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GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE

OCTOBER 28, 1994

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YEAH ONE TWENTY. FIVE, PLEASE.

HEY GIRL! LOOKIN'

GOOD!

'SUP, JULES? GIMME A DOUBLE MOCHA LATTE WITH A SHOT OF MANGO, SOME WHIPPED CREAM, AND

MO!

GRAB A CHAIR! WHAT'RE YOU DOING HERE?

A HTTLE CINNAMON

HI! I JUST HAD MY "COMPUTERS FOR THE TECHNOLOGICALLY STUNTED" CLASS, AND I NEED TO UNWAND.

How's THAT GOING?

TIP

CLINK

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I MEAN, WE USED TO BE THE YOUNG DYKES! REMEMBER? THE SUBVER. SIVES, THE AVANT GARDE, THE UPAND-COMING! WHAT HAPPENED? THESE NEW BABES LOOK AT ME LIKE I'M AN INSURANCE SALESMAN! IF THEY LOOK AT ME AT ALL.

YOU HAVE A YOUNGER GIRLFRIEND LOIS. WHAT'S I LIKE? D YOU NOTICE THE AGE DIFFER. ENCE?

DON'T ASK ME. I HAVEN'T SEEN SONYA IN A MONTH. SHE'S HITCHHIKING TO RHYTHM FEST WITH A HARNESS-MAKER SHE MET IN THE MOSH PIT AT MICHIGAN.

Y'KNOW, IT'S NOT LIKE I MIND GETTING OLDER PER SE. I WOULDN'T RELIVE MY TWENTIES FOR A MILLION BUCKS, AND I KINDA LIKE THESE LITTLE LINES I'M GETTING AROUND MY EYES. IT'S JUST, ALL OF A SUDDEN, I'M LAST YEAR'S COMPATER!

HUH. Y'KNOW,

I WISH I HAD ONE

OF THOSE

NOTEBOOK MODELS.

OH, PLEASE! WHO'S SHE TRYING TO IMPRESS?

ISN'T THAT THE CHICK WHO READ AT THE BOOKSTORE? WHAT'S HER NAME.. DEIRDRE!

HUH?

OH HI

MO!

TIK

TIK

AHH, I DUNND. ALL

THAT JARGON. I JUST CAN'T GRASP NEW STUFF LIKE I USED TO. I FEEL SO OLD LATELY.

JON THE CLUB. THE SEMESTER STARTED TODAY, AND I HAVE A WHOLE NEW RAFT OF FRESHMEN. I KEEP AGING AND THEY'RE ETERNALLY EIGHTEEN.

HAVE YOU NOTICED, SUDDENLY THERE'S ALL THESE YOUNG DYKES EVERYWHERE? WHERE'D THEY COME FROM?!

THE MALL?

UH... HI, DEIRDRE. THIS IS GINGER. AND LOIS. WORKING ON YOUR NOVEL?

NO, MY JOURNAL UM...IT'S FUNNY I SHOULD RUN INTO YOU... I JUST GOT FREE PASSES TO THE QUEER FILM FEST, AND I WANTED TO... UH, YOU KNOW. SEE IF YOU FELT LIKE GOING FRIDAY.

FREE PASSES? SURE! OW! I

UH...

DEIRDRE, WE WERE JUST ADMIRING YOUR COMPUTER. IS THAT

FRIDAY? AN ACTIVE MATRIX I... DISPLAY? AND WHAT'S ER... THE BAUD RATE ON YOUR FAX/MODEM PORT?

MEAN, YOU SHOULD SUNE GO, MO.

THE MOSTLY UNFAbulous Social Life OF ETHAN GREEN...

PESTIFEROUSLY, ETHAN IS FELLE&

BY THE ONSET OF SEVERE NAME-FORGETITIS.

AND SOME IRRESISTIBLE FORCE is DESTINED TO STRIKE HIM DUMB WITH AMNESIA THE NEXT TIME HE'S CONFRONTed with CHARLOTTE'S NEW AMIGA. ETHAN, I'M GETTING PRETTY SICK OF YOUR MISOGYNISTIC INABILITY TO REMEMBER MY GIRLFRIENDS' NAME

YEAH?LIKE YOU REMEMBER ALL MY LOVER'S NAMES.

DOUG

On Miss

LEO TED.

KNOW.

IT-ALL

WHOEVER HE

IS,ETHAN, HE CERTAINLY ISN'T WORTH LYING IN THE STREET OVER...

دارم

STARS & STRIPES

GOLF

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ETHANP ETHAN, IT'S ME, YOUR NEXT DOOR

NEIGHBOR, Ghislaine. ETHAN?

CAN YOU HEAR ME?

JASMINE? NAH

WAIT.. DOES

IT RHYME WITH JAQUELINE?.. VALVOLINE

RESEARCHERS ARE WORKING 'ROUNd THE CLOCK To Solve This Riddle.. HIS DNA STRUCTURE SHOWS A THIRD "SELF ALSORBEA" GENE...

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THAT CONFIRMAS THE EXTERNAL DATAWEVE GATHERED. HIS CAT SAYS HE OFTEN FORGETS TO CHANGE HER Box..

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JUST MOMENTS AGO, HE WAS A FUNCTiONING, SOCIAL, MEMBER OF OUR SPECIES.

NOW HE'S FURIOUSLY AVOIDING THE GLANCE OF THAT GUY AT THE GYM WHOSE NAME HE CHRONICALLY UNLEARNS.

HELLO ETHAN

THATS RIGHT, ASSHOLE, I REMEMBER YOUR NAME, EVEN IF IT'S PATENTLY OBVIOUS THAT You'VE FORGOTTEN MINE.

MEANWHILE, The Condition COMES

TONEWALL

25

AND GOES...

Freed F

ETIENNE?

...

BY Eric Orner

TOMORROW HE'S A SAFE BET TO FUMBLE THE NAME OF A CO-WORKER'S NEW BABY..

So How's The Baby NOT baby. BABIES... I HAD TWINS. REMEMBER! ON...Sure.. Heh.. So..um HOW ARE LITTLE... •-HAROLD & MAUDE". S-MORK N'MINDY..? ADLAI AND ESTES? CHIP N'DALE

REAL TROUBLED

NOT ENTIRELY ARBITRARILY... ETIENNE, RIGHT?FROM MONTREAL? YES,.. I'M SORRY,. HAVE WE MET?

WELL (COUGH) NOT REALLY. I WAS STANDING BEHIND YOU IN LINE AT A "PEOPLES DRUG ABOUT 15 MONTHS AGO. I READ YOUR LICENSE WHEN YOU WENT TO PAY...

SOMETHING TELLS ME

YOU DON'T GET OUT MUCH...

LET'S CHANGE THAT

SAILOR...

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