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APRIL 1976

FORD ON GAYS GAY RIGHTS IN PIANO GUILD

PEORIA, Illinois President Gerald Ford has made what are believed to be his first public comments on gay rights. According to the Chicago Gay Life, while campaigning in the Illinois Republican primary, Ford responded to a gay rights.

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that this is a very serious problem in our society. I have always tried to be understanding person as far as people are concerned who are different than myself."

The President also told the Bradley University audience. that "I just would be dishonest to say there is a pat answer under these very difficult circumstan-

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Coming Out Rap Group

CLEVELAND The Gay Rap Group held on Fridays is now starting a special coming out rap. People who feel they haven't been able to express their gayness openly or are in the closet are urged to attend at 7:00 p.m. Coffee and refreshments will be served. At 8:00 p.m. the general informal rap will start.

The Free Clinic, where the rap groups are held, is located at 12201 Euclid Avenue (across from the Euclid-E. 121st St. Rapid Station.) The groups are open to all women and men. For additional information please call the Gay SwitchboardHotline, 696-5330 in the evening. If you're just coming out, we hope to see you Friday at 7:00.

DIGNITY MAY 1

Cleveland -Dignity Cleveland is celebrating its third year of activity on Saturday evening, May 1. There will be a concelebrated liturgy beginning at 7:30 at the Hallinan Center. For those who do not wish or are unable to attend this service, the cash bar will open at Wade Commons at 8:00 p.m. Dinner will be served at approximately 9:00, to be followed by dancing. Tickets may be obtained from local Dignity members, or by mail by writing to Dignity/Cleveland, P.O. Box 18479, Cleveland, 44118. Price of the tickets is $9 per person." Patron tickets are available for $15.

by Albert Morrill, RTT

Ideally everyone partakes of the fundamental rights outlined in our nation's Constitution. But real intolerance has compelled legalization of that familiar credo which stipulates protection of the rights of nearly every minority.

Specially, the right of gay persons to equal and fair treatment under our Guild's Constitution has not beeen established.

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Though it may never have occurred within organization, and though it is incompatible with an enlightened morality, gays can be discredited on the basis of their gayness, and this alone. They are variously branded with criminality, unrestrained promiscuity, disease, and a disproportionate incidence of psychological disturbance, in spite of modern clinical and sociological evidence manifestly to the contrary.

In fact, gays display an individuality of character and type as diverse as Nature itself.

And, despite another prevalent misconception, we are, and always have been, quite commonplace in Western society. Undoubtedly there are more of us "closeted" within the Guild than anyone would surmise.

But the closet, the so-called right to privacy, evades the issue. Because, for homosexuals, without explicit sanction there exists, always, implicit censure. Certainly gay Guild members and gay aspirants to Guild affiliation would hesitate to admit their orientation openly in view of possible professional ostracism or stigmatization.

In the past the issue of gay rights may have seemed too disagreeable, too controversial or too unlikely to merit consideration. Today, however, it is emphatically none of these.

Welcoming gays to the Piano Technicians Guild would foster tolerance and understanding in those who found their fellow member to be a gay man or woman, and a colleague.

interlude for D.

Between the acts of our lives' high dramas,

We met. Your smile, as you approached, gave hope.

My ideal made flesh, a figure for allegory,

You could lead me up the ladder of love.

But, "I've already realized my ideal,"

You said and proposed a different action,

An interlude to test the love you

knew.

So long at liberty, I took the offered part

Despite your warning that I

might regret,

That I might become a figure in

a farce.

"If I'm willing to chance being laughed at,

"Will you," I asked, "venture that I may laugh?"

"I'll take the chance that you will play the clown."

I accepted just to take the stage with you.

The setting

was not my imagined Attic dell,

But a drawing room for bright badinage.

Still the interlude was played as

pantomime

Except for

the

cat

meowing and growling,

Like Hamlet in coat of customary black,

Who stayed a part in the darkest shadows.

The dog, a romping clown,

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assumed a role.

The couch of stuffed and tufted velvet, taupe, Became our bower. Patting the dog's soft fur,

Our hands met, and the action had begun.

When you turned the switch on the Satsuma lamp,

I recalled Mother's Satsuma tea set

That, like me, had sat unused for many years

And how we'd called tangerines satsumas.

This was the moment to move out of the past.

In the darkness we played the passionate scene.

I, the longing Pieroot, neared my goal,

But then, "La commedia e finita!"

Climbing the ladder I had slipped; I fell.

An interlude, yet we learned about love,

A pretty moral act performed to instruct.

"Thank you for understanding." I understood.

I loved but left and did not have my fill.

-Mitchell Menigu