August 1986

Gay Peoples Chronicle

WILDE-STEIN RESEARCH

By BRYAN KNEDLER

FUND GETS GRANT

COLUMBUS--The Chicago Resource Center has awarded the Wilde-Stein Research Fund for Gay & Lesbian Studies at Ohio State University a $2,000 grant to purchase educational films. The films will be available through the OSU Office of Learning Resources to faculty and use in teaching about issues of concern gay men and lesbians.

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The Wilde-Stein Research Fund is a special project account of the OSU Development Fund. Named after Oscar Wilde and Gertrude Stein, it founded in response to OSU alumnus' generous gift for developing gay studies at OSU. The Allocations Committee, comprised of faculty, staff, and students, has approved the purchase of aumerous books, two documentary films, and other search materials, donating these to the OSU library and film systems for use by students, faculty, and staff."

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The Chicago Resource Center grant will be used to purchase six educational films on subjects including AIDS, coming-out, gay political issues, elderly gays and lesbians, and gay lesbian history.

will be

and The films especially useful for introductory courses in sociology, psychology, and

women's studies.

Wilde-Stein

depends

Research Fund

on contributions

from interested

alumni and

friends. All gifts are taxdeductible. Many Central

Ohio

companies provide matching funds when an employee makes a contribution to the OSU Development Fund. This system has been used by gay employees to have corpöråte funds channelled to a gay project.

For further information, contact Wilde-Stein, care of Women's Studies Library, 240 OSU Main Library, Columbus OH 43210.

EMMANUEL CCC

ADDS MIDWEEK MEETING

Emmanuel Community ChristTuesday, August 12 and 19: ian Church is offering a new Two-part Bible study, "What service to the Greater the Bible really does and Cleveland Lesbian/Gay Comdoesn't say about homosexumunity, beginning August 5. ality." The Midweek Meeting will be Tuesday, August 26: Rap held Session, every Tuesday at 7:30 "Leading a Double Location has not yet Life: How To Cope." been determined, but will be Everyone in the community announced soon. is welcome to participate: Emmanuel welcomes input, so that the Midweek Meeting can become an educational experience for all. For further information about meeting location and any other information, please call 5210809 or the Church Office, 631-8718.

The new varied

program will be in form and content, including rap sessions, movie nights, Bible studies, and special guest speakers. The August schedule is: Tuesday, August 5: The film Liana, a lesbian love story, will be shown, discussion following.

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Cleveland Heights city council has voted to object to renewing liquor permits issued to the Turkey Ridge Tavern, 1852 Coventry Rd. It cited an adverse impact upon the public decency, sobriety, peace and good order of the neighborhood." Recommending the move, police chief Martin Lentz claimed that during the past year police had responded to over 70 calls from the tavern. Denying the charges, owner Dr. S. Matheny said he and his employees had cooperated fully with the police.

DIGNITY LOSES HOME Dignity/Cleveland will be moving from St. Joseph Franciscan Church, which the Cleveland Catholic Diocese has decided to demolish. Urban renewal scattered the

ex-

church's former congregation and the building needs tensive repairs. Built in 1871, the church and its attached friary were on the

National Register of Histor-

ic Places.

RAPS AT L/G CENTER

As Friends, Let's Talk, the Wednesday night sessions at the Lesbian/Gay Community Center, 2100 Lorain Ave., will continue during August. These smaller group sessions are in addition o the Friday night Support Group Raps.

Friday, Aug 8 BWMT-Cleveland will meet jointly with the Friday rap group to acquaint them with what BWMT is all about and to interact with those present. Any gay or lesbian group is invited to schedule à Friday night when it will come to tell others what it is doing in and for the lesbian/gay community and for its members. Many persons in the Support Group àre in the early stages of coming out, and nged to get involved in groups where they are needed and will be appreciated. To arrange a presentation, call the Hotline, 651-7111.

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AIDS ARTS EXHIBIT PLANNED

The AIDS Show, an exhibition of visual and media arts to showing responses the AIDS crisis, is being organized by the Ohio State University Gallery of Fine Arts. Consisting of posters, pamphlets, video, film and photographs, the exhibition will be organized to reflect two directions from which AIDS image-making primarily comes: community organizations and individual artists.

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Opening at the Ohio State University Gallery Arts tional

exhibition by community organizaions.

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proposed

catalogue

an introduc-

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tion by curator Jan

Grover,

critic

Simon

an essay by British Watney, and statements from representatives

of gay rights/AIDS care organizations.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a number of community-generated panels, workshops, and events on AIDS-related graphics/publishing and AIDS health isof work,

sues. of Fine in Columbus during NaGay Pride Week next year, the exhibition will later travel through the state in two different versions. One is for gallery and museum exhibition spaces, The other, in simplified format, will be for

For submission see page xx. For more information about the AIDS Show, contact Nancy Robinson, Public Programs Coordinator, The Ohio State University Gallery of Fine Arts, 128 North Oval Mall, Columbus, OH 43210; (614) 422-0330.

HOMOPHOBE ATTACKS

LESBIAN/GAY BOOTH

Cleveland Heights police arrested a homophobe who ran amok at the Coventry Street Fair June 29 and attacked the table of the Lesbian-Gay Community Service Center..

About 2 p.m. Linus Herrell of Body Language offered to spell the two women staffing the table. Soon after he took over a red-faced male

ran

ble, pushed it over and ran off.

Police Herrell

acted immediately. says within at most 90 seconds they had arrested the suspect. When Herrell asked the police why he had made the attack, they explained, "He just doesn't like your beliefs." Herrell describes the perstaffing other tables as very solicitous.

sons up and ineptly tried to kick over the table. His first kick was too high to connect and his second too low. He then ran at the ta-

OHS BEGINS

GAY ARCHIVES

By BRYAN KNEDLER (News of the Columbus Gay & Lesbian

Community)

COLUMBUS--Many gay organizations have produced shortlived newsletters that are lost and forgotten after few way

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years. There is now a to preserve these newsletters as well as longerlived newspapers for posterity. William Myers, Curator of Manuscripts at the Ohio Historical Society, has begun collecting publications from Ohio lesbian gay and

groups you have a handful of historical Ohio gay publications, please contact Myers. If you are currently producing a publication, ada Myers to your mailing list. Adding gay chronicles to the Ohio Historical Society archives will ensure that gay history from the gay perspective is included as an integral part of Ohio's history. Send materials to William Myers, Curator of Manuscripts, Ohio Historical Society, 1985 Velma Avenue, Columbus OH 43211; (614) 466-1500.

We have been unable to obtain any information about disposition of the case.

BRIEF NOTES

Lorain City Council voted to table the recommendation against renewing the 1504 Club's liquor license, pending outcome of the cases against the bar owners and others arrested in the June 3 raid.

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We understand that third annual Goodtime Cruise on August 10, sponsored by Chevrei Tikva and Dignity/Cleveland has sold out. No more tickets are available.

The Lesbian/Gay Community Service Center announces_the results of the "50/50 Raffle" fundraising effort. N.N. of Lakewood is the winner of the drawing held on Friday, July 20. She will half of the $253

receive

raised,

The Center would like thank all contributors.

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