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ENJOY a relaxing trip across Long Island Sound to the scenic village
of Port Jefferson, Long Island. Sail with the TCC group but return at
your leisure. The ferry will depart from Bridgeport Harbor at 10:30
AM and arrive in PortJefferson at noon. The TCC group rate is $10. 75
(payable in cash on the morning of the trip). Space is limited. CallJohn
for reservations (203) 334-3822.

You'll find Port Jefferson village rich with historical culture, unique shops, excellent restaurants, elegant lodging and an
ambiance that characterizes Main Street, USA. Have breakfast, stroll the waterfront, and walk through the shops. Merchants
will be happy to serve you in this gay friendly environment. Visit the Historical Society, have dinner and take in live theater,
or stay for an evening's entertainment.
PortJefferson's shopping district attests to the diversity of this village. Main Street is lined with shops with names like Harbor
Sounds, Shoeport, Darling Stationery, Alienation, East End Shirt Co., Fetish, Elegant Affairs, Soundview Art Gallery,
Something Special, Irish Elegance, America, Yuppie Puppy, It's a Small World, Stitchin' Time, Common Scents and more.
Harbor Square Mall also offers a welcoming environment. The mall is home to many interesting shops, including Shoetique,
Silk and Lace, Miss Kitty and Friends, Treasure Cache, Out of This World, Shirt Tales, Your Favorite Team, The Bag Lady and
others.

A short stroll to East Main Street, finds many of the shops occupying historic sea captains' homes, and brings a subtle change
in atmosphere as well as in the items being sold. Many of the shops names clearly describe their contents: Scented Cottage
Garden, Cat-In-The-Bag, Magic Hearts, Craftin' Buddies, Reruns, The Red Sled, Port Jefferson Antiques, Good Times
Bookstore, Brave New World, From Near And Far and Maresa's Candlelight Gift Shoppe and many more. This quiet street
allows for leisurely browsing and a chance to savor what life must have been like 100 years ago in the village.
Kella's Home Brew recently opened, a store catering to the home brewer and wine maker. Additionally, for wine lovers, the
Pindar Wine Store is a great source for this prestigious Long Island wine. For somewhat more universal tastes, the village
can satisfy everyone's sweet tooth, with shops such as Chunk-a-Chocolate, The Frigate and La Bon Boulangerie European
pastry shop.
With over 30 restaurants, Port Jefferson caters to every taste and pocketbook. From bouillabaisse to burgers, pasta to paella,
sushi to salad, Port Jefferson offers ethnic and regional specialty dining, as well as more basic culinary delights. Their names
alone will wet your appetite - Pasta Pasta, Elk Street Grille, Hana's, Costa de Espana, Ruby's, Quiet Corner Cafe, Tara's, Billie's
1890 Saloon, Harbor Gates, The Steam Room, Port Jefferson Lobster House and Fish Market, PJ Horsefeathers, and more.
Join us r We guarantee that your time in Port Jefferson will be a most agreeable experience that will leave you with many warm memories.
Remember, space is limited so call John for reservations at (203) 334-3822.

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Facilitator Training Workshop
On Saturday, Sept. 12th , from 9am-1 pm, TCC will be hosting a free interactive leadership training program for those volunteers
who have or will be interested in facilitating support groups for the Triangle and New Haven Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual
Community Centers. Ms. Patty Schein will teach tools for running successful support groups and for increased leader
confidence. The forum will provide an opportunity to improve your skills and/ or to learn new ones; to share your successes
with others, so they may benefit - -- - - - - - -- - - - - - -- - from your learning; and to gain greater
appreciationforyourstyleand those
of others. Through this training, participants will learn how to provide
facilitatorconsistencythroughoutournetwork of support groups. They will
learn how to structure groups; create and
maintain safety within; set appropriate boundaries; handle difficult participants; and manage group emotions. Participants will also learn the differences between therapy and support; the role of the support group leader;
they ways to handle usual and unusual problems that can arise in a group;
howtoenergizeandcalmthegroup;
and create group cohesion. The acquisition of all of these much-needed
skills will be graciously taught, free of
LMFT.
charge, by Patty Schein, M.Ed. La.....~E:
Ms. Schein is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice in Milford, Connecticut. She has been practicing
holistic psychotherapy with individuals, groups, couples and families since 1973. M~. Schein is also an Approved Supervisor
and clinical member of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy, is certified in GestaltTherapy, EMDR, Reiki
Healing, and as an Experiential Therapist. She has trained other mental health professionals both in the United States and Great
Britain; as well as business managers in some of Connecticut's top corporations. In addition, Ms. Schein has led hundreds of
therapy support groups and workshops. She has facilitated the Alzheimer's Association Family Support Group in Milford for
the past five years and the Ingraham Manor Nursing Home Family Suppport Group in Bristol.
Call or e-mail Denny at: (203) 367-3911 or dab86@juno.com for more details .

............AND in OCTOBER, Patty will be leading a UNIQUE and fabulous introductory "YogaRythmics-Kripalu
Dancekinetics" class. This spirit dance experience will be offered free of charge to the community at large. If you want to stretch
your whole self - open up more to yourself and others in body, mind, and spirit, then join us for this fantastic opportunity to
move and grow from the inside out. No talent or skill of any kind is necessary- only the desire to feel good, have fun and
move!! Space may be limited - so registration is required. Don't hesitate - pick up the phone right now and call: Denny 203367-3911 or e-mail: dab86@juno.com.

" Pageant" Produces Prolific Profits
When the "Pageant" played for five nights last January, everyone agreed that the show was a
theatrical knockout! The hit off-Broadway musical beauty contest was artfully directed by Scott
M. Robbins and played to packed houses at the Performing Arts Center in Norwalk. The
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financial success of the show came in the form of a check to TCC for a little more than $21,000!
~ After production costs were subtracted, the profit turned out to be a whopping $13,800!
$4,600
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The money will be evenly divided and distributed to TCC, TCC' s Scholarship Fund and Bread
& Roses. What an achievement! And the gayvine has it, that work has already begun on next
year's theatrical extravaganza. Way to go!

Lesbian Lit Group

* *Hey! Where's the TCC Annual Picnic?**
It's coming on September 20th . Details in the next
issue of News & Views.

August 1998

For their September discussion, the Lesbian Literature
Group has chose the "Penguin Book of Lesbian Short
Stories" edited by Margaret Reynolds. This anthology is
available in paperback at local bookstores and Bloodroot
(203) 576-9168. For more information call Christine at
(203) 847-8476. The Lesbian Literature Group meets the
first Tuesday of each month at TCC starting at 7:30 PM.
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Annual Town Meeting

Splinters

The Center's lease expires in 1999. Do you know if we'll
bemoving?TheCenter has a substantial treasury. Do you
know how it will be utilized? TCC has a scholarship fund.
Do you know how it operates? Several activities are
planned for the rest of the year. Do you know how many
people volunteered to help? For the answer to these and
other important questions come to the Triangle Community Center's Annual Town Meeting on October 4th from
3 - 5 PM. More details in the next issue.

As of July 7'", the Triangle women's team has a record of
3 wins and 3 losses .

Jnredible-ewbEraiu,ocit~...liberat~..re.:IH::irlmin~joyous....awesome.
Those are the words that describe my impression of the 1998
Gay Pride Parade in New York City as over 600,000 marchers
and viewers joined in a festive celebration of affirmation,
diversity and recognition. To see the gay community in all our
diversity, from drag queens and pulsating "boy toy" dancers to
a large contingent of New York's finest and state judges and
legislators, with lots of senior citizens, religious groups, ethnic
organizations, community groups, rodeo riders, classic car
collectors, and health advocates in between. The TCC delegation marched for hours down Fifth A venue and through the
incredibly packed streets of Chelsea and Greenwich Village,
where the crowds incessantly cheered every contingent in the
parade. It was FUN day, a positive outpouring of our community, standing strong, standing together, standing proud. Every
group needs their "great day" .. .. for the Irish it's St. Patrick's
Day; for Italians it's Columbus Day; for black Americans it's
Martin Luther King Jr. Day and for our community it's Pride
Day. What an experience!
-John DelVecchio

.. ..and Celebration

Help Wanted

The Triangle Women's Softball team and Sportis (the other
lesbian softball team in Norwalk) would like to ivite all of
their players and supporters to their end-of-the-season
celebration. on August 28 th at 6:30 PM at Shady Beach in
Norwalk. Food and beverages will be supplied. For more
information call Chris at (203) 847-8476.

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR for the LOFT, Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center. Seeking Administrator for Center's
daily operations in White Plains, NY. Must have strong organizational, program, and fiscal management skills plus energy
and vision to strengthen diverse LGBT Community. Need
excellent written/verbal skills; PR, Volunteer Management,
and successful fundraising experience; computer literacy including database management. Strong leadership ability and
knowledge of LGBT issues essential. Salary: $37,500-$40,000
Plus benefits. Master's Degree; Minimum 5 years high level
administrative experience; valid driver's license and reliable
car. Send Maximum 2 page resume to: R.W. Hesse Jr., Chair
LOFT Executive Dir. Srch. Ctte., c/ oMemoryLn.,200Hamilton
Ave., White Plains, NY 10601. No phone Calls.

Softball Benefit ....
In front of an enthusiastic crowd of Bloodroot
and Triangle supporters, the First Annual t>-~>~1);;)\,,.
Women's Softball Game raised $180.00 to
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benefit the Women's Crisis Center and Al«<i(((~ ~
Bread & Roses. Bo.t h teams played val- ·,,i,t';•,,)
iantly to a final score of Triangle 18 and
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Bloodroot 7. See you next year!

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ATTENTION:
Subscriptions News & Views only is now available to all
TCC non-members for $15 a year. To purchase a subscription (12 issues) write:
News & Views Subscription
Triangle Community Center
PO Box 4062
East Norwalk, CT 06855
or call: (203) 853-0600 and leave a message.
Please make checks payable to: Triangle Community
Center.

Conn Represented at Gay Games
Gay Games Vis slated for August 1st through 8th of this year.
For the first time it will be held outside of the Americas, with
Amsterdam as host city. Twelve athletes will be officially
representing the state of Connecticut, not counting
Ridgefield's Harvey Fierstein who is part of the extensive
cultural festivities going on at the same time. Several members of the Triangle Community Center will be among the
3,000 volunteers and the estimated 150,000 visitors. Those
who had a memorable time four years ago will know that a
great time will be had by all this time around.
August 1998

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T NEWS & VIEWS
Connecticut News
Westport Bids Good-bye to the Brook Cafe
The Brook h as closed. The last night for this 50-year-old Westport landmark was July 25 th • Citing rising expenses in Westport, the owners
of The Brook Cafe have opened a new club in Norwalk called TownHouse Cafe & Dance Clu b. The Cafe is located at 7 Wall St., Norwalk.
It is opened from 3 pm-1 am, Sunday-Thursday and 3 pm-2 am, Friday and Saturday.
Here's a rundown of other bars in the area:
The Art Bar - 84 West Park Pl., Stamford - (203) 973-0300.
There is a $4 cover and is gay on Sunday nights only from 8pm-1am. The Art Bar, has a large front bar
with pool table; two side bars which provide small seating areas; and a center bar with a dance floor area.
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ught In The Act - 1246 Main St., Bridgeport - (203) 333-9505
Open every day. Weekdays: Noon-lam; Weekends: Noon-2am. Small and cozy bar for men and women. DJ
every night; male strippers on Saturday night. You can even get a bite to eat off their small bar menu
Sandy's Old Homestead - 325 N. Main Street, Port Chester, NY - (914) 939-0758
Open 8am-4am, Monday-Saturday; Noon-4am, Sunday. Sandy's is a neighborhood bar with a jukebox, pool
table, pinball, video games, darts, and bowling. Most of the regulars during the week are straight, but the whole
place is very gay friendly. The End of the Month Party on the last Saturday of every month has a $5 cover and no
men allowed. The jukebox is unplugged and a DJ spins popular dance music. The kitchen is always open and
there's a full menu.

