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are asked to sign up at the open forum, or volunteer through the gay switchboard, 696-5330.

BUDGET DETAILS

Here are the monthly expense and income items identified by the task force, leading to a projected deficit of $514.50 a month. That amount will have to be made up through donations, benefits, and some sort of continual membership drive. Expenses break down to

$464.50 a month for rent, $150 for cleaning and (labor supplies), $55 for phone and electricity, $80 for the switchboard/hotline (separate from the regular gay community center phone), $40 for insurance, and $50 for office and miscellaneous supplies; subtotal, $839.50. To this the task force added a $200 a month contingency, both to allow for unexpected emergency expenses and because several numbers in the budget are only rough estimates. Total expenses: $1,039.50 a month. Income figures are

even

"softer" than expenses: $400 a month from dances (average weekly attendance 100 at $1.00 admission), $100 a month profit from speakers and movies, $25 a month from renting office space to Dignity; total, $525.00 a month.

(Some other organizations have expressed interest in renting space, but have not yet made a firm commitment or would perform some service instead of paying rent.)

WHAT'S AHEAD

Before commiting to a major and continuing effort to open and operate the proposed gay community center, GEAR and the task force need to know that it will truly serve the needs of gay people in the Cleveland area. The best demonstration of that support will be an enthusiastic turnout at the open forum on November 21. Boston, Buffalo, and Dayton have gay community centers already. Will Cleveland join the list?

THE JOKE'S ON US

The Oberlin Gay Union sent the pictured Halloween card our way with the following note: Dear Gear We found this card

Gaily yours,

Karen Davis

For the Oberlin Gay Union

(xerox enclosed we're keeping And Lavender Rhino League

THIS Halloween CaRD CONTAINS YOUR 3. OWN PERSONAL GOOD FAIRY TO Protect You FROM MONSTERS!

the original to frighten ourselves with on dark, spooky nights) in a local drug store and thought other folks might be interested in knowing where the American Greetings Corporation stands on the oppression of gays (The A.G.C. is a Cleveland-based company by the bye. This is in our own backyard friends). We hope you all had a magnificent MONSTER JUST Halloween without monsters of Put YOUR FINGERS IN THE HOLES AND

✰ IF YOU ARE

APPROACHED BY A

HIGH GEAR

N.O.W. STATE CONFERENCE

IN CLEVELAND

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CLEVELAND The Greater Cleveland chapters of the National Organization for Women will host the organization's fifth annual state conference here November 1921. Conference headquarters will be at Bond Court Hotel, 777 St. Clair Ave. N.E. Registration will start at 7 p.m. Nov. 19. The first group of 30 workshops will be at 8:30 p.m. that day.

Workshops will include "Are Marriage and Feminism Compatible?," "How Psychology Constructs the Female," "Abortion Politics," "Women's Authority and Power," and "Gay Rights '77 Sexuality and Lesbianism."

On Nov. 20 registration will continue at 9 a.m., followed by a general session and keynote speeches given by Flo Kennedy and Heather Booth. Ms. Kennedy, author, attorney and outspoken feminist has been called "radicalism's rudest mouth" by certain newspaper columnists. One of the first black women to graduate from Columbia Law School, she has led the fight for liberalized abortion laws in New York. She will speak on the conference theme, "Fulfilling the Promise."

Ms. Booth, a N.O.W. member has been active in labor rights, civil rights, women's rights and child care. She founded the Mid-

ELECTION RESULTS

Because of the lack of response on the part of Ohio's political candidates the Radio Free Lambda High Gear Political Poll was extremely unrewarding. We mailed out 100 questionnaires on Gay rights issues to political candidates in Ohio. All a candidate had to do was answer 11 yes or no questions and return the questionnaire in the stamped envelope we provided. Only 11 of the 100 people contacted feit any need to reply.

Four of the responses we received are from candidates who ran for judicial posts. When we sent the questionnaires we were unaware that judicial candidates do not comment on any political issues. Four people, Blanche Krupansky, Don Peden Brown, Charles W. Lazzaro, and Ann McManamon took the time to write us and explain why they could not answer. The fact that they took the time to respond at all illustrates at least some interest in Gays. Krupansky was elected to the Court of Appeals and McManamon was elected to

Go away You NATHSTY awFUL MONSTERS .....OR I'LL SIMPLY Kick You to Pieces!!

Happy HALLOWEEN!

Common Pleas Court. Brown, candidate for the Ohio Supreme Court, and Lazzaro, candidate for Court of Common Pleas were both defeated.

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west Academy, a training ground for activists.

Afternoon workshops Saturday will be from 1:30-6 p.m. Afterward, there will be dinner, a general meeting, entertainment by Cleveland's poetry collective, Big Mama, and music from Oven Productions.

The weekend program concludes Sunday afternoon, Nov. 21. The public both women and men is encouraged to attend the conference. Pre-registration fee is $8 and $11 at the door. Meals are additional. Free child care will be provided with advance notice. To register or for more information call (216) 9443670 after 6 p.m.

both elected and Camejo was defeated. In the 3rd district we received responses from both candidates Whalen and Stubs. Whalen won. His response to the questionnaire is a letter which is cordial but avoids the issues. Franke, who says "I am not well enough informed on these issues to answer intelligently" lost her race in the 7th district. Lippit, who says "If it were up to me, I would make homosexuality a capital offense with the punishment being hanging in public square," lost in the 22nd district congressional race. (Thank God!)

The seven other responses are from people who ran for offices throughout the state. They are: Charles W. Whalen, Jr., Republican who ran for Congress in the 3rd district, Leonard Stubs, Democrat who ran for Congress in the 3rd district, Dorothy Franke, Democrat who ran for Congress in the 7th district, Thomas W. Lippit, American Party candidate who ran for Congress in the 22nd district, Peter Camejo, Socialist Labor party candidate This poll illustrates one major for president, Arthur Brooks, point; Gays need to do a lot of Democrat who ran for the Ohio work in Ohio. The fact that most house in house district 14, and of the people who ran for office Anthony 0. Calabrese, in Ohio see no need to respond Democrat who ran for the Ohio to Gay issues is a crime. The Senate in district 22. Only three question is, how long will Ohio's of these seven candidates Gays tolerate nonresponsive responded positively to our leaders? The answer is up to all questionnaires. They were: of us. Remember, "Taxation Brooks, Calabrese and Camejo. without representation Brooks and Calabrese were tyranny."

is

any kind.

OPEN THIS CARD!

Communion celebrated during Great Lakes MCC conference in Akron.

GAY SWITCHBOARD Fri.-Sat., 8pm-3am Sun.-Thurs., 6pm-2am 321-6632