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Kennedy Urges Spotlighting AIDS
By Larry Bush
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Sen. Edward Kennedy (D .•
Mass.) is spearheading an effort to give AIDS more political
visibility before the Senate and the Reagan
administration. Kennedy, who was part of a team effort
that added $30 million to the Senate appropriations bill
to fund the Public Health Emergency Fund-only to
have the extra money dropped in a Senate-House conference
committee in early October-now has garnered the
~ signatures of 14 senators on a letter requesting that Sen
Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) hold AIDS hearings in the Senate
Committee on Labor and Human Resources
Among the senators cosigning Kennedy's letter are
three of the four Democratic senators seeking their par
ty's nomination for the presidency in 1984: Alan Cranston
(Calif.), John Glenn (Ohio) and Ernest "Fritz"
Hollings (S.C.). Only Gary Hart (Colo.) is missing.
Republican heavyweights on the letter include Sen
Lowell Weicker (Conn.), who is chair of the appropriations
subcommittee on health issues, and Mark Hatfield
(Ore.), chair of the full appropriations committee. In all,
seven of the 17 members of Hatch's committee signed
the letter, but observers noted that among the missing
Democrats was Tom Eagleton, the Missouri senator
who was McGovern's first vice presidential nominee in
1972 and later party to a lawsuit against his niece for
charging that he was involved in homosexual vacations
in Key West, Fla
While Kennedy's staff suggests that the letter primarily
will help keep politic81 visibility on the need to monitor
the Reagan administration response to AIDS, others
such as the Federation of AIDS-Related Organizations
lobbyist Gerald Connor and National Gay Task Force
Washington repre8entative Jeff Levi are hoping that
Hatch will decline the request for hearings
The key concern is the make-up of the Hatch committee,
which is controlled by Republicans who are on the
New Christian Right side. Those include Jeremiah Den·
ton (R-Ala.), the ex-POW; John East !N.C.), a Jease
Helms protege; Paula Hawkins CFla. ). a Mormon like
Hatch; Don Nickle• (Okla.), outspokenly anti-gay; and
Charles Gra.sley (Iowa).
Kennedy pitches his hearing request with that makeup
in mind, noting that "Senate hearings would focus
national attention on the health concerns involved in
this i68ue, rather than involving the Committee in a
moral dispute."
Overa1l, Kennedy raiseis many of the issues that were
also aired in the Weiss hearings in August in the House,
and the Waxman hearings in Los Angeles in 1982.
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itmire Wins Community; GPC Not Totally Pleased
By Robert Hyde
Houston's municipal elfftion is over, but
in its wake remains tteveral scars and
many quei;tions brought on by tht sensi·
tive and somewhat strained. relationship
between the city's mayor and Houston's
Gay Political Caucus which has left a bad
taste with many members of the gay com·
munity.
The past week has seen what some have
called a ''radical confrontation" between
the GPC and Kathy Whitmire, a popular
mayor dodging gay issues for television
cameramen, a vocal GPC president trying
to whip a crowd into political abandon·
ment and a mayor pausing in the secrecy
of her election night hotel suite to address
and dodge the sensitive questions that
have ariRen over the last few days prior to
election eve.
Reports of events begun last Friday
evening, when Mayor Kathy Whitmire
tourt>d the community's gay bars with AtLarge
Position 4 candidate Anthony Hall
in tow, have been conflicting and will, ulti
mately, call to account the good faith of
some of the more vOC'al m(>mbers of the
community, as well as the GPC's relationship
to the commu'?ity as a whole. Questions
will also be rmsE'd as to just how fer
will Houston 's mayor go to support the
gay community whiC'h has so overwhelm
ingly endor~ed her.
For the last f'everal years, the mayors of
America's largeRt cities have courted the
gay vote, and San Francii:;co's Diane Feinstt-
in, New York's ~;dward Koch and Los
Angeles' Tom Brudley o;et precedents to be
mirrort'd two years ago by Kathy Whitmire
in her firi;t bid for the city's top man·
agem(•nt ?«>Hit.ion-that of visiting gay
bars near f'lec'tion day.
Last yf'ar, Mayor Whitmire made the
tour of the bars under the umbrella of the
community's Gay Political Caucus. This
Year, 1he did not, even though GPC
membcra rontRnd that she promised to do
Montr<Me·a,rea <'ounf'ilman George Greanias (center), an easy, non -controvers~al winner m .Tuesda~· ·s election, addresses
GPC Elt>ctwn Ct•ntra/ uou'd. Mayor Wh,tmire, foreRround, ln;tens. GPC Presldent BaRneris. far right, had rarlwr u·orki'<i
crowd up with RlatPments unfatiorable of Whitmirf'. PH01oev11LUEDl.~CAN
so up until the lafit minute.
"We rontartC'd ovt•r five people in the
mayor's office," t-;aid n GPCmemberand a
reported aide to statt- representative
Debra Danburg, "who told us that she
would go on tht' tour_ Then at the last min·
ute, we were told that we had not been
properly scheduled."
Whether or not this scheduling diffi
culty regarding GPC'a bar tour coincided
with GPC's failure to endorse Mayor Whitmirf''
A favorite in the council race,
Anthony Hall , over Nikki Van Hightower
is a matter of conjecture, but it did set up a
confrontation lM>tween the GPC and
Mayor Whitmire m Mary's Lounge, at
1022 Wetoitht·imer, that brought the community
face to face with problems the
GPC and Mayor Whitmire have regarding
their mutual pohtical interests.
[twas nf'ar midnight laRt Friday when
the mayor and Hall entered the popular
MontroBt> bar-after visits to the Brazos
River Bottom, Miss Charlottt''s and
Rich's-preceded minutes beforf' by their
touring scouts who are wen known to ~he
politically active in the gay community
The mayor's visit had also been preceded
by several membtrs of the GPC who plas-continued
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Hundreds Attend GPC Election Central
By Hollis Hood
Hundreds of voters gathered to cheer their
Gay Political Caucus endorsed winners,
comfort the losers and repledge support to
their run-off contenders amid dancing and
laser lights at GPC's election central,
Numbers 2, 300 Westheimer, last Tuesday
night.
As election results were televised on the
wall-screen monitor, and as several GPCsupported
candidates' victories were
assured, GPC president Larry Bagneris
said "Let's give ourselves a hand. It's time
to understand and reflect on GPC. It has
existed for eight years. We have realized
that for any minority to get anything
done, it takes a team effort," he said, referring
to the GPC gay bloc vote. "We're talk
ing about human rights, not just gay
rights."
"There was a 'gay' issue in 1983," said
Councilman Jim Greenwood, the first of
several public officials to address the
gathering that evening. "But hopefully it
will mark the last time there will be; there
shouldn't be.
"My hat is off to GPC on yet another
issue," he said, referring to the GPC con·
vention center endorsement. "We need it
for jobs, to diversify the economy and to
strengthen our downtown."
Also he mentioned that the $80,000 in
the Houston budget for the AIDS tracking
project was not enough, but "it's more
than was in the budget last year. Thie
needs to be treated as any serious cpi·
demic. That needs to be done-and that
will be done," he said over cheers of appro·
val from the crowd.
Greenwood introduced the members of
his family to the crowd, shook a round of
hands and left for another 'thank you'
stop.
Early in the evening, it became clear
that Anne Wheeler, the GPC endorsed
candidate opposing Jim Westmoreland in
the At·Large 1 race, had gleaned only
about one-lhird of the vote. But at Election
Central, she was greeted with applause
and hand shakes, not unlike the reception
given to persons who had won their races
that evening.
"I want you to know that this lady has
never been a loser in Montrose, and the
results show it," exclaimed Bagneris.
"She took on the biggest turd at city hall,
and we'll get him next time. Westmore-
Larry
Bagneris,
GPC
president,
at
GPC
Election
Central
land will retire in two years."
A tearful Wheeler said, "I am very proud
of your support. To me, Montrose is the
center of the universe."
She went on to say that most of the councilpersons
are supportive of human rights
and of anyone who "is sensitive t.o all
human needs and all communities."
Regarding her defeat, Wheeler said that
the incumbent was elected on name identification
. "There is no question that if they
knew my opponent's record, they could not
possibly have voted for him."
Bagneris assured Wheeler of the continued.
support of the gay community "150
percent, anytime, Montrose is behind
you."
Lee Harrington , proponent and liaison
to the gay community from Texas Eastern
's convention center project, told the
crowd that by gay support of the successful
center vote that the community 04has
arrived" in the eyes of downtown business.
"By the political pawer of the bloc
vote, we got their attention, and once they
met us, they found out they liked us
besides. We just blew them (top Texas
J<:;aetern management) away.''
He said that the issue has enabled gay
corporate personnel to "come out" as
never before, and that building the con·
vention center on the eastside will "help
clean up lower Westheimer."
Referring to repeated comments about
liking gays when getting to know them,
Bagneris said, "People learn that we are
not out to molest their kids; we are not
interested in their husbands or their
wives. All wewantisourjobs and the right
to raise our kids. All they have to do is
meet one of us, see how we walk and talk ,
and they are satisfied about the kind of
folks we are forever. We are interested in
the quality of life, in getting potholes
repaired and that buses run on time."
Nikki Van Hightower, the GPC
endorsed candidate, and Anthony Hall
will be in a runoff for the At-Large Position
4 spot, which was a~urprisetonoone,
with both candidaU>s garnering approximately
one-third of the vote. Figures
representing Montrose, however, indi·
cated this area went for Van Hightower by
62 percent to Hall's 20 percent.
In reference to Hall's position on gay
rights pertaining to the employment antidiscrimination
issue, Bagneris said that
he authored the first rights ordinance.
"Where was sexual orientation then?" he
asked the crowd.
Van Hightower addressed the group
saying that she knew the community had
granted her great support and had been
fractured in time and money, but that.the
campaign would continue for the three
more weeks of the runoff. She asked for
continued support saying "looks like there
will be a runoff and I think we have the
strategy for victory. We'vehadalotofhelp
from gays. I can't do it without you."
State Rep. Debra Danburg and Sherry
Valentine were on hand to support Van
Hightower as well.
See related story, page 1.
Montrose
Mouth
Cover Boy
Guess who's on the cover of the justreleased
Advocate? Houston's own Colt
Thomas
Inside are several articles on Texas,
including the lead article. "In Search of
the Average Gay Texan" by Joe Baker
Joe. of Dallas. frequently has articles
appearing here in the VOICE
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Lola's owner Marilyn Arnold is planning
on making lots of changes in the barjust
like she's always making lots of
changes to her hairdo •. Wayne Barton,
the new DJ at Mary's, 1s keeping the place
jumping nightly. And Mary's is celebrating
its 13th Anniversary this Sunday all
day, all night. with keg beer and champagne
-o-
More good bar news: The 611 opens r-ea-
1 soon with Steve and Ken. They're at
611 Hyde Park.
-o-
Danny Villa has fmally figured out when
he's going to hold that Zapp Clap Two,
Too. It will be Nov 21and22, a week from
now. at Numbers. benef1ttmg the Montrose
Clinic and the KS.' AIDS Foundation
-o-
The City of Houston VD people will be at
Midtowne Spa tonight (Friday). 9pm-
1 am. for free blood tests and gonorrhea
screening Then they'll be at JR's and the
Mining Company Sunday afternoon, 4-
Bpm. with the VD Buggy for more tests .
And next Wednesday night they'll be at
the Copa, 9pm-1am
-o-
Here are some important events that
occurred this week in past yearsexcuses
to throw a party
Friday. Nov. 11 David Ignatius Walsh
was born today In 1872. So that means
you can celebrate that your middle name
1s not Ignatius
Actually. old Iggie was a U.S. Senator
from Massachusets that became involved
in a homosexual scandal in 1942. Seems
police raided this New York "male brothel"
(bathhouse? questions CA Tripp in
his book, The Homosexual Mafnx) and
arrested manager Gustave Beekman.
They then offered Beekman a deal for
cooperation and he named Walsh as a
customer Newspapers plastered Walsh's
name on their covers for weeks-and the
Senate conducted a sensational
investigation-but it cleared Walash
Police then prosecuted Beekman on
charges of .. sodomy, .. found him quilty
and sentenced him to 20 years in prison.
