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$300,000 OHIO AIDS GRANT
APPROVED,
MORE IN THE MAKING
-continued from p. 1up. He said, "Although it's probably not very common, hospitals might occasionally not report the actual cause of death in order to protect the patient's confidentiality."
Campbell hopes that the grant will also broaden existing disease survellance to include AIDS-Related Complex, or ARC, in addition to full-blown AIDS.
According to Buck Harris, Gay Health Consultant for ODH, these improvements will help the Department channel its energies and funds where they are needed the most. He said, "The grant will allow a more accurate count of AIDS and ARC which does help when funds are being allocated to particular parts of Ohio." Harris added, "It will definitely help Cleveland get more resources be-
Integrity Reorganizes
At the September 19 Integrity Eucharist and pot lučk supper meeting, the Eucharist was celebrated by newly appointed Canon Hope Koski of Trinity Cathedral
Currently regrouping, Integrity is asking all persons who consider themselves members of Integrity/Cleveland to pay their annual dues of $25, including both national and local assessments, by October 15.
Dues may be sent to Integrity/Cleveland, c/o Trinity Cathedral, 2021 East 22nd street, Cleveland OH 44115.
cause it will become more evident that Cleveland has the highest number of cases." In addition, Harris noted that he and others are now actively pursuing additional funding for a grant proposal geared towards educating Ohioans about AIDS. Commenting on the proposal, Harris said,, , "The Centers for Disease Contol [CDC] is investing a lot of money in Ohio because we are seen as a progressive state." Only
handful other states
have had such success with the CDC. Reportedly, Celeste's office has received praise from national sources. in regards to its work on AIDS.
Harris said ODH and the Chronicle should know the status of the more recent education grant more definitively by early October.
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partisan political group did not prevent adoption of the amendments, it did promote a further change in the Club's name. This will be carried out at a future meeting.
Suggestions for politically neutral names included The North Coast Gay Political Club and the Rock Hudson Gay Political Club. VicePresident Win Weiser recommended that the new name include the word lesbian, explaining that lesbians prefer to be differentiated from gay men.
Youth Group Reorganizes
By SHANA R. BLESSING
Gay Youth in GEAR, Cleveland's new organization for lesbians and gays between the ages of 16 and 21, is undergoing temporary changes. The group will be meeting on the first and third Saturday of each month, from 4 to 5 pm, at the Community Center, 2100 Fulton Avenue. The first meeting under this new schedule will be October 19.
Conforming to House Bill 205, Gay Youth in GEAR will be supervised by a state ac-
credited social worker. Former director Randy Goodman is no longer associated with the project.
Gay Youth in GEAR has been designed by the GEAR Board of Trustees, to offer young people a place to discuss issues such as coming out relationships, and parental pressures. It will also of-
fer
an opportunity for youths to provide each other with peer support.
For more information, call the Lesbian/Gay Hotline at 651-7111, 4-11 pm Monday through Friday, 4-7 pm Saturday, and 7-11 pm Sunday.
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Metroparks Still Harass Gay Men
By CHARLES CALLENDER
While the class-action suit filed by several gay men against the Cleveland Metropolitan Parks District for entrapment by park rangers out of uniform awaits a hearing, the rangers continue to practice entrapment.
men
Harassment of those arrested has been regularly included in their entrapment policies, but as gay become more aware of the Metroparks danger, the rangers are shifting to harassment if entrapment fails.
Recent complaints received by the Hotline and the Discrimination Response System document both the continuing entrapment and growing harassment.
One man reported that on July 10, in the Memphis picnic area, a ranger decoy made eye contact and then stared at his crotch. When the complainant responded by touching. the decoy's crotch he was immediately arrested by ranger John U. Mangott and charged with sexual imDosition.
Another report describes an August 20 incident at Rocky River. As the comcomplainant walked along a path, a man approaching him smiled and eyed his crotch. The complainant did not respond. The decoy continued trying to attract his attention, eventually approaching him to start a conversation. He
suggested they walk down
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a wooded slope. When they reached a secluded place, the decoy announced he was into anything. When the complainant touched him, the decoy arrested him and they were joined by another ranger.
On September 11 a visitor from Chicago was arrested in Memphis/Tiedeman while urinating behind a tree. The ranger who made the arrest charged him with public indecency, and accused him of having been masturbating.
Another September incident occurred at Rocky River. Encountering the usual ploy of an ununiformed ranger who caught his attention and pointedly eyed his crotch, the complainant did not respond. Later, while he was changing into running shorts inside his car, the same ranger tried to arrest him, but gave up when the informant insisted he had neither exposed his genitals nor touched the ranger.
In the most recent incident reported, the complainant was pointing out to others two Metropark rangers dressed in civilian clothes.
rangers ordered him follow them, head Bower: the woods. The complainant refused to enter the woods with them. They took him to the station and tried to insist that they had seen him masturbating with his hand in his pocket, but did not charge him.
Sister Christine Explains It All for Us
Sister Christine Vladimiroff of the Cleveland Catholic Diocese Board of Education is in the news again. Last month the Chagrin Valley Little Theater put on Christopher Durang's one-act comedy, "Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All for You." In the play the main character, Sister Mary Ignatius, shoots two former students, one of them a gay man, who say their education has not fitted them for life.
Robert Nortlege, president of the theater board, told the Plain Dealer that the Catholic League of Cleveland
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had pressured the board, advertisers, and contributors to withdraw the play.
Elaine Paulett,. cast cast as Sister Mary Ignatius, withedging that the diocese had drew from the play, acknowlput pressure on her through Lake Catholic High School in Mentor, where she teaches.
Sister Christine was quoted by the Plain Dealer as "We thought explaining, "We [her] participation in the production was inappropriate. It is a production lacking in literary merit which fosters stereotypes and negative images of Catholic education.
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