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men frequenting bathrooms for quick sex is simply not accurate, according to the non-pofit Public Affairs Committee.

In their pamphlet titled Changing Views of Homosexuality, committee writer Elizabeth Ogg says that while that kind of scene does occur gay men mostly have long-term

relationships

By Carl Howard Did you get there? DELTA. The stereotype of homosexual CLUB'S opening went off like the 4th of July in April. The light show is incredible, the sound system and its output could send everything else into early retirement. Dick Smith and the men of Entertainment Dynamics certainly poured their souls into this new Club and it was good to see Cleveland gays supporting something like this with so much enthusiasm... let's keep the support showing... Drinks are large and stout: a free buffet on Sundays: hot, hot hot disco music and mixes (outstanding work, Jack), delightfully intimate and cruise upper level lounge and good looking bar tenders... what more could be added? Let's not let straights" get even a slight chance of coming-in Keep this one for "us"!! Le: them stop at the top of the hill.

The next monthly meeting of the GEAR Foundation will be May 15 1979 in the Community Center, 1012 Sumner Court. Cleveland at 7:30 p.m. Everyone is welcome...

The Annual Meeting of the GEAR Foundation Board of Trustees will be held June 24 1979 at 2.00 pm in the Community Center. 1012 Sumner Court, Cleveland. Public is invited Election of Trustees

The quickie label is better suited for gays who are still in the closet and don't want to be identified as homosexuals, the pamphlet says (Gay Scene)

Paul Bateson, a 39-year old New York con man, has been convcted of second-degree murder in connection with the fatal stabbing of Variety film reporter Addison Verrill (Gay Scene)

No one is more sexually loused up than Americans, says author Bradley Smith, and it's all the fault of the Pilgrims

Smith, whose book is "The American Way of Sex: An Informal Illustrated History", says that the waves of Europeans who came to Americanin the colonial days forced on the native Indians religious teachings that "pleasure was bad and pain noble. that sex for recreation was bad and sex for

classified

...JOHN & FRANKIE. HOW can I ever thank you adequately for being there wher. I needed you that chilly morning two weeks ago From the bottom of my heart.THANKS!!!! Carl.

to a GREAT Bartender-.. Happy Birthday GREG S...Don

Teddy Bogges. Late of Lucasville, Ohio, if you are free please contact me at 4342 US 35 S.E. Bogus Road, Washinton Courthouse. OH 43160 for old times' sake. Imperative you do so. All my love --Clyde

TO JUHN & FRANKIE. very Happy and Belated Birthday to each from the HIGH GEAR staff...

...Dick, Mike. Charles, Frank, Greg and the rest of the gang--CONGRATULATIONS on a fantastic opening of DELTA CLUB-it's what we really needed in CLEVELAND---Best of luck from a friend...

Sleeping rooms, $100/mo. utilities Included. Whole house privileges (especially kitchen use). West-side location. Call 216-651-9878 anytime.

Feel caught in the middle Bisexual rap group forming-Write Wendy c/o PO Box 6177 Cleveland, Ohio 44101

Young man interested in meeting same. Enjoy outdoor activities and Sports. Call 216941-1068 and ask for Jim after 6:30 PM

Antiques and usual gifts by Joseph Jeannette Buy, sell appraisals, liquidations, classes on antiques. 1849 West 65th Street, Cleveland. Call 216-6518137 days and evenings

Cincinnatians: Turn on WAIF 88.3 FM radio from 7:30 PM 9:00 pm Tuesday for "Gaydreams" for news, interviews comedy and music. Help

procreation was a duty (Gay Scene)...

It's a SHAME! ... Marina del Ray. Queen of the Continental Checkroom has been sending harrassing letters to Jayne Hunter while she is in that out-of'state resthome. Someone in Jayne's condition doesn't need that sort of thing MARINA. Stop

It!!... ...Frankie, that's a mean whallop you pack... ...Richard Doughty, who said hemade love to Michelle Marvin more than 25 times during her affair with Lee Marvin, has vehemently denied that he ever engaged in homosexual affairs Gay Scene)

A group of Gay businesspeople have received a charter to. open what is believed to be the first openly Gay-owned savings and loan association in California The office to be called Unity Savings, will open later this year in Santa Monica Although Unity Savings will not cater exclusively to Gay people it will attempt to be of assistance to gays who might have problems with other leading institutions (GCN)

Recently State Sen. John Briggs said he was "terrified" as he fled through the streets of Fullerton. Cal pursued by what he thought were two terrorists

Seeking refuge in the office of Police Chief Martin Hairabedian. Briggs discovered the two men were Internal Revenue Agents, who he said wanted to talk to him about somebody else's taxes (Gay Scene;

Marlene Dietrich has been laid up in her Paris apartment with a broker leg the third such accident suffered by the 77-year old actress int he past 5 years Gav Scene).

.Summer on the lake with the boat sounds wonderful something to really look forward to

celebrate the show's expansion tell a friend

Cleveland's only Occult Room. Specializing onoccult paraphernalia, books, aids, herbs, rare oils, readings and advisory. 1849 West 65 Street, Cleveland. Call 216-651-8137 days and evenings.

TRANSEXUAL WRITING, POETRY, ARTWORK, ARTIcles wanted by serious transexual researcher,anon-

during those hot months:.thanks for thinking to ask, LARRY...

