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HIGH GEAR
THE YEAR IN REVIEW
This month the present staff of High Gear celebrates its first anniversary and the paper's third. We thought it might be worthwhile to look back on the past year, for Cleveland/Akron and all of Ohio have grown phenomenally.
The sweat of many dedicated gay groups and individuals has contributed to Ohio's recent, bubbling renaissance. Let's look back and remember, for only our cognizance of the past and resultant action in the present can make the future. AUGUST 1975
REMEMBER WHEN...
Two gay males were asked to leave the Cleveland Zoo for showing public affection....
Tiffany Jones introduced a new era to Ohio's gay entertainment scene...
Barbara Love author of Sappho Was A Right-On Woman, gave an eloquent and prophetic treatise on educational TV...
SEPTEMBER 1975 REMEMBER WHEN...
Democrat Arnold Pinkney and Socialist Robert Bresnahan made history by being the first Cleveland mayoral candidates a to speak to audience....
ever
gay
Yellow Springs became the first Ohio municipality to legislate equal housing, public services, and employment protection for gays....
Jack
Native Clevelander Campbell announced as the first openly gay individual seeking public office in the South....
The offices of MCC/Cleveland were broken into and vandalized with wall-written slogans that said, "Queers are garbage."... Mother's bar in Akron was the object of intensive police harassment...
Radio Lambda transmitted its: first signal from WRUW-FM.... OCTOBER 1975
REMEBER WHEN.... Cleveland police chief Lloyd F. Gary rejected recommendations for a quota system of police hiring and said so long as he is in charge "homosexuals and convicted felons will be barred from the force."....
Dorothy Fuldheim of WEWSTV made her infamous remarks about gays calling us "mistakes of nature" and "abnormal," and was barraged with protests and demands for equal time from area activists....
Cleveland gay businesses were considering a business alliance to benefit all gays.... Washington D.C. held the Gay Bicentennial Conference, appropriately enough, at All Soul's Church.....
Fellow gay Oliver Sipple saved President Ford's life by deflecting a gun aimed at him by Sara Moore....
NOVEMBER 1975 REMEMBER WHEN....
Bill Hoover of KGLF who was arrested in September by Akron police for jaywalking in front of Mother's bar, was found guilty but had all fines and court costs suspended....
Independent gay activists Matt Phillips, John Nosek, and Leon Stevens, took over the management of High Gearand subsequent funding of the Gay Switchboard and G.E.A.R. from MCC Coordinator Art Mac Donald......
Dolores Noll, faculty advisor to KGLF, said, "Coming out is something you do for yourself."...
G.E.A.R. launched a media blitz and promoted the gay cause on Inner Circle, the Morning Exchange, Kamm's Corner, In My Opinion, WSUM's Talk Show, and Jabberwocky on WMMS...
The Market Pub and the Putty Cat joined the growing list of Cleveland social spots......
The Kent Gay Liberation Spring Conference featured such eloquent spokespeople as Karla Jay, Janet Cooper, Pete Fisher, Marc Rubin and Alan Young, and also sported provocative workshops on lesbian separatism, S and M, and paedophilia....
SEPTEMBER 1976
DECEMBER 1975
REMEMBER WHEN...
The Akron/MCC graduated from mission status to full membership in the National Metropolitan Community of Churches...
Dan Banul of KGLF became the first openly, gay student member of the Kent State University Affirmative Action committee...
Steve Skrobot of the American and Mary Boron of Hal's Corner initiated a new era of cooperation between area gay organizations and bars by speaking at a KGLF-sponsored
rap .....
A High Gear male sex poll found that thrusting or rubbing one's body against another was the most frequent means of attaining sexual orgasm; that fantasies were important at least sometimes for 84% of the respondents, and that 56% usually had sex with various people.....
The Cleveland Gay Rap Group started at the Free Clinic.....
JANUARY 1976 REMEMBER WHEN...
The Plain Dealer gagged letters from several gays protesting the paper's sensationalized reporting in the slaying of John Knight...
Dave Kopay became the first professional football player to "come out"....
Spiritualist Micho Kushi said a vegetarian diet could change homosexuals into heterosexu-als....
The Gay Hotline-Switchboard 696-5330, began training sessions for interested volunteers...
The Zanzibar opened in Cleveland....
The American in Akron held a slave auction to benefit needy Akronites...
FEBRUARY 1976 REMEMBER WHEN....
Cleveland Heights became the second Ohio municipality to afford gays equal employment protection in their affirmative action program....
Leonard Matlovich visited Cleveland and broke the news to High Gear that a Matlovich Foundation was being established in Columbus because among other reasons, "Ohio is one of the more progressive states on sexual reform."....
Controversial MCC Worship Coordinator Art MacDonald resigned Cleveland MCC and moved to Chicago to further his education.... And of
Dan Richmond Philadelphia came in to take his place..
The Friday Cleveland Gay Rap Group expanded to Sundays...
Area activists continued to pound away at the oppressive measures of Senate Bill 1 (S.1.)....(which hopefully has since died)...
MARCH 1976 REMEMBER WHEN....
The Cleveland Press and the Columbus Citizen-Journal unveiled their anti-gay attitudes by banning the comic strip Doonesbury because of its gay theme....