Bits & Pieces

New Chorus group now available. The North Coast Men's Chorus is pleased to announce the formation and availability for booking of the Coastliners, our new small group. This eight-voice ensemble is composed of two men for each the four voice parts.

The group is designed to serve as an ambassador for the Chorus and to meet performance needs of special occasions. The Coastliners can perform at banquets, receptions, commitment ceremonies, fundraisers, etc.

The growing repertoire of this flexible group includes light music, barbershop, songs from musicals from South Pacific to Cats, operettas, jazz, and classical.

Under the direction of NCMC Director Robert Bellisario, the Coastliners are ready to perform at your function. For booking information, please call Bob Taylor at 468-3398.

*

Akron P-FLAG meets. Parents and Friends of Lesbian and Gays (P-FLAG) will hold its regular monthly meeting at 7:00 p.m. Thursday evening, July 18, at the North Springfield United Presbyterian Church, 671 Canton Rd., Akron. For more information about this support group, write PFLAG, P.O. Box 6350, Akron, Ohio 44312, or call 794-2727 or 1-467-9078 before 9:00 p.m.

* * *

Is Cleveland large enough?—A new social group is forming for big gay men and their admirers in the Cleveland area. No need to travel to Pennsylvania any more! For information on meeting time and place, drop a note to P.O. Box 427, Lakewood, OH 44107.

* *

Coming-out video needs funding. From A Secret Place: America's Families Cope with the Coming-Out Process of

Gay-Lesbian Youth is a proposed 60-minute documentary and educational videotape on the coming-out process and its effects on self-esteem among adolescents.

The videotape will explore the ways in which homophobic attitudes influence the coming out process. People need to be aware of what homophobia is and its insidious effects on self-esteem during adolescence. This videotape is currently in pre-production and the producers, Karin Heller and Bill Domonkos, are having difficulty accessing funding through main-

August, 1991

GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE

stream sources. We are seeking private donations for this very important and timely project.

Anyone interested in obtaining further information may contact the producers at 881-6440.

Attention playwrights: The Cleveland Public Theatre is now accepting scripts for its Tenth Annual Festival of New Plays, scheduled for January, 1992.

Scripts must either be unproduced (previous readings okay) or have been significantly rewritten since their initial production. CPT is particularly interested in alternative work and scripts by minorities and women; work that needs a stage, not a

National Notes

Payless settles with fired worker to avoid ACT UP action

Kansas City-The threat of a boycott and demonstration by ACT UP Kansas City appears to have forced Payless Shoe Source to settle with an employee fired because the company assumed he had AIDS.

Bill Hornburg was fired April 16 because of his presumed HIV status. Although he had begun legal proceedings against the company, he also contacted ACT UP/KC seeking support.

ACT UP communicated with May Department Stores, Payless' parent company, on May 21 demanding a settlement be made with Mr. Hornburg and the firm end its discriminatory practices by May 30. When May didn't respond, plans were made for a June 15 demonstration at one of Payless' busiest stores, and a phone zap to the retail chain's inter-company phone lines.

Dykes To Watch Out For

Support Group

HERE. LET ME INTERPRET

IT. "DEAR GINGER, I'D LIKE

TO FUCK YOU. ARE YOU

INTO IT? LOVE,

MALIKA.

"

LOIS!

Three days before the demonstration,

SHIT.

RIP!

m

-ACME FLORAL

Dear Ginger,

I wouldve

The confere without

been a

♡Malika

you I'm glad we met

Dear Malika:

Thank you

Payless contacted Hornburg and negotiated a settlement with him, and sent ACTUP a letter outlining an addition to their employment policy prohibiting HIV status discrimination. The action was then called

off.

Honorable discharge held up after man walks in Pride march

Washington, D.C.-Air Force Captain Greg Greeley received an honorable discharge from the armed forces one day after his original discharge had been delayed because of his participation in the Washington, D.C. Gay and Lesbian Pride Parade.

The delay in Greeley's discharge was attacked by members of Congress, the media, and the Human Rights Campaign Fund.

