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HIGH GEAR

ODDS AND ENDE

By Jerry Juszczyk

On NBC's Tonight show of December 11th, Johnny Carson announced that NBC is considering the inclusion of a gay soap opera into its daytime format. According to Carson,

pressure from

the gay community has had a significant impact on NBC's programming direction. In response to the announcement, guest comedian David Steinberg remarked, "I wonder if they'll call it 'Gays of our Lives.'......

Speaking of the Tonight Show, on December 15th's, guest host Burt Reynolds was chatting about Gene Hackman to Liza Minelli., Said Reynolds, "I really love that man." As Liza giggled, Reynolds continued, "Nowadays you have to appeal to everybody."...

A recent segment of the comic strip The Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart featured in the PD has the following exchange take place between a prison guard reading a newspaper and his captive. Says the guard, "Get this...Dear Babby...just because I, wear women's clothing my wife thinks I'm a weirdo...What can I do? Signed Al." Asked the prisoner, "What did Babby answer?" The response: "Dear Al... Burn her pantsuits!"

Isn't it interesting that J. Edgar Hoover, former FBI chief

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was openly scornful homosexuals in public, yet, had an intensely intimate relationship with FBI associate Clyde Tolson for 44 years? According to Time the two dined and lunched together nearly every day and kept each other company on nearly every business or pleasure trip..... November's

East West

Journal, a spiritual, otherworldly publication printed a forum on homosexuality in which spiritualist and astrologist Michio Kushi and Isabel Hickey, claimed a strict macrobiotic (whole wheat and grain, vegetarian) diet could change homosexuals into heterosexuals

It is significant, that they provided no reverse information on how heterosexuals could change into homosexuals.......

Music-Go-Round: Up and coming rock-poetess sensation, Patti Smith, lists among her achievements a book entitled Seventh Heaven which features "aggressive lesbian imagery."

Abba, the ambisexual female and male pop-rock collage from Sweden, is finally coming into its own here in the States. Their album cover sports the two male song-writers looking intimately at each other while inside on the vinyl, women vocalists sing openly lesbian lyrics: "Mamma Mia, here I go again; my my how can I resist her? Mamma Mia, does it show again; my my, just

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how much I miss her." The music is bouncy and melodic: catch their stage act for a real treat....

Bill Spooner, lead guitarist of The Tubes told After Dark's Robert Weiner, "I think fagdom is getting to be such a trend. It's ridiculous. You know what made it ridiculous the little fifteen year old groupies that follow us around" After Dark pegged Bowie's Young Americans LP the best pop LP of the year.....

Sad Note: Prior to the holidays, the Association Press quoted Richard Hicks, former Air Force Sergeant dismissed for homosexuality as saying, "I guess Christmas isn't coming this year." Hicks had planned to fly to visit his family in Houston for the holidays; but his parents told him not to bother. Hicks had only $200 in savings when he became an unwilling civilian....

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A tip of the hat to Bill Winters in Sandusky for these tid-bits.... According to poet Allen Ginsberg, poet Walt Whitman slept with poet Edward Carpenter who slept with Presidential grandson and astrologer Gavin Arthur who slept with beat hero Neal Cassady who slept with Allen Ginsberg.......

In a New York Times interview on the eve of his 40th birthday, Woody Allen remarked, "Love is the answer. But while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. Bisexuality, for instance. It immediately doubles your chances for a date on a Saturday night.".....

January's Esquire reports Midas' Last Touch Metal Works of Los Angeles offers a $25,000 18 K gold phallus. It is nine and one half inches long, two inches in diameter, and weighs over five pounds.....

Rolling Stone printed this quote by L.A. City Council mem-. ber Gilbert Lindsay in its "Loose

Talk" column: "Children cannot act like adults, women can't be bricklayers and plumbers; and homosexuals have no place in the Police Department."

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The Local Scene: On January 31st look for the one year anniversary party at Godmother's II. In the offing will be free food and champagne... A week earlier on January 23rd, Bayou Landing's Tiffany Jones will be tending bar at Godmother's II..... It's encouraging to see area bars working co-operatively.....

JoAnn's sign perched outside of Cleveland's newest club the Zanzibar at 1630 Payne is finally coming down . Watch for remodeling soon as well......

The Vault continues to expand its food service to every day at noon and complete dinner Wednesdays....

There is a national disco forum planned for New York from January 20 to 23. It's sponsored by Billboard magazine and will feature discussions and information on "Disco Equipment," "Breaking a Disco Song in Regional Areas," "Disco Power Myth or Reality," and other related topics The Akron-American is sending a representative to the conference as part of their continuing effort to make Northeast Ohio number one in the Great Lakes Region... Speaking of the American, happy birthday Steve Skrobot... Hope your bar is jammed for the party Feb. 12...

The La Femme Jesters show at the Shaker Club was received

so enthusiastically by patrons that there's a possibility it may return. Interestingly, of their ten. week tour of the country, the entourage hit only two gay spots, and the Shaker of course was one of them......

While in Twiggy's English ac-. tor Christopher Spence mentioned to a GEAR staff member that he liked Cleveland and saw it às "the Fort Lauderdale on the Lake." ...... Let's keep on making this area a gay mecca.

Happened on the Camel Lot Complex in Toledo a few weeks back. It is some set up and well worth the trip west....

Welcome to the Columbus Baths. This trend-watcher notices the baths in town are coming into their own of late... What with remodeling and changing images, the baths are transforming themselves into social centers ... Alternatives are abounding everywhere... 1976 is Idestined to be the year of the Ohio gay Until next month, Dowidzenia!

JANUARY 1976

Intimate

In every woman and every man there is something which leads them to deep relationships with someone of the same sex.

-George Sand

He rested his head against the chair-back and followed the movements of the figure out there, then lifted it, as if it were in answer to Tadzio's gaze. It seemed to him the pale and lovely Sommoner out there smiled at him and beckoned, as though, with the hand he lifted from his hip, he pointed outward as he hovered on before into an immensity of richest expectation.

Thomas Mann (from Death in Venice)

When shall we learn, what should be clear as day, We cannot choose what we are free to love?

-W.H. Auden (from Canzone)

I am distressed over you, my brother Jonathan,

Very pleasant you were to me. More wonderful was your love to

than the love from women. -King David (from II Samuel).

Do you think homosexuals are revolting?

You bet your sweet ass we are! -M.S.N.Y. Leaflet

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