Triangles - 66 Sugar Hollow Road (Route 7), Danbury - (203) 798-6996. It is opened 7 nights a week. It is
mostly men, but there are more women there than most bars in the area. There are drink specials every night,
with male dancers on Monday, Thursday and Friday. On Friday and Saturday it's a packed house dance party.
They also have two pool tables and video games in a separate room with a video jukebox and bar.

Gay Rights Groups Fault Row land, Again

are sincerely held morally based views.

For the four th year in a row, Gov. John G. Rowland rejected a proclamation seeking to designate June as Gay Pride Month, explaining that he
could not sign a statement that would be inappropriate to read to
second-graders. But schoolchildren visiting the state Capitol got an
earful Monday, as gay rights advocates rallied there in protest of the
governor's decision. About 50 supporters of the proclamation gathered
to hear fiery speech es predicting that Rowland would suffer for his
position in the November election and challenging him to reverse his
stance before the gay PrideFest in Hartforp.

Yet the suspicions and concerns of the gay community are
understandable when one considers the Senate's treatment of
James Hormel's nomination as Ambassador to Luxembourg,
w hich is now being blocked by multiple holds by Members of
this Chamber. If we truly believe in the claim of equality and
the universal principle of fairness of the Declaration of Independence, and if we want to talk more broadly about values
with true credibility in this Chamber, I think we owe Mr.
Hormel a chance to be evaluated by the same standards we
have applied to other nominees. We owe him a chance to be
judged by his career and competence, not by his sexual orientation. We owe him a vote on this floor.

Rowland spokeswoman Nuala Forde said the governor "basically feels
that sexual orientation is not an appropriate topic for an official state
proclamation." Because Rowland has repeatedly rejected the proposed
statement, Forde said," it should come as no surprise" that he refused to
sign it a gain. Speakers at the rally said they were outraged by Row land's
persistent refusal to sign the proclamation, contending that he needs to
"wake up" to a new political reality in which gay, lesbian, bisexual and
transgendered people are part of the mainstream. Jessica Stevens,
director of the state chapter of the National Organization for Women,
said Row land's decision was" an ac t of political violence and will not be
forgotten

Moral Ground by Senator Lieberman (D-CT)
...The conflict over homosexuality's p lace, the place of homosexuals in
our society, I think, offers a contemporary example of this tension that
is very real in our lives and in our discussions and debates. Let's start
with the reality that many Americans continue to believe that homosexuality is immoral and not just because the Bible tells them so. In fact,
Professor Wolfe's research showed that this is one of the few areas where
Americans of all religious inclinations feel so strongly that they are
willing to risk the tag of intolerance to express or hold to their points of
view , although most of the people he interviewed tempered their
disapproval by making clear that they did not support discrimination
against gay men and lesbians. It is unfair, when you think about
Professor Wolfe's research, then, for anyone to automatically conclude
that people who express moral reservations or even disdain about
homosexuality are bigots, or to publicly attack them as hateful. These

August 1998

Shays Blasts Gay Bashing
Rep Christopher Shays, R-4 [Stamford/Norwalk/Bridgeport]
last week blasted Republican leaders for gay bashing to gain
political points with the far right. "Itis disgraceful and wrong,"
Shays said. Several GOP leaders have publicly denounced
homosexuality as sinful and are considering legislation to
overturn an executive order issued by President Clinton last
month to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation in
federal workplaces.
On June 15, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott said homosexuality is a sin and likened it to alcoholism or kleptomania. He
was defended the next day by House Majority Leader Disk
Armey and Assistant Senate Majority Leader Don Nickles who
said Lott was "biblically correct" in his description of gays.
Shays said that the leaders were using the bible as a convenience to pick on a minority group, while ignoring " sins" of the
majority such as divorce or observing the Sabbath.
"They should stop trying to inject themselves into our personal
lives," Shays said. Joseph Grabarz, executive director of the
Connecticut Civil Liberties Union, applauded Shay's rebellion
against his party leaders. "I'm relieved that someone in Congress is finally speaking out against this kind of hate speech,"
said Grabarz, who is gay.

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In Search Of Acceptance in
Connecticut
Richard Goldberg and Ian Grande are pioneers. Eight
years ago, the openly gay couple bought a house in a
quiet corner of the Farmington Valley and settled down
among the subdivisions and soccer moms. Goldberg and
Grande live on their own terms in a place that has
traditionally cultivated conformity. Indeed, generations
of homosexuals once viewed the neatly trimmed hedges
that define the suburban landscape as hurdles on the way
to the freedom, camaraderie and anonymity of big city
life. But that's begi1ming to change. Although official
statistics aren't available, real estate agents and activists
report that more gay men and lesbians are putting down
roots in suburbia. The migration is occurring across the
nation and has accelerated in the past five years, says
Jeffrey Vi tale, chief executive officer of Overlooked Opinions, a Chicago-based market research firm that tracks
the gay population.
In Connecticut, some obs.e rvers say the hub of gay life is
starting to gravitate away from Hartford and New Haven. They point to the swelling number of businesses
catering to homosexuals that have recently sprouted in
suburbia. The list includes a popular coffeeshop in the
Collinsville section of Canton named for writer Gertrude
Stein and her lesbian lover, a new gay- pride store on
Manchester's Main Street and a bar called the Purple
Monkey in Willimantic. One of the state's hippest gay
nightclubs is in East Windsor. One of the region's largest
gay professional groups holds its monthly meetings in
Farmington.
The migration has ignited tensions in some communities, where heterosexuals have been unfriendly, even
hostile, to the newcomers. But in other places, gay men
and lesbians have been welcome, assimilating easily in
their new neighborhoods. Claire Connelly says her sexual
orientation" doesn't seem to be a problem" for her Coventry neighbors. Connelly, who is 62, lives in a complex
for the elderly and disabled. Some of her neighbors make
a point of clipping out articles about gay issues and
handing them to her.
To be sure, homosexuals have always been at home in the
suburbs, though in the past, most kept quiet about their
sexual orientation, leaving the activism to their more
politicized urban counterparts. But as their ranks grow,
gay suburbanites are becoming increasingly visible, demanding the same rights as their heterosexual neighbors. That new assertiveness was evident in West Hartford recently, when dozens of gay men and lesbians-and
many heterosexuals as well - asked the town council to
restructure its recreational fees. Many in the crowd believe a policy prohibiting non-married couples from
qualifying for a family discount at the municipal pool is
discriminatory. After a boisterous debate, the council
voted to deny gay couples the family rate. To many
suburban gays, there was more at stake than a discounted swimming pass. The message was clear: You' re
welcome here as long as you don't stir up trouble. Now
some gay residents of West Hartford are discussing ways
to harness their power, including perhaps fielding an
openly gay candidate for political office.

August 1998

Gay Day at Bristol's Lake Compounce
Hundreds of gay and lesbian Nutrneggers came out on June 25, for the first
organized 'Gay Day' celebration at Lake Compounce in Bristol. The event, put
on by the New Haven Gay and Lesbian Community Center, passed without
much fanfare at the nation's oldest park. John Allen, co-president of the New
Haven center, said about 250 tickets sold. 'Gay Day' organizers said they liked
their day at Lake Compounce so much that the group will have another day at
the park next year. Allen said there is a need for events like the one at Lake
Compounce where people can feel comfortable. Park officials were especially
helpful, he said, working with the group to make the day a success.

Hartford's Mantilla's Re-Election
Evelyn Mantilla studied the letter on her kitchen table one day this week. Then
she forced an uneasy smile and put it aside. It read: "Don't send me any more
[campaign] literature. I do not support the party of homosexuals and neither do
my friends." That can happen when you're one of only two openly gay state
legislators and when you declare your bisexuality at a gay PrideFest, asking
your female partner in the crowd to marry you, daring the spotlight to find you.
That was a year ago. A Democrat, she appears headed for re-election in the
unlikeliest place, Hartford's 4th House District, where Edwin Garcia, a former
Hartford police sergeant, once ruled as state representative with all his toughguy talk and ward-style politics. Mantilla said the hate letter, sent tl1is week by
a former supporter, was her first. Mantilla, 35, proposed to her partner in public
because, she said, if straight people could do so, why couldn't she. If that makes
her some kind of gay celebrity or target, she said, that's fine, but that's not her
cause. 'Tm a legislator - who happens to be gay," she said. 'Tm committed to
all civil rights issues, including gay."

New Britain Agency Dismisses Complaint
The state's human rights agency has dismissed a complaint by a New Britain
teacher who claim she was targeted for discrimination because she is a lesbian.
The Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities recently notified Lynne
Kowalczyk, a physical education teacher, of its decision. Kowalczyk, who was
transferred from her position at Di Loreto Magnet School in late 1997 after an ongoing dispute involving two other teachers, was told there was not sufficient
evidence to prove she was transferred and suspended because of her sexual
orientation. The complaint, filed against the school district three months ago, is
similar to that filed by Kowalczyk's partner and colleague Beth Kavy, who is a
special education teacher.

200 Celebrate on New Haven Green
The historic Green witnessed another first, as more than 200 people gatl1ered to
celebrate gay and lesbian rights. It was the first such rally ever on the Green,
organizers said, and the first gay-themed event of any kind there in more than
340 years. In 1655, Col. John Knight was hanged on the Green for a same-sex
crime."
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How times have changed. Rainbow flags, symbolizing gay rights, flew from the
monument opposite the main stage. Organizers said it was the perfect way to
set the tone for the state's annual Connecticut PRIDE rally, which continues
today with a parade and rally in Hartford.
The rally began with music by Alison Farrel and Cyd Slotoroff, and included
several speeches by politicians. Mayor John DeStefano Jr. was not able to attend
as previously announced, but secretary of state candidates Ellen Scalletar and
Americo Santiago were on hand. Several local people told stories of "coming
out of the closet" in the past year. One of them, Ansonia High School teacher
Patricia Nicolari, said she's been overwhelmed by the supports he's gotten from
colleagues and students. Tj Feldman, who heads the statewide C01mecticut
PRIDE committee said expanding the event beyond Hartford is crucial to its
future effectiveness. "If this is successful, maybe Fairfield County and New
London County will get involved next year."

