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The National Gay and Lesbian Task orce invites interested activists to conder serving on its 24-member board of irectors.

The NGLTF board is elected by all GLTF members during elections held August and September each year. Any GLTF member is eligible. About eight cats will be open for election this year. The NGLTF board oversees the nancial management of the task force, nd is actively involved in long-term lanning and setting policy directions for le organization. the board is committed y its by-laws to reflect gender parity and icial diversity. There also is a strong ɔmmitment to geographic diversity.

All NGLTF board members agree to ise at least $1,500 a year for the oranization; to attend quarterly board eetings held around the country; and to ork with the board and staff on a variety f projects.

Interested parties should send a letter nd resume to NGLTF Board Nominaons Committee, NGLTF, 1517 U St. W, Washington DC, 20009. An aplication form will be mailed out and irther contact made to the candidates y the nominations committee.

A group is starting for lesbians workg in social service agencies who are xperiencing anti-lesbian attitudes and ho would like to discuss this, obtain apport and challange attitudes. If there enough interest, we will broaden the roup for lesbians who are experiencing his in another line of work. We are meetig at the Women's Building Project at le Civic, 3031 Mayfield Rd., on Saturay, April 15 at 10:30 a.m. For more formation call Deb at the Center, 522999 or 781-6736.

After the years of victory since onewall, and in the midst of a major edical crisis, gay life is still in process. We're still defining and expanding our ocational, recreational, ethical and piritual goals.

I am writing The Big Gay Book, A Gay Jan's Guide to Resources for the 90s nder contract with NAL/Plume Books. milar to the Whole Earth Catalog or ur Bodies/Ourselves, The Big Gay Book ill include extensive information about sources for gay men.

Social, political, religious, academic nd vocational organizations are urged include themselves in this nationwide roject.

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The Big Gay Book will be more than a passive listing of names and addresses; it will report on just how other men have gone about activating their dreams. There will be detailed observations on everything-how an organization was formed, what books various individuals have found useful in their own lives, how rural gay men have found or created a community.

If you would like to see your organization included, and if you know of periodicals or newsletters that report on things which you think would be of interest, you are encouraged to participate. If there are individuals who are working in unique ways to express their gay identity, or organizations that are serving an exciting function in the gay world, please mention this also.

Send information to John Preston, Box 5314, Portland, Maine 04101. For more information, call 207-774-3865.

The 7th Annual Women's Seder for Passover will be held on Monday April 24, at 6:30 p.m., at the First Unitarian Church in Shaker Heights. Please call Fern Levy at 371-2806 for food assignments and more information.

Ohio's first lesbian and gay marching and concert band is here, and its here to stay! Help us to share our special gift with others. To join, call Ben at 621-2387, or Toni at 721-5736. Or, come to one of our practices at the Lesbian-Gay Community Service Center on Saturdays from 4-6 p.m. Instrumentalists, flag personnel, and baton twirlers welcome. Maybe you can't play a musical instrument but would like to support us. Checks can be made out to: "The Center/North Coast Freedom Band." Send your check to the Center, 1418 W. 29th St. Cleveland, OH. 44113. All donations are tax-deductible.

Your donations have already allowed us to purchase a bass drum, a snare drum and music. We are now in need of a baritone horn. Donations of musical instruments are also welcome, for those who do not have their own. Join the band wagon and help out, you'llbe glad you did.

The Campus Project of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force released a publication outlining strategies for gay and lesbian activists to organize for non-

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discrimination policies on campus.

Authored by Campus Project Director Kevin Berrill and former NGLTF volunteer Sam Paul, the publication is entitled "Making It Official: Organizing For a Policy to End Discrimination," and is contained in Organizing For Equality, the newsletter of the NGLTF Campus Project.

Earlier issues of the Campus Project newsletter covered how activists can secure fair AIDS policies on campus, and detailed gay and lesbian film resources available for screening on campuses.

The new NGLTF publication lists colleges and universities that have non-discrimination policies covering sexual orientation discrimination. It highlights successful organizing efforts on several campuses and outlines for activists the mechanics of changing campus policies.

Copies of "Making It Official" may be ordered by sending $1 to NGLTF Campus Project, 1517 U. St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20009. The two earlier issues of the Campus Project newsletter also may be ordered for $1 each.

Lesbians and gay men are urged to contact their representatives in Congress to encourage them to co-sponsor the recently introduced Hate Crimes Statistics Act.

The legislation mandates the collection of nationwide data on crimes of prejudice, including "gay-bashing."

Gays and lesbians can send Congress a message by calling the toll-free Mailgram Action Hotline, 1-800-2574900, operator 9188. Ask for the "Hate Crimes" messages. The operator will read prepared mailgrams, such as:

"Violence based on bigotry, prejudice must be stopped. Urge your co-sponsorship of H.R. 947, Hate Crimes bill, to address problem. Also urge opposition to amendments deleting sexual orientation. Such amendments imply violence against some is tolerable. Await word."

Mailgrams are $4.50 each and billed to your phone.

The Women's Healing Circle will meet again on Sunday April 23, at 6:30 at the West Side Women's Center, 4209 Lorain Ave. Please call Fern at 371-2806 for more info.

The Maine Humanities Council has released a 30-minute video program called AIDS: Plague, Panic and the Test of Human Values, based on a one-day conference presented by the council on May 8, 1987.

While the immediate medical and social problems posed by AIDS are real and complex, the council believes we must also examine our underlying attitudes toward diseases and the people who have them.

More than 500 people attended the conference to explore how societies have reacted in the past to grave threats to the public health such as plague, tuberculosis, polio and venereal disease, and to try to apply these insights to the present.

The videotape of presentations features well-known artists and critic Susan Sontag, author of Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors, as well as such noted scholars as medieval historian David Herlihy of Brown University and social historian Allan Brandt of Harvard University.

Also in the video is Cameron Duncan, a person with AIDS who spent the year before his death sharing his thoughts and experiences of his illness with people in Maine.

The program addresses such AIDSrelated issues as morality and sexuality, public health and individual rights, obligations of health care professionals and society's struggle with the power of biology.

The videotape is available for sale from the Maine Humanities Council. For more information, write the council at Box 7202, Portland, Maine 04112, or call 207-773-5051.

The Human Rights Campaign Fund is seeking applications from young adults for its board of directors as part of the new HRCF Young Leaders Internship Program.

In the program, two young adults ages 19 to 25 will serve a one-year internship on the 25-member HRCF board. One female and one male intern will be selected. The program begins this sum-

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Interns will have the same rights and responsibilities as other board members, Continued on Page 14

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