DECEMBER 6, 1996 GAY PEOPle's ChroNICLE 13

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Trees, toys, and parties make for holiday cheer

Three groups are making it easier to give this holiday season. Cleveland's AIDS Housing Council, a non-profit agency that provides housing, needed support and referral services for people with HIV and AIDS, is hoping that individuals planning on having a

Short North Gallery Hop, to benefit more than 5,000 abused, neglected, and troubled children in the Columbus area. Bring all donations of new, wrapped, or unwrapped toys to the Stonewall Union office, 1160 N. High Street at 4th Ave in Columbus. If you choose to wrap the toys, please tag each package with the type of toy inside.

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holiday tree this year will make their tree a "Caring Tree."

For not much more than you would pay if you went to a lot, got lucky enough to find a tree without any gaping holes, and hassled with dragging it home in the trunk of the car, the AIDS Housing Council will deliver a tree by UPS directly to your door.

Each tree and wreath is a USDA "Premium Plus" Fraser fir, cut from the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, which means that the tree will meet or exceed the

U.S. Department of Agriculture premium grade. Trees is guaranteed to be shipped within 36 hours of being cut, cone shaped with a 50% taper, and heavy density with three defect-free faces. Prices range from $50 $70, and the good part is that fifty percent of the money made from each tree will directly support the AIDS Housing Council.

To order a caring tree, call the AIDS Housing Council at 216-651-6400 and they'll be happy to take your order.

The Network, a Cleveland organization supporting and promoting lesbian professionals and business owners, will be having their holiday party and benefit for the Center for the Prevention of Domestic Violence. The event will be held at the Metronome nightclub in Cleveland on Friday, December

13 at 7:30 pm. The Network is asking that all those who attend the party also contribute canped goods or non-perishable food items; children's toys, diapers, baby wipes, or paper products. Cash contributions are also welcome. Call Linda Sikora at 216-6314377 for more information.

Similarly, the Stonewall Union community outreach committee will collect toys for the Franklin County Children's Services Holiday Workshop during the December 7

Hopefully, because of the generous support of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered community throughout Ohio, the holiday season will be just a little brighter for some.

Girlfriends on their backs

After languishing for months in bankruptcy court, the controversial lesbian magazine On Our Backs has been purchased by HAF Enterprises, publisher of the bimonthly magazine Girlfriends. HAF outbid the Advocate for the defunct erotic title, and the purchase makes them the only multiple-title lesbian magazine publisher

in the world.

"I'm very happy that On Our Backs will remain in the hands of lesbian publishers," said Heather Findlay, editor-in-chief of Girlfriends. Girlfriends, the fastest growing lesbian magazine in the country with a readership of over 60,000, does well to acknowledge the significance of the majority of lesbians that live somewhere in between the two coasts.

Columbus ranked eighth recently on a Girlfriends list of the Ten Best Lesbian Places to Live. Cities were ranked on their climate, health, economy, education, housing, and job growth. The editors also factored in domestic partnership legislation, the presence of anti-discrimination or gay civil rights laws, local companies that prohibit discrimination, lesbian resources including bookstores, publications, and the absence of sodomy laws. The same issue also featured the work of Columbus photographer LeeAnn McGuire, a frequent contributor to the Gay People's Chronicle.

Susie Bright, a nationally-known "sexpert" and former editor of On Our Backs, reports that she is "very pleased and hopeful that this historic magazine will flourish under the care of its new owners." Bright has expressed interest in editing an upcoming "best of" anthology of On Our Backs' fiction. Nan Kinney, founder and former publisher of On Our Backs, will assist HAF Enterprises in developing capital to reissue the ten-year old

title.

Bar night benefits Black Pride

Cleveland Black Pride, Inc., a newly forming group of African-American gay men, lesbians, bisexuals and transgendered people, will be hosting a bar night at Barbary Lane, 2619 Noble Road in Cleveland Heights on Wednesday, December 11 from 7:00 pm until midnight.

There will be a cash bar and complimentary hors d'oeuvres. A $3 donation is requested, and everyone is invited to come

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party with the group. Following in the footsteps of other metropolitan cities with large African-American populations like Detroit and Washington, D.C., the group hopes to eventually raise enough money to put on a "Black Pride" event in August, in addition to the annual Lesbian and Gay Pride event already held in June. Call 216-566-4704 for further information.

Ryan honored for advocacy

Congratulations go out to Jim Ryan, editor of the Columbus lesbian-gay biweekly Outlook, who was honored recently for his work in advocating for gay, lesbian and bisexual issues in the alcohol and drug addiction field.

Ryan received the Advocacy Award of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Prevention Association of Ohio on Friday, November 15 in Columbus.

For three years, Ryan has been presenting workshops and trainings around gay issues to professionals in the alcohol and other drug addiction field. He has also assisted a number of agencies and organizations to make their programs, services and personnel policies more gay-affirming.

"Jim Ryan has been widely respected by his peers in the field for over a decade," said Sandy Stebly, president of the association. "His efforts in bringing gay issues to the attention of Ohio's preventionists and school

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Ryan said he was thrilled to receive the award and added, "To [receive this award] for gay advocacy in front of an audience of

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state department officials, school superintendents and other powerful people sends an important message that gay issues are important and can and should be talked about in the prevention arena and in our schools."

Ryan has been working in the prevention field for 13 years, and has been the editor of Outlook since it began publishing in June of this year.

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