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GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE

August 21, 1992

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LESBIAN GAY

Community Service Center

OF GREATER CLEVELAND

This space has been donated to the Center by the Chronicle, and does not necessarily reflect the views of the Chronicle staff or management.

by Aubrey Wertheim

Floral Tributes Dept.

Bouquets in abundance to all the volunteers who made the annual Garden Party a triumph of fundraising and horticulture. To all who organized, hosted, donated, shlepped, or sweated the details, we strew rose petals at your feet. To all who attended and made the event philanthropically most fecundant, our gratitude. Sing-Out-Louise Dept.

Onto our next fundraiser! Center Stage, our November 21 Talent Show, will host its next round of auditions Sept. 13, 20 and 27. Any act that does not result in raids, riots or animal abuse is eligible. Call the Center at 522-1999 for full audition details. Do-It-Ourselves Center Dept.

August is a month of intense interior revamping at the Center. Over 50 volunteers will star in "Inner Beauty on a Shoestring" to give two of the Center storefronts a much-needed new layout. Fortyeight hous of fun, sweat and joint compound over the weekend of Friday, August 28 through Sunday the 30th will make much more efficient and attractive offices and meeting spaces in the Center. Join us! Labor and building materials are needed. Calling All Volunteers

As we head into September, a number of areas at the Center are greatly in need of your skills and commitment. Volunteer

intakes are every Saturday morning at 11--

no appointment necessary. Some particular areas of need we'd like to highlight: The A-Team--Clerical assistance is especially needed to help the staff during business hours. We qualify as one of the most unique work environments in the city. The tasks aren't hard and the company can't be beat. Seniors and people with mornings or afternoons free work out especially well here.

The Hotline--has restructured its training so you can begin at any time with an extensive new manual and trained volunteers to guide you. Call the Hotline at 7816736 to be connected to this rewarding Line of service.

Paradox Computer Whizzez--Programmers and data entry folk well-versed in the Paradox program are greatly needed to keep our data base singing on key. Call Christine any business day to join our sterling crew of Paradockworkers.

PRYSM Adult Advisors--Men and women over 25 who are comfortable with young gay, lesbian and bisexual adults are encouraged to consider becoming an advisor to the Center's youth group or to work behind the scenes on the Outreach Committee. In-takes are every Saturday at eleven. Women and people of color are especially needed.

Houseparty! Houseparty!

Center houseparties--to generate major donations and support--will be thrown in dozens of homes for the remainder of the year. They're lively, classy and for a great cause. Party animals of whatever stripe should call us if you'd like to host or attend. Scholastic and Sodom Dept.

All collections donated to the Northeast Ohio Gay-Lesbian Archives at the Western Reserve Historical Society have been organized and documented thanks to a new intern.

Thanks to you

the Lesbian-Gay Community Service Center

of Cleveland's

Garden Party

was an outstanding success !

Over 225 people participated in this year's auction, raising over $31,000 to benefit the Center's many activities.

Thanks to your support, the following will continue: Maryann Finegan Project against violence; the Living Room, a drop-in center for those involved with the HIV spectrum; the weekly rap group the youth group, PRYSM; many groups who use the center as a meeting space and community programs for Gay-Lesbian-AIDS awareness.

We look forward to seeing you next year and are working to make sure the 1993 Garden Party will be even better.

GAYWAVES

This space has been donated to GayWaves by the Chronicle, and does not necessarily reflect the views of the Chronicle staff or management.

by John DuAne

Last month I told you of GayWaves staffer Josette's Allergic to the Mainstream show of women's music that comes on WRUW 91.1 FM at 5:00 p.m. Wednesday, just before our GayWaves show at 7:00 p.m. I forgot to mention Beat of the Night, a club-style dance music show hosted by Jerry Szoka, one of our other GayWaves volunteers. If you're throwing a Saturday night party, or just want to get in that dancing mood, tune in to Jerry and Beat of the Night on WRUW from 9:00 p.m. to midnight every Saturday night.

Look for another ongoing gay character on Fox Network's Beverly Hills 90210 spinoff, Melrose Place, which airs on channel 19 Wednesday evenings at 9:00 p.m. Doug Savant, who plays Matt Fielding, the show's gay character, commented on his role for a feature article on the show in the July 31 edition of Entertainment Weekly magazine. The actor stated, "I want to play this

guy with integrity. He's got a worldly view, not self-centered. My greatest fear is that they will downplay his gayness."

Don't forget the other new, ongoing character, a gay teenager, on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live, on channel 5 every day at 2:00 p.m.

For years, actors shunned gay roles out of fear that they themselves would be labeled gay and would have a hard time getting other roles. This last year several actors including Melrose Place's Doug Savant, River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves of My Own Private Idaho fame, and L.A. Law's Amanda Donohoe have spoken out about their pride in playing gay roles. Other stars, such as Roseanne Arnold, have en-

couraged the development of gay characters on their own shows. We, as the lesbian gay and bisexual community, should support their courage. GLAAD, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, reports that Roseanne Arnold indicated her TV sister Jackie may have lesbian relationships in coming seasons. GLAAD asks that we support Jackie's coming out by writing to: Roseanne Arnold, Carsey-Werner Company, 4024 Radford Ave, Studio City, CA 91604.

Check out the special August issue of US, which focuses on the sexual revolution in the movies, music and TV. The issue features an article by gay film director Tom Kalin where he shares his personal view of the status of gay roles in Hollywood over the last sixty years.

The Plain Dealer recently ran a nice review, by gay author Neil Miller, of Paul Monette's memoir, Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story. Mr. Miller's own latest book, Out in the World: Gay and Lesbian Life from Buenos Aires to Bangkok, will be published this fall.

If you have not done so already, contact WVIZ, channel 25, and ask them to air the new, national gay TV show, In the Life, being offered to PBS outlets around the country. Channel 25's Program Manager, Robert Olive, reports that the station will make a decision about purchasing the show in about a month. When you call, don't forget to thank the station for the recent presentations of The Lost Language of Cranes, Portrait of a Marriage, and Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt. Contact WVIZ, Channel 25 at 398-2800, or write to them at 4300 Brookpark Rd, Cleveland OH 44134.

The Plain Dealer reports that homophobic radio personalities Joel Rose and Merle Pollis will be moving from radio station WERE to WHK. Please keep us informed if they attack our community on their shows. Call us at WRUW at 368-2208 on Monday nights between 9:00 and 11:00 p.m. to reach us directly or call the station anytime and leave a message. Remember, information for a Wednesday show is needed at least by the Monday before the show airs.