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At right are the candidates the Chronicle has endorsed this year. Please take this to the poll with you on November 6 and if possible call the people you voted for and tell them you did so based on their records on lesbian and gay issues. This will help all of us in the long run. We did not endorse in some races because of lack of information about the candidates' positions.
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Governor:
Anthony J. Celebrezze, Jr.
Attorney General:
Lee I. Fisher
United States Representatives: Edward Feighan (19) Louis Stokes (21)
Ohio Senate:
Linda J. Furney (11) Jeffrey D. Johnson (21) Eric Fingerhut (25) Pete Crossland (27)
Ohio House of Representatives: Madeline A. Cain (8) C.J. Prentiss (14) Jane Campbell (15)
Ohio Supreme Court: Stephanie Tubbs Jones Court of Appeals
Pat Blackmon Common Pleas Court Linda Sogg Rocker
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cials spent a lot of time and money proving once again what jerks they really are.
So take heart, and continue to get involved. When you get involved, even only a little bit, wonderful things come from it. Take voting for instance. Doesn't seem like much, does it? But, it could make a difference in whether continued protection for gays and lesbians at the state level exists next year. Or whether or not people like Loren Vail and Gary Suhadolnik are in the Statehouse.
Don't be chicken. Vote based on your sexual identity. Don't cop out to Voinovich because he seems so nice. He cares so much for us that he didn't even prepare an
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answer about gay and lesbian rights for his Tales debate on October 17. Perhaps he thought no one cared.
The Chronicle has prepared the above voter guide for you to take to the polls with you on Tuesday. Our recommendations are
based on our editors' personal knowledge of the candidates, the candidates' past records, and in some cases conversations with those we have endorsed. We are sorry we couldn't endorse any Republicans, but the party of Suhadolnik, Vail, Voinovich, George Bush and Jesse Helms needs to work on their positions on gay and lesbian rights.
Don't vote against your own people. Don't vote for those who will oppress us because they seem okay on "other issues." Our lives are involved. There are no other
issues.
BY ANDREA NATALIE
PERHAPS WE'D MAKE BETTER PROGRESS IF YOU'D EXPLAIN TO ME WHAT "TOO HET" MEANS
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gay, actor and be responsible to yourself and community."
has been very hectic, Sure of You, the sixth For Maupin and Anderson the past year
and final novel of the Tales series was released about a year ago. Work on Heart's Desire, two workshops to develop the play at a state university in New York State and at Vassar, and a 32-city tour has been taxing to say the least.
"It was wonderful meeting all the people on the tour but at the end I found myself parroting the same lines and it lost its excitement," said Maupin. "One of the Christchurch, New Zealand. We fell in highlights of the tour was that we ended in love with the area and purchased a house overlooking the Pacific just outside Christchurch."
The couple are leaving in ten days to live in their new home for the next four months. Of course the word processor is going along.
The future? Of course there will be more writing, but another very exciting development is that there will be a serialization of Tales made for British TV, which will be filmed in San Francisco. Thirteen episodes will be made. Developing the visuals from Maupin is pleased with the initial material written materials is another art in itself and
he has reviewed. I mentioned that when I was in San Francisco I felt that my visit was not complete because I could not visit 28 Barbary Lane, since it was fictional.
He said, "Ah! But the stairway is not mythical. The wooden stairs are there and the city does want to replace them with concrete steps." Just as featured in his novels. The Filbert Steps are pictured on the dust cover of the latest "omnibus edition" containing the first three Tales novels.
Gay and straight fans alike are anxiously awaiting whatever new creations this talented author will present in the future. We wish the couple well in their new home.▼
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once dedicated to the doctrines and missions of the Mormon Church, but he was ultimately excommunicated for his refusal to disavow his homosexual identity.
Initially, true to church tenets, Geoff thought of his homoerotic feelings as part of a "rotten core" of his being, from which he sought escape in church activities and even, at one point, by declaring his commitment to a young woman. His "failure" to outrun his feelings led to thoughts of suicide.
Finally, as he put it, he "confronted his rotten core." He accepted the inevitability of his same-sex orientation, even though he had yet to act on it.
Geoff says that coming out to his family was "sort of traumatic," even though his parents, as expected, turned out to be sup-
portive. About a week later, he was "still in the midst of despair about what it might mean to be a gay man," when he had a strikingly vivid dream. In it, he saw a closet, its door tightly closed but bulging outward form inner pressures, and oozing some particularly foul black viscous fluid from its cracks.
Then the door flew open, obviously unable to resist the pressure any longer. The room was filled with a cascade of what Geoff calls "the black ooze." But there in the center of the closet, he could now see what had been obscured by the locked door and the black ooze.
It was a large, brilliant, beautiful diamond.
Robert A. Bernstein is a vice president of the Federation of Parents & Friends of Lesbians & Gays.
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