OCTOBER 1975

HIGH GEAR

CLASSIFIEDS

Classifieds Are Free to All non-profit gay organizations

Strictly business,

Cleveland

East. Wanted: Live in baby sitter, in return for room, board, and use of car, or fee. To watch a three year old from 3 P.M. to 1 A.M. Sometimes 6 days/week. Needed immediately. Please call r Pat: 681-5888 or 429-2311. If not there, leave message.

Free testing for VD is available for gay men at the Club Cleveland, 1448 West 32 Street, in Cleveland. Purchase of a locker or room is necessary for entry to the club, but the test is free. For information concerning dates and times, call 6319702.

Slim, neat, youthful appearing W/m. Prefer male under 22 to train in sensuous rubber & water sport activities. Write Dick, P.O. Box 828, Sandusky, Ohio 44870.

Young, WM, 5'9", 135, seeks same age, 18-30 for friendship and good times. Perm rel. poss. Write Bob, P.O. Box 5713, Cleve., Ohio 44101.

Patronize your

Gay Businesses

Gay prisoner seeks friends through written correspondence. 31 yrs. old, 5'8" tall, 160 lbs., Brown hair, blue eyes. Pls. write: Kenny Weiss 136-113, Box 69, London, Ohio 43140.

Gay Students

Anyone going back to school this Fall to CSU? Am interested in meeting you for friendship on campus. Am tired of cruising and having no gay friends at school. Would also be open to correspondence from students on the other campuses around the Northeast Ohio area. Write to A. Madigan, P.O. Box 99333, Cleveland, Ohio, 44101

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POETRY

What is Love? To know you, to be with you,

to touch, to see, to hold you. What is Love? To feel your near-

ness, even though we're apart; Being afire, though you're miles away. What is Love? Remembering our walks, our talks, our just being together, enjoying each other. What is Love? My heart turning) flip-flops every time I see you, wanting to shout out to the universe about how you make me feel inside and out. What is Love? The precious things about you, ⚫

too numerous to account. Among them, your hair, your eyes,

mostly though, just you, your tenderness,

kindness, and understanding. What is Love? That's what I deeply feel for you.

Bob G.

HIGH GEAR Classifieds can find friends for you, rent rooms, or sell merchandise. But most of all, they contact the people you want to reach; YOUR community.

Clevelander in Ill. Corr. Ctr. desires letters about current events in town. Write Earl Robinson 38761 Menard Corr. Ctr. Menard, Illinois 62259.

Akron Cleveland Canton area man, 50, 6'1", 185 lbs, trim, masculine, sports minded desires permanent mate to share new home near Hudson. P.O. Box 3501, Akron 44310 or 1 688 8164.

Young (24) gdlkg w/m seeks 3 way action with 2 other guys. Prefer lovers under 35; no fats, no S/M. Reply Boxholder, P.O. Box 91462, Cleve., Ohio 44101.

Rent your empty apartment, or fill your half-empty home, with a HIGH GEAR Classified. They really work!

Gay Community Center

The GEAR Foundation is looking for people who are interested in working with a community services center. No experience necessary, only a willingness to work hard, long hours for free. If you have a talent, we can use it. Write to GEAR, P.O. Box 6177, Cleve. Ohio 44101, or give us a call at 631-5330.

HIGH GEAR needs correspondents from the cities and towns all over the Northeastern Ohio area to help provide a comprehensive newspaper. No pay, but much satisfaction in helping the supposedly impossible, happen. Write to us at HIGH GEAR, P.O. Box 6177, Cleveland, Ohio 44101

RENT APARTMENTS

Young man to share 2 bedroom/ 2 bathroom apartment near CWRU with same age 22-26. Rent $130 per month w/ utilities paid. Write Tom, High Gear, P.O. Box 6177, P-55 Cleve., O. 44101.

Apartment For Rent Semi-furnished near West Side. For info call 651-5762, call between 6-9 PM.

PLACING and ANSWERING

PLEASE INCLUDE A RETURN ADDRESS IN ALL CORRESPONDENCE WITH HIGH GEAR. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INCLUDE YOUR OWN ADDRESS IN YOUR AD, OR TELEPHONE NUMBER. HOWEVER, ALL ADDRESSES RUN IN ADS MUST HAVE THE ZIP CODE INCLUDED, AND ALL TELEPHONE NUMBERS MUST HAVE THE AREA CODE PRECEDING THEM, IF YOU NOT WISH TO USE YOUR OWN ADDRESS OR TELEPHONE NUMBER, A DOCKET NUMBER WILL BE ASSIGNED TO YOU, FOR AN ADDITIONAL 11.00 FEE. YOUR MAIL WILL BE FORWARDED WEEKLY.

DOCKET NUMBER ADS CANNOT REQUEST PHOTOS, MONEY, OR ANYTHING OTHER THAN WRITTEN CORRESPONDENCE.

TO ANSWER A DOCKET NUMBER AD (P37) SIMPLY ADDRESS YOUR RESPONSE TO THE GIVEN NAME OR INITIALS, FOLLOWED BY THE DOCKET NUMBER, CARE OF HIGH GEAR CLASSIFIEDS, O. O. BOX NO. 6177, CLEVELAND, OHIO 44101. ENCLOSE NO MONEY! WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO EDIT, REWRITE, OR REJECT ANY AD WHICH WE FEEL MAY BE IN POOR TASTE, OR MIGHT RESULT IN LEGAL IMPLICATIONS FOR THIS NEWSPAPER. CLASSIFIED RATES ARE:

HEADLINE

20 SPACES

$1.00

PLAIN LINE

30 SPACES

$ .50

25% DISCOUNT

ADS RUN IN 2 6 ISSUES

MAIL ALL CLASSIFIEDS ORDERS TO: HIGH GEAR CLASSIFIEDS, P.O. BOX 6177, CLEVELAND, OHIO 44101

OPINION

An Editorial

By Matt Phillips

While Cleveland gays were happily beaming about the gay articles on page 25 of the September 28th PLAIN DEALER, many missed a much more ominous and much more important article of page. 32. With the straight media's usual flair for sensationalism, the article was⚫ titled "Male Prostitution Suspect Arrest." The actual reason for the arrest was the rape, at gun point, of

sixteen year-old boy. While prostitution, male or female, is a debatable issue, rape is not! Whether the accused person is innocent or guilty is for a court and jury to decide. the overriding fact is" that rape, either homosexual or heterosexual, must not be tolerated.

Rape is not the romantic lusty adventure that has been pictured infiction; the rightful spoils of a conquering hero. More properly viewed from the perspective of the rapee, it is demeaning; it is deleterious; it is a desecration of the human body. Our sisters in the women's rights movement have argued long and eloquently that people have a right to control their own bodies. Another person can not tell you how to use or how not to use your body.

Sex, at its best is an expression' of love, affection, and concern for another human being. At its worst, sex is merely a vehicle for selfgratification; a method for elevating one's self by degrading another. There is no excuse for the detestable selfish act of rape.

As gay people fighting for our rights to use our bodies as we see fit, we must join together in denouncing anyone who would force their sexuality on another..