SEPTEMBER 1982

LIGHT Keeps Active

Lesbians in GEAR Hanging Together (LIGHT) is a group of concerned women who.. meet for social and service functions within the Foundation and local community. "All female. Foundation members are automatically members of LIGHT and are welcome to the activities. It is not necessary to be a member of the Foundation, all women are welcome," said

Gays Help with Disease Research

The first formal ties to the Reagan administration have been established with the appointment of two gay representatives to a federal health panel, according to Lucia Valeska, executive director of the National Gay Task Force.

Previous attempts to create channels of communication have been rejected. But now, in cooperation with several gay health organizations, NGTF has named Dr. Bruce Voeller and Dr. Roger Enlow as representatives to the Committee of Experts, which met on July 27 with Assistant Secretary of Health, Dr. Edward N. Brandt.

Dr. Voeller is a former director of NGTF and now heads the Mariposa Foundation.

The Committee of Experts will advise the federal government on the increasing reports of Acquired Immunity Deficiency (A.I.D.), and will make recommendations on federal policy in responding to the reports.

"The prompt response of the Ad Hoc A.I.D. Task Force, composed of several gay and lesbian activists in the political and medical arenas, has led to this important political breakthrough," Valeska noted.

Sarah Adams. outgoing chairwoman.

Recently, LIGHT has concentrated on activities and service projects that benefit the Lesbian/Feminist community of the greater Cleveland area. LIGHT has tended bar at three functions, the New Years Eve Party, Oven Productions Variety Show and the June 12th fundraiser for What She Wants.

"Not including profits from the June 12th fundraiser, we have donated $1,200 to the GEAR Foundation, $300 to the Building Manager for paint supplies and $1,250 to What She Wants," said Sarah. "LIGHT has also provided workcrews that have refurbished the upstairs apartments at the Foundation."

Peg Fabbro was elected as the new chairwoman. With the help of Patty B. and Diane Fishman, Peg is planning monthly events for the group. The plans include attending the N.O.C.I. picnic and a Bring Your Own Lunch Bike Hike with beverages and soup available for $1.00.

Those interested in joining LIGHT of the GEAR Foundation should contact the hotline. LIGHT meets the first Tuesday of every month at 8:00 p.m. at the Gay Community Center.

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Bradley Joins Speaker's Bureau

WASHINGTON, D.C.-Dan J..Bradley, the former National President of the Legal Services program whose "coming out" on the pages of the New York Times brought considerable national attention, has joined the Speaker's Bureau of the Gay Rights National Lobby, according to the Washington, D.C.based lobbying organization.

GRNL's Speaker's Bureau, which includes many other prominent gay and lesbian movement leaders, is a vehicle to assist in mobilizing the community on the Family Protection Act, the "McDonald Amendment" and the National Gay/Lesbian Civil Rights Bill. Honoraria raised by the Speaker's Bureau go to GRNL's fund to combat anti-gay legislation.

In his position as National President of the Legal Services program, which provides legal aid for the poor, Bradley faced the formidable. challenge of preserving the program-which was a top target for extinction by the radical right: Despite an extremely difficult political climate, Bradley succeeded in saving the Legal Services program. His efforts brought him national press attention and the respect of many key public opinion leaders in Washington, D.C.

However, in the course of his campaign to. save legal aid for the poor, he saw first hand the anti-gay hate campaign. Congressman Larry McDonald, a John Bircher from Georgia, offered an amendment to the bill which would have denied gay citizens access to the program. Bradley also saw the efforts of Gay Rights National Lobby to defeat the amendment.

Bradleys's participation in GRNL's Speaker's Bureau will not only allow others to share in his experience as a skilled lobbyist and his insights on where we go from here, but

Bradley is also serving as Co-Chair of GRNL's Resource Development Committee (with Chicago business leader Chuck Renslow) and as Chair of the Advisory Com' mittee for the Human Rights Campaign Fund, a political action, committee raising funds for congressional candidates who support gay rights.

Among others serving on GRNL's Speaker's Bureau are prominent movement leaders such as Rev. Troy Perry, Barbara Gittings, Bruce Voeller, State Representative Karen Clark, State Senator Allan Spear, Kate McQueen, Jerry Weller, Jean O'Leary, and Frank Scheuren.

Those wishing to have Dan Bradley or

another speaker from GRNL's Speaker's.. Bureau should contact Gay Rights National Lobby's national office, P.O. Box 1892, Washington, D.C. or call (202) 546-1801. Honoraria go to the Gay Rights National Lobby. Bradley indicated he was particularly available during the summer months.

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Classroom Censorship Documented

Anyone who thinks their community is safe from the effects of classroom censorship. should open Censors in the Classroom by Edward B. Jenkinson to any page. Even people who are well informed on the issue stand to be shocked at the extent to which censorship increasingly alters our school systems; Teachers who lose their jobs for no other reason than that they have recommended for classroom use a book later deemed unsuitable by a parent. or school board; "closet censorship," in which books are quietly dropped from adoption lists for fear they might cause controversy; school systems which have banned dictionaries, or the works of Shakespeare, Dickens, Hans Christian Andersen and Emily Dickinson among many others.

Censors in the Classroom is based on ten

years of investigation into the efforts of various groups to screen classroom materials and ban books. Documenting hundreds of cases, author. Jenkinson shows how private censorship groups are gaining unprecedented influence, 25 year after the initial controversy sparked by J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye.

Edward B. Jenkinson is a former vice president of the National Council of Teachers of English and chairman of its Committee Against Censorship.⚫

Available till now only in a hardcover edition from Southern Illinois University, it reaches a much wider audience on its publication as an Avon paperback in September, 1982.

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