest WHO projections represent a 105% increase in the number of ¯ HIV infections of 18 million adults and ¯ 1.5millionchildrenworldwide.TheWHO ¯ projections also noted that HIV infections : among women will increase to about 15 ¯ million within the next 5 years and that up : to 10 million children globally will be ¯ orphanedas aresultoftheepidemicbythe ¯ year 2000. : Studies On AZT’s Effectiveness ¯ BOSTON - Two seemingly conflicting ¯ studies of the drug AZT published in the ¯ latestissueoftheNewEnglandJournalof ¯ Medicine, in fact support the increasingly ¯ more common attitude among AIDS ex- ¯ perts that use of the drug alone i s ineffective in fighting AIDS and that starting ¯ infected patients on multiple anti-HIV -drug~ as qmcidy as possi01e is the best ~~edi~’cal course of action. A team of researchers led by Dr. ~anl Volberding Of the University of Califorma m San Francisco and Dr. Stephen Lagakos of Harvard University studied 2 groups of patients for more than 6 years, comparing the progress of 549 HIV-positive butasymptomat ic patients who were given only AZT, and 547 who did not get AZT until signs of approaching AIDS appeared. The researchers found there was no difference in the length of time it took for the appearance of full-blown AIDS or death. The results, consistent with earlier studies, suggest that AZT by itselfdoes little to delay the appearance of the disease in pe op!e who~ar-e infected by HIV but remain generally healthy. But a European study published along withitbyateam ledby Dr. Sabine KJnloch- De Loes. of Geneva University, reported that 39 people treatedwith AZT very early kept theirCD4counts above 500- a marker level used as an indicator in the progress of t he infection - about6 months 1onger than38people nottreated promptl The treated patients, typically got the drug within a few weeks of infection. In an accompanying editorial, Dr. Da,dd Ho of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center at New York University School of Medicine said that treating HIV with a single drug "is doomed to fail." Ho suggested that the reason the European study found a better response to AZT is that the viruses in its subjects had not had time tc develop many mutant varieties. HIV-2 ’Flare’ in U.S. Blood ATLANTA - The Centers for Disease Control &Prevention has announced that HIV-2 was found in only 2 blood donations in this country last year and kept out of the nation’s blood supply. In 1992, blood banks began testing for both HIV- 1 and HIV-2, which is primarily found in West Africa and rarely found in the U.S. Dr.. John Ward, head of the CDC’ s AIDS surveillance division, said that the U.S. blood supply continues to be safe. There have been no cases of HIV-2 infection through a blood transfusion in the U.S., Ward said. .AIDS Vaccine Tests Begin BANGKOK - A combined U.S.-Thai team of military doctors has begun drug trials of a potential AIDS vaccine made bv the U.S. finn Chiron Biocine, called S]~2 gpl20/MF 59. So far, 2 Thai volunteers have been injected with the drug, but 22 more will also receive the experimental vaccine during the 1st phase of the experiment, which will last 6 months, according to Lt. General Kamrob Saisuwm~ of the Armed Forces Research In stitute ofMedical Sciences (AFRIMS). U.S. Arnay Colonel Rodney Michael said that the vaccine has already been tested in the U.S. and that"it proved to be safe with no side effects.’" Experimental Thalidomide Trials OKed for PWAs WASHINGTON-Thalidomide, the tranquilizer that caused birth defects throughout Europein the 1950s, wil! be offered on an experimental basis to U.S. AIDS_patients whose bodies are wasting away, the drug’ s maker has announced. The special "expanded access" program, approved by the Food and Drug Administration, represents the broadest use of thalidomide ever allowed in the U.S. Celgene Corp. is conducting clinical trial s to see if its brand of thalidomide, known as Synovir, counteracts the severe weight loss and deterioration that plagues 150,000 AIDS patients. Questions about Effectiveness of Dental Disinfectant ¯ WASHINGTON - A study published in ¯ thejoumalNatureMedicineindicatesthat ¯ a chemical disinfectant commonly used ¯ On some medical and dental devices may : not kill HIV. In the laboratory, the scien- : tists discovered that the germ-killer glut- , araldehyde did not eliminate the virus in : bloodlodgedin lubricants frequentlyused : in dental equipment andin medical equip- ¯ ment calledendoscopes. : Researcher DavidLewis of the Univer- : sity of Georgia said, however, that none ¯ of the devices has ever been shown-to ¯ actually be the source of transmission of : .HIV. According to Lewis, the study : derscores theneed to sterilize dental equip- - ment at very high temperatures and indi- : cates that the standards for decontaminat- ’- ing endoscopes should be revised. : Canadian Red Cross and Lab ¯ Battled Over Blood ¯ TORONTO-Twoex-officials ofa Cana- : dian government-owned company testi- ¯ fled in court that the Canadian Red Cross ¯ and their company struggled for control ¯. over blood products as HIV entered the ¯ country’ s blood supply. ?dun Davies and ¯ William Cochrane, both ex-officials at ¯ Connaugh.t La.boratories Ltd., testified the ¯ two orgamzattons squabbled about who ¯ should make blood products for hemo- :. philiacs. Lawyers representing HIV-in- ¯ fected Canadians have claimed that the : CRC and. Connaught spent more time arguing over who should manufacture ¯ blood plasma than increasing the national blood supply’ s safety. Studies Say Legal Needles Cut HIV Infection Rate STAMFORD, Ct. - New studies indicate that needle-shanng among IV .drug addicts dropped 40% after Connecticut approved a law 3 years ago allowing pharmacies to sell syringes over the counter. The studies, published in the Journal of AcquiredImmune Deficiency Syndromes, concluded that the increased availability of clean needles should, therefore, stem the spread of HIV and make "a dramatic change in behavior at no cost to the public," according to Beth Weinstein, director of the AIDS unit of .the Connecticut Department of Health, which conducted the studies with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. One year after the needle laws took effect, 83%of the state’ s pharmacies were selling needles over the counter, and injection drug users were using them as their primary source of needles, accordmg to the studies. The 2nd study surveyed drug users at HIV counseling progra~ns. prisons and drug treatment centers in Connecticut where the authors found that less than a year after the law went into effect, 78% of those surveyed had bought syringes from apharmacy in th e previous month, while just 28% had purchased needles on the street. HIV Found In Semen Samples SEATTLE- According to a recent study, HIV is found in more than one-fifth of all semen samples from HIV-infected men, making unprotected sex with such men very risky. According to Dr. Ann Collier of the University of Washington at Seattle, a study of more than 100 semen samples from 16 HIV-positive men over a 2-year period found live and infectious virus 22% of the time. The presence of HIV appears to be sporadic and was not affected by whether or not the men were taking anti-viral medications at the time. FiOELITY HO/~E H E_ALTH .CA_RE, INC. 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M-Th., 10-5 pm Info: 749-4194 TOHRHelpline, Daily 8-10 pm For info. or to volunteer: 743-GAYS Tool Box Technicians, Leather org., Info c/o The Tool Box: 584-1308 T.U.L.S~4,- Tulsa & r Uniform Leather Seekers Assoc. Info: 838-1222 Britain’s military leaders have their strong resistance to any monte to lift the ban on homosexuals serving in the count~. ’s armed forces, and earlier this year the policy was upheld in the High Court. But!n issuing its ruling that upheld Parliament s right to say who could and could not join the military, one of the seniorjudges on the court said he rejected the challenge by 4 former servicepersonnel dischargedforbeinghomosexual "with hesitation and regret" and that the "tide of history"-was against the Ministry of Defense andurged a review of the policy. ha. a. press statement annou.neing the review, the Defense Ministry said,"In the light of this judgment the [ministry] has decided it must examine and assess the current policy with the aim of presenting a paper .of evidence to assist: the select committee on the subject ofhomosexuality in the armed forces." The review will be headed by a senior civil servant .and staffed by officers from the Royal Navy, Army and Air Force. The miuistry’s out- .... line of thereview wouldinvolve the policy being looked at from all levels. Commissioned officers and non-commissioned ranks will be asked to give evidence and fellow members ofNATOand other countries will be:visited to evaluate their own policies. -~ Stonewall, Britain’s leading gay rights Organization, welcomed the announcement and called for a moratorium on discharges from the armed services until the review had been completed. "Stonewall ¯ has always maintained that the ban is based on prejudice and prejudice alone," a Stonewall news release stated. gay and lesbian...groups want to promote in the schools," Sheldon said. "And thi~ agenda has been accomplished through the Centers for Disease Control with funding under the Trojan horse of AIDS education." In a fundraising newsletter, Sheldon said House Speaker Gingrich had promised him last year that the House would address the issue and that Sheldon was helping to’ organize the hearings. The Human Rights-Campaign Fund charged _thatRep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.), chairman Of the Oiiersightand Investigations subcommittee of the Economic and EducationalCommittee was"turning his committee over to a lobbyist.:.to spread his prejudice." Elizabeth Birch, executive, director of HRCF, said Sheldon was "shamelessly distorting the purpose of. programs designed to keep young people safe and healthy, Congress should resistthe temptation to stage sideshows for. right-wing lobbyists and get on with the business of govermng." .Hoekstra’s office confirmed that Sheldon was in fact involved in planning the hearings. The hearings, Hoekstra’s office said, will address legitimate concerns of parents who are concernedby several reforms in public ~education, ineluding distributing condoms and sex education in schools: Activists noted that the hearings were scheduledbyHoekstm’s staffwithout even notifying Democratic subcommitteemembers. The date became public only after the HRCF last week released a letter that Sheldon had sent to supporters. In ~e 20-minute address during the °iunchbreak ofthe conference, Birchcalled for a new ethic in the public dialog. "We may work for different outcomes.... but we can engage in an ethic of basic respect and decency." The Greening of Gay by Pat Morehead : Well, it has been a big week for public : coverage of the "Gay 90’s". We got En- ¯ tertainment WeeNy, we got electronic ¯ coverage of the benefit presentation of Birch s speech was delivered despite " "The Sum of Us", plus a review in the being rebuffed by a Coalition spokesman : daily paper. The National networks have after formally requesting,to SlZ~,ak at the ¯ us scattered round and about both in hard Conference. Ihave had the opportunity to : news and in magazine.features. Entermeet thousands of individuals from all ¯ -~tainment Tonight is focusing on WONG - ¯ walks of life who have grave concerns ¯ FOO and "Jeffery". Whewwww! about misconceptions put forth by repre- : So where am I headed with this you ...... sentativesoftheChiistianCoalitionwhen ’ ask? All of this has lead me- to a rather’- " addressing the hopes, dreams and aspira- ¯ startling supposition. Is it possible that - tions-of lesbian and gay Americans and ~ ’Gay’ has become in some sense fashiontheir families, Birch wrote in a July 5 able.-Are we m , even in Tulsa? Have letter, to Christian Coalition Executive " we in effect become the flavor of the Director Ralph Reed. I believe that it is : month like Birkenstock shoes, Santa Fe -¯..time to address our differences face .to ¯ style cookery, ormountain bikes? Lordy, face, she wrote. :. say it ain’t so! ¯ When the formal request was turned " I can see it all now. Wewill suddenly be down, Birch decided to reserve a room in ¯ in demand by our ever so trendy straight ¯ the same hotel that would host the confer- ¯ associates. They will all want to accom- ¯ ence, to deliver her message directly to ~ pany us into the nether world of Cowboy ¯ Christian Coalition members. "Although ~ styleGaybars. We will serveas thecenter ¯ yourpodiumwas not available tome, I am ¯ of focus at backyard barbecues, cocktail ¯ grateful for those who have come today .": gatherings and small informal dinners. and will giveme the ’benefit of the doubt". -" We will be quizzed on exactly what it is and be willing to consider what I have to o that two men can do together in bed. say." ¯ Lesbians unfortunately will not receive TheHuman Rights Campaign Fund .:.’this same kind attention, because the (HRCF), the nation’s largest lesbian & " womenalreadyknowtheanswers tothose gay political organization, works to end : kinds of questions. discrimination, secure equalrights, &pro- ¯ The more daring straight men will sugtect the health and safety of.all Ameri- : gest that if the proper precautions are cans, HRCFlobbies the federal govern- : observed, they might be willing to ment on lesbian, gay, & AIDS issues; ¯ "dabble" in our excesses. Simpatico feeducates the general public; and partici- - ~ males will secretly caress our butts while pates in election campaigns. " whispering inour ears see nextpage Love is an adventure when one of you IS stile... and the other is positi~’e. ~1995 ORION PICTURES CORR ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Opening Soon = Movies 8, 68th & Memorial, 250 4513 ¯ Sunday Services 11:00 am ¯ Wednesdays 6:30 pm Potluck 7:00 pm Bible Study ¯ 8:00 pm Choir Practice j To do justice, love mercy & to walk humbly with our God... Micah 6:8 I 5451-E S. Mingo ¯ Tulsa, OK 74146 . (918) 622-1441 Tulsa World Opening Masterworks Concert featuring music of WALT DISNEY’S FANTASIA¯ Create your own image on September 23 at 8 p,m, in Tulsa’s Performing Arts Center, Call 747-7445 for tickets and information] i t that they know just what we need. Ministers will feel a need to call us forth befor~ the congregation and give us brotherli¢ hugs (while a few will secretly caress our butts and whisper in our ears that they know just what we need) along with announcements of acceptance within the Lord’s eyes. (These will be primarily Episcopalian and Unitarian Ministers, nix on the Baptists and most of the Methodists). Politicians will drag their Gay staffers out in front of press conferences to extol the staffers dedication and the pol’s openness to lifestyles of alternative natures. (No Oklahoma Politicians will take this step but the rest of the c.ountry will. The Oklahoma Pol’s will presume they HAVEno Gay staffers!) , .... Be fear not my Brothers. This too Shall pass, and probably by Christmas. We will be replaced by the newest wave of deep muscle massage therapy or Santa Fe style andmade pnnntlve Christmas decorations. Yes, we will drift back into the oblivion of the passe’, excluding, of course, the decorators, hair stylists and florists. No more invitations, insinuated seductions or public displays of empathy and solidarity. Oh, the homoerotic advertising images will remain for awhile. And Hollywood will turn out the occasional Gay thematic film, but not too Gay of course. We will have our season ofever so appropriate and politically correct Gay Television characters who will live without real relationships while beingbefriended by concerned yet politically correct.straight associates. At least until the ratings drop below the 32rid ~lot mark in the ratings sweeps. Yes, our moment in the.glare of public acceptance will have burnt itself out. And I say, the better off we will be. My little life with its trials and failures will be just another little life. I prefer neither to be placed on a rail and ridden out of town, noron apedestal. Theflavors ofthemonth can come and go. I don’t care to be a flavor ofthe month, thank youvery much.. No, I want to be the ’bitter herbs’, not often USed, but a mainstay in seasoning the life of the world. Except for maybe all that "secret butt caressing" part. Pat Morehead is a Tulsan whose commentariesfocus on art, politics & more. NW 39th Street strip and this police offleer admitted in court that the citizenhad not made a sexual offer but had described his preference in sexual activity. ACLU-OKattorneys who include Mark Henrickson, Shirley Wiegand and others seek to challenge not only the OKC statute (which appears to ban.all discussions of sex except between married spouses) but also Oklahoma’s "’crimes against nature" statute which treats oral and anal sex as a felony crime for both heterosexuals and hOmosexuals. Because this law was found to be unconstitutional for heterosexuals in a 1.986 case, it’s felt that the higher courts may find the statute unconstitutional as it applies to homosexuals too. The hopeis that if the "crimes against nature" statute is invalid then also conversation about private consensual non-commercial acts cannot be criminalized either. Camfield said that typically the Court of Criminal Appeals moves quickly and a rifling might have come at the hearing. However, the Court has taken the case under ad.visemem and timing of aruling is not certain. The New Cars Are just Around The Corner. We Ha~e Rem.a/_.-~ng "95 Models At Botto,n Line Prices- While They Last! s10,798 includes: Air, Am/Fm Cassette & More. Includes D;:ag A~r Bags s500 s249. CASH BACK MONTHLY" 5.6o/o APR NOW AVAILABLE. LIST $29,619 - Sale $24,988 s 15,626 $4,631 Includes: Power Windows & Locks, 6 Disc CD DOHC 140 H.P. En0ine & More Changer, Aw. Cnlise. Inlinity Sound S.ystem & More. *MSRP $18,069. sale price $17,121. 41 payments of $249, s mo. last payment of 9522.21. ot walk a way. 12.000 miles a yr. free. 15¢ a mile thereafter. W.A.C. don carlton MITSUBISHI 665,6595 46th & Memorial ¯ FAMILY FINANCES Procrastination Is Expensive by LeanneGross Two twins, Jean and Jan, had different ideas about saving. When Jean turned 30, she started an IRA (Individual Retirement Account). Each year, for 6 years, Jean ¯ contributed the maximum amount (for : her) of $2,000 to her IRA. At age 36, Jean : had put away $12,000. Then she stopped ¯ contn.’buting - however her money kept ¯ growing. Jan had other plans. She opened an IRA, but she waited until she was 41. For ¯ 25 years, Jan contributed $2,000 each ¯ year. Her out-of-pocket investment, then, : was $50,000. : On their 65th birthday, the twins sat ¯ downtogetherandcomparedplans. Jean’ s ¯ IRA was worth $200,432 ’ nbt bad for an ¯ out-of-pocket investment of $12,000. Jan checked her IRA statement and found her account was worth only $170,401. How could this be? Jan asked. Compounding interest?Time to let your dollars workfor you! Jean earned $30,031 more than Jan because Jr~n started to save earlier. In this case, the cost of~ procrastination was $30,031. Y,oumay not be30 yeaa s old ;however, don tput offshving any longer. Talk to a professional today!! Timothy W. Daniel Attorney at Law Know Your Rights! Estate Planning, Adoptions, Personal Injury, Criminal Law, Bankruptcy & Workers Compensation 1-800-742-9468 or 918-352-9504 128 East Broadway, Drumright, Oklahoma Weekend and evening appointments are available. Y R-epublican Congressman Blasts Dole WASHINGTON - Rep. Steve Gunderson (R-Wisc.), one of only three openly gay members of Congress, asked Senate Majority .Leader Bob Dole, a leading contender for the GOP presidential nomination, if the Kansas Republican was rejectmg his support after Dole returned a.campaign contribution to a gay Republican organization last month. In the mean- -time, the campaign contribution from the Log Cabin Club was instead given to Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Penna.). Gunderson, who was one of the first members of Congress to publicly endorse Dole, said in a causticletter to the Senateleader, "Are you rejecting the support of anyone who happens to be gay? If this is so, do youintend to now reject my support and request those on your staff who happen to be gay to resign?" Dole return.-ed the $1,000 donation fromhe Log Cabin Club, which his campaign had originally solicited, after it was publicizedin August, saying he does ¯ not accept funds from groups ¯¯ not sharing his views. In his letter, Gunderson, who ¯ was Wisconsin chairman of ¯ Dole’ s unsuccessful 1988 presi- ¯ dential campaign, said, "As one : who has championed your political career for years, you must ¯ know how muchthis disappoints ¯ me .... The Bob Dole I know ," does not support discrimination ¯ againstpersonsjustbecause they ¯ aregay."Dole’ s campaignhead- : quarters acknowledged receiv- ¯ ing Gunderson’ s letter, but so far : has not commented on it. : Following the flap surround- " ing Dole’ s rebuff of the gay Republicans, the Log Cabin Club gave the returned $1,000 contri- ¯ bution to the presidential cam- . paign bid being mounted by ¯ Specter, who unhesitatingly ac- .: cepted it. "I write to thank you ¯ for the contribution of the LOg ¯ Cabin Republicans to my presi- ¯ dential campaign," Specter said ¯ in aletter to the group. "As I said ; inmy openletter to the members ¯ of Log Cabin Republicans gath- ¯ ered for your national meetingin ¯ Cincinnati, I welcome the sup- " port of all Americans who op- ¯ pose discrimination and who ¯ seek amore limited government, ¯ joining the principles of fiscal ¯ conservatism with social liber- ¯ tarianism." : Rich Tafel, Log Cabin’ s ex- ¯ ecutive director, said Specter"is ¯ taking on the radical right, while : otherGOPcandidates like Sena- ¯ tor Dole are bowing to them. He knows the politics of exclusion will ruin the chances for a Republican victory in’ 96." Far-Right Org. Wants GOP to. Return Gay $. WASHINGTON - The Family Research Council, a conservative anti-gay fundamentalist organization, has demanded that the National Republican Coniressional Committee return 5,000 it received in campaign contributions from the Human Rights Campaign Fund, the gay rights lobbying organization. The committeeraises campaignfunds for Republican candidates ironing for seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. "People don’t think about the moral messages they send with the money they take," said Kristi Hamrick, a spokeswomanfor the Family Research Council. "If the Republican Party says that lifestyle makes no difference then they are undermining the family," she said. "If Congressman Gunderson holds out as the cost of his involvement acceptance ¯of his lifestyle as being equal to mamage, then that’s ¯ clearly a problem." The GOP ¯ congressional fundraising com- : mittee made no comment on the ~ demand. Reviewed by Barry Hensley Head, Circulation Department Tulsa City-County Library Are you planning a vacation this winter? If Miami, Florida or London, England are on your agenda, you may want to check the travel gnides at the Tulsa City-County Library, particularly "Detour’s Miami" and "Detour’s London." These are alternative guides "forthosewho don’t necessarily travel the straight and narrow." They are typical travel guides, but geared toward the Gay/Lesbian traveler. Each guide deals with basic information (transportation, climate, tourist sights)’ as well as more specific sections of interest to Gay/Lesbian visitors (local newspapers and resources, fun secuons of town, local laws and safety considerations). ¯ Gay/Lesbian-friendly hotels, stores, restaurants and clubs make up the bulk of the listings, since it is expected that travelers would want to frequent hospitable establishments. Surrounding towns and cides are also examined with maps, photographs and suggested itineraries. You’ll also learn some interesting facts about these destinations. It’ s amusing to find out "- that one of Miami’ s most strik- ¯ ing examples of modern design, ¯ the Centrust Building, is flood- " lighted nightly with colors ap- : propriate to events and seasons; ¯ red and green for Christmas, or- " ange and black for Halloween ¯ and pink for Gay Pride Day! ¯ You’ll learn that, in London, ¯ at the Women’s Pond in ¯ Hampstead Heath Park, "you’ll ¯ belucky to finda squaremetreof ¯ grass that is not teeming with ¯ Lesbians." Call yourtravel agent ¯ and start packing! ¯ Currently, the libr.ary carries ¯ these two "Detour’ s" guides for ¯ checkout. There is also a refer- : ence copy which cannot be ¯ checked out of the "Damron ¯ Guide". Ithas.similar, butmuch ¯ more general information. Look ~ forthe"Detour" guides and other ¯ travel guides for check-out in ¯ the Reader’s Services Depart- " ment,2ndfloor, Central Library, ¯ or call 596-7966. "The Land Specialists" Eureka Springs 501-253-9682 (days) OR 501-253-8969 (evenings) ONE OFA KIND BUSINESS FOR SALE DON’T MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY Other offerings include: Bed & Breakfast Inns., Victorian Homes, Hotels/Motels, Commercial Properties/Businesses, Quiet Country Estates, and much more. McClung Realty, Inc. has catered to the diverse GIL/B/TG community in Eureka Springs for over 20 years. Call or write for a listing brochure. Or better yet, stop in, and we 71 show you around. We specialize in creative financing. Tropical Caribbean Feb. 11-18,1996, $795-1950 Deep Caribbean Feb. 18-25,1996, $795=1950 Mexican Riviera March 17-24,1996, $795-2495 French Canada June 30 - July 7,1996, $895~2295 Call International Tours 9/8-34/-6866 RSVP ,,,~,! .~_~. Metropolitan Community Church of Greater Tulsa Where God Uplifts All People Sunday Service, 10:45 am Wednesday Service, 6:30 pm Home Cell Groups, 2nd & 4th Sundays 1623 No. Maplewood, Tulsa 74115, 838-1715 Family Fun Time in Eureka Springs by Phil Boler-Schmidt Family fun time takes on a whole new meaning after the childrenhaveretumed to school. There is no better time of year to take a real family vacation to Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Family, of course, takes on a new meaning of its own when one talks about the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered communities. That’s what Imean when I talk about family. Autumnis uponus, the"other" families are restingup from their Summer vacations, there is less competition for tourist attractions, and the colors are about to burst forth in the Ozarks. It’s a great time to come play .in what I call utopia. Eureka Springs has long been known for its eccentricities, and it is no well-kept secret that our kind offamily canbefounddamnear everywhere. While visiting in the Heart of the Ozarks, you can stay at any one ofanumberoffamily-owned bed and breakfastinns, motels or hotels. And, there are a number of family-friendly places too. Accomodations range from plush cottages complete withinroom jacuzzis to small, quaint motel rooms. Plush, upscale hotel suites are a possibility too as well as luxurious, in-house rooms. The entire range of ammeuities can be found here. Out-To-Eats can be a true artform in Eureka Springs. Family- owned eateries abound as do the friendly places. You can partake of fine dining on tree Italian, home-cookedcuisine or high class Ameican fare. Evenings ¯ with good music are easy to find : at a number of fine places that ¯ serve cocktails and dinner. A ." quiet, romantic dinner is pos- : sible with about every ethnic ¯ variety of food here. ¯ Clubs tofrequent is a luxury in : this utopia in the heart of the ¯ Bible Belt. Whenever family ¯ asks me, "Where can we go and ¯¯ be safe?", I have to laugh. Not because it is all that funny, but I ¯ usually relay a story a friend told ¯ me when I asked the very same : question a year ago. ¯ As long as you stick to the ¯ Historic District, you can go in : any club you like If you want to ¯ sit in the comer and hold hands : or kiss, no one is going to give ¯ you grief. If some redneck from, : you guessedit, Tulsa, gives you ¯ arough time, they will throw out ¯ the redneck, not you. ¯ So, suffice it to say that eve- " uings out on the town are a treat ¯ in Eureka Springs. : As fordaytime activities, there : are a lot to choose from. You could dress up in turn-of-the- ¯ century garb and have your pie- " ture taken for posterity at The Imagey. ¯ You could try your hand at fly fishing in one of our rivers or ¯ lakes. All the equipment you : couldpossiblyeverneedisavail- ¯ able at the Beaver Darn Store. ¯ Professional guides are also ¯ standingby shouldyoubeanov- ¯ ice and want instruction or a ¯ seasoned fisherman/womanand ¯ want a tuneup or someone to ¯ show you the area’s best spots. ¯ If you are into shopping, you : could make a trip downtown and ." shop ’til you drop. Looking for ¯ family gifts? Everything you ¯ want or need, plus all kinds of ¯ metaphysical, pagan, and : magickal supplies, are a short ¯ descent of the stairs away atThe : Emerald Rainbow, the only shop : in town that carries gay/lesbian ¯ memorabilia. ¯ Shopping for real estate? ~ Come upstairs from The Emer- ¯ aid Rainbow to McClung Realty -" (family-friendly) andhavealook ; at what,s available in residential : While visiting in the : Heart of the Ozarks, ¯ you can stay at any one ~ of a number of family- : owned bed and break- : fast inns, motels or ¯ hotels. And, there are i a number of familyi friendly places too. : Aeeomodations range i from plush cottages i complete with in-room ¯ jaeuzzis to small, i quaint motel rooms. or commecial property, businesses or land. There are plenty of tours of the area too. Some show you around the Historic District by van or bus, and one shows you through the US 62 area in a unique and fun way. If you take the Duck Tours (family-friendly), you will ride a World War II reconditioned amphibeous military assault vehicle through town then onto Lake Leatherwood with a splash. Eureka Springs is known for it’s country m~ic shows and The Great Passion Play. These are two of the main attractions to the area, mostly to the "other" type of family. But, if you want to take in some of this type of entertainment, most attractions are open through the end of October. I wouldn’t suggest holdmghands orkissing there though. You might get a pretty chilly reception. Other area attractions that are must-sees are. the various caves that offer self-guided tours and Eureka Gardens, a splendor to behold with botanical gardens that go on and on. Thomcrown Chapel is a wonder Of modem architecture that must be witnessed to bebelieved. And, don’t forget St.-Elizabeth’s Church, the only Roman Catholic church in the country where you enter through the bell tower. While in Eureka Springs, there are a number of family-owned sevice businesses of which you may want to take advantage. If you are looking for dog grooming, while here, stop in and visit Greenwood Hollow. A complete range of body piercing sev~ces is available locally through Bill Croft at Ozark Primitives. There are a number of qualified massage therapists in town, and I suggest either the Palace Hotel & Bath House or Healing Benefits Massage Therapy to soothe your tired, aching muscles. Kim Ridenour, a professional astrologer accredited with the American Federation ofAstrologers, offers the full range of astrological services and will do either individual or composite readings. She also offers Tarot readings at The Emerald Rainbow. And,just in case you are looking to put together a computer system, upgrade your existing one, or just learn a little more about computers, that’s what I do. Whatever else you plan to do whilein Eureka Springs,remember to bring your camera or camcorder. Autumn in the Ozarks is Something to behol& and our area has numerous lookouts from which to take memorable snapshots or videos. I first st,~trted putting together information for this article more than a month ago, and I have to admit, I was stuck for away to adequately present our familyownedandfamily- friendly businesses in a way that made sense without having to clutter up newspaper space with addresses and phone numbers. Then, I realized that I was forgetting one importanflocal family- owned business that could make myjob easy. Positive Idea Marketing Plans (PIMP, of course, for short) specializes in putting together family vacation packages for the discriminating. PIMP also offers retreats for groups in the beauty oftheOzark countryside. My suggestion to all wanting to have a great family fun time in Eureka Springs is to call PIMPat 501-253-2401 and let the professionals put it all together for you. If you’re not sure where to stay or eat, PIMP will have the answers and will even make the arrangements for you. I like it when people make my job easy! See you in Eureka Springs. Hwy. 62 East Eureka Springs, Ad(ansas 501-253-6001 DAVE HAGER RUTH GOODWIN-HAGER S.U.A.E. Adult Accommodationa ’the In Eureka Springs, Arkansas Craftsman-style cottages with beautiful views of the woods and wildlife -,Tucked on top of the Ozark Mountains, just a few minutes walk to the Historic Village of Eureka Springs. 501/253-8281 Frank Green Jr.. Host - 50 Wall Street - Eureka Springs, Arkansas 72632 A UTHENTIC ITALIAN CUISINE FRESH RAINBOFF TROUT of Eureka Springs Recommended by the New York Times (~01) 253-6807 5 Center Street Closed ~’ednesday Eureka Springs, AR 72632 .Romantic, quiet & secluded Family-owned & operated Guest Cottage with A Jacuzzi for two, And private parking, All only 1/2 block to downtown. 9 Benton Street Eureka Springs, Arkansas 72632 501.253.2204 ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ Jerry A. Wilson (501) 2S3-7311 1-8~0-231-1442 KINGS HI-WAY INN 96 Kings Highway ¯ Hwy. 62 W. ¯ Eureka Springs, AR 72632 ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ o ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ CIVIL RIGHTS HELP? How To Do It First 30 words are $10. Eacfl additional word is 25 cents. 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FOR/v~ORE IN FOR/vkATION CALL ¯(918-) . 84-4.98 Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data newspaper periodical Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource [1995] Tulsa Family News, September 15-October 14, 1995; Volume 2, Issue 10 Subject The topic of the resource Politics, education, and social conversation toward Tulsa’s Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual communities. Description An account of the resource Tulsa Family News was a monthly newspaper; No. 1 issued December 1993-January 1994. The final issue available was published in September 0f 2001 (Volume 8, Issue 9). The newspaper brings up important, evolving topics of marriage, Pride, TOHR, HIV/AIDs, events, advice, and politics all at the local and national level. 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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 Serving Tulsa’s Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual Communities - Our Families of the Heart October 15 - November 14, 1995, Volume 2, Issue 11 Largent Responds: The NAMES Project will present a portion oftheAIDS Memorial Quilton October 13-15 at the Tulsa Fairgrounds Expo Square Pavilion. For schedule, see p. 9. National Coming Out Day in Tulsa Several Tulsa orgamzations held National Coming Out Day (NCOD) events. Family of Faith Metropolitan Community Church had 35 people attend its Wednesday evemng service which commemoratedNCOD. PastorNancy Horvath noted that the service used a special liturgy with eight candles to represent the rainbow, At the University ofTulsa, the Bisexual, See NCOD, page ] 1 OUT AT THE FAIR Nation’s Largest Coming Out Event Held in Dallas by Gip Plaster The nation’s largest celebration of National Coming Out Day (NCOD), featuring Candace Gingrich and Chastity Bono, was held at the State Fair of Texas in Dallas onOctober 8. The celebration drew larger than expected crowds, organizers said. "This is exactly what we hoped for in our wildest dreams," said Susan Gore, cochair of NCOD in Dallas. Candace Gingrich, the sister of Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and Chastity Bono, daughter of actress and singer Cher and U.S. Rep. See Dallas, page 10 Marriage Update HONOLULU-A special commission set up to evaluate the impact of excluding gays and lesbians from legally marrying in Hawaii has been considering the economicimpactofthe issuerecently. Among some 100 benefits and rights opposite-sex couples currently enjoy under the state’s marriage laws that same-sex couples are see Marriage, page 11 US Supreme Court Begins Amend. 2 A ppeal Hearings WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Courtbegan its new session in early October with the appeal by the state of Colorado to reinstate the anti-gay Amendment 2, which was narrowly approved by voters only to be later declared unconstitusee Court, page 10 Oklahoma Edu,cational Association (OEA) Attacks Lesbian/Gay History Proposal The Oklahoma Eduacation Association (OF_A) has sought to distance itself from a national resolution that proposed to recognize the historical contributions of Lesbians and Gay men. In response to attacks on the National Educational Association (NEA) resolution by Beverly LaHaye of Concerned Women of America, the OEA released statement declaring that its delegates to the conference this last summer had voted overwhelmingly against the resolution. The resolution had been proposed as one means of combatting the higher rate of teenage suicide among Lesbian and Gay youth. OEA sent out a negative flyer toits membership on the NEA resolution. The OEA claimed to be concerned about the issue of youth suicide but stated that this resolution was not the appropriate means for addressing the issue. Officially, the OEA would responded to all questions or requests for clarification with "no comment". An OEA staffperson indicated that they had not yet spent any time developing a "more appropriate" response nor could she provide a time line for such an effort. Tulsa Classroom Teachers Association (TCTA) also sent a flyer to its membership disassociating itself from the resolution. Public Schools Chief Agrees to Meeting Dr. John Thompson, superintendent of Tulsa Public Schools will speak to Tulsa’s Lesbian/Gay communities and friends on Monday, Oct. 30 from 7-8pro at Family of Faith Metropolitan Commtmity Church, 5451 e South Mingo. While Dr. Thompson will speak primarily on the upcoming school bond dection, he expressed a willingness to hear community concerns. All community, members are welcome but those with ties to the educational system are especially encouraged to attend. For more information, call Tulsa Family News at 583-1248 or Family of Faith at 622-1441. Green Country Pride and TOHR Call Community Wide Leadership Meeting Tulsa Oklahomans forHuman Rights (TOHR) and Green Country Pride, a grassroots, action-oriented community organization are joining tO sponsor an open meeting to discuss community-wide goals on Tues. Nov 7 in the Chouteau Room of the Alan Chapman Activity Center at the University of Tulsa. see Meeting, page 10 TOHR -Nominates,-~Offi.cers for 1996 Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights (TOHR), Tulsa’s oldest Lesbian/Gay community organization, nominated officers at its Oct. 3 meeting. The following were selected by the nominating committtee: Debi Starnes - president, Miriam Childers -lst vice president, Rob Hill - 2rid vice president, Sue Minshall - secretary and Pam Pretz - treasurer. No nominations were made from the floor. Under TOHR@laws, nominations are closed and a vote will be taken at the Nov. 7th meeting. AIDS Walk ’95 Has Highest Turnout Ever Organizers of Walk This ~Vay, AIDS Walk Tulsa ’95 estimated that 150 to 200 people participated in this year’s event on Sat. Sept. 30. Steve Eberle, one of the Walk organizers, said the event raised about $6000 to benefit VNA - Visiting Nurse Association, TOHR Testing Clinic, MTSAS - Metropolitan Tulsa Substance Abuse Services, Inc. Indian Health Care, IAM, Rainbow Village, HIV Resource Consortium, Hospice of Green Country, SJR, RAIN - ReNonalAIDS Interfaith Networt¢, Ahalaya and MAC. Organizers noted that the first Walk had only about 50 participants and that this year’s walkers were more broadly representative of the city - not just the "hard-core" HIV/ AIDS workers & volunteers. Eberle added that the event organizers hope to ~ncrease the funds raised by seeking corporate donations. The event was recognized both by Tulsa Mayor Susan Savage whose aide Hilary Kitz attended and by Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating who issued a proclamation recognizing the Walk. Red Ribbon Treefest Entries Sought The Red Ribbon Treefest is decorating a tree, or purchasing an annual event where dec¯- rated holiday trees are auctioned to raise funds for local HIV/ ~€7 AIDS organizations. This year’s ~1~ proceeds will-benefit the HIV . Resource Consortium’s prescription drug program and to assist Interfaith AIDS Ministries 800AIDS information telephone line. This year’s Treefest will be held at the Spotlight Theatre at ]~i~ilOI! 1318 Riverside Drive on Sun- Treefest day, Dec. 3, with a reception at 4pm and the auction at 5:30. The Red Ribbon Treefest Committee invites individuals and organizations to participate by volunteering, a tree. Direct donations are also welcome with checks made to Interfaith AIDS Ministries. To decorate a tree or to volunteer, -please contact the Committee by Nov. 1statPOB 35844, Tulsa 74153. Tree set-up will be from 9-3pmon Sunday, Dec. 3. The SpotlightTheatre has a number of steps at the front entrance. Handicapped access can be arranged by calling 663-5372. Specifications: trees must be amaximum of six feet high and artificial. No lights are permitted. All trees should have a title reflecting the theme of the tree - no red ribbon theme, please. No to General Job Protections, But No Discrimination In His Office Hiring During his campaign a year ago, member of Congress for the 1st District, Steve I_argent, promised to meet with Tulsa’s Lesbian/Gay communities. In March, he came to the Metropolitan Church of Greater Tulsa and listened to community concerns. At that meeting, he pledged to consider a proposed bill, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which would prohibit work place bias based on sexual orientation. Specifically, I_argent promised to respond in writing to Tulsa Family News editor/publisher Tom Neal. (His letter is reproduced on page 3.) see Largent, page 10 Say No to Hate Walk The Say No to Hate Coalition is sponsoring acommemorative ~valk at 11:30am on Friday, Oct. 20 from 1st Street and Cincinnati across the Martin Luther King Bridge along Archer and ends at the Universtty Center at Tulsa, 700 No. Greensee No Hate, page 10 Nov. Performance Supports Interfaith AIDS Ministries The Long Way ’Round to Ninevah, the Jonah story in song & dance, will be presented at All Souls Unitarian Church, 2952 S. Peoriaon Sat. Nov. 11 at 2pro and at 7pro. This two act play appeals to all ages and will help supportInterfaithAIDS Ministries. Info: 438-2437 or 663-5372. DIRECTORY P. 2 NEWS BRIEFS P.-4 HEALTH BRIEFS P. 6 CALENDAR P. 9 FINANCES P. 11 EUREKA NEWS P. 12-1:3 PERSONALS P. 15 918-583-1248 POB 4140 Tulsa, Oklahoma 74159-0140 TulsaNews@ aoi.com Publisher/Editor Issued on or before the 15th of each month, the.:~atire.contents of Tom Neal this publication are protected byUS copyright 1995 by Tulsa Family Assistant Editor News and may not be reproduced either in whole or in part without James Christjohn written permission from the publisher. Publication of a name or Writers/contributors ph,.,oto does not indicate that person’s sexual orientation. Kharma Amos ~orrespondence is assumed to be for publication unless otherwise Laurie Cooper noted, must be signed & becomes the sole property ofTulsa Family Shelly Roberts News. All correspondence should be sent to the address above. Each Staff Photographer reader is entitled to one free copy of each edition at distribution JD Jamett points. Additional copies are available at Tomfoolery! Comprehension-impaired reader? Thefollowin~ letter is reprinted as i’eceived: " I read your newspaperand accept your challenge to disagree. You claim to be traditional in your goals. Basing your goals on what tradition? The tradition of family cannot be carried out with the act of homosexuality, their (sic) cannot be a completion to the act of sexuality for the gift of life has been dosed. It is contrary to natural law, you dose the future of the human race. For most homosexuals, they do not choose their condition, itis a trial, as weall have our trials in life, the cross we are given to carry; as christians (sic) refer to it. I may have a strong tendency to a quick temper, I could even say I inherited it from my grandparents, but that doesn’t make it right for me not to control my temper. All peoplemust have respect and compassion for one another but that is not to confuse right from wrong. We are all called to the virtues of self-mastery that teach us inner freedom. By prayer and sacramental grace we can reach this goal. Your friend in Christ, - Kathie Jackson Editor’s response: Thanks for writing. We do welcomedialogueandthe exchangeofviews. However. you appear to be confused about our challenge. When we mentioned "traditional goals,’" we were referring to our specific goalsfor this newspaper- that is the "traditionar’ role ofnewspapers tn minority communities, and newspapers in the broader community. While we could have been slightly more clear in stating this, we think you failed to read the essay with enough care. The challenge we offered was to our community: Lesbians. Gay men. Bisexuals &’-~’ransgendered folk. and ourfamilies andfriends, to discuss and debate where we are and where we need to go. Frankly, you a~rrelevant to that debate andyour arguments are ancient, flawed and not worthy of the newsprint. However, since you appear to have acted in goodfaith, and to warn others ofyour ilk, we are printing your letter. We are interested in debate by members of our commumty about our issues. We are not interested in providing space to those who want to debate our very existance. - Tom Neal Thefollowing isfrom our assistant editor who’s more inclined to try to educate: Speaking for those of us involved with the paper, and for most people in the Gay and Lesbian community, webase our goals on. the traditions of love for our family members, friends and lifemates. Our traditions are not so different than yours. We all seek love, a happy home, and someone to share it with. Many have high morals standards ofhonesty, integrity, and dignity. Many ofus are religious. We have and are parts of families - mother, fathers, -sisters,brothers, nieces,nephews. Gay people can, and do have children. Gay folk have them because they want them, not by accident, like so many unplanned children. In the Gay families I have seen, they are raised in a loving, supportive enviroument. As for the statement that Homosexuality is contrary to nature, any biologist can tell you that see next column Are we our own worst enemies? "GWNI, 28, 5’8", 150 lbs., straight acting/appearing, lookingforsameforfun andpossible relationship. Enjoy evenings out dancing as well as quiet times at home. NOfats, fems, drugs. If interested, please contact~" This could be the typical personal ad placed in many Tulsa Gay and Lesbian publications. This could be the typical personal ad placed in placed in Gay papers all over the U.S. One would think after years of reading such ads, one would overlook or dismiss them as, at the most, unimaginative. cannot. Whenever I see these ads, I become angry at the stereotyped attitudes shown. "Straight acting and appearing, what is this supposed to mean? If you want a relationship with a man who is masculine and presents a masculine appearance, say so. To call yourself "straightacting" only perpetuates typical gay stereotypes of the limp-wristed effeminate male. I would much rather be involved with someone who is honest, self-confident, secure, and proud ofwhomthey are, than someone who feels a need to be "’straightacting". "No fats, ferns, or drugs." Need I say more? Has amoreover-used, cliched expressionbeen written? Use height/weight proportionate, masculine, or drug-free, but bury this tired, hackneyed expression once and for all. I recently read a personal ad that dosed with the line, "No HIV+, trash, or weirdos." Perhaps I am overly sensitive, but being an HIV+ gay male, I take offense at being lumped together with trash and weirdos. I respect anyone’s desire for an HIV+ or HIV- partner, and it is quite possible that the author did not intend to convey this message. Gay men and Lesbians can often be their own worst enemy. To me, the use of stereotypes and insensitive remarks, whether intentional or not, is unacceptable. If we, as Gays and Lesbians, cannot treat each other with compassion and be free of stereotypical attitude, how can we possibly expect heterosexuals and society as a whole to do the same? - Stephen R. Edlich homosexuality occurs in nature quite often, and in many specxes. As for closing the future of the human race, I think it’s a bit premature (or too late, depending on how you look at it) to have a real fear of this happening. Homosexuals make up about ten percent of the population That leaves roughly mnety percent of the population quite .capable of repopulating the earth. We repopulate too, but we’re more careful about it. I am currently taking an environmental biology course at a local university. According to the textbook, ’q’oday there are well over 5 billion humans, and it is likely that our numbers will increase to more than 8 billion in your lifetime. We are in danger of overwhelming the earth with too many people. The earth has limited resources and the human population is using up,. encroaching upon, fouling, and wasting them." ("Environment", Raven, Berg, & Johnson) If the human race is to disappear, it will be due to too many people, not the fact that there are homosexuals. -James Christjohn Tulsa Clubs & Restaurants *Bad Boyz Club, 1229 S. Memorial *Concessions, 3340 S. Peoria Ground Zero, 311 E. 7th *Lola’s, 2630 E. 15th *Silver Star Saloon, 1565 Sheridan *Renegades/Rainbow!Room, 1649 S. 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Main DeVito’s Restaurant, 5 Center St. *Emerald Rainbow, 45&1/2 Spring St. King’s Hi-Way, 96 Kings Highway, Hwy. 62W *MCC of the Living Spnng McClung Realtors Purple Iris Inn, Route 6, Box 339 Southern Rose Bed & Breakfast, 9 Benton Sparky’s, Hwy. 62 East *The Woods, 50 Wall St. *The Diner, 2124 NW 39th *Jungle Red, The Habana Inn *Oasis Community Center, 2135 NW 39th *Triangle Association, 2136 NW 390; 501-253-7457 501-253-6807 501-253-5445 800-231-1442 501-253-9337 501-253-9682 501-253-8748 501-253-2204 501-253-6001 501-2534÷ 281 .... "~28-5 I33 ~,24-5733 405-525-243"7 405-843-~378 Tulsa, Oklahoma 74159 Thank you for contacting me with your views. I appreciate hearing from you. ’H.~.. 1863,tba Employment Non-Discrimination Act, prohibits employers from discriminating against individuals based on that individual’s "sexual orientation." The Act exempts the Armed Forces, religious organizations and businesses with under 15 employee~. I strongly support each individual’s Constitutional civil rights including equal opportunity. However, I do not believe that a person’s lifestyle or behavior makea them eligible for bebav~io~r-sp~c~o_p.ro,.t~ons. lawstha~ apply to moo, age, g~nder ~r~roilgious affdiafion’to individuals who bebav~ like, 6r a~ perceived to be lesbian, homosexual or bisexual. I am satisfied with the level of protection that eor~m anti-discfiminationJegislation provides all.individuals, including those who are a pan of the homosexual commuaity. Tom, any other definition of discrimination is problamatic. Any empioyer or prope~’ty owner should be able to refuse to hire, rent or enter into a contructual agreement with any person whose behavior is morally offensive to him. I do not believe and it has not been demonstrated that a person’s "sexual prefuroace" is biologically inherent. Evidence shows that "sexual preference" is nothing morn than a choice of will. Extending civil rights protection based on behavior is inapproprla~. Further, in our meeting earlier this year, I stated that _I would not fire someone based on his or her sexual orientation. However, I believe people should have that right. I would not fife or refuse to hire someone based on that issue alone; but, i~their behavior became problematic such that it was disruptive to conducting business, I would reserve the right to do so. I support the Constitutional right of free association. Employment and association arn engaged on a voinnta~ basis. The federal government has little business rngulating voluntary association and needs to reduce its burdensome rngulations that attempt to affect individual association. Once again, I am satisfied that current civil tights legislation provides a sufficient level of Constitutional protection to serve each and ever~ member of our society regardless of their sex, age, race, or religmn. Thank you again for contacting me with your views. I would appreciate your prayers and further suggestions regarding this or other issues on your mind. SML:sbh Member of Congross DON OVANN, I. NOVEMBER 11, 16, & 18, 1995 SINGLE TICKET PRICES range from $13.50 to $51. Student tickets and group rates .now available. English translations projected above the stage at all performances TULSAOPERA CALL (918) 587-4811 or TOLL FREE (800):241-.6076 BOX OFFI cE kOCATED AT 1610 S. BOULDER, TULSa,, OK 74119 E d i t .0 r iAan What’s R=ght Wrong With Largent Many of you will not be .surprised that o.urcongressman declines to support ~equal nghts for his Lesbian & Gay consti tuents. To bring Lesbian and Gay citizens up to the level of protections that Heterosexual citizens take for granted is obviously at odds with the rhetoric of his Republican party, and especially with that of his core constituency, the Radical Right- most of whom clothe their reactionary positions in the trappings of religion. However, at risk of seeming Pollyauna-ish, it’s worth noting that just having Largent engage in dialogue with us is more than we’ve had in this Congressional district ever. Radical Right Senator Jim Inhofe~’ whose anti- Gay bigotry is too well documented, doesn’t even pretend to honor his constitutional obligations to represent all Oklahomans. Because Largent at least is listening.... there remains some hope that he can be persuaded to recognize the illogic of supporting civil rights protections for one of themost profound behavioral choices, i.e. the choic6 of religious beliefs and~ their expression but then claiming it is "inappropriate" to provide such protections for another behavioral choice: the open expression of sexual .identity. Largent and his staff seem noi ~¢en to realize that the position they’ve taken, that see Editorial, page 9 Ait:T.. o¯mfoole. ry,~_.~.c°ming. out is what we:re all about. We’re Tutsa’s original: ga)::ii~i!i~-i::: .....:i..-&,lesbian giftshop, nd we ve got the best selection of T,shirts,: rainbow gear. : : :/:and novelty itemsin town. So what are you waiting for? Come on.out:today! TOMFOOLERY! For discreet home delivery of Tulsa iFamily News, please send $15 for a 12 .months, $8 for 6 months. .y lews Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Gay Supreme Court Justice in South Africa "i eventoaddresstheissueofequal ¯ tional agency. "Thedifficullylies Saint-Nazaire, a town in the union says denying it the right to rights for homosexuals, in the fact that it’s the first time " southern tip of Brittany at the extend the benefits is a private JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - The most recent example of the s.urge of civil rights progress m South Africa is the recent appointment of an openly gay man to South Africa’s Supreme Court - the first such openly gay high court justice in the world. Edwin Cameron, a law professor at the University of Witwatersrand and a longtime gay rights advocate within the country’s anti-apartheid ino~,dnidtit, has been iihined to a seatonthe SouthAfricaSupreme Court. He had been under consideration earlier this year for a seat on the country’s Constitutional Court. Prior to his appointment to the Supreme Court, Cameron also headed the muchpraised Cameron Commission, anational panel thatinvestigated the country’s clandestine arms deals with several other governments under international arms embargoes, including Iraq. During the transition from apartheid to full reconstruction in South Africa, the country has adopted an interim Constitution that indudes provisions prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation- thefirst country in the world to do so. High Court Justice Leaves Visitation Intact WASHINGTON - U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has reviewed and left unchanged aWisconsinSupreme Court temporary order that allows a lesbian to continue visiting the biological son of her former partner. Justice Stevens’ decision will allow Sandra Lynn Holtzman to continue to visit the 6-year-old son ofher ex-partuer, Elsbeth Knott, while Holtzman appeals a court ruling the would block her from having any visitation rights with the boy, Women’s Conf. Ends Debating Lesbian Rights BEIJING - The Fourth World Conference on Women came to a hair-breath dose following a contentious debate over thefights oflesbians. In the end, the United Nations conference adopted a set of guidelines that make no mention of lesbians or sexual orientation- a disappointment to rights activists who nevertheless considered the Beijing assemblage a major step forward for being the first UN~0nference :’ The debate over whether to include any reference to sexual orientation in the conference’s final doctnnent got off to a nasty start as delegates from several conservative, far-right and religions organizations charged that the UN gathering had a "secret agenda" to impose Western culture on emerging nations, to de-~ rail "traditional family values" and to legalize pedophilia and bestiality - all in the name of assuring ci..vil rightsforlesbians. Representatives ofmore than300 conservative groups went to Beijing to lobby against what they call an attack on "the traditional family" inthe conference’s draft Platform for Action. Delegates from several countries rose to object to including sexual orientation in the draft document. One delegate from Bangladesh said, "If we allow such an expression to appear in such a serious document, my delegation is afraid this will open the floodgates for all .kinds of behavior we cannot accept. It is not innocent behavior." Another ddegate - from Belize - compared lesbianism to "prostitution and strip-tease dancing." Even with the continuing lesbian- bashing by delegates, however, at least 20 nations - including South Africa, the United States, Latvia and Israel - said they had no objections to indudingsexual orientationprotections inthe draft document, and in fact bdieved the guidelines included lesbians whether the phrase was explicitly included or not. Although lesbian rights advocates admitted they were disappointed by the removal of sexual orientation protections from the final draft document, many acknowledged that they had not expected to win this first batde on the world stage and weren’t entirely dissatisfied with the progress they felt they had made in the international arena. Even with this toned-down,"soft-sdl" languageon sexual rights, at least a score of nations with predominantly Islamic or Catholic populations strongly objected to the paragraph. UN conference spokeswoman Therese Gastaut said the often rancorous debate hadn’t been entirely a surprise because the question of the legal rights of homosexuals was un- ¯ charted territory for the intemathis Is being discussed at the UN ¯ level," Gastaut told reporters. : "All the implicationshave to be ¯ takenintoaccount...They’revery ¯ intricate." Zimbabwe Parliament ! BacksAnti-Gay Remarks ¯ HARARE, Zimbabwe - A1- ¯ though it took no formal action,_ ¯ .Zimbabwe’s Parliament erupted ¯ m a one-sided debate over ho- ¯ mosexuality as the country’s ¯ elected representatives made it Cl~the~ ~fip~rted’ PreSident ¯ Robert.M~al~d’s fecentanfi-gay ¯ campaign. One MP said gays ¯ shouldbequarantined"in aniso- : lation hospital until they are ¯ .treated." AnotherMP urged that ¯ the country’s schools use antigay teachings. ¯ No ’Cou pies’ Questions ¯ in Canadian Census TORONTO - According to a ¯ report in the Toronto Globe and ¯ Mail, the Canadian census report in 1996 will not include questions activists had wanted that would have begun gather- . ing information on same-sex ¯ couples in the country. In test : questions, the agency .that ¯ handles the census found that some Canadians were "Mien- " ated"by questions about gay and ¯ lesbian couples and recom- ¯ mouth of the Loire River, decided to begin certifying gay and : lesbian couples. Deputy Mayor ¯ Maxime Batard said at a press ," conference that "all we have ¯ sought to do is give homosexu- ¯ als the same rights as other citi- ¯ zens." Batardacknowledged that the domestic partnership certificates had little legal effect since -" the French national government ¯ controls most benefits enjoyed ¯ by spouses. "Ours is a symbolic ¯ gesture," Batard Said. ;’If it can ¯ get things moving on a national ¯ level, thatwouldbepretty goOd." The town ofsome70,000 people ¯ is believed tobe thefirstin France ¯ to offer partnership certificates ¯ to gays and lesbians. Paris Mayors Endorse ¯ Partner Certificates ¯ PARIS-~!naj0intpress commu- ¯ uique, the six district mayors of Paris said they wanted "to contribute to equality between citizens, whatever their personal ¯ situation." Gays and lesbians in Paris have worked hard to get recognitionfor their relationships and they suffer discriminationin ¯ a number of areas as couples ¯ without some legal recognition of their partnerships. The "com- , mon life" certificates that the ¯ district mayors endorsed would havenolegal authority, butrights mended against the questions. ¯ -activists Said i.t would be a sig- "Weknow fromtesting thatthere ¯ nificantbeginning to achieving areCanadianswhofeeloffended, " full equal rights for gays and uncomfortable with that living " lesbians. arrangement," said a spokesper- : son for the enumeration agency. Canadian Parliament "TheobjectiveofthecenSusisto " Nixe~ Marriage Bill : count everyone." Shocking Gray Files for Bankruptcy ¯ SAN ANTONIO, TeXas - The : San Antonio Express has con- ," firmed that the lesbian and gay ¯ mail-order firm Shocking Gray ¯ has in fact filed for bankruptcy. ¯ The paper reports that the firm, noted for its slick catalogs and ¯ sometimes upscale items aimed ¯ -at gay and lesbian consumers, ¯ filedpapers indicatedit was more : than $250,000 indebt. Shocking Gray was founded in 1991 andat ¯ its peak, the company’s catalog ¯ was being mailed out to some 2 ¯ million households. ¯ French Town Goes for : Domestic.Partnerships SAINT-NAZAIRE, France - .France has entered, the.domestic partnership campaign when OTTAWA-Canada’s House of Commons came back from its ¯ summer recess and launched its ¯ new legislative session by voting against recognizing same¯ sex marriages. The Commons voted 124-52 against a bill put ¯ forward by openly gay MP Real ¯ Menard that would have ex- ’: tended legal recognition to gay ¯ and lesbian marriages. In a related development, the Canadian Union Of Public Employees said ¯ it would appeal anOntario court ruing that.the union cannot extend pension and other taxable ~ benefits to.the unmarried, same- - sex partners of union members. : The Canadian Supreme Court had earlier ruled that anti-gay discrimination is illegal, but that ¯ the government has the right to withhold tax benefits from same-- " sex couples if it chooses to. Th2 ¯ matter that the government ¯ should not have any business ~ restricting. ¯ ’Celluloid Closet’ Wins ¯ at Toronto Film Festival ¯ TORONTO - The "Celluloid ¯ -Closet, the just-released doch- ¯ mentary film that examines .the ¯ Hollywood motion picture ¯ industry’s depictions oflesbians ¯ and gay men,.was awardeda2nd ¯ place award at theToronto Inter- . national.Film Festival. ’.’Cellu- : 10id Closet’.’ was made by Oscar ¯ winning film makers Rob ¯ Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. ¯ Helms Upset Over Lesbian Seminar RALEIGH, N.C. - Sen. Jesse ¯ Helms (R-N.C.) seems currently ¯ to have gotten his anti-gay nose ¯ in a suit over a workshop at the recent UN-sponsored women’s ¯ conference in Beijing that covered flirting techniques for lesbians. In a letter to Bob Atwood, ¯ head of the U.S. Agency for In- ¯ ternationalDevelopment, Helms ¯ wrote: "What, pray tell, does a ¯ "workshop’ on "flirting tech- ¯ uiques for lesbians’ have to do with women’s rights? I beg you! Please assure me that no U.S. ¯ money in the United Nations ¯ special trust fund belpedpay for ¯ this outrageous program!’" ¯ Atwood succincdy told Helms, ¯ now chairman of the Senate For- " eign Relations Committee, that ¯ none ofthe U.S. money that went ¯ helped pay for the UN confer- ¯, ence in Beijing went to support the flirting seminar, which took ¯ place at a parallel gathering of ¯ representatives from non-gov- ¯ ernmentalorganizations (NGO). Helms insisted, however, that ¯ U.S. funds had also been used to ¯ support the NGO conference. "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" ¯ To Go to Circuit Court ¯ WASHINGTON - Beginning ¯ Dec.4,the4thU.S.CircuitCourt ¯ of Appeals will hear arguments ¯ concermng the case of former Navy Lt. Paul Thomasson. Only : days after thecompromisepolicy ¯ wentinto effect,Thomassontold ¯ his commander about his sexual ¯ orientation. Ironically, the com- ¯ m~nder was in charge of admin- ¯ istering the new policy. When ¯ the Navy moved to discharge ¯ him, Thomasson took his case to ¯ federal court.Whenhe lost there, he appealed to the 4th Circuit ¯ Court. rERSON REALTORS* LEA ANN MACOMBER Realtor Associate Mobile: 671-2010 2642 E. 21st St.reet ¯ Suite 170 . Tulsa, Oklahoma 74114 Off: 918-749-8374 ¯ Res: 918-582-7672 ¯ Fax: 918-747-1795 _P~o.ject ReDirecto~® Recycle your phonebook here ~arthd;riendll/ !~roduets, The Natural Choice In Lincoln Plaza on Cherry Street 131.4 East 15th ¯ 582-ENVR News Briefs N= Coroner in Trouble Over "Gay Rape" Remarks OLYMPIA, Wash. - Washington Gov. Mike Lowry has called on a state medical board to consider disciplinary action against Dr, DexterAmend, the Spokane coroner who stunned locals by saying that homosexuals wereresponsible for the murder-rape of a 9-year-old girl because she had been sodomized. Gov. Lowry told the state’s medical board to take "any and all appro- .pnate action.necessary’ in ,examini. ng Amend’s case, The commission has the authority to take a variety of actions, up to and including revoking the coroner’s medical license. Although the uncle of the girl had already confessed to the murder-rape of the girl and authorities said the 9-year-old’s parents had been under investigation. on possible ehildmolestation charges as wall before her death earlier this year, Amend told reporters that homosexuals were really responsible for the crime, although the girl’s uncle is heterosexual. "She’s been sodomized over and over, and sodomy is a homosexual act - it is," Amend said in a published interview after his autopsy ofthe child. ’¢Fo have everybody think homosexuality is okay is abuneh of baloney, I don’t care what the political ramifications areonthis. It’ s ahorrible, unbelievable thing that this child went through, and they (homosexuals) destroyed her life.’" Oregon Ex-Governor Joins HRCF Board WASHINGTON Former Oregon Gov. Barbara Roberts.has joined the board of directors of the Human Rights Catnpaign Fund, the Washington, D.C.- based gay lobbying organization. "’I am looking forward to participating in the leadership of HRCF," said Gov. Roberts in a press statement. "Wemust enlist the support of more and more non- gay citizens to join this effort to ensure that all Americans without exception may live free from discrimination." During two attempts by anti-gay activists in Oregon to pass ballot measures that would have prohibited civil rights protections for gays and lesbians, Gov. Roberts was aleading and outspoken opponent of the anti-gay initia- "fiVeS. ;ws Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News ¯ ~European Human Rights " ;Commission Rules for Transsexual Dad STRASBOURG, France - The European Human Rights Commission has ruled by a 13-5 vote that the refusal of British offi- ¯ cials to register the female-to- ~ male transsexual father of his wife’s child, which was conceived by artificial insemination, ¯" is a violation of the European HumanRights Convention. Brit- " ish authorities hadrefnsed to reg- ¯¯ ister the unnamed transsexual as .- the child’s father, arguing that ¯ only biological males could be ¯ considered the father of children in birth registries. The case will ¯ now go to the European Human ¯ Rights Court which will make a ." final riding on whether the re- . fusal to register the transsexual ¯ as.the child’s father breached the ¯ European convention and what ¯ possible remedies mustbe taken. City ofAustin to Consider ¯ Gay Youth Policies ¯ AUSTIN, Texas - The Austin _. City Council Said it will take ¯ under consideration a set of rec- ¯ ommendations from the city’s ¯ humanrights commissionaimed ¯ at reducing anti-gay discrimina- ¯ tion in public schools and other ¯ city-runinsfitutions. Among the ¯ 10-point recommendations the ¯ human rights commissioners ¯ have sent to the council for ac- ¯ tion: implementing policies to ¯ prevent harassment of gay, le,s- ¯ bian and bisexual students in ¯ public schools; offer school staff ¯ training about anfi- gay discrimi- ¯ nation; de~elop-social’andhealth- - ¯ related services to meet thespe- " " cific needs of gay and lesbian ¯ .students; make more informa¯ tion about sexual orientation available through the city’s public libraries. The HRC recommendations grew out of public hearings it held last year on anti- " gay harassment and bias in the school system. James Hill, head of the city HRC, said of the commission’s recommendations, "Wehave toremember the ¯ voice of young people.’" Man Files Bias Suit Against Computer Firm ¯ SAN FRANCISCO-Anopenly ¯ g.ay man has filed a discriminanon lawsuit against Adobe Systems, the Mountain view, Ca- " lif.-based high-tech computer ¯ firm. Dale Short worked as an administrative assistant at the ¯ company for two years where he was givenexcelt:e-~tij~fform~nce ." reviews and bonuses before be- " ing suddenly fired earlier this ¯ year after a new supervisor ¯ started in his division. The com- " pany denies any wrongdoing in ¯ Short’s dismissal. : Modest Step ¯" Forward in Romania BUCHAREST-The Romanian ¯ Parliamenthas approvedchanges in the nation’s laws that would e,ase the~ ,f,e.d.eral, pe,nal~e,s for i hdmoseXual b~hav{or byl.making it illegal onl~, When it creates ¯ a "public scandal," a modest : move forward in the country’s ¯ draconian anti-gay laws. The ." new "public scandal"law would ¯ carry prison terms of as much as ¯ 5 years in jail with jail terms up ¯" to 7 years if a minor is involved. Members of the Chamber of : Deputies saidthenewlaw would ¯ penalize homosexual behavior ¯ only if it caused a "public out- . rage." But international rights ¯ activists said thelaw makes little ¯ sense because any complaint to ¯ authorities about any alleged ¯ homosexual behavior - whether ¯ public or private- automatically : is classified as a "public scan- " dal" simply because someone ¯ has complained. Romania has been the object of criticism from : humanrights organizations such ." as Amnesty International over ¯ its anti-gay laws ever since the ¯ fall of the Communist regime in ¯ the Balkan nation. The country ¯ also wants to join the economi- ¯ cally impoltantEuropean Union, which requires¢hat member nauons not have laws with biases against homosexuals if any EU memberobjects. After DutchEU representatives insisted that Romania’s anti-gay laws violated membership guidelines, Romanianofficials said last year that the proposed "public scan= dal" law would meet the EU reqmrements. Students Protest Teacher’s Firing NEWIPSWICH, N.H.- Dozens of students walked out of classes at Mascenic High School to protest the firing of teacher Penny Culliton by the Mascenic school board for using books with gay and lesbian characters in her English classes, including the E.M. Forster classic novel Maurice. Cnlliton is fighting her firing, with .the~ ~upport of the National Education Assn. One ¯ of the students organizing the ¯ campus protest was Lori ¯ Malboeuf, whose father is the ¯ local police chief. ." Protest Over Verona ¯ Govt’sAnti-Gay Decision ¯ VERONA, Italy-Thousands of ¯ gays and lesbians took to the ¯ streets of Verona, the setting for ¯ Shakespeare’s "Romeo and Juliet," to protest a city council ¯ action earlier this year rejecting : a European Union resolution ¯ suppor.".tmg equal righ ts of same- ¯ sex couples. In rejecting the EU ¯ resOlution, some council mem- ¯ bers had called instead called for ¯ castrating homosexuals. An es- ¯ timated 5,000 people turned out ¯ for the protest, one of the largest ¯ in the city’s recent history. ¯ NY Court to Consider : Anti-Gay Prejudice ¯ ALBANY, N.Y. - The New ¯ York Court of Appeals: the ¯ state’s highestjudicial body, will : . now consider the"sexual prefer- " enee and behavior" of anyone ¯ condemned to death in the state ¯ to determine if their convictions ¯ were influenced by anti-gay biases. The decision by the court, ¯ which will also weigh race, ¯ ethnicity, citizenship, education ¯ and other factors in evaluating ¯ possibleprejudiceinconvictions ¯ in lower courts, is a result of the ¯ state’s reinstituting the death ¯ penalty. The court will also con- - sider similar information about ¯ murder victims in appeals it evaluates.. ¯ Teachersln TroubleOver ! Alleged Gay Sex Talk ¯ SANFRANCISCO-Twotcach- ¯ ers at a San Francisco middle school have lost theirCalifornia ¯ teaching credentials for bring- , ing in guest speakers in 1992 who allegedly gave 6th-graders ¯ an explicit description of gay sex. "This matter indeed represents the first bullets fired in what we can see as a growing campaign to eradicate such grotesque violation ofparents’ rights in public schools," said Brad Dacus, a Sac- : ramento attorney with the Rutherford Institute, who repre- ¯ sented Bruce Budnick, a father ." whose daughter was.in the class. ¯ The Rutherford Institute is an ¯ arch-conservative legal group ¯ based in Virginia that has close ¯ ties with the religious right. ¯ The decision, was.,hailed as a ; victoryby parental rights advocates, who say parents of schoolchildren should have the chance to preview classroom-materials that may be considered offensive or inappropriate. The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, San Francisco Bay Area noted in its Media Advisory that San Francisco schools do have a parental notification requirement. However, Budnick claims he never received prior notification. GLAAD/SFBA also notes that theclassroompresentation which was given by the organization Community United Against Violence (CUAV) was 55 minutes long, almost all of which focused on hate violence and homophobia. GLAAD claims that the discussion of sexuality was extremely brief and was in direct response to unprompted questions made by the students. Thedecision to revoke the credentials of the teachers was condemnedbyteaching officials and rights advocates whosaidit raises serious questions about classroom censorship and academic freedoms. Judy Dellamonica, vice president of the teachers’ union in San Francisco, said the case raises censorship and freedomquestions about "all ofthose kinds of things that are very near and dear to teachers’ hearts." "This is avery unusual case," Dellamonica said. "To have a credential revoked when the teacher - or in this case, teachers - did not directly do anything is not at all a good precedent."-A spokesperson for the c~ty’s schools said the district may file an~appeal in the case along with the teachers’ union which is acting in the unidentified .teachers behalf. (Editor’s note : Tulsa Public Schools typicallyprovide "sex" education at grade six,) Activist Redwing Ailing PORTLAND, Ore. - Rights activist Donna Redwing collapsed during a gay rights workshop shewas conducting in Indianapolis on Sept. 30. She has been diagnosed with operable brain tumors. Redwing, who was a leading organizer who helped work against passage of an antigay ballot initiative in Oregonin 1992 and other civil rights programs, said "the initial episode was very frightening" but added that her. doctors "are confident of a quick recovery" following brain surgery. 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"Given their demographic profile. lesbians appear to be at higher risk of breast, ovarianandendometrial carcinoma [cancer], as well as heart disease," O’Haulan reported. The Stanford associate professor also concluded that one possible conlributingfactor to thehealth problems faced by lesbians arises at least in part because they feel alienated by the medical establishment, causing them to visit their physicians less often than other women. "There is ample evidence that lesbians have been alienated from medical practice, either by accidental offense by a well-meaning doctor or by prejudice," she said. "’It’s essential that we welcome them back into the medical fold in order to provide appropriate screening and testing for these illnesses." O’Hanlan said physicians can make even fairly minor changes in their office routines, that would make lesbians feel more welcome, from forms that recognize relationships like domestic partners, to involving the patient’s parmer in m~ijor medical decisions the same as a married spouse would be. Red Cross Accused of Censoring AIDS Info. Materials NEW YORK - The New York Times has reported that the American Red Cross is trying to shift its AIDS prevention programs away from explicit materials at the urging of]~izabeth Dole, its national president and the wife of Kansas Sen. Bob Dole, a Republican presidential contender who has recently been wooing conservatives. The Times reported that its investigation found no documented evidence that the move was part of a political agenda, but the papers quoted HIV/AIDS activists who clearly believe the Red Cross policy shift is rooted in the U.S. presidential campaign. Shana Ross, who heads the Houston Red Cross’ HIV/AIDS program, told the Times, "It is unconscionable. I have to take into account that this is because of who our president is, who her husband is and the fact that he’s involved in a campaignnow forthe presidency, and he is seemingly losing ground to oppo- .he,n,tSo whq ar~e more co,nservati~e ~..a~,,he IS. A spokesperson for the Dole campaign denied any connection between his wife’s "personal views" and the Kansas Republican’s presidential bid. The paper reported that Red Cross officials had developed an expanded AIDS prevention program earlier this year, but, that the agency board, at the prompting of Mrs. Dole, had made substantial changes in the recommended program, including extensive changes in print and video materials that wefe considered too explicit and ¯ graphic. AIDS activists, however, said : that more explicit prevention materials : are exactly what is needed to fight the . spread of HIV in the U.S. .:~ - ¯ Inexpensive, Fast HIV Teat " ¯ Developed by Indian Scientists ¯ NEW DELHI - The Press Trust of India ¯ reports that biochemists with Delhi Uni= ¯¯ versity have developed an HIV test tliat takes only a drop of blood and just a few ¯ seconds to detect virus antibodies. The o Indian news agency reports that the new ¯ test wasfound to be accurate in 99 out of ¯ 100 random samples tested. The Delhi ¯ University researchers said however that ¯ they want to evaluate the reliability oLthe ¯ simple new test on thousands of samples ° before making it widely available. Ac- : cording to the agency report, the test also : has the advantage of requiring no more ¯ than a drop ofa chemical reagent added to ¯ a drop of the blood to be tested. The two ~ are mixed together on a glass Slide and in ¯ 5 or 10 seconds the blood will "clot" in ¯ globules ifHIV is present, but will remain ¯ unchanged if it is not. Researchers say : that the test, if it proves to be reliable, ¯ would be a boon in poor countries here ¯ high-technology tests are often prohibi- ¯ tive and in areas where electricity is absent. ¯ Study of Effectiveness of AZT- & Other AIDS Drugs WASHINGTON - The widely used ¯ AIDS-fighting drug AZT appears to be ¯ less effective than either ddI, ddI with ¯ AZT, or ddC with AZT. Nearly 2,500 ." AIDS patients were given one or the other ¯ of the drugs or drug combinations in a ¯ study conducted by the National Institute ¯ of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for ¯ almost a 3-year period. Patients who re- - ceived ddI, ddI with AZT or ddC with ¯ AZT were sick less often that those who ¯ received AZT by itself. There have long ] been doubts about how much good AZT ¯ reallydoes people WithAIDS and numer- ¯ ous studies have shown its effectiveness wears off over time. But researchers say it ¯ is too early to abandon AZT. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of NIAID, : said, "It is quite conceivable that AZT ¯ will have a role as one of a group of drugs ¯" used in combination" Most of the pa¯ tients in the studywere in themiddle stage of the disease - relatively healthy when ¯ the study began - evidence researchers say that treatment at that stage does make ¯ a difference. The study is also important ¯ becauseit is the first to show that a drug or ¯ combination of drugs can actually increase survival or delay disease progression among people.who have not yet de- " vel0ped full-blown AIDS symptoms. : Rape & HIV Used as ¯ Weapons in Global Conflicts ¯ BONN, Germany - A United Nations ~ study commissionhasconcludedthatrape ¯ of both males and females is increasingl,y ¯ being used as a "weapon of warfare" ¯ around the world, leading to increasing ¯ risks oFthe spread of HIV. In some in- :’~ "gfaflc,~s,’th~ co~ssi0n ft~tmd, purpose- . ful sexual exposure to HIV of conquered ¯ civilians and military personnel was part ¯ ofmilitary operations in some global con- : flicts. "Armed conflicts in Bosnia, Cam¯ bodia, Mozambique and Rwanda have demonstratedthatrapeisseenasaweapon ° of warfare to humiliate the enemy," said : Grace Machel, who is the head of the UN ¯ study panel. Machel noted that during the ¯ 1994 fighting in- Rwanda, men from the ¯ Humtribe who were known to beinfected ¯ with HIV were allowed to systematically ¯ rape captive members of the Tutsi tribe ¯ with"the objective being to inflict a slow : and ’lingering, but certain, death on the ’:’’ TutsiJ’Thepanel willrecommend, among : other things, the creation of a permanent ¯ UNwarcrimes tribunal to investigate and ¯ try such crimes. ¯ Getting ’Demographic’ ¯ About AIDS on the Internet CHICAGO- According to the Journalof ¯ the American Medical Association, the : latest addition to the multimedia material ¯ available on-the Interact is an animated ¯ graphic illustrating mortality rates from ¯ AIDS,mapped outby counties on a week- ." .by-week basis, from 1-981~ through 1993. ¯ ’JAMA says the demographic multimedia ¯ mini-movie provides no new insights into ¯ the epidemic, but goes on to say that the ¯ dramatic presentation of the spread of ¯ deaths from AIDS could be a powerful ¯ educational tool: The graphic can be 1o- ¯ cated on the InterneEs World Wide Web ¯ at the.fo.Howing location: ht(p:// ¯ www.clesm.org/datasets/cdc-nci/cdcnci. html (Note that the lower case format : throughout theWeb’address is essential.). ¯ Federal Science Panel: Needle ¯ Exchange Programs Fight HIV ¯ WASHINGTON - A new study by the : U.S. National Academy of Sciences has ¯ concluded that the spread of HIV is re- " duced by programs that ensure people ¯ who inject illicit drugs have access to _" cleanneedles.Thereportnotesthatneedle_ ¯ swap programs are most effective when ¯ ¯ combinedwith other services, including drugabuseandHIV counseling, HIV test- " ing, treatment referrals, and condom distribution.: Lincoln Moses, a retired health policy professor at Stanford University ¯ who chaired the studypanel, says needle ¯ exchanges are an’inexpensive and effec- ¯ ¯ tive way to help drug users avoid infection through sharing needles. "After careful and exhaustive Study, my colleagues on the panel and I have determined thatneedle exchangeprograms work," Moses said. "They reduce the spread of HIV. They do not increase either the injection of illegal drugs among program participants or the number of new initiates to injection drug use. Additionally, they often result in more referrals to drug abuse treatment." The. panel also concluded that the AIDS epidemic in ¯ theU.S.is now beinglargelydrivenbythe ] use of shared, contaminated needles by ¯ IV drug users - not by sexual activity as it -" apparently was early on. ¯ The problem is even worse in other ¯ countries, according to pond member ¯ David Vlahov, an epldemiologist with JohnHopkins Uni,v,ersity School ofMedi- ¯ cine in Baltimore. ’In countries of Europe ¯ - in particular Italy and Spain- HIVinfec- ¯ tion is rampant among injection drug us- ¯ ers," Vlahov said. "While in this country ¯ perhaps one-third of the AIDS eases are ¯ due to injection drug use, in Italy and Spain, it’s closer to 70,percent. The panel ~ .has recommended that the federal gov- ¯ emmentliftits banonfunding suchneedle- " ilswap programs’, a recommendation that ¯ is sure to generate controversy in the ¯ capital’s current conservative political at- ¯ mosphere. It also has recommended that ¯ states and cities repeal any existing laws ¯ that might prevent the legal sale or pos- ¯" session of hypodermic injection equip- . ment or require prescriptions for its pur-- ¯ chase. ¯ AIDS Vaccine Trials OK’d for Thailand ¯ SAN DIEGO, Calif. - The Immune Re- ¯ sponse Corp. in San Diego has finalized ¯ an agreement with the Trinity Medical ¯ Group Co. of Thailand that will let IRC ¯ test its therapeutic AIDS vaccine with ¯ thousands of Thai volunteers in what is ¯ believ ed will be the largest ever test of ¯ such a vaccine so far in the epidemic. The ¯ Thai public health ministry has approved ¯ a one-year clinically controlled trial of the ¯ potential, vaccine on some 300 Thais who are already infected with HIV. IRC says it hopes the Thai trial will run concurrently with a similar, larger clinical trial in the U.S. that will involve some3,000 infected ¯ individuals, although the Food & Drug Administration has yet to approve the ¯ U.S. trial. The vaccine, which was devel- ¯ oped by the late, Jonas Salk, has already gone through preliminary safety trials. ¯ IRC hopes the proposed U.S.-Thai trials will demonstrate the effectiveness of the ¯ vaccine in boosting the immune system response among people who are already infected with HIV. Medical Bias in HIV Treatment BALTIMORE- Johns Hopkins University researchers have reported in the New EnglandJournal ofMedicine that women and minorities who are infected withHIV ¯ developfull-blownAIDS faster thanwhite males because the health care delivery ¯ systemgives themunequal treatment. The ¯ study found that problems encountered ¯ ¯ by women andminorities in.getting good .health care outweigh other demographic ¯ ~ssues in how fast they progress to AIDS ¯ and how long they survive following in- . fection. UCLA Scientists Say They’ve Found Crucial Gene in HIV LOS ANGELES - Researchers at the ¯ AIDS Institute of the University of Call- ¯ fornia at Los Angeles (UCLA) report in ¯ the Journal of Virology that they have ¯ identified a gene in HIV that arrests CD4 ¯ T-lymphocytereproduction. Theresearchers report that the Vpr gene contains the ¯ plan for a protein that blocks CD4 cells, ¯ keeping them from reproducing. The dis- . covery could aid in the development of ¯ new AIDS drugs that inhibit the gene’s ¯ growth in the body and permit immune ¯ cells to continuemultiplying and fending ¯ off the virus. Some scientists, however, ¯ warned that theUCLA work is still pre- ¯ liminary. "It’s a big leap to go from this ¯ observation in the laboratory to a state- " ment that Vpr is what’s responsible for ¯ the depletion of the immune system in ¯ infected patiehts,’" said Dr. Daniel ¯ Kuritzkes of the University of Colorado ¯ Health Sciences Center. Combined Drug ’Cocktail’ Reduces Death Rate ’ LONDON - Researchers in a joint ~uro- : pean-Australian study have announced : that they have found a "cocktail" of two ¯ approved drugs that significantly extend ¯ thelife ofpeople withAIDS, cutting death rates.among patients who took the combi- : nation by more than one-third. Dr Brian ¯ Gazzard, thepnncipalinvestigatorforthe ¯ trial in Britain, said, "It shows clear sur- : -viral advantages for combination versus ¯ single agent therapy." Gazzard said researchers were so impressedby their find- " ings that they had stopped the years-long : study .€~3r,ly in order to publicly announce ¯" itbecauseoftheimportantimplicationsof ¯ their results for peoplewiththe disease. "I think it will be used very rapidly clinically ¯ because tbese drugs are used on their own : at the moment," Gazzard said. The study ¯ compared survival rates between people ¯ who were treated with ~zidothymidine (AZT) and those treated with AZT plus didanosine or zalcitabine. Although 17% ofpatients who tookAZT died during the trial, only 10% treated with didanosine and 12% with zalcitabine did not survive. Overall the reduction in death rate was 38 per cent for patients who took the two drugs compared with those treated with AZTalone. Thestudyinvolved some3,000 patients. Prime Minister: HIV/AIDS Over the Peak in Australia CANBERRA, Australia - Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating said his .country’ s levelofHIV infection has passed Its peak, in large part because of an aggressive education and prevention campaign against the epidemic. "A decade of hard and unremitting effort in this country has resulted in a welcome reduction in the rates and incidence of both HIV and AIDS," Keating said, notinghoweverthat the disease continues to increase in Britain and the U.S. Keating also announced that the government would finance a 3rd five-year campaign startingnext year, whenits $75- million second five-year effort comes to an end. Keating said that specific details of the new strategy had yet to be worked out but that it would focus on research, .care and treatment, education and prevenuon, and the international fight against the epidemic. There have been nearly 19,000 HIV infections reported in Australia since 1985, and government figures now show the number of new infections " has leveled off at about 600 annually. ¯ HIV InNewborns Declining ¯ CHICAGO -Researchers with the Cen- ," ters for Disease Control and Prevention ¯ report in the current issue of the Journal of : the American Medical Association that fewer HIV-infected infants are being born in the U.S. Dr. Susan F. Davis reported in ¯ the journal that it is unclear why the de- . eline has occurred. CDC data however ¯ indicates that the number of newborns : infected with HIV peaked in 1991 with ¯ 1,760 babies born with the virus, and fell in both 1992 and 1993. _" The researchers suggested that the rea- ¯ son for the trend could include decreased ¯ fertility among H!V-infected women, an ¯ increased number of abortions among ¯ women infected with the virus, or alevel- ¯ ing off of HIV incidence in women of ¯ childbearing age. The scientists said the ¯ numbers could fall even further if.preg- : nant women are treated with the drug ¯ AZT, which dramatically reduces the risk ofmother-to-child transmission from25% to just 8%, Davis and her team said. ¯ Baboon MarrowTransplant HIV ¯ ¯ Procedure Moving Forward SAN FRANCISCO - The University of California-San Francisco has given the ¯ go-ahead to an experimental treatment .. that will inject baboon bone marrow into ¯ a man who has AIDS in an effort to build ¯ his immune system. JeffGetty, a38-yearr ¯ old man ,w,ho volunteered for the proce¯ dure, saxd I m lucky to havemade it this far. The wait has been unbelievable." ¯ Researchers at San Francisco General ¯ Hospital and the University of Pittsburgh had to get,approval of the Food & Drug Administration for the untried procedure. Fi-DELITY Hg/V~E HE_ALTH CA_RE, IN(_. Tulsa Office 486-11.74.. - 800-999-3442 We provide comprehensive home health services 24.hourslday, seven days/week. 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Community of Hope 1703 E. 2rid, lnfo: 585-1800 NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt Sewing Bees 3rd Sat. of each month Info: 748-3111 ¯ MORE GROUPS ¯ Gay & Lesbian Student ¯ Association TJC Southeast Campus, lnfo: 631-7632 ¯ SWAN-Single Women’s Activity Network : Call 832-2121 ¯ TOHR Helpline ¯ Daily 8-10 pm : For info. or to volunteer: ¯ 743-GAYS Tool Box Technicians, Leather org., Info c/o The Tool Box: 584-1308 T.U.L.S,A. ¯ Tulsa Uniform & Leather Seekers Assoc. ¯ Info: 838-1222 Community Events FRIDAY-SUNDAY, OCT. 13-15 NAMES ProjectAIDS Memorial Quilt Fri. 6:30-10:30, Sat. 10-7, Sun. 11-6:30 Expo Square Pavilion, Tulsa FairGrounds Opening: Fri. 6:30, Close: Sun. 6:30pro SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14 Dignityllntegrity Lesbian/Gay Catholics & Episcopalians 5pm, St. Dunstan’s, 5635 E. 71st SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15 Womens Supper Club Potluek~Picnic Noon-Spm, Zink Park, 31st & Trenton Info: 298-4648 Broken Arrow. Community Playhouse Auditions for Androcles & the Lion 5pro, 1800 So. Main Info: 258-0077 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22 Faith & Struggle Dialogue Group Community of Hope United Methodist 4:30pro, 1703 E. 2nd (ongoing group) Info: 585-1800 OCTOBER 27 & 28 NOVEMBER 2-4 NOVEMBER 5 Matinee Broken Arrow Community Playhouse Much Ado About Murder 8pm, 1800 So. Main, 2pro Matinee Info: 258-0077 NOVEMBER 3 Bioethical Issues ofHIVIAIDS Religious, Legal & Medical Conference Spann Conf. Ctr. at Doctor’s Hospital 8am, Info: 258-0077 Editorial fromp. 3 employers or property owners should be able to discriminate basedtheir view that at~ employee or renter, etc. engages in "morally offen~v~"*b~havi6i: ~illd lead to Catholics discriminating against Jews, Protestants againSt Catholics, Whites against Blacks about whom racist arguments traditionally were disguised in "moral" terms. Thisat~osition contradicts our constitution and laws which Largent claims to uphold. This is hardlyjust "Gay" -concemo There is one other issue. Steve Largent regularly states thathebelieves that sexual orientation is a matter of choice. It seems likely that he would not presume as a white man to try to tell someone who is Af,..fic~American~.-what’it’s like to be Bi-~k= ~st~ iti’S:i~El~,. that he would as a man respectwomen’s perspectiveon what it is like to be a woman, or as an selfprofessed Christian not presume to speak to Jewish experience. So why is it that he listens to Lesbians and Gay men and then tell us he knows our experience better than we do?. Overwhelmingly we have noted that we can hide or ignore our sexual and gender identities but that there is no real choice in who we are - only in our expression. Sure, there are a few tortured souls, who having internalized anti- Gaypropaganda, put themsdves intonowwall discredited "redirection" programs. Those few do not represent us. Largent should know this - after all he should be able to draw from his own experience of knowing what his orientation is. And that is the heart of the matter. The only way he can have any credibility saying being Gay is a choice is if he is willing to say he was Gay or Bi and has chosen not to be. If he’s just heterosexual, then he needs to hush up and listen to those whose lives and rights are at stake. AM N The first Family of lesbian and travel uides proudly announces its newest addition! The first and only full<~olor gay and lesbian accommodations 6~uide. Features 450 pages of ~hotographs, detailed descriptions, multiple cross index, and much more. ° DAMRON MAIL ORDER The ultimate resource for gay and lesbian traveller~ ~< around the world. <~ For a free catalog call (800) 462-6654 o or write:po DamrOnB4o2x2458Company L~ San Franci~o, CA 94142-24~ ~ Sonny Bono (R-Ca.), headlined !the celebrataon of family and coming out called "A Family Outing." There was also a barbecue buffet, speechesby member of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG), as well as comedians and entertainers, including the gay and lesbian cheerleading group Cheer Dallas. "By focusing on family, we hope to increase awareness that discrimination based on sexual orientauon is not just a gay issue, but one that impacts parents, siblings, relatives and friends, who often feel it necessary to lie about people they love who are gay for fear of rejection or retaliation by co-workers or acquaintances," Gore said. "The purpose of National Coming Out Day is for lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals to be open and honest about who they arewith their families; friends, and co-workers." The tent that played host to the daylong activities drew overflow crowds for the speeches by Gingrich and Bono. "Both Chastity and Candace courageously stepped forward and set an example for gay people everywhere," Gore said. "We are delighted to have these two prominent women celebrating National Coming Out Day with us in Dallas." "This type of event and coming out are the most important things we can do," Bono said in a brief speech. "Finally, I’m able to make a statement and make a difference withmy ownpeople." Chastity Bono’s sexual Orientation has been the subject of entertainment industryrumors since it was first reported inthe Star in 1990. Another aiaide appeared in the National Enquirer soon after the 1994 death of Bono’s companion to cancer. Bono " The event at the fair was only a part of came. out publicly in April 1995 on the " Dally’ week-long celebration ofNCOD pages of The Advocate, the national gay ¯ A slghature advertisement featuring the andlesbian newsmagazine. Bono said sh,.e~ .....names~ of people who support the NCOD firstknewshewasalesbianwhenshesaw’ cause ran on October 11 in The Dallas the love scene in the movie Personal Best. She was 13. Bono credits her easy time coming out to the many positive gay and lesbian role models in the entertainment community in which she grew up. She ¯ said that well-known entertainers like ¯ Elton John do a service to the community ¯ when they come out. Bono’s parents have long known of Chastity’s orientation. ¯ "What she’s doing today-- taking the ¯ initiative-- makes me very proud ofher," ¯ Cher told The Advocate. ¯ Candace Gingrich initially came into ¯ the spotlight because of her brother. Soon ¯ after U.S. Rep. Newt Gingrich became Speaker of the House, Ms. Gingrich rec- ¯ ognized an opportunity to help. "I recog- ¯ uized that I had an opportunity and obli- ¯ gation to get involved in the movement for gay and lesbian equality in a meaning- " ful way," Candace Gingrich said. Gingrich, 29, has been open about her sexuality to her family and friends for years. Her public coming out, however, ¯ came when, at the end of an interview, an ¯ Associate Press reporter asked ifGingrich ¯ was a lesbian. She said simply, ’.’Yes, I am. Gmgnch to,d the fair-goers that she ¯ believes the majority of Americans are in ¯ favor of employment protection for lesbi- ¯ ans and gays, and she cited several statis- : tics in support. "They know like we do ¯ that everyone in our country deserves the ¯ samerights under thelaw," Gingrich said. : Gingrich said this gathering in Texas was ¯ thelargest group to which shehad spoken. ¯ She received a standing ovation at the end , of her remarks. ¯ Morning News. Special church services celebrating NCOD were also held this : week. "Almost 50 percent of Americans ¯ claim they don’t know anyone who is gay : or lesbian," Jim McBride, co-chair of : NCOD in Dallas said. ’’This invisibility ¯ results from the fact that, counter to ste- : reotypes, people who are gay, lesbian or : bisexual are virtually indistinguishable : from the rest of the population. National : Coming Out Day demonstrates that we ¯ representall races, nationalities, religions, : and economic and occupational catego- ¯ wood. At 12:15 in room 151of the North ¯ Hall, a panel of individuals will provide ¯ their perspectives on racism and hate ¯ crimes. This event is the final event in the ¯ Week Without ViolenCe, a Tulsa ¯ commeration of a national observance ¯ sponsored by the YWCA. ¯ The Say No to Hate Coalitton beganin ¯ 1988 to oppose hate crimes, and racial, : religious and sexual orientation bigotry. ¯ Last year, the Coalition sponsored an anti- ¯ hatemessage that was included in City of ¯ Tulsa utilities bills. Participating organi- ¯ zations include Tulsa Oklahomans for ¯ Human Rights (TOHR), Jewish Federa- ¯ tion of-Tulsa, Islamic Society of Tulsa, ¯ Tulsa Public School s, Tulsa Police Dept. : and the Tulsa chapter of the American : RedCross. FormerTOHRpresidentKelly ¯ Kirby is a co-chair of the Coaltion. ¯ Largentrefuses to supportENDA. How- " ever, he does pledge explicitly not to fire ¯ someone based on her/his sexual orientatiOn. This contrasts with the public post- ¯ tions of other members of the Oklahoma ¯ congressional delegation, many ofwhom indicated that they would refuse to hire or ¯ wouldfire individualsbasedontheirsexual ¯ orientation. These views, which werefirst ; revealed by Tulsa World reporter Jim ¯ Myers, created a national scandal and . resulted in a non-discrimination pledge campaign bytheDC basedHuman Rights Campaign Fund. This coincides with TOHR’S regular monthly meeting. TOHR will meet at 7pm to conduct its business. At 7:30, a frank and opendiscussionis planned with members and leaders of all community orgamzations, businesses and individuals invited to participate. tional by the Colorado Supreme Court. The case is of intense interest to fights activists becausehow the courtrules could determine the fate of similar measures around the country to excludelesbians and gays from civil rights protections along with other minorities. Some believe the increasingly conservative high court may sustain Amendment 2, although initial questioning by some justices indicated serious constitutional concerns. r~ FULL COUNT DISCOUNTS ONALL NEW ’95 MODELS LEFT IN STOCK ’95 MIRAGE "S" ’95 DIAMANTE LS Wi!h Dual Air Baqs, S0oe~ Gas Mileage And It’s Brand New s9 498 ’95 3000 .GT Wilh 6-Disc CD Changer. Power W~n. (lows / LOCKS, Air Luxury at It’s Finest. With Power Moonrool. 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Andwhile annual exclusion gifts arebased on calendar year totals and are typically Metropolitan Community Church of Greater Tulsa Where God Uplifts All People Sunday .Service, 10:45 am Wednesday S6rvice, 6:30,pm Home Cell Groups, 2nd & 4th Sundays 1,623 No. Maplewood, Tulsa 74115, 838-1715 Cherry Street Psychotherapy Associates 1 515 South Lewis Are you looking for a relaxed,, amicable, private atmosphere for therapy? Our office provides a level of confidentiafity and comfort that enhances the-therapeutic p~ocess. For further information call 743-4117 Leah Hunt, MSW Della Blackburn, CADC Judy Seymour-Taylor, CADC Richard Reeder, MS Serving a Diverse Community ¯ regarded as year-end tools, they actually : make sourid economic sense any time of : ~,tl~e4c.e.ar. .. ¯ "~ A donor may give up to $10,000 every calendar year per recipient without incurring any federal gift taxes. The annual exclusionamountfor amarriedindividual is $20,000, provided his or her spouse consents to "gift splitting," a practice in which one spouse agrees to let the other use his or her annual exclusion. Big tax savings can occur .when you take advantage of the annual exclusionon a consistent basis. For example: A 55- year-old mangives $10,000 to each of his two children until he:reaches his normal life expectancy of 77 years. If,the aftertax return on the gifts is 6 percent, the combined projected value of the two gifts in 22 years is nearly $920,000. Because the two children own the investment, it is not subject to federal estate taxes when the father dies. Ifthefatherdid notmake those gifts and instead accumulated the cash inhis estate, his estate would incur additional federal estate taxes at the time of.his death. Assuming amarginal estate tax bracket to 50 percent, the taxes on that accumulation would be about $460,000--an amount that could be saved and literally reinvested with wise annual exclusion gifts. ¯ deniedare tax deductions, accidentai death : payments, inheritance and burial rights, ¯ and business and land transfer benefits. In ¯ considering the issue, Dan Foley, thelaw- " yet who is representing the three same- : sex couples suing the state for legal mar- . dages, told the commission that gays and ¯ lesbians have the right to these benefits ¯ justas heterosexualcouples do."Therights ¯¯ and benefits that are contingent onmarital status must be given to same-sex couples ." via marriage license, unless the state can ¯ demonstrate compelling state interestthat ¯ it be withdrawn," Foley told the commis- ¯ sion. But Steven Michaels; the state’S ¯ deputy attorney general, said most situations thatinvolve denyingbenefits to same- " sex couples can be resolved under exist- " ing laws. "In Very many instances, butnot ¯ all instances, the differences in treatment are quite small and could be resolved, for ¯" example, through the law of contracts, a : probate and through other kinds of ar- ¯ rangements that are authorized under extmg law, Michaels insisted. The com- . nnssion is expected to haverecommenda- ." tions on the contentious issue for the state ¯ legislature by the end of this year. Lesbian and Gay Alliance presented programs onTuesday, Wednesday andThursday, ranging from a panel of speakers ¯ from Parents, Familieg. and Friends of ¯ Lesbians and Gays to a discussion of ¯ Gays & Lesbians and the Church by Pastor Horvath. " Timothy W. Daniel Attorney at Law Know Your Rights! Eslate Planning, ¯ Adoptions, Personal Injury, Criminal Law, Bankruptcy & Workers Compensation 1,800-742-9468 or 918-352-9504 128 East Broadway, Drumright, Oklahoma Weekend and evening appointments are available. Y ARIES, March 21 - ApPi120 Yournatural love ofhaste and recklessness goes into overdrive now. You’re quick tojump onwhatever, or whomever, when your emotions dictate a leap. This can be a fun month for "try anything" Ariens;just keep a wee bit ofa grip so you won’t end up with lots of regrets. TAURUS, April 20 - May 21 You belong to a sign that’s famous for sweet and accomodating behavior, but this month, you’re likely to blow your temper and your reputation, with it. It seems thatyou’ ve been oppressedby great and powerful forces, but envy is your real enemy. Relax. You’re imagining things. Really. GEMINI, May 21 - June 22 You could always be described as a "silver tongued devil," but your charm goes off the meter now. You can sdl anyone anything you like; you can sdl yourself effectively too. The only problem is, you’re temporarily more prone to talk than action. Try not to bark unless you intend to bite. CANCER, June 22 - July 23 You’re not exactly, famous for high self-esteem and rampant ego but you’re nowhere near as inadequate as you think you are: It seems like it would help to talk about yourself and your needs with significant others, but you won’t get the response you want for another month. Obsess over your work instead. : If you re an athlete of any sort, yot~-]l ¯¯ have a winningmonth of graceful, physical mastery. This is a great time for pota- ¯ toes to get off the couch andjoin in. Your ¯ parts work together better than usual, and ¯ the grandstand loves to watch. Want lots : of strokes and attention? Here’s your ¯ chance. ¯ VIRGO, Aug. 23-Sept. 23 : A good month to putter around the ¯ house or cleanup theneighborhood. Your ¯ ¯ car.e~taking side becomes hyperactive, and that s saying something for a confirmed ¯ world-saver like you. Any task that at- ¯ lows you to show your concern for others ¯ brings alot of satisfaction now. Go ahead ¯ and help; the rest of us need it.. : LIBRA, Sept. 23-00t. 23 ¯ If you’re a typical Libran, you’ve been -" worrying lately that you’ll never have ¯ enough money to buy all the pretty toys ¯ you know you deserve. This month, your ¯ financial concerns fade into the past as : your social schedule heats up. Running : around and working the crowd replaces ¯ checkbook agonies. Life gets fun again. SCORPIO, Oct. 23-Nov. 23 You always make a bigger impression -" than you realize and your birthday month : is prime time for some drop dead ¯ Scorpionicglamour. Youhave a great and valid need to express yourself on your : own terms. Let the peasants mutter that you’re sdf-involved’ if they must. It’s ¯ your rime to think "me first," so go for it. Open Arms Open Minds Open Hearts Saint Aidan’s 4045 No. Cincinnati, 425-7882 Saint John’s 4200 SO. Atlanta PI., 742-7381 Trinity 501 SO. Cincinnati. 582-4128 The Episcopal Church Welcomes You Sandra J Hill, M,S: fsychother;py & Clinical Consultation Sensitive to the Challenges of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgendered Individuals, Couples.& Families¯ 2865 E. Skelly Drive, Ste. 215,745-1111 Zo,... SAGITTARIUS, Nov. 23-Dec. 22 ¯ A bit competitive, are we? Not that ¯ you’re out to pick a fight, but you won’t " back away from a battle if someone at- : tacks you first. Your normally abundant energy gets a power surge this month. : You’ll either get a lot of work done or ; you’ll get a lot of speeding tickets. Better ¯ to focus and avoid fines. : CAPRICORN, Dec. 22-Jan. 21 ¯ People and their messy passions are ¯ often distasteful to you. But this month, ¯ you really want to check out when things ; heat up. This is an excellent rime to be ¯ alone as much as you can. If your work drags you into the public eye, spend your ¯ off hours in a secluded place. Plan quietly ¯ for next month’s return to the fray. : AQUARIUS, Jan. 21- Feb. 20 ¯ If you have a mate, (s)he may consider ¯ shopping for a leash this month.-Your ~ ever present need for independence gets ¯ obsessive, and you’re just not very polite ¯ about telling people you need space and : plenty of it. You’re hot, you’re cold; your : temper is erratic. Try to remember that ¯ "love" is not synonymous with "prison." ¯ PISCES, Feb. 20 - March 21 You attract all sorts of favorable atten- ¯ tion at work; partly because you show : your willingness to work with others, ¯ partly because you’re just so darned seri- ¯ ous. Your ability to express affection and ¯ sensuality is abit depleted now, but it’s a ~ good time to focus on career success. ¯ Love gets it’s kick start soon enough. ¯ MCC of the Living Spring Calls Pastor The Metropolitan Community Church ¯ of the Living has called the Reverend KermieWohlenhouseto beits Pastor. Ms. ¯" Wohlenhaus cometo EurekaSprings from ¯ MCCof theRockies inDenver, Colorado. ¯ Ms. Wohlenhaus was licensed to preach i at the Universal FellowshipofMetropoli- ¯ tanCommunity Churches (UFMCC) Gen- : eral Conference this year. Raisedin Colo- . rado, Ms. Wohleahaus is a graduate of : Colorado Art Institute and received her _" Master in Divinity fromlliff School of ¯ Theology. Shehas traveled the Southwest MCC of the Living Spring.=eelebrates spiritual and lifestyle diversity : painting over 60 murals and had had one- ¯ woman shows in Colorado. : Ms. Wohienhaus says, "my theology is : Christian, with a sprinkling of New Age, ¯ Eastern Religion, Native American, ¯ Wimmin’S Spirituality, and 12 step re- : covery. Her first Sunday was September3 ¯ and her Installation as Pastor was Satur- ¯ day, September 16 and was followed by a ¯ reception. ¯ MCC of the Living Spring is a church ¯ that not only accepts but celebrates spiri- ¯ tual and lifestyle diversity. We welcome ¯ all Seekers, Pilgrims, and Advance Spir- ¯ its, Gay, Lesbian, Trans and Bisexuals, ¯ leather and drag to come and share with ¯ us. Everyone is welcome. For more infer- ¯ marion, Call 253-9337 to leave a message. Your call will be returned promptly. For a Taste ofLocal Flavor Gay Owned & Operated Serving Lunch: Noon to 3pm, .Dinner: 5 to 1 lpm, Closed Thurs. t ealty, Inc. ’q’he Land Specialists" EUREKA SPRINGS 501-253-9682 (days) OR 501-253-8969 (evenings) Offerings include: Bed & Breakfast Inns, Victorian Homes, Hotels/Motels, Commercial Properties/Businesses, Quiet Country Estates, and much more. McClung Realty, Inc. has catered to the diverse G/L/B/TG community in Eureka Springs for over 20 years. Call or write for a listing brochure. Or better yet, stop in, and we’ll show you around. We specialize in creative financing. Dinner & Theatre Combo at Fat Tuesdays Fat Tuesdays, in the downstairs of the : New Orleans Hotel is proud to announce ¯ the newest, "edgiest" theatrical romp to " hit the Ozarks in a long time. Any Tues- ¯ day or Wednesday during the month of " October come and dine from the magical ¯ menu created and prepared by Chef Charles Clark, re, centl~ featured in the June issue of Ben Appetit. And then see the Off- Broadway smash, Parall. el Lives,written .by Me Gaffney and Kathy Najimy. The showis performed by three women, Pamela Jones, Janet Alexander, and Poco Carter, whoplay8- 10 characters each in a series of skits which, capture the humor of humanity~ Each of these actors brings extensive experience in theater and performance to this production. SBased on Parhallel laves:oThe Kathy &~Me t :" THE PAMELa, =’ Parallel Lives is directed by Lewis Routh, formerly of Eureka Springs, currenfly the owner of the Orlando, Floridabased Act Out Theatre. Routh recently won that city,s prestigious entertainer Of the year award for presenting pertinent plays withGayand Lesbian themes. : VOCO -. Routh. says that this prodiJctien h,,as b~n one ofhis mostjoyfull and rewarding working experiences." The dinner/ show package is $30, with show- .only tickets available for $10. Call FatTuesdays for reservations, Tuesday - ¯O t Sunday, 4 pm- " : Directed by Lewis Routh t midnight: (501) : ° Featuring... : 2 5 3 - 8 2 6 4 . ¯ " ................................. ¯ Showtime is 9pro ~ : PametaJones. JanetAl~xander. PocoCa,er : ~ on Tuesday and ¯ "" ................................. 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"TheEssential BookofGay Manners and Etiquette" is subtitled "A HandbookofProper Con-~ duct and Good Behavior for the Gay Gendeman." Don’t let that fool you; this guide is definitelynot stuffy. It is a practical manual designed to include homosexuals in the everyday social interactions of Americans. There are six chapters: 1) THE ESSENTIALS, which includes introductiOns (such as how to introduce your ex tO your newboyfriend), Gay Time (A.K.A. tardiness), and how to answer someone who asks "Are you gay?" 2) FRIENDSHIP, COURTSHIP AND. SEX covers "How toTumFirst Dates into Second Dates" &"Neg0tiating Safe Sex." 3) COMMITTED RELATIONSHIPS, which goes from "Ceremonies of Commitment’" to "When Baby Makes Three." . 4) HOME LIFEincludes ntles of entertaining and the proper ways to send letters and invitations t9 couples. : 5) FASHION AND THE MAN covers ¯¯ proper dress and good grooming. 6) AIDS: BEYOND MANNERS gives ". some logical guidance on taking the HIV ....subtitled A Handbook of Proper Conduct& G.~i Behavior for the Gay Gentleman¯ Don’t let that fool you; tl~s guide is definitely not .... test and "What to Say WhenaFriendTests Positive." Included in each chapter are sporadic quotes of wisdom: "Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation Of strength" and "Politeness is the art of choosing ~ among one’s real thoughts" are two of the best. Also covered are some basic rules that everyone should already know, but many people obviously don’t: "Don’t interrupt a conversation to introduce yourself," ~ "Learnthe artofreciprocation" and "Don’ t ¯ make a date if you don’t intend to go -." through with it." While these are often ¯ used in straight society, there are other ." rules,more specifictogay situations, such ¯ as"Showingaffecrionpubliclyis thesame ¯ for.gays as it is for straights." ¯ Although it is obvious that the authors ¯ live On the coasts, gays inmiddleAmerica ¯ will also find this to be a logical, helpful ¯ guide. Check for this rifle, and others of ¯ similar interest, in the Readers Services ¯ department of the Central Library, 2nd ¯ floor, or call 596-7966. Brian Jackson & Claudette Peterson recognize top walkers at AIDS Walk ’95. Divas Fallon Scott & Monica Munro graced the Silver Star Saloon on Sept. 24. 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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 Serving Tulsa’s Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual Communities Our Families of the Heart November 15-December 14, 1995, Volume 2, Issue 12 National News ¯ community center ¯ ~..S~’v,~,tL,-.~=_~-._,.,~~-,~~~_=.=.-,_=-_, ""ECmloesreg;eTnOcHyRMTeoeHtionldg Clinton Backs Federal Anti-Bias Measure WASHINGTON ~- President Bill Clinton has made history by becoming the first U.S. chief executive to endorse federal legislation that would bar. bias based on sexual orientation, the Employment Non- Discrimination Act. The act, sponsored by Sens. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), James Jeffords (R-Vt.) and others,is aimed at preventing employment bias against lesbians, gay men and bisexuals. see Clinton, page 10 Researcher Confirms "Gay" Gene Study NEW YORK - The scientist who made headlines two years ago with research that demonstrated a link between male homosexuality and specific genetic markers has now reported in new research that the so-called"gay gene" influences the sexuality of gay men, but not lesbians, confinning the link that drew enormous national interest when first reported in 1993. see Genes, page 10 MAINE SAYS N,O! Radical Right Groups Thwarted Portland, .Maine - Voters in Maine rejected a discrirmnatory ballol measure that sought to forever deny basic fights to gay and lesbian Mainers. Question 1, the only anti-gay measure on a state ballot tiffs year, was the ill?st such initiative to appear on a state ballot east of the Rocky Mountains. Last year, voters in Idaho and Oregon rejected anti-gay measures. Earlier exit polls predicted the victory. "Commonsense and decency tritunphed over extremism. Today’s vote here in Maine is in keeping with the national trend. Americans are rejecting extremism,". said Elizabeth Birch, executive director of the Human Rights Campaign, the largest national lesbian and gay political organization. "But we must put this campaign~n perspective. While this was a wonderful victory, gay and lesbian citizens of Maine have not moved one step closer to having b~sic equal fights Gay and lesbian people can still be fired from their jobs, even in Maine, merely for being gay." Birch noted that Maine is one of the 41 states that does not protect its citizens from discrimination based on sexu~fl orientalaon, and that federal law see Maine. page 15 Colorado vs. Gays Supreme Court Update WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in what is widdy considered themost important gay fights case in more than a decade. The outcome of that case could affect local and state laws across the country. At issue in th e case is the anti-gay Amendment 2 narrowly approved by Colorado voters in a statewide referendum in 1992. The amendment prohibits state agencies or local govermnents from adopting la~vs or regulations extending anti-discrimination protections to cover sexual orientation. see Colorado, page 10 ¯ " Organizers of an effort by Tulsa Okla- ¯ Open Your Mind, ¯ humans for Human Rights (TOHR) to ¯ " establish a community center for Tulsa’s . Open Your Heart! ¯ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, &Transgendered ¯ : communities have located a prormsing ¯ ¯ site with two buildings. Because the cur- . PROJE~r 0Pl:H M|ND " rent building owner has expressed a de- . " sire to movequickly, organizers are work- . ¯ ing feverishly to do necessary structural ¯ A simulated Gay bashing is featured in this 30 sec. TV spot created for PFLAG. ¯ and mechanical, evaluations as well as : " ’ " nti " paig "financialrequirements. PFLAG BeginsA -Hate Media Cam n " Because TOHR By-laws require any ¯ proposal of this sort authorization of the ¯ Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians and Gay (PFLAG) began a national media : general membership, several boardmem- campaign to combat anti-Gay ,dolence and attitudes. Tulsa, with Atlanta and Houston, . bets expect that an emergency member- "¯ is one of the trial cities where the two 30 second commercials were to air. The .spots ¯ interweave tv clips of televangelists,like Pat Robertson, expressing very negative views ." isnhTiphmanekestginivgiwngillwbeeecka.llCede,rtpaoinsslyibltyheeasriltye ¯ about Lesbians, Gay men and homosexuality with images of a young woman contem- ¯ : plating suicide and a man being beaten in a Gay-bashing. will be discussed at the next TOHR board National vice president Nancy MacDonald with Bill ~ Kathv Hinkle, Tulsa leaders, " meeting, scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 21 ¯ were joined at the 11/8 press conference by representatives of local groups supporting ¯" at 7 pm. ¯ the campatgn. Mrs. MacDonald spoke eloquently of bet experience with anti-Gay ¯ Typically thesemeetings are held at the ¯ TOHR office at 40th & Harvard, 2nd violence against herchildren. KTUL, Ch. 2 accepted one of the spots for broadcast. Other stations declined to air them, citing fears that the spots might have the opposite effect as : floor. However, since these meetings are ¯ intended and might actually incite violence. Several expressed suppork for the proiect : by the bylaws, open to members and by ¯ goals but stated that they simply found them not appropriate to this market. They noted ¯ tradition, to the community, it’s anuci- ¯ - also that they had shared these concerns with PFLAG while the spots were still in the pated that a larger meeting place will be ¯ script stage. PFLAG hopes to take this program national. . required. Info: 743-GAYS, (4297). Budget o.r Bias.? Larg.ent Co-sponsor.s" World AIOSOay, 12/1 Ultra Radical Right Anti-Gay Dornan Bill Theme: Shared Rights, ¯ Shared Responsibilities In July, Steve I_argent, member of Congress forO-ldahOma’s 1st District (mostlvTulsa " €ounty) became a:eosp0nsof ofHR 862.This.bili ii~tr0dfiCed l~,Radi~Ri~,hi.,a~,.~l- n~ted ... ..... Tulsa organizations Will counnemorate anti-Gay Rep. Bob Doman (R-So. California)forbidS theuse offederal funds to directly : \Vorld AIDS Day with events over a several day p~riod. On Wednesday, Nov. 29, o.r indirectly to promote, condone, accept, or celebrate homosexuality, lesbiamsm, or the Tulsa City-County Library System, bisexuality". The ~ ashington-based Human Rights Campaign, a national Lesbian: Gay lobbying organization, selected I_argent for its Hall ofFame & Shame in the inaugural the HIV ResOurce Consortium, mad the issu~ of their new quarterly magazine. Community Information Senice are spun- " soring a panel discussion: WOrld AIDS The impact of the legislation if it were to be passed is not clear because its language Day: A Tulsa Perspective at the Central ~s vague. However, since federal funds are widely distributed through even local and state govennnent, the bill ~uight require public libraries, schools, and both public and Library, Aaronson Auditorinm from 7- - private universities to remove any materials which could be seen as promoting or 8:45 pm. The panel of lo’cal experts will accepting. The bill might also prevent even discnssion of civic i~sues in schools or be: Janice Nicklas, Sheryl Dagmig, Mary universities; for example, the issue of Gays in the military nlight be untouchable. David Smith and TonmLv Chesbro, moderated by Claudette Peterson. The event is free Buckel of Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund noted that such restrictions dearly raise 1 st Amendment/free speech issuesand that ifpassed, they tend to have a "chilling" a~ad open to the public. effect since adminstrators may over-react. " On Friday, December 1 st, Interfaith Largent’s chief legislative d~rector, Marie \Vheat, suggested that Largent’s cosponsor- " .AIDS Ministries will sponsor a candleship was not motivated by anti-Gay bias but rather by an concern to cut the federal budget : light .march and memorial service to be as much as possible. Media spokesperson, Nick ThimmesCh, added that this cosponsor- " see World, page 10 ship may have been due more to the v~ews of Largent’s legislative assistant for civil " CommunityActivists rights, Paul Webster. Thimmesch expressed concern about the possible 1st Amendment xssues and expressed a willingness of the office to reexamine the bill to Host Lesbian/Gay MCC - Greater Tulsa " New Gay-Friendly ¯ Internet Program Charter Pulled; Next: ¯ Church: St. Jerome’s ¯ Tim Gillean ~ ~elly mrby, commu- District Investigation Ecumenical Cathofic: uityactivistsandretiring°ft~cers°fTulsa ~ o . . " Oklahomans for Human Rights (TOHR), Tulsa’s oldest predominately Lesbian ¯ Saint Jerome Ecumenical Catholic : are moving on to talk radio - sort-of. &Gay church, the Metropolitan Commu- " Church, will observe its inaugural Mass ¯ Taylor Subscription Talk fiST) is a new nity Church of Greater Tulsa, has lost its ¯ on Saturday, December 2, 1995 at 6:00 see lnternet, page 3 charter amid-charges, of poor manage- ¯ p.m.. The Mass’will be celebrated at the " : ment made by some members againstits Community of Hope, 1703 E. 2nd St."IN~IO ¯ formerpastor, AliceJones.Theannounce- " Tulsa Oklahoma. ment of the decision of the denomination ¯ The Ecumenical Catholic Church is an ¯ : to downgrade the status ofMCC-Greater ¯ independent Christian denomination in EDITORIAt. " - ~~ " P. 2 ¯ Tulsa was made at the annual congrega- " the Catholic liturgical tradition. It is a ¯ tional meeting, Oct. 29th. Pastor Jones, ¯ denomination inclusive of all people, DIRECTORY P. 2 NEWS BRIEF.S P. 4 ¯ who resigned in August but who had .- where being Gay or Lesbian is accepted. ¯ continued as an interim pastor after her In this Church, ~od loves you uncondi- HEALTH BRIEFS ":~ P~’6 ¯ remgnadon, commuting to Tulsa from " tionally as you were made and as .you ar~. CALENDAR : Dallas, preached thatmorning but did not ¯ HOI~’0sCoPi= - .: The servicrs should appeal to Episcopa- ¯ : remain for the congregational meeting. ¯ lians, Lutherans and Roman Catholics as EUREKA PAGES " P. 16-17 ¯ see MCC, page 3 . see Saint, page 3 PERSONALS P. 19 . 918-583-1248 POB 4140 Tulsa, Oklahoma 74159-0140 TulsaNews@aol.com Publisher/Editor i Issued on or before the 15th of each month, the entire~o~te~ts of,.. Tom Neal this publication are protected by US copyright 1995 by’Pq.ils a i~amjly Assistant Editor News and may not be reproduced either in whole or in part without James Christjohn written permission from the publisher. Publication of a name or Writers/contributors photo does not indicate that person’s sexual orientation. Phyl Boler-Schmidt Correspondence is assumed to be for publication unless otherwise Leanne Gross noted, must be signed & becomes the sole propert3~ of Tulsa Family Pat Morehead News. All correspondence should be sent to the address above. Each Staff Photographer reader is entitled to one free copy of each edition at distribution JD Jamett points Additional copies.are available.at Tomfoolery! Korean War, $250 billion spent, 54,000 lives lost, Vietnam War, $350 billion spent, 58,000 lives lost, Gulf War, $28 billion spent, 213 lives lost and AIDS research, $6 billion spent, 250,000 lives lost. This information from a GLAAD newsletter originally came from an advertisement in The New York Times placed by a AIDS awareness organization, Motturrs’ Voices. Although I feel 1 shouldn’t be surprised by these figures, still I was stunned..To any one whose lived through this horror now of ten years+ of the AIDS pandemic, it’s been dear that WE, as a society, as a government, and many as individuals, as Oklahomans, have valued the destruction of war more than trying to save the lives of our own countrymen and women, and others around the world. That seems a safe conclusion if you assume that our actions, i.e. where we spend our dollars, speak to our true values. Again to look at the figures, this means the cost of each life lost in those wars was: Korean War, $4.6 million/one human life, Vietnam War, $6.0 million/one human life, Gulf War, $132.0 million/one human life, and AIDS research, $24,000/one human life. Now despite all the rhetoric about Judeo-Christian values we’ve heard from politicians from Reagan on, these figures do not speak for those "traditional family values" of compassion, seeking justice and helping those in need which are at the heart of traditional Jewish and Christian (and other religion’s) messages. And our current Congress, in its alleged attempt to balance the budget and return our government to fiscal responsibility (worthy goals), may cut Medicaid which provides a~x~ess to medical care for low-income persons and persons with disabilities - for example, people living with AIDS.The Congress is also stalling action on Rvan White CARE Act So when v~’e participate in WorldAIDS Day, and whenwe help with theNAMES PROJECT Quilt, which was’so powerfuily displayed last month, let us not forget that political action is AIDS work too. When we sew a panel or when we ring our bells, as we grieve and remember, and as we help those suffering now, let us also act on their behalf and in their memory. National politics has real life consequences here in Oklahoma. Silence still equals death for ourselve~ and those whom we love. Action equals lif~. Do something° - Tom Neal, publisher & editor by Phil Bob.’r-Schmidt Queer politics is a volatile game, a mix of inyour- face direct action and behind-the-scenes maneuvering for position. It is a game with which I am familiar and a game I fondly hope we, one day, no longer have to play. Over the years, as my involvement in the queer political scene has broadened, I’ve watched as we make the same nustakes over and over again, and only recently has this repetitive revelation dawned on me. I believe there is a way to stop the pattern. During my involvement in the anti-Amendment Two campaign in Colorado in 1992, I watched my friends and colleagues, and even me, become political animals. We had to. There seemed no other conceivable way to defeat our opposition, a formidable opposition with too much support from national organizations that was way ahead of us in planning. I watched as normally passive resistors became rabid direct action experts. I watched, sometimes in shock and horror, as my own way of dealing with the world became a thing of the past, and I lived in a constant state of political awareness, ready to jump on any opportunity to garner even one more vote for our side. I was out of.my dement. My partner and I had adopted a philosophy years before that had served us well. We consciously chose to work on changing the world one person at a time. The advent of Amendment Two took us out of that philosophy and into the world of in-yourface politics. Changing the world one person at a rime became a luxury; it was no longer an option. What I learned from that experience and my continued involvement in the queer political scene is that someone HAS to give if we are ever going to get along in this.world and make it work. I am not ~uggestIng that we give up the fight for equality, either in civil rights issues or the quest to lift the gender restrictions on the several States’ marriage laws. Quite the opposite is true. I AM suggesting we back off a bit and allow some breathing room. Someone has tO do it, and as long as both sides of the debate are in rabid soapbox mode, no one will ever win. All we will do is allow ourselves to continue to be taken out of our own element and into THEIR element. It is a position from which we can never make any progress. We need a breather. We need to take time to work out a strategy, a p!an. We need to actually afford ourselves the luxury of doing something pro-active. As long as we continue to press the Radical Right from our current vantage point, we will continue to be on the defensive, and they will continue to have the upper hand. I believe in working from our strengths, not our weaknesses. One of our strengths as a community is that we have the advantage of allowing our neighbors, our friends, our communities the pleasure of getting to know us as people. It is my firmlyheldbelief that it is-0nly when others see us as people that we stand any chance of really changing anything. We cannot accomplish this from our current posiuon. Let’s consider a truce, a period of time off for good behavior, even if our opposition chooses not to participate. In the long run, I believe we will be able to accomplish our goals more effectively and with a lot less toll on us as people, on our relationships, and our lives. Tulsa Clubs & Restaurants *Concessions, 3340 S. Peoria *Ground Zero, 311 E. 7th *Lola’s, 2630 E 15th *Silver Star Saloon, 1565 Sheridan *Renegades/Rainbow Room, 1649 S Main *TNT’s, 2114 S. Memorial *Time’n’TimeAgain, 1515 S. Memorial *Tool Box, 1338 E. 3rd *Wild Nights, 2405 E. Adiniral Wild Fork, Utica Square, 21st & Utica *Interurban, 717 S. Houston 744-0896 585-5622 749-1563 834-4234 585-3405 660-0856 664-8299 584-1308 582-4340 742-0712 585-3134 Tulsa Businesses, Services, & Professionals Dermis C.Amold, Realtor 746-4620 Associates in Medical & Mental Health, 1560 E. 21 743-1000 Kent Balch & Associates, Health & Life Insurance 747-9506 *Barnes & Noble BoOksellers, 8620 E. 71 250-5034 Brookside Jewelry, 4649 So. Peoria 743-5272 Budget Window Treatments, 7116 So. Mingo, Ste. 102 254-2100 Creative Collection, 1521 E. 15 592-1521 Cherry St. Psychotherapy Assoc. 1515 S. Lewis 581-0902, 743-4117 Tim Daniel, Attorney 352-9504, 800-742-9468 D’Antiques, 1508 E. 15th 592-5356 *Dusty Roads at the Silver Star, 1565 Sheridan 834-4234 *Elite Books & Videos, 821 S. Sheridan" 838-8503 Express Pools & Spas, 6310 S. Peoria 743-9994 Fidelity Home Health Care, Inc. Coweta 486-1174 Leanne M. Gross, Financial Harming 744-0102 *Sandra J. Hill, MS, Psychotherapy, 2865 E. Skelly 745-1111 *Imaginations, Lincoln Plaza, 15th & Peoria 584-4606 International Tours 341-6866 Ken’s Flowers, 1635 E. 15 599-8070 Kelly Kirby, CPA, POB 14011, 74159 747-5466 Loup-Garou, 2747 E. 15 742-1992 Lean Ann Macomber, Realtor Associate, 671-2010 Massoud’s Jewlery, The Farm, 51st & Sheridan 663-4884 *MediaPlay, 9121 E. 71st 250-5158 *Midtown Theater, 319 E. 3 584-3112 Mingo Valley Flowers, 9720c E. 31 st 663-5934 *-Mohawk Music, 6157 E 51 PI 664-2951 Puppy Pause II, llth & Mingo 838-7626 Royal Travel, 6927 S. Canton .496-2410 *Ross Edward Salon, 1438 S. Boston 584-0337 *Scribner’s Bookstore, 1942 Utica Square 749-6301 Southwest Viatical, 41’46 S. Harvard, Ste. F-5 747-3322 *Tomfoolery Gifts & Cards, at Family of Faith MCC 583-1248 Fred Welch, LCSW, Counseling 743-1733, Tulsa Organizations, Churches, & Universities *Bless The Lord At All Times Christian Ctr. 2627B E. 11 628-0594 B~L..G Alliance, University of Tulsa 583-9780 *Canterbury Ministry Center, University of Tulsa 583-9780 *Chapman S tudent Center, University of Tulsa *Community of Hope (United.Methodist), 1703 E. 2nd 585-1800 Dignity/Integrity (Lesbian/Gay Catholics &Episcopalians) 298-4648 *Family of Faith MCC, 5451-E So. Mingo 622-1441 ,Friend For A Friend, POB 52344, 74152 747-6827 Friends in Unity (African-Amer. men), POB 8542, 74101 425-4905 Indian Health Care, Save the Nation 584-4983 Interfaith AIDS Ministries 438-2437, 800-284-2437 *MCC of Greater Tulsa, 1623 N. Maplewood 838-1715 *HIV ResourceConsortium, 4154 S. Harvard, Ste. H- 1 749-4194 NAMES PROJECT, 4154 S. Harvard, Ste. H-1 748-3111 P-FLAG, POB 52800 74152 749-4901 Prime-Timers, P.O. Box 52118 74104 R.A.I.N., Regional AIDS Interfaith. Network 749-4195 -Rainbg~.B~iness Guild, POB 4106, 74159 665-5174 : " .R~i~W-~ii]age, POB 50403, 74150-0403 599-8423 ¯ "~’*Shanii Hotfine 749-7898 Tulsa Oklahomans forHuman Rights, (TOHR) POB 52729 74152 TOHR Gay HelpLine (Info.) 743-4297 Tool Box Technicians, 1338 E. 3i’d 584-1308 T.U.L.S.A. Tulsa Uniform/Leather Seekers Assoc. 838-1222 *Tulsa City Hall, Cafeteria Vestibule, Ground Floor *University Center at Tulsg Beaver Dam Store, 1/2 mi. N. of Dam on Hwy. 187 501-253-6154 Jim & Brent’s Bistro, 173 S. Main 501-253-7457 DeVito’s Restaurant, 5 Center St. 501-253-6807 *Emerald Rainbow, 45&1/2 Spring St. 501-253-5445 King’s Hi-Way, 96 Kings Highway, Hwy. 62W 800-231-1442 *MCC of the Living Spring 501-253-9337 McClung Realtors 501-253-%82 Rock Cottage Gardens 501-253-8659 800-624-6646 Southern Rose Bed & Breakfast, 9 Benton 501-253-2204 Sparky’s, Hwy. 62 East 50L253-~6001 *The Woods, 50 Wall St. 501-253-8281 audio-on-demand subscription service via the Internet. TST company chairman, Edward L. Taylor, states, "so often when it comes to having a voice, the Gay and Lesbian community gets left out. Commercial radio stations seldom carry Gay shows....here at TST, we hope to fill the gap..." TST programming includes a weekly radio show, The Gay 90’s by Buck Harris that is produced out of state. On Dec. 1, WorldAIDS Day, portions of the Harvard AIDS Conference will be carried live and the audio track of CablePositivewill be available on demand. Gillean & Kirby are hosting a program called, Hear Us Out, focusing on "issues from their viewpoint". TST also has set a goal of20 "fresh" hours of Lesbian &Gay programming a week. TST spokesperson, Shellie Cook, said that the service will consider providing "air-time" or access for other programming though they cannot provide studio support as they are for Hear UsO.ut. According to Cook, extensive experience may not required. She stated that neither Gillean nor Kirby had a background in radio and were chosen because "someone knew someone..." Program director, Ann Williams, formerly with KWGS, radio station of the University of Tulsa, spoke at a Rainbow Business Guild meeting last spring about the then in-development program and listened to Lesbian and Gay community b.usines s people about the lack ofcommunity oriented programming. ~ommumty reaction has been positive. However, one community observer, discussing the announcement of the program, expressed surprise at this new "visibility" for Gillean since Gille’andedined to serve as public spokesperson forTOHR during the time he served as TOHR president. Others have expressed regrets that the impact of. the service may be limited since it requires a somewhat expensive computer equipment and paid access. To hear the programming, listeners need a "multi-media" computer and modem. For more information: website: http://www.tstradio.com e-mail: mail@tstradio.com or call ’481-0077 or 800-789-4506. they are adapted from all three churches, and to others who desire a more liturgical form of worship. Membership is open to all who would serve Christ without bigotry, in truth and justice. Saint Jerome ECC will be a parish church in. the Diocese of the Mountains and P1ains,joining 14 other parishes in the US and in 3 other countries. Regular Masses_will be celebrated on each Saturday at 6:00pm at the Community of Hope. For more information, contact Rick Hollingsworth at (918) 742-7122. Making Sense TOHR Announces New HIV Prevention Program Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights begins a new and innovative, four week program for Gay & Bisexual’men for HIV prevention. The progrmn uses concepts of harmreduction that emphasize non-judgemental, flexible and individualistic approaches to HIV issues. Topics will include: identity, intimacy, health, relationships & sex. Info: call Jason at 742.2927. Halloween at.... Wild Nights...& Halloween at....Renegades...& Halloween at....the Silver Star Teleflora Brass Hurricane $39.50 9720-C E. 31 sr Street Tulsa, Ok 74146 (918) 663-5934 Daphane Cooper Miracleglass Neil Ray Owner EXPRESS POOLS & SPAS yo.r poof tla,, Life (918) 743-9994 6310 S. Peoria Tulsa, OK 74136 The change in status means the church loses some of its autonomy. Major decisions will now have to be reviewed bv district authorities. One reason cited for the downgrade was the failure to pay required tithes to the district and to UFMCC headquarters. Church members who spoke on condition of anonymity allege that the tithes were as much as 5 months in arrears and that Pastor Jones had received several written and verbal communications asking for compliance. District Coordinator Ed Paul declined to comment on the communications issue because of concerns about litigation but stated that the tithes were in arrears but not as much as 5 months. Church members have also raised con: cerus about perceived irregularities in the financial records forthe yearending. Vvqaile the yearend report shows an ending balance on Sept. 30th of $9,307.38, by the congregational meeting on Oct. 29th, it was reported that the church had less than $700 on hand. At press time, inquiries to the church’s bank showed that the church’s -account appeared to have balance ofabout $1000-2000.