POSTINGS

SEPTEMBER 3, 1993

GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE 13

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Lesbian and Gay People of Colors Fishbowl Meeting. This meeting is taking place so that lesbian and gay people of colors of this community can express some of their feelings and experiences in the white-run organizations and the larger white community around the issues of diversity and racism. It is not the organizers' intention to alienate anyone and all are welcome to attend.

The venue of this meeting is a fishbowl which means that the people of colors will be speaking and the attendees will be there to listen. A feedback session will be set up for attendees to express their feelings.

The meeting takes place Friday, September 10, 7 pm at the Kiva Room in the University Center at Cleveland State University, 2121 Euclid Ave., at 21st St.

Dynamic women interested in women's health care issues are needed to participate in the Free Clinic of Cleveland's instructional program to enlighten medical students regarding the gynecological health needs of women. These students are learning to do physical examinations on the female reproductive system. The Free Clinic's teaching program focuses on the patient's experience of these exams and how the practitioner can make the examination a positive and empowering experience for the woman.

These "patient-instructors" play a critical dual role, receiving the examination and giving the medical student feedback. A stipend of $15 an hour is offered; training and preparation is provided.

For more information contact Sarah

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Spengler or Laura Arabian at the Free Clinic from 12-8 pm, Monday-Friday at 721-4010.

Two full-time paid positions are being offered by the Lesbian-Gay Community Service Center of Greater Cleveland. The Hotline Program Manager will be responsible for volunteer and program support for hotline services of the Center. The Living Room Program Manager will be responsible for program development, volunteer support, and service delivery for the Living Room. For the Living Room Program Manager position, preference will be given to a qualified candidate who is in the HIV spectrum. The deadline for applications is September 17. See the Classifieds section in this issue of the Chronicle for a more complete description.

National

HIV patients sought for study. The National Institutes of Health is beginning an interventional study using oral L-carnitine therapy in HIV-infected patients with AZT myopathy. NIH is interested in evaluating patients who are currently treated with AZT and have symptoms of either fatigue, muscle pain, or weakness. There are no CD4+ cell requirements to participate in this study.

For a patient to be seen, a brief referral letter from the patient's physician and recent medical records should be sent to the address below. After a screening history and physical examination, candidates will undergo laboratory evaluations, EKG, echocardiogram, and muscle biopsy. The results of all studies will be forwarded for the patient's clinical care. Those included in

the study will be randomized and followed bimonthly for six months.

There is no cost to the patient for being seen at the NIH. Patients will only be responsible for travel costs for the initial visit. If included in the study, subsequent travel will be provided free of charge.

Other conditions currently being studied in the Neuromuscular Diseases Section include HIV-associated inflammatory myopathy and HIV-associated demyelinating neuropathy. For the latter, patients will be evaluated with symptoms of numbness, distorted sensation, or weakness starting distally and progressing proximally.

Contact: Neuromuscular Diseases Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Building 10, Room 4N248, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892. Telephone 301-4969979; fax 301-402-0672.

Victory Fund seeks out candidates and politicians. The Gay and Lesbian Victory fund is seeking openly gay and lesbian elected and appointed officials, campaign professionals, and political clubs for inclusion in Out for Office: A Political Resource Directory, targeted to openly gay or lesbian candidates for public office. In addition to the free contact listings, the book contains informative articles by elected officials dealing with what it is like to run for office as an openly gay person. Out for Office will be published this November.

The Victory Fund is also looking for openly lesbian and gay candidates planning to seek public office in 1994. The Fund's national donor network has so far contributed $400,000 directly to campaigns since its 1991 inception. Currently the Victory Fund is sponsoring 10 candidates for 1993,

HE MOSTLY UNFAbulous SociALLIFE ETHAN GREEN...

FACE IT ETHAN,

Politically, THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON FLOPPED...

SSSSHHHHH

JEEZ CHARLOTTE, KEEP IT doWN..

EMPOWERING?

To Whom? SAM NUNN?

WAKE UP AND SMELL THE CAPPUCCING, boy... .REMEMBER THAT PROMISED EXECU

(SOMEONE MIGHT HEAR YOUTIVE ORDER EN&

Wow!

ING THE GAYS-IN-

I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU! THE MILITARY" BAN? I MEAN,THE MARCHY'KNOW, THE ONE

WAS WONDERFUL!..

"

.UPLIFTING!...

...EMPOWERING!

You TUCKED IN YOUR BILLFOLD LAST NOVEMBER AFTER HELPIN' ELECT BILL N' HILLARY? WELL SWEETPEA, IF YOU'RE SO EMPOWERED, HOW COME YOU'VE BEEN Pickpocketed?

IT'S MISSING

Hey YOU'RE RIGHT..

So...

YOU'RE SAYING THAT THE BLISTERS... THE FUNKY SUNBURN,. THE RUINed BOOTS,. THE MILES & MILES OF POUNDED PAVEMENT... ALL OF THAT

WAS FOR

NOTHING?

NOT FOR NOTHING, BUT I do THINK WE COULD'VE BEEN MORE EFFECTIVE.. WHY MARCH ALL OVER DC. ANYWAY? I MEAN, THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL'S A HELLUVA MORE POTENT BACK&ROP THEN SOME ROY ROGERS ON K STREET... AN& STAND UP COMEDY'S GREAT, BUT AT a civiL RIGHTS RALLY? IN 1963 MY PARENTS HEARD THE CALL OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, NOT Red Foxx.

