GAY PEOPle's ChroNICLE April 4, 1997

Are You Ready for a FREE Cocktail?

Then try ACTG 343 an Exciting New Study Looking at the Following Combination:

AZT, 3TC, and the Merck Protease Inhibitor

If you are HIV+, have T-cells greater than 200, and a viral load greater than 1000, contact one of the numbers listed below to see if you may be eligible for this exciting new trial!

CHARLIE'S CALENDAR

Deadline for next calendar is Tuesday, April 8.

Friday, April 4 to Sunday, April 6

Linking Every GLBT Organization, conference sponsored by Kenyon College Allied Sexual Orientations in Gambier, $10; 614-427-6425, 614-427-6191 young@kenyon.edu.

Saturday, April 5

"Appreciating and Valuing Our Diversity” workshop for LGBT and HIV community organizations, 8:30 am to 4 pm, $20 covers breakfast and lunch, Pilgrim Church, 2592 W. 14th St., Cleveland; 216-522-1999.

AIDS Community Educational Forum, free seminar on financial concerns, returning to work, treatments, and internet info, open to all, lunch provided, sponsored by OSU AIDS Clinical Trials Unit and Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, 11:30 am to 4:30 pm, OSU College of Nursing, Newton Hall, 1585 Neil Ave., Columbus; 614293-8112.

's Wonderful, Cincinnati Men's Chorus with New York cabaret singer Ann Hampton Calloway, 8 pm, Memorial Hall, 1225 Elm, next to Music Hall downtown, tickets $12-20 advance, $14-22 at door; 513-542-2626.

Evening Out with the Girls, women only, non-smoking, $20 includes 8 pm dinner and 10 pm karaoke with Singing Sandy, cash bar, advance tickets only, The Inn on Coventry, 2785 Euclid Hts. Blvd, Cleveland Hts; 216-371-1811.

Oberlin College Drag Ball, $5, 10 pm to 2 am, Wilder Hall, 135 W. Lorain St., Oberlin; 216-775-8802.

In the Life features Will Fellows, author of Farm Boys: Lives of Gay Men from the Rural Midwest, WNEO/WEAO Channels 45 and 49 in Akron and Youngstown (carried on many Cleveland cable systems), midnight.

Sunday, April 6

"On the Record," discussion of gay-positive Unitarian stance past and present, Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Erie County, 10:30 am, Frost Recreation Center, Osborn Park, 3610 E. Perkins Ave., Sandusky; 419-626-8233.

Irish Music Jam Session, CILBGO, 8 pm, the Tree House, Professor and College Aves., Tremont in Cleveland; 216-255-2615.

Monday, April 7

E. Lynn Harris, author of And This Too Shall Pass, 7 pm, An Open Book, 749 N. High St., Columbus; 614-291-0080.

Tuesday, April 8

Opportunistic Infections in HIV, free community forum with Dr. Herman Valdez, 7 pm, University Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, 11100 Euclid Ave., Cleveland; 216-844-8175.

Wednesday, April 9

"Intersection of Race, Class, and Gender" Kent Salem women's conference, Dr. Stephanie Booth, KSU Salem campus, 2491 Ohio 45 South, Salem; 330-332-9256. Thursday, April 10

Coffee House Klatch, HUGS East, 7 pm, Cafe Europa, 5900 SOM Center (Ohio 91), Willoughby; 216-974-8909.

Friday, April 11

"STDs 101" Planned Parenthood workshop, $30, 9:30 am to 1 pm, Warrensville Hts. Library, 22035 Clarkwood Pkwy.; 216-232-0858 ext. 157.

Anne E. DeChant, former Odd Girl Out singer performs, 9 pm, Harmony Bar and Grille, 3359 Fulton Rd., Cleveland; 216-398-5052.

Mr. All-Ohio Bear Contest, sponsored by Columbus Ursine Brotherhood (CUB), $2 cover, 11 pm, Tradewinds II, 117 E. Chestnut St., Columbus; Jerry 614-424-9947. Friday, April 11 to Sunday, April 13

"Beyond Tolerance,” annual Gay Lesbian and Straight Teachers Network conference, speakers Andrew Sullivan, author of Virtually Normal, and comedienne Karen Williams, Cleveland State University; 216-943-1845, Rich Horton, 216-382-0507 or Bridget Doyle, 216-941-0330.

"Gay and Lesbian Literature Since World War II" Allegheny College gay and lesbian conference, Meadville, Pa., $15-$90, students free, registration deadline March 15; Sonya Jones 814-332-4339, e-mail sjones@alleg.edu.

"New Voices, New Visions," young feminist conference, Washington, D.C.; 202331-0066 ext. 362.

ACTUS of Ohio

Cincinnati Contact:

Jill Leonard, R.N.:

Cleveland Contact:

Margaret Cutler, R.N.:

1-513-558-8373 1-216-368-AIDS

Columbus Contact: Jane Russell, R.N.: 1-614-293-8112

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