Crisco... Disco?
With Sincerest Apologies To Edgar
Once upon a midnight dreary. While I pondered weak and weary,
Over many a forgotten evening. At a disco.
Called the Crisco, Suddenly there came a rapping. At my chamber, someone tapping.
"Oh God." I prayed, "please try the door,"
"Try The Baths!" and nothing
more.
"Queer," called I.
Or fag or homo,
"I shall call my major domo,
And have you cast into the
night,"
Protect Yourself
Community United Against
Violence (CUAV), a San Francisco group that documents
A cry bursts from my lips "Desassaults on lesbians and gay pair!"
Frantic now I try once more. And spying bodies here galore. I fake a fall and hope for more. While heading for the steamroom floor.
"Abuse me now. I know you will, And use me now against my will." I'm just another pretty face. Another soon will take my place. And now they gape and start to stare.
I tuck in place an errant hair, But they all head for the door. Only this, and nothing more.
By Richard Jay Wilson Every Friday Night
Every Friday night,
men, has issued some tips on how to avoid becoming a victim of queer-bashers:
Don't walk alone. Groups of two, three or four are attacked with progressively lower frequency.
⚫Be especially careful between 8 p.m. and 2 a.m., when most attacks on gay people occur. •Assaults occur two to four times more often on weekdays than on weekends.
BWMI
BWMI Black and White Meri
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Together), a new support group more to catch
for gay men and their friends. was organized recently in San Francisco "Black men who are primarily attracted to Whites and White men who are primarily attracted to Blacks have special interests and needs which are often overlooked, even derided. by the Gay community at large." a spokesman for BWMT said today. "It's time that such special Gay people had better access to each other to share ideas and companionship.
"Of course, terms like 'Black' and 'White' are inadequate at ⚫Carry a whistle, and use it if best and we would be the last to you are threatened. exclude on that basis others such as Asians or Puerto Ricans. Membership is open really to anyone who identifies with our goals."
Be wary of groups of three to six males in their teens or early twenties. Sixty per cent of assailants fit that description.
If you're outnumbered, don't be afraid to run toward light or
To cruise the bushes like before. I go to see Rocky Horror Picture people. For I had never pierced the
gloom,
Of sauna, steam, or orgy room, Never smirched my crinoline, With shiny smear of Vasoline, "Try The Baths!" and nothing
more.
Enraged I drive down to the baths,
And search for cuties in my path. "Take a towel," I hear a cry. "It's five bucks, dear, to go inside."
But rushing past in newfound haste.
And something growing in its place.
I hear again just like before. "Try The Baths!" and nothing
more.
Show.
I don't know why. After all,
It isn't as if I'm into drag or something. And anyway
I really couldn't care less if I ever see it again. Still...
people do get the wrong impression.
Just because
I show up every week in blue eye shadow and red lipstick. Just because
I happen to be the founder and charter member of the Tim Curry Fan Club.
and
Just because
I happen to go to pieces
With fresh desire I breach the Every Friday Night
gloom.
And beeline for the orgy room.
It's empty now and no one's there.
When I'm Not invited up to the lab
with Brad and Janet.
By Rickki Wilson
The Crown Cafe
If you can't run, resist. Sixty per cent of assailants will leave you alone if you resist them. Use your whistle, scream, kick or bite.
If you are assaulted, report it. CUAV sponsors self-defense classes. For more information on the group's activities, call (415) 864-8347.
Courtesy of THE ADVOCATE
BWMT publishes a newsletter. is non-profit oriented, and has members from throughout the country and Canada Further information can be obtained by writing BWMT. 279 Collingwood. San Francisco CA 94114.
A venereal diseasepsialist reports that more than 20 different diseases can now be contracted sexually
Dr. King Holmes of Seattle's Public Health Service Hospital told a meeting of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases that the U.S. in the 1980s can expect a continuing epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases.
Holmes said the diseasecarrying agents now known to be transmitted by sexual contact include nine bacteria, five viruses, three protozoa, one fungus and two parasites.
Holmes attributed the dramatic rise in VD to several factors: the increasing number of unmarried couples living together, a lower age at which young Americans engage in sex, and the proportion of people who have more than one premarital sexual partner.
Courtesy of THE ADVOCATE
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