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by Aubrey Wertheim
Catch it Quick Dept.: Do you have trouble managing volunteers? Where do they come from? Where do they go? How do we keep them happy? Learn the answers to these and many other questions at a Volunteer Management Workshop offered by the Center and the Health Issues Taskforce Monday, July 1 at the Center from 7:15 to 9:15 p.m. Everyone is welcome and much can be learned.
Speaking of Volunteers: This month, the Center is inaugurating a new Volunteer Night. Every Monday, starting July 15, will be a drop-in Volunteer Night from 7:30 to 9:30p.m. for the many members of our community who want to combine service with a little socializing. Skills will be needed in a variety of areas, so please drop in at 1418 W. 29th Street and check it out. How-Does-Your-Garden-PartyGrow? Dept.: The reservations are pouring in, so please buy your Garden Party ticket soon. This annual fundraiser on the
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offers an art auction, catered luncheon and the tiniest of elbow rubbing. July 21-not to be missed! Call our office at 522-1999 during business hours for more info.
Honey, we Shrunk from the Kids Dept.: After an encouraging reception by the Cleveland Board of Education Guidance Dept., a mailing of gay-lesbian youth sensitizing packets to all Cleveland high schools and the scheduling of a sensitizing workshop in October met with hostility and complaints by the counselors themselves.
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by Roger
I hope as many of you went to the Pride '91 celebration as could go. I saw many people there I hadn't seen in ages. Many aspects of our culture were represented that Saturday, and I hope it did some good to the world at large. More and more, you see previous rules of lesbians and gay men's lives changing. Much of the changes are for the better.
The one change I have seen lately from many people is the act of commitment. Men and women are committing themselves to each other and sticking by that vow, as they should. United we will stand, but divided and bickering at each other, we will fall.
Emmanuel MCC encourages those kind of dedications from each and all of us. We hope you took advantage of the opening Commitment Ceremony given by our visiting pastor, Rev. Bruce Roller, from our affiliated church. Seeing as many people take a vow of faithfulness and love for each other reminded me of the time I did it with my partner at the March on Washington. We are still together after all these years, and I look forward to ceremonies of these types to reaffirm our love for each other. More and more, gays and lesbians are making families with their partners and children (if there are any involved). Not exactly the kind of lifestyle the straight society seems to view from us.
Getting back to basic values is what most of the congregation practices at Emmanuel. For many gays, we are taught that God will not love or accept us for who we are. Anyone who reads the Bible knows that the whole premise of His teachings is that God loves all. We are included in that all. No one is excluded because of their
nationwide, was found offensive and inappropriate. Some counselors were insistent that a Center presentation would have to be accompanied by an anti-gay point of view. A fundamentalist group was found to present one, which prompted a whole other round of protests and finally last month, the entire workshop was cancelled. A note urging reconsideration to John Ryan would be very helpful or, if you went to a Cleveland public school, call in September and tell them what it's like to have no one to talk to when you're young, and gay or lesbian.
Desperately Seeking Respectable Seats Dept.: We're in voracious need of decent, rolling office chairs. Any leads? We will gladly arrange pick-up.
MIT, Inc: The next open forum for Men in Touch is Tuesday, July 9 at 7 p.m. Learn how you can strengthen your intimacy and communication skills with other guys in 6 easy lessons. For more info, call the hotline: 781-6736.
Gonna Getta Gund Dept.: The Center has been awarded $42,000 by the George Gund Foundation for general operating support over the next two years. Hats off to the Foundation for recognizing the vital importance of gay-lesbian services and a hail-to-our-chief, Board President Bob Laycock, for his preparation of the proposal.
Into the Woods Dept.: The Metroparks Ranger Division has agreed to gay-lesbian sensitivity training for the 100-plus rangers of the system by the Center's Maryann Finegan Project. A big step forward.
Kudos: To everyone who helped us prepare and deliver for Pride: whistlemakers, booksellers, pop vendors, signmrakers. We couldn't have done it without you.
A welcome and Howdy Neighbor: wish for success to the newly opened Lorain Gay-Lesbian Community Center. We couldn't be prouder of an agency that will definitely fill many local needs.
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gender, their color, or their sexual orientation. Nowhere in the Bible is the term homosexual used in a negative sense as being recorded as a direct message or quote from God.
The only thing God says is to love thy neighbor, and treat thy neighbor as thyself. If a God who is all-forgiving and loving tells us to love each other as we are, that same God would not tell you in the next sentence to hate or cast stones at each other for being different. Jesus said "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone." A lot of people who seem to be judging homosexuals publicly don't seem to be able to follow the simple rules God has given us all in their own lives. They certainly can't tell us how to live ours, when they have never walked in our shoes. I certainly can't change places with someone else, so I try not to judge a lifestyle that another has unless it is doing me some kind of harm.
Simple values, and ideas that's passed on from parent to child. In the inclusive language practiced in all Metropolitan Community Churches, so as not to offend by attaching a gender to God, we refer to our creator as Parent at times. As my Parent, I choose to listen the what I am told. You don't have to feel guilty, despite what some people would have you believe, because you are gay. There is nothing wrong with loving someone, despite gender, if your heart and soul are in it. My heart and soul are with my man, who has been my partner for seven years. June 24 is our anniversary, and I am still in love. I have also found a Place that I belong in, lets me believe in God, and still be who I am.
If you ever want to feel the Presence, or simply to belong among "family" we are here. Simply dial 651-0129, or visit a simple little church at 10034 Lorain Ave. If you need help getting through the door at the first, talk to anyone in the congregation about those feelings. We all had to come to grips with ourselves and each other in mustering up the courage to enter. But once you enter, you will never want to leave. Until next month, have a safe summer, and God Bless. ▼