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CONNECTIONS
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Editor/Publisher Jim Olinger
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Typing Wayde Frey
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ARTICLES - Larry Bush, Gary Fitzsimmons, Wayde Frey,
Rob Gips, Andrew Glass, David Miller, Ron Moss, Jim
Olinger, Gary Reese, Carr Strong, Gerry Tarr.
POETRY - Lynn Aday, Hektor Munoz.
PHOTOS - Jim Olinger, Alan Pogue, Richard Rogers.
PUBLICATIONS - A.P., ALGPC Newsletter, Austin Lambda
Newsletter, Cox News Service, Dialog, Gay Austin, IGNA,
It's Time (NGTF), Metro Star, Time, TWIT, Upfront
America, Washington Post Service.
CONNECTICNS is dedicated to providing a forum for
the lesbian/gay community of Austin and Texas. Publication of the name or photograph of any person or
organization is not to be taken as any indication
of the sexual orientation of that person or organization .
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Published by Gay Community Services, a program of
the University YWCA/YMCA, 2330 Guadalupe, Austin,
Texas 78705. Telephone: 512/477-6699
Gay Community Services Coordinating Council
Membership Lynn Aday
Office Rob Gips
Speakers Bureau Troy Stokes
Publications Jim Olinger
Univ. Y Liaison Gary Fitzsimmons
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Sunday, May 25, A Different Drummer made its last
broadcast. The program was canceled because lesbians
and gays are "a special interest group" which has gotten
all the attention we deserve. There is only one lesbian/
gay radio program left in Texas. Significantly, the
manager of the station which broadcasts it is gay.
April 26, CBS Television broadcast "Gay Power,
Gay Politics," which purported to be a documentary.
It depicted gay men as satanic creatures out to destroy
"the wholesome American nuclear family" and ignored
lesbians. The fear this program has engendered among
straights has already been used against us at the Travis
County Democratic Convention (see page 11).
My way of screaming "I'm mad as hell and I'm not
going to take it anymore" is publishing this newspaper.
This month, I'm going to do some other screaming: at
KUT-FM, at CBS Television News, at the Austin CBS affiliate, KTBC, and probably at the Federal Communications
Commission.
Please join me. Write a letter to KUT-FM and
tell them that thirteen shows aren't enough to correct
centuries of fear and superstition. Write CBS-TV News
and tell them you won't tolerate irresponsible, biased
journalism any longer. Write the FCC and tell them you
don't like seeing your airwaves polluted by slander.
The FCC has finally recognized lesbians and gays
as a "legitimate minority group" which broadcasters must
consider in their programming. Write your local station and tell them you want prcgramming on homosexuality
which isn't poisoned by fear and superstition.
We have gotten this far by working together.
But we can lose everything we've gained very quickly.
We must support and protect all our lesbian/gay media
and all our gay brothers and sisters. If we don't hang
together, we will surely hang separately. Please help
us show what gay power and gay pride really are.
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Addresses
Federal Communications Commission
Complaints and Compliance Division
Washington, D.C. 20036
Station Manager
KUT-FM Radio
Communications Building B
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas 78712
KTBC-TV
P.O. Box 2223
Austin, Texas
78768
CBS Television News
524 West 57th
New York, New York
10019
AUSTIN ORGANIZATIONS
Austin Lambda AA Center 1403 East Sixth
6:30 - 10:30pm nightly 472-0336
Austin Lambda Cultural Center . . . .603 West Twelfth
7 - 10pm nightly 478-8653
Austin' Lesbian Gay Political Caucus . . .P.O. Box 822
Austin, Texas 78767
Gay Community Services 2330 Guadalupe
6 - 10pm nightly 477-6699
Gay Law Students 2501 Oldham #207
478-4595
Gay Nurses Alliance of Austin . 1010-B Romeria Drive
Austin, Texas 78757 453-0816
Holy Trinity Church of Austin . .1606 South Congress
447-7359
Metropolitan Community Church of Austin .614 East 6th
447-7747
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