Gay Theatre Hits the Road

They stun their audiences with their rapid changes: a substitution of a jacket and a few basic props and they're finished with a send-up of insipid talk shows and launching into a highly-charged scene where a gay father fights for his child visitation rights. Their presentation embraces every theatrical style, from stand-up comedy to dramatic monologue as they cast their attention on every aspect of gay life (and life in general), be it bars, bookstores, southern belles, fashion fads, UHF commerciais, Three Mile Island, love affairs, or consciousnessraising. At every performance, audiences have responded with

standing ovations and demands for more.

"They" are CULTURE SHOCK, which the Gay Theatre Alliance Newsletter noted as "of particular interest" at the Philadelphia Gay Cultural Festival, where the company premiered its first work in mid-May, "Amateur Nite at the Baths, or Doing the Audience." Culture Shock is Harry Long and Joseph Uher, who after 10 years of professional experimental and alternative theatre decided to combine their art and their politics to concentrate on exploring the gay experience theatrically. Since the Philadelphia Gay Cultural Festival, they have also appeared in Washington, D.C.,

"NEW WOMEN" WINS SUIT

ROCHESTER, NY New publication of its kind. Reviewers Woman, one of the ten best-have included such writers as selling women's magazines in Gloria Steinem, Adrienne Rich, the country, has lost its tradeShere Hite, and Robin Morgan. mark infringement suit against Two weeks after New Women's New Women's Times, a national Times became a national publibi-weekly feminist newspaper cation, New Woman filed suit. published in Rochester. Suit was brought in November, 1978 alleging that New Women's Times was "engaging in unfair trade practices against (New Women magazine) by intending to trade upon the good will established by New Woman". U.S. District Court Judge Mary Johnson Lowe found that the names New Women's Times and New Woman and the products themselves were so substantially different that a "reasonable" buyer would not be confused by the two.

"We know that the New Women's Times never engaged in unfair trade or ever thought of New Woman as having anything to do with our newspaper," said Karen A. Hagber, co-publisher of New Women's Times, "New Women's Times is a feminist newspaper and New Woman is a women's magazine. We write on politics and change, they write on fashion and food."

--courtesy of Gay' Community News, 8/25/79

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Times was a regional monthly feminist newspaper, serving an upstate New York readership. In November, 1978, it became a national bi-weekly newspaper and began publishing its regular supplement, the New Women's Times Feminist Review, the only

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Artreach gallery is proud to announce its second annual WOMENSART 79 exhibition. The response to this statewide exhibition of professional women artists proved to be an even greater success than last year. One hundred and seventeen artists entered from all areas of Ohio. Selections for WOMENSART '79 were made by a jury of peers. Members of this panel were: Cynthia Laymon, Cleveland; Pat Brown, Toledo, Karen Kunc, Columbus; Jackie Haley, Akron; Pearl Schwartz, Cincinnati; outstanding works representing various media out of three hundred and twelve entries.

A formal opening for WOMENSART will be held on Saturday, September 15th from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. at Artreach, 613 N. High St. Bonnie Kelm, professor will make the award announcements at 9:00 p.m. The exhibition will run through October 31st.

(Cont'd from page two) area to the hinter regions of the farm were well trodden and much in demand.

The dinner menu featured barbequed chicken, corn on the cob, potato salad and cole slaw. Although an abundance of food was on-hand, the serving was slow. This apparently happened because the chicken was not precooked until serving hours due to a shortage of volunteers earlier in the morning. Therefore, valuable time, later in the day, was taken up with preparing the meat for barbequeing. Otherwise, the food was consumed hungrily. Beer and pop were served all day at no extra cost and those who wanted other beverages brought their own as liquor was not sold.

The future of the Greater Cleveland Gay Coalition looks favorable. Although this was the first event this group organized, it did turn out successfully. Plans are for a second Festival/picnic in 1980 and possibly one or two other events before then. The group expects to continue meeting in various Cleveland locations and is actively looking for new members. Part of the money raised through the Festival will be used to incorporate the group and maintain its current activities. Also, part of the money will be used to launch the Coalition's next event probably later this year or early 1980.

Baltimore, MD. and Pittsburgh, PA. as part of those cities' Gay Pride festivities. Both Philadelphia and Baltimore have even invited them back for encores.

The company will begin fullscafe touring this fall engagements in Philadelphia, Baltimore, D.C. and Minneapolis are already confirmed. In addition to "Amateur Nite," two other shows will also be available: "Fairy Tales, or Stuff for Two Faggots to do in

Front of an Audience" (another vaudeville, this time using legends, children's stories and the like to create a contemporary gay mythology. of stories you never heard at bedtime) and "The World Is My Body" (a reader's theatre of gay/lesbian his/her story and literature, created and offered as a tenth anniversary celebration of Stonewall). Also in the works is a full-length play, "Strangers and Other Lovers,"

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which follows two men from their coming out and becoming lovers in high school, through their growing up, apart and old.

The group has proven its effectiveness as fund-raisers, as well as its theatrical competence and entertainment value. For more information, write: Culture Shock, 32 S. Prince #6, Lancaster, PA 17603, or call (717) 3944471.

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