He served every day of it
And special thanks to Martin Grelfs
The Gay Books of Days. from which we
gathered some of this information
Friday is also Veterans' Day
Monday, Nov 14: Herman Melvllle's
Moby Dick was published today in 1851
.And. good God'. Joseph McCarthy was
born today in 1908 But on a more refreshing
note. Arthur Bell. gay columnist for
New York's VIiiage Voice. was born today
,n 1940
Tuesday, Nov 15: Pike discovered his
peak today in 1806
Wednesday, Nov. 16: Al Capone was
released from jail today in 1939, three
years early for good behavior
The Voice has more news,
more Houston readers,
more Houston advertising
4 MONTROSE VOICE/ Nov. 11, 1983
COUNCILMAN ANTHONY
CITYWIDE AT LARGE POS. 4
Thank you
Montrose for
your support
and hard work!
We need your
continuing
commitment to
complete the
task.
~I/di f-
NBC Crew Covers GPC
By Hollis Hood
Political clout may soon replace AIDS as
the major gay-related newsmaking issue
during the coming national election year,
and NBC's Nightly News was in Houston
recently to film a demonstration of bloc
vote power which gays seem to be exhibiting
in politics.
When Congressman Gerry Studds came
out of the closet, he brought with him a
new era of gay political recognition, which
is now becoming organized to the point of
being a viable force in local, state and
national elections.
Key West elected a gay mayor, Richard
Heyman, a 4~year-old businessman
And all the Houston Gay Political Caucus
endorsed candidates in the city election,
including Mayor Whitmire,
acknowledged the impact of the gay vote
in last Tuesday's election
In an effort to document this flux and
new-found voter resource, Washington
D.C. reporter Lisa Meyers of NBC Nightly
News dispatched a crew to film the GPC in
action during the election. The crew was at
Numbers 2 disco, GPC Election Central,
Tuesday night.
"We picked Houston because, one, we
had a crew hcrt'," said Bob Abrahamsen,
cameraman, "and because they (GPC) are
a good example of the political influence
gays have; they are very organized."
The staff, field producer Clarence Renshaw
and two technicians fi1med GPC
members doing a mailing, in strategy sessions
at headquarters, went along to Ras·
cals and Kindred Spirits on the
candidates' bar tour, as weB as filming
Election Central.
"Gays are exerting considerable political
influence," said Renshaw, and as
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pointed out in a Nov. 7 New York Times
article. "They are unified, and they are
good campaign workers."
Although not politically active throughout
the country, gays have great influence
in cities such as Houston, New Orleans
and San Francisco.
The filming will illustrate Meyers story
on Nightly News, but the representatives
did not know when the story would air, nor
how much Houston footage would be used.
"Politicians are coming out of the closet.
Others are actively seeking the gay endorsement,"
said Renshaw.
Because gays are becoming an increasingly
vocal, aggressive and politically
sophisticated minority as a group, they
will be gaining even more attention in the
months to come, he indicated.
GPC president Larry Bagneris publicly
complimented the crew Tuesday night for
their "sensitivity and professionalism" in
recording the events.
Gays' Dress
Influencing
NongayMen
International Gay New• Agency
The gay movement "has had an extraordinary
influence" on male fashion, according
to designer Lee Wright, who recently
agreed to do an exclusive collection of
menswear for J.C. Penney.
Wright says that there has been a gradual
revolution in the way men dress themselves.
Traditionally men would shop for
themselves after the entire family was outfitted.
Now, more and more males are
thinking about their image and taking
time to shop for themselves.
Wright attributes this change to the gay
movement. "It's a known fact that gay
men have e more eethetic sensibility about
them, and it carries over into the nongay
community," Wright said.
Wright is the third well-known designer
to join the Penney team. Hals~n and
Cathy Hardwick are already creating collections
for the store that are geared
toward the Middlt> America customer-in
other words, the budget-conscious conau-
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NOV 11, 1983 I MONTROSE VOICE 5
Gay Mayor Wins Key West Election
~[. 2~i~~~:!~:eNi~ Scene
Richard Heyman, 48, overcame "newcomer"
status to become Key West's new
mayor. With a 436 vote margin, Heyman
defeated Richard A. Kerr by a vote of3605
to 3169.
Kerr's campaign stressed "morality"
and the fact that he is a "conch"-the
islanders' term for a long-time resident.
His posters trumpeted, "Your vote will set
the moral tone for our community."
Heyman stressed tourism and
preservation-one the main source of Key
West's income, and the other the problem
of inadequate utilities.
Joe Balbontin, city commissioner and
Kerr supporter, stated after Heyman's victory
that news of a gay mayor "would
bring more of them (gays) down here."
Heyman countered by saying that the
island's problems have nothing to do with
sexual preference. "We have to preserve
the character and charm of Key West so it
won't become another Miami Beach," he
finished.
Gay Membership
Splits Council
of Churches
Orthodox churches will "reacress their
situation " according to a spokesman,
should the National Council of Churches
lf~~~:iaieFe1:f:!~~p elio~b~:~o;:ii::
Community Churches, a 27,000 member
denomination and haven for gay Christians,
reports the Religious News Service.
New Texas Gay Newspaper Started
First edition of "The Star" appears this
weekend m Austin and San Antonio.
Tiu Star, a new bi-weekly gay community
newspaper, is releasing its first lBSl;le this
weekend in Austin and San Antomo.
The newspaper, a 16-page tabloid, is
owned by the MontroHe Voice Publishing
Company of Houston. which also publishes
the MONTROSE VOICE and Dallas
GayNeu1s.
''Thia completes the 'Texas Triangle,'"
said publisher Henry McClurg. "We're
now serving Texas• three major population
areas with three local, communityinvolved
professional gay newspapers."
Another bi-weekly gay newspaper published
in San Antonio is the independent
Cakndar. TM Star will be published on
opposite week.a of The Cak ndar, givi!lg
the area a new edition of a gaycommuruty
newspaper each week.
TM Star will feature local San Antonio
and Auetin •toriee each iHue backed with
national columns and features, including
Brian McNaught; Peter Harrison; Roz
.Ashley; Arthur Lazere; Sharon McDonald;
health advisor Dr. Harvey Thompson;
political activist, profesaor Dr. Dan
Siminoski; Allen Young; and Jack Sturdy's
movie reviews.
Ed Martinez is news editor of TM Star
and Rico Young i1 advertising manager.
6 MONTROSE VOICE I Nov. 11, 1983
GPC Not Totally Pleased; Many Not Pleased with GPC
continued from page 1
tered Mary's with their bright red stickers
urging voters to support the GPC bloc
vote, a vote that clearly excluded Hall.
Stickers were pasted to cars parked
around the bar and on some of Mary's
patrons. whether they wanted to wear
them or not, reported one of the bar's man·
agers.
Upon entering the bar, Mary's surprised
crowd greeted the mayor with shouts of
"Keep Kathy"-the slogan painted on the
front of the building-and the shouts of
elation continued while the mayor walked
through the bar, shaking hands and
speaking with its patrons.
At the rear of the bar, however, Mayor
Whitmire'& progress was stopped by
members of the GPC who joined together
and refused to let the the mayor pass, said
the bar manager, until other patrons of the
bar forcefully broke the GPC blockade, an
event which has received both confirm&·
tion and denial from GPC affiliates, as
weU as the owner and managers of
Mary's.
Rep. Dan burg, an avid supporter of the
GPC. addres•ed the Friday night episode
at Mary's: "A few GPC board members
were up at the bar getting drinks. They
didn't try to block the mayor. They were
there to observe. There was no confront&·
ti on and no argument."
Another GPC member (who wishes to
remain anonymous because of her public
po!->ition~ aaid: '"There was no confront&·
tion with the mayor. We have no problem
"''th her. She walked in, saw our GPC bloc
vote stickers, but I didn't confront her. I
didn't even talk to her."
However, another GPC member (Dan·
burg' a affiliate) mentioned that the mayor
offered her her hand and asked, "How are
you, (name witheld)?"
"I said not one word to her," the GPC
member said. "I didn't respond, because I
was genuinely hurt.'
This GPC member further commented
that she believed her organization felt
abandonded by the mayor because of
Mayor Whitmire's refusal to tour the bar
with the GPC, rather than with candidate
Hall.
''But we're not out here to sell candidates,"
the member added. "We're here to
generate votes. But Anthony's her (Whit·
mir~:•> man, and that's who she's pushing
It will be a matter of time before the
incident at Mary's bar will be made clear
to members of the community, an episode
many members regard as an embarra88·
ment to the gay community as a whole.
Mary's owner, Jim Farmer, did contact
the VOICE in an attempt to make public
his feelings regarding last Friday's epi·
oode: "Mary's would like to apologize to
the mayor," he stated, "for the rudeness
and actions of certain members of the GPC
which occurred at my bar last Friday
night."
After leaving the bar in her silver Con·
tinental limousine, Mayor Whitmire rode
with Hall to Bacchus, a popular bar for
gay women, where she met with enthusi·
astic support, and then to The Copa, where
she entered the packed disco to Donna
Summer's "She Works Hard for the
Money ... After touring The Copa, much as
she had done at the previous bars by walking
through the crowd, shaking hands
and &peaking with its patrons, a video of a
male 1tripper was stopped for the mayor to
take center 1tage.
.. Remember me next Tuesday," she
asked the crowd in a strained voice,
brought on by a severe cold and laryngitis,
and was applauded by a crowd shouting
approval.
Then she introduced candidate Hall,
who told the crowd. "Let's don't turn the
clock back four years," referencing
accomplishments made by city council
over that period.
The following evening, the GPC con·
ducted ita bar tour, sans Whitmire, and
with what was reported as a considerable
1ucceas despit. an .'mpl-ant c.onf!Jrrta
Whitmire on tour at Mary's Lounge Friday night-with no GPC umbrella
These two people (Nikki Van Hightower and Anthony Hall), both conStdered
friends of the gay community, were the front·runners and are now in a runoff
for City Council Pos. 4. Whitmire supported Hall. GPC chose not only to
endorse Van. Hightower, but to also "target" her race as a necessary win. This
angered many in the gay community who felt that that energy should have
gone into mare clear·cut races.
tion with Councilman George Greanias,
who, like Mayor Whitmire, supported
Hall.
GPC's tour consisted of Rep. Danburg
and candidates Nikki Van Hightower and
Anne Wheeler.
Councilman Greanias had been invited
by the GPC to go on the tour and had made
arrangements to meet the tour at 11:30
Saturday evening at Rascal's, provided
that candidate Hightower was not along.
"Greanias had been aSBured by Bagneris
that Hightower would not be on the
tour," reported one GPC member who was
at Rascal's at the time. "Then when he
saw her get out of the limo, he went back
inside and had a drink."
Despite this brief episode which some
members of the community see as yet
another breach of community trust by the
GPC, GPC president Bagneris said, "The
tour worked like clockwork. We were supported
at every place."
Rep. Danburg did not see the Greaniaa
incident as being overly important. "He
did not want to appear to be supporting
Nikki Van Hightower," she said. "He felt
by going on the tour with her that that
would implicate hie endorsement (of
Hall)."
The divisions between the mayor, the
gay community and the GPC came into
sharper focus election night.
While the GPC celebrated its victories at
Ce11tral eOI )>era 2. 300 Wes·
theimer, Mayor Whitmire's supporters
gathered downtown al the Sheraton.
After her victory speech where she 1aw
her reelection as a referendum "to make
this city the greatest city in the world," the
mayor held a brief press conference, prior
to which time she invited the VOICE for a
private interview later in the evening.
In her suite at the Sheraton, Mayor
Whitmire was hesitant about addressing
her relationship with the GPC and was
adamant about the confrontation at
Mary's which had disturbed many people
in the community.
"I don't know what you're talking
about," she said of Mary's incident. "I
rea1ly don't even want to talk about any
such rumor mongering that you're getting
into right now."
Asked if she had felt abandoned by the
GPC during this race, the mayor replied,
"l certainly don't."
But the mayor waa aware of the uncer·
tainties and ofwhatsome deemed a lack of
appropriate representation ~thin ~e
community, but she sought to nee above it
when addressing the VOICE.
"I think in a citywide campaign you
have to get votes from every part of the
city, and the Montrose area has always
been an important part of my consti·
tuency," Mayor Whitmire said. "I live in
Montrose, and in every election when I've
run, I've alwaya gotten a strong vote from
Montrose. · •
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"I think that the support that I have
gotten from that area really transcends
any kind of political factions within the
area," she added, "and I'm glad about
that. I certainly don't involve myself in
the fights between the factions."
Then Mayor Whitmire turned to the
issue of gay rights and how she views her
last two years in dealing with the issue.