~ District Coordinator Paul said he was not personally aware of the financial status but said that the district would perform a financial review as soon as they are able. Paul noted that he typically advises pastors and church leaders not tO try to sweep things under the rug, even if y. be painful. held this year on the campus of the Uni- .versity of Tulsa. Marchers should gather ~n the plaza between Sharp Chapel and McFarlin Library at 6:30. Parking is available on the street south of Sharp Chapel and on the street and in the lot at .the Chapman Activity Center. The march will move around campus, ending at the Great Hall of the Allen Chapman Activities Center where the memorial service will be held. Organizations may bring bamaers and individuals should bring bdls~ Candles will be provided. Around the country at 1:50pro on Dec. 1st, congregations are asked to ring their bells 15 times to recall the 15 years now of the epidemic. Between 7:45 and 8pm, across the country, communities are asked to dim their lights to demonstrate the commitment to fighting AIDS and in tribute to those living with HIV,"AIDS and those who have died from AIDS Interfaith AIDS Ministries wants to line the march route with lumnarnias displaying the names of those who have died. For more information or to submit a name, call 438-2437 or 800-284-2437 by Monday, Nov. 20th. Contributions are requested but are not required. On Sunday, Dec. 3, this year’s Red Ribbon Treefest will be held at the Spotlight Theatre at 1318 Riverside Drive with a reception at4pm & auction at 5:30. The Red Ribbon Treefest is an annual event where decorated holiday trees are auctaoned to raise funds for local HIV/ AIDS organizations. This year’s proceeds will benefit the HIV Resource Consortium’s prescription drug program and to assist Interfaith AIDS Ministries 800 AIDS information telephone line. Tree set-up will be from 9-3pm on Sunday. The SpotlightTheatre has a number of steps at the entrance. To arrange handicapped access, call 663-53721~" Y News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News U.S. Rep. Gerry Studds Announces Retirement BOSTON IJ.S. Rep. Gerry Studds (D-Mass.), who became the first openly gay member of Congress when he came out on lhc floor of the ltouse after he had bccn censured for having had sex 10 years earlier with a congressional page, has announc cd that hc will not run for his (’.ape Cod di strict scatagatn next year. Following that censure vote, Studds was nevertheless re-elected by a solid margin to become the first openly gay person ever elected to Congress. Studds has held his scat for 12 terms, a total of 23 years. Georgia Sodomy Law Challenged Again ATI ,A NTA -The Atlanta Const[ rut[on reports that L. Chi-is (?hfis~cnscn is chailcnging the Georgia sodomy statute, wlfich the ~ I.S. Supreme Court upheld 9 years ago. Attorueys reprcscnlmg Chfistcnsen, who was chargcd with soliciting an undcrcovcr sheriff’s dcputy, will argue that Chfistcnscn’s right to privacy ~s grcatcr under the state C.onstitution than it is under the I;.S. Constiluuon and that the sodomy slatutc infringes on that right. Martina Debuts Rainbow VISA Card NI’;W YORK Tcunis great Mart[ha Navratilova has stepped inlo the corporate promotion area bv inlroducing the "’Rainbow (Sard,’" Visa’s credit card aimed a~ the nation’s gay and lesbian commnnity. Backed by antomakcr Sub~L part of ~c ~d’s fccs will go to the R~nbow Card Foundation, a nonprofit organiz~tion ~at will help fund gay and lesbian heath and education groups in the U.S. The Rainbow Card is available throngh the Travelers Bank, and domestic parmers ~n apply for a.joint a~onnt. "q’hc inspiration for the Rainbow Card and the foundalion calnc from thc incrcdiblc s~cng~ and unityso many ofus sh~ed at the 1993 March on W~hington," Navratilova s~d. ’"l’~s cxpericn~ promptedmy l~ends m~d mc to evaluate ways to h~- ncss the coo heroic power of the gay community to achieve humanitarian goals. "lk~ay, I’m proud to inffodu~ the R~u~w ("ard as a fundraisiug tool that will gcncralc a substantial mnonnt of monc~ Ibr health ~d eduction ~uscs rclcv~t to lesbi~ s ~dgays." The fund hopes to r~se some $20 million for v~ous ch~table groups wi0fin ¯e next5ye~s, Navmfilova s~d. T~ find out more i~o~ation about the R~nbow C~d, phone 1-800~-~INBOW. Too Man~ ’Rainbows’ NEWARK, N.J.-Just ~ys ~ter it made a ~g~y publicized debut, the R~nbow C~d Fo~- fen has been h~ded a "cease ~d desist" order from the R~nbow Foundation, a New Jersey charity that helps sick children. A spokesperson from the Rainbow Foundation said, "Their causes are not our cause." Attorney Mark Momjian, representing the Rainbow Card Foundation, which will distribute funds raised for gay- and lesbian-oriented groups, said hundreds of charities use the word "rainbow" in their names. University Campus Adds Lesbigay Institute LOS ANGELES - Califonlia State University’s Northridge campus has OKed creating an Institute on Gay, Lesbian & Trausgender Studies. The institute will conduct lectures and seminars on the Southern California campus, starting this semester. In announcing the ne~v institute, Donald Hall, an associate professor of English at the school, said it will serve as a ...Somner LeCroix, an economist with the University of Hawaii... legalizing gay and lesbian marriages would increase the number of tourists visiting the state by about 172,000 people annually..¯ resource for faculty members who would like to include gay and lesbian studies in their course material. Hall said the campus has a large gay and lesbian student population, which the institute will serve. Hawaii Gay Marriages Equals 172,000 Tourists HONOLULU - A state committee holding hearings on the differences in benefits enjoyed by married couples that same-sex couples are ineligible for, was told by Sumner LeCroix, an economist with the University of Hawaii, that legalizing gay and lesbian marriages would increase the numberoftourists vi s- [tiny the state by about 172,000 people amiually. "’Adding more tourists of any stripe to the state would in general be good for the state," LeCroix told the Conunission on Sexual Orientation and the Law, authorized by the legislature as the staie tries to deal with the complex political and legal questions raised by a court challenge to the state’s refusal to give marriage licenses to samesex couples. Nat’l. Gay Organization Changes Name to HRC WASHINGTON - Noting that it is "so much more than a fund," the Human Rights Campaign Fund has formally changed its name to theHuman Rights,,Canlpaign. HRC has recently begun publishing "H,RZY’Quartefly," a journal of political news and perspective. In announcing the namechange, Elizabeth Birch, HRC"s execuuve director, also announced the organization’s latest Internet addition, a World Wide Web site that it says will let Internet users keep track of voting records for their members of Congress and conlmumcate with diem quicklyiThe - WWW site is: http://www.hrcusa.org. Tennessee Williams Honored by USPS CLARKSDALE, Miss. - Playwright Teunessee Williams is being honored by a U.S. Postal Service co~umemorative stamp. Williams, best kalown for his complex and emotionally intense plays such as A StreetcarNamed Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Suddenly Last Summer, was born in Columbus, Mississippi in 1911. He died in 1983. Possible Gay Spouse Not Enough for Annulment DUBLIN, Ireland -The Irish Supreme Court has refused to nullify the 16-year marriage of a couple, mmamed in court documents, who each believed the other was homosexual or bisexual. The couple, who have 3 children, wanted to annul their marriage even though neither presented any concrete evidence about the sexual orientation of the other. The wife said she thought her husband might be homosexual or bisexual because of a "close friendship" he had with another man and because she said that at times he preferred masturbation rather than sexual intercourse. Similarly, the husband said he with the caption "Roll One On." The pilot is considering filing a civil rights complaint over the incident. Disney Offers Partners Health Benefits IlOLLYWOOD The Walt Disney Compauy has become the latest member of the entertainment industry to extend insurance benefits to the domestic partners of its same-sex workcrs. A Dis~rey.spokesperson said the new policy ."brings our health benefits in line with our corporate non-discrinfination policy." The ncw benefitpackage applies only to the s,’une-sex partners of l)isncy employees and takes effect in January 1996. Fla. Lawmakers Attack Disney Partners Policy TAH.AHASSEE, Ha. - Fifteen F’lorida state legislators have written to Michael Eisner, chief executive officer of the Walt We wonder what Walt Disney hlmseff would think of your decision if he were alive today? We are inclined to believe he would be quick to pull the Iplug on such anti-tamily eomPany Polieies¯ - Florida legislators Disney Co., denouncing the motion picture and theme park giant’s decision to offer health insurance benefits to the domestic partners of its gay and lesbian employees. The 15 legislators charged Disney with"belittling the Sanethought the wife migh~ be a les- . : tity of mainage" and of forcing bian because of a "long and very ° its customers to pay for treatclose friendship" that she had with a younger woman. A lower court rejected the annulment petition, and the Supreme Court. upheld the lower court ruling; noting that "an inadequacy of the.ability to communicate" was not justification for an annulment and that despite the difficulties the couple faced "’the re must have been a fair amount of full sexual intercourse" simply to have had 3 children. Condom-Ad Blocked Over Football Stadium NEW YORK - An air tralTic controller in the busy New York City region blocked an airplane that was towing an ad for condoms from flying over the nearby Giants Stadium during a weekend football game. A spokesperson for the Federal Aviation Administration said it was not FAA policy to prevent such advertising fly-overs because of the content of the ad. The towed ad depicted a 25-foot silhouette ofan unrolled condom ¯ ment for people with AIDS ¯ through the new health coverage ¯ that "will result in an increased number of AIDS cases." A Disney spokesman in ¯ Burbank; Calif., John Dreyer, said the company ~has no intention of reversing itself on the ¯ new policy and Saidit was consistent with the finn’s non-dis- ~ crimination policies. "This is about providing health benefits for our employees and nothing more," Dreyer said. "When we ¯ get the letter, we’ll decide how ¯ to respond to them, butwewon’t ¯ do it through the media." The " full text of the letter from the lawmakers to the Walt Disney Co. follows: " "An open letter to Michael " Eisner and the Walt Disney ¯. Board: We are deeply disap- ¯ pointed in.your recent decision to extend health benefits to the ~ domestic partners of your homosexual employees. The me~ ¯ dia and entertainment industry ¯ may consider this a ’politically ¯ correct’ and courageous change in policy, but we - and others who have looked to you as the provider of wholesome, familyoriented entertainment - consider your decision a big mistake both morally and financially. We are surprised at your belittlement of the sanctity of marriage. By implying that vows no longer need to be made in order to gain marital privileges, you are alienating the millions of )eople in this country who take ,the marriage covenant seriously and believe that it is ordained by God. We strongly disapprove of y~)ur inclusion and endorsement of a lifestyle that is unhealthy, unnatural and unworthy of special treamlent. Those who practice homosexuality are engaging in a life style that should not be given the same status as heterosexual marriages. Financially speaking, how can you give medical benefits to a group of people with such a high medical risk, "knowing full-well that other Disney employees and the American people will have to pick up die tab for the inevitable increased health insurance premiums? With your decision, you are alienating the vast majority of fanfilie~ in this country. Youmay be gaining the applause of a vocal minority of your employees, but you are jeopardizing your finaucial base which creates the need for those same employees. We are also deeply disappointed in the path that die Disney .company has chosen to follow. For more than 50 years Walt Disney Co. has represented all that is good and pure and wholesome in our nation. Families flocked to Walt Disney World and Disneyland because they knew that Walt Disney respected and nurtured the traditional American family and its strong moral values. Disney could always be counted on to provide parents and children alike with family-friendly, goodnatured entertainment. Nowadays, however, you are producing and-fami!y films underother labds,such as Miramax, and moving even further away from traditioual American values with this policy decision. Wewonder what Walt Disney himself would think of your decision if he were alive today? We are inclined to believe he would be quick topull.the plug on such anti-family company policies. We hope you will be quick to reconsider your new policy and work to reestablish the Disney Co. as a family-oriented brganization." Dole Waffles on Log Cabin Contribution WASH.INGTON - Republican presidential hopeful, Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas, abruptly changed.his time about a $1,000 campaign contribution from the gay and lesbian Log Cabin Republicans, saying it was a mistake to return the money and blaming the whole incident on N.ews Briefs Ne.wp ,Briefs News Briefs his campaign staff. _’ ~ The suit charges that"if the College, Republicans were compelled to-accept homosexuals ... this would change the message communicated by the College Republicans’ speech and other First Amendment activities.’" The suit asks the U.S. District Court to force the schools to sanction the College Republi- D~ole, whose GOP presiden- ¯ tial bidhas been lagging recently, -" said his campaign staff had not : cleared the decision to return the ¯ Log Cabin PAC donation with : lfim. Dole’s latest statement on : the returned funds contradicts statements he made last month : when he said on a television in- : terview: "I didn’t want the per- ¯ cans, which would include proception that we were buyinginto " viding them with office spaceon campus. Leaders of the College Republicans said earlier this year that they had no intention of actually barring homosexuals but that they object to the colleges’ decision to require all student organizations to sign the pledge, which states: "The club will:not discriminate on the basis Of ,abe, color, creed, religion, age, gender, disability or sexual orientation." "We really feel the school is violating our freedom of association by shoving someone’s "We reafly fed the school is violating our freedom of association by shoving someone’s sexual,preference down our throat," said Nate HalL.of the Metropolitan State C llege Republicans... sexual preference down our throat," said Nate Hall. chairman of the Metropolitan State College Republicans. "If a person is gay., so what’? Our biggest concern is, are you. a Republican’? But we don’t as a club condone homosexual activity." Sheila Kaplan, Metropolitan State College president, said that the school stands bY .t!~e antibias reqnireme,nt "One of the founding pfinci plUS 6~"Met~6 i~ a cormnitment to maintaining a campus environment free from discrimination in any’ form, where .all people are respected and valued," Kaplan said. "We believe Metro’s nondiscrimination policies areLht~pl~r,O,p,ri- " ate and legal." . Santa Fe ProclaimsGhy ~&Lesbian History Month. SANTA FE. NM - Debbie Jarmnill.o, the lnavot of Sm~ta ’Fe, N.M., has :officially pros ~1 bd rited’ ~Oi:r~bef~ -’ as~, :::.]Le’Sbi~aiL Gay’ &Bisexual Hist6~3: Mbfith’. In makiug tli~’ 15f6~tanYation, MayorJaranfillo’said it was necessary ’:’to make sure onr country at least learns the lessons Of tolerance mid faimess and accepts the fact that we are all eqnal in die eves of God." Lesbian, Gay & BiSexual History Month was originally the brai]lclfild of St. Louis, Me., high school teacher Rodimy Wilson after he found that an 800-page history textsome special rights for any group or lifestyle or whatever it might be with gays or.anyone else." But a month later, Dole blamed his campaign staff entirely for the August incident, and implied that he hadn’t known about the deosion to realm the contribution "I think if they had consulted with me, they wouldn’t have done that," Dole told reporters in mid-October. "I just didn’t agree with what happened." Neither, obviously, did the gay GOPers who have since handed over their $1,000 campaign contribution to Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, another Republican presidential candidate. Rich Tafel, executive director of the Log Cabin Republicans, said he believed Dole had figured out during the past inonth of campaigning that beating up on gay supporters wasn’t a smart political move. "~I think as he’s traveled around the country he’s found as we have that moderate Republicmls, a lot of Dole supporters; Werereally tumedOfflJy tiffs .whole inddentY Dole said he would not ask the gay Republicans for the donation again because "I don’t want to open it all up again. Temp Agency Sued for Anti-Gay Bias MINNF~A,POLIS - Marcus St. Janacs has filed a lawsuit against thc Dolphin Tcmporary Services" Industrial Group, m~ emp! tymcnt agency, charging diat they fired him as an employee of the company because he is gay. In the suit, St. James also charges thai the temporary agency singled lfim out for retaliation because he had refused to fabricate data for some 500 job seekcrsin order to meet equal opp0rtunity employment requiremeuts. Au attoruey for the finn denied may ,reprisals against St. Jmfies and insisted that his "job ~ pgrforLn.an,ce, ,.w,a~£k¢ sole.~eason f‘or his. termination.’" St. James is as’king ~tr,~0mc $50,000 in darnages mid lost wages. . COI.I~ege Repub!ieans Sue Over~ Anti=Bias. Pledge DENVER - A GOP student organization, die College RepublicanS, has filed a federal lawsfiit ,against Colorado State University, the University of Northern Colorado and the Metropolitan State College in Denver, charging that the 3 campuses violate their First Amendment rights for insisting that student groups sign a nondiscrimination agremnent that includes sexual orientation. News, Briefs book he was.usin~Vdidn’ t ha;ce a single reference to the role of gays and lesbians in history. Papers Print Photo of Greek PM’s Wife Nude with ’Another Woman’ ATtIENS - Greece erupted in a political uproar after 3 newspa7 pers in Athens published a frontpage photo of Greek Prime MinisterAndreas Papandreou’ s wife Dimitra Liani in what purports ’to show her nude on a bea~hin "an intimate pose with another unidentified woman."Thephoto, which Mrs. Papandreou has denounced as faked, depicts the unidentified woman fondling her genitals. ¯ Authorities arrested the publisher of one of the papers on misdemeanor charges his publication made an "unprovoked insuit" against Mrs. Papandreou, who met and married the Prime Minister when she was an airline stewardess. Thepublishers ofthe two other papers that published the photo also face warrants for their arrest but have gone into hiding, police say. Mrs Papandreou, who is 40, said the photo was a fake representing a "dirty campaign" to thwart her increasing political ambitions. Albuquerque Gay & Lesbian-History Month ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -Albuquerque Mayor Martin Chavez proclaimed October "’Lesbian & Gay His tory Month’" in the city on Oct. 27, recognizing the"important contributions to our society" by gays and lesbians. The proclamation also notes that National Coming Out Day~ whichis Oct. 11, was started 7 years ago by long-time Nmv Mexico resident Robert Eichberg~ who died earlier this year. Earlier in the month, Santa Fe Mayor Debbie Jaramillo also issued a similar proclamation recognizing "Lesbian, Gay’ & Bisexual History: Month" in that city. Iranian Man Sentenced For Dressing AS Women TEHRAN -An Iranian newspaper has reported that a man in the capital city ofTehran was beaten up by outraged women and later sentenced toi201ashes by’ a court ~b~fig~"h~’ ~’6t- ~)n a municipal btigdr~ssed in the heavv veils and billowing caftan-lik~ gown " of a woman. " " " The3 i-year:~idma~, who Was not identified, told’the newspaper that he had dressed as a ¯woman’ ,m~’d~ sat; i~l’ tli~;Women- - O~fl~:;~e~ secti6n of the bus ias "]Yar~"tf’a’S33 bet ~vifll his father. "" A’pparenfly the man~s large frmne mid feet di&l’t fool the women. however, mid he told the paper they" "got aiagry mid beat me up." The man was later sentenced by a religious court to 20 lashes for what it called his "ugly and improper" prank. Sailor’s Case Dismissed BALTIMORE-Federal District Court Judge Joseph Young has News Briefs. News Briefs ..News dismissed a lawsuit by Navy Lt. Richard Selland who has been challenging the Defense Department’s new so-called "don’t ask, don’t tell" policy of excluding openly gay and lesbian service members from the military. The court ruled that Selland’s Firstand FifthAmendment rights do not take precedence over Congress’ and the Defense Department’s right to set military policies. Selland currently i s a supply officer at a base in Virginia, but when he came out in 1993, he was stationed on the submarine Hammerhead. Gay Couple’s Joint Bankruptcy Denied ATLANTA - U.S. Bankruptcy Judge A. David Kahn has rejected the joint bankruptcy petition of 2 gay men, ruling that they were ineligible because they aren’t legally married. Judge Kahn agreed that the men’ s long- ¯¯¯Sheldon had made *’a career out of vilifying lesbians, gays and persons with AIDS" and had called people infected HIV to be "confined in eoneentratlon .. eam?-like , establishments. tenn relationship had a number of similarities to a heterosexual mamage, but he :ruled that federal bai"tkniptcy laws required legal marriage or its equivalent as "’more than a inere technicalitV.’" The case is believed to be the first of its kind in the U.S. O.S. House of ReDs. Opened by Prayer by Radical, Anti-Gay Pastor WASHINGTON Rights activists and Democrats in the House of Representatives expressed disma? and outrage over having far-right anti-gay milfister Louis Sheldon of, the Traditional Values Coalition deliver the daily prayer that usually begin s the legislative body’s ~lay on Thursday, Nov. 2. ReD. Lynn Wolsey, a CaliforniaDeumcrat saidSheldon had made "’a career out of vilifyiug lesbimls, gays mid persons with AIDS.’" and had called forpeople .infected iwith:HIV. to~.be:?’con- ~finedinconcentration -camp.like. establishrnents.’" ~ ....... Eli.zabeth Birch of.the I2iUman Rights Campaign agreed. "’It is outrageous that those in control of this Congress would allow that man, whose every waking breath is spent attacking lesbian and gay people in this country, to lead the House in prayer," Birch said. "’Sheldon has created a cottage industry out of polidcal gay-bashing and hate, ..and:it is insulting to every fair-mind&d American." But a spokesperson for House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Sheldon’s invocation was "perfectly appropriate." Sheldon had been invited to deliver the brief prayer at the request of ReD. Ken Calvert (RCalif.). NGLTF ’Creating Change’ Conference WASHINGTON, D.C. -The National ’Gay, & "Lesbian Task Force held its 1995 Creating Changeconference, on Nov. 10- 12 in Detroit. The Task Force released the following statement: "More than a thousand gay,lesbian, bisexual and transgender activists gathered in Detroit, Michigan, for what was, perhaps, the largest ever national gay’ strategizang conference. The 1995 Creating Change Conference occurs at a critical juncture in the gay’ and lesbian movement when many battles and far-reaching decisions are coming together at once, the U.S. Supreme Court’s pending ruling on die Colorado Amendment 2 case, the prominencc of gay, lesbian and bisexual issues in the 1996 Presidential Ele&ions, Right Wing anti-gay b~illot initiatives in Maine and other states, workplace discrimination, and samegender marriages, ainong oilier controversial issues.’" The conference present some ’180 wOrkshops~ - plenaries. brown-bag sessions, and cultural events. Plenary’ speakers included Urvashi \,’aid, nationally’ known activist and author of Virtual Equally.’: The Mains?reaming ofGay and Lesbiaftgiberation; Second-term Wigconsin State ReD. Tmnmv Bfildwin Elias Farajaje-JoneS, -author, teacher, theologian, bisexual activist recently’ featured in Newsweek; and Harry Britt,.pioneer gay politician and former member, San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Numerous other gay" movement ’luminaries attended, including Dee Mosbacher, Deb Price, Elizabeth Birch, Scan Strub, Debra Chasnoff, Scot Nakagawa, Phill Wilson,-Derek Hodel, Tim McFeeley, Paula Ettelbrick, Mab Segrest, Robert Bray, Suzmme Pharr. Suzanne Goldberg, and ¯activists from almost every State. Tulga activist, Tim Gillean, attended the Conference as well as native ONahoman and Dalras Gay &’.Lesbian-A,tl’ianee.preSiConcerns Over AIDS Funds in Medicaid Changes WASHINGTON - Government officials and AIDS agencies say that potentially hundreds of thousands of people with HIV/AIDS could lose health care benefits under legislation approved by Congress that would give ~eater control of Medicaid fun ds to states. Jesse Brown, secretary of the Veterans Affairs Dept., and Donna Shalala, secretary of Health & Human Services, joined in criticizing the legislative changes approved by the Republican- controlled Congress. The legislation would hand over a large part of the federal Medicaid funds in block ~ants for the states to administer, spar’king increased concerns that people with HIV/AIDS illnesses might suffer cuts in benefits as a result. Research Links Transsexualism And Brain Structure LONDON - Researchers in the Nether-. lands have reported in the journal Nature that male-to-female transsexualism may have a biological basis, based on a tiny region of the hypothalamus in the brain. Prof. Dick Swaab of the Netherlands Institute for Brain-Research in Amsterdam said in the report that the stria terminalis region of the hypothalamus that is linked to sexuality is larger inmen than inwomen, regardless of their sexual orientation. But Swaab reported that, after studying the post mortem brain structures of6 male-tofemale transsexuals, he found that alI had the smaller "female" structure in this area of the brain. Swash said the results imply that maleto- female transsexuals had this smaller stria terminalis area from birth and that the re,on of the brain may be linked to gender identity as well as sexuality in general. Swaab said that there was no evidence that transsexualism is genefi: cally inherited, but noted that it was not possible to say" how much influence environmental factors play compared to inherited traits. Swaab and other researchers, including Dr. Simon LeVay of the Salk Institute, have found similar differences in the size of another area of the hypothalmnus between gay and straight men. Straights Not Changing Sexual Behavior Because of Epidemic BOSTON - A report in the American Journal of Public Health indicates that heterosexuals surveyed in 1990 and again in 1992 show no changes in their sexual activities because of the AIDS epidemic. The researchers noted that the 2 surveys of some 9,000 people from around the country indicate that the number of heterosexhals who said they engaged in sex with multiple partners had actually increased slightly by 4% between 1990 and 1992. The researchers also reported that the surveys indicate that straights showed no increased likelihood of using condoms or getting tested for HIV during the 2 years the)’ were surveyed. Many Blacks Believe HIV a Genocide Attempt SAN" DIEGO - Researchers reported at the annual meeting of the American Pub- Free & Anonymous Finger Stick Method & for, but not exclusive to the Lesbian, Gay, & Bisexual Communities. Monday & Thursday evenings: 7-8:30 pm for testing, 7-9 pm for results.- Daytime testing, Mon-Thurs by appointment. TOHR Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights 742-2927 4158 South Harvard, Suite E-2 2 doors east of the HIV Resource Consortium Look for our banner on testing nights._ lic Health.Association that about a third of the peopl~ surveyed in African-American ;<~churches believe that HIV was produced by the government ingerm warfare labs as part of a genocide effort aimed at blacks in this country. Dr. Sandra Crouse Quilm of the public health school at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, reported that another third of the approximately 1,000 church-goers surveyed in 5 U.S. cities indicated they were "unsure’" if the AIDS epidemic was an a ttempt at genocide or not. Quinn noted that black church-goers are not representative of the larger African- American population, but said the "stnnfflng’" results nevertheless indicate that a large portion of the country’s black population doesn’t trust public health information.- Quiun and Stephen Thomas of Emery University said, however, that the finding is backed up by similar studies of black college students, housing-project residents and African-Americans visiting clinics in Washington, D.C. The researchers said the other surveys also found that around one-third of those survey believed HIV was part of an effort to l~ill blacks in the U.S., and another third indicated they were unsure about the theory. The scientists surveyed people who attended black clmrches in Atlanta, Charlotte, N.C., Detroit, Kansas City, Me., and Tuscaloosa, Ala. Asian, African HIV Strains Migrating to the West LONDON - According to the report in the medical journal Ixtncet, U.S. and Uruguayan military doctors are reporting that Asian and African strains of HIV have been introduced into the Western hemisphere, brought back to their home countries by military personnel returning from foreign duty in those regions. Military doctors at the Walter Reed Army Institute and the Uruguayan Directorate of the Armed Forces in Montevideo said they isolated a common Southeast Asian strain of HIV in 6 Uruguayan soldiers and marines who served as part of a U.N. peacekeeping f orce in Cambodia. In a different study also reported in Lancet, physicians at the U.S. Naval Health Research Center in San Diego found the same HIV strain in 3 U.S. sailors and Marines who had been serving in Thailand. They also found 2 African’strains of the virus in 2 servicemen who had returned from duty in Kenya and Uganda. The scientists say" the findings could complicate efforts to fight AIDS because potential vaccines that might be devised to protect against one strain of HIV may ¯ be ineffective or inadequate for another of ¯ the 9 known strains of the virus. "We may ¯ need to worry about different genetic ap- ¯ pearances of the virus and changing pat- " terns of the virus in order to get vaccines ¯ that protect people who might be travel- " ling or who might live in different regions ¯ of the world," said Dr. Andrew Artenste ¯ in, one of the researchers at Walter Reed. "It might require either multiple strains in ¯ the vaccine or multiple vaccines eventu- ¯ ally to protect people.’" ¯ Fired Nurse With HIV Sues HOUSTON -A Houston nurse, known in court doctnnents only as "Jane Doe," has filed a lawsnit against Surgicare, a medical center where she had worked until earlier this year. Doe’s suit charges that after learning she was HIV-positive in . January she was told by her supervisor to ¯ take time off work if she wanted to "deal with the shock.’" But after a 2 week leave, Doe was informed that she had been fired : for "excessive absenteeism" because she had been off work for more than 3 days in ¯ the past 6 months. The suit charges that Surgicare violated federal anti-bias laws and fired her because of her infection. ¯ China Begins Addressing AIDS Epidemic ¯ BEIJING - According to a report in the ¯ Guangming Daily, Chinese health minis-- ¯ try authorities have acknowledged for the ¯ first time that the 2,428 cases of AIDS ~ officially reportedin the country are probably "significantly undercounted" and that the ministry believes the actual number of people infected with HIV in China is probably about 100,000 people instead. The health ministry officials also announced that it would join in observing World AIDS Day on December 1 and is in the process of setting up a national agency to address prevention and control of the spread of HI\.’ in the country. It ’Came’ In Outer Space KANSAS CITY, Kan. - Dr. Joseph Tash of the University of Kansas School of Medicine has been given a contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct sexual experiments in outer space. Little is known about sex in the weightlessness of space, but there is some evidence that male sperm is more active and aggressive in orbit. But before you start suiting up and heading off to NASA headquarters in Houston with visions of astronaut orgies, however,Tash notes, that these experiments will only involve studying the behavior of the sperm of sea urchins - which is chemically close to that of human sperm. see next page Cherry Street Psychotherapy Associates 1 51 5 South Lewis Are you looking for a relaxed, amicable, private atmosphere for therapy? Our office provides a level of confidentiafity and comfort that enhances the therapeutic process. For further information call 743-4117 Leah Hunt, MSW Judy Seymour-Taylor, CADC Della Blackburn, CADC Richard Reeder, MS Serving a Diverse Commnnity Justice Dept. Sues Moving Companies Over AIDS WASHINGTON - The U.S. Justice Departmenthas filed alawsuit against Bekins Van Lines and Schloer Enterprises Inc. Schloer, whichis Bekins’ agency in Philadelphia, was sued for refusing to move the household goods of two men because a friend of theirs has AFDS. The federal lawsuit was filed under the Americans with Disabilities Act and charges that .Bekins had agreed to move the furuishrags of David Homan and Robert Rosenbaum, who were relocating to Arizona. But when the movers arrived at the home of the men, a neighbor who has AIDS was visiting Homan and Rosenbaum, and the movers abruptly refused to continue with the move, the suit charges. The moving companies, have denied any wrongdoing, but the Justice Department says it filed the suit because the 2 firms refused to .cooperate in its initial investigation. Antibodies May Not Disable Hiv LONDON - AIDS researchers have. re- HIV blood test as part of his application, and asked to see his doctor’s records, both of which LaBonte agreed to. But LaBonte’s attorney says the company incorrectly decided that the two men were having unprotected sex, and in March of this year r.ejl,e,c,ted LaBonte’s application, saying that this type bf activity poses an increased risk for mortality which we are unable to price." The suit charges that the insurancefirm’ s rejection of the policy violates both California and U.S. laws barring discriinination against people who associate with individuals infected with HIV. In a brief .press release, Minnesota Mutual Life said it does not discriminate and is in complete compliance with Califomia’s insurance regulations. Health Officials Confirm 1st rus. Officials with India’s health ministry agreed that theWHOfigures are probably corLeg~t,~:noting ,,.that the number of repor(~ d cases in the country has nearly doubled in the last 6 months and that 7 out of every 1,000 people screened for HIV are now testing poslt~ve. Viatical Firm Says It Meets SEC Rules WASHINGTON- Brian D. Pardo, president of the Waco, Texas-based Life Partners Inc., has filed a sworn report in federal court that the viatical insurance company "has developed revised methods of operation that it considers sufficient to eliminate any claim that the securities laws apply." Life Partners functions as the buyers’ agent in viatical settlements, which allow people with terminal illnesses such as AIDS to sell their life insurance Bite Transmission o! HIV policies prior to death. WEST PALM BEACH,.FIa. -The U.S.: : TheU.S.SecuritiesandExchangeCom- Centers for Disease Control &Prevention ¯ mission has not yet commented on the has confirmed the first instance of HIV. : being transmittedby ahumanbite. Health ¯ officials noted that an unusual set of cir- -" cumstances would be needed for HIV to : be passed from one person to another ° through-a bite, and noted that this case, ¯ which took place during the robbery of a ," 91-year-old man, was the first such docu- ." steps outlined in Pardo’s sworn statement, but its court filings acknowledge that viatiCal transactions are not inherently securities, that the participation of an agent does not necessarily-invoke the securities laws, and that the preliminary injuncuonissued by a federal court earlier this year allows Life Partners to comply mented ease in 15:years they have been : "by restructuring the transactions in such tracking the AIDSepidemic. ¯ a way that they do not constitute securi- HIV can continue to be infectious evenafter the individual virus has been trapped inside an envelope of antibodies, normally the way the body neutralizes other microbe~. The Virginia Commonwealth University researchers said the finding may partly explain why it has been so difficult to stop the relentless spread of the virus. Dr. Gregory Burton, one of the researchers, said the antibodies that envelop HIV, instead of disabling it may actually help spread the virus to the body’s disease-fighting T cells. Man Sues Insurance Firm Over Lover’s HIV SAN FRANCISCO-Mark LaBonte, who ts HIV-negative, has filed a S1 million lawsuit against the Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance Company, charging that he was turned down for a policy after the insurance firm learned he is gay and that his partner has AIDS. LaBonte’s suit charges that his application for insurance was refused after Minnesota Mutual Life learned his lover, Joe Aviles, is infected with HIV. LaBonte claims the insurance finn believed that he was therefore at risk for infection from Aviles. MinnesotaMuttml Life had asked LaBonte to undergo an ported in the British journal Nature .that ,: Alarming Growth inGIobal AIDS., _,:..-ties.’? The SEC must file a response to the.- GENEVA ~ "The-staggering~ impact of : report.by Nov; 2., after which time the. AIDS in non-Western nations around the g~obe has been underscored by recent statements by health organizations and officials. Timothy Stamps, Zimbabwe’s health minister, said in a newspaper interview that the country estimates that some 100,000 Zimbabweans will die of AIDSrelated illness during the next year and a half. Stamps said he wasn’t trying to be an "alarmist," but noted that "At present 25 to 30 bodies of victims of AIDS are put into mortuaries...and hospitals" every day in the country. In neighboring Sout~a Africa, a study by the Universltv of Natal says that nearly a million people in KwaZulu-Natal, the country" s mostpopulous province, will be infected with HIV by 19%. The researchers predicted there would be 920,000 HIV cases in the province of 8.7 million. The nation’s health department also indicates its latest data indicates that of the country’s 40 million people 7.6% (about 3 million people) are already infected with the virus. The World Health Organization has also announced that even though HIV was almost unknown in India 10 years ago, it now estimates that between 1.6 and 2 million Indians are infected with the vi- Ken’s Flowers 1635 East Fifteenth Street 599-8070 Serving our communities with pride! ¯ , court will deliberate the case. The SEC is ¯" seeking to make the court injection permanent. HIV Scientist Sues New York ALBAN’Y, NY- A former New York health department research worker has filed a lawsuit against the state, charging that department officials destroyed his career because he complained abou! unsafe standards and procedures at a staterun laboratory. Joseph Youme, who had worked with the state health department for 16 years and had studied HIV with Robert Gallo, included written complaints he had made involving what he believed were tmsafe laboratory procedures. Included in the complaints Yourno had made in the past few years were criticisms that tubes of laboratory specimen blood had been dropped in stairwells, hazardous waste had been tossed out with regular building rubbish, and that on one occasion in 1991 a large bird flew through an open window and knocked over unspecified lab specimens and equipment before if flew out agmn. After filing complaints about the conditions at the lab with superiors, Yourno says he was demoted to a desk job, virtually putting an end to his career in laboratory research. Equal Employment Commission Sues Over Firing of HIV÷ Driver FRESNO, Calif. - A California-based trucking company is being sued by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for firing an HIV-infected truck driver. DEF Express in Kingsburg, Calif., has been charged with violating the Americans with: Disabilities Act in as dismissal of driver .James Marion. The EEOC isaskingthat,Marion receiYe back ¯ -wages~ compensation for emotional suf- ; feting and punitive damages again DEF. ~ An attorney representing, the trucking ¯ firm said DEFExpress wasn’t even aware ¯ that Marion was HIV-positive until he filed the complaint against the company and accused the EEOC of filing the lawsee Health Briefs, page 8 Jeffrey A. Beal, MD Ted Campbell, LCSW Ginny Butler, RN MS Specialized in HIV Care Providing Comprehensive Primary Care Medicine and Psychotherapeutic Services We have ma~, insurance provider affiliations - ifyou belong to an insurance program that does not list us as providers, call us and we will apply. 1560 East 21st Street, Suite 210 Monday - Friday, 9:30-4:30 pm, 743-1000 I suit for "political" reasons. Biomathematics Looks at HIV CHICAGO - Dr: Alan Perelson, an immunologist with the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, and Dr. Thomas B. Kepler, a biomathematician at North Carolina State University, say they think they’ve found out how the lymph glands produce highly specificmolecules, known as antibodies, that attack mic¢obes an the body with such accuracy. In their study, published recently in the Proceedings ofthe National Academy ofScience, the mathematicians" complex formulas generate a model that scientists say "tells us how the immune system can make antibodies that are 100 times more effective in just two weeks.’" Virologists and other scientists say the mathematical modeling could give"doctors important insights into the most effective times in the progression of HIV infection to prescribe specific medications to fight off the virus. Assertiveness May Help Black Women Avoid HIV CHICAGO - ,According to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, African-American women Who took classes in %exual assertiveness" were two times more likeh’ to insist on theirmale sex partners using condom s than a comparable group of women who took a standard 2-hour AIDS education class. Among other things, the classes taught how to put condoms on a partner, how to clearly express sexual desires and how to deal with situations where either the women or their partners have been drinking. ,:~* ....... "We don’t think one session of HIV education is really goxng to change any behavior - and in fact it did not," said Dr. Gina Wingood of the school of public health at the University of Alabama ~n Birmingham and one of the co-authors of the study. Black women in the U.S. are 16 times m~)re likely to become infected with HIV than American white women, possibly because their male sex partners are less likely to use condoms or more likely to u se IV drugs, Wingood and her fellow researchers said. Young People Hit Hardest by HIV in China BEIJING - China’s leading medical publication, Health Daily, has reported that the AIDS epidemic is striking the nation’s younger people harder than auy other age group. According to the paper, nearly two-thirds of those infected with HI\" in the country are under 30 years of age. The paper’s da~a, however, w’as based on government health agency figures, which officially have recorded ouly 1,774 HIV infections in the country..klan)" global AIDS experts believe that more than 10,000 Chinese are actually infected with the virus. French Hospital to Test 5,000 Ex-Patients of MD with HIV PARIS - Officials at the Saint-Germainen- Laye Hospital have announced that the medical facility will test more than 5,000 ex-patients for possible HIV infection. The enormous hospital-funded testing program was announced after it was ~ discovered that one of its surgeons had ¯ . been infected with HIV for at least 13 ¯ years. Hospital officials said it was "’very ¯ ~" uulikely’~ that the physician had infecte~l any of his patients but that it wanted to reassure former patients of the surgeon. Male IV Drug Users at High Risk for HIV ATLANTA - A study by the C~nters for Disease Control & Prevention and published in the agency’s MMWR Summary indicates that AIDS education and prevention programs may not be reaching male IV drug users ffho also have sex with other men. TheCDC study was based on xnterviews with men who inject drugs and who also have sex with other men - whether they identified themselves as gay, bisexual or heterosexual - in Dallas, Denver and Long Beach, Calif. The researchers concluded that this subgroup now accounts for 7% of the total AIDS cases in the U.S. and 21% of all the cases among IV drug users in tiffs country. .." " The men in this group, ~e study said, are at "’extremely high risk" of becoming infected, noting that the majority of those interviewed shared needles, often traded sex for drugs or money, and had unprotected sex with multiple partners. The study also noted that how these men identify themselves sexually may have little or nothing to do with whether they have sex with other males, with a full third of those interviewed describing themselves as heterosexuals even though they all acknowledged having sex with other men. Study: Lesbians, Bi Women At Higher Risk for HIV CHICAGO - According to a report published in the American Journal ofPublic Health, wo~nen who have sex with other women are at greater risk for HIV infe6- tion than women who are exclusively heterosexual. The researchers compared attitudes,, characteristics and HIV statns of women at a sexually transmitted disease clinic in New York City. Of the 9% who said they have sex with other women, more than 90% said they also had sex with men as well. The scientists found that the women who had same-sex contact were more likely than the exclusively heterosexual women to be infected with HIV, to trade sex for drugs or money; and to use intravenous drugs. The researchers .said, although the women who have sex with other women were more likely to be infected with HIV, the study found no instances of actual female-to-female transmission. Clinton to Host White House AIDS Conference WASHINGTON-Theadministration has announced that President Clinton will host the first-ever White House Conference on AIDS on Dec. 6 to underscore his commitment to doing more about the epidemic. Mike McCurry, White Housepress secretary, said it will bring many experts on the disease to the high-level conference. "’It will feature more than 130 individuals from across the country," M~Curry said. "Conference participants will discuss the. latest trends in the .AIDS epidemic, epidemiological stgveys and studies of the AIDS epidemic itself, and the central issues of AIDS research, prevention, care and discrimination, among other issue,s." McCurry said Clinton would take partmsome portion of the conference, but didn’t specify exactly what. FI_~ELITY HO_/v~E HEALTH CARE, INC. Tulsa Office 486-1174 800-999-3 , ,2 We provide comprehensive home health services 24 hours/day, seven days/week. 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Needle-Swap Programs Save $ CHICAGO - According to a research study published in ithe Journal of the American MedicalAssociation, the spread. .ofHIV among IV drug users could be kept an check through needle-exchange programs, which should not only dispense clean ne edles but also educate drug addicts about how the virus is spread and how to avoid infection. Investigators from the Chemical Dependency Institute at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York studied needle-swap programs in 5 cities - Tacoma, Wash.; Glasgow, Scotland; Lund, Sweden; Sydney, Australia; and Toronto, Canada. The researchers found, among other things, that clean-needle programs cost about $20 per addict per year, "but treatment costs for people with AIDS ¯ were as high as $120,000 a year. ¯ The researchers also compared data ¯ from the 5 cities they studied with data fromNew York City, which does not have ¯ a legal needle-swap program. The scien- ¯ fists found that HIV infection rates among IV drug users there rose from under 10% to more than 50%injust 5 years, while the ¯ 5 study cities kept infection rates among IV drug abusers at very low levels. : HIVTesting for Expectant Moms ¯ SACRAMENTO,Calif.-CaliforniaGov_ ¯ ernor Pete Wilson has signed into law a ¯ CA Gov. Vetoes Medicinal Pot ¯ SACRAMENTO, Calif. - To the surprise of almost no one, California Governor : Pete Wilson la~ vetoed a measure passed ¯ in September by the state legislature that would have allowed people with AIDS ~ and some other illnesses to grow and use : marijuana. Many AIDS activists and a ¯ number of physicians say the illegal drug alleviates several debilitating manifesta- ¯ uons associated with AIDS,includingloss of appetite, weight loss, and nausea. It is the second such measure approved .by the California Legislature that Wilson has vetoed~’ " HIV Isolation Works - At a Price ¯ measure that requires health care pracu-. 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A White House letter from Clihton to the Human Rights Campaign, a major backer of the legislation and the country’s largest gay lobbying organization, says that the president considers the bill "important civil rights legislation." The bill bans discrimination based on sexual orientation in businesses with more than 15 employees. Religious organizations are exempt from the measure. Clinton noted that the proposed le~slation does not apply to businesses with 15 or fewer workers, to the nation’s armed forces or to i’eligious organizations or the schools they operate, andthat 4t specifically excludes, an~" quotas. The bill would not reqtfires businesses to provide health or other benefits to domestic parmers of gay or lesbian employees. "’The bill, therefore, appears to answer all the legitimate objections previously raised against it, ~while ensuring that Americans, regardless of their sexual orientation, can find and keep their jobs based on their ability and the quality of their work," the Clinton letter says. George Stephanopoulos, a senior Clinton advisor, said,"This is a reasonable response to a real problem. It ensures that everyone receives equal treatment and no one gets special treatment." "Peopleshould not be fired from their jobs for a reason that has nothing to do wi th their abilities," said Elizabeth Birch, executiye director of the Human Rights Campaign. "Today in.America, it’s perfectly legal to fire someohe for being gay or lesbiaJa. The President stands with the vast majority of Ameri cans in supporting equal rights in the workplace for lesbian and gay citizens." The bill laces opposmon on Capitol Hill, "and has poor chances of passage at this time. In the latest issue of Nature Gen¢,Jir~sv~,Dr. Dean Hamer and his fellow researcli6rs at the National Institutes of Health reported that the expanded study confirms that there is a genetic link between male homosexuality and the genetic marker (known as X q28) il;herited from X chromosome of the mother. The researchers found that 22 of 32 pairs of gay brothers from unrelated families (69%) shared the same version of the genetic material, leading them to confirm the genetic link. When the scientists looked at the heterosexual brothers of gay men, however, they found only 22% of the heterosexual Siblings had inherited the Xq28 pattern. At the same time, researchers examined 36 pairs of lesbian sisters, but found no evidence of any shared genetic marker in the same re.on. "The finding in gay men but not lesbians suggests that the mechanisms underlying male and female sexual orientauons a~e at least partially distinct," Hamer concluded in the report. Earlier statistical studies have also shown that gay men were more likely to have gay" brothers than lesbians to haw lesbian s~sters, he noted. Hamer said, "’It shows that it is not impossible to map complex psychological traits to genes. It is still a very large genetic re,on. We have narrowed down which haystack in the field it is, but it’s still a haystack." Maki.n,q_ Sense A New H IV Prevention Program from TOHR Because- HIV prevention is more than just, "a cat,dam 100% of the time." HIV prevention is more than a slogan and a guideline. HIV prevention is’ more than learning how to use a..condom or negotiate "safer sex." HIV prevention is about you and your life. Because of all this and more, Making Sense was created. Making Sense is a short four meeting experience for men who have sex with men. Join us as we redefine health and make HIV prevenfi.on decisions for ourselves. To enroll, call Jason at TOHR, 742.2927. Begins December 5th. Following the Supreme Court hearings on Tuesday, Oct. 10, Colorado’s Attorney General Gale Norton told reporters that gays and lesbians as a group, do not merit "special protections." "The status quo, in almost the entire United States, is that there are uo laws granting special protections on the basis .of sexual orientation," Norton said.."And Amendment 2 just says .that,there will not be those additional special protections on that basis." On the other side, attorney Jean Dubofsky argued before the Court that the Colorado amendment violated the U.S. constitutional guarantee of equal protection under the law She said that if the Supreme Court Upholds the Colorado measure, homosexuals will lose their basic right to challenge discriminatory laws and regulations anywhere inthe country. . "’!f,~v~Llp,s~ !ki.~ case arid Amend~nent 2,g0es into effect, it immedimely repeals all the local ordinfiri~.es and all the general state laws and policies that protect people from discrimination on the basis of gay orientation only" Dubofskv said followin_o the Court hearino "’And it .W,hff,ao ~., tho ~,...... ~,~; genera~ poucy or any protectlon.at any level ofgovernment from discrimination on the basis of gay orientation or from the opportunity to seek any protection from discrimination." During the hearings, several Supreme Court justices questioned the validity of theColorado amendment, expressing fears that it could allow hospitals to deny medical treatment to gays or permit hotels and restaurants to turn homosexuals away. Masterwor T u t S A PHILHARMONIC Guest Conductor and Solo Flute: Ransom Wilson Saturday, December 2, 8 p.m. Chapman Music Hall, Tulsa PAC Mozart: Flute Concerto in D Major Liadov: The Enchanted Lake ::: : :: Maye:in December!i Marilyn Haye Fri., Dec. 8 & Sat., Dec. II Chapman Music Hall THIsa PAC LACK iWHITE INC COMMUNITY CALEN’ AR SUNDAYS Bless the Lord At All Times Christian Center Sunday School, 9:45 am Worship Service, 11 am 2627-B East 1 lth. Info: 583-7815 Community of Hope (United Methodist) Worship Service;~ 6 pm " 1703 E. 2nd, 585-1800 Family of Faith Metro. Comm. Church Worship Service, 11 am 5451-E South Mingo. In/o: 622-1441 Metro. Comm. Church of Greater Tulsa Worship Service, 10:45am 1623 N. Maplewood Info: 838-1715 TheBanned,OKGay Band Practice weekly in OKC Info: 838-2121 Bisexual/Lesbian/Gay Alliance - Univ. of Tulsa 6:30pm at Canterbury 5th & Evanston " Info: 583-9780 MONDAYS HIV Testing TOHR Clinic Free & anonymous testing. " using fingerstick method. ¯ No appointment required.. Walk in testing: 7:8:3.0pm Results hours: i7-9pn~ Info: 742-2927 ¯ Lambda Bowling League; ." Sheridan Lanes 8:45 pm ¯ 3121 S. Sheridan . : TUESDAYS Minister’s Class Bless the .Lord at All Times Christian Center 7:30 pm 2627-B East 1 ith In/0:583-7815 HlV-g Support Group HIVResource Consortium 1:30 pm 4154 S. Harvard,’Ste. H-1 Info: Wanda @ 749-4194 WEDNESDAYS Authority OfThe Believer Bible Study, 7 pm MCC ofGreater Tulsa 1623 N. Maplewood Info: 838-t715 Bless The Lord At All Times Christian Center Choir Practice 7 2627-B East llth Call 583-7815 for inio. PFLAG Family AIDS Support Group 1st & 3rd Wednesdays 4154 S. Harvard In/o: 749-4901 Family Of Faith MCC Poduck 6:30 pm Bible Study 7 pm Choir Practice 8 pm 5451-E South Mingo, Call 622-1441 for info. THURSDAYS 16-Step Empowerment ¯ Group For Women Community of Hope ¯ !703 E. 2nd, info: 585-1800 Co-Dependency Support Group ¯ 7:30, Family of Faith MCC ¯ 5451÷E S. Mingo ¯ Call 622-1441 for Info. .. : HIVTestingTOHRClinic ¯ Fr.ee & anonymous testing ¯ using fingerstick method. ¯ No appointment required. ¯ Walkin testing: 7 - 8:30pm Results hours: 7 - 9pm Info: 742-2927 Prayer Time ¯ MCC - Greater Tulsa, 7 pm 1623 N. Maplewood In/o: 838-1715 Tulsa Family Chorale ¯ Weekly practice, 9:30 pm Lola’s 2630 E. 15th PFLAG Family AIDS Support Group 1st & 3rd Thursdays 4154 S. Harvard Info: 749-4901 ¯ ¯ SATURDAYS Narcotics Anonymous ¯ Meets weekly at 11 pm ¯ Confidential support for recovering addicts. ¯ Community of.Hope ¯ 1703 E. 2nd, Info: 585-1800 NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt Sewing Bees 3rd Sat. of each month Info: 748-3111 MORE GROUPS Gay & Lesbian Student Association TJC Southeast Campus, Info: 631-7632 SWAN-Single Women’s Activity Network Call 832-2121 TOHR Helpline Daily 8-10 pm For info. or to volunteer: 743-GAYS Tool Box Technicians, Leather org., Info c/o Tile Tool Box: 584-1308- T.U.L.S.A. Tulsa Uniform & Leather Seekers Assoc. In!o: 838-1222 NOVEMBER 16-19 Broken Arrow Comnutnity Playhouse Quilt - A A4usical Celet~ation 1800 So. Main, [nfo: 258-0077 SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19; 26 SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3, 10 & 17 Faith & Struggle Dialogue Group Community of Hope United Methodist 4:30pm, 1703 E. 2nd (ongoing group) . In/o: 585-1800 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21 Tulsa Oklahomansfor Human Rights Monthly Board Meeting, 7 pm Call for location., In/o: 743-4297 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22 Family ofFaith MCC, Thanksgiving Service, 6:30 pm 5451-E S. Mingo, In/o: 622-1441 SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 26 Community ofHope The Rev. Scott Sharp Preaches, 6 pm 1703 E. 2nd St., In/o: 585-1800 ,TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28 Rainbow Business Guild, 7 pm Mazzio’s at The-Farm Shopping Ctr~ Private Dining Room Dinner Meeting, In/o: 665-5174 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29 WorldAIDS Day Panel." A Tulsa Perspective, 7 pm Aaronson Auditorium, Central Library, In/o: 596-7977 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1 WOrMAIDS-Day March, 6:30 pm Sharp Chapel, TU, Inio~. 438-2437 DECEMBER 1-2, 7-9 : Broken Arrow Community Playhouse Androcles & the Lion, 8pm 1800 So. Main, hffo: 258-0077 DECEMBER 2, 9 & 10 Broken Arrow Community Playhouse Androcles & the Lion, 2pm 1800 So. Main, Info: 258-0077 SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3 Red Ribbon Treefest, 4 pm Spotlight Theatre 1318 Riverside Dr. In/o: 663-5372 SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3 Prime Timers Monthly Meeting Write for in/o: P.O. Box 52118, 74104 SUNDAY,IDECEMBER 3 Community ofHope Bishop Dan Soloman & Jby Sblomon Reception, 4 pm,Service, 6 pm 1703 E. 2nd St., Info: 585-1800 MONDAY, DECEMBER 4 Women, Children & AIDS Committee, noon 1430 S. Boulder~ ~ollim!~R0~m TUESDAY~~ DECEMBER 5 Making Sense ~HIV Prevention Group Call for locadon & time. In/o: Jason @ 742-2927 TUESDAY~ DECEMBER 5 AIDS Coalition ofTulsa Gathering of the Evergreens, noon 1430 S. Boulder, Collins Room WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6 Womens Supper Club Dinner, 6:30 pm Spaghetti Warehouse. 211 E. Brady Info: 298-4648 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8 Tulsa Oldahomansfor Human Rights Holiday Gathering. 7 pm All Soul’s Unitarian, 2902 S. Peoria In/o: 743-4297 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9 Dignity/Integrity Christmas Dinner Lesbian/Gay Catholics & Episcopalians 6:30 pm, private home Info: 298-4648 SUNDAY, DECEMBER 10 Broken Arrow Community Playhouse Auditions for The Lion in WMter 5pro, 1800 So. Main, Info: 258-0077 SUNDAY, DECEMBER 10 Family ofFaith MCC " Christmas Childrens’ Party, 5 pm 5451-E S. Mingo, In/o: 622-1441 SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17 Family ofFaith MCC :~ Christmas Concert & Silent Atwtion, ¯ 7:30 pm ¯ 5451-E S. Mingo : Info: 622-144 : SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24 ¯ Family ofFaith MCC ¯ Christmas Eve Candlelight Service ¯ 10 pro, 5451-E S, Mingo, Info: 622- Out &About with JD Here is anew section that will help you keep abreast, of what’s going on with Tulsa’s night life. Each month will feature a local establishment and give you a listing of what is happing through out the month. This month’s feature is an great little bar on historic Whittier Square. Mosl people have mistaken this bar for a an exclusively Lesbian hideaway because of the name, BARRACUDA’S WILD NIGHTS, but it is slowly becoming a great little show bar and a nice stopping off point for a evening .offun. Thefollowingmonthat Barracuda’s ~s just full of fun and benefits for the OnNovember 17th, they will behaving a benefit to help Interfaith Ministries of Tulsain recognition of World AIDS Day; December 1st. The evening will include several different performers such as vocalist Linda Rush, guitarist Harry Carroll, entertainers suchas Sensuous, J.J. Gentrey, Sugarbaker and many more. During the beginning of December, Barracuda’s will be hosting the first annual Ms. Whittier Square please contact Ladonnafor further information at 582-4340. Over 0n.the east side, the gals at TNT’s and Time’N’ Timehave got things going. November 22, Time N Time is hosting a Leather community meeting at 7:30. On November 26, TNT’s will have a Carnival at 8pm. December 10 TNT’s will have a guest DJ at their annual Christmas Auction for Needy Families. December 15, Time N Time will have 5th Anniversary Party. They also have a free brunch each Sunday. Call for more information. READALLABOUT IT Reviewed by Barry Hensley Tulsa City-County Library In 1992, Dab Price made history by launching a weekly, informational newspaper column in the Detroit The phrase "...and News. Hercommonsense say tl~~ to__-|°yce," " approach to life is unusual lS for a columnist only be- the o en repeated cause Price is lesbian and her column addresses life experiences from a gay perspective, The phrase "...and say hi’ to Joyce," is the often repeated closing line ofmany ofthe fan letters she. receives and refers to her longtime partner, Joyce Murdoch. This is the story ofhow the columnbegan, includdosing line of many of the fan letters she reeelves & refers to her longtlme partner, Joyee Murdoeh, ing the behind-the-scenesdiscussions and ultimate decision to have this column in Detroit’s"politically conservative" newspaper. Predictably, after the colunm began, some subscribers, outraged at the column’s inclusion in a "family newspaper," canceled their subscriptions. The number of cancellations, however, was qnly a fraction of what had been anticipated. The edffors stood firm, andnow the columnis distributed nationwide, through Gannett, the country’s largest newspaper chain. Much of the book consists of Price’s columns, reprinted in their entirety, The ¯ wide variety of topics in the col~mm convey her background as a journalist: poli- ¯ tiCS, religion, travel and history, but also ¯ love and relationships.Columm fltles in- " clude "Gay Souls Find a True Sanctuary in the Buckle of the Bible Belt," "City Living Gay Transplants Taking Root in Smaller Places" and "Ignorance is the Great- -est Threat to Opening Up the Military to Gays.’" It’s interesting to read about the thoughts and events that go into deciding top- ¯its and the responses, in person, by phone and mail, from readers who strongly agree or disagree with the column. Many lonely, closeted gays, young and old, seem to ¯ find cause for optimism in Price’s column and write her to express ¯ theirappreciation. Coming out stories and ¯ positive letters from parents, friends and ¯ politicians are all included. There are, of ¯ course, many negative letters reprinted as well, which often ~ve keen examples of where those oppo_sed to gay equality are coming from. ¯ This is a very enjoyable book, filled ¯ with lo~c, usal31e advice and uplifting ~ stories, writtenby womenwho really have ¯ a way with words. Check for this book, ¯ and others on similar topics, at the Read- . ers Services department, Central Library, ¯ 2nd floor, or call 596-7966. Find your holiday getaway with the premier guide to gay & lesbian inns. B&Bs. hotels, and more! l)amron Actommodafions is packed with hundreds of lull-color photographs - and detailed information. For a free catalog, call 1-800-46L6654. and you techies check out the Damron~vWebpa~e! http://www.sirius.com/~damron ¯ GLAMA Honors Gay ...... And Lesbian Music : by Lester Strong "’It takes a particular kind of courage to be an out musician. It takes a particular ~ kind of artist to express musically what is ¯ often silenced by either the outside world ¯ oravoice within ourselves that says some ~ things are meant not to be spoken." : With these words, Dan Martin and ¯ Michael Biello, life partners and founders : of the national gay music organization : Outmusic, inaugurated the kickoff event ¯ -for the Gay/Lesbian American Music Awards (GLAMA) intended to acknowledge and honor the work of openly gay and lesbian music artists. Held October 1 at The Supper Club in the heart of New York City’s Theater District, "A Night of GLAMA" was hosted by award-winning playwright and actor Han,ey Fierstein and :attended b,y a mix of:over 350 performers, gaymusic supporters,and representatives from the media and recording companies like Atlantic Records. GLAMA creator/producers Tom McCormack and Michael Mitchell along with the GL&MA advisory board are currently in the process of defining-categoties, eligibility, and nominating andjudging procedures for the first annual performing awards to be handed out next year. .............................. categories are likely to include the year’s best female and male performers, best group, best ori~nal song, and best recorded performance byan "out" performer or group. But this year’s event saw the introduction of two" special awards, presented to individuals well known on the music scene for their long-standing contributions to the cause of openly gay music. The Michael Callen Medal of Achievement was given to Cris Willi0ms0n, a pioneer ofthe women’s musicmovement, cofounder of Olivia Records, and strong community supporter in her work with pediatric AIDS groups, while the Outmusic Award was presented to Boy George, the British popmusic star known the world over for his gender-bending music and style of performance. In the words of Bob Guccione, Jr., Editor/Publisher of Spin magazine, who presented the Michael Callen Medal: "The ¯ Callen Medal is given to an individual, ~ group, organization, or business cormnit- ~ ted to the courageous and important work ¯ of engendering, nurturing, and furthering i gay/lesbian music. Tonight the Callen Medal honors Cris Williamson, a singer/ songwriter who has Used her music and : good works as beacons ofhope and inspi- ¯ ration for lesbian, gay, and nongay audi- ¯ ences for more than twenty years." ¯ The Outmusic Award honors recording ¯ artists, groups, or songwriters who have advanced gay/lesbian music through their work as out musicians. As presenter : Me’scheli Ndegeocello, recording artist ¯ onMadorma’s Mavericklabel, stated about ~ Boy George: "The recipients’ steadfast ; co~nitment to speak openly and specifi- ~ e,ally to the gay and lesbian experience ¯ through music qualifies them for this ¯ award. GLAMA has chosen to give this ~ inaugural award to a man who from the ~ beginning of his career in the early eight- - ies has consistently called into questaon : society’s perceptio’ns of gender roles." : Adds Michael Mitchell about both ¯ awards. "There arepeople in the commusee next page LO$.T TRIBE Call 341.6866 International Tours for more information about LA Studio tour packages to see tapings of Ellen or Married With Children.Gift certificates are availablefor air travel, cruises & many other travel needs. IGTA member. .nity who have made enormous contributeens to openly gay and lesbi~an music. They may not have a recordidg out this year or be on the TopTen charts, but those contributions deserve recognition. We plan to present the Micha61 Callen Medal and Outmusic Award on an annual basis:" The diversity of music embraced by GLAMA was indicated by the evening’s entertainment. Performing were qtaeer pnnkers Pansy Division, a cappella group The Flirtations with their newest and first woman meznber Suede, renegade folk/ rock band disappear fear with lead singer Sonia Rutstein, and drag diva Joey Arias "’channeling" Billie Holiday. Cris Williamson sang a few of her ballads, and Harvey Fierstein did a turn, performing "This Is Not Going To Be Pretty" from his newly released CD of the same name. "A Night of GLAMA" was scheduled to coincide with the opening of the Outmusic 5th Annual Festival of Gay and Lesbian Music, held each October in New York City, and Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messenger was.on hand to read a proclamation officially designating October, 1995 as "Gay and Lesbian Music Month" in New Y’ork. Outmusic dedicates itself to creating opportunity for-- and increasing awareness of--lesbian and gay composers, lyricists, performers,and their supporters. GLAMA also espouses those goals, but the two are organizationally distinct. October 6,1996, has already been set as the date for next year’s First Annual GaU Lesbian American Music Awards ceremony, to be held again in New York. For more information, contact McCormack and Mitchell at 267 Fifth Avenue, Suite 801-49, New York, NY 10016; tel. 212- 59,2-4455; e-mail GLAMAS@aol.com. Enjoying the Momenff by Pat Morehead Now for something completely different.... where the hell did this snow come from? Yesterday afternoon I was dodging pecans inmy tee shirt as I tried to round up leaves on my patio. Four hours later I was towe!ing snow off the dog after his mid evemng potty break. Oklahoma has to be on.e ofweirdest places in the world weather wise. But the result this morning is unbeatable. The entare north wall of my ’office’ looks out onto my patio and back yard. Just beyond my monitor is a stretch of shadowed blue and gray snow, then a stretch of gleaming white-snow topped and highlighted by brilliant golden yellow leaves splattered across the trees in the background which are interlaced with swaths of cendean blue sky. It’s like one ofthose images from the ubiquitous Christmas Calendars. Most of the time you look around Tulsa and it all seems pretty blah, and that’s being generous. Thenout ofnowhere some little scene leaps out and you’re just amazed at the accidental beat~ty. At least I am. For me that accidenta] moment of. something unique is the "JEEZ" moment. The "JEEZ" moment is one of the best things about Tulsa and life in general. _If I’m waxing a bit too bucolic about the s, please overlook my enthusiasm. I want to enjoy this moment because it’ll all get mined pretty quickly due to the approaching holidays. No, I am not a holiday grinch. But the COlrmiercial and emotional overkill which I "know is coming is about as offputting as anything you Sandra J. Hill, M.S. Ps.vchotherapy & Clinical Consultation Sensitive to the Challenges of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgendered Individuals, Couples & Families. 2865 E. Skelly Drive, Ste. 215, 745-1111 can imagine. And yes we will all get sucked up into the holiday insanity. At least most of us will. My companion and I have reached that stage where we can sit back and enjoy the season in a relaxed low key fashion. We put some real joint effort into a great meal which we can enjoy in peace and quiet. Then a .movie on tape which we have purposefully avoiding renting until the holidays. Occasionally we arejoined by a couple of friends, people about whom we really care. It may sound dull, but after years of having dealt with crappy family holiday discords, it is.shear bliss. Christmas works pretty much the same way. Naturally we do have to take care of family recognition, but again we try and keep that to a minimum. We start with the presumption that someone is going to say or do something stupid or hurtful. So we give them as little opportunity as possible. We have also reached the stage where wecankeep the ’gifting’ to aminimum. In fact we have already done most of that. We replaced some aging furniture and added a new TV as our Christma~ gifts for our house. Part of the old furniture .went to Goodwill and some directly to a friend who could Use it. All that re~nains now is finding that certain something special ~which will express the depth of love and affection between us. No easy task let me add. [ "kno~v to you this probably seems about as exciting ~s algebra. But for us it is a refreshing break from all of the usual turmoil, hurt feelings and anger which have marked previous holiday seasons. Answer tmtlffully, ho~v many of you are already dreading the enforced family visitations? Not to mention the other stuff associated with the holidays which .you really don’t want to be involved im but feel compelled to do. " I’ve developed a pretty simple approach to life, which I offer as a recommendation. ff there are people you don’t care for, and who go out of their wav to make you miserable, then avoid bei~g around them. If there are situations whichget you crazy, avoid them whenever you have the option. If there is stuff that you really hate doing (and which you don’t have to do to live) just don’t-do it! I used to waste a lot of time, energy and fretting over doing stuff that I thought I had to do even though I hated it. Gradually, I have learned tha~ doing the right !hing doesn’t mean doing what others ~mpose as "the right thing to do". Here’s the secret. If you worry about what others think, you’ll spend your entire life worrying. If that sounds like the way to enjoy life, more power to you, have ~t it! As for me, I’ll sit here awhileqonger with my coffee and enjoy the scene outsidemywindows. The squirrels have come out now. They are busy rooting_through the snow and leaves looking those pecans I dodged yesterday. The birds are hopping through the snow looking for lord knows what. The dog is lying here next to me blissfully gnawing on his chew bone and my companion / lover is messing around in the "kitchen.. It’s a cozy pleasant Saturday morning. Enjoy the holidays with the people you really care about and who really care about vou. Pat Morehead ~s a Tulsa contributor. SELLS L-ESS ’95 ¯ APR GALANTS Includes All Factory Options, Including Automatic & Air. Power Lo¢ks/Windows. ¢l~lse & Mere. s237 o. O-DOWN s212 o, slO00i2. Drive off in a great deal! "MSRP$19.~69. ,~1~ Pdca $11’,191.41 I~ynlenlt at $237 ~, month. 12.000 miles e yr, free 15¢ e mile penally thereafter, ~’ II~lk my. [.=sl paymeM $~11.77. 1.7~% APR. WAC. HURRY! OFFER LIMITED TO STOCK ON HAND Arlen Spitler, Mr. Oklahoma Leather 1996 winner with hisfellow contestants, VicReyes, EdSmith, Chris Cherry.- Jones, & Danny Pelletier at the Silver Star Saloon. Viola Johnson, winner of several lifetime leather acheivement awards, bares her Halloween fangs. Arlen Spitler WhO was I st runner-up tn Mr. Tulsa Leather 1995 & then Mr. Tulsa Leather 1995 is joined by Arnie Holder. one ofthe event organizers. : : Leatherfolk enjoyed a bar tour as part of the wee’kend ¯ events. Larry Everett. Mr. lnternationai Leati~er 1995, is caught betweentwo ofTulsa’s ladies in leather, Viola Johnson & Jill Carter while Larry’s partner. Leroy Ray, looks on. David Walker, International Mr. Drummer 1995 attended this event. All photos: JD Jamett, Images by JD Positively Negativ6 IF: THEN: WHEN: ¯ You feel lhol it is inevilabte LJOU will b~corne IIIV positive. ¯ You think the holiest thing about s~x" is lhe posler. ¯ You want support and a fresh look on lhe new year lhroucjh the-holidocjs ¯ You wonder whkj rernoininc.:j uninl’ectecl is imporlont. Come and talk about it with us. l"l~etings begin acjo~n December 141h.- Call Jason to enroll. 742.2927 co-facilitated dialogue for t-IIV negative gay and bisexual m~n on love desire. s~x. and h~allh. Sponsored by lh~ TOHR fllV Prevention Proj¢cl. OUR BODIES OUR LIVES OUR HEALTH Photos, JD Jamett, 621-5597 Open Arms Open-Minds Open Hearts Saint Aidan,s 4045 No. Cincinnati, 425-7882 Saint John’s 4200 So. Atlanta PI.. 742-7381 Trinity 501 SO. Cincinnali. 582-4128 The Episcopal Church Welcomes You Sunday Services 11:00 am ¯ Wednesday Services 6:30 pm, 7:30 pm Choir Practice ¯ Thurs. 7:30 pm Codependency Support Group I To do justice, love mercy & to walk humbly with our God... Micah 6:8 5451-E South Mingo Tulsa, OK 74146 . (918) 622-1441 Mr. Oklahoma Leather ’96 TULSA The Silver Star SalooninTulsa, Oklahoma was the place to be November 4 as a standing room only crowd watched Aden Spitler win the title of Mr. Oklahoma Leather ’96. Tulsa Uniform and Leather Seekers Association (T.U.L.S.A.) president Arnie Holder produced this year’s event, pooling talent from the Technicians and Tribe an auction mad special entertainment provided by Carmen del Rio of NLA Dallas/ Dallas Eagle fame. As always, Carmen brought the house down! While contestants sweated out the results backstage, IML Larry Everett, who was also Mr. Oklahoma Leather ’95, gave the traditional stepping aside address to the crowd. Cash and prizes donated by Excalibur. International Mr. Leather ’95, Larry Everett, was Master ofCeremonies, while the judging panel included International Mr. Drummer David Walker, International Ms. Leather ’94 Cindy Bookout, International Mr. Fantasy JD Buchert, Queen of Kink Jill Carter, Fantasy and Great Plains Drummer co-producers Bob Ewing and Dustin Logan and IML Finalist Lance Brittain. Look for Aden to shine bright in Chiea .o as he wkeels his way into town as Oklahoma’s offieial IML preliminary entry. T.U.L.S.A., Leatherworks by Johnna, Shades of Grey Dallas, the Leather Rack DC, Utica Tri’s, NY, Silver Star Saloon, JD Images, IML, Inc., Viola Johnson valued atalmost $3000 were readied as the five contestants were brought back for the final results. Second Runner-up was Danny Pelletier. First Runner-up was Victor Reyes, and crowd favorite, Arlen Spitler, was given the The weekend’s events began Friday evening with a shuttle bus bar crawl, sampling a wide variety of clubs throughout the city. The tour ended up at the Silver Star where judges and contestants were introduced to the crowd and contestant numbers were drawn. Interviews were conducted Saturday morning while the host cout~try and W~Stern bar stage was transformedintoa.cruisy alleyway for the much anticipated event. Starti,ng on time (as well organized events do) the contestants competedin Streetwear with Speech, Swimwear and Full Leather Image with a Random Question and Answer. Entertwined with the contest were winner’s sash. Aden is an Assistive Technology Specialist with special interests in Advocacy and Fnndraising for Children with disabilities, sports and gay and lesbian youth issues. Aden was First Runner-up to IML larry Everett at the Mr. Tulsa Leather contest last year losing to him by only one po_in~. He then took over_the tit.!e as Mr. Tulsa ’95 after Larry went on tO win Mr. Oklahoma Leather and IML, respectively. Aden also won Mr. Barechest in Washington, DC earlier this year. Look for Aden to shine bright in Chicago as he wheels his way into town as Oklahoma’s official IML preliminary entry. also offers no such protection. Question 1 asked voters to limit "protected classifications" in current and future state and locai laws to ten specific categories. The measure asked, "Do you favor the changes in Maine law limiting protected classifications in future, state and local laws to race, color, sex, physical and mental disability, religion, age, ancestry, national origin, familial status, and marital status, and repealing existing laws which expand these classifications as proposed by citizen petition?" The measure effectively would have repealed two local non-discrimination laws that include gay people, and would have prohibited commumt~ es from passing such laws in the future. Question 1 was written by Bruce Fein, a right-wing lawyer based in Virginia, to circumvent court decisions saying that gays should not be singled out for discrimination. Question 1 also would haverepealed any anti-discrimination protections in the state’s university and college system, and gutted the state hate crimes law by removing sexual orientation. Unlike earlier anti-gay measures, the language of Question 1 avoided mentioning lesbian and gay people. The National Gay & Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) "suggested that Question 1 was drafted to be intentionally confusing. More than 70 state business, religious, educational and political groups and leaders opposed the measure, including the Catholic Diocese of Maine. National extreme right groups actively pushed for a"yes" vote on Quesuon 1. Bob Knight of the Family Research Council toured the state calling on voters to approve the measure, as did Beverly LaHaye of Concerned Women for America. Focus on the Family aired radio advertisements in favor of the initiative. A statement from the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force noted, "’the victory over Measure One offers us a tremendons potential to seize the momentum and pass a statewide non-discrimination law in Maine. The law was recently introduced in the state legislature by Dale McCormick. Originally passed in 1993 but vetoed by then conservative governor Kieman, the bill can capture the new-fonnd awareness of the extent of real discrimination and persecution suffered by the gay and lesbian citizens of Maine. Governor Angus King, a huge supporter of the No On 1 campaign, is expected to sign such legislation." NGLTF campaign consultant Susan Hibbard, in the field in Maine, reports an unparalleled grassroots educational and visibility campaign in all 16 counties has changed the way the state views its gay, lesbian and bisexual citizens. NGLTF added, "the isolation and fear of being gay, especially in rural places, has been altered by new-found and strengthened visibility and support for gays and our allies at the forefront of this battle. So - many people came to our side to help. They proclaimed, ’This issue brought me out.’ Indeed, the ballot measure may have even backfired against the?Radical Right. Intended to push gays and lesbians back into the closet, it instead galvanized us and our supporters." Fred Welch L.C.S.W, Brookside Counseling Individual & Couple Family & Group 743-1733 Y ARIES, March 21, April 20 Not that you ever want people to boss you around but, this month, even a sideways .. glance from an authority fi.gure can send your blood pressure soanng. You can make great career progress now, especially if you throw your energy into your work instead of into fighting off every- : imagined threat. Convert your anger into passion, No, your lover really isn’t trying to control you. TAURUS, April 20 -May 21 Now is the perfect time to go new places, learn new things and open up your views of the world. You may be tempted to think that nobody is as smart as you are. You may be tempted to beat people over the head with your opinions. YOU may even be tempted to hire a lawyer to do the beating for you; but don’t do it. The world and its inhabitants are only trying to teach you a thing or two. GEMINI, May 21 - June 22 A month of crazed passion and deep desires. Good news? Sure, if you work your passions out in the bedroom, or in the elevator on the way to work if that’s what you prefer. The bad news? This is the vibe that creates deep passion about everything you share with others, from your body to your bank account. Not a good time to ask for a loan and if your parmer picks fights over money, well, you "know what to do. CANCER, June 22 - July 23 You have been ’holding back grievances for quite a while now, and this month provides a great,opportunity to clear the air. You’re energetic and assertive, and the peopledoseto youmay wonderwhere Cancer ever got the reputation of being sweet, domestic and submissive. You’re in a prime position to work hard with a partner on a mutually satisfying goal. Don’t waste the energies on pointless conflict. LEO, July 23- Aug. 23 Your discipli,n,e and self-control is amazing and you 11 take great pride in the amount of work you can accomplish. You’d like it better if you got all the credit for what you do, but your boss and your coworkers are more interested in taking advantage of your skills. Try to work on your ownprojects as much as you can; and don’t hold back on your frustrations or your health may suffer. If someone steps on your paw, go ahead and roar. Sa~ittarlus - You also have deep desires to_.buy expensive, pointless, e¢o- Cratffyln~ thlnCs...iyou know that fast, red sports ear won’t make you a better person. Don’t you? VIRGO, Aug. 23 - Sept. 23 This is the month for fun and games, and your self-discipline will be at an all time low. Existing relationships get a passionate boost and you look particularly cute at all the holiday parties, though the new love interest youmeet now is likely to lose your phone number for a month or two. Have a good and pleasurable wallow tiffs month and don’t feel guilty about it. You’ re not reqmred to be dutiful and responsible all the time. Really. LIBRA, SepL 23- Oct. 23 Try to live by the saying,"A closed mouth gathers no foot." It may s~emlike people are trying to,pick fights ~ith you but, the truth is, you re dredging:up old, unconscious issues with deep roots in the past. Unless you’re very conscious of whom you’re dealing with, you’ll be prone to saying silly things that have nothing to do with the situations that really exist. Clean out.your psyche, clean out your closets; get rid of all the old junk. It’s time. SCORPIO, Oct. 23 ~ Nov. 23 You’re always a very incisive communicator but, this month, ~our words and ideas have such intensily that people may quake in fear when you pass _judgement on the weather. It’s a good month to sell )’ourself and );our ideas because you will impress everyone with your intellectual power. An equally good month to start learning about something new. Just try to avoid the tendency to be argumentative mfiess a real, serious issue is at Stake. SAGITTARIUS, Nov. 23-Dec. 22 You’re obsessed with money and possessions, a very weird feeling for someone who likes to’travel as fast and light as you ordinarily do. You have plenty of energy and motivation to work hard for what you want. You also have deep desires to throw your monex around and buy expensive, pointless, ~go-gratifying things. Staple )’our money to the inSide of your pockets; you know that fast, red sports car won’t make you a beuer person. Don’t you? CAPRICORN, Dec. 22- Jan. 21 This is a very positive time for resolving old problems and accomplishing new goals. Does that sound too good to be true? Of course it does. You’re a Capricorn, and that means you’re cosmically required to be cynical and suspicious. You also want to know how long it will last, don’t you? Two months. Spend December and J,anua~,,y going hardafter what you want and you 11 get it. You even get to set the terms. This is good. Lighten up already! AQUARIUS, Jan. 21 - Feb. 20 Aquarians are famous for two things: a great capacity for friendship and humanitarian impulses, and a great tendency to do weird things that shock other people. You’ll have to use one trait to overcome the other this month. You seem te create the wrong impression every time you open your mouth and your ego can suffer as a result. Hide out in the basement and invent something, or throw your energies into a good, whale saving cause. PISCES, Feb. 20 - March 21 Youare read), to make the plans today that will improve your life tomorrow. You also need to actually do something to put your goals in motion. Don’ t let your natural optimism degenerate into an, "Oh, well. It will all work out somehow,"frame of mind. You’ll need a little help from your friends to make things work out in your favor. If you don’t already have a supportive group of friends and collaborators, go out and find them. 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Or better yet, stop in, and we’ll show you around. We specialize in creative financing. Eureka’s Newest Kids in ToWn b~i Phvl Boler-Schmidt ""The thing that really sold us on the place was the bumper stickers!" Such was the main selling point for Linda and Susan, two of Eureka Springs" newest residents. A recent influx of new lesbians in town has added to the already substantial lesbigay population here. The reasons for their relocation adventures were many, but all resounded with a single, "I’m supposed to be here," when it came right down to it. Linda had the most unusual answer to the question about the defining moment in the decision-malting process: "We’d studied subsoils, studied taxes, studied temperatures, organic growing seasons, all this stuff. And basically, it boiled down to thebumper stickers." Such is life in smalltown middle America. With between 30 and 40% of our population being gay and lesbian, we live in a bit of utopia here, but you’ve heard that before. Wqay did all these new women move here? Why did they choose Eureka Springs, a small Victorian town in the heart of the Bible Belt? And more to the point, what keeps them here? "’I was called by the Universe." So says Rev. KermieWohlenhaus, pastor ofMCC of the laving Spring. "I was looking for a placewith spiritual diversity...The:e is so much life here...It was really st irittm] diversity versus conservatism.’" And there is much more diversity than onlS that of a spiritual nature. We have Raven/Redhawk Enterprises Phyl Boler-Schmidt Systems & Software Specialist POB 429 Eureka Springs 72632 lots of gays and lesbians. We have lots of fundamentalist: Christians. We have numerous artists of one type or another. We have quaint Victorian homes, and wehave large developed music theatres. Preservauonists abound, yet so do the developers. It’s a wonderful contrast of opposites. Linda points out, "...there is a really high creative genius here. There is an artist~,,c genius here, ajoy and bliss that we felt... Linda and susan]ust recently relocated from Wash. State via New Jersey. Connie and B~ili~ re...... eei~tly movedbere from Tucson and San Diego by way of Mountain Home, Arkansas. Billie notes,"I read an article in the papers about what the percentage of the population is in Eureka Springs that’s gay, and it’s a pretty large percentage for a small town, like one third of the population. I thought, Yeah, that’s wonderful. Finally, a place where you don’t have to hide." Susanechoed that feeling,"There’s ahigh population of gays and lesbians here, and it feels like you’re really welcome." When asked about the diversity m lifestyle choices and religious viewpoints in our town, Connie had this to sav: "My philosophy has ahvays been mrre inclusive than exclusive of any group of people....I love the diversity here." I am one of those relativenewcomers to How come they can have Jesus on East Mountain... The Great Passion Play, such a high percentage of ~ueeTts, & still all ~et alon~? .:F~k.a Springs,just now approachingmy ~ne-y~ar anniversary of packing up my parmer, myself, our pets and belongings and making thejourney from the Western slope of Colorado. One of my main reasons for wanting to make the move was that I wanted to see why it works here. 1 remember talking to a friend and saying something like,"How come they can haye Jesus on East Mountain, and The Great Passion Play, such a high percentage of queers, and still all get along?" Sometimes, I still wonder. But, I can tell you this: it really does work. I attribute much of that working to the balance here. It would be difficult to ignore the importance of such alarge percentageofthe population, if not in public issues, at the very least, in terms of economics. All of the women that were interviewed specifically for this article had heard about Eureka Springs from other people and had visited prior to deciding to make the move. So, I would suggest that you be aware of this when visiting the place we call "’the hole the buckle goes through in the Bible Belt." After all, of the 16 or so new women in town, not one felt she really had a choice but to move here after visiting on vacation orjust passing through. There is a real magnetism here. But, be ready for a shock, as Billie puts it: "It’s almost too comfortable here. It’s almost too safe here, and we son,crimes forget that there still is a fight out thcre. : There is still work to be done.’" Connie tempers this observation with one of her own: "...one of Eureka Spnngs" strongest virtues is I have yet to run into : apathetic people. They are very involved ¯ in their community, and whether I am in ¯ agreement with them and what they want ~ to seein terms of the future of the commu- ¯ nity is actually rather irrelevant." I tend to agree with Conme On this one. ¯" Eureka has a population, of just under : 2,000. Nowhere else have I seen so many unique individuals, each doing his or her own thing, respecting other people’s right ; to be just as unique, and all the while, ¯ caring deeply about this community and ." its future. I could go on and on. But, it’s some- ~ thing youjust have to experience for your- ." self. Be prepared to pack up and move ¯ though. When two friends of ours left our : small town ~n Colorado some two-plus ; years ago to relocate to Eureka Springs, I ¯ remember standingin their driveway while ¯ the moving van was being packed. One : looked at me, and said, "’phyl, just go ; home and get your stuff. 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We’ll do what it takes to find the best solution for you, Southwest Home Office Dallas, Texas 800,559-4790 Kelly Kirby Oklahoma Representative POB~,14011 Tulsa, OK 74159-1011. 918-747-3320 Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data newspaper periodical Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource [1995] Tulsa Family News, November 15-December 14, 1995; Volume 2, Issue 12 Subject The topic of the resource Politics, education, and social conversation toward Tulsa’s Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual communities. Description An account of the resource Tulsa Family News was a monthly newspaper; No. 1 issued December 1993-January 1994. The final issue available was published in September 0f 2001 (Volume 8, Issue 9). The newspaper brings up important, evolving topics of marriage, Pride, TOHR, HIV/AIDs, events, advice, and politics all at the local and national level. This document is available in searchable PDF attached. It is also available to be seen at the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center with permission. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Tulsa Family News Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Tom Neil Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource November 15-December 14, 1995 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource James Christjohn Phyl Boler-Schmidt Leanne Gross Pat Morehead JD Jamett Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Tom Neil/Tulsa Family News 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 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/504 Relation A related resource Tulsa Family News, October 15-November 14, 1995; Volume 2, Issue 11 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://history.okeq.org/collections/show/24 1995 African Americans AIDS/HIV AIDS/HIV discrimination AIDS/HIV education AIDS/HIV research annulment arts and entertainment attorneys Barry Hensley Bars businesses censorship churches Community Center conspiracy Dave Fleischer Deb Price Disney divorce Don't Ask Don't Tell Dornan Bill employment discrimination Employment Non Discrimination Act Equil Employment Commission estate planning Eureka Springs Federal Aviation Administration Gay and Lesbian History Month gay politicians Gay/Lesbian America Music Awards (GLAMA) healthcare homophobia horoscope Human Rights Campaign Human Rights Campaign Fund injection drugs insurance Joyce Murdoch lawsuits Log Cabin Republicans Making Sense marriage medical malpractice medical marijuana Metropolitan Community Church of Greater Tulsa Mr. Oklahoma Leather National Gay and Lesbian Task Force needle exchange Partner Benefits Pat Morehead performing arts PFLAG Phyl Boler Schmidt Phyl Boler-Schmidt Politically Un-Correct Read All About It representation Republican Party restaurants schools sodomy laws Steve Largent Tennessee Williams Tom Neal Transgender Tulsa Family News Tulsa Oklahoman for Human Rights Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights HIV Testing Tulsa Uniform and Leather Seekers Association (TULSA) viatication whistleblowers White House Conference on AIDS World AIDS day https://www.history-okeq-org-red5.dev.unicomm.me/files/original/063f006b2ab3e7a11676f07c3b10c346.jpg a1af11cded7254e7f790934e9b42ce54 https://www.history-okeq-org-red5.dev.unicomm.me/files/original/d10b69d45bf668ce3f684b96be36b170.pdf c55257932959c53a0fc665dc468394c9 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 Serving Tulsa’s Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual Communities -Our Families of the Heart December 15, 1995- January 14, 1996, Volume 3, Issue I National News Oregon Lesbian Activists Murdered : "MEDFORD, Ore. - Police in Medford, : Ore., report that they have located the ¯ bodies of Roxanne Ellis and Michelle "- Abdill; long-time lesbian activists who ¯ have been deeply involved in fighting off anti-gay ballot initiatives in the state for i several years. The 2 women, who had : been partners for 12 years, were found in : the back of a pickup trnek belonging to ¯ Ellis. The couple were last seen on Dec. 4 : see Murder, page 11 : Hearings Feature Anti-Gay Agenda Washington, DC By the end of Dec. 6th, the "Parents, Schools and Values," Congressional hearing revealed itself-to be precisely what youth advocates had feared: a taxpayer funded platform for anti-gay extremists. The two day hearing came to a close today before the House Economic and Employment Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.. The hearings became the focus of a national outcry when Lou Sheldon, an anti-gay extremistandChairman of the Traditional Values Coalition, claimed the hearings were scheduled at his request to discuss the "promotion of homosexuality in the public schools." see House, page 11 Hawaii Commission Urges Gay Marriage HONOLULU-The Honolulu Advertiser " has reported that the state commission " created to evaluate gay and lesbian mar- , riages will urge the legislature to "change ¯ Hawaii law toallow gay couples to marry." " The Commission on Sexual Orientation " and Law was created after the Hawaii Supreme Court ordered alower court to review a suit bylesbian andgay couples to " get mamage licenses, saying that in order : to refuse thelicenses the state had to prove ¯ a "corn pelling interest" to deny licenses because of the gender of the 2 people " involved. The commission has not yet ¯ released any actual recommendations, but the paper reported that the commission’s ¯ report will be distributed for public comsee Hawaii, page 12 " Visitation Rights ¯ Case to Continue ¯ SayS-High Court 2 WASHINGTON- The U.S. Supreme " Court has let stand; without comment, a ¯ Wisconsin statesupreme court ruling that ¯ would let .the former parmer continue ; with her court battle to have visitation ¯ rights withher ex-lover’s biological son. ¯ After Etsbeth Knott, the biological mother- "- of the boy, and Sandra Lynn Holtzman, " ended their 10-year relationship, Knott ¯ attempted to prevent Holtzman from see: ¯ ing the 6-year-old boy. The Wisconsin " Supreme Courtearlier tiffs year overturned ¯ a state lower court ruling denying ¯ Holtzman any rights, and ordered the case 12 Bill Stoskopf& Mark Lackey of Black & White Charities present gifts to SharOn Thoele of the HIVResource Consortium One ofmany organizations at the World ($5000) &to Claudette Peterson ofTOHR AIDS Day March at the Univ. of Tulsa, ($2500) from this year’s fundraisers. see related stories this page and page 8. PFLAG was also a beneficiary ($2500). ¯ PFLAG, Thwarted In TV Effort, Turns To Print Campaign For Anti-Hate Message ¯"" The Tulsa chapter of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, in response ~ to the difficulties encountered in getting their Project Open Mind anti-hate commercials ~ on television inTulsa, have begun a campaign for a signature advertisement to run in The ¯ Tulsa World. The ad calls for Tulsans to stand against"hatred, hate speech and violence" ¯ against individuals based on their sexual orientation and "to recognize the strong link ~ between hate speech, teen suicide and violent physical attacks..." The Tulsa Worldis on ] record as having a policy banning the use of the words, Gay or Lesbian in advertising ¯ but apparently have chosen to allow an exception for this ad.The ad is scheduled to run ¯ sometime early this next year. ; Two Project Open Mind television commercials were to be tested in Tulsa, Houston : &Atlanta. InTulsa, ouly Ch. 2,KTULbriefly aired one of the pair but stopped. Attorneys ¯ for the Christian Broadcasting Network, who objected to the use of footage of evangelist ¯¯ Pat Robertson &Jerry Falwell, had threatened legal action against stations broadcasting the commercials. PFLAG is asking individuals and organizations, dubs, cong~:,e&atio~as, ¯ etc. to sign the anti-hate ad. There is no cost since funds that were to be iised ~6 buy TV ¯ air time will now oar for the-orint ad. Formore information call the PFLAG at 749-4901. ~r / ’ AIDS Day: Tulsa & Elsewhere NEW YORK - "Shared Rights, Shared Responsibilities" was the theme of.World AIDS Day, as the United Nations announced a massive global mobilization program to deal with the epidemic. From UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros- Ghali to prominent Hollywood film personalities, from the largest cities to smaller communities, hundreds of thousands of people and some 7,.000 groups in 190 localities around the world marked the day in a varxety of ways. In Tulsa, the event was marked by Interfaith AIDS Ministries annual march and memorial service held this year at the University of Tulsa. Over 300 igeople attended with many organizations carrying banners. The service featured speakers, Jason Smith of TOHR’s Testing Clinic and attorney and longtime community. activist., Bob Inglish. Choirs from Family of Faith MCC, Tulsa Family Chorale and FirSt Presbyterian Church performed. TU Provost Dr. Lewis Duncan, the Rev. Ken McIntosh, the Rev. Henry Knight provided welcome or prayers, and Dr. Doreen Wood read a World AIDS Day proclamation from Mayor M. Susan Savage. The American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR), a prominent nonprofit U.S. group that has been headed by actress Elizabeth Taylorannounced that it is awarding.nearly a million dollars in research grants to 14 scientists working on the epidemic. The foundation also named American actress Sharon Stone to 3 World 1/2M AIDS Cases WASHINGTON-Somany young Americans - one of ever." 92 young men and one of every 33 young black men - are believed infected with HIV that it threatens to become a deadly "rite of passage" in this country, said Philip Rosenberg of the National Cancer Institute. Rosenberg’s comments in the journal Science, coincide with an announcement by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that the AIDS epidemic has now reached 501,310 cases in the U.S. since 1981 with 311,381 deaths. The sobering statistics illuminate the government’s warnings that AIDS is quickly turning into more of a threat to the nation’s youth, even as it tapers off among older people. Using CDC. data, Rosenberg also estimated that one in every 60 Hispanic men see AIDS, page 3 White House. AIDS Conf. Heard in Tulsa WASHINGTON-"Wecan conquer this ," said President Clinton in convening the first White House conference on AIDS in~ the 15 years of the epidemic’s history, bringing together teachers, doctors, researchers, people withHIV and their family. In Tulsa, local HIV activists and specialists gathered to listen to the conference at the University Center at Tulsa. After the broadcast, locals intended to begin planning for current efforts to respond to the epidemic. Outside the Executive Office meeting in DC, however, protesters and AIDS activists demonstrated, charging that the conference i Rob Hill To Run For i School Bd. Seat 6 : Rob Hill, social services specialist with ¯ Helpline for 15 years, announces his candidancy for Tulsa Public Schools Dis- " trict 6. Hill is a graduate of Will Rogers High Schogl and a 1968 graduate of North- :: eastern.. State University in Tahlequah, ¯ with a Bachelors in Psychology. ; "I hope to bring my experience and ¯ knowledge of Tulsa’s community ser- ¯ vices and resources to Tulsa Public ¯ Schools," says Hill. "I have first hand : knowledge to help our schools deliver ¯ high quality services as efficiently as pos- ¯ sine. I’m committed to combining fiscal ¯ conservatism with the best quality education for our children." see Hill. p. 12 TOHR Votes for ¯ Community Center ¯ Tulsa moved a little closer to having a ¯ community meeting place when mem- ¯ bers of Tulsa Oklahomans for Human ¯ Rights (TOHR) voted at an emergency ~ meeting Nov. 21 to authorize TOHR of- ¯ ricers to put together an offer on a prop- - erty. As of press time, the deal with the ¯ current owner is still in negotiation but ~t ¯ is hopeful that the issues can be resolved : so that renovation of the building might ¯ ..~ti~_,.~g~: ’,~ v ex,t y-eaL At tlaat time, tnere ~W’Wi~.I~"’e a~ -n"~~."’d’ for’"c"o~’ "~;" ty" volunteers ¯ to provide painting, ci~-up, and light :,ocoi~structiOt~ work. Info: 743-GAYS, INSIDE EDITORIAL P. 2 DIRECTORY P. 2 NEWS BRIEFS P. 4 HEALTH BRIEFS P. 6 CALENDAR P. 9 EUREKA PAGES P. 10-11 New Pentecosta Church Welcomes Gays & Lesbians The Rev. Clay Cody and Agape’ Christian Fellowship, a new Pentecostal congregation, have announced that they will begin holding worship services at the Sheridan Center, Suite H, at 21st and Sheridan Road. The services will be held at 10:30 am beginning on December 31. Pastor Cody, formerly an Assembly of GodPastor Evangelist, believes that there are many Gay, Lesbian andTransgendered Pentecostal Christians in the Tulsa area who have had to worship in "mainstream’" churches and who were unable to express fully themselves as GayChristians. Agape’ Christian Fellowship "extends the fight hand of fellowship" to everyone regardless of race, gender or sexual orientation. The Pentecostal movement had its origin in the widespread desire in the hearts of men and women for greater closeness to God. It is a reaction to the formalism, coldness and .unbelief Pentecostal Christians perceive in modern churches. Pentecostal Christians profess a belief in their experience of the supernatural power of God in their lives and their faith in the Bible which they consider the infallible, 918.583.1248 POB 4140 Tulsa, Oklahoma 74159-0140 TulsaNews@aol.com Publisher/Editor Issued.on or before the 15th of each month, the entire contents of Tom Neal this publication are protected by US copyright 1996 by Tulsa Family Assistant Editor News and may not be reproduced either in whole or in part without James Christjohn written permission from the publisher. Publication of a name or Writers/contributors photo does not indicate thal person’s sexual orientation. Phyl Boler-Schmidt Correspondence is assumed to be for publication unless otherwise Barry Hensley noted, must be signed & becomes the sole property of Tutsa Family Pat Morehead News. All correspondence should be sent to the address above. Each Staff, Photographer reader is entitled to one free copy of each edition at distribution JD Jamett points. Additional copies are available by calling 583-1248. With this issue, Tulsa Family News begins our third year. We give our thanks to you, our readers & also to those who have-helped us; with stories& with criticism. Especially, we thank, our writers,- our advertisers & our enormously patient printers whomakebringing qualitynews reporting toTulsa’s Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Transgender folk, families & friends possible. This is a labor of love, & sometimes, a little profit. So, when we’re fending off censorship or the flack that comes with having a viewpoint, it helps to remember the praise we’ve received. We were proud when distinguished former CBS News journalist, Ann Northrup, lauded Tulsa Family News, lamenting that she wished NYC had a paper like this. And we’ve heard similar praise from others. We promase you to continue bringing you the best local & national news coverage of any Oklahoma Gay paper. We have faith in Tulsa’s promise &with your help, Tulsa wil1 get better and better for us & our families. Happy holidays - Tom Neal Suck & Blow Syndrome by Pat ,.~lorehead Merry Christmas andn~iLV the Ne~:Year bring you a better yearth~ 1995. 95.hasbeen a weird year. I’m not sure we ~3an view it as a "watershed" year, but it has certainly pointed out the absolute schizophrenia of our national culture. ~I learned a long time ago of a psychological phenomenon referred to as the "suck and blow" syndrome which is where I think America is currently trapped. The suck and blow ,syndrome in essence states that one can’t.simultaneously "suck andblow". In other words it is not possible, in a healthy mental State, to perform to conceptual opposites. Translation, you are not in a healthy mental state when you are obsessed with a "pro-life" crusade that sanctions killing physicians who perform abortions as the way to advance your cause.. But it is exactly this suck and blow syndrome which seems to be driving almost every cultural force in America today. It is schizophrenic tO foist Off a life view of 1950’s and 60’s television programming in an America where elementary students carry guns. Ozzie and Harriet never had to deal with that situation. Or for cable compames to promote a KIDS CLICKER remote control to protect children from accessing what the very same cable provider carries on ft’s other channels. It is suck and blow time when in order to improve life in America for the "next generation" politicians are prepared to unfnnd and dismantle Environmental Protection laws. Or for those same politicians to continually summon images of family life and cultural values of an agrarian America which no longer exists. And at the same time to sell off the National Parks of this country in order for businesses to rape and plunder those same park lands. As my uncle used to say, someone needs to just slap some sense into us. I have hopes that 1996 will be the year when that happens. The hate-mongers see UPC, page 3 - MCC~Grehte~-TiJIsa- Responds to TFN First, Rev. Alice Jones left voluntarily because she felt God’s calling in anew direction. Rev. Jones served as pastor of MCC of Greater Tulsa for over 16 years. She frequently defended the whole Tulsa Gay/Lesbian community in situations, such as the recent Human Rights Commission hearings. Anyone who leads any group for over 16 years will have detractors who disagree with some things. Rev. Jones accomplished many things, and the congregation of MCC of Greater Tulsa are proud to have had her as our pastor. Regarding implied problems with the District of UFMCC, it is true that we were changed from a chartered.church to a commissioned church. The demands on a chartered church have changed in recent years, and this change has some important advantages for MCC of Greater Tulsa as we seek a new pastor. The main change is in the pastor compensation package, giving the local church greater flexibility. To imply a conflict exists between MCC of [(]reater] Tulsa and District leaders is wrong and inaccurate. The Board of Directors are working closely with the District on the pastoral search. Although, like many churches from time to time, we are behind in our tithes to the District. -~ However, the Board of Directors and the congregation are taking steps to correct this, and we will become a Chartered Church again. Regarding perceived irregularities in our Financial Records, the finances ofMCC of Greater Tulsa have always been open to any member or friend of the Church. Open Board meetings and Congregational meetings are held regularly, and anyone attending may ask questions. AnAudit Committee, of church members, are currently reviewing the Church records to clarify any bookkeeping errors. Volunteers handling church records may sometimes make errors, but there is no question as to the honesty and integrity of those involved. As MCC of Greater Tulsa seeks anew pastor, the members and the Board of Directors look forward to many years ahead serving the needs of the local church and the entire Tulsa Gay/Lesbian Community. - The Board of Directors & Members Editor’s response: TFN would like to make this correction: Alice Jones did notpreach on Sunday morning, Oct. 29 as we stated in .our last issue. We regret that error and apologizefor our mistake. However, we stand by the accuracy of the rest of the artgcle. ¯ TFN also applauds MCC of Greater Tulsa for : resp~idihgpublicdlly tdfU~ article~ We agreew~th ~ several oftheir points. The concerns raised in our : article are not, however, the ones they addressed. ~ The question is: what’s going onfinancially? What makes this issue a matter ofpublic concern ¯ are the size of thefinancial irregularities and the ’ appearance of no management overstght. The ¯ amountunaccountedfor,possibly as much as $6,000 ¯ or more, is significant. This is about 10% of the ¯ annual income of this church. It is too much for ¯ members to dismiss with a comment, " volunteers ¯ make mistakes..." Also in the UFMCC, the pastor ¯ serves not only as staffbut also as moderator ofthe ¯ board ofdirectors. And in that role, as "president" ¯ of the board, that person is resposibility for the ¯ proper functioning ofan organization, especially ¯ overseeingfinancial accountability, see MCC, p. 3 Tulsa Clubs & Restaurants *Concessions, 3340 S Peoria *Ground Zero, 311 E. 7th *Lola’s, 2630 E. 15th *Silver Star Saloon, 1565 Sheridan *Renegades/Rainbow Room, 1649 S. Main *TNT’s, 2114 S. Memorial *Time’n’Time Again, 1515 S. Memorial *Tool Box, 1338 E. 3rd *Wild Nights, 2405 E. 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Main DeVito’s Restaurant, 5 Center St. *Emerald Rainbow, 45&1/2 Spring St. King’s Hi-Way, 96 Kings Highway, Hwy. 62W *MCC of the Living Spring McClung Realtors 501-253-6154 501-253-7457 501-253-6807 501-253-5445 800-231-1442 501-253-9337 501-253-9682 Rock Cottage Gardens 501-253-8659 800-624-6646 Southern Rose Bed & Breakfast, 9 Benton 501-253-2204 Sparky’s, Hwy. 62 East 501-253-6001 The Woods, 50 Wall St. 501-253-8281 between the ages of 27 and 39 is infected with HIV; that women are 4 times less likely than men to become infected; and that although the epidemic in the U.S. has "officially" just passed the half-million mark, the actual number of people in this country infected with HIV is probably .between 630,000 and 897,000, representmg approximately 100,000 to almost 400,000 people whose infections have not been reported or who themselves are unaware they are already infected. "That’s a very. disturbing future," Rosenberg said. wasn’t about the disease at all, but was "election year rhetoric." Inside, Clinton underscored his administration’s commitment to battling the .epidemic, saying he had increased funding for AIDS research and treatment during his term in office, and promising to fight off efforts by the Republican-controlled Congress to cut AIDS spending next year. Clinton also announced that early next year Vice President AI Gore will host a conference of scientists and representatives from drug manufacturers to try to find ways to speed up the development of promising AIDS medications. "Our common goal must ultimately be a cure," Clinton told the some 300 people attending. "A cure for all those living with HIV, and a vaccine to protect the res t ofus from the virus. A cure and a vaccine - that must be our first and top priority." Although those attending the conference generally applauded Clinton, it was also dear that pressure on tomfoolery! even at our worst, better than~the rest Tulsa’s best Pride Store at Family of Faith MCC 5451-e So. Mingo, Sat. noon-6, 583-1248 New location coming in ’96 ¯ the administration is far from easing up. ¯ Dr. Edward Morse, a research sociologist ¯ from Louisiana, also challenged the ad- ¯ ministration to make some tough deci- ¯ sions about the epidemic. "There is no ¯¯ point in beating around the bush," Morse ~aidin presenting Clinton with areport on ¯ IV drug abuse and HIV. "We must face ¯ the issue of needle exchange. A third of ¯ AIDS cases are based on substance abuse. ¯ That is a major key in the solution to this ¯ problem." ¯ When an activist shouted that Clinton ¯ hadfailed to keep his campaign promises ¯ about AIDS, Clinton vehemently rejected ¯ the charge. Clinton quickly replied, "We ¯ had a set of recommendations that. we ~ received whe~n w~got’here, m~st of w.hieh. ¯ have been i~mplemented. I am very sorry ¯ that thereis not a cure. I amvery sorry that ¯ there is not a vaccine. I regret that every- " thing I have asked for has not been ap- ¯ proved by the Congress." ¯ have started stirring the pot and stuff is ; beginning to slop out over the edges. ¯ Things may well get worse before they ¯ get better. But I have faith that ultimately ¯ th~ basic decency and common sense of ordinary people will take command. As Mr. Lincoln said, you can fool some of the : people all of the time, and all of the people : some time, but you can’t fool all of the ¯ people all of the time. I guess those two things are my mes- ; sage of positive hope for all of us for the ¯ coming new year. I believe in the basic "- decency ofordinary people and their com- ¯ mon sense to react when things get to ¯ weird. I suggest we all start practicing THEY’LL EAT IT UP! From $29.95 to fobuloust SEND A PARTY! tltGO-" We offer a wide. selection of Gift Baskets for every occasion. from gourmet to exotic. Express your thoughts and feelings - deliciously - to all kinds offamily, .friends or that special someone. 9720-C East 31st Street, Tulsa 918.663.5934, Daphane Cooper Sunday Services 11:00 am ¯ Wednesday Services 6:30 pm, 7:30 pm Choir Practice ° Thurs. 7:30 pm Codependency Support Group I To do justice, love mercy & to walk humbly zoith Ollr God... Micah 6:8 8451-E South Mingo Tulsa, OK 74146 . (918) 622-1441 those virtues for the coming year on a daily basis. Drop in a little dol!op of simple courtesy and civility and see if things don’t begin to improve. Decency, common sense, courtesy and civility, that sounds like a pretty good recipe for anyone, wouldn’t you think? So from myself, my companion and our dog, the best wishes of the season, to you and all those in your life who make day to day life a little sweeter and more palatable. And one more suggestion for the new year: always keep your powder dry, otherwise it tends~to cake up when applied around the eyes. HO HO HO! Comments, responses and cheap shots can be E-mailed to TulsaNews@aol.com We hope that there is a good explanation for the discrepancy between amount presented in theyear~endfinancial report and the much lower amount reported to be in the church’s bank account(s) at the congregational meeting. However, even if there are explanations for every dime, or even if this is an accounting error repeatedforyears, the existance ofsuch a large discrepancy in thefinancial report speakspoorly ofAliceJones’ performance, not as. pastor, but as moderator - the person ultimately responsible. When this discrepancy is combined with the issue of back tithes owed and other outstanding debts, some would say Alice Jones and her board failed ~o do their job well enough. Mismanagement is not dishonesty and mismanagement doesn’t negate the good Alice Jones has done but the church and our communities do have a right to expect accurate accounting. TO DISCO head a 3-year fundraising campaign. Hundreds of museums around the world marked the day by observing "A Day Without Art," an effort by art institutions to dramatize the effect of the epidemic on the creative community. Tulsa’s Philbrook Museum draped the Rodin statue that graces its entry to recognize the day. On the Internet, scores of World Wide Websites from Japan to Finland participated in their own version of the event, dubbed "A Day Without Graphics," by going blank, removing graphics and pho- ::r tos :for the ’day. Singers from the’Metro- :- p01itan Opera in New York performed at the United Nations, while at the city’s St. Mark’s Church, Dancers Responding to AIDS performed 24 hours nonstop, featuring dancers from the Paul Taylor and Merce Cunningham dance companies. And at least 165 cable systems and local television stations had slated a variety of AIDS-related programming, including broadcasts of "’Philadelphia," "And the Band Played On" and "Longtime Compamon" on leading premium cable systems. HIV/AIDS Education & Volunteer Training Class The HIV Resource Consortium will hold a comprehensive but non-technica] program on HIV & AIDS issues. The class will be held on a weekend and five weekday evenings beginning Jan. 13. Space ~s limited - call for more info: 749-4194. The Consortium serves as the center for s.ervices for persons affected or infected .@"...wi!~H:IV/.At.DS in northeast Oklahoma. pecialized sholo, actively buying, selling & consigning Deco, 50’s moderne furniture, kitchen kitsch, psychedelic collectables, 50"s lamps, -: costume jewelry + accessones, 3213 e, 15th 749-3620 Open Arms Open Minds open Hearts Saint Aidan’s 4045 NO. Cincinnati. 425-7882 Saint John’s 4200 So. Atlanla PI.. 742-7381 Trinity 5Ol so. C~ndnnatL 582-4128 The Episcopal Church Welcomes You News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Poet E. Hemphill Dead : ronym that stands for "double pigs." An open letter to Mugabe " areas as insurance and pension Key West MCC Excluded PHILADELPHIA-Poet, author, editor and rights activist Essex Hemphill has died of AIDS-related complications. Mr. Hemphill, author of highly acclaimed "Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry," also worked on the documentaries "Looking for Langston," "Tongues Untied" and "Black Is ... Black Ain’t." He was 38 years old at the time of his death. Nasty Reaction to ’Gay Mortgages’ in Australia " MEL’BOIJRNE,’~U~tr~fi~L~e Australian gay paper Brother Sister News has reported that an announcement earlier in November by Australian Mortgages that it would start offering discounted bank home loans to gay and lesbian couples early next)’ear has brought the lending institution a number of hostile phone calls. including abomb threat. Despite the negative reaction from some Aussies, however, a spokesperson for the firm said it had no intention of backing away from the reduced mortgage rate offer. "’We are not going to back off," Australian Mortgages" Ron Guthrie told the paper. "I’m just saddened and very disappointed at the attitude of some people.’" The company said the reduced rates for lesbian and gaY couples would probably be about 1.5% lower than standard marketrates. Australian Mortgage Saidit had decided to offer the discounted home loans partly because of the history of antigay bias in the mortgage .industry, but also because same-sex couples represent an excellent market segment for the housing industry. Guthrie’said that many gay couples are fairy well-paid professiohals with 2 incomes and no children. "They are true DINKS,’" he said, using the ac- ¯ income, no kids, single.’" ¯ Partnership Ceremony ¯ Proposal in S.F. ¯ SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco Board of Supervisors ¯ has received a proposed mea- ¯ sure that would authorize the ¯ county clerk’s office to perform ¯ domestic partnership ceremonies similar to the marriage ceremonies it performs for couples who ¯ get married at city hall. The city has had a domestic partner regis- ¯ tration ordinance for seve_ral " ~ years, l~tit the d~unly cl~rk’~ 6ffice has no authority tO officiate- ¯ at any civil ceremony connected ¯ with registration. The proposed ¯ measure to authorize performing the ceremony, which would ¯ convey no particular legal sta- ¯ tus, was introduced by Supervi- ¯ sor Barbara Kaufman. ¯ Mugabe Rejects Critics ¯ AUCKLAND, New Zealand - ¯¯ According to the New Zealand Herald, Zimbabwe President ¯ Robert Mugabe said he was un- ¯ concerned about sharp criticism ¯ he has received for his verbal ¯ attacks againsthomosexuals. On :,,,leaving the annual Common- "¯ wealth Heads of Government meeting, Mugabe brushed off reporters questions about criticism he has received from hu- ¯ man rights activists, saying the topic was "abhorrent.’" Lesbian ¯ and gay activists protested out- " side the meeting of the Com- ¯ monwealth Heads of Govern- " ment, to draw attention to the anti-gay attacks by Mugabe. Earlier this year, Mugabe’s gov- ¯ ernment barred the Gays & Les- ¯ bians of Zimbabwe from run- ¯ ning a literature booth at an in- " ternational book fair in Harare, ¯ the nation’s capital. In a speech ¯ he called gays "’sodomists and sexual perverts" and later said gays were "worse than dogs and Miracleglass Neil Ray Owner EXPRESS POOLS & SPAS (918) 743-9994 6310 S. Peoria Tulsa, OK 74136 from activists said, "We protest : moststrongly against these statements as we.believe that you have seriously endangered the lives and good health of a significant minority of your citizens." Federal Court OKs Anti-Bias Protections SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th . Circuit Court of Appeals’ governing Judicial Council has voted to include anti-bias protections that include sexual orientation, ifi~’fir’si ~d~r’al coh~t di~tfiCi io adopt such a policy. The newly adopted regulations apply to all circuit employees, as well as to workers under the supervision of the federal courts in the large 9th Circuit, including federal probation officers, marshals and public defenders. The new employment policy was adopted after the federal Judicial Conference, which is headed by Supreme Court Chief Justice Will- ,am Relmquist, ordered all the federal circuit appeals courts to include anti-discrimination regulations, although the Conference’s recommendations only extended to race, gender, religion, age and disability. An initial recommendation to include sexual orientation protections was dropped by a Judicial Council committee earlier this year, but when the Council reached ¯ the point of a vote on new em- ~ ployment protections xt put the sexual orientation protections back in with the approval of all 9 ¯ Council members. The 9th Circuit includes California, Wash- " ington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Arizona, Hawaii, ". Alaska, Guam and the Northern ¯ Mariana Islands. : Canadian Gov’t. Adds : Gay Couples Benefits : OTYAWA - Canada’s govern- ¯ ment has taken a giant step and extended at least some of the ¯" benefits enjoyed by mamed fed- ] eral employees to gay and les- ] bian partners of government ¯ workers as well. CanadianRights ¯ activists lauded the Treasury : Board’s decision, which affects : more than 200,000 government workers, as a"great step forward : for equality" in the country. The new policy hardly represents _" putting same-sex couples on an ¯ equal footing withmamedworkers, however, and does not in- " dude such ~mportant traditional at all. But it does break dramatic new ground, activists said, and : does allow govenmlent employ-. ees to take a leave of absence for ,an ailing partner, permits workers to have bereavement leave in the event of file death of a partner, and extends to a worker’s partner the same .flight and housing allowances g~ven to spouses of govenunent employees on work asst~m~ents around the cotmtry. Conservative le~slators quickly attacked the move, saying die government had made the policy change "behind the back" of Parlimnent. The Canadian legislature recently rejected a measure that wouldhave given legal reco~fition to stone-sex couples. The new benefits pro.- granl does not apply to semiautonomous government finns (such as the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.), to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, to the nation’s armed forces, or to Parliament itself, which all regulate their own employee policies and benefits. So. Africa May End Military Ban CAPE TOWN, South Africa - The defense committee of South Africa’s Parliament has approved a proposal that writes into the nation’s military policy a prohibition against discrimination based on sexual orientation in the country’s armed forces. African National Congress representative Lindiwe Sisulu said following the committee vote that the policy decision wouldn’t be binding on the government, but would nevertheless carry considerable political weight for any future administration. Military Recruiters Face Legal Challenge in CT NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The Connecticut Supreme Court has ¯ finished hearing arguments in a ¯ gay rights case that challenges : the right of state-supported schools to permit military recrmters on their campuses. The case argues that the University : of Connecticut violated state ¯ anti-bias laws by allowing mili- : tary recruiters on campus be- : cause of the U.S armed forces’ : policy of excluding lesbian and : gay. service members. Discriminauon based on sexual orientation is illegal under state law. From Christmas Parade (EY WEST, Fla. - Christmas arrived in this south Florida resort community with a resounding "bah, humbug" for gays and esbians who make up a substantial portion of the town’s population when the Lower Keys Mira sterial Associatton refused to allow the local Metropolitan Co~nmunity Church in its annual Christmas parade, the first time the predominantly, gay church has asked to parttopate in the event. The Rev. Gary Redwine, who heads up the celebration, denied the association’s decision was anu-gay, but said allowing MCC to join would be contrary to "the image of biblical morality and family that we wish to project." On the day of the event, several hundred protesters clustered outside one of the largest churches along the parade route in silent protest and were joined by ministers from a number of local churches who refused to participate because of MCC’s exclusion. The number of people participating in the parade this year was reportedly almost half what it usually is. Reporter’s Anti-Lesbian Remarks Confirmed NEW YORK - In May, Valerie Hehnbreck, a reporter with the Wilmington (Del.) News-Jour- ¯ hal caused a major flap in the ". sports world when she quoted ¯ CBS-TV golf commentator Ben : Wright in an interview as saying that women aren’t as good at go : Ifas men becanse they are"handi- -" capped by having boobs" and ¯ that "lesbians in the sport hurt : women’s golf"and were turning ¯ itinto a"butch game"that scared ¯ away sponsors. Wright ada- ~ mantly denied saying any of the ~ things Hdmbreck attributed to : him. CBS accepted his denial ¯ and shortly thereafter renewed Wright’s 4-year contract. But now, in the Dec. 4 issue of the subscribers-only "Golf Plus" ~ edition, no less a source than ". Sports Illustratedhas confirmed ~ that Wright did indeed make the .- remarks. The "Golf Plus" edition quotes DanJenkins, a sports writer, who said he talked to ] Wright shortly after the flap ¯. erupted. "I asked him" Did you ¯ say it?’ And he said, "Of course ¯ I said it. But I was granted com- .- plete anonymity.’" The article, ¯ entitled"Living With a Lie,"also LEA ANN MACOMBER Realtor Associate Mobile: 671-2010 2642 E. 21st Street ¯ Suite 170 . Tulsa, Oklahoma 74114 Off: 918-749-8374 ° Res: 918-582-7672 ° Fax: 918-747-1795 Metropolitan Community Church of Greater Tulsa Where God Uplifts All People Sunday Service, 10:45 am Wednesday Service, 6:30 pm Home Cell Groups, 2rid & 4th Sun. 1623 No. Maplewood, 838-1715 BROOKSIDE JEWELRY 4649 South Peoria 743-$272 Corner of 48th & Peori~ 9:30 - 5, Mon. - Fri. Open Saturdays thru holidays! News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News quotes Ken Doig, a part-time CBS-TV stafferanda golfcaddy, who told the magazine he listened to Wright being interviewed by Helmbreck and. confirmed the quotes. "I heard Ben say boobs (get in the way of women golfers’ swing). I heard ¯ such a respected theologian in ¯ the church’s evangelical wing, which generally opposes any acceptance of homosexuals ¯ within the church. "The Bible has been misinterpreted by ¯ evangelicals,"Vasey said. "They ¯ read anti-gay meanings into the him say lesbianism h,,urts in get- ¯ Bible to explain theirfears. There ting sponsorships, Doig is ." is no text on the lips of Jesus quoted as telling the magazine. " Christ which condemns homo- "I’m a golfer and golf is a game ¯ of integrity. I believe in telling ¯ the truth." The "Golf Plus" edition is not sold on newsstands, _" but goes out to some half-mil- ¯ lion subscribers of the maga- ¯ zine. ’Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Goes to Appeals Court " RICHMOND, Va’. - In an un- _. usual step, all 13 judges of the . U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals heard the appeal of Lt. Paul Thomasson in his challenge ¯ to the Defense Department’s so- . called "don’t ask, don’t tell" policy ofexcluding homosexuals . from military service. ° Thomasson’s case is the first ° against the new policy to reach the federal appeals court level. : Thomasson told his command- o ing officer he was gayjust 5 days . after the new policy went into effect. The former Navy lieutenant’s attorneys argued that Thomasson’s discharge violated his First Amendment rights of free speech. But Justice Department attorneys representing the Defense Department argued that .by acknowledging that he is gay, it was reasonable to assume he has a "propensity" to engage in homosexual acts, whichmilitary officials insist "undermines the morale of t he U.S. armed services." The appeals court is not expected to rule on the case until sometime next year, No Support in Bible for Anti-Gay Attitude LONDON - British gay rights activists found unusual supp6rt in their quest to reform the view of the Church of England on homosexuality with a prominent evangdical theologian’s book that argues there is no biblical support for church con demnation of homosexuality. The Rev. Michael Vasey, a lecturer at St. John’s theological college in Durham, expounded his views on the scriptures in a just-published book Strangers andFriends. His arguments have been made before, but not by sexuality." Vasey’s book was published as the church’s general synod was winding up its annual meeting. Activists also made their point ~to church leaders as members of the rights groupOutRage! nailed ademand for a "Queer Reformation" of the Anglican Church entitled "Four Theses Against Church Homophobia" to the doors of Westminster Abbey. "What’s needed is a new Reformation to eradicate homophobia from the Church of England," said Peter Tatchdl of OutRage! "Anglican endorsement of anti-gay discrimination is a corruption of morality and a violation of the dignity oflesbian andgay people. We want the synod to overturn church support for homophobic policies." Romanian Parliament Keeps Anti-Gay Laws BUCHAREST - The Romanian Chamber of Deputies has rejected a draft proposal modifying the country’s penal code to, among other things, at least partly decriminalize homosexuality among consenting adults. The proposed change would have made homosexual acts punishable only if they created a "public scandal" and was proposed in part to help ease Romania’s entry into the European Commuuity, which requires member nations to assure basic equality for all citizens, including protections for gays and lesbians. At least 2 EC nations have already indicated they will vote against admitting Romania to the continental union if the anti-gay laws are not repealed, Jenny Jones Won’t Testify in Murder ~ase DETROIT - A county court judge has ruled that television ¯ talk show hostJemay Jones won’t have to testify in the trial of Jonathan Schmitz, who is charged with killing Scott Amedure, a gay man, after he confessed to being a "secret admirer" of Schmitz on the nationally broadcast TV show. Attorneys for Schmitz had wanted Jones to testify during the trial, but the judge heating the unusual case ruled thatJones’ taped statements and a sworn deposition she is expected to give is all that would be required of her. Schmitz claims he was misled into thinking the "secret admirer" he would meet on the show was a woman and says he was humiliated when he discovered it was Amedure. Three days after the TV program, authorities say Schmitz shot Amedure to death in nearby Orion Township. Gay Book Ban Not Legal OLATHE, Kansas - A federal district court has ruled that the Olathe, Kansas, school board acted from its own anti-gay bias and not out of the best interests in the education ofstndents when it ordered the novel "Annie On My Mind"removed from school libraries. Itis unclearifthe school board will appeal the ruling. The book, which portrays a young girl’s growing awareness of her sexual orientation, has been highly commended by the American Library Association and other groups, but also has become a lightening rod for antigay activists throughout the country. UK Court Upholds Ban LONDON The British Court of Appeal has upheld a lower court ruling supporting the Defense Ministry’s prohibition against homosexuals in the country’s armed forces, ruling that the ban "’cannot ... be sagmatized as irrational at the time these appellants were discharged." Earlier this year a lower court had ruled against the 3 gay men and 1 lesbian who have sued because of their discharges based on their sexual orientation. The 4 ex-service members vowed to appeal their case to Britain’s House of Lords - the highest judicial body in the nation- and then to the European Court if they lose in the Lords. Detroit Plans for Domestic Partnership DETROIT- A Detroit task force is in the process of wor-king on a proposal that would, ifapproved by the city council, allow gay. and nongay couples to register as domestic partners. The proposal would also give live-in partners of city workers health and other benefits like those currently enjoyed by the married spouses of city employees. The partnership registration would give domestic partners the same visitation rights as spouses or parents at all city hospitals and jails. Domestic partners of a parent or legal guardians of children would also have access to their child’s school records. The task force expects to present its completed proposals to the city council by the end of this year. N.J. Judge Rules Against Gays-in Boy Scouts TRENTON, N.J. - N.J. Superior CourtJudge Patrick McGannhas ruled that a local chapter of the Boy Scouts of America didn’t violate state antl-bias laws when it kicked out John Dale, who is gay, in 1990. In his ruling, McGann cited the biblical story ofSodom and Gomorrah, saying that "all religions deem the act of sodomy a serious moral wrong,’" adding that it was "unthinkable" that the Boy Scouts would accept gay men in leadership roles. "The criminal law has changed," McGam~ wrote. "The moral law - as to the act of sodomy - has not." AI Gore - Not a "Beauty" WASHINGTON -An unnamed gqfite House aide has told gossip columnists that although AI & Tipper Gore showed up for a Halloween party dressed as "’Beauty and the Beast, "it.wasn’t exactly what the. "second family" had at first planned. According to the aide, the Vice President had iuitially wanted to go as "’Beauty" accompauied by Mrs. Gore as the "’Beast. "The reports indicated that the Gores were finally convinced to go in the more conventional costumes only after political advisors suggested the public might not quite be ready "for a vice president who is a cross dresser.’" Tasmanian Law Fight SYDNEY - Rights activists in Australia have filed a brief with the country’s High Court in an effort to formally have Tasmania’s sodomy laws declared unconstitutional and stricken from the books. After a Uuited Nations comnfission declared the Tasmmfian law a violation of interuational human rights, the Australian Parliament enacted legislation guaranteeing the right of privacy in an effort to nullify the laws, but the state of Tasmania has refused to repeal its local anti-gay legislation. Activists say they will use the federal privacy laws in their case, but say it is important to have the Tasmania law overturned officially to remove the stigma associated with the criminalization of gay men in the state. Baptists Slam Disney TAlVIPA, Fla. -The Horida State Baptist Convention, one of the denomination’s largest, has called on its 1 million members to stop supporting Walt Disney movies, products and theme parks because of the finn’s recent decision to extend insurance benefits to same-sex domestic partners of its employees. The, resolution, which was overwhelmingly adopted by the state delegates, says in part that "Disney’~ moral leadership has been eroded by that decision, as well as its practice of holding homosexual theme nights at its parks." A spokesperson for the Walt Disney Co. said the finn "’regrets" the Florida Baptists have taken the stand they have, but so far the entertainment giant has refused to back away from the new benefits. Some Baptists indicated they would call for a boycott. It’s Time to Play. You’ve broken away from the routine. Together you’re about to explore a delicious new realm of the sensuous. 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We are proud to serve our communities with sensitive & timely information. 