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Pride News
CA - Thousands Turn Out For Pride in LA
Officials said more than 350,000 people attended two days of festivities in West Hollywood that featured domestic partnership commihnent
ceremonies as well as a 300-person lesbian march led by a contingency of women on motorcycles. A variety of organizations were
represented at the parade, including churches, AIDS organizations and gay advocacy groups. Political dignitaries could be spotted
throughout the Los Angeles parade, including Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan, Los Angeles City Councilman Mike Hernandez and
L.A. County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky. Police Chief Bernard C. Parks, rode behind the Golden State Peace Officers Association, a gayadvocacy organization composed of police officers and firefighters.

CA - Shake, Whistle and Shiver in SF
Unusually cool weather made for goosebumps beneath the fishnet and chains as more than 200,000 people
turned out to watch the 28th annual gay pride parade thump and toot its irrepressible way up Market Street.
There were gays on motorcycles and tandem bikes. There were gay clarinetists, gay wrestlers, gay parents with
children, gay volleyball players, gay politicians and gay golden retrievers. There were feathers, leather, tutus,
codpieces, lingerie and all the other usual stuff. The theme of this year's parade was "Shakin' It Up" and, while
no one seemed to know what the" it" referred to, a lot of people shook - which can happen if you stand on
Market Street on a cold day in rainbow-colored underwear

CO - 1 Biggest Ever' Gay Parade

OR - Gay Pride Parade Attracts 20,000

An estimated 60,000 to 65,000 attended the 1998
PrideFest Parade, Rally and Festival in Denver. The
event is one of the largest celebrations by the gay and
lesbian community in the country. "This is our biggest
year ever," said Mike Smith, executive director of the
Gay, Lesbian, Bi-Sexual Community Services Center.
"We have 220 vendors and exhibits and had to turn
people away. The parade had more than 100 contingents, and they come from five or six different states.
It is the largest PrideFest in the region and certainly
among the top 10 in the nation." Event manager Carol
Hiller said PrideFest 1998 is officially the eighth annual such celebration in Denver but unofficially it has
been held since the late 1970s.

Portland's gay and lesbian communities and their allies found cause for celebration as an estimated 20,000 people turned out for the city's 23rd annual Gay Pride
Parade and Festival. Crowds filling the sidewalks cheered as contingents from
Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, the Portland Police Bureau
and Portland General Electric Co. marched by. All told, about 110 groups.

MA - 50,000 attend Gay Pride
Wearing brightly colored T-shirts and waving rainbow flags, nearly 50,000 people lined the downtown
streets to watch leather-clad bikers, costumed dancers
on floats, marching men on stilts, moms with babies in
strollers, bankers, ministers, drag queens, and members of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender
community stru tin the Gay Pride Parade. Police blocked
off streets for four hours as participants marched. The
parade had been scheduled for last month but was
postponed when record-breaking rain hit Boston.

ME - Gay Couples Receive Blessing on
Pride Day
More than a dozen lesbian and gay couples, had their
unions blessed in the sight of God and the disapproving eye of the state of Maine during Portland's Gay
Pride Day. Blessings have been few recently for Maine's
gays and lesbians. The Legislature outlawed marriage
for homosexuals last year, and in February of this year,
voters in a referendum rejected the gay-rights law
approved by legislators and the governor in 1997. Yet
those losses did not drive gays and lesbians to turn
inward, avoid the public and abandon their goal of
acceptance. To the contrary: Gay-rights organizers say
the defeats have burned away complacency among
both gay and heterosexual supporters of gay rights.

August 1998

The mood was upbeat, with Realtors and drag queens flinging candy and other
treats at the crowd. Portland Police Chief Charles Moose marched with a group
of officers near the head of the parade, and Capt. Mike Garvey - an openly gay
officer who is suing Moose and the city for discrimination - marched with
Phoenix Rising, a gay and lesbian social service agency. Both received warm
applause. But the biggest cheers for a police officer were reserved for Lt. Robert
Ball, a reserve officer, who marched with his partner, Jay Clark, and mother,
Marilyn Ball, president of the Bend chapter of Parents, Families and Friends of
Lesbians and Gays. Roman Catholic, Protestant and Jewish congregations that
welcome gays and lesbians joined the march, along with union members,
schoolteachers, political groups and gay-oriented nightclubs.

World Pride
France - 50,000 Join Paris Pride Rally
About 50,000 people marched through Paris in an annual gay rights rally,
dancing atop floats and displaying banners supporting a bill that would give
gays and lesbians new legal recognition. Revelers draped in rainbow-colored
flags danced to techno music, showered passersby with confetti and released
hundreds of multicolored balloons as they made their way from the city's Latin
Quarter to the Place de la Nation in east Paris. But a chief organizer of the march,
the 17th in the French capital, lamented that the day's events had been
undermined by the World Cup. "We had to scrap loads of things because of the
World Cup: not just for security, but also because of a lack of sponsors," the leftwing daily Liberation quoted Charles Myara as saying. Last year, an estimated
300,000 took part in the rally.

Germany - 250,000 March in Berlin Parade
An estimated 250,000 homosexuals took part Saturday in Berlin's annual Gay
Pride parade, more than twice the number of last year, organizers said. ninety
floats were featured in the noisy and colorful demonstration through the streets
of the city before dispersing following a minute's silence in memory of AIDS
victims.

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T ~EWS & VIEWS
National News
Christian Ad Attack on Gays
A coalition of influential Christian groups has launched a national ad campaign attacking homosexuality, igniting a firestorm of protest
as the religious right gears up for the November election. Praising Senator Trent Lott, the Republican majority leader from Mississippi who
recently likened gays and lesbians to alcoholics and kleptomaniacs, the $200,000 ad blitz characterizes homosexuals as sinners in need of
Christian healing. The campaign, widely seen as an effort by the Christian right to provide indirect support for congressional candidates
who promote the movement's agenda, sparked outrage among gay-rights leaders and produced the unintended consequence of exposing
a rift in the Republican Party. Several GOP candidates facing tough elections in key races tried to distance themselves from the campaign.
"I don't see that it serves any useful purpose at all," said Peter Torkildsen, a Republican trying to regain the seat he narrowly lost in 1996.
"It incites fear in people, and it is not the traditional Republican role for the government to intervene in people's private lives."
The ad campaign was funded largely by the Christian Coalition, whose chairman, Pat Robertson, sought the GOP nomination for president
in 1988, and the Family Research Council, whose leader, Gary Bauer, is considered a prospective
Republican contender for the White House in 2000. In full-page ads that appeared in the New York
Times, the Washington Post and USA Today in the middle of July, the coalition promoted the
highly disputed theory that people become homosexual by choice. "Homosexuality is not a sex
issue, it's a heart issue," one ad stated. "There are problems for homosexuals even condoms
can't fix."
Robertson recently met with Lott and other key Republicans in the House and Senate to push for
the religious right's priorities as did James Dobson, who heads the Family Research Council's parent
group, Focus on Family. "Now you're seeing some fruits of the alliance," said Elizabeth Birch, executive director of the Human Rights
Campaign. "They are using these very manipulative ads to throw red meat to the firebrand, extreme-right, grass roots wing of the
Republican Party. It's nothing more than a crass political move in an election year."
Arne Owens, a Christian Coalition spokesman, denied the ad campaign is aimed at providing support for Lott and other congressional
leaders who have stepped up their criticism of homosexuality since Robertson and Dobson visited Capital Hill earlier this year. "This
message is not emanating from the GOP," he said. "It's a nonpartisan message based on the mainstream concern about the decline of
morality in America." Owens said the advertising campaign will continue, although he declined to provide details. He said the impetus
for the campaign was the push for broader gay rights. In the Washington Post the ad displayed a photograph of a large group of people
who say they no longer are gay or lesbian because of" God's healing love." "We' re standing here for the truth that homosexuals can change."
The ad thanks Lott and Reggie White among others," for having the courage to speak the truth about sexual sin."
Representative Barney Frank who is one of two openly gay members of Congress challenged the assertion that people choose their sexual
orientation. He also stated that, "Homophobia is losing the cultural war so they are doing this to try to pump up their side in the political
arena."

HIV Strains That Resist AIDS Drugs

Task Force Receives Grant

Researchers have for the first time identified two people who recently became
infected with strains of HIV that are resistant to most of the drugs available to treat
the AIDS virus. The strains, described at the 12th World AIDS Conference, pose no
immediate threat to public health, experts said. There's no evidence they either
spread more easily or cause a more virulent form of infection than ordinary types
of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Nevertheless, the reports demonstrate
that HIV can mutate to become resistant to many of the powerful new AIDS drugs,
and these strains can be passed from person to person. Both cases, one from San
Francisco and the other from Switzerland, occurred in gay men having unprotected
sex.

The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF)
was recently awarded the Kellogg Foundation's first
ever grant to a gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender
(GLBT) organization. The grant is for $44,500 and
will help fund the Task Force's Youth Leadership
Institute. "We are honored to have our work recognized and supported by the Kellogg Foundation,"
said Kerry Lobel, NGLTF ex_ecutive director.

Many AIDS activists, public health officials and doctors have warned that triple
therapy's miraculous cures might make some people think HIV is merely a
treatable, chronic infection. In fact, Gordon Mansergh of the CDC reported that in
a survey of HIV-negative gay men in three American cities, nearly two-thirds said
they'd had unprotected anal intercourse at least once in the preceeding year and a
half. AIDS researchers had expected that a strain of HIV that is resistant to multiple
anti-HIV drugs eventually would be found. The new treatments can require
patients to take a dozen pills a day on a strict, complicated schedule. If the AIDS
virus is only intermittently exposed to a killing drug, or exposed to a sublethal dose,
the virus will continue to reproduce. Eventually, the virus will mutate in a way

NGLTFls annual Youth Leadership Institute is in its
fourth year and offers a week of intensive leadership
development, grassroots organizing training, and
skills-building workshops to 25 youth selected from
around the country. This year's training will be held
outside of Washington, D.C. on August 5 - 9. When
graduates of the training return home, they will get
follow-up support and assistance from NGLTF's
field department and be paired with an organiza hon
in their community to work on Equality Begins at
Home. Coordinated actions in state capitals across
the country are planned for March 1999.

that makes it resistant. Because HIV reproduces so quickly, this can happen in
months. In both of the new cases, a mulhdrug-resistant strain of virus was
transmitted from someone who had been extensively treated with antiviral medications to someone who was uninfected. Although resistant viruses have been
isolated before from patients during treatment, this is the first evidence they are also
being passed person-to-person.

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Frank Lashes Out

A New Way of Being

A gay member of Congress says recent anti-gay comments by House Republican leader Dick Armey and Senate Republican leader Trent Lott were an
attempt to appeal to the right-wing of the GOP. Speaking to the congregation
of the Cathedral of Hope - the nation's largest gay and lesbian church Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Barney Frank said the comments were an
appeal to what he called" the right-wing minority."