"I have always been a supporter of
human rights," she said quietly. "And at
times, certainly in my last campaign, that
fact was used against me-the fact that I
had support within the gay community
was used against me-and I think at that
time we saw that even though it was a very
bitter part of our campaign, we were able
to do enough work to overcome it. I think
that some progress has been made at
developing a larger base across the city of
people who see the virtue of supporting
basic human rights for all people."
Meanwhile, across town at GPC's Elec·
tion Central where patrons of Numbers,
the politically minded in the community
and GPC's members and advocates awe·
ited the arrival of the mayor, GPC president
Bagneris addressed the crowd in
what will probably be his last large-scale
address to the gay <'ommunity as president
of the caucus, since officer elections
for the organization are scheduled for the
first of the year
Bagneris, in a masterpiece of political
rhetoric, expressed the disappointment he
felt with Mayor Whitmire, and before the
mayor arrived, he proposed vacating
Numbers in an attempt to have the com·
munity mirror his disapproval of her
efforts with the gay community over the
past t.wo years, despite GPC's endorsement
which greatly influenced her reelec·
ti on.
"I just received a telephone call from a
successful mayor of the City of Houston
who just carried the Montrose precincts to
the tune of 90 percent," he told the large
gathering juitt before 1:00 a.m. '*And l had
a few things I wanted to say to her. I
wanted to say, first of all, that accounts·
bility begins now-not tomorrow-but
now. We will not tolerate retreat ofrespon·
sibility to our constituency any longer by
candidates who receive our support," he
said, alluding to the possibility that she
might not appear.
"In all minority struggles, the task of
obtaining basic h uman rights is diffilcult
at best. Our message is clear," he shouted.
"Your meSBage and the message to these
people who sacrificed week end and week
out for the Gay Political Caucus in this
community-our message is clear! We're
in this for the duration of this fight for
equality, because none of ~s are free until
all of us are free. We beheve, we really
believe," he empha_sized, "that a great
society is spawned m the sanctity of privacy.
That's are issue: the right to pri·
vacy," he said to applause.
"But alon_g with that comes the courage
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Thal'• the important line that lies with
us," he said emphatically.
"And I was going to tum to Kathy Whit·
mire, and I was going to say that the days
of Cinderella are over with. They are
over," he shouted. "The clock has struck
midnight and reality has become our fairy
godmother."
After being interrupted by more
applause, Bagneris continued: "It should
take no compromising to give people their
basic human rights. That's what we're
about. After working eight years in this
organization, after working through Gay
Pride Week, after working though an elec·
tion just like the rest of these people up
here," he said, referring to GPC's board,"!
had the mayor of the City of Houston say
to me, 'I'll come, but I understand that
they're some TV cameras there.' I said,
'That'e correct.'"
uwe're proud of the fact that CBS came
to us and asked to film a documentary, but
we told them to 'go get screwed' because
they had done such a bad job with gay
,power And Gay Pride Week. Then NBC
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came to us and we said we'd love to work
with you, providing that we don't have to
work with local TV cameras. You send us a
crew from New York City, and we'Jl give
you everything you asked for. And those
three men have been absolute gentlemen.
They have gone into gay bars, they have
respected you because they realize that if
they turn a camera on you that you can
lose a job, whether it be $5000, $10,000 or
$15,000 a year, it's still an income.
"And I explained that to the mayor of
the City of Houston and she said, 'Well, I'll
be willing to come if there are no TV came-.
ras.'
"And I said to the mayor, the way I'm
supposed to do as president of an organization
that delegates responsibility
among the board members who represent
every background, every group, everyone
in this community, I said to her, 'I'll can
you back in five minutes.'"
After an other outburst of applause, Bag·
neris continued: "Then I took my board
outside, and I explained to my board the
request of the mayor of the City of Houston,
and my board said to me if Kathy
Whitmire, who makes $80,000 a year, can't
face the NBC cameras the way we did
after taking our votes, well, then, we're
going to take it to you to let you decide
what you want to do with that.
"We've been tempted withe taste of free·
dam!"
Bagneris was interupted at this paints
with shouts of 'recaB' from the crowd.
"But let me guarantee you that it's an
artificial taste of freedom, and now we
want the real thing. We want the real
thing," he shouted. "We want to have the
same rights and privileges and protection
under the law." Then quieter, he said, ult's
simple. We want to keep our jobs, we want
to choose the places we live in, we want to
raise our kids if that's our blood. That's the
bottom line.
"But the reaJ bottom line is that we want
for the people we've worked for, we've
sweat for, we've suffered for to stand with
us side by side until we've accomplished
the goal of total freedom for every gay
man, for every lesbian in the City of Hou&·
ton," he said to thunderous applause.
urve got four more months as president
of this organization, and it would be easy
for me to continue to play the facade, but I
have had it up tohere,"heshoutedtomore
applause. "I have no desire whatsoever to
play anybody e1se's facade. If you can find
the time to ride in a black day parade, an
Irish day parade and a MexicanAmerican
day parade, well damn it, you
can find the time-when these people have
suffered through an eJection-to come out
and find the time to say thank you."
After the crowd quietened, Bagneris propositioned
them: "Now what we're going
to do is Jet you decide if you're willing to
continue-because we boast aJI over the
country that . . . we have a pro-gay
mayor-we are elected and dictated by you
what you want us to do. Well tonight, we're
not going to make the decision. You've
done the work. You've stood up and lost
your job, and you make the decision. We
want to know," he shouted, "we want to
see the show of hands of how many of
you-now that the TV cameras are gonewould
like to see the mayor of the City of
Houston."
The crowd voted overwhelmingly to see
the mayor, and there were shouts of "We
want her here!"
Bagneris continued: "This is not a mob.
We're going to control ourselves 1ike we
always have, like ladies and gentlemen.
Okay? And we're going to conduct ourselves
as adults.''
Then Bagneris tried his final attempt at
voicing his disapproval. "Now l want to
know how many of you would like to just
call it an evening and when they arrive
decide that we've had enough partying
and go home and let them come and visit
anybody that they want to visit because
we're not interested?" The crowd
screamed, "No!"
"The problem right now is I want you to
realize that she's just been elected the
mayor of the City of Houston. I w~nt you
to promise me, should she come m that
frontdoor-beca¥se I'm not lying to,YOUI've
never lied to you-I want you to prom·
ise me that there'll be no hecklers from the
crowd, rm shouting, and we'll stand here
and listen to whatahehastosay, and we'll
applaud her on the way out. And let me tell
you why. Letmetellyouwhy,"heshouted.
"And the first person that is rude with the
mayor of the City of Houston will have to
deal with me. Why? Because these
members who stand with you tomorrow
afternoon at 5:30 ... have a meeting with
the mayor of the City of Houston. We have
a meeting that's guaranteed.. Will you support
the Gay Political Caucus by acting
like ladies and gentlemen? Will you support
us when we go in tomorrow and give
her a list of the many things we want done
in this city-this her second time around?
Will you support us in what we want from
the mayor of the City of Houston?"
After the crowd promised to cooperate,
Bagneris continued: "I have your word,
and I've always trusted you."
Bagneris then told the crowd to keep
their clothes on and not embarrass Houston's
gay community the way so many
had embarrassed theirs in San Francisco.
"I beg you, do not embarass us.''
It was later reported to the VOICE that
Mayor Whitmire listened to Bagnerie'
speech to the crowd at Numbers via a
walkie·talkie in her limousine.
Mayor Whitrnire's only comment was
reported to have been, "! just wish they
wouldn't be taking this attitude."
Minutes after Bagneris' spoke, the
mayor walked onto Numbers' stage to
resounding applause.
"HeBo," she said in her strained voice.
" It's great to see all of you."
After more applause, she continued: "I
just want to say that tonight we had a
wonderful experience because they told us
that we couldn't do it. They said it was a
fluke last time. And I just want to congrat·
ulate all the people that worked with us. It
takes a lot of work, it takes a lot of dedication.
"We had strong opposition this time. We
had opposition thatspenta million do]Jars
against us. But because you did the work,
because you worked. with us, we were able
to win and were able to win big."
Afte:r the applause died, aheaaid, "And I
think this says a lot about this campaign
and the people that worked in it."
The mayor then excused herself due to
her voice, and introduced George Greanias,
11a good friend of mine and a good
friend of yours."
Then Greanias made a statement that
sat uncomfortably on the shoulders of
many in the crowd. "These few people up
here (the GPC board members) are perhaps
the closest to you in terms of representing
the community. We don't forget it
for a minute that we're in office. And don't
let anybody let you think that we ever
forget that we welcome, we acknowledge
and we respect your support and we ask
for it again, and again and again. We
thank you. We both thank you.
"You all have done wonderful things in
the last four years," he continued, 'from
'79 when the council changed. There is so
much left to do. Don't lose sight of what
the goal is. The goal is progress for this
community, for this city. Stick with us.
We're moving forward. We're gonna get at
il You keep at it. You can't lose. And as
long as we stick together, there's no goal
we can't accomplish. We are united. We
are one."
Robots
Replace Humans
Will the age of robots usher in life after
death? Neil Frude thinks so, says a recent
issue of Omni.
The Welsh psychologist says that after
you're gone, your friends may be able to
console themselves by having a cup of tea
with your mechanical double at the wake.
Frude &ayo robot technology will someday
produce "look-alike vinyl shells" pro·
gr8:-"1med to mimic speech, gesture& and
attitudes. They may even beableto"phys·
ically interract" with loved ones.
Frude admit.a his notion is "profoundly
disturbing," but he Bays "it's something
akin to a bid for immortality~" •.
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LOS ANGELES-Two men were arrested
for impersonating a peace officer after
leayjng Rafters bar in West Hollywood
Halloween weekend, following a uniform
theme Halloween party.
Von Scruggs was dressed as a Califor·
nia Highway Patrolman, and his friend
William Markley wao in a Los Angele•
Police Department Uniform. Neither of
them wore authentic badges, utility belts,
holstered weapons, handcuffs or batons.
Scruggs said they were both members of a
uniform club.
After rounding the comer from the bar,
Scruggo and Markley were surrounded by
SlX CHP patrol cars, arrested and taken to
the West Hollywood Sheriffs Station
where they spent the night. Their cos·
tumee were confiscated, and they were
charged with the misdemeanor which carries
a maximum penalty of up to sixmonth
's imprisonment or a fine of $500 or
both
Scruggs said some of the officer• tried to
provoke them with name calling and
harasoment, but they refu&«I to respond to
it.
He said that the clothing had been pur·
chased from a uniform store that services
CHP and LAPD officers, and explained
how they told the oales clerk they were not
aworn officers when buying the patches.
The store swore they did not sell the uniform•
without the purchaoer ohowing the
proper ID.
An entirely different picture was
painted by Sgt. Norris Soloman of the
LAPD who coordinates relations with the
city'• numerous private patrols. Sgt. Solo·
man said that he is unaware of any law
prohibiting the oale of the uniform• to civ·
ilians, and he knowo that all the uniform
sales companies do it. He said his office
asks private guards to mix-match the pieces
80 they aren't confused with a sworn
officer's. Nevertheless, an individual
nightclub guard may try to dre88 identical
to the LAPD uniform, and when he io <liscovered,
they will tell him to change it.
"Wearing of a police officer's uniform
may or may not be legal," said Soloman.
"It depends on whether or not there was
intent to deceive the public."
He cited the movie industry as the nota·
hie exception.
Next we checked with Western Costume,
the film industry's largest supplier, and
got two conflicting responses. One of the
higher-upo in the men'• rental department
said they 14most emphatically do not rent
police uniforms to the public." He said
they get lots of requests for cops, Nazis,
nuno and priests, which they will only
oupply for bonafied theatrical use.
Another employee said that'• not true.
"They're just concerned about making
costumes that might be considered in bad
taste. As for uniforms, there's ways to get
around it. We'll change some little detail,
like the width of the pant striping or a
olightly different badge, and let them go
out."
As for priests, Western Costume made
up an absolutely exquisite Pope for one
Halloween celebrant who apparently wao
not arrested for impersonating the Pon·
tiff
Neither were any of the costumed copo
at the Uniform Sabeth party held at
Duane'1, another gay bar, the night following
Scrugg1 and Markley's arrests
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Boy Scout Fights
to Get Back
Old Troop
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BERKELEY, Calif.-Attomeys for the
Boy Scouts of America said in October
that they will appeal a court decision
ordering an openly gay Eagle Scout to be
reinstated as an adult scout leader.