747-5466, POB 14011, Tulsa 74159 HIV Suppressor Found LONDON - Reporting in the prestigious British scientificjournal Nature, researchers with the Paul Erlick Institut in Germany say they have identified a naturally occurring substance in the immune system that acts as a natural defense ag ainst HIV by slowing the reproduction of the virus. While canuoning against seeing their finding as a breakthrough, the scientists said"they fOffr~d thaf i~nterleukifi:16 (IL- 16),which i’s producedby the body’ s T-cells known as CD8 cells, slowed reproduction ofHIV in laboratory tests. The researchers say that if tests of IL-16 with animals prove encouraging, they may begin human testing of the substance in about a year - a strong indication of their excitement about the finding. Their hope is that if the treatment can be effectively used it could perhaps be effective in keeping HIV from overwhelming a patient’ s immune system indefinitely. Effective HIV Inhibitor Drug BOSTON - Two studies in the New England Journal of Medicine report that an experimental drug that dogs the operation of a key HIV protein seems to keep it at bay for at least a while. The drug ritonavir, formerly known as A~T-538 and developed by Abbott Laboratories, is one of a promising new class of AIDS medicines known as protease inhibitors. AIDS researchers are excited about these new drugs because they. appear to both reduce the level of the°virus and to boost the immune system’ s strength. Although the scientists from the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam and New York University’ s school ofmedicine who conducted the studies concluded that ritonavir was quick and effective in fighting HIV, resistance to the drug did develop over time. Abbott Laboratories quickly announced that it will make supplies of the experimental drug available to some 2,000 people with late-stage AIDS diseases and CD4 cell counts of 513 or less around the world through a lottery. For inforuaation about the Abbott Laboratories lottery, call 1-800-414-2437. Mechanism of ’Long-Term Su rvival’ Possibly Identified CHICAGO-; In a.small’-geale sm’dy published in the Proceedings ofthe National Academy of Sciences, researchers report that the’cellular response of a group of ’long-term survivors of HIV appears to help delay the progression of the virus. The team of researchers from the University of California at San Francisco, led by Dr. Jay A. Levy, compared the immune cells of people who had developed fullblown AIDS or had seriously compromised immune systems with other people infected with HIV butwho remained otherwise asvmptomatic for 10 years ormore. The CD~ immune cells of the long-term survivors produced greater amounts of proteins that help regulate "immune-system responses, the researchers report. This, the scientists say, helps keep the CD8 ceils active in fending off HIV, thereby stavingoff most of the impact of the virus longer. According tc the UC-SF researchers, the findings suggest that extra doses of the naturally occurring proteins,known as cytoklnes, might hdp more infected people stay healthier longer. FlPELITY Ho-t~AE HE6LTH CA-RE, INC. Tulsa Office 486-1174 800-999-3/!42 We provide comprehensive home health services 24 hours/day, seven dayslweek. The range ofservices include: Skilled nursing services (RN’s, LPN’s) Home health aides, Physical Therapy Speech Therapy, Occupational Therapy Medical Social Services, In-home psychiatric care Non-emergency transportation, Private duty nursing and Companion sitter services. This list is not all inclusive. Please contact our offices with specific treatment issues. FDA Committee Recommends 3 New AIDS Drugs \VASHINGTON The Food & Drug Administration’s Antiviral Drug Advisory Committee has recon~nended that the agency approve 3TC for both initial tream~ent of AIDS as welt as for advanced cases of the disease. Studies have indicated that the experimental drug, when used with AZT, reduced the spread of HIV in patients’ systems and helped bolster their immune response. The drug can have serious side effects in children, including possible pancreatitis, but appears to produce no greater side effects among adults than the AZT used alone does. The ¯ panel also recommended approv.ing the AIDS drug stavudine (whichis also known ¯ as d4T and Zerit), for people who are not responding to treatment with AZT. The ¯ advisory committee also recommended conditional approval of saquinavir, the : first protease inhibitor the panel has recommended approving to fight AIDS. Unlike other AIDS drugs, protease in- " hibitors work by preventing HIV i/self ¯ from replicating in the body and are con- " sidered the most promising new class of ¯ drugs in the epidemic. The conditional recommendation requires that saquinavir not be used as a single-drug treatment, but ¯ be prescribed along with nucleoside analogs. ¯ Non-Lethal HIV Identified : SYDNEY - A study based on a decade- " old sample of blood donations known as ¯ the Sydney Blood Bank Cohort has found ¯¯ that the blood of one gay man infected ¯ with HIV and the 7 blood recipients who became infected with the virus is infected ¯ with an entirely new - and harmless - . strain of HIV. The finding, reported in the journal Science, raises hopes that an AIDS vaccine can be devcloped using the new, benign virus s train. The researchers found that the unidentified gay man’ s blood had been used in transfusions between 1981- 84 before blood screening for HIV started in 1985. The gay man, however, never contracted AIDS. And when a Red Cross ,ocial worker began tracking people who should have been infected as a result of receiving the tainted blood, she found that after 10 years, none of the 7 recipients had become sick either although all are in fact HIV positive. The newly discovered strain has defects in its genetic elements, most notably a gene called "nef," which other studies have already shown is necessary for HIV to replicate itself.¢’~This allows the infected person’s immune system to deal with the virus - in other words, to stop it getung out of control," said Dr. Nicholas Deacon, who led the Australian research team. The discovery of the "neF" defect is especially important for possible vaccine development after studies on animals at the New Englaud Regional Primate Center showed that deleting "net" from the sirman (monkey) cousin of the virus, SIV, disarms the lethal microbe. HIV Infection Risks Among Lesbians, Bi Women CHICAGO Researchers with the San Francisco health department have reported in the American Journal ofPublic Health that lesbians and bisexual women are at small risk of HIV infection, a finding that contradicts the general idea thatthese women have no risk of contracting the virus. Researchers reported that 6 out of 498 bisexual women and lesbians tested in San Francisco and Berkdey during 1993 were infected with HIV, an infection rate of 1.2%. The researchers re- Free & Anonymous Finger Stick Method ~ B~! &for, but not exclusive to the Lesbian, Gay, & Bisexual Communities. Monday & Thursday evenings: 7-8:30 pm for testing, 7-9 pm for results. Daytime testing, Mon-Thurs by appointment. 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If you haven’t seen it, .it is one of the most hilarious shows I’ve seen on American TV. So what if it’s a "knockoff of "Absolutely fabulous"? We can’t see that here, ’cause the local cable comp..any doesn’ t carry the comedy channel ~ a:t~e crime~:Anyway, I recognize a lot of myself in this show, which has a DEFINITE queer sensibility to it. Watch it, you’ll see what I mean. ¯ Anyway, back to the subject at hand, the : new colunm: ¯ Rating system: Four snaps: Don’t miss it, ¯ in fact, get going now! Three snaps: Ok, ¯ so put the paper down first. And drive ¯ safely. Two Snaps: Ithas enough redeem- ¯¯ ing qualities to be of interest, but see the matinee. One snap. Well, if you’re really ¯ bored and can’t find anything else to do... ¯ No snaps: You’ll be sorry.. Well, what a full season thus far: ¯ Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, ¯ a wonderful concert with Marilyn Maye ¯ and theTulsa Philharmonic, &Toy Story, ¯ the new must-see movie from the’~gayfriendly folk at Disney. If you misse~ the : live shows, well,’I’ll tell you myopinion ¯ ~a~yway (like yisii’coulil’stOp me:~.) sb -that : If th~y’come through town again, you’ll ¯ know whether to ante up for a ticket, or ¯ stay home with the telly and a cup of hot : chocolate, see Notes, page 14 FRIDAY, JANUARY 19 BroaOen Your Perspective at a celtic Music Concert. Irish fiddle great Kevin Burke and his new world Celtic enseml01e bring fiery instrumentals, dazzling footwork and original songs. 8 p.m., John H. wilhams Theatre, Tulsa Performing Arts Center CALL: 596-7111 TICKETS: $12 Eve Sunday_ December: $howtime 11p.m. €~2 Cover Beer Bust 9p.m. ~ laom~ Januaru 11 - 14 I yr. Anniversary/C6stomer Appreciation Extravaganza Weekend M~n of the Southv~est 9-2 NO COVER A~ll-Male RevUe 10 p.m. $2 Cover Dance & Party with your favorite Bar Staff Kirk, Tern/, Tommy, Scotty, Mike, Bill, Chrls & DJ Davld Oees $2 COVER Mr. Robbie Walker & the Sunday Slam (Ivana B, Real, Kris Kohl, Michelle ~~tey, Domo~ueDarnels) wiJh Special ~u~t To Be Announced ~2COVE~ K IN . COMMUNI CALEN R SUNDAYS Bless the Lord At All Times Christian Center Sunday School, 9:45 am Worship Service, 11 am 2627b East 1 lth 583-7815 Community of Hope, _ (United Methodist) Worship Service, 6 pm ~ 1703E. 2nd, 585d800, Family of Faith ¯ Metro. Comm. Chureh- AdultSunday School, 9:15 " Worship Service, 11 am ." 5451-E South Mingo. ¯ Info: 622-1441 Metro. Comm. Church of Greater Tulsa Worship Service, 10:45am ¯ 1623 N. Maplewood Info: 838-1715 ¯ TheBanned, OKGay Band " Practice weekly in OKC " Info: 838-2121 ¯ Bisexual/Lesbian/Gay " Alliance - Univ. of Tulsa " 6:30 pm at Canterbury ¯ 5th & Evanston Info: 583-9780 " SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17 MONDAYS : HIV Testing ¯ TOHR Clinic ¯ Free &.anonymous testing ¯ using fingerstick method. ¯ No appointment reqnired. : Walk in testing: 7-8:30 pm Results hours: 7-9 pm TUESI Minister’s Class Bless the Lord at All Times Christian Center 7:30 pm 2627-B East 1 lth Info: 583-7815 HIV+ Support Group Info: 742-2927 ¯ HIV Resource Consortium ¯ :~ii~am~la : .,.,_ _: .~-~ ::-1,:30~pm~.,:J i . !~ " Bowling League :,, 4t~S. Harvard, Ste.-H-1 Sheridan Lanes 8:45 pm 3121 S. Sheridan PFLAG Family AIDS Support Group 2nd Monday of month, 6:30 pm 4154 S. Harvard Info: 749-4901 Info: Wanda @ 749-4194 Shanti-Tulsa, Inc. HIV/AIDS Support Group & Friends & Family HIV/AIDS Support Group 7 pm, call for location: 749-7898 Thi ’N6w Year Drink Responsibly - Have a Designated Driver or Take a Cab WEDNESDAYS ¯ Authority OfThe Believer Bible Study, 7 pm MCC of Greater Tulsa : 1623 N. Maplewood : Info: 838-1715 Bless The Lord At All Times Christian Center Choir Practice 7 pm .~ 2627-B East 1 lth : Call 583-7815 for info. Family Of Faith MCC Praise & Prayer 6:30 pm Choir Practice 7:30 pm 5451-E South Mingo. Call 622-1441 for info. Community of Hope (United Methodist) Bible Study, 6:30 pm 1703 E. 2nd, 585-1800 (no class, Dec. 27) SUNDAY, DECEMBER 31 THURSDAYS 16-Step Empowerment Group For Women Community of Hope 1703 E. 2nd, Info: 585-1800 Faith & Struggle Dialogue Group Community of Hope United Methodist 4:30pm, 1703 E. 2nd (ongoing group) Info: 585-1800 SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17 Family ofFaith MCC Christmas Concert & Silent Auction, 7:30pm, 5451-E S. Mingo, 622-1441 TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19 GriefGroup Community of Hope United Methodist 6pro, held at Butler/Stumpff Funeral Home, 3rd St. west of Lewis (ongoing) Info: 585-1800 SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24 Family ofFaith MCC Christmas Eve Candlelight Service 10 pm, 5451-E S. Mingo, Info: 622-1441 SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24 Community ofHope United Methodist Christmas Eve Peace Service, 6pm ChristmasEve CandlelightService, 1 lpm 1703 E. 2nd, Info: 585-1800 TUESDAY, DECEMBER 26 GriefGroup Community of Hope United Methodist 6pm, held at Butler/Stumpff Funeral Home, 3rd St. west of Lewis (ongoing) Info: 585-1800 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29 Feed the Homeless Community of Hope United Methodist Meet at church, 1703 E. 2nd, 5:30 pm Info: 585-1800 Family ofFaith MCC, "Let It Go" New Year’s Eve Service, 1 lain 5451-E S Mingo, Info: 622-1441 SUNDAY, JANUARY 7 Faith & Struggle Dialogue Group Community of Hope United Methodist 4:30pm, 1703 E. 2nd (ongoing group) Info: 585-1800 SUNDAY, JANUARY 7 Prime Timers Monthly Meeting Write for info: P.O. Box 52118, 74104 TUESDAY, JANUARY 9 Green Country Pride ~ Tulsa Oldahomansfor Human Rights Community-wide Meeting, 7 pm Alan Chapman Activity Center University of Tulsa 5th St. west of Harvard, Info: 743-4297 SUNDAY, JANUARY 14 Family ofFaith MCC Reclaim & Recovery Workshop: It’s Never Too Late to Have a Happy Childhood, 9 am - 3 pm 5451-E S. Mingo, Info: 622-1441 TUESDAY, JANUARY 30 Rainbow Business Guild, 7 pm Call for place and speaker. Dinner Meeting, Info: 665-5174 SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17 Family ofFaith MCC Reclaim & Recovery Workshop: Forgiveness, 9 am - 3pro 5451-E S. Mingo, Info: 622-1441 Co-Dependency Support Group 7:30, Family of Faith MCC 5451-E S. Mingo Call 622-1441 for Info. HIVTestingTOHRClinic Free & anonymous testing using fingerstick method. No appointment reqnired. Walk in testing: 7 - 8:30 pm Results hours: 7 - 9 pm [nfo: 742-2927 Prayer Time MCC - Greater Tulsa, 7 pm 1623 N. Maplewood Info: 838-1715 Tulsa-Family Chorale Weekly practice, 9:30 pm Lola’s 2630 E. 15th PFLAG Family AIDS Support Group 1st & 3rd Thursdays 4154 S. Harvard Info: 749-4901 Out & About With JD! It’s that time of the year when you yearn for time spent with friends, and visions of fairies dance in your head. This month’s featured establishment is a great place to find both. GROUND ZERO (formerly Laffs-Underground) at 7th&Elan, in the heart of downtown Tulsa, is the place. Steve Crow, a wellknown promoter of Tulsa’s night life, has renovated this classic. location into something more than comfortable and intriguing for that first date (a dimly lit table for two), or to find that first date, (billiard and dart area), or for meedng a group of friends (a conversation area and well-lit bar). Watch for details about Tulsa’s first Intemet party, linking up via the info super hi-way to other bars across PFLAG national vice president, Nancy McDonald is joined by sevkral friends, including Prime Timer, Wesley Bauer. ¯, SATURDAYS ¯ Narcotics Anonymous ¯ Meets weekly at 11 pm ¯ Confidential support for ¯ recovering addicts. ¯ Community of Hope ¯ 1703 E. 2nd, Info: 585-1800 : NAMES Project ¯ AIDS Memorial Quilt Sewing Bees ¯ 3rd Sat. of each month Info: 748-3111 MORE GROUPS Gay & Lesbian Student Association TJC Southeast Campus, Info: 631-7632 ¯ SWAN-Single Women’s Activity Network ¯ Call 832-2121 TOHR Helplinc Daily 8-10 pm ¯ For info. or to volunteer: ¯ 743-GAYS Tool Box Technicians, ¯ Leather org., Info cio The Tool Box: 584-1308 T.U.L.S.A. ¯ Tulsa Uniform & Leather Seekers Assdc. ¯ Info: 838-1222 ¯ the country. Starting in January onThurs- : day nights: chicks with d contests with ¯ cash prizes, and, as always, male dancers ¯ every Friday and Saturday nights. Be sure : to join Steve and his wonderful manager Mark on December 23 for a mini-Christmas party with Reghenaand company. Also, New Year’s will be rung in with male dancers counting down the minutes to midnight, and a free champagne toast. .Also Ladonna at Barracudas sends a note of thanks to all the new Raghenna & Steve Crow faces thathave stopped ¯ in (see her ad about ¯ some new faces). : I would like take a moment to wish ¯ everybody a joyful holiday season, and a ¯ v.ery warm and happy new year. I appre- ¯ caate all the support throughout the last ¯ year. Community activists, Ken Draper, Lisa Pottorf& Tim Gillean braved the cold at TOHR Holiday Dinner & Silent Auction. Eureka Springs Honors World AIDS Day - Dec. 1 by Phyl Boler-Schmidt Living in the heart of the Bible Belt, one would not expect to find an ecumenical service dedicated to World AIDS Day m a small community. Yet, Eureka Springs held one of the most moving celebrations of unity in the fight against AIDS I have ever witnessed. On the evening of December 1, we gathered at the United Methodist Church, about 75 people in all, from all walks of lifeand all faithS. The theme of the service: was "Because God Cares," and the service was co-sponsored by the Regional AIDS Interfaith Network (RAIN) and Ozark AIDS Resources and Services (OARS). A total of ten local and area clergy were scheduled to participate in the ev.ent, andfive were calledaway at the last rmnute to attend to other events or emergencies. Those who did participate came from varying backgrounds, to be sure. Rev. Stan Adams came from the United Methodist Church, Rev. Jack Hammond is affiliated with the First Christian Church, and Rev. Mark Leuneville came from the First Presbyterian Church, all in nearby Berryville. Rev. Marilyn Webb participated from the host church in Eureka Springs. And, the m~in speaker was Rev. Kermie Wohlenham~ Pastor of MCC of the Living Spring. It was a celebration of life and healing, love; hope, and stories of miracles. Sonny Mosley, the longest living AIDS survivor, who last week graced the front page ¯ of the local newspaper, told his story. A Grandmother read a letter of love, grace, : and about her own 17-year, same-sex relationship, a letter that had been written ¯ that same day to her HIV+ grandson. We ~ all shared, prayed, sang, hoped, and cried ¯ together. ¯ Sonny’s admonition to us all was very ¯ moving. "It is my hope, and I believe that ¯¯ itis God’s hope that when you leave this piace tonight, you will go to someone and ¯ tell them you have seen a miracle. You ¯ have seen a miracle standing before you ¯ tonight.... " Sonny ] has survived 14years and seven months ¯ living with AIDS. ¯ One young man told the story of los- " ing his partner of : eight years some two ¯ years ago. He shared ¯ withus his partner’s ¯ last words to him: ¯ "Never miss an op- ¯ pornmity to love.’" ¯ It was a rare treat to experience an area- : wide service in which the official coming ¯ out of Rev. Kermie Wohlenhaus to the ¯ religious community.was enacted through ¯ aninvitation toher to give the main talk of ¯ the evening, a sermon if you will. Her ¯ time at the pulpit was preceded by a mu- ¯ sical duet by twoMCC regulars, a request ¯ made due to past performances by the ¯ MCC choir at World AIDS Day services. ¯ Pastor Wohlenhaus gave a message of ¯ healing and-an admonition to the assembled churchgoers that "This is ¯ everyone’s disease. Men, women and children are all afflicted. Each one of us." She told moving stories of Ryan White, the Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, Randy Shilts, and A Day Without Art. "The loss to the world is amazing! "This was Rev. Wohlenhaus’ assessment of the loss to the art world because of AIDS. But, "there is a healing part of this disease." She talked of Joan Rivers and the first AIDS benefit she put together. Ms. Rivers could get no major stars to participate in the benefit, and she received hate mail and death threats. Yes, we truly have come a long Saglttarlus You also ]]ave way toward healing. And there deep desires to....huy were stories of the expenslve, pointless, e~o- healing of families gg~ra~t’aLr in" thln~s....you and relationships, how Disney wentout l~n~w that last, red sports on alimb for its emear won’t make you a better ployees,evemnspite of pressure from the person. Don’t you? pro-familygroups. It was a moving talk ¯ indeed. "’What has happened is we are ¯ coming out as a nation. Weare healing ¯ AIDSphobiaas well as homophobiaas we : have to deal with this disease." ¯ "The voices of people th~it are HIV+ ¯ and (have) AIDS have tremendous spiri- ¯ tual messages for us. One of those mes- ¯ sages is living one day at a’fime to the fullest. They are our teachers, aren t they. ¯ This was an admonition to most of the ¯ congregation. ¯ And; to those who are HIVe- and living ¯ withAIDS,"Call upon your higherpower - whatever that is. Ask those very impor- ¯ tant questions, and be open to hear the answers. One of the answers that you may hear is to be of service, ff you are HIV+ or living with AIDS, you have a tremendous gift that you can pass on to someone. You’ve gone throughprocesses that someone else that just found out the other day needs to hear from you." ’q’he wounded healer is probably one of our most important healing persons. Avail yourself to those people." An offering was received to support RAIN and OARS, and we heard from Rev. Mark Leuneville that the Ryan White Care Act will not have any more funding until August of 1996 so, more than ever, local organizations need our support, financial as well as personal. Welearned that Carroll Regional Medical Center in Berryville has donated a fulltime counselor to staff the AIDS clinic at the hospital’s expense. A doctor also donates medical services. Testing, quality care, education and counseling are all available. And this is the Bible Belt! This reporter will not soon forget December 1, 1995. This event had a profound effect onme, and it ismyfond hope, that the same effect was felt by the rest of the assembled people at the commemoration of World AIDS Day 1995 in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, "Relieving the ostracism-of gay Ameri- ¯ cans would strengthen family values, no ¯ matter what the prevailing political di- ~ mate may dictate." -- Robert MacNeil, tv : anchor & father of a Gay son, courtesy ¯ GLAAD, The Gay &Lesbian Alliance ~ Against Defamation & Seattle Gay News "’ Jim & Brent have opened the ultimate intimate local eatery. A special, eclectic dining exp.erience.:." Stop by our lqouse for a taste of local flavor. 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It was noted that this ¯ group has recently split due to somedifferences ofopinion, and " because of the split, the KKK " has actually grown in size and strength. . Also noted by Ms. Coyle were " the militia groups that have ° formed in several areas of Ar- ¯ kansas and that activity has in- : creased in southeast Oklahoma ° as well. Other groups, mostly of ¯ the white supremacist nature, to ¯ watch out for are: the Aryan "- Nations, the White Aryan Resis- " tance, neo Nazi skinheads, the ¯ Identity Christian Church, the " Holy Alamo Christian Church, " the Populist Party, and none other ° than the Elna Smith Foundation, ¯ located right here in Eureka ¯ Springs. The Smith Foundation hosts The Great Passion Play ° and houses the Christ of the ¯ Ozarks statue. . Both Ms. Coyle and Ms. Pharr " expressed concern that many of ° the militia groups, which they ° noted are made up of mostly . disgruntled wlfitemen, havebeen " infiltrated by theKKKand other : hate groups in an attempt to recruitnew members to their cause. Ms. Pharr is well know for her work with Gay leaders in those states where anti-gay statues have been placed before the electorate, and her vast work with women’s issues is well documented. Her main thrust of the evening was to show those assembled what majormovements have been presented in the U.S. Ms. Pharr is well know for her work w .th Gay leaders in those states where anti-Gay statues have been placed before the electorate... over the past 30 years and how those intermingle and confuse the people when issues are presented for a vote. She defined three majormovements: the liberation movement (of which we are all a part), globalization of the economy, and the rise of the religious right wing fundamentalists. At issue in the liberation movement are reproductive rights, affirmative action, children’s rights, removal of sodomy laws-, and environmental action, among others. The issues for globalization of the economy are the anti-tax movement, .deregulation, NAFTA,privatization, and ahost of others. It is Ms. Pharr’s contention that the rise of the religious right came upon the heels of economic globalization, and due to this, many people do not .understand that they areresponding to problems in the economy rather than moral issues. The religious right has done a tre- ,_ mendous job of demonizang entire segments of the economy and making them (us) villains when, in fact, it Is the globalization of the economy that has taken jobs away and decreased corporate investment in employees. Ms. Pharr strongly suggested that we all become versed in economic issues and use this knowledge in our discussions with people who feel that gays and lesbians, people of color., rand women ha~¢~ contributed to the moral decline of America. She aptly proved to those of us present at her talk that when people see that they are respondmg to economic issues and their ownfinancial needs, not the need to demonize us, we have more of a chance ofconvincing them that we are not the enemy. The religious right has done its job well, for sure. After President Reagan began the move toward economic globalization, religious leaders jumped on the bandwagon and began to work at the grassroots level to convince average Americans that they should blame groups that the religious right saw as immoral for the decline in available jobs, the rise in the number of welfare recipients, the decrease in the average American’ s paycheck and companybenefits, and the movement away from keeping jobs at home. 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Murder / Opening the hearings, Chair- ¯ and rights activists in Oregon man Peter Hoekstra (D-MI) said : have been concerned that their the ten witnesses would explore ¯ disappearance ~nay have been theroleofparentsinschoolsand ¯ because of the wo men’s high values in the"big picture." Nev- ~ activist visibility during the carnertheless, by the second day as ; palgns. Authoritiesdidn’trelease witness after witness lashed out ¯ any information about how the2 against sex education, HIV pre- women died, saying they ~vould vention and youth support pro- wait for the results of an angrams in schools, the true nature topsy, but police initially deof the hearings became appar- . scribed the killing as "brutal" ent. Perhaps due to the national ~ and "violent." Police said they outcry, the subcommittee called had no specific information to on four of the ten witnesses to ° connect the deaths of the 2 address the impact of violence ." women with their political acand harassmer~t ag~i:~ youth .’. ~vis.m, but said they would uot grappling.withis.sues~:9.f sexual "discount those fears. "’ At press orientation. No gay, lesbian, bi- time, The Associated Press resexual or transgender youth ported that an arrest had been were called upon to testify at the made in this case. hearing. Govt. Asked to Supervise "LouSheldon’sextremeviews Washington, D.C - Citing the came across loud and clear,"said murders, and a tragic history of Helen Gonzales, Public Policy violence agmnst Gays in other Director- for the National Gay states with anti-gay ballot initiaand Lesbian Task Force. "Even tives, the National Gay and Lesthough the comm|ttee did not bian Task Force (NGLTF) has completelystackthedeckagainst asked U.S. Attorney General us: intolerance ofdiffering views Janet Reno to lend federal assisand an anti-democratic approach tance in investigating homicides. to education were the themes of "’We are writing to inform you the day." of a situation which unfortu- During the first day of hear- nately is becoming too commonings, witnesses William Bennett place in our country and to seek and Patricia Ann Baltz spoke in your assistance in helping progeneral terms about the need to tect the lives of, gay, lesbian, infuse values into public schools, bisexual and-., transgender Homosexuality was only men- people," said the,three-page lettioned briefly. During the sec- ter, firxedtoReno’sofficetoday. ond day, witnesses discussed "Our concern is that however school services and programs the facts in this case turn out, which address prevention of hate crimes against Gays, l_~sbi- HIV, hate-violence in schools ans, Bisexuals and Transgender andthehighincidenceofsuicide persons continue to be an epiamong gay,lesbian,bisexual and demic in this country...In the attransgender youth. Several wit- mosphereofhatredandgay-baitnesses misrepresented these ing which are expected to be community efforts as attempts waged by the Far Right during to "recruit and promote homo- next year’s anti-gay ballot and sexuality.’" At least one witness legislative state initiatives, it is complained about schools "pro- clear that such crimes will inmotinghomosexual lifestyles as crease.’" The letter went on to normal," while another witness detail the rise in anti-gay vioclaimed that "homosexuality is lence, especially in states with sinful.’" homophobic initiatives. BEAVER DAM STORE Fishing Headquarters for N.W. Arkansas Fly Tying * Fly Fishing * Equipment & Classes Open Year ’Round TROUTS - "~ - US Located 1/2 mile N. of Beaver Dam on Hwy 187 Eureka Springs, AR * 501-253-6154 Groceries * Gas * Ice ~ B~er * Licenses * Lodging Your lnukeepem. COTTAGE Lamont Kichie and A Bed & Breal~ast Inn Individual Cottages - Jacuzzi for Two Eureka Springs, Arkansas 72632 800/624-6646 501/253-8659 Reviewed by Barry Hensley what Sullivan sees as the four political Tulsa City-County Library armies "on the homosexuality battlefield The gay rights debate will surely rise to ] of the culture war:" 1) Prohibitionists, a new level with the publication of this ¯ who refuse to discuss homosexual intebook. Sullivan, the gay editor of the New gration into society because of biblical Republic magazine, has written an impor- ; beliefs; 2) Liberationists (at the other end tant addition to the growing number of books that argue, in a straightforward, readable and educated way, that there is a new politics of homosexuality. It blends "liberal equality in the eyes of the state with conser- [t]aere ~s] "a new pol;t~cs of ]aomosexualaty... [1,1e.d~] "l;1,eral e~ual;ty ~n t~e eyes of t]ae state vc~t]a conservative social stability" vative social stability in a program whose twin tenets are open, un-impeded gay military service and legal gay marriage. Sullivan begins by asking, "What Is a Homosexual?" By describing his childhood experiences that he now realizes were really gay oriented situations, Sullivan makes a dear case for the inclusion of gay themes throughout our culture. Once, at the age often, heremembers being"...happily engagedinreading. Then, a girl sitting next to me looked at me with a rmxture of curiosity and disgust. "Why aren’t you out with the boys playing football’?" she asked. Because "I hate it," I replied. "’Are you sure you’re really not a girl under there?" she asked, with the suspicion of a sneer." With no mention of homosexuality in his family, ]’i~ the newspaper, at school or on television, he, like most gays gr6_wing up, had no guidance, discussion Or role models to help explain the confusion he was gorng through. The main part of this book is focused on of the political scale) which includes groups such as Queer Nation and ACI’-UP; 3) Conservatives, the authors of"don’t ask, don’t tell", and 4) Liberals, who are often simply piggybacking the gay rights movement on the back of the civil rights movement. With the first two groups intractable, Sullivan argues that a combination of the best of conservative and liberal beliefs can create a new consensus on homosexuality. His idea "affirms a simple and limited principle: that all public (as opposed to private) discrimination against homosexuals be ended and that every right and responsibility that heterosexuals enjoy as public citizens be extended to those who grow up and find themselves emotionally different." He means ALL rights and responsibilities, including marriage and military service. Sullivan is remarkably eloquent, and it is hard to disagree with his logic, although he is often accused of being too conservative. He has presented the best book to date on how and why the gay rights debate must move from the base of emotion and fear to fact~ and logic. Check for "Virtually Normal" on the Tulsa City-County Library catalog, or call 596-7966. ment shortly and will probably then be voted onagain by the commission in early December. The newspaper reported that the commission’s recommendations will also include an alternative proposal to create a statewide domestic partnership registration that would effectivdy extend to same-sex couples all the benefits under state control th at married opposite-sex couples enjoy. The Advertiser, the state’s largest-circulating daily, also editorially endorsed the commission’s anticipated action, sayang it was taking "a reasonable stand that should be adopted by the legislature" and that "gay couples should have the legal right to marry in Hawaii." Hill brings extensive experience as a trainer in suicide imervention and has served as a teacher of living skills -for legally blind citizens for the State Visual Services agency and has served on the Advisory Committee for the Assistive Technology Center. He is chair of the Para Transit Sub-committee of the Special Transportation Advisory Committee (STAC) to the Indian Nations Council of Governments (INCOG) and Tulsa Transit Hill also volunteers with Youth Services of Tulsa’s TYDD Program and is a life-long member of 1 st Lutheran Church of Tulsa where he is a member of the choir and has served twice as a member of the church board. He sings with the Tulsa Oratorio Chorus and also worships with Community of Hope congregation. reviewed, saying that the state could give visitation rights to an individual who had a"parent-likerelationship"with the child, whether the individuals were heterosexual or a non-traditional couple. Knott appealed that state high court ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court. Court Rules For Gay Adoptions NEW YORK - New York’s Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, has ruled that couples do not have to be married in order to adopt, a ruling that, while it also applies to unmarried heterosexuals, is strongly welcomed by same-sex couples. "There’s been a collective holding of our breath around the state," said Paula Ettelbrick of the Empire State Pride Agenda. Although the high court’s ruling does notmean that gay and lesbian couples will automatically be given adoption rights, it does mean that state courts can not use marital status in determining adoption applications. In late October, a New Jersey court ruled that a lesbian could adopt the son and daughter of her lover because i t was in the "best interests"of the 2 children.Alower state court had blocked the adoption, saying it was not allowed under state law. OK Lesbian & Gay Soccer A car pool is being sponsored by the OK Spoke Club to go from Tulsa to OKC for Sat. morning soccer practices of the OKC Wildcats team. The Wildcats team is seeking novice and advanced playo;~. Jerry, aTulsamember of the team hopes to form a Tulsa team if there is sufficient interest. For information, call 582-3212. Timothy W. Daniel Attorne3" at Law Know Your Rights! Estate Planning, Adoptions, Personal Injury, Criminal Law, Bankruptcy &i.wdrkers Compensation 1-800 7 2-9468 or 918-352-9504 128 East Broadway, Drumright, Oklahoma Weekend and evening appointments are available. People don’t plan to fail, they fail to plan. 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Doors open at 8pm with a $5 cover and the pageant begins at 9 sharp. Cherry Monroe will be crowning the winner of the 1996 Miss Gay Oklahoma USofA Pageant and contestants will be competing for over $1500 in cash and prizes. Competition catagories are Personal Interview, Evening Gown and Talent. Special awards include the Amii Dyshea Talent award and Sasha Loren MostBeautiful Awardhonoring these two Notes continuedfrom page 8 First off: R & H’s Cinderdla: Starting off as the only musical Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote specifically for television, and one of the first ever written for TV, 1! was pleasant enough to see on stage, but just didn’t quite make the leap all the way across the chasm. The show did have a gay sensibility to it as directed by John Ruocco, who was assistant to the director of Terrence McNally’s very gay play, "Love! Valor! Compassion!". The King, as portrayed by David Boughn, was definitely wed to the queen as a matter of convenience. He was definitely more interested in the manservants (who were quite beautiful as well) than his wife. Like many "old-fashioned" gay man/ very missed entertainers and former Miss Gay Oklahoma USofA’s. The winner and first runner-up will represent Oklahoma in the 1996 Miss Gay USofA Pageant in May. Miss Gay USofA Pageant is the largest pageant for female impersonators in the country. The Miss Gay Oklahoma USofA Pageant has been honored by the National Pageant with the Best New Preliminary Pageant.award and the Hospitality award and the Miss Gay Oklahoma USofA Pageant owner, David Bridgrnan, was given the Owners Award for Business Person of the Year in 1995. Interested contestants may pick up info. packets at dubs and businesses across the state or may contact the pageant promoter, David Bridgman at 918-838-3701. woman marriages, the queen is a"beard". Probably best friends, and fond of each other, but quite an interesting direction for the father of Prince Charming. And they worry quite frantically over finding a woman to make him happy! Throughout the play, he seemed much more comfortable with his manservants. Speaking of, he was quite a sight to behold. There were certain attributes, visible from a seat slightly towards the rear orchestra, that were quite breathtaking to behold. What a scepter! And visible even to my nearsighted, astgmafic eyes! Needless to say, the costumes were well executed, showing off the best of the actors. The singing was very beautiful - Matt Clemens, as see Notes, page 15 9.2,3340S, Peo Tulsa, 918-744-0896 Notes cont’dfrom p. 14 Prince C, had quite alovely tenor volce, and Miss Cindy was very well sung by Leslie Lorusso. However, this production was meant for amoreintimate venue, no doubt about it. No splashy showtunes,just nice quite melodies. The stepmother and sisters were the high point of the show, being played like really mean drag queens havin~ a bad hair day. The "Stepsister’s Lament" really showcased their comedic "talents excellently, and the soundtrack (available in both Julie Andrews or Lesley Anne Warren versions) is worth having, and the show worth seeing for this song alone. It seems to be the only song R & H put any effort into. As for the rest of the show, I found it rather bland. The main problem was that the actors were "playing down" to the audience in the worst "children’s theater" manner - making sure every joke was extremely over-the-top, so all the kiddies would get it. This, I’m sure, was not the intent of R & H when they wrote the piece. In order for the show to work, it has ¯ to be treated as an adult show - much of the humor is certainly meant for adults - while retain- " ing the fairy-tale elements as ¯ well. Pacing was a crucial ele- ¯ ment as well, and unfortunately, in this aspect, the show did not ¯ succeed. Ithadmoments,butnot enough to fill two hours. Two : snaps and a yawn for the show in ¯ general, four snaps for theprince and the stepsisters. ¯ Marilyn Maye, however, puts on a terrific show - everything ¯ from standards of the ’30’s to ¯ current songs. I’d not heard of ¯ herbeforeI was told I’dbegolng ¯ to the show, but I am now a ¯ dedicated fan. After the dedication of a song "To lovers every- " where.... no matter who they love", and a wry look at to the ¯ audience- I realized this woman ¯ knew her audience included gay ¯ folk, andwas very inclusive. And ¯ what a stager/actres!! Some : people can sing prettily, but miss ¯ the wholemessage/emotionofa ¯ song. Not so, Ms. Maye. She can ¯ make you feel a song. When she ¯ comes back to Tulsa, I would ¯ urge you strongly tO see this gay- . friendly performer. Her stage persona is delightful, and the TALKING PERSONALS! HUNDREDS OF GUYS TO CH( Call The 900 number to respond to ads, browse unlisted ads, or retrieve messages. 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And because of our established resources, we can deliver a settlement in less than a third the time other companies take by mail, typically in fewer than 30 days. We’ll do what it takes to find the best solution for you. .Home Office Dallas, Texas 800-559-4790 Kelly Kirby Oklahoma Representative POB 14011 Tulsa, OK 74159-1011 918-747-3320 Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data newspaper periodical Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource [1996] Tulsa Family News, December 15, 1995-January 14, 1996; Volume 3, Issue 1 Subject The topic of the resource Politics, education, and social conversation toward Tulsa’s Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual communities. 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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 Serving Tulsa’s Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual Communities - Our Families of the Heart National News Oregon Murder ¯ ......STSOCuKsTOpNe, Ccaltif..A-Triprpeedsotffebdy an i anonymous caller, authorities in Stockton, about 70 miles east of San Francisco, ~ January 15 - February 14, 1996, Vohlme 3, Issue 2 ,have arrested-Robert. James- Acremant in.’-- connection.with the killingiearlier in De- : .cember oftwoprominent lestiiaii activists " ¯ Run for Your Lives: ¯ OK House is In Session ¯ Legislators S.eekTo "Endorse Bias In i Adopti,on, Foster Gare & Education ¯ ~,In what is becoming a regular legisla- ~n Medford, Oregon. Authorities have : ¯ confirmed that the man also confessed to :, ti~e kick in the pants forOklahoma Lesbith .-~, t.:v. ~ ^r n _ :......~.__._ ¯ This drawing representing a gun target ¯ ans, Gay men and Bisexuals the Okla e earll,,.4 aadlng u,t a m,~, ,. LalllUllfl,H . _ . ¯ - .. , , - ,~-o--_~.t.....:t.:,:,. ,,__, ~_............ was left 3ee story below for details ¯ -homa House of Representatives is ised . ’ see Ore on a e:12 .... - ’ ~ /. . :~ .to address at least two resolutions which " ¯ -. " "~ ~ ~’~ ~’~ ..... Younn Men Admit,. ..u .r-Hara sm,nt- ’.......H.ou.se.Re.so.lut.ion.s 1.04.5&.1046,i.n_tro.- ~ ¯ - -": " ~ OUCgO resp~uvely o\’ Ul~ Kepresema- Murder-of Gay Man ! H.,aLnoscoanl communiDileaaad es.orsn, ,k,’,ellb,-, :"z"v..-. l,on:°" su° ,dB oe, e°na°u"f ,readree""mckeaannd, ,’oneesx o-f " HOUSTON - Authorities say Daniel C. : awoke to find "hate -.~.messages at theii~: ." press the position of the House of Repre- Bean, 19, and Rodney H. Gauthier, 21, : home. Recently, theyf0und an.anti-Gay :- sentadves "regarding certain lifestyles" two half-brothers who say they’re members of a net-Nazi organization, have admitted viciously attacking twogaymen, one ofwhomdied ofmultiple stabwounds. Frank Mangione, ’46, Was pronounced dead on amval at a local hospital, and Kenneth Stern, a friend who had been with see Murder, page 3 Ge,o. rgia: Fed.eral- Rultng on Marr,age ATL’-XNTA - The U.S. Court of Appeals in Adanta has ordered Georgia Attoruey General Michael Bowers to explain in court why his withdrawal of a 1991 job offer to Robin Shahar after she had a religious marriage ceremony with her lover does not violate Shahar’ s free speech rights under the U.S. Constitution. The ruling could force the .state’s, attorney general into a difficult court fight since it would require him to establish a"compelling governmental interest’: in changing his mind about the job offer. Bowers" office had argued that hiring Shahar after the commitment cerelnonv would complicate enforcement of the state’s antisodolny laws and could be construed as an endorsement of same-sex marriages. The attorney general’s office said it was "’disappointed" in die 3-judge panel’s ruling and would ask for a review, either by ftfll appeals court or the US Supreme Court. Calif. GOP Tries-To" Ban Gay Marriages Thursday, Jannary 4, Califorlfia Assemblymelnber Pete Knight unveiled amendments to his bill, AB 1982, to prevent Califonfia from recogmzing samesex marriages.!egally pedbnned in other states. Knight’s bill isiu reaction to the expected legalization of stone-sex marriages in Hawaii in the next two )’ears. Knight’s bill has the backing of the Assembly Republican caucus, and ,’dread)" has 29 Republican co-sponsors. Kafight’s stated reasoning follows: traditional marriages are for procreation. S,’une-gender couples can’ t "produce offspriug together, [so] they must view marriage as just a reservoir of economic perks." galight did see CA-GOP. page 10 ¯ (concentriccircles) with themessage,"tar- ¯ get practice-fags’: and on the reverse, ¯ vulgar drawings and comments. ¯ Kirby, fonner TOHR president, stated ¯ that this harassment is especially trou- ¯ bling since their address is not pul~lished. ¯ He added that the hate crimes unit of the Tuls.a police depart, did send officers to ¯ investigate, even though under ¯ Oklahoma’s hate crimes law, attacks on the basis of sextml orientation are not cov.ered. Kirby noted that these nughtjust See Target, page 10 message marked on a. car window. Two : and regarding "celebration of a LeSbian days later, tbeyfoundacrudedrawingon° .~ and Gay history month in the public their porch. On one side therewas a target ._: schools". Both are simple resolutions and : therefore would not have the force ot’lass" ¯ ACLU Continues to Challenge Sex Law The American Civil Liberties Union : (ACLU) ofOklahoma recently received a ¯ setback to its challenge of Oklahoma’s ¯ "’sodom)"’ law.. Oklahoma City attoruey, ¯ Mark Hendricksen, with Marquette l_’ni- ¯ versitvprofeSsoroflaw Shirley \Vie_,aand ¯ with assistance from ~he Gay & Lesbian Rights Project of the national’office of the ACLU are preparing a petition to the U~fited States S.up.reme Court for a review of the late 1995decision of the Oklal~olna Court of Criminal Appeals. The circumstances ~f the -case follow! a citizeu was approached by a undercover OKCpolice officer. After extended flirtation by the police officer who emphasized see ACLU. page 10 Project-Open Mind ,Parents, Fanfilies and Friends~of Lesbiaus and Gays, (PFL,~G), both the national and local orgamzations ,are contilming their Project Open Miud cmnpaign to reduce hate langtmge and violence directed toward Lesbians, Gay men, Bisexuals mad those perceived to be. PFI.=~G National ,’umomiced that the law finn of Hogan & tlartson LI.P will assist PFLAG at no .charge (pro bond) in First Amendment tssues raised by the threat of lawsuits against PFL&G i’r0mthe Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN). Project Open Mind began with television connnercials that featured anti-Gay see PFLAG. page House resolution 1045 declares that ¯"- "’homosexuality, lesbianism or bisexnal- : ity’" should not be taught as "’natural : lifestyles" in public schools, and that Les- ¯ bians, Gay men or Bisexuals should not ] adopt or’be foster parents and would ~. specify that the stone classes of citizens ] should not have "any special status under ¯ the law". : ~ Resolution 1046 states the position of : the House condemmng the National Edu- ~ cation Association’s (NEA) "call for "’the ¯ acceptance and tolerance of homosexual behavior" and for "’celebrations of a Lesbian and Gay History Month to ac"knmvledge the contributions of lesbians, gays ¯ and bi sexuals, all ofwhich is inconsistent with traditional values of this state...’" Traditionall.v le~slation of this sort have been filed by one or another of the OK House’s Radical-Right members, typi- "cally, Bill Graves ofOKC. \\’hat concerns many longtime politi"cal observers is that these have been filed by Democrats. Laurie Phillips, co-chair of the Tulsa County Democrat Party stated that tlfis "’flies in the face of the principles of the Democrat Party, not only the local, state & national platforms but violates the constitution and bylaws of the state Democrat part3". tale observer suggested that the introduction ofthese resolution might be a way for the Democratic leadership to kee~ these issues under their control. The idea is that a milder, non-binding resolution would let legislators take an anti-Gay lX?.sition for their ultra-conservative consutuents at home but would allow those Representatives to avoid a vote on an actnal anti-Gay bill. However,.attoruev Bill Hiulde rio’ted that even as a resolu’- tion. Lesbians, Gay men mid Bisexnals could be affected if agency heads chose to reflect the views of the House in their policies. Dept. of Hunwaa Senices (DHS) officials said at this time, the agency does not discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation mid DHS staff knew of some adoptions by Lesbian or Gay citizens. DHS stall" stated their duly cdnceru was with the quality of the hol~e for the chilsee R.1045. page 10 ¯ HIV Bias Lawsuit Names Cafe Owner ¯ The Tulsa Federal Court will soou hear .an HIViAIDS discriminatiou lawsuit ¯ which could be the first in the nallon under the A~nericans with Disabi lilies Act " (ADA). Local"society" "cafe owner, Tcrr3 _’~ ~T~urner; who mvns Capistrano inq "ticw " ¯ ’ Square andThe French Hen in sonth’l;ulsfi, ;.’ iS ~li¢ged to have ~’iolated the federal nou- ¯ discrimination law in what former cur ¯ ployee, Paul Saladin, claims was a wrong..... ¯ ful firing, Saladin had beeu emplo.vcd at ." The French Hen for over 8 years. : Background ¯ Saladin’s spouse, FxtGandin, tested i positive for HIV :’anti.bodies in=1987. In-/ ¯ late 1992, Gaudin becanle ill and was ¯ ..diagnosed with AIDSin early 1 ~93. I)ur- ¯ mg this time, Saladin supported the finn- ¯ ilv and was Gaudin’s prilnary carcgivcr. ¯ A’lso during this time, Saladin becmnc a ¯ voluuteer with an HI\" AIDS hospice and became a certified HI\" AII)S educator. ¯ Both Gaudin’s !llV status, illness and ¯ Saladin’s vohmteer work wcrc known to most French Ileu employees and Saladin’..~ manager, Jemlifer \Vallacc. On occasion. ¯ French Hell CtlSlOlners who kllcw of Saladin’s circumstances, would ask hiul ¯ about his spouse. \\.hilt he appears to have been discreet about the subject. Saladin did not hide his vohmtcer work or his relationship with Gaudin. History of this Case In respouse to ,’m inqtury from l)r. & ; .Mrs. Spohr of Tulsa (according to pnblic doculnents on file with the court), Saladin ¯ did uot mention either HIV or AII)S but ¯ did refer to Gandm’s T-cell count. On ¯ Sept. 17, 1993, the manager at that time, ¯ Je~mifer Wallace instructed Saladin not ¯ to discuss Gaudin’s HIV AIDS condition ¯ while waiting on tables, and further m- Ibnned him that she hoped owner Terry ¯ Turuer did uot find out. According t~ ¯ documents sublnitted to the court, Saladin ¯ agreed but objected and sought guidance see ADA. page 3 Tulsa Prime Timers ¯ Raises $1000 For Community Center ¯ Tulsa Area Prilne Tilners (’I’AVI’) : hosted a holiday party and silent auction ¯ in December. With food prepared with ¯ TAPT’s gourmet group and items donated ¯ by TAPT’s members, the event raised ¯ S 1000 for creation of a Tulsa Couununitv ; Ceuter which lnembers of the group prt;- ¯ seuted to TOHR president, Dcbi Statues. ¯ Prime Tizners, which is ,’dread\" one of ¯ the fastest growing social orgam’zations, ¯ has expanded its membership to include Gay mid Bisexual men over the age of 21. ¯ Formerly, membershipwas 40 and alx)vc. EDITORIAL P. 2 DIRECTORY Po 2 ," NEWS BRIEFS P. 4 ¯ HEALTH BRIEFS P. 6 CALENDAR P. 9 ¯ EUREKA PAGE P. 11 918.583. 1248 P()B 414(/ Tulsa, Oklahoma 74159-o 14o TulsaNews~ aol.com Publish er/Editor Issued on or before the 15th of each month, the entire contents of Tom Neal this publication are protected by US copyright 1996 by Tulsa F:amilv Assistant Editor News and may not be reproduced either in whole or in part withot[t James Christjohn written permission from the publisher. Publication of a name or Writors/contributors photo does not indicate that person’s sexual orientation. Phvl Boler- Schmidt Correspondence is assumed to be for publication unless otherwise Barry Hensley noted, must be signed & becomes the sole property of Tulsa Family Pat Morehead News. All correspondence shouid be sent to the address above. Each Staff Photosrapher reader is entitled to one free copy of each edition at distribution JD Jamett points. ,~dditional copies are available by calling 583-1248. It’s that time again When we have to deal with politics whether or not we want to do so. On [:cbruary 6th, there.~e city council.primary races which aren" t particularlyinteresting AND tl~ere are ol v charter changes which may not be that interestiug either but which ARE important. The one that I would urge each of us to vote ~n lavor of is a ch,’mgc to the charter which would allow an employee of a business which holds a franchise with thc city to hold public office. The prohibition dates from early days of statehood and no longer has a usc. I tow~\er~ the impact of it remmning could be to force City Councillor Joe \Villiams off the city council. Joc" s district is mostly north Tulsa mad vo{~ all might ask why. if you don’t live in that district. .you should care’? Fi~rst. Joe V,’illian~s has been a good rcprcsentative for his district and seems to this observer to be one of the few of our councillors who has both brains and integrity. Furthermore, -Joc is sensitive to issues of m,.ti-Gay discrimination and is thc oulv member of city govermnent to say he would support a non-discrimination ordinanc~ "that included sexual orientation. Right now, oulv one friend o~r city council can’t do much but it’~ better than no fri~nds.Let’s help Joe stay in:office. Also. Rob Hill is ntiufing for School Board Dist. ;6. Rob brings intelligence, compassion mad experi- ~cnce to this race m~d deserves our support. If you’re ~in hi( district, please:vote for him on Feb." 13. If !youre. not in Iris district mad c,’m spare some cash :for cmnpm_ou expenses, please help. If yOU can’t ¯sparc the c~ish, c0nsidcr giving some ti,fie.: If yon :wm,t to help.please contact.tiffs paper for-inf’. I ~ch 0f ns cam makc a difference, just by voting. :.Plcasc do. - Tom Neal, publisher Taking Heart b\" Pat .\ lorehead To begin thisyear,my companion and I started in the hot mb with a,botfle .of champagne we’ve .carted around since the mid eighties awaiting a "’special" occasion, Due to his career he is usually unavailable at the holidays, so this was the first time in several years that we’ve actually shared the New Year together. \Ve started with a very good dimmer at the Bistro of Brookside, though it was a little noisy and a little too dear from my v~ewpoint. \Ve dined late and then returned home and settled into the hot tub. \Ve enjoyed the relaxing comfort mad then adjourned inside for some more relaxing activ,ties. All in all it was a nice start to a new year. I got to sit in on a rehearsal for "The Lion in \\’inter" being presented by Broken Arrow Community Playhouse; call 258-0077 for details. I want bYShblT{, ~ob~rtb .................... ( Warn#}g : Not [or thehumor-imp)aired!) It h~ long been my contention that ~ough we may shoe orgmfi~ti~ns, a couple of b~s, and the stone colors of the rNnbow, the rdNity is that, wNle gay men ~dlesbi~s ~e of the stone "ilk", they ~e NOT of the stone planet. For ex~ples: Lesbians usuNly m~y slightly"before" the first date. Gay men marry only after e.rtensive interviewing ~nd denial. " Lesbians have sex inunediately ~ter meeting the other woman’s mumNs, cNl&en, relatives, reviewing ~1 her b~ks, and inte~ogatlng her current and ~1 her exes. G~v men have sex immediately a~er just about attythhtg. Sometimes before. though not as much as they used I.esbians use love to get io sex. With g<v men, the vtce is versa. ~en lesbians buy a house, they rehab. And refi~rbish Gay men. ~n the other han~. redecorate. ~sbi~s~easily fix~~ling refrigerator. Gay men can e~ih’ fill it~om the cheese atzd importe~ mushroont sebtton of the dell Lesbians ~e more likely to be vegetal. Gay men will eat almost anything. It took lesbi~s to rediscover Hush ~ppies. It took gay men w redesign tltem in Easter egg colors. Lesbians process. Endlessly. Gay men rationally debateram~caaons andconsbqueitces. Forslightly longer. Lesbi~ ~e politi~ly co~ect to everyone. Gay men are politically correct to everyone [hey knout. I_esbians don’t eat tNngs that used to ha~:e faces. Gay men categorically reject tofit ~ pointless wa~@aper p~te with calories. ~sbians envv M~tha Stew~t’s Co~ecticut house. GaY men’channel her. ~sbi~ fix si~ le~s ~emselves, Gay men call plumbers. Cute ones. ~sbi~s pay intemN pen~ for haph~d eye contact, btlhe rightpar& circumstances, ga~ men’s heads have been known to r~’olve a fidl 3~0" Polifi~ly co~ect or not, lesbi~s look at Play- ~y Mag~ine. Gay men just read the articles. To a lesbi~, cNntz is your p~tner buying yo~ bir~day present at a y~d s~e. To a g~v man, its a fabulous ~rnishing opportuni&, Two lesbi~s ~ght refer to ~ch o~er ~ "my wife." Two gay men wouldn ’t. ~sbi~s ~ve off-road veNcles ~d~ymaps that refold~emselves. Gay Men eventually stop at service station and ~kfor directions. But only if th~ real~7 have to go. ~sbi~s bring ~e chars, ~e newsletter, NI the :to recormnend llii~~ ibroduCtion. I was ¢ery ira: .’ "flyers, theminut~s~ and’the- Coffee pot. Gay men pressed even though I saw it at an early point in the : bring chkckbo~ks.~ rehearsal schedule. But I was particularly taken ¯ Lesbians have potlucks with dishes made from with.the.the Richard.and Phillip scene. The.Direst .." l.en~ils .or chocolate. Or both. Gay. men have intitorhastakentherelati0nshipbetweenthesecharac- ." mat~ litti~ ~ti~tn~rs)~o~, i~vb fv~th:lio~emadepate. To ters and..:,~d~; i!t:!.~!~.~~ .that it.is ahomosexual~ : start~ ’ . " relations~ij’i~)i! i ~i i:::il" ~..i.~i,.... ..... ’.... - z . "~ LesbianS love camp. ~o.do gay men. . Now, I h~g~;trrlid~ihat:the inclinations of the : Lesbians cook out by tliepond. Gay men cook in, two feilo~’ii~i~" N~iiard and,:Phillip are, but : then sit out bythe pooL " " " bet~een them the mana e a ~erv conv~nono Lesbian Cou le ¯ ’" "~Y~ i g .~ " " ~ ." ’ " p s hyphenate their last names. see Play, page 3 ". Gay men arm wrestle each other to the ground and ¯. use the winner’s name. Lesbians go to the gym to get fit. Gay men go to the gym to get theirjeans to fit. ¯ Lesbians think of New Year’s Eve as an oppor- ¯ tunity to get reacquainted with steps 10, 11, and 12. see Vegan, page 3 Tulsa Clubs & Restaurants *Concessions, 3340 S. Peoria *Ground Zero, 311 E. 7th *Lola’s, 2630 E 15th *Silver Star Saloon, 1565 Sheridan *Renegades/Rainbow Room, 1649 S. Main *TNT’s, 2114 S. Memorial *Time’n’Time Again, 1515 S. Memorial *Tool Box, 1338 E. 3rd *Wild Nights, 2405 E. Adnfiral Wild Fork, Utica Square, 21st & Utica *Interurban, 717 S. 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Saladin worked several more days until Wallace informed Turner about the situation. Saladin was then suspended for 30 days, although he claims he had complied with Wallace’s directive and The French Hen does not dispute this. During the time of the suspension, he retrieved his liquor license from The French Hen so that he could continue to work at temporary jobs. Also, during this time, Saladin attempted to speak with Turner to address ¯ any misunderstanding. On Oct. 15th, Saladin called to arrange to return to work by the 22rid and was told that Turner had directed her to replace Saladin. Up to this time and afterwards, Turner refused to take his calls. According to Saladin’s documents, when once he succeeded in getting Turner on the phone, Turner stated he had nothing to say and hung up. During this time, several other employees left or were terminated and positions became available, but Saladin was not offered his position back. He filed with the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission (OESC), with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), and sought legal representation. In late Nov, Saladin was informed that he’d been denied uuemployment compensation because Turner claimed that Saladin had quit. To the OESC, Wallace on behalf ofTurner claimed that there trad been repeated customer complaints about Saladin’s conduct ,and that Saladin had been suspended for nffsconduct and insubordination and that Saladin had volun: taril y quit and Saladin had threatened to sue. Wallace and Turner repeated these allegations at a telephone hearing on Dec. 16th with the OESC. On Dec. 17th, Turner called Ed Gaudin at his and Saladin’s home asking questions about Gaudin’ s health and physician and allegedly calling Saladin a liar. Gaudin, who was already seriously ill, appears to have been so upset by the conversation that when Saladin came home, he found Gaudin emotionally devastated and vomiting. In Jan. of 1994, after Saladin had obtained legal representation and the EEOC found sufficient reason to direct Turner to respond to Saladin’s complaint, Turner through his attorneys offered Saladin his job back without conditions. Saladin’s attorneys accuse Turner of making the offer in bad faith in order to limit Turner’s liability for back wages while obviously Turner et al claim good faith. However, Saladin expressed a willingness and desire to return to work from Oct. 15 at least until Turner’s call to Gandin in Dec. Turner did not communicate an offer to restore Saladin’s job until January after Turner had retained legal counsel. Since January of 1994, this case has seen a flurry of legalese documents as attorneys from each side cite cases to bolster their side. A trial date has been set several times but delayed. It is expected to go to trial February. Other Information Late in 1987. after Gaudin tested positive for ttIV antibodies, a fact which Saladin shared with several co-workers at The French Hen, Turner directed that Saladin be suspended without pay until Saladin produced a medical repor~ proving that Saladin was HIV negative. After being tested. Saladiu subnffl ted a report to see ADA. page 8 Photos, JD Jamett, 621-5597 Worship Servide 10:30 am Sheridan Center, Suite H 21st & Sheridan 599-7688 LY.KIRBYCertified Public Accountant Lesbians & Gays face many, special tax situations whether single or as couples. We are proud to serve our communities with sensitive & timely information. 747-5466, POB 14011, Tulsa 74159 Mangione when they met the 2 young men at a local bar, had been beaten. S tern’s condition was not serious however. Police said Bean and Gauthier told them they had attacked Mangione and Stern after one of the men had touched one of the young men while the 4 were taking a drive earlier in the evening. The young men also told officers they belonged to a group called the German Peace Corps, which human rights activists say is a California- based neo-Nazi orgamzation affiliated with the KKK. Several witnesses told authorities that the 2 young men had bragged earlier that they were "going’to get a fag" that night, and later boasted that they had "cut up this fag real bad." Gay men see it as a chance to blow their horns off.. Lesbians truly believe that communes work. Gay men really think they can be RepublicZms. Lesbians turn everyone within hugging range into "family.’" Gay men have a tendency to run around i~i PACs. It is, ~onsidering everything, amazing that we still talk to each other. Fortnnately, we are all smart enongh to have figure out that what is truly unnaturai on tiffs looney-tune plauet is marrying outside your own species. ~ 1996 Shelly Roberts. All rights reserved. Shelly Roberts is a uationally syndicated colun~fist, spe,~er, and author of Roberts’ Rules of Lesbi,’m Living (5 96) Spinsters htk seduction scene xvith a very sensual kiss. The actors deserve credit, and the theater deserves credit for not diluting the homosexual content~ Here is a chance as a co~u~ty forus to snpport a mmustrcana effort w~ch represents us without apology or emb~assment. I was saddened at the passiug of Mike Syn~, former Congressm~ lrom l)i strict Two. I have contributed to and worked on Mike’s beh~f in ~e pasl. tie was a good guy, honest ~d decent, a truc public scrv~ t in ~e very best sense. There is no comping ~e ~u~ities Mike represented with the likes of a Cobum, or I ~gcnt or I~ofe. And I ~z not refemng to political ideolo~es. So for me ’96 is off to an uneven start. But I intend to t~e heart from the bad as well ~ the good. I will t~e heart in tl~ ex~ple of Mike Syn~ ~d not be afrmd to go out ~d fight the good fight. I will t~e he~t in these two unkuown local actors and their associates who ~cn’t ~r~d to tac~e a Bible belt tahoo. Aud I’m going to t~e he~t in the eighteenth ye~ of a loving and sh~ug relationship with my lover compmfion. ~ch gives me a re~ly silly idea. l’d like to he~ from you, the readers, about what gives you he~t, and helps you make your way through the world. Maybe you have so~e key that someone m our commusty ueeds io hear or would m~c them feel less isolated. Send you responses to the editor or E-mail tbcm ~o TulsaNews ~2 aol.com, and hc can l’or~vard them on to me. XXtacn I get a good one 1"11 use it in fl~e cohmm. If yon want thcln to be anonymous, that’s I’iqac. News Briefs News Briefs Recruiting Cops for ’City of Brotherly Love’ PIIILA DELPHIA - The Philadelphia Police Department has begun rccniitmg gay ,and lesbian police officers through public cmpioynieut notices in the city’s t~vo gay newspapers The uew effort is the rcsult of a meeting Police Commissioner Richard Ncal held earlier in December with leaders of the city’s lesbian and gay community. Police Sgt. l:rcd Cottou said the dcpartuaenl made a similar effort m 1989-90 bnt !he department had uo i id’ormarion on how successfill thai recruitment program had been. "l’vc never Imd,’mvonc come up to me and tell m~ their sexual pcrsuas~ou." Cotton said. The dcpm’tmcut doesn’t kccp any data ou the sexual orientation of offleers, hc added Study: The Kids (of Lesbian Moms) Are OK CIlICAGO- A prolonged study of the kids of lesbian morns th,~t tracked the children’s developmcut forsome two decades found that they had no more problems with sexual orientation or other dcvclopmcut~d issues than the kids oflmtcroscxtud parcuts. The study, which was reported in tl~ American ,lournal of Orthopsychiatrv, found one noticeable diffcr0mc between the clfildrcn of Icsbiau morns mad hcteroscxmd parcuts:"th~ offspnng in the lcsbimi f,’unihcs were more uncouflk~rtablc udkiug with other pcoplc about their parents than the kids from the str~fight fanfilic~. Anether signilic~mt di ffcrence bctwccu the two groups was tha! none of the kids from hctcroscxnal fanfilics reported having had any homosexual experience by their mid-20s, wlfilc some 25% of those from lesbian lhmi- News Briefs News .Briefs lies said they had had at least one homosexual relationslfip. Washington State Anti- Gay Measure May Fail SEATTLE - To the relief of rights activists iu the state, Washmgton anti-gay activists concede they probably will not be able to get cuough siguaturcs to put two ballot measures before voters in 1996. Initiative 167 would bar gays and lesbians from adoptiug clfildrcm mid hlitiative 166 would prohibit antibias laws based ou sexual orientation anywhere iu the state. The head of the Citizens ..\.ltimme of \Vaslfiugton conceded shortl\ before Chi’istnms that the group wasn’t going to bc able to get the uceded signatures because the orgmfizatiou had attracted oulv a few huudred members an~J raised only about $5.000 for its siguaturc-gathcring cmnpaign. Cathy Y, lickcls, the head of the state dmpter of the Eagle Forum. ,also told Seattle reporters she didn’t think it was very likely the organization would be abl~ to get thd rcqnircd signatures. Proposed Bill to Aid Partners Measures SAC~\MENTO, C:dif. - C~diforuia Assemblyman \Vallv Kuox (D-West Hc{llywo~xt) wil’l introduce a measure m the stale legislatnre carl\ m 1996 that would attthorizt~ the giant CadifonfiaPublic Emtfloyccs & Rctiremeut System (CAL-PERS) to open its hc~dth iusurancc coverage plans to thc dolncstic partners of muuicipal mid other govcnuncnt agcucy employees the state. Some 80 or so C~dil’orma cities and rcgiomd bomds and commissions carry their employce health ius~rancc thi’ough CAL-PERS. But CAI,- PERS regulations govcmiug the state-operated health mid medi- News Briefs News Briefs News cal insurance plata specifically exclude "conunon law spouses" and "’life partners" as eli~ble employee dependents, preventing the cities, counties and special districts in the CAL-PERS prograna from offering partner benefits to their gay or straight workers even if they want to. Lobbying for Educational Anti-Bias Protections SAN FRANCISCO -The Lavender Youth Recreation & Information Center (LYRIC} started off the New Year with a political bang on Jan. 3 with a caravan of gay, lesbian and bisexual ,voting people tothc state Capitol in Sacrmnento to lobby for proposed anti-discriminatio[~ protections. Tim California Educatiou Code bans discrinfination in the state’s schools mid educational services based ona number of categories, bu! does not include sexual orientation. The lesbigay youth groupspent the first &a.v of the legislature’s new 3ear, Jan. 3, lobbying in support of a measnre introduced by Assemblywoman Sheila Kuehl (DSanta Moifica) that would add sexual orientation to the state education code. So. Dakota Anti- Marriage Battle Again PIERRE, S.D. - South Dakota state Rep. Roger Hunt, whose 1995 le~slation to prohibit samesex marriages in the state failed, has announced plans to introduce the bill again during die current le~slative session. Hunt’s 1995 bill passed overwhehningly in the state’s lower house by a ,’54-13 vote, but became stalled m a cotmnittee in the state Senate where it died. The proposed legislation would make any same-sex marriage’:null and void from the beginning" in the state, and is aimed at making any such marriages that may be legal elsewhere illegal in Soulh Dakota. It would, for example, have the effect of nullifyiug s,’unc-sex nmrriages if Ha,&aii courts v~d idate them as many cxpcci to happeu this year. Political Attacks Against Gays Increasing SAN FRANCISCO A report isstled here by People for the American Way. says attacks alined agaiust the political progress of gays mid lcsbimas in this country increased at ~dl levels. The report, the 3rd of its kiud the organization,has issued, ¯ .counted at least. 180 anti-gay actions m 1995, an increase of 46 such attacks over 1994. The survey counted anti-gay political iuitiatives, legislative measures, executive actions by state governors as well as open at- . tacks by police mid mid public . ~!d. mc..dia figures against gay rights. High. School Gay Group Stirs Controversy SALT LAKE CITY - Utah school mid legal anthoritics, after 2 moaths, have agrced thcre is litflc or nothing that can be -done to preveut a gay- and lcs- ¯biau club being fonncd by a group of studeuts at Salt Lake City’s East High School. A small group of students at the school asked for pennissiou to start the club in October, and their request was passed from the school’s priuciphl to the city’s school superintendent, then up to the state cducatiou office, and finally on to the Utah attorney gcueral’s office. Shortly before Cl~stmas, the attorney geueral’s office notified district officials that both state and federal law prolfibit barring non-curriculum school clubs because of content. But activists with the Gay & 1,csbian Utali 1)cmocrats say the head of the state mali-gay Eagle Forum, GayJe Ruzicka, has already indicated she would immediately begin lobbying the state legislatnrc to keep the club from lbrming. California’s Hate Crimes: 1/5 Are Anti-Gay SACRAMENTO, Calif. - In the firs! of .its kind in California, state Attorney Geueral l)an LI.mgrcl!"s office reix)rts tl!at hate crones m the Golden Stale arc gcucndi y couccutratcd in ci tics - :andnearly one-fifth of them were aimed agaiust gays and lesbians. During the filaal six mouths of 1994, the survey of local law enforcculent agencies found there were 672 bias-based crimes reported in the state. Of these, 487 (72 percent) were based on the race or ethnic origins of the victims, Mille 119 (18 perccut) wcre bccause the victims were lcsbkms or gay men - or were believed to bc by the attackers. Some 6-1- iucidents (orjust m~dcr 10 pcrccut) WCl’C based on the victims" religion. The largest number of reported Irate crimes, 243 of them, were logged in the [x)s Augclcs metropolitan area. The San Frmmisco Bay Area checked in with next largcst couceutratiou, 129 bias-based crimes iu the four-county ,area. Transsexual Identity Bill Proposed in Britain LON1)ON - Among the backbcuch bills being offered in Bri rain’s Ilousc of Connnoiis as private members" legislation is a mcasure that wouldmake it easier for traussexuals in the UK to establish a legal idemity in keeping with their new gender after a sex-change operation. MP Alex Carlilc has proposed a Gcudcr Identity Bill which would allow Miracleglass Neil Ray Owner EXPRESS POOLS & SPAS your pool Ma,, Dr Life (9’18) 743-9994 6310 S. Peoria ~ Tulsa, OK 74136 BROOKSIDE JEWELRY 4649 South Peoria 743-5272 Corner of 48th & Peoria 9:30 - 5, Men. - Fri. Open Saturdays thru holidays! 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Gay Credit Card Can’t Use ’Rainbow’ Name TRENTON, N.J:- A federal court in NewJersey has enjoined promoters of a gay-oriented credit card from using the nanm "Rainbow." U.S District Judge Mary Little Parell barred the Rainbow Card Fom~datiou from using that trade name on the credit card it was pro~noting in the New York-New Jersey area in a suit filed by the Rainbow Foundation Inc., a Middletown, N.J., charity that offers medical assistance and other services to children in the state. The Rainbow Card had contracted with Martina Navratilova to act as spokeswomanfor the Visacredit .card that wouldhave used part of ~ts card charges to benefit gay, AIDS & breast cancer agencies. Gay Teacher Allowed to Stay in Michigan School BYRON CENTER, Mich. - Gerry Crane, a 3 l-year-old high school music teacher who told students he was gay alter they asked about anew wedding band he was wearing, will be ,allowed to keep tfis teaching post. The school board in the town, about 16 miles from Grand Rapids, said however that it wonld keep Crane under scrutiny because of his sexual orientauon. In a forreal statement, the trustees said. "The school board firmly believes that homosexuality violates the doufinant moral stan- ¯ nity. Individuals who espouse ¯ homosexuality do not constitute ¯ proper role models as teachers ¯ for students in this district." ¯ Crane had told his students he ¯ was gay after he and his companion had gotten married dur- ¯ ing acommitmentceremouy and .exchanged wedding bands, causing some of his students to ask about the wedding ring. School Board Condemns .... Homosexuality ¯ NEW HAVEN, Ind.- Homo- - sexual activity is inconsistent ¯ with community values and should be discouragedin the East ¯ Allen County (Iudiana) schools, ¯ according to a resolution adopted by the local school board. Ac- ¯ cording to school, district officials, the resolution only reflects the board’s opinion and isn’~ a ¯ policy statement. But the ¯ resolution’s laaaguag.e, someedu- ¯ caters say, certainly sounds like ¯ an official school policy. The ¯ resolution, wlfich was introduced ¯ in response to a statement earlier [ tiffs year by the National Educa¯ tion Association endorsing teacher training aronnd gay and ¯ l~’sbian student issues and rec- ¯ ognizing a national gay mad les¯ bian lfistory mouth, says in part: "’Homosexuality is contrary to the laws of nat;are, it’s xno~:ally ¯ unacceptable to our conununity mad we should leach our chil- ¯ dren as such." ¯ UK Member of Parliment ¯ Loses ’Gay’ Libel Case ¯ LONDON’ - Tory MP David ¯ Ashby wept as he f~aced the pros- " pect offinanci,-d ruinaftcr losing ¯ a prolongcd libel actiou ag,’uust Londou’s Sunday Times wlfich ." had reported that he is homo- ¯ scxnal. Thc jury deliberated 5 ¯ hours belbrc rc[unfing its ver- ¯ dict in favor of the Tlmes in the Northwest Leicestershire since 1983 in the ruling conservative ~ party, now faces the prospect of ~ : having to pay all legal costs that are estimated at about $800,000. Ashby; 55, had sued the Times : overanarticlein the paperwhich said he had shared a bed with a ¯ man during a holiday in Gee in ." 1993, that he had misled his wife ¯ and constituents abouthis sexual ¯ orientation, and that he had lied :..about. h.awn,g a relat~oaship with a32-year-old Irish physician, Dr. Ciar~i Kilduff. The ~iewspaper admitted during the libel trial that its report had contained at least one factual error, but mainrained the accuracy of its article, wlfich it maintained was justified to lfiglflight what it cousiders Ashby’s hypocrisy in advocating heterosexual f~nilv values while leading what the’papcr called a "double life." Both Ashby’s wife and his sister testified against the Tory MP duriug the 4-week trial. It is likely that Ashby may face bm"akruptc’y and the loss of his seat in the House of Conunons as a result. Gay Marine to Fight Discharge DAVENPORT. Iowa - Corporal Kevin Blaesing says he will fight efforts by the .MarZiue Corps to discharge him because hc is gay. Blaesing, who has bccn umned "’Marine of the Month" mad"M,-mne of the Qtuarter.’" was denied pernfission to reeniist iu 1993 because of remarks he lind made about homosexuality to a USMC psychologist. Bu! earl\ in 1995 hejoined a Marine Corp’s Reserve umt in South Carolina without auy difficulties m~d later spoke at a gay pride even! there. Now thc Mariucs have bcgun discharge proceedings against lmn mad Blaeslug says he will fight the discharge "~1 the way Two Lutheran Churches Expelled. SAN FRANCISCO-St. Francis Lutheran Church and the First United Lutheran Church here officially became ex-members of the 5.3-million member Evangelical Lutheran Church of America at the end of 1995 for ordaining 2 lesbians and a gay man as ministers in defiance of the national church’s prohibi- ’tiofis. The 2 churches were suspended by the ELCA in 1990 and given until the end of 1995 to rescind the ordinations of the Revs. Ruth Frost, Phyllis Zillhart and JeffJohnson, or be officially expelled from the national church group. A spokesperson forSt. Francis Lutheran Church said not one member of the congregation had left since the controversy started more than 5 .,,’ears ago. But ironi- c¯ally one St. Francis Lutheran member who attended his last service at the church (at least officially) on Sunday, Dec. 31, was Bishop Robert Mattheis, the presiding bishop of EIX2A’s Sierra Pacific Synod of some 220 con~egations in Northern Califontia and Nevada. A long-time member of St. Francis, Bishop Mattheis now must officially leave the church’s con~egatio~: Calififornia City OKs Partners Registry PALO ALTO, Calif. - OutNow, the San Jose, Calif., gay newspaper, reports that Pale Alto’s city council has approved by a 6-] vote a domestic partners registration. The re~stranon carries no direct benefits and requires a fee to the city clerk’s office. The only vote agmnst the proposM crone from Dick Rosenbamn. who objected that the partuers" registry ,also allowed oppositesaid he believed the partncrs" registranon should be .just for gays and lesbians. Marriage Commission Issues Final Report IIONOI.UIJ.~- A llawali statc comnfissiou has approved its finN report of rccoum~cudations on a 5-2 vote. calling on the legislature to a~cpt the rcalil v of Sallle-SeX lnarriag courts. Few acnvists believe the legislature will t;~c the advice of the commissiou,appointcd b~ Gov. Bcnjmnin Cayctano, b~t the report’s rccounncndations add flu ther fuel to the legM bat ~ound the case. The legislature l~t ye~ adopted a law prohibitlng stone-sex m~agc, although =t rcm~us unclc~ whether thai law itself~m bc considered coustitut~ omd. Chairman Thomas (;ill, former mcmbcr of Cougrcss and out-tune lieut, govcruor, said the state had f~lcd to prove ~c in courl and had relied the legislature to block tauntsex m~agcs. "q’hc opposluOU ~ft.come up with a compelling state lntcFcsI other th~ul I ~x’i~cus 18," he said, rcfcmug to an Old Tcsumacnt vcrsc that says. ""l’hou shalt not lic with mankind as with womankind "" Sparks Fly in O.S. 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Cytomegalovims (CMV) retinitis hits up to 40% of all people with AIDS and the Chiron Corp. "Vitrasert’" implant would deliver the medicine ganciclovir in time-released doses directly in the eye after being \mplanted, making it much more effective. the FD A advisory panel said. The full FDA must now decide whether to accept the panel’s recommendation or not. USC to House AIDS Archives LOS ANGELES - The University of Southern California will become one of the first sites in the country with an archive documenting the earl) years of the battle against AIDS. Los Angeles city officials are granting the university a total of $50,000 for the project alor~g with thousands of original works com~ected with the earliest veers of the epidemic. The AIDS archi~:e will be housed in~,the university library’s special collections and will include "city documents, materials from local actiViSt groups, and papers from Drs. Michael Gottlieb and Joel Weismal who published the first cases of what later came to be known as AIDS. 30% of India’s Blood Infected NEW DELHI - According to a stud)’ by India’s National AIDS Control Organization, nearly 30% of the blood provided by the country’s blood banks is tainted with infectious diseases, including HIV, malaria, hepatitis and others. The government agency responsible for the national effort to fight the epidemic in India said tinrdiable screening procedures risk exposing patients receiving blood and blood products to one or the other illnesses. The Indian Red Cross Society said that part of the problem stems from chronic shortages of blood in the country with the result that commercial blood banks often rely on poorer professional donors 9iho sui~pl~ement their incomes by giving blood. Such paid donors, the society says, are often in higher-risk groups for various infectious diseases. The National AIDS Control Organization now estimates that in less than 5 years some 5 million Indians will be infected with HI\" with 1 million fullblown cases of AIDS in the country. KS Linked Virus Found in Semen of HIV+ Gay Men LONDON" - According to a report in the British medical journal Lancet, researchers with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control have found a virus strongly associated with Kaposi’s sarcoma in the semen of large numbers of gay men ~vith HI\’, but not in many HIV-positive heterosexual men. The scientists said that 64% of the infected gay men also had the Kaposi’s Sarcoma Associated Herpesvirus (KSHV) in semen samples: of the non-gay men examined, less than 24% were infected with KSHV. The research- " ers said their findings explain why a disproportionate number of gay men may contract the cancer ,and suggests that KSHV may be sexually transmitted~ The CDC scientists say further research is called for to try to detemfine if KSHV is latent and then triggered by an HIV infection. Milder Strain of Virus Inhibits HIV NEWYORK-According to a report in the Journal of Molecular Medicine; researchers at the Mount Sinai Medical Centerhave identified aless vinflent strain of HIV that appears to slow down reproduction of the more connnon and damaging s train of the virus. The researchers speculated that the weaker HIV-2 may interfere with the more virulent HIV-I straila at-the molecular le~el, blocking the virus’ ability to reproducel While the finding could l]old promise in fighting off HIV-1 in infected individuals, scientists warned that there is still little’known about the detailed interaction between the 2 strains. High HIV Levels Infect Newborns WASHINGTON’, D.C. - According to a study published in the Proceedings ofthe NationalAcademy ofSciences,New York State health department researchers report that fairly high levels of HIV in the blood ofwomen who are pregnant is requi red before the virus can be passed along to their newborns. The scientists found that women with levels of HIV in their bloodstreams at about 50,000 viruses per milliliter of blood had a 75% or ~eater likelihood of passing the vii’us onto their infants. At lower leVds, the chances of the womentransmitting the virus to their newborns was significantly lower, the researchers said. The scientists said the finding helps explain why some HIV-positive women~ve birth to infected infants, while other infected mothers do not. AIDS Drug 3TC Also Appears Effective Against Hepatitis B BOSTON - Two preliminary tests of a newly approved AIDS drug, 3TC (also kamwn as lamivudine or Epivir), published in the New England Journal of Medicine indicate the medicine also seems, to suppress HBV, the hepatitis B virus, in chronic eases. One study, led by Dr. Jules Dienstag of Massachusetts General Hospital, found that after a 12-week course of 3TC, about 20% of chronically infected hepatitis B patients showed no traces of the HBV. Interferon is the only currently approved medication to combat chronic h.epatitis B and has been shown to effective in about a third of those given the drug. But interferon must be taken for a fairly long period ot time and has a nmnber of very unpleasan t side effects, which is not apparently the ease with 3TC. Further studies will now be undertaken to determine long-term effects of the drug in combating hepatitis B, possibly in combination with other drugs. Status of AIDS Patient Given Baboon Marrow Transplant SAN FRANCISCO-JeffGetty, the AIDS patient who was given baboon bone marrow in December in an effort to rebuildhis failing immune system, experienced some side effects as a result of the chemotherapy and radiation treatanent he underwent in conjunction with the marrow transplant. But Getty’s physician, Dr. Steven Deeks, said the reactions where fairly minor and not a result of the bone marrow injections. Getty’s physicians had said the bone marrow transplant might either bolster the man’s rapidly failing immune see Health Briefs, page 8 Free & Anonymous Finger Stick Method By & for, but not exclusive to the Lesbian, Gay, & Bisexual Communities. Monday & Thursday evenings: 7-8:30 pm for testing, 7-9 pm for results¯ Daytime testing, Mon-Thurs by appointment. TOHR Tulsa Oklahomans for-Human Rights 742-2927 4158 South Harvard, Suite E-2 2 doors east of the HIV Resource Consortium Look for our banner on testing nights. 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Home Office Dallas, Texas 800-559-4790 Kelly Kirby Oklahoma Representative POB 14011 Tulsa, OK 74159-1011 918-747-3320 continuedfrom page 6 system, or "kill him. A similar procedure with an AIDS patient at the University of Pittsbnrgh in 1993 failed, but doctors flare refined the procedure as a result and are using a specially processed part of the baboon bone marrow to improve Gettv’s : HIV at Chinese Universities ¯" BEIJING - Newspapers in China have ~ reported that during "’spot checks" at urn- ¯ versities, Chinese health officials fotmd ~ 10 HIV infected students at 2 colleges in : the capital city. Health officials in the ¯ country say getting AIDS information and e&~cat~on programs to the cotmtrv’s : schools is "extremely urgent" and esti-- ." mate that morethan 60% of those infected ¯ with HIV in the country are under the age ." of 29 years. AZT Helps Cut Risks in chances. Accidental Needle Jabs "t’~o r~ ph~ ¯ .,,, - ¯ .......C.-based ....."s~o~,s Comrmttee :. \.V¯¢SHIN- GTO-N,-,C...ooperatingwith Britfor Responsible Med]cifie,’lio~ .ever, has tsh and Frenc"h othoa" ls , the l_ -S - C~enters" filed a formal complaint with the federal for Disease Control and Prevention re~. g0venunent over the experimental bone marrow procedure. The public interest group charged that such cross-species marrow injections endanger the public health by risking the spread of dangerous baboon infections. Susan Getty of \Vatcrford, Conn., the mother 61"the ailing man who was with him at the hospital during the procednre, said people with advanced AIDS have little to lose ~n undergoing such medi"cal gambles. %\emttst take greater risks." she said. "It is time to stop tiffs horrible, horrible disease." AIDS Awareness in France I~OSTON-- According to the U.S. journal Nature, a snrvcv of what they think about l llVand ..\ID~ suggests th~ Frei~:h ,are continuing to adjtrst their sexual behaviors because of the ~pidemic. The report says that condoms arc increasiugly used, particuhtrlv anion,, those who are single mid under ihe age ~f’30: more people are having fewer casual sexual parmers: ,’rod the nnmbcr of peat)It who regularly get tested for I IIV fiffccfion continues to ~ow. ports that atimited study of 31 health care workers accidentally jabbed with hypodermic needles at work had much lower risk of HIV infection if given AZT. The CDC reports indicated the health care workers" risk of refection was nearly 80% lower from taking the drag shortly after the needle-stick accident than workers who were not given AZT. U.S. Blood Supply Even Safer BOSTON" - According to a govenunent stud) published in the New EnglandJourhal of)ledicme, only an infinitesimally small mnount of blo~d do~mted tbr transfusions in the U.S. is infected with HIP. The L.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention study estimated that no more th,’m 27 pints out of the total 12 nffllion pints donated each year are tainted. Because blood usedin transfusions is pooled from several donors, bowever, health officials said the chances of receiving con- Uumnated blood are between 1 in 83.000 m~d 1 in 122.000. To reduce these odds even further, the Food & Drng Adnmlis- FI_~ELITY.Hq/V~E HE-aLTH C~-RE; INC. Tulsa Office 486-1174 800-999-3442 We provide comprehensive home health services 24 hourslday, seven days/week. 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AIDS Mortality Among Prisoners CHICAGO - Writing in the American Journal of Public Health, Adansi Amankwaa with the Florida prisons department says that a review of mortality data from 1987-92 in the state’s prisons indicates that AIDS was the main cause of imnate deaths during the~ 5’ year period~ accounting for more thau 50% ofall prison deaths in 1992. It indicated that deaths from the disease were increasing compared with other causes in prisons. Turner ,and was permitted to return to work. In a statement given to the EEOC in Aug. 1995, Ttmier testified that he was unsure if he would serve a customerwhom he kiiew to have AIDS. According to court docmnents,"he [Turner] is unaware about the trausnfission possibilities of the HIV virtts through casual contact in a food establishment and states that for all he kiiows it c,’m be mmsnfftted though perspiration falling into food. 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Church of Greater Tulsa Worship Service, 10:45ran 1623 N. Maplewood Info: 838-1715 Bisexual/Lesbian/Gay Alliance - Univ. of Tulsa 6:30 pm at CanterbmT 5th & Evanston, 583-9780 MONDAYS H]V Testing TOHR Clinic ¯ Free & anonymous testing using fingerstick method. ¯ No appointment required. : Walk in testing: 7-8:30 pm Results hours: 7-9 pm Info: 742-2927 TUESDAYS HIV+ Support Group HIV Resource Consortium 1:30 pm 4154 S. Harvard, Ste. H-I Info: Wanda @ 749-4194 Shanti-Tulsa, Inc. HIV/AIDS Support Group WEDNESDAYS Authority OfThe Believer Bible Study, 7 pm MCC of Greater Tulsa 1623 N. Maplewood lnfo: 838-1715 Bless The Lord At All Times Christian Center THURSDAYS 16-Step Empowerment Group For Women Community of Hope 1703 E. 2nd, Info: 585-1800 Co-Dependency Support Group 7:30, Family of Faith MCC i_Jambda Bo~vling League Shdridan LaSnes 8:45 pm 3121 S. Sheridan PFLAG Family AIDS Support Group 2nd Monday of month, 6:30 pin 4154 S. Harvard Info: 749-4901 OTHER GROUPS Tool Box Technicians, Leather org., hffo cio The Tool Box: 584-1308 T.U.L.S.A. Tulsa Uniform: & Leather Seekers Assoc. " Info: 838-1222 " The Banned, OK Gay Band Practice weekly in OKC ¯ Info: 838-2121 ,"HIViAI’DS Support Group : 7 pm, call for location: : 749:7898 ¯ Community of Hope : Grief Group, 6 pm : 1703 E. 2nd, 585-1800 ¯ :.: ~,, ~ ~ . ~o. .... ¯ ~, Womens Grmef-~roup siaonsored by Community of Hope 6pm, Butler/Stumpff Funeral Home 2103 E. 3rd St. Info: 585-1800 .........& ..... Prayer&Bible Study 5451rES. Mingo, 622-1441 .....,Friends &.Family :: 7~:.30 pm 2627-B East 1 lth " " ~ Call 583-7815 for info. HIV Testing Family Of Faith MCC Praise & Prayer 6:30 pm Choir Practice 7:30 pm 5451-E South Mingo. Call 622-1441 for info. ¯ ¯ ’Community of Hope (United Methodist) ¯ Service for Peace, 6:30 pm ¯ Bible Stud,,,’, 7 pm 1703 E. 2nd, 585-1800 TNAAPP ¯ Tulsa Native American AIDS Prevention Project ¯ Support group ¯ for Gay & Bi Native ¯ American Men, 6 pm at Conununitv of Hope ¯ 1703 E. 2nd ¯ 582-7225 or 584-4983 TOHR Clinic Walk in testing: 7 - 8:30 pm Results hours: 7 - 9 pm Info: 742-2927 Prayer Time MCC - Greater Tulsa, 7 pm 1623 N. Maplewood Info: 838= 1715 Tulsa Family Chorale Wee"kly practice, 9:30 pm Lola’s 2630 E. 15th PFLAG Family AIDS Support Group 1st & 3rd Thursdays 41 54 S. Harvard, 749-’4901 Alternatives Weekly socials, 7 pm See below for schedule. Info: 646-5503 SATURDAYS St. Jerome’s Ecumenical Catholic Church ,Mass, 6 pm Garden (Thapcl 3841 S. Peoria Info: Father Rick at 742-7122 Narcotics Anonymous Meets weekly at 11 pm Confidential ~upport for recovering addicts. Co~unmnity of I lope 1703 E. 2nd. lnfo: 585- I NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt Sewing Bees 3rd Sat of each month hffo: 748-3111 OTHER GROUPS Gay & Lesbian Sttulent Association TJC Southeast Canq)us, Info: 631-7632 SWAN-Single Women’s Activity Network Call 832-2121 TOHR Helpline Daily 8= 10 pm For info. ~r to vohmtcer: 743-GAYS SUNDAY, JANUARY 18 Community ofHope Orientation 2 pro, 1703 E. 2nd Info: 585-1800 SUNDAY, JANUARY 21 Faith & Struggle Dialogue Group Community of Hope United Methodist 4:30 pm, 1703 E. 2nd (ongoing group) Info: 585-1800 THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, Community ofHope Orientation 6:30 pm, 1703 E. 2nd Info: 585-1800 SUNDAY, JANUARY 28 Faith & Struggle Dialogue Grm~ Community of Hope United Methodist 4:30 pm, 1703 E. 2nd (ongoing ~oup) Info: 585-1-800 SUNDAY, JANUARY 28 ,Miss Gay Oklahoma USofA, 9 pm Concess|ons, 33rd& Peoria Pageant .. Info: 744-0896 or 838-3701 TUESDAY, JANUARY ,30. Rainbow Business Gui/d, 7 pm Uno Pizzeria,.61st & Memorial Dinner Meeting Info: 665-5174 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31 Tulsa Women’s Supper Club, 6:30 pin Full Moon Care, 1525 East 15th Info: 584-2978 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1 Alternatives. Informational meeting for reactivated social orgamzauon for men and women, also, video of comedian Suzmme Westenhoefer, 7pm Holiday Inn Express, 51st & Harvard, Info: 646-5503 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6 TMsa Oklahomansfor Human Rights Local Police Officers Speak Out, 7 pm Alan Chapman Activity Center University of Tulsa , 5th St. west of Harvard, Info: 743-4297 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY-8 Alternatives, Bowling at Riverlanes, 7pm 8711S. Lewis .. ~ Info: 646-5503 SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 11 Community ofHope Orientation 2 p!n, 1703 E. 2nd hffo::585~ 1800 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15 .Alt~r.natives, Movie Night; 7pm Fox 4 Cinema, 51st & Harvard Info: 646-5503 SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16 Fandly ofFaith MCC Reclaim & Recovery Workshop: Forgiveness, 9 am - 3 pm 5451-E S. Mingo, hffo: 622-1441 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY22 Alternatives, Dinner, 7pro Golden Corral, 71st & Mingo hlfo: 646-5503 Out & About With JD! More sequins, but that’s not all that this month’s featured establishinent has to offer. Lola’s is "’truly a fanfilv bar" says Bill (Lola) McCall of this wonderful pla~e Brian & tJttt ofLola’s thht ~ves a lot to the community. One example they’ve supported Mr. Oklahoma Leather~ Mr. Tulsa Leather and 1st alternate to Mr, Oil Capital. Also, Lola’s pro: rides ahome forTULSA FAMILY CHOIL~ LE, which is opento any Gay, Lesbian ¯ or Gay-.friendly persons and m~ets Thurs. at 9:30:~ Bill & Brian are the owners of this cozy establishinent that represents a little bit of Valentine’s Day. Bill & Brian have been to,,tethet for 15 (!) vear~ which they plan to celebrate with a ~umiversarv showand party .on FebruaD’ 16th. Tffey ,opened Lola’s 2years ago. "’At Lola’s you can find whatever liking may be: entertain: ment, games (pool & darts), good friends or jnst a good time." Oh by the way, the following are happenin~ s at Lola’s for the coming month: Feb. 16th, Bill & Brians’s Anniversary show & party; Feb. 20th, Birthday celebration for Desdny Ray, Miss Upper Cherry Street, and Feb. 24th, 1st Annual see JD, page 11 0 748-5374 L Spring Art Classes Start February 17 Family Workshops YPoreusncgheoroalrt ~ ~Adult Studios Action Studios Spring Break Studios March 25-29 not, however, mandate procreative possibility as a requirement for heterosexual marriage certificates, a move that would seem consistant with his stated rationale. Knight goes on to forecast economic doom and collapse if California "’were forced" to recognize the relationships of same-gender couples,including taking on the same responsibilities for each other thathetero-couples expect. However, economic forecasts for Hawaii project that same-sex marriages could add $4 billion. to Hawaii’ s revenues over the next 5 years. Some observers think that Knight" s bill, if enacted, will likely cost California taxpayers millions in legal fees as gay and lesbian citizens challenge the. law. Current law recognizes all mamages performed throughout the United States. The bill would prohibit recogmtion of legal marriages of same-sex couples, regardless of where they are performed. sexual activities, the citizen suggested that he mad the officer go to a private location for consensual sex. After the citizen made the offer, he was arrested for solicitation under ma OKC ordinance. The ACLU defense of the citizen rests on two concerns. First is the 1 st Amendment (free speech) issue. The OKC ordinance appears to make it illegal to make any offer of consenstml sex in OKC. ACLU spokesperson, Michael Canffield noted that this would make offers betweeu heterosexuals, say in a drinking establishmeut, illegal al~o but he/also noted that the OKC police do not appear to be assigning undercover cops to heterosexual bars. The other basis for challenging the arrest is a 1986 decision by the Criminal Court that ruled that the Oklahoma "sodomy" law which makes oral or anal sex a felony crime was unconstitutional. The decision held that a constitutional right to privacy prevented the state or cities from forbidding private, consensual sex acts between adults. The law makes no distinction between heterosexual or homosexual oral or anal sex. However, the ’86 case involved heterosexuals and the court specified that it was not addressing whether homosexual citizens enjoyed the same right to privacy as heterosexual ones. If homosexual citizens have the same right to privacy and the solicited activities are not themselves illegal, then the OKC ordinance can hardly be constitutional. This is, if it" s not illegal to have sex, then it can hardly be illegal to talk about it. In a 3-1 decision, the Court of Criminal Appeals chose not to address whether the state can constitutio~mlly prohibit same gender sex but said this case was only about public solicitations mad rtfled that OKC could prohibit such solicitations. The appeal, according to Hendricksen, who is ACLU-OK president, will ask the US Supreme Court to compel the OK Court of Criminal Appeals to decide if the right to privacy that ~t established for heterosexual citizens ~s also available for homosextml citizens. "’The court [appeals] ducked this issue and we are going to see if we can force them to m~swer tiffs question.’" To help the ACI.U-OK fight tiffs case. donations may be made to 600 NW 23rd St. OKC 731(36. be the actions of a neighborhood adolescent but that the theft of their family’s peace of mind is no little thing. The Harrison Kirbys are considering their options to protect themselves and their children from futher harm. Kirby did add that they have been comforted by expression of support from friends around the US with whom they correspond via e-mail. statements by Radical Right leaders, such as CBN’s Pat Robertson and Sen. Jesse Helms. Since the threat of lawsuits by CBN, no television station in any of the target cities of Washington, Tulsa, Houston or Atlanta will air the commercials. Mitzi Henderson, president of PFLa,G’s board of directors, stated that PFLAG is conunitted to "’get our message on the air and compel CBN to stop its harassment and censorship attempts". Locally, the Tulsa chapter of PFLAG is presenting a free film series at All Soul’s U~titarian Church at 7pm, Jan. 23 & 30, mad Feb. 6 & 13. The films, Straight From The Heart. On Being Gay, Queer Son, and Always .\.lb~ Kid, feature Lesbians and Gay men and parents of Lesbians and Gay men dealing with issues from fanfilies to religion to AIDS. PFLAG Tulsa also is continuing a campaign for a siguature advertisement to run in The Tulsa World. The ad "calls for Tulsans to stand against tred, hate speech mad violence" against individtmls based on their sexual orientation mad "’to recoguize the strong link between hate speech, teen suicide and violent physical attacks..." Tulsa Family News reported correctly last month that The Tulsa Worm is on record as having a policy banning the use of the words, Gay or Lesbian in advertising. However, contrary to our report, The World has not changed its policy to allow an exception. According to Bill Hinkle, PFLAG Tulsa co-chair, PFLAG cannot even spell out its name but may be forced to use a circumlocution like, "Parents and Friends of Persons of Differing Sexual Orientation.’" The ad will likely, run later in January. dren they were trying to place. Rep. Benson stated to TFN that he was motivated by the NEA’s resolution to reaffirm what he views as Oklahoma’s "traditional. family values". He said the reason for a resolution instead of a bill was that since a resolution lacks the power of law, the legislators could express their feelings without infringing any constitutional rights which such a law would probably do. Benson claims that he does not want to condeum Lesbians and Gay men for their "choice of lifestyle" & that he expected to get wide support OKC’s Oklahoma Gay & Lesbian Political Caucus has begun a postcard campaign directed at Rep. Benson. In Tulsa, according to one source, PFLAG’s Nancy McDonald is putting together a group of parents mad Tulsa area legislators to meet with Benson. Other activists have begun to ph’m a Family Day at the Capitol, a state-wide lobb3:ing day by Lesbian, Gay and Bi activists, clergy mad business people. For i~ffo, call Green Country Pride at 838-2121 or 583-1248. Timothy W. Daniel Attorney at Law Know Your Rights! Estate Planning, Adoptions, Personal Injury, Criminal :Law, Bankruptcy & Workers Compensation 1-800-742-9468 or.918-352-9504 128 East Broadway, Drumright, Oklahoma Weekend and evening appointments are available. Speakers &performers include comedian Suzanne Westenhoefer, Col. Grethe Cammermeyer & her partner, Diane Divelbass, & Candace Gingrich April 7 - 14, Olivia’s Womens’ Cruises Call 341.6866 International Tours for more information. Need a gift idea? Gift certificates are availablefor air travel, cruises & many other travel needs. IGTA member. People don’t plan to fail, they fail to plan. Leanne Gross Retirement planning Life, health & income insurance, & investment placing. 744-0102 Mention this ad to receive free initial consultation. by Phil Boler-Schmidt Winter is a special time in Eureka Springs. With the falling of the Autumn leaves comes a respite from the thundering hoardes, and locals get a chance to renew old acquamtmlces, catch up on family time, and spend time with cherished friends. Each December, we have the Women’s Party. 1995 saw the 25th annual event, and it was quite a sight to behold. My own estimate was about 500 women in attendance. Each brings some type of finger food and a drink to share. There is music and dancing, talk and Sharing. A grand time is had by all. This year was no exception. And, as usual, a few of the guys showed up, respectfully of course, and sang Christmas carols to the assembled masses at the ballroom high atop the Basin Park Hotel. Now that Christmas ~s over, the really big events are potluck dinners. It is the Ozark way of getting to "know people, fo~: the first time, or to renew old friendships. Us queer folk do the potlucks in style. This is mv2nd Winter in Eureka, and I’m looking for~vard with anticipation to the Season of the Potlucks. This is the time to get to lmow those people you have always ~vanted to know but were too bits5 working to spend any time with. As man5 of you already kimw. Eureka Springs is a wedding haven. And, it is also a wonderful spot for holy unions. Everything imaginable is possible, from an extravaganza to a small ceremony just for the two of you. And what better time than this Winter? Resources are available for holy unions at 253-2401. Events upcoming in Eureka this Winter include Jacob Adler, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arkansas giving a talk at MCC of the Living Spring oftjanuary, 21 st at 4 PM The trpi~ will be Jewish Influence on Jesus’ Teachings. Joya Pope will be in town on February 3rd, also speaking at MCC of the Living Spring at 7 PM. Joya Pope is author of The WorMAccording to Michael and Upcoming Changes: Prophecy and Pragmatism for the Late Nineties. Admission is S 12.50 at the door, and she also has private channeling sessions available. Winter is the time we sit back and take stock, read all the good books we didn’t have time to get to during the rush of tourists, begin a new study program, and ¯ get read~ for theseason wlfich is -~’" only a c~uple of months away. For those of you who are Eureka locals, you know exactly ~vhat I ,’un talking about. Those of you who ,are from out of to~vn will just riced to visit in order to see why wc call this place Paradise. For more information about Eureka Springs available on the World Wide Web, point your browsers to: http: www.pimps.com~ eureka.html. See you in Eureka! ADA cont’dfromp. 8 He compares AIDS and HIV to leprosy....He states that hi s attitude regarding HIV and AIDS has remained unchanged s~nce 1987 when he suspended the plaintiff [Saladin] because he suspected he was HIV positive. In the same manner that he directed plaintiff not to discuss-the AIDS and HIV status of ¯ plaintiff’s partner in casual conversation with customers he states that he would consider asking a white waitress to not discuss or disclosed (sic) that fact that her spouse was black in casual conversation." Steve Norick, one of Paul Saladin’s attorneys, claims the Americans with 13isabilities Act was violated in at least two major ways. The ADA provide relief from discrimination based on acttmlly being handicapped but also to those who may not be handicapped but who are perceived as being handicapped. And it also provides protection to those ~vho are associated with those wh6 are handicapped. Thus far the court has seen sufficient merit in Saladiu et al’s case not to accept the efforts of Tumer’s attornevs to dismiss the case though the court has not seen fit to render judgment to Saladin yet either. Now it will be up tojudge &jury to findjustice. JD cont’dfromp. 9 Miss Rivercity America Pageant. If you missed Concessions celebration of their first anmversary, you should just hang your headin shame! Kirk &Terry and their staffand patrons had a great time and look forward to a grca~ year two. Also the) say, don’t miss Miss Gay Oklalloma t "Sofa co/fling on Jan. 28th and even more to come in March - mark your calendars. I hope that tiffs month and ucxt you find, or cherish more. that someone who brings you joy! BEAVER DAM STORE Fishing Headquarters for N.W. Arkansas Fly Tying * Fly Fishing * Equipment & Classes Open Year ~Round TROUTS - ~R - US Located 1/2 mile N. of Beaver Dam on Hwy 187 Eureka Springs, AR * 501-253-6154 Grocerles * Gas * Ice * Beer * Licenses * Lodging COTTAGE Your lnnReepe~. Lamont Richie and Steve Roberson A Bed dt Breal~asl Inn Individual Cottages - Jacuzzi for Two Eureka Springs, Arkansas 72632 501/253-8659 O000000000000000000.O. ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ o ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ A Friendly Place to Stay-. KING’S HI-WAY INN 96 Kings Highway, Hwy. 62 W Eureka Springs, AR 72632 (501) 253-7311 1-800-231-1442 Jerry A. Wilson. owner ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ O ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ MCC of the Living Spring ,..a community of friends... Rev. Kermie Wohlenhaus Pastor We welcome you to attend! Services held Sunday evenings at 6 PSI 17 Elk Street (at the Unitarian Church) Eureka Springs, AR 72632 501-253-9337 <MCCltmg Itealty, Inc. O] "The Land SpedaEsts" 501’253-9682 (days) OR 501-253-8969 (evenings) Offerings include: Bed & Breakfast in~; Victorian Homes, Hotels/Motels, Coi~mercial Properties/Businesses, Quiet Country Estates,-& much more. McClung Realty, Inr; has catered to the diverse G/L/B/TG community in Eureka Springsfor over 20 years. Call or write for a listing brochure. Or better yet, stop in, and we’ll show you around. We specialize in creative fin,ancing. EUREKA SPRINGS "Jim & Brent have opened the ultimate intimate local eatery. A special, eclectic dining experience..." Stop by our house for a taste of local flavor. Dine outside on the patio & porch or in our three beautiful dining rooms. Fine food at an affordable price. Green & Yellow Night FAMILY NIGHT Private Dinner Party, lstThurs, of EachJVIonth @m - Midnight, Dine, Drink ~ Relax Among Friends Featuring Jim & Gwendolyn’s Select Dinner Entrees & Brent’s Superb Desserts "With Family’ In Mind" Gay-owned, Operated & Rainbow Proud 20% of all proceeds will go to the support of family causes by Barry Hensley, Tulsa City-County Library For information regarding HIV/AIDS topics, our Library is an excellent resource. There are books, videos, audio cassettes, government documents and periodical articles full of updated information. Many branch libraries have books and other materials, although the Central Library, at 4th and Denver in downtown Tulsa, has more detailed information. Here are some of the items available through Central Library departments: BUSINESS ANDTECHNOLOGY, 4th floor, phone: 596-7988 (Dewey area 616.9792) AIDS and HIV in Perspective (by Barry Schoub) Immune Power: The Comprehensive Healing Pro~am for HIV (b.v Jolm Kaiser) Dictionary of AIDS Related Terminology (by Jeffrey Huber) Rethinking AIDS (by Robert Root-Bernstein) Everything You Need to Know When a Parent Has AIDS (by Barbara Drainlin) AIDS and the Law of Workplace Discrimination (by Jeffrey Mello) (34417301) READERS SERVICES, 2nd floor, phone: 596-7966 (Dewey area 362.1969) People, Sex, HIV and AIDS (by Pierre Andre) Everything You Need to Know About Being HIV Positive (by Amy Shire) I’ll Not Go Quietly (by Mary Fisher) We Are All Living With AIDS (by Earl Pike) Women’s HIV Sourcebook (by Patricia Klosser) Search for an AIDS Vaccine (by Christine Grady) (174.2 G) Recovering From the Loss of a Loved One to AIDS (by K. Dounelly) (155.937) Diary of a Lost Boy (by Harry Kondoleon) (fiction) Labour of Love (by Doug Wilson) (fiction) Such Times (by Christopher Coe) (fiction) Promise of Rest (by Reynolds Price) (fiction) CHILDREN’S, 2nd floor, phone: 596-7971 Magic Johnson (by Martin Schwabacher) AIDS: How it \Vorks in the.~odv (by Lorna Greenberg) Daddy and Me (by Jeanne M6ut~)uss’amy-Ashe) David ttas AIDS (by Doris Sanford) Know About AIDS (by Margaret Hyde) MEDIA CENTER, 1 st floor, phone: 596-7933 Living Proof: HIV and the Pursuit of Happiness (video) Heart of the Matter (video, HIV+ women) HI\" Test: Who Should Take It? What Does it Show? (video) AIDS: \Xqay We Won’t Look (audio cassette) Let’s Talk: C. Everett Koop (audio cassette) AIDS Quilt Songbook (compact disc) There are also various Government Documents available in both the Reference Department and the Business and Technology Department. Please call the Central Library at 596-7977 or any branch library for more information. Sunday Services 11:00 am ¯ Wednesday Services 6:30 pm, 7:30 pm Choir Practice ¯ Thurs. 7:30 pm Codependency Support Group I To do justice, love mercy & to walk hurnbly with "our God... Micah 6:8 5451-E South Mingo Tulsa, OK 74146 . (918) 622-1441 Open Arms Open Minds Open Hearts Saint Aidan’s 4045 No. Cincinnati. 425-7882 Saint John’s 4200 So. Atlanta PI.. 742-7381 Trinity 501 SO. Cincinnali. 582-4128 The Episcopal Church Welcomes You trial here before being returned to Oregon. Acremant, 27, was taken to flae San Joaquin County Jail for extradition to Oregon ou murder charges in die brntal slayings of Rox,’ume Ellis and Michelle Abdill. Stockton police say they were tipped off by an anonymou~ -caller early on the monli]~g ofDec. 13, who gave them the license number of a rented van Acremant was driving. Alter several hours of patrolling area motels, police say they located the van at a Motel 6 and discovered that Acremant had registered the night before tmder his own name. According to a Stockton police spokesperson, Acremant was not armed when he was arrested, and he surrendered to authorities without incident. Ellis mid Abdill, who operated a property management business together and were domestic partners, were-last seen on Dec. 4. Their bodies, bound, gagged and blindfolded, were discovered three days later in the back of their parked pickup truck. According to Medford authorities, die two women had each been shot twice in the head in what some have described as an "executton-style slaying." Police are continuing to refuse to talk abom the details of the case but did say they had no evidence that Acremant knew that the two women were lesbians. Although Acremant’ s father said his son had told him he had killed the two women in a robbery, police say that money, wallets, jewelry and other valuables belonging to them had not been taken. See related story., this page. STOCKTON, Calif. - The Natioual Gay & Lesbian Task Force has asked the U.S. Justice Department to examine the killing of Roxmme Ellis and Michelle Abdill, lesbian activists in Medford, Ore., because of statements made by Robert Acremant, who is facing charges in the case. The Task Force formally asked Attorney General Janet Reno in a letter to investigate whether the killings were hate crimes because of a variety of statements Acremant has made to television, radio and newspaper reporters duringjail interviews. In one interview, Acremant said he had asked the women if they were lesbians and said they had told him they were. "It kind of made me sick to my stomach that she was someone’s grandma," Acremant was quoted as saying in an interview published in the Oregonian shortly after his arrest. He also said in that interview that the fact that they were lesbians "made it easier" to kill them. In a letter to Reno, NGLTF Executive Directory Melinda Paras said, gays and lesbians around the country were "’very much upset and disturb0xl by these murders" and that statements by Acremant "have heightened the alarm and concern" that the killings were, in fact, hate crimes. PICK YOUR CAR... ... PICK YOUR. PAYMENT! "NO MONEY DOWN!" Mitsubishi Eclipse RS s272 -MONTHLY * or .... $15 698 < "CASH. PRICE ¯ All factory eouioment Including Air. ¯ MSRP $16.976 0-down. 41 p~iyment~ of $272 99 Lint pavment $~4~, WAC This is not ~ lease 15 ¢xnts li mile penalty after 12,000 miles i yr~ Mitsubishi- Galant s237 Monthly* Includes: Air conditioning, power door locks and windows, cruise control, Am/Fro cassette, automatic and much more. "MSRP $18.069. Sale Pdce 117.191.41 payments at $237 a month, 12,000 miles a yr. Iree, 15’ a mile penalty thereafter or walk away. Last payment $8588. 1.75%APR. W.A.C. by Jean-Pierre St. Valentine’s Day is soon to be upon us, and everyone is once again faced with the dilemmaof selecting that special place for a romantic dinner. Here are the three best restaurants in Tulsa, as well as the three most overrated. Each of the establishments reviewed this month considers itself to offer "fine dining," or what you might call a"white tablecloth" restaurant. Elegant. Dressy. Be forewarned, though, that all of these places fall into the category of "very expensive." Heading up the list is Montrachet, in the Consortium at 3509 South Peoria. This restaurant was formerly on our list of places to avoid, unless you liked schizophrenic Santa Fe French cuisine courtesy of the previous chef/owner. But, last summer, it was taken over by new ownership, management, and chefs from the resorts in Scottsdale, Arizona, and has successfully regained its place on Jean-Pierre’s social list. With the demise lastyear of both Karmichael’ s and the Fifteenth Street Grill (-gotta pay those taxes!), Montrachet is currently Tnlsa’s best restaurant. The Montrachet style is still basically French In concept, but displays a,.fresh American note to the Continental style: Beef tenderloin, rack of lamb, poussin, fresh salmon, and other gourmet specialties are mainstays ofthe Montrachetmenu, which changes seasonally. But the highlight of the meal with be the lovely montage of flavors from experiencing all of the courses, not just the entree. The onion soup at this place is absolutely the best one can get in Oklahoma. A rich beefy and winey stock bathes tender, caramelized onions, and is a delicious and warming treat. Frizzled onions top the soup as a garnish, which you may want to request be left in the kitchen. For a special appetizer, try the seared foie gras. It’s presented medium rare, stacked between layers of puff pastry, and grilled apples. The salad of mixed greens with Stilton cheese, walnuts, & poached pears is excellent. Desserts change regularly, and all are exquisite. None are the typical ice cream and hea~y., sticky sauce on abrownie; ....all. drowned in icanned ¯ whipped topping, that one ¯ usually finds in Tulsa. ¯ Many are truly works of art, and the tastes ¯ can be heavenly. Montrachet also has a ¯ full bar and an excellent wine list. They ¯ also offer a number of interesting cordials ¯ and liqueurs. - , ; Expect.seryice~ to .be.very well trained ¯ and efficient. All of the waiters are very ¯ knowledgeable about the evening’s menu ¯ and the preparations of the foods, and will ¯ be happy to recommend,.the evening’s ¯ best dishes. Bodean Seafood Restaurant has been ¯ the place to go for fresh-off-the-plane- " daily, seafood in Tulsa for years. Located ¯ in a nondescript strip shopping center at ¯ 3323 East 51st, just east of Harvard, ¯ Bodean is filling the shoes of the late ." Louisianne,Tulsa’slegendary downtown ¯ r.estaurant. You can also buy lovely fresh ¯¯ seafood to prepare at home at Bodean’s adjacent seafood market. If you like New England style clam ¯ chowder, you willlove the soupat Bodean, : probably the best Marc-Pierre has had : outside of the East Coast. Rich and thick, it contains big pieces of fresh dams. Limit ¯ yourself to a cup though; the bowl is big ~ enough for a meal by itself. Check the chalkboards to see whatcame in on the plane that day. Mussels, cockles, : and oysters from Newfoundland and New : Zealand are regularly on the appeuzer ¯ lists, and fishes from across the world will : become scrumptious entrees. The fish entrees are al- St. Valentine’s Day is soon to be upon us...Here are th~ three _. b~st restaurants in Tulsa, as well as the three most overrated. ways creatively prepared and presented, though sometimes the creativity can be a bit excessive. ~re recently experienced a mahi mahi presented with mango chumey and a blackened monkfish served with crawfish jambalaya. Never mind, though, since any fish can be prepared to order, and Jean-Pierre often orders the wonderfully fresh seafood simply grilled with alittle lemon butter on the side. Expect your fish to be cooked to an expert level of doneness, not undercooked and not dried out, but just right. Vvqaile most of the waiters provide the professional service you would expect from a quality restaurant, not all of the staff is properly trained. You may want to request a special waiter, once you find one you like. Our third choice amongst the three best Tulsa restaurants is actually a private club in downtownTulsa. The Summit, atop the Bank IV Center, serves both luncheon and dinner to Tulsa’s business and socialite community. It might be worth your while to get out those gold-digging shoes and wrangle an invitation to share dinner with aclub member. A qnick review of the club roster reveals several ’Tanfily’" members, so this is not an impossible task. Honorable mention has to go to the food at the Southern Hills Golf & Country Club, but finagling an invitation here is much more challenging. The Summit features expertly traineo staff with charming & sexy European accents. And, this being "The Club" of Tulsa’s elite, the staff will do everything possible to cater to the diners" every whim and pleasure. Of course, such service and top quality food does not come without its cost, but the saving grace is that the Summit doesn’t make you pay at the endof the meal your host just signs h check! This is Tulsa, so beef is heavily featured on the menu. Steaks are excellent, always prime beef, and will be prepared exactly to vour specifications. They also do a lovely Dover sole. Wildgame is frequently available. But one of the most memorable entrees here is the fork tender, melt-inyour- mouth, lamb tenderloin. The only thing to avoid is the lasagna, which is bland & insipid, a big disappointment ~ven the management’s Italian origins. Desserts are ~ bit more mundane, but fresh fruit with real whipped crean~ is always available, and the signature dessert of the club is a chocolate crunch cakc. a very rich mousse m a pastry shell. If you are watching your pennies, be careful with your choices of wines ,and liquors. The "Summit stocks all of the ultra-premium liquors and has wines costing 100’s (note the plural) of dollars per botde. And now for the list of Tulsa’s three most overrated "’fine" restaurants, at which see Dining, page 14 1996 Miss Gay Oklahoma USofA Pageant Sunday, January 28, 9 pm, with special guests Maya Douglas Miss Gay USofA 1995 Chelsea Pearl Miss Gay USofA At-Large 1996 Cherry Monroe Miss Gay Oklahoma USofA Jean-Pierre refuses to eat when he is picking up the tab, and which Jean-Pierre will discourage friends from visiting as well. All of these restaurants suffer from overinflated prices, inconsistent food quality, and mediocre servtce (judged by a standard of what one might expect given the expense). Number Three: Bravo Ristorante. Suffeting through the attempts of the wait stuff to sing arias and show tunes does not make up for their inept service or the mediocrity of the food. R.I.P. Montague" s, the fine dining room when the Adam’s Mark used to be the Westin. Number Two: Atlantic Sea Grill. In probably the most expensive restaurant in Tulsa, the expectation that the food will be cooked to a quality level consistent with the prices is unrequited. Perhaps one would be better off to walk a few doors down to the cheaper and infinitely less stuffy T.G.I. Friday’s. NumberOne: Warren DuckClub. Aside from being in the tone)- Doubletree Warren Place, how this establishment manages to be touted as one of the finer establishments in Tulsa is totally bevond this reviewer. On several oceasirns, ~ean- Pierre has been served tough and overcooked duck with dreadfully sweet fruit sauce to mask the (lack of) "flavor of the bird. But most disappointing is thee dessert bar reminiscent of Harvest Buffet. Save your money. Well, dear readers, this is the list of Tulsa’s besl and worst. Now, you can decide where you want to take your special friend on’Febrtmry 14. Any hidden messages there’? Just be sure to call ahead for reservations, Bon appetit! by James Christjohn Hello again! Time for another rousing round of reviews! I have received complaints from some members of the community for using the "snap" system of rating stuff. They claim to have patented it. Go figure; some people are legends in their own minds. At any rate, if anyone out there in readerland feels they have a more amusing rating system, please submit it to Tulsa Family News Rating System contest,POB 4140,TulsaOK, 74159. I’m not sure what the prizewill be yet, but I’ll come up with something. I am also asking for the women in our readership to Submit ideas of what they’d like to see reviewed. I don’t want anyone left out. On with the reviews, comments, and whatever other stuff I feel might be amusing. If you remember your first crush on another member of the same sex, or have forgotten, I can highly recommend "’Tom & Huck". It is an excellent adaptation of "Tom Sawyer", with excellent performances by the entire cast. And the homoerotic subtext clearly evident inTom and Huck’s relationship ~s almost underlined in one of several scenes where Tom and Huck are struggling to communicate their feelings towards one another and you just want to yell "Go ahead! Say it! Tell him’I love you!’"Actually,it’s pretty much true to it’s time - I can see Huck living in town, madTom marries Beckx’ as a cover, and continues his relationship with Tom. This is definitely a good Valentine" s day flick, very romantic in its way, and the action keeps you on the edge of the seat. Fortunately, I restrained myself from the yelling bit, for which mv mece was grateful (I must credit her f~r SALOON Friday, January 19 th Blacklight Party Every Wednesday Night Drag Rodeo Roundup hosted by Courtney Farrell and featuring Keliah LaMonte Coming Sunday, March 17 USofA Preliminary to Miss USofA 834-4234, 1565 S. Sheridan W-Sun. 7-2am this issue’s reviews, during the holiday trip to see fmrtily, she dragged me to all these movies I wouldn’t have ever seen otherwise, and was pleasantly surprised at how good they were. I dedicate this month’s column to her. Otherwise, I’d just be babbling on about anything I could think of and making up reviews of fictional films and stuff.) Another winner is "Jumanji", and it takes you on a doozy of a rollercoaster ride. It’s a fun film, and Robin Williams is always a delight, especially in this flick about ama~cal board game set in a deadly jungle that sucks you in until someone else plays the game to it’s finish and sets you free. The scenes of the jungle and its animals taking over an entire town is amazing. The plot was a bit uneven, but I found it amusing enough overall to make up for that. Inmusical terms, Boy George’s"Cheapness and Beaut)"" deserves more of a listen than it’s been getting. I am not partial to BG or Culture Club, but I was curious enough to give this disc a spin, and found it surprisingly effective. It covers every style from country to heavy metal (mad I HATE heavy metal, but I rather liked it here. Skip the first track, but listen to the rest. He holds no punches, mad does not shy away from telling it like i~ is - no bet love songs here! There is one song on there about AIDS that nearly hadme in tears. The lyrics are well-written if not well-spelled and the music is fairly well done. (For me, the first test of a songs is the lyrics. Are they intelligent? Do they have meaning? If they don’t, forget it.) Another "new" discovery, October Project, has a new CD, "Falling Farther In", and it is beautiful. The lyrics are amazingly intelligent, and the music fuses a bit of rock, pop,jazz and Celtic soul. Try it, you’ll like it. The lead singer has a lovely deep alto voice that is like chocolate to listen to. If you don’t like chocolate, insert the dream food of your choice. (Like I said, I don’t want to leave anyone out.) This is a CD to add to your collection, no matter what. And, if we’re all lucky, I’ll be able to review "’Phantom of the Opera" for the next issue. I know a lot of folks out there are dusting off their opera capes and lnasks for this one! Don’t forget our Jan. 28th 2nd Annual Super Bowl Party Free Draw Beer from kickoff to finish, Chili dogs, baked beans & potato salad, $5 cover Big Screen TV How To Do It First 30 words are S10. Each additional word is 25 cents. You may bring additional attention to your ad with: Bold Headline - S 1 Ad in capital letters -S1 Ad in bold capital letters - $2 Ad in box - $2 Ad reversed - $3 Tear sheet mailed - S2 Blind Post Office Box - $5 Please type or print your ad. Count the number of words. (A word for our purposes is a group ofletters or numbers separated by a space.) 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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 Serving Tulsa’s Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual Communities - Our Families of the Heart February 15 - March 14, 1996, Volume 3, Issue 3 National News Clinton Slams HIV+ Military Discharges WASHINGTON - The Clinton administration has announced that it believes the HIV discharge provision in the $265 billion Defense Department’s 1996 authorization defense authorzafion bill is unconstitutional and has ordered the Justice Department not to defend the provision. That provision, written by arch-conservalave Rep. Bob Dornan, R-Calif., would discharge within sxx months, regardless see Clinton, page 3 Anti-Marriage Bills ExplodeAround US PIERRE, S.D.- Sparked by the likelihood that state courts in Hawaii will soon declare same-sex mamage legal there, a rapidly growing number of state legislatures throughout the country have started arush to outlaw gay and lesbian marriages from being recognized locally, even if they should be legal elsewhere in the U.S. Legislatures in at least 18 states: AL, AK, CA, CO, GA, HI, ID, IL, IA, MO, N19I; RI, SC, SD, TN, VA, WA, WI - had various versions of"gay miscegenation" proposals before thein at press tame. In Virginia, where same-sex marriages are already forbidden by state law, under pressure from Radical Right Gov. George F. Allen, the Virginia Housing DevelopmentAuthority has reversed a 1994 policy and now effectively prohibits mmaamed or gay and lesbian couples from getting see Marriage, page 3 Gay Morn Appeals Custody DecisiOn PENSACOLA, Fla. - Mary Ward has appealed an August ruling that ordered her 11-year-old daughter be given over to the custody of the child’s father, who was convicted of killing his first wife.The decision last year by state Circuit Court Judge JosephTarbuck stunnedmany when he ruled in favor of John Ward, the girl’s father, who served 9 years in prison for killing his first wife during an argument over custody of their daughter. In deciding against Mary Ward, Tarbuck ruled see Morn, page 3 Tennessee Sodomy Law Thrown Out KNOXVILLE, Tenn. ~ The Tennessee Court of Appeals has ruled unanimously that the state’s anti-gay sodomy statute is unconstitutional. In overturning the state law the court ruled that the right to privacy includes "the fight of the plaintiffs to engage in consensual, private, non-commercial sexual conduct" that were none of the state’s business because they involve "intimate questions of personal and family concern." State officials gave no immediate indication of whether they would appeal the ruling to the state supreme court or not, but most rights advocates expect an appeal. FUSO: Friends in Unity Social Organization Tulsa’s organization forAfrican-American Gay men ~s expanding its efforts to meet both social and health needs of their immediate community, and the larger one. Over the past year they’ve established a RAIN team, which has its first client, and which may be the only all African-Amencan team in Oklahoma. Its leadership also is working on the non-profit’s tax-exempt status with the Internal Revenue Service so that they can actively seek grant funding to provide HIV education and care. Ultimately they would like to provide case management, peer education, information and referra! services, HIV testing and counseling, health and nutrition, and substance abuse counseling and a food bank in North Tulsa. Over this last year, FUSO has donated canned goods to Our House, made a gift to the victims of theOKCbombing They v e helped to represent Tulsa African-A~eri ¯ cans by sending representatives to Hoist ing the Bamwr. the state HIV AIDS con. ference in OKC addressing issnes of people of color and also participated in the statewide HIV/AIDS conference held last summer at the Doubletree Hotel, Warren Place. Its members marched in the "95 Tulsa AIDS Walk and the World AIDS Day March held at University of Tulsa. Derrick Davis, who is one of FUSO’s officers, has been nominated to be cochair of the Multi-Cultttral AIDS Coalition. FUSO also is participating in the planning of the Women and AIDS conference that will be tleld in April. Last Labor Day, FUSO held a successful Labor Day Weekend event with guests see FUSO, page 10 Vicious Pink, In the Red? OKC-owned Store Closes Vicious Pink, a Gay-oriented gift store owned by Anthony Klatt of Oklahoma City has closed after barely 6 months. The store located in Concessions at 3340 So. Peoria opened with ambitious plans and claims of being the largest such establishment in the state. Kirk Glines, one of the owners of Concessions, indicated that he and his partner Terry Kerns will reopen the shop themselves, possibly by March 1st. Klatt also opened a shop, Dusty Roads, in the Silver Star Saloon. Star owner, John Rothrock could not say whether Dusty Roads was still in business, noting that it was closed without explanation for a week recently and had not been dependably open. Tulsa Man Seeks Relief From Threats A 31-year 01d Tulsa man’s been driven from one home, has had to send his children away for their safety, has had other members of his family threatened and may have to flee his new apartment, all because he’s living with AIDS. Roscoe Pilant, who goes by the nickname, JR,just wants to be left alone to hve, and to work when he can. However, despite having swastikas and death threats marked on his door and threats to murder him left on his answering machine, Tulsa Police initially were hardly cooperative. And as a result of his complaint, investigation by legalaid attorneys have discovered that the Oklahoma S tate Bureau of Investigations might have been violating the OK hate crimes statute by not keeping statistics on hate crimes directed toward any disabled persons, including those living with AIDS. Pilant says his troubles began when he had to take a HIV related medical absence from work. After he returned, he feels that his employer, a national finn, fired him becauseof his HIV status. After the finn was contacted by Oklahoma Legal Aid attorney Darlene Shadid andwas informed that discrimination based on HIV’AIDS status is illegal under federal law, the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), he returned to work. And then the harassment began. see Threats, page 2 Lesbian & Gay Domestic Violence Two police officers from Tulsa area police departments spoke to the members and guests of Tulsa Oklahomans for Hnman Rights (TOHR) about do~nestic violence issues, both within and out the LesbianGay con~nunities. Both officers who are 10 year plus veterans work pmnanly on domestic violence (hereafter abbreviated as DV). Each gave profoundly sobering statistics on the extent of DV. For example, they noted that 50% of US women ~vi!l be DV violence victims, that wom_en are at a 9 times higher risk of injury in their homes than they are on the street, and that every 15 seconds a women is beaten in her own home. The officers outlined some of the social psycholoNcal dynamics of DV noting the stages of the syndrome and gave details of legal opti’ons and other resources to help victims and to identify abusers. The officers who had dealt with Lesbian/ Gay DV issues bemoaned the lack of research in this area but noted that the causes are similar to those of DV for heterosexuals. They suggested that 30% of Lesbian/Gay relationships have some DV problems but they suspected that these cases tended to be underreported because the criminal justice system rmnains homophobic. They also stated that Lesbian relationships appear to be more physically violent than those of Gay or Bi men. Also, Gay men may not report DV when it happens because the general perception is that DV ouly happens to women and often the agencies that deal with DV are not well equipped to help men. Saks 5th Avenue to Show AIDS Quilt DKNY Fashion Fundraiser-2/29 Tulsa’s Saks Fifth Avenue will display 10 sections of The NAMES PROJECT AIDS Memorial Quilt on February 21 to March 1st. Saks Fifth Avenue is the first corporation to spensor a multi-site display with 45 Saks Fifth Avenue stores and 60ff5th’s outlet centers showing memorial panels that are geographically specific to the store’s site. Later this year, the panels displayed in Tulsa will join the nearly 32,000 panels now in the Quilt. The Columbus Day weekend (Oct. 12-13) display on the Capitol Mall in Washington, DC will be the first time in four years that the Quilt has b~en seen in its entirety as it has grown so large. All fifty US states are represented as well as 39 other countries. Panels made by Saks Fifth Avenue associates from across the US will be exhibited in New YorkCity in August before going to Washington. On February 29~ Saks Fifth Avenue, Tulsa will present a DKNY Fashion extravaganza, Give My Regards to Donna, to benefit the Hope Candlelight Tonr. A silent auction and fashion show, featuring local celebrities, will unveil DKNY’s spring collection and be Tulsa’ s exclusive launch of DKNYfor Men. A few models are Debbie Campbell, I.J. Gannam, Aleksandr Lunev, Beth Reng,’d, Kevin Steincross, Mike Jones and Sonya Colberg Nanc3 Renberg, Charles & Francie Faudree. Hope Candlelight Tour benefits St. Joseph Residence and RAIN, the Regional .-kIDS Interfaith Network INSIDE-] EDITORIAL P. 2 DIRECTORY P. 2 NEWS BRIEFS P. 4 HEALTH BRIEFS P. 6 CALENDAR P. 9 EUREKA PAGE P. 11 Music for Life John McCarthy and Beverly Stanley, chairing the Walk for Ltfe committee, have zumounced that a "Blues" Festival will kick off tiff s 3’ear’ s series of events for the fourth annual Walk for Life Campaign. Mark Snider, renowned Tulsa musician, has organized an outstanding evening of the "Blues" featuring local musicians. The event will be held at the Sunset Grill, 3410 South Peoria on Tuesday, March 12. The admission donation of $5 will include two raffle tickets for items donated by the Blue Rose Cafe, the Doubletree at Warren Place, and the Celebrity Club, to nmne a few. K-MOD Radio and Budweiser will join the Sunset Grill as hosts and Paine Webber and Roche Laboratories are patron sponsors. This event is the first of several plam~ed to raise funds for Tulsa area HIV/AIDS support agencies. Other events include an art show in June and ajazz festival in July, and the 4th Walkfor Life to be at Riverside Park on October 12. Proceeds from the 1995 Walk went to 12 Tulsa community HIV/AIDS related non-profit age~l~ies. 918.583. 1248 P(~. 4140 Tulsa, Oklahoma 74159-0140 TulsaNews@aol.com Publisher/Editor Issued on or before the 15th of each month, the entire contents Of Tom Neat this publication are protected by US copyright 1996 by Tulsa Family Assistant Editor News and mav not be reproduced either in whole or in part withot{t James Christjohn written permission from the publisher. Publication of a name or Writers/contributors photo does not indicate that person’s sexual orientation. Phyl Boler-Schmidt Correspondence is assumed to be for publication unless otherwise Barry Hensley noted¯ must be signed & becomes the sole property of Tulsa Family Pat Morehead News. All correspondence should be sent to the address above. Eaci~ Staff Photographer reader is entitled to one free copy of each edition at distribution JD Jamett points. Additional copies are available by calling 583-1248. Using Gays as the scapegoat for the demise of the family is; reprehensible nonsense.. Unfortunately,, in order, to get in good with.Pat Robertson’ s Christian Coalition, Republican presidential candidates are all too willing.to go along with the lie that Gay people are somehow, a.threat.to.thefamilv. Wqaoles~le divorce among heterosexuals doe; the real damage. With a 50% divorce rate. adultery, abused women, financial conditions that require both parents to leave children home alone, abandoned and abused children and so forth, it doesn"t take much effort to see that heterosexuals have succeeded quite well in crippling the family without any he!p:from Gays and Lesbians. -~- J.J. Stogsdill, Broken Arrow I recently had the distinct pleasure Of being one of the stops along District 6 City Councilor. Art Justiss" campaign tour. I felt like I shouldn’t be the ordy one who has the advantage of "knowing how Mr. Justiss feels about Gay rights in Tulsa before I cast nay vote in the up-coming elections for City Council. My partner and I asked Mr. Justiss about the status of the Human Rights Depar.~nent (Committee on Sexual Orientation Discrimination) Proposal to the City of Tulsa. Mr. Justiss said that he would never put such a thing on the City Council agenda and he felt :quite confident that no other councillor would either. When questioned about why he was too afraid to even consider a proposal from one of the city’s own commissxons. Mr. Justiss admitted that he didn’t want to "’take the heat.’" He told us that to put something like the current proposal on the agenda would be political suicide. Of course, he added that he wouldn’t discriminate on the basis of "’race, color or sexual preference," but he felt protections for Gays against discrirmnation had no place in city government. Mr. Justiss’ visit to our home was a reminder to him that .there are Lesbians alive and living in Tulsa, OK and a reminder to us that we can’t vote for a representative who will only entertain ~ssues and concerns that are popular. - Kharma R. Amos . Many of the threats were specific in saying that if he returned to work he would die. Pilant feels his privacy was deliberately compromised by co-workers who posted his unlisted number counter to his request. When Pilant first reported the phone messages and the graffiti on his door, Tulsa police did not even send out an officer. Calls to the Mayor’s Action hotline were also unhelpful. However, after intervention by community-activist Nancy McDonald, li~ing up to her appellation "Saint McDonald", Tulsa police were more responsive and took more thorough reports. Pilant also nbted that Claudette Peterson, director of Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights’ (TOHR) HIV Testing Clinic was helpful in getting him assistance as was former TOHR president, Kelly Kirby, through whose contact, KJRH, Ch. 2 became aware of Pilant’ s dilemma and reported on by Phvl Boler-Schmidt ,:~ .A t~ureka. Spri_ngs man i.s dead. A 17-year-old Who admitted to the "killing has not been charged. And, the whole event is shrouded in mystery. This is what we -know. The "killing o~curr~d at a ~popular local lake park where the young mau was helping his; ~andmotlXe~- cSaretake th~ i-esort for the Winter. It happened at night. The dead man, in his forties and -knownby his friends to be a closeted gay man. was shot at point blank range in the face with a shotgtm. The young man did not have the gun at his immediate disposal, but had to go to another room, locate the gun, find the shells, load the weapon, then return to the place where he shot and killed the victim. The young man has said that he awoke with a start to find the he was being sprayed with ejaculate as the older man was masturbating all over him. He says he killed the man in self-defense. There aren’t many Queers in these parts who are buying that story. The police have been silent. The ~oroner’s report is not due out of Little Rock for a few weeks. No arrest has been made, no charges filed. It is minored that the dead man was found completely nude though there is no official word on this. I have decided not to publish any names here so as not to interfere with what the police are calling an ongoing investigation. Since there have been no public statements made regarding the case, I am giving law enforcement authorities the benefit of the doubt that they will continue to investigate this case. and if the facts warrant it, an arrest will be made. The benefit of the doubt. For now. I’ve spoken with a number of Gays mad Lesbians about tiffs issue. No one is taking it lightly. There is some fear that, if the case is swept under the carpet, and the young man is not charged, it will send a signal that it is okay to kill Queers because no one will do anything at~out it. I remain hopeful though skeptical. The facts that we DO "know are alarming. Even if the young man’s story is true, how could it possibly be grounds for murder’? Semen in these circumstances is not a deadly weapon, certainly not enough justification for murder. Most assuredly not - if he was free enough to leave, mad chose to go to another room, find a shotgun, load it, and return to the scene. Justhow frightened for his life could the young man have been? see Murder, page 3 it. Attomey Darlene Shadid said she was told by sources in OSBI and the Tulsa DA’s office that a decision had been made, apparently informally at a seminar in the past couple of years, not to consider persons living with AIDS to be disabled, despite federal law on the matter. Later, Shadid determined that OSBI appeared not to be keeping any statistics on hate crimes based on any disability of any kind. In response toTFN, Tim Hams ofthe Tulsa District Attorney’s office indicated that their office would enforce the Oklahoma hate crime statute as it applied to disability and noted thatnew DALaFortune has participated in the Say No to Hate Coalition for some time. Director of the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigations (OSBI), Dwade Langley said that they would keep statistics on hate crimes based on disability but that they were entirely dependent on the local law enforcement agencies to report the incidents to them. Meanwhile, JR Pilant hopes that he can return to a quiet life with his children and family sal’e from hate and intimidation. Tulsa Clubs & Restaurants *Bamboo Lounge, 7204 E. Pine 832-1269 *Barraccuda’s, 2405 E. Admiral 582-4340 *Concessions, 3340 S. Peoria 744-0896 *Ground Zero, 311 E. 7th 585-5622 *Lola’s, 2630 E. 15th 749-1563 *Silver Star Saloon, 1565 Sheridan 834-4234 *Renegades/Rainbow Room, 1649 S. Main 585-3405 *TNT’s, 2114 S. Memorial 660-0856 *Tool Box, 1338 E. 3rd 584-1308 Tulsa Businesses, Services, & Professionals Derails C..Arnold, Realtor 746-4620 *Assoc. in Medical & Mental Health, 2325 S. 