The rainbow flag has existed since 1978. That year the San Francisco Gay
Freedom Day Parade's organizing committee was searching for a symbol of
celebration and artist Gilbert Baker proposed his design of a rainbow flag.
Originally the flag had eight horizontal stripes: hot pink stood for sexuality,
red for life, orange for healing, yellow for sun, green for serenity with nature,
turquoise for art, indigo for harmony, and violet for spirit. Two of the eight
colors were later dropped for the sake of mass production and cost-effectiveness. With pink and turquoise gone and royal blue replacing indigo, the flag
became the six-color version we know today.

A bold group of academics, writers and theorists are striding onto fresh intellectual turf with the first major American symposium on "Post Gay," jointly sponsored by Out
magazine and the New School for Social Research in Manhattan. Post-gay is a fledgling somewhat murky idea that
describes a homosexual identity in which sexual behavior
no longer defines one's life. It's not bisexuality. It's not
retreating to the closet. It is a way of saying, "We've come
a long way, so calm down." In a post-gay world, homosexuals have won their battle for acceptance and are now
free to move beyond identity politics. Anne Heche is postgay,
for example. Ellen isn't. "Post-gay isn't ungay," explains
James Collard, Out's editor in chief. "It's about taking a
critical look at gay life and no longer thinking solely in
terms of struggle. It's going to a gay bar and wishing there
were girls there to talk to." The symposium's panel of
theorists hope to bang together a strong framework or a
movement that, at present, lacks critical mass. It doesn't
lack for criticism: politicized homosexuals consider it treasonous. "It's hard to imagine anything profound happening under the label 'post-gay'," says Amy Agigian, a
Brandeis University sociologist who thinks post-gay is
interesting butiffy. "I suspect anyone who suggests we are
past the era where lesbians and gays no longer need to
struggle for basic rights. I would rather see us entering a
different era, she says. "Heterosexuals have all the power.
They got over themselves and became post-straight."

Rep. Frank and Companion Breaking Up

Viagra and Poppers

Frank clashed with Armey three years ago when the Texas Republican
referred to him as "Barney Fag." Armey apologized for the comment, saying
he had inadvertently mispronounced Frank's name. Frank told about 1,000
worshipers" that was a victory against bigotry, not that he said he was sorry
he said it, but that he felt compelled to apologize and explain. Twenty years
ago, no one would have expected an apology." The latest controversy came
after Lott told a television interviewer that homosexuality is an addiction like
alcoholism or kleptomania. A day later, Armey quoted Bible verses that he
said showed homosexuality is a sin. Lott and Armey were invited to attend
the service but they declined. Frank had been invited before the latest dispute.

Rain bow Flag

Representative Barney Frank, a Massachusetts Democrat who is a homosexual and an active supporter of gay rights, has ended his relationship with
Herb Moses, his longtime companion. Frank, who has been candid about his
personal life and often referred to Moses as his "spouse," confirmed reports
of the breakup in an interview in July. "We'll be separating .... We'll be selling
our house in the near future," Frank said. The separation is amicable, Frank
said.
Frank disclosed his homosexuality in 1987, saying, "I have nothing to hide,
nothing to advertise." He and Moses often appeared together at congressional functions and White House social events. They told journalists that
they thought of themselves as married. A lawyer who was elected to the
Massachusetts Legislature in 1973 and to Congress in 1980, Frank has worked
hard to dispel stereotypes about gays. He spoke in public about his 10 1/2year relationship with Moses, and defied criticism from Senator Jesse Helms
of North Carolina and other conservative foes.

Oral HIV Test Available in NV
The nation's first oral HIV test approved by Federal Drug Administration will
be available at all three Planned Parenthood of New York City health-care
centers. PPNYC said there has been a 50 percent increase in the number of
people who took the noninvasive test in a pilot program. The use of the
OraSure method also meant health-care workers wouldn't run the risk of
exposing themselves to an infected needle. PPNYC described OraSure as a
safe, simple and painless method that is done orally and does not involve
blood or needles. The test uses a small cotton fiber pad attached to a thin,
straw-like plastic stick that is placed in the mouth between the cheek and the
lower gum and held in place for two minutes. The specially treated pad draws
out a substance, which contains a rich supply of HIV antibodies in infected
individuals.
PPNYC President Alexander Sanger said OraSure has been enormously
popular with hard-to-reach people who often do not receive any health care.
Sanger added: "Since we've been able to offer patients the option of a faster,
easier HIV test, the numbers of individuals willing to be tested has skyrocketed." He says the OraSure test was 99.9 percent accurate.
AUl!USI

/998

Gay men are being warned not to mix the anti-impotency
drug Viagra with amyl nitrates, which are commonly known
as "poppers." Several people have died after using the
drugs along with crystal methamphetamine (speed). Many
gay men are apparently taking Viagra as a recreational
drug, which can be deadly if mixed with crystal meth and
poppers. Pfizer, which makes Viagra, has warned that the
combination of nitrates and Viagra can lead to "large and
sudden drops in systemic blood pressure," and amyl nitrates combined with Viagra are expected to have the same
effect.

Trivia Question
Answer to July - Francis Bacon - the philosopher is Sir Francis
Bacon.
Question for August - Two northeastern lesbian activists have
(more or less) the same name. One is a Hartford area bisexual
who was the first out gay person on the Hartford city council.
The other, known by a diminutive, is a long-time stalwart of the
Boston lesbian community. Most recently she has organized
Creating Change for the National Lesbian and Gay Task Force.

The Gay Gourmet
lnsalata Di A rancio - (O range Salad)
- 3 large oranges peeled
- course ground pepper
- virgin olive oil
- 10 - 15 calamata olives
Slice oranges into 1/ 4" pieces. Arrange slices on a plate
(preferably with a fruit motif). Drizzle each slice with olive
oil and season with a pinch of pepper. Place the olives in
the spaces between the slices. Chill a few minutes in the
refrigerator and serve as a refreshing summer appetizer.
Serves four.
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State by State News

AL - Lesbian Loses Child

NJ - Gay Union

The Alabama Supreme Court, overturning an appeals panel, has removed a child from
the custody of her homosexual mother, ruling that the woman exposed her daughter to
a lifestyle that is illegal in Alabama. The 7-0 decision authored by Justice Champ Lyons
found that the child's best interests would be better served in a home with her father and
his new wife. The Alabama Court of Civil Appeals had reversed Ferguson's order,
holding that the father didn't prove the mother's conduct was having a "substantial
detrimental effect" on the child. But the high court said there was no need to prove there
was a substantial detrimental effect, only that the child's interests were better served in
the father's home. A 1975 Alabama statute proclaims all homosexual conduct to be
criminal. Earlier this year, the state enacted a law that banned same-sex marriages.

In Fairlong, New Jersey an Episcopal church ceremony
symbolically set on Father's Day, two gay men whose
lawsuit paved the way for other unmarried couples in the
state to adopt children jointly were united today in a
"holy union" as friends, relatives and television cameras
looked on. While it lacked the legal status of a marriage
ceremony, the event nevertheless marked another passage for the two men, Jon Holden-Galluccio, 3-!, and
Michael Galluccio, 36, of Maywood.

The decision cited testimony from several psychologists, who had differing opinions on
where the child should live, but all agreed the girl had a good home relationship with
her mother and her partner. The Christian Family Association, an Alabama group that
has promoted fundamentalist Christian positions, said that was no substitute for a
traditional family environment.

DC - Oberlin Hires Gay Athletics Director
Oberlin Coilege has announced that it had hired a gay man as its athletics director.
Michael Muska, a former track-and-field coach at Auburn and Northwestern Universities, is believed to be the first openly gay athletics director in college sports. Oberlin,
which prides itself on the diversity and tolerance of its student body, has a substantial
gay population. Alan Moran, Oberlin's vice-president for college relations, said Mr.
Muska had been hired because he had experience coaching and recruiting athletes who
met Oberlin's high admissions standards. Oberlin is a member of Division III of the
National Coilegiate Athletic Association, and competes in the North Coast Athletic
Conference.

FL - Directory Serves Gay Businesses
Yvonne Rohrbacher, a Fort Lauderdale businesswoman started the Out Pages, a free
directory of gay-owned and gay-friendly businesses. She publishes the little yellow
book twice a year for Central and South Florida. Each directo1y has business listings,
community photographs and organizations. The Out Pages began in 1988 in South
Florida with 120 advertisers and expanded to Central Florida, including the Tampa Bay
area and Orlando, three years ago. Now it boasts more than 700 advertisers statewide.
Rohrbacher prints 55,000books eve1y six months, with 10,000 to 12,000 available at local
bookstores, video shops and other businesses in the Bay area. She attributes the
directo1y' s success to small businesses that cater to a segment of the population. They
tend to advertise in products that do the same, she said. The Central Florida directory
has 100 pages of business listings, from Borders Books and Music in Tampa to Wiley
Auto Se1vice in St. Petersburg.

NC - Woman Sues Her Female Boss
A Winston-Salem woman has filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against her female
boss and the Greensboro insurance company where they both worked, marking one of
the first court cases involving same-sex harassment in North Carolina. Millicent Joanne
Allen filed the lawsuit against her former boss, Claudine Bynum, and Key Risk
Management, a workers compensation insurance company on Centreport Drive where
Allen worked as a claims adjustor. Also named as a defendant is the parent company,
W.R. Berkley Corp., which is based in Connecticut.
In most ways, Allen's lawsuit is fairly typical of sexual harassment cases. Allen claims
that her boss touched her thigh, propositioned her for sex and retaliated against her
when she rebuffed the advances during a IO-mo.nth period ending last September. Allen
claims that Bynum said she could help Allen's career if she engaged in sexual activity
with her. When Allen reported the harassment and asked for a transfer, higher-ranking
bosses did not investigate and refused to transfer her, according to the lawsuit. Allen,
who is heterosexual and married, eventually took a medical leave from work because
she suffered from depression and anxiety because of the harassment, the lawsuit says.
Allen claims that she was fired soon after in retaliation for reporting the sexual
harassment. The lawsuit claims that several employees complained about Bynum's
harassing and demeaning treatment. At least seven employees were fired or forced to
quit after Bynum retaliated against them, the lawsuit says.

August 1998

In the course of their successful two-year effort to adopt
a child jointly, they have emerged from the anonymity in
which many gaycouplesfeelcompelled to live. Along the
way to adopting their son, Adam, who is now 3 years old,
they became accidental advocates with a monthly .newsletter sent to 500 subscribers, a World Wide Web page and
an agent who has booked speaking engagements around
the country. Nearly three years ago, the two men became
the foster parents of Adam. When they tried to adopt the
boy formally, New Jersey child welfare officials assented,
as long as .they did it separately in two distinct and costly
legal procedures. Under New Jersey law, same-sex couples
and unmarried heterosexual couples had no legal standing that would allow them to adopt jointly. The couple
challenged the law in court. Last October, Judge Sybil R.
Moses of Superior Court in Bergen County granted the
joint adoption, saying it was in the best interest of the
child. Two months later, all legal barriers to joint adoption by unmarried same-sex and heterosexual couples
were removed in a broader consent decree. New Jersey
became the first state to establish a policy treating gay and
unmarried couples the same way it treatsma □-ied couples
regarding adoptions.

