JULY 3, 1998 GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE 15

EVENINGS OUT

Women Who Run With the Wolves author to speak

by Dawn Leach

Clarissa Pinkola Estés, author of the bestselling book Women Who Run With the Wolves, will be making appearances in two Ohio cities this week: in Cleveland on Tuesday, July 7, and Cincinnati on Wednesday, July 8.

Estés' work has been wildly popular, es-

Clarissa Pinkola Estés

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pecially with women. Estés said she began writing in 1971 while studying to be a psychoanalyst, because she felt that the field of psychoanalysis had a gaping void when it

came to its understanding of women. Recognized experts in the field had focused narrowly on upper-class, European Anglo women, and Estés said she was shocked by the lack of attention that the field had given to "real" women: women from lower classes and different ethnic backgrounds, single mothers, artists, women in the military, lesbians...

To try to fill that void, Estés decided in what she called a grandiose gesture to write about "everything." During twenty years of writing, Estés collected a manuscript thousands of pages long, and Women Who Run With the Wolves came from that manuscript as the first of an intended five-part series.

Estés has plenty of experience to draw on for her writing. Born to immigrant Mexican parents in northern Indiana, Estés was later adopted by a Hungarian couple when her parents were deported. She grew up poor in an immigrant neighborhood that was rich in the folk art and wisdom of many cultures.

Although she had a voracious appetite for learning, and wrote so much that she had to smuggle paper, Estés was told that she was not college material. She moved to New Mexico, married, and had three daughters. She later divorced and lived on welfare until deciding to go back to school so she could better support her daughters. She ended up going on to earn a Ph.D. in intercultural studies and clinical psychology.

Estés is a cantadora, or a storyteller in the Latina tradition. She is also a practicing Jungian psychoanalyst and a poet. Her appearances will combine all of these elements for a unique blend of myth, fairy tales, and psychoanalytic commentary.

Estés will be in Cleveland on Tuesday, July 7 to teach a five hour workshop at 9 am

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at the Church of Unity in Westlake at 23855 Detroit Ave., and then will present an evening of stories and wisdom at 7:30 pm at Fairmount Temple in Beachwood, 23737 Fairmount Blvd. Tickets for both events can be purchased at the door, or in advance at Delphic Books, Inside Story Bookshop or Clear Mind Bookstore.

On Wednesday, July 8, Estés will be at the New Thought Unity Center of Cincinnati, 1401 E. McMillan, at 7 pm for an evening salon "Crossing the Crone Line." Tickets for that event are available at the door or at Crazy Ladies Books or Lefthanded Moon. For more information about any of Estés' appearances, call 800-813-1376.

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episodes of Ellen in July

On July 15 and 22, ABC will air the two "missing" Ellen episodes, which were initially intended to lead up to the finale. On April 15, the network decided to not air these two already-completed shows during its May sweeps lineup, opting instead to run episodes of the midseason replacement show Two Guys, A Girl and a Pizza Place.

Throughout the summer, ABC has been airing Ellen, including the episodes featuring the developing relationship between Ellen Morgan and her girlfriend, Laurie. The network has also, unfortunately, continued to place a "parental warning" on the show.

There has been talk that DeGeneres is considering bringing her TV character Ellen Morgan to the big screen. If she does make a film version of the show, the Raleigh (N.C.) News and Observer reported, she wants her partner, actress Anne Heche, involved in the project.

"I would certainly have more leeway in showing [Ellen Morgan's] true character," DeGeneres told the News and Observer. “And there wouldn't be those dumb warnings before the show airs."

Sex and sports on HBO

Recently, two HBO shows, Arli$$ and Sex in the City, have featured positive lesbian and gay inclusion.

The June 7 Arli$$ (“My Job Is to Get Jobs") humorously portrayed the difficulty sports agent Arliss Michaels (Robert Wuhl) has getting a star football player signed to a team when everyone assumes the player is gay. Arliss finally decides that it is "no one's business," and sets it up so his client is arrested in a hot tub with two half-naked, underage girls. The player is then besieged by offers.

Arli$$'s message is clear: The sports industry thinks that it is better for a professional athlete to have sex with underage girls then be a gay man.

On June 21, Sex in the City featured lesbian and gay characters and subplots. When

Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) and her gay male friend run into a gay couple on the street, the couple asks Carrie for one of her eggs for their surrogate. Another character, Miranda, is then fixed up with a woman named Syd by a co-worker who mistakenly assuming she is a lesbian.

They become good friends anyway, and Miranda, frustrated she can not find Mr. Right, kisses Syd, which only reaffirms for both of them that Miranda is indeed straight. Sex in the City puts the search for love on an equal ground for both gay and straight people alike.

Video includes lesbian couple

A music video currently in heavy rotation on MTV features a number of loving couples and happy families, including an affectionate lesbian couple.

The video for the R & B song "All My Life" by K-CI and JoJo, already a favorite on the radio stations nationwide, splices shots of the duo singing the chorus “All my life/l prayed for someone like you/and I know you feel the same way too," to loving shots of mothers and sons, a man and woman with a newborn baby, and numerous heterosexual couples.

Also featured for a few seconds is a lesbian couple affectionately holding hands and starring tenderly into one another's eyes.

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