In an interview with Secretary of Defense Richard Cheney printed in USA Today, the Secretary admitted that the Pentagon's decision to delay the discharge was a mistake. "He should not have been har-

Page 15

camera-no sitcoms or TV movies-of-theweek, please.

This is not a contest, and there is no "winning" production. However, since the Festival's inception in 1984, two thirds of the Festival's 100-plus playwright alumni have received full productions of their work at Cleveland Public Theatre and other theaters after their Festival debut.

A $10 reading fee is requested to defray expenses. Send script, a manuscript-sized self-addressed stamped envelope, and $10 check to Cleveland Public Theatre, 6415 Detroit Ave., Cleveland, OH 44102. Musicals must include a cassette tape and score (lead sheets minimum). Without SASE, material will not be returned. Deadline: October 1. Contact Linda Eisenstein at 631-2727 for more info.

assed on his way out," Cheney told the paper. Moreover, he noted, "No question in my mind, we've got a large number of gays in military service."

Lavender confetti welcomes lesbian and gay Gulf troops

New York-The Human Rights Campaign Fund hung a lavender banner from a Broadway office building and dropped 700 pounds of lavender confetti, along with the more usual ticker tape, as the Operation Welcome Home parade wound its way along Broadway on June 14. The confetti and banner were designed to recognize and honor the estimated tens of thousands of lesbian, gay and bisexual troops who served in the Persian Gulf war.

"We wanted to say welcome home to the thousands of gay, lesbian, and bisexual troops who served in the Gulf," said Tim McFeeley, executive director of the Campaign Fund. "Although they are forced to serve in silence, we wanted them to know they had not been forgotten.'

GINGER, YOU'VE BEEN WORKING ON THAT FOR HOURS. AMERICAN EDUCATION IS IN EVEN SADDER SHAPE THAN I THOUGHT IF A PH.D. IN ENGLISH CAN'T WRITE A SIMPLE THANK YOU NOTE

CRUMPLE

CRUMPLE

I CAN'T DECIDE WHAT TONE TO TAKE I MEAN, WHAT DOES "GLAD WE MET" MEAN? IS THAT LIKE, SOLONG, HAVE A NICE LIFE," OR "I'D LIKE TO GET TO KNOW YOU BETTER?" AND WHAT DOES THE LITTLE HEART MEAN? HER WHOLE MESSAGE IS SO OPEN TO INTERPRETATION.

(

OH, COME OFF IT. YOU

KNOW THAT'S WHAT YOU BOTH WANT. LIFE WOULD BE A LOT SIMPLER IF WE WERE ALL MORE UPFRONT ABOUT THIS STUFF.

LOIS, YOU ARE SO DYSFUNCTIONAL! THERE'S MORE TO A RELATIONSHIP THAN "FUCKING," AS YOU CALL IT. INTIMACY ISSUES, INTERNALIZED HOMOPHOBIA, ADDICTIONS, ABUSE HISTORIES... WE ALL HAVE HURT CHILDREN INSIDE US. IT'S NEVER SIMPLE!

NO SUPPECT 100 MUTILATION

SLAYINGS

MAN USLO

DEATH

LOOK, I JUST MET THE WOMAN. I DON'T KNOW IF I WANNA SLEEP WITH HER AND I SURE AS HELL DON'T KNOW IF I WANT TO GO

INTO THERAPY WITH HER!

Thedad Distress)

WELCOME HOME, TROUPS! MILITARY HARDWARE ON

PARADE

AHH, SHE LIVES TWO TIME ZONES AWAY ANYHOW. WHY DON'T YOU TRY FOR

SOME LOCAL ACTION?

YEAH DID YOU EVER WONDER WHY YOU ALWAYS FALL FOR WOMEN WHO ARE SOMEHOW UNAVAILABLE?

IFE

TEACHER DENIES LEWO

CONDUCT CHARGE

TOUCHY

=

FRATERNITY PLEADS

MINDENT

BAPE CASEY

SHE DRINKS

WAY TOO MUCH

COFFEE

BC

Chaz

HAIR

Chaz has expanded and added esthetician services and massotherapy

Visit Gallery OriGaia at Chaz

contemporary and indigena

ay's and crafts, jewelry and accessories honoring the magical spirit of natına