NY - HIV Notification Bill Passes
Doctors must report the names of people who test positive for HIV to public health officials and health workers
would be required to notify sexual and drug use parh1ers
of possible exposure under legislation approved early
this morning. The Democratic-controlled state Assembly
passed the sweeping notification measure 112-34 after
some two hours of heated debate that pitted civil liberties
concerns against public health needs. The state Senate
had already passed the bill, which advocates say is among
the most far-reaching in the nation.
It requires that once municipal health deparhnents are
informed that a patient has tested positive for AIDS or
HIV, health care workers must attempt to have infected
patients identify former sex or drug-use partners. The
health workers would then notify those contacts about
the possibility of infection. Doctors can now tell parh1ers
of HIV-infected patients about the virus in some cases,
but some health workers say they fear lawsuits if they do.
Among the elements added to the notification bill in the
last hours was a provision to continue with anonymous
testing for HIV. Notification would only kick in when an
infected person went to receive treahnent. Also, domestic
violence protections were included for those who test
positive and fear violence when their parmer was notified.

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NV - Domestic Partner Law Passed
Unmarried couples including gays and lesbians in New York City will
be treated the same as those who are married under landmark legislation passed in June. The law, one of the broadest domestic partner
policies in the United States, which gay rights advocates described as
historic, addresses a host of emotional issues and details of everyday life
facing couples regardless of their sexual orientation. It allows bereavement leave for city employees, visitation rights in city-run facilities,
tenancy succession rights and permits partners to be buried together in
a city-owned cemetery. The estimated 8,700 registered domestic partners in New York City will also be required to meet the same civic
responsibilities as married couples. The law was approved overwhelmingly in a City Council vote Wednesday to cheers and applause in the
public galle1y. But before the vote, a group of Hasidic rabbis gathered
in protest outside City Hall, saying Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and city
officials would be cursed and wiped out because of their support for the
legislation.
Responsibilities include disclosure of background information about
domestic parh1ers when seeking certain licenses in some businesses and
the income of the chief wage earner in some city-subsidized housing.
Advocates called the bill "unique" because it would extend rights
beyond city employees. Other cities around the United States have
largely addressed domestic parh1erships in the context of municipal
employee benefits.

NV - Rabbis Cast Curse
A group of Hasidic rabbis have gathered at New York's City Hall to
invoke a biblical curse on any city official who votes for or promotes a
proposed gay marriage bill. The group of about two dozen men used
candles and a ram's horn known as a shofar to invoke the curse. They
also took some ti.me out to pray for the safety of New Yorkers. The
protesters, clad in the hasidic garb of long dark coats and black hats,
carried candles as they walked up the steps of City Hall. The ceremony
continued with the recitation of Psalms in Hebrew and the reading of the
Torah portion about Sodom and Gomorrah from the book of Genesis
and of prayers from the Rosh Hashanah, or Jewish New Year, liturgy.
The se1vice ended when six men each blew a shofar. Rabbi William
Handler of Jews for Morality said city officials, including Mayor Rudolph
Giuliani, who support the domestic partnership bill will be wiped out,
because they "have no desire to repent." He said the group asked "God
to direct His wrath against the guilty parties," and that" our job is to save
people." The form that the curse, which Handler said" definitely" will
materialize, will take has not been pinned down, but he said, "It's
possible that an atomic attack could be made by Russia or China."

NY - Yeshiva University Sued
In what it billed as a landmark case, the ACLU filed a suit Wednesday
against Yeshiva University, accusing it of discrimination for banning
gay people from living in campus housing with their partners. The suit,
filed in New York State Supreme Court, was brought on behalf of Sara
Levin and Maggie Jones, medical students at the Albert Einstein College
of Medicine in the Bronx, which is a division of Yeshiva. The complaint
charges the university with discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and marital status and seeks a reversal of Yeshiva's policy
banning gay graduate students from living with their partners in
campus housing. It also seeks unspecified damages for emotional
distress and extra housing and commuting costs. Levin and Jones were
both denied shared housing with their respective non-student female
parh1ers because they cannot many, the ACLU said.
In 1989 Einstein's student-faculty senate passed a resolution asking for
housing and other benefits for gay couples, but Yeshiva President
Norman Lamm rejected the change. He was quoted in media reports as
saying that "under no circumstances can Judaism permit homosexuality to become respectable."

August 1998

NV - Editorial: Making It Through The Night
It would be hard to find anyone in New York more marginalized in more
ways than Ali Forney. He was homeless, black, gay, 22, and a crack
addict who made money and found shelter through prostitution, often
wearing a dress, heels and a wig. In December he was shot in the head,
the third young transgender prostitute murdered in Harlem in 14
months. All the cases are unsolved. Those who did not know him might
miss the human being under all those labels. But at his memorial, held
at a Times Square church, 70 friends and relatives gathered to remember
a complex man. Six months before his death, he closed the annual talent
show at SafeSpace, a center for homeless youth, with a gospel song and
a prayer, preaching that "God loves everybody for who they are." He
was proudly H.I.V. negative, no mean feat for someone in his line of
work, and spent many nights working with social service organizations
in the gay bars and piers of the West Village and Times Square,
dispensing condoms and talking about safe sex and places young people
could get meals, showers, drug treatment, medical care and counseling.
Many people and institutions failed Ali Forney in his short life, not least
Forney himself. But among them was the city of New York. The city's
quality-of-life initiative and the development of Ti.mes Square have
inadvertently pushed homeless youths out of their traditional haunts.
They now populate a lonelier, and hence more dangerous, diaspora in
areas such as Harlem, and are much harder for the nightly patrols of
outreach workers to find and help.
No one knows how many homeless teen-agers and young adults there
are in New York City, but state and city studies a few years ago said
between 12,000 and 20,000. The vast majority of homeless youths are
from New York, and are black or Hispanic. Many ran away from foster
care. Forty percent are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender. This group
is disproportionately homeless because their families sometimes kick
them out, and they are often unwelcome and even assaulted in their
schools and foster homes.
Although shelter is their most basic need, they do not fit in any city
shelter program. They are scared of the giant, dangerous shelters that
house adults and need smaller group homes with help for people who
may be adults chronologically but not emotionally. But youth programs
will not house anyone over 18. The city has only about400 beds designed
for older youths, 80 percent of them in Covenant House.
New York has shown little interest in solutions. From 1995 to 1997, the
Deparhnent of Youth and Community Development failed to spend
nearly $1 million it had budgeted for housing for homeless youths,
which resulted in a loss of an additional $1.5 million in matching funds
from the state. The deparhnent says it will leave $450,000 unspent in
1998, because shelters are unpopular with neighborhoods. But the new
head of the Youth Committee, Kenneth Fisher, last month held the first
hearing on homeless teen-agers that anyone can remember. That has
prodded the city into beginning talks on a shelter and some of the
bureaucratic hurdles that keep youths on the street. It will require a
sustained commihnent from the city to a group of people invisible until
they get sick, arrested or murdered.

WI - A Sign of Tolerance
A billboard campaign condemning homosexuality backfired on those
organizing it by angering people of all sexual preferences, the head of a
social service agency for gays says. The billboards state: "Homosexuality is not a family value. Homosexuality is a sin." Ralph Ovadal, who
describes himself as director of the Monroe-based Wisconsin Christians
United, said three billboards were being erected in Madison and one
each in Monroe and Beloit. They are to be up for four weeks, he said. But
those billboards have gotten a lot of people in Madison angry. And that
anger has led to a real sense of frustration on the part of wellintentioned citizens who want to respond to what many see as evidence
of hatred and intolerance. How can the great majority of concerned and

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Transgener News
the connecticuT View"
11

The "connecticuT View", a social and support group for
crossdressers, with over 50 members from Connecticut and other
local states, are planning to expand our membership by inviting
female to male crossdressers to join our group. We realize that
cross dressers in need of a support group are those males who dress
as females and want to be accepted by society. Females, who have
easily assimilated into the male roles, don't get looked at twice
because jeans, boots, floppy tops, short hairdos, and no makeup is
much more acceptable. Society doesn't really know whether the
person before them is a female who just likes male attire, or a
female who is trying to 'be' male. Society, doesn't care. But, we of
the connecticuT View wonder if there are issues the female to male
crossdressers have that might be similar to those of the male to
female crossdressers. Are they stared at? Do they have the 'bathroom problem', crossdressing males have? Are they called 'Sir'?
Do they like it?
The "connecticuT View" is the 'only' open crossdresser club in
Connecticut. There are other clubs, but one admits to screening
potential members, and also does not allow transvestite admirers
to join their group. Another admits to being strictly heterosexual,
and a third is aimed at helping mainly transsexuals. The connecticuT
View invites everyone to join our group, as long as there is some
connection to transvestitism, crossdressing, transsexualism or being a wife, significant other or lover of the tv / cd/ ts. We also want
children of transvestite parents, or parents of TVs to contact us ... for
support. We feel that female crossdressers joining with us, would
be a benefit. Dialogue between us might be very enlightening. And
as one TV who admires women, I would love having the female to
male side of issues aired to see if a better acceptance, union, and
understanding can start between our respective groups, and help
us work together toward having society understand and accept
everyone.

If there are any female to male crossdressers out there reading this,
and wish to discuss this further. .. please contact me, Denise Mason
at masond@aol.com. If anyone wishes a sample newsletter, please
contact "the connecticuT View", P.O. Box 2281, Devon CT. 06460

Sources
200 Celebrate on New Haven Green-New Haven Register, June 20, 1998
CA - Shake, Whistle and Shiver-San Francisco Chronicle, June 29, 1998
CA-Thousands Turn Out For Pride in LA Los Angeles-Daily News, June 29, 1998
Christian Attack on Homosexuality Splits the Party-Boston G lobe, July 15, 1998
CO - 'Biggest Ever' Gay Parade-Rocky Mountain News, June 29, 1998
DC-Oberlin Hires Gay Athletics Director-Chronicle of Higher Education, June 18, 1998
Editorial: Making It Through The Night -New York Times, July 12, 1998
FL - Directory Serves Gay Businesses-Tampa Tribune, June 22, 1998
Gdy Dat at Bristol's Lake Com pounce-New Britain Herald, June 27, 1998
Gay Rights Groups Fault Rowland, Again-Hartford Courant June 16, 1998
Hartford's Mantilla's Re-Election-Hartford Courant,June 20, 1998
HIV Strains That Resist AIDS Drugs-Washington Post, July I, 1998
In Search Of Acceptance in Connecticut-Hartford Courant, July 2, 1998
Italy-Vatican Condemns Lesbian Marriage-Nanda Times, July 11, 1998
MA -50,000 attend Gay Pride-Boston Globe, July 12, 1998
ME -Gay Couples Receive Blessing on Pride Day-Maine Sunday Telegram, June 21, 1998
Monogamy Has a Role in Gay Couple's Life-New Haven Register, June 23, 1998
NC- Woman Sues Her Female Boss-Greensboro News & Record, July 2, 1998
NJ -Gay Union-New York Times, June 22, 1998
NY - Domestic Partner Law Passed-Reuters, June 24, 1998
NY - HIV Notification Bill Passes-Newsday, June 19, 1998
OR -Gay Pride Parade Attracts 20,000 -The Oregonian, June 22, 1998
Rep. Frank and Companion Breaking Up-Boston Globe, July 1, 1998
Shays Blasts Gay Bashing-New Haven Register, Tues., July 7, 1998
WI -A Sign of Tolerance-Capital Times, July 3, 1998

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standing ovation after the city council unanimously approved the
resolution at the urging of speakers who complained about gay-bashing.
The resolution says" gays and lesbians have been singled out by a recent
billboard campaign questioning the value of contributions made by
gays and lesbians to their family and to the community as a whole." An
attack on any of our citizens is an attack on the community as a whole."

