18 GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE November 3, 2000
VOTE JOHN D
SUTULA
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EDUCATION
• Cleveland Marshall College of Law-CSU 1976 Juris Doctor
• Loyola University of Chicago
1973 B.A. Political Science
• Cathedral Latin School-1969
PERSONAL
PROFESSIONAL
• Trial Lawyer, Private Practice since 1976
• Admitted to practice in Ohio, 1976
Fla., 1977 III. 1978
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• Trustee, Cuyahoga County Bar Association
• Certified Specialist, OSBA
• Member, Ohio State Bar Association
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Married 1979 to Catherine
• Two Children-Maggie and Alex
Cleveland public theatre
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>> PEGGY SHAW »»»> nyc Menopausal Gentleman Written in collaboration with and directed by Rebecca Bayla Taichman
Paid for by: John D. Sutula for Judge Committee; Kathy Riley, Treasurer, 20918 Lake Road, Rocky River, Ohio 44116
October 27 and 28 at 8pm
Obie award winning founder of Split Britches Theatre Company combines gender bending observational humor in this hysterical look at the tortures of menopause.
"An East Village icon of lesbian
butchness"
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>> SARA FELDER »»» san francisco Shtick
Directed by Jayne Wenger November 3 and 4 at 8pm
San Francisco's premiere Juggling Jewish Lesbian weighs in on history, identity, sexuality and rubber chickens.
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Not all of gay history was European or American
by Anthony Glassman
October was Lesbian-Gay History Month. with many accounts of the Stonewall Riots, the beginning of the AIDS epidemic and the life of Oscar Wilde. However, gay men and lesbians, as well as bisexual and transgendered people, have been found around the world for thousands of years.
In China, for instance, the first cases of homoerotic writings date back to around 700 B.C. Two hundred years later, Mizi Xia, a member of the imperial court, became so
Langston Hughes
famous for his affair with a duke that he was referred to in later books as a man-loving
man.
When China started becoming industrialized in the nineteenth century, many women moved away from their families to work in factories spinning silk. Many of these women formed a movement that resisted traditional marriage. At its high point, the movement had over 100,000 women. many of whom were involved in romantic relationships with each other.
Oppression only became truly widespread in China after the dawn of the Communist
era.
Japanese mythology contains references to homosexuality as well. The Sun Goddess Amaterasu, the mother of the Japanese royal family, had hidden herself in a cave, taking the light with her. To lure her out, the goddess Amano-Uzume gathered the other gods outside of the cave and performed a striptease. When Amaterasu peeked out to get a look, they captured her light in a magical mirror.
In Japan's middle ages, it was common for both priests and noble warriors to have
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affairs with younger men, usually mirroring similar relationships in ancient Greece.
The theater, much like in the West, was also filled with gay men. Just as in the middle ages in England, women were forbidden to appear in the theater, so female roles were portrayed by young men, known as wakashu. These young men, often still in costume, would also help support the the-
ater troupe by en-
gaging in prosti-
tution.
In 1873, howas the
ever,
shoguns were taken out of power
and the country was opened to the West, homosexuality and other customs and practices in the country that offended European sensibilities were stopped, and consensual gay sexual relations were rendered illegal.
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同性戀 邦聯
Taiwan's first book
on gay civil rights (1995).
Closer to home, Native American culture was filled with transgendered people who were most often revered, either as warriors or priests. Berdaches were people who lived as members of the opposite sex.
The Crow woman known as Woman Chief had been so successful in battle, that by 1835 she had taken four wives, a sign of high status in Crow society.
We'wha, the most famous berdache, was taken by anthropologist Matilda Stevenson to Washington D.C., where he was introduced to President Grover Cleveland as an "Indian Princess." without Washington society ever realizing We'Wha's biological gender.
In the 19th century, missionaries and government officials tried to force berdaches to conform to Eurocentric gender roles, and many either went underground or committed suicide, rather than lie to themselves and their people.
To the south, the three major indigenous empires, the Mayans, Aztecs and Incas, had art and myth that celebrated same-sex love. The Aztecs and Incas officially outlawed homosexuality, but reports by conquistadors, which are highly suspect, accused them all of being "sodomites."
The Europeans who conquered the area brought in Roman Catholicism, and forced out most of the original peoples' customs. Very little has been established as fact about the role of LGBT people in Latin America in the pre-Columbian era, mainly because of the conquistadors' destruction of native art, and because of their distortions of the truth, often used to justify European massacres of native people.
In this country, perhaps no time has been more significant for LGBT African-Americans than the Harlem Renaissance. It was a convergence of writers, musicians, socialites and artists in Harlem, which had started becoming integrated when landlords began renting to people of color in 1905.
Many of the most famous figures in the movement of the 1920s were gay, lesbian, or bisexual. Countee Cullen, Alain Locke, Langston Hughes and Richard Bruce Nugent were all gay or bisexual black writers involved in the Harlem Renaissance. Musically, however, the time was ruled by lesbians and bisexual women, with such legends as Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith and Mabel Hampton coming to the fore.
The Harlem Renaissance also saw the birth of the drag ball, referred to by Langston Hughes as "spectacles of color."
A lot of attention is paid to people of European descent who have paved the way for the LGBT movement of the present. But much like the rambow flag, we have a rainbow history