APRIL 19, 1996 GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE

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Sullivan steps down as New Republic editor

by Doreen Cudnik

Andrew Sullivan, the editor of the New Republic, shocked Washington insiders on Friday, April 12, when he announced that he would be stepping down from his post at the end of May. Sullivan, who is openly gay, also disclosed that he has known of his HIV positive status for the last three years, but insisted that his health was not the reason for the move.

"I am not quitting because I am sick." Sullivan said in an interview with the New

York Times,"I am quitting because I am healthy. I'm very early on in this disease, and I intend to survive it."

Only 28 when he became editor of the magazine, Sullivan--who in addition to being out, was a practicing Roman Catholic and decidedly conservative---often wrote about gay issues, religion,

and pop culture. During his tenure, the magazine increased its circulation from 96,000 to 100.000 and saw a 76 percent rise in advertising revenue. Last year, Sullivan's book, Virtually Normal: An Argument About Ho-

mosexuality, was published by Knopf. The book experienced strong sales and favorable reviews from many gay and lesbian as well as mainstream publications.

The New Republic's editor in chief and chairman of the magazine, Martin Peretz, said they are not ready to name a successor.

Commenting that the next week would have been his 250th issue as editor, Sullivan said the timing of the move "just seemed right. I think you should stop talking before they start look at their watches." He will continue to write for

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Open house benefits Open House

As a tribute to long-time employee Tootie Lauder, who recently lost her 31-year-old son Andrew to AIDS, Cheese World-Wine Gar den in University Heights will be hosting an "open house for the Open House." The Open House is a non-profit organization in Cleveland Heights for people in the HIV spectrum.

The event, which takes place on Friday, April 19 at 8:00p.m. will include a sampling of some fine wines, complemented by gourmet cheeses and pâte. Joe Schagrin, national president of the Tasters Guild, and considered one of the most knowledgable merchants in the country, will be on hand to sample and compare select wines from some of the greatest vineyards of the world.

Owner Lany Weingarten said that the event was planned "in memory of Andrew and out of respect for Tootie." He added that he chose the Open House to be the beneficiary because it is a "great place for support for people in the HIV/AIDS community as well as their parents."

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Dementia and music therapy

Edie Hardin, a senior music therapy major at Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, will be conducting an experiment on the “Effects of Music Therapy on the Cognitive Functioning of

Persons Living with Chronic Encephalopathy"(commonly known as AIDS dementia complex). Hardin is conducting a

search for peoples living with HIV, AIDS, and AIDS dementia complex willing toparticipate in the project. The experiment takes approximately 30minutes, and there is no charge for participants. "Music therapy with the person living with HIV and AIDS is not a highly documented area," Hardin said. “I feel very strongly about the future of this experiment opening up doors to music therapy and the other creative art therapies."

Interested people should contact Hardin at 216-225-8686. All inquiries will be kept confidential.

1,000 cranes for a cure

The month of May has been declared “Asian Heritage Month," and Chicago Asian artist Val Zubiri has taken the ancient art of origami and turned it into a way to bring increased visibility to the AIDS arms, as mal mam trie his

Asian people have for centuries held the belief that if a person. one thousand

Democratic National Convention in August.

For instructions on how to make an AIDS crane, or to offer support and encouragement for the project, contact Val Zubiri at Artist In Residence Bldg. 2, 6161 N. Winthrop Ave., #405, Chicago, III. 60660.

A cover boy at 89

The gay and lesbian magazine Out had an unusual cover boy when it hit the newsstands-... the distinguished 89-year-old architect Philip Johnson.

Johnson said he hesitated when he was asked to pose, but "then I asked myself, "Why not?' " he told the New York Times. “People know I'm gay, so what am I so scared of? After all, I would let Vogue do a big picture of me. and this is a perfectly respectable magazine.”

The magazine has an article on a Johnson design for the Cathedral of Hope, a gay and lesbian congregation in Dallas that is part of the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches.

"It has taken me many months to come ap with a design I like," Johnson said. "It is a fasemating project that will take many years because it's very large, and they need mones. But I've never had so much fun in my he love cathedrals, even though I'm not religious.”

"Besides," he said. "I don't have too muc work. Once you're 340, people don the someup for long-term projects.”

Johnson is known for his innovative resigns, including the castle like Cleveland Ph. House. J

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be granted. Following this ancient belief, Zubiri has decided to make one thousand paper cranes with the AIDS ribbon in the hopes that his wish

for a cure for AIDS will come true.

Zubiri said that the statistics on Asians who are HIV-positive or who have AIDS falls frighteningly short of reality. “The published numbers are low quite simply because Asians tend to be somewhat insular and secretive," Zubiri said. "So many Asians have experienced discrimination for merely being Asian, that they would not easily add the perceived stigma of AIDS to their public image,” he added.

Zubiri is encouraging people all over the world to make paper cranes with the AIDS ribbon and to "hang as many AIDS Cranes in your establishment starting this May." His "AIDS Crane art,” some of them with 15-foot wingspans, will be on display in ten individual installations throughout Chicago during the

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