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hour following at 8:00 p.m. Please call 251-2918 for location and further information. All are invited!
The Women's Healing Circle will meet on Sunday, Nov. 12, at 6:30 p.m. at the West Side Women's Center, 4209 Lorain Ave. Please call Fern at 371-2806 for more information.
Are you going to the Gay Games? The North Coast Freedom Band will be meeting at the Lesbian-Gay Community Center on Tuesday, Nov. 7 at 7:30 p.m. We will discuss transportation, fundraising, and organizing Cleveland's contingent of athletes and band members to attend Celebration '90: Gay Games III and Cultural Festival in Vancouver, B.C. next August. All groups and individuals are encouraged to participate.
Bowling benefits. The Gay Invitational Fellowship Tournament (G.I.F.T.) will be holding bowling fundraisers known as "Moonlight Bowling." The games will take place at Ambassador/Superior Lanes, 1500 Superior Ave., on Nov. 18 and Dec. 9., at 10:30 p.m. Cost is $7 per person for three games. Shoe rental is additional. Along with the games there will be door prizes and a 50/50 raffle. Proceeds will benefit G.I.F.T.'s annual tournament, held in June.
Come out and join in the fun.!
Computer Bulletin Board The gay and lesbian community of Cleveland has developed several exceptional resources over the past several years. One individual is working on a computer bulletin board service for Cleveland and outlaying areas. The board would consist of current information, free computer programs, general discussion areas, resources directories, and an additional way to meet gay and lesbian individuals whom do not ordinarily frequent area functions.
It is planned that the board will begin with four open lines so that it is possible to meet and talk to people over your computer. A small fee will be charged to assist in the maintaining of the system. Cleveland is one of the last to have such a service available to the community. Most of the ground work has been finished, but I need assistance from those who are interested in helping finish “putting it all together" and provide some ongoing support. If you have some computer experience or would like more information, please call Warren at
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Dr. Nan Decker is pleased to announce that the Decker Pet Clinic is open for business as of November 1, 1989 The goal of this clinic is to provide caring, high quality veterinary service for a reasonable price thus ensuring that you have access to the information and facilities you need to ensure your pet's health.
To accommodate you we are open two evening a week, as well as Saturdays. Emergency, house call, and pickup and delivery services are also available. Our association with Aaron's Grooming Salon is an advantage for all pets that require bathing, dipping, grooming or boarding.
The clinic is located on E 152nd Street .3 miles north of St Clair Ave. and .8 miles south of Interstate 90. Give us a call at 451-3400. Senior citizens, don't forget to ask about our discount program.
Next AIDS conference seeking broader input. Seeking to assure that community needs for information on the developing science of AIDS are met, and to assure expression of a public policy agenda responsive to the needs of HIVinfected people, the Sixth International Conference on AIDS has embarked on an unprecedented community outreach program. With this program, to be held in San Francisco from June 20 to 24, 1990, Conference organizers hope to include people with HIV infection, lesbians and gay men, women, people of color, people of the third world, and AIDS-service providers throughout the world.
The theme of the Sixth International Conference on AIDS is "AIDS in the Nineties: From Science to Public Policy." Conference organizers are working to design a program that emphasizes presentation of the highest quality science on AIDS, considers the implications of scientific advances on AIDS for public policy, and closely examines the complex interface between science and political activism as they relate to AIDS.
The outreach efforts of the Conference include creation of a broadly representative Community Task Force in San Francisco. The Task Force was charged with developing, by Sept. 30, a comprehensive set of recommendations to guide the Conference in eight key
areas.
In addition to formulating and implementing programmatic and logistical recommendations, the Community Task Force has been empowered to select rep-
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making committees of the Conference. Recognizing the importance of community input from throughout the world, the Conference has mailed Community Outreach Surveys to 1,100 AIDS organizations internationally. Additionally, Conference staff is meeting with AIDS service providers and activist groups throughout the United States to receive advice on the design of the meeting.
HRCF names lesbian project head. Long-time activist and Capitol Hill-insider Kathleen Stoll has been named to head the Human Rights Campaign Fund's (HRCF) new Lesbian Issues and Outreach Project.
The project-one of the first of its kind in the nation's capital-will address the political and policy issues of the lesbian community and develop strategies to advance those issues through federal legislation, education and advocacy.
Stol will develop policy positions and legislative proposals and integrate them into HRCF's political, lobbying, media and constituent mobilization operations.
She will also design and implement outreach programs to inform the lesbian and women's community of political developments, and to provide feedback to HRCF on women's issues. She also intends to build coalitions within the lesbian community and with progressive women's groups.
Health insurance problems? ACT UP/LA (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power/Los Angeles) is participating in a nationwide effort to demand that the insurance industry end discrimination practices and provide full health care coverage for the insured. They would like to hear from individuals who have experienced any AIDS or HIV-related problems with insurance companies and are particularly interested in hearing from Prudential Insurance Company policyholders.
