JUNE 11, 1993 GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE 15

ON THE AIR OFF THE PRESS

Lesbian soap on USA; Marky Mark does anti-bias PSAs

by John DuAne

Eden, a soap opera on the Playboy Channel, is being aired on the USA Channel. Although the program's nude scenes have been edited out, the program's lesbian storyline will be retained. Eden will premiere on the USA Channel June 27 as a prime-time movie. The 26 episodes of the series will begin airing at 11 pm on June 28. Fox network's canceled sitcom Key West is on the air again on Channel 19 Tuesdays at 9 pm. Chaucy, Key West's mayor on the show, is an open lesbian played by Denise Crosby.

If you caught the season finale of Nickelodeon's hit cartoon series Ren and Stimpy on cable last month, then you heard the Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles sing a very strange anthem, based on the British national anthem "God Save the Queen," on an episode entitled "The Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen."

Last month, Judy Nelson and Rita Mae Brown talked about their new books and their individual relationships with their exlover tennis star Martina Navratilova on NBC's Maury Povich Show and several other talk shows. Nelson recently published her memoirs, Love Match, Nelson Vs. Navratilova, while Rubyfruit Jungle author Brown has just published Venus Envy.

USA Today reports that Scott Peck, gay son of the now famous Marine Col. Fred Peck, hosts a gay-oriented talk show on

radio station WRC in Silver Spring, Maryland. Scott, who came out to his father just before the colonel testified at the Senate Armed Services Committee hearings on ending the ban on gays in the military, stated that he is "a little concerned about becoming a professional homosexual." He went on to say: "My story isn't any different than 20 million others. Maybe it's just that a face is finally put on this issue." The May 31 edition of People magazine profiled the colonel and his gay son. Colonel Peck and his wife, a Marine Corps officer herself, love and accept Scott and his lover although the colonel still does not feel the military ban should be lifted.

USA Today reported that rapper TRQ, also known as Steve Gooden, is urging entertainers to speak out against ending the ban on gays in the military. TRQ stated that "it's time we stand up for something moral and right. I'm sick of gays putting themselves in the same category as blacks, talking about civil rights. Homosexuals go against what is humanly normal. Homosexuals just about run the entertainment industry and [straight entertainers] are afraid to speak up. It's not politically correct." TRQ performed for George Bush at the last GOP convention.

The May 24 edition of Entertainment Weekly featured an article entitled "Where Hollywood Fears to Tread," about how successful plays like Angels in America are challenging the way Hollywood deals with gay issues.

Dykes To Watch Out For

Apple Pie Order

1993 BY ALISON BECHDEL

THAT'S NOT TRUE, MO! YOU ALSO SPENT A LOT OF TIME OBSESSING ABOUT WHETHER YOU'D RUN INTO HARRIET AND ELLEN DOING A SPONTANEOUS KISS-IN SOMEWHERE.

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HERE'S ANOTHER SHIPMENT, THEA. I, UH...I REALLY LIKE THAT SCENT YOU'RE WEARING. COMPACT DISCS

LADY

SLIPPER

CH, RIGHT SIGH REMEMBER? THAT'S HOW HARRIET AND I FIRST KISSED, DOING C.D. TOGETHER AT THE '87 MARCH.

BETTY

GETS I

GIRLS

IN

THE

NOISE

HUH? OH, YOU MUST SMELL THE FLEA AND TICK SHAMPOO I USED TO WASH THE DOG THIS MORNING. THANKS, I'LL PASS THAT ALONG TO REX.

JEEZ, THAT

SEEMS LIKE AGES AGO. THINGS SURE HAVE CHANGED.

THUNK

HEY, LOOK!

I JUST GOT BACK MY PICTURES OF D.C.!

Entertainment Weekly also reported that reggae singer Shabba Ranks, who has publicly apologized for advocating the crucifixion of gays on British television, and GLAAD, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, have not been able to come to an agreement on a promised antigay bashing public service announcement in which the singer agreed to appear. Ranks reportedly has been reluctant to appear in the ad with lesbians and gay men. Rapper Marky Mark, meanwhile is shooting three public service announcements coordinated by GLAAD and the Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence. The spots, to be released by Gay Pride Day, June 27, were done in response to criticisms about antigay comments made, and an incident of anti-Asian bashing committed, by Mark in his younger days.