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including two recent winners: Shelley Gaylord who became Wisconsin's first openly lesbian judge, and Craig McDaniel who is now the first openly-gay city councilmember in Dallas.

To contact the Victory Fund, call 202842-8679, fax 202-289-3863, or write 1012 14th St., N.W., Suite 707, Washington, DC 20005.

Join the Foreign Service. The U.S. Department of State has added sexual orientation to its non-discrimination policy, according to Gays and Lesbians in Foreign Affairs Agencies (GLIFAA), an employee group. The new policy appears in the 1993 announcement of the annual Foreign Service Officer Examination. Applications must be received at the Psychological Corporation in San Antonio, Texas by October 8.

The Foreign Service Office offers unique opportunities for public service, travel and prolonged exposure to foreign languages and cultures through worldwide assignments, including Washington, D.C. Foreign Service officers contribute to the development and implementation of U.S. foreign policy; report on political and economic developments in foreign countries; administer the Immigration and Nationality Act abroad; and manage U.S. Embassies.

Registrants must be U.S. citizens and at least 20 years old. For registration materials, send a postcard, or preferably a selfaddressed self-adhesive mailing label, to: Foreign Service Officer Examination, U.S. Department of State, P.O. Box 12226, Arlington, VA 22219. For further inquiries, call 703-875-7490.

GLIFAA may be reached at P.O. Box 18774, Washington, DC 20036-8774; 202797-5510.

BY Eric Orner.

Look, I'M NOT SAYING THAT SHAR ING A GROUP HUG IN DUPONT CIRCLE WITH PRACTICALLY EVERY LESBIAN AND GAY MAN ON THE CONTINENT WASN'T MOVING.., JUST THINK THAT IF THERE is A NEXT TIME, WE MIGHT TRY A LITTLE LESS Partying, And A LITTLE MORE Lobbying

HUH,..WELL, MAYBE I COULD'VE SKIPPED THAT MARTHA WASH CONCERT TO SPEND A LITTLE QUALITY TIME WITH SENATOR SAM,.. (NOT To MENTION DIM DAN COATS.. BiGoTER JOE BARTON, SONAMBULANT STROM THURMONA SCREWY Bob DORI

Dykes To Watch Out For

Crushed

LOOK, ANOTHER ONE. GOT IT AT THE CORNER STORE.

OH, GIMME A BREAK. ISN'T OUR FIFTEEN MINUTES UP YET?

WHATSA MATTER, MO? CAN'T HANDLE THE SPOTLIGHT?

I JUST DON'T TRUST IT. I MEAN, WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME WHAT'S SO REVOLUTIONARY ABOUT NEWSWEEK TELLING US WHAT WE DO IN BED?

LESBIANS ARE REPLACING STEP AEROBICS IN THE DEPRAVED CESSPIT OF MAINSTREAM AMERICAN CULTURE! LEMME TELL YA, WE DIDN'T KNOW WHEN WE HAD IT GOOD! MOVING INVISIBLY, BEING ON THE OUTSIDE-THAT'S WHERE THE REAL, SUBVERSIVE POWER LIES! RIGHT, THEA?

NO WAY. SUBVERSIVE POWER IS LESBIANS IN BANANA REPUBLIC ADS.

OH.

Y'KNOW, YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT! SHATTERING THE MYTH THAT LESBIANS ARENT REAL PEOPLE IS OUR SINGLE MOST EFFECTIVE TOOL IN COUNTERING THE RAMPANT HOMOPHOBIA AND MISOGYNY IN SOCIETY TODAY.

1993 BY ALISON BECHDEL

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MEANWHILE, ACROSS TOWN AT NATURE BORN...

39 CENTIMETERS.

39 WEEKS! BABY'S

COMING ALONG

BEAUTIFULLY!

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN LESBIANS:

So NEXT MONDAY IS STILL THE DUE DATE? ANY WAY TO PUSH IT BACK A FEW DAYS?

GAY GAMES Y

BETTER AT MATH?

kd lang

ON FRACTAL THEORY,

LAB ANIMAL RIGHTS

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PLEASE, CLARICE! WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO? STAND ON MY HEAD FOR A WEEK? IF THE BABY COMES, YOU'LL JUST HAVE TO RESCHEDULE YOUR BIG COURTROOM SCENE!

LOOK, DON'T FIXATE ON THE DUE DATE. IT'S JUST AN APPROXIMATION. ONLY 5 PERCENT OF BABIES ACTUALLY ARRIVE ON IT. MOST COME LATER, IN FACT.

GREAT! HOW MUCH LATER? TWO DAYS? THREE?

LET ME GIVE YOU A FRIENDLY TIP, CLARICE. DON'T GET TOO HUNG UP ON KEEPING A TIGHT SCHEDULE FOR THE NEXT, SAY, EIGHTEEN YEARS OR SO.

BACK AT MADWIMMIN...

JEEZ, MO CHANGED HER POSITION SO FAST ON LESBIAN VISIBILITY OUT THERE, I THOUGHT SHED GET WHIPLASH. SHE HAS IT BAD FOR YOU, THEA. OFFICE

YEAH, I KNOW. SHE REMINDS ME OF REX WHEN HE WAS A PUPPY. IT'S KIND OF CUTE ISN'T IT?

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