October 1986

Gay Peoples Chronicle

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PISARCHICK TO LEAD RAP

Sally Pisarchick Ph.D., will head the Fall Season list of outside resource professionals working with the Friday Night Support Group at the Lesbian/Gay Community Center, 2100 Fulton Road. She will lead the October 17 meeting, 8 to 11 p.m.

Dr. Pisarchick earned her Ph.D. from Kent State University. For the past 13 years she has been manager of the Instructional Resource Center Project at CSESC, besides being Associate Director.

A well-known lecturer on stress management. Dr. Pesarchick has written Not All Dinosaurs are Dead: Turning Stress into Strength. She has presented workshops,

Now

We are

six.

6th Anniversary

BWMT CLEVELAND, OHIO

NOVEMBER 7-9th. 1984

BWMT-Cleveland will celebrate its sixth anniversary November 7-9.

The program begins Friday with a welcoming cocktail party at 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8, begins at noon with a DRS meeting at St. Philomena Church, 13824 Euclid Avenue. A rap session will follow at 1 p.m. This afternoon program 15 open to the general public.

At 7 p.m. the members will attend à performance of "Joy To My Soul" by Langston Hughes at Karamu Play House. This revival of a popular 1939 comedy is set in Cleveland, and pokes fun at the shenanigans of fortune tellers, hicks, and "get rich quick" slicksters. The day will close with an Anniversary Party.

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On Sunday, Nov. farewell brunch will be held at 10 a.m.

Cost for all activities is $20; for everything except the play, $15; for the play only, $6:50.

seminars, and credit courses throughout the United States, England, Canada, and most recently, India.

facilitators John White and Jim Price and his co-

Ken Gibbons used her book in developing the Fall theme, "Stress in the Lives of Gays and Lesbians in these Troubled Times."

On Friday, November 14, Jane McIntyre will address the topic "Death and Dying from AIDS." Future speakers will deal with "Alcoholism and So-called Recreational Use of Drugs by Gays and Lesbians."

If you or your organization would like to make a presentation at the Friday Night Support Group, contact Shana Blessing or Jim Price at 651-1999.

SALLY PISARCHICK

NEW MENTAL HEALTH GROUP

Westwood Psychological Services is a newly formed comprehensive mental health group, staffed by a licensed psychologist and two social workers. Each therapist, aware of the unique mental health needs of the gay/lesbian community, is well trained to provide individual, couple and family therapy. Other specialized areas include full psychological testing and assessment, vocational/career counseling, anxiety and phobias, depression, sexually related issues and alcohol/chemical related difficulties.

Several groups are also

being formed, including Assertiveness Training, Personal Growth and Support, Couples, and Adult Abused Children.

To best serve the community, Westwood Psychological Services accepts all major medical insurance plans. If necessary, a sliding scale can be designed. For more information, call 228-9910 Appointments are made wih individual therapists.

Westwood Psychological Services is in the Lakewood area, in the Detroit/Warren Building, 14805 Detroit Avenue, Suite 535. The telephone number is 2289910.

U OF AKRON HOTLINE

The University of Akron Gay-Lesbian Task Force_announces the formation of a special outreach to the campus community and the

community at large: the University of Akron Gay/Lesbian Hotline.

The Hotline operates Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Staffed by specially trained volunteers, the Hotline will

provide referrals on gay businesses and social services in the Akron and surrounding communities.

The Hotline will also provide up-to-date information on AIDS as well as safesex practices. It will also offer general crisis intervention. The new permanent number for the University of Akron Gay/Lesbian Hotline will be 375-7877.

HOMOPHOBE SENTENCED

Grant D. Youlten appeared in Cleveland Heights Municipal Court September 4 on a variety of charges stemming from his June 28 attack on the GEAR Foundation booth at the Coventry Street Fair and subsequent arrest.

Youlten, an unemployed resident of Cleveland kicked over the Heights, table onto Linus Herrell, who was spelling the two women staffing the booth. He was immediately arrested by police officers who had to use force to restrain him.

In court Youlten changed his plea to no contest. Ris attorney described him

as

having been drunk. After an argument with people at a communist" booth, Youlten next came to the Lesbian/Gay Community Center Booth: "Rightly or wrongly," according to his attorney, he showed his hostility toward its presence by kicking over the table. He claimed this was an expression of dissatisfaction, and his intent was only to demonstrate his disagreement, not to harm anyone.

Youlten was fined $500, sentenced to a brief term in jail (already served) and placed on probation.

CENTER EXPANDS ACTIVITIES

By SHANA BLESSING

The Lesbian/Gay Community Service Center has been bustling with activity all summer. We are currently propelling ourselves into an exciting fall season. If you haven't yet experienced the Center's offerings, it isn't too late!

The Center operates the Cleveland Lesbian/Gay Hotline and the Ohio Department of Health AIDS Hotline from 4 to 11 p.m. daily. Volunteering to answer the ringing telephones one threefour hour shift each week is an interesting and fulfilling way to serve the community. We provide thorough and ongoing training.

also offer facilitated rap groups, open to both women and men, for the purpose of issue-oriented social interaction in an emotionally supportive environment. The Friday night group meets at the Center, Z100 Fulton Road, at 8 p.m. The new East Side rap group will meet on Wednesdays, beginning November 5 (location to be announced).

November at the Center brings several special activities. Starting November 1, we become a collection center for clean wearable used clothing and canned and packaged foods which are distributed to AIDS and ARC patients and other needy folk. We also become a dropoff center for all your White Elephants for our flea market fundraising drive. And on Friday, November 14, from 8-11 p.m., Jane McIntyre of Metro General Hospital will lead a discussion/workshop on Death and Dying. Ms. McIntyre is a social worker whose experience with AIDS and ARC patients can enlighten all of us.

Other groups currently meeting at the Center include Customers Against Racist Exclusion (CARE), an Adult Children of Alcoholics Group, Emmanuel Community Church's group for Senior and Disabled Lesbians and Gays, and a Health Issues Taskforce Well-Buddy cell. For information about any of the activities mentioned, or just about anything happening in Cleveland's lesbian/gay community, call the Hotline at 651-7111.

EAST SIDE RAP GROUP

The Lesbian/Gay Community Service Center is forming a mixed/gender Rap/Support Group which will meet on the East Side. Beginning November 5, it will meet every Wednesday night at 8 p.m. This group will supplement the current Friday Rap groups. For more information, call 651-7111.