24 GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE SEPTEMBER 1, 1995

Dykes To Watch Out For

fallin' in and out of love

CAN YOU CLOSE UP TONIGHT, THEA? I'M NOT COMING BACK AFTER THE

DEMO.

I'M TAKING HER ON A PIC -

WOW! THAT

NIC BY THE

SOUNDS

LAKE.

GREAT!

JIMMINGAN

24008

1995 BY ALISON BECHDEL

WHAT, WAS IT ON THE NEWS LAST NIGHT? I SUPPOSE YOU KNOW ALL THE GORY DETAILS!

(220)

JAMAL

ABU

FREE

MUMIA

WELL, YOU KNOW. THINGS GET AROUND. I'M SORRY IF I OFFENDED YOU.

IT'S ALL RIGHT.

WE BROKE UP. WHY SHOULDN'T YOU KNOW?

HAVE A NICE TIME! AT THE PICNIC, I MEAN. I HOPE YOU DON'T GET ARRESTED. UH...YOU KNOW, AT THE DEMO.

A PICNIC! GOD, JEZANNA'S BEEN POSITIVELY MELLOW SINCE AUDREY CAME ALONG.

YEAH. YESTERDAY I ASKED HER FOR A HUNDRED BUCKS TO PUBLICIZE THE NEXT "MADWIMMIN READ" EVENT, AND SHE SAID, "ARE YOU SURE THAT'S ENOUGH?

HI! IS THIS WHERE I SIGN UP FOR THE POETRY SLAM?

HARRIET!

HI! UH... YOU WRITE POETRY NOW?

JUST KIDDING. I'M STILL THE SAME OLD PHILISTINE I ALWAYS WAS. WHO WAS THAT GORGEOUS WOMAN I JUST SAW JEZANNA WITH?

THAT'S HER NEW FLAME, AUDREY SHE'S AN ONCOLOGY NURSE. THEY MET WHEN JEZ'S MOM WAS IN THE

HOSPITAL.

INTENSE.

THEY LOOK SO HAPPY TOGETHER.

HARRIET,

HOW ARE YOU DOING? I JUST HEARD

ABOUT YOU AND ELLEN.

HARRIET, I WAS SO SORRY WHEN I HEARD

YES! THERE IS JUSTICE!

I CAME BY TO SEE IF MAYBE YOU HAD TIME TO GET SOME COFFEE.

MADW SLAM!

BRING YOUR POETRY

UM... WELL, NOT TILL AFTER WORK.

ISN'T THIS CLASSIC?

SHE COMES CRAWLING BACK

TO CRYON MY

SHOULDER.

SLAM

THAT'S SURE. FINE. I'D

I JUST

NEED TO TALK.

BE HAPPY TO.

IT'S REALLY TOUCHING HOW MAGNANIMOUS

I AM.

00

MO! THIS WOMAN NEEDS TO TALK TO YOU.

HI.

I WAS JUST ASKING ABOUT THE POETRY

SLAM.

SURE. GIVE ME ONE SECOND, AND I'LL BE RIGHT WITH you.

WELL, I DON'T WANT TO KEEP YOU FROM YOUR WORK. I'LL MEET YOU BACK HERE AT SEVEN, OKAY?

UH... SURE.

SEE YA LATER.

ZING!

HEART STRINGS

THE MOSTLY UNFABULOUS SOCIAL LIFE OF ETHAN GREEN...

THE HARBORSIDE BED & BREAKFAST THAT YOU & BUCK AND THE SISTERS STAYED AT FOR A WEEK USED CHILDREN'S BLOCKS TO SPELL OUT MESSAGES OF GREETING AN YOUR ROOMS...

AT THE SLIGHTEST PROVOCATION, TREY, THE HOUSEBOY, WOULD LAUNCH INTO A DETAILED, AND NOT-VERY-INTERESTING TALE OF HIS ENTIRE GAY ODYSSEY...