YEAH, AND NOT JUST MY LOVE LIFE. I KNOW THIS MARCH WAS EVEN BIGGER AND BETTER THAN THE LAST ONE, BUT I FELT KIND OF LOST, SOMEHOW. I MEAN, BASEBALL, HOT DOGS, AND GAYS IN THE MILITARY IS NOT THE AGENDA I SIGNED UP FOR.

The May 28 edition of Entertainment Weekly also reviews Jagger Unauthorized, Cristopher Anderson's revealing biography of bisexual rock star Mick Jagger and his many famous lovers of both sexes.

"The Gay Nineties," a 10-page article on the lesbian-gay power structure by Luisita Lopez Torregrosa, appeared in the May edition of Vanity Fair. Following up on a tip from a friend where I work, I have noticed that Vanity Fair has been running articles about the lesbian, gay and bisexual community on a fairly regular basis.

Once again I must commend the Plain Dealer for printing a six-part series of excerpts from Randy Shilts' new and timely

HERE'S

ME AT THE DYKE MARCH WITH SOME COOL WOMEN I MET.

YUP. THE CROWD CHEERING PATRIOTICALLY FOR A MILITARY COLOR GUARD IN FULL DRESS UNIFORM WAS A LITTLE WEIRD.

...AND HERE I AM GIVING A SAFE SEX DEMO AT THE LESBIANS AND AIDS ACTION.

book, Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the U.S. Military, as well as a profile of Shilts himself. Thanks to the Plain Dealer and to columnist Neil Chetnik for his excellent piece on the development of men's homophobia and how it can be reduced, which ran in the men's column May 30. Later on in the week, the paper carried a very nice profile of lesbian author Rita Mae Brown.

Don't forget the live lesbian and gay radio show: The Gay 90's, with Buck Harris and Karen Harrison on WHK 1420 AM Fridays at 9 pm. I understand that Buck is talking to the station management about moving the show to a more favorable time slot. In its current Friday night airtime many of us are out on the town and don't get a chance to tune in.

John Horner's show, Hold That Door, on WUJC 88.7 FM Thursdays at 10 pm, has gone on hiatus for the summer. John says that he has been assured by the station that Hold That Door will be back on the air in September.

Finally, as we get ready for Pride, keep in touch with what some of the local talk show hosts have to say about us. Don't let them spread misinformation about us without a response.

John DuAne is a co-producer of GayWaves, heard on WRUW 91.1 FM at 11:30 am Fridays.

...AND THIS IS ME BACKSTAGE AT THE RALLY. THAT'S MARTINA'S HEAD. AND THAT'S MELISSA ETHERIDGE'S HAND ON MY THIGH.

WHY ARE WE SCRAMBLING FOR A PIECE OF THE PIE WHEN THE PIE IS ROTTEN? WE'VE GOTTA CHANGE THE SYSTEM, NOT GET CO-OPTED BY IT! AND I'M GONNA SCREAM IF I HEAR ONE MORE PERSON SAY WE'RE "JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE!"

MPACT DISC

LESBIAN

HEY, LOOK AT THIS GREAT SHOT I GOT. OF CLARKE AND TONI AT THE WEDDING.

JEEZ, LOIS! I DIDN'T EVEN SEE THE RALLY, THE MARCH TOOK SO LONG TO GET THERE. AND HOW'D YOU GET TO DO ALL THIS STUFF? I SPENT THE ENTIRE WEEKEND LOST ON THE METRO OR STANDING AROUND GETTING SKIN CANCER.

MARY

SHEET

BOCAGE A

L7

DANG!

I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE BEST WOMAN, BUT I GOT OFF AT THE WRONG METRO STOP.

A Jesse Helms

Nightmare!

OHIO'S NIGHT OUT!

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