The California State Court of Appeals in
Los Angeles upheld on Oct. 6 a lower court
ruling that the BSA's 1981 ouster of
Timothy Curran, 21, whose homosexuality
was revealed in a newspaper article
that year, was "arbritrary and capri·
cious."
BSA attorney Malcom Wheeler said
from Los Angeles that the BSA maintains
a policy of not permitting "girls, gays and
th&godless."
Wheeler said that "one of the ideas of
Scouting is to get kids out in the woodsremoved
from everyday problems, one of
those problems being sexual relations."
Curran disputed the assertion, saying
that he found it "highly offensive. They
obviously think that because I'm gay, I'm
going to molest kids, and that's a garbage
stereotype of gays in general and a personal
insult to me."
Curran went on to assert the fact that
most cases of child molestation involved
girls being molested by heterosexual men.
Dayjd Park, BSA national director,oaid
previous attempts "by several boys who
refuse to acknowledge the existence of a
Supreme Being, as well as several
females," were unsuccessful.
In fact, one of the ten "Laws of Scouting"
states that 0 a Scout is reverent ..
toward God."
A spokesman for the American Ciyjl
Liberties Union said, however, that that
particular policy i• un<'On•titutional, on
the grounds that it yjolates an atheistic
Scout'e First Amendment rights.
"The First Amendment, while it gives us
the right to worship as we please, also
gives people the right not to worship at all,
if they so choose," the spokeeman said.
California Superior Court Judge Robert
Weil ruled last July that the BSA must
prove "a rational connection between
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homosexual conduct and any significant
danger of harm to the aBSociation" before
the BSA can expel anyone who is gay.
Curran asserted that "it will be difficult
for the Scout.II to prove I'm immoral. They
made me an Eagle Scout; they gave me the
Order of the Arrow (one of Scouting'e
higheot awardo). They've gone to great
lengths to prove how moral I am," Curran
continued, "and now, they're trying to
kick me out simply because I'm gay.
There's no way I'll let them do that to me
without a fight."
Park responded, "We just don't think
parents want homosexuals in the (Scout)
troops."
While national BSA leaders are opposed
to Curran's reinstatement, local officials
have openly welcomed Curran back
Da.;d Potter, ocoutmaster of Troop 37 in
Berkeley, oaid that "If you wanted to
select a person who has been the ideal
Scout, that person would be Tim Curran."
In an editorial, the Oakland Tribune,
the newspaper that made public Curran's
gayneu in 1981, said that when queetioned
about Curran being gay, nearly all of
the membero of Troop 37 said, "So what?
We don't care." The editorial continued,
"And why 1hould anybody care?"
The editorial concluded that the true
measure of a Scout's worthiness ie what he
does in hie capacity aa a Scout, not what
he does in his private life.
Gay Porn
Star Killed
Falcon Studios model "Dick Fisk," 28, was
killed Oct. 31 with his lover and the driver
of another vehicle in an early morning
auto accident in an Atlanta, Ga., suburb,
Marietta.
Fisk, whose real name was Frank Ricky
Fitts, and his lover Billy Joe Howard, 22,
were enroute home.
As reported by Atlanta's Cruise News,
police said Howard was driving when his
Dick Fisk in Falcon photo
car crossed the center lane and struck a
pickup truck driven by Stewart Rhette
Wallace, 31, of West Marietta.
Fisk had recently appeared in the Mandate
and Torso. His major film endeavor
was Falcon's The Other Side of Aspen.
He had recently been employed at
Atlanta gay clubs.
Moscone, Milk
Assassinations
Still Heated Issue
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SAN FRANC ISCO-With the fifth anniversary
of the assassinations of Mayor
George Moscone and openly gay city
Supervisor Harvey Milk approaching, the
Justice Department in late October
refused to either confirm or deny a local
TV news report that Attorney General William
French Smith had been urged not to
prosecute their convicted killer.
KGO-TV reported that Smith received a
recommendation from the department's
criminal division that former Supervisor
Dan White, who shot Moscone and Milk to
death at point-blank range in their City
Hall offices on Nov. Tl, 1978, not be prosecuted
on charges that he violated their
civil rights.
John Rueeell, a Justice Departmentspo·
kesman, told The Sentinel, a local gay
newspaper, that the White case "is still
being examined by the criminal division,
and no new decision has been made."
Ru88ell added that although he does
expect a decision to be reached soon, "I
can't tell you just what soon is."
A spokesman for U.S. Attorney Joseph
Rueoniello expressed total surprise by the
KGO-TV report. "Not only have we not
heard about this so--caJled recommends·
tion, but if it had been given, we would
have been informed."
Rueoniello himself was quoted by the
San Francisco Chronicl.e u saying that "I
would expect to be the first to know (if a
decision had been made). We have no
information about any decision that has
been made."
The report was attacked by the longtime
lover of Milk as "totally off·base." C. Scott
Smith, the sole heir to the Milk estate,
claimed that contrary to KGO-TV, "other
news sources said a recommendation had
not been made yet."
Moreover, Scott Smith said, the report
was broadcast on a Monday when the Jue·
tice Department received new information
on the case 11only that weekend."
John Wahl, the attorney representing
the Milk estate, was quoted by the Chroni·
rte as saying that the KGO-TV_ report was
"a trial balloon b)' t~ Justice Depa,rtment."
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AIDS Funding in
Britain Not
Major Issue
By Lindsay Taylor
International Gay New• Agency
LONDON-The death of a hemophiliac in
Bristol from AIDS has led to further calls
for the British government to allocate
more money to fight the disease.
Another hemophiliac in Cardiff is
among the 20 confirmed cases of AIDS in
Britian. Both men are believed to have
contracted the disease from contaminated
supplies of clotting agent Factor VIII
imported from the United States. The U.S.
currently Aupplies more than half of Bri·
tian's Factor VIII, and the government
cutbacks in funding mean that the United
Kingdom will not be self-sufficient in
blood products, at least until 1985.
Although the British Hemophilia
Society (BHS) has contributed around
25,000 pounds (about $37,000) toward
research to find a way of insuring that
supplies of Factor VIII are free of AIDS,
Social Services Secretary Norman Fowler
has refused to increase governmental
funding of the project.
At a meeting in late September, junior
Health Minister Lord Glenarthur told the
hemophiliac organization that the
government was unwilling to expand its
AIDS research because this would mean
that other medical research projects would
have to be cut
r.rhe hemophiHac group now plans to
join with gay groups, organizations con·
cemed with intravenous drug users and
health service trade unions to form an
AIDS Action Committee.
This Action Committee aims to put pres·
sure on the Department of Health and
Social Security to treat the AIDS problem
with more urgency and to counter inaccu·
rate reporting about AIDS in the media.
Julian Meldrum, secretary of the gay
Hall-Carpenter Archives, has al ready
made a detailed complaint to the Press
Council on newspaper coverage of the dis·
ease. The committee intends to issue a reg·
ular newsletter to organizations
representing all groups that are particularly
at risk from the disease.
Letters
'Thanks for
Reviving the
Spirit'
From Larry Bagneris
Congratulations on a job well done to the
hosts of both the Gray Party, held at
Numbers Di•cotheSundayofthe Westheimer
Art Festival, and also the party for us
small people (under 5'7") held at Baja's.
For a moment, I thought I was in the
Houston of three years ago when T -dances
and parties were the themes of Houston
weekends, as we celebrated the joy of
knowing and accepting that we are gay.
Thank you for putting the spirit of par·
tying back into our community.
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Sweat Socks: One Woman's Story Commentary
By Sharon McDonald
When it comes to sports, I have always
been cordial but distant. As a child, the
fulJ extent of my athletic repetoire was the
repeated climbing of a single tree in which
I would sit for hours daydreaming of an
even less active childhood. I thought that
once I grew up, I would be free of the daily
pressures to run, jump, sHde, hit and
catch. Call me naive, but I looked forward
to my adult years as a fruitful time for
affairs of the intellect.
Back then, women were allowed, no
encouraged, to let their muscles atrophy in
peace. But right around the time I would
have begun living out my happy destiny
as a sedentary grown·up, I fell in with an
energetic group of women who called
themselves by a strange new name: feminists.
At first I thought their philosophy
meant more choices for everybody: I could
be either a chemist or a karate champion.
What I didn 't know was that the karate
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champion didn't have to study chemistry,
but the chemist would have to take up
some arduous sport to stay in the feminist
ballgame.
Only the language had changed since
childhood. Yesterday's "Get your nose out
of that book," has become today's "Get in
touch with your body." This is a paradox
of modern feminism that I find difficult to
understand: nobody tells Rosie Casals to
write a book, why do they tell me to play
tennis?
It'• important at this point to explain
that I don't dislike sports just because I'm
no good at them, although that certainly
helps. But simple ineptitude is a mere
embarraeement that's easily forgotten.
What's not easily forgotten is a lifetime of
sprains, strains, cuts, scrapes, bruises, lacerations,
concussions and temporary
embarrassments. I dislike sports because I
hurt myself doing them, sometimes quite
badly.
I can fall and chip a bone on any type of
surface you've got, from grass to concrete.
The only time I can catch a ball that's
hurtling straight at my unique and fragile
face is when it knocks my last two fingers
backwards three inches farther than they
were ever meant to go. I think it's about
time for feminists to face the fact that
some women were just not meant to totter
four inches off the ground on blades,
wheels, a foor·long slab of wood or anything
else.
Women whom I would otherwise consider
caring friends have tried to get me
out there into the danger zone.
"Look at you! You call yourself a dyke?
Look at that arm. Where's the muscle?"
"It's in my fingers. I type 90 words a . .. "
"You've got to start thinlting about your
health!"
"I run. I'm staying inside where it's
safe."
"You don't know what you're missing."
"Yes I do. Pain."
It doesn't help that Louise is on the side
of the athletes in this. One balmy evening
when she and I were in the first glow of
new found love, she chanced to ask what
sports I enjoyed. When I aaid none, that
lovely period of idealized romance passed
forever into history. Some people are so
judgmental.
Louise's childhoood had been a whirlwind
journey from championship this to
championship that. From a modest beginning
at prizewinning marbles, she went
on to conquer her neighborhood at baseball,
ping pong, basketball, skating and so
on. She once remarked. to me what an easy
transition it had been to go from GAA
(Girl's Athletic Association) to GAA (Gay
Activists Alliance) without even changing
T-shirts.
AB if our relationship wasn't tenuous
enough, Louise decided that we needed to
jog together every night. I reminded. her
that I considered achieving normal posture
an athletic event. She could not be
moved. I said I'd think about it.
True to my nature, I approached this
subject first from an academic angle. I
read all the books about jogging, and it
was there that I learned about cramps,
strains, faintness of breath and "overdoing
it." I stopped reading. Next, I went
shopping. After pricing jogging shoes, I
came home with the aforementioned. faintness
of breath. This was soon followed. by
faintness of heart.
The more I though about it, the stupider
it seemed. Being an urban dweller, certain
physical pursuits like karate or running
do make sense to me. But jogging has no
euch intrinsic, pragmatic value. Whateelfrepecting
mugger responds to, "Back off,
buddy, I'm a jogger"? Not does jogging
provide you with an escape maneuver; it
just doesn't work to jog away from an
attacker. This is in sharp contrast to the
more versatile sport of running, which can
be utilized either to run from an attacker or
to run to attack someone. Jogging, on the
other hand, produces only two concrete
results: stronger calf muscles and better
wind, both of which are good for only one
thing-more jogging.
I presented my findings to Louise, but
you can't tell her anything. So, with our
frail relationship hanging in the balance,
I purchased the proper shoes, baggy
shorts and sweat socks and revised my
will. I was ready. Louise glanced up from
the television, lit another cigarette and
said, "Not tonight, hon, let's start tomorrow."
The next night she was meeting a
friend for dinner and suggested we wait
one more day. The following day she came
home from work exhausted. "How about
tomorrow night, sweetie?" she groaned.
By now, all I can say is it's a wonder I've
retained my sweet disposition and tolerant,
loving, giving, accepting attitude
through all this. If in the name of feminism
or health or God knows what else my
lover and friends advocate chasing a ball
around, or want to browbeat others into
doing the same, I'd be the last one to say
it's not an excellent use of time.
