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GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE JANUARY 12, 1996

In Memoriam Of Our Founder, Cecil Ray deLoach (1952-1991)

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ABOVE THE FRUITED PLAIN

Have these on my desk by Monday morning

by Aubrey Wertheim

We are a community blessed with a daunting ability to get things writ.

From the King James Bible to Barbara Smith's Homegirls, literary wonders are penned and published with a clip and fecundity that is the envy of what we puckishly dub The Dominant Culture.

Why then this alarming lack of pamphlets to keep The Movement's current and evermultiplying new arrivals informed?

Far less worthy factions buzzcut the globe and litter the vista with no end of scarcelyliterate tracts, pseudo-moral manifestos and similar reactionary blather-while too many of you are a-diddling on the Internet!

Recognizing that most of our folk still live in the technological hinterlands, in blissfully green acres beyond the Information Highway, the need for hard copy remains, well, pressing.

Thus and herewith, a memo from the Fruited Plain: our list of brochures requiring immediate writing, production and release:

Primers Youth Series

Coming Out in Middle School Coming Out in Grade School Coming Out when Home-Schooled by a Fundamentalist Family

Queering Your Prom (Graduation, Science Fair, etc.)

Adult Series

Coming Out to Your Pet

Coming Out to Your Grandchildren Coming Out While in Public Office Coming Out While in Public Office & Planning to Run Again Coming Out to Your Cult

No U-Haul Jokes: Ten Dating Tips for Lesbians

Just Ask Him, Blanche: Ten Dating Tips for Gay Men

Intermediate

Personal

Same-Sex Wedding Checklist Same-Sex Reception Checklist Same-Sex Honeymoon Checklist Same-Sex Ex-Lovers' Boilerplate/Pet Agreement

Guides for Lesbians by Gay Males Artificial Insemination-Overcoming Sperm-Aversion

Why Drag is Eternal and a Boon to Humanity Food Styling-What is it?

Guides for Gay Males by Lesbians Foreplay-The Final Frontier Why Male-to-Female Transsexuals Give Us the Willies Monogamy-What is it?

Advanced

Personal

When Your Lover Proposes a Third

When Your Lover Checks Out an Ex-Gay Ministry

When Your Lover Runs an Ex-Gay Ministry Leathersex for Strict Vegetarians

When Junior Discovers Your Playroom

Political

Queering Your Local St. Patrick's Parade Preserving Halloween's Homo Focus Sanctuary Much: Seeking U.S. Queer Political Asylum

1995 NGLTF U.S. Map State-by-state status of: Sodomy Statutes, Domestic Partnership Laws, Custody/Foster Parent Recognition, No-Special-Rights Ordinances and Queer Art Defunding Campaigns (plus Highest Neo-Fascist Populations and Olivia Cruise Departure Ports)

To your laptops, clip art, copy shops! We're losing ground! Monday afternoon the latest.

Above the Fruited Plain is a regular column by Aubrey Wertheim, of Oberlin.

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