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GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE June, 1989

BITS & PIECES

The American Civil Liberties Union is establishing a gay and lesbian chapter in the greater Cleveland area. The purpose of this chapter is to address issues affecting the gay and lesbian community

The first two meetings have produced positive input and attendance. All interested parties are invited to attend our next meeting, June 19 at 7:30 p.m. at the Lesbian-Gay Community Services Center at 1418 West 29th Street in Cleveland.

All future meetings will be held the third Monday of each month at the Center, or please call Loretta at the Cleveland ACLU office at 781-6276.

We will also have a table with information at the Pride 89 fair on June 18. A survey will also be available to determine specific issues the lesbian-gay community would like to see addressed by the ACLU.

Please stop by our table. Your needs and ideas are important to us, and, of course, confidentiality is assured.

Another State of Mind Bookstore, 16608 Madison Ave., Lakewood, will be closed June 25 through 30.

Bluefish Productions is seeking donations or investors in order to promote a series of "mainstream" women's music events. Prospective artists include k.d. lang, Jane Siberry, the Indigo Girls, Michelle Shocked, Tuck, and Patti. Anyone interested in donating or investing $100 to $5000 or more should contact Brynna Fish, 371-9714 for more information. If funds are raised concert series will be offered beginning this summer.

A copy of the article "AIDS, Cancer Cured by Hyper-Oxygenation" can be obtained by sending $3 to Waves Forest, P.O. Box 768, Monterey, CA 93942

For an exact treatment schedule, send $1 to: ECHO,Inc., P.O. Box 126, Delano, Minn. 5328 and ask for the pamphlet entitled "Progress Report on Oxygen Therapy" Second Edition.

"Added Dimensions" is proud to announce the publication of Prime, a unique bimonthly newsletter targeting mature gay men over 40 and those that admire them.

Gay publications and pornography mostly focus on the under-30 crowd in their photographic content. Prime offers an alternative. Each issue contains health news germane to the over 40 male, as well as erotic fiction, nude photos submitted by readers, illustrations, and classified ads.

Unlike Chiron Rising (formerly Swan) whose literary focus is over 65 gay male,Prime targets the 40-59 market. Sample copies are $3 and a yearly subscription of 6 issues is $29. Added Dimensions, 4216 Beverly Blvd. Suite 118, Los Angeles, Calif. 90004

National Gay Rights Advocates has announced the publication of a "how-to" booklet for fighting the AIDS crisis through lobbying, community organizing and using the media. Entitled the "AIDS Action Guide," the booklet is a primer for new activists, providing both basic information and useful examples and models.

The pamphlet instructs activists on how to promote legislation that will help fight AIDS and AIDS related discrimination. In addition, the pamphlet details strategies for utilizing both the electronic and print media, and provides a sample "letter to the editor" and sample press releases.

The AIDS Action Guide also provides information about how community action can be an effective weapon. It analyzes the value of speaking to community groups, organizing demonstration, civil disobedience, public forums and other methods of community education and protest.

The AIDS Action Guide is available through NGRA's San Francisco office: 540 Castro Street, San Francisco, Calif. 94114. The price of each publication is $1.00 for members and $2.00 for nonmembers. Bulk rates are also available.

Sharing educational strategies for ending heterosexism and homophobia will be the focus of the second Conference on Anti-Homophobia Education at the University of California-Los Angeles to be held June 30 to July 3, 1989.

The conference will include presentations and workshops on the educational programs effective in reducing homophobia. An extensive resource library of works in print, video and film will be available.

The conference is being organized by the Campaign to End Homophobia, a project initiated in 1986 by the National Organization for Changing Men. The Campaign is a network of people who work to end homophobia through information sharing and education which celebrates diversity, promotes love and support, and provides alternatives to oppression. Co-sponsors of the conference include the American Psychological Association, the Catholic Coalition for Gay Civil Rights, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, and Women's Action Alliance and over 15 other organizations.

For additional information on the 1989 Conference on Anti-Homophobia Education, including registration and co-sponsorship, contact one of the following members of the steering committee: in Los Angeles, Jeff Beane 213-273 6375; in Evanston Ill., Mary Jo Osterman 312-864-2840; in Baltimore, Jamie Washington 301-455 2591, or write to The Campaign to End Homophobia, P.O. Box 819, Cambridge, MA 02139.

The women's Healing Circle will meet again in June at the West Side Women's Center, 4209 Lorain Ave., please call Fern at 371-2806 for more information.