Difficulties that have been reported already include: exorbitant premium increases; refusal to pay for prescribed treatment; declaring all HIV-related claims as ineligible for coverage, and claiming that it is a "pre-existing condition."
All replies will be held in the strictest confidence, although individuals may be asked to speak out publicly against the abuses of the insurance industry. Please contact ACT UP/LA Insurance Committee, PO Box 26601, LA, CA 90026 or call Richard 213-838-3260, Jake 213-8512492 or Neil 213-650-7590.
Elected and appointed officials meet. The Fifth Annual Conference of Gay and Lesbian Officials will take place in Madison, Wisconsin, from Friday, Nov. 17, through Sunday, Nov. 19, 1989. Past conferences have been held in West Hollywood, Washington, D.C., Minneapolis, and San Diego. The bulk of the 1989 Conference meetings will be held in the Wisconsin State Capitol. Other events are planned for conference participants and interested parties. Madison is home to a total of seven gay or lesbian elected officials, comprising ten percent of the Madison City Council and ten percent of the Dane County Board of Supervisors.
Those welcome and encouraged to attend are elected and appointed officials, candidates, future candidates, campaign workers, and their life partners. Those interested in attending and seeking more information should write: FORWARD, 739 Jenifer Street, Madison, WI 53703; or call Richard Wagner, 608-257-5270, or Tammy Baldwin, 608-258-9298.
Daughters of Holocaust survivors gather. As the world notes the 50th anniversary of the beginning of World War II, Jewish Lesbian Daughters of Holocaust Survivors (JLDHS) will gather to commemorate the six million Jewish victims of that war and those who survived.
On the weekend of Nov. 17-19, 1989, in New Hampshire, JLDHS will meet for discussion, support, and networking around issues faced by children of sur-
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vivors. It will be the ninth semiannual gathering since the group began with six members in the fall of 1985. This year the group, with 132 members, has truly become international, with people from Australia and Nicragua, in addition to its members from the United States and Canada.
JLDHS is for lesbians whose parent or parents survived the Holocaust. This includes parents who were in nazi Europe or North Africa in 1933 or later and who survived death camps, by hiding, by passing as non-Jews, or by managing to leave for safer territories. Jewish and nonJewish lesbian partners of daughters are welcome and may attend workshops specifically for partners. For further information, write Box 6194, Boston, MA 02114, or call 617-321-4254.
Lesbian-gay writers conference. OutWrite '90, the first National Lesbian & Gay Writers Conference, set for March 3-4, 1990, is seeking interested writers, editors, publishers, booksellers, critics and other potential participants.
"This is the first time ever that lesbian and gay writers are being brought together to meet, to share their talents and their interests," said Jeffrey Escoffier, one of the organizers. We want to draw as diverse a representation as possible from around the United States and other countries," "Conference panels, workshops and informal meetings will promote the development of the lesbian and gay writing community," said organizer, Dorothy Allison, "and help authors, editors, publishers and others get to know one another."
Suggested workshops range from the practical to the theoretical and include: organizing writers, the double marginalization of writers of color, censorship, erotic versus pornographic material, genre writing, money matters, closeted writing, how to create a book proposal, writer's block and how to deal with it, what sells and what doesn't, selfrevelation in fiction and poetry, journal writing, and the economics of publishing.
The two day conference opens March 3, 1990, at the Cathedral Hill Hotel in San Francisco. Attendance is $15 for one day, or $25 for both days.
For further information, contact Jeff Escoffier at 415-626-7929.
New record out. Tsunami Records is
proud to announce the release of Closer To Home by Jamie Anderson. It's women's music full of strength, honesty and humor-folk blended with blues, rock, bluegrass and country. Available through Ladyslipper (a national distributor of women's music), your local feminist/alternative bookstore, or directly from Tsunami Records.
This is Tsunami Records' first release. Started in January of this year, Tsunami will release more albums by Jamie Anderson.
Speech association forms gay caucus. The Caucus on Gay and Lesbian Concerns is assembled to support research in the area of communication by and about lesbian and gay people, and to provide an organized support group within the Speech Communication Association (SCA) for gay and lesbian people and
their friends.
The Caucus seeks to provide avenues and lesbian research, and to act as a for the discussion and publication of gay networking group for lesbian and gay members of SCA. The Caucus also welcomes into membership any members of SCA who wish to support the professional contributions of their gay and lesbian colleagues.
Membership in the Caucus provides opportunities to participate in the planning of Caucus events, timely information on issues before the Caucus, and subscription to the Caucus journal, Alternative Communications.
Membership is fifteen dollars ($15) per year for faculty and professionals; five dollars ($5) for students.
Make checks payable to: Caucus on Gay and Lesbian Concerns, and send to SCA, R. Jeffrey Ringer, Ph.D. Speech Communication Department, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN 56301.