odds 'n' ends
By Carl Howard
...REMINDER: Don't forget the annual meeting of the GEAR Foundation at the Community Center, 1012 Sumner Court, Cleveland at 2:00 p.m., on Sunday, June 24, 1979. This important meeting will determine the direction to be taken by the Foundation in the coming year; attend and voice your ideas...
...CORRECTION: Trustees of the GEAR Foundation will be elected at the annual meeting but officers will not be elected until the following Tuesday at the regular Board meeting; not at the annual meeting as stated in ODDS & ENDS last month...
...Cascade Community Church is holding Worship Services at its regular time (2:00 p.m.-Sunday) through June 5, after that date, please call the church office at (216) 376-6257 for further information...
...DENNIS: I hope St. Paul's weather has turned warmer by now. Once Ma Bell gets into the act there's no telling who might turn up on the phone, is there? You must visit the East soon: Detroit, Cleveland, NYC... ...Barbara Levy, Executive Director of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, has been appointed to the position of Assistant Attorney General for the State of New York in the Civil Rights Unit. (Gay Light)...
...Feminist author and activist Kate Millet, along with her friend Sofie Kier, held a press conference in New York recently explaining conditions in Iran. Millet and Kier traveled to Iran to participate in women's protests
against the draconian regulations of the Ayatollah Khomeini, head of the new Moslem government. (THE ADVOCATE)...
The owners of four gay bars in Tucson, Arizona, formed the Tucson Bar Owners Guild last month. The purpose of the guild, aside from internal problem, is to promote activity in the Tucson Gay Community. (Arizona Gay News)...
...Many thanks to Sal Connor, John Fraleigh and the Monday Night Rap Group of Grand Rapids for a good and meaningful weekend in Grand Rapids last month. The Conference, dinner and dance were all a success in no small measure because of you...
...Pennsylvania State Senator Clarence Bell has re-introduced a bill intended to ban the employment of gay people in certain professions. Entitled Senate Bill 6, the proposal is identical to one introduced in last year's session. If passed the bill would prohibit "admitted homosexuals" from being employed as state police officers, state correctional guards or staff members, counselors, or as personnel who come in contact with patients at any state institution dealing with mental illness, juveniles, or orphans. (Gaysweek)...
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.....MICHAEL ISN'T THAT WAY! Singer Michael Jackson of the Jackson Five has rejected the role of the gay dance in the movie, "Chorus Line" because "some people already think I'm that way---HOMO." The singer told JET magazine that such a role would have more people "thinking I am that way." He
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Looking for a house in Ohio City? Our neighbor is selling her 8-room frame Victorian home
with hardwood floors, fireplace,
full basement, attic, fenced-in yard, and driveway. She's asking $18,500 which is negotiable. (the house needs paint job and cleaning). Five gay people already own 3 houses all next to each other on this part of Randall. We'd like to make that 4 contiguous houses and 6 or 7 gay people. Interested? Call John at 216-631-9112, evenings.
Geneva-on-the-Lake / Conneaut, Ohio Area: Interested in any age over 21 who would enjoy mature relationship Write PO Box 961 Ashtabula, Ohio 44004 briefly
IF YOU HAVE A MESSAGE THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO PASS ALONG TO ANY FRIEND, LOVER, AND OR ENEMY, SEND
IT THROUGH HIGH GEAR, P.O. BOX 6177. CLEVELAND, OHIO 44101. ALL MESSAGES, ALTHOUGH SUBJECT TO EDITING, ARE FREE OF CHARGE! USE US!
Male 31 would like to share Iwest side Cleveland Apt. with same. Call David 216-221-4390.
Roommate wanted to share large 5 bedroom Lakewood house with other gay men. 216228-9378 after 5 p.m.
if you or any of your friends really NEED a drink call 216-2417387 and ask for the telephone number of someone from the Open Door.
added that this has already been a problem "because of my voice-although I'm not actually that way at all. It is just gossip." (Gay Light)...
...Entertainers Pat Boone, Art Linkletter and Lawrence Welk are among those uniting an antigay fundamentalist lobby in Washington, D.C., CHRISTIAN VOICE. Christian Voice has hired a staff, developed a one million dollar budget and formed a mailing list of 100,000 members. It links homosexuality with abortion, ERA and pornography, stating "We believe that America's decline is the direct result of these things." (Arizona Gay News)...
...School officials in Sioux Fall S., D., say a senior high school boy took his boyfriend to his senior prom last month. "The rules say one (prom-goer) has to be a senior," Lincoln High School Principal Fred Steohens said. "They could take their mother if they wanted." The principal would not identify the student, who he said has been outspoken about his homosexuality. (The Plain Dealer)...
...A San Francisco police officer testified in court that his superiors ordered him to delete key information about Dan White, convicted of killing Mayor George Moscone and Supervior Harvey Milk last November.
In trial ceremony that startled both the prosecutor and defense attorney, officer Alfred Baldochi said Deputy Chief Mario Amoroso directed him to alter his report of the city hall shootings Nov. 27. Baldocchi said he was directed to omit the description of White, as well as the names, statements and attitudes of certain witnesses. (THE ADVOCATES)... ...The first issue of GAY BOOKS BULLETIN has been published by the New York chapter of the Gay Academic Union. The new quarterly will concentrate on critical reviews of both gay-related fiction and nonfiction.
According to the editor, Wayne Dynes, "The spectacular increase in numbers of books relating to homosexuality has
Retired professional man wants to meet professional man in 30's or 40's. Phone 216-659-6485 in evening.
