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HIGH GEAR
ODDS AND ENDS
by Jerry Juszczyk
.. NBC's
TV TRIPPING Saturday Night Live featured "Bisexual Minutes," a comedy sketch in which a colonial heroine named "Heather laid down her butter churn, left her husband, and took up living with another woman. Although laws of the time did not permit them to marry, they moved into an apartment together above the shop where Heather worked. And that's the way it was February 21, 1776.".....
On Monty Python's Flying Circus last month:
Sargeant: Are you gay? Butch Corporal: I should very wel! say so you old fruit! (Sargeant shoots corporal) Enter campy private.
Sargeant: Are you a puff? Campy private: Of courth, I'm not a puff!
Sargeant: There's a loyal subject, hero of the realm! Funny, he looks like a puff."... recently on All in the Family:
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lesbians and gay men, and to say that we, the gay community, will not accept second-hand citizenship," says Michael: You're smothering spokesperson Madeline Davis. Joey with love. You know what Interested participants may at 270 contact Ms. Davis psychiatrists call that? Momism! You know Potomac what Momism Ave., Buffalo, NY. causes? Homosexuality! 14213..... Gloria: Michael, I've never heard much
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misinformation!....
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a last month's Phyllis episode, photographer Leo enters and announces, "I went to a real wild party last night. We took off all our clothes and climbed into a whirlpool together. Next time we might even invite women."
On a recent Dinah Shore Show, Edward Asner listed several incredible laws passed in various localities, among them: In Baltimore it is illegal to mistreat or molest an oyster. A Natchez ordinance forbids elephants to drink beer. Photographing a rabbit during mating season is punishable in a small Midwestern town. In Quitsman, Georgia it is against the law for a chicken to cross the road. Poplar Bluff, Missouri outlaws shaving in the daytime...inspired by the revelation of these absurdities, Dinah Shore praised the simple logic of the California Consenting Adults Act which permits any sexual encounter agreed upon by two adults... A major national gay demonstration at the 1976 Democratic National Convention is being planned by the New York State Coalition of Gay Organizations. "We will be at the Convention to demand that convention delegates and the public recognize the rights of
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In his crew cut sermon on WCRF Feb. 22nd, Rev. Howard Hendricks moaned, "Homosexuality is the greatest perversion." The received several complaints from outraged gay listeners....
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From Milwaukee's GPU News Poems and letters written by English novelist E.M. Forster, were sold for $1200 by Christies of London. In these writings, Forster discloses his homosexuality to his confidante, Florence Barger, and refers to his first physical affair, "Yesterday for the first time, I parted from respectability. Perhaps it may be better for the next generation."
A feature on novelist Gore Vidal in March First's Time explores the complex and often controversial mind of a man who "mocks the heterosexual dictatorship in the U.S., champions the rights and pleasures of homosexuals, and calls for a legal curb on human breeding." Gore Vidal was 'out' way back in 1948 when he published The City and the Pillar, an empathetic story of homosexuality which was 'shocking' for its time and hurt him financially for five novels thereafter. Vidal never gave up though. Once he re-established his national recognition, he boldly cranked out the infamous Myra Breckinridge in 1968. The man just doesn't believe in playing it safe....
Dr. C.A. Tripp, a New York psychotherapist, said on March 5 in Dallas the highest level of homosexuality among males exists in the "macho" group, including cowboys, drivers, and athletes....
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The Daily Legal News listing of newly filed divorces the week of March 1st showed a Carl A. (last name withheld) suing James C. of the same name....Hmmmmm....
Gay of the Month: Jean Cocteau's autobiographical sketch, Professional Secrets, reveals that artist extraordinaire Pablo Picasso was a bisexual....
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"Cleveland's gay newspaper" in the February 29th PD Sunday Magazine feature on the Free Clinic at 12201 Euclid Avenue. And what more appropriate space to kindly thank the Free Clinic for the use of its facilities for the area gay rap group to meet. The Clinic really is the People's Center...
Interesting side note on the Doonesbury ban in the Cleveland Press. The week that Doonesbury was censored because of its gay theme, "Buz Sawyer," an accompanying daily serial, featured information on how to make a bomb successfully explode in a targeted building....Misplaced values, wouldn't you say?....
Speaking of which, "Streamers," a psycho-shock play by David Rabe staged in New Haven recently, displayed a gay military couple literally knife-attack the genitals and abdomen of a sergeant who caught the two initiating sexual advances toward each other. Not too soon after, one of the "gays" knifed the palms and intestines of another enlisted man. Protests from the gay community should come out long and hard on this travesty. Write, Long Wharf Theater in New Haven Connecticut....
At the recent David Bowie concert in Cleveland's Public Hall, a number of gays acted very openly about their homosexuality. Given the generally liberal nature of Bowie's audiences, there were no hassles. Who says Cleveland isn't a progressive city?.......
There's an all new look at the Rainbow. Mirrors have been added to the walls, fresh wallpaper, an enlarged dance floor and a remodeled bar. Don't let the exterior fool you...
Godmother's II thanks the Leather Stallion and Bayou Landing for helping to make their anniversary party a great success.....
Bob's expanding kitchen facilities at the Vaults..... Oscar Wilde's Importance of Being Earnest will be featured at the New Mayfield Theatre in Cleveland March 31 April 4..... AKRON TIDBITS... From the American Hotel a High Gear informer dubiously dubbed RonaBares-It gives us this synopsis of the Akron bar scene: Satan's, 839 Arlington St. is owned by Dick Owens, managed by Carol Owens. The bartenders are Rick
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McCall, Tim Ross, and Frank Cent. The bar has two pool tables and a Top 40 jukebox. Food is served on weekends. Satan's used to be a predominately women's bar, but today is well-mixed. Go-go boys are featured on Mondays....
Hayloft 77 N. Adams St. is owned by Michael Bade and Bud Dickie and is managed by Northeastern Ohio's "Bartender of the Year" -Roger Sires. The Hayloft is jam-packed every Monday night by virtually hundreds because of ticket night buy two drinks and the third is free. The bar has constant tapes played directly from N.Y....
The International American Hotel and Restaurant 417 Kenmore Blvd. is owned and managed by Steven Skrobot and David Nighman. Asst. Manager and lead bartender is Bobby Jo Eldridge. Other bartenders are Bruce Handy, Terry Stewart, David Mace, and Bobby Wigel. Congratulations are in order for Steve who won the title of "Manager of the Year." He has done much for social life in Akron in the past year. The bar is the largest in Summit County and holds well over three hundred comfortably. people Records hot off the press from Toronto and N.Y. are aired by "Entertainer of the Year," Dennis Cox. Coming events, St. Patty's Day fling the seventeenth and back by popular demand, "Name that Tune" starting on the twenty-third....
Clevelanders should take note of the community in spirit surrounding Akron, In the recent Lambda awards, there were nineteen categories, twelve of which concerned Akron. Akron won eight of them! Over 66%!....That ain't bad...
Congratulations to Akron MCC on its second anniversary...Belated 29th anniversary wishes to Scotty and Larry of the Horseshoe in Canton... The new bar-restaurant in Akron, Gentleman's Pub, is scheduled to open April 1st....And that just about does it for this month....
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