I mean, if they want to move their con·
versation to the level of debating the
absorption capacities of different brands
of sweat socks, I'd never suggest it was a
step down. Some people might say these
women have become sweaty, ill-clad, panting
bores, but not me. Goodness, if I let a
little thing like watching my friends
beome competitive over-achievers turn me
into an unsupportive name-caller, well,
what would that say about friendship?
AB for Louise and I, we have made a
peace of sorts by discovering a physical
activity we can do together. Although it is
more private than a jog around the local
park, I will say that it has satisfied both
our wants by providing exercise, sweat
and exhaustion without requiring a trip to
the emergency room. Until something better
comes along, this will do just fine.
McDonald, who lives in Los Angeles, is
co-winner of the 1983 Certificate of Merit
for Outstanding Work in Feature Writing
from the Gay Press Association. Her
column appears here and in other gay
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Pop Culture and Gay Rights Gay Community
By Dan Siminooki
For a Jong time, I have believed that the
expreSBion of views on "public" issues in
media like film and music offers a special
way for political activists to build support
for their causes. If "culture" can be cailed
"political," it is moat powerfuJly so in
three senses.
First, it can bring attention to existing
problems in a way usually ignored in
mainstream political discource, and thus
involve us emotionally in the search for
solutions. Second, because of the artist's
freedom of expression, he or she is not
limited to the practical political agenda,
solutions or views of the future. An artist
define& problems more freely and has
greater latitude to define alternate policies,
institutions, lifestyles and moral
codes. Last, and most urgent, the artistic
address to an audience is more direct than
a political one, it aims to the heart and
emotions, rather than the head and rea·
son.
The result is that though the politician
may be more "conect" in analysis, the
artist strikes a deeper cord, creating pain
or fear or self-identification, urging us not
only to see the problem, but to live it for
awhile.
Hopefully, this submersion into the
realm of the artist allows us to emerge
more sensitive to the problem, more open
to its discussion, and more likely to participate
in its solution. Were Karl Marx to
comment, he would surely agree that "consciousneBB
raising" is a necessary part of
any revolutionary program. I contend
that it plays an important role in gay
rights at the moment.
If we agree for a moment that culture
can speak politically, and its expression
can be used to promote a political movement,
we are still left with a towering question.
What is "gay culture?" The answer
seems to elude all of us. Whether or not
there is a unique gay aesthetic, the crea·
tion of a truly unique people or whether it
is only the product of a ghetto-ized subcommunity,
are issues too large to tackle
in this column.
Happily, though, another standard
offers itself for this discussion, one not
based on who the artist is, but bow effectively
that person portrays gay life. This
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standard is the language adopted by the
Alliance for Gay Artists in the Entertain·
ment Industry, which recently presented
its third annual media awards.
They are given to actors, writers and
production staffs in film, TV and theatre
for "the realistic portrayal of gay and les·
bian characters and issues in the entertainment
media," AB did the earliest
Oscars and Tonya, these awards celebrated.
honesty and accomplishment without
nervous nominees or declarations of
best anythings. Instead, they celebrated
the works that allowed audiences to experience
three-dimensional gay and lesbian
people, that invited non-gays to experience
our richness and difficulties and
that gave us the chance to see ourselves
onstage as we are in our private lives.
Among the most emotionally received
theatrical tributes were the late Jane
Chamber's play, Last Year at Bl!M!fi•h
Cove, and the ensemble of actresses who
played it, Pat Carroll's solo performance
in Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein, Gertrude
Stein, Vincent Price's powerful version
of Oscar Wilde in the one-man
Dwersions and Delights, and Caryl Chur·
chill's Cloud Nine, all productions of the
Los Angeles Theatre.
For what I consider the best film yet
made about the pains and rewards of com·
ing out, John Sayles' Liana won, and
received special recognition for, the performances
of Linda Griffiths and Jane Har·
aren. In television, award went to
[)ynaaty for the honest and routine way in
which the gay character Steven Carring-ton
was portrayed, and to PBS for its pro·
duction of The Fi~h of July, with Richard
Thomas and Jeff Daniels as the stable gay
couple-and probably the most "normal"
people in the play.
The awards evening was produced, written
and directed by members of the
Alliance and was easily more entertaining
and crisply presented than the more familiar
awards shows. I felt proud to be part of
the family.
The Alliance numbers about 250
members, its main percentage made up of
gay professionals. In addition to the
awards, year-round activities include
monitoring productions that focus on R-ay
life and working to eliminate stereotypes.
There are risks to open members of the
Alliance, as chairperson Chris Uszler
reminded the audience. the same risks
faced by every person who chooses to
reject the closet
Speaking for himself and the Alliance,
Uszler affirmed that he would not be
intimidated: "I am not discouraged ... no,
far from it, for I see a new generation of
gays and lesbians emerging in our history
.... People who are willing to take
risks, refusing to pay the emotional price
of the closet, individuals who say 'I can be
myself, openly and freely, and I will work
in this town again!"
Whatever their background, sentiment
or sexuality, most artists speak to their
audience in metaphors rather than political
tracts. If they are forced to create stereotyped
charaters, most audiences will
believe them and extend them to the real
world. How short a time it is since any gay
character found in the media was ridicu-lous
and disturbed! But if gay characters
were once one-dimensional and false, that
is less true each year.
The characters honored by the AGA
were complex, honest and wholly within
their dramatic context. Some were
extraordinary gay icons, like Stein and
Wilde, but most were ordinary people, like
you and me. Their sexuality was merely
an aspect of their makeup, not a constant
source of struggle and conflict. When
Americans can begin to see us in the
media in all our richness and variety, we
begin to close in on our political goals.
Dr. Siminoski is a political scientist and
has been active in the gay rights movement
for about a decade. He may be written
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Good Taste, and Why Not?
By Allen Young
"Good taste" is supposedly a matter of special
concern to gay men. When a gay man
lacks good taste, whether in his clothes,
his home decor, his conversation or his
behavior, he is said to be " tasteless," a
word that in today's gay banter has
become a campy exclamation. (For some
reason, all of this seems less relevant to
gay women, which is why I refer any to
gay men here.)
A friend of mine who writes for Fag Rag,
one tasteless enough to burn a Bible at a
Gay Pride rally, has on several occasions
expressed his mockery and disdain for
this gay male preoccupation. He see it, I
believe, as a kind of faggot snootiness, an
attempt by gay men to use esthetic values
to find respectability in upper-middlecla88
heterosexual society. My friend's
Bible-burning must be forgiven if only
becauHe it spurred much interesting discussion
about religion's role in gay oppression.
As for his condemnation of faggot
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preoccupation with taste, I have been until
recently quite sympathetic with his point
of view. I am beginning to distinguish ,
howe\oer, between good taste that is
simply an honest appreciation of beauty,
and a fashion-oriented concept of taste
sometimes known as "piss-elegance."
Piss-elegance is something I find irksome.
The Queen's Vernacular (now published
by Paragon Books as Gay Talk)
defines a piss-elegant queen as "one equating
wealth and style with real achievement;
one who lives in sham elegance." (A
second definition of the term says it is a
"jealous reference to a rich homosexual.")
Since coming out into the gay world, I
have met a few gay men who could be
described as " piss-elegant," and a few others
who manifest a self-conscious preoccupation
with taste. based on airs, manners
and fashion.Such men are not likely to
become my close friends.
But I have also met some fine artistsmen
(and women. too) with a welldeveloped
esthetic sense and a
commitment to creativity. The gay friends
and acquaintances have meant a Jot to me.
They have opened doors for me to realms
previously unknown, and they have
taught me something about good taste. I
use that term in the most positive way.
Twelve years ago, my main idea of
something attractive to put up on a wall
was a brightly colored Cuban poster showing
fists and guns. supposedly to express
solidarity with the people of a beleaguered
Third World nation. In general, the idea of
having attractive surroundings was then
of little concern to me. That was before I
was part of the gay community. Ifl were to
list the things I have learned from my
involvement in gay life, I would have to
place at the top this newfound concern for
beauty in my immediate surroundings.
And why not? Our lives are enriched by
beautiful things, both manmade and natural.
This is one of my disagreements with
the radical left, which focuses so much on
negativity. There is often no room for
beauty in their world; they see most art as
"politicaHy incorrect," for according to
them, we must always be aware of suffering
and injustice. Frankly, I don't want to
look at fists and guns anymore, neither in
real life nor in posters on my wall. I feel
sorry for the oppressed artists who are victimized
by political commissars, whether
they are movement ideologues or Communist
party bureaucrats. For such commissars,
art is "bourgeois" unle88 it "serves
the interest of the working class,•• whatever
that is.
Some might claim that it is middle-class
privilege that allows me this concern for
beauty. But poverty and squalor are not
synonymous. When I lived among the
Zinacanteco Indians in south.em Mexico,
they manifested a strong desire for beauty
and excellence in their colorful clothing.
The Indian man I lived with, who was
weaving a new staw hat for an upcoming
festival , made it quite clear to me that he
had "good taste" and also that he felt a
certain disdain for men in the village who
did not take the time and effort to make
their hata beautiful.
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column my appreciation for the work and
friendship of an artist I know, Gerard
Brender a Brandis, whose wood engravings
are among the decorative items in my
home. Ger, a Canadian who lives and
works in Ontario, is one of several artists I
have met in the gay community. I was
introduced to his work through RFD, the
country gay journal, which published
some of his engravings of rural architecture
and plants. Shortly after, a feature
article on him in Body Politic made me
aware that his temperament and lifestyle
were much similar to mine. Eventually we
met, and we now have become friends. We
are now collaboreating on two books, one
on Cape Cod, another a collection of quota·
lions, both to be published through Brand·
stead Press.
Brandstead Press is Ger's own creation
and was established 11 years ago to produce
limited editions of wood engravings
and linocuts. It now has facilities to per·
form every stage of production of hand·
made books, from papermaking to
binding, Ger's primary work has been
botanical illustrations, but in recent
years, he has sought to bring his gayness
to his work, and the result has been two
volumes of illustrated gay poetry. But, as
Ger wrote me in a letter I excerpted for
publication in Lavender Culture, overt
gayness in art is not essential: "What ie
more important is to realize that the presence
in my life of interpersonal realtion·
ships nourish my entire being and spill
over into my creative processes, just as my
creative vitality makes me more capable
of contributing to another man's life."
Ger's work has won him significant
recognition; it is included in may public
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galleries and university and library collections,
as well as in numerous private collections.
His dedication to his craft is
inspiring: imagine working a book from
start to finish, including weaving the
cloth for the cover, ma king the paper,
engraving the illustrations, handsetting
type a nd operating the printing pre88! Yet,
for all his success, Ger does all he can to
keep from being "sucked in to the suburban,
commercialized and consumerizedtoo
much a part of the trendy gay scene,
too much a businessman." He writes, "My
life and lifestyle a ppear too often relevant,
a nd yet there is no real a lternative on this
planet." These are my feelings, for when I
leave the typewriter today, I will go into
the garden to plant carrots and eggplant,
spend some time in puttering around the
house to make it more pleasing to me, and
a little later, go to the bus station to pick up
an old friend whom I haven't seen in
years.
Theee pleasures-the manmade beauty
in my home, the natural beauty of the
plants in the garden, both the functional
beauty of vegetables and the "pure"
beauty of flowers, and the love of friends
in the gay community whom I have come
to cherish so much-help make life rich
and worthwhile.
I refuse to rob myself of these pleasures
just because I know that there is pain and
suffering elsewhere in the world . My
appreciation for beauty does not undermine
a desire and hope for a better world;
in fact, the two are inextricable.
Cl 1983 by Allen Young, author of seueral
books, including "Gays Under the Cuban
Revolution" and "Lavender Culture." Distributed
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16 MONTROSE VOICE I Nov. 11, 1983
Lesbos' Sappho Remains
History's Romantic Enigma
By Patrick Franklin
Plato reg&l'ded her so highly that he called
her "the tenth muse," a name that bestowed
the status of a demi-goddess on her.
Catullus quoted her poetry in bis own. The
ancients Clll'efully kept copies of her nine
books of poems.
But who was Sappho? The life of the
woman whose very name is used as identification
for the love between women and
whoee birth on the island ofLesbos gi~es a
!lame to the women who practice that love,
ta now lost. But "lost" is too kind a word.
The memory of Sappho brings with it a
legacy of talent and geniu1 that was too
start.ling a burden to be borne by genera-tions
of men for whom the love of woman
for woman was vile, and who demanded
that the place of women must be subservient.
