14 GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE

AUGUST 20, 1993

POSTINGS

Ohio

The Fifth Ohio Lesbian Festival takes place Saturday, September 11, from 11 am to midnight at Frontier Ranch off U.S. 40 east of Columbus and west of Kirkersville.

The one-day festival, sponsored by the Lesbian Business Association of Columbus, features lesbian musicians, craftswomen, businesses and workshops and a variety of topics. This year the popular KidFest will be repeated, a program of fun and learning originated by Mitru, the Mississippi wizard familiar to followers of the Michigan Women's Festival.

Stage performers include singer and songwriter Sue Fink; Jamie Anderson, voted favorite new performer by readers of Hot Wire; guitarists Jaime Morton and Erica Wheeler; singer Susan Herrick; the voices of Casselberry-DuPreé and Debbie Knapper; and the featured state band, Dykes From Hell of Vandalia, Ohio.

Accessibility is the hallmark of the festival. Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 at the gate, and are available in Cleveland at Gifts of Athena, and in Columbus at Fan the Flames, the Grapevine Cafe, Kukala's, and Wall Street.

Purchase of PWA's life insurance policies for immediate cash to pay mounting medical bills and help eliminate financial stress is a popular option for many with short life expectancies. In Ohio, Accelerated Benefits Capital provides a "no cost, no risk, and no obligation" review of a PWA's situation and, in many cases, can give up to 90 percent of the policy's face value, often issuing the check within three weeks of the application.

Accelerated Benefits Capital ensures strict confidentiality and offers a number of financial options, all through face to face meetings. To discuss their services, call 800-FAST-ABC, or fax 800-357-8222.

National

Gay Mormon national conference. All gay and lesbian Mormons as well as their supportive family and friends are invited to attend the 15th Annual National Conference in San Diego, California, September 17-19. For one weekend each year, gay Mormons from all over the United States and several foreign countries meet to celebrate being gay and lesbian as well as their Mormon heritage. This year, the San Diego chapter is hosting the event at the Kona Kai Resort on Shelter Island. A highlight of the weekend will be the harbor cruise and keynote speaker, D. Michael Quinn. To obtain a registration form or for more information, call 619-283-8810.

Black gay oral history project needs subjects. Essex Hemphill, cultural activist and editor of the critically acclaimed anthology Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men (1991) and Ron Simmons, Ph.D., noted writer, photographer and media producer, are seeking black gay men sixty years of age and older to participate in a nationwide oral history project about black gay lifestyles in the early twentieth century. This series of audio interviews and photographs will be compiled into a book entitled The Evidence of Being. This project seeks to uncover a generation of unheard black gay voices and faces.

Dykes To Watch Out For

nocturne for

Diverse instruments

IS IT IN THE

STARS? OR JUST SOMETHING IN THE WATER?

WHATEVER,...

ON THIS NIGHT OUR LUSTY LASSES' FANCIES TURN

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A growing body of literature exists that

speculated on the closeted lives of Harlem Renaissance writers such as Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen, but what did it mean for "non celebrities" to be "in the life" during the 1920s and the decades that followed? Was there recognition of homosexuality? Was there name-calling?

If you are willing to openly share your stories and memories for this national project, respond in writing to: Essex Hemphill, The Evidence of Being, 401 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 700, Santa Monica, CA 90401-1455 or Ron Simmons, The Evidence of Being, P.O. Box 48100, Washington, DC 20002

Gay journalists meeting in New York. More than 500 lesbian and gay journalists from the networks, national newspapers and magazines, and local print and broadcast outlets from across the country are expected in New York City from September 10-12 for the second annual conference of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association.

The conference, titled "Inside and Out: Lesbians and Gays in the Newsroom—and in the News," will focus on the treatment of lesbian and gay issues in the media in dozens of panel discussions. Familiar names will also take part in the conference. Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., publisher of the New York Times, is hosting a reception; television newscasters Tom Brokaw and Robert MacNeil are on the opening panel; and gay speakers include Deb Price of the Detroit News; Jeffrey Schmalz, assistant national editor of the New York Times; ousted Soldier of the Year Joe Zuniga; and Entertainment Tonight correspondent Garrett Glaser. The NLGJA has more than 700 members

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OH, THEA! WHERE'D

YOU LEARN TO DO

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CAN'T SLEEP ON MY BACK... CAN'T SLEEP ON MY STOMACH...

HEARTBURN WHEN I LIE

ON MY SIDE...

CLARICE!

WAKE UP!

I CAN'T GET

COMFORTABLE!

in 14 chapters across the country. For more information call 212-629-2045.

Victory Fund candidate training. The Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund will hold its first Training Institute for Candidates and Campaign Managers in Chicago, October 1-3. The Victory Fund will offer non-partisan training to gay and lesbian leaders who are seriously considering entering the electoral arena. The three day program will focus on campaign organizing, fund raising, message, and campaign planning. Tuition is $100.

The weekend will be coordinated by David Fleischer, a political consultant with extensive experience in candidate training and campaign management. In 1990 he cocreated New York's LaGuardia Public Life Training Center, the first pilot project in New York to train candidates for office.

For information and an application, call 202-VICTORY.

Lesbian recovery anthology seeks submissions. Ten years have passed since the first edition of the landmark anthology Out From Under: Sober Dykes and Our Friends. Now it's time for the next volume. The editor is seeking "old-timers" in recovery for a new anthology, The Next Step: Out From Under, Volume Two. Material is being sought from lesbians in recovery from any of a variety of addictions with a focus on later stage (eight-plus years) recovery. Any style-format and recovery program will be considered. The deadline is November 1, 1993.

Send SASE for guidelines to Jean Swallow, Editor, 2404 California St. #27, San Francisco, CA 94115.

JEEZ, TONI. WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO

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SHOWROOM? MMN NNWH.

ACTS OF LOVE!

168

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THIS

ISN'T GONNA

WORK.

NOPE. LET'S TRY SOMETHING ELSE.

PERFECT! NOW JUST DON'T MOVE YOUR HEADOR I CAN'T SEE, OKAY?

WHIRRRRRAA

SPARROW GETS BACK IN THE SADDLE...

IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME, JUNE. I WANT TO GO SLOW. LET'S CONSULT THE I CHING.

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"...A CAUTIOUS HALT HALFWAY BRINGS GOOD FORTUNE. GOING THROUGH TO THE END BRINGS MISFORTUNE."

DIAPRIL SPOLK

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POLLUTION

AHH, WHO CARES

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AND LOIS ADJUSTS HER VOLUME.

MOAN!

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OH! OH! OH!

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WHAT-

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BABY JANE SISTERS...

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THIS HAD BEEN GOING ON FOR QUITE SOME TIME...

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You SAID COOK

THIS OODLES

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COOKED HER SOME DIN-DIN...

I LIE&. You WEREN'T THE CAUSE OF MY PARALYZING ACCIDENT..

WHY YOU! BITCH!!

OOOH I HATE IT WHEN IT'S NOT MY TURN To BE ANNETTE..

BY Enic Onner.

PAN FRIE PET CANARY WITH BASILY

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GOLDEN GLOBE