... SO THEN RANDY, HE'S THAT FRIEND OF MY ROOMMATE DEXTER I WAS TELLING YOU ABOUT? WELL, HE GETS THIS JOB IN COLUMBUS WITH AMERICA WEST P AND HE'S LOOKING FOR A ROOMMATE?, SO I THINK TO MYSELF; "I AM OVER CHARLOTTE NORTH CAROLINA..

DIFFICULT QUEENS ON VAY-CAY...

SINCE NEW GUESTS WERE CHECKING IN ALL THE TIME, BY THE SECOND DAY, YOU ALL HAD HEARD THIS STORY' ABOUT 400 TIMES TOO MANY...

SO THEN LAST SUMMER MY FRIEND CHAR SAYS HAS FRIEND TIM KNOWS THIS WOMAN, JANE,

WHO OWNS A DELI IN "PROVIDENCETOWN" MASSACHUSETTS...

WHO OWNS A DELI IN PROVI MENCETOWN MASSACHUSETTS

HOSTALITY.

HOSE BLOCKS BECAME A NICE OUTLET FOR YOUR EST YOU TRULY ACT OUT YOUR VIOLENT FANTASYS, RAPHAEL, BUCKY'S LATEST BOYFRIEND, WAS LOST

DIE T.RE Y

By Eric Ormer

THE FOUR OF YOU BEGAN SPENDING MORE AND MORE TIME IN TOWN...

SO THEN, AND HERE'S THE REALLY FUNNY PART, STU'S LOVER CLEM SAYS, "IF THE DELI THING'S NOT WORKING OUT WHY NOT BE A HOUSEBOY"WELL, AT FIRST I THOUGHT HE SAID HOUSEBOAT"PAND FIGURED HE WAS SHROOMING AGAIN? BUT THEN HE GOES MEL NEEDS SOMEONE OVER AT HARBORSIDE" AND I GO "OH!,HOUSE BOY! WELL,AT FIRST I THOUGHT "OH CLEM, I DON'T THINK SO" CUZ I HATE DOING LAUNDRY ?WELL.. IT'S NOT SO MUCH THE WASHING AS THE FOLDING? HT THEN I THOUGHT I AM OVER

THERE... Somewhere IN THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE

SPIRITUS

(A SCENE)

OF YOUR VACATION,

THE CROWN

(A CLUB)

SOME

TRICK'S ROOM

(A MESS)

Thanks to Andy More.

THE ALYSON ALMANAC

PRESENTS

SEPTEMBER

Sept. 21, 1955: The Daughters of Bilitis, the first lesbian membership organization in the U.S., is formed in San Francisco. Originally a social club, D.O.B. grew into a national organization with educational and political goals as well. Co-founders Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon wrote the popular book Lesbian/Woman, and remain active four decades later.

The Violet Menace

The Captive, a highly publicized play about a lesbian, opened in France, then in New York City in Sept. 1926. Playwright Edouard Bourdet used a bouquet of violets to symbolize lesbian love, and theater historian Kaier Curtin writes that following The Captive's success, "French florists experienced a devastating drop in the violet market."

Happy Birthday

to

Craig Claiborne

(born Sept. 4, 1920) This boy from a poor Southern family made his name as a

cookbook writer and food critic. His memoirs are equally fascinating. In A Feast Made for Laughter, he writes openly of his homosexuality, and also of his incestuous relationship with his doomed, unhappy father.

Kentucky's sodomy law was struck down by the state supreme court in September 1992. At the same time, the judges administered a firm slap to the U.S. Supreme Court for its 1986 Hardwick ruling in support of sodomy laws. "Equal justice under the law is more than a mere aspiration" in Kentucky, declared justice Charles Leibson.

Sources: We Can Always Call Them Bulgarians, by Kaier Curtin; A Feast Made for Laughter, by Craig Claibome; Members of the Tribe, by Michael Willhoite; and The Alyson Almanac.

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