But she lived. More important, she
wrote, and in such a way that the minds of
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men could burn her books and try to erase
her memory, but not completely. To do so
would have required that they censor or
destroy .many of the works of the great
male thinkers who admired and quoted
her.
She was born in the late 7th century B.C.
When. exactly. is lost in time along with
the date of her death. We know the name of
her father, Scamandronymus, who died
when ahe wa1 only aix, and we know that
he must have been a relatively wealthy
man becauae of the position in society that
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have been spendthrifts.
Very little else of unquestioned truth
remains from independent sources. What
few hints can be aasumed come from the
interior evidence of her poetry. She wa1 a
friendly correspondent with the poet
Alcaeue, and the two of them were conai·
dered leaders of the Aeolian school of poetry
More important by today's standards is
that she applll'ently presided over a feminine
literary aet at Mitylene, writing short
poems to the ch&l'ma of some of thoee
women. It is on the basis of those small
fragments that her highly regarded reputation
rest.a. They ahow an unqueationed
~r=:~dt:ling expressed in perfect,
It was this, her ability to combine emotional
depth with classical purity, that
made her not only the greatest woman
poet of Greece, but one ofthegreatpoetsof
all time. Solon, hearing one of her veraes
recited, declared thathecouldnotdieuntil
he had learned it.
Passing references indicate that she
was married and bad borne a son. Still,
those references never show the depth of
feeling, the sincerity and the grace with
which she described her feelings for her
women friend1. That bothered even the
ancients, and they believed a legend that
Sappho had thrown herself from the Leucadian
R<>clt in fnurtration at having failed
in love with a young man, Phaoan.
Though the story was disproved by
Roman times, it was continued by later
writers who could not understand a
woman who was complete without male
companionship.
She, in tum, frustrated other writers by
refu1ing to con1ider the passing ace.ne.
She ignored the eternal strife and struggle
of the Greeks and their interminable civil
wars. Her poetry concerned eternal
values, those of love and the relationship
of common people with the infinite. Perhaps
the only complete poem that survives
is a hymn to Aphrodite, the goddess of
love.
Her entire output of nine books of poetry
was small. even for those times. In her
own words, they were "roses, but roses
all ." There were no thorns or faded blossoms
in those books. and they survived at
The fathers of the church had little use
for her poetry, and all copies of Sappho's
verse were summarily burned when discovered.
They offered no support to the views
of those men, unlike the writing of other
"pagans," and posed a real threat to the
idea of male supremacy that the early
church was so devoted to. Sappho seemed
to be a dead iasue.
Even today, when we are left with only
tantalizing fragments of what must have
been an exciting body of work, the old prej-
1-t until the destruction of the Library in
~dnA,eompletedby~Alllbo.iD~ !.Yr:'/.:TJ.r;CJ.a.-:o•t:vL'I'N.!M
udices appear. Robert Graves, writingthe
The White Goddess, a volume extolling the
role of women in poetry and art, tells of his
discussion with a professor about the poetry
of Sappho. "Tell me, sir," he asked, "do
you think Sappho was a great poet?"
The Oxford don looked up and down the
street to see if anyone was listening. "Yee,
Graves,'' he whispered, "that's the trouble.
She was very, uery good."
Humanity can be proud that one woman
in it.a early history stands as a monument
Feature
to the ability of all who face prejudice. At
the same time, we must mourn for the
vicious destruction of her art.
Willa Cather said it best. "If of all the
lost riches we could have one master restored
to us, one of all the philosophers and
poets, the choice of the world would be for
the lost nine books of Sappho."
Franklin, of Carmel, Calif., is the direct-Or
of Stonewall Features. 1983 Swnewall
Features Syndicate.
Texas Renegades Presenting
Adragna's Carnal Fantasies
By Billie Duncan
Competent artists depict things, good
artist depict thoughts, and great artists
depict passion.
Perhaps Rober t J. Adragna is not a
great artist, but his work evokes a sense of,
well, lust from the viewer.
Cowboys, horses, guns, leather,
outerspare-these all are elements in the
works that are now on display at Texas
Renegades, 1318 Westheimer. But the
overpowering element in Adragna's
meticulously crafted paintings is his own
awarmess of the attraction of the sensual
male animal.
"I'm fascinated by the way a person
wears a pair of pants or a belt," said
Adragna. "the way something is shaped
~o t~em that best displays their personal-
1ty.
Lest someone should get the wrong
impression, a word of clarification: these
paintings are not pornographic. they are
merely carnal.
Adragna's style is a form of theatrical
super-realism. His paintings were created,
for the most part, as iHustratins for books.
It seems that a lot of the books took place
in the Old West-an area for which
Adragna (a native New Yorker) has a
great fondness.
"One thing I was disappointed in when I
came to Houston was that hardly anyone
was wearing cowboy hats."
Adragna is very attactive to costuming,
and, though he uses real people as models,
he clothes them in his mind the way he
would like to see them. "You know what's
the fun thing about painting-people like
this, you get to dress people up in your
fantasies . And, in a way, they don't know
it."
He confessed that he has been known to
drees for bro, himself. "I have an absolute
fettish for blue jeans," he said with a slow
smile, and admitted that he thinks jeans
have a place in lovemaking "if they're a
turn-on for the other person."
He paused for a moment, his brown eye
searching for the right thought. "The trou·
hie with porno films 1s that they get
undressed too fast."
If he were to direct a porno film, he said
thathewouldhave"all the different types.
The Village People were perfect for me.
But they didn't carry it far enough."
As far as plot was concerned, he said, "I
would like it if you didn'tget to the orgasm
until you had explored all the other possi·
bilities. The orgasm would come at the
very end of the movie."
But his favorite films are western and
science fiction, and he said that his art is
very influenced by the films he sees. He is
pleased with how well his film sense has
worked in with his illustrating jobs, bu the
feels that he would Jike to have more freedom
of expression in his painting than he
is allowed working as an illustrator. "I
would like to go bolder into the fantasy."
Eighteen of the 22 pictures in his Hous·
ton show were originally done as illustra·
tions. Of the other four, two are of
Adragna's lover of five years, David.
One of them is titled "Number Ten" and
is on the list of paintings in the number 10
spot. Adragna explained that he had had
no title for the painting, but when he was
making out the list, it fell to the number 10
spot. "I thought, 'How appropriate!"'
The only painting that does not have et
least one male figure in it is called "American
Dream" and is an acrylic of the grill of
a vintage Cadillac.
"A Mercedes Benz is not as sexy as an
old Cadillac."
There are no paintings of women in the
show. He thought of one that he decided
OPENING SOON ...
Nov. 11, 1983 I MONTROSE VOICE 17
Artist Robert Adragna
not to bring. "I didn't bring the painting
because it's (the show) in a gay bar. And
she's dressed in leather, of all things!"·
He said he would like to try his hand at
painting fantasy images of women, ~ut
"most publishers are too conservative,
unless it's Playboy or something like
that."
Adragna's illustrations are generally
commissioned by such people as ~ce
Books, Dell Publishing. Jove Publications,
Berkeley Publishing and the American
Post Card Company (for whom he has
done two cowboys).
everal of his pictures recPntly
Montrose Art
appeared in The Advocate, which is where
Creative Source, 702 Avondale, and Gordana
Kristofic of Texas Renegades
noticed him.
Gordana decided she wanted to bring
him to Houston. "I wanted to show how
someone from New York saw cowboys,"
she said.
Robert J. Adragna 's cowboys (and other
men) will be on display at Renegades
through Sunday. and the charming artist
will be on hand tonight, tomorrow and
Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. to di~us_s his
work and. hopefully. sell some pam_tJngs.
It would be nice to keep some ofh1s fan·
tasy cowboys in Texas where they belonR"~
Winter's the Time
of Discontent
Feeling down? Gaining weight? Sleeping
more lately? You're not crazy, you're hib·
ernating, reports Omni.
Researchers at the National Institute of
Mental Health have discovered that some
of us get bummed out as the days start
shortening and don't come out of our blue
funks until springtime.
"I should have been a bear," complains
one sufferer. "Bears are allowed to hibernate;
humans aren't."
The researchers say they've obtained
successful results simply by plunking
their patients down under lamps to prolong
daylight artificially. For a longerterm
cure, they suggest imitating the birds
by flying south for the winter.
But don'tgo too far south. Down under,
they get depressed, too, from June to
November.
HOUSTON
611 HYDE PARK
18 MONTROSE VOICE I Nov. 11, 1983
Night Music's Waltzing Fairytale for Adults Montrose Live
By Joe L. Watts
Theatre Under the Stars has opened its
'83-84 season at the Music Hall with a 10th
anniversary production of A Littk Night
Music, and has brought in Juliet Prowse,
Larry Kert and Hermione Gingold to head
the cast of this Stephen Sondheim musical
billed as a waltzing fairytale for adults.
Winner of six 1973 Tony Awards, Night
Music is a musical adaptation of Ingmar
Bergman's Swedish film classic, Smiles of
a Summer Night. The story is elegantly set
in Sweden at the tum of the century when
Madame Armfeldt (Gingold) brings
together for a midsummer weekend in the
country a handful of discontented loversher
daughter, actress Desiree Armfeldt
(Prowse); Desiree's former lover, lawyer
Fredrik Egerman (Kert); Fredrik's young
wife Anne, still virginal after 11 months of
mariage; Fredrik's son Henrik, a divinity
student in love with Anne; Desiree's current
lover, Court Carl·Magnus; and his
unhappy wife, the Countess Charlotteplus
assorted servants and other guests.
Amid silver birches and with the "smiles
of a summer night," the lovers juggle their
ill-matched relationships until finally
they fall into proper order.
Night Music is a very stylized, innovative
musical, and Sondheim's lyrics and
music are quite sophisticated. A moodsetting
vocal quintet perform before and
during many scenes, helping to explain
and develop the storyline along with the
actors. Night Music's style is considered
light operatic, rather than traditional
Broadway musical.
The quintet, in this production, all
seemed to have well-trained lovely voices,
but were too hard to understand at times
Hermione Gingold (an international
treasure of the English speaking theatre)
seemed a bit low key in her performance as
Madame Armfeldt, but then she is
required to perform the entire production
from a wheel chair. However, reported to
be an amazing 85 years young, she still
had a twinkle in her eyes and oCf'med a
crowd-pleaser.
Larry Kert (the original Tony in West
Side Story) was secure and fine in his performance
as Desiree's former lover-he
and Juliet had• some nice moments of
inner play.
Juliet Prowse (poHesaing a pair o~ '{Or·
geous legs) was very capable as Desll~.
and her rendition of Sondheim's classic
"Send in the Clowns" had the right emotion,
if not the right voice.
Early in the play, Madame Armfeldt
tells her granddaughter Fredrika "that
the night smiles three times." TUTS is fortunate
in this production to present three
wonderful surprise "smiles."
A bright and professional smile comes
from Henrik (Stephen Lehew) who
laments that all of his advances to his wife
are turned away with "Later, Henrik."
Lehew deserves respect for his technically
fine performance and brings laughter
with his character's romantic frustration.
The second smile is a wry grin for Coun·
tess Charlotte (Barbar Lang) whose narcissistic,
philandering husband has
driven her to resent men, sex and anyone
who is happy. Lang sings beautifully of
her woe. in the touching "Every Day a
Little Death" and is the best actress in the
casl
Later in Act II comes the "musically
best" smile from Petra (Laurie Daniels)
the maid who has dreams of grandeur but
a grasp of reality that she blends powerfully
in the "The Miller's Son."
A Little Night Music will play through
November 13.
o Stages' 'Getting Out'
a Powerhouse
By Joe L. Watts
>.. it'• second offering in the Women's
Playwright Series honoring the Susan
Smith Blackburn Prize, Stages is present-
~t..t o"":~e*;a~~I- ~~
production of a young woman's release
Juliet Prowse
from prison and her struggle to cope with
"the outside" hits a very powerful cord
and is a totally accomplished display of
strong, tight direction and honorable first
class acting-theatre at its finest!
Stages had the honor of Norman's presence
at their opening night performance.
Norman is the winner of the 1982 Black·
bum Prize and the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for
her current Broadway success, night,
Mother. Surely she must have been moved
and proud to have seen her extremely wellwritten
Getting Out given this almost
flawless rendering by Stages.
At the opening of the play, Arlene (in her
late 20&) has just been released from prison
after serving an eight-year term for
murdering a taxi driver, along with a few
incidentals such as robbery and prootitu·
tion. She went in a hellion and came out a
meek mouse afraid of her own shadow.
