SEPTEMBER 1976
And upwards of 30 gay women and men loudly protested that action at a demonstration at the Press building while Ohio State's G.A.A. gave rebuttals on Columbus area media...
D.Y.K.E. (Dykes You Know Everywhere) transformed itself into C.A.L.F.A. (The Cleveland Area Lesbian Feminist Alliance) which instituted a Lesbian Switchboard, 932-2669.....
Gay women and men participated in International Women's Day and were able to get the
entire crowd of one hundred to chant: "The sexist system is anti-gay. We won't take it for another day."....
Gypsy's Restaurant in Cleveland held a raffle benefiting the March of Dimes....
The national Gay Press Association formed....
High Gear refused to budge on its ban against sexist advertising....
Nick Danger granted High Gear an exclusive interview with Lily Tomlin.....
Oven Productions became a prominent vehicle for local women's expression in the arts....
APRIL 1976 REMEMBER WHEN....
The Baldwin-Wallace Gay Rap Group was recognized as a legitimate student organization.....
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled by a 6 to 3 vote that states may prosecute and imprison people for committing homosexual acts even when both parties to an act are consenting adults and the act occurs in private!....
The Cleveland Press finally permitted gay character Andy to stay intact in the Doonesbury comic strip....
Dignity, the organization for gay Catholics, started its sixth Ohio chapter in the city of Columbus.....
Truman Capote lectured at CCC West and said, "Answered Prayers is the most complicated and ambitious piece of writing I've ever done. I know it's long. Not that consider length a virtue, at least not in literature."...
MAY 1976 REMEMBER WHEN...
All hell broke loose in Akron
Ann-Weld Harrington, former Cleveland gay activist, ran and lost for political office of Selectperson in Provincetown, Massachusetts....
as gay people were selectively harassed by Akron police for such absurdities as "weak mufflers" and parking on public property...
The Retreat in Mansfield invited that city's council members to view the bar and its clientele...
JUNE 1976 REMEMBER WHEN....
Columbus woman, Kelly Moore, was reported to have challenged police anti-gay remarks and promptly was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.....
Jimmy Carter said at a news conference in San Francisco that he would sign the National Gay Rights Bill if elected President "because I don't want to single out homosexuals for special abuse or harassment."....
In response Northeastern Ohio political contingencies lead by KGLF made a very loud and very effective protest at the Court House in downtown Akron....
The Cleveland ACLU chapter voiced public support in the form of a resolution for an area Gay Community Center.....
G.E.A.R. selected the Bradley Building on W. 6th and St. Clair as its tentative community center site choice.....
G.E.A.R. held its first community center benefit at the Shaker Club (where Dick Deutsch provided free food) and netted $254.00 from community sponsors
The Twiggy's Godmother II baseball meet was all the rage....
The G.E.A.R. Foundation held its second community center benefit at the New Mayfield Cinema, netting $448.19 which gave them a working budget of $702.61.....
Dolores Noll ran as a Morris Udall delegate in the Ohio primary....
JULY 1976
REMEMBER WHEN....
HIGH GEAR
David Goodenough, former KGLF co-chairperson and gay activist, became the area's most recent representative on the Board of Directors of the National Gay Task Force.....
Cleveland held its second Gay Pride March ever, drawing over fifty people with only minimal publicity.....
Baskerville's, Cleveland disco in the Flats, became the first area bar to go after hours, was "raided," and then won a ruling from the Liquor Control Board stating they could stay open as long as they wished provided
food was served....
Well, Ohio, it's been one hell of a year; great progress, some setbacks and many changes. High Gear is proud of the Buckeye state, and as residents, we're even prouder of the growing sense of community spirit throughout the area. At last, we are becoming one people....
The Gay Rights Plank failed to make the Democratic Party Platform, despite intensive efforts by The National Gay Task Force.....
J.J.'s opened on the Strip.... High Gear became the first gay newspaper in the country to have its journal regularly read over the blind radio program aired on CRRS, sub-carrier of WXEN FM
GAY VERITE
You envy me because I'm pretty. "Go away" is the echo, "go away from
here for you do not belong, you're
not really one of us."
For you who bid me stay, I am a toy,
a living doll to play with then throw
down or set back on the shelf. I serve as an ego-pleaser, an ornament
for your pride; but you wouldn't dare
think of me in terms of permanence, I'm too high-risk for that.
I have felt love, but what does it feel like to be loved? (No, not love
as in sex, but real love as in security)...
Does anyone out there trust a pretty girl...
trust her enough to keep? Or do you inflict
her with wounds to prevent yourself from bleeding?
I'm seen from the outside, but I wish I
could be seen
inside out
instead, for therein. lies my essence.
Fair exteriors are usually stereotyped:
...
Beware: potential heartache but what about my heart (or doesn't it count?)
Don't waste your energy being jealous of
the pretty ones could have
...
for if you
a set of looks in exchange for your security, you wouldn't trade.
Lady O
the
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