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The new definition.of a household adopted by the VHDA states that a "single-family loan can be made to more than one person only if all such persons ... are related by blood, marriage or adoption or by legal custodial relationship." Albert Eisenberg, one of theVHDA commissioners, disagreed loudly with the change. "It is bigoted nonsense elevated to formal state policy," Eisenberg said of the new policy, which he said may lead to ~xpensive legal court challenges as well as possible trouble with federal housing agencies that underwrite most of the loans the Virgima agency makes. Most of the state’s real estate organizations opposed thenew definition, as did gay rights groups and the ACLU, which said the change would "inspire lawyers to look for loopholes." In addition to Gov. Allen’s backing, the rule change was also supported by the Virginia Family Foundation and Concemed Women for America, which argued thatonly "traditional" families should be given economic benefits from the state agency. However in Nebraska, an exception to the "stop-the-wedding" frenzy has come Nebraska where state Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha has introduced a measure that would amend Nebraska law to let gays and lesbians legally marry in the Cornhusker State. Chambers acknovCl-- edges that his proposal, LB1260, probably won’t win approval on its first pass through the state legislature, but he says he’s determined and won’t give tip. ’q’his is an issue related to civil rights mad civil liberties that can’t be dodged by political bodies,"-he says. "It has an impact on so many people." And in San Francisco, its Board of Supervisors created a "civil ceremony to solemnize" same-sex domestic parmerships under the aegis of the county clerk’s office, the city official who also perfolans civil wedding ceremonies for heterosexual couples. The measure, which would extend no benefits beyond its symbolic ceremony, is believed to be the first time any govenfing body has moved to create a civil rite to acknowledge same-sex umons. A board committee quic"kly approved the measure mad sent it on to the full board. Five of the board’s 11 members are cosponsors of the ceremony. The county clerk’s office has estimated that adding the ceremony would probably increase the number of registered partners by 2 or 3 times. And with a $30 fee for the ceremony itself, the clerk’s office also esti- : mated the proposed rite could add close to ¯¯ $50,000 to the city’s coffers. Back in Hawaii, Gov. Ben Cayetano ¯ has .suggested that the way for the state to extricate itself from the ongoing controversy of same-sex marriages is for the ¯ state to stop giving marriage licenses to anyone and just offer domestic partnerships to gay and non-gay couples instead. ¯ ’The institution ofmarriage shouldbe left to the church," Cayetano is quoted as saying in a report in the Honolulu Adver- ¯ tiser. ’q’he government needs to explore its role in marriages. The government : should not be in the role of sanctifying marriages. That’s when they nminto problems." State Senate leaders quickly said they didn’t think the legislature was likely to go along with Cayetano’s idea to pull the plug on marriage. While legal experts say .th.ey haveno idea if a state could even stop ~ssuing marriage licenses, they do agree that the most important benefits of legal marriage are derived from the federal government in the form of income taxes, Social Security benefits, and pensionregulations - all ofwhich depend on state legal definitions of a mamage. Gay/Bisexual Indian Men Retreat The Tulsa Native American AIDS Prevention Project (TNAAPP) is sponsoring two free weekend camping retreats (Feb. 23-35 and June 7-9) to enhance cultural awareness and HIV!AIDS awareness. The retreat will include workshops addressing HIV AIDS, self-esteem, safer sex negotiation skills and cultural and traditional values - all presented in a safe envlroment. For a CONFIDEN~HAL application, call B-rima or Keetoo~vala. at 918-582-7225. Open Arms Open Minds Open Hearts Saint Aidan’s 4045 No. Cincinnati. 425-7882 Saint John’s 4200 So. Atlanta Pl.. 742-7381 Trinity 501 So. Cincinnati. 582-4128 The Episcopal Church Welcomes You Wednesday, March 13 ....... s 5ob wi//ia,; s xbeat e x.[sa verfor. i 0 arts ce..t "WiMjoyfaldan~ music and ~xquitite ~.efledfive airs... The exci~ng sound of tradi~onal attd .~ 20th century Ireland." -- The New York Times ~’ Tickets: $12 Call 596-7111 oftheir ability to serve in the armed forces, the 1,049 HIV-positiveU.S. service members and immediately cut off all health care benefits to their dependents. Half these service members are married and, on average, they have served in the military for a decade, according to the Pentagon. Nearly 20 percent of them are officers. Clinton legal counsel, Jack Quinn, told reporters in making the announcement that "the President has determined that this provision is .unconstitutional and he has therefore directed the Attorney General not to defend it in court." The Pentagon, Gay & Lesbian civil rights advocates, AIDS activists and a number of members of Congress oppose the provision. But President Clinton signed the appropriations measure because it is vital to the country’s defense needs, in spite of the Dornan provision. A measure has also been introduced by Sens. William Cohen (R-Maine) and Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) to repeal the Dornan provision. A similar bill to overturn the measure was introduced in the Houseby Reps. PeterTorkildsen, R-Mass., Jane Harman, D-Calif., Connie Morella, R-Md., and Ron Dellums, D-Calif. Elizabeth Birch, head of the Human Rights Campaign, applauded the \Kqaite House announcement. "We asked him [Clinton] to put the full force of his administration behind overturning it and he has done just that," she said. "This is precisely the kind ofleadership we expect from Bill Clinton." Winnie Stachelberg, HRC’s senior health policy advocate, said, "q’hat [the Dornan provision] ~ as one of the meanest. most vindictive measures to come out of the 104th Congress, and we will do everything in our power to ensure,, repeal of that discmninatorv measure, The repeal bill is expected to have broad bipartisan support in both honses, Stachelberg said, noting that Georgia Sen. Sam Numa, ranking Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, has called the HIV expulsion measure "pmfitive." Dornan and otherGOPextremists added the HIV provision to the House version of the defense authorization, but it was not in the Senate bill. When the two versions went to a House-Senate conference committee for reconciliation, House Republicans made sure this discriminatory measure became part of the final bill, Stachelberg said. Currently, service members with the virus that causes AIDS may serve their country as long as they can perform their duties, but they are not deployed overseas. The same policy is applied to service members who have other chronic medical conditions such as diabetes, asthma, heart disease or cancer. The Human Rights Campaign is the largest national lesbian and gay political organization, with members throughout the country. It effectively lobbies Congress, provides campaign support and educates the public to ensure that lesbian and gay Americans can be open, honest and safe at home, at work and in the community. that the daughter "should be given the opportunity and the option to live in a non-lesbian world." One new witness slated to testify in the appeal will be Michelle Mclr£nes, 25, the daughter of John Ward and the wife he "killed. During a television interview am~onncing that she ~vould testify, McInnes said her father also tried to molest her ~vhen she was 14 3ears old. This reporter does not claim to be a legal scholar, bnt from what I do kaaow, the evidence points toward premeditated mnrder, even if the provocation the young man talked about happened in exactly the way he said it did. I, for one, donbt the story, but I also doubt there is any way to disprove it. What will the offici~s cal[ it’? Murder? Justifiable homicide? A -killing in self-defense? A hate crone? Stay tuned. I’ll keep you posted. Sunday Services 11:00 am ¯ Wednesday Services 6:30 pm, 7:30 pm Choir Practice ° Thurs. 7:30 pm Codependency Support Group To do justice, love mercy & to walk humbly with our God... Micah 6:8 5451-E South Mingo Tulsa, OK 74146 . (918) 622-1441 Worship Service, 10:30 am Sheridan Center, Suite H 21st & Sheridan 599-7688 News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Survey: Less Opposition to Homosexuality WAbH., D.C. - According to the annual survey of college freshmen around the country by the University of California, the nation’s students continue to have less objection to same-sex relationships. The survey, conducted under the aegis of the American Council on Education and given to more than 300,000 freshmen entering some 641 colleges and universities in the U.S, fouud that o~fly about 31% of the students this year believed that homosexuality ~s wrong and should be forbidden. That figure is the lowest reported since the survey started in 1987 when53% said they disapproved of gay and lesbian relationships. Fed. Court Topples Alabama Anti-Gay Law MONTGOMERY, Ala. - U.S. District Court Judge Myron Thompson has declared a 1992 state law prohibiting state agencies frown using public funds in direct or indirect support of gay and lesbian orgamzations as unconstitutional. The law was quickly passed by. the state legislature and signed into law after officials at Auburn University g~ve recognition to a gay student group on the campus. Lawmakers had argued that because sodtroy is illegal in Alabama, no state funds should be used to support-the "’gay lifestyle." Judge Thompson, however, ruled that the law was simply an attempt to restrict discussion at public schools, an illegal restriction of free speech. ’Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Hearing Begins SFATTLE - The attorueys representing Navy Lt. Richard Watson, called the military’s "don’t ask, don’t tell" policy on gays and lesbians in the armed forces"the height ofhypocrisy," arguing in federal court that it was an unconstitutional invasion of privacy. Watson, a 34-yearold officer who was training to eventually captain one of the Navy’s nuclear-powered submafines, has said he told his commandingofficer he is gay to avoid the possibility of being blackmailed as his naval career advanced. He continues to serve in the Navy wlfile his case, one of several like it, is in the federal courts. Canadian Censorhsip Case: Mixed Ruling VANCOUVER - The British Columbia Supreme Court has handed down a utixed ruling in the case of the Little Sister’s BookStore, a gay and lesbian shop that had charged Canadian Customs officials with unconstitutional censorship. The provincial high court declared that Customs officials had in fact used their power to seize published materials counng into the countU in ways that violated the nation’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Customs officials have seized, and sometimes destroyed, hundreds of gay m~d lesbian books and magazines ordered by Little Sister’s, maiulv from UTS. publishers, claiming the materials violated Canadian pornography laws. The court ruled that the Customs actions "’in large part.., are die arbitrary and improper consequence of a~ inadequate mad flawed admimstration of the legislation.’" It also ruled that the incidents involving Little Sister’s were isolated episodes, but constituted a"~ave systemic problem." The most d~sappointing part of the court ruling, said Janine Fuller of Little Sisters, was the justices’ failure to declare the statute that gives Customs officials the authority to seize materials as unconstitutional. Fuller called the failure of the court to overturn die Customs legislation "disappointing" and said the store would be appealing that part of the ruling, but that she was otherwise pleased with the rest of the high court’s ruling. "Ttfis decision is a complete vindication of thc gay aud lesbian conmmmty and the lives of its people mid for that we celebrate die decision," she said. "It has been a long, hard climb. We haven’t quite reached the smmnit but we’re dimm closc. We are colffident that we will succeed at the Court of Appeal." Cincinnati Bias Costs City $35 Million CINCINNATI - The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that the cit\"s Convention & Visitors Bureau says it has lost some $35 million in tourist and convention income because of an anti-gay measure approved by voters in 1993 to repeal an earlier anti-bias measure that included gays mid lesbians. The visitors bureau report had been requested by the city council and cited 10 ~arger national organizations, including die A~nerican Library Association. that specifically mentioued the repealed rights measure as their reason for not holding conventions in the city. Catholic Bishops Speak Upfor Gays in Zimbabwe HAt~kRE, Zimbabwe - Gays and lesbians in Zimbabwe have gotten some limited support from an unexpected source when the country’s Catholic Bishops’ Conference issued a pastoral letter denouncing attacks against homosexuals. Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, who is a Catholic, sparked an international flap last year when he refused to allow a gay rights organization in the country to operate a booth at an interuational book fair in the nation’s capital, calling homosexuals"sodomists mid sexual perverts" who ,are "’worse than dogs and pigs." He followed up later by saying the gays and lesbians have "no rights" in Zimbabwe and threatened to imprison homosexuals. Although the Catholic Church considers homosextmlity a "disorder" that should be dealt with as sucll, the Bishops Coifference letter condemned what it "called "’any attempts toinstitute a witchhunt or hate campaign" against homosexuals. "It is therefore not right for anyone, induding govenunent, to harass, persecute or torture people simply because they are known to have this indination,’" the Bishops’ Co~fference letter said. Anti-Bias Measure for CA Students Dies SACtL~kMENTO, Calif. - AB 1001, a proposed measure in the ¯ Califonfia legislature to bar discrimination because of sexual orientation in the state’s public schools and universities, failed by an 8-7 vote in the Assembly’s education colurnittee. The measure, introduced by Assemblywoman Sheila Kuehl (DFa~ cino), has languished in the committee since April 1995 when it failed to pass on a first reading there. The vote against sending the bill to the full Assembly was along party lines. Utah Wants to Stop School Gay Group SALT LAKE CITY - According to a report in the Deseret News, the Utah State Board of Education has told state officials to find "all available ~neans" to control the kinds ofnon-curriculum dubs that are formed at public schools in the state.The move is aimed at preventing a gay and lesbian student club from being formed at East High School in the state’s capital city. C. Grant Hurst, who introduced the directive, told the newspaperit wasn’t specifically about the gay dub at the high school and said he was concerned the current legal situation could allow net-Nazi groups to be formed at public schools in Utah. Hurst admitted, however, that he had gotten"numerous" phone calls opposed to the gay club and none about possible net-Nazi dubs forming.. The board’s resolution speaks only about the"formation of any organizations, in schools, that may create a disruptive or unsafe atmosphere for children or that may attract or entice children tomake decisions tllat could have a long-term negative impact on their lives." The Utah attorney general’s office told educators late last year in a letter that federal law and court rulings mandate that scllool clubs have to be treated equally no matter how potentially controversial. The board’s own attorney late in 1995 said the only way the state could keep the gay dub at East High from forming would be for all clubs to be prohinted, stop receiving federal education funds entirely,.or to ask Congress to repeal the Equal Access Act. Rally Against Blocking Gay School Clubs In Utah SALT LAKE CITY - Hundreds of gay rights activists, including the parents of gay mid lesbian teens, rallied outside the state Capitol to protest a move by conservative lawmakers who have said the state should not allow gay and lesbian student groups in public schools, even if Dan Du Vall / Owner BROOKSIDE JEWELRY South Peoria 743-$272 Corner of 48th & Peoria 9:30 - 5, Mon. - Fri. Open Saturdays thru holidays! P AII’ERSON REALTORS" LEA ANN MACOMBER Realtor Associate Mobile: 671-2010 2642 E. 21st Street ¯ Suite !70 ¯ Tulsa, Oklahoma 74114 Off: 918-749-8374 ¯ Res: 918-582-7672 ° Fax: 918-747-1795 David A. Paddock, CPA, MT "Utmost Confidence Assured" 4308 S. Peoria, Suite 633 Tulsa, OK 74105 logo here Call for an appc (918) 747-7672 Computer Analysis Consultation Rich Fox P.O. Box 52708 Tulsa, OK 74152-0708 Pager: (918)690-2974 News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News the state has to refuse a $100 million education grant from the federal government or even bar all student groups. Kelli Peterson, the East High School student who asked to organize the gay and lesbian campus club, told the cheering crowd she didn’t try to start the group to advocate homosexuality or to recruit heterosexual classmates into a "homosexual lifestyle." In.stead, she said, "I started this group to end the misery and isolation of being gay in high school." Utah legisli~tors held a secret meeting earlier in the week with the state school superintendent, the commissioner of higher education and members of the Utah Attorney General’s office, reportedly to discuss legal methods to prevent gay clubs from being formed at schools in the state. But Senate President Lane Beattie dismissed the protest as a tempest in a teapot. "The infermarion given them was in error," he said. "It [the secret meeting] wasnot an anti-gay, anti-lesbian meeting. The meeting was not held to discuss issues they tlfink we discussed.’~ Beatrie said that lawmakers at the meeting were not anti-gay bnt were anti-immorality. "That includes heterosexual immorality as well as homosexual iunnorality. We m’e not going to allow immorality to be taught or encouraged in our public education system. Period." But rights activists point out that a measure that has not yet been printed for public review - SB 246 - would"prohibit schools from supporting illegal conduct" and may well mimic an Alabmna state law barring publicly supported schools from supporting any orgmfizarion that advocates illegal activities. That Alabmna measure was specifically aimed at preventing state colleges from allowing gay and lesbian student groups on campus because sodomy is illegal in Alabama, as it is in Utah. The Alabamameasure, however, was recently declared unconstitutional by a federal court. Episcopal Bishop Faces Heresy Trial WILMINGTON, Del. -Theheresy trial of retired Episcopal Bishop Alter Righter for ordainingan openly gay priest is slated to start before a panel of 9 bishops Feb. 27, only the second such heresy proceeding in the history of the church although the bishops who brought the charges against Righter say it won’t be the last. Righter, the retired bishop of Iowa, ordained- Barry Stopfel as a deacon in 1990. At the rime Stopfel not only acknowledged that he is gay, but also that he had been living with his male partner throughout his seminary studies. The 10 bishops who brought the charges against Righter say bishops in New Jersey, Philadelphia, Detroit and Washington may also be charged With heresy for similar ordinations if the ecclesiastical court finds Righter guilty. TX Radical Right Wants No Gays In Library SAN ANTONIO, Texas - Antigay flmdamentalists have tried - so far without success - to keep the Unity Foundation, an organization that’s working on plans to open a lesbian and gay community center in this SouthTexas ¯ city, fromholding mmeetings in the city’s pubhc library. Organizers of the anri-gay group have protested outside the library and city hall, and say that homosexuals shouldn’t be permitted to use ~ public facilities because sodomy ¯ is illegal under state law. But so far the anti-gay protests have been small and failed to draw wide support, while a number of mainstream religious leaders have vocally backed the Unity Foundation’ s rights both to meet at the library and to work on the community center. San Francisco Police: A ’Commanding’ Lesbian SAN FRANCISCO- As part of sweeping changes from top to bottom being instituted by newly elected Mayor Willie Brown in San Francisco, Melinda Pengel has become perhaps the highest ranking openly gay police officer in any major U.S. police e force. Pengel, who was in the first class of women cadets to join the SFPD in 1975 and iu 1994 became one of the department’s highest ranking officers when she was awarded her captain’s bars, has now been made a commander on the force of some 2,000 officers. Colnmander Pengel, 41, was named to hernew rank by Brown’s handpicked Police Chief Fred Lau. The rank of commander is below only the chief and deputy chief officials. Among her new duties, Pengel will oversee the department’s pohcing efforts on the city’s trouble-plagued public transportation system. Pengel said of the promotion, "It’s not just for me; it’s for .the other women in the department too. We’re moving into a nmv era, and I get to be a part of that." Virginia ’Diversity’ Billboard Covered Up CHRISTIANBURG, Va. - A billboard erected recently in the downtown area of this small community of some 11,000 people west of Roanoke, proclaiming simply that "Diversity Enriches,’" has been covered over by the owners of the billboard after callers threatened to damage the finn’ s property. The billboard was paid for by an informal group known as Gay & Straight Citizens of Southwest Virginia with the help of the local chapter of PFLAG (Parents & Friends of Lesbians And Gays), and went up January 18. Aside from the simple phrase, "’Diversity Enriches," the only other print on the rainbow billboard was the much smaller sponsorship tag for Gay & Straight Citizens of Southwest Virginia, which paid $450 for having its sign up for a month. But after au article with a photo of the billboard appeared in the local newspaper, Frank Amburn, manager of the lo’cal office of Outdoor East, the company that owns the billboard space, says his office was flooded with calls complaining about the sign, including several from people who threatened to destroy other billboards owned by the advertising finn. At that point, Amburn decided to cover up the billboard out of fear for his company’s property. The ad agency’ is refunding the money paid for the billboard space. Forbes’ Gay Views Become a Political Issue DES MOINES, iowa- Dmnonstrating once again - for better or f6r worse - that gay fights can no longer be separated from uational politics, Republicau pres. hopefuls have increasingly tried to derail the unexpectedly surging candidacy of multi-~nillionaire Steve Forbes by portraying him as "’pro-ga.v.’" In Iowa iu Jan., state cmnpaign officials who were supporting Sen. Phil Grannn’s bid, told reporters that Forbes supports allowing gays m~d lesbim~s to serve in the U.S. military under the current "’don’t ask, d’on’t tell’" compromise policy. Recently, Forbes was asked ifhe was in favor of allowing same-sex marriages. Although clearly uncomfortable with the question, Forbes responded," Compassion is not approval. There should be special fights for none, equal rights for all." Brits Expected to Keep Anti-Gay Military Policy LONDON" - London ucwspapers have reported that British defense lmnistry officials remmn opposed to ending the ban on gays and lesbians in the nation’ s armed forces. Several newspapers reported that Michael Portillo, the defense ~mnister, will announce sometime in Feb. the findings of a ministry review of the policy excluding homosexuals in the military, but several ministry officials have atready said the review found no reason to change the policy. If the govenunent keeps the current policy there will almost certainly be a legal challenge before ihe European Court of fluman Rights, where 4 discharged gay and lesbian service members have already’ applied for a review of their case. The uational gay rights group Stonewall has also applied for pervm ssign to appeal the policy to the House of Lords, Britain’s highest court of appeal. Gay arit to Play Wilde LONDON - Openly’ gay British comic actor Stephen Fry, perhaps best known to American audiences for his portrayal of the erudite and condescending butler in the BBC,’PBS "Wooster and Jeeves,’" says his next role will be starnng in a film bio-pic of 19th century playwright, wit mad ben vivant , Oscar Wilde. Wilde was finprisoned in 1895 for a sodomy statute violation. KELLY KIRB Y Certified Public Accountant Lesbians & Gays face many special tax situations whether single or as couples. 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Just Say No School Programs WASHINGTON" - Part of the massive welfare overhaul confessional Republicans have proposed in this year’s ongoing budget battle includes $75 millionin federal funds for state schools to each students the "gains to be realized by abstaining from sexual activity" outside marnage. The abstinence pro~am proposal would provide money for schools to teach youngsters that complete abstinence is the oulv certmn wav to avoid unwanted pregnancies and sex~ally transmitted diseases such as AIDS. Ignoring gays and lesbians ~vho cannot legally marry in this country, the language of"ihe G~)P proposal states: "A mutually faithful monogmnous relationship in the context of mamage is the expected standard of human sexual activity" mad that sex outside marnage "’is likely to have laarmful p~ychological and physical effects." Gay Medical Journal NEWYORK-The Gay &Lesbian Medical Assn. has announced plans to begin publishing what it says will be the first science journal devoted to medical issues faced byhomosexuals. Thejournal, which as yet has not been given a name, will focus on publishing findings in research on AIDS and HIV, mental health issues, breast cancer and other medical issues. FDA OK Sought for AIDS Drug STOCKHOLM - The U.S.-Swedish drug manufacturer Pharmica & Upjohn has released preliminary data on ,still-incomplete clinical trials of its drug Delavirdine (also -known as Rescriptor) because early results hold so much promise, the firm sa vs. Hoping that the early results will help get faster approval from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration for the drug, Pharmica & Upjotm said Delavirdine appears to help some patients infected with HIV stave off developing full-blown AIDS. The firm said that preliminary data from its ongoing tests with the drug indicate that patients receiving Delavirdine had been able to lower the amount ofHIV in their blood system by at least 68% for as long as 60 w~eks. Some 3,500 patients have been participating so far. Infants Shed HIV Completely LONDON - According to researchers reporUng in the medical journal Lancet, nine infants who were infected with HIV bv their mothers at birth have fended off tl~e virus. Only a few such reports of HIV relnisston have ever been reported, an~ those have beeu received with some skepticism. But the uew findings - which come from Italy, Belgium m~d Swedeu : may not be so easiix disufissed. Of some 264 babies who were born HIV-positive, the research team found nine who subsequently became free of the virus. In seven cases, both HIV tests used went from positive to negative during the course of the study; in the other two, the virus was detected even though the antibody tests indicated that the baby was not infected. 2 Different AIDS Epidemics NEW DELHI - Max Essex of the Harvard AIDS Institute said at a conference on infectious diseases that increasingly there are 2 different AIDS epidemics globally - one in the Western industrial nations, which is slowing, and another in Afr ica and Asia, which is continuing to Wow with noend in sight. Essex told the conference that the 2 epidemics are spread by different strains of HIV- 1, and that the B and E strains of the virus behave differently. Unpublished research by Essex and his team at the Harvard institute, he said, indicates that subtype E is more efficient at infecting cells in the female reproductive tract, so is more readily transmitted during heterosexual sex. The E subtype is largel y found in Africa and the Indian subcontinent. But, Essex said, the viral subtype that is largely responsible for the AIDS epidemic in Europe and North America - subtype B - targets different body cells and seems more prone to being passed on during anal sex, perhaps explaining its predominance among gay men. Essex noted that in the West, about 2 million people are infected and that that number appears to have leveled off. But, he said, there are an estimated 15 to 20 million cases in Africa and the Indian subcontinent, and that number apparently is continuing to grow unchecked. "RELIEF FROM PAIN" THOMAS CHIROPRACTIC CLINIC DR. REX M. THOMAS DR. SHIRLEY A. THOMAS FREE CON~(.LTATION PROFESSIONAL SERVICE NO NEEDLES ACUPUNTURE NECK & BACK PAIN CHRONIC PAIN ASSURED PRIVACY NUTRITION COUNSELING HEADACHES CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME 4138 S. HARVARD. SUITE C-1 TULS& OK 74135 (918) 742-8868 Free & Anonymous Finger Stick Method By & for, but not exclusive to the Lesbian, Gay, & Bisexual Communities. 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Community of Hope 1703 E. 2nd, Info: 585-1800 NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt Sewing Bees 3rd Sat. of each month Info: 748-3111 OTHER GROUPS Gay & Lesbian Sttulent Association - TJC Southeast Can~pus, Info: 631-7632 SWAN-Single Women’s Activity Network Call 832-2121 TOHR Helpline Daily 8-10 pm For info. or to vohlntecr: 743-GAYS SCOTT ROBISON’S PRESCRIPTIONS ,Serving Tulsan’s Since 1947 Major credit cards In-store charges or Direct insurance billing for your convenience! 3 locations to serve you: Hillcrest Physician’s Building 1145 So. Utica 743-2351 Utica Square Area 1560 East 21st, Ste. 104 743-2351 The Plaza 8146-D South Lewis 299-1790 Reviewed by Barry Hensley Tulsa City-County Library This entertaining anthology combines essays, personal narratives and poetry regarding the multitude of rites and phases of lesbian life. Coming from the position that the lives of lesbians are, in many ways, very unlike the lives of heterosexual women or gay men, Dyke Life ~ves an inside perspective of lesbian marriage, parenting, stereotypes and lesbians in corporate America, among 0{her topics. There are five parts to Dyke Life: 1) Relating to Others, 2) Relating to Each Other, 3) Sex and Gender Identity, 4)The Public World, and 5) The Lesbian Body. Each section includes several entries by both well-known and obscure lesbian writers. Some of the better-known authors include JoAnn Lonlan, Del Martin, Leslea Newman and Rutt~&im Robson, all of whom have other books available in the library. The entry rifled "outing and the Politics of the Closet," by Victoria Brownworth, is an entertaining examination of the social circumstances which make the outing of women a difficult and sensitive proposition. "Creating Lesbian Families," by Heather Conrad and Kate Colwell shows the challenges and controversies surrounding lesbian parenting. One of the more unusual entries is by Hon. PanlaJ. Hepner, who is a judge on the New York State Family Court. Her entry is titled, "Oy Veh, t’he Judge on the Bench is a Dyke!’" Another valuable entry is by Jeanne Adleman, member of Old Lesbians Organizing for Change (OLOC), who contributes, "We Never Promised You Role Models." One of the best things about this book is the extensive bibliographical information that many entries contain. Often, not only books and magazines are cited, but organizarions as well, complete with address, fax and phone numbers. For aninteresting and enlightening treat, check,out Dyke Life. This and other books on similar topics are available at Tulsa City-County Libraries. Please call your local branch library or the Central Library Readers Services Department at 596-7966, for more information. traveling from around the region to participate in a picnic mad other festivities. Particular thanks went the support FUSO received from METSAS, Metropolitan Tulsa Substance Abuse Services.. On Feb. 15-19 , FUSO members are joining with members of Brother to Brother, an Oklahoma City organization, to attend the 9th Annual National Black Lesbian & Gay Conference, taking place in Dallas, titled, Black Lesbians and Gqvs: Continuing the Struggle. FUSO meets the 1st Thursday of each month at 6:30 pm at Rudisill North Regional Library, 1520 No. Hartford, 596- 7280. 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Burial Space for Just $200, pre-construction. by Phyl Boler-Schmidt An excitement has erupted in Eureka Springs, and you’ll find j.’ust about everyone talking about it - gay, straight, businessman, minister, lodging owner, photographer, realtor, even computer geek. Okay, especially computer geek! So, what’s :the fuss? ~ureka now has a whole lot of information available on the Internet and WorldWide Web. Most of it has just popped up, seemingly out of nowhere, in the last month. And, where is it coming from? Who would spend a lot of time promoting Eureka Springs? Positive Idea Marketing Plans (PIMP, for short) is the source of all the hubbub, and not surprisingly, PIMP is a family-owned and operated company. Jan and Kim Ridenour own PIMP, and they. have put their company in literal overdrive on this new project since the year began. You probably remember Jan and Kim. They are the soon-tobe- former owners of The EmeraldRainbow, andKim frequently writes the astrology column for Tulsa Family News, PIMP (among other things) owns its own Web domain, and the Ridenours have been processing and publishing pages on that domain (PIMPS.corn). Everything imaginable is available with the click of a mouse, mad new pages are being added daily. Just what is available for Eureka on the Web? As of this writing (you never know what else will be there by the time we are published and distributed)~ you can access pages about the town of Eureka, complete with gorgeous photographs, and there is also a page about the Ozark region. When you first see the pictures, some may seem familiar. That’s because many of the pictures are from the collection of Susan Storch, master photographer. Susan is responsible for many of the photos that appear on .postcards for Eureka and the reg~oni And Susan’s shop, The Imagery also has a page on the Web, complete with more samples of her work. There is a page for Weddings and Holy Unions and how to set up the honeymoon of your dreams right here in the Ozarks. A standard wedding page also exists (you know, standard - one boy, ,one girl), complete with more photos. Pond Mountain, a favorite bed and breakfast inn, has a page complete with details on lodging, wedding setups, honeymoons, and breathtaking photos. Two local realtor~ are represented in the Enreka pages: Century 21 Woodland Real Estate, a partly family-owned operation, and McClung Realty, a regular advertiser in these pages. For those of you that were fortunate to stop in and visit The Emerald Rainbow in the past year, you may have met Alice P(ig) Bailey. Alice now has her own page on the information superhighway, and even has an advice column. Stay tuned for pig astrology. There are a number offamilyspecific sites as well. In addition to the weddings and holy unions page, there is a site for g/l/b/t retreats, Our Worm Magazine is published on line, and Guru to Go, Kim’s astrology.page, is there too. So, I guess you could call tiffs Queer Eureka OnLine too. Local weather forecasts are easy to access, and there is a feature site of the week as well. Yahoo, one of the premiere Internet search engines can be acces sed, and you can download the latest in browser software. I know of several more pages that are in the making, and there are listings of pages that are due to be available soon. The Eureka pages continue to grow in number every time I look at the WorldWi’de Web. But, it doesn’t stop with Eureka Springs. The Internet and the Web are national and international communications systems. I+inks tO related sites can be found ~dl over the PIMP pages, and other companies that aren’t specific to Eureka Springs have an opportunity to get on the PIMP bandwagon too. If you have never had the opportunity to browse around the Web, it is a thrill you will not easily forget. Once a person realizes how easy ~t is to access an entire world of information with the click of a mouse, the task of looking things up in a phone book, a dictionary, or an encyclopedia becomes downright mundane. For those of you who are already on line: if you haven’t used thatWebbrowser that came with your signup package, give it a try. You’ll never look at a compute.r screenin quite the same way again. And, if you want a first place to look, use this address: http://www.pimps.com/ For you experienced Web browsers out there, go to the address above, then put it on a bookmark. New pages are being added all the time. Follow all the links on that front page, and you could easily spend a couple of hours just looking at what is available in and near Eureka Springs, and especially what is available that isfamily-specific If you don’t have a computer, or hive one and have not vet made the leap to cyberspace, n~w is the time. An entire world of information, resources, new friends, business contacts, and just plain fun is to be had. Since I’m your basic computer geek, this has been an especi,’dly exciting time for me. I have watched as numerous people have accessed the Web for the first time, and I gotta tell you, it’s an amazing thing to see thc excitement in the eyes of someone who has just discovered the answer to his or her dreams. If you don’t have access to the Interuet, find a friend who does. Buy the beer and bribe your friend into showing you how to access cyberspace. If you do have access, point your browser to the address given above. You can also reach PIMP by e-mail at emerald@intellinet.com. If you aren’t on line, or if youjust want to talk to a real live human, call 501-253-2401. Be brave. Step out. You’ll be glad you did! Georgia Ragsdale, who has filmed a movie, "’Never Met Picasso, soon to be released, with co-star Margot Kidder. Their shows have been sellouts wherever they’ve played. Tickets for this "Doh’t-miss"onc of a -kind show are available at the PAC and Carson Attractions, for S15.50 to $18.50. The show has one performance at 8 pm Saturday, March 16th Mark your calendars now, because this is one show yon won’t want to miss out on, and it’s the first of its kind in Tulsa. That’s progress ! O000000000000000000 ¯¯ A Friendly Place to Stay ¯ ¯¯ KING’S HI-WAY ¯¯ INN ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ 96 Kings Highway, Hwy. 62 W Eureka Springs, AR 72632 (501) 253-7311 1-800-231-1442 Jerry A. 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Clearly, the unquestionable winner in the all-night category has to be the Village Inn chain. While service quality varies a bit from store to store, it is generally reasonably prompt, and, as long as you. d.on’t have any special requests or instructions, reasonably efficient. Breakfast is.Village Inn’s forte. They " are Particularly known for theirextremely fluffy omelettes, made so by a quick whirl in the blender before cooking. Otherpopular breakfasts are the several varieties of "skillets", which feature diced potatoes, a meat, and onions and other vegetables, all sauteed together, and then topped with eggs to order and a sauce or gravy ofsome sort. Of course, you can also get sandwiches and regular diner food. We particularly like the Cobb salad, of mosdy iceberg lettuce, but topped with aplethora ofother tasty items like bleu cheese, fresh bacon, grilled chicken breast, an~ diced avocados. Be sure and ask if the avocados are ripe, since we were served hard and tasteless avocados on several occassions. Those of you not counting fat grams will no doubt be quite favorably impressed by the double cheeseburger, f~aturing two j’ulcv hamburger patties, grilled onions, ba0o~ ~trips, cheese, & thousand island dressing. Our biggest complaint with the Village Im] chain is that the3 close at midnight on Sunday and Monday nights. On those unfortunate nights, the default choice has to be Kettle. We are sorry to report that the corporate Kettle entity was recently purchased by Denny’s. None of the employees in any of the local stores are able to tell us whether ornot there will be any change in the restaurant’s Policies , orif the Kettle stores will become Dermy’s. Kettle’s food is pretty standard and generic fare. They also do a better job on dinner entrees than most of their competitors, but even so, none meet the excruciatingly high Jean-Pierre standards. Denny’s is the traditional American allnightrestaurant, andis the standard against which other competitors are measured. Fortunately for those competitors, the local Denny’s don’t meet the old Denny’s standard. Over the last three months, we made twovisits each to three ofthe local Deuny’s stores. In each case, the service was unacceptably slow. Twice we heard patrons at other tables get almost violently loud with their server over delays, wrong orders, and poor food. The most frequent problem we encountered was cold .food. Runner up was overcooked food. To make all of. this worse, Denny’s famous budgetsaver "Grand Slam"brealffast is not served during the midnight to 6 a.m period. Frequent road-trippers will no doubt be familiar with the Waffle House chain. Small and unpretentious, Waffle House can serve a decent and cheap breakfast. Unfortunately we found that food quality vanes greatly from store to store. All Waffle Houses have wmtresses that call their customers "Hon." It’s a tradition. But, what realh scares us at Waffle House is the fa~t tl~at your short-order cook works in full view.’Some thin2s are probably better left unsaid. Waffle House has an All You Can Eat special for $4.59, slightly higher during the 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. period, that is worth yourmoney and probably the best way for you to eat. The signature food is the pecan waffle, which appears hot off the iron golden brown, fragrant, and filled with pieces of pecan throughout the batter. We’ve never yet had a bad pecan waffle at a Waffle House. Other items are not so lucky. The grits we were served were a congealed mass of got bathed in some type of yellow oi!y substance we took to be melted margarine. Three ’local" restaurants exist Unfortunately, with no nadonal standards to meet, all three have definite short-comings, and we tend to avoid them. They are Mama Lou’s, Perry’s, and Kelly’s. So, as you can see, goodreaders,Tulsa’a late night dining scene Is not paricularly condusive to the gourmet experience. We do, however, have to ~ve honorable mentlons to the Whataburger and Tact Cabana chains. The food at Tact Cabana is pretty good, although not as good as what we’ve had at their San Antonio stores. Also, a favorite spot we had to mention is the Country Ketde/Texaco truck stop way out east of town on 1-44. Technically, it’s in Catoosa city limits, but just across the highway is sti]l within Tulsa city limits. Ourrecommendation?Hone vou~ gourmet skills at home for your friends. Eat before ten o’clock. Move to New York. Otherwise, head to a Village Inn, maybe eat at Tact Cabana, or try your luck with a gamble at one of the other restaurants. by James Christjohn ¯ If you missed the last two concerts in the Celtic Music series at the PAC, you : missed some great entertainment! Celtic music is the great-grandperson of bluegrass and country, yet has a quality all its ¯ own. Haunting and celebratory, often at the same time, it is great music to dis- , cover, or if you already have, to explore. ¯ Coming up is the third and final (sadly) ; concert of the Celtic Music Series, the ¯ Cassidys, 5musical Irish brothers (hate to be in the middle of one of their family ¯ spats!),atthePAC nMarch 13. They ve ¯ played for two Presidents, and filled Ra¯ dio City Music & Carnegie Halls. This will be their Tulsa debut. For info and ¯ tickets, call the PAC ticket office at 596- : 7111. And doit soon, because these shows ¯ usually pack the house! ¯ For an amusing evening, don’t miss ¯ Broken Arrow Community Playhouse’s ¯ production of"the Lion in Winter. This is ¯ the last weekend to catch it; Friday & ¯ Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 2pm. ¯ Catch the kiss in the second act - it’s quite a show stopper! (Not to mention the numerous pacemakers planted throughout ¯ the audience!) For info, call 258-0077. ¯ Well, I haven’t seen any ghosts lately, ¯ but I’ve been haunted by a Phantom. Yes, he looms large on the horizon... Oh, never ¯ mind, that’s not him, just my shadow! I ¯ really must stick to that diet more stricdy. ¯ Where was I? Oh, yeah, Phantom. THE ¯ Phantom, of Opera fame, is arriving the ¯ 22nd, and will haunt the PAC until March 23 - they’ve added a week. According to my info. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource [1996] Tulsa Family News, February 15-March 14, 1996; Volume 3, Issue 3 Subject The topic of the resource Politics, education, and social conversation toward Tulsa’s Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual communities. Description An account of the resource Tulsa Family News was a monthly newspaper; No. 1 issued December 1993-January 1994. The final issue available was published in September 0f 2001 (Volume 8, Issue 9). The newspaper brings up important, evolving topics of marriage, Pride, TOHR, HIV/AIDs, events, advice, and politics all at the local and national level. This document is available in searchable PDF attached. It is also available to be seen at the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center with permission. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Tulsa Family News 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 February 15-March 14, 1996 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource James Christjohn Phyl Boler-Schmit Barry Hensley Pat Morehead JD Jamett Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Tom Neal/Tulsa Family News 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 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/507 Relation A related resource Tulsa Family News, January 15-February 14, 1996; Volume 3, Issue 2 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://history.okeq.org/collections/show/24 African Americans AIDS/HIV AIDS/HIV discrimination AIDS/HIV drugs AIDS/HIV research arts and entertainment attorneys Barry Hensley Bars Bill Clinton businesses censorship churches custody Darly Jay Dave Fleischer domestic violence Don't Ask Don't Tell estate planning Eureka Springs FUSO gay panic harassment Health Briefs heresy homophobia James Christjohn Jean-Pierre Legrandbouche Leanne Gross marriage Murder Native Americans performing arts Phyl Boler-Schmidt RAIN restaurants schools sex education Shanti sodomy laws Stephen Fry That's Entertainment! threats Tom Neal Tulsa Family News Tulsa Native American AIDS Prevention Project Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights Tulsa Oklahoomans for Human Rights viatication https://www.history-okeq-org-red5.dev.unicomm.me/files/original/a29ac177c154144aaf80b3439d532d36.jpg 2abd74e3b5d1dcabaf2c21c0c102efb3 https://www.history-okeq-org-red5.dev.unicomm.me/files/original/b8126de44b90b8579e0412996278bf8c.pdf 2a83b379bbc6c933cac7b719a72a5abe 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 Serving Tulsa’s Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual Communities - Our Families of the Heart March 15 - April 14, 1996, Volume 3, Issue .1 Anti-Marriage ¯ Run for gourLives, Part2 Efforts Explode Around States I| GOP Presidential Primary and Anti-Gay Marriage Pledge DES MOINES - A number of anti-gay organizations - Colorado for Family Values, the Christian Coalition, the Eagle Forum, the Traditional Values Coalition, and others - drew several thousand fundamentalists together under an umbrella groupknownas the National Campaign to Protect the Sanctity of Marriage, asking all the Republican presidential primary hopefuls to sign their pledge against samesex marriages. Not surprisingly, three of the most outspokenly anti-gay candidates talk show host Alan Keyes, Patrick Buchanan, and Texas Sen. Phil Gramm - were on hand to sign the anti-gay pledge that declares that "the State should not legitimize homosexual relationships by legalizing same-sex ’marriage’ but should continue to reserve the special sanction of civil marriagefor onemanand onewoman as husband and wife." The other leading GOP hopefuls - Senate majority lea’fl~r Bob Dole of Kansas, former Tennessee Gov. Lamar Alexander and multi-millionaire publisher Steve Forbes - all said they would sign the anti-mama,g.e pledge as well, even though they didn t actually show up at the event. Hawaii Anti-Marriage Efforts HONOLULU-In their ongoing efforts to try to extricatethemselves from the politically and. socially charged issue of sanlesex mamages, the Hawaii state Senate’s judiciary committee has rejected 2 bills and accepted one. The committee nixed by a 1-6 vote a proposal that would have simply legalized same-sex marriages in the state. By a 3-4 vote, the senators also rejeetedaprol~s,al thatwonldhavebanned same-sex marriage in Hawaii. The lawmakers finally agreed by a 5-2 vote to accept a proposed measure that would institute a statewide domestic partnership, a compromise proposal that a state see Marriage, page 3 ’Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Doesn’t Work WASHINGTON-Ajust-issued reported says the compromise policy reached by the Clinton Administration with Congress that was aimed at lessening bias against gays and lesbiansin the U.S. armed forces is being widely violated by the military. Pentagon officialS, however, insist that .the so-called"don’task, don’t tell" policy, m effect now for two years, is working properly. The report by the Washington, D.C.-based group, Service Members Legal Defense Network, charges there is a continuing pattern of abuse by the armed service that has rendered the Administration’s policy toward gays and lesbians in the military as bad, if not worse, than its predecessor. The organization says that despite the seemingly more lenient approach, the nation’s military has recently been expelling more see Don’t ask, page 3 : Legislative Update ¯ OKC Gay Man Helps On Anti- Gay Measure, More on Way : Several OKC sources have accused an : OKC Gay man of misrepresenting him- , .self as a spokesperson of the entire state’s ¯ Gay communities in a behind-the-scenes ¯ deal with OK House Majority Leader :i Loyd Benson. Benson, aDemocrat who’d introduced an anti-Gay resolution, #1045, ¯ condemning teaching homosexuality as ¯ "natural" lifestyle, and adoption or foster ¯ care by Lesbians, Gays or Bisexuals sub- " stituted a bill allegedly at the urging of : Keith Smith who’s recently returned to ¯ Oklahoma after a several year absence "- andwho’s newly hired" as an ad. represen- ¯ tative for OKC’s The Perspective. ¯ The "new" language remains anti-Gay, ¯ condemning more specifically the Nat’l ¯ Education Assoc. for its Gay-positive ~ stands & stating that "those who engage ¯ in same-sex marriages should not be per- , mitted to adopt or provide foster care." ~ Several legislators, specifically Norman ¯ rep., Laura Boyd, who had promised to ¯" vote against #1045, stated that they only ¯ voted for this revised language because : they thought these changes were autho- : rized by "your representative". Both in ," OKC and particularly, in Tulsa, commu- ¯ nity leaders have raised concerns that ¯ individuals lobbying the Legislature ¯ should be clear that they represent only themselves unless they h~ve actually spo’- : ken with community~oups first. No of- , ricer of Tiiis~iOklahomans for Human ¯ -Rights, Rainbow Business Guild or ¯ PFLAG appears to have been contacted. ¯ House resolution #1045 passed 97-1. ¯ Tulsarep. Don Ross cast the only no vote. ¯ Members of several Tulsa groups orga- ¯ nized a calling campaign to thank Ross. : East Tulsa rep. Betty Boyd (Demo.) said : that the only call she received opposing #1045 was TFN’s and strongly suggested ¯" that Lesbians & Gays need to speak up. ¯ Worse yet, religious political extrem- ," ists, Rep. Tim Pope and Bill Graves at- ; tachedanti-Gayamendments tootherbills. ¯ One (to HB 2554 concermng divorce law changes) would ban the recognition of : same-gender marriage by Oklahom~ if ¯ theHawaii courts allow theminthefuture ~¯ abnildl,thHeBoth2e0r5(3a)ttabcahnesdatodothpeti"oRnyaonr Lfoukstee’"r ¯ care by a"known homosexual, lesbian or : see Sold Out. page 3 ¯ II !Native American i Gay Men Gathering ¯ TheTulsaNativeAmericanMenAIDS Project (TNAAPP) will hold a weekend : retreat on May 24-26. The event is open to ¯" all Gay or Bisexual Indian menregardless of tribe, blood quantum or HIV status. ~ Non-Indian parmers of attendees are wel- ¯ come. ¯ Those wlio attended a retreat in Feb. pral~&I the event’s traditional dancer and story-tellers and participants continue to ¯ meet weekly onWednesdays from 6-8pm. ," Future plans include a pow wow for Gay & Lesbian Native Americans. Call 582- ¯ 7225, ext. 218. :¯ TTrUusHteireessFiPrereTse.nWureitdhGAanytPi-rGofaeyssRoerAcomridd Charges of Blackmail Against Univ. by Tom Neal " terhead stationary, of the Paris-Jackson In February, trustees of the University . of Tulsa hired new president Robert Lawless, currently president of Texas Technical University (Tech), to re~ place Robert Donaldson. After the public announcement of Lawless’ hiring on Feb. 19th, major daily newspapers across the Southwest (Dallas Morning News, Houston Chronicle, Daily Oklahoman) and The Associated Press carried reports of anti-Gay comments made by Lawless in a 1993 letter. Lubbock news reports indicate that Lawless responded on Feb. 9 to a complaint by a local resident, Wayson Gerwig, about the appearance on Tech’s campus by Rod & " Bob Paris-Jackson. Bob Paris-Jackson won notoriety as a top competition body " builder. With his partner, fitness instruc’- : tor Rod Paris-Jackson, the pair toured the US (includingan appearance atTU) speak- " ing on Gay & Lesbian marriages. : .According to The Universttv Daily ¯ (UD), Lawless wrote, on Texas "~ech let- " event as "’one of the. greatest disappointments ~n my role as President at Texas Tech.’" He added "the deviant lifestyles portrayed by these individuals is something I can never condone, and hold in great contempt." Students from Tech’s Gay, Lesbian & Bisexual Students group (GLBS) attempted to meet with Lawless in Oct. of ’94, after thc letter was mailed anonymously to the GLBS. According to the UD, the student requestipg.the ~eeting was told by ~’iess" assistant that Lawless would not meet with the student, his opinions had~ noL changed, and that he would not comment further. That same October,The Lubbock Avalanche- Journalreported that whenGLBS officer Roy Mendoza took a complaint about Lawless" remarks to the Texas Tech Board of Regents, neither the board or Lawless responded toGLBS concerns but after the meeting, Tech released a written see Lawless. page 2 :HIV. Education & Recreation Center ¯ Bruce Begley, a Tulsa man living with ¯ AIDS, with several others, has begnn cre- ¯ ating a new sen’ice organization for per- ¯, sons living with HIV AIDS, The HI\" Education&Recreation Center. Begley’s : vision is for a place where persons living ¯, withAIDs(PLWA’s)couldgoforfitness, ¯ recreation and for services that supple- " ment the existing HIV.AIDS agencies. ; Many in the Tulsa community have ¯ responded to his vision by joining the -" board ofthenewly incorporated non-profit : and by donating goods, services and ¯ money toward the HIV-ERC’s fund to ¯ apply for IRS ta~x -exempt status. Newly ¯ rettedboardmembers include local thera- ¯ pist, Sandra Hill, vice president, Steve ," Wilson, treasurer and local businessman, : Scott Perry among others. Begley has spoken to local organizations such as i DignityiIn.tegrity and the Rainbow Business Guild (RBG) about his vi, ¯ sion. The membership of RBG voted in February to donate the balance needed to ¯ pay the IRS application fee. ¯ ,although Begley stresses that the HIV¯ ERC is intended to supplement existing HIV services, he confesses he’s been ¯ shocked by some of the hostility that he’s ¯ experienced from other HIV services pro- " viders. He says he repeatedly heard con- " cerns about"duplicating services". Begley says others have been more supportive, ¯ such as Janice Nicklas of the Community Service Council and Hilary Kitz (ofMayor ¯ Susan Savage’s office) who’s active in ¯ HIV/AIDS volunteer work. ¯ see H1V-ERC, page 3 :INSIDE EDITORIAL P..2 DIRECTORY P., 2 NEWS BRIEFS P. 4 ¯ HEALTH BRIEF~ P. 6 CALENDAR p. ~ : Unity Gardens i First in Country : While Lesbian and Gay activists ¯ struggle for the fight to have our relation- " ships recognized in life, two Tulsa men, ~ Russell Langley-Stumpff and David ¯" Stumpff, are providing a place where Les- ¯ bians and Gay men can have their rela- : tionships and identifies recognized in per- : petuity. The men, who are partners in life ¯ as well as business, have created Unity ¯ Gardens, which may be the first project of : its t~lae in the US. Unity Gardens is a ~ special part of Washington Memorial ¯ Cemetarvwhere LesbianandGay couples, : family, find friends can either have burial : plots; niches in the crematorium, or be : remembered on a memorial wall that ¯ stands beside a scattering ground. ¯ ¯ Unity Gardens will fly a rainbow Pride flag at its center 24hours a day,and on the ¯ day of services, each of the 10 flag poles ¯ that mark the road to Unity Gardens will ¯ also fly a Pride flag under the regular ¯ American flags. And while Unity Gardens are non-sectarian, religious o’r other organizations can reserve a section for their members which could have a reli- ¯ gious symbol marking their area. At least one local congregation is said to be considering this. 918.583.1248 POB 4140 Tulsa, Oklahoma 74159-0140 TulsaNews@aol.com Publisher/Editor Issued on or before the 15th of each month, the entire contents of Tom Neal this publication are protected by US copyright 1996 by Tulsa Family Assistant Editor News and may not be reproduced either in whole or in part without James Christjohn written permission from the publisher. Publication of a name or Writers/contributors photo does not indicate that person’s sexual orientation. Phyl Boler-Schmidt Correspondence is assumed to be for publication unless otherwise Barry Hensley noted, must be signed & becomes the sole property of Tulsa Family Pat Morehead News. All correspondence should be sent to the address above. Each Staff Photographer reader is entitled to one free copy of each edition at distribution JD Jamett points. Additional copies are available by calling 583-1248. The University of Tulsa has long sought to be compared to the best private universities in the US: Rice, Stanford, Yale, etc. However, somehow its trustees and administrators haven’t figured out that there is a connection between their actions and TU’s continued failure to rank with these schools. By hiring a documented, and at least publicly unrepentant anti-Gay bigot, Robert Lawless, for its new president, TU’s trustees again prove that they just don’t understand that TU cannot embrace prejudice and be a"world-dass"institution. Former Texas Tech president Lawless certainly has aconstitutional right to his bias,just as does a Klansman or a white-supremacist, but usually those opinions disqtmlify a candidate as a leader of university, There is little doubt that if Lawless had been speak)ng about Jews or Catholics, instead of Gays and Lesbians,:when he said in 1993, "the deviant lifestyles portrayed by these individuals is something that I can never condone, and hold in great contemPt,~’ :that Lawless’ hiring would not have occurredl It certainly would not have without some apology or repudiation, which he has refused to make publicly forover three years. Lawles~S; only regrets appear to have been made only just a few weeks ago to the TU Search Committee. This seems awfully late and mighty, convenient. Some members of the Search Committee claim thaLLawless while at Texas Tech didn’t permit his .prejudice to affect his treatment of openly Gay professors. However, other Tech sources indicate that Lawless, in fact, attempted to censor the speaking engagement of Rod & Bob Paris-Jackson, about which his remarks were made. It also is amply clear, from both the Tech newspaper and the LubbockAvalanche-Journal. that Lawless" alleged "’fairness" to professors did not extend to Gay Tech students with whom he refused to meet. Even worse than Lawless’ "’regretted" remarks. however, is the decision ofTU’ s Board ofTrustees’ Search Committee to recommend hiring Lawless with full "knowledge of his remarks. This endorsement Of 14i?~prejudice combines with the refusal several Years ago of TU’s Board of Trustees to add sexual ~nentation protections to TU’s non-discrimination policy*, and with its recent firing of openl~G~i3’ professor Jim Reid (see related editoria!),~ to?di~monstrate the comnutment of the Univcrs~ ty of Tulsa to "World-Class Bigotry" rather than "World-Class Excellence." - Tom Neal *prof. of law M. Chapman notes TU’s policy may. or may not. provide bias protection stnce it mc:ludes legally vague language rather than the standard term. sexual orientation. bisexual". Each bill was passed, as amended by the House, 98-2. Longume political observers hope that HB 2554 will not get.out of the Senate Judiciary committee, headed by Sen. Bernice Shedrick (D-Stillwater) and that the amendment language attached to the popular "Ryan Luke" bill can be removed in committee or in conference with the House. These observers strongly recommend polite calls to Sen. Shedrick’s office asking her to.help eliminate the tmconstitutional anti-Gay provisions. A Senator on the Judiciary committtee declined to comment but added that he felt it likely that HB 2554 would not make it if enough calls were made. (Senate switchboard: 405-524-0126) Dr. James Reid vs. TU Some will find Dr. James Reid’s choices in activities & friends to be worse than the actions of the University of Tulsa. His judgement was clearly poor in getting involved in a friendship of some intimacy (though no sex) with someone who was initially his student. Videotaping their horseplay (which is likely milder than some of TU’s former fraternity hazing) also was foolish. But the actions of the University’s officials, legal counsel, & professors with their wanton disregard for their own rules is more shameful than Reid’s video-taped flogging. The surrender to the worst bias, disregard for academic standards, the destruction of career of a highly regarded scholar, and abandonment of fair p!-.,,y suggest that the TU officials responsible are the ones who deserve to be shamed publicly - if not flogged themselves. - Tom Neal TU : osed to continuedfrom page 1, less is morally opp "homosexual lifestyles does not mean that he is a bigot". Roselle Graskey, a member of Tech’s GLBS, notes that Lawless" statements were a direct violation of Tech:s "’student dignity handbook" which calls on the university to help "’students learn to recognize, understand and celebrate human differences.... [including] lifestyle". Graskey also charges that Lawless did not merely speak out against Lesbians and Gay men, but actually attempted to block the event by pressuring the independent student board that made the decision to invite the Paris-Jacksons. This claim is supported by Lawless’ letter in which he says, "there is a group ~)f individuals on this campus that serve as an Advisory Board to the students who plan the progranunihg in the UC [University Center]. These advisers could have, and should have, acted responsibly in their roles to identify this program as being u/tfit for a university campus and vetoed it from the slate of program offerings that were proposed." (editor’s note: emphasis added) Members ofTU’s Search Committee were aware of Lawless’ remarks prior to recommending his luting according to Business prof. PC Smith. Members. of the Search Committee spoke with individuals. on the Tech campus, who claim that Lawless did not discriminate against openly Gay professors arid even experienced some harassment from anti- Gay forces when he did not block an openly Gay prof. from an endowed chair. Several TU sources claim that these remarks no longer represent his views, teasingly implying that Lawless had some personal reasons for either his hostility or for his alleged change of heaxt. However, all the members of the Search Committee who are TU trustees and who we were able to contacted refused to discuss the matterm any substantive way. One referred all "calls to trustee Fulton Collins who refused to return phone calls, although Collins spoke readily to The Tulsa Worm(The Wormowners, RobertandRoxana Lorton are both TU trustees). Lawless also refused to return repeated calls. TU press representative, Michele Cruncleton, specifically stated "I’m not going to let you speak with him [Lawless]." Also in February, the TU board of trustees voted unanimously to fire Jim Reid, a tenured Gay professor of physics. Dr. Reid was accused of sexual harassment by a 26 year old, one-time student, Marlin Pohlman. Copies ofTU documents indicate that trustees fired Reid despite the findings of the majority of a University Appeals Board that Dr. Rcid’s procedural rights were violated and that TU see TU, page 10 Tulsa Clubs & Restaurants *Bamboo Lounge, 7204 E. Pine *Barraccuda’s, 2405 E. Admiral *Concessions, 3340 S. Peoria *Ground Zero, 311 E. 7th *Lola’s, 2630 E. 15th *Silver Star Saloon, 1565 Sheridan *Renegades/Rainbow Room, 1649 S. Main *TNT’s, 2114 S. Memorial *Tool Box, 1338 E. 3rd 832-1269 582-4340 744-0896 585-5622 749-1563 834-4234 585-3405 660-0856 584-1308 Tulsa Businesses, Services, & Professionals Dermis C. 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The case, brought on behalf of former Navy Petty Office Mark Philips, is being argued before the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Attorneys from theACLU,representing Philips, contend the "don’t ask, don’t tell" policy adopted by Congress and the Clinton Administration violated the equal protection & free speech provisions of the Constitution. Philips was serving on the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz in 1992 when an officer asked him about his sexual orientation. Philips answered honestly & was discharged. Now 25 years old, Philips served nearly 6 years before being kicked out of the Navy and received a number of commendations for his performance, inc. dudinga Bronze Starfor service in Desert Storm. U.S. District Court in Seattle last year rejected Philips’ lawsuit, agreeing with government attorneys that his none of his constitutional rights had been violated by the policy. Red Rock Mental Health of Oklahoma City has opened a Tulsa office providing individual and group therapy, HIV education & prevention. Therapy is available to PLWA’s, their loved ones and individuals at risk of HIV infection. Betsy Murphy, MSW, CTRS is co-ordinator. Contact: 584-2325, fax, 582- 2384, 302 S. Cheyenne, #108, 74103. and AIDS First Regional Begley’s sense of what is needed is " based in part in his own experiences with local HIV/AIDS service organizations - both as a client and as an advocate for " other clients who are more ill. His vision " ultimately would include weight and fitness equipment, swimming, tennis, in essence, a health club for the community. " He’d als0 like to have on site counselors " tO. help with, mental, ~health issues, and ¯ drug and alcohol problems. One service ¯ he’d like to see offered wouldbe prescrip- " tion medicine assistance that would"kick- ¯ in" after PLWA’s have reache.d the limits ¯ of assistance that other agencies provide. " Musing over the personal attacks that he’s experienced thus far, Begley notes that in Tulsa some other social service agencies that provide assistance for lower " income persons, Project Get Together, ¯ Neighbor for Neighbor and Catholic Charities, all duplicate some of the same ¯ services but all seem to co-exist. He just . shakes his head in wonder that trying to ¯ help folks in need brings out a fist instead ¯ of a welcoming hand. : For more information about or to do- ." hate to the HIV-ERC, write Bruce Begley, ¯ president, 1210 S. Cheyenne, Ste. 208, Tulsa 74119 or call 587-1059. ." commission impaneled to study the ques- "_ tion had put forward after the state su- ¯ preme court made it clear that there was a . good chance Hawaii may be legally re- " quired to recognized gay andlesbian mar- ." riages. A just-released Honolulu Adver- ¯ tiser-Channel 2 News poll indicates that, ¯ despite the state’s strong liberal reputa- : tion. 71% of the voters polled said they ." oppose same-sex marriage, while only : 18% said they favored extending mar- . riagerights to same-gender couples. Some o 9% of those polled indicated they were ¯ undecided or didn’tknow. As anindicator ¯ of how worried some state lawmakers are . A comprehensive one-day conference to raise awareness and protnote discussion about the special issues affecting women in the second deco~de ofAIDS. Keynote speaker: Mary Fisher, Family AIDS Network Tuesday, April 2, 8am-5pm University of Tulsa, Chapman Activity Center 440 So. Gary Ave. Registration: $35, includes lunch, breaks and materials. Sunday Services 11:00 am ¯ Wednesday Services 6:30 pm, 7:30 pm Choir Practice ¯ Thurs. 7:30 pm Codependency Support Group Todo justice, love mercy & to walk humbly with OlD" God... Micah 6:8 5451-E South Mingo Tulsa, OK 74146 . (918) 622-1441 becoming, 8 state representatives, backed by Pat Robertson’s American Center for Law and Justice, have filed a court motion to be allowed to intervene in the suit that initially raised the same-sex marriage issue in the state. The brief in the case is strongly critical of the Hawaii attorney general’s office for not adequately defending the state against the lawsuit. Anti-Marriage Legislative Update State legislatures around the country are continuing in their efforts to ban samesex mamages, although with very little actual effect it seems. In New Mexico, Senate majority leader Tom Rutherford sent an anti-marriage resolution on the issue back to the rules.committee because no hearings had been hdd.The proposed measure would ask voters there to amend the state constitution. The resolution is thus dead for this session. Washington state Republican legislators have all but conceded that a proposed ban on same-sex marriage in the state will probably never make ~t out of a state senate committee controlled by the Democrats. Washington state Senate leader Sid Snyder said the anti-gay measure was not slated for committee hearings and will be allowed to die there. The Washington House of Representatives had approved the measure on a 60-36 vote to prohibit same-sex marriages in the state. Gov. Bill-Janklow has signed a bill approved recently by the South Dakota legislature that would refuse recognition in the state to same-sex couples that might be legally married elsewhere and that restricts marriage to opposite-sex couples only. The measure, which died last year in the legislature and looked as if it would suffer the same fate again this year when a committee voted not to report the measure to the legislature for a vote, is the 2nd to become law. One immediate - and surprising - side-effect of the bill being signed into law is that Jacques Soukup and KirkThomas. notable balloonists who are also longtime partners, have withdrawn their support for the Governor’s Cup hot-air ballooning event in the state. The 2 men, founders of the Soukup & Thomas International Balloon and Airship Museum in !vfitchell, S.D., told the Governor’s Cup committee that they Share the Joy Through Flowers Sunday, April 7, 1996 AFS "Spring Basket" Bouquet T. MINGO VALLEY 9720-C E. 31st St. 663-5934 Daphane Cooper AFS 96-EAB1 BROOKSIDE JEWELRY 4649 South Peoria 743-5272 Corner of 48th & Peoria 9:30 - 5, Mon. - Fri. couldn’t be "associated with a government that has just passed a mean-spirited and hateful piece of legislation that hurts US.’" In Illinois, a bill preventing thc state ¯ from recognizing same-gender mamagc ¯ passed a state senate committee ou : Wednesday, March 6, with little opposition. Same-sex marriages "’would destroy ¯ thedefinitionofmarriageas wcknow it," : said state Sen. Peter Fitzgerald (R- : Inverness), the measure’s sponsor. The ¯ bill. which passed 8-2, now goes to the ¯ Senate floor. It puts same-sex Weddings ~ on a listofmarriages barred in Illinois. "’If : we let homosexuals marry, what’s next’?" ¯. said David Curtin, executive director of the Illinois Christian Coalition. And according to a report in the gay paper, Wisconsin Light, state Rep. Dean Kaufert has announced plans to intr~xiucc a measure barring same-sex mamagcs in the state as well. The paper reports the measure has not yet been drafted. Lawmakers have voted 86-11 in the Iowa House of Representatives for a bill that would prohibit the state from recognizing same-sex marriages. Some political observers in the state have suggested the legislation, which was introduced by state Rep. Steve Grnbbs (R-Davenport), was mainly a partisan issue because Grubbs is running for the Republican nomination to unseat U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, a Democrat. In Alabama, State Sen. Bill Armistead, who recently led a battleto keep a gay and lesbian conference from being held on the campus at the University of Alabama, is proposing a"marriage protection act" that he says would strengthen traditional heterosexual marriages by barring the statc from recognizing same-sex marriages, even if legally recognized elsewhere. Michigan state Rep. Deborah Whyman has drawn fire for introducing a bill in the legislature that would forbid reco~fizing same-sex marriages in the state, even if see Slates, page 11 News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News ¯ lowed to join the nation’s mili- sexuals andpeople withdisabili- " policy is reviewed by the Euro- " Columbia; and Winnipeg police Tutu & Anglican Leaders ." Call for Change LONDON-Hundreds ofprominent Episcopal clerics from around the world signed an ad- ~ vertisement commending the ] Lesbian and Gay Christian ¯ Movement on the ~roup’s 20th : anniversary ofworking to change the Anglican Church’s views on ¯ homosexuals. Bestki~ownofthe -" signatories of the ads, which ] appeared in Anglican, Methodist and Catholic religious publications in Britain, was Desmond Tutu, Archbishop ofCapeTown, South Africa. Tutu was joined in signing the ads by three other Anglican primates from around the world, as well as several bishops from theChurch of England, as thedenomination was about to begin its annual synod. The three other church primates included: Archbishops Richard ltolloway of Scotland, Michael Peers of .,Canada, and Bishop Fxtmrnd Browmng of the United States. Although not attending the cfiurch synod, Tutu spoke on the BBC ~’Radio Sunday" show via telephone. "’If we say that relationships where there is fidelity between one couple a~e acceptable, whv.,should we not extend, the san~e, conditions to stone-sex relationships?" Tutu told the BBC, say~ing it was simply a "matter ofjustice, compassion and consistency’" for the church to accept that there are homc/sexual Clergy, who technically are barred from being ordai~ edin the Anglican Church. So. Africa A nti-Bias Laws CAPE TO\V..~.. South Africa - Politicians,nfilitary leaders and defense indnstry representatives have begun discussions on the role mid nature of South Africa" s maned’forces, includingwhether gays and lesbians should be altary force. The meeting is expected to produce a report later this year that would be used by the defense mimstry to guide it in formulating specific policies concerning the armed forces. Defense ministry, officials noted that the national armed services in the country have never actu. ally had any policy excluding individuals based on their sexual orientation, but African National Congress officials have pushed for including the topic of sexual orientation in the defense review discussions South Africa’s interim Constitution includes prohibitions against discrimination based on sexual orientation, but the complex process of getting from the interim document to a final Constitution faces a number of difficulties andANC leaders are making a determined effort to try to keep it headed in the most progressive direction. Also according to Mpho Makwana, director of the equal opportumties office in South Africa’s Labor Dept., the government ~s wor’king on a comprehensive program for affirmative action that would "’include mainly blacks, but also women, homosexuals and handicapped people." Makwana made the statement during a roundtable discussion earlier this year broadcast on South Africa’s TV1. He did not give d.etails of the affirmative acnon plans, but Makwana said it would"not be a stand-alone lmv, with a quota for compames to implement affirmative action and punishing the company which does not comply." Instead. he said the plan as being developed would aim at getting firms to include personnel training andhuman resources development programs to encourage blacks, women, homoties already wor’king in a company to move into middle- mad upper-management in that finn. CompuServe Reinstates Internet Groups COLUMBUS, Ohio - Compu- Serve Inc., the computer on-line g~ant ownedby H&RBlock, says it has given its 4.3 million subcribers access again to somc 200 Intemet newsgroups that it had banned in Deceniber alter a German state prosecutor questioned whether the groups included illegal sexually .related materials. The compnter sen’ice said at the time that it could not selectively restrict Interact materials bv comatry mad had therefore blocked access to the groups to all its subscribers. Included among some of the balmed groups were several that contain explicidy adult material. But a number of the banned newsgroups were gay and lesbian discussion and support groups, including one for younger gays that specifically barred pornographic ulaterials. CompuServe says it will now give its subscribers software that will let them pick which - if any - material they don’t want to be able to access. The finn believes parents will use the bloc’king utilities to keep children from seeing or reading nmtefial they don’t deem appropriate. : UK to Keep Military Ban : LONDON - The Daily Tele- : graph reports that based on a vet-to-be-released report by the ~ ]3ritish MinistryofDefense, gays and lesbians constitute an "affront to service people" and will ] not be allowed to serve in the ] British military. But the defense ¯ ministry report also predicts that ¯ when a legal challenge to the United Kingdom’s anti-gay ~_ pean Court of Human Rights, ¯ arrested Robert E. Welsh, 24. the govennnent is "’likely to lose" The fourth suspect in the killing, ¯ thecase, which may not come to " Gary A. Kuffner, 27, also of ¯ afinaldecisionbytheEUcourts " Winnipeg, is currently being ¯ before the year 2000. The paper sought. Last year in a high-pro- ¯ said the 450-page nmfistry re" " file investigation of Canadian ¯ port, which it had obtained, is ¯ armed forces, McKay acknowl- ¯ expected to be released soon and " edged - and publicly renounced ¯ concludes that while changing ~ - his ties to several nee-Nazi & : attitudes about lesbians and gay ~ ¯ mcn may justify further reviews ¯ ¯ of the and-gay ban in the future, ~ ¯ "it may equally be that the per- ¯ :~ manent features of the military ¯¯ enviroument are such that it will ¯ never be possible to integrate homosexuals" in the nadon’s : maned forces. 3 Charged in Killing Of ¯ Canadian Man : WINNIPEG, Calmda-Canadian : authorities have arrested 3 men ¯ and are seeking a 4th - who are ¯ believed linked to white su- :. premacist and nee-Nazi organi- : z,ations - in comaection the brutal 1991 mad-gay murder ofGordon Kuhtev. Kuhtey was killed on ’ the mo’nfing ofWinnipeg’s 1991 ~ gay pride celebration, June 30, ¯ as he walked along a riverbank ¯ footpath. AccordingtoWimfipeg ¯ police, Kuhtey was suddenly confronted by at least four young men who savagely beat him in the head, then tossed him into the nearby river and proceeded to hurl stones at his floating body. He died of massive head injuries. Althongh Wilmipeg authorities had little luck in tracking down Kuhtey’s killers, the police homicide and hate crimes refit kept the case open and dog- " gedly continued their investigation. In late February their persistence paid off and the 29th Calgary police arrested Matthew A. McKay, 25, in that city; Penticton Royal Canadian Mounted Police also arrested Jmnes R. Lisik, 22, in British white supremacist groups. Anti-Gay Crimes in SF SAN FRANCISCO -The S.F. ~olice department’s hate crimes unit says that bias-based crimes rose 23% to 350 incidents in 1995 over the previous year, the anti-gay and -lesbian incidents constituting both the largest single category and the largest increase. The hate crimes unit reported that 144- or41% - of all such crimes reported in .1995 were based on sexual orientation and that anti-gay incidents increased nearly a third last year over 1994. Police said it was not dear whether the number of reported incidents reflected an actual surge in anti-gay attacks or was a result of greater willingness on the part of gays and lesbians to report such incidents because of increased publicity of attacks. Anti-Gay Attacks Ignored in Kentucky , MOREHEAD, Ky. - Morehead State Ulfiversity officials disagreed with an instructor’s claim that.an attack on a female student was part of a patteru of campuswide gay-bashing at the school. 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Utah: NotO Eq ual Access " SALT LAKE CITY - The Utah ¯ Boardof Education is writing to " the state’s congressional delega- " tion asking them to back federal ¯ legislation that would make it ¯ legal for local school districts to -" decide what nonacademic clubs " can be allowed on their cam- ¯ puses. The Salt Lake City school ¯ board has also writing a similar " letter condemning the federal ¯ governmentforforcing theboard ¯ to ban all non-academic clubs " just so schools there wouldn’t " have to recognize a gay and les- ¯ bian club that students had asked ¯ to form. The Salt Lake City let- " ter says the school board was ¯ forced into the ban "’under du- ¯ ress" because of a federal law " guaranteeing equal access to " school actavitles for all groups . and clubs. Although the letters both blame federal laws for the dilemma they’rein, both of them ." carefully sidestep mentiomng . that the law - the Equal Access Act - was sponsored by Sen. ¯ Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) so that " Bible clubs and religious ori- ¯ ented groups could meet in public schools. Meanwhile, a group of stu-¯" dents at Cottonwood High . School have am~ounced plans to launch a gay-straight student alliance similar to one proposed at ¯ gered a national furor. Students Cara Varallo and Brin Bon say they met with Cottonwood Principal Michael Bennett to discuss creatinga gay-straight club next fall at the school. On Feb. 20, the Salt I~ake City School Board voted4-3 to end all nonacademic clubs rather than allow ~the gay school club. The Cottonwood students, say .they ,already have 10 students to join the club. Gay Studies at Berkeley BERKELEY, Calif. - The University of California at Berkeley this semester has begun its Lesbian, .Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Studies minor, the first gay studies minor in the University of California system. The new minor, part of the College of Letters and Science’s Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Studies (UGIS) department, offers four basic core courses and a list of electives dealing with homosexuality, past and present. Initial plans for the minor got started when students at the school in- 1990 protested about the lack of a gay studies program at the university. Some 2.0, active UC staff, faculty and students have been involved in formulating the curriculum. CA Court Rules Against Undercover Stings SAN FRANCISCO - The California supreme court has unanimously ruled in favor of 2 Santa Clara (Calif.) County men- Dennis Baluyut and Job Lopez - saying a pattern of anti-gay discrimination in police arrests was sufficient to demonstrate they were being singled out by authorities in a pohce sting operation by Mountain View police. Attorneys for the city’s police had argued that the 2 men had to legally prove the officers who ¯ store for soliciting sex with an ¯ undercover officer had intended ¯ to single out gays for arrests. ¯ Baluyut and Lopez filed a law- . suit, arguing that arrest records ¯ alone showed a pattern of dis- " cnmination by police in arrest- . lng gays in such sting opera- " t.ions, mid the state’s high court ¯ Sided with the 2 men on appeal. Kentucky Privacy Bill ¯¯ FRANKFORT, Ky. - Ithadmore to do with the kinds ofenormous ¯ computer data files maintained ¯ On pe0pid by bank~, credit agdn- ¯ cies, and other public and pri- ¯ vale organizations, but the stun- " ningly simple idea of adding an ¯ explicit right to privacy to the Kentucky constitution has law- " makers and politicians through- " out the state worried about a ¯ "hidden agenda" covering ev- ¯ erything from abortion rights to ¯ sodomy. But the proposed ¯ amendment to the state’s "Bill ; of Rights" was introduced by ¯ one of the legislature’s most re- " spected lawmakers, state Rep. ¯ Joe Clarke, a member of the ¯ House since 1970 and its one- " time speaker. What’s more, ¯ Clarke, a Danville, Ky., Demo- ¯ crat, says he’s not overly con- . cerned that his proposed consti- " tutional amendment might le- ¯ galize sodomyormake anti-abor- ¯ tion restrictions void. Among ¯ other things, Clarke noted that ¯ the state supreme court has al- ¯ ready ruled that there is an im- ¯ plied right toprivacy in the Ken- " tucky constitution and that it ¯ means laws against sodom) are ¯ themselves unconstitutional. So ¯ Clarke says he’s not especially ¯ concerned that enshrining the ¯ right to privacy in the constitu- ¯ tion would have much impact one way or the other on social legislation. Even so, Clarke says fellow lawmakers remain suspimakes him pessimistic about its chances. "I think it’s an important issue....I don’t think it has much of a chance this tilne.’" New Hampshire Policies CONCORD. N.H. - A group of , parents aud other concerned citizens have filed suit against the Merrimack school board in U.S. District Court, char~ng that the ¯ ¯ board’s recently adopted policy of prohibiting any materials that have "the effect of encouraging or supporting homosexuality as a positive lifestyle alternative" violatedFirst Amendment rights of free speech. The suit claims that the policy has led to books being removed from schools, classroom discussions being cut off, and curriculum topics being restricted. At a press conference, Debra Herget, one of the plaintiffs in the suit and the mother of 3 children attending schools in the district, said, "’This policy ¯ .hurts and distorts the education ¯ of students every day. Now is ¯ the right time to put au end to it ¯- and return to the sound policies which have always guided our children’s education in the past.’" Recently, the New Hampshire’s legislature voted 293-35 to send a proposed measure adding sexual orientation to the state’s civil rights statutes for "’extended stud)’.’" The move effectively puts the proposal on hold for this year while a legislative committee studies the measure and reports back to the full legislature next fall. Alabama Gay Conf. TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - The Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual College Conference of the Southeastern United States went ahead at the University of .Alabama, more or less without incident, despite attempts by state officials to block the confab taking Just days before the conference was slated to start, a federal distrier courtjudge rejected the statc attorney general’s argument that the confereuce was illeg~d and ruled that the conference would go ahead as plmmed. As the conference itself got started, the managerofWMCF-TV, a Christian Broadcasting Co. television affiliate~ charged the statiou’s First Amendmentrights had been violatedwhen organizers refused to let his TV crew videotape the conference’,s, w~rkshops. Organizers of the meeting; however, said videotaping the event wotfld have been disruptive and would have violated the privacy rights of those attending. Mont. Sodomy Law Out HELENA, Mont. - Moutana District Court Judge Jeffrey Sherlock has ruled that the state" s sodomy law is ,an unconstitutional infringement of privacy protections guaranteed under state law. State officials are expected to appeal the ruliug to the state supreme court, although the attorney general’s office gave no indication of its intentions about the ruliug, which orders the state not to enforce the law. The 1973 felony statute "called for up to 10 year~ in prison and a fine of up to $50,000. No one had ever been prosecuted under the law. Judge Denies Custody RICHMOND, Va. - A Virginia judge has again rejected an appeal by lesbian mom Sharon Bottoms in her 3-year efforts to gain custody of l~er son Tyler. Ironically Judge \Villimn B’oice questioned Bottoms" financial ability to care for her son, while he criticized herfor si~nng a $75,000 contract to allow ABCTV to make a television movie about her struggle for custody. 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At a press conference, Patricia Fleming, the AIDS policy office director, described the report on AIDS and American youth "a call for action" to intensify AIDS prevenuon efforts in the country’s schools and communities with a greater role for young Americans in the fight against the epidemic. Health officials say the teenage infection proportion is about the same as it was in the mid-1980s, despite dramaficall.,, increased awareness of the disease. That means many adolescents either are not getting the message about AIDS prevention, or they do not have the skills or desire to protect themselves from being exposed to the virus even if they "know how it is spread.The only declinein infection rates among racial" or ethnic groups was among young white males. KS Virus Identified SAN FRANCISCO - Researchers at the University of California at San Francisco report in the journal Nature Medicine that they have finallyidentified thc,_organism that causes Kaposi "s sarcoma, a once-rare skin cancer that now strikes thousands of people with AIDS. Kaposi’s Sarcoma was, in fact, the first indication noted by doctors in 1981 that some unusual h~alth problem was affecting gay meu. The researchers, headed by Dr. Don Ganem at UC-SF, isolated the microbe, -known as KS-associated herpes virus or human herpes virus 8 (HHVS). It ~s one of a growing number of retro-viruses that scientists ha~,’e only just begun discovering and identifying in the past few decades. HIV Strain Raises Fears of Heterosexual Epidemic+,~- BOSTON" - Writing in the journal Science. 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Public-Private Vaccine Venture WASHINGTON - Government AIDS officials have unveiled plans for a cooperative private-public venture aimed a developing an AIDS vaccine by the year 2002, largely by removing government and bureaucratic obstacles that havemade some companies shy away from work on vaccines. Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases said it will be years before any vaccine ~s likely available, but the joint project may help smooth out and speed up the process. The cooperative project involves basic medical research being done by federal agencies that private pharmaceutical and biomedical firms involved in the project could use in developing possible vaccines. The project also would establish specific clinical criteria for safety, testing and evaluation of effectiveness trials of such vaccine candidates. CDC: AIDS Continues Spiral ATLANTA The Centers for Disease Control has released its latest AIDS data, covenng the period from 1993 to 1994, that shows the disease continued for the 2rid year in a row to be the leading cause of death among Americans between the ages of 25 and 44. The detailed statistics also indicated that the epidemic continues to grow fastest among African Americans. In that age category, nearly a third of all deaths among black men are now attributed to AIDS; some 22% of the deaths among black women; 20% of deaths among white men; and 6% among white women. Asia & Africa AIDS Prevention BALTIMORE - Amid much of the grim news about the global spread of HIV that researchers heard at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement ofScience,justconcluded here, was actually some good news from regions in Africa and Asia. 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Maplewood Info: 838-1715 BisexuaL/Lesbian/Gay Alliance - Univ. of Tulsa 6:30 pm at Canterburv 5th & Evanston, 583-9~80 MONDAYS HIV Testing TOHR Clinic Free & anonymous testing using fingerstick method. No appointment required. Walk in testing: 7-8:30 pm Results hours: 7-9 pm Info: 742-2927 ." Lambda Bowling.League ¯ Sheridan Lanes ¯ ¯" 8:45 pm 3121 S. Sheridan . PFLAG Family AIDS Support Group 2rid Monday of month, 6:30 pm ~4154 S. Harvard Info: 749-4901 OTHER GROUPS The Technicians, Leather org., Info c/o 621-5597 T.U.L.S.A. Tulsa Uniform & Leather,. Seekers Assoc. Info: 838-1222 The Banned, OK Gay Band Practice weekly in OKC Info: 838-2121 TUESDAYS HIV+ Support Group HIV Resource Consortium 1:30 pm 4154 S. Harvard, Ste. H-1 lnfo: Wanda @ 749-4194 Shanti-Tulsa, Inc. HIV/AIDS Support Group & Friends & Family HIV/AIDS Support Group 7 pm, call for location: 749-7898 Community of Hope Grief Group, 6 pm 1703 E. 2nd, 585-1800 Womens Grief Group 6pro, ButleriStumpff Funeral Home 2103 E. 3rd St. lnfo: 585-1800 ¯ WEDNESDAYS Authority OfThe Believer ¯ Bible Study, 7 pm ¯ MCC of Greater Tulsa ¯ 1623 N. Maplewood : Info: 838-1715 Bless The Lord At All Times Christian Center Prayer & Bible Study 7:30 pm 2627-B East 1 lth Call 583-7815 for info. Family Of Faith MCC Praise & Prayer 6:30 pm Choir Practice 7:30 pm 545 I-E South Mingo. Call 622-1441 for info, Community of Hope (United Methodist) Service for Peace, 6:30 pm Bible Study, 7 pm 1703 E. 2nd, 585-1800 TNAAPP Tulsa Native American AIDS Prevention Project Support group for Gay & Bi Native American Men, 6 pm at Community of Hope 1703 E. 2rid 582-7225 or 584-4983 THURSDAYS 16-Step Empowerment Group For Women : Community of Hope ¯ 1703 E. 2nd, Info: 585-1800 ¯ Co-Dependency Support Group 7:30, Family of Faith MCC 5451-E S. Mingo, 622-1441 HIVTestingTOHRClinic Walk in testing: 7 - 8:30 pm Results hours: 7 - 9 pm Info: 742-2927 Tulsa Family Chorale Weekly practice~ 9:30 pm Lola’s 2630 E. 15th PFLAG Family AIDS Support Group 1st & 3rd Thursdays 4154 S. Harvard, 749-4901 Alternatives Weekly social events for LGBT men & women, 7 pm Info: 646-5503 Substance Abuse Support Group for persons with HIV AIDS 4154 S. Harvard, Ste. G 3-4:30 pro, Info: 749-4194 SATURDAYS St. Jerome’s Ecumenical Catholic Church Mass, 6 pm Garden Chapel 3841 S. Peoria Info: Father Rick at 742-7122 Narcotics Anonymous Meets weekly at I 1 pm Confidential support for recovering addicts. Community of Hope 1703 E. 2nd, Info: 585= 1800 .NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt Sewing Bees 3rd Sat. of each month Info: 748=37t 1 ~... ~q.t " OTHER GROUPS Gay & Lesbian St~utent Association TJC Southeast Campus, Info: 631-7632 SWAN-Single Women’s Activity Network Call 832-2121 TOHR Helpline Daily 8-10 pm For info. ~r to vohmteer: 743-GAYS SATURDAY, MARCH 16 Gaylapalooza, 8 pm Tulsa Performing Arts Center 110 E. Second, Info: 596-7111 SUNDAY, MARCH 17 Miss Gay South USofA Silver Star Saloon 9 pm, 1565 S. Sheridan, Info: 834-4234 FRIDAY, MARCH 22 Lola’s 2nd Anniversary Party 11 pro, 2630 E. 15th, Info:-749-1563 TUESDAY, MARCH 26 Rainbow Business Guild: City Councilor Gary Watts 7 pro, Chinese Buffet, 6219 E. 61 Dinner Meeting, Info: 665-5174 FRIDAY, MARCH 29 Community ofHope Movie Night & Discussion: Priest 7:30pro, 1703 E. 2rid, Info: 585-1800 SUNDAY, MARCH 31 St. Jerome’s Catholic Church The Passion ofOur Lord 6 pro, The Garden Chapel, 3841 S. Peoria Info: page Father Rick at 646-7116 and Family ofFaith MCC Palm Sunday 11 am, 5451-E S. Mingo, Info: 622-1441 TUESDAY, APRIL 2 Women &AIDS Conference. 8am- 5 pm Chapman Activity Ctr., Univ. of Tulsa 5th St. west of Harvard, Info: 743-4297 and Tulsa Oklahomansfor Human Rights Community Meeting, 7 pm Chapman Activity Ctr., Univ. of Tulsa WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3 FamilyofFaith MCC Spy Wednesday 6:30 pm, 5451-E S. Mingo, 622-1441 THURSDAY, APRIL 4 Maundy Thursday at Family ofFaith MCC 7 pro, 5451-E S. Mingo, 622-1441, and St. Jerome’s Catholic Church 6 pro, The Garden Chapel, 3841 S. Peoria and The First Day ofPassover FRIDAY, APRIL 5 Good Friday at Family ofFaith MCC 7 pm, 5451-E S. Mingo, Info: 622-1441 and St. Jerome’s Catholic Church 6 pm, The Garden Chapel~3841 S. Peoria SATURDAY, APRIL 6 The Great Vigil ofEaster St. Jerome’s Catholic Church 6 pm, The Garden Chapel, 3841 S. Peoria SUNDAY, APRIL 7 Easter at St. Jerome’s Catholic Church 8:30 am, The Garden Chape, and Family ofFaith MCC 11 am, 5451-E S. Mingo, 622-1441, and Agape Christian Fellowship 21st & Sheridan, Info: 599-7688, and MCC ofGreater Tulsa 1623 N. Maplewood, Info: 838-1715 TUESDAY, APRIL 9 AIDS Coalition ofTulsa Mental Health Needs of HIVIAIDS Providers. Noon - 1:30 pm, Mental Health As’soc. 1870 S. Boulder WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10 The Technicians ( [2ather org.) 7:30 pm, Rum Runner’s Hideaway, formerlv Jesse’s 822 ~o. Sheridan, 835-6535 FRIDAY, APRIL 12 Safe, Haven, a free, non-political, nonreligious, non-recovery-oriented social gathering for LGBT young adults. 18-30 Family of Faith MCC. 8 - midnight 5451-E S. Mingo, Info:-622:1441 SATURDAY, APRIL 13 Dignityllntegrity Meeting Lesbian/Gay Cathohcs & Episcopalians 5 pm, St. Dunstan’s Episcopal Church 5635 E. 71st, Into: POB 701044, 74170 Out & About by JD Jamett " I was truly out & about this past several weeks. Did vou that Kansas City has river boat casino~? Well this poor l~oy fo_..und out andlost afew dollars whileroymo!her became the Queer/of the SLots. Then it was out of K.C.and down to New Orleans for the Pantheon Leather Awards. This was truly an experience unto itself. Just ask Larry Everett (International Mr. Leather) how goodhe looks in a feathered mask and .boa, and how he and 2 other international title holders ~practically brought down the house. Also ~e former Oklahomam (oops - Oklaho-woman?) received one of the Reader’s Choice of the Year awards from the Leather Journal (Pantheon Leather Awards is the Leather Journal’s and the leather community’s Academy Awards). see JD, page 13 mm mm mmmmm mmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm The-University of Tulsa presents ¯¯¯ ¯ ¯: A Weekend of One Act Plays ¯¯ April 12, 13, & 14, Fri. &.Sat. at~7pm, Sun. at 2pm & 7:30prn ¯ Theatre 2, Kendall Hall, Free to the public. ¯¯ including ¯¯ On Tidy Endings by Harvey Fierstein ¯ HlVariations: Cater Waiter, ¯¯ Andre’s Mother, and Mr Rosen’s Son ¯ ¯ (both on Sunday at 2pm) ¯ Also, Diaries ¯ An original one-act musical of politics, religion and Gay life. ¯¯ by Jennifer Hoyer, Gabriel Washam,& James Gregory ¯ Mon, April 29 at 7pm in Chapman Hall ¯¯ For more info, call 631-2566 mmnmmm mmmmmmm mm mm mmmm mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Saint Jerome Ecumenicaf Cathdic Church Tile Key. 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During that meet- - ing, Dr. Reid claims, he was pressured and ¯ intimidated by TU s counsel, Fred Corengaged in selective enforcement of its " nish. Reid, who holds dual citizenship sexual harassmentpolicy,specifically be- from Canada and the United Kingdom, cause the complaint involved same-gen- . adds that as a resident alien, he did not derparticipants,andsadomasochisticcon- " know exacdy what his rights were and duct.. This board concluded that TU did ¯ that he was fearfd of being deported, : not prove as required that Dr. Reid had " even though he’d committed no crime. ¯ engaged in sexual harassment. . d ~ ~ Furthermore, the Appeals Board f.oun_d ~- ~fthesevenmembersoftheUABoar ,.. ~i that~iri the:heating Reid f’mally received, four found the sanction of firinglo be too,.:, the i:eview ,e,ommittee improperly resevere and of those, three stai~dthat the:~ ¯ stridted)Reid s attoraey from adequate sanct|on was disproporfouate to the mis-: " access to Pohlman f0r cross-exzmiuation conduct provenandrecommendeda’sanc- ~." and that TUcounsel improperly asserted tionotherthandisnussal,addingth~it . ~ . attorney-client;privilege on the part of procedural violations so colored the~ ~ Provost Lewis.-Dune,an, Vice-Provost decision,..that the sanction is fundamen-~ ~ Allen Soltow,. Physics chair Kenneth rally unfair". > : : - , . :~ KuenlaoldandTU Gen. Counsel,Barbara .~ccordingft0 .Reid,. he and Marlin : Geffem ’. :. ~ " ~:, : ..’ . i: Pohlman beb,ame invol.ved in a consen-:. Despite,the numerous finding of sensual, non4exual, Social friendship that began when Pohlman was a student in Reid’s class. Reid notes that Pohlmanmmntained the friendship long after the class ended, accepting invitations to visit Reid in Iris home and complaint, nolonger even was aTU student but never-the-less, TU officials provided him with housing ,’rod,also legal counsel, Fred Cornish. Cor- ~fish also happened to be representing the umversitv at the same time. This alleganon is jdst one of the many procedural v~olauons of TU’s own regulauons. Other procedural violations found against TU by its own Appeals Board include no notice of the meeting at which Reid was charged, though he was not .~iven written notice of the charges as is ~equired,immediately suspended, was escorted by armed guard from campus, and not being given adequate time to retmn counsel - all of which were violations of : ous improprieties on ihe part of the Uni: ¯ versity of Tulsa and its agents, and the recommendation by the majority of the : University Appeals Board that a milder : sanction is appropriate, Pres. Robert ¯ Donaldson sent a letter to iheTU trustees : claiming theAppeals Boardrecommended : termination. All the trustees of the Uni- ¯ versity ofTulsapresent votedunanimously : on Feb. 7 to fire Dr. James Reid, thus : destroying his career. Keith Bailey, chair- : man of the board of trustees of the University of Tulsa only would say that it would : no[ be appropriate to discuss Dr. Reid’s ¯ case. : Reid, who’s since moved to the Northwest, has been reduced to menial labor : and the kindness of old friends. While he : admits to poor judgement in his friend- : ship with Pohlman, he says that TU’s rife with rumors of heterosexual misconduct see TU. page 13 RIBBON ’ MAY 25 7:50P."vl TULSA ICE ARENA 6910 S. 1015T E. A’v~E 7IST AND Mg’,IGO BEHDCD THE F2 PRICE ST( YRE .AA.,L T.,ICKET PROCEEDS TO BENEFtT READ ALL ABOUT IT Reviewed by Barry Hensley Tulsa City-County Library Joining the growing list oftitles .about coming ofage in the.1990s is this eye-0pening example by Linnea Due. With seven lengthy essays, Due takes us on a tour across the United States, highlighted by interviews with Gay and Lesbian youth. From Portland, Oregon to New Orleans to Hai’vey MilkHJgliSdhoolinNew York City, we meet many witty, defiant and frustrated youth who arecoming to terms with their sexual orientation and surroundings. An interesting entry centers around a young man, John, who grew up in Colorado Springs, during the Amendment 2 battle, and is now attending a Santa Fe high school He tries very hard to not believe the terrible things he has heard about homosexuals, but he doesn’t get the support or information from farnily, friends or soc,ety to make informed decisions. He is constantly told that being gay is a choice, and the depths of his despair are revealed as he sarcastically responds, "Sure, I choose to have a horrible life. How about you?" Other youth we meet include a young, black woman dealing with the twin pressures of racism and homophobia, kids at the Harvey Milk "’Queer High School" inNew Yorkand a group of French Q~ter teens banding together for supporL:.There ~is. an overwhelming sense of frustration and lack of confidence in these kids countrywide. As a group, they are discouraged at the lack of guidance and support from older Gays and Lesbians, while at the same time acknowledging the difficulties, from a legal and social perspective, that the older generation has being mentors. The bottom line, if this book’s entries are representative of QSueer youth in general, is that despite the advances that have been made for Gay equality through the years, growing up Gayis still a very traumatic and confusing time. 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Reid feels that only anti- Gay and anti-s/m bias can explain why other professors who clearly appear to have had sex with their students remain at TU while he had a friendship that involved no more intimacy or actions than between twomen boxing is gone. "Rugby players engage in more vi,olence and contact than we did but rugby s socially sanctioned and s/m is not," he adds. When told of how Lesbian and Gay faculty on campus whom he once thought were friendly now malign him, citing his poor grooming or too casual dress, Reid justcomments onhow sad it is that they’re so scared now. He says they know if it happened to him, it could happen to them too. He thinks that TU trustees, counsel, administrators, all know that their actions are indefensible, but they thought they couldjustcover it all up, or thathe couldn’t get any help, .oi: that he’d be too intimidated. For the future, Reid’s working with national legal aid orgamzations to pursue a lawsuit. Meanwhile, one faculty member with a penchant for gossip says what really got TU scared was Pohlmar] threatening to take his video to TV’s Hard Copy. Reid says maybe he’ll do it instead. JD cont’dfromp. 9 Well, this month’s feature is as downhome and friendly as a bar can be. That’s rightput on any ofyour favorite drag from leather to lace to good old denim for this establishment and get ready for a good old time at the Silver Star Saloon. This club has been home to such events as Mr.Tulsa Leather, Mr. Oklahoma Leather, Miss Central State, and on March 17th, the first Miss South USofA pageant. The owners, John & Steve, are some of the nicest guys .I know. They have been active in supportzng HIV/AIDS fundraisers and community events like the Pride Picnic over the past 4 years: they will celebrate the Silver Star’ anniversary on April 15th. 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Well, we’ve grown up and discovered that Mexican food can be more than a hedonistic glut-fest or a midnight trip through theTaco Mayo drive-up window. Quite by accident, we came across the Santa Fe. Mexican Restaurant-at 1515 South Sheridan inTulsa;.just north Of the Silver Star Saloon. It’ s been there for four years, owned and operated by the Contreras family, some real Mexico Mexicans, with traditional family recipes and a talent for good food in a comfortable and relaxed atmosphere. And, as a smaller, family restaurant, the waiters and waitresses don’t run frenetically from table to table and none of the faux-Mexican decoration or.m~sic rears its ugly head as we see so:-oft~nfi~iithe chain establishments. Theb~i~appears unpretentious and the inside decor is quite modest. Butprices are extremely reasonable for a large plate of excellent-,[~. On weekdays, there is a luncheon biiffei’for $5:50 per person, and most of the a la carte entrees are $4.50. There are smo-kigg and non=smOking sections anda:ifull~!~i[~,~,ensed bar. Several ~=tast~:~!:~ups are available as starters. The ~o~.~e is a spicy pork and hominy mix .~*:i~:lots of coriander and peppers: Th~rfi ig"~m unusual chicken and ve~aicelfi sbup;;;vhich we expected to resemble something along the line of : Campbell’s chicken noodle, but which : was a full flavored red stock, full of bro- ¯ ken pieces of angel hair pasta noodles. A chicken tortilla soup is also available. : Guacamole salad is one of the tdling : signs of freshness with Mexican food. As ¯ youmay know frommaking guacamole at : home, once cut, the avocado very quickly ~ turns brown on exposure to air, so lemon ¯ or lime juice is squeezed on to the cut surfaces to retard discoloration. The ~ guacamole at SantaFe was freshly made, : chunky, and bright green, with no trace of ¯ browning and no taste of citrus juice-- : this is amazing and most enjoyable. ." This place has some of the best tamales : we’ve ever eaten in Tulsa, made b.y hand :¯ and Steamed the traditional way m corn husks. These tamales taste like what you ¯ might be served by a friend’s mother at ¯ the family dinner table, not like what ¯ we’ve come to expect from restaurants. ¯ Vvqaile all of the traditional Mexican _" entrees are on the menu, you may espe- ¯ cially want to try the chicken enchiladas, ¯ which are juicy and mouth-watering. ¯ Watch out, though, because we did find a ¯ bone chip in the chicken on a recent visit. The enchiladas and other entrees are ¯ available with several sauces,and we com- " mend to you the mole sauce. Mole (pro- " nounced, "MOH-Iay") is a traditional ¯ Mexican sauce made from unsweetened chocolate and hot peppers. The Spanish ~ conqmstadors were introduced to choco- ¯ late by the Aztecs and took the cocoa : beans back to Europe, where the sugar ¯ started to be added. This Mexican sauce is ¯ not sxveet, tastes like nothing .you can ~ imagine, and is delicious. ¯ The dessert list inclUdes a tasty little- " tan, an individual egg custard baked with caramelized sugar that forms a brown bittersweet sauce. Our only complaint is the complementary salsa served is a bit too thin and watery, but it i s tasty and does appear to be freshly made onions and cilantro have a distinctive tastewhenfresh andnot canned or bottled. In themoodfor good, home-style Mexican food in a casual setting? We heartily recommend Santa Fe for great food at a surprisingly cheap price. And, don’t forget to mention you read about them in Tulsa Family News. Santa Fe Mexican Restaurant, 15i5 S. Sheridan. Prices: inexpensive. Service: casual. Hours: 11 am - 9 pm; till 10 p.m. on Fri-Sat; closed Sun. Payment: Visa, Mastercard, AmericanExpress, Diner’s Club, Carte Blanche; no checks. Non-smoking area: Yes. Alcohol: Full bar. Opinion: A List. THE PERFECT WAY TO SHOW APPRECIATIOH MINGOVALLEY ~ ~ 7Z ts,. 663-5934 " Daphane Cooper by James Christjohn Well, it’s not often that a critic gets to ¯ put his money where his Mac is, but now ¯ is the time. I’m pleased to announce that ¯ I amdirecting"HIVariations" - three short ¯ plays - during the weekend of one-acts at ~ TU on April 14 in Theatre 2 in Kendall ¯ Hall, 2pm. Ya’ll get to see if I really do ¯ know what I’m talking about. ¯ "HIVariations" are three plays centered ¯ aroundthereactions of family and spouses ¯ to the loss of a loved one due to HIV - ¯ "Cater Waiter", now in production as a ¯ fflmstarfingDavidDrake, Andre’s Mother ¯ by T,,errence McNally; and "Mr. Rosen’s Son . While the subject itself is rather ¯ - dark, there is humor in these shows. The ¯ cast includes Brad Luna, Karin Sandmel, ¯ ¯ VivicaWalkenbach, and JohnWeller. On the samebill, Harvey Fierstein’s"OnTidy ¯ Endings" is being produced, and some ¯ early Tennessee Williams works are included in the weekend’s festivities. The ¯ plays on Friday and Saturday start at 7pm, ~ Sunday’s plays are at 2 and 7:30pm. The ¯ weekend of one-acts ~s free to the public. By the way, I’m still casting the part of ¯ Mr. Rosen - 50-60 year old NYJewish ¯ man. If you or someone you know fits the ¯ bill, please call me at 583-1248. In addi- ¯ tion, the performance of an original one- : act musical dealing with politics, religion ¯ and gay life, "Diaries" by Jennifer Hoyer, with lyrics and music by Gabriel Washam ¯ and James Gregory, all TU theatre stu- ¯ dents, will be held Mon, April 29 at 7pro ¯ in Chapman Hall. ¯ Phantom was Phabulous! I was irasee next page THEOFFICIAL 25TH MISS GAY PERFORMINGARTSCENTER APRIL 96, 7:30 pM UPLES An Official Preliminary to Miss Gay Oklahoma America Head Co-Judges: Miss Gertrude Garnet Miss Gay Oklahoma America and Miss Rachael Erikks Miss Oklahoma USofA Advance tickets NOW available through Carson Attractions, 584-2000, or the Tulsa Performing Arts Center Ticket Office, 596-7111 Phone ordered accepted, Visa/MC accepted. Call today, seating is limited! For more information, write to: C.P., Inc. P.O. Box 580372, Tulsa, OK 74115 918.428.5330 Portions of proceeds to benefit Shanti, Inc. and Our House pressed with the quality of the cast, and the amazing voices. ls it just me, or did anyone else think that the Phantom was really after Raoul, who was really Phamily, and only using Chri stine as a method of getting closer to him? Then, in the end when the Phantom realizes that, unfortunately, Raoul really does seem to be straight (NOT!), that he should let them go live together? Just an interpretation all my own. Really, the show is a spectacle worth seeing. I must admit, in all my years of performing and viewing plays, I’ve never seen an inanimate object (a chandelier) get applause before. The second act kind of loses steam, as though the author thought, "OK, I’ve got the characters into these situations, now how do I get them out?" and lost track of the play itself. The first act is wonderful, though, and the second is only affected in minor ways. Tulsa’s Irish Festival occurs in Riverparks 3/15-16, and should make for an interesting day at the park. I’m going to be on the lookout for so~e leprechauns to get lucky with... I mean, er, to helpme with luck! As in "Pot o’ gold" kinda stuf!! OK, time to getmyselfoutof the corner here, before the Editor finds out I’ve slipped this into the column ... How To Do It First 30 words are $10. Each additional word is 25 cents. 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GWF, 31, seeks |other females for fun, romance and Fina ly....Unity Gardens A final resting place in peace, unity and pride... located in Washington Memorial Gardens ~.Cemetary 4300 E. 91st Street South On 91st Street between Yale & Harvard Actual We to ol We offer in Gardens has been desi ned for Gay and Lesb: those " 9mmunity, there no cemetar, in ¯ lsa allow s toge~ recogmzing as a cou or/ Ion as an indi ddual? is no place i Un will, [TIL ~! the y in the United States of our cemetary just for Lesbians, and their family and friends. spaces, columnburium for cremated remains, scattering gardens with a memorial wall, .s new.ly expanded and renovated section of gton Memorial Gardens Cemetary. The Pride flag will proudly fly in the center of Unity Gardens to always remind us of our struggle in life for unity and pride. If you have purchased a plot elsewhere, you may be able to transfer or trade your burial plots. For.more information, please call Russell Langley-Stumpff at 918-587-7000. ***Owned and operated by Butler-Stumpff Funeral Home*** Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data newspaper periodical Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource [1996] Tulsa Family News, March 15-April 14, 1996; Volume 3, Issue 4 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). 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ROTC Re-Heats i WASHINGTON - Little noticed in Feb- : ruary was congressional passage of a bill, : now signed into law by PresidentCfiiiion ¯ the "Campus Access Act" that prohibits : all Defense Department funds to colleges : and .um’versities which the ,,Secretary of ¯ DefenSe :judges., have, an,.~ anti~ROTC : poii~y?’ "~lae legi~latiisn b,bfild have the ." impact of barring Defense Department ¯ funds from going to any campus where : anti-discrimination policies barfing bias : based on sexual orientation limit or re- ¯ strict Reserve OfficerTraining Corps programs. No exact figures are available on the amount ofmoney the Defense Department spends annually at U.S. colleges, but at larger schools, such as Stanford, the University of Pennsylvania, or the University of California at Los Angeles, it might easily amount to tens ofmillions of dollars each year. The term "anti-ROTC policy" is defined in the Act as prohibiting either the Defense Department from see ROTC, page 3 High School Gays. Win & Lose Some Dallas Bd. Includes Protections DALLAS - Under pressure from local rights activists, the Dallas school board decided at theIastminute toinclude sexual orientation in the anti-harassment policy it adopted at its March 28 meeting. The policy, which had not initially included sexual orientationas a category, wasadded after members of the Dallas Gay & Lesbian Allianceand other communitymembers complained that not including sexual orientation in the newpolicy could actually encourage anti-gay and -lesbian harassment in the city’s schools. The new policy bars "oral, written, psychological, physical and other demonstrative actions see School, page 3 .Marriage, Update Colorado Gov. Roy Romer has vetoed a measure :that would have explicitly banned recognizing same-sex marriages in the state, even if they were legally performedinother states, however, Romer said he would sign a bill that declared opposite-sex mamages as the "strong public policy of the state" while at the same time authorizing a study of possible ways same-sex couples could be given legal recognition of their relationships without violating that policy. He called the legislation he vetoed, a "mean-spirited and unnecessary" attack. Idaho became the 3rdstate in the U.S., joining Utah and South Dakota, to bar recognizing same-gender marriageS. The Kentucky state Senate is now considering a measure banning same,sex mamages and activists believe the anti-gay bill has a good chance of passing there. Illinois has also now received a similar ban, spurred on by leaders of the state’s antigay Christian Coalitiou and Christian Action Network. In Kansas, a bill that was already on the floor of the state tlouse of see Marriage, page 3 & Bisexual Communities-,Our Families of the Heart ¯ The Reverend Leslie Penrose, AIDS ac- : tivist Mary Fisher and a youngfriend at ¯ Community ofHope United~thodist. i Wo-men &AIDS i 400.÷HearActivist i Mom,,Mary Fisher ¯" When Janice Nicklas and her co-orga- ¯ nizerbegan planning for the first regional ." conference on Women and AIDS, they ." hoped tohave about 100 or so attend. On ¯ April 2, more than 400 people were registered for the one day conference of work- : shops at the-University of Tulsa’s ¯ Chapman Center. : The workshops ranged from AIDS 101 ¯ to HIV and Incarcerated Women or HIV ¯ tators were both local educators and ex- ¯ perts & those from around the US. The ¯" conference l~gan with a panel of those : infected or affected by HIV. ! The keynote address was ~ven at lunch byAIDS activist, Mary. Fisher, founder of : the Family AIDS Network, Inc. which : works to heighten commumty and ha- ¯ tional awareness and compassion in the : fight against HIV/AIDS. Ms. Fisher, a ~ person/iving with HIViAIDS, came to ¯ national attention when she spoke about ~ AIDS to, the:Republican-National Con- ; vention’in.Houston in-1992.. ~ Fisher’s Tulsa speech was a call to : political arms. She began with quote from ¯ a US Senate chaplin who, when asked if "- he prayed for the Senate;~said, no, after i looking at the Senate, he prayed for the ¯ people. FishersaidthatwithWashington’s ¯ and America’s response to AIDS, prayer : probably was_a good’idea. ~ ................... ¯ Fisher stated that-America.iacks -the. 3 ; basicingredients to wina fight withAIDS: ¯ no national plan for researeh~ .car~e or pre- : vention, nor visible, competent, or trusted ." leadership, nor sufficient funding. ¯ Fisher said we also must look for leadership from the uninfected, ,We. are like ; .’ .ca fl nghtsmovement whose leaders die ; ev~t~"year. : Inaninterviewwith.TFN, Fishernoted ¯ that she would have said we’re making ¯ progress in the AIDS fight prior to the ¯" 1994 Republican sweep. But now she ¯ says we haven’t followed who’s coming : up in that party and we must hold our ~ leaders feet to the fire. "We must commu- ¯ nicate that tiffs fightis about human rights, ¯¯ not about moraljudgements....women, especially, need to say I matter.’" PFLAG at Central-Library Editorial: Kudos to Tulsa Org. Themembers&officers ofTnlsaChapter of Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians &Gays deserve high praise for their exhibit currentlyat theTulsaCity,County Library, as does the libraD’ staff. The exhibit is good but you will appreciate it even more when you know that PFLAG had only a little more than a week to prepare it. The exhibit, up-through April is a snapshot of what PFL~G’s about & of Lesbian & Gay life. Tulsa Family News strongly encourages you to see the’exhibit before it doses. LESBITERIAN & ¯ StillwaterandendinginTulsaon Sunday, May 19 at College Hill Presbyterian, 712 ! S. Columbia. College"Hill will host a : dinner and dialogue at 5pro, followed by ." worshipat 7pro. Her visit is sponsored by ¯ College Hill and Presbyterians for Les- ." bian,’Gay Concerns. : Spahr is an evangelist with the special ¯ ministry ’q’hat .MI May Freely Sen’e’" of : the Downtown United Presbyterian -" Church (DUPC) ofRochester,NeW York, : in parmership with Westminster Presby- ¯ terianofTiburon, CA.In 1991,Spahrwas : by DUPC to serve as Co-pastor but was ¯ denied that position in an unprecedented i move by the ruling body of the-pre~bvterian Church (USA), the.General Ass~m- ¯ see Spahr, page 10 G reatPlains Rodeo "In OKC, May 24.26 : The Oklahoma Gay Rodeo Association ¯ (OGRA) will hold its tt.th-annual rodeo : on Memorial Day Weekend, May 24-26. : It features 2 days of rodeo at the OKC ¯ State Fairgrounds and 3 nights of parties : and exhibits at the Hilton Inn. N\V~ : OGRA beganin 1984. TheGreat Plaius : Regional Rodeo was formed through the ¯ efforts of Kansas, Missouri and Okla- : homa and held its first rodeo in 1986 In : 1993, Arkansas formed theDiamond State : Rodeo Association and joined the Great ~ Hains organization. OG1L~t’s volunteers ¯ are dedicated providing rodeo ~vents for _" Lesbians and Ga)’~menand als0 to sup- " porting AIDS charities. Membership is ¯ noflimited to rodeo .compet.it0fs Formore ¯ info. "call 405-842-0849. April 15 - May 14, 1996, Volume 3, Issue 5 ¯ Run for YourLives, Part3 i LegislativeUpdate ¯ Anti-Gay Amendments Die ¯ OK Senate staff confirm that. HB 2554 ¯ is "dead" for this session. HB 2554 ad- ¯ dressed divorce law changes but was ~ amended to ban same-gender marriage _" even if those were legal elsewhere. ¯ ~ Anamendment to the"Ryan Luke" bill, ¯ HB 2053, would ban child custody by a : "known homosexual,lesbian or bisexual." ." Rep. Laura Boyd, author ofHB 2053, told ¯ TFN that the anti-Gay amendment was ." "out for good." It appears that this session ~ will draw to a close in May without thc ." passage of any anti-Gay bibs or amend-. ments, only the anti-Gay but merely svm. ! bolic resolution #1045. " i Coming Soon! : On May 23, the Tulsa Ice Arena will ." host at 7:30pro the first Red Ribbon lc~ ." Revue. ’l’he evening will feature profes. ¯ sional skaters from Kansas City, OK(" : andTulsa All tickel proceeds will benefit : Our House which provides support for ¯ those challenged by HI\," AIDS. Tickets ¯ are $8, balcon.v seats and S12.50 for on- ¯ ice seats at the .Arena at 71st & .~.hugo ¯ (behind the 1 2 Price Store). For~more ¯ info. ".call Shane Douglas at 254--7272. ¯ ¯ Follies Revue, Inc. have announced tha! this \ear’s eveut. Follies Salute the .\hn’. ies, Will be on Juue 21 & 22at the \Varrcn ¯ Place Doubletree Hotel. The Follies will : showcase suchartists as Alexandr"Sacha’" ¯ Luiiev of the Tulsa Ballet Theatre, singers ¯ Deb Roberts and Steve Wright: For more ¯ info. call 437-0201. - : Local HI\" AIDS support org~iniza~ion, ¯ ILMN, the Regional AIDS Interfaith Net- " work is holding its volunteer training on : April 27 and May 4 at Community of , Hope from 10-Spin. And Debbie Waters, : MSW announces a support group, Phoe- ¯ nix Group, for families & friends living : with AIDS. The group meets on the Ist & : 3rd Thurs. each month: Call 584-6460. ilnterfaith AIDS Ministries Hits 10 : This May, Interfaith AIDS Ministries ¯ (IAM) will celebrate its lOth-auniversarv ! of:providing education about HIV;AIDg ¯ and ofproviding support to persons living ¯ with HIV,,AIDS (PLWA’~s)~ S_t,.Peter’s ". Episcopal Church at 9100 East 21 st Street ¯ Will host a sen’ice commemorating !0 " years of work on Sunday, May 19 at 3pm. ," !AM will also be featured at the May 14th meeting of the AIDS Coalition. 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I received a message on my machine that said. =tli Tom, t~s is Keit~ S~ from the A(’I ,V offi~ in OMahoma City....’" Smith. who’s a rc~dtor and ad s~esm~ for OKC paper The Perspec’t~ ve, was m~appy about ~ ~ficle that we wrote. The article stated that he’d helped OMa. I louse M~0ont~ Leader Benson rewrite Benson’s vcrx ant~-Gav resolution. #1~5. Sxmth clmms he heisted chm~e the anti-gay lang~ge of the ongin~ version to l~guage that ~ght be ~i~- slightly less ami:Gay. We ~so wrote that some OKC folks had accused Smith of passing ~mselfoff~ spokesperson for the OM~oma LGBT ~umties. I promised Smith that I’d address ~s c0n~ms. At one meeting with Benson, S~th says he was with Jo Ann Bell of the ACLU. Ms. Bell swe~s that Smith only represented ~mself. Smi~ says that at a later meeting (where Bell w~ not present), he helped Beuson m~e specific ch~ges in l~g~ge of # 1 045: but that he told Benson &at he nevertheless opposed the fin~ drMt (which hehelped write). Seem confusing? Smith appears to have b~n view~ by Benson, by Rcp. I ~ura Boyd. by other legislators, and by State l)emocratic P~tv Ex~ufive ~r~tor Pat Ihdl. as an anthofized ~pokesperson for Gay ~d I ~sbian counnunitv. As a result, some le~slators votedagainst us, thinking ~at they had our blessrag. Through mepmess or nmvete on ~s p~t ~d possibly opportmfism on the p~t of some le~slators, what hc clmms w~ ~ effort to m~e 100% bad rcsolution into one that would~ ody~%bad wound up being used against him and us. And while Smith may feel he’s been beat up, actually there’s enough blame to spread around. Tulsan~ should strongly object to the failure of OKC groups, who were having meeungs about #1045, to commumeate regularly with any Tulsa activists or groups. If it wasn’t Smith singlehandedly representxng the entire state, it was the OKC organizations acting as though they did. The ACLU. which is a statewide organization, made no effort to communicate, even with its Tulsa board members. OGLPC’s Paul Thompson did commumcate with TOHR when #1045 was first introduced, but apparently not when this meeting was .happening. Tulsa groups who were working on this ~ssue might also have called OKC groups. However. it seems that the greater obligation falls on those who have the advantage of proximity to the Capitol and know better when action’s happening. After stories like this, I sometimes think we are our own worst enemy.-Smith has substantial experience with the legislature, and we’d be foolish not to take advantage of it. But it also appears that we need to make sure that those who represent us at the Capitol really represent all of us - in Tulsa, and wherever else there’s an organized community in the state, as well as in Oklahoma City. Just one last thing about representation: Smith is neither an officer nor an employee of the ACLU. He volunteers but according to ACLU board president, Mark Hendricksen, Smith should not identify himself as though he’s staff or an officer. Does make you kind-of wonder, doesn’t it.’? Ilello, you don’t know me, but I certainly know you. I live with you. I work with you. I may even be involved with you. And yes, I’ve often masqueraded ,as v0u. I’ve had to: I’m practically invisible, you see.’Or maybe you don’t.... I am a transsexual. But being a transie i~ this town doesn’t add up to a great deal of visibility. That’s funny, considering that scarcely a day goes by when I DON’T hear somebody whispering b~hindmy back,"Is that a boy or a girl ! Noit’s gotta be a faggot! Well...maybe it’s a Dyke after all..." Manya ume, I, and other transsexuals/transgender persons, have taken the homophobic backlash for our gay ,and lesbian brothers and sisters, stmply because we are usually more visible than most. Nobody loves a hermaphrodite. Androgyny makes : most people really edgy. But I expect that from most people (sadly enough). What hurts though, is how Gays and Lesbians have taken little notice of : us, in their silence, colluding to collapse our distinct identities into theirs. : Let’ s face it... how many of you gays andlesbians ¯ out there, in yourpersonal and political lives, focus ¯ on gender issues just as much as you focus on sex and sexuality? In this society, gender is taken for : granted. Gender deviance ~s taken as a personal insult, see Letters, page 13 Tulsa Clubs & Restaurants *B,’unboo Lounge, 7204 E. Piue *Concessions, 3340 S. Peoria *Ground Zero, 311 E. 7th *Lola’s, 2630 E. 15th *St. Michael’s Alley Restaurant, 3324-L E. 31st *Silver Star Saloon, 1565 Sheridan *Reuegades/Rainbow Room, 1649 S. Main *TNT’s, 2114 S. Memorial *Tool Box, 1338 E. 3rd *Intenu’ban Restaurant, 717 S. Houston 832- 1269 744-0896 621-9376 749-1563 745-9998 834-4234 585-3405 660-0856 584-1308 585-3134 Tulsa Businesses, Services, & Professionals Derails C. 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Mike Leavitt has vetoed a measure, SB246, that would have barred teachers 111 public sdaools from encouragtng or condoning any act that is illegal under state law. The measure-wasspecifiCallyaimed at~pre~ venting teachers from serving as sponsors fo~gay and lesbian clubs in public schools, anassue that exploded earlier this year in the state.: Even though Lea~iRt vet0ed;the measure, he nevertheless said, "I support the statement that was made in SB246, but we cannot infringe on free speech." The Utah Education Assn. had opposed the measure and said the governor "absolutely did the right tiring." Calif. Trustees Wiggle Around Outright Gay Club Ban GLENDALE, Calif. - Trustees for the Glendale, Calif., school district have decided under pressure from civil rights groups not to adopt a policy that would require students to get parental perufission in order tojotn gay and lesbian school clubs specifically, and instead modified the policy to make it apply to any "’controversial" non-curricular clubs at the city’s public schools. The school board had initially intended to make the policy apply.,,.’ only to the gay and lesbian club that students at Hoover High School had asked to form, but decided to make the policy apply generally to any "’controversial" dubs so it wouldn’t appear to be discriminatory. Civil fights advocates were not satisfied with the broader parental permission requirement and argue that the adopted policy simply covers up the original intention of the board to make it nearly impossible for gay and lesbian students to join the proposed club. Marc Elovitz, s taff attorney for the ACLU’s Lesbian mad Gay Rights Project, said the policy "’was a thinly-veiled attempt ,:o silence gay youths." "’Rather than making it more difficult for iesbi,an and gay teenagers to come out. the school board should be meeting to discuss ways to create a friendlier environment for gay youths," Elovitz said. School Board Facing Backlash ROCKVILLE, Md. - The Montgomery County (Md.) school board’s decision to include sexual~_orientation in its list of an~i-bias~prOtections passed by a 6-0 vote on Mar. 25, but it has also sparked a threat by an ad-hoc group of Hispanic parents to remove their children from the district’s p’~blic sctiools: Som~’400 pa~eh~s qUidld~, formed the ’Hispanic Paren~ of M~mgomery Coamty in an effort to convince the trustees to change their minds about ELVI Seen to with the umversiw’s, own anti-bias poll ~ ,:;ies. The }ssue of ROTC at colle2es and ~mversiues tth~oughout the conntrv has t:.cen more or less on the back buruer fin the past few years, following President (i!inton’s initial promise to end the ban. But with the so-called "don’t ask, don’t tell" policy increasingly seen by manv rights activists as no improvement over the previous policy, ROTC programs are again coming under fire.~ MIT Not Im pressed With-ROTC CAMBRIDGE. M~ss: ’- ~’At the M’assachusetts Institute of Technology, the final report presented of a speciMtask force study group on Reserve Office Training :i ~ Cbi~s uifit~ ai ~e!s’d~601~t with a Chilly : reception byMIT faculty Wh6 in April ¯ will decide what to do about the ¯ reawakened controversy. Several faculty the newly adopted policy. Many of the ~ leaders complained thal the report was tittle more than a compromise that resolved nothing, while others said the report recommendations, if adopted, would themselves amount to a violation of M1T’s anti-bias protections. parents expressed concerns the new policy would actually lead to homosexual activities in the schools and expose their children to HIV. But so far school officials are not backing away from the policy, which is simply a parallel to one already on the books for the entire county, and Paul Vance, the county’s superintendent of schools, said the new policy doesn’t "promote, encourage or approve of sexual activity of any kind." setting up or keeping an ROTC unit at the school, or preventing any student from enrolling in an ROTC program. Univ. of Penn. Drops ROTC PHILADELPHIA - Univ. of Penn. Provost Stanley Chodorow has announced that the school is dropping its Armv and" Naval Reserve Officer Training ~orps programs on campus because of the Defense Department" s continued ban against Gavs and Lesbians in the I’.S. military The decision ends a 5-year conflict between the military and the school over the anti-gay protfibit]on, wtuch is in conflict LYN Philbrook Representatives was amended without notice or hearings to protfibit same-sex marriages and passed by a4-to- 1 margin. By a 16-3 vote. the Alaska state Senate has also approved a bill that would restrict man’iage in the state to male-female. The Central Conference of American Rabbis, representing rabbis in the Reform movement, has voted to support the fight of gays and lesbians to civil marriages in the U.S. The resolution, which cites "’our Jewish commitment to the fundamental pnnciple that we are all created in the divine image," endorses "’the fight of gay and lesbian couples to share fullx and equally in the fights of civil marriage," and opposes "’govermnental efforts to ban gay and lesbian marriage." Don Thornton F~rd, 83~-7.101 {f you take an honest look ai ga lesbian attitudes towardsgcndet-bending queers in the commuiuty youwill find a good deal of resentment. The drag queens, the fem-fairy boys, the bulld~’kes are routinelv scorned (just take a look at queer personals ad). Gays mad, Dzsbians also are at great pmns to accept bisexuals. who "fide the fence," unable to linut their partners,.to asingle gender. And transies? -:;" T~hh~eyy.’l’rl eaklwiddaiyn,sg’r, ethaelmlys"elbv~es,wtohoat,ebveecrausesxe they were born & nothing more. It’~s this disregard for gender isshes that worries me the most. As queers we-all experience gender-based discrimination Yet, for all the similarities we share, there is a great deal of ignorance and apath3 about the differences, & that’s dangerous. I’m talking about the kind of ~gnorance that separates transpersons from the res~ of the crowd, threatens us, distorts us, and claims our accomplishments and experiences. It’s about reading the "Crying Game" as a gay flick rather than a film about a transgendered person. It’s abou! claiming Joan of.Arc solely as an histonc Lesbian, not a transgend~r pioneer. It’s about the Murder of Mr. Brandon Teena and his girlfriend, for being "’lesbians," reducing Teena’s life and commitment to living as a man. to a "lesbian’s" pathetic attempt to "’pass" for a straight matt. Well. I’m here to try and shed a little light on the differences and similarities among the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and trans colnmunities. M\ (trans)mission clear. I have to let you "know I’m here. And I’m listening .... Are you? - June Polk News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Attacks Drop Slightly significant increases included: " thestateSupremeCourthasagain . serviccsifhersexualorientation of energy for the day, mid you but More Violent SAN FRANCISCO - Attacks against gays and lesbians in 11 of the country’s larger cities decreased slightly overall last year according to a report compiled by the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs. But while some cities showeddramatic declines in antigay violence, ,an equal number 0fcities she.wed equally dramatic increases m attacks aimed at lesbians and gay men, according to the report’s statistics. More disturbing, anti-violence activists say, even with the small overall decline in attacks, the offenses themselves are becoming increamngly more savage. Even though the total number of all incidents reported in the 11 cities dropped to 2212 las! year from the 1994 total of 240 [, about a quarter of those incidents were assaults mid more than a third of all the victilns of these attacks suffered serious iujnrics or died as a result of the attacks in Portland. Ore.. reported anu-gay incidents dropped 56 percent last 3"ear frotn 106 in 1994 to just 47 in 1995 - the largest decrease logged nauonal report. Clficago wasn’t much behind and showed a decrease of 53 percent last year with reported incidents falling Item 177 to 83. Boston and Los :\ngeles both showed comparable decreases ~n reported attacks last year (26 percent and 23 percent respectively). Most of these decreases were offset by cities that reported dramatl~ increases in anti-gay attacks. E1 P.aso. Texas. reported the largest nsc with a42 percent increase in mm-ga3 attacks, ajump from 92 incidents in 1994to 131 last year. Other cities that showed Phoenix, a 22 % increase; Columbus, Ohio, with a 21% rise in reported incidents; and Minneapolis/St. Paul, up by 15 % last year. Hate Crimes Data Measure Before Senate WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Senate has begun its first round of hearings on reauthorizing the federal Hate Crimes Statistics Act, the 1990 le~slation that requires the Justice Department to compile and analyze hatebased crimes, including an tigay attacks. Activists have expressed some concerns the measure may have more trouble in Congress than it did 6 )’ears ago because of the increasingly conservative make-up of both houses. Anti-Violence March at Kentucky School MOREH~D, Ky. -Nearly 200 students, faculty and staff members marched through the Morehead State Umverszty campus ~n a "Take Back the Night" campaign aimed atraising awareness of anti-gay and - lesbian violence at the school. The march, the first of its kind at the school, was sparked by the Feb. 5 attack of Carrie O’Cohnor, a lesbian enrolled at MSU. According to MSU campus police, 3 masked men grabbed O’Connor as she was walking back to her dormitory and repeated ly punched and ~.icked her. Officials say they still have no suspects in that attack, but it was reported to state police as an anti-gay hate crime - the first such official report filed by the school. Georgia Sodomy Law ATLANTA-In a legal challenge to Georgia’s anti-sodomy law - broughtby L. Chris Chrisuansen, ruled that the statute does not violate the Georgia constitution’s privacy protections. Instead, the court ruling says the law furthers "’the moral welfare of the public." Christiansen was convicted on misdemeanor charges of violating the sodomy law after he propositioned an undercover sheriff’s deputy. Montana’s Sodomy Law HELENA, Mont. - Montana Attorney General Joe Mazurek has appealed a state court ruling that declared the state’s anti-gay sodomy law unconstitutional as a violation of privacy. The case automatically goes.to the ~state supreme court. Mazurek" s office said he had decided to appeal the Feb. 16 ruling because courts, especially lower courts, should be Vex3, cautious about striking down laws made by the state legislature. Gay rights activists in Montana said they weren’t surprised by the appeal and expected the case to go before the state supreme court. Lesbian Tells Parliament of Rape in Royal Navy LONDON" - Parliament heard a stunning admission from Karen Greig, who described to a select conmaittee on the armed forces how she was raped by a male sailor she served with in the Royal Navy who threatened to reveal her lesbianism to naval officers ifshe protested. Greig, 33, said she arranged to be transferred to a naval station in Scotland to escape the man’s sexual attacks, but that he later tracked her down and raped her with another male sailor. She told the select committee members that she had not reported the attacks for years because she was worried she would be discharged from the ¯ crone to light. Greig said tlmt ¯ wheu she finally reported die ¯ attacks, a superior officer ¯ suggested that perhaps the reason she wasu’t dealing with the ¯ situation very ~vell ~vas"because ¯ you’re a lcsrian." She ",also said ¯ ~hat as soon as she reported the ¯ attacks she was se nt to a ¯ psyclfiatric hospital for 3 days ¯ and that the mcu she says raped ¯ her were uever puuished. ¯ Brit Defense Minister ¯ Vows to Keep Ban ¯ LONDON - Nicholas Soames, Britain’s defense minister, told Parli,’uneut during a question- " m~swer period that 309 service ¯ members had been discharged ¯ between 1990and 1994because they were homosexual. Somnes ¯ was answering questions about ¯ a miuistry report that showed ¯¯ members of the uation’s armed forces are strongly opposed to ¯ ending the ban on gay midlesbian ¯ soldiers, sailors ~md marines. So,’unes said lie was p~epared to ¯ "’fight every inch of the way:" to ¯ keep the anti-gay ban in place. ¯ Golf Champ Comes Out ¯ NEW YORK- Muffin Spencer- " Devlin, an 18-yearveteranofthe LPGA Tour, has told Sports Illustrated in an exclusive ¯ interview that she is a lesbian. ¯ "Confiug outis like an incredibly huge ~veight being lifted from my shoulders," Spencer-Devlin told the magazine. "’No more ¯ living iu the shadows. No more lies.’" The 42-year-old pro golfer has won 3 tournament titles mad ¯ last year had 3 fiuishes in the ¯ top-10, winning more than $100,000 from tournament play. "I truly believe that keeping a secret is an energy-consurmng ¯ act," Speficer-Devlin says in the iuterview. "If every day when ¯ you wake up you have 100 units have secrets, they nfight take up 10 milts of that energy. After a time you ufightnot even be aware of it anymore, but you have that much less cuergy to apply in your life. And that’ suuliealthy." Vickie Fergon, LPGA president, mid Jim Ritts, the conunissioner, both told Sports Illustrated they support Spencer-Devlin’s decision to come out. "’I applaud Muffin," Said Fergon. ’Tm not saying every player will be thrilled about it, but we’re a family and we respect each other." Ritts is quoted as saying, "I know there are still individuals who have problems with diversity, but we’ve come so far as a society that I don’t see this as a topic that really moves people." Gay Clubs in Russia ST. PEI’ERSBURG, Russia - The Tchaikovsky Fuud, one of the few gay rights organizations in Russia, has brokennew ground with the opeuing late last year of a new club, know as "’Victor i Ya" ("Victor and I"), in the former czarist .capital. Yuri Yereyev, who heads the Tchaikovsky Fun& said the club offers not only social facilities, like a cafe mid place where people can dance, but also will be holding seminars to educate the Russian people about gays and lesbians. Another major feature of the club, Yereyev says, is an extensive AIDS education and prevention prograni. The club hands out free HIV literature as well as condoms, both of Milch are in short supply in Russia. Yereyev also said another barrier was broken in February when a lesbian club, "Safe" ("Sappho") officially opened in St. Petersburg as well, not far from the "Victor i Ya." Canadian Rights Report OTI’AWA - Max Yalden, the 1635 E. 15TH ST. TULSA, OK 74120 599-8070 Serving Our Community with Pride! cumenicaIC tho c Church meetm,O at Tile Gardbn Cfiqpe( ~S.4t 3 J’eorta ~ T~o, .’Mas.