Gay Men's Monthly Rap Session and Dinner. Kent, Ohio area. First Saturday of Every Month. All areas are welcome to attend. For details phone Rick at 216-535-2358 or Write Pat at Box 25, Greensburg, Ohio 44232.
Transsexual lesbian rap group has one temporary opening.If you might be interested please reply to P.O. Box 6177, c/o Riki Ann. Sorry, WE CANNOT ACCEPT ANY GENETIC
LESBIANS AT THIS TIME.
Cleveland's only Occult Room specializing in occult paraphernalia, books, aids, herbs, rare oils, readings, and advisory. 1849 West 65th, Cleveland. Call 216561-8137 days and evenings. 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 Cleveland. For more information call (216) 621-3380 after 6 pm weekdays and Saturdays, 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sundays.
virtually mandated the creation of a new journal to evaluate them." The Bulletin may be obtained from GAY-NY, Box 480, Lenox Hill Station, NY, NY 10021 at $10 per year ($15 for institutions). (THE ADVOCATES)...
...The Chamber of Commerce has threatened to cancel its ties to ATLANTA MAGAZINE because of a cover story on gay parents. The chamber buys about 15 percent of the publication's run of 40,000 copies. (THE ADVOCATE)...
...DAMPENED PRIDE
Ever
on the alert for a blow to their image. Air Force brass have undertaken a poll to determine whether servicemen should be allowed to carry umbrellas. Current rules prohibit both enlisted men and officers to keep dry by using the handy bumbershoots.
The reason for the poll? Worry that carrying umbrellas might undermine servicemen's mascu-
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Page 12 HIGH GEAR line image. Maybe the answer is something in a nice, butch beige, (THE ADVOCATE)...
Thousands of copies of the book, produced by the Melbourne Gay Teachers and Students Group, have been used with children aged 14 and up. This book is designed to help counter misinformation, halftruths and lies about homosexu-
ality that circulate in high schools. The language is simple and frank. State education authorities are "undecided" about the book and are preparing a recommendation to the education minister on its continued use in the schools. (BODY POLITIC)...
... The tide turned on gay rights with the failure last fall of Seattle bigots to repeal a city ordinance prohibiting discrimination in employment or housing, according to an analysis in the Saturday Review.
CEAR
A Publication of the Gear Foundation June Volume 5 Issue 11 1979 GEAR
HIGH GEAR Journal is a publication of the Gay Educational and Awareness Resources (GE.A.R.) Foundation of Cleveland, Ohio. It is distributed free of charge in any establishment and with any organization that will permit distribution. We are a non-profit, federally tax-exempt publication.
The presence of the name or picture or other representation of an organi zation, place of business or person (s) in HIGH GEAR is not necessarily indicative of the sexual orientation of such organizations, businesses, or per-
sons
We welcome all contributions of written materials, art work, or photography by members of the gay community. All materials submitted for publication are subject to editorialization. We cannot guarantee the return of materials submitted for publication, whether used by HIGH GEAR or not, unless they are accompanied by a stamped self-addressed envelope.
HIGH GEAR will not publish material in which graphic or verbal representations of an ideal or idealized human body appear except in the case of a performer or work of art which is the subject of the material. We also will not publish material of a racist, sexist, or pornographic nature. We reserve the right to alter and/or edit material to conform to the above standards; in the case of display advertising, after notifying the advertiser.
HIGH GEAR is copyrighted under federal law. Reproduction is granted to all other gay publications so long as credit is given to HIGH GEAR. All HIGH GFAR work is original unless otherwise noted.
The next GEAR BOARD OF λλλλλλλλλλλλλλλλλλλλλλλ TRUSTEE meeting will be June TRY A SAMPLE OF AKRON 26 at the Community Center, CANTON GOLD SEND $1.00 1012 Sumner Ct. at 7:30 p.m. TO: AKRON CANTON GOLD Transsexual Writing, Poetry, P. O. BOX 9113, AKRON, Art Work, Articles wanted by λλλλλλλλ OHIO 44305
serious transsexual researcher,
anonymity guaranteed. P.O. Box 6177 Cleveland, Ohio 44101 Attn.: Riki
Bisexual rap group forming Feel Caught In The Middle? Write Wendy c/o P.O. Box 6177 Cleveland, Ohio 44101.
These prisoners have Tony Lee Logsdon 136-620
P.O. Box 45699 Lucasville, OH 45699
Derrick Evans 142-316
P.O. Box 45699 Lucasville, OH 45699 Robert Collins 148-287 P.O. Box 45699 Lucasville, OH 45699
James Carr 142-388
PO Box 45699 Lucasville, OH 45699
requested
To Gary: Is Clam Gulch ready for us? Are we ready for the jacuzzi? YES! -Rick
Antiques and unusual gifts by Joseph Jeannette. Buy, sell, appraisals, liquidations. Classes on Antiques. 1849 West 65th, Cleveland; call 216-651-8137 days and evenings. letters from the community:
Graham G. Dean
151-646
P.O. Box 511
Jim Miller
143-611
P.O. Box 511
Columbus, OH 43216 Columbus, OH 43216
Larry Barton
151-554
P.O. Box 5500 Chillicothe, OH 45601
Robert Dennis 143-506 P.O. Box 69 London, OH 43140
Ronnie Sams 153-782 PO Box 69 London, OH 43140
Danny Clancy 153-023
P.O. Box 69
London, OH 43140
Jay Donahey 151-659
P.O. Box 511
Columbus, OH 43216
Joseph P. Sarli 129-669
PO Box 45699 Lucasville, OH 45699.
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