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Worship
34 Harrison Street
New Haven, CT 06515
Sundays 9:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.

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caring people in Madison and Dane County respond? Some folks have
taken to wearing rainbow ribbons as a subtle expression of their support
for a diverse community. But for those who want to meet signs of
intolerance with signs of inclusiveness, Sandy Torkildson has come up
with a fine response. Torkildson decided to initiate a yard sign response
to Ovadal' s billboards. She arranged to have hundreds of blue and white
signs reading "Madison Supports Its Lesbian & Gay Community"
printed and began distributing them from the downtown business she
co-owns and manages. The store is charging $5 per sign to defray costs,
and Madisonians are grabbing them up - placing the signs in yards all
over town and creating a visual presence that Ovadal could never hope
to achieve with his handful of billboards.

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Especially serving the Gay and Lesbian Community

Maureen M. Murphy
27 Elm Street
New Haven, CT 06510
(203) 789-2269

Fax (203) 789-2997

E-mail: mmurph!aw@aof.com
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Telephone Directories
Groups Meeting at or Sponsored by TCC
A.A. - Don 762-9964
Bi Rap Group - Peter 838-2806; Robin 855-8646
Free Association of Fairfield County - John 268-8858 x304
Gay Men's Rap Group - Dave 838-1881 ; John 389-7381
Gmosaic (People of Color) - Nasheed 854-7726
Lesbian Literature Reading Group - Christine, 847-8476
Out & About (20's & 30's) - Heather 924-2930; Ashley 576-1073
or Dan 838-2367
Outspoken (Youth) - Barb 259-8171; Dan 227-1755;
Doug 838-2367
P-FLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians & Gays)
Joan 544-8724; Lester 322-5380; Belinda 855-1203
P-FLAG Spouses & Ex Spouses Group - Joan 544-8724
Triangle Bowling League (Circle Lanes, Fairfield) - Lisa 333-3113;
Roseann 931-8789
Women's Rap Group - Chandra 226-8652; Linda 866-4598;
Michele 438-4465 •
All meetings are held at the Center and in the evening unless
otherwise noted. A $3 donation per person is appreciated with
your participation in activities to help support the Center.

Other Area Groups and Organizations
Bare & Gay (B&G) gay nudists
Bisexually Curious Support Group Bpt
Chiltern Mountain Club
Connecticut Kids and Families
Connecticut Freedom to Marry Coalition
40-Up Club.(Social Grp.-call Dale before 10pm)
Gay Fathers Group
Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Assoc.
Gay Mens Association of Danbury
GEMS (Mature GLBT)
Guideline (gay/lesbian phone info)
Hartford Community Center
Married Men's Bisexual Suppt Grp Htfd
Metropolitan Community Church
Transgendered Resource - Kaylen
The Loft, White Plains NY,
Triangle Bowling League
Triangle Kids
Western Connecticut Gay Men's Group

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323-6278
773-9947

We're glad to list your non-profit gay/lesbian/bi/tg group free of
charge . Call (203) 964-1133. Please keep us informed of changes .

WHERE ARE WE? The Triangle Community Center Inc. is
located at 25 Van Zant Street in Norwalk. From 1-95, take
Exit 16 and go south (from Stamford , turn right; from New
Haven , turn left). Continue south under the railroad bridge
and turn right on Van Zant St. (Route 136). 25 Van Zant is a
large condominium office building on the right. TCC is in
Suite 7-C on the ground floor, Tel. (203) 853-0600 .

Deadline for the September Newsletter will be Saturday, August 15. We cannot guarantee that material
received after that date will be included in September
News&Views.
August 1998

Property of the Center

TRIANGLE COMMUNITY CENTER, INC.
P.O.BOX 4062, East Norwalk, CT 06855
Tel/Fax: (203) 853-0600
e-mail TCCenter@aol.com
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
DON BUXTON .... ...... ............ ...... ...
DENYSE BURKE .... ....... .......... ......
JOHN WALLACE ...... ........ ..... .. ... ...
DAVE CARROLL .... ........... .... ........
HEATHER WEIMANN .... ............ ..

President
Vice-President
Treasurer
Corresponding Secretary
Acting Recording Sec'y

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
DON BUXTON .. ...... ....... .... .. .... ........ .. ... .. .. . (203) 762-9964
DENYSE BURKE .. ....... .... .. .. .... .. ......... .... .. . (203) 367-3911
DAVID CARROLL .............. ..... ...... .. .. .. ...... (203) 838-1881
JOHN DEL VECCHIO .. .. ...... .. .. .. ..... .... .. .. .. . (203 ) 334-3822
MI CHELE STONE ........ .. .. ... ........ .. .... ......... (203 ) 964- 11 33
JOHN WALLACE .............. ...... .......... .. ... ... (203) 389-7381
HEATHER WEIMANN .... ...... .. ......... ......... (203) 924-2930

ST ANDING COMMITTEES
AIDS Liaison
Board Development
Communications ,
- Public Relati ons
Finance
Fundraising/Sp Events
Membership
- Member Database
Operations
(and to schedule events
Program
- Resource Room
- Center Forums
Volunteer

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9\[,'EWS & 'V1'EWS
Is published monthly by
Triangle Community Center, Inc.
P.O. Box 4062, East Norwalk, CT 06855.
N EWS & VI EWS encourages its readers to submit materi als of interest
to our community, including short articles, letters to th e editor, etc. We
cannot respond to, or publish, an onymous letters. We reserve the ri ght
to edit or condense as appropriate to meet space requirements. Auth ors
will be contacted if maj or revi sions are necessary . Please submit to:
NEWS&VIEWS
Michele Stone: Editor & Advertising . Manager. John Delvecchio: Asst Editor
Phone: 203-334-3822
P.O. Box 8185
Stamford, CT 06905
Mike Collins: Publicity
Phone/Fax 964-1133
Phone: 203-375-3567
e-mail: NewsViews2@aol.com

FOR ADVERTISING RATES CONTACT MICHELE STONE:
Ads must be camera-ready. Any ad not camera ready will be
subject to an additional charge. Inserts and special sizes upon
prior agreement All ads are placed on a space available basis.
The publication of the name of any person or organi zati on in arti cles or ads in
NEWS & VI EWS is not to be construed as an y indication of the sex ual
orientation of such persons or members of such organ izations. The appearance
of advertisements in NEWS & VIEWS does not impl y nor constitute endorsement by TCC, Inc. The views expressed in th is NEWS & VIEWS are not
necessarily those ofTCC, Inc. Copyright 1998 by Triangle Community Center,
In c. All rights reserved. This work, or any parts thereof, may not be used or
reproduced in any manner without wri tten permission .

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Men's Rap 7:30

Out & About 7:00
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Connecticut Calendar
Saturday, August 1 - 8 - Gay Games 1998, Amsterdam.
Friday, August 7 - Potluck and Movie Night at the New
Haven Gay and Lesbian Community
Center, 50 Fitch Street, New Haven. The
feature will be: "La Cage Aux Foiles."
Potluck at 6:30 PM, film at 7: 15 PM.
Suggested donation $3.00. For more info
e-mail: FGDMYO@aol.com.
Friday, August 21- Potluck and Movie Night atthe New
Haven Gay and Lesbian Community
Center, 50 Fitch Street, New Haven. The
feature will be: "The Detective." Potluck
at 6:30 PM, film at 7: 15 PM. Suggested
donation $3.00. For more info e-mail:
FGDMYO@aol.com.

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Saturday, August 22 - Women After Hours Dance
(women only), Holiday Inn, East Hartford , 8:30 PM - I :00 AM, $10.00 cover.
Call 860-528-9611 for directions, oremail: chretien l@aol.com.

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EAST NORWALK, CT

August 1998

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ENJOY a relaxing trip across Long Island Sound to the scenic village
of Port Jefferson, Long Island. Sail with the TCC group but return at
your leisure. The ferry will depart from Bridgeport Harbor at 10:30
AM and arrive in PortJefferson at noon. The TCC group rate is $10. 75
(payable in cash on the morning of the trip). Space is limited. CallJohn
for reservations (203) 334-3822.

You'll find Port Jefferson village rich with historical culture, unique shops, excellent restaurants, elegant lodging and an
ambiance that characterizes Main Street, USA. Have breakfast, stroll the waterfront, and walk through the shops. Merchants
will be happy to serve you in this gay friendly environment. Visit the Historical Society, have dinner and take in live theater,
or stay for an evening's entertainment.
PortJefferson's shopping district attests to the diversity of this village. Main Street is lined with shops with names like Harbor
Sounds, Shoeport, Darling Stationery, Alienation, East End Shirt Co., Fetish, Elegant Affairs, Soundview Art Gallery,
Something Special, Irish Elegance, America, Yuppie Puppy, It's a Small World, Stitchin' Time, Common Scents and more.
Harbor Square Mall also offers a welcoming environment. The mall is home to many interesting shops, including Shoetique,
Silk and Lace, Miss Kitty and Friends, Treasure Cache, Out of This World, Shirt Tales, Your Favorite Team, The Bag Lady and
others.

A short stroll to East Main Street, finds many of the shops occupying historic sea captains' homes, and brings a subtle change
in atmosphere as well as in the items being sold. Many of the shops names clearly describe their contents: Scented Cottage
Garden, Cat-In-The-Bag, Magic Hearts, Craftin' Buddies, Reruns, The Red Sled, Port Jefferson Antiques, Good Times
Bookstore, Brave New World, From Near And Far and Maresa's Candlelight Gift Shoppe and many more. This quiet street
allows for leisurely browsing and a chance to savor what life must have been like 100 years ago in the village.
Kella's Home Brew recently opened, a store catering to the home brewer and wine maker. Additionally, for wine lovers, the
Pindar Wine Store is a great source for this prestigious Long Island wine. For somewhat more universal tastes, the village
can satisfy everyone's sweet tooth, with shops such as Chunk-a-Chocolate, The Frigate and La Bon Boulangerie European
pastry shop.
With over 30 restaurants, Port Jefferson caters to every taste and pocketbook. From bouillabaisse to burgers, pasta to paella,
sushi to salad, Port Jefferson offers ethnic and regional specialty dining, as well as more basic culinary delights. Their names
alone will wet your appetite - Pasta Pasta, Elk Street Grille, Hana's, Costa de Espana, Ruby's, Quiet Corner Cafe, Tara's, Billie's
1890 Saloon, Harbor Gates, The Steam Room, Port Jefferson Lobster House and Fish Market, PJ Horsefeathers, and more.
Join us r We guarantee that your time in Port Jefferson will be a most agreeable experience that will leave you with many warm memories.
Remember, space is limited so call John for reservations at (203) 334-3822.