~ Saturday event.s at 6:00 P.~ "lfie 7~ev. .7~ther 7~ck .7(o~rt~swortti. 7"astor ]’,hh’/ o/S) 040-711(; J~t’std~/lcc ’(918) 742-7iz’2 BROOKSIDE JEWELRY 4649 South Peoria 743-5272 Corner of 48th & Peoria 9:30 - 5, Mon. - Fri. News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Canadian human rights commissioner has sharply criticized the Liberal government of Prime MinisterJean Chretienin a report for not protecting the rights of gays. In a parting shot, after 9 years heading the commission, Max Yalden said the failure to bar discrimination based on sexual orientation in the country is "little better than acquiescence in intolerance." Yalden’ s annual reportcalledit"afailureinmoral logic and a near-public repudiatioff’ of the rightsoflawabiding citizens mad sl~mmed the Chretien government for failing to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act during the past 2 years it has been in power despite promises to extend full civil rights to Canadian gays and lesbians. The report generated an immediate political storm in the country and Chretien told Parliament the government had already enacted legislation increasing legal penalties for anti-gay attacks and other hate crimes. He also promised that a bill anending the federal human rights laws "will be presented before this House before we move to an election." But Allan Rock, thejustice minister, said it would be "politically difficult" to enact such an anendment before the election because of disagreements within the Liberal Party. Liberal MP Grit Dan McTeague of Ontario called Yalden a "nut bar," and sever al Conservative and Reform Party members also attacked the proposal to include gays and lesbians under federal human rights protections. Canadian Commons Gives Partners Benefits OTFAWA - .Canada’s highlysecretive Commons Board of Internal Economy, which oversees internal spending for the House of Commons itself, has approved limited benefits for same-sex partners of Commons ¯ employees. The board agreed to extend bereavement and familyrelated leave to the same-sex partners of Commons employees. The decision followed a move by the country’s Treasury ¯ Board last year to extend the ¯ same benefits to same-sex ¯ partners of employees in all fe ¯ deral government departments. ¯ That measure followed a court ¯ ro!ing that. same-sex, partners h’a~,E a righi :to ihose benefits. ¯ Gay Retires from Navy ¯ SAN DIEGO, Calif, - In ,an ¯ exclusive interview in the Gay + Lesbian Times, Keith Meinhold, the openly gay sailor who ¯ successfully battled with the ¯ Na~vy’s attempt to discharge him ¯ after he came out on a national ¯¯ TV news broadcast, announced he is retiring from the military. Meinhold, 33, w,as stationed at the Moffett Field Naval Air Sta- ¯ tion where he was a well-liked : sonar instructor when he told : Ted Koppel of ABC News in ¯ 1992 that he was gay. After he fought discharge attempts for 2 ¯ years, the 9th Circuit Court of ¯ Appe~.s finally ordered the Navy not to discharge the 15-year veteran. 1st Annual Pride ¯ Paradein CapeTown ¯ CAPE TOWN, South Africa - An estimated 1,000 gays and ¯ lesbians turned out Saturday night, March 24, to march in the ¯ first annual Gay & Lesbian Festival parade. Two lone and-. gay protesters showed up along : the parade route, holding si~s with biblical quotations ¯ denouncing sodomy, but they ¯ were hardly noticed among the thousands who lined the streets to watch the landmark event. San Francisco Library’s Gay & Lesbian Wing SAN FRANCISCO - A new wing ofthe yet-to-be opened San Francisco Main Library is being called one of a kind. On March 23, hundreds of city officials, community leaders and residents gathered to preview the James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Cen- : ter inside the newly constructed library. The Hormel Center will serve as a research center for gay and lesbian literature, culture, - hisidry hnd’ ~r:~search. The research ~center is the first of its kind in a public institution anywhere in the country. "It’s principal benefactor, James Hormel, said the center will change the way everyone - gay and straight- looks athistory. "’It is time for us to receive the recognition we deserve and to take our place as equal members of the community at large," Anti-Bias Albany ALBANY, N.Y. - Lawmakers have adopted an anti-bias ordinance prohibiting discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodations based on race, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability and marital status, as well as sexual orientation. The countywide measure was approved 24-13. Albany Mayor Jerry Jennings has signed a measure setting up a city domestic partners registration that will allow unmarried same-sex and opposite-sex couples to register their relationship with city hall. The measure, approved by the city’s commoncouncil earlier the same week, extends no specific benefits, but does extend official recognition to the domestic partnership. Gay Cops Sue NYPD NE\V YORK - The Gay Officers’ Action League (GOAL) has filed a lawsuit in Federal District Court charging that the New York Police Dept¯ denies the gay and lesbian police officers orgamzation rights and privileges that it routinely extend s to other police fraternal groups. Although GOAL is officially recognized by the NYP1) as a fratcr,nal o~ganization, the suit charges that it has been refused permission to set up displays at police headquarters COlnmemorating gay and lesbian cops, has not beenallowed to use NYPD vehicles ~n the city" s annual Gay Pride Parade, and has been denied permission to have the force’s marching band participate in the giant parade as well The suit charges that Black, Irish and Hispamc officers" fraternal groups are routinely extended such privileges while the department continues to refuse such requests by GOAL, which has about 500 NYPD members. NYPD officials declined to coimnent on the lawsuit. Notre.Dame’s Gay Org. SOUTH BEND, Ind. - Responding to recommendations by an ad hoc Committee on Gay & Lesbian Student Needs, Patricia O’Hara, Notre Dame’s vice president for student affairs, has announced that the Catholic aniversity will allow Notre Dame Gay & Lesbian Students official recognition at the school, although it will be set up differently from other student groups on campus. The school will not, however, recognize an already existing gay and lesbian group that it rejected last .’,ear. According to O’Hara’s office, NDGLS ~vill "stand in special relationship to the Office of Student Affairs (to) assist gay and lesbian students in coufing together to lind muttml support and in exploring connnon issues within the context of this commumty and the teachmgs of the Catholic Church." NI)GI ^S" s advisors will also bc appointed by O’ ttara, uulikc other stndcnl groups on c~m~pns ~vhich sclccl their own advi.sors. The univcrsit~ will contlnnc. however, to refuse to recognize a~ unofficial student gronp, (]a\s & Lesbians of Notre l)anc and St. Mary’s College which ~vas kicked off cmnpus last year even though ~t continues to fraction as a non-canpus orgali/21tlon More Amer!eans Approve of Gays ATLANTA - Accordiug to a CNN:’[’SA Today poll conducted by the G~llnp organization, 44"% of those interviewed said they thought homoscxualit.~ acceptable, a dranatic incrcasc over a similar Gallup poll done in 1982 which fom~d only 34% said they thought being gay was OK. This year’s poll also fotmd that on13 27% said saint-sex mamages should be legal, while 68% said gay and lesbian maniages should not be legalized in this country. Earlier polls had not included questions abont legalizing sane-sex marfiagcs. Holocaust Museum’s Gay & Lesbian Campaign SAN FIL’-kNCISCO -A stellar showing on the eve of a revival production of Leonard Bemstein’s "On theTown" here raised some S150,000 for the [’.S. Holocaust Memorial Muscum" s Gay & Lesbian Canpaign. The S 1,500-a-head event drew such luminaries as conductor Michael Tilson Thonms, librettists Betty Comden and Adolph Grcf~{, soprano Frederica yon Stadc, baritone Kurt Olhuann, and "Mod Squad" star Clarence \\’illians IlI. David A. Paddock, MT, "Utmost Cot{fi~len ce Assured" CPA 4308 S. Peoria, S~tite 633 Tulsa, OK 74105 WE OFFER ~~,E~LT£ACXTFRILOINNGIC (9183 ~4,-,6,2 Metropolitan Community Church of Greater Tulsa Where God Uplifts All People Sunday Service, 10:45 an~ Wednesday Service, 6:30 pm Home Cell Groups, 2nd & 4th Sun. 1623 No. Maplewood, 838-1715 A PERMANENT SOLUTION Permanent Hair Removal Carol Anwar, RE, CPE Lic. By Okla. St. Med. Bd. 488-0786 Near 71st & Lewis, Call for info. or an appt. with free consultation. P IAlrERSON REALTORS" LEA ANN MACOMBER Realtor Associate Mobile: 671-2010 2642 E. 21st Street ~ Suite ! 70 . Tulsa, Oklahoma 74114 ¯ Off: 918-749-8374 ¯ Res: 918-582-7672 ¯ Fax: 918-747-1795 KELLY KIRBY Certified Public Accountant Lesbians & Gays face many special tax situations whether single or as couples. We are proud to serve our communities with sensitive & timely information. 747-5466 POB 14011, Tulsa 74159 Poll: Teach Kids About AIDS WASHINGTON - The Kaiser Family Foundation hasjust released a major public opinion survey that indicates the overwhelming majority of Americans - 95% in fact - think public schools should teach kids about HIV and AIDS, and that nearly two-thirds think students should start learning about the disease by the time they are 12 years old. The survey also found tl{at some 66% of the 1,500 adults polled think IV drug users should be given clean needles to help prevent the spread of HIV and that some 70% think television networks should air condom ads. Mollyann Brodie, who conducted the survey, said Americans are actually faidy wall informed about the epidemic, but also noted that there are still some . significant misconceptions. About half those surveyed said people can get HIV by donating blood, which, they cannot. About half those polled also said people who become infected begin to show symptoms within 5 3"ears, although it is usually more than 5 years before s3anptoms become apparent. About 18% also said they believed there was "’some truth" in the idea that the virus was originally produced as part of a govethment germwarfare expemnent, while 12% said they thought-. AIDS was "’God’s punishinent’" of homosexuals. AIDS Rate High in U.S. Prisons ATLANTA - According to a report iu Baltimore Sun. the federal Ceuters for Disease Control & Prevention reports that ~inmates in the country’s largest correctional institutions are nearlv 6 times as likely as the general populatio~ to have AIDS. The paper reports that according to the CDC, the U.S. prison population has an infection rate of 5.2 cases per 1,000 prisoners, while the general U.S. population has less than 1 case (0.9) case per 1,000. CDCofficials said most inmates are already infected with HIV when they. enter the prison system, but that ,they also spread the virus ~ough shared IX, n~edles and sexual acti~;’~ties 0rice behind bars)..... Calif. Medical Assn. Drops HI~ Reporting Recommendation ~i! ANAHEIM, Calif. ~ The, Chli.forn~ Medical Associatiort ~M~lhag-cl~angffd its mind about a policy it adopted ouly last who are treated by doctors with a great deal of experience with the disease generally live significantly longer than those who go to physicians with less experience treating AIDS. AIDS experts agree that keeping up with current treatment modes is difficult for health care professionals who don’t regularly treat AIDS patients. Study:i!iFederal AIDS Funding i~ !! n~ppro~iately’ Spent ~¥~IN~T.~~L Tens of millions of dollars allr~’~d by Confess for AIDS research ..... i.n 1994 was spent "’inappr0priatdt~"’ - either on stndies that have ~ittl~ rele...~’ance to the disease or on adm~ist~tH~~ costs that are almost impossible to pin down - according to a vear~Lhat enOor.sed mandatory reporting .~ -~el~drt~o~ssion.,~~ by the \Vhite House ~f individual:s who test positive for H,I~’ io ~.. ~ffied~fA~S. Thdrepo~headed bv Dr. local health: officials. In March 1995 the ? ~krnold Le¢~ne of Yale}’iJniversity," was CMA adopted a resolution that called for put together by some 114 scientists, the state legislature to enact measures that would require health-care workers in California to report anyone testang positive for the virus "for the purpose of partner notification and disease control:only." Last year" s decision drew stron~ criticism from AIDS activists and many health care professionals. Now the CMA says it was wrong and that the possibility of people at high risk for infection not getting tested out of fears they will be reported to health authorities outweighs other tracking and notification considerations. Some 24states in the U.S. require reporting of people infected with HIV Better Doctors = Better Patients BOSTON" - To the surprise of almost no one. researchers from the University of Washington report Ul the New England Journal @.ledicine that people with AIDS scholars, activists, conmaumty leaders and drug industry officials. Thereport is critical of the National Institutes of Health’s $1.3 billion budget, and says some of the money was used administratively to help keep the individual health ~nstitutes,,,under the NIH umbrella going, and some was used to cover basic research that was related to fighting AIDS. While the report focuses on the 1994 budget, the most recent available, many AIDS activists agree that it reflects tren~ls that have been ongoing for years. Derek Link of the Manhattanbased Gay Men’s Health Crisis, the nation’s largest AIDS advocacy group, said he believes that funds for .-’kIDS research, which have steadily increased since the epidemic began, h~ve become "the NCI’s cash cow. ....There’s all this money that i s completely untracked3 smd Link, who authored a little-noticed report last year that was also highly critical of federal AIDS research spending. The report says, among other things, that the accounting methods nsed by federal health agencies connected to NIH are vague and archaic, making it difficult or impossible to also tell precisely what funds are actually being spent on. "The different [committee] panels and the working group were unanimous that the NCI [National Cancer Institute], and other institutes as well ... presently support research classified as AIDS-related that is not appropriately classified This problem potentially an~ounts to a very large level of funding," the report says. Nat’l AIDS Update Conference SAN FRANCISCO - The 8th annual National AIDS Update Conference, the largest in the country, opened with a warmng by Republican AIDS activist Mary Fisher that HMO-type managed care is consigning millions of people infected with HIV "to the least possible care, at the least possible cost." Fisher electrified the nation during a speech at the 1990 Republican convention in Houston about how she contracted the virus from her former husband. "I ampampered bymyinsurance company because I made a 13-minute speech to a bunch of politicians in Houston," Fisher told the opening session here. 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But Fisher and others urged activists and public policy officials to find ways to work with managed-care facilities in responding to treating people with HW and ,AIDS. Others addres sing the conference include Dr. Sandra Hernandez, director of the San Francisco Health Department: Patsy Fleming, director of the White House Office of National AIDS Policy, and researcher Dr. Max Essex. chmrman of the Harvard AIDS Institute. D~g Distribution Comroversy LOS ANGELES - A battle is erupting ove_r the distribntion of Crixlvan, the protease ialtibitor deve!oped by Merck & Co. ihat nlmlx consider the n:ost promising therapy’ in fighdng tim infection to date. Because large-scale production of the drag isnh expected to get going nnti! late this year. Merck says it decided to distribute ~rixivan exciusiveix through the Pittsburgh, Pa.-based mail-order Stadtlm~der’s Pharmac~ Merck says n ?bled for the initiai single-source 4isvibvt~.o;7 because the d~m must bc con_m~o.... x :)n, cse tremmem is supplier. Ed Bubar, who runs FAdie’s Pharmacy in West Hollywood and a staunch opponen! of Merck’s decision, called the move "’totally unfair" to independent pharmacists in the country. "’Everybody wants to get their hands on tiffs drug,"’ he said. "If between now mad October half of nay patients are slfifted to mail-order for Crixivan, I can end tip losing half of my patient base." Merck says that when supplies of the dm~o increase it will broaden its distribution to include independent m~d chain pharmacies as well. SOt. Perry Watkins Dies TACOMA, Wash. - Sgt. Perry’ Watkins, who entered the U.S. Army as an openly gay mm: and remained despite tfi s sexual onemauon, has died of AIDS. Wmkins was 47. I :nlike other gay service members. Watkins. checked "yes" on an enlistment form in 1967 that asked about homosexuali{ y and was enrolled in the Ann,, even so. Only when the Pentagon adopted forma~ reg:,flations in 1981 barring homosexuals did the Army begin disct:arge proceedings which the 14- veto: veteran challenged in federal court. [n 1989. the U.S. 9th Circmt Court of m{ed timt the Army could not dischm’ge \Vat kins for being g’ay since it had i ni ti accepted him :rod aJ Jowed him to re-e::list 3 times, Ti:u ::.S. Supreme Court :_,q !990 :.hat ~c ~CF COl.trt F \ \ TULSA ICE ARENA. tag]l) ~. ll)IST E. AVE 71ST A?<D MING{) BEHL’<I) THE L ~ PRIUE ALL TICKET PROCEEDS (.r’O "OUR HOUSE" TICKETS: $ 8.01) BL,EACHER,5 $12.50 t;,N I...E TICKETS AVAL:[ABLE TLTLSA ICE ARE:’<A 254-7272 RENEGADES ,117TH Sponsored by Miller Lite Memorial Day Weekend May 24-26 Oklahoma City State Fairgrounds Advance Ticket Package only $25 Includes both rodeo performances & both parties. Send check or money order to OGRA, POB 12485, OKE 73157 Orders ~eceived after 5/17 will be held for pickup at the Fri. night party. L TULSA FAMILY NEWS COMMUNITY .CA EN’r R SUNDAYS Agape’ Christian Fellowship Worship Service, 10:30 am. Sheridan Center, Suite H 21st & Sheridan, 599-7688 Bless the Lord At, All Times Christian Center Sunday School, 9:45 am Worship Service. ! 1 am 2627b East 1 lth 583-7815 Community of Hope (United Methodist) Worship Service. 6 pm !703 E. 2nd, 585-1800 Family of Faith Metro. Comm. Church Adult Sundav School, 9:’15 Worship Service, 11 am 5451-E South Mingo. hffo: 622- t~-i 6:5’0 ou,. at Canterbury MONDAYS HIV Testing TOHR Clinic Free & anonymous testing using fingerstick method. No appointment required. Walk in testing: 7-8:30 pm Results hours: 7-9 pm Info: 742-2927 Lambda Bowling League Sheridan Lanes 8:45 pm 312i S. Sheridan PFLAG Family AIDS Support Group 2rid Monday of month. 6:30 pm 4154 S. Harvard info: 749-4901 OTHER GROUPS The Technicians. Leather org. info cio 621-5597 7.U.LoS.A, Tulsa Uniform ~ L.~adbr Seekers" A~’soc, >racuc.: week!v in OKC in b S38-212~ TUESDAYS HIV+ Support Group HIV Resource Consortium 1:30 pm 4154 S. Harvard, Ste H-1 Info: Wanda ~ 749-4194 Shanti-Tulsa, Inc. HW/AIDS Support Group & Friends & Famii y HIV,AIDS Support Group 7 pm, call for location: 749-7898 Community of Hope Grief Group, 6 pm 1703 E. 2nd, 585-1800 Grief Group ButleriStumpff Funeral Home 2103 E. 3rd St. Call for time: 587-7000 WEDNESDAYS Authority OfThe Believer Bible Study, 7 pm MCC of Greater Tulsa 1623 N. Maptewood In/o: 838-!71~ Bless The Lord At All T~mes Christian Center Prayer & Bible Stud), 7:30 pm 2627-B East 1 lth Call 593-78!5 for info. Family Of Faith MCC Praase & Prayer 6:30 pm Choir Pracuce 7:30 pm 5451 -E South Mingo Call 622-1441 for info. Commnnky of Hope ~ United Methodist) Service for Peace. 6:30 om Bible Stud)’. 7 pm 1703 i! 2nd, 585-1800 THURSDAYS ]6-Step Empowerment Group For Women Community of Hope 1703 E. 2nd, In/o: 585-1800 Co-Dependency Snpport Group 7:30, Family of Faith MCC 5451-E S. Mingo. 622-1441 HIV TestingTOHR Clinic Walk in testing: 7 - 8:30 pm Results hours: "~ - 9 pm In/o: 742-2927 Tulsa Family Chorale Wee"kly practice. 9:30 pm Lola’s 2630 E. 15th PFLAG Family AdDS Support Group 1st & 3rd Thursdays 4h-~ S. Harvard. 74924901 Alternatives V,’eekiv social events for LGBT’men & women, 7 Dm info: 646-5503 Substance Ab>sv Support Grou,_ for ~ersons wifi~ H!’,- 415A-S. Harvard Sic 3-4:30 pro, I~o: 749-4!%4 SATURDAYS St. Jerome’s Ecumenical Catholic Church Mass, 6 pill Garden Chapel 3841 S. Peoria In/o: Father Rick at 742-7122 Narcotics Anonymous Meets weeld y at ! I pm Confidential gnpport for recovering addicts. Cormnunitv of ! lcpc 1703 E. 2nd, Ir~fo: 585-1800 NAMES Project AIDS MemoHa~ Qui~ Sewing Bees 3rd Sat. of each inonth Info: 7dg-3 t i OTHER GROUPS Gay & Lesbian Sn~dem Assoc~o~’: hio: (£;? 762 ’ 7].3-(].- "- Womens Supper Club 6:30pro, r-Fippin’s Pie P~mtry, 7828 E. -1 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17 Pride Picnic Planning Meeting 7 pro. Central Library. Preview Room, 4fl~ & Denver. In/o: 583-1248 THURSDAY, APRIL 18 Planning Meetingfor Gay & Lesbian Action AlertPhone Tree 6 pm, TOHR office, 40th & Harvard, 2nd ft. All welcome. In/o: 582-7548 APRIL 26-28 HIVIAIDS & SpiritualitylWholeness Retreatfor Men, In/o: 488-9215 SATURDAY, APRIL 27 Rainbow Business Guild Spring Picnic 4 pro, Zink Park, In/o: 665-5174 Regional AIDS Interfaith Network Volunteer Training (1 of2 sessions) 10-5 pm, Community of Hope 1703 E. 2nd Info: 749-4213 /WEDNESDAY, MAY 1 Womens Supper Club .... i6f30pm, Olive Garden, Utica Square iInfo: 584-2978 ~.. MAY 3-5 Texas Lesbian Conference Dallas Grand Hotel Info: Naomi @ 214-520-8108 SATURDAY, MAY 4 Regional AIDS Interfaith Network Volunteer Training (2 of2 sessions) 10 - 5 pm, Community of Hope 1703 E. 2nd hffo: 749-4213 Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Right~’ 7 pm. Chouteau Rin_ Chapmm~ Ctr. In/o: 743-GAYS (4297) SATURDAY, MAY 11 Dignity/Integrity Mass 5 pm, St. Dunstan’s, 5635 E. 71st In/o: 745-2363 MONDAY, MAY 13 Parents Families & Friends of Lesbians & Gays Family AIDS Support Group. 6:30 pm Social and Refreshntents, 7 pm General Meeting, 7:30 pm 4154 S. Harvard, Info: 7494901 MAY 17-19 Herland Sister Resources Retreat Roman Nose State Park Registration deadline: 5/15 Info: 2312 NW 39th, OKC 73112 HIV/AIDS & Spirituality/Wholeness Retreatfor Women, hffo: 488-9215 TUESDAY, JUNE 4 Tulsa Oklahomansfor Human Rights, PFLAG & Rainbow B,tsiness GUIM present Cece Cox, pres. ofthe ’ Dallas Gay & Lesbian Alliance 7 pm, ChouteaU Rm, Chapman Ctr, TU In/o: 743-GAYS (4297) SATURDAY, JUNE 8 TOHR Ci~wide Pride Prom Location to be announced. Info: 743-GAYS (4297) SATURDAY, JUNE 15 Tulsa Pride Picnic Noon - 6pm. Location to be ammunced. In/o: 743-GAYS (4297) = The University of [ulsa StudentA.*:..’,-.)’,,~’",,’~~,’v",.,r’" ~ ~is~’:<t:al. Lesbian and ~av ~t.[ance _,..c ~_n:,vc;-sitx 1)_ [] /)re.senz the [] : 2rid Annual World Cinema Festivat [] Gay & Lesbian Cinema : ¯¯ Friday, April 19 [] ¯ []~ Gav & Lesbian History [][] [] The Homosexuals. 7 pm [] Before Stonewalh The Making of a Gay and ¯ Lesbian Comtnunirv, 8pm ¯ ¯ Last Call at Maud’s, 9:30 pm [] ¯ Saturday,., April 20 [] American Gay & Lesbian Experience ¯" ¯ [] [] Postcards From America, lpm ¯ A Comedy in Six Unnatural Acts, 2:30pm ¯ ¯ Homoteens, 3pm , ¯ The Blankpoint: What is Transexualism, 4pm ¯ ¯ ¯ Break for Dinner ¯ ¯ Super 8 112, 7pm ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ Sunday, April 21 . -" Gay & Lesbian International Film -" ¯ Wild Reeds, lpm ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ Khltsh, 3pm ¯" El Diputado, 3:30pm ¯ Break for Dinner " ¯ ¯ ¯ Boys Shorts: The New Queer Cinema, 7pm ¯ ¯ Urinal, 9pm ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ Screenings are free and in Lorton Hall//207 (enter from 8th & ¯ Evanston. Lorton faces the Oval & is north of Twin Towers Dorm) ¯ ¯ Sponsored by the TU Student Assoc~"att"on, BLGA, Office of the¯ "Provosl, School of Art, Hen~. Kendall College Division of Fine & ¯ ~-Performing Arts, Office of the President .and Tulsa Family News.~- I I i I I I I I I i I I I I I I I I I i I lilillll Illil I I.iil i i ii ’ IAM o,t’d om p. 1 Episcopal Diocese of Oklahoma. Both OKC and Tulsa members of the Task Force felt the ne2xl to provide services to PLWA’s, such as hospital visits, memorial services and education. Out of this, grew IAM which incorporated and applied for its IRS tax-exempt status in 1990. IAM was begunby Doreen Wood;Phil Wiley, Don Satterthwaite and Chaplin Diane Zike, who serves as executive director. Although IAM is an interfaith orgamzation, its origin with the Episcopal Church resulted in a grant in 1990 to run a 24hour volunteer HIV/AIDS hotline. This line was for several years the only source of24 hour information in the state. Calls to the hotline range frombasic HIV information and referrals, such as to testing sites, to providing "real" listening to those who want toknow if their actions may have put them at risk for HIV infection. IAM’s state certified volunteers and staff also provide education seminars for churches, and organizations such as the US Army Corp of Engineers, Kimberly-Clark, and booths at health fairs, conferences and conventions. IAM’s goal is to provide HIV.AIDS information from a spiritual dimension, especially for young people. According to Diane Zike, "IAM is about saving lives...w e believe in abstinence but also in giving good information so people can make good choices." Zike has recently finished a couf~e in clinical pastoral care which will allow IAM to add a new dimension to its services. IAM also offers "’trained visitors" who are available to see folks who are max be too ill to get out or x~l~o are lonely. ¯ IAM’s currentboardis Richard Reeder, ¯ Phil Wiley, Joe Myles, Lauren Green, ¯ Steven Fendt, Bill Green and Nancy Tiger. Their vision for the future hopes to add ameditation series, and various work- .- shops to their current services of provid- ¯ ing spiritual, emotional and practical sup- " port for people. ¯ IAM is a membership/volunteer sup- " ported organization. Membership is only ¯" $5/year/individualor$10/year/household ¯ and $1/year/student/low income. Volun¯ teers are especially needed for the 24 hour hofline whichis staffed in4hour blocks at ¯ the volunteer’s home. One day training is ¯ provided in HIV!AIDS information and ¯ in "active listening". For more info. or to "- volunteer, call 438-AIDS (2437). i Spahr ~on,’d~om p. 1 ¯ bly because Spahr is Lesbian. Following ¯ that ruling, DUPC and Westminister, 2 ¯ More Light (welcoming of Lesbian and ¯ Gay persons) congregations, set up the ¯ special ministry so that she could travel ¯ the US educating and informing Presbvterians and others on behalf of greater ¯ inclusiveness in the Church. Spahr also will be the featured speaker ¯ at a workshop entitled "Claiming God’s ¯ Grace" in OKC on Sat.:May 18th. The ~vorkshop is beiug called "a day of healing, learning and community as we work toward wholeness in our lives as children Of God & as Gay, Lesbian, Bi & Transgendered peoples’" 9am to 4pm at St. Andrew’s. 2712 NW 23. Preregistration encouraged, although walk-ins are welcome. Fee: S15, with scholarships available. For more izffo, call 745-9922 in Tulsa, 377-9174, Stilhvater or 840-4849 in OKC. FUNERALS JUST NEVER SEEMED RIGHT FOR MY FAMILY... THE CREMATION SOCIETY WAS CREATED FOR PEOPLE LIKE ME. enjo)" being ourselves. A funeral seems ostentatious and can cost a lot of money. A simple, ~lign~ed cremation just seems to fit our lifestyle. Cremation Society® of Oklahoma 2103 East Third, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74104-1842 918-599-7337 or toll-free, 800-994-7337 or vas~t us on the Internet at hrtp ://www. cremation, org/oklahoma!oklahoma, html For Free Literature, Withou| Cost or Obligafion, Mail this coupon today! Please contact me. I would like to learn more about your special final expense program. Name: Age: Address: City, St. &.Zip: Telephone: Play cont’dfromp. 13 John Weller for their incredible performances in the production I "directed" - HIVariations, consisting of Cater Waiter & Andre’s Mother. Special thanks to Vivica, & the rest of the cast - your suggestions & insights were extremely helpful & appreciated. I am very proud of them. They performed perfectly, & the technical aspects of the show went off without a hitch - there wasn’t a dry eye in the house when they were done. Thank you for the many hours ofwork youall put in, & for putting up with a sometimes temperamental director. Special thanks to Aaron Mooney, who worked the lights with almost no preparation, no rehearsal, & did a stellar job. A special thanks to Professor Cook, for his belief in this project, & his conviction that everyone should have a voice in theatre. I hope you’ll support the 2nd Annual World Cinema Festival of Gay" & Lesbian Cinema at the TU, which occurs Friday, April 19 - Sunday, April 21. All films will be screened in Lorton Hall, room #207, on the TU campus. For the complete schedule see the ad on page 9. See you there? Onthe local front, BA Cornn{lmi’(~Playhouse was named "Oklahoma Theatre of the Year" by the OK Community Theatre Association. According to Don Tabberer, "For a community theatre, this is equivalent to receiving the Best Picture Oscar; it is very gratifying to be recognized for the work we do here.’" BACPalso received an award for "’Excellence in Marketing". Congratulations, BACP! Their production of "’The Cemeterx: Club", a story about friendship, loss, healiug & facing life with humor, opens April 26. $ondheim’s "Company" opens June 14. BACPis also looking for directors for the upcoming season. For more info., call the BACP at 258-0077. Elvis is alive, &will probably be incognito at the Philbrook. The Philbrook Museum of Art will play host to a traveling exhibit, "Elvis + Marilyn: 2x Immortal". The exhibit examines Presley’s & Monroe’s enduring effect on American culture, & will be showing April 14- June 2, 1996. Keith Haring is one oftbe artists featured. A special event on April 28 at 2 & 4 pm, will be a concert given by J.D. Sumner & the Stamps Quartet, who performed regularly with Elvis during the height of his success. Tickets for the concert are $15, & include admission to the exhibit. Tix are available at the museum, or call 748-5307. see Play, page 15 Rainbow cont’dfromp. 11 tain state, particularly inColorado Springs. Colorado Springs’ loss is our gain. The Emerald Rainbow has always been a tremendous resource for g/l/b/tg folk, and the beat goes on. The place has a little different look, new & different siddines, and most of the familiar remains as wall. Come and see for yourself. You can meet M.C. &Linda, maybe swap or create some God stories of your own. You might pick up some incense, buy a Rainbow flag, some Freedom Rings, a gay or lesbian novel, ~nake a statement with a button or bumper sticker, mid you will deftnitely enjoy your time in the place we call paradise - Enreka Springs. (NOTE: The Fanerald Rainbow can be reached at emrain@rog.ar.ispnet.com, or visit their home page on the WorldWide Web:http: www pimps.conreurekaibizi emraiu.html) ’96 ECLIPSE SPYDER CONVERTIBLE GS $22,835 Tales of The Emerald Rainbow by Phil Boler-Schmidt Linda Williams and M.C Delahanty are not unlike many visitors to pass this way. They read that Eureka Springs hoots-a large lesbigay population in a guide about great gay places to : live,~and tiring of thebigotryand : ~hatred-erRlemi&in Springs, they decided tO ch~ckI us out.....hehe. The now proud owners ofThe Emerald Rainbow (45-1/2 Spring Street in Eureka Springs, 501-253-5445) left Colorado on a whim in early Febnmry. They had plane reservations and were planning to vacation here in March, but they decided to get a ¯ sneak preview. They knew they ¯ could stay less than two days ¯ before making the trek back to ¯ theirjobs at casinos in the Cripple ¯ Creek resort area. So sure were they that this was a quick trip, just to give us the once over, that the couple of five years did not bother to bring their checkbook along for the ride.. - .. trieve parts of herself from along some highway in Oklahoma. Jan & Kim Ridenour, the founders, and now former owners of The Emerald Rainbow, referred to this particular event as just an- Other good laugh at the Angel Bar, where some macho dyke angel said, "Hey look, we need a couplemore in Eureka Springs," In less than half a day;.~M.C..&~: ]....then, with a swift puff of air into warmth, and humor to their new venture, and the place didn’ t skip a beat. By the nme we go to press, their Grand Opemng will be past, and the official passing of the torch will be a memory. These ladies are ready to settle in for the long haul. This move was fraught with ironies for Linda & M.C. They only lived in Colorado for three Linda.~ contraeted~ to::pufeh’a!se’; .::;:hef~.blow gun, she landed the".; ye,hrsTThree years exactly to the their n~w~bfisiri~s~ an@le~e ~an~,:~" d~d,dub right on’target: ¯ apartments- all without benefit-::: All joking aside, this has been ofaLnythingothertharithemagic : quiteaseries0feventstowimess. .. money machine at alo,..~cal_~bank. .- Like most folks in our little ~’ Oh ye~;Eu’:r~k~iSpri~s~be’ ~; " t~t6pi;a;,t ,wear a, number.of katsa downrightdangerous place: r0 ! arrund town. One I have filways visitifyouhavenotalreadygiven : enjoyed is the-one I don when thought to an abbot move. We..... work-in,g, part-time at The have several- names,’~,l~or,~tli~se F Eme-rald~Rai.nbow. I feel like I kinds of occurrences ~n Eureka ; get pMd to play, and that role Springs. At MCC of the Living : continues forme as l get to know Spring, we called it another God the new Emerald Rainbow Story. Linda& M.C. consistentl~ : "morns." refer to It as a whirlwind, and each feels like she needs to reday. Both are nanve to the Baltimore, MD area. Though they moved toColorado Springs m the aftermathof the Amendment Two vote. th’e~; initially felt good about that mo~’e. They wanted a sabbatical from-the hustle and bustle of life-in th~ big city, ,’rod they weren:~t rs~ly,prepared lbr the overt:nile that ~vangelicals exert in the-once liberal uloullshe Rombow. page 10 A dull Accommodations In Eureka Springs, Arl~nsas M.C. & Linda are delightful people. They bring enthusiasm, Craftsman-style cottages with beautiful .views of the woods and wildlife -.Tucked on top of the Ozark Mountains, just a few minutes .walk to the Historic Village ofEureka Springs. 501/253-8281 Frank Green Jr.. Hosl - 50 Wall $treet - Eureka Springs. 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With asset allocation, you mix both conservative & growth-oriented investments and arrive at a blended portfolio which is not as risky as it Would be if you were to put all your money into gro~,th instruments. This strategy offers youmore upside potential than if you were to go totally conservative. It’also offers the poter~tial advantage of.~ving you something positive to work with in nearl v every kind of market scenario. Whild one ~nvestment is performing poorly, another may be doing well. How you allocate of diversify your personal portfolio is determined I~v" your individual Investment profile - v~tir goals, your risk temperament, 3our t~.x situation and your time horizon. Your asset all ocatlon may need to change over tlllle in orderto ~’it your changing financial needs mad goals READ ALL ABOUT IT Reviewed by Barry Hensley Tulsa City/County Public Library . Twenty-six years after Stonewall and s~xteen years into the AIDS crisis, gay men are just now starting to figure out how tomakelong-term relationships work, and, more importantly, why they are significant. Author Craig Nelson takes us on a stage by sta’ge journey ~b0ut how to get, and keep, a man. In eleven readable and entertaining chapters, Nelson explores "Modem Love," "Where to Meet Men," "Date Tips for Guys" and "Keeping it Together," among other topics. Since some guys seem to find romantic success via personal ads and dating services, Nelson supplies lists of questions that help both you and )’our potential mate understand who you are and what you want. Also, under’standing that a very small percentage of people are extremelY, physically attractive, Nelson reminds th~ reader to loosen up, don’t beat up on yourself, or a potential mate, for not looking like Rod Jacksou-Paris. There is much more to life & relationships than just ha~.mg a pretty face. Nelson cites many factors that combine to sabotage long-term relationships, in- ¯ cluding poor self esteem, intemalized ¯ homophobia, lack of fidelity and the idea that the other guy is just plain nuts! The ¯ bottomline seems to be lack of communication. Everyone has quirks, so dream on ¯ if you’re looking only for Mr. Perfect, or ¯ if you think that you are Mr. Perfect! All ¯ .relationships are based on communicat- ¯ mg needs and desires. ¯ " ’There is an interesting chapter, "Fidel- ; ity, What’s Fidelity?," dealing with the apparent difficulties that many gay men ¯ have being faithful to their partner. AIDS many factors...sabotage long-term relationships... poor self-esteem, internalized homophobia, lack of fidelity and the idea that the other guy is just plain nuts[ is the obvious reason that this may be the most important chapter in the book. It’s time gay men realize that the 1970s are long gone, and now is the time to create a new standard for gay relationships. After spending the entxre first ten chapters trying to get couples together for the long haul, Nelson’s final chapter is titled "When It Falls Apart." Some relationships are simply not going to work and this chapter g~ves advice on making a breakup as painless as possible. If there was ever a time for a book like this, this is it! Please contact your local branch library, or call the Readers Services department at the Centr,’d Library at 596-7966, for dfis book & others on si]nilar subjects. Butfer-Sturnpff Funeral Home Cemetery - Funeral Home - Crematory At Butler-Stumpff Funeral Home, you and your family will be treated with dignity, compassxon, and pride. Whether it is your given or chosen family who needs our ser’vices, ’;ou can be who and what youare and you will noi be discriminated against. Weoffer our exclusive$2820 complete funeral plan, no added costs. 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In fact, at least three of the waiters are positively stunning (and they know it!) and could grace the pages of most any catalog or print ad. Unfortunately, we don’t have first hand information on whether or not they would qualify for International Male. And, believe it or not, these attractive waiters are very capable at doing their jobs. If one is able to get one’s mind back on the menu, one will find a good variety of tasty, well prepared items at this popular restaurant. The decor here is very clubby, including a welcoming fireplace near the bar, and the menu reflects a man’s tastes by the emphasis on heartier entrees and the lack of trendy items. Our major complaint with the establishment is that the smoking and non-smoking sections are not fully separated, and on a busy night, no area of the restaurant is trul y free from obnoxious mid unhealthy smoke. The food here is basic; straight forward ,and no-nonsense in preparation, .you can dine on haute cuisine entrees or the ever popular $7 Polo burger. Appetizers include fried calamari (squid), shrimp cocktail, some tasty crab cakes, escargot (snails) served in mushroom caps, a tomato vegetable soup, and an assortment of soups dujour. Several big entree salads, such as a traditional Cobb, appear on the menu, and the dressings include an excellent fruit flavored poppyseed vinaigrette, one of our favorites. Caesar salads, both with Polo Grill, 2038 Utica Square. Prices: expensive. Service: formal, bistro atmosphere. Hours: 11-10 pro; ’tll 11 pm on Fri. & Sat.; closed Sun. Payment: Visa, ]~laster-card, American Express, Diner’s Club, Carte Blanche; no eheel~s. Non-smol~n~ seeGon: Yes. Alcohol: Full bar. Opinion: A List. and without grilled chicken or shrimp, are also popular items. Main courses include beef, veal, lamb, duck, chicken, shrimp, and fish, with prices ranging from S 14.95 for the roast split of duckling to S 19.95 for grilled lamb chops to S22.95 or so for the fresh fish of the day. Steaks are popular with the sometimes older crowd, and the tenderloin fillet costs S16.95 for the six ounce and S18.95 for the eight ounce size, with the strip sirloin going for S 18.95 We ate the excellent veal osso bucco and our companion ordered the fish of the " day, which was a baked halibut served in Cherry Street Psychotherapy Associates 1515 South Lewis Are you looking for a relaxed, amicable, private atmosphere for therapy? Our office provides a level of confidentiality and comfort that enhances teh therapeutic process. For further information, call 743-4117 Leah Hunt, MSW Judy Seymour-Taylor, CADC Della Blackburn, CADC Ric.hard Reeder, MS Serving a Diverse Community ¯ a champagne cream sauce. The halibut ¯ was very fresh with no hint of fishy taste, and the sauce was a light and pleasant ¯ accompaniment. The halibut was pre- ¯¯ sented along side angel hair pasta, which we thought was cooked a touch beyond al ~ dente. Our osso bucco was delicious and ¯ fork tender. A traditional Italian stewing ¯ of the veal leg served with cross sections ¯ of bone and attached meat, osso bucco is ¯ beloved not so much for the meat, but for ¯ the wonderful marrow inside the bone. ¯ Therefore, we were shocked and appalled : when our osso bucco was presented, not ¯ with a marrow scoop, but with a totally useless seafood fork! We hate to admit it in public, but we were forced to extract the marrow witha...butter spreader. Mon dieu.t Desserts are substantial._ The creme brulee and Key lime pie, both $3.50, are typical of Tulsa restaurants. Even better are the baked fudge and the cinnamon raisin, bread pudding, both $3.95. On the evemng we dined, a Grand Marnier souffle, $4.95, was apleasant finale to our meal. While the souffle was not quite as tender as what we make at home, we could hardly complain in view of the very reasonable price of this often-difficult dessert. After dinner coffees, demitasse, and drinks are available from the full bar. A fairly small wine list contains both nice drink’able wines and a few embarrassing selections that are so sadly all too popular in Tulsa. Several of the better wines are available by the glass. The Polo Grill has always been one of the consistently go~d restaurants in Tulsa. Formal and gourmet it is not, bnt management and the kitchen are very ~vell grounded in their concept of ident’itv and do a fantastic job of serving their ~iclle with well trained staff and excellent food. Marilyn Monroe,.at Philbrook’s l~vis + Marilyn: 2 x Immortal,photo: Sam Shaw by James Christjohn The University of Tulsa’s Weekend of One .Acts has come & gone. Many ontstanding productions were perfonncd, & almost everyone in the directing class is now dealin~ with a great deal of strcss reduction. However, there are three productions upcoming. Diaries, writtcn by TU students about college life from a gay perspective, will go up 4.: 29, at 7pro in Theatre 2 in Kendall Hall. On 4 30, at 7pro, Laundry & Bourbon & The lx,sson (directed by Vivica \Valkenbach) will bc performed in Theatre 2. Lisa \Vilson’s version of Bus Stop opens 4 24. I would like to take tiffs opportunity to express my th,’ulks to Michael Kippcr, Karin Sandmel, Vivica \Valcbeubach, & see Play, page lO Worship Service, 10:30 am Sheridan Center, Suite H, 21st & Sheridan, 599-7688 where pets are treated like people * Bakery Treats * Bed 8: Breakfast (boarding) " Salon * Pet Supplies: Science Diet, IAMS. Nutro Dog Food THE DOG HOUSE BROOKSIDE 3311 S. Peoria. 744-5556 [D[CC TO DISCO Wed,-Sat, 10-5 Sun, 1 The fabulous T-Town Dreamers. Photos: JD Jamett OUT & ABOUT by, J.D. Jame~t " " - int~rest ~,s known as a great neighborhood It’s spring and boy, are there a lot of bar (or two bars) - that’s right, New Age Atthe Silver Star, Fallon Scott new Miss Gay South USofA tlfings to do out and about. This next month holds a broad spectrum of events from a turn-about show at the Silver Star (April 19), followed by the 4th annual Miss Silver Star Pageant (April 21). You’ll be sorry if you missed Robbie Walker’s 2rid am~tm] Birthday Show wtfich was April. 7th at Concessions. Don’t nfiss the Miss Gay C)klahoma America Pagent (April 20) at the Peffornfing Arts Center or the Bear Bash (April 27). Contact Steve or Dick at 918- 663-5372 for more *larch came in like a lamb but went out like a drag queen with bad hair and broken heels (just-kidding). There was a lot of excellent entertaimnent last month, from .a spectacular arfiversarv show at I~ola’s which featured a new°entertainment group, The T-Town Dreamers, to the first mmual Gay South USofA pageant at the Sih’~r Star. This month’s featured establishment of Renegades and the Rainbow Room. These bars offer a little bit for everyone, a from a sit-down cruise bar to a show bar to a nice big patio with fireplace. This bar is trnly a familv affair. Dermis and lfis other half. i~arry, not only are the owners but regular bartenders. And who could ever forget Derails’ sister, Veronica, the v~vacious and light-hearted bartender in the Rainbow Room? Some of their ~nonthly events are Leather Night (Ist Friday of the month in the Rainbow Roon~), Girls Nite Out (the date varies each month but the date is always posted). May will be a particularly busy month for th’em starting with the Red Ribbon Revue (May 4) which will benefit Our House. followed by Miss Renegades ’96 (May 17), Girls Nit’e Outwith a wetjockey shorts contest (May 18) mad ending with one of the rites of spring, the GAYFEST CARNIVAL & carwash featuring Dark Shadows II, see JD, next page Coming Soon! Don’t Miss It! Special entertainers: Amanda Love Anita Richards Helen Holliday Scott Pendergrass, from Nashville An event you won’t want to miss. The most prestigious preliminary to Miss..GaY OMahoma America Tickets on sale at the P.A.C.or at most Carson Attractions outlets. $5.00 ~er person or $6°00 per couple= Phone orders ~y credit cards accepted. Liddy D.oenges Theater - use the 2rid St. entrance 1~r this event.‘ Don’t ~it~’t0 pur~h~se tickets; seating is limiteci. Thanks to the P.A.C. ~’or helping to make ~his ever~t one Tulsans of all walks of life will be proud of. For more information, call: 918.428.5330 Portions of proceeds to benefit Shanti, Inc. & Our House JD, continuedfrom page 14 also benefiting Our House (May 19). PS, speaking of drag queens, to keep all the fabulous drag divas of Tulsa happy (and so they stop pestering me about getting their names mentioned in the column), I’m now starting our Queen ofthe Month dub. This month’s winner is Katherine - ’cause she begs so sweetly. Queen ofthe Month dub rules Vary according to my whim, so be patient, sooner or later, everyone wins. Play, continuedfrom page 14 Gilcrease museum is offering an intriguing program during this month called Art WithA Tart: No, I’m not making this up; that’s the name of the event, honest! A speaker will give a tour about bits of the Gilcrease collection, & the museum restaurant makes up a box lunch comprised of a tart &a salad. I don’t think they mean the tart serves the salad, it seems a pastry tart is included in the lunch: Pity. 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Gardens has been Gay and Les those will al!ow co grazing nizin is noplace the lS no as a o si 2 ?n as an in~ Lividual? will, the first ce: in the United States section of our cemetery just for & Lesbians, and their family and friends. burial_spaces, columbarium for cremated remains, ¯ ~.g:gardens with a :memorial wall, newly expanded and renovated section of ngton. Memorial Gardens~ Cemetery. The Pride flag will proudly fly in the center of Unity Gardens to always remind us of our struggle in life for unity and pride. If you have purchased a plot elsewhere, you may be able to transfer or trade your burial plots. For more information, please call Russell Langley-Stumpff at 918-587-7000. ***Owned and operated by Butler-Stumpff Funeral Home*** Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data newspaper periodical Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource [1996] Tulsa Family News, April 15-May 14, 1996; Volume 3, Issue 5 Subject The topic of the resource Politics, education, and social conversation toward Tulsa’s Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual communities. Description An account of the resource Tulsa Family News was a monthly newspaper; No. 1 issued December 1993-January 1994. The final issue available was published in September 0f 2001 (Volume 8, Issue 9). The newspaper brings up important, evolving topics of marriage, Pride, TOHR, HIV/AIDs, events, advice, and politics all at the local and national level. This document is available in searchable PDF attached. It is also available to be seen at the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center with permission. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Tulsa Family News 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 April 15-May 14, 1996 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource James Christjohn Phyl Boler-Schmidt Barry Hensley Pat Morehead JD Jamett Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Tom Neal/Tulsa Family News 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 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/509 Relation A related resource Tulsa Family News, March 15-April 14, 1996; Volume 3, Issue 4 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://history.okeq.org/collections/show/24 1996 AIDS/HIV AIDS/HIV drugs AIDS/HIV education AIDS/HIV reporting AIDS/HIV research anti-bias law arts and entertainment attorneys Barry Hensley Bars businesses churches Craig Nelson Dave Fleischer Don't Ask Dont Tell estate planning Eureka Springs gay bashing Great Plains Rodeo harassment hate crimes homophobia HOPE Testing Interfaith AIDS Ministries J.D. 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Text Any textual data included in the document Serving Tulsa’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Trans Communities Our Families of the Heart UPCOMING EVENTS HIV-ERC + Red Ribb,.o.n Revue + Pride- Bene.flts Pride Worship Service Dallas Leader Cece Cox Hope Candlelight Tour Pride Prom + Pride Picnic O.KC Parade +. ,.Follies TULSA - The next several weeks offer an unprecedented number of community events which either benefit HIV/AIDS charities or celebrate Lesbian/Gay Pride Month. On May 23rd, the Red Ribbon Ice Revue promises a great show at the Tulsa Ice Arena to support Our House, a day drop-in center for persons living with HIV/AIDS. Later that evening, the Silver Star will host a benefit &raffle for the HIV Education and Recreation Center, a new organization headed by Bruce Begley, Sandy Hill, Steve Wilson and others. OnSaturday and Sunday,June 8-9th,the Hope Candlelight Tour will feature the homes of Tina & Steven David, Judy & Bill Fisher, P.S. Gordon & Duane Men Ne, Mary McMahon, and Ouida & Robert Merrifield to benefit St. Joseph’s Residence/Catholic Charities and RAIN, the Regional Interfaith AIDS Network. Tickets are $10 and are available at Charles Faudree, 1345 E. 15th, and at MA Doran Gallery, 3509 S. Peoria. The very distinguished organizing committee also has planned a number of patron events - for more information, call 747-9706. Near the end of. the month, June 21 & 22, Follies Revue, Inc. will present Follies ’96 Salutes the Movies at the Doubletree Hotel, Warren Place. It’s a dinner and a show you won’t want to miss. The beneficiaries are TOHR, HIV Resource Consortium, Interfaith AIDS Ministries, Shanti, Visiting Nurses Assoc. RAIN and St. Joseph’s Residence/Catholic Charities. For tickets, call the PAC box office, Carson Attractions, and Tickets by Phone. For June, the traditional Lesbian/Gay Pride month worldwide, Tulsa volunteers have planned a number of events. The month will begin by the first ecumenical Pride Worship Service. Hosted by St. Jerome at the Garden Chapel, 3841 S. Peoria at 6 pm on Saturday, June 1, the service will include Family of’Faith MCC, Agape Christian Fdlowship and other congregations: On Tuesday, June 4, PFLAG, TOHR and the Rainbow Business Guild (with assistance from the Bisexual, Lesbian, Gay Trans Alliance, BLGTA) will present Cece Cox, president of the Dallas Gay & Lesbian Alliance (DGLA), one of the most dynamic activists in the Southwest and a native of Bartlesville. She will be talking about the Marriage Project of the DGLA as well as her work as co-chair of GLAAD/Dallas. The dinner will be held in the Chouteau Room of the Chapman Student Center of the University of Tulsa at 6:30. The dinner is $10 but the speech is free at about 7:45. June 8th, TOHR and TU’s BLGTA will host a Pride see Pride, page 3 MARRIAGE The attack begins at the national level led by Oklahoma Rep. Steve Largent & Sen. Don Nickles. WASHINGTON - Confronted with a flagging presidential campaign and convinced they’ve found a one-sided wedge issue that could embarrass President Clinton’s campaign efforts, Republican lawmakers have introduced. ameasure, titled the"Defense ofMamageAct" (DOMA), that would define marriage as"only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife." The proposed law Was introduced by Republican Reps. Bob Barr of Georgia and by Steve Largent & by Sen. Don Nickles of Oklahoma. Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole of Kansas, who all but has the GOP’s presidential nomination sewn up, became the first Senate co-sponsor of the measure. During the Iowa primary caucuses, when Republican hopefuls were asked to sign a pledge to fight any effort in Congress to legalize same-sex marriages, Dole said the pledge doesn’t go far enough" and added; "Government at all levels must work to support and promote the institution of marriage that unites husband and wife." Just days before the proposed legislation was introduced in Congress, Dole campaign officials told reporters that the Republican presidential hopeful would be taking action to make same-sex marriages a campaign wedge issue, using Clinton’s outreach to gay and lesbian Americans in an effort to make voters wary of the President’s re-election bid. Clinton campaign officials have acknowledged that the issue is potentially a political landmine during the campaign and said the President "didn’t want to touch it." Even so, when anti-gay activists asked Clinton to sign the anti-marriage pledge, he refused and called it "outrageous." The dicey political question is complicated even further by reports in the current issue of the Advocate, the Los Angeles- based magazine, that claims the Justice Department is considering changing both the IRS tax code and federal immigration regulations to give gay and lesbian couples~the same benefits in these two areas as legally married couples. However, \~qaite House spokeswoman Mary Ellen Glynn told reporters that Clinton doesn’t personally support equal marriage rights for gays and lesbians and that the Administration had no plans to implement the changes reported in the Advocate. Elizabeth Birch, executive director of the Human Rights Campaign, called the proposed congressional bill the work of "religiotts political extremists...using this issue as an election year baseball bat to bash gay Americans and score 3"teve Largent Don Nickles Gov. Keating Signs Anti- Marriage Amendment/Bill OKLAHOMA CITY - In a move that surprised Okla. Capitol watchers and a number of state Senators, Senate bill #73, the "Oklahoma Child Visitation Registry Act," passed with an amendment banning the recognition of valid same-gender marriages performed in other states. Only Senators Bernest Cain (D-OKC) and Penny Williams (D-Tulsa) voted against the final bill (42-2). According to Sen. Williams, Sen. Cain spbke with such eloquence against the anti-Gay amendment, that she was moved to vote no as well. Tulsa Sen. Maxine Horuer told TFN that she was not in the Senate at the time of the vote and that the amendment did not represent her position. Earlier, Senator Keith Leftwich, and staffers in Cain’s and Sen. Bernice Shedrick’s offices had stated that they did not think the anti-marriage amendment would remain after the bill returned from conference committee. Senate bill #73 had a correspondingbill that had passed the OK House of Representatives. Gov. Frank Keating promptly signed the bill. When asked about what efforts he or his staff had made to contact Oklahoma’s Lesbian and Gay. community about this bill, the Governor’s press spokesperson, Dan Mahoney stated that no effort was necessary since "it would not have made any difference [to the Governor]." Mnhoney released the following statement: "~,Vhat people do in their private lives ~s none of my business, that is a personal decision. But I don’t feel the state of Oklahoma should bein the business of sanctionpolitical points." Rep. Pat Schroeder (D-Colo.) was one of the few lawmakers to criticize the measure, saying it was meaningless political maneuvering because it would take an amendment limiting the "full faith and credit clause" of the U.S. Constitution to actually bar same-sex marriages at the federal level. "This is nothing but just to stir the political ¯" waters and see how much hate you can unleash," she added. Interfaith / -iDS Ministrie ¯ Seeks Missing Benefit $ ~ Last October, a local bar, Barraccuda’s, contacted Inter- ,¯ faith AIDS Ministries (L~M) with an offer to do a benefit honoring World AIDS Day in December and benefiting ¯ IAM. Months later, IAM has not seen a dime of the dollars ¯ raised at the event, despite efforts by director, Diane Zike. ¯ Several board members attended the fundraiser noting ¯ that the bar charged a $3 cover & had tip jars for donations. At the end of the evemn~,, IAM s treasurer was told they’d ¯ raised $250. Director Zike says that she’d called repeatedly for bar ing same sex marriages. I supported SB 73, as did every member of the t!ouse of Representatives and all but two members of the State Senate." TFN asked about remarks attributed to the Governor that he had said the State Republican Party platform (see below) represented "mainstream Oklahoma." see Gov., page 3 Excerpts from the OK Republican state Platform Page 3, ADOPTION Plank 4: We demand that children not be adopted by homosexuals. Page 6, HIV/AIDS Plank 1: Since HIV is a virus that results in AIDS and certain death, we call upon local, state, and federal governments to deal with thedeadly disease of AIDS in the same manner as other dangerous communicable diseases, i.e. (a) expand universal testing and truth in reporting, which includes full disclosure about the ori- ¯ owner, Sue, "known as Barraccuda. No calls had been ¯ returned by March 26 when IAM drafted a letter requesting ¯ a response. To date, IAM still has not received a response ¯¯ .from the bar. WhenTFN called, bar staffer, Sheila, referred all questions back to Sue. ¯ Zike adds, "IAM actedingoodfaith, advertising the event ¯ and participating [in it]. How can we follow through with : our commitments if those who offer to assist us...do not ¯ follow through themselves...it is not just Interfaith AIDS ¯ Ministries that is being hurt, but more importantly those ¯ living with HIV/AIDS that IAM serves." see Platform, page 7 EDITORIAL/LETTERS/DIRECTORY P. 2 NEWS BRIEFS P. 4 HEALTH BRIEFS P. 6 CALENDAR P. 9 OUT + ABOUT WITH JD P. 9 EUREKA SPRINGS + P. 11 BOOK REVIEW/ENTERTAINMENT P. 12 RESTAURANT REVIEW P. 13 918.583.1248 POB 4140 Tulsa, Oklahoma 74159-0140 TulsaNews@ aol.com Publisher/Editor, Tom Neal Assistant Editor, James Christjohn Writers/contributors, Phyl Boler-Schmidt Barry Hensley Jean-Pierre Leanne Gross & Pat Morehead Staff Photographer, JD Jamett Issued on or before the 15th of each month, the entire contents of this publication are protected by US copyright 1996 by Tulsa Family News and may not be reproduced either in whole or in part without written permission from the publisher. Publication of a name or photo does not indicate that person’s sexual orientation. Correspondence is assumed to be for publication unless otherwise noted, must be signed & becomes the sole property of Tulsa Family News. All correspondence should be sent to the address above. Each reader is entitled to one free copy of each edition at distribution points Additional copies are available by calling 583-1248. by Patricia Nell Warren ¯ A few days American with ahgeor, oownne aDrgiaunmeePntartkheart whoromteosetoxutahleityJoiug rnnaolt ~ feovoelnamloant aogfepteoopfoleo,l ionudru.ocwtinngmtohtehewrsi~shfFuolrtahitniikneer,s.wSeoemveenoffouosl now ourselves. But it is still conformity. It is not change. genetic. She believes that the "reformed homosexuals" visible in certain videos, programs and organizations is compelling proof that homosexuals can really change. I am always amazed at the power of wishful thinking m people like Parker. Their whole position is based on a fierce belief in this alleged capacity of homosexuals to "change." The videos, nroorams, etc. represent a 2000- vear effort by Chrislaamty to wish away the ~xistential fact of homosexuality, whatever its root cause. The fact is: in repressive umes, homosexuals do not change. They conform. Gay people disagree about many things, but this is one area where we agree -- because so Aetlng strM~ht when you know you re gay ¯ ¯ as not chang . It as not a rnor~al act. It {s not re[orm. It {s not heal{n . It ~s a ll~n~ death. many of. us have lived face-to-face with our own "is-ness’" through long decades of pretense. I, for one, did a terrific job of conforming to the heterosexual canon, as a wife for 16 years. I even tried both Protestantism and.,,_Catholicism in a desperate effort to transmogrify my conformity into change. But it didn’t work. The conformity goes so deep that it can masquerade brilliantly as change. Unlike leopards, homosexu~is can make their spots look like tiger stripes. The penalties for being fingered as gay -- loss of family and job, assault and battery, long prison sentences, incarceration in mental hospitals, to n~u,ne a few - Acting straight when you know you’re gay is not change. It is not a moral act. It is not reform. It is not healing. It is a living death. In the Sixties, a whole generation of youth rose up against all kinds of forced conformity in American society, and their protest embraced this deadly conformity demanded of gay people. Yet today the wishful thinkers among us are trying to engineer the re-imposition of their wishes. They demand it in the name of "saving marriage." What they want, in many marriages, adds up to shapestfifting Of the spookiest kind. It adds up to acting performances that will never get an Os- : car. Those who settle for our conformity get it at an appalling cost to themselves. The wishful thinkers lose their power to see what : is real. They canlook into the eyes of a homosexual who is living ~ in deep cover, and utterly fail to See that person’s true spirit. Even ¯ in the eyes of their own children, parents, closest friends, the " wishful thinkers see only what they choose to see. Heaven help ¯ the American marriage if it is"saved" by people who can’ t tell the ¯ difference between conformity and change. ,, Patricia Nell Warren is the author of"The Front Runner and ¯ other bestsellers about gay life. Tulsa Clubs & Restaurants *Bamboo Lounge, 7204 E. Pine ,Concessions,.33"40 s. Peoria *Lola’s, 2630 E. 15th *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 *Interurban Restaurant, 717 S. Houston 832-1269 744-0896 749-1563 745-9998 834-4234 585-3405 660-0856 584-1308 585-3134 Tulsa Businesses, Services, &. Professionals Dennis C. 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Ourelected r p- ¯ resentatives" Steve Largent, Don Nickles ¯ and Jim Inhofe again shame our s~te with ¯ their attacks on their own constttuents, specifically with the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). The motives for ¯ thesemen surely rangefrom genuineideo- ¯ logical positions to the basest political .... maneuvering...There is little- doubt that ¯ each holds "Christian" beliefs which they ¯ feel justify discrimination. ~ We can only respond that it is .a betrayal ¯ of the most fundamental American con- . stitutional values to abuse their position to ’" enforce private prejudices. That is, it is ¯ wrong to use the power of the government ¯ to promote or allow to continde system- " atic bias against minority citizens, no ¯ matter if the majority despises that minor- ¯ ity mad no matter if the group is minority ¯ by birth (race or ethnicity) or by choice, ¯ (religion or political view) or by a combi- ¯ nation (as seems to be the case with sexual ¯ orientation). Many Americans havebeen, ¯ and are, racist and anti-Semitic, and yet ¯ politicians realize it is no longer accept- " able to pander overtl.y to these views. ¯ However, election-year politics are strongly implicated in this effort. DC insiders suggest that DOMA is a much a vehicle to divide and inflame the American electorate, to weaken Bill Clinton and to insure that Dole can nominate the next 20 years of Supreme Court judges. So what are our alternatives inTulsa when our elected "representatives" don’t even bother to go through the motions of ¯ consulting the communities that are ¯ harmed by their actions? ¯ The answer’s not glamorous or easy. ¯ Despite all odds, we must continue to °. organize ourselves politically. We must ¯ put the same sorts of energies that we’ve see Attack, page 3 Tulsa, Oklahoma sure feels like ground What a great honor itis to be chosen as the first Queen of the Month in the Out & About column of your newspaper. What a wonderful way to spotlight Tulsa’s diverse and talented group of entertainers. As a general rule, our society has a poor ] opinion of Drag Queens and it is my hope that your column will help dispense these thoughts. For your readers that are not aware, each of the entertainers that I regularly do shows with are also involved in the many benefits that occur around town. The beneficiaries include such great causes as Our ~ House, A .Friend for a Friend, Shanti ¯ Coftdom Fund and public service posters that are placed through out our community. ¯ In addition to being tons of fun (no pun ¯ intended to my size), Tulsa has a diverse : group of entertainers that not only make "- you smile, but further love and kindness ¯ within Our community. Thank you again. ¯ Much love, Kathryn Conover PS, in my entire life, I can’t once remember that I begged for anything. Could JD have been thinking of someone else and intended the very first Queen of the Month to go to another Entertainer? Oh dear, I certainly hope not. In particular, TFN asked if the Governor RIBBON ALL TICKET PR.O,CEED5 TO BES£,FIT TICKETS: HOUSE" $8.0,0B"~EA..[.H..E.R~<, $12.50 ON ICE SEATISL:3 TIC’KET8 A% AL.IABLE TULSA ICE ARENA RE1Nq GADE8 { 17rf’H really felt calling,fora quarantine ofpeople living with AIDS, or preventing Lesbian and Gay men from being teachers represented the values of most Oklahomans. Mahoney responded that he could not speak for the Governor in the particulars but that the Governor supported the platformin general. WhenaskedifTFN could ask the Governor aboUt specific platform items, Mahoney said Keating would not be available for any questions. Prom (alcohol-free) also at the Chapman Ctr. at 8 pm. The Picnic, themed Tulsa United in Pride, will be held in Owen Park on Sat. June 15, from 12 - 5 pm. Anumber of community organizations, businesses and individuals are working on this event. As usual, refreshments are free and a range of food will be available for a modest donation. Owen Park has tennis courts and a sand volleyball court, as well as better parking and more shade than the old Mohawk site. On Sunday, June 23, Oklahomans from all over the state will gather at Memorial Park, NW 35th & Classen in Oklahoma City about 1:30 for the statewide Pride Rally. The Rally will feature Advocate 1992 Woman of the Year, Donna Red Wing. The statewide Pride Parade kicks off from the park and ends up at the NW 39th St. community business district. put into fighting the scourge ofAIDS into fighting political prejudice. Locally, TOHR is doing a voter inform and registration project, call 743-4297 and leave a message for Tony. Oklahoma City folks have created a political action committee, Cimarron Alliance which has funneled significant funds into OKC city council races and to Democratic state senators. Some in Tulsa are discussing similar efforts, here. Also, just call Nickles (581- 7651, the local office can transfer you to DC, fax 202-9~24-6008), Inhofe (748-5111, 202-224-4721, fax 202-228-0380) and I_argent (749-0014, 202-225-2211, fax 202-225-9187). Even if you don’t want to get married anytime soon, tell them you support equal marriage rights, that you oppose DOMA, and that you don’t appremate the scapegoating of Oklahoma’s Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual citizens. Dan DuVall / Owner Anti-Marriage ¯ Efforts Around US ¯ AUGUSTA, Maine - With state legisla- ¯ tures around the country heading into ¯ recesses for the summer, the anti-mar- : riage bandwagon did little more than ¯ bumble along. While Hawaii lawmakers couldn’t muster enough votes to pass an ¯ anti-gay mamage ban there before the ¯ legislature recessed for the current ses- ¯ sion, an Alabama state Senate committee : approved by an 8-1 vote a bill that would ¯ bar recognizing same-sex marriages in ¯ the state, dropping a $1,000 fine for clergy ¯. performing such unions that had been ¯ included in the original measure. The Alaska legislature took a double : swing at same-sex relationships, passing ¯ one measure that would limit domestic ¯" partnership benefits in the state educa- ¯ tional system and sending it to Gov. Tony ¯ Knowles. At the same time thelawmakers ¯ began debate on a ban on same-sex mar- . riages in the state, a proposal that is ex- ¯ pected to easily pass. Kansas lawmakers, ¯ meanwhile, approved an anti-mamage bill and sent it to the governor for his signa- ¯ ture. ¯ In Maine, the anti-gay group Concerned Maine Families has filed papers with the "¯ secretary of state’s office to get approval ¯ to collect signatures for a ballot measure - ¯ that would restrict marriages in the state ¯ to those between male-female couples ¯ only. If the signature~gathering is ap- ¯ proved, the group would have to collect ¯ some 51,000 valid signatures to put the ¯ measure before ~oters- either in 1997 or ¯ 1998. ¯ Georgia Gov. Zell Miller has si~ned a ¯ bill that bars same-sex mamages ~n the ¯¯ state, joining South Dakota, Utah and Idaho as the 4th state to prohibit gay and ¯ lesbian marriages in anticipation that such ¯ weddings will become legal soon in Ha- . waii. The South Carolinalegislature gave ~ its final.OK to a measure outlawing same- ." sex marriages in the state and sent the ¯ legislation to Gov. David Beaseley, who has already indicated he supports the pro- : hibition. The measure would prevent the ¯ state from recognizing any marriage be- . tween people of the same sex that was performed in another state. In Arizona, Gov. Fife Symington signed the state legislature’s 3rd attempt to enact aban on same-sex marriages, making it the 6th state so far to legally refuse recognition for such unions, even if performed legally elsewhere. At the same time, however, by a 34-23 vote, the state House of Representatives passed legislation authorizing tougher sentences for criminals who victimize people based on race, religion, gender or sexual orientation. A similar proposal last year died when Republican legislative leaders objected to including sexual orientation. Meanwhile, a case strikingly similar to the Hawaii lawsuit has gotten under way in New Zealand, with 3 lesbian couples suing for the right to get marriage licenses that were denied them, according to a report in the Queer News Aotearoa. The women’s attorney is arguing that the country’s civil rights laws protects all citizens from being denied equal treatment. The attorney general’s office, however, has argued that marriage is mainly for procreation and that therefore samesex couples are not eligible to marry. South Africa Protects Gays CAPE TOWN, South Africa -South Africa’s Parliament has overwhdmingly approved by a 421-2 vote the country’s new 150-page Constitution after nearly 2- years of complex negotiations and sometimes acrimonious debate. The nation’s new governing document includes, for the first ti~ne in the world, equal rights protections that include sexual orientation. "United in diversity," begins the preamble to the country’s newly approved Constitution, although at least 2 of the country’s right wing political parties said they would challenge some of the provisions of that diversity in court. In fact, .nearly every major party in South Africa expressed reservations about parts of the new document. Even President Nelson Mandela noted that there are still concems among many ofthe country’s minorities about the guarantees enshrined in the Constitution’s Bill of Rights. "The fact that we have adopted this Constitution does not mean that we are not going to address those concerns," Mandela said. "’We will continue searching for solutions because we want everybody to feel that he or she is part and parcel of our efforts to resolve the problems of South Africa." After a long history of white minority rule and rigidly enforced apartheid, the new Constitutions will bring majority rule to the nation when the next g~neral election in 1999 marks anend to the present transitional government. The Bill of Rights outlaws all discrimination in the country, whether based on sexual orientation, race, religion, gender,-political views, disability and other categories. In a cable to President Mandela about the newly adopted Constitution, the Washington, D.C.,based National Gay & Lesbian Task Force, stated, "The South African people have paved a new road of equality and fairness by outlawing all forms of discmnination in the constitution, including for the first time anywhere in the world, the discrimination against people based on their sexual orientation.’" Fewer than a dozen countries worldwide have national laws outlawing bias based on sexual orientation, and South Africa is the first nation to enshrine such protections in its Constitution. Dutch Get Serious About Marriage TIlE HAGUE, Holland -The Dutch Parliament has approved a measure by 81-60 that calls on the government to appoint a commission to evaluate the legal implications, both nationally and internationally, of extending full mamage rights to gay and lesbian couples in the country. The move is several steps from a radical change, of course, but Dutch gays and lesbians, along with progressive politicians in the country, are increasingly insisting on full, equal rights in What is probably Europe’s most liberal nation. What is perhaps most significant about the measure is that the commission is to consider issues such as adoption, parenting, inheritance, taxes, and spousal citizenship of foreigners - an array of questions that other European nations with same-sex .couples registrations have so far ducked or specifically added restrictions to. But as a measure at least of how serious Dutch politicians are about samesex marriages now, public discussions have even reached the level of Members of Parliament debating .whether Queen Beatrix will give her assent to full marital rights for gays and lesbians in Holland. Canada OKs Anti-Bias Law OTTAWA - Canada’s House of Commons has approved by a 153-76 vote a govenm~ent-backed measure that would add sexual orientation to the country’s Charter of Human Rights and legally outlaw discrimination based on sexual orientation in Canada’s regulated public sector workforce, which makes up 10% to 15% of the nation’s labor force. All of the nation’s provinces except Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island and Alberta already have similar anti-bias laws, and the Canadian government has been promising to introduce federal legislation for 2 decades, so passage of the measure wasn’t much in doubt.. Even so, the bill created enormous political turmoil in the country. When 2 MPs in the conservative Reform Party spoke out against the measure by saying it was acceptable for businesses to discriminate against homosexuals and other minorities, the party’s Parliament leader, Preston Manning, expelled them from the party caucus, saying "It is not all right for employers to fire any employee simply because an intolerant customer complaints about their color or lifestyle." Even the ruling Liberal Party showed signs of the tension the measure had brought to Canadian politics. And outside the Parlimnent building, Justice Minister Allan Rock, who formally introduced the legislation in behalf of the government, was greeted by p,rotesters who called him "Alice Rock" and mocked Prime Minister Jearl Chritien as "’Jeanne :. Chritien." The legislation now goes to the ~ upper house of Parliament, the Senate, ¯ where it is also expected to pass by a : comfortable margin. The measure also requires the royal assent of Canada’ s governor- general, which is litde more than a political, formality. Only 6 nations- Norway, Sweden, Holland, Slovenia, Israel and South Africa -have enacted federal legislation prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation. Bosnian War Crimes Nightmare TIlEHAGUE2 Almost ignored by mainstream news media, the War Crimes Tribunal at The Hague has received detailed evidence of atrocities conunitted during the 4-year-long Bosnian civil war cente.ring on reports of male rape as a war tactic and as a method of intilnidating and controlling prisoners. According to doc~unents supplied to the Tribunal by Dr. Mladen Loncar of the Medical Center for Human Rights in Zagreb, at least 4,000 Croatian men were victims of these rapes and sexual assaults - and Loncar says his figures are conservative estimates of Croats alone. At the height of the complex fighting in the Balkans, there were an estimated 80,000 men in intenmmnt camps - Serbs, Croats, Mnslims. Loncar’s medical facility currently sees more than 200 such men who coutinue to live in the general region. Most, Loncar says, have fled to nearby COUlltries as political’refugees - if they survived the attacks at all. Of the patieuts seen at Loncar~ s ~nedical center for severe post-trannmtic distress disorders, most (70 percent) suffered repeated injuries to their genitals. Many of the inert (25 percent) were tortured I~y having objects forced up their rectums. Man)’ prisoners (22 percent) reported they had been forced, under threats of death, to perform fellatio mad other sexual acts with other male prisoners, and about 11 percent had suffered at least partial castration. Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Upheld by Court WASHINGTON - In the continuing war over the constitutionality of the U.S. nfilitary’s "’don’t ask, don’t tell" policy, Lt. Paul Thomasson, a former naval ofricer discharged for revealing that he is gay, has lost an important battle in a federal appeals court decision. The U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Virginia upheld the policy bamting openly homosexual women and men from serving in the nation’s maned forces. The case has national significance because it is the first ruling involving the"don’ t ask, don’ t tell" policy to reach the federal appeals level. Alan Moore, Thomasson’s attorney, argued that the military policy of excluding gays and lesbians from the armed services was both unconstitutiolml and unreasonable, considering the young officer’s outstanding record. Moore also took the unusual step of adding First Amendment free-speech claims on top of Fifth and FourteenthAmendment"due process" and "equal protection" arguments that have been more widely used in batding the Pentagon ban in the past. But the appeals court would have none of it and ruled that the president and Congress retain the right to set military policies, and that thejudicial branch should defer to .them. "It was appropriate for Congress to bdieve that a military force should be as free as possible of sexual attachments and pressures as it is prepared to do battle," wrote Judge J. Harvie Wilkonson III in the 9-to-4 majority opinion. The court’s ruling is now applicable throughout the 4th circuit, which includes Vir_,2inia, Maryland West ¥irginia, North CarOlina and South~arolina. Tllomasson and his attorney are now deciding whether to appeal the ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court. MO St. GOP’s Antii Marriage Campaign : ST. LOUIS - In a highly controversial ¯¯ election cmnpalgn tactic that Republican leaders around the country are watching ¯ closely; the head of the Missouri Repub- ¯ lican Party, John Cozad, has launched attacks against Democrats running for state office, accusing them of having financial backing from supporters of samesex marriages. But Republica!~s rumling for office in the state, inclnding many who are seeking election to the state legislature, are grumbling because the attack campaigns are being operated in their races whether they want them or not. And so far in two special election races, the Republicans have lost both campaigns. Not all Republicans running for office in Missouri, however, agree with Cozad on the campaign. Republican Bill Patrick, who lost in the just-finished special decdon in the state’s 6th legisIative district, publicly apologized to his Democratic opponent for thesame-sex marriage campaign launched by the Republicans on his behalf. He called the attack "pretty negative, pretty bad." State GOP strategists in Ohio,, Wisconsin, Oregon and elsewhere, however, say they’re interested in seeing how the same-sex marriage link works as a campaign strategy in Missouri. Helms Ads Attack ¯ Opponents & Gays ¯ RALEIGH, N.C. - Apparently impatient ¯ to get on with the election, Sen. Jesse ¯ Helms (R-NC) has launched a series of ¯ TV ads attacking both the Delnocratic ¯ primary candidates, Harvey Gantt and ¯ Charlie Sanders in a bit of gay-baiting, ; saying both supportdomesticpartner ben- ¯ efits. "Liberal Charlie Sanders supports : racial preferences in hiring, like Harvey ¯ Gantt does, the Hdms ads say. Extend- " ing health insurance to homosexual part- " ners? 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In a press statement, Gantt blasted the Helms TV campaign as "lies and distortions" and said he has never even addressed the issue of health care benefits for the partners of gays and lesbians. British Transsexual Wins Court Case LUXEMBOURG - A Comwall College tutor, identified only as "P" in court records, whowas sackedafterasex-change operation, has won a European Court of Justice battle over the discharge. Thecourt campus ROTC program. The faculty-ap- ¯ proved program would also reimburse ¯ students in ROTC if they shouldlose their ." military scholarships because of their ¯ sexual orientation. ¯ Station Drops Show : That Attacked Gays ¯ AUSTIN, Texas - The Texas Triangle ¯ has reported that officials at KIXL-AM, a ¯ Christian-oriented radio station in Austin, have decided to pull the plug on Wyatt ¯ Roberts’ weekly talk show. Roberts, who is affiliated with the American Family Assn., had called for listeners to boycott ¯ any business that advertised in the gay : newspaper, charging that the Triangle’s ruled that the European Equal Treatment ¯ editorial cartoonist promoted pedophilia, agreement of 1976 prohibits any discrimi- -" incest and bestiality. KIXLofficials would nation based on sex and is not limitedjust to bias based onan individual being ofone gender or the other. The court ruled that the anti-bias provision, which concerns all members of the European Union, should apply "to discrimination arising, as in this case, from the gender reassignment of the person concerned." The ground-breaking decision incensed Euroskeptic Tory MPs in Great Britain and Tory MP Ann Winterton accused the European Court of "meddling" in British legal issues. Anothd~ Tory MP, Elizabeth Peacock, also attacked the court decision. "Ourrules aremadeby Parliament and are sovereign," she said. "They should not be overturned by a European court. Tli~ey should mind their own business." British government officials, said it was unclear if UK law would have to be changed to conform to the court ruling. Some political leaders say the rnling is so sweeping that it in fact may force the government to drop its ban against homosexuals in the nation’s armed forces. MIT Moves on ROTC Bias CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Faculty members at the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology voted ovenvhdmingly by a voice vote for the school to negotiate withROTC officials for a "modified program" that would allow students to enroll in the campus military program regardless of their sexual orientation. The move is an effort to keep the ROTC program, which also serves students from Harvard, Tufts and Wellesley, at MIT - along with some $56 million in Pentagon funds - without violating the school’s own anti-bias policies that bar discrimination against gays and lesbians. The proposal endorsed by the faculty concedes that openly gay or lesbian students in ROTC would not be eligible for commissions as long as the Pentagon maintains the ban on homosexuals in the armed forces, but would allow gay and lesbian students to participate in the ." only say that Roberts’ program was being ¯ cancded because of "scheduling conflicts," but Kay Longcope, the Triangle’s ¯ publisher said she believes the ; fundamentalist’s boycott campaign : backfired on him and brought pressure on ¯ the station to yank the program. "I think it -" [the decision to cancel the program] speaks "_ very well for the people of Austin who really do not believe that Christianity is "- based on hate," Longcope said ¯¯ Dole Campaign Ad in DC Gay Paper ¯ WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole’s capital campaign or- : ganization has put an ad in the May3 issue : of the WashingtonBladeurgingreaders to ¯ vote for a slate of committed Dole del- ¯ egates. An uncommitted slate, including : seven openly gay Republicans is chal- ¯ lenging the Dole slate, and has already ¯ been endorsed by the District’s local Log ¯ Cabin Club. Many political observers ¯ believe the challenge from the uncommit- ." tedslate prompted theKansas Republican ¯ andpresurned presidentialnominee’s cam- " paagn to put the ad in the paper. The Dole ¯ campaign ad came just days after news ," that Abner Mason, a gay Boston Republi- ." can activist and Log Cabin Club officer, ¯ would be one of Massachusetts’ GOP ¯" delegates to the Republican National Con- ." vention in San Diego later this year. Ma- ¯ son Is a committed Dole delegate. Dole ¯ has had an on-off record with gays during ¯ ¯ his currentpresidential campaign. Earlier this year a $1,000 campaign contribution ¯ from Log Cabin was returned to the groups ¯ PAC organization. Dbleinitially defended ; the returned check, saying he didn’t want ." voters to think he was "buying into some : special rights for any group." But later he ¯ said returning the check had been"a mis- ; take" and blamed his campaign staff for ; the blunder. Even so, Dole agreed during the caucus campaign in Iowa to sign a ¯ Chi’istian.Coalitionpledge opposing samesex mamages. Is Drag Constitutional? FERNDALE, Mich. - The good folks of Ferndale, just outside. Detroit, have become embroiled in a debate over whether some guys putting on dresses to perform in a variety show is constitutionally protected freedom of speech and expression, or if it violates community standards and can therefore be prohibited. The flap has erupted almost a year after the fact, but that liasn’t lowered the heat of the debate over the LavenderMoonCafe’s drag show after Gay Pride celebrations there last year. City Councilman RobertPaczkowski has been leading the opposition, and he said recently that "’a lot of people don’t want that kind of a display right in the middle of our central business district." Paczkowski says Lavender Moon’s entertainment license includes restrictions barfing topless dancing, lingerie shows, and any entertainment that"violates community standards," which he says includes guys dressing up as gals. Town OKs Partner Registration BOULDER, Colo. - About the only positive news recently in the growing battle over same-sex relationships came in the purely symbolic form of a domestic partnership re~stration program approved by the Boulder city council. The registry cames no legal benefits, but allows samesex & opposite-sex couples to legally register their relationship with the city clerk’s office. Proponents said the program could make it easier for registered couples to provide proofof their relationships in seeking work-related benefits. Olympic Games: Utah & Cobb Cty. ATLANTA - The 1996 Summer Olympic Games preliminaries are getting underway with the Saturday, April 27, televised start of the torch that starts in Los Angeles and will be relayed across the counto’ to Atlanta where it will light the official Olympicflame for the games there on July 19 - although not quite the way US Olympic officials expected. Tobegin with, officials at the Los Angeles Coliseum, where the torch relay begins, have been complai~ting that they’re had trouble find fig [eaves big enough to cover up the genitals on 2 statues of nude athletes outside the stadium. The cover-up order came from the Atlanta Committeefor the Olympic Ganges, which said they were concerned that some viewers of the nationally televised ceremony might be offended by the nudity. ButACOGalso has announced that the torch relay would not go through Cobb County outside Atlanta because county commissioners have refused to repeal a 1993 measure that condemns"the homosexual lifestyle." That resolution was also responsible for ACOG’s decision, under pressure from acuvists and rights advocates, to pull scheduled Olympicpreliminaries from facilities in the county. Olympic officials, however, said the passage of a measure ~n Utah barring gay dubs at public schools would not make them reroute the torch around the state. Utah Lawmakers Ban Gay Clubs SALT LAKE CITY - Called into special session, the Utah state legislature spent a nasty day enacting a measure that would bar gay and lesbian student groups from public schools in the state, a measure that Gov. Mike Leavitt has already indicated ’he would sign into law and for which he called the special session. The state’s ACLU has already vowed that if the measure is signed into law, as it’s sure to be, it will sue to overturn it. "Not only does it violate the rights of lesbian, gay and straight students," said Carol Gnade of the American Civil Liberties Union in Utah, "but also everyone associated with a Utah high school, including teachers, administrators and volunteers." Under the lawjust approved by the legislature, school boards will have the authority to restrict or bar any campus club, but in addition, the measure also forces public school officials to ban any that are centered around bigotry, criminal activity or human sexuality. Gov. Mike Leavitt and the measure’s sponsor, Sen. Craig Taylor, insisted that the new law takes back control of campus clubs by allowing school boards to prohibit specific dubs. The Utah attorney general has already indicated that barfing campus clubs that are "controversial" is illegal under the 1984 federal Equal Access Act. 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Tulsa, Oklahoma 74114 Off: 918-749-8374 ° Res: 918-582-7672 ¯ Fax: 918-747-1795 Metropolitan Community Church of Greater Tulsa Where God Uplifts All People Sunday Service, 10:45 am Wednesday Service, 6:30 pm Home Cell Groups, 2nd & 4th Sun. 1623 No. Maplewood, 838-.1715 Congress Passes Ryan White CARE $ WASHINGTON - The Senate has approved and sent to the White House a measure thatincreases federal RyanWhite CARE Act funds for local care and treatment of people with HIViAIDS to $738 million. The measure passed unanimously by a voice vote in the Senate after being approved on a 402-4 vote in the House the day before. The measure includes a controversial provision, however, that calls for mandatory HIV testing of all newborn infants by the year 2000 if state voluntary testing efforts do not reduce the motherinfant infection rate by then. The issue of mandatory testing of infants has been problematic for many because it necessarily amounts to a virtual inandatory testing of the mother as well. Critics of the provision say ~t may discourage pregnant women from seeking prenatal care altogether. President Clinton has indicated he supports the bill and will sign it into law quickly. Early-Stage Hiding PlaceOf HIV ? NEW YORK - Reporting in tli’e’medical journal Science, researchers say they be~ lieve the mucous’membranes in the throat may be the locatirn where HIV replicates in hiding after individuals are infected with the virus but still show no out,yard signs of the infection. The researchers, led by Ralph Steirmaan of Rockefeller University, said they made the discovery after examining enlarged adenoids removed from 13 patients and found large mnounts of the virus replicating in the glands’ dendritic cells, the inm~une cells found in the membranes. Eleven of the 13 i;ffected people were una~vare at the time tb.at they were l=IIV-positive. New PCR Test for HIV Is Less Reliable CHICAGO - Stanford University researchers report in the Annals oflnternal Medicine that the new polymerase chain reaction (PCR) AIDS test, which is based on the presence of elements ofDNA from HIV in the body, is less reliable than older tests that rely on the presence of antibodies to the virus. The researchers found that even with the daborate precautions requiredin PCR testing, the results return 5 umes as many false results as the more widely used antibody testing methods. PCR testing is also significantly more expensive and costs between $150 and $200, compared to standard antibody tests, which range in price from $5 to $50. The advantage of the PCR test is that it can be administered earlier: to newborns because other tests rely on the formation of antibodies to the"virus, which often don’t show up for 6 months following infection. KS Virus May Be Common in All Men BOSTON - A report in the New England Journal ofMedicine says the virus that is believed responsible for Kaposi’s sarcoma, a rare cancer that strikes many AIDS patients, is found in the sexual ¯ organs ofmostmen. Researchers with the ¯¯ Institute of Microbiology at the University of Ferrara in Italy report they found ¯ the KS-related virus, known as KSHV, in 30 of 33 semen samples of health Italian ¯" men - a 91% infection rate. The scientists ¯ also say they found the virusin the urinary ¯ tracts, in the prostates, and other areas of ¯ the genital organs of other health men as ¯ well. The scientists say they believe indi- ¯ viduals with healthy immune systems can ." live with the virus present in their bodies ¯ without any.apparent problems, but that ¯ when the immune system is weakened, as ¯ it is when infected with HIV, the KS virus ¯ appears to become active. Drug Combo Looks Effective \VASHINGTON - A 73-week study by drug manufacturer Hoffman-La Roche of some 978 AIDS patients has shown that Invirase, the brand name for the firm’s version of the protease inhibitor saquinavir, in combination with the drug ddC, reduced the rate of deaths by more than two-thirds compared to patients taking ddC alone. Saqtunavir has been considered the least impressive of the new protease inhibitors, but the new findings, which have not yet been published, have prompted the drug manufacturer to ask the Food & Drug Administration to allow the new information to be added to the drug’s label. "HIV Cell Infection i Agent- Isolated WASHINGTON-Governmentscientists report they ha~[.e discovered a chemical ¯ clue to why HIV is infectious. Reporting ¯ in the journal Science, researchers at the Nadonal Institute of Allergy and Infections Diseases say they have found a pro- . tein, which they call "fusin," that must be ¯ present for HIV to infect white blood cells,.the primary target of the virus. Edward A. Berger, who headed the team that made the discovery, said the discovery gives scientists a "new handle on under- ; standing" how HIV invades cells. "Obvi- ] onsly this is a potential target for develop- . mg new drugs to treat HIV infection," Berger said. "Potentially by coming up ¯ with a drug that blocks the receptor, you : might block the .ability of HIV to repli- ¯ cate." The researchers cautioned, how- " ever, that there were still~ many mysteries ¯ about the virfis that need to be answered. ¯ Among other things, they noted that HIV ¯ attaches itself to some types Of immune ¯ cells in the early stages of the infection ~ without using fusin. This means HIV ¯ comes in variations that connect to CD4 cells and some other molecular cofactor ¯ or cofactors on these cells. Berger said ¯ that potential, drugs that block, the fusin receptor on cells could only do part of the job in combating HIV. Increase in HIV After Tetanus Shots ¯ BOSTON - Researchers with the Na- ¯ tional Institute of Allergy & Infectious ¯ Diseases have reported in the New En- ~ gland Journal of Medicine that tetanus ¯ shots can cause a dramadc ~ncrease in the reproduction of HIV in the body. After ¯ g~ving tetanus shots to people infected ; with HIV, the researchers found they had a 2- to 36-fold increase in HIV levels. The scientists also found that ~ blood samples from uninfected individu- SCOTT ROBISON’S PRESCRIPTIONS Serving Tulsan’s Since 1947 Major credit cards In-store charges or Direct insurance billing for your convenience! 3 locationsto serve you: Hillcrest Physician’s Building 1145 So. 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(insurance policies are available with no health questions asked) 2103 East Third Tulsa, Oklahoma 74104 918-587-7000 Supporting Tulsa’s Gay & Lesbian Community Cherry Street Psychotherapy Associates 1515 South Lewis Are you looking for a relaxed, amicable, private atmosphere for therapy? Our office provides a level o! confidentiality and comfort that enhances teh therapeutic process. ~For further Information, c~ll ~43:4i 17 Leah Hunt, MSW Judy Seymour,Taylor, CADC Della Blackburn, CADC ¯ RichardReeder, MS Serving a Diverse Community KELLY KIRBY Certified Public Accountant Lesbians & Gays face many special tax situations whether single or as couples. We are proud to serve our communities with sensitive & timely information. 747-5466 POB 14011, Tulsa 74159 Free & Anonymous Finger Stick Method By &for, but not exclusive to the Lesbian, Gay, & Bisexual Communities.. Monday & Thursday evenings: 7-8:30 pm for testing, .7-9 pm for results. Daytime testing, Mon-Thurs by appointment. TOHR Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights 742-2927 4158 South Harvard, Suite-E-2 2 doors east of the HIV Resource Consortium Look for our banner on testing nights¯ als who had been given the same tetanus shots more readily became infected with HIV after the injections. Researchers said the dramatic increase in HIV production appears to only last about 6 weeks, so the benefits of tetanus shots generally outweighs the temporary surge in HIV levels for most patients. Blood Heat Treatment Gets OK LOS ANGELES - The Indiana-based HemoCleanse Inc. has been given approval by the Food & Drug Administration to expand testing of its blood-heating treatment of people infected with HIV. The 2nd phase of the trials will include 2- hour treatments at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Lafayette, Ind., and the Harbor-UCLA Research & Education Institute in Los Angeles. HemoCleanse’s treatment, similar to kidney dialysis, involves slowly drawing all a patient’s blood from his body in small quantifies and heating it to 108 degrees Fahrenheit before infusing it back into his body. The idea behind the treatment is that HIV is sensitive to even small increases in temperature and would be destroyed in massive quantities by the treatment. Sixty patients will be divided into 2 groups during the trials. One group will receive 2 treatments each - the first for 1 hour, and the 2nd fo~ 2 hours. The other group will serve as a control group and will not receive the heat treatment, but will remain on standard HIV drug therapy. HIV & Gene Therapy " Research BOSTON" - Researchers report in the journal Science that use of a genetically benign version of HIV may be the key to an importantbreakthrough in gene therapy treatment, serving as the carrier system or "vector" to deliver therapeutic genes to target cells in the human body. Researchers with the Salk Institute in San Diego and the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Mass., have reported that they successfully used the HIV vector to inject therapeutic genes in the cells of live rats in laboratory experiments, ff the use of the HIV vector proves as successful inhuman gene therapy, the researchers say it could be a potentially important treatment for such genetic disorders as cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy and Alzheimer’s dis- Genetically Altered AIDS Vaccine Fails BE!’HESDA, Md. - Government officials say a 5-year study of the genetically engineered AIDS vaccine, gpl60, has shown the prevention effort is not effective in halting the progress of the disease in people. The study, one of the first of its kind, used the Microgenesys experimental vaccine and was a joint venture between the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Disease in conjunction with private medical facilities. With some 600 military and civilian volunteers, the study showed no improvement in their ability to fend off the infection. gin, transmission and statistics of infection for each community, and (b) quarantine those known to be infected and practicing high-risk behavior. Page 7-8, SEXUAL PERVERSION Plank 1-3~ Homosexuality is not an alternate lifestyle, a genetic abnormality or a civil rights matter, but is instead a consciou~ individual choice of an abominal sin practice. Such behavior has been a major factor in the demise of societies from Sodom and Gomorra to the Empires of Ottoman, Greece and Rome. Homosexlaal behavior is the principle cause of the spread of AIDS in America. We, therefore, condemn not the person but the practice of homosexual behavior, and oppose the ominous political powers being given homosexuals in the United States. We believe that the practice of homosexuality is an abomination before God and a perversion of the natural law and is indicative of severe diseases. We believe that legislation condoning homosexuality would confer public acceptability of this activity and would lead inexorably to the destruction of our nation. Plank 4-6: We believe that homosexuals, sodomites, and other sexually perverse people shonl~i not be entitled to special or extraordinarY rights. We affirm that homosexual behavior is not a constitutionally protected right and that homosexuals area behavi~al group not deserving of special protection under the law. Because homosexuals are not deserving of minority status, we oppose all "’Gay Rights" legislation. We urge that federal and state funding we withheld from all states and or municipalities that enact homosexual "fights" legislation. Plank 8+9: We support the retention and enforcement ofsodomy laws in Oklahoma. We urge vigorous arrest and pros- .ecufion of all those violating laws regardxng the promotion of homosexual behavior. Plank 17+18: Toprotect family values, we urge that those promotiug an alternative lifestyle by restricted from positions of influence of minor children. \Ve do not recognize homosexuality as a normal lifestyle, therefore we oppose any mandated education curriculum or special rights based on affirmative action for ho~ mosexuals. Plank 20+21: We strongly oppose permitring homosexuals to teach in the public school systems. We oppose the hiring of homosexual teachers, administrators, or counselors. Hank 22-24: We oppose the establishment of homosexual dubs in schools. We hold that portraying the homosexual lifestyle in any positive manner in our schools is heresy. Weoppose the National Education Association’s efforts to promote the homosexual agenda in our nation’s schools. Plank 27-29: We submit that legally recognized marriages to be limited to a traditional monogamous heterosexual relationship, with only these mamages allowed current tax and legal benefits. We oppose same-sex marriages. We support federal and state legislation prohibiting legal recognition ofsame sex "marriages" in the event such unions are made legal by another state. Hank- 30: We believe that the federal government should alterappointments and employment practices that would place homosexuals in sensitive and responsible positions. benefiting Tulsa Area AIDSAgencies June 21&221996 Warren Place Doubletree Hotel Dinner, Cash Bar and Performance TICKETS ON SALE AT ALL CARSON ATTRACTIONS OUTLETS OR BY PHONE: 584-2000 550 N. Memorial Kacie Gordon pager: 672-8905 Joni Ledbetter pager 670-5664 Any Sale - 2% over invoice with ad. Sunday Services 11:00 am ¯ Wednesday Services 6:30 pm, 7:30 pm Choir Practice ¯ Thurs. 7:30 pm Codependency Support Group I To do justice, love mercy & to walk humbly zoith our God... Micah 6:8 5451-E South Mingo Tulsa, OK 74146 . (918) 622-1441 ’96 Pride Picnic JUNE 15 Noon - 5:00 prn Opening Ceremony, lpm ¯¯ Blessing by the Rev. Leslie Penrose ¯ Welcome by TOHR president Debbie Starnes ¯ Performances by local entertainers, including Miss Gay Tulsa & Miss Tulsa USofA, and Tulsa Family Chorale! Throughout the afternoon, ¯ DJ will provide music throughout the day ¯ Booths with vendors, community organization info., crafts, etc. ¯ Food for modest cost ¯ Free beverage.s ¯ Volleyball & tennis court available ¯ Kids’ playground ¯ Security provided all day ¯ Closing ceremony, with benediction by RF Renfro & Freedom Balloon Extravaganza! If you want to have a "booth," call Tom at 583-1248 before June 1st. Be a part of the Pride Picnic! - To volunteer, call 743-4297. Edison St. ~ To Sand Springs, 1-412 Directions: From Tulsa, take Keystone Expressway West towards Sand Springs. Exit Gilcrease Rd. turn right (North) on Gilcrease Road to Edison St. and turn right (East) on Edison, go about 1/2 mile. Owen Park is on the right. Parking is on the Southeast corner of the park, near Roosevelt School. 1-244 (DowTunlstoawn) 7 LSA FAMI.LY NEWS COMMUNITY CALE R SUNDAYS Agape’ Christian Fellowship Service, 10:30 am & 7 pm Sheridan Center, Suite H 21st & Sheridan, 747-2482 Bless the Lord At All .Times Christian Center Sunday School, 9:45 am Worship Service, 11 am 262To East 1 lth 583-7815 Community of Hope (United Methodist) Worship Service, 6 pm 1703 E. 2nd, 585-1800 Family of Faith Metro. Comm. Church Adult Sunday School, 9:15 Worship Service, 11 am 545 I-E South Mingo. Info: 622-1441 Metro. Comm. Church of Greater Tulsa Worship Service, 10:45am 1623 N. Maplewood Info: 838-1715 Bisexual/Lesbian/Gay Alliance - Univ. of Tulsa 6:30 pm at Canterbury 5th & Evanston, 583-9780 MONDAYS TUESDAYS HIV Testing HIV+ Support Group TOHR Clinic ¯ HIV Resource Consortium Free & anonymous testing " 1:30 pm using fingerstick method. ¯ 4154 S. Harvard, Ste. H-1 No appointment required. " Info~ Wanda @ 749-4194 Walk in testing: 7-8:30 pm : Results hours: 7-9 pm ¯ Shanti-Tulsa, Inc. Info: 742-2927 Lambda Bowling League Sheridan Lanes 8:45 pm 3121 S. Sheridan PFLAG Family AIDS Support Group 2nd Monday of month, 6:30 pm 4154 S, Harvard Info: 749-4901 OTHER GROUPS TOHR Helpline Daily 8-10 pm For info. or to volunteer: 743:GAYS The Technicians, Leather org., Info c/o 621-5597 T.U.L.S.A. Tulsa Uniform & Leather Seekers Assoc. Info: 838-1222 ¯ HIV/AIDS:Support Group & ¯ Friends & Family ¯¯ HIV/AIDS Support Group 7 pro, call for location: 749-7898 Grief Group Butler/Stumpff ¯ Funeral Home 2103 E. 3rd St. Call for time: 587-7000 Alternative Skating 8:30 - 11 pm, 241-2282 $4, Sand Springs Skate ¯ WEDNESDAYS ¯ Agape’ Christian : Fellowship ¯ Service, 7 pm ¯ Sheridan Center, Suite H ¯ 21st & Sheridan, 747-2482 Bless The Lord At All Times Christian Center Prayer & Bible Study 7:30 pm 2627-B East 1 lth Call 583-7815 for info. Family Of Faith MCC Praise & Prayer 6:30 pm Choir Practice 7:30 pm 5451-E South Mingo. Call 622-1441 for info. Community of Hope (United Methodist) Service for Peace, 6:30 pm Bible Study, 7 pm 1703 E. 2nd, 585-1800 TNAAPP Tulsa Native American AIDS Prevention ProJect Support group for Gay & Bi Native Ameri&m Men, 6 pm at Community of Hope 1703 E. 2nd 582-7225 or 584-4983 ¯ THURSDAYS 16-Step Empowerment Group For Women : Community of Hope ¯ 1703 E.2nd, Info: 585-1800 " Co-Dependency ¯ Support Group : 7;30; Family of Faith MCC : 5451-ES. Mingo, 622-1441 HIVTestingTOHRClinic i Walk in testing: 7 - 8:30 pm. Results hours: 7 - 9 pm Info: 742-2927 Tulsa Family Chorale Weekly practice, 9:30 pm Lola’s 2630 E. 15th PFLAG Family AIDS Support Group Ist & 3rd Thursdays 4154 S. Harvard, 749-4901 Alternatives Weekly social events for LGBT men & women, 7 pm Info: 646-5503 ¯ Substance Abuse Support Group for persons with HIViAIDS 4154 S. Harvard, Ste. G 3-4:30 pm, hffo: 749-4194 ¯ SATURDAYS ¯¯ St. Jerome’s Ecumenical Catholic Church ¯" Mass, 6 pm Garden Chapel ¯ 3841 S. Peoria ¯ Info: Father Rick ¯ at 742-7122 Narcotics Anonymous Meets weekly at 11 pm Confidential support for recovering addicts. Community of Hope 1703 E. 2nd, Info: 585-1800 NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt Sewing Bees 3rd Sat. of each month Info: 748-3111 OTHER GROUPS Gay & Lesbian Student Association TJC Southeast Campus, Info:-631-7632 SWAN-Sip~gle Women’s Activ@ Network Call 832-2121 MAY 17-19 Herland Sister Resources Retreat Roman Nose State Park Registration deadline: 5/15 Info: 2312 NW 39th, OKC 73112 HIVIAIDS & SpiritualitylWholeness Retreatfor Women, Info: 488-9215 SATURDAY, MAY 18 Pride Picnic Benefit, Lola’s 2630 E. 15th, 749-1563 SUNDAY, MAY 19 Interfaith AIDS Minitries 13th InternationalAIDS Candlelight Memorial & Mobilization 3 pro, St. Peter’s Episcopal, 9100 E. 21St Info: 438-2437 SATURDAY, JUNE 1 Ecumenical Pride Worship Service 6 pm, St. Jerome’s hosting at The Garden Chapel, 3841 S. Peoria Info: Father Rick, page 646-7116 SUNDAY, JUNE 2 Pride Picnic Benefit - The Tool Box 1338 E. 3rd, 584-1308 TUESDAY, JUNE 4 TOHR, PFLAG & Rainbow Business Guild present Cece Cox, pres. ofthe Dallas Gay & Lesbian Alliance 7 pm, Chouteau Ran, Chapman Ctr, TU, Dinner: $10, Speech: free,Info: 743-4297 FRIDAY, JUNE 7 Safe Haven Lake Cookout. Social gatheringfor young adults, 18-30 8 pm, Family of Faith MCC 5451-E S. Mingo, Info: 622-1441 Pride Picnic Benefit - The Silver Star 1565 S. Sheridan, 834-4234 SATURDAY, JUNE 8 TOHR Citywide Pride Prom All ages, alcohol-free dance 8 pm, Alan Chapman Activity Cti. TU, Dignity/Integrity Meeting Lesbian/Gay Catholics & Episcopalians 5 pm, St. Dunstan’s Episcopal Church 5635 E. 71st, Info: POB 701044, 74170 SUNDAY, JUNE 9 Pride Picnic Benefit, Concession~ 3340 S. Peoria, 744-0896 MONDAY, JUNE 10 PFLAG Family AIDS Support Group, 6:30 pm Social and Refreshments. 7 pm General Meeting, 7:30 pm 4154 S. Harvard, Info: 749-4901 SATURDAY, JUNE 15 Tulsa Pride Picnic Noon - 5pm. Owen Park 560 No. Maybelle, Info: 583-1248 SUNDAY, JUNE 16 Family ofFaithMCCFather’s Day Service With Father Rick Hollingsworth 11 am, 5451-E S. Mingo, 622-1441 JUNE 21 a 22 Follies Revue, Inc. Follies ’96 Salutes the Movies! 6 pm, Doubletree Hotel, Warren PlaCe $125 & $40, Info: 437-0201 SUNDAY, JUNE 23 Statewide Pride Rally & Parade Speaker: Donna Red Wing ’92 Advocate Woman ofthe Year 1:30 pro, Memorial Park, NW 35th & Classen Blvd. Oklahoma City Info: 743-4297 or 405-791-0202 OUT + ABOUT by J.D. Jamett What can I say, this last month truly did have its showers and flowers. The turnabout show at the Silver Star was a rose. that never smelled more sweeter, & the staff truly did surprise themselves when they let their less masculine sides show. On the other hand, the Miss Gay Tulsa America at the Performing Arts Center got rained on- no fault of the orgamzers or performers. The technical staff at the P.A.C. constantly missed lighting and sound cues - whathappened? Our sympathies to the entertainers and organizers. This next month holds alot offun things todo starting with Renegades" annual GayFest (May 17- 19) which features Dark Shadows (drag in broad daylight!) and other fun things tO do all outside. That same weekend, you may venture back inside on May 17 for a live performance by Abigail at Concessions that should very entertaining then May 23, the Red Ribbon Ice Revue call 254-7272 for more details. In June, don’t forget Miss Northeastern Oklahoma USofA at The Silver Star (June 23). Pride Picnic Update Show your pride in the community and help make this year’s Pride Picnic the best Kelly Green, Miss Gay Tulsa America runners-up, JJ Gentry & Sugarbaker ever by seeing any or all of the following benefit shows: Lola’s on May 18th, the Toolbox hosted by Sensuous on May26th and the Silver Star on June 7th. This month I’m proud to feature, not an establishment, but a community within our .community, Community of Hope. It’s not just a church, but a place where you feel like a person, notjust a number.Leslie Penrose is the pastor.She’is one of these rare people you are truly proud to call a friend. This church has a lot tO offer, for ex, ample, chances to work in the commu- .nity through programs like their RAIN team training, feeding the homeless, meals on .wheels, small symposiums on a variety of different subjects, and social events such as small dinner groups and movie nights. I’ll say it a again- it’s not justachurch butacommunity! Services are very convenient on Sunday evening at 6pm at 1703 East 2nd Street. Giveit achance, Monique Foster, the new Miss Silver Star you may just like it. & Bobbi Sue Summers OK, OK, boy, did I ¯ open up a big make-up ¯ case with the Queen of the Month (see ¯ letter to the editor). Sorry Katherine, but : licking may face does constitute begging. ¯ Well, this month’s Queen of the Month is ¯ constandyhelpingpeople- doingbenefits ¯ &helping as aresearchnurse on HIV drug : studies.That’s right, Danny (TeraTaneal), ¯ youareMay’sQueenoftheMonth.Thanks : for all your hard work! Till then, see ya out + about. Fina y....Unity Gardens A final resting place in peace, unity and pride... located in Washington Memorial Gardens Cemetery 4300 E. 91st Street South On 91st Street between Yale & Harvard. Unity Gardens has been designed for the Gay and Lesbian Community, and those who support our unity. Did you know that there is no cemetery in Tulsa that will allow companions to be buried together recognizing them as a couple, or~’recognizing your sexual orientation as an individual? Actually there is no place in the United-States who will, UNTIL NOW~ We are the first celnetery in the United States to offer a special section of our cemetery just for Gays & Lesbians, and their family and friends. We offer burial spaces, columbarium for cremated remains, and scattering gardens with a memorial wall, in this new-ly expanded and renovated-section of Washington Memorial Gardens Cemetery. The Pride flag will proudly fly in the center of Unity Gardens to always remind us of our struggle in life for unity and pride. If you have purchased a plot elsewhere, you may be able to transfer or trade your burial plots. For more information, please call Russell Langley-Stumpff at 918-587-7000. ***Owned and operated by Butler-Stumpff Funeral Home*** A Friendly Place to Stay KING’S HI-WAY INN "96 Kings Highway, Hwy. 62 W Eureka Springs, AR 72632 (501) 253-7311 1-800-231-1442 Jerry A. Wilson, owner ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ 0 ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ MCC of the Living Spring ....a community of friends... Rev. Kermie Wohlenhaus Pastor We welcome you to attend! Services held Sunday evenings at 7 o’clock 17 Elk Street (at the Unitarian Church) Eureka Springs, AR 72632 501-253-9337 Raven/Redhawk Enterprises Phyl Boler-Schmidt Systems & Software Specialist POB 429, Eureka Springs 72632 501,253.2776 Books, Incense, Candles and Rainbows/ Plus lots morel (501) 25315445 45&1/2 Spring Street Eureka Springs, Arkansas 72632 emrain@rog.ar.ispnet.com AUTHENTIC FRESH ITALIAN RAINBOW CUSINE TROUT ofEureka Springs Recommended by - The New York Times (501) 253-6807, Closed Wednesday 5Center Street, Eureka Springs, AR 72632 Jim & .Brent’s Bistro Calendar ofEvents Friday, May 24 &-Thursday, May 25 -- Richard Johnson, acoustic guitar Thurs. May 30th & Fri. May 31st Music on the deck, Lunch, 11:30-2:30, Dinner 5-11 pm. Bistro Beat Etc. May 30th through June 2nd Eureka Springs.Blues Festival Stop by our house for a taste of local flavor. Dine outside on the patio & porch or in our three beautiful dining rooms. Fine food at an affordable price. Gay.owned, Operated & Rainbow Proud By Allan Beard, Baltimore GayPaper Like most other gay resort areas, Provincetown shares the three traits all held in common - sun, sand and surf. And like its southern sister city Key West, it is a remote village located on a narrow strip of landjutting out into the Adantic Ocean, accessible only to those who seek it out. One does not pass through Key West or Provincetown; one goes there to be there. Andwhile Provincetown’ s waters are significandy cooler than those of Florida’s southern most city, it is not the water that attracts tens of thousands of lesbians and gay men to this Massachusetts Cape Cod village each year - it’s the lesbians and gay men that is the attraction. Just who first walked the sandy beaches that surround Provincetown is in little doubt. And while Native Americans can lay claim to the cape, it was the white European immigrants who built the fishmg village that was to become Provincetown. Pilgrims from the May flower first walked ashore in 1620; a monument commemorating that event stands’ atop High Pole Hill overlooking the town an harbor. For the most part, Provincetown grew up over three centuries as a fishing village. Filled with the homes and shops of a 18thcentury fishing village, Provincetown is rich in period architecture with an impressive harbor and quaint atmosphere one comes to expect from a New England port town. It is surrounded by beaches, dunes and the Atlantic. Isolated at the end of Cape Cod, Provincetown has long attracted artists,individualists and free spirits. Very much like Key West, the 3,700 year-round residents have a live-and-let- ¯ live attitude, which clearly appeals to the ¯ many thOUsands of lesbians and gay men that flock there every, summer. ¯ The village has two main streets, Com- " mercial Street and Bradford Street, which ¯ run parallel for nearly three miles. They are intersected bynumerous smaller streets ¯ beginning at the harbor and continuing ¯ back to the dunes. It is a town filled with guest houses, restaurants, galleries, bou- : tiques and shops. It also has its share of ¯ typical beach community tourist busi- ¯ .nesses, but in Provincetown they don’t ¯ seem to intrude on the town’s quiet character. ¯ The Provincetown Business Guild rep- ¯ resents more than 200 businesses that welcomelesbian and gay tourists. Founded ¯ in 1978 the guild is dedicated to enhanc- ¯ ing the vacation experience of gay people ¯ , visiting the cape. Lesbian and gay life is readily visible to anyone visiting the town. Couples stroll the shop lined streets ann ~n arm with barely notice given them. On the beach thousands of hard bodied men and buffed lesbians swim, play and sun themselves in the confidence of a shared appreciation of their diversity. At night a not-so subtle sexual energy takes over the town’s main streets as hundreds head to nightclubs and restaurants to party with old acquaintances and new-found friends. It is an atmosphere suited perfectly to the friendly, open lifestyle of this .country’s many lesbian and gay communities. To increase gay visibility and promote gay pride, the ProvincetOwn Business Guild plans special events year-round. For information on these events and to make travel arrangement~,call Vanessa at International Tours at - 341-6866. OK, so maybe you don’t have the time or money to go as far as Provincetown but you still need a get-away and it’s got to be a Gay-friendly place, and affordable! For all that, you can’t beat Eureka Springs. This Victorian jewel has got to have one of the highest per capita Lesbian/ Gay/Bi populatious in the country. And therefore, you can count on finding a friendlyfamily welcome. In fact, it’s possible to spend most of your resting and dining time in Gay or very Gay friendly establishments. This writer canpersonallyrecommendthe food at DeVito’s and dined withJim &Brent at the restaurant the guys had before they opened the well-regarded Bistro. While we haven"t tried Autumn Breeze, we hear it’s excellent also. Lod~ng can vary from the very convenient Kings Hi-Way Inn overlooking a ¯ lovely valley to the unique bed & break- ¯ fast experience of the Woods or Rock ¯ Cottage Gardens or the views of Pond MountainLodge. For very reasonable and ¯ historic rooms, check out the Park Basin Hotel. , In between earing and sleeping, there ¯ are many shops to checkout. They range from tourist tacky to worksof art. One of the most interesting selections is at Crazy ¯ Bone. And be sure to stop in ’to see MC ¯ andLinda, the new ownersoftheEmerald ¯ Rainbow, providing locals, and visitors with Pride stuff and mo~e..: ¯ NoW if you need more.detailed infor- ¯ marion about all your Options in Eureka ¯ Springs, track down Jan & Kim with ¯ P.I.M.P.S. who kiaow what’s available. ¯ And if like many others, you decide to ¯ check out local properties, stop by McClung Realty - they can help. Adult Accommodations In Eureka Springs, Arl~nsas Craftsman-style cottages with beautiful views of the woods and wildlife -.Tucked on top of the Ozark Mountains. just a few rmnutes walk to the Historic Village of Eureka Springs. 501/253-8281 Frank Gr~.en Jr., Host - 50 Wall Street - Eureka Springs, Arkansas 72632 READ ALL ABOUT IT Reviewed by Barry Hensley Tulsa City-County Library OK, all of you budding Laurence Oliviers, take notice! ff acting is your profession 9rjust a fun hobby, and you’re having trouble finding quality plays that speak to gays and lesbians, here is the book for you. "The Actor’s Book of Gay and Lesbian Plays" pulls together seventeen plays, chosen by editors (and playwrights), EricLane and Nina Shengold. The criteria for a play’s inclusion in this anthologyis thatitmust have gay or lesbian characters, queer themes or be ofinterest to the gayand lesbian community,regardless of the playwright’s ownsexual orientation. The plays vary widely, from one-acts to full length, comic and dramatic, some interesting while others less so, and a range o_f styles and cast sizes. One of the most interesting aspects of these plays is that not all of them premieredin New York or Los Angeles. One had its .first performance in Shepherdstown, West Virginia~ and another was first heard over the air as a radio play. AIDS, of course, is a topic of a few of these plays. Victor .Bumbalo’s "What Are Tuesdays LaKe. takes place in a hospital waiting room. "The Baltimore Waltz," by Paula Vogel and "Lonely Planet," by Steven Dietz deal with AIDS in more intangible ways. Another interesting entry, "It’s Our Town, Too," by Susan Miller, is just what you might think: a bare stage, queer ver- ...One d the-most interesting aspects of these plays is that not all of them premiered in New York or Los A~ngeles. One hasd.lts first performance m Shepherdstown, West Virginia... sion . of Thornton Wilder’s "Our Town." "Cater,Waiter,"by Eric Lane, is a funny, ironic, ten-minute piece about "eighty-seven gay men and three lesbians serving dinner tO a buncha Reagan cronies" at a. Republican fundraiser. With the current boom of successful queer-themed films, like "Jeffrey" and "The Bird~ge," it shouldn’t, be long until more gay and lesbian friendly " plays start showing.up onstage in mid- : America. When they do, "The Actor’s ¯ Book of Gay and Lesbian Plays" will be ; an excellent resource. ¯ Check for this book, and others on ¯ similar subjects, at your local branch li- ¯ brary or call the Readers Services depart- ’ ment at the CentrallLibrary, 596-7966. byJames Christjohn, EntertainmentNotes While it might seem so at times, this column is not just about me being peevish. It is about a much wider concern of mine. To those in the gay & lesbian community whom I have heard complaining that thereisn’t enough gay theatre, that there is an audience for these shows, that no theatre in town is brave enou,,h to do these kinds of shows; I have only one thing to say. Where were you? Several shows during the TU weekend of One-acts touched on gay issues, mine and Gabriel Washam’s "’Diaries" blatandy so. I had incredible support from Professor Cook ( Thank you!), who feels these plays are important to have done, an incredible cast, & itwas free, for heaven’ s sake! You missed a great set of shows. You had the chance to say, with your pres- To those... corn lainln that t" P" ’ ~ here lsn t enough Gay theatre, that there is an audlenee ~or these shows... I have only one thln¢ to say. Where were you? ence, that there is an audience for these shows, that these shows will draw folks in, that there is a reason to see these shows produced. As Gerald Miller said, "Ain’t gonna happen". He and I spoke of Gay theatre in Tulsa when he was managing Theatre Tulsa. His take was that there wasn’t an audience. Tom and I argued the point, and I now feel his comments were, sadly, justified. ¯ To all of you who expressed interest, & ¯ didn’t put your body where your mouth is ¯ in terms of your presence in the theatre " seat, you’ve helped to kill gay theatre. ¯ If there is no gay theatre in Tulsa, it’s ¯ not that the shows aren’t produced or ¯ people aren’t interested in doing them; it’s because you weren’t there when the ¯ shows were produced. Even when, as in .. this case, the productions are free to the ¯ public! You have no one to blame but yourselves. So don’tlet me hear anyone in the community bemoaning "the lack of gay plays here, because it’s your own fault they aren’t being done. BACP produced an excellent production of Harvey Fierstein’s"On Tidy Endings" some months back_. Thenight Tom &I attended, only 1/4 of the house was filled. And I know there’s enough queens in this town to have filled the theatre. " Sad thing is, many students & faculty. ¯ were talking about doing a production of ¯ "Falsettoland" at TU. Thehigher ups were ." concerned that people wouldn’t come. ¯ One ofmy goals with HIVariations, I’d ¯ hoped, was to prove that there was an ¯ audience. With the lack of community ¯ support of HIVariations, indeed all the ¯ shows that weekend, it seems unlikely ¯ ¯ that this Falsetto, or other shows like it, will be produced. How sad. 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But why eat at some place you can visit at home? After all, half of the tim of traveling to exotic locations is discovering the local cuisine.And, surprisingly, Oklahoma City probably has a lot more decent nonchain restaurants than Tulsa. First, a few words of warning: Many rodeoers will be staying at the Northwest Hilton or at the ever popular Habana Inn both of which have in house dining facilities. Let’s just say that you’ll want to eat off the premises. And don’t even think about room service. \¥qaen you are in downtown OKC, be advised that. there is no place wonderful, and the Myriad Convention Center food is deadly. Nearby though are LaRoea Mexican Restaurant a couple.of blocks west of the Myriad on Rent and there are always the various trendy (translate: long lines, small servings, big prices) establishments and the onmipresent Spaghetti Warehouse in Bricktown several blocks east o.f the Myriad. The Bricktown Brewery is, in our opinion, the Oklahoma microbrewery serving up the best beer made in Oklahoma (but don’t get your hopes up about the food)¯ Wejust wish the Oklahoma legislature didn’t make the microbreweries water the beer to 3.2. Several formerly popular northwest spots are now closed, such as Doc’s at 63rd and Western, Rita’s del Rio on May across from the Northwest Hilton,Pump’s at Grand and \Vestem, Interurban in Fifty Penn Place, and Magnolia Cafe at 66th and Western: We’re also sad to report that due to the new conservative Christian ownership of United Founder’s Tower, the Eagle’s Nest, with its 360 degree revolVing view of Lake Hefner and northwest Oklahoma City, has closed its doors. Never fear, though, there are still lots of fun places to dine and frolic. While on Oklahoma City’s infamous 39th Street Strip, many readers may remember the gastronomically challenging Family Diner, a classic greasy spoon. But better days have come to that location, and completely new proprietors have established the gay owned and operated Pifion Care (moderate cost), which features lots of Southwestern style entrees, heavy on thepasta and chicken, and, while notan all-night establishment, does stay open until 2 a.m., and 3 a.m. on weekends. : The beautiful people and yuppies of ¯¯ OklahomaCity spendmost of their dining ¯ dollars on the strip alongWestern Avenue north of Interstate 44. There is quite a ¯ variety of interesting and worthwhile ¯ places in this area. Anchoring the comer ¯ spot on i-44 is Portobello (expensive), ¯ featuring Tuscan style Italian food and : Italian language tapes in the restrooms. ¯ Another long time Italian spot is Flip’s ¯ -Wine Bar and Trattoria (moderately ¯ expensi.ve), at Grand Boulevard, with a ¯ great selection of by-the-glass wines and ¯ decent food--be sure to check out the After all, half of the fun of traveling_is discovering the local euMne. And, surprisingly, Oklahoma City probably has a lot more decent non-chain restaurants than Tulsa. daily specials. At 64th Street, you will . find the excellent Metro Wine Bar and Bistro (expensive, reservations advised), serving re- ,trial French cuisine, nightly meat and fish specials, and creamy, chilled vichyssoise to die for. Across the street in: Nichols Hills Plhza is the single best restaurant in the st~ite of Oklahoma, ¯ the.Coach House (veryexpensive, reser- ¯ vataons required, dres~ code), featuring ¯ e}quisitely prepared Atnerican haute cui- ¯ sine and impeccable ~ervice. Everyone ¯ should experience the artistry of Chef ~ Kurt Fleishfresser and the elegance of the : Coach House at least once in their life- ¯. time. Crawling back toWestern, at 67th’is the Iguana Lounge (moderate) which is ¯ billed as Acapulco cuisine but we have to ¯ call it avant garde Mexican, and their new .: patio should be open by rodeo time. An ¯ excellent sushi bar is Tokyo Japanese ¯ Restaurant (expensive), just south of ¯ Wilshire, which serves Sapporo beer and ¯ ¯ sushi as good as any Japanese restaurant we’ve visited in the United States. Way : up north at 80th is Let’s Barbecue (inex- ¯ pensive), with basic down home smoked ¯ meats and occasionally fried catfish (if ¯ you remember Let’s at 66th Street, that ¯ location, now closed, went to Let’s ex- ¯ wife in the divorce, andLeomoved north). ¯ Acouple ofother spots popular with the ¯ capital city gay crowdinclude the Painted : Desert (inexpensive) at 36th and Shartel, ¯ whichis your basicburger bar, Pepperoni ¯ G~ill (moderately expensive) in Penn ¯ Square Mall by Dillard’s with eclectic ¯" Italian food, and Bellini’s (expensive) at 63rd and Pennsylvania, which serves up ¯ northern Italian themed food and dell- : cious bellini’s (a peach and champagne ¯ cocktail) with a view of the swan pond ¯ and outdoor seating-- enterfrom the park- " ing garage_ under the Waterford office ¯ building. ¯ Those looking for Oriental foods will ¯ ¯ be excited to spend time in Oklahoma City s Little Saigonareacentered at North- ," west 23rd and Classen. We particularly recommend Lido (moderate) at 24th and : Military (just off Classen near the milk ¯ bottlebuilding), whichhas excellent Viet- : namese food in an elegant setting, and is ¯ popular with many of the state’s power- " ful--we’ve run into Governor Waiters ¯ and several Supreme Court justices here. ¯ Check out the dim sum at Grand House : (moderate),just across the street from the see Food, page 14 n Communicolions does not milk bottle. One of our favorite Chinese restaurants is Dumpling House (moderate) on 23rd just east of Classen, which is patronized by many Chinese and Vietnamese youth (be sure to ask for the English menu). Another excellent Vietnamese and Chinese place is Mirawa (moderate), a bit farther east on 23rd. For Korean food, try Sharon Gardens (inexpensive) on 23rd west of Classen, and for Thai, go to Sala Thai (inexpensive) just a couple of blocks farther west. If seeing all those cowboys wrangle beef on the hoof has you hankering for a big juicy steak, you can’t go wrong with Cattleman’s Care (moderately expensive) in Stockyards City, Exchange Street south of 1-40 (ask for directions). In the Remington Park area at Northeast 50th and Kelly is one of our favorites, Sleepy Hollow (expensive), whichhas nomenus, but serves up big delicious bowls of mashed potatoes, ~avy, and peas family style and huge, wonderful steaks to its horseman and jockey clientele. You can get decent barbecued ribs and an all you can eat special at Oklahoma County Line (moderately expensive) on Northeast 63rd between Kelly and Eastern. And, when the budget gets a little thin, you can find an excellent chicken fried steak sandwich at Chuck House (inexpensive) at Northwest Tenth and Meridian. This should be a big enough list of the better places in Oklahoma City to keep rodeo-goers well fed for one weekend. Just remember, we have McDonald’s in Tulsa. Bon appetit, cowboy. 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Southwest Home Office Dallas, Texas 800-559-4790 Kelly Kirby Oklahoma Representative POB 14011 Tulsa, OK 74159-1011 918-747-3320 Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data newspaper periodical Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource [1996] Tulsa Family News, May 15-June 14, 1996; Volume 3, 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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Text Any textual data included in the document Serving Tulsa’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Trans Communities Our Families of the Heart CoUrt Kills Amendment 2 Tulsa Leaders Respond WASHINGTON - In a ruling that brought a collective sigh of relief from U.S. rights activists, the Supreme Court has ruled that Colorado’s anti-gay Amendment 2 is unconstitutional. Justice Anthony Kennedy said in the court’s 6-3 majority ruling that theColorado ballot measure was "inexplicable by anything except ill will toward homosexuals." The ruling found that Amendment 2 identifies people by the singletrait of their sexual orientation and denies them protection across the board "in a law unprecedented in American jurisprudence." The Court’s ruling invalidates the 1992 Colorado referendum that was narrowlyapproved by 53 percent of the voters and would have blocked anti-bia~dneasures in Denver, Boulder, Aspen and anywhere else in the state that adopted suchmeasures. The high court’s majority opinion found that Amendment 2 violates the Constitution’s guarantees of equal protection under the law, ruling that it illegally bars homosexuals from see CO, page 10 Federal Anti-Marriage Bill Moves Thru Congress WASHINGTON - The far-right’s proposed congressional measure,known as the "Defense of Marriage Act" (DOMA), easily won approval of a House sub, committee by a largely party-line 8-4 vote, and is expected to reach thefloor of the House of Representafives for a vote by early July. The Senate companion measure should be reaching the floor of the upper chamber at about the same time, Senate leaders said. qqae measure, which would define marriage as the union of a man and a woman, effectively excluding same-sex marriages at the federal levd, has left rights activists at loose ends since it was introduced in Congress earlier in May, quickly, winning endorsements from the Republican leadership and the promise of President Clinton’s signature if it passed Congress. Clinton supporter David Mixner fumed on CBSsee Federal, page 10 More States Pass Anti- Marriage Laws SPRINGFJELD, Ill. -~ Illinois .Gov.:Jim Edgar signed a measure barring the state from recognizing same,sex marriages, whether legally performed in other states or not, making the state that first repealed its sodomy statu_tes: over. 3 ~ decades ago ~- the 1.0th, U.S, state to prohibitrecognition ofsame-sex marriages. Meanwhile, in Michigan and Pennsylvania, similar anti-marriage measures won approval in their respective legislatures. The bills in each of the 2 states need only to have differences in the language of their upper and lower chambers worked out before being sent to their governors for approval. North Carolina’s lawmakers, intheir effort to prohibit recognition of same-sex marriages that might be legally performed in other states, have been trying to quickly work around legal limits on the types of measures they can consider in a shortened special see States; page 10 PFLAG activists, Bill & Cathy Hinlde, and Nancy & Joe McDonald flank Dallas Gay & Lesbian AllianCe Pres. Cece Cox, her spouse, Lisa Means, & Tom Neal at ajoint meetingof PFLAG, TOHR & Rainbow Business Guild. : Tulsa PFLAG Mom Testifies ’Against Anti-Marriage Bill ¯ Nancy McDonald, founder of Tulsa Parents, Familes ¯ and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) with husband ¯ Joe, and first vice president of the national board of .. PFLAG, testified against the so-called "Defense of Mar- ¯ nage Act" before the Constitution Subcommittee of the ¯ Judicial Committee of the US House of Representatives ¯ on May 15. TFN is honored to summarize or to reprint ~ portions of that testimony. ¯ McDonald identified herself as a mother and longtime ¯ educator and volunteer speaking in defense of marriage. ¯ In particular, McDonald identified the benefits of civil ¯ marriage and noted how those benefits are denied to same : sex couples. McDonald said she wished she were testify- " ing in favor of a bill that would grant equal marriage rights : "see Congress, page 8 ¯ HIV Bias Lawsuit Won Paul Saladin has won his wrongful termination lawsuit ¯¯ against his former employeer, Terry Turner, owner ofThe French Hen. Saladin had filed his case under the federal ~ Americans with Disabilities Act which prohibit discrimi- : nation on the basis of HIV!AIDS as well as other disabili- ¯ ties. ¯ The case is noteworthy because it is one of the first to : address discriminationbased on an association with some- : one who is disabled. Saladin was fired from his job as a : waiter when one customer allegedly complained to man- . agement after he heard another customer ask Saladin : about his late partner who was seriously ill with AIDS ¯ related infections. Saladin received modest damages of partial back pay see Case, page 8 "Promise Keepers" Boot ¯ Radical Extremist Enyart ¯ "Christian" syndicated television talk show host, Bob ¯ Enyart, appears to have been disinvited from the Promise . ¯ Keepers "Christian men’s" rally planned for June 15th at ¯ ¯ TU’s Skelly Stadium. Lesbian/Gay activists, pro-choice ¯ ¯ activists and moderate ~d progressive religious leaders -.: had objected to Enyart s participation because of his : ¯ documented remarks calling for the execution of "homo: ¯ ¯ sexua¯ ls" and "abortlonlo~,,o~’.,~.we.u as.m.e do.sin.g.and./the.¯ ¯¯ , phys~cal~ destruction of homosexual churches, clubs and : other establishments, as well as abortion diuics. Enyart " ¯ has acknowledged those remarks as accurately reflecting ." : his values in an interview with the Denver Post. ¯ The Rev. Russell Bennett of Fellowship Congrega- ¯ tional Church said that the Task Force for Rdigious " ¯ Freedom and Tulsa Metropolitan Ministry were involved ¯ in persuading key Promise Keeper supporters to call for " ¯ Enyart’s removal. Allegedly, Rev. Pearson called the ~ national office of Promise Keepers to ask them to: ; organizers to remove Enyart. According to The ¯ World, local organizers would not comment on the pro- ¯ ¯ gram change, see Enyart; page 10 American Airlines, Pepsi, ¯i AMnilhleeruSspeornBsuosrcPhr,idCeoPoircsn, i&c Organizers of this year’s Pride Picnic have annoUnced the confirmation of American Airlines as lead sponsor of Tulsa: United in Pride, the 1996 Pride Picnic which is at Owen Park, 560 No. Maybelle at Edison Road on Saturday, June 15 .from noon. to 5pm. American Airlines, Tulsa’s largest employer, is donating two air travd tickets which picnic attendees can be eligible to win. Other major sponsors include Anheuser-Busch, Coors, Miller Brewmg Co. and Pepsi-Cola. Picnic orgamzers emphasized their thanks for the support of dub owners and entertainers who hosted and performed in benefit shows, in chronological order: Bill and Brian and their friends at Lola’s, Sensuous and John at the Tool Box, John & Steve at the Silver Star and Kirk & Terry at Concessions with apologies to anyone whose name’s been left out¯ This event just see Picnic. page 8 Tulsa Library Nixes Gay Exhibits for Two Years While the Tulsa City County Library commission and Library administrators deny that complaints about an April Lesbian and Gay themed exhibit by Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays motivated them ,the commissioners changed the Library’s exhibit rides at a May 21st meeting so that a similar topic cannot be displayed for two years. Formerly library rules prevented the same organization from exhibiting more than once in 18 months. Under the new regulations, the same topic cannot be addressed more than once in 2-krnonths. Because of this change, Tulsa OklahomanS for Human Rights (TOHR)is now being denied penmssion to mounl an exhibit that-was scheduled for August. Library administrators say that the TOHR exhibit plans were never definite but were tentative. However, TOHR representatives claim that:they understood the date to be firufly settled with any question of ch_anging the date not arising until after controversy about the PFLAG exhibit started. TOHR’s spokesperson expressed sympathy for the harassment the Library had experienced and understood the LibraD¯’s desire to change its rules but regretted that Library administrators had not chosen to honor their prior commitment to TOHR. TOHR is currently seeking an alternate site for the exhibit, Love Makes A Family, a photo-documentary of Lesbian and Gay families with accompanying interviews of the couples and their children. COMING SOON -ffiahoma Parade ; ¯ Follies Review’96 + MCC’s ?That’s Entertainment?. + State.HIV/AIDS Confere.nce + IAM Ice Cream Soc,al + Shanti’s Water.Garden Tour see page 9 P. 2 P. 4 P. 6 P. 9 P. 9 P. 11 P. 12 P. 13 918.583.1248 POB 4140 Tulsa, Oklahoma 74159-0140 TulsaNews@ aol.com Publisher/Editor, Tom Neal Assistant Editor, James Christjohn Writers/contributors, Phyl Boler-Schmidt Barry Hensley Jean-Pierre Leanne Gross & Pat Morehead Staff Phot(x3rapher, JD Jamett Issued on or before the 15th of each month, the entire contents of this publication are protected by US copyright 1996 by Tulsa Family News and ~aay not be reproduced either in whole or in part without written permission from the publisher. Publicationnodfenacnea~ms easosurmpheodtotodboeesfonroptuibnldicicaatitoenthuantlepsesrostohne’srwsiesxeunaol toerdi,enmtautsitobne. Correspo " - . " ........ =o~il,, News All correspondence ¯ d & becomes tlae sole property o~ ~u,~a -,~,- : ¯ s!gne~........~o oddress above Each reader is entitled to one fre.e co,p,,y~of~ia~coh snOUl(1 De Sent to ut~ a ¯ edition at d*-is-tn.ou.u.on.p.oln-t-~-. *~’u~u’~,;tional conr"ies are available by calhng bY Phyl Bole’r-Sdhmidt " " i. ¯ i i.° "Th~Godit~s ovhr! The~AmendmentTwO battlemC°l°riad° that fight. And, though it began in one state, the effects rippled acrFoosrsmoeu,rtghreebaattntlaetiboeng.an oneMay evem.ngm. 1991. Iwas living on the western slope of Colorado, minding my own business, enjoyin my life and my vcork. Tha.t .evening: ,,the voters of Denvergre’ected an ordinance proposexl by a soc)auy-co,n,se,rvative erou~ called Citizens for Sensible Rights that wou!a nave " remgved sexual orientation from the wording of the city s equal protectionlaw. After their defeat, CSRandits statewidesupporters vowed to take the issue to the state level where, they thought, babydom in the gay rights movement before the Amendment Two vote. I’i,’e gone from an often timid addressee of lesbigay cinosnicdeernansdtooustoTmwehoonisenwoht oinctahne lbeeasctoaufnrateidd toonsttoankdntoowe ttohteoiesswuieths see Weary, page 3 has been a long gaul of Often drudgery for those of us involved in I~9 Tgdd Adams "The religious right would like you to believe that despite their hatemongering and anti-gay propaganda, they truly have com.- passion and geiiuine Christian concern for the homosexual. It ~s not a personal bias, they claim, but only because of divine Biblical proclamation that they are compelled to preach this socalled threat to family values. Consider then, the disproportionate lack of attention given to ¯ the far more pervasive trend toward unmarried heterosexual ~ couples cohabitating. Isn’t this what the Bibli~ calls fornication, and isn’t this a sexual sin of equal magnitude as homosexuality? ¯ Just by the sheer numbers of people engaged in fornication ¯ compared to those of homosexuality, one would think the former ¯ to be a far greater threat to those sacred fata!!y, value.s.A,ft,er ~1, their Dresumably heterosexual children woum seenungiy De ~ar ¯ more’susceptible to being recruited into this lifestyle rather than into homosexuality. Yet we don’t see nearly the kind of passion exerted on this proportionately mammoth threat to,fancily v,alue.s as we see directed towards gay and lesbian peopte. ~o why ~s ¯ there such a wide disparity of attention? The answer is twofold, ¯ and both are very basic to human nature: greed and ignorance. The first reason is greed. The fact is homosexuality is very ¯ controversial and thus stirs emotions. Marketing 101 will tell you the easiest way to pry money out of a pocket is to exploit see Values, page 3 Tulsa Clubs & Restaurants *Bamboo Lounge, 7204 E. Pine *Concessions, 3340 ~. Peoria *Lola’s, 2630 E. 15th *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 744-0896 749-1563 745-9998 834-4234 585-3405 660-0856 584-1308 *Interurban Restaurant, 717 S. Houston 585-3134 Tulsa Businesses, Services, & Professionals Dennis C. Arnold, Realtor 746-4620 *Assoc. in Meal.& Mental Health, 2325 S. Harvard 743-1000 Kent Balch & Associates, Health & Life Insurance 747-9506 *Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 8620 E. 71 250-5034 Brookside Jewelry, 4649 So. Peoria 743-5272 Creative Collection, 1521 E. 15 . 592-1521 Cherry Street Psychotherapy Associates 1515 S. 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Boston 584-0337 .Scribner~s B,ookstore, 1942 Utica Square 749-6301 Scott Rob~son s Prescriptions, see ad for 3 locations 743-2351 Southwest Viatical 747-3322 Thomas Chiropracfc.Clinic 4138 S. Harvard, Ste. C-I 742-8868 493-1959 Kellie J. Watts, attorney 743-1733 Fred Welch, LCSW, Counseling Tulsa Organizations, Churches, & Universities *Agape’ Christian Fellowship, 21st& Sheridan 599-7688 *Bless The Lord At All Times Christian Ctr. 628-0594 2627B E. 11 *B/UG Alliance, Univ. of Tulsa Canterbury Ctr. 583-9780 *Chapman Student Center, University of Tulsa *CommumtyofHope UnitedMethodist, 1703 E. 2nd 585-1800 Dignity/Integrity ¯ (Lesbian/Gay Catholics & Episcopalians) 298-4648 *Family of Faith MCC, 5451-E So. Mingo 622-1441 ,Free SpiritWomens Center, call f°r l°cad°n &inf°: 587-4669 FFrriieennddsFionrUAnFitryieSnodc,iPalOOBrg5a2n3i4z4a,ti7o4n1(5A2frican-Amer. 7m4e7n-6) 827 POB 8542, 74101 425-4905 Indian Health Care, Save the Nation 584-4983 Interfaith AIDS Ministries 438-2437, 800-284-2437 *MCC of Greater Tulsa, 1623 N. Maplewood 838-1715 *HIV Resource Consortium 749-4194 4154 S. Harvard, Ste. H-1 NAMES PROJECT, 4154 S. Harvard, Ste. H-1 PFLAG , POB 52800 74152 Prime-Timers, P:O. Box 52118 R.A.I.N., Regional AIDS Interfaith Network Rainbow Business Guild, POB 4106, 74159 St. Jerome’s Catholic Church, 3841 S. Peoria, *Shanti Hotline Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights, (rOHR) POB 52729 74152 TOHR Gay HdpLine (info.) Technicians, 1338 E. 3rd T.U.L.S.A. Tulsa Uniform/Leather Seekers Assoc. *Tulsa City Hall, Cafeteria Vestibule, Ground Floor *University Center at Tulsa ~ Beaver Dam Store, 1/2 mi. N. of Dam Hwy. 187 ¯ *Jim & Brent’s Bistro, 173 S. Main ¯ DeVito’s Restaurant, 5 Center St. ¯ *Emerald Rainbow, 45&112 Spring St. ¯ King’ s Hi-Way,96Kings Highway,Hwy. 62W *MCC of the Living Spring 748-3111 749-4901 74104 749-4195 665-5174 646-7116 749-7898 7434297 584-1308 838-1222 501-253-7457 501-253-6807 501-253-5445 800-231 - 1442 501-253-9337 I never canremember those old sayings very well but there is this one that goes like this: may youlive in interesting times - and I never could remember if that was supposed tO be a blessing or a curse. Wall, here we are at Pride 1996. We certainly are living in interesting times. Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Triinsgendered issues are being discussed more than they l~ave been at’any other time in the last two thousand or so years. And though our losses (to AIDS, to breast cancer, to the institutionalized violence and self hatred our society fosters) have been beyond imagination, and it is easy to feel that we are under attack each ~ime we turn, we are winning some. Colorado 2- do I need to say more?The highest court in the nation, and the source of both despair and hope for American minorities, finally has recognized us as citizens. Even here in Tulsa, we are making some progress. Although we are still marginalized by many of Tul.sa leaders, a few are recognizing our existence, our contributions to this city and our emerging political impact. And though we are poisoned by too many of the pathologies that growing up minrrity in America engenders, and although we are often unneces sarily cruel to each other, Tulsa is rich in remarkable individuals who dedicate hours of their time to building community ~mdresources. These folks are too many to name them all. The3’ vary from those whom you recognize quickly, the McDonalds and Kirbys, to those who work a little more behind the scenes, the Newmans, S tames, Petersons and Gilleans to those who are rarely recognized but whose contributions are also critical. These people, their work and our progress, although slow, all are things for whichwe can be thankful. So take aminute to celebrate, to honor those who’ve gone before, to recognizehow things are better. I have and will. Tulsa’ s sure a better place for us thanit was 20 or even 10 years ago. - Tom Neal Rev. Nancy J. Horvath M. Div., Pastor Sunday 9:15 am Christian Education ll:00am Worship Service ....Wednesday 6:30 pm Midweek Service 7:30 pm Choir Practice Thursday 7:30 pm Codependency Support Group 5451-E S. Mingo ¯ Tulsa, OK ¯ 7414~ (918) 622-1441 JUNE 15 Noon - 5:00 pm Opening Ceremony, lpm ¯ Blessing by the Rev. Leslie Penrose ¯ Welcome by TOHR president Debbie Starnes ¯ Performances by local entertainers, including Miss Gay Tulsa & Miss Tulsa USofA, Tulsa Family Chorale & The Banned from OKC! Throughout the afternoon, ¯ DJ will provide music throughout the day ¯ Booths with vendors, community organization info., crafts, etc. ¯ Food for modest cost ¯ Free beverages provided by Anheuser-Busch, Coors, Miller & Pepsi ¯ Volleyball & tennis court available ¯ Kids’ playground ¯ Security provided all day by Tulsa Park officers ¯ Closing ceremony, with benediction by RF Renfro & Freedom Balloon Extravaganza! Be a, part of the Pride~Picnic! - To volunteer, just show up Saturday Edison St. -’ ,~ "~ To Sand Springs, 1-412 Directions: From Tulsa, take Keystone Expressway West towards Sand Springs. Exit Gilcrease Rd. turn right (North) on Gilcrease Road to Edison St, and turn right (East} on Edison, go about 1/2 mile. Owen Park Is on the right. Parking is on the Southeast corner of the park. near Roosevelt School. 1-244 the most ardent anti-gay zealots. Wars will do that for you. Survival skills are something we either gain in a hurry, or we die at the hands of the enemy, sometimes literally, often figuratively. Of course, there are always battle scars too, and I watch myself, as well as others who have fought this one in the trenches, acting most times like we suffer from the more modem adaptation of World War II’s shell shock. Post-traumatic stress disorder runs rampant among civil rights activists of any persuasion. On May 20th, nearly five years exactly to the day after the Denver vote, I was catching up on some paperwork at my computer when the news came in via the Interact about the U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision declaring Amendment Two unconstitutional. There was no jubilant fist thrust into the air. There was no inyour- face queer political nose-rubbing of the opposition. I just sat th6re, staring at the two-hne news alert for over 30 minutes, occasional quiet tears of mostly relief surfacing. I believe it is important to remember that although the Supreme Court decision reflects a changed attitude on the part of the federal judiciary as it regards the humamty of lesbigay people, nothing has really changed legally. No tights have been gained. It remains okay to discriminate against us as a people in most of the country, & the fight for equality remains one we will need to address one person at a time. \Vhat has happened is imperceptible to people on the outside of our movement. We are a more confident people, more sure than ever before of our beliefs and our worth. We are more aware politically; we -know how to build coalitions, to raise funds, to seek out and solidify our bases of support, and we -know how to get the job done. We also have learned the tree value found in each other because we had to learn with whom we could be safe and on whom we could count when or if we needed someone. A~nendment Two was a right of passage for lesbigay people in Colorado. mad the tipple effects have forged growth in the movemeut throughout the land. Let us not waste that ~owth and the opportunity it presents to truly change our ~vorld. Our time has come, and our movement is coming of age, but let us not forget that we gain nothing in the wav of respect if we are not respectful of others. If we are going to ever have that kinder, gentler nation George Bush at least talked about. I believe it must start with us. emotions: lust,:enwy.., fear, hate! Therefore, dt is pr0fi~ble for the religious right to keep homosexuality controversial. Itis their greatest fund-raising tool. Even the most cursory glance at their fund-raising literature wil! reveal classic propaganda techniques; dehumanize the subject to remove any compassion people might feel, and present only the most extreme behavior as examples of that"lifestyle", behavior which, incidentally, many homosexuals themselves would find distasteful. These techniques are nothing new. They are the same methods used by the Nazis to persecute the Jews. The second reason is pure and simple ignorance. They fall to understand that we have exactly the same range of human emotions and feel exactly the same feelings they do; love, lust, guilt, jealousy, anger, compassion; just in a slightly different context, homosexuality is a normal, natural and healthy way of life for a certain percentage of the population. But because those feelings are foreign to them, the religious right assumes our lives to be wicked, perverted and disgusting. They fall to see that falling in love is truly a universal emotion with many varieties. So don’t be misled. The attention giveu to homosexuality has nothing to do with family values, if it did, more preachers would be concerned about the results of their hate speech: abandoned and abused children, gay teen suicide, substmace abuse. All of these are far more serious fmnily issues which deserve far lnore attention. bo,eft.th,g Tul.~a Area AIDSAgenctes Warren Place Doubletree Hotel Dh~ner, Cash Bar and Performance Remaining seats are limited. Call today! TICKETS ON SALE AT ALL CARSON ATTRACTIONS OUTLETS OR BY PHONE: ~84-2000 Canada Rights Bill OTI’AWA - Largdy considered a formality, Canada’s Senate has followed the May 9 lead of Parliament’s House of Commons and approved federal legislation outlawing bias based on sexual orientation. The bill now only requires the assent of the governor general, representing Queen Elizabeth II as Canada’s titular head of state, to become part of theCanadian Human Rights Act. Michigan School Harassment DETROIT-In a d~iay that angered:many, the Allen Park School Board decided not to decide yet on whether gay and lesbian students - or even students who are just believed to be homosexual - should be protected under the district’s anti-harassment policies. The mother of a 14-yearold student at Allen Park High School asked the trustees in May to include antiharassment policies that prohibit gay and lesbian students from being attacked or harassed on school grounds by other students. But the school board decided it wanted to take "more time to study the issue" beforemaking a decision. Raymond Salliotte, an attorney representing the student and his family, told the board members they should be ashamed of themgelves for even having to take this long to decide on such a basic issue. School Gay CI.ui Compromise GLENDALE, Calif. - The Glendale school board averted the potentially explosive issue of gay and lesbian dubs at schools by rejecting a plan that would have required permission of parents for their high-school age,students to join any such campus clubs. Instead, the board opted for a compromise proposal that would inform parents of all the dubs authorized to meet at schools in the district so they could be aware of what groups there are at various schools. But parents would not have to give permission for their children in school to join any of the groups. Clinton ’Advocate’ Interview LOS ANGELES - In an interview in the Los Angeles gay news magazine The Advocate, President Clinton reiterated his view that marriage is an institution between a man and a woman, as a far-right bill in Congress declares, and says he is proud of his record of working to end discrimination agmnst homosexuals in theU.S, and of the large number of gay men and lesbians hehas named to posts in his administration.But in the interview, Clinton says ofthe controversy that erupted early in his term over ending the military ban, "There are some things I think I should have done differently." He says he now believes he should have first worked with congressional and Pentagon leaders to build a broader consensus on the issue, saying that possibly moving in "incremental steps" might have been a better way to approach ending the ban. The President, however, sidesteps questions in the interview about whether he would, if re-elected, renew any efforts to end the current restrictions against homosexuals in the armed forces. Oregon Initiative Called Off PORTLAND, Ore. - Lon Mabon, head of the anti-gay OregonCitizens Alliance, announced at a press conference that the organization will discontinue gathering signatures to put a new ballot measure before state voters this year in an effort to block civil rights protections for homosexuals. Oregon rights activists said the OCA move wasn’t surprising in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in May declaring that Colorado’s Amendment 2, which the OCA had used as-a model, was unconstitutional. School Board Victory in N.H. MERRIMACK, NH - Two years of contentious tumult over an anti-gay policy may have come to at least a temporary end with the stunning 2-1 victory ofRosemarie Rung for a seat on the school board. The race registered the largest voter turnout in the town’s history and Rung’s election now means, that religious-right candidates whohad forced the anti-gay policy through the board no longer hold a majority. Rung vowed dunng the race to work to repeal the anti-gay Policy 6540, which prohibits school employees from "’encouraging or supporung homosexuality as a positive lifestyle alternative." Ginny Cadarette, who also ran for the vacant seat won by Rung, had said she supported the anti-gay school policy. "This election proves that the citizens of Merrimack have the moral courage to reject the politics of fear and divisiveness," Rung said after the election win. "What the Radical Religious Right failed to realize when it moved into Merrimack advocating its agenda, from creationism to Pol,icy 6540, is that we truly believe in freedom of speech, and equal protection of the laws." S. Africa Gay Rights Protections CAPE TOWN, South Africa - With the new, first-ever constitutional protections barfing bias based on sexual orientation, : the South African Parliament wasted no ¯ ti~ne putting theory into practice. On May 14 the lawmakers approved military poli- ¯ cies prohibiting discrimination against ¯ women, gays and lesbians in the nation’s ¯ armed forces. The next day a memo from : the leaders of both houses of Parliament ¯ outlined the travd~related benefits the ¯ partners of Members of Parliament are : entitled to.identical to those of the spouses ¯ of married MPs. Anti-Gay, Anti-HIV Defense Bill Again WASHINGTON - The House has approved a $267-billion Defense Department spending measure that President Clinton has already said he would veto if it’s not changed by the Senate because of the many social issues that conservative Republicans have tacked on to it. The measure includes amendments that would discard the current "don’t ask,don’t tell" maned forces provision and institute an outright ban on homosexuals in the military. It also iududes the on-again, offagain amendment forcing the Pentagon to discharge any military personnel who test positive for HIV. The Senate version of the defense measure calls for the same spending level,but doesn’t contain the coutroversial amendments House Republicans added to the bill. The measure also iucludes a ban on the sale of sextmlly explici! magazines,such as Playboy and Penthouse, at military bases as well as a prohibition against U.S. military hospitals outside the country performing abortions,except in eases ofrape, incest or if the mother’s life is at risk. Carolina Anti-Gay Measure Repealed SPARTANBURG, S.C. - Faced with the prospect of having the Olympic torch relay re-routed around the county and finding the men’s U.S.A.Gymnastic team pulling their training site, the Spartanburg county council has decided not to keep an mati-gay resolution it approved on Monday, Mav 13. The resolution, similar to ones passed by two Georgia county comnussions inn, has no actual legal effect but states that homosexuality is "incompatible withcommunity standards."The comnussioners decided earlier in May to pass the resolution as a show of their support [’or Cobb County, Ga., which has been excluded as a site for Olympic Game events because of the resolution. Butwhen the Spartanburg council was confronted by the American men’s gymnasts team ~;ith moving their training site elsewhere over the anti-gay measure and statements by the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games that it might re-route the torch run around Spartanburg County, the county council voted 4-1 to repeal the resolution. While Spartanburg was busy repealing its anti-gay resolution, the Greenville County council approved by a 9-3 vote an identical measure. The Olympic torch is slated to pass through Greenville on June 26, but a spokesperson for the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games said the group is unsure what - if anything - it may do about the approved resolution, which calls homosexuality contrary to "community standards" in the county. At least one ACOG member, however, was quoted in news reports as saying that the organizing committee "couldn’t function as a civil rights watchdog for the nation." Commitment Fair Called Off DETROIT, Mich. -A planned Gay Commitment Fair that had been slated forMay 19 in the Detroit suburb of Holly where gay couples could peruse exhibits by riofists, photographers, jewelers and other marriage-rdated goods and services was cancded after the organizer of the event received hundreds ofoffensive and threatening telephones calls, the Detroit Free Press reports. According to the paper, Jeffrey Maxwell, the pastor at the C.alvary United Methodist Church in Holly read a news article about the planned private event to his parishioners, including the phone number to contact the promoter of the fair. The organizer of the event, who asked the paper not to identify him, called off the event at the last minute after being .swamped with menacing calls threatenmg to disrupt and picket the fair as well as at least 2 death threats. Maxwell said he didn’t believe anyone from his church made any of the calls. Proposal to Extend Partner Benefits SANFRANCISCO-Gay SupervisorTom Ammiano has proposed legislation that would require most contractors working on city financed projects to extend the samedomestic partnerbenefits to its workers that it offers to the spouses of its married employees. Many of the city’s large corporations already offer partners benefits, but mo~t smaller firms do not, and the city controller’s office estimates that there are between 8,000 and 10,000 companies doing business with the city that could be affected by the proposed measure. The proposed ordinance would exemptfirms located wheredomestic partner programs aren’t in place, unless the company has a division office in the city as well. In those cases, only workers in the San Francisco offices would be covered. Business leaders here have not so far expressed any strong objections to the Ammiano measure, although the city’s Chamber of Commerce says it wasn’t consulted about.it beforehand. 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Details ofthe program were not released, but the company said the benefits would apply to both same- and opposite-sex unmarried employees, and would extend to the couples’ children as well. The firm employs some 108,300 workers. Challenge to UK Age of Consent Law LONDON - Euan Sutherland, a 19-yearold gay student, has been given the goahead by the European Commission on Human Rights to challenge the British age of consent laws before the Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg if Parliament doesn’t change the law.4n 1994, Parliament lowered the age of.consent for homosexual sex from 21 to 18, but the age of consent for heterosexual sex in Britain 1S only 16. And Suthedand petitioned government courts without luck to equalize the ages for all sexual activity, arguing that it was discriminatory. "It’s normal for a 19-year-old bloke to be going out with a 17-year-old girl," Sutherland said. "’If I was doing that [with another male] it would be illegal. Both of us would be breaking the law. There are jail penalties." Sutherland’s legal challenge is expected to bejoined by another gay youth, Chi’is Morris, 16, shortly. Lipstick Lesbians NEW YORK - The women? s beauty and fashion magazine, Allure,includes excerpts from the soon-to-be-publishedbook by Lindsy Van Gelder and Pamda Robin Brandt, The Girls Next Door: Into the Heart of Lesbian America.. The excerpt, entitled in the magazine "Some Lesbians Are Glamour Babes; Others Aren’t," lot-ks at similarities and differences between lesbians and straight women in makeup, body consciousness and similar beauty issues in alighthearted manner. Only problem is, although excerpts from forthcoming books are generally a sdling point for ~nainstreamraagakiii~’s,’Allui-d s~in~ ~6’ have neglected mentioning the excerpt on its cover. Ah, well. Probablyjust a"typo.’" A PERMANENT SOLUTION Permanent Hair Removal Carol Anwar, RE, CPE Lic. By Okla. St. Med. Bd. 488-0786 Near71st & Lewis Call for info, or an appt. with free consultation, Survey: World’s Full of Surprises LONDON-Itwas "goodnews-badnews" for the citizens of the new Russia as LondonInternational Group, one ofthe world’s largest condom manufacturers, released the results of its 3rd annual international survey of sexual behavior. According to the LIG survey, Russians are the 2nd most sexually active people in the world, led only by Americans. "Our survey will explode a lot of myths about sex," said Pauli Jakobsson of LIG. The study reports that based on surveys of 10,000 people in 15 nations,Americans have sex 135 times a year, trailed dosdy by the homy ex-comrades who succumb to Western bourgeois thrills 133 times annually. The former Soviets also trailed the Americans in their self-centered view of sex, with 61.% of U.S. citizens interviewed saying theirown satisfaction was most important in sex. Some 42% of Russians said their own gratification was paramount, placing them next behind Americans. Thailand came in at the bottom of the list in terms of frequency of sex,averagingjust 64 times per year. Of a list of notable personalities those interviewed thought were sexiest,Australian actor Mel Gibson topped the lisL while U.S. President Bill Clinton fell about midway and Russian Prime Minister Boris Yeltsin camein next to last, the unsexy honor of which fell to Poland’s Lech Walesa. Poles (presumably none of them eying Mr. Walesa) turned up as the most safe-sex conscious in the survey, with a full 13% of Polish respondents claiming they routinely carry condoms in their underwear, leading the Italians in their claims of having condoms on hand. Canadians, somewhat surprisingly, came in as the most hostile to the idea of safer sex, while the Russians did little better, ranking 12 out of the 15 countries. Canadians, however, also ranked 1st as the world’s most sensitive bed partners, with 51% saying satisfying their sexual partner was their top priority in bed. Another surprise the survey reports is that women respondents turned out to be more sexually selfish than men, with 31% .saying their own sati fraction was most ~mportant in the sack, while 25% of men said their own gratification was primo in bed. Hawaii Dems Make Pro-Gay Moves HONOLULU-While many of the state’s la~vmakers grappled muchof the past year with the issue of same-sex marriage resuiting from what isexpected to be a state court victory for gays and lesbians, the stale Democratic.party made its position dear during its May 24-26 convention. The party’s central committee adopted a resolution opposing any future interfer- P AlrERSON REALIORS" ence by the state legislature or efforts to change Hawaii’s liberalstate Constitution in the court battle. The Dems then went on to oust Linda Rosehill from the key post as its national committeewoman in favor to Amy Agbayani. Rosehill has been very active in efforts to block the possible legalization of same-sex marriages in thestate; Agbayani represented theACLU m testimony opposing legislative efforts. to block same-sex marriag~in the sta~e. Martin Rice, an openly gay Democratic Party activist, was also elected to a position as one of the committee’s 3 vicechairs as an executive board member. Episcopal Church: Gay Clergy OK WILMINGTON, Del. - A court of the Episcopal Church has ruled that it is not against church doctrine for a bishop to ordain sexually active homosexuals to the priesthood, thereby ending the possibility of a heresy trial against Bishop Walter Righter, 72, the retired Bishop of Iowa, for ordaining Barry Stopfel, who is gay, as a church deacon in 1990. The 9 presiding bishops had been considering the issue of whether Bishop Righter should face heresy charges for the ordination for 10 weeks. Their decision was announced from the steps of the net-gothic Cathedral of St. John by Delaware Bishop Cabell Tennis and included little in the way of comment or clarification except that there ~vas "no such written constraint" in church law agaanst such ordinations.The formal armouncement noted that the ruling was not "’an opinion on the morality of samegender relationships." And while Bishop Righter’s trial may be over, the issue itself may be far from settled, some church observers say. The Rt. Rev Andrew Fairfield, the l~ishop of North Dakota mad the onl y dissenting member of the court, said the nmnerous biblical condemnations of homosexuality, as well as Christian tradition and church teachings, hold that"the bottom line is. homosexuality of any kind is prohibited." Some conservatives predicted there would be a schism if the church’s general convention, which will meet in Philadelphia next year, doesn’t prohibit the ordination of sexually active homosexuals. Dr. George Carey, the Archbishop of Canterbury, urged Episcopalians not to over-react or act impatiently as the church struggles with its position on ordaining gay priests ~n a sermon commemoraung the 100th anniversary of the Los Angeles Episcopal Diocese. Carey warned Episcopalians against "walking away from one another" over the issue and said we ¯ must learn to get along with each other despite differences. "We need to learn a uew langnage .- alangu.age of.ac.ceptance and love of one another," Carey said in his sermon at the Cathedral Center of St. Paul in Los Angeles. "’I don’t mean by this we LEA ANN MACOMBER Realtor Associate Mobile: 671-2010 2642 E. 21st Street ¯ Suite 170 . Tulsa, Oklahoma 74114 Off: 918-749-8374 ¯ Res: 918-582-7672 ¯ Fax: 918-747-1795 have to agree or accept the political correctness of our day. There will ",always be questions that have to be left hanging while we wait for fuller answers. What we must not do is walk away from one an- , other." Aside from the heresy trial in ¯ Delaware earlier this year, Carey has come ¯¯ ¯ under pressure from conservative Anglican clergy in Britain who have insisted that he condemn the previous Archbishop .of Canterbury, Lord Robert Runcie, who xt was recently revealed had ordained ¯ priests he knew were gay. Texas Log Cabin Sue State GOP AUSTIN, Texas - The Log Cabin Club of Texas, a predominately gay and lesbian political organization, sued and won against the state Republican Party after the Texas GOP reneged on a contract for a booth at its state convention and on ad space in the convention prggram. The LOg Cabin lawsuit,filed in Travis County state court, charges the Texas Republicans with violating the organization’s First Amendment rights, bias based on sexual orientation, and breach of contract. Lester van Pelt III, a spokesperson for the state Republican Party, toldreporters that Barbara Jackson, the state GOP’s executive director, had ma~.ethe decision to exclude the Log Cabin Republicans because of the party platform’s positions against homosexuality. "Sodomy is still a crime in Texas," van Pelt’~aid. Nonsense, say the gay Republicans€ noting that the booth and ad space hadhothing to do with sodomy. "...Obviously, no one is going to commit an illegal act in the booth." Your P,artners Program or Mine? WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. - In what is believed to be the first of its kind in the U.S., the West Hollywood city council has unanimousl y approved a measure that would extend full recognition ofdomestic partners registered in other cities with such programs while in the city. Domestic partnership registration offers few actual benefits anywhere in the U. S., but it could be important in cases for example where a visiting couple was involved in an acci, dent. One registered partner would have hospital visitation and treatment decision rights in such a situation if they were registered in another ci ty. On a more basic level, public businesses or events offering "’spousal"discounts in West Hollywood already technically are required to extend similar discounts to registered partners. And the new recognition measure should have the same benefit for visiting couples, the council hopes. Metropolitan Community Church of Greater Tulsa Where God Uplifts All People Sunday Service, 10:45 am Wednesday Service, 6:30 pm Home Cell Groups, 2nd & 4th Sun. 1623 No. Maplewood, 838-1715 AIDS Epidemic: 15 Years of Death WASHINGTON - This year marks the 15th anmversary since thefirst cases of AIDS were diagnosed in the United States, although at the time,of course, no one knew what this strange new disease - initially called "gay cancer" - held in store for the nation and the world. Globally, the World Health Organization reports there have been 4.5 millioncases of HIV infection, while in the U.S., there were 476,000 ~tses and 295,000 deaths. -FDA OKs Home- Testing Kit for HIV WASHINGTON-The U.S. Food&Drug Administration has approved the first home-testing kit for detecting HIV, the virus generally believed to cause AIDS.. The kit - known as the Confide HIV Testing Service - will be marketed initially at pharmacies in Texas. It will also be available through a toll-free telephone number based in Florida. The FDA said it approved the home-testing kit for people who would prefer the anonymity of home testing instead of using clinics or medical facilities. There’s no word yet on exactly how much the kit will cost, but it is expected to be priced at about $40. The ~e~." testing system will comprise 3 integrdted components: a home blood collection kit HIV antibody testing ata certified laboratory, and a center that, provides test results, counseling and referrals as needed. The FDA noted that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention esumates that 60% of Americans at risk for HIV have never been tested for the virus. The test xs manufactured b.v Direct Access Diagnostics of Bridgewater, N.J., a subsidiarv of Jolmson & Jotmson. Critics of home’testing, however, say the "kit is [oo expensive and that counseling services via phone in such a situation seemed hitor- miss. Gel May Help Block HIV in Women WASHINGTON-Researchers report that a vaginal gel containing a drug known as PMPA has been shown to protect female monkeys from the simian version of HIV and may offer humans the same kind of protection from the virus. Dr. Roberta Black of the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases,which sponsored the study, said, "For women to have woman-controlled method is very important so they canprotect themselves." Black said much more research is needed - ineluding studies involving humans- to determine whether the PMPA anti-viral gel. could prove safe and effective protection for women. Clinton Signs Ryan White CARE Act WASHINGTON - Saying he hoped to be the last president to have to sign a 5-year extension of the funding program, President Clinton signed federal legislation reauthorizing the Ryan White CARE Act for 5 more years of federal spending. The measure was first passed by Congress 6 years ago and allocates federal funds to local communities hardest hit by AIDS forhome care, transportation.hospice car,e and other support services for people with AIDS/HIV. The spending measure will authorize $738 million for AIDS-related services in cities and towns around the cotmtry during the 1996 fiscal year, an increase over the 1995 level of $632 million. The measure also includes some $52 million in funding for states to provide new HIV/AIDS drugs for residents who can’t afford them, and $10 million for anew program aimed at getting pregnant women to voluntarily seek testing and counseling for HIV. In signing the measure, Clinton said he hoped no furore president would have to s~gn a similar spending measure. "By then, let us pray that we will have found acure for ,AIDS and a vaccine to protect every American," the President said. HIV Particle Counts Aid Treatment PrvI’SBURGH, Pa. - According to anew study, doctors now have a more accurate way of predicting how long people inected with HIV will survive,thereby giving physicians better guidance in how aggressivdy to treat their patients. Dr. John Mellors and a team of researchers at the University" of Pittsburgh Medical Cen- :er have confirmed the relative accuracy of an extremely sensitive new blood test that counts the number of HIV viral partides instead of the current method which relies on counting the immune system’s CD4 T-cells. "We found very stri-kingly that the amount of virus in the bloodstream predicted how individuals did," Mdlors said. "The more virus, the worse the individuals did, by which I mean the shorter time to developing full-blown AIDS and dying." The researchers analyzed blood samples from 180 gay men enrolled in a U.S.government study between 1983 mad 1991. They found that 49% of the men with more than 36,000 HIV particles per milliliter of blood died within 5 years. But only 5% withjust oneninth tha{amount of virus die.d that quickly. "The likelihood of progression ~ncreases directly with the level ofAIDS virus in the blood-,:’ Mellors said. "So we have a pretty good idea based on our study what the expected survival of an individual would be at a certain level of virus." Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institutes of Allergy &Infectious Disease says the researchers’ findings will let doctors make better decisions aboutwhen to begin treatments and when "to change to possibly more aggressive therapies. "If some individuals have very high set points [HIV particle counts], even though their CD4 cells are reasonably OK, you might want to more aggressively treat those people because you know that you can predict they are going to do more poorly," Fauci said. "Whereas someone who has a low [HIV particle count], even though their CD4 count might not be all that high, you might want to hold off on aggressive therapy. So really, it’s a step towards using the steady state level of the virus much more as a tool both in prediction and in therapeutic decisions." FDA OK’s HIV Tests wASHINGTON-The U.S Food&Drug Administration has given theOKto 2 new HIV tests in this country. The Orasure test appears to be as accurate as current standard blood tests,research indicates, but has the advantage of using saliva instead of blood,thereby potentially reducing the number of accidental needle-stick injuries to heal th care workers. The FDA also gave. approval to Hoffmann-l.aRoche’s SCOTT ROBISON’S PRESCRIPTIONS Serving Tulsan’s " Since 1947 Major credit cards In-store charges or Direct .insurance billing for your convenience! 3 locations to serve you: ~- Hillcrest Physician’s Building 1145 So. 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HIV Cell Infection Agent Isolated WASHINGTON-Government scientists report they have discovered a chemical clue to.why HIV is infectious. Reporting ganciclovirreduce the stricken by the blinding eye disease, cytomegalovirus (CMV) that often attacks PWAs in the advanced stages of the illness. Researchers at the University of California at San Diego studied 725 men during a 12-month program testing the Hoffman-LaRocheversion ofgancidovir, known as Cytovene and found that a daily dose of the drug reduced the risk of contracting CMV by nearly half. risks of being’ " ’in the journal Science,researchers at the NatiOnal Institute of Allergy and Infec- AIDS Drugs for HIVExposed Workers ATLANTA - The U.S..Centers for Disease Control &Prevention has for the first time recommended that health care workers who are exposed to HIVthrough accidental needle-sticks or other medical procedures should be givenantiviral drugs, including AZT and 3TC, immediately following such accidents. The agency says studies now show without doubt the effectiveness of theantiviral drugs in counteracting the virus. HIV Infection Risk From Oral Sex? CHICAGO - A research study published in the journal Sciencereports that the risk of transmission of the simian version of HIV (known as SIV, and closely related to HtV) through the mouth may be higher than had been believed. The Harvard University researcher found that 6 of the 7 rhesus monkeys thevswabbed with SIV in the back of the thr~at became infected with the virus,according to the report. The researchers also found, surprisingly, that far less of the virus - 6,000 times less - was needed to trigger an infection than is required to infect the monkeys rectally with the virus. The study’s startling results are so unlike other research and data about oral transmission risks that many AIDS and health workers immediately questioned the findings. Among other things, federal studies have only documented 15 cases of -known oral transmission and infection of HIV-since the epidemic began. Also, AIDS experts point out, unprote!~ ted oral sex has continued to be popular among gaymen in the U.S. while the infection rate among homosexuals has steadily declined since the routes of trans= missio~a were discovered. Drug Combo Effective WASHINGTON - A 73-week study by drug manufacturer Hoffman-LaRoche of some 978 AIDS patients has shown that Invirase, the brand name for the firm’s version of the protease inhibitor saqui.navir, in combination with the drug ddC, reduced the rate of deaths by more than two-thirds compared to patients taking ddC alone. Saquinavir has been considered the least impressive of the new tions Diseases saythey have found a protein, which they call "fusin," that must be present for HIV to infect white blood cells, the primary target of the virus. Edward A. Berger, who headed the team that made the discovery, said the discovery gives scientists a "new handle on understanding" how HIV invades cells. "Obviouslythis is a potential target for developing new drugs to treat HIV infection," Berger said. "Potentially by coming up with a drug that blocks the receptor, you might block the ability of HIV to replicate." The researchers cautioned, however~ that there were sdll many mysteries about the virus that need to be answered. Among other things, they noted that HIV attaches itself to some types of immune cells in the early stages of the infection without using fusin. This means HIV comes in variations that connect to CELl. cells and some other molecular cofactor or cofactors on these cells. Berger said that potential drugs that block the fusin receptor on cells could only do part of the job in combating HIV. Heat Treatment OK for Expanded Trials LOS ANGELES - The Indiana-based HemoCleanse Inc. has been given approval by the Food & Drug Administration to expand testing of itsblood-heating treatment of people infected with HIV. The 2nd phase of the trials will include 2- hour treatments at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Lafayette, Ind., and the Harbor-UCLA Research & Education Institute in Los Angeles. HemoCleanse’ s treatment, similar to kidney dialysis, involves slowly drawing all a patient’s blood from his body in small quantities and heating it to 108 degrees Fahrenheit before infusing it back into his body. The ideabehind the treatment is that HIV is sensitive to even small increases in temperature and would be destroyed in massive quantities by the treatment. Sixty patients will be divided into 2 groups during the trials. One group will receive 2 treatments each - the first for I hour, and the 2nd for 2 hours.The other group will serve as a control group and will not receive the heat treatment, but will remain on standard HIV drug therapy. Global AIDS Briefs GENEVA - The World Bank has warued in a new report that up to 2 million of Malawi’s 11 million population will be infected with HIV by the year 2000 and the average life span in that so. African nation will drop from 57 to just 33 years. It adds that unless culturally conservative and devoutly Christian people in 22 So. Pacific island nations and territories alter their views about sex education and condom use, the AIDS epidemic yvill devastate that region as well. Sohoma Lane & Diana Nicolejoin Brian & Bill. with Victoria Towers &Veronica DeVorefor a successful Pride Picnic Benefit at Lola’s. Photos: JD Jamett Kathryn Conover at Gayfest, Renegades Brian & Bill ofLola’s Package includes: two nights’ Club Level accommodations at the Sheraton New York or Manhattan with daily continental breakfast and afternoon hors d’oeuvres, a first row center orchestra ticket to Victor. Victoria, cast recording on compact disc or cassette, souvenir brochure, ticket delivery to the hotel, cancellation insurance on the theatre tickets, New York Visitors’ Information Kit and all taxes. $424.00 per person, double occupancy only Extra night available at $132.00 per person ~lt. Offer Validfrom June I to August 31, 1996. Call 341.6866 International Tours for more information. IGTA member. couldn’t happen without the support and hard work of these folks. The Picnic is organized this year by Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights (TOHR). TOHR was asked by the former organizers, an informal association of business owners (mosdy dub owners), to resume organizing the event. The Picnic continues their traditions with minor changes. After complaints from many individuals about conflicts with Father’s Day, the orgamzers responded by moving the event to Saturday. Also due to ongoing problems with the Mohawk Park site, the organizers unanimously approved Owen Park as this year’s site. The Picnic is an informal affair with free beverages. Attendees are welcome to bring their own food or to purchase food at a modest cost. Any funds raised by the Picnic (after expenses) will "aenefit the Gax &LesbianCommunity Center Project and the City of Tulsa Park & Recreation Dept. A number of community organizations will have tables with information about their programs. Brief opening and closing ceremonies will feature local entertainers, including Tulsa Family Chorale, and Oklahoma City’s The Banned, a marching band (who’ll be sitting down). The Rev. Leslie Penrose of Community of Hope and RF Renfro of Bless The Lord At All Times will give opening and dosing blessings. Info: 743-2497. and $2,500 for pain and suffering as well as attomey,’s fees. Saladin said to TFN that his goal in pursuing legal action was not financial but rather trying to do what was right. He’was represented by Steve Novick, Greg Bledsoe, and Katrina Bodenhamer on behalf of the AIDS Legal Resource Project. The Project is ajoint effort of the Singer Abigail at Concessions Oklahoma Bar Association Young Lawyers Division, Legal AidofWestern Oklahomaand Legal Services of Eastern Oklahoma. ¯ to Lesbian and Gay cltazens instead of ¯ testifying about a bill that would deny ¯ equal rights. "I find instead of defending ¯ marriage, I need to defend the people - ¯ gay & lesbian people - who are being :- denied the right to marry. I do not believe ¯ we would be here today if our society did ¯ not have a deep bias against gay &lesbian ¯ people. I say that not to lay blame, but to ¯ recognize the fact that we are’really in a civil rights discussion about gay & les- : bian persons.’" McDongld further gave examples of " discrimination experienced by Gay per- " sons or persons perceived tobe Gay using ¯ the story of one of her sons who was ¯ ¯ beaten because he was perceived as Gay even though he happens not to be. ¯ McDonald adds that she perceives the ¯ country to bein a"cultural meltdown" not because Gay people may marry but because "we have yet to overcome our intol- ¯ erance and bigotry. Wehave yet to recog- ¯ nize the richness in the diversity of all of ¯ our citizens:" ¯ McDonald closed by questioning the ¯ need for this legislation since the Hawaii ¯ case that has prompted this response is ¯ tmlikely to be resolved for several years, ¯ and maybe not favorably to Gay citizens. ¯ She called on Representatives not to tar- " get Lesbians and,,G,aymenfor discrimina- ." don butrather to ’foCus on the challenges of the economy, of education, and health ¯ care that face all of us." LI L.’T! I~ E:DI#~ GROUP Making W~ld Wide WavesTM ¯ Full Service Web Site TULSA FAMILY NEWS COMMUNI CALEND SUNDAYS MONDAYS Agape’ Christian HIV Testing Fellowship : TOHR Clinic Service, 10:30 am & 7 pm : Free & anonymous testing " TUESDAYS ; H]V+ Support Group ¯ HIV Resource Consortium 1:30 pm ¯ Service, 7 pm : Community of Hope Sheridan Center, Suite H..... 1703 E. 2rid, Info: 585-1800 21st & Sheridan, 747-2482 : ¯ ~: !- Co.Dependency ~ Bless The Lord At All ! : °~ iSup~6~t Groul~ Times Christian Center ¯ 7:30, Fa~ly of Faith MCC ¯ Prayer & Bible Study : 5451-E S. Mingo, 622-1441 7:30pm 2627-B East llth : Call 583-7815 for info. : HIVTesting TOHRClinic : ¯ Walkintesting: 7-8:30pm : Family Of Faith.!~[CC " : Praise & Prayer 6:30 pm Choir Practice 7:30 pm 5451-E South Mingo. Call 622-1441 for info. 2627b ’East 1 lth 583-7815 " Community of Hope : (United Methodist) ¯ Worship Service, 6 pm ," 1703 E. 2nd, 585-1800 " Family of Faith Metro. Comm. 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Boulder FRIDAY, JUNE 21 Tulsa Regional HIV Prevention Community Planning Group Meeting 2:30 pm, 1430 S Boulder JUNE 21 & 22 Follies Revue, Inc. Follies ’96 Salutes the Movies! 6 pm, Doubletree Hotel, Warren Place $125 & $40, Info: 437-0201 SATURDAY, JUNE22 Herland Sister Resources Concert: Freefall 7 pm, 2312 NW39th, OKC 73112 TUESDAY, JUNE 25 AIDS Walk ’96 Planning Committee 6 pm, 1608 S. EIwood JUN E 28-30 7th Annual Oklahoma HIV/AIDS Conference "Sharing Our Strength" Oklahoma Center for Continuing Education, 1704Asp, Norman Info: Andy Southam, 800-942-1914 SATURDAY, JUNE 29 That’s Entertainment? BadDrag Show Family ofFaith MCC 8 pm, 5451-E S !~ingo, 622-1441 SUNDAY, JUNE 30 Community ofHope 3rdAnniversary Meeting &Worship Service 5 &6 pm, 1703 E. 2nd, Info: 585-1800 TUESDAY, JULY 2 Tulsa Oklahomansfor Human Rights Meeting, 7 pm; Chouteau Rm, Chapman Ctr, TU, Info: 743-4297 " i SUNDAY, JULY7 ¯ Native American Worship Service ¯ 6 pro, Community of Hope ¯ 1703 E. 2rid, Info: 585-1800 : FRIDAY, JULY 12 : Interfaith AIDSMinitries : Ice Cream SocialBenefit : 7-10 pro, St. !vlatthew’s Episcopal ¯ 601 No. Lake Drive ¯" Sand Springs,/afro: 438-2437 JULY 20-21 4th Annual Shanti-Tulsa Water Garden Tour 10-5 pm, Info: 749-7898 TNAAPP Tulsa Native American AIDS Prevention Project ¯Support group for Gay & Bi Native American Men, 6 pm at Community of Hope 1703 E. 2nd OUT + ABOUTYes, the rumors are true. H1 be uve m our nat~on s capital... ...I would to take this chance to thank a few people for the .$r.eat op: portumt es an l Senulne care they have Siren me. ¯ h~tions make you who you are and what 3’our life is all about. It took working for : Tulsa Family News and Tom to get my ¯ foot out the door and have me doing all ¯ stuff that ldonow. I don’t know if any of : you realized this, but I’ve always tried to promote uni ty in this column as best I can. I have seen this community from drag queens, cowboys, leather folk, .Lesbians and all the rest not having not a thing to do with the others; nut I have also had the chance to see this change. Please folks, don’t stop working together to make our community better! Well I’m getting a little choked up, so let me say my goodbye, and remember: next time you’re out and you see thatperson orgroup ofpeople you think you can’t stand, stop, smile and say something nice. It will make Tulsa a better place for all of us. tops, I almost forgot to name my last Queen of the Month! This person has picked herself up, brushed herself off, and continues to try to make herself a better person. That’s right, guys, Bobbie Sue Summers. SUNDAY, JUNE 23 Statewide Pride Rally & Parade Ecumenical Worship Service, The Banned, Metro Men’s Chorus, Sen. Bernest Cain, Keynote Speaker: Donna Red Wing- ’92 Advocate Woman ofthe Year 1 pm, program begins. 3 pm, speaker Red Wing, 4 pm, parade begins. Memorial Park, NW35th & Classen Blvd. Oklahoma City Info: 743-4297 or 405-791-0202 by J.D. Jamett Yes, the rumors are true. I’ll be leaving Tulsa to go live in our nation’s capital !boy, talk about out of the frying pan and into the fire). I would like to take this chance to thank a few people for the great opportunitaes and genuine care they have given me. Tom Neal, for being that OLDERfoster- big brother (or sister) that has always looked out for me, and who has been pu.shy,er.., pushing me ~n the right direction. Geoff & Earl, and the rest ofthatcrazy group that I call my chosen family - I will be ever indebted to you mentally and physically. Steve & John, please send the Burger Sisters for a visit. Bill & Brain, Lola needs a star on the walk of fame. Dennis, Larry, & Veronica - thanks for the ear bending and all the craziness. Larry and Leroy, thanks for all the support, and many others from doctors and medical staff to all my great friends. If you had asked me years ago to go out into the commu- ~,~ty and do something, any:- Bobbi Sue Summers ," thing to make it better, I ¯ would’vetolAtyou,"YOU’RECRAZY! ~ ¯ No one cares about what I think." It just ¯ ," took therealization that youropinions and " Editor’s note: JD will be greatly missed. While hls unique skills cannot be imitated. Out+About will continue with a new club reporter in our July issue. session. Complicated legislative ntles have slowed down movement on the bill, but there remains very little active opposition to the measure in the legislature itself. While gay rights activists around the country were celebrating the May 20 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Colorado’s Amendment2, SouthCarolinaGov. David Beasley signed in.to law. a measure barring same-sex mamages in the state. To find any good news in the same-sex marriage arena, activists had to look to Holland where the Dutchjustice ministry announced it will be putting together a panel of experts to evaluate the possible impact of legalizing gay and lesbian marriages in the country. The Dutch Parliament has already voted in principle to support full equality in marriage rights for same-sex couples, but the government has continued to resist full marriage status for gays and lesbians, arguing that the international consequences for the tiny European nation could be enormous. The committee the justice ministry appoints will examine nfitional and international laws and treaties that might be affectedby such a move. It will have a year to prepare its report, including recommendations for legislation. TV’s "Face the Nation" that the President’s quick announcement that he would sign the measure was "’an unconscionable position for him to take." Mixner said Clinton’s decision was doubtless political in his efforts to keep his popularity lead over anticipated Republican challenger Sen. Bob Doleof Kansas in the November election. "But this goes to the heart of everybody’s civil liberties," Mixner said. "It deals with property rights, insurance rights, xmmigration rights,bereavement rights, and to deny us equal opportur~,~ty really makes us second class citizens. In Seattle, councilwoman Tina Podlodowski, who is a lesbian, resigned as co-chair of Clinton’s Washington state re-election campaign, but said she still supports Clinton in the upcoming election, an echo of the dilemma many gays and lesbians feel over an issue that most paid little attention to until it exploded on the national political landscape this year. Podlodowski told the Seattle Times, "I’m still very supportive of the President but I believe it’s important to show leadership on this. This issue speaks to a broader issue of civil rights." In an interview with the New York Times, openly gay White House advisor BobHattoy said the President had been out-maneuvered by conser= vatives on the issue and said Clinton and his campaign advisers were more "’homostupid" than homopho.bic, ~ayin.g that supporting same-sex mamage now Is "’aloser" politically. "Ijust wish the straight white boys at the White House would educate themselves a little more," he said. "It’ s not that they’rehomophobic - they’re homostupid, and they don’t know that the buzzwords they’re using are the buzzwords the right wing uses as terrorist dividing tactics and that the gay &lesbian community has a visceral reaction to." Both the Human Rights Campaign and the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force have issued a number of press releases in the past few weeks attacking DOMA and criticizing President Clinton’s statements that he would sign the measure, but the Washington, D.C.-based civil rights groups have been unable to find many political allies willing to publicly fight against the proposed legislation as it continues its rapid movement through both houses of Congress. The Human Rights Campaign said that a Clinton endorsement of the bill would be "’an unconscionable capitulation-to religious political extremists" and"demanded" thatthe President oppose the measure. Elizabeth Birch, head of HRC said, "The statement by White House press secretary Mike McCurry earlier this week that same-sex marriagewouldweaken the family was silly and completely, inconsistent with the president’s prewous positions regarding equal rights for gay men and lesbians." Openly gay Congressman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) called the antimarriage bill"a tranSparent political issue in ttie presidential campaign." Stephen Moakarsh, a Los Angeles board member of Lawyers for Human Rights,said, "I think he (Clinton) has been the first president to really include gays and lesbians at the table. For that, I admire him greatly. But I think in terms of the marriage issue, it’s unfortunate that he feds compelled to join with the GOP. My feeling is that Clinton is trying to avoid a political fire storm that the gays in the military issue caused him in 1993." seeking legal protections against discrimination in housing, employment, health and welfare services, education, and real estate sales. Justice Kennedy called "implausible" Colorado’s central argument thatAmendment 2 simply made gay and lesbian citizens equal with other state reside,n,ts by denying them any "special rights.’ The majority decision wasjoined by Justices Kennedy, John Paul Stevens, SandraDay O’Connor, David Sourer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer. Dissenting were Justices Scalia, William Rehnquist and Clarence Thomas. Representatives from serveral Tulsa organizations held a press conference at Community of Hope United Methodist to recognize the importance of the Court’s decision. Bill Hinlde representing the ACLU of OK, Kelly Kirby, the Gay & Lesbian Affirming Disciples ofthe Church of Christ, Nancy MacDonald, PFLAG, and .Tom Neal, Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights spoke about the positive impact this decision would have on the efforts of Oklahomans to seek fair and equal treatment from the State of Oklahoma and the City of Tulsa. Enyart, whose program regularly feain the program along with First Methodist tures anti-Gay tirades, was to participate and First Baptist pastors, Dr. Buskirk and Dr. Shaw, as well as evangelicals like Carlton Pearson of Higher Dimensions andTV personalities, Jerry Webber,Travis Meyer and Paul Serrell. Promise Keepers claims to be a Christian men’s organization that seeks to help them live more responsible lives, to help men strengthen theirfriendships with other men and to bridge societal, particularly racial, divisions. Critics charge thatPromise Keepers has close ties to radical religious extremists, noting that one founder former Univ. of Colorado football coach, Bill McCartney was a key supporter of the anti-Gay Colorado Amendment 2. ¯ Waiting To Invest Could JeopardizeYour Dreams! These are just some of the multitude of reasons people use to explain why they haven’t started an investment plan. Investing for the future is frequently seen as a luxury, rather than a necessity. Something you do after you’ve taken care of essential livingexpenses. Unfortunately, there is rarely anymoneyleftover alter doing that, so it’s easy to procrastinate. But do you know how much waiting, even a few years, can cost you? The chart below shows the monthly investment required at different ages to accumulate $1 million by age 65, assuming hypothetical 10 percent compounded rate of return. What this chart shows is the dynamic power of compound returns. Compounding is the process where each year you not only earn money on you invested principal, you also earn additional money on the money you earned. The amount you earn grows or "compounds" at an increasing rate as the years go by. By starting an investmentprogramat an earlier age, you spread the accumulation task over a longer period of time and enable your money to benefit from the ~owerful force of compounding. Incidentally, $1 million might seem like a lot of money to you today, but in order to generate an income of $70,000 a year forjust 22 years of retirement, that’s how much you’ll need to sock away (assuming a hypothetical annual return of 7.5% and inflation rate of 3.14%). If you’ve been putting off investing, as yourself if it is going to be any easier putting away almost three times as much at age 35, than at age 25? Or, eight times as much at age 45? Your financial priorities will change over the years and your income .will increase. However, whether you’re saving for a house at age 25 or trying to juggle nances to pay for your children’s education age 45, chances are it will be just as difficult. In addition, can you afford not to benefit from the power of compounding? How Can I Start Investing Now? First, accept the fact that there is never aconvenient time to invest. The answer to this dilemma lies in paying yourself first. Before you can do this you need to do a cash-flow analysis to find muela wai_tln , even a l’ew years, can cost you? out where your money is -going. Warning! This might be a frightening process. Once the numbers are laid out in front of you, you’re probably going to see several ways to reducing your expenses. Establishing a spending plan is often helpful. As part of this process, review your accumulation goals and determine a minimum percentage of your income that you’ll need to invest to meet these goals. By breaking the taskdownintomanageable parts, you’ll introduce discipline into your investment program and increase your chances of success ! It’ll take a while, but the long-term payoff for your discipline may be sweet. 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Featured performers were Deborah Coleman, Baby Jason & The Spankers, and Martin Simpson. ff you have not been fortunate enough to participate in a BluesFest weekend in Eureka Springs, youhave no idea what you are missing. From Thursday evening through Sunday afternoon, every club in town hosts both big name and local talent. And, the larger venues host nearly non-stop big name performers. You can pay one price to get into any of the clubs, and most folks spend the weekend going back and forth from the various small clubs, occasionally taking time out to attend a big concert. City Auditorium, Victoria Inn, and the Basin" Park and Crescent Hotels hosted some of the best blues talent on the planet this vear. but the most-anucipated event took"place Friday evening. Bo Diddlv performed two concerts along with local favorite The Cate Brothers Band ¯¯ Othernameperformers includedKenny Neal, Raful Neal, Tab Benoit, Chubby ¯ Carrier, Jimmy Thackery, Canned Heat, ¯ Keb Mo’, Robert Lucas, mad Kelly Jo ¯ Phelps. If you find yourself wishing you had ¯ been there, you still have time to get tickets for the 12th Annual Eureka Springs If.you_have not been fortunate enough to partlelpate in a Blue-sFest weekend in E r ka you have no idea what you are missing. From. Thursday evemng through Sunday afternoon, every dub in town hosts both big name and local talent. Jazz Festival connng up in September (19th- 22nd). Events surrounding JazzFest take on the samefeel as for BluesFest. The music is just different. To reserve tickets for the Jazz Festival, call the JazzFest Hotline at 501- 253 -6258. And, there’s always next year for BluesFest. Both of these festivals are major attractions in Eureka Springs so the earlier you reserve tickets, and make your lodging reservations, the more likely you are to getexacfly what you want. Next year’s BluesFest dates are May 29th - June 1, and the BluesFest BrX Office can be reached ~ar-round at 501-253-53ff6. For those ~3fyou whose taste runs mdie toward the fine arts er~d:of the spectrum, the ~nspiration Point Fine Arts Colony will be hosting Operain the Ozarks from June 21st - July 20. Fully-staged orchestra performances will be held at 8 PM at the Fine Arts Colony for the entire month. Reservations and information are available by calling 501-253-8595. Come enjoy the music and the ambience of Victorian Eureka Springs! 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Roy, a little older and wiser, is a popular kid and hangs around with a couple of guys, Randy and Burke, who follow his every move, not realizing that they.actually idolizehim. Randy and Burke, strictly heterosexual, become abit jealous whenRoy starts inviting the shy, withdrawn Nathan to pal around with-them: Nathan’s hom~ life is an uncomfdriable mix of a mentally ill, abusive fff~her and a meek, helpless mother, so fi~ is anxious to spend as much time as poss~i’ble away from home, preferably with Roy, the only person who pays attention t0~m. Through several rocky adventures,Roy and Nathan begin to come to terms with their muttml attraction. Violence interrupts their budding romance, but they are unable to be kept apart. ~ Except for a couple of extremely vio- ¯ lent scenes, this could be a young adult ¯ novel, although adults should enjoy it also. The writing is sim-~ihe theme ...Except for a couple of extremely violent scenes, tl~s could be a young adult novel, although adults should enjoy it also ...Dream Boy is a pleasant, fun read, but it takes a back seat when compared to some other gay eomlng of age novels... of sexual attraction is very carefully and tactfully written. The two maincharacters are well written, but we don’t fully understand the secondary characters, particularly Randy and Burke. Nathan’s father is a pathetic stereotype of a disillusioned, surly and cruel man, and the mother’s character is paper thin, spending her time timidly between her abusive husband and introverted son. Dream Bov is a pleasant, funread, but it takes a back seat when compared to some other gay coming of age novels, particularly Common Sons, by Ronald Donaghe, reviewed in this column last year. The Tulsa City-Count" Library also owns the first novel by Dream Boy author Jim Grimsley, Winter birds. Please check with your local branch library or the Readers Services department, Central Library, at 596-7966, for Dream Boy and other books of interest. by James Christjohn Have I got CDs for you to listen to all summer long! First off,I’ve found some incredible gay-themed CDs. "Stage 1: How I LoveYou"is a true find. A goldmine of love songs from Broadway’s greatest shows, sung as originally written - by men, to men. Like an intimate cabaret show, the songs are set to a s~mple piano accompaniment, and are sung beautifully by some really talented singers. It is a treat to hear some of these songs sung the way we in the gay male community have always dreamed of i.hem - with same-gender pronouns. Tracks include selections from Gershwin to Webber, classic standards to lesser.known~ gems. Highly recommended. Available at selected records stores, or by mail at 800-707- 8683. Wonderful for setting a romantic mood, or daydreaming of Mr. Right. Up next is a great MCC Cathedral of Hope has produced a musleal.... r.egardlng Gayissues f~orn a Christlanstandpolnt.... it was pretty good.... the son~_s are rather beautiful.... [they] range from hilarious " (An Old Fashioned Lesbian Christmas) to moving to romantle. original cast album of "Get Used To It!" byTomWilson Weinberg, who also wrote the "Ten Percent Revue". This album wittily captures all aspects of life as a gay man, from religion to falling in love, gaybashing to what to call your spouse.. partner.., lover. The songs are sung by a top notch cast of very beautiful voices. (My, but we’re a highly talented bunch... and creative, too! What would the straight folk do without us?) The songs range from hilarious ("Breaking the Penal Code With You", about... well, use your imagination. It’s alove song, for those needing further hints. On second thoughts, those needing further hints probably aren’t reading this.) to heart-wrenching ("How We Get The News", about the way some of us find out about our loved one’s death from HIV). This would be show I’d love to see done (or do) here, were the interest to match the actual probability of having an audience.- Available from Aboveground Records, POB 2233, Philadelphia PA, 19103. A little closer to home, theMCCCathedral of Hope, Dallas, has produced a musi- : cal dealing with education and outreach ¯¯ regarding gay issues from a Christian standpoint. "Coming Out, Coming Home: A Lesbian/Gay-Positive Musical ofLove, : Truth, & God’s Grace" (Christians are see Notes, page 14 Bring your pet I/¥ our""~Oot~ 3311 S. 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Now I have to prepare dinner for someone who doesn’t know the difference between fingers, a dinner fork, a salad fork, or a wild fork. But, what is worse in being wrong, ~s that the poor citizens of Tulsa will continue to be deluded about what constitutes truly fine cuisine and what is merely flash and a waste of money. One year ago, we went to a highly touted, brand-new restaurant in Utica Square. Everyone had great expectations, since one of Tulsa’s best known chefs, Kim Michee, and her partner, Julie Woolman, were the drivingforces behind the venture. As we lingered over postdessert coffee, I quipped that unless Helmerich and Payne (owner-operator of Utic~ Square) was looking at the Wild Fork as a tax write- .off, the restaurant would be closed within the year. And, thus, I was goaded into making the illfated bet. They’re still open. The Wild Fork is situatedin~emiddle ofUticaSquare at the site of the former landmark instituuon and tea room, The Garden. Ourfirst visit to the Wild Fork was on a rainy Saturday night, and we were obliged to wait for our table. But, a crowded, bustling restaurant is usually a good sign. We had a bit of an uneasy feeling in dealing with the rather abrupt and disinterested hostesses, magnified by our limited dealings with our waiter, so we wrote it off to the strains of being a new restaurant on a busy night. However, on our several subsequent visits to the Wild Fork, including the most recent when our party was one of only three tables in the entire restaurant, it= is apparent that the Wild Fork is trying for some kind of unique merger between the rude waiters in New York & the snooty waiters in Paris. The Wild Fork is open all day, and there are different menus for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Regardless of the mealtime you’ve chosen, one look at the menu and you instantly know that this is a culinary experience that will not come cheap. It seems as though every review about the Wild Fork written in a Tulsa paper over the last year has raved about the crab cakes. Far be it for us to break with tradition. The crab cakes are a combination of crab meat, corn, and the usual fillers to hold it all together, that is deep-fried and then presented atop a homemade mayonnaise aioh sauce and buried underamound of terrifyingly hot jalapefio cole slaw. Scrape off the cole slaw and enjoy the wonderful calories and high fat and cholesterol content of the crab cakes. After all, what’s a little grease and mayo (mayo is just egg yolks and olive oil whisked The W;ld Forl 1820 Utlea Square HOliI’~: 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday - Saturday, do ed Sunday Cu;s;ne: Amerlean contemporary Dressg Casual (but remember this is Utica Square) Prices: Very expensive Alcohol: Full bar & wine llst Non-smo]dn~ seeHon: Rat;n~: B li~t ¯ together with a dab of spice)? ¯¯ But the famous crab cakes illustrate quite well what is wrong with the cuisine ¯ at this restaurant. First of all, Chef Michee ¯ tnes to be too creative and too innovative. ¯ She takes top quality food, prepares it ¯ well, and then ruins it with a bizarre or ¯ weird sauce or accompaniment. She had ¯ the same problem when she was at ¯ Kannichael’s and at the Fifteenth Street Grill, two of Tulsa’s be~ter restaurants ¯ which are now both out of business. Sec- ¯ ondly, the restaurant touts itself as featuring "new American cuisine," but you’d think the chef had been on another planet the last couple of decades when it comes to presenting healthy, lower fat foods and lots more vegetables and salads. The soups continue the saga. While most of today’s celebrated modern American chefs in Dallas, Santa Fe, Scottsdale, or Los Angeles have gone kb healthier thicke~ng methods for crealn soups such as vegetable purees, beurre mani~, white rice puree, or a simple roux, with only a splash of cream or dairy product, Miss Michee continues to insist upon making cream soups the old fashioned way, based on traditional b~chamel ¯ and velout~ sauces. These can be very tasty, but they are far ¯ too rich to eat more than a few gravy-like ¯ spoonfuls. Same old story with the entr~es. With ¯ the one major exception of the pork ten- " derloin roulade, which is dry and taste¯ less, the meats and .fish are good quality foods expertly prepared--until they are ¯ sauced. Do we really need Moroccan lem- ¯ ons (aren’t American lemons good ¯ enough?) on the free range chicken’? Hot ¯ mango salsas on the meats’? A "creative ¯ reinvenfion" of the chicken-fried steak? ¯ Excellent, huge sea scallops ruined by flavoring them with Pernod (a nasty lico- ¯ rice flavored liqueur)? Strongly flavored ¯ olive and vinegar sauces ondelicate sweet- ¯ breads? It is possible to get a decent meal in this ¯ place, but you must be pro-active to do it. ¯ Find out what is on the menu and ask for ¯ substitutions or deletions. Anything that ¯ sounds unusual or strange should be ig- ¯ nored. If Chef Michee is inthe kitchen, ¯ rely uponher excellent training and expe- ¯ rience to cook ameal to your exact speci- ¯ fieafions; just don’t let her play around ¯ and get creative. The problem with this ¯ technique is that Miss Michee is not al¯ ways in the kitchen, and many a lesser cook will panic when the set recipe is ¯ changed. Also, there seems to be a com- . munications breakdown between diner, ¯ waiter, and kitchen, because many times, ¯ special requests end up being ignored. Vegetables are bland, boring, overlooked side dishes here, almost relegated to the status of a garnish. Salads aren’t emphasized, either. This is the one major area of improvement needed at this restaurant. As is the case in many fine restaurants, the baking is delegated to a baker and not handled by the chef herself. This i~ unfortunate, because we have had breads held too long in the warmer and disappointing desserts on almost every visit. On one visit, our cr~me brfil~e tasted almost curdledand thdpr0pan~ torch used in lieu of the broiler to caramelizethe ~t’op’was unevenly applied. Another time, we had to ask for our coffee before the end of the dessert course just to wash down the dry cake. No excitement or originality here. There is a surprising little wine list with tolerable but limited choices in the moderate and lessexpensive categories, defi-~ nitely preferring U,S. domestic vintages. Despite its shortcomings, theWild Fork continues tobe a popular restaurant . amongst the wealthier masses of Tulsa. Either Miss Michee has a loyal following from her previous kitchen experiments or Tulsans arejust too parochial to know the difference between fine, wonderful food and overly-flashy, overly-expensive messes. Go to the Wild Fork if you like (and you can afford it), but don’t be sur~ prised if you find it to be just another rehash of a couple of dead Tulsa restau-i, rants. wordy folk, aren’t they?) Being of Pagan/’ Wiccan religious orientation myself, I ¯ don’t normally go for Christian music (or " anything else). But I found that I knew and " had performed in shows with a writer/ ¯ performer listed on the album, so I bought ¯ it. I didn’t really think I’d like it, but " thought Tom might. Upon listening to it, " I discovered that it was pretty good. It is ¯ professionally, recorded, and the songs are rather beautiful. Not all have to do " with Christianity, although there are some " .songs of that ilk - and I even liked those. ¯ And I hate gospel music. Go figur!! And, unlike the others listed in this issue’s column, this one includes Lesbians, which is good. I hate doing unbalanced columns. As with"Get Used to It!’"~ the songs range from hilarious (,Me Old Fashioned Lesbian Christmas) to moving to romantic. Maybe one of our MCC’s could produce it? Just an idea... This disc can be ordered by calling 800-501-HOPE.. Dallas cabaret performer Perry Wood has a new disc out. "Let Me Sing" is a lovely album to get romantic with someone while it plays. Mr. Wood’s bedroom ..... voi.ceCould singme to sleep anydme. And his looks match his voice! Best of all worlds. He sings standards such as "Bewitched", "Embraceable You", "Night " ~:~.~.~A~dDay!;:as:~e!l as~sserkno nsongs :of io~i "It~i~t~t~p rioteh album for those,~." who love smooth vocals, a jazz back- " ground, and a beautiful voice. This is his " 3rd album, and they’re all well worth getting hold of. They can be ordered at " 214-522-3764. " For those of a more instrumental na~ . ture, the soundtrack to "It’s My Party" is .. a beautiful collection of piano composi- . tions that really communicates the film~ " well. Available at Mediaplay. ¯ Liza’s new album, "Gendy" is a lovely . collection of standards, including a vet- . How To Do It First 30 words are $10. Each additional word is 25 cents. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource [1996] Tulsa Family News, June 15-July 14, 1996; Volume 3, Issue 7 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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Text Any textual data included in the document Serving Tulsa’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Trans Communities Our Families ofthe Heart Marriage Wins & Losses¯ REYKJAVIK, Iceland - Iceland’s Parliament has ap- " proved abill that would give same-gender.couples there . the right tolegally marry, following a pattern of extend- ¯ ing a slightly limited form of matrimony and state ¯ recognition established in the Scandinavian’ countries of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Thenew legislationpermits same-sex couples to have a civil marriage ceremony and the same tax, insurance and inheritance status as married opposite-sex couples. " Like the Scandinavian version of same-sex marriage, " the new law does not, however allow gay and lesbian ¯ couples to adopt or to have children by artificial insemination- although it does allow for joint custody if one " of the 2 spouses already has a child:- " The new law does not require churches in the nation, ¯ which have generally opposed such unions, to perform religious ceremonies for same-sex couples if they do " not wish to. . In the United States, various state legislatures con- ~Fe their, efforts to restrict civil marriage to hetero- : ............~d.~tiM~?D~Ia-w~e-Go~i~tSf~oixaas..~a~-has~signed_~o ~.~ a measure that prevents same-sex marriages, even if " legally performed elsewhere, from being recogniz.ed, in . the state. The new law restricts the state to recogmzang ¯ only marriages between "one man and one woman." In a related development, Michigan Gov. John Engler also signed a similar bill passed by the state legislattire earlier this year prohibiting the state from recognizing same-sex mamages, even if performed legally in other states. The North Carolina__ House voted 98-10 to approve a similar measure, already approved by the state senate, that would bar recognition of any such marriages even if legally performed elsewhere. State law already prevents same-sex marriages in North Carolina. The measure does not require the approval of the state’s governor and automatically becomes law now. Meanwhile, California’s just-released Field Poll indicates that the majority of those in the state - 57% - oppose legally recognizing same-sex marriages. Overall, only 35% ofCalifornians who were surveyed say the state should extend to same-sex couples the same legal status as heterosexual unions. Some 8% had no opinion or didn’t answer the question. Baptists to Boycott Disney NEWORLEANS -The 15.6-millionmember Southern Baptist Convention has formally called for its congregations to boycott Walt Disney Company’s products, services and entertainment industries because of what the religious denomination considers anti-Christian, anti-family values - including allowing Gays and Lesbians to organize events at Disney’s theme parks. The resolutioncalling for theboycott charges thatthe "Disney Co. has given the appearance that the promotion of homosexuality is more important than its historic commitment to traditionalfamily values." Disney officials have declined to comment on the boycott, but Baptists may have a little trouble following the boycott since Disney, one of the largestAmerican corporations, owns not only its wall-known theme parks in California and Florida, but also ABC-TV, Touchstone and Miramax films, and is a major parmer in McDonald’s. CONGRESS ATTACKS GAY MARRIAGE ¯ WASHINGTON - Rolling through Congress with little ¯ opposition, the House overwhelmingly approved the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) by a 342-67 vote and 2 : abstentions while the Senate judiciary committee hear- ." ings turned testy as Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) accused Republicans of"a mean-spirited form of legisla- ." tive gay-bashing" as part of its November election strat- : egy aimed at unseating President Clinton. The measure would define mamage as a legal contract ¯¯ between "one man and one woman" and would also exclude any same-sex couples who may be able to legally ¯ marry anywhere in the country from Social Security, veterans’ and other federal benefits. Anti-gay conservatives say DOMA is needed to circumvent an expected Hawaii court ruling that may, for the first time anywhere in the U.S., permit same-sex couples to legally marry there. "It is a frontal assault on the institution of mamage and if successful will demolish the institution," said Rep. Steve Largent, an OklahomaRepublican. Largent charged that if same-sex marriages were allowed, society might next condone bigamy, marriages between children and adults and marriage between humans and animals. Georgia Republican Bob Ban" said the growing influence ofhomosexuals posed a threat to America. "Wehave a basic institution.., under direct assault from homosexual extremists across this country," Barr said. "This is an issue that transcends partisan lines, it goes to the heart of a fundamental institution." Oklahoma’s 2ndDistrictUS RepresentativeTomCoburn ofMuskogee characterized the issue as being one ofmoral disapproval of homosexuality which he claimed was the view ofhis constituents. Cobumcharacterizedhomosexuality as based in lust and perversity - remarks which greatly offended openly Gay Massachusetts Rep. Barney see Attack, page 8 ¯ Tulsa Pride ’96 The Rev. Leslie Penrose of Community of Hope opens Tulsa ’s Pride Picnic at Owen Park. Morephotos, page 3. ; Organizers of Tnlsa’s Pride Picnic have released a post ¯ event statement characterizing the event as a success. A ¯ joint effort of Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights, ¯ Friends in Unity Social Organization and a number of ¯ volunteers, the Picnic made a slight profit after all ex- ¯ penses. The Picnic commi ttee particularly praised local ." club owners, entertainers and community groups for their ¯ financial contributions frombenefitperformances.Agroup ¯ spokesperson noted that the City of Tulsa imposed some ¯ obstacles which resultedin higher costs than in past years. : Also, there had been opposiuon from an Owen Park ¯ community group that feared that homosexuals would ¯ "destroy" the payk. Picnic organizers stated that Owen ¯ Park’was dirty when they found it and that they cleaned it ¯ prior to the picnic and afterwards left much cleaner than it ¯ was originally. The committee also noted that they had attracted greater corportate sponsorship than before, list- " ing American Airlines, Coors, Budweiser, Miller and ¯ Pepsi as sponsors, see Pride, page 2 ¯ New Gay Friendly Church ¯ Tulsa’s Lesbian & Gay community is being welcomed ¯ at anew congregation, Community Unitarian Universalist ¯ Congregation (CUUC). In contrast to Tulsa’s image as ~ being dominated by fundamentalist, anti-Gay churches, ¯ Tulsa is home to four Unitarian-Universalist (UU) con- ." gregations. The denomination is noted for its traditional ¯ support for "progressive" issues andforwelcoming Gay & ¯ Lesbian worshipers. ° However, Community Unitarian Universalist Congre- : gation is the only UU congregation in Tulsa to join the ¯ Unitarian-UhiversalistWelcomingCongregationprogram ¯ directed at Lesbians and Gay men. CUUC also partici- ¯ pated in this year’s Interfaith Pride Service. CUUC re- " ceived its charter in November of last year and has about : 55-60 members. The group currently meets at Community ¯ ofHope UnitedMethodist on Sundays at 10:30 for coffee ¯ with the service at 11 am. see CUUC, page 3 Gay Man Runs i for Congress ¯ Paul Barby, a 61 year oldWoodward, Oklahoma oilman ¯ and rancher and a Gay man, has announced his Demo- ¯ cratic candidacy for Oklahoma’s 6th District seat in the US ¯ House of Representatives. The seat is currently held by ¯ first-term Republican Frank Lucas. Barby told TFN that he had not pictured himself as ¯ politician but that in working to defeat State referendum question #669 and in his work as an unpaid, citizen lobbyist at the State Capitol, he came to realize that ¯ a difference. ’He ¯ added that people had ¯ urged him to run for Congress. Barby isn’t running ¯ on "Gay" issues but ¯ as a candidate who ¯ happens to be Gay. ¯ He talks about work- - ing to moderate Con- . gress which he char- ¯ acterizes as "tooruth- ¯ less, toouncaring, too ¯ restrictive". He calls ¯ himself a fiscal con- " servative who never- ¯ theless is. concerned ¯ that cutbacks in farm Paul Barby ¯ supports will devas- ; tate Oklahoma’s small family farms. He says he supports ¯ family values but that these values cannot survive without ¯ education, job opportunities and health care. ¯ However, he did choose to reveal his homosexuality in ¯ aletter to potential supporters because he felt he needed to ¯ be honest with voters. Also, since his Gayness was no ¯ see Barby, page 3 Coming Soon! Shanti’s ¯ Water Garden Tour, see p. 8 ¯ New Volleyball Group, 9 l~/!~ I EUREKA SPRINGS BOOK REVIEW/ENTERTAINMENT RESTAURANT REVIEW CLASSIFIEDS 918.583.1248 POB 4140 Tulsa, Oklahoma 74159-0140 TulsaNews@~ol.com Publisher/Editor, Tom Neal Assistant Editor, James Christjohn Writers/contributors, Phyl Boler-Schmidt Barry Hensley Jean-Pierre Legrandbouche Leanne Gross Pat Morehead issued on or before the 15th of each month, the entire contents of this publication are protected by US copyright 1996 by Tulsa Family News and may not be reproduced either in whole or in part without written permission from the publisher. Publication of a name or photo does not indicate that person’s sexual orientation. Correspondence is assumed to be for publication unless otherwise noted, must be signed & becomes the sole property of Tulsa Family News. All correspondence should be sent to the address above. Each reader is entitled to one free copy.of each edition at distribution points. Additional copies are available by calling 583-1248. by John A.Reynolds Long-lasting relationships in the Gay & Lesbian community seem to be very rare and the straightworld doesn’t appear to be in much better shape when it comes to this subject. Some experts attribute this to the brief that many relationships, Gay and straight, are based one lust instead of love. Of course, those who are"in lust" will disagree and swear it is love- for the two or three months they are together. Personally, I believe the problem is that most people don’t become friends before they become lovers. We must know someone before we can love them. Harold Baird, my partier of seventeen years was also my best friend and we would still be together today if cancer hadn’t taken him from me. We became friends first, and out of that friendship grew the love that we enjoyed for those years. Too many relationships are based on sex and physical attraction. These are the ones that seem to fail early on. Sex is only a small part of any long-lasting relationship. Conversation, enjoyment of each others presence and many other things, combined with sex, are needed to make a relationship work. If lust is the basis of a relationship, don’t expect it to last very long. I cherish the time Harold and I had together, but the things I remember most about that time’-are the walks in the woods, holding hands, talking and quietly sitting together knowing the see Friend, page 3 Tulsa Clubs & Restaurants *Bamboo Lounge, 7204 E. Pine *Concessions, 3340 S. Peoria *Lola’s, 2630 E. 15th *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 *Interurban Restaurant, 717 S. Houston 832-1269 744-0896 749- 1563 745-9998 834-4234 585-3405 660-0856 584-1308 585-3134 Tulsa Businesses, Services, & Professionals Dennis C. Arnold, Realtor 746-4620 *Assoc. in Med.& Mental Health, 2325 S. 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Peoria, Ste. 633 Puppy Pause II, 1 lth & Mingo *Ross Edward Salon, 1438 S, Boston *Scribner’s Bookstore, 1942 Utica Square Scott Robison’s Prescriptions, see ad for 3 locations Southwest Viatical 592-5356 749-3620 665-6595 838-8503 743-9994 690-2974 744-0102 745-1111 584-4606 341-6866 621-5597 599-8070 747-5466 742-1992 671-2010 584-3112 663-5934 664-2951 747-7672 838-7626 584-0337 749-6301 743-2351 747-3322 OK, OK, I can already hear you. You’re saying; "I told you so...I told you that Largent’s a neaderthal and there’s no hope for him!" I’m no longer arguing with you. I cannot convey sufficiently the rage I felt in watching OUR representative malign and attack us, his own constituents, as Largent spoke in defense of the "Defense of Marriage Act". Largent’s suggestion that recognizing our relationships would lead to marriages between animal and human, and between children and adults was truly one of the sleaziest and cheap attacks that Congress has seen. I believe from my conversations with him that Largent knows better but like the swollen (but pretty) headed, professional politician he’s becoming, he was willing to lie to make his point. Tom Cobum’s attack on his Lesbian and Gay constituents was even worse albeit morehonest than those ofhis Republicanpeers. His remarks went to the heart of the bias motivating DOMA. It’s not about "protecting marriage" but about condemning Gay & Lesbian citizens because primarily of religious briefs. Unfortunately for Mr. Coburn, our Constitution (you wonder if he’s bothered to read it) frowns on people like him using the power of government to impose his religious views on minorities. Both of these representatives have shamed Oklahoma with these unashamed bigotry. While there’s little hope of unseating them soon, the candidacy of people like Paul Barby encourage me to hold out hope for Oklahoma yet. - Tom Neal ¯ Thomas Chiropractic Clinic ¯ 4138 S. Harvard~ Ste. C-1 742-8868 Kellie J. 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Owen Park was an excellent location and the whole layout flowed really well. The booth and display area was terrific, vendors and organizations alike. The music was great, along with food and beverage availability. My kids enjoyed themselves as wall making it a perfect "family" outing. And mounted police in uniform was a nice added touch. ;-) Hats off to the committee who organized a wall planned and thought out day to show Tulsa our Pride! - Kelly Harrison Kirby, via the Internet Disney vs. So. Baptists In view of the Southern Baptists’ resolutions to boycott the Walt Disney Company for being "anti-family" and to convert Jews, perhaps Disney could create a new theme park attraction just for the Baptists. They could call it"It’s A Small, Small Mind." - Alan L. Light, Iowa City, Iowa June - July 1996, Issue #7 ¯ In our last issue, we inadvertantly made at leas ttwo mistakes. Firstwelisted Ginny ¯ Butler as one of the professionals associated with Dr. JeffBeal andTed Campbell’s practice, Associates in Medical and Men- " tal Health. We were not aware that Ms. ¯ Butler is not part of that practice now and ¯ we apologize to all parties involved for ; .that misleading impression., .... ¯ Secondly, we greatly regret that when ¯ we reported on community dubs that ¯ helped the Pride Picnic by doing benefit ¯ shows, we did not know to credit all those : who were involved. The benefit at the : Silver Star was organized by the Green ¯ Country Cloggers who certainly deserve ¯ credit for this show, and for all the other ¯ hard work they do. Wehonor them, and of course, John & Steve of-the Star, their gracaous hosts. If we inadvertantly failed to mention anyone else who helped with those shows, please accept our apology andlet us know so thatwecan give proper credit to all. - Tom Neal, editor/publisher The group’s spokesperson added that while they’d heard afew complaints about ¯ the changeof thepicnic site fromMohawk ¯ Park to Owen Park before the event, after- " wards, they heard a great deal of satisfac- ~ "tion from attendees. The greater amount ¯ of shade and generally better facilities ¯ were mentioued. ." Other Pride events like the Interfaith : Pride Worship Service, and the PFLAG/ ¯ TOHR/RBG dinner for the president of ¯ the Dallas Gay & Lesbian Alliance were : deemed a success by their organizers. The ¯" only event that was not well supported ¯ was TOHR’s Pride Dance .which drew few attendees. State SenatorBernest Cain readsproclamation honoring Pride Rally & Parade in OKC’s Memorial Park. PFLAG, Tulsa Chapter was Tulsa’s largest group & received a very enthusiastic response. Tulsa’s new volleyball organization began at the Pride Picnic, For more information, see the Calendar, p. 9 Oklahoma Gay Rodeo folks lead the Oklahoma City Parade from Memorial Park to NW 39th St. Men ofNative American descentfrom TNAAPP, Indian Health Care, were visible and proud of their heritage. The Banned opened this year’s Pride with the Star- Spangled Banner, Oklahoma & several other selections. Donna Redwing, Advocate Magazine’s 1992 Woman of the Year & GLAAD spokesperson at the OKC Parade. Family of Faith MCC helped to represent Tulsa as did others who walked with statewide groups. others thoughts. The simple things in a relationship are just as important as the sextml side. When asked by friends, "what is your secret?" - we would reply by saying, "be your partner’ s best friend and say, ’I love you’ every day." There wasn’t a time in those 17 years wo- didn’t say "I love you" to each other several times a day. I’m not saying live is a bed of rose and ~ev. Nancy J. Horvath M. Div., Pastor Sunday 9:15 am Christian Education 11:00 am Worship Service Wednesday 6:30 pm Midweek Service 7:30 pm Choir Practice Thursday 7:30 pm C0dependency Support Group ;451-E S. Mingo ¯ Tulsa, OK ¯ 74146 (918) 622-1441 ¯ youwon’t ha~e problems. There will be ¯ times when disagreements and problems ¯¯ arise, but you can work through them. True love and friendship can conquer the ¯ trials of any relationship. When problems ¯ arise, and they will, if your love an friend- " ship are strong you can weather the storm ¯ and get through it together. When one ¯ p~er dies, as in my case, you can go on ¯ alone. It’s not easy butit canbe done. ¯ When Harold was diagnosed with can- : cer of the right lung andliver, we decided ¯ he would not be placed in a hospital or : nursing home. He wanted to die at home, : withdignity, surroundedby those heloved. ¯ for fifty short day, I provided his care, not ¯ out of a sense of duty or obligation but : because of the love and friendship we ¯ shared. Because of that love I was by his ¯ bed as he took his last breath- he did not ¯ die alone or among strangers. ¯ On June 6, 1995 at 9:15 pro, I lost my ¯ best friend, my parmer, my lover butI ." have seventeen years ofwonderfulmemo- ¯ ties of our friendship and our time to- " gether. ¯ Harold & I had a good relationship ¯ because love grew from our friendship. If : a relationship is going to last you must ¯. first start as friends. Basing a relationship ¯ on sexual desires is a recipe for disaster. ¯ Although I miss Harold and think of ¯ him daily, the memories of what we had ¯ will remain with me always. ¯ John A. Reynolds is afreelance writer currently residing in Tulsa. secret fiom his family and friends, he did not want to be subject to a "whispering" campaign from Lucas supporters. Henoted his membership in the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and declared his support for civil rights. Specifically he ¯ mentioned his opposition to laws banning ¯ same-gender marriage, saying courts and ¯ churches should be free to make their ] decisions based on the Constitution or ¯ their theology. ¯ .Barby is contributing $25,000 person- " ally as seed money to the estimated ¯¯ $350~000 required to run a campaign in the large rural and urban district (41% of ¯ the district is urban taking in the north- " west corner of OKC). He is working with ¯" longtime OKC political activist, Keith ¯ Smith on thecampaign. Barby also said ¯ he’d talked with the Human Rights Cam- - paign (which funds national offices) and the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund (which ¯ only funds local and state races). He also ¯ was meeting with the Cimarron Mliance, ¯ OKC’s Lesbian & Gay political acdon : committee. Dead in Nat’l Park LURAY, Va. -’ Two women - Julianne Williams of St. Cloud, Minn., and L0llie Winans of Unity, Maine - who were considered experienced outdoor guides and believed to have been lovers, were found dead in the Shenandoah National Park in Virginia earlier in June, authorities said. Williams, 24, and Winans, 26, were apparently murdered. Both the National Park Service and the FBI are investigating the deaths, although neither agency would give details of the apparent slayings. Both women worked as outdoor intern guides in 1995 for the Minneapolis-based women’s vacation group, Woodswomen, andwere consideredexperiencedand skillful at camping in the wilderness. Park officials said the women were found after the father of one of them reported that she had not shown up at home as scheduled. Authorities declined to say how the 2 women were killed, but said they may have been dead for a few days before their bodies were discovered. Tennessee Sodomy Statute Overturned NASHVILLE- The Tennessee state Supreme Court has let stand a lower court ruling overturning the state’s anti-sodomy statute. Earlier this year a state appeals court ruled that Tennessee’s Homosexual Practices Act violates state .cgnstitutional privacy guarantees. Several Tennessee residents originally challenged the state law, arguing that prosecution under the anti-sodomy statute could cost them their jobs, homes and families and that private sexual behavior was not the state’s business. Presbyterians & Homosexuality ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - In a vote by delegates from the denomination’s 171 presbyteries, 57% voted for an amendment against ordaining active homosexuals. Activists said they were disappointed but that the vote represented an improvement over the last assembly in 1991. Delegates attending the general conclave of the Presbyterian Church (USA) have had a full plate of issues on their agenda during the confab, but overriding many items is the question of ordaining homosexuals in the ministry. Not only was the question of ordaining gays a direct issue with competing proposals to effectively bar ordaining gays or leaving the issue in the hands of local churches, but larger issues such as joining associations with other denominations also focused the delegates’ attention on the role of gay clergy. In considering whether or not to join with the United Church of Christ, the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the ¯ AfricanMethodistEpiscopal ZionChurch, the Christian Church (Disciples ofChrist), the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, ¯ the Episcopal Church, the International Council of Community Churches and the ¯¯ UnitedMethodist Church in the unifying Church of Christ Uniting organization, ¯ one overriding concern for many conser- ¯ vative Presbyterians has been whether ¯ gay clergy in the other churches that or- " dain homosexuals could minister to Pres- ¯ byterian congregations. ¯ The organization’s human sexuality & ¯ ordination committee recommended that ¯ ordination should be limited to individu- : als who observe "fidelity within the cov- ¯ chant of marriage between one man and ¯ one woman - or chastity in singleness." ¯ Although the Presbyterian Church has ¯ officially welcomed gays and lesbians to ¯ its congregations for decades, it has also ¯ long barred"self-affirming, practicing homosexuals" as ministers. Aug. Conference: Get Out the.Vote "- WASHINGTON - The Human Rights -." Campaign is sponsoring a conference of ." gay andlesbian rights activists in Chicago ¯ a week before the Democratic National : Convention begins there in late August : and early September. Political heavy- ¯. weights thatHRC expects to appear at the ¯ Aug. 16-28 confab include Sen. Carol -" Moseley-Braun (D-Ill.), openly gay Rep. "_ Steve Gunderson (R-Wise.), and Housing ¯ Secretary Henry Cisneros. The con- . ference’s chief agenda will be getting out : the gay and lesbian vote this November, ." an issue that’s increasingly concerning ¯ aftivists who fear many gay voters have become wary of President Clinton and ¯ would be unlikely to support retired U.S. Sen. Bob Dole’s presidential bid. ¯ TV Gold: Louganis’ Story to be Biopic HOLLYWOOD - The entertainment in- " dustry newspaper Variety reports that the ¯ USA Network is producing a made-for- " television movie based on Olympic gold ¯ medalist Greg Louganis’ autobiography, ¯ Breaking the Surface. The TV bio is ex- ¯ pected to air sometimenext year, although : the cable network says none of the roles ¯ have yet been cast. ¯ Largest.Ever Pride Parade in Utah ¯ SALT LAKE CITY - Recent anti-gay : actions by Utah lawmakers, including a : ban on gay iliad lesbian clubs at public ¯ schools,mayhavehelpedmakethis year’s -" annual Gay Pride Day event the largest in the state’s history, organizers said. Thousands of people - both gays and straights - turned out for this year’s parade and festival. One parade organizer said the state legislature had done "more for us than we could ever do for ourselves" in drawing such a large crowd. Keynote speaker at the event was Chastity Bono, daughter of actress Cher and U.S. Rep. Sonny Bono (R-Calif.), who told the audience that Utah activists fighting anti-gay legislative efforts in the state had "advanced the entire community’s fight for human rights." Canadian Gov’t to Extend Benefits OTTAWA -TheCanadianHumanRights Commission has ordered the government to offer health care benefits to the gay and lesbian partners of national workers the same as it does to the spouses of married employees. The ruling was prompted by complaints by two gay federal government workers and applies only to the country’s civil service employees. The commission ruled that it was "discriminatory to deny benefits to those in a samesex relationship while extending the same benefits to heterosexual couples." Fire documenting anti-gay policies and actions in the U.S. armed forces, has been granted one of 21 prestigious "Genius Awards’r by the MacArthur Foundation. Berube’s award carries a no-strings $300,000 cash grant that recipients are free to spend in any way they wish. The California-based foundation has. granted more than $150 million since it began making the "Genius Awards" in 1981. Bernbe said the money will make it possible forhim to finish work on his current project, which is a study of the role of gay shipboard workers inthe 1930s and 1940s whohelp form one of the nation’ s earliest multiracial labor unions. Utility to Help Gay Youth Programs Ohio Anti-Gay Vote To Be Reviewed WASHINGTON - In an action that won cautious praise from rights activists, the U.S. Supreme Court has ordered a federal appeals court m Ohio to reconsider an earlier decision that an anti-gay measure, known as Issue 3, approved by Cincinnati voters in 1993 is constitutional. A federal court had initially struck down the Cinciunati measure, but the appeals courthad reversed that ruling, declaring the antigay measure was constitutional. Issue 3 ,would have repealed anti-bias measures based on sexual orientation and would have also barred any future legislation of the kind, The Supreme Court, however, by a 6-3 vote, ordered the appeals court to reconsider its ruling in light of the high court’s overturning in May of a similar anti-gay ballot measure approved by Colorado voters. In apress statement, Melinda Paras of the National Gay&LesbianTask Force said "While we will not know the full implications of the Supreme Court decision until the lower court’ s revised ruling, clearly the high court’s decision on Amendment 2 has taken the wind out of Issue 3’s sails. We are making progress toward ending intolerance and educating Americans about who we are.’" Gay Author Wins ’Genius Award’ SAN FRANCISCO - Allan Berube, the author of the book Comin~ Out Under ." SAN FRANCISCO-California’s Pacific : Gas & Electric, the utility’ s Lesbian, Gay &Bisexual Employees Assn., and the San "- Francisco-based Horizons Foundation : have joined in an effort to offer greater _" support for younger gays and lesbians in ¯ theregion throughapublicity andfunding ." effort. PG&E is setting up a matching ." grant fund up to $20,000 to help under- -¯ write education and social programs operated for gay youth through Horizons. The giant utility will also help publicize _" Horizons’ youth programs throughpublic ¯ service annonncements andbus-stop shel- ¯ ter advertising. Denise Wells, president ¯ ofHorizous’boardofdirectorssaidPG&E ¯ was demonstrating "a valuable leadership ¯ that canmotivateus all to contribute to the -" community."PG&Eofficials saidtheutilityhadmadethemovebecause it is "espe- ¯ cially committed to a safe and healthy environment for youth." Mayor Extends Partner Benefits PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia Mayor Ed Rendell has announced that the city will now offer health-care and familyleave benefits to the same-sex partners of non-civil service workers. The package will extend the same benefits to domestic partners that the married spouses of city employees currently receive. But only about 500 municipal workers would be covered by the mayor’s executive order. Activists in the city have been working for more than 5 years trying to get a city council ordinance that would extend a similarbenefits package to Philadelphia’s full 25,000 municipal employees. CardinalAnthony Bevilicqua, theArchbishop of Philadelphia, urged Catholics in thecity’s 121 RomanCatholicchurches to swamp Mayor Ed Rendell with Fathers’ Day cards protesting his recent executive order extending benefits to the same-sex domesticpartners ofjust a small portion of the city’s Workforce under the PI AlrERSON REALTORS" LEA ANN MACOMBER Realtor Associate Mobile: 671-2010 2642 E. 21st Street * Suite 170 *Tulsa, Oklahoma 74114 Off: 918-749-8374 * Res: 918-582-7672 * Fax: 918-747-1795 Metropolitan Community Church of Greater Tulsa Where God Uplifts All People Sunday Service, 10:45 am Wednesday Service, 6:30 pm Home Cell Groups, 2nd & 4th Sun. 1623 No. Maplewood, 838-1715 Mayor’ s administration. Bevilicquacalled the order "a tragic mistake" and "a direct attack on the natural arrangement of family life."A spokesperson for Rendell told reporters at apress conference that Rendell has "no intention of rescinding the order" despite Bevilicqua’s opposition. Harvey Milk School SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco school board trustees have voted, after several years of controversy and one earlier failed attempt, torenamethe Douglass Elementary School in honor of assassinated gay supervisor Harvey Milk. The school will now officially beknown as the Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy and will emphasize classwork in civil rights areas. Milk was shot along with Mayor George Moscone in 1978 by Dan White, who hadjust resigned from his seat on the board of supervisors and who was an outspoken opponent of gay rights. Several parents at the school¯ board meeting raised objections both tonaming the school after Milk and to the vote itself, which they said came without adequate time for public discussion. Official Threatened ’Support of Gays’ SAN FRANCISCO - Amos Brown, a Baptist minister recently appointed to fill a seat on the city’s board of supervisors over the misgivings of many gay rights activists, has been given special.,police protection after a man outside his church handed him a letter condemning him for supporting "sodomites of the city" and promising "swift and terrible" retribution against Brown. Similar threatening notes were found on cars in a nearby church parking lot. Brown’s appointment to the vacant seat on the board had been criti- : in a scene implying a homosexual relationshipbetween the twomeninsults Willy ¯ Wyler and, I have to say, irritates the hell ¯ out of me." Vidal has said ininterviews that Heston ¯ wasn’t Wyler’s first choice for the lead ¯ role, but that "Paul Newman and Rock ." Hudson were not available." Vidal says a ¯ scene in which Ben-Hur and the villain- ." ous Roman Marsallaembrace was written ¯ in to the film to establish a sexual relation- ¯ ship between the men because such a failed relationship was the only way to ¯ justify theintense hatred between the two ¯" men that develops later. "Then, when re¯ united at the picture’s start, the Roman wants to pick up where they left off mad ¯ the Jew [Ben-Hur] spurns him," Vidal ¯ wrote in the Times. ¯ Sheriff Sued Over : ’Anti-Gay Assault’ REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - A 63-yearoldmarriedgrandfather andretired teacher ." has filed alawsuit against the San Mateo : (Calif.) County sheriff’s department, charging that an officer brutalized him after he had stopped at a vista point along an interstate highway to see if there was an easier route to his destination at Half ¯" Moon Bay. The suit claims the officer : believed the suspect was gay and seeking ¯ sex at the spot. E. Lon Chancy Jr. charges ¯ in the suit that Deputy Timothy Reid : tripped and assaulted him as he was re- : turning to his car after asking another ¯ parked driver for directions. The suit charges that Chaney was so severely bat- : tered that he suffered a stroke during the ¯ incident and that an ambulance had to be ¯ called to take him to ahospital. Chaney’s : suit - which names Reid, the sheriff’s ¯ department and San Mateo County as ¯ defendants - claims the deputy shouted ¯ into his police radio, "I’ve got one" after but apparently decided they didn’t really want to actually endorse banning discrimination in marriage rights. S.F. Moves to End Colorado Boycott ¯ SAN FRANCISCO - Openly gay Super- : visor Tom Ammiano has introduced a : measure that would repeal a 1992 ordi- ¯ nance that effectively barred San Francisco from doing business with firms in Colorado after voters there narrowly approved an anti-gay ballot measure, Amendment 2. Ammiano said the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling declaring Amendment2 unconstitutional eliminates the reason for the original boycott, which barred San Francisco from purchasing goods or services made or offered in the state of Colorado and prohibited use of government funds for the state on official business, including conventions and conferences. sex with other men and exposed him to HIV as a result. Attorneys for Cliburn, 61, said he has not been tested for HIV and that Zaremba’s suit was little more than a form of extortion. i No Nudity in Parade ¯ BOSTON - Proper - and not so proper - : Bostonians clashed following this year’s : annual Gay Pride Parade, where reports ¯ say a nude man walked on stilts and 2 ¯ bare-breasted women fondled each other. : Mayor Thomas Menino was joined by : parade organizers in condemning what ¯ they termed "inappropriate and unlaw- : ful" behavior during the parade. Organiz- -" ers of the parade said the nude man and : topless women were not registered to par- : ticipate in the parade itself and joined the ¯ event, attended by an estimated 100,000 : people, along the route. Officials offered ¯ to help police locate the people for pos- ¯ sible prosecution. The city council has : vowed to hold hearings on why police ¯ didn’t arrest the people during the parade. Texas Court Lets GOP Exclude Gays " AUSTIN, Texas - The Texas state Su- -" preme Court blocked a temporary order ¯ handed down by a lower court just days ~ before and ruled unanimously that the ~ state Republican Party does not have to grant the gay Log Cabin Republicans a booth and ad space during its annual state convention. A lower state court had ordered the state GOP to give the Log Cabin group the booth, for which ithad cashed a $400 check from the gay Republicmas, British PM Critical of Grants to Gays LONDON - Prime Minister John Major told Parliament that grants from proceeds of the country’s popular National Lottery ~ to London and Leicester gay and lesbian ¯ organizations - one a community center, ¯ the other a gay andlesbian police officers’ group - were "ill-founded and ill-judged." ¯ The two grants, totaling slightly more than $140,000, do not "reflect the way ¯" Parliament’and the public expected lotmad to sell the organization space in the " tery money to be spent," Major said durconvention brochure, for which it had ¯ ing a speech in the House of Commons. o received another check for $750. ¯ : The state party made an emergency : Dontt These - .appeal tothe TeXa~ higll courtfollOwing - ~ ~ .... ..... ......... ] the lower court ruling on Friday, June l4, ¯ Have Work To cized by several rights activists who view his opposition to domestic partners and other gay rights issues in the past as homophobic. Because of the suspected arson attacks against several black churches recently, police said they would "take precautions" not only to assure the safety of the newly appointed supervisor but also for the minister’s predominately black church. Heston vs. Vidal: Clash Over Ben-Hur HOLLYWOOD-Actor Charlton Heston and playwright Gore Vidal have been trading barbs in the pages of the Los Angeles Times recendy over work Vidal did on the film"Ben-Hur"nearly 40 years ago that he says implied a homosexual relationship between 2 lea.ding characters in the film, including Heston’s lead character. Heston called Vidal "a tart, embittered man" whose "claim that he slipped ¯ the arrest, and that when paramedics ar- ¯ rived he told them to use rubber gloves ¯ because "This one’s probably got HIV." Chaney’s attorney says the incident re- " fleets a pattern of arrest and abuse by ; police in the area of anyone they believe ¯ may be gay and that his client just had the ¯ badfortune to be in the wrong place at the : wrong time. ¯ Minnesota Dems: ¯ No Discrimination - i Except in Marriage : MINNEAPOLIS-MinnesotaDemocrats ~ adopted a full 100 resolutions at their ¯ annual state convention, rejecting just 1 ¯ proposed platform statement - a resolu- : fion supporting same-sex marriage rights. : The Democratic Farm Labor Party (as the ¯ Democrats areknowninMinnesota),over- : Whelmingly adopted a resolution con- : demning "all forms of discrimination," -" and the justices took only a few hours to ¯ issue the order blocking the lower court decision. StateGOPofficials said the con- : ventionis apfivateeventandnota"public : forum," and that the party wanted to ex- ¯ dude the LOg Cabin booth and adverfis- ¯ ing because the party platform officially ¯ opposes gay fights. Palimony Lawsuit Dismissed ~f. WORTH,Texas-ATexas state court ¯ judge has thrown out a palimony lawsuit filed by Thomas Zaremba of Michigan : against internationally famed classical pimfist Van Clibum, saying there was no : written agreement about financial sup- - port between the two menduring their 17- ¯ yearrelationship,andthat the statedoesn’t ." recognize such same-sex relationships. ¯ Zaremba, 48, had filed the suit claiming, : among other things, that during his relai tionship with Cliburn, the pianist had had ¯ ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Alaska state ¯ officials say they have no plans to file ¯ criminal charges against Bethel Police ¯..Sgt. Scott Gagne, who had been under ¯ investigation for possible sexual harass- . ment, including masturbating with 2 other police officers at the station, ¯ Investigators say that Gagne and other ¯ officers had talked bluntly about their ¯ sexual relationships with women, and that ¯ they had masturbated together at the sta- ¯ tion. 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Yale Tulsa, OK 74135 World HIV Projections BALTIMORE-Writing in Internal Medicine News, William Blattuer of the Uni- .versity of Maryland’ s Institute of Human Virology has projected that some 20 million people around the world are now infected with HIV and that some 100 million people will be infected by the year 2000. Blattner also says the spread of HIV has changed rapidly in recent years and that by the turn of the century more than 90% of all those infected will be residents of developing cotmtries, with a higher incidence in Asia, followed by African nations. In related news, Zimbabwe’s National AIDS Coordination Program reports that the epidemic continues to spiral there, with at least 40,000 new AIDS cases reported in the country last year, while the actual number of new cases may be as high as 150,000. The agency says that more than a million of Zimbabwe’s 10.5 million people are infected with HIV, and that an estimated 300 die 0fAIDS-related illnesses weekly. AIDS Shapes World Demographics NEW YORK - The annual UN Human Development Report, slated tobe released later in July, says the impact of the AIDS epidemic has become so vast that it has affected thelivability levels ofsomecountries for the first time since the international agency began issuing its "~mnual assessment of global development. The report’s index of livability indicates that some developing nations have fallen as much as a decade behind in their expected progress because of the epidemic. In a related develrpment,, the independent PopulationReference Bureauhas reported that although the global population con~ tinues to grow d~amati€~lly, the AIDS epidemic is causing measurable shifts in world population patterns. The bureau reports thatalthough sub-Saharan Africa’ s total population by 2025 will be 1.25 billion people, that number will be 100 million lower than projections madejust a decade ago - almost entirely because of the epidemic. Countries such as Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Uganda,ZambiaandZimbabwe will be the hardest-hit, the bureau says. HIV in Kenya NAIROBI, Kenya- A fourth of all the Kenyan women visiting pediatric and infant- care clinics in the capital city of Nairobi are H-IV-p0sitive according to a survey completed by the U.S. Agency for International Development. Just one year ago, a similar study found that 3.5% of all Kenyans were infected with the virus Gray Newton of the USAID office in Nairobi told the Xinhua News Agency. By the beginning of this year, Newton says, that figure had more than doubled to 7.5% Of the nation’ s population. Eliminating HIV in Some Is Possible AMSTERDAMnAtaconference ofAIDS researchers held by the University of Amsterdam and the dinical journal Antiviral Therapy, scientists reviewed unpublished data suggesting that"eradicating" HIV in some infected patients may be possible. The datais being collected from ongoing trials underway in Australia : Europe, Canada and the U.S. involving ¯ the use of a variety of HIV drug combina- ¯ tions. According to the information col- " lected so far, some patients involved in ¯ the clinical trials have had the level of ¯¯ HIV in their blood stream lowered to undetectable levels for up to 2 years. The ¯ scientists involved in the trials cautioned, ¯ however, that none of the patients have ¯ been taking the combinations of medi- ¯ cines long enough yet to determine long- " term effectiveness. ¯ ¯ Blood Transfusion Risk is 2 in a Million : BOSTON - According to a report in the ¯ New England Journal of Medicine, the ¯ chances of receiving HIV-tainted blood from the nation’s blood bank system is : just 2 in every million transfusions. Re- . searchers at the Rockville, Md.-based : Westat Inc. calculated the odds of receiv- ¯ ing a contaminated transfusion after ex- ¯ amining the records of more than a half- . millionrepeat donors. The estimates were ¯ based on calculating how many recently ¯ infected donors might give blood during ° the 22-day period when the virus cannot ¯ be detected. Some 586,507 regular donor ¯ records were examined. ~ Herbal HIV-Fighting Substance SINGAPORE- Singapore scientists re- ." porting in two research journals say a ¯ chemical compound derived from some ¯ 75 traditional herbs may usefulin fighting HIV. Dr. Sim Keng Yeow of the National : Uni-versity of Singapore said that the researchers had found that the chemical : they isolated from the herbs could inhibit ¯ HIV- 1 protease, an enzyme essential for ¯ HIV to develop. Yeow cautioned, however, that the discovery was not a bure for AIDS and only a preliminary finding. In a related development, researchers at the : China Academy of Preventive Medicine ¯ in Beijing announced that an experimental herbal medicine, known as Saidefu, .., may have helped eliminate HIV in 1 pa- ¯ tient and helped others become well " enough that they could stop hospital care ¯ and go home. The researchers said, how- . ever, that Saidefu had only been tested on ¯ 5 patients so far and that the tests hadbeen ¯ limited to only a 3-month period. They ¯ said that much more testing would be ¯ required because herbal remedies that of- " ten appear effective initially may have ." only a temporary or transient effect. ¯ International AIDS ¯ Conference VANCOUVER, Canada- Organizers of the 1 lth International AIDS Conference : say the event’ s scope and size underscore ¯ the growing global commitment to fight- . ing the epidemic. Between 9,000 and : 10,000 delegates are expected, along with : another 1,500 registered commercial ex- ¯ hibitors. Some 1,500 mediapersonnel are : expected to cover the conference as well. ¯" Peter Hamara, spokesperson for the ¯ event, said the Vancouver conference has ¯ received a record 5,,6_26 research studies to be presented, the.~asis and core of the ¯ clinical program of the conference. The ¯ studies, Hamaranoted, werereceivedfrom ¯ 125 separate countries around the world. ¯ The World Health Organization esti- ¯ mates that globally there are at least 17 ¯ million adults infected with HIV, and that : more than 11 million- or65% - are in sub- Jeffrey A. Beal, MD Ted Campbell,LCSW Specialized in HIV Care Providing Comprehensive Primary Care Medicine and Psychotherapeutic Services We have many insurance provider affiliations - ifyou belong to an insurance program that does not list us as providers, call us and we will apply. 2325 South Harvard, Suite 600, Tulsa 74114 Monday - Friday, 9:30-4:30 pm, 743-1000 HIV Positive? 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The next worst-hit region is South and Southeast Asia, where at least 3 million people - or 18% of the global total - are infected with the virus. "Many ofour participants this year will be from HIV support organizations, from communitygroups,fromnon-governmental organizations," Hamara said at a news conference before the event officiallybegan. "So while the conference at its core is still a medical-scientific conference, the participants and the diversity of research studies have broadened as the epidemic itself has broadened." Organizers say that there is some encouraging newsboth onthe educationand the medical fronts that is leading many of those fighting AIDS to begin expressing a subdued - but real - optimism. The conference, carrying a theme of "One World, One Hope," will be the first since the new class of highly promising drugs knownas protease inhibitors gained approval in the U.S. Some AIDS experts now believe these new drugs, while far from a "cure" for the disease, may actually for thefirst time in 15 years make it a manageable one. But others remain cautious, pointing out that thenew treatments are not effective for everyone, they have undesirable side effects, and no one yet knows if they will be effective medicines in the long term or if they will lose their ability to fight offHIV as other drugs have in the past. Equally disturbing, there have been unconfirmed reports that the new protease inhibitors may be extremely dangerous in combination with antihistamines, even the type sold over the counter. AIDS activists in the U.S. say there have been 2 deaths resulting from heart attacks because of patients using the protease inhibitors in ¯ plans for their 3rd annual "Until-There’ s ¯ A Cure" day. AIDS activist and artist " Mary Fisher and U.S. figure skating cham- ¯ pion Rudy Galindo will appear at this ¯¯ season’ s benefit game on July 28 against the Atlanta Braves. The Giants. will do- " hate $1 from each ticket sold to the Until ¯ There’s A Cure Foundation, which will ¯ distribute the money to AIDS-related ¯ ¯ projects and organizations. Other funds will be raised through merchandise sold ¯ during the game. The Giants have raised more than $250,000 for AIDS education : and treatment since starting the event in : 1993. Navy Announces : New AIDS Therapy : BETHESDA, Md.- Researchers with the ¯ U.S. Navy say they may have discovered ¯ a new therapy to help prevent or limit the ¯ spread ofHIV ininfected patients. Scientists at the Naval Medical Research Insti- ¯ tute say the treatment involves dramati- ¯ cally increasing the number of uninfected ¯ CD4T-cells-or whiteblood cells thatare ¯" the target ofthe virus- in patients infected ¯" with the disease. The Navy researchers cultured the T-cells of 10 intermediate- ¯ stage AIDS patients, whose immune sys- ¯ terns were still fairly intact. Even more ¯" significant, when the researchers stimu- . lated uuinfectedT-cells and exposed them ¯ in test tubes to HIV, the cells were highly ¯" resistant to the virus. The scientists say ¯ that if the technique works in humans, it ¯ might prevent the deterioration of the ¯ body’s immune system and counteract ¯ some symptoms of HIV infection. The Navy will begin a small-scale clinical trial ¯ to test the safety of the new treatment this conjunction with~antihistamines.;ff~.e°n~--: :~ dents whose blood cells: vier¢::us firmed, the reports could prove a serious . making the cultures. stumbling block to thenew drugs because antihistamines are so widely used in the : U.S. There is also optimism about education " efforts, especially in developing nations : like Thailand and Uganda, where programs to fight the spread ofHIV appear to have been especially effective. An aggressive government-backed AIDS education program in Thailand, for example, has led to HIV infection rates dropping in nearly all the groups that the government monitors - military recruits, commercial sex workers, and IV drug users. Rare Form of HIV! Virus Now in U,S, LOS ANGELES -Officials with the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention say anunnamedLos Angeles womanhas been confirmed as the first person in this country to be diagnosed with Group O HIV, a strain of the virus that is largely restricted to West Africa. According to-the CDC report, thewomanapparently was infected inherWestAfricanhomelandbefo.re coming to the U.S.U.S. health officials said standard HIV tests should be modified to detect the Group O strain to prevent accidental contamination ofthenation’ s blood supply. Current HIV tests usually do not detect the Group O strain of the virus. SF Giants AIDS Day Fundraiser SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco Giants, the first professional sports team to host a fundraising benefit for AIDS ou $100K NEA Grant for Quilt Project SAN FRANCISCO - The National Endowment for the Arts has given the NAMES Project a $100,000 grant to help photograph and create digital images of the nearly 34,000 panels that currently make up the huge AIDS Quilt The photo project includes plans to create CD-ROM versions of theimage~ thatwouldbe viewable via a home computer and via computer services storing the digital images. Actress Jane Alexander, chair ofthe NEA, said works of art like theAIDS Memorial Quilt "embody compassion and the creative spirit" that have been spurred on in the face of the "crisis that has devastated the lives of so many Americans." Suit Filed Over HIV ’Rumors’ SAN ANGELO, Texas - Attomeys for Gilbert De La Paz have filed a federal lawsuit against Henry Hogeda, the owner of Henry’s Diner, charging their client was fired as a waiter solely because of rumors De La Paz has AIDS. The lawsuit claims that Hogeda before firing the 27- year-old De La Paz, Hogeda said that he had heard the man had AIDS and that the rumors would "destroy" the restaurant’s business. The suit also says De La Paz, who says he is notinfected, offered to take anHIV test to provehe was uninfectedbut he was fired anyway. News sources have reported that Hogeda’ s lawyers claim De ; to customFrank. Frank stopped short of asking that Cobum’s remarks be stricken from the Congressional record. Rep. Frank demanded, that supporters of DOMA tall him how his longstanding rdationship with his partner Herb Moses threatened their marriages. "How does the fact that I love another man and live in acommitted relationship withhim threaten your marriage?" he asked. "Are your relations with your spouses of such fragility that the fact that I have a committed, loving relationship with anothermanjeopardizes them? My God, what do you do when the lights go out?" Tulsa 1st District Rep. Steve .Largent replied, "Mr. Frank’s relationship with another man does not threaten my marriage whatsoever." "Whosemarriage does it threaten?" Frank demanded. "It threatens the institution of marriage," Largent said. "That argument ought to be made by someone in and institution because it has no logical basis whatsoever," Frank said. In the Senate, an identical bill has been introduced in the Senate by Oklahoma Sen. Don Nickies. However, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass. is trying to attach the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) barringbias inemploymentbased on sexual orientation to DOMA as a strategy to force anti-gay lawmakers to vote against the anti-marriagemeasurebecause of the pro-gay provision. Sen. Nickles said he opposes ENDA, saying he didn’t want to force an employer like the-Boy Scouts ofAmerica to hire homosexuals or to require a landlord to rent apartments to Gays. It remains uncertain if the Kennedy amendment will even get enough support to attach it to DOMA. "There are some values that deserve protection," said Sen. On-in Hatch, RUtah, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, ofDOMA. "It isn’t a political issu.e....It’,,s a very important family values Issue. Critics of DOMA called it thinly disguised bigotry during a public hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. "I regret that the committee is spending time on this offensive, unnecessary and divi- " sive legislation," Sen. Kennedy said. ’‘The bill before us is called the Defense of Marriage Act, but a more accurate title would be the Defense of Intolerance Act - or evenmore accurately, the Defense of Endangered Republican Candidates Act." Gary Bauer, president of the conservative Family Research Council, denied being bigoted. ’~It is not hatred to support normalcy," he said. At the White House, Mike McCurry, Clinton’s press spokesperson, agreed with Kennedy’s assessment of the measure~ McCurry stated, "I think~ in fact, it [DOMA] is. gay baiti,ng pure and simple. They’re rinsing an issue that, in fact, doesn’t arise anywhere. The Hawaii stat= ute-- the Hawaii issue is alegal issue that .. had been remanded back to a lower court, ° so this is not a pending matter. And it’s a ¯ classic use of wedge politics that are de- : signed to provoke anxieties and fears.." That being thecase, though, the President , has very strong views, personal views, ¯ [against same-gender marriage] and he ." has to act consistent with those views." ," McCurry then repeated the President’s stated promise to sign the bill when Congress passes. -" Several national organizations released [ statements onthe Housevote. "The House .......t0..day turned its back on a fundamental human right for political expediency," said Laura W. Murphy, Director of the ACLU’s National Washington Office. ’qNis goes beyond legislators saying they are not ready to accept same-sex marriages," she said. "This is an unnecessary and mean-spirited attempt by some m Congress to select out lesbians and gay men for discriminatory treatment." She added that the vote on the same-sex marriage legislation will be included in the ACLU’s biennial civil liberties ratings for members of Congress. National Gay & Lesbian Task Force Executive Director, Melinda Paras released this statement. "DOMA is bogus legislation. It nether strengthens Americanfamilies nor marriages between men and women. Instead, it draws a circle around gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgendered individuals and proclaims that our families do not deserve recognition...Unfortunatdy the majority of the House of Representatives was not willing to stand up for the principles for which this country stands: tolerance, compassion and fairness. Instead, they fell into the trap set by the political extremists and their supporters in Congress...We will not stand by silently and be used.as scape-. goats in this dection year." Tulsa Oklahomans for Haman Rights (TOHR), northeastern Oklahoma’s oldest secular Gay & Lesbian community organization, issued a statement calling for the resignation ofUS Representatives, Tom Coburn of Muskogee and Steve Largent of Tulsa"for disgracing the state of Oklahoma by their vicious attacks on their own citizens while promoting HB 3396, the so-called ’Defense of Marriage Act’ "’. "Cobumand Largentact as though there were no Lesbian and Gay citizens in Muskogee, Tahlequah, Claremore, BrokenArrow, Okmulgee, Tulsa, or any place in their districts. With this vote, they’ve proven that they don’t represent - don’t even care about representing -any of their constituents except the ones who share their extremist ideology. They appear to believe that their Constitutional obligations only extend to those who think just like them," noted a TOHR representative. Roll call vote on DOMA: 342-67 Voting yes were 224 Republicans and 118 Democrats. Voting no were 1 Republican, 65 Democrats and 1 independent. Voting "’present" 2 Democrats. An~X denotes members who did not vote. There is 1 vacancy in the 435-member House. OKLAHOMA Rep. - Cobum, Y; Istook, Y; Largent, Y; Lucas, Y; Watts, Y. Dem. - Brewster, X. ARKANSAS Rep. - Dickey/X; Hutchinson, Y. Dem.- Lambert-Lincoln,X; Thornton, X. 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H-1 Info: Wanda @ 749-4194 ¯ Shanti-Tulsa, Inc. ¯ HIV/AIDS Support Group ¯ & Friends & Family ¯¯ HIV/AIDS Support Group 7 pm, call for location: ¯ 749-7898 Alternative Skating 8:30 - 11 pm, 241-2282 $4, Sand Springs Skate Grief Group Butler/Stumpff Funeral Home 2103 E. 3rd St. Call for time: 587-7000 WEDNESDAYS Agape’ Christian Fellowship Service, 7 pm Sheridan Center, Suite H ¯ 21st & Sheridan, 747-2482 ¯ Bless The Lord At All ¯ Times Christian Center THURSDAYS ¯ 16-Step Empowerment ¯ ¯ Group For Women : Community of Hope ¯ 1703 E. 2nd, Info: 585-1800 Co-Dependency . Support Group ¯ : 7:30, Family of Faith MCC " : Prayer & Bible Study ." 5451-E S. Mingo, 622-1441 7:30 pm 2627-B East 1 lth ¯ Call 583-7815 for info. Family Of Faith MCC Praise & Prayer 6:30 pm Choir Practice 7:30 pm 5451-E South Mingo. Call 622-1441 for info. : Community of Hope ¯ (United Methodist) : Service for Peace, 6:30 pm ¯ Bible Study, 7 pm ¯ 1703 E. 2nd, 585-1800 ¯ TNAAPP ¯ Tulsa Native American AIDS Prevention Project ¯ Support group ¯ for Gay &Bi Native ¯ American Men, 6 pm at Community of Hope ¯ 1703 E. 2nd ¯ 582-7225 or 584-4983 ¯ HIVTestingTOHRClinic ¯ Walkin testing: 7 - 8:30 pm ¯ Results hours: 7 - 9 pm ¯ Info: 742-2927 Tulsa Family Chorale ¯ Weekly practice, 9:30 pm ¯ LoWs 2630 E. 15th ¯ PFLAG Family AIDS Support Group ¯ 1 st & 3rd Thursdays 4154 S. Harvard, 749-4901 ¯ Alternatives Weekly social events for ¯ LGBT men & women, 7 pm ¯ Info: 646-5503 ¯ Substance Abuse ¯ Support Group : for persons with HIV/A1DS ¯ 4154 S. Harvard, Ste. G ¯ 3-4:30 pm, Info: 749-4194 SATURDAYS st. Jerome’s Church Mass, 6 pm Garden Chapel 3841 S. Peoria Info: bather Rick at 742-7122 Narcotics Anonymous ¯ Meets weekly at 11 pm : Confidential support for ¯ recovering addicts. ¯ Community of Hope ¯ 1703 E.2nd, Info: 585-1800 NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt Sewing Bees 3rd Sat. of each month Info: 748-3111 OTHER GROUPS Gay & Lesbian Student ¯ Association ¯ TJC Southeast Campus, Info: 631-7632 SWAN-Single Women’s Activity Network Call 832-2121 JULY 19 - 21 AIDS’Mastery Workshop in oKc Info: Betsy Jo Murphy, 584-2325 In Sept., an AIDS Mastery in Tulsa. SATURDAY, JULY 20, 10-5 SUNDAY, JULY 21, NOON-5 4th Annual Shanti-.Tulsa Water Garden Tour The garden at Our House, Quaker near 13th St., is on the tour. You can begin there and get the addresses for other sites. Info: 749-7898 SUNDAY, JULY 21 What the Bible Does (and Doesn’t) Say About Homosexuality FamilyofFaith MCC 9 week class at 9:15 am, 5451-E S. Mingo Call to verify date: 622-1441 Christmas in July Family! ofFaith MCC 1-3:30 pro, 5451-E S. Mingo, 622-1441 SUNDAY, JULY 21 Community ofHope Service & Dialogue on Capital Punishment 6 pm, Community of Hope 1703 E. 2rid, Info: 585-1800 JULY-26-27 LocalMotion Foundation, 6th Annual Contemporary Dance Festival ~ John H;Williams Theater Tulsa Performing Arts Center $10, Info: 596-7111 TUESDAY, JULY 30 Rainbow Business Guild Dinnner Meeting 7 pm, Pizzeria Uno Eaton Square, 61st & Memorial Dinner!~10,Info: 665-5174 " " ,.. FRIDAY, AUGUST 2 ¯ Safe Haven Young Adults Meeting Contact Family of Faith MCC : 5451-ES. Mingo, Info: 622-1441 SUNDAY, AUGUST 4 Family ofFaith MCCPotluck Dinner Service, 11 am 5451-E S. Mingo, Info: 622-1441 AUGUST 5, 6 & 8 Regional AIDS Interfaith Network Volunteer Training 5:30-9pm, Trinity Episcopal Church 501 So. Cincinnati, Info: 749-4195 SATURDAY, AUGUST 10 TOHR Pool Party Call for details. Info: 743-4297 MONDAY, AUGUST 12 PFLAG Family AIDS Support Group, 6:30 pm Social andRefreshments, 7 pm General Meeii~g; 7:30 pm 4154 S. Harvard~ Info: 749-4901 THROUGH AUGUST 18 Durer toMarius’:Muster Drawings fronvthe Nelsod:Atkins Museum ofArt Philbrook Museum of Art 2727 So. Rockford Road, Info: 749-7941 ¯ AUGUST 15-17, 8 pm : AUGUST 18, 2 pm : QUILT, A Musical Celebration to benefit THE NAMES PROJECT ¯ John H. Williams:Theater ¯ Tulsa Performing Arts Center ¯ $10, Info: 596-7111 : SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 : Feast with Friends Benefit ¯ Start planning noW! Info: 748-3111 THE NAMES PROJECT AIDS Memorial Quilt : Since its last showing in Washington, : DC, THE NAMES PROJECT AIDS Me- : morial Quilt will have doubled in size, ¯ and the need for volunteers has grown ¯ accordingly. Petrie Dolph of Houston, is ." seeking 1500 volunteers from the Central ¯ Region (which includes Oklahoma) to ¯ help as Quilt monitors, site guides, merchandise/ sales, set-up, first aid, education ¯ and more. ." The Quilt willbe on display on Oct. 11- .. 