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GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE OCTOBER 13, 1995

Dykes To Watch Out For

INDISCREET

HEIR

INCIPIENT

KISS QUASHED By A

HYSTERICAL PHONE MESSAGE FROM TONI'S MOTHER,

OUR HEROINES APPEAR TO BE MOMENTARILY NONPLUSSED.

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YEAH. GUESS I WON'T BE NEEDWHOA. ING THE JUDICIOUSLYPHRASED COMING OUT SPEECH I'VE BEEN FINE-TUNING FOR THE PAST FIFTEEN

回

YEARS.

I GUESS NOT. UH... LISTEN. I'M SORRY ABOUT WHAT ALMOST HAPPENED BEFORE YOUR MOM CALLED.

1995 BY ALISON BECHDEL

IN THIS JOB MARKET ILL BE LUCKY TO FIND WORK AS A TELEMARKETER! I'LL PROBABLY END UP HOMELESS AND GO MAD WITH GRIEF!

I HAVE NOTHING

TO LOSE, GLORIA! KISS ME!

TONI, NO! COME ON. THIS

IS CRAZY. YOU'RE UPSET.

I KNOW,

I KNOW.

YOU'RE RIGHT.

I DON'T WANNA RUIN OUR FRIENDSHIP. YOU'RE THE ONLY PERSON I CAN COUNT ON.

THE KIDS'LL BE UP ANY MINUTE! WE CAN'T!

You

ARE?

RELAX!

IT'S OKAY!

WELL, I MEAN... HAVING AN AFFAIR WOULD KIND OF WRECK OUR LIVES, DON'T YOU THINK?

MY LIFE IS ALREADY WRECKED! MY MOTHER IS PROBABLY BOARDING A PLANE THIS MINUTE TO COME RESCUE MY BABY FROM THE " UNHEALTHY INFLUENCE OF MY DEPRAVED LIFESTYLE."

WITHOUT RAFFI

TO SUPPORT, CLARICE WILL BE FREE TO DUMP ME SO SHE CAN SPEND ALL HER TIME AT THE OFFICE!

MY LIFE IS SUCH A MESS. > SNIFF!=

YOU'LL FIGURE IT OUT! YOU CAN HANDLE YOUR MOTHER! YOU'LL FIND A GOOD JOB AGAIN! AND THINGS WITH CLARICE WILL GET BETTER,

D'YOU REALLY THINK So?

MOMMY! HAFTA GO POTTY NOW LIKE BIG BOY.

I PROMISE

T

MOSTLY UNFABULOUS SOCIAL LIFE OF ETHAN GREEN.. YOUR FRIEND SYLVIA, WHO IS VERY BRIGHT, GUILTS YOU INTO GOING TO A TALK BY LARRY KRAMER, THE AUTHOR & ACTIVIST. BUT I WAS GOING TO REPOT THESE MUMS.

IT'S PROBABLY THE LAST TIME YOU'LL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY.

To REPOT THE MUMS? TO SEE LARRY KRAMER ALLRIGHT ALREADY, I'LL GO

AFTER SHOOTING SYL A DIRTY LOOK, YOU FORGIVE HIM FOR DRAGGING YOU HERE UNDER FALSE PRETENSES. THERE'S A GUTE ANGRY GUY IN SOCCER SHORTS ON YOUR RIGHT GIVING YOU THE ONCE OVER.

THIS SUCKS

I WONDER IF URVASHI'S STILL MARRIED.

IT'S A PERFECT IND-URVASHI VAID GIVES THE AN SUMMER SATURDAY INTRODUCTION. SHE'S A GOOD EVEN SO, THE PLAGE IS SPEAKER. SHE SAYS SOMETHING PACKED.

FACILE & MEAN ABOUT CLINTON EVERYONE LAUGHS.

PERHAPS WE

SHOULD DON RUBBER GLOVES BEFORE WEIGHING WHETHER TO SUPPORT HIS RE ELECTION

5MX

...

By Eric ORner. LARRY WALKS TO THE PODIUM. HE SEEMS QUITE ROBUST, LIKE HE JUST WRESTLED A BUFFALO TO THE FLOOR OF SOME RODEO.

LARRY TELLS THE AUDIENCE SOMETHING FOOL-INSTEAD YOU THINK ABOUT WORKING UP THE ISH ABOUT HOW A PROGRESSIVE REVOLUTION NERVE TO ASK THE ANGRY SOCCER GUY OUT WILL RESULT IF WE ALL STOP VOTING. YOU THINK FOR A CUP OF COFFEE ... ABOUT WORKING UP THE NERVE TO ASK HIM WHEN IN ALL OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE that HAPPENED? SO, IF ENLIGHTENED PEOPLE ABSTAIN FROM PARTICIPATION, THE RESULT WILL BE ENLIGHTeNED GOVERNANCE? NOT FASCISM? OR FUNDAMENTALIST TYRANNY?

GRIND H

GRIND

HAS ANYONE MENTIONED THIS TO RALPH REED?

THE ALYSON ALMANAC

PRESENTS

Din gay Hò lesbian pistory R

Oct. 8, 1974: An episode of "Marcus Welby, M.D." portrays a junior high teacher who sexually assaults a male student. Hearing of it in advance, the National Gay Task Force launched a nationwide protest. ABC aired the show anyway, but several advertisers pulled out and five local affiliates refused to air it. Never before had the gay people responded to prejudicial coverage with such power.

Happy Birthday

to

Martina Navratilova

(born Oct. 18, 1956) Martina came out in a well-publicized romance with Rita Mae Brown. That affair fizzled, but her tennis tennis skills did

not. Nor has her

energetic

support for

lesbian

and gay causes.

WILLHOITE

October is Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual History Month, an opportunity for teachers to raise gay issues in the classroom. What better way to celebrate than to donate some appropriate books to your school have all been library? The

REMY THE CHARIOTEER

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FRICKE Reflections of a Rock Lobster

Patience and Sarab

The Lambda

turns 25

The Greek letter lambda was chosen by the Gay Activists Alliance in 1970 to become a symbol of the gay movement. Years later, one activist from that era recalled that the letter was selected because in modern physics, the lambda signifies change. Others believe it was picked for its connotatons, in ancient Greece of justice and reconciliation of opposites.

Sources: Members of the Tribe, by Michael Willhoite; and The Alyson Almanac.

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