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Parade Parley Planned

Stonewall Union has announced an April 13 planning meeting in Columbus for the 1985 Midwest Gay and Lesbian Freedom Parade this summer.

The annual June parade through downtown Columbus, culminating with a rally in front of the Statehouse, is one of the most important Ohio events for gay people, and certainly the largest and most colorful.

Beginning in 1981 with 800 people, the Columbus parade has doubled in size each year to become one of the ten largest gay pride parades in the nation.

Last year the parade's scope expanded beyond Ohio, when it included contingents from Detroit and other cities in Michigan. This year invitations are being issued to groups in Indiana, Kentucky, and western Pennsylvania, as well as Michigan and Ohio. It will be held June 30, coinciding with the parades in San Francisco, New York, and Chicago.

Individuals interested in attending the planning meeting may call Stonewall Union, 614-299-7764, or write P.0. Box 8355-A, Columbus, Ohio 43201. Housing and maps will be available.

Gay Peoples Chronicle

LESBIANS, GAYS DEMONSTRATE AGAINST FALWELL IN OHIO

Homophobe Jerry Falwell's recent appearances in Ohio cities drew demonstrations from most gay communities. Cleveland was an exception. We are therefore running these photographs of the Akron demonstration,

At right, a line of

demonstrators.

April 1, 1985

10 of you

The trio at the left are not gay demonstrators, but rather some of Falwell's socalled moral majority followers, responding to the demonstration in their own middle-class, family centered, God-fearing way. Note the combination of rapid flight and an obscene gesture.

Here we have a direct contrast in styles of religious leadership:

unction versus commitment.

On the left, with complacent unction, the Reverend Jerry Falwell. To the right,

directing a pointed question toward him, the Reverend Speegel of the Akron Metropolitan Christian Church.

CHRIST IN YOUR

CHRIST DANITY

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