13 on the National Mall before the Capi- ¯ tol. It’s estimated that more than 750,000 : visitors,including50,000schoolchildren, ¯ will march on over 26 miles of walkway : fabric to see 45,000 memorial panels and : to hear70,000names read-more than are ¯ carved into the nearby Vietnam Memo- . rial. ¯" Contact Pen’ieDolph, Central Region : Volunteer Chairperson at 713-729-9662, : or write to4309 Sfillbrooke Dr., Houston, ¯ "IX 77035. ¯ Regional AIDS ." Interfaith Network : Regional AIDS Interfaith Network : (RAIN) is seeking applicants for its vol- ¯ unteer co-ordinator position. This job in- ’ eludes staff support to 250+ volunteers. ¯ The ideal candidate will have demon- . strated ability and experience in working ¯ with volunteer care andprogram develop- : ment in the context fo a compassionate, ~ non-judgemental, faith-based response to ¯ HIV/AIDS. Hours include some daytime ¯ for staff meetings and coordination, but : primarily evening.and weekends. For in- . formation or to submit aletter of interest and resume, contact Kathy Bird, RAIN, 4154 So. Harvard, Suite H- 1, Tulsa 74135, voice: 749-4195, fax: 749-4213. Interfaith AIDS Ministries Interfaith AIDS Miuistries is forming a "Spirituality&HIV/AIDS" supportgroup. This will be a place whereparticipants can explore and share their personal spirituality as well as the relationship between their spirituality and living with HIV/ AIDS. The focus will be on individual spirituality, not any parti.cular organized religion. No attempts to influence, convert, or proselytize participants will be allowed. IAM is also seeking volunteers to help with the 2nd Street Carnival Benefit to be held on Sept. 21st at Southminster Presbyterian Church. For information, cal! Richard Reeder at 663-5372 or Diane Zike at 438-2437. Living Well! - An Exploration of Healthy Living Options The HIV Resource Consortium has started a new group called "Living Well! - An Exploration of Healthy Living Options". This educational group to promote wellness and healthy living is for persons affected by HIV/AIDS,including anyone living with HIV or AIDS, partners/ caregivers/friends/family of those living with HIV/AIDS and HIV/AIDS providers, The group meets on Wednesdays from 6:30 - 8:30 pm at The Gathering Place, 4154 So. Harvard, Suite G. Topics will rangefrom "Eating for Health", "Anxiety Reduction" to "Strategies for Staying Calm & Healthy". There is no cost. For more information, call 749-4194. COCONUT BEER BATTERED SHRIMP RACK OF LAMB FRESH CLAMS PRIME RIB COQUILE ST. JACQUES VEGIE STIR FRY CHOCOLATE SOUFFLE 5 Summit Eureka Springs AR 72632 Bed & Breakfast Area l~eservation &Information Service "Like going to Grandma’s" ¯ Gay-owned in the Historic District. We offer traditional B&B a Romantic Jacuzzi Suite & a private cottage on the grounds. ¯ Booking for Eureka’s Finest Gay, friendly establishments ¯ Walk or ride trolley to town. Reservations - Brochures -Information 800-- 253 - 1468, x882 Local: 501 - 253 - 7468 Your Host: Fred A. Janney Geek to Go! The PC Specialist, 501.253.2776 Phyl Boler-Schmidt Systems & S~oftware Specialist POB 429, Eureka Springs 72632 Books, Incense, Candles and Rainbows] Plus lots more! (501) 253,5445 45&1/2 Spring Street Eureka Springs, Arkansas 72632 emrain@rog.ar.ispnet.com AUTHENTIC ITALIAN RAINBOW CUSINE TROUT ofEureka Springs Recommended by The New York Times (501) 253-6807, Closed Wednesday 5 Center Street, Eureka Springs, AR 72632 Gay-owned, Operated & Rainbow Proud by Phyl Boler-Schmidt Eureka Springs has been a happening place this Summer, and there appears to be no abatement in sight! The end ofMay saw the annual Blues Festival, and though this is not specifically a we turned out in droves. Music continues, as it the Ozarks, through July 20th with Opera in the Ozarks at the Inspiration Point Fine Arts Colony. Commonly referred to as Opera Boot Camp, the annual opera season is a gruelling one for the performers. All practices and performances are staged outdoors, and it’s a sight (and sound) to behold for - folks of all orientations. This year’s season features La Bohome by Puccini, Don Giovanni by Mozart, and Die Fledermaus by Straus. All are fullystaged orchestra productions and. wall worth a trip to Eureka Springs - for an evening of opera, and a few days to enjoy the rest of what Eureka has to offer. For reservations and information about Opera in the Ozarks, call the Inspiration Point Fine Arts Colony at 501-253-8595. If Jazz is more to your liking, you will be happy to hear the 12th Annual Eureka Springs Jazz Festival is approaching with due speed. This year’s Jazz Festival will be held from September 19-22, and there will be music all over town. Featured performers will be Stanley Turrentineand Abroad Aladeen & the Deans of Swing with.concerts heldon Friday and Saturday evemngs at the Historic Eureka Springs City Auditorium. This year’s JazzFest will also feature nightly parties sponsored by the Eureka Springs Jazz Society in the Basin Park Ballroom. JezzFest performers will also entertain at the Jazz parties. The Jazz Festival hotline is 501-253- 6258. Call early to reserve tickets for the concerts as they are one of the hottest tickets of the season, & they sell out q ck y. Queer Eureka has had several shots in the arm this Summer, and the community has been very active in event organizing. On June 23rd, there was a Tea Dance and AGLTF (Arkansas Gay & Lesbian Task Force) membership drive held at Center Street South. It was a celebration of pride lesbigay event, always does in Music continues tl,e O~ar~s...commonly ret~erred to as Ope.a Boot Camp, the .annual o~.era season IS a ~ruell~n~ one ¯ and a chance to take a break from a hectic ¯¯ Summer, an opportunity to kick back and relax with friends. ¯ Coming up at the end of July - the : weekend of the 26th - there will be a ¯ camping weekend held at Lake Leather- " .wood Park sponsored by AGLTF. All are ¯ invited to attend. Comeprepared to spend a weekend in the fun and sun of the Ozarks with friends. You’ll be glad you did. Also coming up is the annual Eureka Springs .Gay Family Reunion, held m September at Beaver Dam Site Park. This event offers an opportunity to share in the community spiritofEureka’s lesbigay population. Food, fun, games, and a chance to ¯ meet new friends are a hallmark of this event. Stay tuned for date ¯ and time. : And, anytime is a good time to visit and ¯ enjoy the beauty Eureka Springs has to offer. There aremany t’melesbigay-owned ¯ shops and lodging facilities to visit, and ¯ lots of area attractions worthy of note. ¯ One absolute must-do when in our little ¯ utopia is a visit to the Emerald Rainbow. ¯ Linda and MC always have some kind of ¯ reader scheduled on the weekends, and : there is a weekend of aura photography planned for the same weekend as the ¯ AGLTF camping extravaganza. For in- " formation on the schedule of events at the : Emerald Rainbow, call 501-253-5445 or ¯ email: emrain@rog.ar.ispnet.com. ¯ Jim and Brent’s Bistro holds Famil~ ¯ Night the first Thursday of every month. ¯ The restaurant is closed to the public, and ¯ it’ s amuch-anticipatedmonthlyeventwith ¯ good food and good friends. A portion of " : the proceeds from each Bistro Family : Night goes toward some worthy lesbigay ¯ cause, usually a different one each month. ¯ When you plan your trip to Eureka ¯ Springs, be sure to check out all the finest ¯" lodgingavailable. You canview thefinest in Eureka Springs lodging, and all kinds ¯ ofrelatedbusinesses andevents on-lineat ¯ http://www.eureka-usa.com/ ¯ And, Positive Idea Marketing Plans al- ¯ ways has the inside line on where to stay, ¯ what to do, who to see. Send E-mail to ¯ emerald@intellinet.com or Call PIMP at ¯ ¯ 501-253-2401. Join us in Eureka Springs. You may never want to leave! A World of Thanks! r(Mcl lun0 alty, Inc. to Joe McClung & R.J. Jenkins on the sale of our lakefront home and the purchase_of our dream home¯ We appreciate you! Billie Hadley & Connie Swadick READ ALL ABOUT IT Reviewed by Barry Hensley Tulsa City-County Library Of all the topics surrounding the gay fights movement, one of the most contentious is the role of religion, not only in public law, but in the lives of individuals. Most people are exposed to some sort of religion,howeverminimal, during their upbringing. Balancing those early teachings with the realities that arisein adolescence and adulthood is the focus of Wrestling with the Angel. Twenty-one well known gay men from various religious backgrounds have contributed very blunt and entertaining short essays about how religion has impacted their lives. Contributors include National Public Radio reporter Frank Browning, authors Andrew H~lleran and Brad Gooch and former bishop Antonio Feliz, They span the religious spectrum from Baptist, Lutheran, Catholic, Mormon and Jewish to Hindu mad Muslim. Poet Kevin Killian presents an interesting history of growing up in ahigh school staffed,by Franciscans. He, and some of ¯ the staff, realized his orientation only af-. : tez it became clear that, while other boys ¯ were listening to and comparing scandal- : ous rock songs, Kevin found musical poetry in the original cast album of My Fair Lady~ resource ~or ~ay men want:~n~ to come to terms wlth tladr past, present, religious identi ieatlon. by James Christjohn ". When,] first heard that.Disney was,, adapting q’heHunchbackofNotreDame " and saw the previews shown last year, I : thought they were nuts. How,I wondered, ¯ could they adapt this particularly tragic : story into a cartoon, and a musical one to " boot? Big mistake, I thought. Well, I was : able to see it the other night, and it was wonderful. It had an especially relevant " message: that it is a mistake to judge " others on the basis of looks or on the basis ¯ of stereotypes. Itmadeaninteresting statement about power and religion, religious ’ fanatics, and those who, instead of deal- " ing with their own issues, project those ¯ issues onto others and persecute them. ¯ Theplotrevolves aroundFrollo. a"min- " ister of (in)justice", who is out to rid Paris of all sin and evildoers. Chief among those who are the cause of evil are the gypsies. In the process of persecuting these unfortunate folk, he accidentally kills a gypsy woman and is about to kill her misshapen child. Akindly priest stops him, and Frollo raises the child in hopes Quasimodo (hterally, half-formed) will be "of use" to him. One condition: Quasi is to be kept hidden - in the ball tower of Notre Dame. On a festival day, the"Feast of Fools", he sneaks out to see what it’s like to be free. He is crowned the king of fools, and when the crowd realizes he’s not wearing a mask, is ridiculed. The gypsy, Esmerelda helps him, despite Frollo s insistence that the ridicule go on, to "teach a lesson" to Quasi. Esmerelda defies and makes a fool of Frollo, who then decides to bum down Paris until he finds her. Also thrown into all this is his In Lev Raphael’ s entry, To be a Jew, he remembers reading a "notorious homobashing essay" in the Jewishmagazine Commentary, whichhadthe opposite effect onhim. Instead of steering him away from the Fire Island lifestyle, it drew him in and he found it captivating. Wrestling with the Angel is a beneficial resource for gay men wanting to come to terms with their past, and present, religious identification. Reading these experiences makes it clear that, : whatever your religious dilemma, you are ¯ following in the footsteps of others whose ~ stories may be able to bring comfort and : consolation. Check for this rifle, and others on simi- : lar topics, at your local branch library, or : call the Readers Services department of ~ the Central Library at 596-7966. desire that Esmerelda be his - or die. He justifies his actions by blaming her for his desires and sin. Sound familiar? Well, needless to say, it is a film with a timely message. There are many characters (Falwell, Robertson, Swaggart, Dobson, Roberts, Jan and Paul Crouch) in real life that are interchangeable with Frollo and his attitudes. And how timely a film, seeing as the Baptists are boycotting Disney because of the fact that Disney provides benefits to same sex partners. Who do these folks think wrote and made Beauty & the Beast, Aladdin, Little Mermaid, to name a few? And probably every Disney endeavor that needed creativity and art to be realized? Anyway, I digress. Write letters of support to Disney, for their gayfriendly policies, and for this film. Everyone should see it. As a gaymanwho was persecuted from 2rid to 10th grade for being different, I could easily rdate to Quasimodo. I was called ahomobefore I everknew what the word meant, and I was a rather fat, un- ¯¯ sightly child during adolescence. Every day at school was like Quasimodo’s day ¯ on the square for me. I think some, if not ¯ most gay folk can relate to that feeling. ¯ While the relationships portrayed in the ¯ film are heterosexual, I think enough ¯ "asides" get through to be relevant to our Thecastperforms excellently, wxthTom : HulcemakingQuasimodoapoignant char- ¯ acter,handledwithmuch sensitivity- Judge Frollo is easily the most evil Disney vii- " lain ever to grace the screen. 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Name: Age: Address: City, St. &Zip: Telephone: by Jean-Pierre, TFN Food Critic Longtime residents will recall times enjoyed in one of Tulsa’s old movie palaces, The Brook, at 34th and Peoria, right next door to the old Lewis Meyer Bookstore, and across the street from the infamous Concessions. This location sat empty and unused for years until recently, when the late Mr. Meyer was unceremoniously evicted, and a complete rehab of the premises.took place. From the remains emerged a bank owned by the Wal-Martpeople and anew bar and restaurant which took the name of the old movie house. From the day itfirst opened this establishment has packed in the crowds, and on a busy night, expect a long wait for a table. The main door on 34th Streetis situated in such a way that the diner gets the impression he is being ushered in through back door of the bar and past the service area by the kitcher~, be- ,fore enteringthe din- ~ng areas. Along the w.ay, one passes a big p~ece of machinery that seems to be either clutter or just in theway, butoncloser Atmosphere: Casual inspection, it turns out to the old film projector from the Prices: Inexpensive theatre. The restanrant space has been completely redone, l’~ on-smol~lng section and now the decor is averycleanandmod- All major credit cards ern nod to art deco themes, with the walls lined with Reeommendatlon: cheap reproductions of oldmovie posters. Diners are seated C llst in large booths, and find small menus on the tables. First time diners almost always ¯ make the same error. Mistaking the table ¯ menus for a bar menu or selection of late " night offerings, they ask for "the" menu. ¯ Well, folks, there is only one. ¯ The menu centers around sandwiches, " mostly burgers. There are also several ¯ entree salads ($4.50-6.95),nachos ($6.75), quesadillas ($5.95), fried mushrooms ." ($3.75), &a couple of simple pastaprepa- ¯ rations ($4.95-6.95). A Mexican shrimp cocktail (peel and eat served with pico di " gallo, $6.25) and a shrimp en brochette " (six skewered and broiled shrimp, $6.95) ¯ round out the menu. That’s it. ¯ Of course, the main attraction of the " Brookis the bar, which takes up abouthalf " of the total space. Drink prices are moder- ¯ ate, and size and pour are average. Many people take advantage of the large side- " The Brook 3401 South Peoria ... Well, the food wasn’t ~reat, but at least if was cl~eap. eompIMnt was the service (or relatlre On every Gsit to the Broob, th;s has been a s m;lar re/rain... Hours: llam to 2 am Mon. through Sat. & until 11 p.m. Sundays Category: Bar with restaurant ¯ walk cafe, When more than a few people ¯ are in the bar, it gets very loud and noisy. ¯ On a recent visit to the Brook, we tried ." the parmesan chicken salad ($6.25), a ¯ seattering ofdeep fried, parmesan cheeseencrusted chicken chunks on a nondescript bed of lettuce, which was surprisingly tasteless. Our companion tried a basicburger andfries ($4.35). Even though ordered medium well, the burger was quite dry and lacking in flavor. The fries, made with ..... the skins on, were slightly undercooked, and we later amused ourselves by watching the grease drip and pool on the plate. Well, the food wasn’t great, but at least 1I was cheap. Our biggest complaint was the service (or relative lack thereof). On every visit to the Brook, this has been a similar refrain. The waitresses are less than attentive, and can often be seen congregated in the service area chatting with one another. -...= Management seems to have adopted a policy of the nearest available waitress handling any of the diners’ needs, whether that be seating, ordering, bringing food to the table, or refilling water glasses, but it has taken the unfortunate turn of none of the staff feeling responsibility for any ofthe tables. On our last visit, we heard the short order cook ring the bell and shout, "Order up!" when a couple of plates were put in the service window. A few rmnutes later, we heard him repeathis announcement with a stronger sense of urgency. Still, the waitresses chatted in the bar. Finally, a few minutes later, he stuck his head out and shouted, "Hel-lo! There’s hot food in the window!" Finally, a waitress reluctantly ambled over to deliver the meal. It is difficult to understand why this restaurant continues to pack in the people, night after night. It isn’t the food, and it certainly isn’t the service. Perhaps its the late night hours and the fact the kitchen ~. stays open. But, when you are bored with the dancers at Concessions, this is the place to go for that midnight refueling stop. Just don’t expect much, and you won’t be disappointed. How To Do It First 30 words are $10. Each additional word is 25 cents. 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Heidi Mollenhauer provides Esmerelda’s singing voice, and turns "God Help The Outcasts" into a showstopper. Her contribution is outstanding and I predict we’ll hear much more from this Broadway star. Seinfeld’s Jason Alexander is pleasantly obnoxious as the Gargoyle Hugo, Mary Wickes, a familiar voice and face to TV and Films lends a more common sense touch to Laveme, the more pragmatic ofthe three gargoyles who have befriended Quasi in his prison. This fill marks her last performance, as she died shortly hefore its release. Rounding out the trio, Murphy Brown’s staid Charles Kimbrough lends his voice and physique to Victor, the gargoyle least likely to take any chances. Look out for a tribute to the Wizard Of Oz, and tell me, just try to tell me, that a gay man was not involved in that sequence. The music is well written, and if you buy the soundtrack, you get a song called "God Hdp The Outcasts" sung by Bette Midler. It is worth having for that song alone, whichis a showstopper in the fill. The score is more along the lines of a traditional musical than recent cartoons, which is refreshing - the songs further the plot nicely and reveal info about the characters, rather than give you the feeling that "Ok, this is the requisite ’hit’ pop song." Seven stars on a scale of five. On the local scene, BACPis gearing up for theupcoming production of’‘Taffeta", a ’50’s musical’.revue. It is scheduled to run from September 13-22. It will be followed by "Greetings", a comedy about thenature of earthly reality. Quitefrankly, earthly reality is something I have always found to be extremely comical. Take the existence of Steve Largent- please! (with him, you have to laugh. It’s better than crying. Besides, most jokes don’t last forever. Neither can he.) "Greetings" runs ROOM FOR RENT! Close to downtown with full bath and use of kitchen. Phone: 918-587 References required. HANDSOME 40’S COLLEGEGRAD CAUCASIAN MALE, 5’ 10", 160, NUDIST, TANNED AND BICURIOUS. NEW TO TULSA AND SEEKING CAREER EMPLOYMENT IN ADMINISTRATIVE ENVIROMENT W/O COMPUTER EMPHASIS. DRUG/DISEASE FREE,. NO CRIMINAL BACKGROUND, CLEAN OK DRIVERS LICENSE, AND MEMBER OF MENSA SOCIETY. ALSO SEEKING NUDISMFRIENDLY PLACETOLIVEW1TH BUS-SYSTEM ACCESS, NO DRUGS,DISEASEORLUNATICS. .HAVE HAD EXPERIENCE AS A NUDEARTISTS FIGURE MODEL AND WOULD ENJOY MORE. ENJOY SMOKING,MODERATE DRINKING AND CURIOUS ABOUT RECEIVING TRAINING IN GENTLE BID AND OTHER ARTS. SINCERE REPLIES FROM QUALITY PERSON(S) WEL COMED AND SOUGHT. Write to: #21 c/o TFN, POB 4140 Tulsa, OK 74159 from November 8-17. "Greetings", which has to be funnier than Steve Largent, will be followed by "Babes inToyland’, December6-15. February brings us "Laundry & Bourbon" (Actually, I always have laund~" to do.) & "Lone Star State, 2hilarious one-act shows that form a full length production. They explore the ratherridiculous lives of small town Texas. "The Heiress", now playing on Broadway, begins her sojourn in BrokenAl" row April4-13; and"Gypsy" comes to town shortly after. A season of fun for all! As for Halloween, "Black Comedy" and "Sorry, Wrong Number" will be performed in honor of the holiday For more info call 258-0077. The localmotion Foundation will present the 6th annual Contemporary Dance Feslival as part of the Summerstage Festival at the PAC. Many eclectic forms of Dance will be performed. An event not to be missed! Performances are July 26- 27,Spmin theJohnHWilliams Theatre of the PAC. Tix are $10, $8 for students (Yay!) and Localmotion members. For reservations, call the PAC at 596-7111. "QUILT: A Musical Celebration" indudes stories for, from, & about the NAMES PROJEC~AIDS Memorial quilt. A poignant play with moments of comic relief explores the individual life stories of lifemates, parents, children and friends who have lost loved ones to this insidious disease. The play runs August 15-18 in the John H Williams Theatre of the PAC. Performances are at 8pm, except for 2pm on Sunday. It is presented by Friends of the Broken Arrow Community playhouse in conjunction with Summerstage Festival ’96, which is sponsored in part by a grant from the PAC trust. Proceeds from QUILT benefit the NAMES PROJECT. Tickets are $10, and are available by calling 596-7111. From outside Tulsa, call 1- 800-364-7111. Free & Anonymous Finger Stick Method Bl! &for, but not exclusive . to the Lesbzan, Gay, & Bisexual Communities. Monday & Thursday evenings: 7-8:30 pm for testing, 7-9 pm for results. Daytime testing, Mon-Thurs by appointment. 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Title A name given to the resource [1996] Tulsa Family News, July 15-August 14, 1996; Volume 3, 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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Text Any textual data included in the document Aug. 15-sept. 14,1996, vol. 3, no. 9 Serving Tulsa’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Trans Communities Congressman Comes Out WASHINGTON - Rep. Jim Kolbe, an Arizona Republican and influential member of the House Banking Committee has acknowledged that he is Gay. Confronted with the prospect of an upcoming report in The Advocate about his sexual orientation, Kolbe beat the news magazine to the punch by coming out. Kolbe, who has been a representative to C6ngress since 1984 and has been a frequent GOP point-person on the North American Free Trade Act and critic of White House budget proposals, told the Arizona Daily Star, "I think it’s unfortunate for our society that things have to happen this way." But the 54-year-old Kolbe added, "I’m the same p~rson I was yesterday, and I’ll legislatejust the same way. This should b,e. as irrelevant as the fact that Iambloe-eyed, right-handed &balding." Theupcoming Advocate story reportedly was spurred at least partly by Kolbe’s vote in July for the so-called Defense of.Marriage Act (DOMA), which rights activists had adamantly opposed. In late July, a collection.of activists also took out a full-page ad in the Washington LACK & WHITE PRESENT TOP US GAY LEADER Elizabeth Birch, executive director of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), will give the keynote address for this year’s Black & White Charities, Inc. Gala dinner fundraiser. Birch leads the Human Rights Campaign which is the largest Lesbian and Gay political organization in the US. Birch formerly was legal counsel for Apple Computer, Inc. and also for Claris Corporation. Prior to joining Human Rights Campaign, Birch served as co-chair of the Board of Directors of the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF). . Over 260 patrons attended last year’s Gala at Philbrook Museum and a comparable numberis expected to attend the Sept. 7 event at the Downtown DoubleTree Hgtel. Over the years, Black & White Charities, Inc. have raised and donated over $31,000 in grants to other local charities. The HIV Resource Consortium will be the major recipient of this year’s grant. The HIV RC helps to provide services to "approximately 200 clients" with case management, transportation, Another part of the program will be the presentation of the first annual SWAN awards, ajoint program of PFLAG, parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays and Black & White Charities, Inc. The awards will recognize individuals "who through action and example, are helping to create a society see B & W, page 3 HOPE A New Namefor HIV Programs HOPE, HIV Outreach, Prevention, Education is the new name for an health program that began in the Gay community more than 14 years ago. Claudette Peterson, director of what was known as Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights (TOHR) HIV Testing Programs, announced the new name along with program’s success in getting funding for several critical new outreach programs. Peterson noted that the program had received funding for a"rural" HIV education outreach to "MSM’s" (men who have sex with men, regardless if.they identify as Bi, Gay see HOPE, page 3 Blade ur,gi,’ng "closeted gay and lesb!an members of Congress. to c0me out.. ,Headlined. ,~’A ,calL.to.. con~ ,. science," the ad didn’t threaten to out any closeted : uommunity of Hope Speaks members, butitwas the first timein5 years that closeted ¯ gays in Congress had become a national issue. Kolbe is the fourth member of Congress to publicly admit tobeing Gay - along with Reps. Gerry Studds, DMA, Barney Frank,. D-MA & Steve Gunderson, R-WI. Although Kolbe voted for DOMA, he also supports benefits for same-sex partners, and last year voted to keep the District of Columbia’s Domestic Partnership Act that gives some benefits to the partners of district employees. For Kolbe’s comments, see Kolbe, page 3 Military HIV Discharge Provision Dropped WASHINGTON -.A joint House-Senate conference committeehas unceremoniously dropped a provision in the 1997 defense authorization bill that would have required the discharge of service personnel infected with HIV. The HIV discharge provision was included in the House version of the $265.6 billion defense spending measure by Rep. Bob Doman (R-Calif.), despite objections of Pentagon officials. The Senate version of the bill included no such amendment. "Congress spoke on.this issue already when it repealed Dornan’ s HIV discharge measure in April," said Winnie Stachelberg, HRC’s’ legislative deputy. "Spite and bigotry are th~ only conb,eivable rehsons why Bob Dornan would have reintroduced this; measure after seeing itresoundingly defeated." Thejoint conference committee also :dropped a orovzszon that would have topI~led the don t ask, don t tell" policy in favor of an outright ban on Gays and Lesbians in the armed forces. Out In Sunday Tulsa World ¯ Community of Hope, a : United Methodist congre- ¯¯ gation, took $1,650 advertisement in The Sunday ¯ Tulsa Woddto speak out ¯ as a Christian community ¯ of faith "to call all Chris- " tians to stop using hateful ¯ language" against Lesbi- : ans and Gay men (see ad to ¯ right). The ad specifically : cites the language used by ¯ members" of Congress in ¯ recent debates on the"De- : fense of Marriage Act" ¯ which was co-sponsored ¯ by Tulsa Rep. Steve Largent and overwhelm- " ingly supported by ¯ Oklahoma’s House mere- ¯ bers. ! Acc°rdmg to a statemen=t ¯ gee Ad, p. 11 ¯ Elizabeth Birch, former counsel for Apple, now leads DC’s Human Rights Campaign. Coming Soon! Womens Supper Club RBG Business Fair Gay Comedy Jam Feast With Friends IAM Street Carnival RBG Lake Retreat see Coming, page 11 WE CALL ALL CHRISTIANS TO STOP USING HATEFUL LANGUAGE! UNITED METHODIST COMMUNITY OF HOPE ¯ audience with,over 400 attending on, two nights~. , ¯ : The largest grant ($3,500) went to,the HIV Resource consortium, " ¯ the second largest ($2,500) to the Medication Fund Of the Visiting " ¯ Nurse Association and grants of $1,500 went to Interfaith AIDS ¯ Ministries AIDS information line, Shanti=Tulsa Storehouse, Our " ¯ House, Regional AIDS Interfaith Network, see Follies, page 11 " Sid Spenser Singer Dies Unexpectedly ¯ : , " 1 and died ~’n hospital, see Sp ¯ Follies ReVue Beneficiaries i ’ ’ " ~ Follies Revue, Inc. has announced,the.distrib~tti0n ,of net proceeds t.rom its annu,gl, fundrais~ng peffom!,ance. Thislyear s event raised 4 $14,000 to hel~ l~d agencies that p~ovide direr support t~ persons.,~ ~AL~.Err~I~S/DIR~TO~Y p. ¯ liviongwithAIDS orvHIV ipfe~tion. Fedllies Revoe~ Irnc. has rais.ed ¯ ... . -- . . . ., . :! NEWS’BRIEFS ! $115,000 m its ezght years of servzce. This year s event which was . , P. 4 : hdd at the Doubletree Hotel, Warre~ Place attracted the largest ever " HEAL’rI~ BRIEFS i P. fi ¯ ’ CALENDAR P. 9 Many Gay Oklahomans were surprised and shocked by the news of the death in July of native singer, Sid Spencer, from complications fromAIDS in Calgary, Canada. Spencer, who performed regularly in Tulsa at the Silver Star Saloon, was performing Ot the Alberta Gay Rodeo. He was,~tficken wi,lh pneumoma P. 11 P. 12 P. 13 P, 15 EUREKA SPRINGS ADS BOOK REVIEW/ENTERTAINMENT RESTAURANT REVIEW CLASSIFIEDS 918.583.1248 Publisher/Editor, Tom Neal POB 4140 Assistant Editor, James Christjohn Writers/contributors Tulsa, Oklahoma Phyl Boier-Schmidt 74159-0140 Barry Hensley Jean=Pierre Legraridbouche Leanne Gross TulsaNews@aol.com Gerald Miller Issued on or before the 15th of each month, the entire contents of this publication are protected by US copyright 1996 by Tulsa Family News and may not be reproduced either in whole or in part without written permission from the publisher. Publication of a name or photo does not indicate that person’s sexual orientation. Correspondence is assumed to be for publication unless otherwise noted, must be signed & becomes the sole property_of Tulsa Family News. All correspondence should be sent tO the address above. Each reader is entitled to one free copy of each edition at distribution points. Additional copies are available by calling 583-1248. by Phyl Boler-Schmidt Last December, I decided to take on an impossible project. I knew it was impossible from the outset, but I was determined to be a.voice of reason inthe midst of many voices of confusion. What, you ask, am i talking about? With the brutal murders of Roxanne and Michelle, two lesbian activists in Oregon,my sense ofneeding to do something tobring the warring parties over lesbigay civil rights to the same tablewas literally pushed over the edge. I just had to do something. So, I decided to begin a dialogue on an Internet’.newsgroup called alt.org.promisekeepers. What I wanted to accomplish was nothing different than lesbigay civil rights activists have been working toward since the beginning of our movement. I wanted Christian fundamentalists (and everyone else for that matter) to begin to see us as human beings, to stop villifying us insearch of political advancement, to STOP the violence. Knowing full well I am only one person, see Enemy, page 3 by G. Miller. M_4. Peoplehavekiddedmefor along-time about having an answer for every problem or situation. But it occurred to me lately that what I see as common sense answers are somehow often overlooked by other people. So the following is a beginning set of things for the reader to consider in terms of how to make your daily life less complex and run more smoothly. 1. Don’t go where you are not wanted! Sounds simple and it is. If there are places or people who go out of their way to make you to less than comfortabl~, DON’T GO THERE. DOn’t go to businesses which treat you or your friends badly. 2. Stay away frompeoplewho try to make your life miserablet That includes, parents, siblings, or any form of relative. This also includes associates of friends, or coworkers in your work place. That’s right, COWORKERS. You may have to be around them to work but otherwise steer dear whenever possible. 3. Don’t say you’ll do something when you reall~ don’t want to do it! I used to make myself see Life, page 3 Tulsa Clu~)s & Restaurants *Concessious, 3340 S. Peoria *Lola’s, 263OE. 15th *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 *Interurban Restaurant, 717 S. Houston 832-1269 744-0896 749-1563 745-9998 834-4234 585-3405 660-0856 584-1308 585-3134 Tulsa Businesses, Services, & Professionals Dennis C. Arnold, Realtor 746-4620 *Assoc. in Med.& Mental Health, 2325 S. Harvard 743-1000 Kent Balch & Associates, Health & Life Insurance 747-9506 *Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 8620 E. 71 250-5034 Brookside.Jewelry, 4649 So. Peoria 743-5272 *Creative Collection, 1521 E. 15 592-1521 Cherry Street Psychotherapy Associates 1515 S. Lewis 581-0902, 7434117 Tim Danid, Attorney 352-9504, 800-742-9468 *Deco to Disco, 3212 E. 15th 749-3620 DOn. 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Mingo *Free SpiritWomens Center, call for location&info: 583-7314 628-0594 583-9780 585-1800 298-4648 622-1441 587-4669 Friend For A Friend, POB 52344, 74152 747-6827 Friends in Unity Social Organization (African-Amer. men) POB 8542, 74101 4254905 Indian Health Care, Save the Nation 584-4983 : Interfaith AIDS Ministries - 438-2437, 800-284-2437 *MCC of Greater Tulsa, 1623 N. Maplewood 838-1715 : *HIV Resource Consortium : 4154 S. Harvard, Ste. H-1 7494194 ; NAMES PROJECT, 4154 S. Harvard, Ste. H- 1 748-3111 ," PFLAG , POB 52800 74152 7494901 ¯ Prime-Timers, P.O. Box 52118 74104 i R.A.I.N., Regional AIDS Interfaith Network 7494195 _Rai~nbow B,usiness Guild, POB 4106, 74159. 665-5174 St. Jerome s~-C~tlirlic Church, 3841 S. Peoria, 646-7116 ¯ *Shanti Hotline 749-7898 ¯ Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights, (TOHR) POB 52729 74152 TOHR Gay HelpLine 0nfo.) 7434297 ¯ Technicians, 1338 E. 3rd 584-1308 : T.U.L.S.A. Tulsa Uniform/Leather Seekers Assoc. 838-1222 ¯ *Tulsa City Hall, Cafeteria Vestibule, Ground Floor : *University Center at Tulsa ¯ Autumn Breeze Restaurant, Hwy 23 South 501-253-7734 ¯" Beaver Dam Store, 1/2 mi. N. ofDam Hwy. 187 501-253-6154 ". *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 ; Geek to Go!, PC Specialist, POB 429 501-253-2776 : Heart of the Hills Bed & Breakfast & Reservation Service ¯ 501-253-7468, 800-253-7468, x882 ! King’sHi-Way,96King.sHighway,Hwy.62W 800-231-1442 ¯ _M~C~Q~o.~[ the Living Spring 501-253-9337 : McClung Realtors 501-253-9682 ." Positive Idea Marketing Plans 501-253-2401 ¯ Rock Cottage Gardens 501-253-8659 800-624-6646 ¯" Sparky’s, Hwy. 62 East 501-253-6001 ." The Woods, 50 Wall St. 501-253-828_1. : _: Carbon Copy editors, The Tulsa Worm Why are we afraid .of same-sex marriage? Is it change? Without change, we can not grow. Why are we afraid of anyone or anything that is differentfromus or our views.’? what would the world be like if we were all the same? Marriageis acommitmentbetweentwo people who love one another. Single-parent homes, illegitimate children, abusive spouses, alcoholism, joblessness and multiple marriages are aspects that are tearing the family and marriage apart. Please tell me where same-sex mamage will destroy the institutions of marriage and family. And is it wrong for a married see Eetters, page 3 Rev. Nancy J. Horvath M. Div., Pastor Sunday 9:15 am Christian Education 11:00 am Worship Service. Wednesday 6:30 pm Midweek Service 7:30 pm Choir Practice Thursday 7:30 pm Codependency Support Group 5451-E S. Mingo ¯ Tulsa~ OK ¯ 74146 (918) 622-1441 why I decided to take on the Promise Keepers is Something I really can’t explain. I just needed to do something. My experiencepleasantly surprisedme. And, I’d like to share this experience with you because I think if it worked once, it can work again.Ifmore of us step out and try to communicate with those we perceive as the enemy, perhaps we will make a difference, if not for our generation, at least for those that follow. My original note posted was entitled Opinions on Hate Speech. In it, I asked these simple questions, after outlining the events that had transpired in Oregon: "What are your feelings about this? Can you see why gays and lesbians are horrified when those among you villify us, call us child molesters, say that God hates us, and use other extremely derogatory terminology to describe who we are? Isn’t there some other way to disagree on the subject ofcivil rights legislation?Canyou see why somein yourmovementmightbe resp°nsiblealruenasdtyablef°r incitingpeople ~loe~eC~l~l~’~ for someone to hurt anyway? Isn’t there another alternative?" The immediate response by o~er 20 men who frequent the newsgroup was a defensive knee-jerk reaction. They accusedme of trying to blame Christians for everything. They toldme that a crime had been committed, and it didn’t matter if it was brought about by hatred of gays and lesbians. They tried every conceivable way to convince me that it had nothing whatsoever to do with their faith. It was only one unstablemancommitting a crime see Enemy, page 7 : ¯ sued by Rep. Jim Kolbe (R-Ariz.) on his ". announcement that he is Gay: : ’q’wenty years ago, when I first sought ¯ public office, I made a decision that my : commitment to civic involvement would : mean my public life would have to come : ahead of my personal and private life. ¯ I have, in the intervening 20 years, : sought to fulfillmypublicresponsibilifies ¯ in a manner that benefits all those I have :. represented in either the Arizona Legisla- ¯ ture or in Congress. I will continue that : commitment as long as I am in public : Service. Ilookbackon whatlhaveaccom- : proud of the record I have compiled. : NAFTA was the capstone of this vision. I ¯. have fought to lower the crushing tax ¯ burden on our families by reducing taxes. : I have worked for six years as a member _" of the budget committee to achieve a ¯. balanced budget so we can relieve our ¯ children of the burden of a crushing na- : tional debt. I have worked to keep : Arizona’s reputation as the astronomy i cOatapdivtaanlces intheawssourrlidngbaystrwonilolmgyotnheaWtforward : here. I have argued and won funds to : protect our natural heritage, including the ¯ "expansion of Saguaro National Park. And : justthis weekweachievedthemostsweep- : ing, most important reform of welfare in : decades. There is, of course, much more ¯ but this is a record I believe I can point to : with justifi-able pride. The following ts a press statement is- ¯. [ am just as proud of my record in the ¯ area ofhumanrights andindividual right.s. : I abhor and vigorously oppose discrinu- : nation in the workplace based on race, ¯ religion, gender, or sexual orientation - ." any treatment that is not based on merit. I : foug.h,t to repeal thepr.ovision inlaw which ’. armed seravnicaeus tmomemaubcerdwishcohiasrHge oIfVany-posi-reqmres : five. I support health benefits for domes- ". fie parmers. ¯ I also believe that if the citizens of ~ Hawaii believe it to be in their public ." interest to permit same-sex mamages, ¯ they should be permitted to do so. By the ¯ same token, other states - as Arizona has : done - should be allowed to define mar- : riage differently, and not be required to accept the.definition adopted by others. It .¯ is for this reason that I voted for the so- ." called Defense of Marriage Act when it ¯ was before the House a few weeks ago. °. Now, however, there are some who : have decided that theirdisagreement with : this particular vote warrants their making : public information aboutmy privatelife - ¯ information they may have heard second : or third-hand about my sexual onenta- ." tion. That I am a Gay person has never ¯ affected the way that I legislate. The fact ". that I am Gay has never, nor will it ever, : change my commitment to represent all : the people of Arizona’s 5th District. ¯ I am the same person, one who has : spentmany yearsstruggling torelieve the : tax burden for families, balance the bud- ~ get for our children’ s future, andimprove ¯ the quality of life we cherish in Southern : Arizona. I intendto continue that mission : if the voters of the 5th District, in their ¯ wisdom, decide that I should represent them in the 105th Congress.’" ¯ versity", : The Black&White Charities, Inc. Gala : will begin with a reception at 7pro fol- ¯ lowed by the dinner at 8pro. The highly ~ regarded, Follies Revue Singers will pro- : vide entertainment. Valet parking will be : provided. For more info., call 587-7314. : orheter0sexual) in smallOkl.ahomatowns : and rural areas. In particular, this effort ¯. will target Muskogee, Okmulgee, ¯ Tahlequah and Bartlesville. While it’s ". estimated that the majority of HIV trans- ~ mission/infection is these areas is still ¯ -through male to male contact, a small : survey by the Oklahoma State Dept. of : Health indicates that AIDS cases in rural : Oklahomans is still rising but that men in ¯ these areas may perceive themselves as at : lowerrisk. AndMSM’s whomay be mar- : ried to women may face challenges in : incorporating safersex practices into their ¯ relationships, and even in just getting "¯ condoms in a small town where anonym- : ity is not likely. ¯ The program will work to provide sup- . port groups, peer education and greater ." access to HIV see HOPE, page 11 ". ". WINDSOR MARKET ANTIQUES, ART & INTERIOR DES1GN DALLAS - TULSA GE:T READY TULSA THE ULTIMATE SHOPPING EXPERIENCE COMING OCTOBER 1996 IN THE VILLAGE OF WOODLAND HILLS 6808 SOUTH MEMORIAL, SUITE 300 !TULSA, OKLAHOMA 74133 PLEASE: CONTACT CINDY WATSON AT: (9t8) 254-9766 " NEW LEi SING VIGNETTES TO INTERIOR DESIGNERS, ANTIQUE.DEXLERS &. ARTISANS WITH QUALITY, INTEGRITY& CREATIVITY Zimbabwe Gays Harrassed by Govt HARARE, Zimbabwe (Aug. 2) - Gays and lesbians won a legal battle over the government of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe in their on-again, offagain efforts to participate in the nation’s International Book Fair, the largest publishing showcase in sub-Saharan Africa. The country’s High Court overturned a government ban on the Gays and Lesbians Association of Zimbabwe (GLAZ), saying the country’ s censorship laws were being improperly applied. The court said the government had exceeded its authority when it banned the organization withouteven exzmining theliterature the group intended to display at a booth at the fair. The government promptly said, however, that it would examine whatever books, pamphlets or otherliteratureGLAZbrings to the fairand would press charges against the group and its members if the material was believed to be "promoting homosexuality." For the 2rid year in a row, the government tried to block the only lesbian and gay group in the country from participating in the Fair. OnJuly 22, Joyce Mujuru, the country’s information minister, said the government wouldn’ t intervene in the fair to block GALZ from participating. But the next day, government spokesman Bornwell Chakaodza said gays and lesbians "have absolutely no right to publicly display literature and material at a public and cultural event where..,children visit." The Zimbabwean government, last year faced intenseinternational cfiticismwhen it banned the GALZ from the fair. Organizers of the event managed to keep the event in Zimbabwe this year, after making commitments that GALZ would be allowed to set up an exhibit stand at the fair to distribute literature. A spokespersonforGALZhassaidthe group plans to go ahead with its plans to set up a booth at the fair, despite the government’s decision. Organizers of the fair said they were still concerned about the possibility of violence because of the GLAZ booth. Among other things, shortly before the High Court ruling, a leader of Uniyersity ¯" of Zimbabwe student group With close ¯ ties to the President Robert Mugabe told ¯ the fair organizers that gays and lesbians ¯ that-show up at the event will "face public ¯ genocide." In fact, a mob of between 60 and 100 ¯¯ angry students mostly from the University of Zimbabwe showed up on the final ¯ two days of the fair. ¯ On the final day of the fair, a group of students again showed up, and GLAZ ¯ members quickly left the booth for safety. Unsatisfied with simply driving theGLAZ volunteers away, however, the student ¯ mob proceeded to thoroughly trash the ¯ booth and bum the pamphlets that had ¯ been left behind. Although book fair staffers quickly put ¯ the fire out, many of the nearby ¯ publishing booths" also felt threatened ¯ enough to pack up their own displays and ¯ leave the fair, complaining that they were ¯ losirig enormous amounts of money ¯ because of the continued disruptions. : Congressmen’s i Spouses Gang Up ¯ -on Anti-Gay Rep. WASHINGTON (July 30) - Just how ¯ disliked by gays and lesbians is Rep. Bob ¯ Doman, the Orange County, Calif., Republican? Well, earlierin JulyHerbMoses, ¯ the longtime companion of Rep. Barney ¯ Frank (D-Mass.) toldreporters in thecapi- ¯ tal that he has. been helping raise cam- " paign funds for Loretta Sanchez, the ¯ Democratwhois trying to unseat Dornan. ¯" Now Moses has now been joined by Dean Hara, the partner of Rep. Gerry ," Studds (D-Mass.) and Rob Morris, the ¯ companion of Rep. Steve Gunderson (R- ¯ Wise.), in helping raise money for : Sanchez’ campaign to oust Dornan, who ¯ has a fondness for referring to gaymen as ¯ ¯ "homos.,Morris told reporters.that the 3 openly gay members of Congress may _" attendanupcomingfundraiserforSanchez ¯ but hadn’t been asked to be involved in ¯ planning the event. "I think Herb and ¯ Deanand I want to keepBarney and Gerry ¯ and Steve out of it," Morris told The Hill. ’q’his is our project." Scottish Gays Can Adopt EDINBURGH, Scotland (July 29) - A Scottish gay man has won a court appeal that will allow him tO adopt a 5-year-old severely handicapped boy whose morn has told child welfare authorities she doesn’ t want the child. The unnamed man, identified only as a 34-year-old nurse, had earlier this year been told by a lower court that he could not adopt the boy because he is gay, even though the man and his lover have cared for.the 5-year-old for the past 18 months. But a 3-judge Scottish appeals court reversed that ruling, saying there was no legal reason prohibiting gays andlesbians from adopting children. The court said that all the information gathered about the two men and their lifestyle and relationship with the boy "’pointed strongly in favor of the proposed adoption." The child, who was put up for adoptionby his motherjust weeks afterhe was born, is both deaf and unable to talk, and can walk only with assistance. California Hate Crimes OAKLAND, Calif. (July 17) - California has just released its first full-year of data about hate crimes in the state, although authorities and anti-violence advocates agree it probably doesn’t reflect biasbased crimes very accurately. According to the state justice department summary, there were 1,754 hate crimesin California in 1995, involving more than 2,600 vierims. The only previous report for the state coveredjust the last half of 1994 and reported only 672 such crimes. Justice department officials were quick to acknowledge "holes" in the report. Among other things, only 215ofthe state’ s 750 law enforcement agencies reported any information on hate crimes. Some cities reported disproportionately higher numbers of hate crimes, possibly because police there have been more sensitized to reporting such acts of violence. San Francisco, for example, reported 290 biasbased crimes for 1995, while Santa Clara P AlrERSON REALIORSx LEA ANN MACOMBER Realtor Associate Mobile: 671-2010 2642 E. 21st Stre~-t ¯ Suite 170 ,.Tulsa, Oklahoma 74114 Off: 918-749-8374., Res: 918-582-7672 ¯ Fax: 918-747-1795 Metropolitan Community Church of Greater Tulsa Where God Uplifts All People Sunday,Service, 10:45 am 1623 No. Maplewood 838-1715 Community Cleaning O A Residential and Commerical Cleaning Service Kerby Baker (918) 622-0700 Call for Free Estimate DISC0 TO DISCO 20TH BUY* SELL* CONSIGN COOL 3213 E. 15th St. O’rlll:E: Tulsa, Ok 74104 (918) 749-3620 ¯ County - which has more than twice the ¯ population - reported just 47 such crimes ¯ during that year. ¯ Some 69% of the reported incidents ¯ included in the report were based on race ¯ or ethnic background; about 18% of the ¯ hate crimes reportedwerebasedonsexual ¯ orientation; just over 12% were based on : religion. According to the state report, ¯ gay men were 4 times as likely as lesbians to be the target of attacks. Lesbian Speakers at Political Conf. WASHINGTON (July 18)- According ¯ to the Washington Post, tennis superstar Martina Navratilova says she’ s head over : heals in love with model Hunter Reno, ¯ who also happens to be a niece of U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno. The Post ¯ quoted Navratilova as saying she loves the blond L’Oreal model "in a way I haven’t loved before" and that Hunter ¯ Reno said the tennis ace is a"very special : person" to her. The younger Reno will be one of sev- ¯ eral noted women slated to address the ¯¯ Human Rights Campaign’s OutVote ’96 scheduled to be held in Chicago in Au- ¯ gust.-Along with Reno will be Chastity ¯ Bono, Candace Gingrich and U.S. golfer ¯ Muffin Spencer-Devlin. ¯ Trans Ex-Husband ¯ Seeks Child Visits ¯ LONDON 0nlY 19) - A [emale-to-male ¯ transsexual who has been married to a ¯ woman for 17 years is appealingaBritish ¯ court ruling that refuses him visitation rights with the couple’ s children. ¯ A court earlier this year declared the ¯ marriage of the couple, who are not being ¯ named, annulled because of "a profound deception" on the part of the husband. ¯ During the divorce proceedings, the wife ¯ in the case told the court that she"always believed he was a man" and had undergone artificial insemination in order to have their children. ¯ But the husband, who is 50, has ap- ¯ pealed the court’s ruling that he has no ¯ visitation rights with the couplers children because he had perjured himself in order to get married in the first place. During the divorce proceedings, the wife, whois 49 years oldnow,had told the court that when she and her husband had had sex, she believed he either had a very small or deformed penis. But, She told the court, they never discussed it and that she never reMized the man was using an artificial penis during sex. ¯¯ accidentally, killin~ Smith. But prosecuting attorney Lee Davis questioned Butler about why she had not : tried to give any aid to the shot.woman or even call an ambulance. Davis also intro- " duced forensic evidence that Smith had : been shot by a pistol that had been held. ¯ only about an inch fromhermouth at the time it was fired. Tennessee Murder Chaplain Booted Trial Winds Up for Bad Att,tudes ORLANDO, Fla. (July 24) - According CHATtANOOGA, Tenn. (July 19)-As to the Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel, John B. the-murder trial of Adriana Butler, 23, ¯ Book, ahighlyvisibleanti-gayministerin drew to a dose, the college honors gradu- ." ate and mother of a 3-month-old infant, " testified ,,that she "never intended to kill ¯ anybody in the October 1994 shooting " death of Cathy Smith, even though she wanted the woman to stop having a les- ¯ bian relationship with her mother, Donna Evans. ¯ Butler said she was opposed to the " "’unnatural relationship" between Smith " and her mother, but socialized with the two women in order to maintain her faro- ¯ ily contacts. Under cross-examination, " Butleracknowledgedthat the three women " had in fact taken vaeatious in Atlanta and " Alabama together, and that they had also ° gone-to a local bar popular with lesbians " and gay men. She insisted, however, that her mother " ’~gave in to, Cathy [Smith] in order to keep the peace’ and told the court that Evans"-" was ashamed of her relationship with " Smith but was afraid of losing her job if " she broke it off. According to Butler, the night of the ° killing, Smith had shown up at her home, where Evans was staying, and an argu- : ment hadbroken out during which Smith had punched Evans in the stomach and " knocked her glasses off. The woman tes- " lifted that she also was hit by Smith when " she tried to break up the senffle outside the house between the two women. ¯ She told the court that at this point she went and got a gun and returned to the driveway where Smith and Evans were, " butbeganwalkingawayfrom Smithwhen ¯ the woman grabbed her and twirled her around suddenly and that thegun Went off " central Florida, has been fired from his post as a volunteer chaplain with the Orange County Sheriff’s Dept. afterhe publicly criticized a deputy sherifffor attending a gay pride parade earlier in June. The Sheriff’s office declined to daborate on Book’s firing except to say that his "inabilityandunwillingness" to workwith gays andlesbians in the department and in the communi,ty at large made him unacceptable in the post. Gay Videos End Coach’s Career ASHBURN, Va. (July 19) - When Jeff Bruton’s wife Melanie sued for divorce, among the evidence presented were accusations that her husband had appeared in a number of popular gay pornographic videos under the name Ty Fox. When Bruton’s employers learned of the reason forthe divorceproceedings, they launched thmeir own.inves.tigation and say that if the enare indeedone and the same, Brnton will.have to resign as aphysical education teacher and assistant coach for football, baseball and wrestling at a Sterling, Va., high school - and possibly his Virginia state teaching certification. Edgar Hatriek, superintendent of schools for Loudoun County, told reporters that teachers"are C"hOSen to bemstmc-" tors as welJ as leaders of our young people...in their professional as wall as ~edesoinsaalnlivaellse.g"aHtieoandodfeda,l"iWfeshtaytlewethhaatvies not in keeping with that." School officials, however, said they have been unable to contact Bruton directly because of the summer vacation, and also said that the gym coach’s phone number has been disconnected. But Steve Thompson, who is Bruton’s agent, confirmed for reporters that his client is in fact Ty Fox and, in addition to modding swimwear and athletic clothing, Bruton also made gay pornographic videos. Thompson also said that Brnton plans to resign his teaching post, which he’s held since 1993, "whether it’s fair or not." Choral Festival Concludes TAMPA, Fla. (July 15) - Festival V, described as the largest gay and lesbian gala in the world, drew to a dose after what organizers considered a highly successful 8 days ofsinging, singing, and still more singing. The Gay & Lesbian Association of Choruses, which sponsors the annual showcase of choruses from around the world, said more than a hundred choruses participated in Festival V, drawing more than 5,000 lesbian, gay and bisexual singers. Poet Maya Angelou gave an openingnightaddress,.. and although therehadbeen ,cgncerns that anti-gay protesters might disrupt the festivities, only a handful of prot,esters showed up at one of the earlier opemng day events. The festival also saw the premiere of several works commissioned for Festival V. ¯ answer you want to hear but...". You will .save.yourself a lot of anxiety and grief by ¯ just being truthful. This includes the so- " cial WHITE LIE. If this is too large a step ¯ then begin with simply saying you prefer not to answer, and stick to your guns. ¯ 5. Quit worrying ~b~.ut what happened yesterday. You can t fix what is already ¯ done. Equally, don’t worry about future situations over which youhaveno control ¯ anyhow. ¯ 6. Start living inside the moment you are in. If someone makes you angry, let ¯ them know it. If someone hurts your feel- ¯ ings, let them know it. If someone mis- ¯ treats you, don’t put up with it. Take action, even if that only means removing ¯ yourself from their presence. ¯ . 7. Us.e some common sense about deal- . mg with everyday life. You are in control of y.our, life far more than you ima "he n t let others take the ~mttattve of dic- ¯ ta.ting your life. They will try to get away ¯ wjth as much as possible. Learn to recogm. ze what you, can effectively handle and what you can t. ¯ Most importantly keep inmind that you ¯ don’t have to win every battle to win the ¯ war. Don’t let others sap your energies. Pick and chose the right time and right ¯ place. Truly you are the Captain of your ¯ ship and the Master of your own fate. .* We make life far more difficult than it ¯ really is and we usually fall into that trap by letting others set the situation and start ¯ the game. Remember the famous "It’s my ball and I make the rules!"? Start thinking ¯ of your life as your"ball" and when others ¯ insiston making thegamemiserable, take ¯ your ball and go home. You can always ¯ find someone else to play ball with. Keep inmind some people aren’thappy unless they are making someone else unhappy, and usually that will mean you. Don’t waste a scintilla of time or effort on those types. Move on and let them eat themselves up. ff they have so little self esteem that they have to tear someone down to feel important, @#$%^ them. Only you can start making your life easier and morerewarding. You have to start today, because each day that passes brings you closer to the great black nothingness which probably awaits us all. Copyright © 1996 Gerald Miller miserable going to social gatherings I .didn’t really want to attend because I felt ~t was my duty. BS! Now I only go where I really want to beand Ihaveamuchbetter time. This also includes favors for other people, just learn to say No in a polite fashion. 4. Don’t lie! Tell the truth when asked a question, even if you know the questioner won’t like the answer. 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Nearly 70,000 people get assistance for AIDS drugs through the program, which is largely paid for with federal funds. The Clinton budget proposal would increase federal spending - about two-thirds of the total program - from $115 million this year to $195million during the next fiscal year. Theomove comes in the wake of medical reports at the international AIDS conference in Vancouv& earlier in July that indicate the new class of protease inhibitors, combined with already-approved anti-HIV drags, show enormous potential for completely suppressing the virus. Patients andAIDS advocates, however, have increasingly warned that despite the heartening news about the new drugs, most people with AIDS in this country would not be able to afford the expensive new treatments. "While new drug treatments offer enormous hope to people living with HIV," Clinton said at the fundraiser, "it is also clear that our work is far from complete." Reform Party’s Lamm Suggests Cut Care for PWA’s NEW YORK (July 21) - Although it got little notice by the media, former Colorado G0v. Richard Lamm, who has declared his desire to be the 1996 presidential nominee of the Reform Party, said on a television news program Sunday, July 21, that the government should virtually write off people who already have AIDS. "I think in a world of limited resources weshould spendmoremoney onresearching the cause ofAIDS and how to prevent it than we should treating the people that are going to die anyway," Lammsaid on the CBS-TV program "Face the Nation." Mark Sturdevant, vice chairman of the Reform Party who has urged Lamm’s candidacy, later insisted the former Colorado governor wasn’t actually saying the country should "pull the plug" on people who are sick, but said that as the country,,, increasingly faced "limited resources Americans "need to start talking about these issues." Lamm raised hackles in-1984 for similarremarks whenhe said the elderly "have a duty to die and get out of the way." Gene Defect May Protect from AIDS WASHINGTON (Aug. 8) -Two separate teams of researchers have identified a genedc mutation that appears to protect some people against AIDS. The finding may-explain why some people infected with HIV remain healthy and virtually symptom-free of the disease for years. The teams of U.S., European and Japanese scientists have found that people with two copies of a certain defective gene - one each from their mother and father - appear to be resistant to the most common strain of HIV in Western countries, the one which is transmitted sexually most commonly. They estimated that ¯¯ only about 1% of the Caucasian populalion has both defective genes. : Theteam tookblood samples from 1,800 ¯ healthy U.S., European, African andJapa- ¯ nesevolunteers.Theyexposedthe samples ~ to the most common strain of HIV in test : tubes. Reporting in thejournal Nature, the ¯ researchers found that all the blood : samples were infected after exposure - ¯ except those from white people with two : copies of the mutated gene. ¯ The second team of scientists, from the : Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center : in New York, found the same double ; genetic mutations in the blood of two ¯ white males who knowingly had unpro- : tected sex with infected partners, yet re- : main uninfected themselves. ." As these researchers report in thejour- ¯ hal Cell, they could not infect blood ¯ samples from these two men - even with ¯ 1,000 times the amount of HIV it usually : takes to trigger an infection. ¯ The researching findings suggest that : drugs to do this would probably have no ; side effects, since the lack of the protein : target in the Caucasians appears to have ¯ caused them no known negative health- : problems. : Heterosexual HIV : Showing Up in UK : LONDON (Aug. 1)-A much more vim- . lent strain of HIV, believed to be more : likely to spread by heterosexual contact, ." has ~pread from Thailand to Great Brit- " ain, researchers reportin the Britishinedi- : cal journal New Scientist. ¯ The virus .subtype E is widespread throughout Asia, where most of those ¯ infectedareheterosexual,nothomosexual. ¯ As a result, researchers and epidemiolo- : gists believe the virus subtype is more : easily spread via heterosexual sex than ¯ subtype B, which has mainly affected gay : and bisexual men in North America and ~ Europe. Since the first case of subtype E ¯ infection in England was announced earlier this year~ British health officials have since identified 72 additional subtype E infections. ¯ Report" Herpes : ¯ : Virus Linked to KS ¯ CHICAGO (July 30)-Two studies in the : healthmagaT.ineNatureMedicinestrongly ¯ suggests that Jhe human herpes virus 8 ; (,I-IHV8) isthecauseofKaposi’s sarcoma, ¯ a cancer that strikes many people with : AIDS. Using a recently devdoped blood ¯" test for HHVS, researchers say they most ." often found the virus in blood samples of ~: people with sexually transmitted diseases, ¯ a Strong implication the virusis also sexu- ." ally transmitted. 2nd HIV Home Test ¯ Approved; States ¯ Fight Availability ¯" CHICAGO (July 24) -~A 2nd HIV home- : testing kit has now gone on sale after ¯ being approved by the Food & Drug Ad- ¯ ministration. 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This year the Atlanta Braves will become the 2nd pro baseball team to sponsor such an event when it hosts a "Stepping Up to the Hate Day" in Sept: at the Atlanta-Fulton Co. Stadium benefiting AIDS organizations in the Atlanta area. At the first Until There’s a Cure Day in 1994, opposing team Colorado Rockies wouldn’t even join the S.F. Giants on the field to form ahuman AIDS ribbon until they were brow-beaten into it by Giants’ teammembers andcatcalls from the stands. of violence, not a s.ymbol of a larger societal problem that lS exascerbated by like-minded individuals who blindly follow the ramblings of the likes of Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Patrick Buchanon, etc. And of course, I was bombarded with Bibfieal quotations about the sinfulness of my ways. I knew this would happen, and since I had gone in with my eyes wide open, I knew I was not going to act defensively to protect my position. I wanted dialogue, not an argument. ,So, with each and every note from one of these men, I responded with the same basic premise: "Yourpremisesmaydiffer from mine, and that’s okay.We just need ¯ There are some more modern texts that : to put those on the table sowecan actually know what weare talking about. "Our premises on the Bible probably differ... I don’t know yours, but I win tell you mine. I read the Bible as a historical work. I try to read it in the context of the time it was written and to know which people were being addressed so that I have a context to base my reading upon. I also read other works of the time thathave notbeenincluded in the Canon, and many of these I find just as much validity in. I University Reports ¯ Condom Usage BOSTON (July 17) - According to a survey ofBrownUniversity students,74% of the women who dropped in at the campus clinic in 1995 said their sexual partners used acondom"always or almost always’~ when having sex. A similar survey at the school 6 years earlier found that only41% of the women visiting the clinic rel~rted such high usage of condoms by their sexual partners. rely on as well. In other words, I don’t ¯ think God stopped talking when his book : went to print. I also know that, it is more ~ than possible that the works included in ¯ the Canon have been misinterpreted ¯" through language interpretors and ver- ¯ sion editors, and there is a high probabil- ." ity that the men who chose which books ¯¯ were likely candidates to include in the Canon had their own prejudices and could ¯ have excluded some worthwhile works : and included a lot of repetition. ¯ "This does not mean that I negate the ¯ teachings of the Bible. I just feel that it, in and of itself, is an incomplete guide for my spiritual understanding." ¯ The responses I received after simply : laying my cards on the table about my : own interpretation of the Bible are what ~ surprised me the most. There were no ¯ more Biblical quotations used to try to ¯ sway me. There was no more using of i Chrisdan theology tojustify the villifying ¯ of the homosexual lifestyle.What hap- ~ petted is that we settled into a reasoned : debate. No tempers flared.No hateful ¯ names wereealled. Ibelieve that, although : I did not think my one voice would make ~ a difference, it did. ¯" And, I believe this is why: "I like being able to live my life to its fullest, and I ~ expect you to have that very same fight. It ~ is a free country in which we live, and i freedom of and from religion is one of our hallmarks of liberty... "Our ability to disagree on what God ~ thinks of my lifestyle is one of the ~eat ¯ things about this place we call America. ¯" And, I want to keep that ability for both of us. I don’t want *anyone* to try to tell me :~ I can’t have my way of life, and I sure ¯ would defend your choice as well.Wonld you do the same for meT’ i I would like to propose to all ofyou that : reason really does work. I think it is high ¯ time we appeal to reason in our political ¯" endeavors, not to high emotion. And, I : thinkitis time we quit assuming weknow : howtheothersidewillrespond.Thelouder ". weget, themorethe other sideresponds in ¯ kind. There are reasonablepeople onboth ¯ sides of the lesbigay civil fights debate, i andI,for one, wouldlike to see more ofus .... " step forward ,an~ take leadership roles. Pitcher’s Refusal to Join Game Benefit Causes Uproar SAN FRANCISCO (July 30) - The refnsal ofSanFrancisco Giants pitcherMark Dewey to join with the baseball team m support of an AIDS benefit being sponsored by.the team has outraged political leaders here and at least oneAIDS activist has called on the Giants to giveDewey his walking papers or trade him to another teal!L With nearly 35,000 fans attending the Giants-AtlantaBraves game,Dewey,who is 3-2 with a4.10 earned-run average with 36 strikeouts in 53 innings, refused tojoin players from the two teams on field for a demonstration of support in fighting the AIDS epidemic.A fundamentalist Christian who is outspoken in calling homosexuality a sin. He also turned his red AIDS ribbon sideways in imitation of the ancient "fish" symbol of Christianity. Dewey said he decided to opt out of the on-field display with teammates because some of the funds raised for the "Until There’s a Cure" day event go to promote safer-sex education and prevention programs, which he says are contrary to his religions beliefs. Jon Prevna, who works withProject Open Handin San Francisco, later wrote to Giants president Peter Magowan saying, "I seriously hope you will consider trading him [Dewey] or giving him his unconditional release." The Giants managementhas so far declined to comment on the incident. Black & White Charities, Inc. & PFLAG Lookforward to the pleasure ofyour companyfor The 1996 Black & White Gala with keynote speaker Elizabeth Birch Executive Director, Human Rights Campaign, Washington, DC and Presentation of the first annual Swan Awards Saturday, September 7th Cocktails & Conversation at seven o’clock, Concourse Dinner at eight o’clock, International Ballroom Entertainment by The Follies Revue Singers $125 each, checks may be sent to POB 14001, Tulsa, 74159 Visa or MasterCard, call 587..7314 or 800.458.4682, or e-mail: blkwhtprty@aol.com The Downtown Do.ubleTree Hotel, 616 West Seventh Benefiting the 1996 Black & White Grant Recipient, The HIV Resource Consortium, Inc. TULSA FAMILY NEWS COMMUNITY CALEND R SUNDAYS Bless the Lord At All Times Christian Center Sunday School, 9:45 am Worship Service, 11 am 2627b East llth 583-7815 Community ofHope (United Methodist) Worship Service, 6 pm 1703 E. 2rid, 585-1800 Family of Faith Metro. Comm. Church Adult Sunday School, 9:15 Worship Service, 11 am 5451-E South Mingo. Info: 622-1441 Metro. Comm. Church of Greater Tulsa Worship Service, 10:45am 1623 N. Maplewood Info: 838-1715 Bisexual/Lesbian/Gay Alliance - Univ. of Tulsa 6:30 pm at Canterbury 5th & Evanston, 583-9780 MONDAYS ¯ TUESDAYS HIV Testing Clinic ¯ ¯: Free & anonymous testing . HHIVIVR+esSouurpcpeoCrtonGsroorutipum ¯ using fingerstick method. ¯ 1:30 pm ¯ No appointment required. ¯ 4154 S. Harvard, Ste. H-I ¯ Walk in testing: 7-8:30 Inn : Info: Wanda @ 749-419z : Results hours: 7-9 pm : ¯ lnfo: 742-2927 : Shanti-Tulsa, Inc. Mixed Volleyball for Fun & Competition Hclmerich Park, 6:30 pm 71st & Riverside Info: 587-6557 WEDNESDAYS Agape’ Christian Fellowship Service, 7 pm Sheridan Center, Suite H : 21st & Sheridan, 747-2482 ¯ Bless The Lord At All Times Christian Center ¯ Prayer & Bible Study ¯ 7~30pm 2627-B East llth Call 583-7815 for info. PFLAG Family AIDS Support Group 2nd Mon. of month 6:30 pro, 4154 S. Harvard Info: 749-4901 : HIV/AIDS Support Group ¯ & Friends & Family ¯ HIV/AIDS Support Group ¯ 7 pro, call for location: " 749-7898 : Alternative Skating : 8:30 - 11 pro, 241-2282 ¯ $4, Sand Springs Skate ." OTHER GROUPS -. ¯ The Technicians, Leather " : org., Info c/o 621-5597 " ¯ T.U.L.S~4. Tulsa Uniform. : & Leather Seekers Assoc. ¯ ¯ Info: 838-1222 " . Gay & Lesbian Student " Association ¯ TJC Southeast Campus, " Iflfo: 631-7632 ¯ ¯ SWAN-Single Women’s ¯ ¯ Activity Network Grief Group Butler/Stumpff Funeral Home 2103 E. 3rd St. Call for time: 587-7000 : Family Of Faith MCC : Praise & Prayer 6:30 pm ¯ Choir Practice 7:30 pm ¯ 545 I-E South Mingo. " Call 622-1441 for info. ¯ Community of Hope ¯ (United Methodist) Service for Peace, 6:30 pm : Bible Study, 7 pm ¯ 1703 E. 2rid, 585-1800 : THURSDAYS 16-Step Empowerment ¯ Group For Women ¯ Community of Hope ¯ 1703 E.2nd, Info: 585-1800 ¯ Co-Dependency ; Support Group 7:30, Family of Faith MCC ¯ 5451-E S. Mingo, 622-1441 ¯ HIVTestingTOHRClinic ¯ Walk in testing: 7- 8:30 pm ¯ Results hours: 7 - 9 pm Info: 742-2927 Tulsa Family Chorale Weekly practice, 9:30 pm Lola’s 2630 E. 15th PFLAG Family AIDS Support Group 1st & 3rd Thursdays 4154 S. Harvard, 749-4901 ¯ TNAAPP Alternatives ¯ ¯ Tulsa Native American " Weekly social events for" AIDS Prevention Project ¯ LGBT men & women, 7 pm ¯ Support group ¯ Info: 646-5503 ¯ for Gay & Bi Native : ¯ American Men, 6 pm Substance Abuse at ~Community of Hope Support Group " ¯ 1703 E. 2nd " for persons with HIV/AIDS ¯ SATURDAYS St. Jerome’s Church Mass, 6 pm Garden Chapel 3841 S. Peoria Info: Father Rick at 742-7122 Narcotics Anonymous Meets weekly at 11 pm Confidential support for recovering addicts. Community of Hope 1703 E. 2nd, Info: 585-1800 NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt Sewing Bees 3rd Sat. of each month Info: ~/48-3111 Comedy Jam Freedom Tour MONDAY & TUESDAY SEPT. 16 & 17 8:00 PM Gay Stand-Up Comics Performing BACK BY POPULAR P EM,ANI) ! 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Kelly Kirby Oklahoma Representative 4021 South Harvard, Suite 210 Tulsa, OK 74135 918-747-3320 Home Office Dallas, Texas 800-559-4790 ¯ Booking for 800 253 Geek to GO! ThePC Specialist, 501.253.2776 Phyl Boler-Schmidt Systems & Software Specialist POB 429, Eureka Springs 72632 Books, Incense, Candles and.Rainbows! Plus lots more! (501) 253-5445 45&I/2 Spring Street Eureka Springs, Arkansas 72632 emrain@rog.ar.ispnet.com AUTHENTIC ITALIAN CUSINE FRESH RAINBOW TROUT ofEureka Springs Recommended by The New York Times (501) 253-6807, Closed Wednesday 5 Center Street, Eureka Springs, AR 72632 According to The Gayly Oklahoman, Spencer was born in Ada, and was raised in Tulsaand in Seminole. He attended the University. ofOklahoma and builta career as a country western entertainer, touring the Southwest and working on the Gay rodeo circuit. Friends of Spencer are holding a Celebration of Life on August 17, at the Bunkhouse in Oklahoma City, according to friend and organizer, Mike Busby. The event will feature Sonja Martinez, Deb Roberts,BradRiggins and videos ofSpencer performing. The event will include an auction of memorabilia to benefit HIV/ AIDS organizations. The Gayly also noted that Spencer’s family has requested that donations to HIV/AIDS organizations be made in lieu of flowers. Those who wish to honor the memory of Sid Spencer may do so to the organization of their choice or may send a donation care of Spencer’s father, Sid Spencer, Sr. (RR2, Box 69-G, Seminole, 74868-9614) who will donate those in his SOn’S naule. and two grants of $1,000 each to TOHR Testing Clinic (HOPE) and Catholic Charities’ St. Joseph’s House. On-September 28, Follies Revue performers will recreate this year’s show to benefit RAIN in Enid, Oklahoma. For information about booking Follies singers for corporate or private events, call 437-020L testing. Initially, events for the program will be held in Tulsa because of the conterns individuals may have about attending a "Gay" event near their homes. Petersonadded that attendance is not necessary and that they would like to hear from individuals in rural eastern Oklahoma about what it is like in those areas and how best to get education and services to the areas. HOPE has set up a telephone number, 800-282-8165, to allow individuals to call anonymously. Local callers may ring 742-2927. Peterson also announced that HOPE has .been chosen as one of 75 HIV agencies in the US to participate in a program, "Parmers in Prevention", sponsored by the Center for AIDS Intervention Research, (CAIR) of the Medical College of Wisconsin. The program is funded by the : National Institute of Mental Health andis ¯ intended to bridgeagapbetweenfront]i~" ¯ HIV/AIDS prevention organizations and : research into HIV prevention. OOO00000OO00. OOOO0®O ~ A Friendly Place to Stay ; KING’S HI-WAY ¯ INN ¯ ¯ ¯ 96 Kings Highway, Hwy. 62 W ¯ Eureka Springs, AR 72632 ¯ (501) 253-7311 ¯ 1-800-231-1442 ¯ Jerry A. Wilson. owner ¯ ¯ O ¯ 0 ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ O ¯ ¯ ¯ @ 0 A number of commtmity events are coming up. Check out the following: The NAMES PROJECT wants you to help by hosting a Feast with Friends on Sat. Sept. 14. Call 748-3111 for info. ¯ Tulsa Womens Supper Club will meet ". 8/28 at 7 at the Spaghetti Warehouse. ." Info: 584-2978. Thenext AIDS Coalition ¯ meeting is Sept. 10th. Call 585-5551. : Do not miss Interfaith AIDS Minis- : tries Old Fashioned Street Carnival on ¯ Sat. 9/21, 10-6 at Southminster Presbyte- ¯ dan, 3500 S. Peoria. : Rainbow Business Guild is having a : business fair on 8/30 (see ad, p. 5) and-a: : lake weekend on 9/21-22, call 665-5174. i Anddo not miss the Gay Comedy Jam[ written by Pastor Leslie Penrose, the congregation struggled to make. sure the ad was "responsible, given that we are a Christian commlmity of faith and not a p.o.litical advocacy group" and"adequate" s~nce members of the congregation are affected by the hate language. The statement notes that "as gay and lesbian persons have struggled in this country - in this state and city- for the right to live in dignity without fear of violence or persecution, to have their committed relationships respected, and to worship with integrity, the dialogue has become inereasingly hurtful and exclusive....we...have wondered where is the other voice of Christianity?" The statement affd~, "...when the church is silent in the face of injustice...that silence becomes complic- ¯ ity in that injustice." Penrose told TFN that so far there has ¯ been little response to the ad but that she : expects that there will likely be letters to : The Worldin response andpossible to the ¯ new Methodist bishop from more conser_ : vative Methodistcongregations. Commu_ : nity of Hope (Coil) has also organized ¯ serveral companion efforts to this ad. ¯ These include a letter and visiting cami Paigu to Don Nickles, Tom Coburn and ¯ Steve Largen.t, a speakers bureau to seek ¯ out other church groups that will listen ¯ and Coil is also planning aprayer vigil to- ¯" be conducted when and if the Senate con- , siders theDOMAbill. Formoreinfo. orto ¯ contribute to this effort, call 585-1800. Living Sprtng ...a community of friends... We welcome you to attend! Services held Sunday evenings at 7 o’clock 17 Elk Street (at the Unitarian Church) Eureka Springs, AR 72632 501-253-9337 READ ALL ABOUT IT reviewed by Barry Hensley Tulsa City-County Library In "Immortal, Invisible," editorTamsin Wilton has compiled a lengthy collection ¯ of original essays and interviews analyzi~ ig the history and current state of the lesbian moving image, including f’rims and, to a lesser extent, television. From Marlene Deitrichin"Morocco" in 1930to 1994’s "Woman of the Wolf," this volume explores the important differences between "gay films" and "le:s.bik.a~ film,s" and why lesbian and gay male ,tim mar- .....~rs will probably never agree on a generic "queer cinema." " These are more than just simple movie reviews. The contributors explore the.s.ocial, political, historical and, in some mstances, religious aspects of these films and the text is not always light reading. Obvious popular films, such as "Personal ~ Best" and the notorious "The Children’s Hour" are supplemented ,b,y true~hous,e, lesbian films, including Desert Hearts and "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.!’ The seventeen contributors exhibit a wide variety of qualifications, frofi~film makers"and producers (Penny Florence and Susan Ardill) to a postgraduate student (Louise Allen) whose research is concerned with "lesbian readings of kd lang, and the emergence of country and westernlesbian culture."The authors endlessly debatewhatconsritutes lesbianform : and content. Should only films which ’ have lesbian relationships and characters beindudedin"lesbian cinema," or should : an"out" lesbian film maker also have her : film included even though the subject ¯ matter or treatment is not lesbian-spa- ¯ eific?Thereis averyinterestinginterview ¯ with lesbian film maker Greta Schiller, ¯ whoserecent efforts haveindudedawon- : derful documentary, "Maxine Sullivan: ¯ Love To Be in Love," about the hetero- ~ sexual jazz legend. : Some wall knownnames are ignored or ¯ marginalized in this volume. Barbara ¯ Hammer, whose short films have raised : more than one eyebrow as they challenge ". the "heterosexist authority system," ¯ is mentioned only a couple of rimes and given one short quote. ¯ There are many unfamiliar but intrign- ~ ing films discussedhere. They are ones to ¯ keep in mind as you are traveling to other : cities where progressive theaters may be : taking the opportunity to broa..den~ the h~o- ~ rizons of their communities, veruaps me ¯ ThirdAmmalTulsaGay andLesbianFilm ~ Festival organizers willincorporate some ". of these rifles into their schedule next ¯ snring. "Immortal, Invisible" is one of the ~ few books published that specifi- : cally discuss lesbiancinema, but there are ¯ also many other books regarding gay/ ¯ lesbian topics at your local branch library : orat the Readers Services department at : theCentralLibrarydowntown(596-7966). James Christjohn ybYeal Gaycomedyis comingback to:Fulsa on S~pt.’16th& 17th, at thePAC. The Gay Com~:ly Jam. Freedom Tour features acclaimed openly Gay comics,, Scott Kennedy and Kevin Maye, who ve been seen on HBO’s Comedy Channel and -written of in The Advocate. Their show, Gaylapalooza (last February with two other comics) played to a full house at th~ PAC’s Williams Theater and benefited Black&White Charities as does aportion of this appearance. Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 day of the show, and are available by calling 481-0558. Broken Arrow Community Playhouse announces that auditions for its Halloween producrion, two one-act plays, will be held Sund,a,,,,,y, August 18, at 6pro;, The pIays¯.are . Sorry, wrong Number , directed by Todd Murray, & "Black Comedy", directedby Jenny Jackson. Theoneacts will be performed October 11 - 20. "Sorry Wrong Number" requires afemale character, and 3-4 addirioual actors who can perform a variety of character voices. It will be staged as a radio drama. "Black Comedy" requires 5 men &3 women. Audj’rious will consist ofcold readings from the scripts and someimprov. Audirious willbeheld at the playhouse, 1800 S. Main in the Main Place complex. 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Address: _Age: City, St. &Zip:__ ~ Telephone: bYAugustJean_Pierre,nightsTFNinOklahomaCFr°°itdiChave ." of a salad & side dish or a cup of soup. ~oaY~s’ ataba~nutt~o9 hot .a~.d Sticky to .reallal~ " We started with a shrimp and lobster nne cmsme, but a new res- .bisque that was rich and quite rusty, with ctauulirnaanrtyhsecerenei.nMTicuhlsaaelhas heated up the " el,noUtsn.Kofs wofholol.be,stsemr atallilsmhreiamt.pTahnedresewvaesraal Fusco’s new venture, definite bite from cay- Flavors, fills out the space in a strip mall M;ebael Fi15co ~ enne pepper, but it was alsohome to Novel Idea Bookstore & Mexicali Border Cafe, near 71st and Sheridan. The wellknown Fusco used to be chef at Bodean’s, and openedFlavors this summer as his own place. Halfofth~ restaurant is a section of dinerstyle booths with white tablecloth covered tables. The post-modem decor features a black and white checkerboard floor, a visible kitchen window, and popular music playing over the speakers. The other half, behind a wainscotted glass wall, is aformal dining room with pale purple walls, carpeted, formal tables and place settings, and more sedate, classical music playing in the background. There is .also anotherformal din- Hollr$: IX/Ion. - Fr~., 11 to Dinner 3/][on. - Sat., 5 to 10:30 dosed Sundays Cuisine: New Amerlean Dress: Dressy Prices: Very Expensive Plastic: Non-Smoldn$ Section: Yes Alcohol: FMI bar and w~ne mgroom behind French doors for private par_ ties. The samefood and menu is available on either side, and there is no official difference, though we noticedmost gendemen in our section wereinjackets and Ratln~: ties, while the diner Side patrons were more ca_ A l;st sually attired.. Even though our visit was on a Monday night, both sections of the restaurant were nearly full. In addition to the small menu ofregular items, a blackboard reminiscent of Bodean’s announces the specials of the evening. Several selections of fresh fish are available, plus offerings of beef, veal, pork,and duck. Entrees include a choice no.t what we would call spray. Our salads came FLAVORS on huge plates (larger ~a~a~n the service plate!) 6104 E~st 71st Street wedgceosnsisted of large of iceberg lettuce with a.scattering of .thinly sliced purple omon tings, cherry tomatoes, anddiagonally sliced cucumbers, dressed in a pleasan~-- balsamic vinaigrette& crumbled S til ton cheese dressing (Stilton is the English version of bleu cheese or roquefor0. After the salad course, we were mortified to see our waiter remove our salad knife from our salad plate and set it on our bread and butter plate. One expects that fora $4.50 salad, the kitchen can wash an additional knifet Our entree was a delicious, and large servl. n.g of sauteed, thinly sliced veal hver ($9.95) presented with caramelized onions and~r2~r_ kansas bacon, withpo_ tatoes Lyonnaise. Very tasty and an excellent value. Our companion had a strikingplate that looked pretty enough to be a woman’s hat-- a bed of mashed potatoes surrounded by a panopoly of grilled i avepgeertfaeMctelys agnrdilmleud,shthroicokm, sb,ecerfotwenndederwloiittni ¯ ($21.95), sauced with a red wine reducL : tionhunter sauce, and withahuge sprig of .. fresh rosemary stuck in like a feather. ; au¯Hgirsadtienssdeirsthwoafscmreomreembruunldeaenwe:hiaclharwgee ¯ see Flavors, page 15 wnere pets are treated like ~eople ".... "’~. * Bakery Treats * Bed & Breakfast (boarding) * Salon * Pet Supplies: Science Diet, IAMS, Nutro Dog Food THE DOG HOUSE BROOKSIDE 3311 S. Peoria, 744-5556 HIV Positive?. New state-of-the-art investigational drug therapies arenow available in the Southwest for HIWAIDS and opportunistic infections. If you are interested in participating in one of the promising new investigational therapies, call us at (918) 743-1000 Jeffrey A. Beal, M.D. Associates in Medical at!.d Mental Health 2325 South Harvard, Suite 600 Tulsa, Oklahoma 74114 Free & Anonymous Finger Stick Method By &for, but not exclusive to the Lesbian, Gay, & Bisexual Communities. Monday & Thursday evenings, 7-9 pm Daytime testing, Mon-Thurs by appointment. HOPE HIV Outreach, Prevention & Education formerly TOHR HIV Prevention Programs 742-2927 4158 South Harvard, Suite E-2 2 doors east of the HIV Resource Consortium Look for our banner on testing nights. ~ Do you live in a small town or rural area? Are you attracted to other men? Do you feel like you are the only one? And if you’d like to meet others, come to our rural mens discussion group ¯ ~. every 2nd & 4th-Saturday, 7-9 pm For more info,, contact Jeremy or Brian 742-2927 or 800-282-8165 thought rather nondescript. We had a flourless chocolate cake that was filled with chocolate mousse, served on a mirror of raspberry puree, and decorated with fresh strawberries, fresh blueberries, mint leaves, and real, freshly whipped unsweetened cream. Good, but we couldn’t eat it all, and.the gateaux was everso slightly overcooked. Alas, there was no espresso machine on the premises, so after dinner, we walked across the parking lot to the Novel Idea cafe to linger over cappuccinos and leer at the cute clerks selling books. Flavors also features a full bar and the wine list is interesting, emphasizing less encountered small California wineries. The food at Flavors, as one might expect from a Michael Fusco venture, is excellent, though it tends toward tile expensive (a veal chop with polenta was $28.95--but it looked divine!). Fusco is one of those chefs who has mastered~ the art of doing new & creative things with food in combinations which work, rather than shock. One can expect a pleasant & memorable dining experience from this exciting, new establishment. Just be sure to make reservations on the weekends. For film buffs who happen to be computer literate, I just received notice,of anew website, called "Popcorn Q", billed as the ultimate onlinehomefor the queermovingimage. The address is http://www.popeornq.com..According to my sources, it offers thousands of film & video descriptions (need help figuring out whatmovie to rent tonight?), sources for acquiring these films/videos, of course, graphics and photos, a directory of G/L film rests, a "Homo Home Film Fest", books to watch out for, Queer top tens, and lots o’ links. The programmer/author ofthe site is Jenni Olson, who also wrote the "Ultimate Guide toLesbian & Gay Film & Video", published in June. Not only an author, programmer, and Queer film archivist, she also produces for film and television. Hey Jenni ! Need a cheap actor/columnist-writer/ professional college student? Last but not least: if you saw the Academy Awards, you may have seen STOMP, an extraordinary dancing peicussion performance. They have come to Tulsa several times and make a point to see them if you have not done so. They will be at the PAC, Sept. 6-8 and tickets can be had from the PAC at 596-7111 or Carson Attractions at 584-2000. How To Do It First 30 words are $10. Each additional word is 25 cents. You may bring additional attention to your ad with: Bold Headline - $1, Adin capital letters - $1 Ad in bold capital letters - $2, Ad in box - $2 Ad reversed - $3, Tear sheet mailed - $2 Blind Post Office Box - $5 Please type or print your ad. Count the no. of words. (A word is a group of letters or numbers separated by a space.) Sendyour ad & payment to POB 4140, Tulsa, OK 74159 with your name, address, tel. numbers (for us only). Ads will run in the next issue after received. TFN reserves the right to edit 6r refuse any ad. No refunds. Back in Tulsa G.W.M. 41, Gldlkg, HIV Pos. 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A downtown rejuvenation, with Central Park’s Grand Opening Celebration that benefits the United Way. ’~ Music by Debbie Campbell, Jim Sweeney, Bill Davis and an all-star band. ¯ A Taste of Tulsa provided by the finest restaurants in the downtown and midtown area -Camerelli’s, Interurban, Bravo!, Doubletree’s 7-West, Chimi’s, Bourbon Street Care, Louie Di’s and more. ¯ Professional fireworks display ¯ Horse drawn carriage rides ¯ Drawing for a Trip For Two Weekend Getaway to Miami-Beach ¯ Tour the Cityscape Views of Central Park that has 24 hour security, valet, heated outdoor, pool, lighted tennis courts., sauna/whirlpool, fitness center heart of the City living ’ 584-8400 and much more. , T’ne Liw’~ Begi.ns Now. ~,~ " " 410 West 7th (7th and Denvelr) a84-8400 .1~800-327-0555 iA portiofi of the pl"oceeds o~ each private ~residenc~.sold, dr ring the Central Park i o 1 iGrand O~emng MI ~nth,~be mad~ to ~e Uni~Way. ~o, don’t~ss this ~evenfi Come sup~ oft the ~ty, Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data newspaper periodical Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource [1996] Tulsa Family News, August 15-September 14, 1996; Volume 3, Issue 9 Subject The topic of the resource Politics, education, and social conversation toward Tulsa’s Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual communities. Description An account of the resource Tulsa Family News was a monthly newspaper; No. 1 issued December 1993-January 1994. The final issue available was published in September 0f 2001 (Volume 8, Issue 9). The newspaper brings up important, evolving topics of marriage, Pride, TOHR, HIV/AIDs, events, advice, and politics all at the local and national level. This document is available in searchable PDF attached. It is also available to be seen at the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center with permission. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Tulsa Family News 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 August 15-September 14, 1996; Volume 3, Issue 9 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource James Christjohn Phyl Boler-Schmidt Barry Hensley Jean-Pierre Legrandbouche Leane Gross Gerald Miller Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Tom Neal/Tulsa Family News Relation A related resource Tulsa Family News, July 15-August 14, 1996; Volume 3, Issue 9 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 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/513 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://history.okeq.org/collections/show/24 1996 adoption AIDS/HIV AIDS/HIV treatment arts and entertainment attorneys Barry Hensley Bars Bill Clinton Black and White Gala businesses churches comedy Community of Hope custody Dave Fleischer Entertainment Notes estate planning Follies Revue G. 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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 Sept, 15 - Oct. 14, 1996, vol. 3, no. 10 Serving Tulsa’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Trans Communities ENDA DOMA WASHINGTON- The U.S. Senate voted on the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), two key pieces of legislation affecting gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans. The Senate passed the anit- Gay DOMA bill, 85-14, as was expected. The Senate then voted 49 to 50 to defeat ENDA. Oklahoma’s senators, Don Nickles and Jim Inhofe, both noted for their hostility to their Lesbian & Gay constituents, voted against ENDA and for DOMA. Nickles was the Senate sponsor of DOMA and Inhofe an original co-sponsor. TulsaOklahomans for H~_~man Rights (TOHR) issued a statement strongly condemning their votes, particularly criticizing Inhofe for his refusal to meet with Lesbian and Gay constituents, community leaders or Gay press. Sen. Nieldes sent a letter to colleagues calling for a vote against ENDA because it would "promote sexual promiscuity". He also equated homosexuality and bisexuality with bestiality, pedophiliaand adultery, and suggested that local school boards should be able to fire or not hire staff who express opinions advocating homosexual or bisexual relationships. The measures had became hopelessly entangled in a series of political moves, counter-moves, and countercounter- moves. DOMA, which has already cleared a House vote, would define marriage as a legal commitment between one man and one woman. The effect would be to deny any federal benefits to married samesex couples. No state currently recognizes such marriages, but a lion of the work of several TOHR boards and longtime community supporters. Tim Gillean, former president of the organization, was recognizedinparticularforhis leadership. ’‘This project has been the dream of many but without Tim Gillean, we would not be where we are today," noted pres. Debbie Starnes. The Pride Center will be open to all community organi zations andindividtmls who share its goals which include ending discrimination and oppression based on sexual orimany but without oR.]DE CENTER N ON BROOKSIDE OCT. 4TH ¯ Officer ’ - ..... _" Many community organizations have enabout to i dorsed this project. Prime Timers has donated Bisexual i $1,000 for The Pride Center and Rainbow Brookside Business Guild, The Black &White Charities, Rights (TOHR) and Inc., PFLAGleaders, Bill &Kathy Hinkle and foot center open in October. pastors of the churches that reach out to the A spokesperson for the or- community support The Pride Center. ganization noted that The " Part of the 3,500 s. f. of The Pride Center Pride Centeris theculmina- been the dream o~" " will provide offices for HOPE, HIV Outreach, ¯ Prevention, Education which are the preven- ¯ tion programs of TOHR. HOPE’s director, T;m G;llean, [former pres.], we would not be where we are today," - Deb Starnes Pride Ctr. Pres. entation. Officials stated that The Pride Center opens with a modest budget and will be supported by individual and organizational mem- .berships, as well as byindividual pledges. Membership is $20/yearfor individuals and $35/year for couples. Pledges range from $3-5/month up to $100/month with most at about $15 to $25 Statues added, ’"dais is a way for each and every member of the community to make a difference. We appreciate those individuals who can pledge hundreds but the support of those who can just help with a few dollars a month are equally important. This is a center for all." Fellowship Congregational i Welcomes Lesbians & Gays ¯ Another Tulsa "mainline" Protestant church has become an offi- ¯ cially welcoming congregation to Lesbians and Gay men. Fellowship ¯ Congregational Church joins a number of "open and affirming" ¯ churches that are part of the United Church of Christ (UCC) denomi- ¯ nation. ¯ The leaders of this church of about 200 near 31st and Harvard ¯ characterized the year and 1/2 process of becoming a welcoming ¯ congregation as both stressful and as exciting. The issue first seemed ¯ to rise about 3 or 4 years ago. The church which as a tradition ofbeing ¯ involvedin socialjusticeissues realized that they had a certainamount ¯ of ignorance about homosexuality. Over the year and 1/2, at a series ¯ of events, the congregation had the opporttmity to personalize the : issues. A divinity student who had ties to the congregation came back ¯ to preac.h and also came out as Gay. see Fellowship, page 3 ¯ Claudette Peterson, was estatic at finally hay- ¯ ing adequate space for her staff. The highly " successful programs now have seven staff ¯ members and additional volunteers who can : not fit.into the current spaces near the HIV ¯ Resource Consortium (HIVRC). Peterson ¯ notes, however, that HOPE will continue its : HIV antibody testing program at ’the HIVRC ¯ with which it works closely. ¯ A workroom and a conference room of The ". Pride Center will be available for community ¯ organizations that do not have their own of- . rices. The site has adequate parking at the ¯ building which is unusual for Brookside with : even more overflow parking nearby. The Cen- ¯ ter will be accessible to those with mobility ¯ disabilities. ¯ Additionally, ThePride Center will behome ¯ to The Pride Store. The Pride Store will serve ¯ community needs rangingfromgreeting cards, ¯ rainbow stickers, flags and other Pride items, ¯ news magazines, t-shirts, etc. Gay business : owner Tom Neal is volunteering as a consult- : ant and is donating merchandise from his store ¯ tomfoolery] see Pride Center, page 3 ¯ Community Leader Lost : see Community Notes, page 9 National Coming Out Day Workshop, Leatherstuff, Bible + Homosexu,a,lity Study Group, Two Splrlted Mens’ Group + TU/BLGTA Safe Haven, RBG Dinner Gay Comedy Jam, IAM Street Carnival, Lesbian Comedian, AIDS Mastery ComingSoon : OKLAHOMA CITY- Oklahoma’s Gay community is in shock from ¯ repo~tsofabrutalkillingofagaymaninthesmalltownofWoodward, ¯ near the Oklahoma Panl~mdle, by two men whom witnesses say later : bragged they had ’~ust killed that queer." It is the second vicious anti- : gay murder in the state this year. Police say Albert J. Bixler was ¯ apparently beaten to death with a car fire jack and his body dumped ." inatrashbinby Shannon LeeJones, 23, and MarkJones,30. Bothmen ¯ live in Woodward but are not related to each other. One witness at an i apartment building where the two suspects were staying told police ¯ she overheard Shannon Lee Jones say, "The queer son of a bitch got ¯ what he deserved." Shannon Jones is being sought by police on murder charges. Mark Jones, 30, is being held on murdei charges. ¯ Authorities have also issued amaterial witness warrant for a thirdman whom they identified as Clifford Green, who sometimes goes by the name of Clifford Beard. Only a week earlier, two Guthrie, Okla., teenagers, identified by police as skinheads, appeared in court in Oklahoma City to face ¯ charges of murdering Charles Meers earlier this year. Alexis N. Perryman, 18, and Nicholas J. Karlin, 15, have been charged with ¯ brutally beating Meers, stabbing him, shooting him, and then dousing his body and home with gasoline and setting them on fire in an effort : to cover up the killing. case pending in Hawaii see ENDA/DOMA, p. 3 " Oklahoma’s ’96 Anti-Gay Murders INSIDE EDITORIAIJLETrERS/DIRECTORY P. 2 NEWS BRIEFS P. 4 HEALTH BRIEFS P, 6 CALENDAR P. 9 EUREKA HAPPENINGS P. 11 BOOK REVIEW/ENTERTAINMENT P. 12 RESTAURANT REVIEW P. 13 CLASSIFIEDS P. 15 ¯ " Robert Fitzgerald Renfro, known as RF or ¯ just as Renfro, one of Tnlsa’s most respected ¯ community leaders and HIV/AIDS educators ¯ died at St. Francis Hospital on August 23 after ¯ a brief, though severe, illness. ¯ A Celebration of Eternal Life was held at Shiloh Baptist Church with the Rev. Eddie ¯ Cook preaching and the Rev. Melvin Bailey, : host pastor, see Renfro, page 3 918.583.1248 fax: 583.4615 POB 4140 Tulsa, Oklahoma 74159-0140 TuisaNews@aol.com Publisher + Editor, Tom Neal Asst. Editor + Mac Guru, James Christjohn, Writers + contributors: Phyl Boler-Schmidt, Barry Hensley Jean-Pierre Legrandbouche Leanne Gross Steven Scott Gerald Miller, Lance Brittain Issued on or before the 15th of each month, the entire contents of this publication are protected by US copyright 1996 by Tulsa Family News and may not be reproduced either in whole or in part without written permission from the punisher. Publication of a name or photo does not indicate that person’s sexual orientation. Correspondence is assumed to be for publication unless otherwise noted, must be signed & becomes the sole property of Tulsa Family News. All correspondence should be sent to the address above. Each reader is entitled to one free copy of each edition at distribution points. Additional copies are available by calling 583-1248. by Phyl Boler-Schmidt A number of months ago, I reported on a rather suspicious death that occurred here in Eureka Springs. It was a death that struck terror in the hearts and minds of many lesbigay cidzens because the victim was known to be aGay man, andhe was killed by a teenager who suggested tO police that he did the deed in selfdefense againstacts the description of whichI Would probably incite major homophobic responses from the police. It.appeared at that time that investigation of the.death was being permanently swept under the rug. However, Iamhappy to reportthat the death ofChris Klein will not go unpunished, or at least untried. Anthony Fleetwood was arrested in August .and charged with 2rid degree homicide, some seven months after the slaying. Bond was set at $30,000, and if the bond is raised, Fleetwood risks losing the services of the Public Defender appointed by the court. DNA and serum test results were finally completed and failed to back up Fleetwood’ s story, a story that said, in part, that after polishing off a 12 pack see Justice, page .3 by G. Miller, M,A. Last month I gave some simple advice on dealing with the outside forces in your life. The aim of that little treatise was to get you thinking positively about ways to improve you daily existence byhandling the external forces you confront This month I want to spend a little time on how to get your personal force into the positive mode. This will sound way too simple but the truth usually is simple¯ Youcan either choose to see your life as positive or negative. You . make that choice every morning of every day, When you head to work, understand what it is you are doing. If you’ re lucky you go to ajob that challenges and fulfills you, or you are going to ajob which permits you to earn a living. The income from that job provides the where with all.which allows you to do the things you want to get enjoyment out of life. So while thejob itselfmay not be the most enjoyable thing in the world, it is the springboard to enjoying the other areas of your life. If you can make that logic stream work in your favor then you can stop bitchin’ about your job and start making each day mean see Life, page 3 Tulsa Clubs-& Restaurants *Bamboo Lounge, 7204 E. Pine 832-1269 *Concessions, 3340 S. Peoria 744-0896 *Lola’s, 2630 E.. 15th 749-1563 *St. Michael’s Alley Restaurant, 3324-L E. 31st 745-9998 *Silver Star Saloon, 1565 Sheridan 834-4234 *Samson & Delilah, 10 E. Fifth 585-222.1-, *Renegades/Rainbow Room, 1649 S. Main ... 585-3405 *TNT’ s, 2114 S. Memorial 660-0856- *Tool Box, 1338 E. 3rd 584-1308. *Interurban Restaurant, 717 S. Houston 585-3134 Tulsa Businesses, Services, & Professionals Dennis C. Arnold, Realtor 7464620 *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 Brookside Jewelry, 4649 So. Peoria 743-5272 *Creative Collection, 1521 E. 15 - ¯ - 592-1521 Cherry Street Psychotherapy Associates 1515 S. 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Peoria, Ste. 633 747-7672 Puppy Pause II, 1 lth & Mingo 838-7626 *Ross Edward Salon, 1438 S. Boston 584-0337 *Scribner’ s Bookstore, 1942 Utica Square 749-6301 Scott Robison’ s Prescriptions, see ad for 3 locations 743-2351 Southwest Viatical 747-3322 Thomas Chiropractic, 4138 S. Harvard, Ste C-1 742-8868 Kellie J. Watts, attorney 493-1959 Fred Welch, LCSW; Counseling 743:1733 ¯ Tulsa Organizations, Churches, & Universities ¯¯ AIDS Walk Tulsa; POB 1071,74101-1071 579-9593 Black & White, InC.-POB 14001,Tulsa74159 583-7314 ¯ *Bless The Lord... Christian Center, 262To E. 11 628-0594 ¯ *B/L/G Alliance, Univ. of Tulsa Canterbury Ctr. 583-9780 *Chapman Student Ctr., University of Tulsa, 5th Pl.. & Florence ¯ *CommunityofHopeUnitedMethodist, 1703 E. 2rid 585-1800 ~..Community Unitarian-Universalist Congregation 749-0595 : Dignity/IntegrityrLesbian!Gay Catholics/Episcopal. 298-4648 ¯ .*Fmnily of Faith MCC; 5451-E So. Mingo 622-1441 ¯ *Fellowship Congreg. Church, 2900 S. Harvard 747-7777 ¯ *Free SpiritWomens Center, call forlocation &info: 587-4669 ¯ Friend For A Friend, POB 52344, 74152 747-6827 . Friends in Unity Social Org. (African-American mens group) : POB 8542, 74101, call c/o TOHR @ 742-2927 Indian Health Care, Save the Nation 584 4983 ¯ Interfaith AIDS Ministries 438:2437, 800-284-2437 ¯ ~MCCbfGreaterTulsa, 1623 N:Maplew0od 838-1715 ¯ *I-IiV Resource Ctr., 4154 S. Harvard, Ste. H-1 7494194 :. NAMES PROJECT, 4154 S. Harvard, Ste. H’-I 748-3111 : *Our House, 1114 S. Quaker 584-7960 ¯ PFLAG ,POB 52800, 74152 7494901 ¯ *Planned Parenthood, 1007 S. Peoria 587-7674 ." Prime-Timers, P.O. Box 52118 74104 : *R.A.I.N., Regional AIDS Interfaith Network 7494195 .~ Rainbow B,usiness Guild, POB 4106, 74159 " 665-5174 "" St.Jerome s Catholic Church, 3841 S. Peoria, 646-7116 ," .~Shand Hotline & HIV/AIDS Services 749-7898 ¯ Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights, (TOHR) POB 52729, 74152 7434297 ! Technicians, 1338 E. 3rd 584-1308 ¯ T.U.L.S:A. Tulsa Uniform/Leather Seekers Assoc. 838-1222 ¯ *Tulsa City Hall, Cafeteria Vestibule, Ground Floor ¯ *Tulsa Community College, Metro & NE Campuses : *University Center at Tulsa : EUREKA SPRINGS ¯ Autumn Breeze Restaurant, Hwy 23 South 501-253-7734 ¯ Beaver Dam Store, 1/2 mi.N, of Dam Hwy. 187 501-253-6154 : *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 ¯ Geek to Go!, PC Specialist, POB 429 501-253-2776 : King’sHi-Way,96KingsHighway,Hwy.62W 800-231-1442 ¯ MCC of the Living Spring 501-253-9337 ¯ McClung Realtors 501-253-9682 ¯ Positive Idea Marketing Plans 501-253-2401 ¯ Rock Cottage Gardens 501-253-8659 800-624-6646 ¯ Sparky’s, Hwy. 62 East 501-253-6001 The Woods, 50 Wall St. 501-253-8281 Opposes School Tax Increase Tulsans who pay property taxes just felt a significant bump this spring, and if the October 8 bond issue passes, we’ 11 get ajolt. Renters, you won’ t escape either- .your landlord will have to pass on the cost increase to tenants. But isn’t the bond issue for a worthy cause - Tulsa schools? The school district’ s demanding $94.5 million for a district with about half as -" many students as ithad 20 years ago. Last ¯ year they said they needed $89 million : from us, but they have "upped the ante" ¯ because they claim buildings have dete- -" riorated that much since last year. Yet ¯ they have sold two of their 18 unused ¯ properties in the meantime- where are ¯ the millions from those? They also claim ¯ that they need chairs and textbooks, but ." many parents tell me the P.T.A.’s have ¯ provided those since last year in various .. school~. They made dire predictions, that our property taxes would fall if we didn’ t "support our schools"- but values are up. And does each classroom really need tele- ¯ communications and a telephone as re- , quested? I’ think not, We all want our ¯ schools to be fine ones. But each person has to ask, "What benefit will I see from ," yet another tax hike?" Vote NO Oct. 8. - Leah Farish Editor’s note: TFN neither endorses nor ¯ Opposes this vote. We encourage readers tb consider carefully and to vote. ¯ We applaud those represented by the ¯ letter above [or reaching out to Lesbian ¯ and Gay voters. This community is usu- ¯ ally simply ignored though we are af- ¯ fected- as parents, as teachers, as ¯ homeowners and tenants. In a tight race, ¯ minority communities can make a differ- "~ ence. The writersees that. Thesupporters :. of the bond vote have made no effort to ¯ reach out to this community. ¯ Carbon Copy - Full Text ¯ Editors, The Tulsa World ~ Why are we afraid of same-sex mar- " riage? Is it change? Without change, we ¯ can not grow. Why are we afraid of any¯ one or anything that is different fromus or our views? What would the world be like ¯ if we were all the same? ~ Marriageis acommitmentbetweentwo ¯ people who love one another. Single-par- " ent homes, illegitimate children, abusive : spouses, alcoholism, joblessness and : multiple marriages are aspects that are ¯ tearing the family and marriage apart. Please tell me where same-sex marriage ." will destroy the institutions of marriage _. and family. And is it wrong for a married ¯ couple not to have children and go against the marriage is for.pro-creation theory? : Heterosexual couples enjoy the right to ¯ tax breaks, spousal benefits, and hospital ¯ visitations. Same-sexcouples donot. Isn’ t ." this discrimination? Have we forgotten ~ about the Constitution? Doesn’t it give ¯ every American the same basic rights? ." When will the politicians realize they ." arenotsupporting every American?When ¯ will they realize they are teaching hate ~ and discrimination? Where is the love ¯ they supposedlyhavefor Americaandit’ s ¯ people?Whyhas the government decided ¯ it should dictate what our morals will be ¯ and how we will define marriage and ¯ family? ." We are all human beings. The hatred ¯ and discriminationhas to stop. I urge each ¯ of you to please look deep into your soles ¯ and bring out the love God intended us to ¯ share with one another and bury the hate. ¯ America will be a much better place. " - Lance Brittain. Collinsville something in terms of what else it is you want to ¯ accomplish. " The same thing is true of your personal rdationship. If you spend all your time finding fault with ", your companion, then each day will be a trial. If on ¯ the other hand you recognize what good things come from the relationship, and understand how " important that contributionis,thenyour daily inter- " action will become more positive and enjoyable. Don’t forget the reverse of that statement is also ¯ true. If you are doing some trivial thing which ¯ obviously makes your co.mpanion nuts, quit doing it! Making a concession m a triviality is nothing ¯ compared.to slowly poisoning a rdationship over ¯ sbmething which is probably of little meaning to " you anyway. Sit down in a quiet moment and start looking at your reactions to the things you experience each day. If you are spending most of your time being angry or upset or unhappy, figure out why. Is it that someone is purposefully trying to make your life miserable, or are you doing it to yourself? There was a time when the slightest suggestion that I was not competent enough, or smarL or clever or handsome or whateverwould sendmeinto ablack funk. Finally I ~at down and took stock ofwhat was rea~_ly going on. No I am not the smartest person in the world, but I’m smart enough: Yes there are some things at which I am totally incompetent. No, I am not the most handsome person, but then neither am I Frankenstein. What I lack in smarts, I make up for in common sense. What I am incompetent at, I make up for by being very competent in other areas. While I may not be Porno Star material, I have an excellent dry wit! Make your own inveiitory of all the positive things about yourself and recognize that everyone is deficient in some area. You don’t have to become a Saint, but if you will start to be reasonable about who and what you really are and quit trying to be something else, then life gets much less complicated and much more fun. Better than that, you will begin to feel better about yourself and life in general. Then you can start doing the things in your everyday world which actually make things better for yourself and others around you. Now here is the biggest secret abouthow to make your life more fulfilling and enjoyable. Learn to say, ’I was wrong!, sorry. My mistake, sorry!" Whenyou screw up,just admityou screwedUP and get down to work correcting the screw up. Fixin.g a mistake is much less time and energy consmmng than trying to cover up that you made a mistake. Admit that everyone screws up from time to time. Quit trying to cover up your mistake, or bludgeon someone rise for their mistake. If you fall into the trap of the one-upmanship game, you will regret it in the end. There is nothing hard about finding the enjoymeat in Life. It is only when.we set unreasonable expectations of ourselves and others that we make life hard. I had some very wise people try to get this across to me years ago, but I couldn’t grasp the concept then~ Perhaps it is only with lime that we come to these realizations. Or maybe it’s because we are so ego-centered that we can’t see the simple truths in front of us. I don’t know, maybe I’m not smart enough to figure that one out. But I have figured out how to be more positive about myself, about my place in the word and about how to get the most out of enjoying the word as it exists around me. I remember a short quote from a 19th Century Americanpoet, possibly Stephen Crane or Stephen Foster, I could be wrong about the name. I may have the exact quote a little wrong, but don’t miss the point. A man said to the Universe, "Sir I exist." and the Universe replied, "Sir, that fact does not createmmea sense of Obllgatton . Your exlsten is up to you to make ofit something. Youcanmake it negative, combative and endlessly hard, or you can make it something else. What you make it is up to you. Copyright © 1996 Gerald Miller Organizers and featured speaker at the recent fundraisin~g dinner are: Martin Newman, MarkGoldman, and[3ill Stoskopf of Black & White Charities, Nancy McDonald, of PFLAG, speaker Elizabeth Birch, executive director of the Human Rights Campaign, Kristie Suttee, Steve Wright, and Mark Wright, also ofBlack & White Charities. This yearPFLAGbeganitsSWANawards to recognize those in Tulsa who have stood up for fairness and for justice. The recipients are the Rev. Russell Bennett, pastor of Fellowship Congregational Church. His congregation has recently become an officially wdcoming one for Lesbians and Gay men. Eddie Faye Gates, a wall respected educator &writer is honored for herleadership ontheHumanRights Commission. Dennis Neill, an attorney, also served on the Human Rights Commission and with the ACLU and was founding president of TOHR. Lisa Pottorf of Youth Services was recognized for her heroic work with and for Lesbian and Gay young adults. Sharon Thoele, director of the HIV Resource Consortium, is known for her commitment to HIV/AIDS issues &THE NAMES PROJECT. That business successfully served the community for two years from a space leased from The Silver Star. The Pride Store will-benefit The Pride Center and HOPE prevention programs~ Director Peterson anticipates that the Store will be staffed by volunteers but that The Pride Store possibly also may be able to provide appropriate work opportunties for persons living with HIV/AIDS. Other office space will be available for seminars, video showings and exhibits. While not all details have been : resolved, it’s hoped that part of the space can be used for "_ Lesbian and Gay young adults who have few other safe : places to go. Pride Center organizers note that volunteers are needed for clean-up, painting, minor repairs to get the Center ready to open. Later, those with strong backs and a few vans and pick-up trucks will be asked to help move the prevention program offices. To volunteer or for more infolmation, call 743-GAYS (743-4297). is expected to lead to the legalization of gay marriages in that state in the next year or two. Civil libertarians have argued that " DOMA is highly questionable because marriage has always : been a state issue that Congress has never before touched. The ¯ Constitution’s "full faith and credit" clause makes it question- ¯ able whether federal legislation can impose such restrictions. ¯ Activists and several members of Congress were quick to ¯ criticize DOMA as election-year political maneuveringaimed ¯ at embarrassing President Clinton, noting that one of the origi- ¯ hal Senate co-sponsors of the measure was Bob Dole, the : Republican presidential candidate. Clinton drew fire from : rights activists when he quickly said he would sign DOMA - at ¯ leastas itwas introducedin theHouseearlier this year. But since : then, the measure has gone through several changes in the form : of a bewildering set of amendments. The capper in all this, of ¯ course, was ENDA, the anti-discrimination amendment that ¯ was supposed to be tacked on to DOMA by Seas. Edward M. : Kennedy (D-Mass.), James Jeffords (R-Vt.), and Joseph : Lieberman (D-Conn.). ¯ Inan 1 lth-hourmmof events, Senate Majority Leader Trent ¯ Lott of Mississippi announced that ENDA would be voted on : separately from DOMA. The eomplex political mish-mash the : Republicans and Democrats had made of DOMA and ENDA ¯ had created so many objections from both sides of the aisle that : Lott moved to extricate the two measures from each other. ¯ Richard Tafel, executive director of Log Cabin Republicans ¯ noted of the close vote onENDA, "I’his sends the message that : the 105th Congress will be ready to pass some form of non- : discriminationlaw to protectgays andlesbians." said. ’q’he real ¯ surprise is we now have 8 Republicans who support ending : discnnnnalaonagamstgays mthe workplace. We rebegium g ¯ to see what happens when the gay community works with both : parties. I’m sure we can bring on more Republicans in the next ¯ Congress, we had a couple on the fence on this vote. This vote ¯ proves working with Republicans instead of writing them off ¯ benefits the entire gay and lesbian community." ¯ MelindaParas, executive director, National Gay and Lesbian ¯ Task Force commented, ’~foday is a historic moment for ¯ lesbian and gay people, despite the outcome of the Senate votes. : In spite of the intolerance of many Republican and Democrat _" lawmakers, weknow wehavefinally broken the legislative log- ; jam that has blocked Congress from even discussing our civil ¯ rights in aserious manner. Weknow we will have tolose a few i votes.before we win the battle. We lost ENDA by only two votes. We know that gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender ¯ equal rights have taken center stage in American politics, and ¯ we can never go back to the days of silence." Renfro was a founder and leader of FUSO, Friends in Unity Social Organization, Inc. a non-profit that seeks to educate African-American men of diverse sexual orientation aboutHIV/AIDS. Healso served withmany groups, including TulsaAIDS Walk, AIDS Coalition,TOHR, the Community Planning Group, Tulsa Pride Picnic and more. He was an ordained minister, active in his congregation, Bless the Lord at All Times Christian Center. Friends and family expressed shock and sorrow at his sudden death. Most did not know RFhad been living with HIV/AIDS for 10 years. Donations inhonor ofhis memory may be made to FUSO, c/o TOHR, POB 2687, 74101. At other events, they had the chance to meet parents of Lesbians and Gays. The task force for this issue lauded the leadership of their pastor, Russell Bennett. They praised, in particular, his balancing the need to push the church forward but without getting too far ahead of it as wall. The group noted also that Pastor Bennett had performed, with their knowledge, a couple of holy unions, or blessings of same gender couples. The United Church of Christ is the only mainline Protestant denomination that ordains openly Lesbian and Gay persons as amatter ofpolicy, and therefore shouldbe expected to be friendly to Lesbians and Gay men. However, in the Congregationalist tradition, it is up to the individual congregations to implement these policies and to call individuals to ministry. Fellowship is the only UCC church in Tulsa though there are some others in the staie_. Some members of Fellowship Congregational asked why it was necessary to adopt an official policy of being open and affirming since they felt that that was what they’d practiced all along. Other noted that in these days when politics and religion are so mixed togeth,, r, that their congregation needed to stand up and be counted. That is since so many ugly thingswere being presented in the name of religion, they hope to counter that ugliness. They hope that their actions will inspire others to have the courage to do something similar. Services are at 10:30 am. Info: 747-7777 of beer with Klein and falling asleep on the couch, Fleetwood awoke to find Klein ejaculating on his face and tee shirt. This was his motivation, he said, for pointing a .410 shotgun at Klein’s face and pulling the trigger. Tests showed that sperm found on Fleetwood’s tee shirt, confiscated the night of Klein’s violent death, "...could not have been that of the victim but instead was consistent with the blood" of Fleetwood. Newly appointed Eureka Springs Police Chief Earl Hyattwas aninvestigator withthe Carroll County Sheriff’ s Office at the time of the slaying and worked with Eureka Springs Investigator Morris Pate at the crime scene. If convicted, Fleetwood faces a five- to 20-year prison term for the Class B felony. Lesbians’ Killer: It" Was ’Hate Crime’¯ MEDFORD, Ore, (Aug. 20)- Rol~rt J. Acrement, the California man who is charged with the December 1995 execu: tion-style killings of lesbian activists ¯ Roxanne Ellis and Michelle Ab’dill, told " the San Francisco Chronicle in a prison interview that he killed the two women because they were lesbians, not in a botched robbery attempt as he had first claimed. Acrement also sent aletter to the Stockton (Calif.) Record telling the paper in the city where he was arrested that he had earlier in the year killed Scott George because themanhadmadea sexual pass at him. In his letter, Aerement, 27, said he Lesbian Loses Child to Killer Dad TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Aug. 30) - The Florida Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court ruling that ordered Cassey Ward, age 12, removed from the home of Mary Ward,~her lesbian morn, andhanded ¯¯ over to the custody of her father, John Ward. . The father called the court .ruling a "victory for my daughter and every other child in this nation ffho may be faced with ~ being raised in a household in whichho- ¯ mosexual role modeling distorts.and per- " verts, or is like to distort or pervert,.soci- ¯ etal norms thathave been established and ¯ recognized from the beginning of eivili- ¯ zation." had invented the robbery .motive in the ~ : Mr: Ward was convicted of killing his slayings Of Ellis arid Abdilli who were ¯ fir~twffein 1974;firing.12bullets,during ,f,_0und shot througla tile head, b~.cau~e he : aright over their daughter. He-pleaded ¯ was nervtus about inmate reacti0n~ to. : guiity to.sec0nd degree~urd~ran~] ~erved my reason fbrkilling~’ whiehhe said was - ¯ .eightlyears.in.prison. - ~ . .. ~ . a "hate crime." - i ~ , = ~ ~ " The~thr~e-judge appeals_ panel ins~stexl Acrem~nt wen’t ori in th~ letter to say, " that its =decigionwasn"t based on mother however, that now he doesn tcare wha .anyone thinks - :inclbdingthe’ji~ that Will decid,,e his-fate~ "They cankilt me forall !care,. the letter:s~y~i ":/i" :) Neo-Nazi" -Judged Guilty of Murder HOUSTON (Aug: 29) = After deliberating fortess than 3 hours; a jury has found Daniel C. Bean, 19, guilty.of the January 4 kilting of Frederick Mangi0n~ merry because he was gay.~Bean, who pblice said belongs to a neo-Nazi group known as the German Peace Corps in Washington state, was found guiltt of stabbing Mangione 35 times with a large knife outside a suburban bar where they met. Evidence given during the trial indicated that Bean and his stepbrother, Ronald H. Gauthier, 21, both bragged to patrons in the bar that they were going to assault someone who was gay. Police also told the court that the two menlater boasted of brutally stabbing Mangione. Beanfaces a maximum life sentence for the killing. Gauthier is still awaiting trail. ¯ Mary Ward’s- sexual, orientation, but on ¯ the"best interes~ts of thelchild ’: Activists : -were quick ’.to point ,out,-howe~er, that ] Judge Joseph Tarbuck, whosetowercourt ¯ ruli~gwas beittg revie~ved by the appeals :. cour~,.clearly istated in hivcustody decision. thathe wanted the gift takenfromher . " .morn and handed over to heri convicted- ¯ kiil~r dad to give bet a chance to live in."a ¯ non-lesbian world.’" John~ .Ward ctiallenged the mother’s ¯ custody after.she applied for anii~crease ¯ in child support. Attorneys representing MrS. Ward have Said slle Will pr~obably ¯ appeal the ruling to the state supreme ¯ court. ¯ D.P.’ Benefits Come ¯ From Court Ruling PORTLAND, Ore. (Aug. 9) - AnOregon ". statejudge has given the gay rights movement a surprising victory in partnership ¯ benefits. Thejudge has ruled that Oregon ¯ must offer insurance benefits to gay domestic partners of state employees. In ¯ issuing the ruling, the judge said it was ~ "beyond debate" that gays and lesbians hav~ been discriminated against. Law- ¯ yers for the state and attorneys for the " three lesbian couples who filed a lawsuit ] on the issue say they believe the ruling ~s ¯ the first of its kind in the nation. ¯ State Rep. George Eighmey, who is " ¯ gay, praised the decision, saying "it’s a ¯ big step in the fight direction." But Lon " ¯ Mabon, the leader of the anti-gay-fights " : group the Oregon Citizens Alliance ira- ¯ ¯ mediately said the judge is "flat Out prohomosexual" and was trying to destroy ¯ the notion of family. The statehas 30 days to decide whether to appeal. ¯ SchOol Censorship i=. EffortsContinue : : -WASHINGTON.(Sept. 4).-According to ¯ ¯ the 14tk annual report on school, censor- " ship; People for the American Way says ¯ there were a record 475 attempts last year ¯ ¯ to restrict books, classes or educational " proced_ures that opponents claimed were .. too sexually explicit, too violent,too raciM,. anti-religious,, an,ti-family, ¯¯ .unAmerican. ~ or all these things. . A~cording to.the report, the things~bjected, to last year ranged from accep.ted ¯ classics inliterature to Halloween partles. " _In-.41% .of the,cases, .th6 rep0rt~ .says, : -school officials bowed to Objections and ¯ rembved matelials or restricted activities. ¯ The" report, "Attacks on the Freedom to, ¯¯ _ Learn~" cites-conservative Christians mid especially members of the Christian Coa- ¯ lition as chief objectors in mostof the ¯ . cases it reported on. California, which has the largest num- " ber of public school students of any state ¯ in the country, also led in the number of ¯ ¯ attempts to restrict materials or classes, with 56 incidents reported by the group. ¯ Carole Shields, president of People for ¯ . theAmericanWay, noted thatmany ofthe ¯ school.materials objected to mirrored ha- ¯. tional debates on issues, such as racism poverty, homosexuality, crime, drug and alcohol abuse, and AIDS. : "We must analyze this report and de- " cide as a nation: Will we bequeath to our ¯ children the tools and information they ¯ need to address these complex issues as ¯ they growinto adulthood?" Shields asked. "Or will our gift to them be ever-narrowing horizons of thought and speech?" California to Ban Gay Adoptions? SANTA ANA,~ Calif. (Sept. 5) - At a public hearing, the state department of social services listened to testimony on Tire 22, aproposed regulationthat would recommend adoptions in California only for married coul~les. Despite the ob_vio.us ¯ restrictions ongay andlesbiancouples the ¯ proposed regulation would impose, state Officials denied it was anti-gay. "We’re not talking about sexual orientation," said Janice Ploeger of the state health and welfare departme.n,t. "This has to do with marriage andwhat s in the best interest of the child." Butrights advocates strongly disagreed. Tara Rose,31, testified at the hearings on the regulations that she was raised by two ¯ mothers’, but adoption was impossible while shewasgrowingupand she sees the regulation as abig step backward in Call- - fornia. "ff we’re talking about-marriages -. only.that’s one issue/’ said Rose. "But this is’ discriminating agaiast gay and les- ¯ bian parents." ¯ The new rule could go into effect next -- October around the time partners Lisa "" Pratt and Julie Thompson .will be adopt- " ing a second child, six-month-old Katy. ¯ They told the hearing that they’re con- - cerned the child won’t get the same ben- " efits as. their daughter Elizabeth. Even if ¯ the regulation goes into effect, the final ¯ decision will bemadeby thejudgein each ¯ adoption case, state officials say. There were some6,000 adoptions in the state in ¯ 1995 according to state officials,andabout a fourtli of them were by single parents, ¯ straight and gay. :City OK’s $1.2 m for Gay Center : SAN FRANCISCO (Aug. 12) - The San ¯ Francisco board of supervisors voted : unanimously to lay out $1.2 million in ~ city funds to buy property for a 5-story ¯ proposed Lesbian & Gay Center. The P AlrERSON REALTORS~ LEA ANN MACOMBER Realtor Associate Mobile: 671-2010 2642 E. 21st Street ¯ Suite 170 . Tulsa. 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Earlier ¯ this year, the Southern Baptist Conven- ¯ tion called for a boycott of Disney be- ¯ cause the firm has recently extended do- Calif. County OKs ". mestiClesbian workers.Partnerbenefits to its gay and Intel Offers Benefits : SANTA CLARA, Calif. (Aug. 16)- Intel ¯ Corporation, the computer chipmanufac- : turer whose Pentium processors run rail- ¯¯ lions of computers throughout the world, has announced that starting in 1997 the : same-sex parmers of its workers in this : country will be eligibleforthesamemedi- ¯ cal, dental and other employees benefits : thatthe spouses ofits workers have access : to through the giant computer firm. ¯ The company said it had jbined with ¯ ¯ scores of other U.S. high-tech firms in extending thebenefits package to thepart- : hers ofits gay andlesbian workers to help ¯ "attract top talent and retainkey perform- " ers" in the very competitive industry. i HRC Fights Helms : DURHAM, N.C. (Aug. 24) - The Wash- " ington, D.C.-based lobbying group Hu- ¯ man Rights Campaign has launched a : campaign in North Carolina to persuade ¯ undecided voters in the state’ s U.S. Senate race this November to dump Jesse Helms. HRC says it will be operating phonebanks and direct mail campaigns to convince swing voters in the state to vote lently anti-gay memberofCongress. HRC xs expecting to spend some $220,000 on the anti-Helms campaign in North Carolina. Town Reconsiders Rights Measure SAUGATUCK,Mich. (Aug. 26)-Months after the city council tabled a proposed ordinance that would add sexual orienta- Dom. Partnerships SAN JOSE, Calif. (Aug. 14) - Following a tense, prolonged and sharply divided late-night debate, the Santa Clara County board of supervisors refused to bow to organized conservative religious opposi- ’tion andunanimously approved settingup a county-wide domestic partners registry. Religious opponents lined up to speak out against the proposed registry during the nearly 6 hours of public testimony, charging that it would undermine the traditional family, and said immediately after the board vote that they would launch a petition drive to put the issue before the voters this November. Nearly 2,000 people attended the packed board chambers, an adjoining auditorium, and spilled onto the sidewalks outside the county government building. SantaClara County, with some 1.4 million residents, is the home of many highteclmology firms that already extendbenefits to the same-sex partners of their employees. Approval of the measure makes Santa Clara County the largest government entity in the state to OK a ." parmership registry. "" : 2nd Church Calls ! for Disnev BOVe_ott though it’ s best known for its wholesome " family films likeAladdin, theWaltDisney ¯ Company is facing another threatened : boycott by a conservative religious orga- . nization. : The Assemblies ofGodis urgingits 2.5 : million members to stop going to Disney ¯ films, buying Disney products and going " to the company’s popular theme parks. ¯ ’tion to its anti-bias protections, the council has now voted by 6-1 to undertake the issue once again. The council voted to create a committee of 3 council members and 10 city residents to discuss including sexual orientation in its anti-bias protections and to report back to the council. Anti-Gay CO Org. Opposes Partners’ Health Benefits DENVER (Aug. 28) - Will Perkins, the used-car dealer and head of Colorado for Family Values which backed the state’s unconstitutional Amendment 2, told Denver’s city council that they shouldn’t extend health benefits to the partners of gay and lesbian city workers, calling the move an "economic jihad." Perkins broughtwithhim Paul Cameron, the discredited psychologist who was removed from the American Psychological Assn. forfudging statistical data. Even so, Cameron insisted studies he did using obituaries indicates gay~ and lesbians are high health and violence risks. A spokesperson for Equality Colorado, a gay rights organization, said Perkins’ group is a "fringe anti-gay organization" and said Cameron offers nothing but ’*oogus anti-gay statistics." The council will take up the question in a vote in September. Lawsuit. Follows " PBS/NPR Extend "Partner Benefits ¯ City Distributing Inc. : River City Distributing was targeted ¯ for the boycott, bar owners and activists ¯ said, because of Mrs. Shedd’s involve- " ment in Kentucky’s Eagle Forum, the ¯ anti-gay groupheadedby Phyllis Schlafly. : They also noted that Mrs. Shedd served ¯ on the state Republican Party’s executive ¯ committee the year before when it unanii mously passed a resolution in favor of reeriminalizinghomosexuality inthe state. In addition to the popular bars and res- ¯ taurants involved in the protest, the boy- : cott was also being supported by Kentucky’s Fairness Campaign, the Pro- . Choice Coalition, the Metropolitan Community Church and the Louisville Chapter : of Parents-Friends of Lesbians and Gays. ¯ Organizers said at the time that the , boycott could cost the distribution company as much as $15,000 per week in lost ¯ sales. Just months after the River City ¯ boycott was announced, Miller Brewing : severed its relationship with Shedd, who ¯ has also sued Miller. The boycott itself ¯ was ended earlier this year after the orga- : nizers declared it had been a success. : Now the Shedd family has filed a wide- ¯ ranging suit, charging the bars, restaurants, and organizations with conspiracy, interference with contractual relations, criminal harassment, defamation of character, and other aetious that the family is seeking unspecified damages for. ¯ Sucessful Boycott : WASHINGTON(Aug.20)-Without.any : ....... ¯ LOUISVILLE, Ky. ~Aug. ~u)-Aecord- ": f~a,nof~aar,e~,ath~e.,,C,¢li;ntototnoAthdemsianmisetr-asteixonoalarats : ing to a report in The Letter, a Kentucky ¯ ~_.~?,,~;.~’~ o,,.~,,,,,~ ...........~-,-~--~:----~..... : :y~,~_,,_.,,n~ v,~v~.,.m~- ,~yu,,~,,, : casting Svstem(PBS) and National Pub- " the state s most prominent conservauves . licRa~io~NPR),thefirstfedemllyfunded ¯ has filed a massive and complex lawsuit : againstnearly every gay andlesbianbusihess and organization in the Louisville ¯ areaover a 1995 boycott launched against ¯ a firm co-owned by the family with the Miller Brewing Company of Milwaukee. Nine local gay bars and restaurants launched the boycott in August 1995 because of what activists called the "right wing activities"of Donna Shedd, whose husband David was president of River ¯ agencies to offer such benefits. ¯ Donald Wildmon, president of the farright anti-gay American Family Assn., : immediately denounced the move by the : two public broadcasters as a "misuse of ¯ tax money". "Bill Clintonis willing to use ." tax dollars to support the radical homo- . sexual agenda and promote homosexual ¯ marriage," Wildmon said in a press state- . ment condemning the PBS-NPR move. St. Jerome An Affirming Liturgical Church meeting at 7fie Garden Chapel 384J S. Teoria if" "flu[so., Oklaf/unna ~fass Saturday eveni~s at 6pro 7he ~,v. :Talfier Rick Ho~ngsworth, Pastor Ehe :Xev. Deacon Debbie Starnes (918) 742-6227 ¯ OUICK SERVE ¯ PATIO BAR Traci.Huntsman Owner "QUALITY WORK UNBELIEVABLE PRICE" FOR APPOINTMENT 743-7141 3225 S. 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The French scientists said that ff HIV replication in the body can be halted entirely through medical therapies, they believe infected lymph .node and other body cells will eventually be replaced by new, uninfected cells. The finding, if substantiated by other research, could be important because one concern AIDS experts have expressed recently is that even with powerful new anti-HIV drugs that appear to dramatically reduce infection, continual drug treatment might be needed if the virus cannot be entirdy eliminated from the body.. HIV Infects More Blood Cells LONDON (Sept. 6) -According to a report in the medical journal Lancet, researchers at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland have confirmed that a second set of blood cells - CD8 cells - is also vulnerable to infection by HIV and may play a crucial role in how the virus develops. It has for some time been know that HIV progressivdy destroys CD4 T-lymphocytes, the cells that the body produces to fight off infections. But scientists had previously believed that CD8 cells were immune from HIV infection,,,possibly because of structural differences in the cell itself. The Scottish researchers re- ¯-,~r+ however, that 5 of 16 people with AIDS that they studied had CD8 cells infected with HIV at high levels. The researchers said the next step is to discover whether the virus destroys thebody’ s CD8 cells or simply invades them until they become active later. British Rights Group Wants Aversion Therapy Ended in UK LONDON (Aug. 9) -The British say rights organization OutRagehas formally asked the Royal College of Psychiatrists and theHome Ministry’s health secretary to issue guidelines barfing the use of aversion therapy, to set up a board of inquiry into how extensive the treatment has been and continues to be as an attempt to "cure" homosexuals, and to offer a public apologyandcompensationforindividuals who have been harmed by such treatment, either physically or psychologically. The continuing use ofaversion therapy, often involving electro-shock treatment and psychrtropic drugs, was the recent subjectofaBBC-TVprogram and shocked many in the country who were unaware that such attempts to "cure" homosexuals were still being used, at least occasionally. In a letter to the health secretary, OutRage called the government sanctioned use of aversion therapy "scandalous" and"barbaricpseudo-medicine" that had "caused untold suffering and harm to ual~own numbers of gay and bisexual people." Twins Studies Suggests Genetic Factors in Sexual Orientation TORONTO (Aug. 12) - Researchers reported at the annual convention of the AmericanPsychological Assn. thata new, large-scale study of twins in Australia adds further suggestive indications that sexual orientation among gay men is in fact a hereditary factor, although it failed to find a similar pattern among lesbians. The findings were based on a study of some 4,500 sets of twins, fraternal and identical, in Australia. Lead researcher Dr. J. Michael Bailey of Northwestern University reported that about 20% of the twins studied identified their sexual orientation as other than "strictly heterosexual." Of the 312 sets of men who were identical twins, who are formed from a single egg, nearly half had the same sextml orientations. Among fraternal twins, who are from 2 separate fertilized eggs, having the same sexual orientation was significantly less likely, Bailey reported, saying that the f’mdings were "consistent with the idea that there is a male gene for sexual orientation." Although the study was one of the few that have included women, the researchers reported that they could not find enough identical twin lesbian sisters to indicate a statistical relationship between possible genetic factors and lesbianism. Oral Sex Riskier Than Previously Believed PHILADELPHIA (Aug. 14) - According to a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, University of Washington researcher Timothy Schacker reports that even people who are engaging in lower-risk sexual behavior are continuing to become infected with HIV. The 3- year study of 46 people found that while nearly halfhad had sex withjust 1 partner during the month prior to infection, oral sex, which has been generally considered lower risk for transmission, was the most common form of sexual contact among the patients in the research. Schacker and his ~olleagues in fact were abi~ ~6 ;~3,~’~[~.- cally pinpoint 4 cases in which oral sex was the only possible route of transmission. The report is the 2nd recently to indicate that oral sex appears to be a higher-risk behavior than has been previous believed. NJ Offers 3 Protease Inhibitors Free TRENTON, N.J. (Sept. 4) - New Jersey state health officials have announced that the state will make3 importantnew AIDS drugs available withoutcharge to patients who earn lessthan $30,000 a year and are either tmiusured or do not have policies that will cover the costs of the new drugs. The drugs include 3 of the new protease inhibitors: saquinavir (Invirase by Hoffmann-LaRoche),indinavir (Crixivan by Merck & "Co.), and 3TC (Epivir by Glaxo Wellcome). The drugs have been shown to be able to reduce detectable levels ofHIV dramatically inmanypeople infected with the virus. State health officials warned, however, that ifdemand for the new drugs outstrips the state’s ability tounderwrite the giveawayprogram, some restrictions - such as co-payments or deductibles - may be added later. The free ~rug plan is being paid forfrom the state’ s 9 million AIDS Drug Distribution Program. About 1,700 state residents currently getAIDS drugs withoutcostthrough the program. More Women Being Tested ATLANTA (Aug. 3 i)-The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that the number of women in the U.S. who are being tested for HIV has been rising dramatically for the past few years. Between 1991 and 1993, the CDC reports, the percentage ofwomen 18 to 44 Free & Anonymous Finger Stick Method By &for, but not exclusive to the Lesbian, Gay, & Bisexual Communities. Monday & Thursday evenings, 7-9 pm Daytime testing, Mon-Thurs by appointment. HOPE HIV Outreach, Prevention & Education formerly TOHR HIV Prevention Programs 742-2927 4158 South Harvard, Suite E-2 2 doors east of the HIV Resource Consortium Look for our banner on testing nights. SCOTT ROBISON’S PRESCRIPTIONS Serving Tulsan’s Since 1947 Major credit cards In-store charges or Direct .insurance billing for your convenience! 3 locations to serve you: Hillcrest Physician’s Building 1145 So. Utica 582-7144 Utica Sq uare Area 1560 East 21st, Ste. 104 743-2351 The Plaza 8146-D South Lewis 299-1790 Jeffrey A. Beal, MD Ted Campbell, LCSW Specialized in HIV Care Providing Comprehensive Primary Care Medicine and Psychotherapeutic Services We have many insurance provider affiliations - ifyou belong to an insurance program that does not list us as providers, call us and we will apply. 