...Someone as cute as you. CHUCK, should have your pic. ture taken more often...How could you think you'd never hear again?...

the T-Shirt will be in your hands ...Rob Davis...believe it or not. soon...

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"No blacks, no Jews, no Gays." do the lyrics to Machine's smash disco hit "There But For the Grace of God Go 1," and that phrase apparently taken out of context--has been drawing protests all over the country. In fact, calls from irate byt uncomprehending listeners have been coming into radio stations at such an alarming rate that Machine has put out an edited version of the song in the new version, the offending phrase is changed to "where the upper class people stay."

The song tells the story of parents who move to the suburbs in order to save their daughter from urban problems and give ne: a chance to group in a world where they believe there are "no blacks no Jews, no Gays The move fails and the daughter becomes a prostitute and later pregnant (GCN).

UCLA psychiatrist Robert Stoller, a pioneer in the field of psychology of sexual excitement claims that people choose their sexual partners out of an innate sense of hostility, not love or good vibrations. "Hostility," he noted. "overt and/or hidden, is what generates sexual excitement." (LA Times) well. I guess I know some real ho^nle gays larg gots them

Today's average college freshman is a political moderate who favors legalized abortion and gay rights, ending preferred admissions for minorities and

Roommates Wanted Far East Side. I tentatively have a large house in Geauga County on 26 secluded acres, off Mayfield Rd. (Rt. 322). I am a bisexual (gay identified) male, 29, who is interested in meditation, holistic health, music, biofeedback, computers, and social/political change. I'd like to meet persons (who are interested in the above) for roommates, friendship.

mity guaranteed. P.O. Box 6177, BUDDY, CAN YOU

Clevland, OH 44101, ATT: Riki.

Hope for the gay alcoholic in Columbus, call 614-252-3972 for the gay AA group for men and women

Join the Rap Group Friday evenings at the Gay Community Center of Cleviand for more information, call 216-621-3360 after 6:00 PM weekdays and Saturday 12 PM to 5 PM sundays

Geneva-on-the-lake/Conneaut, OH area: Interested in any age over 21 who would enjoy mature relationship. I am 48 and conservative Write PO Box 961 Ashtabula, OH 44004 briefly

If you have a message that you would like to pass along to any friend, lover, and/or enemy, send it to HIGH GEAR, P.O. Box 6177. Cleveland, OH 44101. All messages, although subject to editing, are free of charge! Use us!

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Keith Johnston 152-150

PO Box 69 London, OH 43140 Michael Fields 151-926

PO Box 511

Columbus, OH 43216 Jeff Alliff 148-608 PO Box 69

London, OH 43140

HIGH GEAR moderate social change. Survey director Dr. Alexander W. Astin also noted that, because of grade inflation, "the A-student may not be what he used to be.”.....UPI..

...Boston Mayor Kevin White appointed a gay man to act as lia son to the local gay community. White said he wants Robin Mac Cormack, a 30-year-oldˇíbusinessman; to cut through the bureaucratic red tape results for the gay cor (The ADVOCATE)...

gui

Fred

...U.S. Representativ Richmond (Brooklyn) arrested last May for soliciting sex from two men. states that he will "lead the opposition" to a national Gay Rights Bill. The Congressman made this commitment to fight gay rights to a meeting of Orthodox Rabbis... (The New York Times)

Antioch College, located in. Yellow Springs. has an active group of gay men and women. Their gay center has meetings every Thursday evening at 7:30 PM at the college. Also. WYSOFM. 91.5 the local radio station, has a gay program, every Friday oving at 7:00. Included is a dialoque, music, and special topic programs. I you would like to participate or would like information call Pat at 513-767-1722 or 513-864-2022.

M.ybe there is other help in sight word has it that Jayne Hunter is improved and has been transferred to Les Bouches Clinique in the Alps for more extensive observation and reconstruction of her Rumors are afoot that she might return to Cleveland in June. It's hard to say

Some women are being admitted to Delta Club now Age limit is 18 and over. If you've wondered where everyone is ... THEY'RE probably at this new < Club or so it seems...

and/or an intimate relationship where we can share ourselves openly, honestly, and intensely. Sensitive, creative, and longhaired gays, especially welcome. Call David at 216-321-8189 (work phone), noon-9 pm. MondayThursday. I'm hard to reach, if I'm not in please leave a message. * (Last month the wrong number was printed as 321-8289, we're sorry).

Michael Wood 152-543 P.O. Box 45699 Lucasville, OH 45699 Jerry Crowell 150-295

P.O. Box 511

Columbus, OH 43216 George E. Hakalm, 1.

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15802 SR104

P.O. Box 5500

Chillicothe, OH 45601

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SINCERE, DEPENDABLE PEOPLE TO ACT AS CORRESPONDENTS FOR HIGH GEAR.

WE NEED 2 EACH IN THE FOLLOWING CITIES: COLUMBUS

CINCINNATI:

1 PERSON IN EACH CITY MUST HAVE A CAMERA, DUTIES WILL INCLUDE PHOTOGRAPHING EVENTS, GATHERING LOCAL ADS AND WRITING LOCAL: WE WILL PAY DIRECT EXPENSES PLUS A MONTHLY.PEE.' SERIOUS INDIVIDUALS ONLY SHOULD CONTACT. DAN MIECZNIKOWSKI AT 216-631-9275 OR BOB KOVACH AT 216-521-6449 OR WRITE, HIGH GEAR P.O. BOX 6177 CLEVELAND OHIO 44101