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gay peoples CHRONICLE

Gay Peoples Chronicle

Publisher

Cleveland Gay Peoples Press Associates, Inc.

REMEMBERING OUR VICTIMS

Like most of the nation's press, the Chronicle is appalled by President Reagan's statements suggesting that the Nazi concentration camps and the Holocaust may now be forgotten. It has

taken years for gay people to understand that German homosexual men were placed in the camps. Even more years were required for heterosexual society to admit that we were also victims of the Nazis. must remember, too, that when Allied armies liberated the camps, their homosexual

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inmates were often sent on to other prisons because homosexuality was then defined as a criminal offence. And we should not forget that our oppression was further compounded by certain American intellectuals, such as Abram Kardiner, who tried to link Nazism and homosexuality.

A BRAND NEW BOARD

During these first four months the Chronicle's working staff has been quite stable except for adding new volunteers. But a series of resignations reduced the Publishing Board to Business Manager Bob Reynolds and Editor Charles Callender.

We are now announcing two new appointments and a major reorganization of our overall structure. Joy Medley has become Advertising Manager. In naming Bob Downing Circulation Manager we are recognizing a role he has filled for some time.

Dropping the positions of Publisher and Productiion Editor, we are also doing away with the Publishing Board itself. The Editor and the Business, Advertising, and Circulation Managers will be part of the Staff.

We are adding an Advisory Board. Besides the four persons named above, it includes several other staff members whose work has earned them a voice in our policies. It also includes representatives of the larger community whose participation increases our

heterogeneity of gender, race, and organizational ties and expands our resources. We thank all those who have agreed to serve on this Board.

The Cleveland Gay Peoples Press Associates originally decided against seeking nonprofit status, preferring to retain the right to endorse political candidates. Advised by our attorney that only 501 (3)(c) status would preclude our taking political positions, we incorporated as a nonprofit organization.

WHO, HOW MUCH, & WHY

Some of the more volatile members of this community regularly claim they have documentary proof that the Chronicle is part of the GEAR Foundation. Their "proof" inevitably evaporates. The Chronicle is independent. While often amusing, their fruitless campaign wastes time and effort that should be spent fighting our common enemy, heterosexism.

They also charge that the Chronicle reports only GEAR events. This is obviously

untrue.

For the record, we calculated the number of column inches local oranizations have received since we began publishing. These figures, from our first three issues, omit the Calendar, Resource Directory, editorials, and incidental references. In terms of coverage, organizations break down into three distinct groups.

Groups receiving high coverage were:

HIT

103

LGSU

90

Oven Productions ERGOC

83 51

Those with medium coverage

were:

Bisexual/Feminist

Group

25

Gay Peoples

Chronicle

25

GEAR

20

DRS/BWMT

20

Groups with relatively low coverage were:

Good'nPlenry

GLAU

CLAGMA

N.O.C.I.

11

8

7

4

The GEAR Foundation clearly falls in the middle range. Obviously some persons can read through the Chronicle and manage to see nothing but the word GEAR. Maybe it's those capital Jetters.

Variation in our coverage of organizations reflects several factors.

Events and interests carry different news values. The extensive LGSU coverage reflects the Conference; that for Oven Productions, its 10th anniversary and its productions. The coverage HIT receives rests on the obvious news value of AIDS, and on the column HIT members write for the Chronicle.

HIT illustrates a second factor as well: the readiness of organizations to provide information about themselves and their activities. While some organizations are very much aware of the uses of a newspaper, others are not.

Finally, coverage also reflects the affiliations of our staff, not because we favor our own organizations but because we know how to tap into these for stories.

May 1, 1985

Advisory Board Charles Adams, Rick Berg,

Jerry Bores, Charles Callender, Rob Daroff, Bob Downing, Karen Giffen, Mark Kroboth, Joy Medley, Bob Reynolds.

Business Manager Bob Reynolds

Advertising Manager Joy Medley

Circulation Manager Bob Downing

Editor-in-Chief

Charles Callender

Assistant Editor Rick Berg

Writers

Rick Berg, Charles Callender Rob Daroff, Dora Forbes, Mark Kroboth, Casimir Kuzynski, Sebastian Melmoth, Martha Pontoni.

Photographer Rob Daroff

Columnists

L. Kolke, Alex Liberacki, Jym Roe, Julian Wilde

Production Staff James Amerson, Rick Berg, Rob Daroff, Mark Kroboth, Jeff Lang, Joy Medley, Rich Tomei

Publication of the name, picture, or other representation of an individual, organization, or place of business in the Chronicle is not indicative of his, hers, or its sexual orientation of character.

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Advertisers may obtain rate sheets and other information by writing the Chronicle, P.O. Box 5426, Cleveland, Ohio 44101. The Chronicle is distributed free of charge in any establishment that permits distribution.

-The Chronicle is copyrighted under federal law. Any reproduction of its. contents is prohibited unless either written or verbal permission is obtained.

Circulation: 6,000 Distribution: Northern

Ohio.

Telephone: 932-2195