2325 South Harvard, Suite 600, TulsaF/4114 Monday - Friday, 9:30-4:30 pm, 743-1000 Art Show & Sale 10 am- 7 pm, Sept¯ 28 & 29 0UR HOUSE 1114 South Quaker Everyone is welcome to come and enjoy beautiful works donated by local and nationally recognized artists to help friends living with HIV/AIDS. All proceeds from the sale go to helping our friends living with HIV/AIDS. Forfurther information, call 665"-1339 / herry Street Psychotherapy Associates N 1515 S. Lewis (918)-743-4117 ~,ears of age who had been tested for the virus increased some 60% overall. The agency reported that a 1993 survey of more than 6,000 women indicated that 31.8% said they had been tested. A similar surveyin 1991 of 13,000womenfound .that just 18.8% said they had been tested at the time. HIV Programs Widespread in Schools, but Often Don’t Teach About Condoms ATLANTA (Sept. 5) - According to a survey by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, some 85% of the nation’s public middle and high schools teach required HIV prevention classes in 39 states plus the District of Columbia. That’s the goodnews fromtheCDCstudy. The less-than-good news was that only about61%ofthe school districts provided in-service training for teachers; about54% said they taught students the "basic facts about HIV/AIDS"; only about a third of all the teachers involved in school AIDS education programs said they had any training about HIV prevention during the 2-year period before the survey; and only 37.1% of the instructors said they taught their students the "correct use of condoms." In issuing the report, the CDC said one obvious and important area that needs improving in the country’s HIV/AIDS school education programs is increasing the percentage of teachers who both teach preventioninhealth education classes and who regularly receive in-service training on the subject. Younger Inner-City Women at High Risk for HIV Infection CHICAGO (Aug. 15) - Two just-published studies in the American Journal of Public Health report that younger urban women are at very high risk ofHIV infection. A Medical College of Wisconsin study estimated that about a third of all younger inner-city womenare at high risk ofHIV infection, mainly because of risky behavior like IV drug use by their sexual partners. The researchers also reported that while most of the women had a fairly good knowledge of HIV transmission risks, they were poorly informed about the correct use of condoms and lubricants during sex. Another study of younger urban women in the same issue said that high rates of syphilis among thesewomen who are drug users is an indication of the high-risk sexual behavior they are also engaging in. Both groups of researchers said HIV prevention programs aimed at theseinner-city womenare needed tohelp reduce growing infection rates. : ’Playboy’ Surveys College ¯ Students Attitudes on AIDS ¯ CHICAGO (Aug. 25)-A Haybo.y maga- : zine survey reports that 9 out of 10 college ¯ students are sexually active, that sligh.tly : more than half say their sexual behavior : wouldn’t change if the AIDS epidemic : disappeared, and thatjust over a third say ¯ they’ve been tested for HIV. : The survey, published in the October : issue of the magazine, reports that 66% of ¯ women and 49% of men in the more than ¯. 1,000 students surveyed say they wouldn’t : change their sex lives much if the epi- : demic wasn’t a factor. The magazine also ¯ reports that 39% of the males and 35% of : the females in the survey said they had ¯ been tested for HIV, and that 27% of the : men and 19% of the women said they ¯ knew someone with the disease. Some : 63% of the males and 79% of the females : surveyed also said they believe their ¯ chances of contracting HIV/AIDS was ". either unlikely or barely likely. The sur- : vey also reported that 57% of men and ¯ 71% of women said they had only one ¯¯ sexual partner during the previous year. ¯ The magazine also found that condom use appears very highly corrdated with a ¯ steady relationship. While 41% of the ¯ males and 54% of the females reported : being in a steady, monogamous rdation- ¯ ship,40% of these students also said they : do not use condoms. Only 6% of the ¯ students surveyed who are not in a too- ¯ nogamous relationship said they don’t : use condoms. : Psychologists Delve Further ¯" into Sex & Biology TORONTO (Aug. 13)-Dr. James Dabbs, ¯ a psychology professor at Georgia State ¯ ~Uuiversity, reported at the annual Ameri- : can Psychological Assn. convention that ¯ in studying testosterone levels of 28. les- ; bian couples,it was the sdf-definedbutch ¯ partner in the relationship who consis- ¯ tently had the higher levels of testoster- ¯ one, the "male" hormone that all women ¯ also have in smaller amounts. Dabbs re- : ported, however, that despite the higher : levels when compared to their partners, : none of the women in the study had sig- ¯ uificandy higher testosterone levels than : women in general. ¯ In another study presented at the APA ; conventionby RayBlanchardofthe Clarke ¯ Institute ofPsychiatry inToronto, aniden- ~ tifiable group of men are predominately ¯ or exclusively attracted to genital males ¯ who dress and act like women- transves- : rites or pre-operative transsexuals. A1- ¯ though Blanchard said that these ¯ "gynadromorphile" men he studied were ." sexually attracted to cross-dressers, they ¯ were not attracted to post-operative trans- ¯ sexuals - men who have been surgically ] and hormonally changed into genital fe- ¯ males - and considered themselves "bet- : erosexuals of some stripe." Ex-Boxing Champ Says HIV Not ’That Big a Deal’ : KANSAS C1TY, Mo. (Aug. 26) - In an ¯ interview with the Kansas City Star, "¯ former heavyweight boxer Tommy ¯ Morrison said being infected with HIV "doesn’ t seem like that big a deal" and : that he is not taking drugs his doctor has ¯ prescribed to combat the virus. Morrison, ¯ who has also appeared in a few films ; including "Rocky V" where he played a ~ featured role as a boxer, announced that Serving a Diverse Community ; he is HIV-positive earlier this year. AIDS FederalHousing Grants. WASHINGTON (Aug. 24) - The U.S. Dept. of Housing & Urban Devdopment (HUD) has announced some $7.8 million inhousing grants to non-profitagencies in communities in9 states that offer housing assistance for low-income people with AIDS. Community-based non-profits in Baltimore, West Hollywood, Calif., San Francisco, Savannah, Ga~, SantaFe,N.M., Tucson, Ariz., New York, Philaddphia, Burlington, Vt., and Seattle are expected to receive HUD grants of various sizes The federal funding was established in 1992 as part ofHUD’ s Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) program to help agencies that provide housing assistance and related support service to people with HIV/AIDS. The AIDS Legal Resource Project by Darlene Shadid Being HIV positive means facing new challenges and new issues. In addition to the personal, medical, and other quality of life issues, youmay face extraordinary (or evenmundane) legal demands for the first time. The AIDS Legal Resource Project may offer a solution. The AIDS Legal Resource Project was created more than three years ago to empower people with HIV/AIDS with the knowledgeand assistance needed to maintain control over their lives. The Project offers free and effective legal assistance to those who qualify by connecting them to one of the more than 150 attorneys statewiad wh6 have agreed to serve on a Pro Bona Panel. Attorneys on the Project’s Panel offer help in several critical areas. Perhaps one of the most important (yet one of the easiest) is estate planning. For example, a Power ofAttorney can be drawn up which allows you to choose exactly who can make decisions about almost any matter related to your care. Other documents include an Advance Directive For Health Care (Living Will), a Final Will and Testament, and Disposition of Bodily Remains. ffyou have been de~ed Social’Security benefits, an attorney can l~elp collect the necessary documentation for the Administrative Hearing. In fact, havin an attarhey present at the Hearing increases the chances of being awarded benefits by more than 50%. We also give advice regarding other state and federal entitle- In the past three years, the AIDS ¯ Legal Resource : Project has provided : legal assistance to ¯ more than 584 ellents i with attorneys from ¯ around the state. i One of the recent i successes is a preee- : dent-setting ldwsuit ¯i in .which a FtIV n.ega- txve man sued : former employer after i being fired because ¯ his partner was HIV+. ment programs. We also assist clients who have been unfairly denied health, life or disability insurance. Informationis available onhow to keep and extend insurance coverage ¯ after work is no longer possible. ¯ If you are fired from a job, denied ." housing or equal access to health care ¯ because of your HIV status, an attorney ¯ can file a Complaint with the appropriate ," authorities. If necessary, the representa- ¯ don-will continue through the various ¯ stages of the process, including litigation ¯ and settlement negotiations. ¯ Family law matters such as adoptions and child custody can be handled by an ¯ attorney in that area when HIV/AIDS is ¯ directly involved. Finally, we can help ¯ end harassment by creditors. ¯ In the past three years, the AIDS Legal : Resource Project has provided legal as- ¯ sistance to more than 584 clients with ¯ attorneys from around the state. One of ." the recent successes isaprecedent-setting ." lawsnitinwhich aHIVnegativeman sued ¯ his former employer after being fired be- " cause his partner was HIV positive. ." If you are HIV positive or have AIDS ~ and you have a legal problem you may ¯ qualify for free legal assistance from an ¯ attorney on the pro bona panel of the ¯ AIDS Legal Resource Project. Call the ¯ project collect at 405-524-4611 for more ¯ information. ", This is thefirst column in a series writ- : ten to help Oklahomans with HIV/AIDS ¯ know and understand their legal rights. ¯ Starting next month, each column will ¯ deal with a legal issue related to HIW ¯ AIDS and will be written by a local attar- ¯ ney who is on the Pro Bona Panel of the " AIDS Legal Resource Project. Clinton Wows ’Em CHICAGO - This year’s politicking got underway in Chicago with theAug. 16-18 OutVote ’96. The Human Rights Campaign, sponsor of the gathering, called it the "first lesbian and gay national political convention." Just a week before the Democrats held their convention in Chicago, the President addressed the some 500 OutVote in a pre-taped video speech. "l’mproud ofthe accomplishments we’ve made," Clinton said. Tacidy acknowledging the sometimes strained relationship between Clinton and the gay and lesbian community, he said: "All Americans face a critical choice this Nov. I believe we must put aside our differences and focus on what unites us, on our common ground....in 1992, I told you about my vision forAmerica - a vision you were and are verymuchapart of. I’m especially proud to be the first president ever to endorse a civil rights bill that specifically includes gay and lesbian Americans." Community Events BAPC Quilt Performance If you missed this highly acclaimed performance as part of the Summer Stage Festival, you can see it on Sunday, Sept. 29 at 2pm at the Tulsa Community College, Southeast Campus Performing Arts Center on 81st St. near Hi. 169. Tickets are $S/adults, $5/students. Info: 595-7182. Wro~tling Enthusiasts Sought A wrestling enthusiast seeks similar individuals interested in forming a wresfling club for recreational matches. He is also seeking an experienced coach. Call Keith at 918-438-8340. Direct From Her HBO Special ,On Tour Fro,u Her Sold-Out P-Town Su,u,reer Shows! ALL blEW SHOW! IN CONCERT ONE NIGHT ONLY! SATURDAY OCT. S 8 PM 110 East second St. TULSA 5howAnd ticket Information: (91 8) $96-71 1 1 Advance Ticket Purchase Is Strongly Recommended Tickets Available At: The Tulsa Performing Arts Center Box Office Location And Al! Carson Attractions Locations A Portion Of The Proceeds Benefit Black & White Charities, Inc. TULS FAMILY NEWS COMMUNITY CALENDAr, SUNDAYS Agape Christian Fellowship Services, 10:30 am 6540H East 21th pager: 594-9692 Bless the Lord At All ¯ Times Christian Center ." Sunday School, 9:45 am " Worship Service, 11 am ¯ 262T0 East 1 lth 583-7815 " Community of Hope ." (United Methodist) Worship Service, 6 pm .. ¯ 1703 E. 2nd, 585-1800 ." Family of Faith Metro. Comm. Church Adult Sunday School, 9:15 Worship Service, 11 am 5451-E S. Mingo, 622-1441 Metro. Comm. Church of Greater Tulsa Worship Service, 10:45am 1623 N. Maplewood Info: 838-1715 HIVMTOeNstDinAgYCSlinic TUESDAYS WEDNESDAYS I-HV+ Support Group ¯ Agape’ Christian : Free & anonymous testing " HIV Resource Consortium " ¯ using fingerstick method. Fellowship 1:30 pm . Service, 7 pm ’" WalkNa°prpeoteiqnsttiumngei:nrt7e-8d:3.0inrm :: 41 54 S. Harvard, Ste. H_I Sheridan Center, Suite H ¯ Results hours: 7-9 pm Info: 742-2927 Bisexual/Lesbian/Gay . Alliance. Univ. of Tulsa " 6:30 pm at Canterbury . 5th & Evanston, 583-9780 Mixed Volleyball for Fun & Competition Helmerich Park, 6:30 pm 71st & Riverside Info: 587-6557 PFLAG Family AIDS Support Group 2nd Mon. of month : 6:30 pm, 4154 S. Harvard ¯ Info: 749-4901 -" OTHER GROUPS ¯ The Technicians, Leather ¯ org., Info c/o 621-5597 ¯ T.U.L.S~4. Tulsa Uniform ¯ & Leather Seekers Assoc. ¯ Info: 838-1222 ¯ Gay & Lesbian Student Association TJC Southeast Campus, SWANI~2.."oS:in6g3l1e-7W6o3m2 en,s Activity Network Call 832-2121 THURSDAYS Co-Dependency ¯ Support Group 7:30, Family of Faith MC( Info: Wanda @ 749-4194 ¯ ¯ 5451-ES.Mingo,622-1441 21st & Sheridan, 747-2482 " ¯ HOPE ¯ Shanti-Tulsa, Inc. ¯ Bless The Lord At All ¯ HtV/AIDS Support Group " Times Christian Center " PrevHeInVtioOnu, tErdeauccha,tion ¯ & .¯ Prayer & Bible Study " Anonymous HIV Testing ¯ Friends &Family " 7:30pm 2627-B East llth ¯ Walk in testing: 7-8:30pm " " HITV/AIDScpaml,lSupp°lrotfcoatrion:Gr°up Call 583-7815 for info. ¯ Results hours: 7 - 9 pm 749-7898 ¯ Info: 742-2927 Alternative Skating 8:30 - 11 pm, 241-2282 $4, Sand Springs Skate Grief Group Buder/Stumpff Funeral Home 2103 E 3rd St. Call for time: 587-7000 Family Of Faith MCC : Praise & Prayer 6:30 pm " Choir Practice 7:30 pm : 5451-E South Mingo. . Call 622-1441 forinfo. : TNAAPP Tulsa Native American AIDS Prevention Project Support group for Gay & Bi Native American Men, 6 pm at Community of Hope 1703 E. 2nd 582-7225 or 584-4983 Tulsa Family Chorale Weekly practice, 9:30 pm Lola’s 2630 E. 15th PFLAG Family AIDS : Support Gl:oup ¯ 1st & 3rd Thursdays ¯ 4154 S. Harvard, 749-4901 ¯ Alternatives ¯ Weekly social events for ¯ LGBT men & women, 7pm Info: 646-5503 Substance Abuse Support Group : for persons wi th HIV/AIDS 4154 S. Harvard, Ste. G ¯ 3-4:30 pm : Info: 749-4194 : SATURDAYS : St. Jerome’s Church ¯ Mass, 6 pm Garden Chapel : 3841 S. Peoria ¯ Info: Father Rick : at 742-7122 ¯ Narcotics Anonymous ¯ Meets weekly at 11 pm ¯ Confidential support for ¯ recovering addicts. ¯ Community of Hope ¯ 1703 E. 2nd, Info: 585-1800 ¯ NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt : Sewing Bees : 3rd Sat. of each month ¯ Info: 748-3111 Community Events Interfaith AIDS Ministries Old Fashioned Street Carnival I_AM will hold the 2nd of these fun events on .Sat. Sept. 21 from 10 am to 6pro .at SouthminsterPresbyterian Churchparkmg lot (near Concessions) at 3500 So. Peoria. JoinIAMfor this day offun for all ages. Info: 438-2437. Rural Men’s Group H.OPE,H1V Outreach, Preven’tion, Edu_ cation, is sponsoring social/discnssion group formen whohave sex withmenand who live-outside Tulsa. The group will meet the2nd&4th Saturdays each month, 7-gpm at the Gathering Place, 4154 So. Harvard, Suite E-3. Upcoming dates are 9/28, 10/12, 10/26, 11/9, 11/23, 12/14 & 12/28. Call Brian or Jeremy at 918-742- 2927 or 1-800-282-8165.. Tulsa AIDS Mastery Project This group will present Tulsa’s 1st Mastery workshop on Friday, Sept. 20 - Sunday, Sept. 22. This is anintense week- " end experience designed to assist those ¯ individiduals who have been affected’by " HW/AIDS tocome to terns withtheimapct " faaflc~c~!.l.flltaaetvoirrsuswhaeslcroamdoenitnhdeiivrliidvueasi.sTrlaivininegd ¯" with ,HIV/AIDS, family, loved ones, ¯ friends, earegivers, and HIV/AIDS professionals. The weekend is free because ¯ this event is sponsoredby a grantfrom the ¯ Tulsa Community AIDS Partnership (TCAP) but donations offood, beverages are needed. Info: Melissa @ 584-2325. Two Spirited Mens Group : The Tulsa Native American AIDS Pre- " vention Project is sponsoring a group of Gay, Bisexual or Two Spirited men f-or a weekly group to explore their roles in traditional Native American culture and i I~v~i~.g-heal.~y lives. Tommy Chesbro, " ¯ ~xx~ coordmatoreforindianHealthCare ¯ Resources Center of Tulsa, notes that the , : group helps provide peer suport forliving : a life in balance physically, mentally, " ." emotionally and spiritually. The group is ¯ open to men living with HIV/AIDS as ¯ well as those not infected. It is specific to men but Indian Health Care would like to , work with women also if there’s interest¯ ¯ The Two Spirit Mens Group meets on " ¯ ~W~ednesdays at 6:30 pmat Commtmity of r~ope Church at 2rid & Utica¯ Info: " ¯ Tommy, 918-582-7225, or write, ¯ ¯ TNAAPP,915 S. Cincinnati,Tulsa74119. ¯ ¯ Bible & Homosexuality Study ¯ Community of Hope will pilot a new interdenominational Bible seminar, on . Wednesdays from 6:30 to 8:30for4weeks beginning on Sept. 18. The study has been developed by the United Methodists Rec- ¯ onciling Congregation Program with " .Welcoming & Affirming Baptists, Dig- " nity/Integrity (Catholic & Episcopali~t~), " GLAD (Disciples of Christ), Reconciled in Christ (Lutheran), Supportive Congregation Network (Mennonite), and More Light (Presbytwerian). Leather and Healing Workshops The weekend of October 19 and 20 will be a busy one in Tulsa as lance brittain, Mr. Alameda County Leather 1994; H.O.P.E., formerly TOHR, and the Silver ~aaCh" le~,,der, w_ith special guest Duncan " rows, tools for application, the power of 19a9c6L. aAcms aGnu, yMBr.aldLweainth,earmutahnorToofroTnietos ¯ positive thinking, how to avoid the pitThat Bin.d, states ’~f you try to find your falls (New Age and otherwise), andmore. way in the SM/leather scene by yourself, The workshop will include meditation, you are doing it the wrong way--there is ritual, storytelling, group exercises, and opportunities for sharing. no need". ¯ ¯ The suggested offering is $5.00 for ~ikTehisw.whoorkasrehoipntiesrefostrewd timneonrancudrmioeuns ¯ reiaaclsh, winoforkrmshaotpiotno, caonvdefruwtuorerkwshoorkpsmhoaptes-, anout leather/SM. "It’s an educational but no one will be turned away for lack of oppormmty you will not want to miss. ¯ funds. It is suggested that the participants Whether it’s your cup of tea or not, the _bring a cushion for comfortable seating. information will be valuable for under- ¯ Juice, coffee, and water will be provided. standingthediversityofourcommunity,,, . Please free to bring a snack, pencil, or heralds Larry Everett, International Mr 7pa~p,er.t~F_or more information please call Leather 1995¯ "So co.~.~.,u.o.ut.an.d ex-" " plore with us", sa s lan ’+~-zv2/, 371-0496, or e-mail S " Y ce" " mrac194@aol.com. unday, .O,c,t. 20, Duncan Ma~c,,La,chlan will present ’Healing The Spirit ,. It will Dignity/Integrity of Tulsa be held 1-5pro. Duncan states, ’Native D/I, agroupforLesbianandGayCatho_ American teachings and other spiritual lies and Episcopalians will meet on Oct. 12, and then on Nov. 9th at 5 pm at St. learnreS°urceStolivehaVebettermUChwitht° offerHiV. USspirituawlaeS ¯ Dunstan’s Episcopal Church, 5633 E. 71 st traditions teach us that the source of all " TO National Coming Out Week ¯ h.ealin.g.is spiritual." He also asks, "What ¯ Oct. 8: A Roundtable discussion of does t!us mean? How can this knowledge "Sexuality: Nature vs. Nuture" 7:00 pmin ¯ be applied in practical ways?" ¯ the Chouteau Room of Allen Chapmafi ¯ Duncan is a workshop leader, group ¯ Activity Center facilitator, counselor, and educatorliving ¯ ,Oct. _9: Panel discussion concerning in Toronto. He describes his living with aoout Gay Marriage, 7:00 pm in the ~IV. since 1983.,asahealingandamiracle. " President’s Loun e, Cha man ,-, g P r~e is very enthusiastic about passing on uct. 10 (National Coming Out Day): ¯ what he as learned and likes to make the Unity Party on Sharp Chapel Plaza, TU Star, .Sal~oon combine community spun- " ~work,s,hop a safe andnurturing experience " Campus. All campus groups are invited to ,s°rsmp Ior two,, very,,different, workshops,. Ior ml participants with his warm and .a,tt.end and will receiv.e letters concerning ’~’Le.ather 101 and Heahng The Spirit" inclusive style. He does ask that all par- /~oth workshops will be held at 4f58 SI .ticipants wear loose, comfortable cloth- ~m~ event. 3:00 pm w~th speakers at 5:00 .Harvard, suite E-3 in ’The Gath~,q,, " mg and to please bring a small obj~t of " During Naffonal Coming Out Week, Place" at the H.O.P.E. and R-e~o~r’~C~’~a~_ pers,o.hal significance. Duncanadds, ’This " BLGTA will be taking donations in supsortium building. " womshop will be useful for people who ¯ port of Breast ~2ancer Awareness Month, ~ ’Teather 101" will .be held Saturday, " are affected by HIV includi,n~ caregivers in October. 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Gay Mecca. ofthe Ozarks by Phyl Boler-Schmidt " able, or you can bring your own. The Gay It’s Jazz Festival timein Eureka Springs, ¯ Family Reunion is always a fun event, a and the excitement is building as the 12th great way to meet and greet new folks and annual event approaches. This year’ s dates ¯ to spend lime with family toward the end are September 19th - 22nd, and both big ¯ ofthehectictouristseason. Plan toattend. name and local talent will be performing , For those of you looking for complete all over town. hair styling and other sa- Featured artists for JazzFest include Stanley Turrentine & Band, Allmad Aladeen & The Deans of Swing, Emie Durawa & Los Jazz Vatos, andGrady Nichols & Moment’s Notice. All will be performing at the Historic Eureka Springs City Auditorium Small clubs will host a number of local and big name performers as well, and nightly there will be a post-performanceparty at the top of the Basin Park Hotel in the ballroom. These events are hosted by the Eureka Springs Jazz Society and will feature performers from the JazzFest ticket. There is still time to get tickets for the scheduled events though JazzFest is always one of the hottest tickets tobehadduring the Eureka Springs season. For reservations and information, call the Jazz Festival Hotline at 501-253- 6258.-TheJazz Festival canalso bereached via e-mail atjazz@nwark.com. Complete information about the 12th Annual Eu- .--_~bo q.,qn.~ t.~’~’7 Festival is available online at: http://www.eureka-usa.com/ events/creative/index.html Also coming up fast is the annual Eureka Springs Gay Family Retmion, to be held this year on Sunday, October 6th starting at 2 pm at Beaver Dam Site Park. A canoeing event will be held that morning beginning at 11. Rentals will be avail- It’s Jazz Festival time in Eureka t.... year s dates are September 19th - 9.2nd....AnOther musical hot ticket hits town the weekend followina JazzFe t. The ~gth Annual Ozark Folk Festival comes to Eureka SprlnCs from September 96th- 99th. Ion services, we have a new family cutterin town. Tymythy Aieran is affiliated with the Holiday Island Hair Salon at 92 Woodsdale Drive and performs the full range of salon services - haircuts & styles, perms, color, manicures, pedicures, w.axin.g, facials, and ear piercing. To contact Tymythy, call 501-253- 9712. Another musical hot ticket hits townthe weekend following JazzFest. The 49th Annual Ozark Folk Festival comes to EurekaSpringsfrom September 26th - 29th. A full board of performers is scheduled, including: Peter Rowan, Townes Van Zandt, Joe Cart & Alan Munde, Crow Jolmson, Still on the Hill, the Jones : Brothers, Charles C. Hammer, Doe Broth- . ers, Jim & Kim Lansford, and Richard ¯ Johnson & Doug Reid. For more information on the 49th An- : nual Ozark Folk Festival, call the Eureka ¯ Springs Chamber of Commerce at 501- ¯ 253-8737. ]ae season IX wlaum~ u,,,,u, ..... ¯ biggest Ozark attraction of them all is yet ¯¯ to come. Plan to visit ourVictorian utopia in October to watch Mother Nature show ¯ off in all her spendor. There’ s nothing to " compare with the autumn colors in the ¯ Ozarks. : See you in Eureka! Exciting Reaching OUT to all People Rev. Clay Cody Sunday Services, 10:30 am 6540-H East 21st . pager: 594-9692 The fime nas come to ~ or ~onduct such cer- I " [ marriage._D~.et . .: ]~e ~ree to take posl- itspositiononotherre- | | tivities of me rtawan ¯ ¯ "1.1 li ons or on cmzens Supreme Court, same- tlon$ on issues l~ke "gi " " | " ¯ soon . . - followingnoorganized | / sex mam:a_ge may same-sex marrxa e~ religion." / be legal m that state. " ~ ~ :,, "tally there is a " The backlash against_ and the state cannot trom this, the Defense of portion of the Lesbian MarriageAct, willsoon require religions to and Gay community approve of or eo~duet such become law and will prevent other states from having to recognize same-sex marriages fromHawaii.The debate, however, will not end there. Author William Eskridge, a Washington DC professor and lawyer, has addressed the issue as aproponent of same-sex marriage. Hisbookexamines constitufional issues, court eeremonles. Butnelther can one religion force its pos~.tlo.n on other relldions or on clt e following no organized ren~on. decisions, the history of Lesbian and Oay commumty~ .-.reranstream" objections to same-sexmamages. Eskridge discredits many of the standard arguments agains__t. same-s.ex fiages, including one ot- me most popmar viewpoints which concerns the ihability of same-sex couples to conceive children. It is hard,to, dispute the author’s logic in this area: A state could and, to be consisthat also is against the idea of same-sex marriage, though not for the above reasons. They feel thattheimtitution of marriage is a flawed,patriarchal system that Gay and Lesbian couples should avoid. Eskridge gives a good overview of thesepositions, exploring not only the ,marriage- is-rotten" argument, but also the "alternatives tomarriage" view (domestiepartnerships) andthe antiassimilation perspective which suggests that formal marriage would "dedaw the ~radieafism of the gay liberation moveand has an appendix tiffed "Letters from the Faithful on the Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage." It includes selected tent, should prohibit mamages in which__..,"..le.t.te.r..~..£.r..~..~...m....l.,.~.~ r~X-.V-~,~-d-o-~,~m~,u~, ~Or:bo~p~~r~~-t~rii~ qr-impo~ " inducting those representing Catholics, tent. If procreation is the essential goat ot Methodists, Presbyterians and the Jew.ish marriage, why should postmenopausal ; faith.Theselettersdefendsame-sexumons women be allowed to marry? Surely, discrimination against sterile, impotent or aged couples would be lmaeceptable to citizens of many different perspectives." The often used religious argument i.s also addressed. Eskfidge’s reasomng is that "state espousal of one religion’s beliefs risks state supression of another : by citing avariety ofreligious doc.u~ent.s. ¯ The battle over same-sex mamage ~ : sure to continue for years to come an : Eskridge’s book is an informative and ¯ interesting addition to the debate. Check : for ’q’he Case for Same-Sex Marriage" at ~ the Readers Services dept. of the Central : Library (596-7966) or at thelocallibrary. by James Christjohn " SUZANNE WESTENHOEFFER brings her umque brand of queer comedy to Tulsa 10/5 at 8pm in the Williams Theatre, PAC. An outspoken (no pun intended) Lesbian, her humor has a broad appeal (sorry, that one really w.as un~conscions). Her resume is ~mpress~ve, irqm her own ground breaking HBO show (nominatedfor anACEaward, thel~,mmies of cable), ’Out there on Comedy Central", ’mainstream’ shows such as "evening at ~,e Improv" & ’X~aroline’s Comedy hour , and more. She is hilarious, so this is the must-see for October! Info. call the PAC at 596-7111. CAROL CHANNING will be appearing in Hello Dolly! at the PAC 9/27-29, and trust me, this is a show that must not ben~,’_ssed! Forgetall the disp..~g~ng things, you. ve ever heard about tins snow, ana completely disregard any other version. Ms. Channing is the real thing, and this show is magic! I was surprised at how effective it was when Ms. Channing took the stage. Only one lady has the charm and charism~a to pull it off, and this is a chance that shouldn’tbe missed. Tickets: 596-7111. And Ms. Channing is as gracious & charming offstage as she is on! CAROL BURNEIff comes to town October 13 for a question and answer session at thePAC. I’m sure I’mnot alone in claiming that her show was a bright spot in an otherwise dark childhood/adolescenee. It was the Carol Burnett Show that fueled in me a fire to perform, and to take people out of their troubles, even if only for an hour or two, and make them laugh and think. Thank you, Carol, for the inspiration, the dream, and the laughter. GUYS & DOLLS will be presented by the University of Tulsa’s theatre department October 17 -27 at the Chapman Theatre. For ticket info, call’. 631-2567. BACP presents ’ffhe Taffetas" a 50’s girl-group musical revue, 9/13 - 22. Info: 258-0077 Andthey have a web site: http/. / WWW.Geocities.com]Broadway/1646 TheatreTulsapresents ’q’heTorchBearers" starting 9/20. Info: 596~7111. (Got that number memorized by now? I do.) 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Call 341. 686,6 International Tours for more information. IGTA member. Enjoy POPS LIVE! with the Tulsa Philharmonic on October 4-5, beginning at 8 p.m. at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center. The concert features Maureen MeGovern. Hear this legendary singer with the five-octave range! Call 747-PI-IIL for tickets and information! by Jean-Pierre, TFNFood Critic ¯ pet peeves is a kitchen staff too lazy to Nested ataprimecomer ofUticaSquare ¯ remove the entire shell from the shrimp. next door to the Polo Shop is a long time ¯ How is one expected to gracefully eat a popular restaurant site, in this declension " dish with a thick sauce and an incomknown as Capistrano. Previous on-site ¯ eateries have included Santa Fe, French, plet,ely shelled shellfish? Does one dip one s fingers into the hot sauce to grasp and Italian cuisines, and those ghosts continue to the shrimp by the tail and haunt the current menu. It’s hard to categorize Capistrano, though, since it bills itselfas arotisserie .(a restaurant specializing in roasted or .broiled meats), but only has one rotisserie item on the menu. It bears-a passing allegian.ce to F~en~hfoods due to its close a~sociations with its Owner’s other Tulsa restaurant, The.FTe.nch Hen, but the preparattons are certainly not, French (of course, we’ ve also made that observation about the French ’HEn, but that is the subject of another review).. We can 6nly call Capistrano eclectiC. Ecldcfic might also describe the service here, too, though esoteric also fits. Certain customers and tables seem to get a lot ofattention, while others are left to flounder unattended. The al fresco tables are particularly a service wilderness. Some of the staff is definitely friendlier than others,and all of them seem to be lacking in training in the finer points of service. Our waitress was also totally ignorant as to the .preparation technique and Ingredients of the menu items. Nevertheless, Capistrano remains a busy restaurant filled with upseale Utica Square shoppets. Where to start? Try to think of every cuisine and every culinary fad item, and then expect it to appear on the Capistrano menu. Soups include a limed chicken tortilla, a clam chowder, and a soup du jour, which on the evening of our visit was a spicy tomato, which we found rather thin and tart. Appetizers include baked brie with sun-dried tomatoes, snails, and a brick oven pizza. Salads include the Caesar, a broiledmozzarella, nicoise, oriental duck, andalderwoodsmokedsalmon, plus a vegetarian medley presented on a bed of greens. The nicoise, duck, and salmon salads come in two sizes, small for $8.95, and large for $14.95. Pastas are important menu items, including fettucine ticino, a pesto, and an angel hair with salmon. We chose to split the fettucine Riviera ($12.95) as an appetizer course, and were generally pleased with the result. The fettucine was cooked to the proper degree of al dente doneness and was sauced in a rich and delicious lobster cream, redolent with parmesan cheese, and sprinkled with bits of lobster meat, scallops, and three whole shrimps. The dish was marred only by the presence of the tail shell on the shrimps. One of our Capistrano Rotisserie 171~8Utlca Square ¯ Hours: Lunel,, 11 to 2:30 Dinner 5 to 9:30 closed S.nd~ys .Cuisine: Eclectic Dress: ’C~uM Prices: Expensive Pa~ent: A~ ~o~ No~-Smo~ Section: Alcohol: Ratln~: convey it dripping to the mouth? Or does-one use one’ s fork, riskingmouth lacerations from sharp bits of tail shell, and then later gracefully and elegantly spit out the offending bits? This .wasn’t the first time we’d been to Capistrano, so we passed up the signature Santa Fe Blue Corn Plato ($9.95), the rotisserie chicken ($10.95), the pan grilled brooktrout ($12.95), and theloin oflamb daily special ($21.95). We wish we hadn’t. Instead, we tried theGuthriepanfried steak ($15.95), which is the Capistrano answer to traditional Oklahoma chicken fried steak. This "dish" was a piece of round steak served with new potatoes and sliced mushrooms, absolutely drowned in the most offensive brown gravy we’ve ever tasted. Flavored with Worcestershire sauce, the gravywas overpowering with the anchovy-vinegar Worcestershire flavor, and the taste would not leave the mouth, even afternumerous washings with the $6.50 a glass wine. Our companion tried the toumedos au ¯ poivre ($17.95), ordered medium rare and received medium and ¯ almost cold. It was a small piece of dead ¯ cow with pepper on it. Our dessert was a bread pudding in a : Jack Daniels sauce, which our waitress .- announced was a Jack Daniels "bourbon" ¯ sauce, even though our table all knew that ." only Bourbon County, Kentucky, pro- . duces bourbon - Jack Daniels is Tennes- ¯ see whiskey. But, good whiskey notwith- ¯ standing, thebreadpuddingwas dry, bland, ¯ and rubbery. We also tried the creme ¯ brulee. Creme brulee is a milky custard with a sugar crust that is caramelized and ¯ toasted under the broiler immediately be- ¯- fore serving. Our sugar crust was burned ¯ black. But, the underlying custard was smooth and very tasty. ¯ Ah, the sacrifices we make for our ¯ readers! This simple little dinner for two ¯ endedupcosting us $76. Wewere shocked and appalled. Shocked and appalled not ¯" only because of the price, but because of ¯ the quality of food we received on the night of the review. We’ ve never been so ¯ disappointed with their food before. ¯ If one is shol~ping and hunga3, while on ¯ the west side o[ Utica Square, stop in at ¯ Capistrano for a bite to eat. The outside ¯ eafe seating can be pleasant. Just hope ¯ that those legendary birds drop by laden : with cash. Black boots,jeans, black belt, tank top ." and armband, i am ready to go and the,¯ nerves are setting in. Will i be accepted? What will it be like walking into a leather " ¯ ¯ bar?Will ~bemovermy head.9"These are ° a few of the thoughts that raced through ¯ myhead as i embarkedonmy first venture ¯ to a leather bar. i knew i had to fulfill this " yearning that was growing deep in my " soul. Little did i know that i was about to ", begin the journey of my life with no , turning back. Upon arriving at The SF Eagle, i saw a : line ofhuge,beautifnl motorcycles, i never ; knew a sight, such as this[could get my heart to racing so. i made iny way to the : patio and all i could see was a sea of ] leatherdad.men. The day was hot and the ¯ air smdled of sweat, leather and cigars, i " was in heaven. But then reality set in. : What was i supposed to do? Look? Ap- : proach someone?i waslost. Thisis where ¯ my training began, i had foundmy home. ~ My family. ¯ Basic training taughtmethat not every- : oneinleatherwas intoSMand vice-versa. ¯ Leather relationships ran’the gamut from " monogamous with leathersex only, to " Daddy/boy or Mistress, Master/slav.e and : that these relationships did not always involve pain..Leather involves scenes " which Race Bannon, author of1~earning " the Ropes, says, a scene is a comblnatton ¯ of mental, physical and/or environmental ~ components, with an exchange of power . as a key element, thatmix in such away as to produce a satisfying experience for all participants. Scenes canhappen anywhere as the focus inSMis the mind. Sexmay or may not be part of a Scene. SM has been : defmed as theater, where you create your own fantasy and as music, where you ~ ..... create your own score". ¯ i learned about networking, negotiat- ". ing and feedback. Networking is about ¯ finding out who is safe and who is not, : building a circle of friends and acquain- : tances to help you and attending parties, : workshops and club events. Educating oneself is important and no question is ~ ridiculous. Negotiating a scene helps " both parties get what they want, feel each other out and not get in over their head. Feedback, such as safe words, helps everyone involved to know how thin.gs are going. Safe words such as red, yellow, or green can be used for checking out the scene, halting the momentum for a while, or stopping the scene all together. "Safe, Sane and Consensual" is the leather creed. Safety is of utmost importance inleather and includes not exchanging body fluids, getting to know your partner and not trying anything you are not ready for. Sane means trusting your gut instinct and not involving alcohol or ..... drugs as they can impair your.j.ud,gment, causeharmandincrease yourriskoI sexually transmitted disease. Consensual stems from all parties involved should consent to everything that is transpiring. Communication is the key. But most of all, have fun. Through my experien~s, i came to realize leather is lovemaking. It is safe and non-demeaning as it is a carefully ....negotiated, safe, and caring exchange between partners. Leather is not about pain, but sensation. Leather has helped me become a stronger person and to understand the true meanings of trust, honor and love. Lastly, leather h,a,s taken me to a heigh,t,. see lance, Mina ~pace, no. one, page 1~ World War II seems to be when leathermen emerged. The men, coming back from war, were used to strict orders of rank and respect; the camaraderie, and theman-to-manbonding in the absence of women. Some were able to adjust while others yearned for the unspeakable. Themenbeganhanging out at the shipping yards, loading docks, and the bars of the larger port cities. Soon, groups of men begancoming together and "hanging their colors" in their "home bar". Motorcycles came onto the scene largely due to the appreciation the American soldier~ devdoped while serving’in Europe. rBike clubs emerged and the followers came from far and wide. Uniforms had their beginning when themenwore them out to display their rank for those who understood their insignia and would give them the respect they called for. Between the 1960’ s and 1980’ s organization, less secrecy, and the leather network helped increase the growing numbers of leatherpeople. From the 1980’ s to the present the Old Guard, which is well defined, and the New Guard have been combining the two philosophies resulting in a stronger leather community. Fetishes and the educating of others have grown and brought about a more diverse and stronger tribe. SM stands for sadomasochism or the deriving of enjoyment from the infliction and/orreceiving ofpain. SMencompasses ¯ many forms. Pain is not the key clement ¯ here, but the exchange of power is. This. ¯ exchange is totally voluntary. It defines ¯ the roles and the relationship. The bottom relies on trust then expresses his desires and finally gives up his power to the Top. This exchange continues throughout the scene as the Top watches the reactions of the bottom. The bottomis controlling with his/her actions. Areyounow asking yourselfhow I take action with my curiosity? Joseph Bean, author ofLeathersex, describes it as: Taking action is like lowering yourself into a tub of hot water, one timid body part at a time, only to discover it Wash’ t all that hot after all. Sojustgoforit. Leatherlifestyles celebrate and affirm sexuality. Be honest andlisten until youunderstand the image! reality, fantasy/foreplay give-take flows. Also realize that you are play~ng a ro!e and wearing a costume. Leatlaerpeopie are playing their roles for themselves, for something powerful within and are looking for aproper counterpart. Please donot wear cologne, loud colors, use a loud voice, or disturb a scene. It is not proper etiquette. Dressing for Action is not all that involved. A tight fitting t-shirt, jeans, black belt, and black boots will suffice. Leather and accessories are expensive so play by the motto "Performnow, reward yourself later". Do not be afraid to ask questions about what is appropriate for you and your role. Collars are worn to imply that you are owned or taken. If you are not ¯ owned, but would like to be, thread the ¯ collar under the right epaulet of your ¯ jacket. ¯ Communicating with clothing can be ¯ misinterpreted. Please take the time to ¯ learn thehankie colors and their meaning. ¯ Do not mistake interests for requirements " and don’ tassume that yourmessages have : notbeen misread. Take all these things as ¯ points to be considered and discussed see lance, Mind Space, no. two, page 15 Do you live in a small town or rural area? Are you attracted to other men? Do you feel like you. are the only one? And if you’d like to meet others, come to our rural mens discussion group every 2nd & 4th Saturday, 7,9 pm For more info,, contact Jeremy or Brian 742-2927 or 800-282-8165 Bttt[er-Stumpff Fttrtera Home Cemetery - Funeral Home - Crematory At Butler-Stumpff Funeral Home, you and your family will be treated with dignity, compassion, and pride. Whether it is your given or chosen family who needs our services, you can be who and what you are, and you will not be discriminated against. We offer our exclusive $2820. complete funeral plan, no added costs. If you have a policy some-where else, you can transfer your policy to us, and may be due a cash refund if you paid more for what you have now. Our journey through life should be done with pride; shouldn’t our journey through death be done with pride as well? For more information, please call 918-587-7000 for all of your pre-need arrangements. 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If notjust for our health, looking our best can make an incredible difference in our own selfesteem and how we view others around us...in short, Gay or not, it’ s a must. Maybe you have never wanted to be a competitive body builder, but you may still want to feel better about yourself. There are a variety of ways to do that but this month, I am discussing one I truly have passionfor- weight training. Maybe _y.ou already life weights but you can’t figure out why you don t looklike that hot guy (or girl) dancing next to you on a Sat. night. Many times the difference can be narrowed down to a few basic points. 1. Lackofintensity. Too often, many of us just go through the motions of exercise without fully understanding the importance of intensity. I’m sorry to break it to you but weight lifting hurts. You must work out hard and consistently, pushing .yourself to add more weight while keepmg a perfect a form as possible. Intensity is simply trying hard enough. 2. Too much intensity & not enough rest. The number that fall into this category is significantly smaller than the previous one. Unless you’rejuiced to the gills (steroids) or on supplements, you’re not going to be able to work out every day of the week. Normal guys and gals need to Mind Space, no. one ¯ recuperate. The trick is finding out the right amount that suits you. For some, ¯ working out 2-3 per week is best. For the : more advanced, 5 per week is optimum. ¯ 3. Inconsistency. You must commit ¯ ¯ YOurself toworkingout on aregularbasis. If you make working out a priority, put- ¯, ling it ahead of social engagements, you ¯ will make progress. And if you’re only working out three times a week (5 max.) ¯ that lives plenty of time for other things. ¯. 4. Too much time on "shaping" exercises. Unless you’re a professi-on~l body- " builder, there’s little need to concentrate ¯ on various parts of the body. Stick with ¯ the powermovements like bench presses, ¯ squats, leg presses, etc. These are exer- ¯ cises that build size andstrength overall. ¯ 5. Inadequate rest and/or nutrition. If ¯ you follow all these tips yet fail to get ¯ ¯ enough sleep or you eat poorly, what you’re doing is equivalent to swimming ¯ in a cement overcoat. You must sleep an ¯ amount that’s right for you. Eat lots of ¯ whole-grainfoods, vegetables, fruits, and ¯ low-fat protein sources. ¯ 6. Rottenform and time in between sets. ¯ There are various ways to make an exer- ¯ cise easier. Almost all of them constitute ¯ cheating and waiting too long in between ¯ sets. Swinging a barbell up, using your ¯ body weight, momentum and maybe a ¯ ¯ eatapnltmaymakecurling aweight easier, but it will do absolutely nothing to make ¯ your muscles grow. Wait more than 30 ¯ seconds (45 max.) in between sets and ¯ you lose your fatigue/tension and your : muscles can cool down to where you’re at : the starting point all over again. ¯ There are plenty-of other pitfalls to ¯ achieving your best physical shape, but ¯ ~we’vecoveredthemostimportantofthem..~. : Despite the image that weight-lifters ofened awareness of my inner self and has allowed me to stand tall and be proud of whoi am. i would like to here your comments, .any questions you may have, or any subjects you wouldlikeme to talk about. You can e-mail me at mrac194@aol.com or write tomein care of Tulsa Family News. Mark your calendars for September 20. RonGreenwoodproduces ’q"he Mr. Tnlsa l_xather Contest" at The Silver Star Saloon. Until next time...... Author’s note: in the leather community Tops are recognized in upper case and bottoms as lower case. Mind Space, no. two with a possible partner. Here is a tip to remember: A Top flags left and a bottom flags right. You do not have to be all dressed and ." have no place to go. There are the bars, ." dubs, events, dub runs and more. There ¯ are many national events that happen annually and local events you can find out about through the local papers, the community, leather magazines, and the intemet. Always ask. The information is there for your disposal. The world is for your ialdng. Don’ t be afraid. Take one step at a time until you feel comfortableandremember, theleather community is there for you with open arms. This .tribe will help you with your journey. After all, we are all on this journey together. i aminterestedin yourcomments, questions, or topics you would like to see discussed. Please e-mail me at mrac194@aol.com or write to me in care of Tulsa Family News. In October i will be discussing leather relationships. 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Ads will run in the next issue after received. TFN reserves the right to edit or, refuse any ad. No refunds. Seeks Similar GWM, I am Christian, 39, like movies, family, friends, ’quiet evenings, warm, considerate, friendly,always happy. Seeking lifemate for monogamous relationship with similar interests. Let’ s meet to talk. Rt. 8 Box 796, Tulsa, OK 74126 , Lifestyl Fgo S24,900 S400 8400 Health & Fitness Center ¯ Jogging Track . Lush ~dscaping ¯ Valet ParNng M~ble ~bby The Hying Begins Now. 4-10 West 7th (7th and Denver) 584-8400 1-800-327-0555 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 [1996] Tulsa Family News, September 15-October 14, 1996; Volume 3, Issue 10 Subject The topic of the resource Politics, education, and social conversation toward Tulsa’s Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual communities. 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Title A name given to the resource [1996] Tulsa Family News, October 15-November 14, 1996; Volume 3, 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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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 Serving Tulsa’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Trans Communities Murderer of Gay Man Gets Second Degree Sentence PONTIAC, Michigan (AP)- A TV talks show guest. avoided a mandatory life prison.term for murdering a gay admirer by convincing jurors that ’.’ambush televii"’ SayNoto Hate’ !iYes to Jobs Protections The members of Tulsa’ s Say No .,~ I-Fate Coalition have approved ¯ a statement on workplace discrimination ,that explicitly endorses ¯ fairness for all, including Gay & Lesbian citizens. The statement : reads: "... Say.No to Hate Coalition condemns workplace discrimi- :" nationin allits forms. Fundamental fairness dictates that all individu, i als,irrespectiveofrace, color,nationalorigin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, [emphasis added] age or disability, be afforded equal : opportunity in allof ,An~_,e,dca’s workpl,a~es. : Itisnotaboutso-called specialrights forcertaingroups.Itisabout evaluating each individual on his/her merit rather than making, group ¯ judgements based on ignorance and fear. -" " Disedminationin the workplace diminishes us all. It should never : happen, but it does. Laws are necessary to protectall ofus from such ¯ hateful and hurtful behavior, and to provide recourse in the event i discrimination does infact occur." ¯ The Coalition is made up of the following organizations: the : American Red Cross, Tulsa Area chapter, the Coalition of Hispanic Organizations (COHO), theHumanRights Dept. ofthe City ofTulsa, Intercultural Service Center, Islamic Society, Jewish Federation, Metropolitan Urban League, NAACP, The National Conference, Tulsa Region, Tulsa Metropolitan Ministry, Tulsa Oklahornans for HumanRights (TOHR),Tulsa Police Dept. andTulsa PublieSchoolS, The Coalition was established in 1988 and works to protect theright, safety and fundamental freedoms see Hate, page 10 sion" was partly to blame. . -. - ~: HIVRCThreatens Lawsuit Jonathan Schmitz of second-degree murderin the 1995 ~ Attorney Kenneth Crnmp, representing the HIV Resource Consorshotgun slaying of Scott Amedure, whoh,a~ revealed a ¯ crush on Schmitz during a taping of _the Jenny Jones -" Show?’ Defense lawyers argued that Schrnitz, who had -" ahistory of emotional problems, was ambush,e,~, on the : show and pushed over the edge., JurOrs agreed. Weall -. felt he hada def’mite mental problem ... and the show ¯ i exacerbated that," juror Dale Carlington Said..r . Schmitz admitted shooting Am&ttire three days after : the two attended a taping of the show in Chicago on ¯ March 6, 1995. Defense attorneys say Schmitz,ahet,, ." erosexual; was humiliated to. learn ids secret admirer was a man.The humiliation, combine~[ wfthSchmitz’. history of menta! illness, alcoholism .and a thyroid condition rend~r~tilln incapable offorming the intent to kill, they contended. Dr. Michael Abramsky testified that Schmitz probably did not intend to hurt anyonebuthimselfon the day he shotAmedure. Abramsky, whohad examinedSchmitz about a month after the shooting, said Schmitz’s mind was "bombarded" by thoughts that included killing himself and feelings of anger seeMurder, page11 : Election News Analysis Political analysis & commentary by Tom Neal, editor : Based on Associated Press reports and TFN coverage. : Therecent elections appear to maintain thestatus quo : for Lesbian and Gay citizens. In Tulsa, State Sen. Penny : Williams (D) won over openly anti-Gay candidate . Brian Lehman (R) despite overfly anti-Gay campaign : ploys. Williams’ campaign also enjoyed supportfrom a ¯ number of Lesbian and Gay activists because of her ¯ history offairness. Hercampaign did, however, tell The . Tulsa Worm that she had never supported same-gender marriage despite avote against an anti-marriage bill last legislative session. Pat Woodrum, former director of Tulsa City/County Library System and another candidate with ahistory of " fairness to Gay citizens, lost her race for State Senate. ¯ Her opponent, James Williamson, also attempted to stir ! up anti-G,ay sentiment but some observers think :. Woodrum s loss more likely a reflection of running as : a Democrat in a traditionally Republican district. ¯ In the OK House, incumbent Republican Flint " Breckemidge who represented a midtown district with " a significant number of Lesbian and Gay voters was ." defeated by Mary Easley, Democrat. This might bode ¯ well for Gay citizens since Breckenddge ran a Gaybaiting campaign against former Rep. Bruce Niemi~ " However, Breckemidge toldTFN ofdosefamily ties to ¯ members of the Gay commtmity. Easley, when ques- : doned about her positions on- fairness for Lesbian and Gay citizens, claimed she just hadn’t thought about ° these things: However, her campaign literature touted ¯ her as upholding/the "conservative, family-centered, : see Politics, page 14 " tium, has informedTFN that the HIVRC is ’q~esitant to communicate directly" with TFN despite earlier demands byboard pres. Nancy McDonald for a meeting. Crump forwarded a letter from McDonald, asking that the letter be print,e~!,.,. adding, "ifthis is done, no further [legal] action will be taken ~..’ TFN publisher Tom Neal noted that TFN repeatedly agreed to McDonald’ s meedng demand (and agreed to a date which McDonald later canceled) and that TFN was happy to publish the letter (p.2). ¯ In a separate letter, Crump noted that aTFNreporter was questioning the United Way (which helps fund the HIVRC) about possible ramifications of client complaints and possible open records violations. Crump demanded thatTFNcease suchactivity. Neal responded that "it iS~an.unfortunate-attempt to intimidate TFN from making legitimate press inquiries?’ Dr. Jerry Nida, Commissioner of-the Oklahoma State Dept. of Health stated the HIVRC should comply : with the open records statutes- withholding only strictly ,,c,o,nfidential ¯" information. Andpres.,MeDonaldacknowledged to TFN s attorney .’- that theHIVRCWas obliged to provide the re~ords. To date, however, ~ no records_have been provided. ¯ ACLU-OK To Present Dr. Joycelyn ~ Elders & Honor Nancy & Joe McDonald The American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma has chosen Nancy and Dr. Joe McDonald as their Human Rights Project award winners alongwith longtime OKC Gay civil rights activist Bill Rogers. This awardwill bepresentedin theGoldCrownRoomofthe Clarion Hotel, 4345No. Lincoln, at 7pm. TheACLUwill also honorPare Fleisehaker of OKC~s Oklahoma Gazette for her work writing in defense of First Amendment rights, choice issues and Gay &Lesbian Citizens, as well as Michael Salem andJoel Carter, the attorneys who lead the effort to get the City of Edmond to drop seeACLU, page 10 ¯ MCC-GT Passes Financial Review : MCC-Gxeater Tulsa has provided TFN with a copy of a letter from ¯ South Central District treasurer of the Metropolitan Community Church (MCC). Thomas Merrill has given MCC-Greater Tulsa a positive review of its finanCial situation with only light admonishments about betteL.r..~eco~d~ing. Financial discrepancies that had -concerned membe~’~hd:~kediwithTFN (v2, #12, 11-12/95) have been resolved and ~6church has beendeared of any serious charges. Merrill noted thati:there was no evidence ofany misappropi’iation of funds, and bailk deposits were in order as were disbursements. He suggested that the appearance ofmissing funds resultedfromafailure to balance the bookkeeping records with the financial reports. He praised e.mrent treasurer, Norman Henley. for discovering that a loan paymen~ of $1,500 and tithe payments of $2,500 simply had not been reported in finanCial statements. This accounted for most of the "missing" fnn,ds. Merrill particularly remarked on deposit records for as little as $1 which had been dropped from an offering, saying this, was "a testament to the honesty and integrity of your leadership... Merrill added that the church has done an excellentjob of heeding the recommendations of aworkshop that the district provided to the church last March. MCC-GT continues its pastoral search to replace the Rev. Alice Jones who ledthechurch successfully for many years. C’ENTER !EVENTS Dana Tiger Benef,t for ¯ HOPE, RBG Meeting, ¯ Colm mu .n.ity-wide !Potluck, V deo. Night, i BLGTA Formal Dance, : Primetimers & Morel Award winning artist, Dana Tiger, will hold an exhibit of her work at the Pride Center on Sunday, Dec. 8 from 1-7 pm. Tiger who. hails from a family of artists will donate a percentage from sales to benefit HOPE, HIV Outreach, Prevention & Education whose offices are in the Pride Center. Tiger is a member of the Muscogee Nation and is of Creek]Seminole and Cherokee descent. Her best known work honors the strength and determination Of Native Americanw,~ men. InTulsa, BrooksideJewelryshows Dana S Work and helped to bring this noted artist to the Center. Tiger was to have been joined by her sister, Lisa Tiger, who is known for her work as-an HIV educator. Lisa Tiger will not be able to attend but will have a video as well as a book of essays to which she’.s contributed available. RainbowBusiness Guild (RBG) will have a pizza party at theCenter for its Nov. meeting. It will be a week earlier than usual due to Thanksgiving - on-Nov. I9th at 7pro. All are welcome. Dinner dues will be $S/person. Dec. 7th, TOHR/The Pride Center will host with HOPE, RBG, TU’s BLTGA and other see Center, page 10 ¯ World AIDS Day March : Red Ribbon Treefest + ¯" Walk + DayWithoutArt ¯ This year’s World AIDS Day Memorial : March and Service will be on Sunday, Dec. ¯ 1st. The marchers, organized by Interfaith ¯ AIDS Ministries,will gatheratBartlettSquare ¯ in downtown Tulsa (Sth & Main) at 5pro. The ¯ March will begin at 5:30 andwill end atTrinity ¯ Episcopal, 501 So. Cincinnati for Evensong ¯ service at 6pro. Marchers are urged to bring ¯" bells to ring during the March and will be ¯ provided candles and matches..Organizations ¯¯ are invited to bring their banners. A reception will follow after the service. For info: 438- ¯ 2437 or 800-284-2437. ¯ see World, page 11 ¯ COMING SOON! :Our House Auction ¯ seepage 5 INSIDE EDITORIAL/LETTERS/DIRECTORY P. 2-3 ¯ NEWS P. 4 HEALTH P. 7 ¯" HIV/AIDS & THE LAW P. 7 ¯ CALENDAR P. 9 BOOK REVIEW P, 12 ¯ RESTAURANT REVIEW P. 1:3 CLASSIFIEDS P. 14 918.583.1248 fax: 583.4615 POB 4140 Tulsa, Oklahoma 74159-0140 tulnews@ionetnet Publisher +,Editor: Tom Neal Entertainment Writer + Mac Guru: James Chri~tjohn Writers + contributors: Phyl Boler-Schmidt, Barry Hensley Jean-Pierre Legrandbouche Steven Scott, Gerald Miller, Lance Brittain, Kerry Lewis Issued on or before the 15th of each month,~the entire contents of this publication are protected by US copyright 1~ by T~!lsa Family News and may not be reproduced either in whole or inp~rt,i~]’fhout ~,ritten permission from the publisher. Publication of a name or photo does not indicatethat person’s sexual orientation. Correspondence is assumed to be for publication unless otherwise noted, must be signed & becomesthe so!e property_of Tulsa Family News. All correspondence should be sent to the address above, ldaeh reader is entitled to one free copy of each’ edition at distribution points. Additionalcopies are available by calling 583-1248." Just a note of encouragementbn your articleon the HIVRC. The concerns that have been brought up form the PLWA’s are true and correct. Please use my name as a former landlord that received funds from the HOPWA grant, as validation of these clients’ concerns. Many people know that I used my properties to house several clients from the RC, so I do hold a lot of Credibility there. The allegations ofmismanagement, poor perf0rmance and claims of bias retaliation against clients are facts, These reasons played a very large role in the decision David and I made to sell our properties. TheRC burned a very important bridge in that arena. We had 12 properties, 6 of which at the time Of the sdl were housed by PLWA’s on the HOPWA program, and we would probably most definitely still be in that arena had the RC been more cooperative to us and more compassionate towards the clients they represent.... You are to be commended for your article, and I support you 100%!!!! - Russell Langley-Stumpff, Tulsa ¯ October 28 1996 ¯¯ In respouse to the article appearmg in theTulsa Family News, Oct. 15, v. 3, no. 11, tiffed "PLWA’s Indict HIVRC, Care : Organization May Bein Violation ofOK Statutes", the Board of ¯" Directors ofthe I-I!V Resource C0nsorfittm are deeplyconcerned ¯ and.distressed at the accusation. : We are a Not for Profit Organization chartered by the-Olda- : homaCorporationCommission. Weadhere to the articulation of ¯ the mission of our organization. We receive funding from the ¯ United :Way, the Federal Government which dispenses funds : through the Oklahoma State Department of Health, the State : Housing Authorityand private donations. Because we are. a ¯ recipient of federal monies through the competitive grant pro- : cess, weare bound by the guidelines as articulated by each grant. ¯ Wemustreport to the granting sources on a regular basis. Weare ." subject to scheduled and non-scheduled on site inspection and ¯ audit ofour records to determine our adherence to all federal and ¯ state guidelines, see McDonald, page 8 Tulsa Clubs & Restaurants *Bamboo Lounge, 7204 E. Pine 832-1269 *Concessions, 3340 S. Peoria 744-0896 *Lola’s, 2630 E. 15th 749-1563 *Gold Coast Coffee House, 3509 S. Peoria 749-4511 *Ground Floor Cafe, 51st & Harvard 749-5678 *St. Michael’s Alley Restaurant, 3324-L E. 31st 745-9998 *Silver Star Saloon, 1565 Sheridan 834-4234 *Samson & Ddilah, 10 E. Fifth 585-2221 *Renegades/Rainbow Room¯ 1649 S. Main 585,3405 *TNT’s, 2114 S. Memorial 660=0856 *Tool Box, 1338 E. 3rd 584-1308 *Interurban Restaurant, 717 S. Houston 585-3134 Tulsa Businesses, Services, & Professionals Dennis C. Arnold, Realtor 746-4620 *Assoc. in Med.& Mental Health, 2325 S. Harvard 743-1000 Kent Balch & Associates, Health & life Insurance 747-9506 *Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 8620 E. 71 250-5034 Brookside Jewelry, 4649 So. Peoria 743-5272 *Creative Collection, 1521 E. 15 592-1521 Cherry Street Psychotherapy Associates 1515 S. Lewis 581-0902, 743-4117 Community Cleaning, Kerby Baker 622-0700 Tim Daniel, Attorney 352-9504, 800-742-9468 *Deco to Disco, 3212 E. 13th 749-3620 Doghouse on Brookside, 3311 S. Peoria 744-5556 Don Carlton Mitsubishi, 46th & Memorial 665-6595 Don Carlton Honda, 4141 S. Memorial -622-3636 ¯ Kellie J. Watts, attorney 493-1959 ¯ Fred Welch, Lcsw, Counsding 743-1733 ¯ Tulsa Organizations, Churches, & Universities ¯ AIDS Walk Tulsa, POB 1071, 74101-1071 579-9593 ¯ ¯ Black & White, Inc. POB 14001, Tulsa 74159 583-7314 *Bless The Lord... Christian Center, 2627b E. 11 628-0594 ¯ *B/L/G Alliance, Univ. of Tulsa Canterbury Ctr. 583-9780 ¯ *Chapman Student Ctr., University of Tulsa, 5th PI. & Florence "- *CommunityofHopeUnitedMethodist, 1703 E. 2rid 585-1800 : Commmlity Unitarian-Universalist Congregation 749-0595 : Dignity/Integrity-LesbianlGayCatholics/Episcopal. 298-4648 ¯ *Family of Faith MCC, 5451-E So. Mingo 622-1441 : *Fellowship Congreg. Church, 2900 S. Harvard 747-7777 ." *Free SpiritWomens Center, call for location&info: 587-4669 : Friend For A Friend, POB 52344, 74152 747-6827 ¯ Friends in Unity Social Org. (African-American mens group) ¯" POB 8542, 74101, call c/o TOHR @ 742-2927 ¯ Indian Health Care, Save the Nati6n 584-4983 : Interfaith AIDS Ministries 438-2437, 800-284-2437 ¯ *MCC of Greater Tulsa, 1623 N..Maplewood 838-1715 ~ *H!V Resource Ctr., 4154 S. Harvard, Ste. H- 1 749-4194 ¯ NAMES PROJECT, 4154 S. Harvard, Ste. H- 1 748-3111 ¯ *Our House, 1114 S. Quaker 584-7960 ¯ PFLAG ,POB 52800, 74152 749-4901 : *Planned Parenthood, 1007 S. Peoria 58%7674 ¯ Prime=Timers, P.O_. Box 52118, 74152 583=1410 ¯ *R.A I N, Regional AIDS Interfaith Network ¯ Raihbow ~3usiness’Guiid, POB 4106;74159 : I have been reading your paper since it : first started. You have done a very good : job presenting the news and expanding ¯ coverage. ITm glad to see your progress. : After reading your last editorial per- : taining to the HIV Resource Consortium : (HIVRC), I wanted to letyonknow that ¯ you are doing a big service for PWA’s : who have no where else to turn. ¯ Since Ihavehadalittle experience with : both PWA’s and a Consortiumin’Kan.~as :-City, MO, I feel’ this is important. For : .theHIVRCtofunctionitneeds twothings: :: clients andmoney. If they .don’t’have ¯ enough ofeither; they are out ofbusiness. : Maybe the HIVRC needs to be dissolved : and another organization set up that will ¯ not be "afraid" to let the public read the : minutes. Also, maybe too much money is being spent l~mning the HIVRC. If the ConSortium has nothing to hide they should be glad there is someone like you who is interested enough to help the PWA’s. Keep up the good work. This organization should be held accountable. - Cheryl Lenhart, Tulsa 749-4195 .: 665-5174 : *lqite Books & Videos, 821 S: Sheridan . 838-8503 " St. Jerome’s Catholic Church, 38~1 S. Peoria, 646-7116 , Express Pools & Spas; 6310 S. Peoria - 743-9994 : Shhnti H0tlin~ & HIV/AIDS Siei’vices " Foxlinx, Computer Consultation = - . _ 690-297J¢ " " TulsaOkl~ for Hmnan Rights., POB.2687, 74101 ¯ EearmeM. Gross; Financial Pl,nningi, : ,~i ,::, ,-,,~44~0)02 i ~.T.,-~--h~i,’~i.~s’.,l}3~ ~:-~,., Mark T. 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C-1 742-8868 Thanks for Printing the Truth Thank you for printing the truth as you heard it or observed it. I am speaking about the HIVRC an the various complaints leveled against them. I. am also sorry to say that I will not reveal my name and it is not because I am irresponsible in what I say, but I recognize very clearly who is in control of the AIDS Service an thus, funding in Tulsa. I am concerned¯ about repercussions. I would encourage you not to stop your investigation. I think that the clients that have the more need are often the ones at the Resource Center that no one wants to handle. As you know, clients are not always physically attractive with good hygiene and wonderful personalities, some are drug abusers, some are dirty, some do not have any social skills, and some live on the street and some have serious mental health problems. However, they are still deserving ofhelp. Ifthe mental health centers stopped seeing the mentally ill because hey did notmake sense then what would be the purpose of heir existence? Therefore, the Resource Center needs to be sensitive toe people who are really downandoutandnot always easy to help. The must stop intimidating their clients. I was extremely bothered by the secretive nature Of their finances. Anyone knows who works in non-profit agencies ’that all Of those records should be readily available to people.-There should be no -reason to hide that information - unless, they are hiding it because their_ costs are extremely high and the hours of service, units of ~ervice, or numbers Of clients are solow that most people would question Why.they have-arOund halfa million dollar budget- and still are saying they d0n’t :. have .enough money. They ha*e much : more than most otherAIDS service orga- : nizations and they control, pretty much, ¯ all oftheUnitedWayfunds,TCAPfunds, ¯ and state funds. Perhaps Saint McDonald : lias something to do with that since she ¯ " als0 serves on the board of the Commu- : nity Service Council, which is an arm of the United Way. see HIVRC, page 13 5 by Tom Neal, publisher/editor : A handful of people arerather upset :right now. Last - month this newspaper published an-article relating the complaints of some people living with AIDS (PLWA? s) " against the I-IIV Resource Consortium (I-IIVRC) and ¯ added complaints of this newspaper about the agency’ s ¯ lack of cooperation, The article highlighted the concerns ¯ of some HIVRC clients,, the response the HIVRC’d]rec- H I V i: R: C . : torand also noted that the Board of " " :: agency appeared to bein viola-. ~o. ¯ don of a~ Oklahoma state law. l.)~reetors " . .: : The latter is the requirement President: that an agency supportedsub- Nane stantially with public monies abide by open meetingsand .~.teL)onam,~ open records statutes. Accord- Viee-presl"dents: ing to TFN, attor.ney and. also t~_~"re-~ ~~aunaIer"s " mylayman sreadingofthelaw, o. r~ ¯ . theagencyshouldprovidemin- 0~, L,,an - utes of its meetings when re- Phnhet, MD quested. To date, the HIVRC has been asked for meeting minutes repeatedly since the latter part of July and has yet to provide them now more than three months later. Wehave reproduced several letters from the president ofthe organization, her close friends and associates, and the HIVRC’ s attorney. Readers can seefor themselves several strategies for both excusing the agency~ s failure to comply with the law and for attempting to shift "blame from the agency, its staff and its boardof directors, to this newspaper. Most of it is just pure silliness and irresponsibility. The law appears to compel the HIVRC to provide its minutes SecretarT: .Tommy Chesbro Rib Helmerleb Caroline Abbott Geo r e Bdlke Michael Esliek Jeffry Johnson Erie Ramlrez Gene Reid Steve Reynolds Charles Se~.er Suzy Stard~eld MaybelleWallaee Jack Welsh Ned Zink when requested. The law does not specify that the entity requesting the minutes must speak to any specific person in the agency’ s hierarchy: Internal communications are usually the responsibility of the agency. The following is what this newspaper did in requesting minutes: Sharon Thoele is the primary legal representative of the agency in conducting it~ day to day business. Thoele signs checks, and TFN understands, hires and fires staff, etc. For the purposes of state open records requests, Thoele is clearly an appropriate legal representative for the organization. Thoele received several requests from TFN for copies of the minutes. These requests weremade first directly to Sharon’s administrative assistance, Susie Stanford, beginning in late July/early August. The first request was ignored for several weeks. The second request was answered with a message (given by Stanford) that Thoele said that TFN could not have the minutes, and that we. should talk with Charles Seeger who was described as their attorney. During that conversation, TFN requested a list of the board of directors from Stanford which was taxed to TFN. This is so far the only document delivered as requested. ¯ Editors note: this letter was.sent to the H1VRC With copies specifically designated to Sharon Thoele & TFN. This is the first ofmany letters thatwehope will let you know how we the clients are feeling; In hopes that things get better at the Consortium for all involved... There are anumberofus that see but donot say, and yet there are those of us who do and get SH1T. We don’tneed the stress ofhaviffg to run all over town to try and find the help you are responsible for giving...You put yourself in the position of wanting to help, so stop the fighting and start the helping... I was broughtup that "ifyou do it right thefirsttimeyoudon’ thaye to doit over... Oncein a while we can understand but each and every month...If you don’t want to help the[n] don’t hinder us!!! , Youallneedto gettheacttogether see PWA, page !2 TFN talked witti attomey(andi~ehi~iSlSens, board mem- : McDonald-of an important request. It also seems less bet) Charle~ Seege,r and requested copies Of the mi.’nutes. ¯ likely that attorney a~d board member Seeger would fail Seeger saidhe di.dn.t think that there was anything to hide " to do so. And another board member said hedid raise the in the minutes but thatsince they were a private non- " issue at a board meeting that took place prior to the profit~ he di-d not feel that they wer9 compelled toprovid~ ¯ publication of our last issue. them and thereforg, the ,HIVRC would not ,make the ¯ Regardless; the point is that now the agency has the minutes available.- - : opportunitytoprovethatitdoesindeedhaveonlythebest TFN informed Seeg~.that we_understood fr,om our : interests .of its .clients at. hea~.,It .el.aims ~at it.has had attorney that the ag¢ne-y ~as subject fo Oklah0mii s o~en~ " g0odandltS and~eviews. That being thecase~theHWRC recordsstatutesandevengavehim’the~s~.~tute~citati~ns,: .:. shouldha~;e.’nd pr0bidm:~ng’t~0g~’andits flnancial Seeger failed to return at least two sub~equen! callsTr0m :" statements a.vailablefor public_ review along with all TFN andfailed to respond to aletterfromTFN sattomey. ; other records that donotinvolve Strict client or employee -: " Board president Nancy McDonald claims that.she Was ¯ confidentiality issues. ¯ completely unaware of these ~eq~u..e,sts. She also is at- ¯ Itcanprovethatitisreallythemodelvogramitdaims temptingt0 excuse the agency Lg failure to comply with " to be by actively responding to the complaints of those ¯. the law by contending that 0nly a request made to her " clients bra~e enough to confront the agency..It Can begin ~ directly is valid, This is pa~t of.the attempt Of the agency ¯ to address its internal communications Issues which to shift blame for its failures to this newspaper. ¯ .include allegations of breaches of client confidentiality. ¯ However, Seegernever saidtoTFNthatarequestmfst " ~ For example, I am aware ofone suCh]ncidentbecause " be made tOboard president McDonald. TFN also called I br6tight it to Thoele’ sattention’ directly. I could have ¯ board member Tommy Chesbro and asked if he could written abom it but I chose to let them try to fix the : help get the’ minutes: Chesbro was sympathetic, but "- problem instead. Hopefully, it is fixed, but the employee ¯ referred questions back to executive dir.ector Tlioele. " who was accused still works for the agency. Others Our contention is that a request made to the executive " involvedin HIV care in Tulsa say that there are ongoing ; director, the primary day-to-day legal representative for problems of this sort. ¯ the HIVRC is more than adequate notice to.the agency. Other issues include allegations by other HIV service ¯ This newspaper went above and beyond duty to speak : providers that instead of working as a model of organizaalso with board members Seeger and board secretary " donal cooperation, the HIVRC has become the bully in ¯ Chesbro. the service provider arena- better at sucking up HIV care ~ Again, it is not the responsibility of this newspaper to dollars and better at adding staff than at actually provid- : fix the internal communications failures of the HIVRC- " ing care. Other agencies tell tales that imply that person- " ifindeedthatistheproblem.Itwouldseemthatexecutive alities and political connections play more of a role in ¯ director, Sharon Thode, who’ s paid slightly more than how agencies interact and how dollars are awarded than " $30,000 annually, should be capable of getting amessage " do the real needs of the clients. ¯ toherboardandpresidentaboutafaidyimportantmatter. And isn’t that who we all should really care about? . Interestingly, several former HIVRC board members " Why is it that so little of the discussion seems to be ¯ told TFN since the HIVRC story was published that ¯ concerned with the clients? That’s where Tulsa Family ¯ during their tenure, the HIVRC had the following proce- " News beganmore than eightmonths ago- by listening to ¯ dures’. earlier boards had been told by.an attorney that " those to who claim the HIVRC mistreated them. Most of ¯ they werenot subject to the Oklahoma Open meedngs and " them say they tried to work with the agency and were not : records acts, but nevertheless those boards had set a : only rebuffed, but some were treated’in ways that added ¯ policy of operating as though they were. For example, the " to their stress and may have worsened their health. ¯ organization posts its meeting times publicly in advance ¯ in accordance with the law. The question then becomes ¯ this: if the HIVRC’s standard, operating p01icy was to ¯ honor the law (even if they contend they weren’t subject ¯ to it), why did they not honor the open records act when ¯ .TFN asked for minutes? ¯" What we have argued is that if the agency has nothing ¯ to hide, then sharing the minutes shOuld never have been ~ a problem. For comparison, TFN talked with several ¯ executive directors Of other non-profits, some HIV re- : lated and others not. Each of these Said that if .they were ¯ asked for minutes, they would provide.them promptly. ¯ One person in another city, who formerly ran an agency ¯ that is dosdy comparable to the HIVRC in mission and : structure, said he would simply have photocopied the ¯ minutes and turned them over. ¯ Some observers of this situation have suggested that ¯ they find it tmlikely that McDonald was unaware of the request but likely directed Tiioele and Seeger to "stonewall" the request. This newspaper has no proof of such contentious. However, given the seemingly dose working relationship betweenMeDonald and ~noele, whom McDonaldrecently helped to honorwith aSWANaward~ it seems rather surprising thatThoele wouldfail to inform How can I convey my. disappointment in your article questioning the HIV Resource Center [sic]? Professional journalism covers both sides ofcontroversialissues. Why were HIVRC client & staff responses not reported?Why did not younot share with your readers any results ofyour 3.5 hour interview with director Sharon Thoele? [editor’s note: the PLWA’s who spoke with us are HIVRC clients, and last we checked, Sharon Thoele was still on the HIVRC staff. TFN reported that part of Thoele’s comments that were relevant to the original complaints by PLWA’s.] Was your article questioning one program, three programs or the agency overall? The issues and considerations behind all AIDS and non-AIDS social services are ind.,e~l complex.. , . One sources related what I hope isjust a rumor with no merit. After TFN’ s interview with Thoele, she’ s alleged to have expressed anger that I did not reveal who my sources were. Let’ s hope that herintentwas good and that that information would have been used to fix the problems. However, the fear by some clients of retaliation surely doesn’ t stem iust from paranoia. The point of all this is not to besmirch the reputations of the staff or the board of the HIVRC. I hope all involved have only the best intentions and have done the best they can with limited resources. And there is no doubt that there are not adequate funds for the need..However, point of public oversight is that the best possible management and ~tre should be prox;ided within the res.trictions of those limited resources. The questions are: is management up to the task; is it possible that the agency has .grown beyond the skills of those leading it; is itmaximizmg the benefit to its clients; is the board willing to follow both the spirit and~the letter of the law? The answer to all these may well be yes. But those of us whose tax dollars or United Way contributions substantially fund this agency have the right to. expect the HIVRC’ s full cooperation and disclostire. It hash’ t happened Yetbut hopefully it will soon. Concerning your lead story tiffed"PLWA’s Indict HIV RC... once again I find an outright assault in print against an organization that has served as a model nationwide in the administration of HIV/AIDS care and resources. While it is easy to understand that every agency cannot please each client 100% of the time.I am concerned that each client is treated with dignity and respect. In my professional dealings with theHIV Resource Consortium I have found a group of compassionate and caring individuals, staff and volunteers dedicated to delivering service efficiently and effectivdy for very little or no pay. [editor’s note: director Thoele ispaidover $30k which is more than many ordinary people make.] While you stated in your artidethat you conducted a 3 see Phillips, page 8 " 1/2 hour interview see Gillean,page 11 St. Rights Group Forms- BURLEY, Idaho (AP) - If gay rights come under fire in the 1997 Idaho Legislature, Schuyler Enochs will be there to stop it. Enochs, of!Caldwell, was jolted into working for gay and lesbian rights after watching his gay son Karl die of AIDS in 1994. Now he is cochairman of Idaho for Basic Rights, which is forming to block possible anti-gay rights legislatiofi from the Heyburn-based Idaho Citizens Alliance. The Idaho Citizens Alliance plans to file two bills by the end of. November~ executive director Kelly Johatmsen said. One would prohibit public schOols from promoting the ers couldnot counsd gay students, offer Some kinds of diversity training or take classes on dealing with. sexual Orientation. The other measure would prohibff the use of tax dollars to promote the homosexuallifestyle.- That means .students at¯ publicly funded colleges ~ould not prod.uce plays favorable to gays and lesbians, and libraries could not p~urehase mat.e.-- rials about gays and lesbians "In our school we don’ t promote dr~gsJwe don~;.t promote alcohoLase-..~?~It~s detrime~a.t~l~ .~o-th~ir health;"qohannsen said?!Statistieally~ iT:theyengage ~ in the homosexual lifestyl~ they~ 11 die lOto. 15 years younger than they would if they.were a smoker." Enochs scoffed at the ideathat schools canpromote. sexuality. "You can’. t teach it: You’re born thatway~’!. he said.:"What’ s wrong with counseling people.that are homosexual?. Their suicide rote is very high. They need help. They need counseling. They need to understand it isn’t.unnatural. It’~s natural, for them.’r Enochs saidignorance is his group’ s biggest obstacle. - "People just don’t understand that a certain percentage ofyour population is gay or lesbian and they have : turned custody of two young boys to their homo- . sexual father on Tuesday, ruling there was no evi- ¯" deuce he exposed them to "improper influences" by ." living with a male lover. The NC Cohrt of Appeals ’ overturned a lower court _,..~.’~gthat had transferred : the boys from Frederick S’~th to his former wife. ¯ Smith woncustody of the boys, ages 8 and 11, after : heandhis wife divorced in Califomia in 1991. Under ¯ the lower court decision, however, they.have been " living with their mother, Carol Ptiiliam, in Kansas._ : Pulliam’s attorney, Phillip Jackson~ said .the ruling : wouldbe appealed to the state Supr.eme Court. Hedid : noLknow if.the.children would, be retiimed from ¯ ~sas i~nme~liatelyl Smi~ alidhis sbns lived with : his grandmother in H~nderson Cty. from i991-94. ¯ But in 1994, the grandmother moved Out and his ¯ Iover, Ti~Tipton, moved, i,n. Pulliam said the change : in Smith s living, arrangements justified giving her : exclusi,~e ,custody bflthe children,~ : A’ Henderson Cty, ~ .c6,Ui-t agT-eed,, finding ihat’,the. :_ chil~en,were ~Xposed to ~’~t and imprbper ififlu- ¯ ences~’ that could’.xlamAge: them dmotionally and- :. social!y~ ,.~a,t finding-was.’b~.d~0n nothi!zg more. ¯ ~ titan 0~ifii’0ii,.A~s~c~ Jfi~gd. Edward Greend :" wrote for a~’-ji~dke~p~i’i~i : this c~s~e, thee is no evidehee that-the’c.onduct huh or : likdy WlUha~;e a ddeteri0us effec(0fi ~echild~n," ¯ i Greene ~vrote2 Smith~.who coachedhis sons’ tee-ball "~ andbaseball teams,,said h,~ hadhopedhis ease Would i not get mUch attehtion.- Mo~t.p~op.!e’drn’ ~ r~lize I’mgay,"hd sai~l.. "Emworried.. ~61 die,,reperdussiohs for ~e kids.at school and me a.t work.. - i CO school DebatesGay ¯ NewspapersStories no choice, no choice at all," he~ said. Johannsen said : her group already has lawmakers ready to support the : COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - Nearly three: 1997 legislation. . : dozen gay rightsadvocates spoke out at a school boardmeeting Wednesday night in support of a high L,. i € " i.date : school newspaper story about teen-age homosexual- euls,a.lv....-.n.. : ity: The:~article~ tided "Finding True Love," was Calls for-Killing Gays: writtenby Mary Margaret NusSbaum, editor-in-’chief of Palmer High Sel~ool’ S monthly newspaper The PUYALLUP, Wash, (AP) =,A legislative candidate Le~;er. The O~t. 24 article describes the problems who outraged many PuyallupHigh School students. with his inflammatory remarks about gays and integration may end up being a good lesson in the basics of democracy and free speech. Mark.Downey, a, PgpuliSt. Party candidate for.the 25th District ofstate House, Position 1:-, was invitedto speak at the school-sponsored, forum but startled students with his intolerant message. He used quotes from the Bible to say homosexuals Shouldbe killed, and he called multi-cul.tural integration a cancer. "He Said something to the effect that Communists, homosexualsand nonwhites should not be allowed to hold public office," said Matthew Oren,,18. "It was a shoeking thing." Downey contends he ~as contributing to. the marketplace of ideas, Ben.Allison, 17; sM,d that- as a blackp+rson he was offended by Downey s remarks, but he wash’, t sure that Downey should ha~e been banned fromthe forum, "I think he hadaright to come because if he hadn’.t come, no one wouldknow his views;" Allison said./’I was close to hitting him, though." Downey’.s fellow¯ candidates~ Democrat Luanne Green and Republican JoyceMcDon~d, also were surprised.by hi~ comments. Gre~n’sai;d ~he"thofight" MeDonald might,grab,the microphone~away, from Downey."’I said; ’Let it go. The-kids needto under~ stand that these people are out there,’ " Green said. Vice Principal Barbara Pope agreed. "I really believe that he should have been~there," Pope said. "To me, the issue is what are we exposingour kids to. I think we expose and then we talk before and afterwards with them." Oren, who was a student panelist for the debate, described a sttmned silence in the auditorium for the first 10 seconds ofDowney’ s closing statement. That silence quickly turned to screaming and booing that nearly drowned out the-candidate’s remarks. Students and teachers talked about the free speech issues in classes following the forum. Gay Dad Can Keep Kids RAT.F.TGH, N.C. (AP) - A state appeals court re- : teens face in coming to terms with their homosexual- ¯ ity. An accompanying commentary by another stu- : dent supported same=sex marriages. ¯ The articles brought a protest from ¯Will Perkins, chairman of ColrradO’frr Family Values, the ~roup ¯ thatatith0redCol0rhflo’s~anti-gayfightsAmeiidmcnt ~ 2/Which was struck d0wnin May bythe’U.S. ,Supreme Court. Perkins did not attend the meeting. The ¯ controversy over.the a~ti~les led.District 11 school board t6 add a discussion of its student publication policy tO its tegular meeting Wednesday. : About 35 people ~p0ke about the articles, with all ~ but one praising thenewspaper. Gerda Fletcher, .the ¯ mother of a gay son; snide"Freedom of speech must never, ever "be suppressed." Sixteen-year-old Brad : Balof saidhehopes the articles ~vill make otlierS.more ¯ accepting .of gay-teens. "I’might n6t’have as hard ~ time growmg up as I thoughtI wotlld," he said. ¯ Superintendent Kenneth Buruley i said the- district ¯ needs a deare~r,.publicafions policy that does not : violate:the state S smdelit-.free-.pressd’aW~ one_of the ¯ most liberal in. the nadon. He said the district is "~ cons’ulfing an att_0me~y. :tb:mak~ ~,~ure’ any at,tqmptg to ;. defixie,:,~ ~611ey d~n’i g0.t06, ~:st~iel,aW S_a.YS ~it . a student-Wtitteii firtidemugt-nb~t beobs~ie:~ libelous, likely to caus~ a dis.t.drbatice]ffthe s6hool dayoi : lack educationalmerit. ¯ Newspaperadviser Vince Puzick saidNussbaum’ ,S, : article met those Criteria."’I encouraged her to do it,’ : he said ofNussbaum. ’T d do the same article again?’ Nussbaum also defended the article before the board. ¯ She SaidThe Lever tries to avoid filling a stereotypi: : cal niche" by publishing stories on controversial ¯ topics such as gtmcontrol. School officials didnot set : a date for deciding the student publications policy : issue. i CA Bar Urges Benefits ¯ SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The State Baris urging ¯ Califomialaw firms to offer health benefits to same- : sex couples and take other steps against discrimina- ¯ tionbasedonsexualorientation. ’Thisisthefirststate St. Jerome An Affirming Liturgical CSurc5 Kelly Kirby CPA,PC Certified Public ACcountant . a pro~eas~onal corporation . .....Talk _tO us now about your year end tax planning needs. " ’!747-5466 4021 South Harvard, Suite 2!0, Tulsa 74135 JE,WELRY 4649 So. Peoria 743-5272 Comer of 48th & Peoria 9:30 - 5 pm Monday- Friday & , Open Saturdays Now till Christmas ";- MCC Greater Tulsa "Where God Uplifts All People" 1623 N. Maplewood ¯.Tulsa, .Oklahoma 8384715 Auction. 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A state law that took 9~f,~..in 1993 prohibited employmentdiscriminatioi] agaiJ~sthomosexuals. The bar adopted a rule in March 1994 that subjected lawyers and firms to potential disciplinary action for discriminating on the base of mce,-sex, sexual orientation or several other categories in hiring employees or selecting clients. On another front, the state Judicial Council has begun a study of treatment of gays and lesbians in the court system, as lawyers, diehts, witnesses, employees and jurors. Previous studies have focused on women and racial minorities. But the bar’ s Board of Governors decided in August that further step,s were needed after getting a reportfromBmveman s committee on the climate for homosexuals in the legal l community. The report relied heavily on a 1994 study by the LosAngeles County Bar Association that found’inStanceS of dis-- erimination in hiring, workplace ea~ironment, as: siguments, evaluation, pay and prom6ti0n. ¯ The Los Angeles study said 58percent ofgay male lawyers and 68 percent oflesbians "surveyed reported that they had experienced or seen dis~-rimination against homosexual attorneys: Despite the 1993 ban on’ emplo~mentdis~imination, one unnamed legal employer was quoted in the LoS Angeles survey as saying, "We are not interested in lawyers with this type of disability." About 15 percent of all lawyers questioned in therandom survey said their employers discriminated in hiring, 15 percent said their clients did notwantto workwith gay lawyers, and 66 percent reported anti-gay comments or jokes .at work, the report said. In 1991, before passage of the state law and attorney disciplinary rule, a State .Bar study of 14.300 randomly chosen Californialawyers found economic disparities between homosexuals and heterosexuals. For example, gays and lesbians with 10 years of law practice were only two-thirds as likely to be partners in their In’ms, or to make over $100,000 a year, as heterosexuals. The resolution passed this August by the bar’s governing board calls on law firms to adopt, implement and publicize anti-discrimination policies in recruitment, hiring, assignments, pay and promotious. Firms should also maintain a supportive atmosphere rather than onein which gays felt compelled to remain in the closet, the board said. In addition, the board called on law firms to adopt "benefit packages with the same sets of benefits for all employees." Those would include insurance for same-sex partners on the same basis as married couples, in addition to parenting leave, sick leave caretaking and bereavement leave and relocation benefits. Firms were encouraged to invite same-sex partners to social events when spouses were als0 invited. Earlier this year, the bar included domesticpartner benefits in its health package available to California attorneys. Gay Unionsto be Blessed PHILADELPHIA (AP) = A month after Pennsylv.ania passed a law banning same sex mhrriages ,’ ~ state’ s Episcopal Diocese has voted to create ablessing for gay and lesbian relationships. At the diocesan convention Saturday, clergy delegates voted 101-43 and lay delegates voted 75-53 to develop "a rite or rites for the blessing of committed relationships between persons of the same sex." The PennsylvaniaDioceseplans tourge thenational churcl~ to do the same. The combined 176-96 vote "was a surprise to me," said Bishop Allen Bartlett, who had expected a closer margin. The 65,000-member diocese, which has 163 parishes and missions in Philadelphia and four surrounding Counties, will submit the approved resolution to the national governing convention in Philadelphia next year. If the General~ Convention approves, the church’s Standing Liturgical Commission will be asked to devise an appropriaterite. Such a blessing would have no legal standing unless a state legislature chose to recognize it. That ¯ appears unlikely in Pennsylvania. In October, Gov. ¯¯ TomRidge signedlegislationbanning gaymarriages. The Rev. Ruth L. Kirk, who co-submitted the : resolution, said Christian moral codes cannot be ¯ devdoped purdy on the moral codes of the first century. "As I said at the convention: Can God do a : new thing? And can God use the church to do a new ¯ thing? For centtLdes we have condemned gays and ¯ lesbians. It is time to support committed, loving : relationships." ¯ DenverWorkers.Benefits i DENVER (AP) - City officials say only 48 city : workers signed up their gay partners for health ben- . efits by this week’s deadline, far fewer than oppo- ¯ nents ofthenew programpredicted. The City Council : voted overwhelmingly in September to offer the ¯ benefits to partners of gay employees. Open enroll- : ment for the program ended at 5 p.m. Thursday.. ’Tm : a little surprised,"said Fred :rjmmerman, director of : the city’s Career Service Authority. "I.thought it ¯ wonld be higher." " -, ¯ ¯ ¯ Opponents of the benefits’extension had predicted i themove wouldlead toa huge increase in health care ¯ costs’. With48 signing up, the city"s insurance premiums for eligible workers, which total about $12 ¯ million ayear, willincrease by $80,000. Timmerman : said the actual number of .enrollees shows those ¯ predictions were overestimated. "We never had any ¯ fear about it,"he said. Timmerman said he expected ¯ at.least I percent of the 8,500 eligible employees to : signupfor theprogram..The48 whodidrepresentless ¯ than 0.6 percent. i Presbyterian Church : Leader Urges Cease-Fire : GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) -The top elected official ¯ of the Presbyterian.Church (USA) says church lead- ! ers shonld declare a cease-fire in disputes overhomo- : sexuality that he says threaten to divide the denomi- ¯ nation. "We do not agree at all about what the Bible ¯ means onthisissue," saidJolmBuchananofChicago, ¯ elected moderator of the 3 million-member denomi- : nation this year. "The question becomes for me: ’Can ¯ we find some way to live with that diversity or must ¯ we resolve the issue in a way.., that divides us?’ "he ¯ said. Buchanan spoke Tuesday to members of the ¯ ¯ Foothills Presbytery, which represents 21,000 merebers in 65 Upstate churches. ¯" In the coming months, presbyteries nationwide ¯ will vote on whether to amend the church’ s constitu¯ tion to require thatministers be faithful in amarriage between a man and a woman or live in chastity if single: The church already has a policy statement that bars practicing gays from ordination, but its Book of : Order does not include such a restriction. Buchanan : said Presbyterians tradifonally interpret passages in ¯ context with the whole Bible and through debate within the church. "Everybody knows that ff you are : - willing to simply pick-things out of the text you can ." pretty much f’md justification for whatever position ¯ you want to take on any given issue," he said. : ¯ RI .Police Welcome Gays : PROVIDENCEi R.L (AP).- The Rhode Island State : Police have been trumpeting a recruitment drive that ¯ seeks to diversify the 193-member force, which in- : eludes 14 women, 12 blacks and one Hispanic. For ¯ thefirsttime, arecruitmentad appearedin this month’ s ¯ edition of Options, a newsletter for gays andlesbians ¯ published in Providence. It’ s bdieved to be a novel ¯ step for a state police force. ~ ’‘This is a first that I know of," said Boston Police ¯ Sgt. Norman Hill, president of the New England ¯ chapter of the. Gay Officers Action League. ’‘They ¯ deserve a pat on the back. They should definitely be : acknowledged for their progressiveness." "Really?" ¯ replied San Francisco Police Officer Phil Fleck when ¯ told of the ad. "That’ s proactive for Rhode Island," ¯ ¯ said Fleck, liaison to the department for the Golden State Peace Officers Association, an organization of ¯ gay and lesbian officers. ’’That’s very positive for them to do this thing." Southwest - ca+l WHAT IS VIATICATION? Viatication is the process through which a person living with an terminal illness canreceive a cashpayment from the face value of their insurance policy. WHO IS ELIGIBLE FORA VIATICAL SETTLEMENT? Generally, to be eligible for a viatical settlement you must have a documentable terminal illness, and life insurance coverage in either an individual term, ’./hole life, or a group policy. HOW MUCH IS MY POLICY WORTH? The value of your life insurance policy in a viatical settlement is determined by the specifics of your policy and your unique medical situation. Not every policy is suitable for viatication, but settlement offers typically range from 60% to 90% of a policy’s face value, depending on the specifics of your policy and medical history. HOW DOES A SETTLEMENT WORK? With your written permission, we gather medical and insurance records with which to determine your policy’s value. Then, a settlenmt offer is presented to you. You may always decline the offer with no obligation whatsoever. Should you accept the offer, payment is made directly to you. Youpay nothing else on your policy, andyou owe us nothing. IS VIATICATING MY POLICY THE RIGHT CHOICE FOR ME? Many factors influence whether viaticating your life insurance is the best financial alternative available for you. Southwest Viatical can discuss all ofthefactors with you and your family in person, in detail and can recommend an experienced Certified Financial Planner to assist you in planning the best outcome from your unique financial situation. HOW IS SOUTHWEST VIATICAL DIFFERENT? Today, many companies offer viatical settlements, doing business only by bulk advertising and 1-800 numbers. They transfer your insurance and medical records by mail, and do business from another state. At Southwest Viatical, we believe you should be assured of complete confidentiality and the best possible service by working with us in person, face-to-face. We are involved on a community level, and are responsible directly to our local commtmity. By working with you in person, but at the same time having access to nationwide financial resources, we are able to deliver the best value on your policy available today. And because of our established resources, we. can deliver a settlement in less than a third the time other companies take by mail, typically in fewer than 30 days, We’ll do what it takes to find the best solution for you. Kelly Kirby Oklahoma Representative 4021 South Harvard, Suite 210 Tulsa, OK 74135 800-305-6384 918-747-3320 Free & Anonymous Finger Stick Method By &for, but not exclusive to the Lesbian, Gay~ &Bisexual Communities. Monday & Thursday evenings, 7-9 pm Daytime testing, Mon-Thurs by appointment. H P E" HIV Outreach, Prevention & Education formerly TOHR HIV Prevention Programs 742-2927 4158 South Harvard, Suite E-2 . 2 doors east of theHIV Resource Consortium Look for our banner on testing nights. SCOTT ROBISON’S PRESCRIPTIONS Serving Tulsan’s Since 194 7 Major credit cards In-store charges or Direct insurance billing for your convenience! 3 locations to serve you: Hillcrest PhysiciaWs Building 1145 So. Utica 582-7144 Utica Square Area 1560 East 21st, Ste. 104 743-2351 The Plaza 8146-D South Lewis 299,1790 New Blood Safety Product Developed OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Scientists at the Ol~lfil~tma MedicalResearch Foundation have developed a patented new use for a drug that should eliminate the threat of AIDS in blood transfusions and might be effective in treating HIV-infected patients. The foundation received a U.S. patent Tuesday for a process to introduce Methylene Blue into bags used to collect and store blood donations, Dr. William G. Thurman, president of the private, nonprofit foundation, said Wednesday. "It is our hope that the drug will be as useful in clinical disease as it is in preventing the disease by putting it in the bags used to collect blood," Thurman said. The Daily Oklahoman reported Thursday in a copyright story that the insti~te deyeloped the use that canrender die AIDS virus i]iaet~ve in human blood, making it safe for use in transfusions. Biochemist Dr. Robert A. Fioyd saidhe also believes low doses of Methylene Bluemightbe effectiVein destroyingHIV or reducing the amount of virus in people withAIDS orwhoareHIV~positive. Floyd said OMRFhopes to conduct clinical tri= als with Methylene Blue in the near future. The medication-Methylene Blue also has been used to treat bipolar:disorder, or manic depression, and as an antidote to carbon monoxide poisoning. Floyd said various dosages of Methylene Blue have been studied extensively in humans with no side eff~ts or toxicity levels have been found. Thurman said putting Methylene Btueinbloodtrausfusions andbloodproducts should not significantly add to their cost. NY Doctors Can’t Discriminate ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Doctors-in private practice ca~ be charged under state humanrights laws withdiscfiminationfor allegedly denying medical coverage to people they suspect ofhavingAIDS, New Estate Planning: Revocable Trusts Everyone, regardless of their HIV stares, should take the time to plan their estates to ensure that their wishes are fulfilledregarding thedispositionofproperty, financial management, and health care decisions. Because of the possible physical and mental incapacity, persons with HIV are encouraged to take steps as soon as possible to maintain as much control as possible over their futures. One of the options is a Revocable Trust. ARevocableTrustis an estate planning document created by a person (usually called the "settlor") to transfer property into a trust. The trustmay make the settlor the sole beneficiary of the trust during until the settlor dies. Atrustee is named to manage the property while the setflor is alive and who distributes the property when the settlor dies. The setflor may amend the trust at any time. When the settlor dies, the property is distributed according to the terms of the trust, and any property in the trust will avoid probate when the settlor dies. Be aware, however, arevocable trust will not save aay taxes since th~.trus~t l~’,qL~e..~..~ will York’s highest court ruled today. The ¯ Court of Appeals decided 4-3 that denlists’ offices are"places ofpublic accom- -" modation" and it reinstated discriminalionjudgments against two dentists made ¯’ by the state Division of Human Rights. : The three dissenting judges said their -" four colleagues weremakingnew law and ¯ that the decision would saddle the Divi- ¯ sion of Human Rights with claims the : Legislature did not intend it to have. : The court ruling came in two similar ¯ cases stemmiug from what patients said ¯¯ was denial of treatment by Dr. Dennis Cahill ofBay Shore and Dr. LloydLasser " of Newburgh. In ruling in the patients’ favor, the Human Rights Division had : said private dentist offices are "places of : publicaccommodation" within themean- " ing ofthelaw whichprohibits dlscrimina- : lion on the basis of gender, race, religion, medical condition or o.ther factors. ThalidOmide for AIDS Care ¯ WASHINGTON (AP) - Thalidomide, ¯ whichbecametheworld’smost infamous ¯" drug after causing thousands of horrific ¯ birth defects more than30 years ago,may ¯ soon be sold in the United States - per- ~ haps as early as next year. ¯ While the drug shows promise in fight- ¯" ing someAIDS-related disorders, leprosy ¯ and other devastating diseases, the Food : and Drug Administralion already is taking steps to protect women who could bear children with no limbs or tiny flip- " per-like arms and legs after taking just ¯ one pill in early pregnancy. : .Thalidomide, once sold in 48 countries ¯ as a sleeping pill and morning sickness ¯ cure, was banned worldwidein 1962 after ¯ some 12,000 babies were born with miss- ¯. ing or malformed limbs, serious facial deformities and defective o~gaus. ¯ It was never sold in the United States, ¯ because FDA scientist Frances Kelsey ¯ uncovered signs of toxicity that its manu- : facturerhaddenied. Butlast week, Kelsey, : now in her 80s and still at the FDA, heard ¯ see.Health, page 10 : beincludedinthe setflor’ s estatefor estate ¯ tax purposes. ¯ Arevocable trust is anespecially useful ¯ ¯ document for a person who is presently capable ofmanaging his.or her affairs but ¯ who anticipates becoming incapacitated : in the future. A revocable trust can aid in ¯ planningforincapacitybyhelping toavoid ." the expense, embarrassment and diffi- ¯ culty in seeking a court appointment of a ¯ guardian or conservator in the event of ." incapacity. If all of the setflor’s assets are ¯ placed in the revocable trust, then upon ¯" the setflor’s incapacity, the trustee can ¯ take over management of the trust assets ¯ for the settlor’ s benefit. ¯ There are both advantages and disad- : vantages to the revocable trust. A revocable trust is more expensive and difficult ¯ to ere,ate and administer than a Last Will : and Testament. However, its advantages ". include flexibility, avoidance of probate, ¯ continuity of management of assets. Be- . cause it is unnecessary to publicly file the : trust document in court, the trust arrange- " mentremaius private. The property distri- : bution may be more protected from chal- ¯ lenge than if by Will. recoguizableboardmembers? Itis hardto find good board members for any organization and assaults like this make this task even harder. Devalued the work of employees, volunteers and supporters of the Resource Center. The HIV Resource Center is a national model because of broad based community support. Your incomplete articlemay havejeopardized volunteer support, f’mancial support and the level of client services. (I hope this will not be true.) Is an example of behaviors you have ’written and spoken about working ag~nst -- infighting in the commuility and using. the press to present one ’side of.an zssue_-, and to capriciously defame Others. Showed divisiveness within the gay community at a most inopportune time -- the opening of the pride center [sic], the elections, the fall funding cycle during a time of social service cutbacks; and the appointment of Tulsan Nancy McDonald as national president of PFLAG. I have spent time, money and energy building community within the gay community and building bridges within our larger community. I am joined in this by manypeoplelocally andnationwide. Your behavior ofprinting this incomplete, vituperative article undermined the work we do. You owe an apology to your readers and to the straight and gay community in which you live. I suggest that TFN has a responsibility to cover issues objectively, thoroughly and to work with an editorial board [editor’s note: emphasis added] before going to press. Withyour visibility comjes [sic] a high levd of accountability. TFN has the ability to become a community- building tool. Without an apology and a logic~dly written contusion to this article how will anyone in good conscience trustTFN as this city’s gay paper of record? - Rick Phillips Editor’s response: First, a thank you to Mr. Phillipsfor editing his letter to amore conciseform. Secondly, Mr.Phillipsseems to confuse ourwriting aboutallegedproblems with the HIVResource Consortium for being responsible for creating them. He should know that the HIVRC’S staff, and ultimately, its board members are responsiblefor any actions thatmay dam-. issue, our story on Nancy_. McDonald’s selection asPFLAGnational boardpresident: Howevbr, we dsahave;an obligait ~hen :we local restaurant owner, but he doesn’t seem to like it when we run a story he deems "embarrassing’" to his other friends. Finally, we are amused at Mr. Phillips suggestion that this newspaper work with an editorial board. Thisdesirefor a board of censors appears to originate several yearsago withMcDonaldandTim Gillean when Gillean was TOHR president. It appears that they don ’t welcome an inde= pendentpress which cannotbecompletely controlled by those whofeel that theirs is the "right vision and methods" for the well-being ofTulsa’sLGBTcommunities. As we’ve written before, consensus, and the resulting unity, is built through open and honest dialogue , not imposed. Kelly Kirby rightly pointed out to the would be censors that they had no plac~ telling TFNwhatto write. Ifthis newspaper needs to have a board ~elling us what not to write, then certainly there are those in this city who see the need to closely supervise Mr. Phillips, Mr. Gillean and Mrs. McDonald as well. We have had favorable inspections and audits as to the compliance with each grant reviewed. We also have a yearly audit that is contracted to and conducted with an outside audit firm: this firm is accountable to the Board of Directors. Our meeting notices are posted and advertisedin theAIDS Coalitionnewsletterwhichis distributedby theCommtmity Service Council; this newsletter reaches the communities most affected by the services of the HIV Resource Consortium. Notices are also posted at.the Resource Center [sic]. The meetings of the Board of Directors have been open and will continue to be open to any persons wanting to attend. The only occasions we have closed theBoardmeetings havebeen to act on personnel matters; this would include annual evaluation of the Exec. Director’s performance, and any grievance by staff or by clients which require Board investigation and action. [emphasis added] In reviewing, the meeting attendance records which~nclude the M~mbers of the Board as well as visitors, Ida not find your name listed:as having ever attended age the agency. ¯ ameeting of the Board of Directors. Thirdly, since some board members : Aslunderstandit, yourequestedcopies mayfeel that they were unfairly singled i of the minutes of the Board of Directors out, "weare hap~y to clarify ofu!.~lO~ :: and weretoid!torequest them _fr,om the,~ gize. Those who were listdd doho~ hav~ ’ .:~ .Presiden~ of the Board. [editor.s note:l. hny greater responsibility for any prob- : exec. director Thoele and administrative lems that may exist at tl~e ’HIVR~. Ulti- . assistant Stanford directed TFN to speak mately, responsibility falls on al..1 these ". withboardmember andattorney, Charles people equally. We have published the ¯ Seger, which we did.] At no time have I complete board list on page 3, so that " received arequest from you.for copies of readers can know who’s responsible. . : the minutes either verbally or in written Regarding community building, etc. no ¯ correspondence. [editor’s note: this is not doubt, Mr. Phillips has done many good : true. Beside multiple requests via Thoele, works as he proclaims, but he ishardly ". Seger, etc., on Sunday, Oct. 20 (well bedone in these efforts This newsfiaper, ~ : fore this letter of 10/28) at a Tulsansfor and many others, have done equal cam- . Equality event tn ~.ont of-two others, munity building work - much’of it not ... McDonald directecl an acrimonious tipubliclyproclaimed. .~. i radetowardthiseditorinwhichshemade Mr.Phillips recently has been reported . it qu{t_e clear that she was well aware of to savthatifherananbwstgal~er, hdwould ¯ TFN s request .for minutes. TFN made it orin~ "oni~ositive" arti’cl~s: ~would ". clear that we still expected the HIVRC to ~ke for ~mat propaganda, but hardly ". make available the minutes. Also. this reperforms the role ofnews reporang, We : quest has been ,m_ade to the H.IVI~.C’s inour community~for example; in:or~rlast., ¯ not been r~ceivedd.see MeDonala~p, li HITSUBISH! , ~OTORS GOODBUY 1996’s HELLO to 19-9 DEAL N0- Money, ’ t Lltle 001~15 lfalle r~ile ’AmSn 81m0 l/~ ~111~ , ~hl0Air~0ninl 0~0lWlm&R.rSpaW OR CHECK OUT A BRAND NEW ] ’97 ECLIPSE GS No Money Down! -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. SUNDAYS Bless the Lord At All Times Christian Center Sunday School, 9:45 am Worship Service, 11 am 2627b East 1 lth 583-7815 Community ofHope (United Methodist) Worship Service, 6 pm 1703 E. 2nd, 585-1800 Family of Faith Metro. Comm. Church Adult Sunday School, 9:15 Worship Service, 11 am 5451-ES. Mingo, 622-1441 Metro. Comm. Church of Greater Tulsa Worship Service, 10:45am 1623 N. Maplewood Info: 838-1715 Bisexual/Lesbian/Gay Alliance - Univ. of Tulsa 6:30 pm at Canterbury 5th & Evanston, 583-9780 ¯ MONDAYS ¯ ¯ HIV Testing Clinic - ¯ Fre~ & anonymous testing " ¯ using fingerstick method. " ¯ No appointment required. - ¯ Walk in testing: 7-8:30 pm : Results hours: 7-9 pm . Info: 742-2927 PFLAG Family AIDS Support Group 2nd Mon. of month 6:30 pm, 4154 S. Harvard Info: 7494901 OTHER GROUPS The Technicians, Leather org., Info c/o 621-5597 ¯ T.U.L.S,4. Tulsa Uniform ¯ & Leather Seekers Assoc. Info: 838-1222 Gay & Lesbian Sttutent Association TCC Southeast Campus, Info: 631-7632 SWAN-Single Women’s Activity Network Call 832-2121 TUESDAYS " WEDNESDAYS HIV+ Support Group ¯ Bless The Lord At All HIV Resource Consortium " Times Christian Center 1:30 pm " Prayer & Bible Study 4154 S. Harvard, Ste. H-1 : 7:30 pm 2627-B East llth Info: Wanda @ 7494194 Shanti-2~ulsa, Inc. . HIV/AIDS Support Group & also, Friends & Family ¯¯ HIV/AIDS Support Group 7 pro, call for location: ¯ 749-7898 Alternative Skating 8:30 - 11 pm, 241-2282 $4, Sand Springs Skate Grief Group : Butler/Stumpff Funeral : Home ¯ 2103 E. 3rd St. " Call for time: 587-7~ Call 583-7815 for info, Family Of Faith MCC Praise & Prayer 6:30 pm Choir Practice 7:30 pm 5451-E South Mingo. Call 622-1441 for info. TNAAPP Tulsa Native American AIDS Prevention Project Support group for Gay & Bi Native American Men, 6 pm at Community of Hope 1703 E. 2nd 582-7225 or 584 4983 : THURSDAYS Co-Dependency Support Group : 7:30, Family of Faith MCC : 5451-ES. Mingo, 622-1441 : HOPE : HIV Outreach, ¯ Prevention, Education : Anonymous HIV Testing ¯ Walkin testing: 7 ~ 8:30 pm : Results hours: 7 - 9 pm ¯ Info: 742-2927 ¯ Tulsa Family Chorale ¯ Weekly practi~e, 9~30 pm ¯ Lola’s 2630E. 15~ : PFLAG Family AIDS ¯ Support Group 1st & 3rd Thursdays ¯ 4154 S. Harvard, 749-4901 Alternatives Weekly social events for LGBT men & women, 7 pm Info: 646-5503 Substance Abuse Support Group for persons with HIV/AIDS 4154 S. Harvard, Ste. G 3-4:30 pm Info: 7494194 ¯ FRIDAYS Safe Haven ¯ Young Adults Social Group ¯ 8pm, 1st Fri. of each mo. ¯ Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th : SATURDAYS ." Mixed Yolleyball for : Fun & Competition ¯ Helmerich Park, 2 pm ¯ 71st & Riverside : Info: 587-6557 St. Jerome’s Church : Mass, 6 pm, Garden Chapel ¯ 3841 S. Peoria : Info: Father Rick, 742-6227 : Narcotics Anonymous ¯ Meets weeny at 11 pm ¯ Confidential support for recovering addicts. ." Community of Hope : 1703 E. 2nd, Info: 585-1800 ¯ NAMES Project : AIDS Memorial Quilt ¯ Sewing Bees, 3rd Sat. of ¯ each month: 748-3111 ¯ low:income people who have the virus that causes AiDS that it,will sdect 75 of ¯ them to receive drngs to fight the disease. doctors explainthalidomide’ suniqueabil2 i The health department will pick the 75 in .FUNERALS JUST ity to inl~bit a substance that can spur . alottery onNov.27,andawardcachupto NEVER SEEMED jmrmme-related diseases like lupus, lep- " $10,000 for the costly medications. RIGHT FOR MY FAMILY=. rosy and certain AIDS ailments. Thalido- ¯ Those eligible for-the lottery do not midealso stops bloodvessel growth-o.ne : receive Medicaid assistance, do not have THE CREMATION reason for the birth defects ~ making ~t a 1 privateimuranceoreamlessthan$14319 SOCIETY WAS CREATED possible future treatment for cancer and ¯ ayear. Sdectious willbemade from each FOR PEOPLE LIKE ME. the incurable macular-deg~eneration ..that’ : part of Missouri reader a formula.that blinds the elderly. " takesinto account themorbidity ratefrom Early next year, Andrulis Inc. of : AIDS in each area of the state. ~ ~ Beltsville, Maryland, will seek approval ¯ The drngswhenUsed separately arenot for thalidomide to treat the excruciating " effective because the virus quickly builds ulcers that afflict AIDS patients. Then, : up a resistance. Mixing the drugs may We enjoy being ourselves. A funeral seems .ostentatious Cdgene also will seek I~rmission to sdl " change AIDS from a fatal illness to a and Can cost a lot of money. A simple, dignified . " thalidomideto the 150,000 AIDS patients ¯ chronic illness like diabetes, some doesuffering from wasting, orsevere Weight " tors say. But the medicine is expensive - cremation just seems to fit our lifestyle. .. (;rematm"n" tety® B~rthdefects aren t the 0iil~’nsk..Tha- " js there are individuals ~ that. do not now. ~ lidomide a~so ,can severely’damage pa- ¯ ha4e,aecessto.thesemedications andthese ~. tients’ nerve cells, causing a p~ul, in~ i medications need to be accessible,, sat Of Oklahoma . curable condition called p~ripheral . John Hubbs, chief Of- the health neuropathy. - ~ ¯ department’sHIV/AIDScare.ButHubbs .... 2103 East Third, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74104-1842 Still, AIDS patients are clamoring.f~r : said the state cannot afford tobuy the 918-599-7337 or toll-free, 800-994-7337 thalidomide. Take the AIDS-related ul- : medicine for everybody who needs it~ or visit us on the Internet at eers, so painful that some patients starve : DarrenWethers,aphysicianinSt, Louis, rather than swallow over the raw tissue. ¯ said the plan is unfair. Wethers, who rehttp:// www.eremation.org/oklahoma/oklahoma-html_______ Studies indicate thalidomide healed the " cently spoke at an AIDS co_nf~en~,’.m For Free Literature, Without Cost or Obligation, sores injust 10 days, said James Learned : "Columbia, said the lottery is a puouc " ~ of the PWA Health Group in New York, " health insult" because it puts "patients in Mail this coupon today[ whichlast year provided thalidomide un- ¯ competition for medi,,cines that they all derground until the FDA allowed more : rightfully qualify for. "As much as we Please contact me. I would like to learn more about patients to use it in research programs: : wouldlike to provide access t,o, al~l~of~_.em, your special final expense program. ¯ ,..,: we just realistically can t do that, Name: - Age: Rural AIDS Care : .ubbssaid. ¯ Address: GREENVILLE, N:C. (AP) ~- Doctorssay i people affected withHIV in easternNorth ¯ City; St. &Zip:. Carolina0ften haVe little choice bm to" ’~ Telephone: live from medical emergency to emer- " community organizations, a comm.unit.~- gency. That’s because thereare few doe- wide holiday potluck. Chose your hol~- tors and dentists in rural areas who are day,beitChrisilnas,Hanukkah,KwaanTa _~......~ ....... willing to care for patients, who often " or Yule, but bring a side dish to this __ mwursetcderiviveeclaoren.g- distances tio urban arleas "" pboeltlpurcokvibduefdfe.ttP" lSea°sftedRrioSnVksPatnodDmeebabtie at Butler-Storm East Carolina, the University 6f North ~ 712-.!600.. Later that evening, BI~.TA Carolina and Duke medical schools an- " will have its end of year Formal (actually n°uncedM°ndaythattheywillw0rkt°::m°sdysemi~f°rmalbutfeelfreet°g°all gethertostre~mlinecareforHIV-infected out if you want to) from 9-2am. $2/per- Funera Home Medicaid patients who live in rural east- : son. All wdcome. Alcohol &smoke-free. ern North Carolina- The three schools " Prime Timers will start meeting at the received a five-year, $2 million federal ¯ CenterbeginninginDecember.Thismeetgrant to track patients in53 eastern coun- : ing will be Sunday, Dec. 8th from 4-6pro Cemetery - Funeral Home - Crematory ties. The goal is provide one organization " (in Jan. the group will go back to firstSun. that will follow all Medicaid-eligible, " of the mo.)~ Also Tulsa’s young adult ¯ HIV-infected adult patients to make sure ¯ see Center, page 12 At Butler-Stumpff Funeral Home, you and your family their needs are met. The researchers will " will be treated withdignity, compassion, andpride- Whether begin enrolling about 600 Medicaid pa- ; tients next fall. Eventually, researchers " it is your given or chosen family who needs our services, expect to enroll about 1500 people in 53 . eastern counties. " s.ectarian symbols from its city seal. you can be who and what you are, and you will not be "ButyouthrowHIVontopofit, andthe " Some Tulsa board members of the remoteness of ... where people live in : ACLU include Barbara Santee, and Bill discriminated against. rural eastern North Carolina, it does not ¯ Hinkle, , - We offer our exclusive $2820, complete funeral plan, no lend for seeldng treatment or main~tai.n!n.g i Dr. Joycelyn Elders~ former Surgeon treatment because of the obstacles that . General of the United States under Presiadded costs. If you have a policy some-where else, you can yo,’ll encounter," the patient says inona ¯ dent Clinton, will give the evening’s ad- transfer your policy to us, andmay be due a cash refund if videotape. The Centers for Disease C - dress. The event is $50/person. For more trol and Prevention has identifi.ed the ~ info. leave a message at 405-524-8511. you paid more for what you have now. southeastern United States as an tmpor- . tant epicenter for the spread,of~0i0nf.0% ¯ Our journey through life should be done with pride; tion, with about 126 peopte in xuu, infected,includingthosewithactiveAIDS- : shouldn’t our journey through death be.done with pride as In 1995, the national rate of HIV infec- : well? For more information, please call 918-587-7000 for tion, including active AIDS, was 27.2 in. of all our citi.zeus. Kelly Kirby serves as 100,000. In other areas of the country, TOHRrepresentadvetotheCoalifonand HIV is concentrated in urban areas. But :¯ sweorvrkessbayscocou-scehuasiurs. wSiitnhceeacthherepCroeasleintitoan- _ all of your pre-need arrangements. many of these new I-IIV-infected people . tive taking proposals back to his or her (insurance policies are available with no health questions as~.d) areliving in Southern rural communities, ¯ where there are no coordinated care pro- ; organization for approval, this decision grams, the researchers said. ¯ representsnow the positionof each orga- 2103 East Third ; nization. Kirby noted that this statement ¯ which is inclusive of sexual oriention, Tulsa Oklahoma 74104 AIDS Drugs Lottery : represents ongoing "behind-the-scenes" 918-587-7000 COLUMBIA, Me. (AP)- Thee Missouri : coalitionbuilding~nsdsapplauded~C°a- D.~p~.et.X.t,~[,Health.has,gqtified 2,6397/,,i litionfo,r,taldng.thi~ s. tep, , .".’.’ ....... , , ,, . " ~ ..........~ ~’-.... ,’,"~ ,’,’/’"’ A DiNiNq PIFAsURE COCONUT BEER BATTERED SHRIMP PRIME RIB FRESH CLAMS VEGIE STIR FRY COQUILE ST. 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I personally contacted the president of the HIVRC board only to learn that.the editor ofTFN nev~ requested the minutes._Why continue to attack someone on unfounded reasons’ ~ ¯ , [ ditor s note: as aperson with experience with non-profit boards, as a chairperson, a member and-an employee, this notion that a request is only valid ifmade . to McDonaldhas no basis in law or common practice. Gillean ought to be condemning Thoele, Stanford, orSeegerfor failing to forward the request, ifindeed they didfail to do so.] As a grand finale to your tabloid piece you suggested that perhaps board members could be freed and evenjailed. Men- . tioning only five of the total board members sound like.some sort of personal attack on your chosen five. What about the other members of the board? What kind ofjournalismis this? I cannot understand what benefit it is to our community to attack the very people who are giving their precious time an [sic] energy as volunteers to create a better community for all ofus. Why should anongay person ". be willing to give their time and money to our community when they are attacked i personally and threatened by your publi- ¯ cation? Why indeed should a gayperson ¯ volunteer and be subjected to this kind of " attack? ¯ [Editor’s note: board members shouM i understand When they acCeptpublicposi- ¯ tions that they will have to be accountable ". for the agency which they supervise, i Gillean might also read the OKstatutes.] . I would like to say to the people who were attacked by this article that I appre- i eiate all you do. Please don’t stop now. To " the individuals who feel they have been : mistreated by the organization, there are ¯ much better ways than through the tab- " loids. ¯ [Editor’s note: several oJ those who ¯ spoke to TFN did so only after repeated " efforts to work with the HIVRC.] ". The editor at TFN must issue an apol- : ogy to the five board members attacked and to the readers for not completing i proper research before publishing your : article. -Timothy E. Gillean ¯ Editor’s note: just after receiving this ". letter byfax on Oct. 28th, IcalledGillean to givehim theopportunity to clarify in his i own words, his close ties to HIVRCboard president McDonald. I left a message with his assistant, Brian, asking Gillean to call TFN. To date, he has not done so. Readem may want to consider thefol- : lowing~ Several years ago, Gillean proposed a board ofcensor-sfor TFN. Later i when TFN ran an editorial he and ¯ McDonald did not like, "Gillean used his ¯ position as TOHR president to retaliate ". against TFN, to the detriment of TOHR. " After his bid for a 2nd term as TOHR ". presidentfaildd, hejoined thePFLAG & : Community Service Council boards, or- ¯ ganizations with which McDonald is " closely associated and allegedly at : McDonald’s behest. The minutes are available for review to ¯ anyone, attending-theBoard Meeting;and : to anyone requesting copies through .the : appropriate channels. If copies are re- . quested-the individual must pay for the i co.p.ies as we attempt to be good stewards ot the monies available tous. : We .are deeply distressed by the article : .aP.peanng in the Tulsa Family News and mvzte you to attend our next Board meeti ing, scheduled for Thurs. Nov. 21 atnoon ¯ at the HIV Resource Center [sic]. If you : wishtorequestinformationfromtheBoard : of Directors regarding minutes or other : appropriate public information, I forward _- to receiving your request. Thank you ¯ We are asking you as Editor of Tulsa : Family News to print this letter in its : -entirety next edition of your newspaper. .,~ Nancy McDonald, President toward Amedure. However, ifJonathan Schmitz was able to-form the intent to commit suicide, he also would have been able to form the intent to commit murder, a psychologist testified Tuesday. Dr. Carol Holden was called as a rebuttal witness by the prosecution. Oakland County assistant prosecutor Roman Kalytiak pointed out that Schmltz never referred to suieide during hiss911, call or during police questioning. x ne jury fotmd that Schmitz, 26, acted without premeditation and did notcommitfirst- degreemurder. Hecouldgetanywhere from eight years to life in prison with the possibility of parole when he is sentenced Dec. 4. First-degree murder carries no hope of parole. The segmentofthe "JennyJones Show" was never aired but was played for the jury. In it, Am~_ur_e,,outlined fantasies of Sehraitz involving whipped cream and ~champagne~" Schmitz reacted withanembarrassed smile butno apparent anger. He turned away when Amedure put an arm around him and tried to kiss him. "I’m definitelyaheterosexual, Iguess youcould say," Schmitz said. The 1996 RedRibbonHoliday: Treefest and Gallery Walk will showcase holiday trees and other holiday items. These will be sold at auction to raise funds for Interfaith AIDS Ministries which provides spiritual~ emotional, andpractical support for those whose lives are touched by HIV andAIDS.This year’s format will include an "official opening," in the Brady Arts Gallery District, Thursday, Nov. 21 from 6-9 pro. More viewing hours will be on Nov. 22-23, and pick-up of trees will take place on Nov. 24th. PhilbrookMuseumwill shroudits Rodin sculpture ofAdam on Dec. 1 in honor of Ds..ema3ya" Wpriothfeosustz.Aonrat.ls"aCnoduanrttlseuspspaorrtitsetrss,hmavuedied.., from AIDS. Wecan.only guess at how many works of art will be denied to us by this disease that respects neither people nor creativity," noted Richard Townsend, Hardman Curator of European and American Art. 3 READ ALL ABOUT IT Reviewed by Barry Hensley : The id~ that the gay rights movement is foreverjoined to "leftist" politics gets a : thorough trashing in Brace Ba,w,er’s n.e.w ¯ compilation, "Beyond Queer.’ At this point in history, some centrist, and fight of center, authors are proposing a new ¯ approach to winning the battle for gay ¯ rights. Their perception is that, histori- " cally, the movement has tried to claim "victim" status, and that this will not be a successful strategyfor winningfull equality for gay and lesbian Americans. Editor Bawer is well known, having written eight books, including the provocative" A Place at th~ Table." Here: he has compiled forty essays by a variety of authors, including former New Republic editor Andrew Sullivan, San Francisco Chronicle correspondent Carolyn Lochhcad and heterosexual Chicago Tribune columnist Stephen Chapman. Describing the authors,Bawer states "though many of us have been tagged in the gay press as ’gay conservatives,’ few of us wouldbe consideredconservativeby anyone- who objectively examined our politics; we variously call ourselves liberals, moderates, libertarians and communitarians- or we eschew such labels Stogether as increasingly irrelevant iff a post-ideological era." Bawer’ s intent is to present an alternative to what he sees as a radical, in-yourface activism. Bawer initially cites "an episode of ’The Charlie Rose Show’ devoted to the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Stonewall riots, (when) the radical lesbian activist Donna Minkowitz told me: ’We don’t want a place at the tablewe want to turn the table over.’ That line pretty well sums up the attitude of many leftist gay activists toward both ’the system’ and gays who seek to work within it." In essay after essay, the authors explain their positions with rifles like "Why Outsupport group will be at the Center earlier that afternoon. Last but not least is video night at the Center. The inaugural video will be Wigstockto be shown on Sat. Dec. 14th at 9pro in the Renfro Room. Popcorn and pop will be available. It’s free (though donations are acceptedforthe Center) and three of Tulsa’ s most fabulous drag divas may appear: Christina, Dolly Love and grand diva, Sensuous. January’s video night should be the 2rid Sat. also. Call to RSVP with Debbie at 712-1600: On Nov. 2rid, the Pride Center held a grand opening with about 70 people attending. TOHR/Pride Center president Deb Statues held a brief presentation of certificates to recognize thosewhohelped with the Center. More than 50 individuals were honored, in particular, Kelly Kirby and Tim Gillean, former TOHR presidents, and now-closed Agape Christian Fellowship for its donation of chairs and tables. Statues also announced the decision to name the rooms in the Center. The lounge/library was named the Pfimetimers Loungeinrecognilionoftheir generous support of the Pride Center. The largest single gift came from this group. ing Doesn’t Work," "Sleeping with the Enemy" and ’!Here Comes the Groom: A (Conservative) Case for Gay Marriage." In,"A Gay Right Agenda," author John Berresford’ s conservative response to his liberals friends’ stance is %..I amas much in favor or basic civil rights for gays as they are. Where we differ is in the need for group-based remedies and in perceiving ourselves as victims whose main recourse shouldbe coercion by the government." Berresford’s answer is to "come out whenever it is reasonably safe. The best way to explode the myths about us is for.each of us to become known as .just anotherhumanbeing with~esameneeds, goals and drives as other human beings - : except is a single respect that poses no : threat to anyone else." He also believes ¯ that ’-’we should lobby for the right to : marry. Domestic-partnershipslegislation ¯ makes us an officially sanctioned class of ¯ oddities and freaks." : Thethreatof_be,,,ing seen simply as "oddi- ¯ des and freaks is the thought behind : Bawer’ s rifle. Insteadofbeing"acclaimed ¯ by a minority of gay ,,p~.~ple as ,a,,suppos,~ edlyaffirmativelabel, theworo queer, ". to Bawer, is "not so much to be homo- : sexual as it is to be a socially marginal ¯ rebel, defined primarily by his or her : sexuality, who is perpetually andintdnsi- : cally at odds with the political and cul- : rural establishment." ¯ Can these ideas bring the gay right hnd : left together toward acommon goal? Can : Bawer’s "we’re just like you" approach ¯ alone actually win the hearts of straight : Americans? What about the wide variety : ofpeoplein the gay/lesbian/transgendered : community whomaynotmeetthe squeaky ¯ clean image Bawer promotes, but who : still s_eek equality under the law? COuld : the answer, perhaps, lie somewhere be- : tween Bruce Bawer and Queer Nation? ¯ Check with your local branch library : for "Beyond Queer," or call the Readers :- Services, Central Library at 596-7966. The small conference room was named the Stariott Conference Roomin honor of Midge Elliott and Deb Statues. The me- : dium size room was named the Renfro ¯ Room in honor of the late RF Renfro, a : leader of FUSO, the Friends in Unity : Social Organizationand anHIV educator ¯ who worked with TOHR/HOPE. : The largest room was to be named in ¯ honor of two individuals who provided :- signifi.cant "sweat equity’, in tearing out : tffo plaster&lath walls .to make the room ¯ and in honor of one of those two who’s ¯ donatedmuch of the furniture that s in the : Center. Thelatter manpreferred not to be ¯¯ recognized but asked that the room be named in honor of Pat Padgett, a PFLAG ¯ activist. Therefore, that room is now the ¯ Neal-Padgett Hall in recognition of gifts ¯ that made the Pride Center possible. ¯ or let someone else run the show...You : can care with out being cold, get things : done right and.get on with it please!!! ¯ It seems to us that everyone is just out : for themselves, but after seeing and hear- " ing firsthandweknow why...It is the only ," way we have of getting your attention... ¯ Thank you for Your Time - PWA Tulsa/N. E. Oklahoma Jeffrey A. Beal, MD Ted Campbell, LCSW Specialized in HIV Care Providing Comprehensive Primary Care Medicine and Psychotherapeutic Services We have many insurance provider affiliations - ifyou belong to an insurance program that does not list us as providers, call us and we will apply. 2325 South Harvard, Suite 600, Tulsa 74114 Monday - Friday, 9:30-4:30 pm, 743-1000 Are-You Bored? Are You Gay or Bisexual? Are You Native American? ] TNAAPP is Here to Help! f Evening Meetings. Are Held Every Wednesday in Tulsa Call 582-7225 Ext. 208 For information on meeting time & place Meet others and be part of a supportive social group! * Bakery Treats * Bed & Breakfast (boarding) * Salon * Pet Supplies: Science Diet, IAMS, Nutro Dog Food THE DOG HOUSE BROOKSIDE 3311 S. Peoria, 744-5556 Saint Aidan’s 4045 No. Cincinnati. 425-7882 The Episcopal Church Welcomes You Winter Gayla ’97 Ft. Lauderdale, Florida February 14 ~- 17 Beach Party with DJ Winter Pride Parade Festival Boat Party on the Jungle Queen and SWAirlines nowflies there! Aspen Gay Ski Week Fine Skiing & Festive Parties January 25 - February ! IGTA member Call 341. 6866 International Tours:ormoreinformation. by Jean-Pierre, TFNFo~d Critic : will order a full combo for each two We all have that "special" friend visit- ¯ people at our table, and then an extra ing from out-of-town -- you know, the : pound of shrimp. The combo itself can prissy queen who is the finicky Miss ¯ also be ordered in any ratio of crab to Manners sort-whoneeds anintroduction ¯ shrimp to crawfish. Sometimes wewill to thereal lifein Tulsa. And, we’vefound " also order sides of coleslaw or cornbread just the perfect place, to’ Boilln~ .P.o~ sticks. A word of warntake that friend. Caju~ ing. The combo is avail= Ther6 is a special res- 19-01 So. Me~orlal able either mild or hot. tanrantinTulsawhereone Hour.: The mild is quite warm. can suck head and pinch The hot is fiery. And the tail with abandon, where 11 - 10 Sun. -Thurs. crab boil permeates evone can eat with one’s tll 11, Frl. and Sat. erything, even the potafingers, and where one Cuisine: ’toes and comon the cob. can bejust as downhome So, keepplenty of iced and comfortableas pos= Cajun se~ood tea on hand, or maybea sible(~l wh~l,e f~iing .... .Dress:,"Very casual : - pitche~:ofbeer($4.75)~to isasmaliplacefitihecor- _ . l-’aym~e..nt: ;. This is not an elegant her ofi2th and Memorial. Major credit cards, white table cloth restauin a rather run-down and no e]aeel~s rant, and the staff makes ~derilict Strip mall. This is ~,SmoklI no pretense in that dire,ca very laid back, genuine ~.: tion. Sometimes one has white trash-cookin’ kind x’~on-smokin~ of place; full of atmo- seetlon, l~ut smoky a warm and friendly waiter or waitress, and sphere mid bayou boys Alcohol: II.9-Z i~eer Sometimes one has the and giftsfrom all walks of feeling that itis that waitlife. Decoratedwithtaste- & wine cooler" only tess’ time of the month: ful tape-patched, red vi: Ratln~: A llst But, the staff is usually nyl seating in each of the quite congenial and enformica: topped booths, and with black " tertaining. vei~et art alid posters adorning the classic ¯ The one main area needing improve- 1960’s panelling on the walls, the noise " ment here is the housekeeping. While the and aroma of the kitchen greet patrons as ¯ grungey feel ofthe diningroommaybe an they enter, and there is no doial~t in’one’s ¯ attempt to recreate the authentic dirt of a minduponenteringtheestablishmentthat " backwater Cajun swamp dive, theycould this is a seafood restaurant. ~ at least clean the restrooms and make sure Menus are presented printed on paper ¯ that supplies are stocked and fixtures placemats. Lots of fun things appear on . working. On ourlast visit, themechanical the menu, like ’q’asty Fried Shark Bites" " towel was broken and filthy, and the toilet for$1.50,CajunDogfor$3.95,jambalaya : was running constantly. The finger bowls " for.S2.75, red beans and rice for $2.75, ¯ aren’tquiteenoughforthefastidiousdiner blaCken~dchi~k’strlp,’a for $6.50, ablack- " to cle~tip~ so the trip tothe tinyrestrooms ened fib-ey~ :s~ak ~0r $9.95, arid even " alligator for $8.95 But, nobody ever gets ¯ For those so inclined, the Boiling Pot those things. : features their house band on Saturday People come to the Boiling Pot for the " nights, whichplays aloudmix of country, Combo. The combo ($1~95) is a big pot ¯ bluegrass, andcountry rock, and packsin of shrimp, crawfish, crab, sausage, new ¯ the crowds. potatoes, quartered onions, and half ears : ~ The Cajun Boiling Potis where a group of corn on the cob which is boiled in a " of:frie~ids caugo for a casual good time. spicy crab boil and served~ Well, sort of served. It’ sdumped onthe table.CMtop of ing roffd~. No, this isn t aft elegant place~’ a big sheet of butcher paper. As soon as: btit it’s n~t supposed to be. And, while it’ the ~ood co0!s~enough :to handle, one " doesn’tappearas cleanas we’dprefer, in di~es in to shell the shl~mp, pinch the tails ¯ the dozens Of times we’ve eaten there,. offthecrawfish, su~kthejuices Out of the : we’ve never gotten food poisoning cerheads, d_nd squirt i~etchffp containers of " tain~noted Tulsa four diamond hotel rescocktail sauce all 0~er ~e place: When " taurants): The important thing is that if one’s hands get suffibienfly messy; a!arge one likes boiled shrimp, the foodis great. ’r611 of ii~pdr.’~tbw~l~:.6~ th~ thblesefV~ ~S : And; Wli~it’ ~ore can on~ ask from a nhp.ki~ ~O;~ffe ~n&ifibn .thai ~e’y: don’i: dt~vilh:bm~~urant than t6 liitve great use silverware. Until one has had the : food atinexpe~nsive i~rices?. Boiling Pot experience, it is difficult to ¯ Go suck somehead and pinch some tail. imagine how fun and how good the peel ." and eat can be. Theproprietors bringregular shipments of seafoodup from the GulfofMexico, so i the shrimp and crawfish are fresh and ." firm. The crab, though, seems to have " McDonald get by with falsifying her rebeen shipped on ice or frozen, since the ." sume when she worked for the Tulsa shells lack the crispness of never-frozen ¯ Public Schools because she did so many crab. The crawfish, of. course, is 0nly ; nice things and worked so hard. I guess it available in season, which is December _" meansitisallri.’ghttobedishonestaslong through June, but those little underwater as your cause is good. Is it really? carrioneatershaveneverbeenhighonour ." People get hurt when they get in her list of gourmet delicacies. We prefer the : way. That seems very unfair. Can the shrimp, which is some of the best and : media [mainstream media] help you with most economical shrimpin Tulsa, at only., these efforts? Thank you for being there $8.95 a pound. ¯ for these clients! 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I~1 Yes! ! am interested in coming to the TIVAAPP retreat Address: City: State: Zip: Telephone: Cut on Dotted Line #z Hail to: TI~P, 915 South Cincinnati, Tulsa, OK 74119.2000 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 [1996] Tulsa Family News, November 15-December 14, 1996; Volume 3, Issue 12 Subject The topic of the resource Politics, education, and social conversation toward Tulsa’s Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual communities. Description An account of the resource Tulsa Family News was a monthly newspaper; No. 1 issued December 1993-January 1994. The final issue available was published in September 0f 2001 (Volume 8, Issue 9). The newspaper brings up important, evolving topics of marriage, Pride, TOHR, HIV/AIDs, events, advice, and politics all at the local and national level. This document is available in searchable PDF attached. It is also available to be seen at the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center with permission. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Tulsa Family News 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 November 15-December 14, 1996 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Mac Guru James Chirstjohn Phyl Boler-Schmidt Barry Hensley Jean-Pierre Legrandbouche Steven Scott Gerald Miller Lance Brittain Kerry Lewis Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Tom Neal/Tulsa Family News Relation A related resource Tulsa Family News, October 15-November 1, 1996; Volume 3, Issue 11 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/529 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://history.okeq.org/collections/show/24 1996 AIDs Walk AIDS/HIV AIDS/HIV discrimination AIDS/HIV drugs AIDS/HIV research AIDS/HIV treatment American Civil Liberties Union arts and entertainment attorneys Barry Hensley Bars Bruce Bawer businesses Cajun Boiling Pot censorship children churches civil rights civil unions custody Dana Tigere Dave Fleischer Day Without Art divorce estate planning gay bashing gay police gay politicians healthcare HIV Resource Consortium (HIVRC) HIV/AIDS and the Law homophobia HOPE Testing Jean-Pierre Legrandbouche Joe McDonald lawsuits letters to the editor medical abuse Metropolitan Community Church of Greater Tulsa Murder Nancy McDonald Native Americans Partner Benefits performing arts Read All About It Red Ribbon Treefest representation restaurants Say No To Hate Coalition Tom Neal Tulsa Family News Tulsa Native American AIDS Prevention Project viatication World AIDS day