HIGH GEAR/AUGUST 1977
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CLEVELAND GAY
RADIO SERIES
Cleveland On each Monday night through the rest of August and the first Monday of September WRUW-FM, 91.1 will be broadcasting a special series of gay related tapes. These will be aired during the regular Radio Free Lambda time slot from 10 to 11 p.m. while the Lambda staff is on vacation.
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rights, birth control, ethical eugenics and socialism. Discussed is the widelyaccepted myth of degenerate Nazi homosexuals as portrayed in such films as "The Damned" and "The Conformist." The stereotype is ascribed to Hitler's SS who would use the charge of homosexuality (or August 15: Figures in Gay Aryanism) to discredit their Male Literature A gathering of political enemies, as with the leading writers and literary assassination of Brownshirt scholars hears three of their leader Rohm and his SA unnumber speak on a trio of derlings. The holocaust-days of brilliant authors who were gay: the final solution are recalled; Simon Carlinsky on Nicolai the death camps are described, Gogol. Edmund White on where homosexuals were conRonald Furbank, and Richard demned to the gas ovens Howardith speaking on "The alongside Jews and Gypsies. Christopher Fry" of American Also traced are the 19th Century society, Hart Crane, who beginnings of gay organizations drowned himself at 33 when he in the context of German could find no escape from political ferment, the influence neurosis associated with chronof Hegelian and Kantian ic alcoholism. Howardith quotes philosphies, romanticism and Freud who, in a letter to a expressionism in the arts. hysterical mother (as was Crane's mother) says that homosexuality "cannot be considered classified as an illness" but is a variation of the sexual function and "several of the greatest men" have been practitioners. Howardith and a group of Crane enthusiasts visited the author's birthplace near the Kent State Campus and found the house occupied by an Ohio National Guardsman who ordered them away. Produced by WBAI, New York.
August 22: The German Roots of Gay Liberation An unusual and fascinating historical survey of the gay liberation movement in Germany, an ongoing struggle for more than a hundred years. Short but scholarly presentations are made to an audience and reveal that homosexual freedom was championed by the same artistic and political elements identified with cultural nationalism. Gay defenders during the Weimar Republic were also advocates of women's
Produced by WBAI, New York.
August 29: Third World Gay People Our Society is run by heterosexual white men. What kind of oppression is faced by a gay black woman who is a radical feminist? What about the problems of the Puerto Rican, of Black gay men who must "come out" in their macho-masculinity oriented subculture? These and other questions are discussed by a Third World gay panel. Their personal experiences in a search for acceptance from both Third World and Gay groups shed light on the racism and sexism woven into the fabric of American life. Candid remarks indicate that gay people have been far from "color-blind" in the past and that considerations of economic class and caste figure prominently in the social interplay.
September 5: Gay Alternatives: Peer Counseling Counsellors and members of New York's City 9th Street Center for gay men converse about services offered to the homosexual
OSCAR WILDE FIFTH GLSF SHOW
Vincent Dowling stars as Oscar Wilde, the famous Victorian writer and wit, in the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival production of "The Importance of Being Oscar," opening Thursday, Aug. 11, at Lakewood Civic Auditorium. Curtain time is 8:30 p.m.
"Oscar" is the festival's fifth repertory production of the summer. Manners' "Peg O' My Heart," Shakespeare's "Hamlet," Williams' "Glass Menagerie" and Smith's classical revue, "In a Fine Frenzy," are already in rotation.
"Oscar" is a one-man show written by Ireland's noted actordirector, Michael MacLiammoir. The play is drawn from the life and writings of Wilde and includes excerpts from poetry, prose, letters and dramatic works.
MacLiammoir has with great artistry woven the facts of Wilde's life through the selections from his works, achieving what one critic called "oral biography."
Featured are selections from the hilarious "Importance of Being Earnest," the shocking "Picture of Dorian Gray," the meditative "De Profundis," the angry "Ballad of Reading Gaol" and the tender fairy tales Wilde wrote for his children.
Dowling plays not only Wilde, but such famous characters as Dorian Gray, John Worthing, John the Baptist and even Lady Bracknell.
community. "A New Way To Be Gay" represents an alternative to the seduction-oriented milieu of bath, beach, and bar where promiscuous life-styles often exact a crippling emotional toll. The center, so successful it has set off a small migration from Uptown and Westside Manhattan to its Lower East Side neigh-in 1960 and has since played borhood, works against the cliche of the neurotic homosexual.
"Oscar" first opened in Dublin
throughout the world to critical acclaim, including a full season's run on Broadway. The GLSF production marks the first
another actor to play Wilde.
On September 12 Radio Free Lambda will return. During Sep-time MacLiammoir has permitted tember there will be an interview with singer Larry Paulette and a segment about Gay Aliens.
If you have suggestions for future Radio Free Lambda programs either write to the radio station (WRUW-FM 11220 Bellflower Rd., Cleveland, Ohio 44106).
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His Friends" to be featured at the New Mayfield Repertory Cinema 12300 Mayfield Rd., Cleveland from August 24 August 30.
Dowling, who also serves as GLSF artistic director, played another great writer, George Bernard Shaw, in last summer's "Dear Liar" and views "Oscar" as the second in a continuing series of festival literary portraits.
Both writers have in common their Irish blood, a distinction they share with Dowling, who was for more than 20 years a leading actor and director at Dublin's famed Abbey Theater.
Guest director for "Oscar" is Roger Hendricks Simon, who recently staged the GLSF world premiere, "In a Fine Frenzy."
Premieres by such playwrights as Terrence McNally, Michael Weller, Sam Shepard, Israel Horovitz, Jean-Claude van Itallie, John Guare and Lanford Wilson are some of the new works Simon has interpreted in America, London, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Belguim and France.
Following its opening night, "Oscar" has a limited run of four performances--Aug. 13 and 14, and Sept. 22 and 29.
Final opening of the season is Aug. 18 for Shakespeare's rambunctious comedy, "Taming of the Shrew." From then until Oct. 1, all six shows run in rotating repertory.
Curtain times are 8:30 p.m. for performances TuesdaySaturday, and 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. on Sundays.
Discounts are available to students, teachers, senior citizens, groups and families.
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