Submissions are being accepted for an anthology focusing on the experiences and feelings of lesbians whose sexual assault by men was motivated by anti-lesbian sentiment. Homophobic sexual assault and its threat is a powerful means to terrorize lesbians into silence, isolation, and shame. By recognizing this extreme form of violence, the anthology has potential to empower survivors and expose the extent to which our homophobic society overlooks and condones crimes against lesbians. Lesbian survivors/victims and their friends and lovers are invited to submit short stories, journal entries, essays and poetry. Lesbians who want to add some political commentary or insight as well as third person stories are encouraged to submit them. Deadline for submissions is December 30, 1989. Send to: Sharon M. Vardatira, Box 2304, Harvard Square Station Cambridge, MA 02238.

I would like to start a MetaphysicalSpiritual Rap Group Ramtha, Lazarius, Edgar Cayce, channeling, who what is God, why is there disease, why are we here etc. Contact Steve 255-0512.

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HUGS East presents Pride Prom “89" at th UU Church, 8181 Center St., Mentor, Ohio. Refreshments will be available. Tickets are $8 in advance or $10 at the door. For tickets or more information contract Tony at 585-2397, Karen at 255-2156.

The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force today released a lobbying packet for use by constituents and supporters of the federal Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights bill. The bill, known as the Civil Rights Amendments Act of 1989, prohibits discrimination in employment, housing, public accommodation, and federally assisted programs on the basis of affectional or sexual orientation. Senator Alan Cranston D-Calif., reintroduced the bill in the U.S. Senate (S.47) and the House of Representatives (H.R. 655), respectively, this January.

The 13-page NGLTF lobbying packet is aimed at helping various constituents understand the bill and what it proposes. In brief, the bill will'ammend the 1964 Civil Rights Act by setting prohibitions on discrimination regarding sexual orientation. The bill would not introduce any special forms of preferential treatment or affirmative action.

The lobbying packet also contains a list of the 8 U.S. Senators and 70 U.S. Representatives that have co-sponsored the bill. The bill was first introduced in the 94th Congress, and has been submitted repeatedly since 1975.

Those receiving the NGLTF packets are encouraged to call or write their legislators in Washington, D.C., or at their home offices in the states and districts they represent. Generating support from local constituents is viewed as the best way to build support for and increase the likelihood of passage of the Civil Rights Amendments Act.

Copies of the NGLTF lobbying pack et for the Civil Rights Amendments Act of 1989 may be ordered by writing to: NGLTF, Peri Jude Radecic, Legislative Publications Dept., 1517"U" Street NW, Washington, DC 20009.

Take your vacation at the NAMES Project!

Preparing the Quilt for the Washington, D.C. display on October 68, 1989 will require the efforts of hundreds of volunteers over the next six months. The NAMES Project needs part-time and full-time volunteers in the San Francisco workshop from now through the end of September.

Each panel that arrives at the NAMES Project workshop must be measured, hemmed, and sewn int larger blocks. Each block must be bor dered and grommeted so it can be at tached to other Quilt sections. The names must be entered into the master database that is used to create the map and directory for each display.

Additional tasks at the workshop in clude answering phone inquiries, work ing with the national media, planning events for the October 6-8 weekend i D.C., creating fabric walkways, produc ing flyers, posters, and leaflets about th events, arranging shipping and transpor tation, and communicating wit NAMES Project chapters across the country and around the world.

The NAMES Project cannot b responsible for your transportation housing or other costs, but can offer yo the chance to be part of the preparation for the October display, and to see Sa Francisco. If yon would like to offer an amount of time, please call the voluntee coordinator at 415-863-1966

A poster commemorating thos Canadians who have died of AIDS ha been unveiled by Toronto's The AID Memorial.

Suitable for Framing, the poster lis the three hundred names who wer registered for the Memorial's install tion last June at Lesbian and Gay Day It also incorporates colo photographs of that installation, whic deeply moved the several thousan people who visited it during the day.

"We Remember" is available for donation of $10 or more, plus $1.5 postage and handling. Send your chequ payable to "Memorial", Box 7289, St tion A, Toronto ON M5W 1X9.

Proceeds will be used for this year installation at pride day. Contact: Al Miller 416-921-6310

For an oral history of the Stonew riots, I am seeking all participants, w nesses, police officers, Stonewall I employees, journalists and other inte ested and involved people who we present at any of the nights of rioting June 1969. I would also like to intervie people who were not at the riots b whose lives were directly or dramatical effected by them. I am especially inte ested in locating women and people

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