And in this case, that shadow is her
former self (pre-prison) played by a
younger actress. Scenes from her past
when she was a wild animal ready to tear
the world apart occur intermittently along
with the present happenings of her life (a
clever and quite theatrical device uoed by
playwright Norman).
Enter a bag full of selfish members from
her past who are not ready or capable of
giving her the support she needs to deal
with her new freedom: the prison guard,
who has retired and has driven her to Kentucky
hoping to gain sexual favors; her
former pimp/boyfriend who wants to "set
her up for business again;" and her
mother, a hard and bitter woman who
offers nothing but negative talk of how
difficult her life is going to be, finding a
job, making any good new friends, etc.
Then along comes Ruby, Arlene's
upstairs neighbor in the run-down building
she has just moved into. Ruby (an excon,
herself') is a cook at a hash house, or
as she calls herself, "the queen of greaoe."
She offers Arlene the simple honest truth:
you won't make as much cooking and
cleaning as you will on your back, but
whatever you make, you get to keep all of
it.
Arlene isn't sure she can accept this philosophy
and is completely destitute, con·
sidering the options with which she is
faced. Dare she hope that her life could
someday be a good one?
Norman's text is taut and tough, but
contain• touches of humor in looking at
life in the raw. Her delineation of the char·
acters is excellent.
Director Ted Swindley deserves much
praise for a sharp, compelling production
and for bringing together an impeccable
ensemble of actors. And Stages' caat is an
electric power plant. The energy, intensity
and electricity was wonderful to watch
Robin Bradley as Arlene underplays her
role with an inner beauty that is very
~Ci a:/ns ~~«;eb~ounger
Arlene) generates an explosive perfor·
mance that is often hypnotic-a young
actress sure to make a name for herself.
Charlie Trotter is right on the mark as
Bennie the retired prison guard t1mitten
with Arlene.
Jean Proctor presents a well-crafted
characterization as Arlene's bitter and
callous mother.
Dorothy Edwards as Ruby (Arlene's ray
of sunshine) is wonderfully warm with
good comic timing and delivery.
Daniel J. Christiaensas Carl the pimp is
the perfect slimy snake, trying to lead
Arlene back into a life of crime.
Like the values in Norman's drama, the
message here is simple and true: you
should get out and see Getting Out; it will
be time well served.
Stages' production will run through
Nov. 19.
o Women's Chorus
Slated for Houston
from the solo works in the first half of the
program, he will sing Rejoice in the Lamb.
Although Rejoice was not originally written
for treble chorus, this transcription
was authorized by Britten
This concert, then, will focus on 20th
century composers, though not on 20th
century music, as most people thinkofitruthless
cacaphony. Lovers of vocal music
will not want to mies what promises to be
an exciting and enthralling concert.
The concert will be presented at the
John Wesley United Methodist Church on
Nov. 19 at 8 p.m. For ticket information
and directions, call Clara Lewis at 444-
3545.
o Houston Symphony's
Valley of Dry Bones
NeYille Marriner. conductor; Robert Tear, tenor
November 5th Program Mozart, Symphony No 35
Britten. Serenade for Tenor. Horn and Strings. Wet>ern.
Im Sommerw1nd: A Strauss. Suite from Der
Rosenkaval1er
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gram: Pur~I. "We Sing to Him," '"Evening Hymn;' Four vividly emotional works performed
Barber, ''Melodies Passageres;" Theodore Chandler with scarcely a trace of feeling t1hould
Ginutera. "Cinco Canzo1nes Populares~'" Britten, 0'A have been slightly surprising even to long-
Ceremony of C.rols." •·Reto1ce in the Lamb time Marriner fans. He is on the way to
By Peter Derksen becoming (in reputation) the Toscanini of
Habituh of symphony and opera often his generation, flooding the market with
look down upon "amateur" musical superb-sounding precision recordings of
groups, judging that they could not possi· the classics. In particular, he has brought
bly be as good as their professional coun- many fine 18th-century works back into
terparts. The fact is that not all highly the active repertoire.
talentedandtrainedmusiciansareableor Mr. Marriner, making his Houston
willing to lead the concert life, with its debut, opened the concert with one of hie
extreme demands of time and energy. stock items: Mozart's Haffner Symphony.
Groups which perform music for the sheer The orchestra was immense by this conlove
of it offer a quality of inspiration ductor's standards: 12-10-8-6-4 strings (he
sometimes absent among the mercenar· hasbeenknowntouse6-6-4-4-2). With min
ies, and also have the freedom to explore ute differences, the symphony sounded
lesser-known works by the great compos· exactly like it did when he conducted it in
ere, ae in thia program Boston five years ago, and as he recorded
The Cecilian Singers are a group of 25 it on Philips about 10 years ago. (which is
women united by their love of serious a tribute to the Houston Symphony
music and commitment to make it more Orchestra's level of playing technique.)
available to their community. Founded in Marriner's Mozart is crisp, exact and
1977 by Clara Lewis and Joanne Cox, rather predictable.
their purpoee is to present choral literature Robert Tear, one of the world's leading
of the highest artistic quality, either pre- operatic tenors, also made his first Hous·
viously written or commissioned for them. ton appearance Saturday night in BenThey
are one of the only treble choruses jamin Britten's Serenade. He sang very
active in this country. well, with almost perfect diction, audible
Until the last century, it was relatively even over full orchestra. Thomas Beacon
uncommon for women to perform music in was a model accompanist and soloist on
public, particularly in church, so most horn, and contributed most of the vitality
choral music was intended to be sung by of the performance. He played the modal
men and/or boys. Some composers, such Prologue and Epilogue on natural (valveas
Nicolai Porpora and Michael Haydn less) horn, the pure sound of which, com(
younger brother of Joseph Haydn), bined with strings, was paradise. Mr.
bucked the trend and wrote extensively for Marriner led the ensemble through the sertreble
voice. The Cecilian Singers have, as ies of songs in a generally restrained and
far as they have been able to determine, direct manner, letting some Mahlerian
offered the U.S. premieres of three of intensity loose in the Elegy, set to a poem
Michael Haydn's four major works for tre- by Blake.
hie chorus and orchestra, and they are Anton Webern's Im Sommerwind ("In
planning to perform the remaining one the Summer Wind") is a youthful work
next year. with slight premonitions of his later obses·
lngeneral,though,fewcomposerswrote sion with concise atonality. As a late
much for treble chorus or understood the romantic symphonic poem, it is oversha·
musical qualities of the treble voice. Two dowed by contemporary works by Richard
more recent prominent exceptions are Strauss, Sibelius and Schoenberg, among
Brahms and Benjamin Britten. Later this others. Nonetheless, it was a pleasure to
season, the Singers will perform Britten's listen to, evoking images of the high Alps
Miasa Brevis in a concert with the West· in high summer. Marriner's conduction
minster Choir and the Forth Worth was,asmightbeexpected,preciseandresChamber
Orchestra. trained, allowing the music to stand on its
Guest artists are an integral partofCec- own, unembellished.
ilian concerts, not only to round out pro· Richard Strauss, ever alert to the comgra.
ms, but also to give the singers the mercial potential of his music, extracted
opportunity to work with different special- an orchestral suite from hie popular opera
ista and better their craft. Past guests Der Rosenkaualier. The suite has become
have included the Southwest String a popularconcertstsple, appealing both to
Quartet (Houston Symphony Orchestra opera lovers who seldom get to hear the
principals), the Fort Worth Chamber original, and to Strauss lovers who detest
Orchestra, the Texaa Little Symphony, opera. The music captures the brilliant
Charles Nelson (an operatic baSBO from gaiety of the opera, with its lover's
Dallas), and such varied accompaniments intrigues, comic episodes and elegant
as a harp ensemble, brass quintet and balls. Though technically excellent, the
mime troupe. peformance was too cold and detached for
The coming concert features lyric bari- my taste. (This would have pleased
toneJackColdiron,headofvocalmusicat Strauss, an unemotional man whose fri
Southwest Baptist Theological Seminary gidity on the podium was legendary.} .
in Fort Worth. He is eepecially noted for Cons1denng music as havmg four basic
his perfonnanc!es'of the·Fa..n; Requiem «• ty~ pf quahti.e1;.J>h~sioal, il)IA>lll'<)tu.il,
under the direction of Robert Shaw Aside emotional and spmtual, 1t is apparent
that Neville Marriner, as a conductor, ia
master of the first two. approache11 the
third with the greatest reluctance and the
fourth by unconscious accident. By modem
standards of musical composition and
performance, thi1 sort of thing ia quite
acceptable. •
Admittedly, a concert with virtually all
the notes played correctly ia a rare thing.
But is it music? Can these bones live?
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Houston's New Gay Theater
with an Male 'Private Lives'
By Robert Hyde
Is Houston's gay community ready for a munity whose most recent performance
theatrical repertory company that does was in Boys in the Band, which may be
nothing but gay plays? revived by Pace at the Tower.
Hopefully so, according to two men in Watt.a made reference to Montrose
the community who are launching their Activity Theater's production of Women
first production next week with an all- Behind Bars, made popular by drag queen
male version of Noel Coward's Private Divine, that brought Houston's gay
Lives, that sophisticated comedy that reu- audiences to the theater, but he feels that
nited Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Bur- plays should not have to be sensational to
ton on Broadway earlier this year. attract the attention of the community
And if this play is successful (and open- Even t~e popular Bent, Watts said, had its
ing night is already promised to be stand- sensational element with its nude scenes
ing room only), the community will be and its on-stage climax between two men.
reacquainted with other favorites, such as "But !t's time now to do new, positive
P.S., You 're Cat Is Dead, and Gertrude gay scripts," Watts said. "We shouldn't ·
Stein, Gertrude Stein, as well as intro- have to do something sensational or out-duced
to lesser-known but new positive rageous to get people into the theater."
works by American gay playwrights. Etheredge goes on to point out that this
"I have a hugh social consciousness new repertory company will invite many
about .gays," said John David Etheredge, gay actors to perform, an opportunity that
the director of Private Lives and co- haeeludt>d themsimplybecausetheyhave
founder of the newly incorporated Diver- been gay or effeminate.
sity Theater, the non·profit theatrical "And somedirectorshavehadtobypa88
group which will bring the plays to Hou•· them bec8;U&e of this," Etheredge said
ton. "Some people go into politics or "lt'e a reahty. It'• not totally pleasant. I'm
become very active in other areas of the sure.it's happened to me. And there are so
community, and this is my way of doing many talented gay actors."
somethina for us." If Private Lives is a success, then, Ethe-
Etheredge hao been involved in theater redge's goals will come closer to reality in
for most of his life. After graduating from providing this opportunity to local gay
Northwestern University in Natchi- thespians.
tochee, he studied as an apprentice at the But why Private Lives, rather than
Alley Theater, supervised a local repertory some more recognized gay play?
company in New Orleans for over two "I thought of going with something less
years, and has directed over 40 plays in his established," Etheredge said, "but I didn't
life, including the recent Skirmishes at know if anyone would have heard of it.
Stages. R..ally, this play is just an easy first step
The idea of forming a local gay reper- for us."
tory company occured to Etheredge when Watts agreed with Etheredge and feels
he aaw the community reaction to last that by making this an all male produc-year's
production at Stages of Bent when lion , a lot of people will come to the play
several performances had to be added due juat to see if it will work.
to sold-out performances. He was moved "I think it's innovative to approach a
when he saw an individual in tears during classic that's been revived on Broadway,"
the play which analyzes the love between Watts said. "We've cha nged some of the
gays in a Nazi concentration camp. pronouns," he added, regarding the all
"I then realized that most members of male cast, "but so far,onlyourdragqueen
the community had never seen plays (who's playing one of the roles and uses
about themselves," Etheredge said. camp constantly off stage) is confused by
"Gay people spend most of their lives all this."
without role models. Most of their first 18 The play's comedy revolves around two
years are invalid," he said. 0 Maybe some- married couples (in this case, gay) honeyday
a psychiatrist will come along and tell mooning on the French Riviera when two
a aix·year-old kid that it's all right to be members of the newlywed& who were once
gay, but that's a long way off." lovers spy each other from adjoining bal-
And it's with this spirit of forming a conies and realize that they are still in
comfortable identity that the new gay Jove. They slip away to a private residence
theater group ia being launched. Ethe- wheretherenewmatesdescendonthemin
redge feels deeply about his conscious- an emotional and hilarious tug of war.
raising effort for the community and One of Houston's oldest gay bare, the
believe• that gay people need to see 'plays Pink Elephant at 1218 Leeland, is dona!·
about them1elve1. And to date, that iden-• ing its new stage area, The Other Side, to
tity has been stereotyped, for the most this new theater company for its inaugupart,
by motion pictures and television. ral performances which will be held on
only this year ~ave two major gay play~ Tuesday evenings, beginning November
(Torch Song Triology, La Cage aux Foiles) 22, at 8 p.m. Tickets will be $3 to make the
made inroads on Broadway and been evening more accessible to the commun-
~~~!y :::r~h~~~h~Yb~o~gaS:y a~dii:c:~ it~;A lot of people in the community don't
depressing; Boys in the Band, too negs- support things as much as they should,"
live.) Watts said, hoping that this will be the
"There'• got to be an audience in Hous. exception.
ton for very positive, sensitive gay plays," ''And this is something we both want,"
aaya co-founder Joe Watts, a long·time act. Etheredge added. "Hopefully all of ua can
ing member of Hou1ton'• lheatnc.J com· , wprlf 1<>Rethe~ to estabjislpt.", ui
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20 MONTROSE VOICE/ Nov 11. 1983
Sports
Tennis Club Elects Officers
o Montrose Tennis Club
Elects '84 Officers
By Rich Corder
The Montrose Tennis Club looks to be in
good hands for the coming year after Tuesday
night's election of its '84 officers.
