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GAY PEOPle's ChroNICLE MAY 3, 1996

Dykes To Watch Out For

the

ties that Chafe

JEZANNA ("ALBERTA TO HER FOLKS) IS AT THE HOSPITAL.

LOOKS LIKE I'LL BE VOTIN'

FOR THAT SORRY-ASS CLINTON AGAIN. THESE SPAM-HEAD REPUBLICANS ARE EVEN MORE WORTHLESS THAN HE IS.

YEAH. PAINFUL AS IT IS, I HAVE

TO AGREE

WITH YOU.

WHAT'S SO PAIN-

FUL? VOTING FOR CLINTON, OR AGREEING WITH YOUR FATHER?

BOTH, MOST LIKELY.

SHE'S JUST THAT CONTRARY.

I LIKE A UTTLE CON. TRARINESS IN A WOMAN., SHE TAKES AFTER you.

WELL, MAYBE. BUT JUST You WATCH OUT FOR HER, TEMPER

YOU SEE

HOW SHE TALKS TO ME?

Y'KNOW, IF THESE SPAM-HEADS EVER TRIED SOLVING THE COUNTRY'S PROBLEMS INSTEAD OF MESSING WITH MATTERS THAT DON'T CONCERN THEM, MAYBE YOU TWO COULD GET MARRIED GOOD AND PROPER SOME DAY.

ALL I KNOW IS, YOU'RE LUCKY YOU FOUND THIS GIRL, ALBERTA. NO MAN WOULD PUT UP WITH YOU.

1993 BY ALISON BLONDEL 235

MEA

GOP RACK

DOWN TO DOLE

BUCHANAN

EANWHILE, BACK IN RIVER CITY...

SO DID YOU

FIND OUT WHY

YOUR DAD CALLED

LAST NIGHT?

I'M SURE HE

JUST WANTED TO BROWBEAT ME INTO GOING STRAIGHT TO APPEASE MY MOTHER.

ARE

YOU GONNA CALL THEM BACK OR

WHAT?

I TRIED EARLIER AND NO ONE WAS HOME. THEY'RE PROBABLY OUT HIRING A DEPROGRAMMER TO COME RESCUE ME FROM MY DEPRAVED SURROUNDINGS.

YOU MAKE THEM OUT TO BE THESE RABID FANATICS, TONE. THEY'RE JUST REGULAR PEOPLE, A LITTLE WIGGED OUT BY THEIR DYKE DAUGHTER, IS ALL.

CLARICE, MY OWN MOTHER, FLESH OF MY FLESH, THINKS I'M THE ANTICHRIST! WELL, YOU KNOW WHAT? I DON'T NEED THAT KIND OF MEANNESS IN MY LIFE, AND I DON'T WANT MY CHILD EXPOSED TO IT!

BABE,

I KNOW IT'S REALLY PAIN FUL FOR YOU, BUT...

MAMA, MOTHER THERESA WOULD LOSE HER

TEMPER AROUND YOU. WILL YOU STOP RUNNING ME DOWN, TO AUDREY?

DAMN RIGHT IT IS! WHY SHOULD I KEEP REACHING OUT, ONLY TO GET REJECTED AGAIN AND AGAIN? I'VE HAD IT!! SHE DOESN'T WANT TO TALK TO ME? FINE! I'LL NEVER SPEAK TO HER AGAIN!

HEH-WO? HI!

RAFFI, PLEASE DON'T PLAY WITH THE PHONE. IT'S, NOT A TOY.

21 STATES INTRODUCE

ร

BILLS BLOCKING RECOGNITION OF GAY MARRIAGE "MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE ON OUR DOCKET SAYS

TONI, CAN YOU GRAB IT FROM HIM?

RADICAL RIGHT

RAFFI! ARE YOU TALKING TO SOMEONE?

HELLO? CHOLA?! ANTONIA?!

SOAK IT

UP, BABE. I THINK THIS IS THE CLOSEST WE GET TO AN ACTUAL BLESSING.

MAMA?! SOMETHING WHAT ARE TELLS ME OUR YOU DOING LITTLE HELLION ON THE JUST DISCOVERED THE 'REDIAL'

LINE?

BUTTON.

Mit Apush mina

ANNH

THE ALYSON ALMANAC

PRESENTS

in gay letian blory

May 15, 1897: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld founds the Scientific Humanitarian Committee in Berlin. Its goals were to abolish sodomy laws, to educate the public about homosexuality, and to organize gay people. The legalizative efforts failed, but the committee's organizing efforts continued until...

The new Nazi regime raided Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexology in Berlin on May 6, 1933. A few days later they burned an estimated twelve thousand books and other documents. Many

eplaceable items were lost, Including unpublished manuscripts by Karl Ulrichs and Richard von Krafft-Ebing. Germany's early gay rights movement was dead.

Happy birthday to LORRAINE HANSBERRY

May 19, 1930-Jan. 12, 1965 With the production of A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry became the first black woman to have a drama produced on the Broadway stage. Hansberry, who showed a lifelong commitment to civil rights for all people, once wrote that "homosexual persecution and condemnation has at its roots not only social ignorance, but... anti-feminist dogma.' Her promising career was cut short by cancer at age thirty-four.

Out of the shell and onto the dance floor

Aaron Fricke took a gay date to his high school prom in Rhode Island on May 30, 1980, though it took a court order before he could do so. His book Reflections of a Rock Lobster has provided encouragement for hundreds of thousands of gay teenagers. Sources: The Early Homosexual Rights Movement, by John Lauritsen and David Thorstad; and The Alyson Almanac.

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