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GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE APRIL 5, 1996

LIBERATED COMEDY!

KATE CLINTON

Saturday, April 13 Capitol Theatre Riffe Center, 8 pm

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Carolina minister seizes on

nude scene to stop Angels

The March 20 opening of a Charlotte, North Carolina production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Angels in America, which offers a candid look at AIDS and gay life in the 1980s, featured bells, whistles, protestors, police, TV cameras and a drag queen-and that was outside the auditorium.

The play had been performed in Greensboro and Durham without incident, but Rev. Joe Chambers sparked a controversy earlier in the week with a news conference condemning the play for its portrayal of homosexuality and nudity.

The Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, which is the Charlotte Repertory Theater's landlord, threatened to have cast members arrested for indecent exposure because of some brief nudity during a hospital examination scene.

An agent for the play's New York author, Tony Kushner, had said removing the nude scene would violate federal copyright laws.

Less than three hours before the curtain rose, Mecklenburg County Superior Court Judge Marvin Gray signed an order that allowed the play to be staged as scheduled. Gray's order prevents interference from Charlotte-Mecklenburg police, the district attor-

ney, the sheriff, state alcohol commissioners and others, including the Performing Arts Center itself.

"The play is an artistic presentation," Gray wrote, citing U.S. Supreme Court rulings that nudity in an artistic setting is protected by the First Amendment. "Nudity... in the play appears to constitute artistic expression."

Some 430 people packed the theater on opening night and local actor Alan Poindexter stood fully nude on stage for seven seconds-and he wasn't arrested. Poindexter's character disrobed, then donned a hospital gown for a doctor's exam.

Still, supporters and opponents of the play marched outside the North Carolina Blumenthal Performing Arts Center on opening night.

"I cannot tell you what a miracle those guys have pulled off in a day,” Keith Martin, the theater's managing director, said of its lawyers. "We didn't think it was possible."

Attorneys for the theater plan to ask Gray for a preliminary injunction that would protect further performances of the play, which runs through April 26. The current order expires in 10 days.

ASC won't walk in AIDS Walk '96

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services such as food, transportation, household help, and advocacy to about 600 people in the HIV spectrum, decided not to participate.

ASC dedicated a large portion of its April newsletter to a discussion of its reasons for not participating in

the May 5 event. It said that in AIDS Walk '95, "ASC's

percentage would have been approxi-

mately five percent of the net proceeds. We felt that this was

unfair because some

groups [OAC and CATF] were getting

25 percent to 50 percent of the net proceeds."

Why would we participate for four percent of the proceeds?"

Morrison said that "ASC remains committed to collaboration with other service providers in the HIV community who are willing to approach projects with a sense of community, integrity, and fairness." Graber expressed disappointment about

"We were getting phone calls, 'Why aren't you guys participating?" That's the reason we printed the article, not to bash anybody, not to downplay the walk or anything like that."

"This year's invitation stated that ASC, as a new agency, would receive approximately four percent of the proceeds with a cap at $5,000," the newsletter said.

"Our hands were tied as to how much we could give ASC this year," said Rodriguez, "because we were trying to benefit the small organizations that were with us for the event in '95."

ASC executive director Rocky Morrison and Julie Graber in December, announcing sent a letter to Walk co-chairs Jose Rodriguez

the ASC board of trustees' decision not to

participate in AIDS Walk '96.

"This is a matter of fairness," Morrison wrote. "ASC does not provide four percent of the services for the HIV community in Central Ohio. ASC's staff and volunteers give 100 percent and would not contribute at a four percent level in the work of the walk.

ASC's decision not to participate in the event. "If that's their perception of it, that's fine," said Graber. “If they feel like there are other things that are more worthy of their time and energy they have that option. I just don't understand why the backlash. It doesn't do the event or the cause any good to start to make an issue out of it." Morrison said, "We were getting phone calls, 'Why aren't you guys participating?' That's the reason we printed the article, not to bash anybody, not to downplay the walk or anything like that."

"I'm very saddened by them because they do offer excellent services for people living with AIDS, and they have done that for many years." said Rodriguez. "We would have loved to have them on board."

"The most important story as far as we are concerned is that the walk is a month away and we're hoping to have in the neighborhood of 1,500 people walk and raise $150,000 for nine organizations in the community," said Graber. "You just hope that people stay focused on what's really important, and that is that we work together to raise these dollars, because they are desperately needed in the community."

P-FLAG lobbies Congress

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counsel. "Our polling has shown that most people are not aware that people can be fired from their jobs just for being gay or lesbian, and that most Americans think that is unfair."

ENDA, which President Clinton endorsed last October, would prohibit discrimination, quotas, and preferential treatment on the job, based on sexual orientation.. It would not apply to religious organizations, small businesses or the military. Observers give it slim chance of passage in the present Congress.

Elizabeth Birch, executive director of HRC, told the New York Times that Clinton's backing was an “excellent move.”

"While others continue to be engaged in the politics of division, I feel that he's staking out some moral high ground,” she said.

Early on Tuesday, March 19, Elizabeth Birch and Mitzi Henderson, P-FLAG national president, spoke to over 200 at a White House reception for the "Moms and Dads" project.

Following that ENDA co-sponsor Sen. James Jeffords, R-Vt., addressed participants at a press conference.