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Facilitator Training Workshop
On Saturday, Sept. 12th , from 9am-1 pm, TCC will be hosting a free interactive leadership training program for those volunteers
who have or will be interested in facilitating support groups for the Triangle and New Haven Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual
Community Centers. Ms. Patty Schein will teach tools for running successful support groups and for increased leader
confidence. The forum will provide an opportunity to improve your skills and/ or to learn new ones; to share your successes
with others, so they may benefit - -- - - - - - -- - - - - - -- - from your learning; and to gain greater
appreciationforyourstyleand those
of others. Through this training, participants will learn how to provide
facilitatorconsistencythroughoutournetwork of support groups. They will
learn how to structure groups; create and
maintain safety within; set appropriate boundaries; handle difficult participants; and manage group emotions. Participants will also learn the differences between therapy and support; the role of the support group leader;
they ways to handle usual and unusual problems that can arise in a group;
howtoenergizeandcalmthegroup;
and create group cohesion. The acquisition of all of these much-needed
skills will be graciously taught, free of
LMFT.
charge, by Patty Schein, M.Ed. La.....~E:
Ms. Schein is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice in Milford, Connecticut. She has been practicing
holistic psychotherapy with individuals, groups, couples and families since 1973. M~. Schein is also an Approved Supervisor
and clinical member of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy, is certified in GestaltTherapy, EMDR, Reiki
Healing, and as an Experiential Therapist. She has trained other mental health professionals both in the United States and Great
Britain; as well as business managers in some of Connecticut's top corporations. In addition, Ms. Schein has led hundreds of
therapy support groups and workshops. She has facilitated the Alzheimer's Association Family Support Group in Milford for
the past five years and the Ingraham Manor Nursing Home Family Suppport Group in Bristol.
Call or e-mail Denny at: (203) 367-3911 or dab86@juno.com for more details .

............AND in OCTOBER, Patty will be leading a UNIQUE and fabulous introductory "YogaRythmics-Kripalu
Dancekinetics" class. This spirit dance experience will be offered free of charge to the community at large. If you want to stretch
your whole self - open up more to yourself and others in body, mind, and spirit, then join us for this fantastic opportunity to
move and grow from the inside out. No talent or skill of any kind is necessary- only the desire to feel good, have fun and
move!! Space may be limited - so registration is required. Don't hesitate - pick up the phone right now and call: Denny 203367-3911 or e-mail: dab86@juno.com.

" Pageant" Produces Prolific Profits
When the "Pageant" played for five nights last January, everyone agreed that the show was a
theatrical knockout! The hit off-Broadway musical beauty contest was artfully directed by Scott
M. Robbins and played to packed houses at the Performing Arts Center in Norwalk. The
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financial success of the show came in the form of a check to TCC for a little more than $21,000!
~ After production costs were subtracted, the profit turned out to be a whopping $13,800!
$4,600
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The money will be evenly divided and distributed to TCC, TCC' s Scholarship Fund and Bread
& Roses. What an achievement! And the gayvine has it, that work has already begun on next
year's theatrical extravaganza. Way to go!

Lesbian Lit Group

* *Hey! Where's the TCC Annual Picnic?**
It's coming on September 20th . Details in the next
issue of News & Views.

August 1998

For their September discussion, the Lesbian Literature
Group has chose the "Penguin Book of Lesbian Short
Stories" edited by Margaret Reynolds. This anthology is
available in paperback at local bookstores and Bloodroot
(203) 576-9168. For more information call Christine at
(203) 847-8476. The Lesbian Literature Group meets the
first Tuesday of each month at TCC starting at 7:30 PM.
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Annual Town Meeting

Splinters

The Center's lease expires in 1999. Do you know if we'll
bemoving?TheCenter has a substantial treasury. Do you
know how it will be utilized? TCC has a scholarship fund.
Do you know how it operates? Several activities are
planned for the rest of the year. Do you know how many
people volunteered to help? For the answer to these and
other important questions come to the Triangle Community Center's Annual Town Meeting on October 4th from
3 - 5 PM. More details in the next issue.

As of July 7'", the Triangle women's team has a record of
3 wins and 3 losses .

Jnredible-ewbEraiu,ocit~...liberat~..re.:IH::irlmin~joyous....awesome.
Those are the words that describe my impression of the 1998
Gay Pride Parade in New York City as over 600,000 marchers
and viewers joined in a festive celebration of affirmation,
diversity and recognition. To see the gay community in all our
diversity, from drag queens and pulsating "boy toy" dancers to
a large contingent of New York's finest and state judges and
legislators, with lots of senior citizens, religious groups, ethnic
organizations, community groups, rodeo riders, classic car
collectors, and health advocates in between. The TCC delegation marched for hours down Fifth A venue and through the
incredibly packed streets of Chelsea and Greenwich Village,
where the crowds incessantly cheered every contingent in the
parade. It was FUN day, a positive outpouring of our community, standing strong, standing together, standing proud. Every
group needs their "great day" .. .. for the Irish it's St. Patrick's
Day; for Italians it's Columbus Day; for black Americans it's
Martin Luther King Jr. Day and for our community it's Pride
Day. What an experience!
-John DelVecchio

.. ..and Celebration

Help Wanted

The Triangle Women's Softball team and Sportis (the other
lesbian softball team in Norwalk) would like to ivite all of
their players and supporters to their end-of-the-season
celebration. on August 28 th at 6:30 PM at Shady Beach in
Norwalk. Food and beverages will be supplied. For more
information call Chris at (203) 847-8476.

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR for the LOFT, Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center. Seeking Administrator for Center's
daily operations in White Plains, NY. Must have strong organizational, program, and fiscal management skills plus energy
and vision to strengthen diverse LGBT Community. Need
excellent written/verbal skills; PR, Volunteer Management,
and successful fundraising experience; computer literacy including database management. Strong leadership ability and
knowledge of LGBT issues essential. Salary: $37,500-$40,000
Plus benefits. Master's Degree; Minimum 5 years high level
administrative experience; valid driver's license and reliable
car. Send Maximum 2 page resume to: R.W. Hesse Jr., Chair
LOFT Executive Dir. Srch. Ctte., c/ oMemoryLn.,200Hamilton
Ave., White Plains, NY 10601. No phone Calls.

Softball Benefit ....
In front of an enthusiastic crowd of Bloodroot
and Triangle supporters, the First Annual t>-~>~1);;)\,,.
Women's Softball Game raised $180.00 to
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benefit the Women's Crisis Center and Al«<i(((~ ~
Bread & Roses. Bo.t h teams played val- ·,,i,t';•,,)
iantly to a final score of Triangle 18 and
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Bloodroot 7. See you next year!

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News & Views Subscription
Triangle Community Center
PO Box 4062
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Conn Represented at Gay Games
Gay Games Vis slated for August 1st through 8th of this year.
For the first time it will be held outside of the Americas, with
Amsterdam as host city. Twelve athletes will be officially
representing the state of Connecticut, not counting
Ridgefield's Harvey Fierstein who is part of the extensive
cultural festivities going on at the same time. Several members of the Triangle Community Center will be among the
3,000 volunteers and the estimated 150,000 visitors. Those
who had a memorable time four years ago will know that a
great time will be had by all this time around.
August 1998

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T NEWS & VIEWS
Connecticut News
Westport Bids Good-bye to the Brook Cafe
The Brook h as closed. The last night for this 50-year-old Westport landmark was July 25 th • Citing rising expenses in Westport, the owners
of The Brook Cafe have opened a new club in Norwalk called TownHouse Cafe & Dance Clu b. The Cafe is located at 7 Wall St., Norwalk.
It is opened from 3 pm-1 am, Sunday-Thursday and 3 pm-2 am, Friday and Saturday.
Here's a rundown of other bars in the area:
The Art Bar - 84 West Park Pl., Stamford - (203) 973-0300.
There is a $4 cover and is gay on Sunday nights only from 8pm-1am. The Art Bar, has a large front bar
with pool table; two side bars which provide small seating areas; and a center bar with a dance floor area.
~""'

ught In The Act - 1246 Main St., Bridgeport - (203) 333-9505
Open every day. Weekdays: Noon-lam; Weekends: Noon-2am. Small and cozy bar for men and women. DJ
every night; male strippers on Saturday night. You can even get a bite to eat off their small bar menu
Sandy's Old Homestead - 325 N. Main Street, Port Chester, NY - (914) 939-0758
Open 8am-4am, Monday-Saturday; Noon-4am, Sunday. Sandy's is a neighborhood bar with a jukebox, pool
table, pinball, video games, darts, and bowling. Most of the regulars during the week are straight, but the whole
place is very gay friendly. The End of the Month Party on the last Saturday of every month has a $5 cover and no
men allowed. The jukebox is unplugged and a DJ spins popular dance music. The kitchen is always open and
there's a full menu.

Triangles - 66 Sugar Hollow Road (Route 7), Danbury - (203) 798-6996. It is opened 7 nights a week. It is
mostly men, but there are more women there than most bars in the area. There are drink specials every night,
with male dancers on Monday, Thursday and Friday. On Friday and Saturday it's a packed house dance party.
They also have two pool tables and video games in a separate room with a video jukebox and bar.

Gay Rights Groups Fault Row land, Again

are sincerely held morally based views.

For the four th year in a row, Gov. John G. Rowland rejected a proclamation seeking to designate June as Gay Pride Month, explaining that he
could not sign a statement that would be inappropriate to read to
second-graders. But schoolchildren visiting the state Capitol got an
earful Monday, as gay rights advocates rallied there in protest of the
governor's decision. About 50 supporters of the proclamation gathered
to hear fiery speech es predicting that Rowland would suffer for his
position in the November election and challenging him to reverse his
stance before the gay PrideFest in Hartforp.

Yet the suspicions and concerns of the gay community are
understandable when one considers the Senate's treatment of
James Hormel's nomination as Ambassador to Luxembourg,
w hich is now being blocked by multiple holds by Members of
this Chamber. If we truly believe in the claim of equality and
the universal principle of fairness of the Declaration of Independence, and if we want to talk more broadly about values
with true credibility in this Chamber, I think we owe Mr.
Hormel a chance to be evaluated by the same standards we
have applied to other nominees. We owe him a chance to be
judged by his career and competence, not by his sexual orientation. We owe him a vote on this floor.

