Bits 'n Pieces

November, 1991

GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE

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Fulfilling their commitment when first organized, the Midwestern Invitational Softball Tournament Committee '91 donated $1,000 to:

The AIDS Housing Council of Greater Cleveland for Kamana Place The Health Issues Taskforce Direct Assistance Program

Northern Ohio Coalition Inc. for its assistance in Northeast Ohio.

The balance will be held as "seed money" for the next tournament in Cleveland.

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Point of Life Organization is a nonprofit group created to serve the special HIV/AIDS needs of the minority community. The group is looking both for volunteers and two additional board members. No talent is too great or too small to make the East Side Halfway home a reality.

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Applications for membership in Greater Cleveland Community Shares are being accepted from non-profit organizations, especially those concerned with environment, differently abled persons, senior citizens, the arts, education, the Hispanic community and veterans. The application deadline is November 30.

The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation/Ohio (GLAAD) is organizing. It is putting pen to paper, voice to the air, bodies to action and convictions to the test. The gay community is great in numbers but due to the boisterous and slanted opinions of fundamental and traditional groups in this area, it is still silent and invisible. Attacks on the gay community, intentional and by misinformation, are too abundant to count in this brief communication. But Northeast Ohio is no different than any other area of this country. Ohioans are no less bigoted than anyone else. For more information on

this group, write to GLAAD/OH, 394 Woodland Ave., #3, Akron, OH.

Joan Nestle, author of Restricted Country and editor of Women on Women, and John Preston, author of The Big Gay Book and editor of Hometowns, Gay Men Write about Where They Belong, two of the best-known authors and activists in the community, have put out a call for manuscripts for a planned anthology. To be titled Sister and Brother, the book will examine the relationships between lesbians and gay men.

Nestle and Preston want to collect deeply personal and insightful essays by gay men and lesbians on how they really get along, how they really feel about one another, what they mean to one another. Any writer interested in submitting work should write to: John Preston, Box 5314, Portland, ME 04101 for a copy of the guidelines. Manuscripts will be due in spring of 1992.

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A new film features four of America's most popular women cartoonists. Because the achievements of women cartoonists have gone virtually unrecognized, the impression is that there have been few successful women cartoonists. "Funny Ladies" sets the record straight, so to speak. Opening with a visual history of early strips created by women, "Funny Ladies" reveals the

process of creating a comic strip and examines the role cartoonists play in societal commentary.

"Funny Laddies" is suggested for classes in Women's Studies, American Studies, Popular Culture, Art, Communication Studies and Writing/Creativity.

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Twenty-two years after Stonewall, a new generation of young gay men and lesbians is coming of age--a generation that

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has grown up under radically different circumstances from any previous group.

Those born in the late 1960's or early 1970's have taken for granted the existence of gay rights lobbying organizations, openly gay politicians, entertainers and writers and expressly gay publications.

We were 10 or 12 years old when AIDS was diagnosed, and have never had sex without knowledge, awareness and fear of the disease.

From Now On will be the first anthology to showcase and give voice to this new generation.

To be eligible, material must be submitted by an author born in 1966 or later.

Material will be included from self-identified gay men, lesbian, and bisexuals. The anthology is committed to principles of balance: between men and women, among all races and ethnicities and to artistic balance of genres.

The overriding principle for inclusion will be the quality of the work.

Send submissions with SASE and short bio by January 31 to: Michael Lowenthal, P.O. Box A-164, Hanover, NH 03755. ***

A residential weekend intensive will provide a continuous safe and supportive atmosphere to explore the issues of intimacy, relationships, guilt and shame, self acceptance and self-empowerment.

Experiential exercises, as well as, didactic forms will be used to provide the participant with useful recovery tools.

This weekend retreat will be held at Cedar Hills on 190 acres of wooded hills in Painesville. Cost: $225, includes room and board from Friday evening to Sunday

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Please make checks payable to Randy T. Gearhart. Send registration form and deposit ($100.00/non-refundable due two weeks before workshop) to: Energy Works, Attn: Randy Gearhart, P.O. Box 770701, Lakewood, OH 44107. The $125 balance is due at weekend registration. Registrations need to be received by November 8. If registration is going to be late, call (216) 221-1288 to register.▼

Ginsberg

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He sings little songs, accompanying himself on a tiny, accordian like harmonium Almost comic. He is indeed a questioner, one of us.

Good wine. Wine-inspired good humor. The hosts of this very polite social gathering, most of whom have not attended the reading, turn out to be friends of mine.

"Hey; I crashed your party!" We laugh. Ginsberg is the born visionary leader; he does what he feels to be important; he takes chances, he has that kind of simplicity. "Thank you, Allen."

He kisses me unselfconsciously on the cheek, and I leave him to board the plane.▼

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