Yours truly was elected to a third term
as president. new member Christi Callie
became MTC'e first woman officer as vice
• president, Rich Ryan was reelected secretary,
and newcomer Mark Dingman was
elected treasurer.
Richard Pregeant will assume duties of
Challenge Ladder director. Randell Dickerson
will focus on new member activities,
and Mario Durham will make himself
available to assLSt Mark with the money.
Congratulations to these officers and
committee chairpersons!
Arriaga and No. 3 seed Mark Dingman
have something to say about that. Nine
other Houston players complete the class.
Open Doubles will feature myself and
John Ryan seeded No. 1 over pros Tim
Calhoun and Jan Mauldin. The No. 3
seeded team is Jim Kitch and Jon Colbert
(the No. I team in the MTC). There are 11
other teams, making this the most inter·
eating doubles competition we've seen
here in Houston
With MTC's plans to host a national
doubles tournament in the spring of 1984,
this is a good sign. •
There is no admission for spectators.
Play begins Saturday at 9 a.m., and semis
and finals begin Sunday at 10:30. Come
watch the fun!
o Tennis Championship Younger People
Begins Sunday Suffer More
~~~~::,~~i~~n~ft), i:J,~h~0~~w!fn-r;:;.!~ Mental Problems
mg!'.
Class A Singles' defending champion
Tony Cibrian of Corpus Christi (recent
Clas• A champ at Dallas Oak Lawn's
Texas-OU Classic) is seeded No. 1. The No.
2 seed is Houston's No. 1 player Rich
Ryan, hoping to avenge last year's cham·
pionship match. Five other Houston p)ay·
era will figure into the results.
Class B Singles will feature No. I seed
John Teamer (of San Francisco) favored
to meet No. 2 seed David Davenport (also
of San Francisco). Six Houstonians, one
player from Corpus Christi and one from
Kalamazoo, Michigan, round out Claas B.
Cla88 C has a dozen entranta, with
myself as No. I seed hoping to defend my
1982 championship, but No. 2 seed Robert
Researchers are scratching their heads
over a major new study that indicates people
between ages 25-45 suffer from many
more mental problems that older folks,
reports the New York Times.
Experts at the National Institute of
Mental Health say the reason may be that
older people have a hard time remembef·
ing psychological traumas from their
eariler yeara.
The three-year study of 11,000 people
contained another surprise. Doct.ors had
thought depression waa our number one
problem. It turns out alcohol abuse is tops,
followed by drug dependence.
THANKS,
HOUSTON!
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~
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like to announce the opening of
our new office now serving ...
SAN FRANCISCO
P.O. Box 15068 #342
Phone (415) 861-7640
HOUSTON/GALVESTON
Phone (713) 529-9985
DALLAS/FT. WORTH
Phone (214) 828-3012
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
Applications now being accepted four our Houston
location. Benefits include:
• 1 week paid vacation after 1 year
• 2 week paid vacation after 2 or more years
e 1/2 hospitalization paid by company
• Evaluation every 6 months for pay scale
• Bonus incentives
• Uniforms furnished
• 8 paid holidays per year
Seven Day Calendar
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
NOY. NOV.
11 12
NOV. NOY. NOV. NOV. NOV.
13 14 15 16 17
For add1honal 1n!Ofmal1on or phone numbers tor &Yenls hsled below look for ltMI S?Qflsonng
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Selected Events
through 7 Days
•FRIDAY: Veterans Day,
Nov.11
•FRIDAY: Committee for
Public Health Awareness's
"Sharing Group for the Worried
Well," 7-8pm, Montrose
Counseling Center, 900 Lovett
II.SA TURDA Y-SUNDA Y: 3rd
annaul HouTex Tennis
Tourney, MacGregor Park
llMONDA Y: AIDS victim
support group meets 6:30pm,
Montrose Counseling Center,
900 Lovett Blvd., Suite 203
llMONDAY: MSA Bowling,
9pm at Stadium Bowl, 8200
Braeemain
•TUESDAY: Montrose
Symphonic Band meets at
Bering Church, 1440 Harold,
7:30pm
•WEDNESDAY: Gay Political
Caucus meets 4600 Main #217,
7:30pm
•THURSDAY: Wilde 'n Stein
gay radio show 7:30-9pm on
KPIT Radio, FM-90
•THURSDAY: MSA Mixed
Bowling League bowls, 9pm at
Stadium Bowl, 8200 Braesmain
Dec. 6
•IN 8 WEEKS: Houston Data
Professionals meet 7:30pm Dec.
6, East Room, Holiday Inn
Central, 4640 South Main
•IN 8 WEEKS: Greater
Montrose Business Guild meets
7:30pm Dec. 6. Liberty Bank
community room, 1001
Westheimer
•IN IS WEEKS: Winter begins
at 4:3lam, Dec. 22
•IN 6 WEEKS: Christmas,
Dec. 25
UN 11 WEEKS: Gay Pre88
Association Southern Regional
Conference, Jan. 27-29, Houston
UN 25 WEEKS: First primary
party elections in Texas and
party precinct conventione,
May5
ANNOUNCEMENTS
•BUSINESS-OWNERS We hst tree uch wee«
1n thlS drrectory MontrOH commumty or~anaa-
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GIGANTIC GARAGE SALE
Benefitting Gay Switchboard. Donations
needed for Nov. 12, 13. Held at
Alabama at Roseland. Call SwitchSelected
Events board 529-3211
in Future Weeks DWELLINGS &
~~i!nw~~~:r~hG~~:~ meets ROOMMATES
6:30pm Nov. 19, 210 Fairview,
•pl 1
•IN 1 WEEK: Full moon,
6:30am, Nov. 20
U N 1 WEEK: Choices meets
l 2:30pm Nov. 20
•IN 1 WEEK: Unitarian/
Univerea1iet Gay Caucus meets
Nov. 20, let Unitarian Church,
5210 Fannin
•IN 1 WEEK: Families &
Friends of Gays meets 2pm
Nov. 20, Presbyterian Center
behind !st Presbyterian
Church, 5300 Main
UN 1 WEEK: Lutherans
Concerned meets Nov. 22,
Grace Lutheran Church, 2515
Waugh
•IN 1 WEEK: Houston ruea
Gay & Lesbian Engineers &
Scientists meet ?pm, Nov. 22
•IN 1 WEEK: Montrose Civic
Club (Neartown) meets ?pm,
Nov. 22, Bering Church, 1440
Harold
•IN 1 WEEK: Interact
meeting, Bering Church, 1440
Harold, 7:30pm, Nov. 23
UN 1 WEEK: Thanksgiving,
Nov.24
•IN 2 WEEKS: Gay Academic
Union 9th National Conference,
"The Challenge of 1984:
Together We Can Make a
Difference," San Diego, Nov.
25-27
•IN 2 WEEKS: 5th Memorial
Harvey Milk/ George Moscone
March, San Francisco, Nov. 27
•IN 2 WEEKS: First day of
Hanukah, Dec. 1
•IN 8 WEEKS: Lesbians &
GWM 33 NONSMOKER
(with cat) seeks employed responsible
roommate, 2-1-1h townhouse,
fully furnished, near Hillcroft & 59
Bus line, security, quiet complex
$200, deposit $187.50, Y.i utilities
(References verified) 664-7296
(keep trying)
QUAINT MONTROSE
One bedroom m charming, wellkept
four-plex. Nov. rent free. 522-
2204
THIRD ROOMMATE WANTED
Nice old house. $250. References,
deposit. John. 521-3300
RESPONSIBLE G/W/M WANTED
To share 2 bedroom/1 bath. Montrose/
Richmond apt. available. Dec
1. $250 all bills paid. Contact Brian
Forgey, 524-6900 (home). 522-7130
(work)
GRAND CENTRAL PIPELINE
(A gay roommate service.) The best
business deal you will make this
year 523-3223
MONTROSE ROOMMATE
WANTED
G/W/M to share 2 bedroom, 2 bath
apartment with same. $260+ '~ utilities
529-0018. IH 1 pm
SPACIOUS HEIGHTS HOME
2 bedroom, den, dining, living, kitchen.
Yard, upkeep furnished. $500
+ split third of ullht1es with frugal
duplex mates No pets $450 deposit
(negotiable for right perso~(s), ldeal
for roommates.) House built m 1909,
stately Heights mansion type m
quiet neighborhood, lower floor
only of three story for rent. Call 869-
4025 or 529-8490, Hollis
GAV BARS
Gay People in Medicine meet "f!oUSioN
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ORGANIZATIONS
A Plac.1r1 the Sun-c/o Gracllynn Books, 704
Fa1rv1ew-522·7695: subgroup ol l!H Inc
concerts7pmTu.s
ACLU-1236 W Gray-524-5925
AIDS Hotli~o Gay Switchbolird-529-3211
Ameriean Gay Athelsta-'57-«ll!O
A1tro Rainbow Altiance-520-IM51 [Y01ce).
S2<>-0552(TTY)
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Com"littM for Public t-t.fth Awweneu-POB
3045~.522-5084-S/\anng
Group for the Worntld Wd" mMt Fr~ 7-!pm
MontroseCounHlmgc.nter
~~ GosP9f Cent&f 1700 MontrowCo~
Aytz Chay1m meets at CCF. 217
:~'}~-ea&-e997 Mf"VtC9 & soc1al 8pm 2nd &
Cr•111Hot1•n&-228-1505
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'Montrose Live' each Friday
in the Voice is your guide to
Montrose entertainment
Wf-s'=9-=~s:~ -11oouon1mM-Church
ot Chnstian Fatth-217 Fa1tv1ew-
529-B005 MMCel1045amSun&7.15pmWed
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mMt 730pm 1st Thuni (Yaned 1oca11ons1
educat•ona1torum730pm3tdThurs
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" look out, .everyone! ... We're being attacked
by a giant sq ... Well, na ... I'd say medium
squid!"
The Far Side by Gary Larson
" C'mon, c'mon, buddy! The heart! Hand over
the heart! . . . And you with the brains! . . .
Let's have 'em!"
~'m~.,.· BurMU P0B 391. Bellatre
~~t;is~~ ~':°r~~ 2~T:'°:i
~7io':UM- 6265 M••n. & 4th Tues •• Y•ned
1ri1er.ct-POB~-1ii:W~nm-sn-1014 mMt
4th Wed_ BenngChurch.1440Harold. 730pm
eKPFT-R8ci;Q. -FM-~9 LM11BT;d-:..
526-4000 -W•lde'nSte•n'·;ayrad1oshowThurs
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524-AIDS "ZapClapRevueTwo.Too''benel111n
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mMI 730pm t1!Sal
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llland3tdSat.830pm.210Fa1rview.ap11
LUine-;-1n1-CoO-cerMd-=me.1,--9,· GraC-.
Lutheran Church. 2515 Waugh-521-0863
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Resurrection 1MCCRJ-1919 Oec•tur·-
881-9149- pot-luck dinner 730pm 111 S.1
mootrily, .. ,.,,e91 10451im & 71Spm Sun &
7 1 Spm Wed. memberah1p mqu1rers Cl•U
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