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...When asked whether he would ever consider posing in the nude for a magazine, Georgia politician Julian Bond, replied, "Unlike Burt Reynolds, I've got plenty to hide." Be that as it may, Julian, isn't beauty in the eyes of the beholder?...And talk about sex for sail, wait'll you read this...the Rotterdam City Council (in the Netherlands) is planning an eros Center to halt complaints about the spreading prostitution and related crime in that city's Katendrecht, the bustling red-light district, to the residential areas. According to the Associated Press, "The scheme would concentrate Rotterdam's thriving sex industry on a 400-bed ship that would be moored in an abandoned area of this teeming harbor." Both citizens and prostitutes are fighting this proposal..
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...Did you know that Shaker Heights' own Patricia A. Dorner is the new state coordinator of the Gay Nurses Alliance? The announcement appeared in the January, 1978 issue of Signal, GNA's newsletter. Best wishes, Pat!..Due to the serious coal shortages, the Cleveland State University Film Society has been ordered by the University to shut down until April. All screenings have been celled...Genesis 1:29 vegetarian restaurant at 12200 Euclid Avenue is now offering a varied program of music through the week, featuring jazz on Sundays, light contemporary on Tuesdays, ragtime blues and miscellaneous on Thursdays, and traditional American music on Fridays. Coming soon will be feminist music nights. Call the restaurant for more details...As a fund-raising project of the Cleveland Ballet, "Kitchen new interChoreography," a national cookbook, will be available in April. But, to order now, send a check for $5.00 plus $.75 postage and handling, to COOKBOOK, Cleveland Ballet, 1375 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44115. If you would like it gift-wrapped, just let them know...that's free!
Columbus once again has a gay community newsletter. Temporarily named News of the Columbus Gay and Lesbian Community, this publication
continues the Gay Community Calendar, which Central Ohio Gay Coalition has published since September. The community calendar will be an insert in the newsletter, and will remove for use. Members of GA/Columbus are serving as editor and staff for the paper, with other Columbus Gay and Lesbian Organizations contributing. A permanent title will soon be chosen for the newsletter. Anyone interested in contributing to the newsletter or receiving it at their place of business should contact GA at
Photos by David Raab
614-422-9212, or stop in at the GA Office, at 1739 N. High St. Box 15, Columbus, Ohio 43210
...All professional women artists residing in Ohio are eligible to parcitipate in the Columbus Institute for Contemporary Arts' (CIFCA) exhibition of art by Ohio's female artists in Womensart, May 3-31, 1978. If interested, please write CIFCA at 78 East Chestnut Street, Columbus, OH or call 614-461-0986 for an entry form. The deadline for is March 20. entries just 1978..Dignity/Toledo has been granted a charter, starting with a few steering committees last September and assistance Dignity/Detroit group, Gregg Cavill was recently elected president and Rhea Jane Diamond secretary. In case you would like to get in touch with them, write Dignity/Toledo, P.O. Box 7145, Toledo, OH 43615 or call 419-255-2026...One of the
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three study options at Knox Presbyterian Church's University of Faith series that started February 15 in Cincinnati is "Christianity, the Church, and the Homosexual," a review of materials prepared by the United Presbyterian General assembly's Task Force on Homosexuality...
The Union of American Hebrew Congregations called for an end to discrimination against gay people in employment, housing and other areas of opportunity. Speaking for America's 1.6 million Reformed Jews, the Assembly of Delegates urged. synagogue education programs in human sexuality for youth and adults... ...The Third International Conference of Gay Jews will be held in Los Angeles May 19-21...
Senate bill 274 and House bill 120 would forbid members of the armed forces from joining any organization "which engages in or has one of its objectives negotiating or bargaining with the government of the United States, on behalf of members of the armed forces, concerning the terms conditions of military service" or "representing individual members of the armed forces in connection with any grievance of complaint of any such member arising out of the terms and conditions of military services." Can anyone see the implications of the provisions of this bill for gays in the armed services? The Senate has already passed it. The House is now considering it....
