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Gay Peoples Chronicle

LIFE AT THE CLOSET DOOR

THERE IT IS... MY CLOSET...

BORN THE US

SOME PEOPLE THINK YOU HAVE TO COME OUT

OF THAT CLOSET TO BE GAY...OTHERS SAY IT'S SAFER TO STAY INSIDE FOR YOUR WHOLE LIFE.

BORN IN THE USA

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-CLICK

SIGH HERE I AM, BACK IN THE CLOSET AGAIN

BUT I'VE LEARNED

JUL

ONE THING FROM BEING

IN HERE THOUGH...

October 1986

BUT IF THIS IS WHERE I SHOULD STAY FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE...

THEN WHY IS IT ALWAYS SO DARK IN HERE?

A GAY MAN IN THE CLOSET IS LIKE A PERSON

LIVING IN NEW YORK CITY...

YOU'RE SURROUNDED

BY PEOPLE JUST LIKE YOU.. BUT YOU DON'T REALLY KNOAN

ANYBODY

STAMP OUT AIDS

Estelle Getty, star of The Golden Girls, Girls, is promoting Stamp Out AIDS, a campaign to sell stemps similar to Easter and Christmas seals. The money raised will go to programs which directly serve people with AIDS.

For her work on The Golden Girls, Getty won the 1986 Golden Globe Award as Best Actress in a Comedy and has been nominated for an Emmy Award as Best Supporting Actress. Her connection with Stamp Out Aids comes through Project Director John Glines, who produced the Tony Award winning Torch Sc Trilogy, in which Getty made her highly acclaimed Broadway debut.

"I asked Estelle to help, said Glines. "horanca cha c an archetypical mother figure. How could you say No to Estelle? I never could."

The stamps sell in sheets of 6 for $1. "I wanted to create an affordable way for everyone to contribute," Glines said. "For just a dollar everyone can help. His goal is to raise $1,000,000 with the first issue alone.

Stamps can be purched by sending $1 for each set of 6, along with a self-addressed stamped envelope, to STAMP OUT AIDS, 240 West 44th Street, New York N.Y. 10036. Make payable to National AIDS Network/STAMP OUT AIDS. The National AIDS Network is serving as fiscal

agent and will

distribute

the funds from the project to AIDS service organizations across the country...

YOUR

LAIDS

ESTELLE GETTY

DANCECLEVELAND

PRESENTS

NINA WIENER

DANCECLEVELAND, formerly Cleveland Modern Dance Association, kicks off its 1986-87 Concert Series at the Ohio Theatre with the Cleveland debut performance of Nina Wiener and Dancers, October 31-November 1.

The performance will feature seven Cleveland-area dancers performing Wiener's piece, Kemo Sabe." This sophisticated tribute to the rhythms and percussive sounds of the old Wild West was set on the local dancers as part of DANCECLEVELAND's 1985-86 Dance Education program. The seven dancers were chosen by audition during the 1985 Holiday Workshop.

Nina Wiener and Dancers, formed ten years ago, has toured widely in the United atates and Europe under the artistic direction of Nina Wioener. Ms. Wiener's eclectic style of dance is drawn from her varied experience as a dancer, choreographer and teacher

and her studies with such renowned choreographers as Bella Lewitzky, Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor, Alvin the Graham company

Ailey fwyla Tharp. She has

and created works for her company as well as for American Ballet Theatre II and the Dance North Carolina Theatre.

Her awards and critical recognition for choreogachievement and raphic teaching ability include a "Bessie" award at the New York Dance and Performance Awards and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for choreography.

Single tickets for Nina Wiener and Dancers, featuring the Cleveland-area dancers, went on sale October 2 at the Playhouse Square Center Box Office. Tickers are $14, $12 and $10. Student, senior and group rates are available. For further ticket information call the Playhouse Square Center Box Office at (216) 241-6000

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