GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE OCTOBER 29, 1993

COLUMBUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Alessandro Siciliani, Music Director

A TIME TO REMEMBER

Albert-George Schram,

conductor

NEXUS

PercussionGroup

BACH/RESPIGHI Passacaglia & Fugue

TAKEMITSU From me flows what you call Time CORIGLIANO Symphony No. 1 "A Musical AIDS Quilt"

November 12 & 13

Ohio Theatre

Friday & Saturday 8 p.m.

Sections of the AIDS Memorial Quilt will be on display Nov. 10 thru Nov. 15 in the Ohio Theatre.

Music Talks on Mezzanine Level 45 minutes prior to each performance. Tickets $9-40*

Student Rush 50% discount* one hour before concert based on availability (excludes loge). *Ticket price includes $1 theater restoration fee.

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Foru Takemitsu's composition is rich and evocative with luminous textures and features nearly every percussion instrument performed by the NEXUS Percussion Ensemble.

John Corigliano's First Symphony mourns the AIDS epidemic in an eloquent and sometimes raging quilt of melodies written "to memorialize in music those I have lost, and reflect on those I am losing."

All programs and artists subject subject to change.

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COMMUNITY GROUPS

Women and AIDS

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not as important. These attitudes are the most ominous obstacle that activists have had to face.

Discrimination is an affliction that has been plaguing women from the beginning of time. Women have had to fight for rights that were freely bestowed upon men for centuries. Rights in regards to AIDS have been no exception. Clinical trials for AIDS initially excluded any woman of childbearing age and now require that the woman sign a statement that she is practicing some form of birth control. For Phase I and Phase II trials, the guidelines state that a woman must be post-menstrual or surgically sterilized. No such guidelines exist for men. Katrina Ames and Linda Buckley, reporters for Newsweek, found the following appalling information:

"Heart disease kills women and men in almost equal numbers: it has no gender bias. Medical researchers have. In clinical trials for any number of health problems, including heart disease, they usually employ only male subjects-whether humans or rodents. In 1988, research on 22,071 male doctors revealed that aspirin reduced the risk of heart attacks. The benefit for women? Who knows? A study published this fall indicated that heavy coffee intake did not increase the incidence of heart attacks or strokes. The 45,589 subjects, aged 40 to 75, were men.

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The reasons supplied by researchers for their bias is that "female hormonal changes complicate work." The complications of hormonal changes are precisely the reason researchers should be studying women also. As Diane Curtis, a founding member of Women's Health Action and Mobilization, put it: "Saying that women's bodies are complicated is saying that there is a norm out there and that norm is the male body." The problems arising from such discrimination

are that treatments are developed and tested on men, but they are also used on women. What may be effective for men can be harmful and possibly fatal for women. Without including women in clinical trials, a treatment that is effective against women's diseases will never be found, and the number of deaths in women will continue to escalate.

Today, when the medical field is asked "Can women get this disease?", the answer is yes. The struggle has been challenging, and many women have needlessly died along the way. Of all the women's movements, AIDS has been possibly the most ironic. Women have had to endeavor for their "right" to be a part of a disease that they fervently wished they had never heard of. Discrimination must not be allowed to interfere with our scientific undertakings. If the human race is to continue to thrive and prosper, it must take care of all of its members. AIDS "doesn't care what your sexual orientation is."2 AIDS will not discriminate. It will take everyone: black, white, young, old, male, and female. In order to stop it we must understand it, and accepting that women are a part of it can only be a step in the right direction.

1 Corea, Gena. The Invisible Epidemic. New York; HarperCollins, 1992.

2 Norwood, Christopher. "AIDS is Not for Men Only." Mademoiselle. Sept. 1985:p. 198+. 3 The New York Times. "U.S. to Weigh Female Illness in Defining AIDS." Sept. 3, 1992: p. A16.

4Navarro, Mireya. "Dated AIDS Definition Keeps Benefits from Many Patients." The New York Times. July 8, 1991: p. A1+.

5 Willoughby, John. "All Together Now." Self. Oct. 1992: p. 98+.

6 Navarro, Mireya. "More Cases, Costs and Fears Under Wider AIDS Umbrella." The New York Times. Oct. 29, 1992: p. A1+.

7. Ames, Katrina & Buckley, Linda. “Our Bodies, Their Selves." Newsweek. Dec. 17, 1990: p. 60.

National Women's Comedy Conference

November 12, 13, 14, 1993. To register call 216-289-2939 Embassy Suites Hotel • 3775 Park East Drive (1-271, Exit 29, Chagrin Blvd.) Beachwood⚫ 216-765-8066

Karen Williams

Sara Cytron

Friday, 8PM, Open Mike/Comics Jam, $10

Suzanne Westenhoefer

Judith Sloan,

Emcee

Saturday, Humor/Comedy Workshops, $80 for 4; $100 at door Saturday, Catered Luncheon, 12-2 PM, $20

Saturday Night Comedy Extravaganza, 8 PM, $20; $25 at door featuring Nationally known Comediennes Karen Williams Suzanne Westenhoefer Sara Cytron Cleveland Talent: Sherrie Tolliver New York Favorite: Judith Sloan, Emcee Comedy Conference Grand Package: $125 / person

Individual event and grand package tickets are available at these locations: Gifts of Athena, 2199 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights, 216-371-1937 Cleve Lesbian-Gay Community Ctr, 1418 W. 29th St., Cleveland, 216-522-1999 Off The Record Store, 11508 Clifton Blvd., Lakewood, 216-281-6611 Fan The Flames Feminist Bookstore, 3387 N. High Street, Columbus, 614-447-0565 Crazy Ladies Bookstore, 4039 Hamilton Ave., Cincinnati, 513-541-4198 Women & Children First Bookstore, 5233 N. Clark St., Chicago, 312-769-9299 TO ORDER TICKETS BY MAIL:

Mail check payable to Bulleone, NWCC with self-addressed stamped envelope to: NWCC 26151 Lake Shore, #2112, Euclid, Ohio 44132-1160 216-289-2939 Fax: 216-289-5885