...Ed Davis, homophobic Los Angeles police chief has retired in order to run for governor. California has such lovely orange groves. The gays in that state are laboring to make sure that he has time to enjoy tending the fruits... If you're boycot ting Fiorida citrus products, you'll want to know that Minute Maid, Tree Sweet, Tropicana and Orange Plus are produced with oranges from the Sunshine state. Maybe one of our readers could let us know which brands are packaged with California oranges so we can let .New our readers know... Mexico Court of Appeals Judge Lewis Sutin in writing a majority opinion for the accused Ernestine Favola said that sexual intercourse between an adult woman a consenting minor boy 15 years old, "is nothing more
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sex education essential and necessary in his growth toward maturity and subsequent domestic family life." Funny, but that's not how my mom explained it...If you feel you have something to contribute to the Lesbian Herstory archiveswrite Deborah Edel at LHA, P.O. Box 1258, New York, NY 10001, even if just to be on their mailing list... Two inebriated men claiming to be Cleveland city police of ficers appeared in the foyer of the West 9th Street Club Baths at 2:30 A.M. on February 28 demanding to be let in. The attendant on duty refused their demands. The two men did not have a search warrant so the attendant called the police. A squad car responding to the call
arrived and the two men were removed from the Club Bath premises by the officers.
The management of the West 9th Street Baths is pursuing this matter with the police department and City Hall.
...Harvey Milk, member of the. San Francisco Board of Supervisors, will be visiting Chicago to help the candidacy of Gary Nepon, an open gay running for State Representative from Chicago's Near North 13th District... Watch out for the Hot Hankle Decals now being of-
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fered by California Discoveries these are decals for gay men to affix to their car bumpers, or other places, to help them communicate their interests to other gay men on the streets and on the highways... If you're thinking of writing your congressperson, here are the addresses for both senators and representatives: The Honorable
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House of Representatives, House Office Building. Washington, D.C. 20515; The Honorable United States Senate, Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20510 ... So, go to it! Even if you drop them a line telling them that you will be thinking of them and your upcoming vote in November the next time a gay-related issue comes to a vote... for those of you who are into female impersonators, the Water Main in Piqua is featuring the Lady Flash Review from Muncie, Indiana, on Friday, March 31 and Saturday, April 1 and Miss Kim-
berly in an all new show from Ball State University on Saturday, March 25 ... Between April 7 and May 27 (on successive Fridays and Saturdays) the Cleveland State University Filn Society will present a series of eight Cleveland Premieres, along with classic short subjects by Charlie Chaplin. All films will be shown in the University Center Cinema, with free parking available. For further information, call 687-2450 ... and don't forget to wear the blue on Friday, April 14, National Gay Blue Jeans Day... and from the NGTF Action Report, these items... a segment of the Merv Griffin Show now being syndicated on Metromedia TV stations features Ariel and Will Durant, the historians, conder ning gays as "abnormal" and & sign of the decline of al cultures. Groups are asked to contact local stations about ar advance screening, op. portunities to reply, etc. Direc letters of protest to the station. manager, to the Durants c/o Simon and Schuster, Publishers, 1230 6th Avenue, NY, NY 10020; and to the Merv. Griffin Show, Hollywood Palace, 1735 N. Vine, Hollywood, CA. 90028 ... The Third International Conference of Gay Jews will be hosted in Los Angeles May 19-21 by Congregation Beth Chayim Chadashim. Most of the conference will take place at Sportsman's Lodge in Studio City. For more information, write for the information packet: B.C.C., 6000 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90035...
...from GPU News, this nota in England right now the number one song on the charts is called "2-4-6-8 Motorway" by Tom Robinson. He also has recorded a heavy, biting song called "Glad to Be Gay", which some consider the most powerful gay protest song yet. Robinson, an open gay, will be releasing an album on the EMI/Harvest label very shortly... According to the findings of the most recent WomenPoll national survery, women in general have a desire for more rather than less-laws restricting the rights and activities of gays. Collegeeducated women and those living in the West favor more liberal laws...
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