Rowland spokeswoman Nuala Forde said the governor "basically feels
that sexual orientation is not an appropriate topic for an official state
proclamation." Because Rowland has repeatedly rejected the proposed
statement, Forde said," it should come as no surprise" that he refused to
sign it a gain. Speakers at the rally said they were outraged by Row land's
persistent refusal to sign the proclamation, contending that he needs to
"wake up" to a new political reality in which gay, lesbian, bisexual and
transgendered people are part of the mainstream. Jessica Stevens,
director of the state chapter of the National Organization for Women,
said Row land's decision was" an ac t of political violence and will not be
forgotten

Moral Ground by Senator Lieberman (D-CT)
...The conflict over homosexuality's p lace, the place of homosexuals in
our society, I think, offers a contemporary example of this tension that
is very real in our lives and in our discussions and debates. Let's start
with the reality that many Americans continue to believe that homosexuality is immoral and not just because the Bible tells them so. In fact,
Professor Wolfe's research showed that this is one of the few areas where
Americans of all religious inclinations feel so strongly that they are
willing to risk the tag of intolerance to express or hold to their points of
view , although most of the people he interviewed tempered their
disapproval by making clear that they did not support discrimination
against gay men and lesbians. It is unfair, when you think about
Professor Wolfe's research, then, for anyone to automatically conclude
that people who express moral reservations or even disdain about
homosexuality are bigots, or to publicly attack them as hateful. These

August 1998

Shays Blasts Gay Bashing
Rep Christopher Shays, R-4 [Stamford/Norwalk/Bridgeport]
last week blasted Republican leaders for gay bashing to gain
political points with the far right. "Itis disgraceful and wrong,"
Shays said. Several GOP leaders have publicly denounced
homosexuality as sinful and are considering legislation to
overturn an executive order issued by President Clinton last
month to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation in
federal workplaces.
On June 15, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott said homosexuality is a sin and likened it to alcoholism or kleptomania. He
was defended the next day by House Majority Leader Disk
Armey and Assistant Senate Majority Leader Don Nickles who
said Lott was "biblically correct" in his description of gays.
Shays said that the leaders were using the bible as a convenience to pick on a minority group, while ignoring " sins" of the
majority such as divorce or observing the Sabbath.
"They should stop trying to inject themselves into our personal
lives," Shays said. Joseph Grabarz, executive director of the
Connecticut Civil Liberties Union, applauded Shay's rebellion
against his party leaders. "I'm relieved that someone in Congress is finally speaking out against this kind of hate speech,"
said Grabarz, who is gay.

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In Search Of Acceptance in
Connecticut
Richard Goldberg and Ian Grande are pioneers. Eight
years ago, the openly gay couple bought a house in a
quiet corner of the Farmington Valley and settled down
among the subdivisions and soccer moms. Goldberg and
Grande live on their own terms in a place that has
traditionally cultivated conformity. Indeed, generations
of homosexuals once viewed the neatly trimmed hedges
that define the suburban landscape as hurdles on the way
to the freedom, camaraderie and anonymity of big city
life. But that's begi1ming to change. Although official
statistics aren't available, real estate agents and activists
report that more gay men and lesbians are putting down
roots in suburbia. The migration is occurring across the
nation and has accelerated in the past five years, says
Jeffrey Vi tale, chief executive officer of Overlooked Opinions, a Chicago-based market research firm that tracks
the gay population.
In Connecticut, some obs.e rvers say the hub of gay life is
starting to gravitate away from Hartford and New Haven. They point to the swelling number of businesses
catering to homosexuals that have recently sprouted in
suburbia. The list includes a popular coffeeshop in the
Collinsville section of Canton named for writer Gertrude
Stein and her lesbian lover, a new gay- pride store on
Manchester's Main Street and a bar called the Purple
Monkey in Willimantic. One of the state's hippest gay
nightclubs is in East Windsor. One of the region's largest
gay professional groups holds its monthly meetings in
Farmington.
The migration has ignited tensions in some communities, where heterosexuals have been unfriendly, even
hostile, to the newcomers. But in other places, gay men
and lesbians have been welcome, assimilating easily in
their new neighborhoods. Claire Connelly says her sexual
orientation" doesn't seem to be a problem" for her Coventry neighbors. Connelly, who is 62, lives in a complex
for the elderly and disabled. Some of her neighbors make
a point of clipping out articles about gay issues and
handing them to her.
To be sure, homosexuals have always been at home in the
suburbs, though in the past, most kept quiet about their
sexual orientation, leaving the activism to their more
politicized urban counterparts. But as their ranks grow,
gay suburbanites are becoming increasingly visible, demanding the same rights as their heterosexual neighbors. That new assertiveness was evident in West Hartford recently, when dozens of gay men and lesbians-and
many heterosexuals as well - asked the town council to
restructure its recreational fees. Many in the crowd believe a policy prohibiting non-married couples from
qualifying for a family discount at the municipal pool is
discriminatory. After a boisterous debate, the council
voted to deny gay couples the family rate. To many
suburban gays, there was more at stake than a discounted swimming pass. The message was clear: You' re
welcome here as long as you don't stir up trouble. Now
some gay residents of West Hartford are discussing ways
to harness their power, including perhaps fielding an
openly gay candidate for political office.

August 1998

Gay Day at Bristol's Lake Compounce
Hundreds of gay and lesbian Nutrneggers came out on June 25, for the first
organized 'Gay Day' celebration at Lake Compounce in Bristol. The event, put
on by the New Haven Gay and Lesbian Community Center, passed without
much fanfare at the nation's oldest park. John Allen, co-president of the New
Haven center, said about 250 tickets sold. 'Gay Day' organizers said they liked
their day at Lake Compounce so much that the group will have another day at
the park next year. Allen said there is a need for events like the one at Lake
Compounce where people can feel comfortable. Park officials were especially
helpful, he said, working with the group to make the day a success.

Hartford's Mantilla's Re-Election
Evelyn Mantilla studied the letter on her kitchen table one day this week. Then
she forced an uneasy smile and put it aside. It read: "Don't send me any more
[campaign] literature. I do not support the party of homosexuals and neither do
my friends." That can happen when you're one of only two openly gay state
legislators and when you declare your bisexuality at a gay PrideFest, asking
your female partner in the crowd to marry you, daring the spotlight to find you.
That was a year ago. A Democrat, she appears headed for re-election in the
unlikeliest place, Hartford's 4th House District, where Edwin Garcia, a former
Hartford police sergeant, once ruled as state representative with all his toughguy talk and ward-style politics. Mantilla said the hate letter, sent tl1is week by
a former supporter, was her first. Mantilla, 35, proposed to her partner in public
because, she said, if straight people could do so, why couldn't she. If that makes
her some kind of gay celebrity or target, she said, that's fine, but that's not her
cause. 'Tm a legislator - who happens to be gay," she said. 'Tm committed to
all civil rights issues, including gay."

New Britain Agency Dismisses Complaint
The state's human rights agency has dismissed a complaint by a New Britain
teacher who claim she was targeted for discrimination because she is a lesbian.
The Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities recently notified Lynne
Kowalczyk, a physical education teacher, of its decision. Kowalczyk, who was
transferred from her position at Di Loreto Magnet School in late 1997 after an ongoing dispute involving two other teachers, was told there was not sufficient
evidence to prove she was transferred and suspended because of her sexual
orientation. The complaint, filed against the school district three months ago, is
similar to that filed by Kowalczyk's partner and colleague Beth Kavy, who is a
special education teacher.

200 Celebrate on New Haven Green
The historic Green witnessed another first, as more than 200 people gatl1ered to
celebrate gay and lesbian rights. It was the first such rally ever on the Green,
organizers said, and the first gay-themed event of any kind there in more than
340 years. In 1655, Col. John Knight was hanged on the Green for a same-sex
crime."
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How times have changed. Rainbow flags, symbolizing gay rights, flew from the
monument opposite the main stage. Organizers said it was the perfect way to
set the tone for the state's annual Connecticut PRIDE rally, which continues
today with a parade and rally in Hartford.
The rally began with music by Alison Farrel and Cyd Slotoroff, and included
several speeches by politicians. Mayor John DeStefano Jr. was not able to attend
as previously announced, but secretary of state candidates Ellen Scalletar and
Americo Santiago were on hand. Several local people told stories of "coming
out of the closet" in the past year. One of them, Ansonia High School teacher
Patricia Nicolari, said she's been overwhelmed by the supports he's gotten from
colleagues and students. Tj Feldman, who heads the statewide C01mecticut
PRIDE committee said expanding the event beyond Hartford is crucial to its
future effectiveness. "If this is successful, maybe Fairfield County and New
London County will get involved next year."

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Pride News
CA - Thousands Turn Out For Pride in LA
Officials said more than 350,000 people attended two days of festivities in West Hollywood that featured domestic partnership commihnent
ceremonies as well as a 300-person lesbian march led by a contingency of women on motorcycles. A variety of organizations were
represented at the parade, including churches, AIDS organizations and gay advocacy groups. Political dignitaries could be spotted
throughout the Los Angeles parade, including Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan, Los Angeles City Councilman Mike Hernandez and
L.A. County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky. Police Chief Bernard C. Parks, rode behind the Golden State Peace Officers Association, a gayadvocacy organization composed of police officers and firefighters.

CA - Shake, Whistle and Shiver in SF
Unusually cool weather made for goosebumps beneath the fishnet and chains as more than 200,000 people
turned out to watch the 28th annual gay pride parade thump and toot its irrepressible way up Market Street.
There were gays on motorcycles and tandem bikes. There were gay clarinetists, gay wrestlers, gay parents with
children, gay volleyball players, gay politicians and gay golden retrievers. There were feathers, leather, tutus,
codpieces, lingerie and all the other usual stuff. The theme of this year's parade was "Shakin' It Up" and, while
no one seemed to know what the" it" referred to, a lot of people shook - which can happen if you stand on
Market Street on a cold day in rainbow-colored underwear

CO - 1 Biggest Ever' Gay Parade

OR - Gay Pride Parade Attracts 20,000

An estimated 60,000 to 65,000 attended the 1998
PrideFest Parade, Rally and Festival in Denver. The
event is one of the largest celebrations by the gay and
lesbian community in the country. "This is our biggest
year ever," said Mike Smith, executive director of the
Gay, Lesbian, Bi-Sexual Community Services Center.
"We have 220 vendors and exhibits and had to turn
people away. The parade had more than 100 contingents, and they come from five or six different states.
It is the largest PrideFest in the region and certainly
among the top 10 in the nation." Event manager Carol
Hiller said PrideFest 1998 is officially the eighth annual such celebration in Denver but unofficially it has
been held since the late 1970s.

Portland's gay and lesbian communities and their allies found cause for celebration as an estimated 20,000 people turned out for the city's 23rd annual Gay Pride
Parade and Festival. Crowds filling the sidewalks cheered as contingents from
Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, the Portland Police Bureau
and Portland General Electric Co. marched by. All told, about 110 groups.

MA - 50,000 attend Gay Pride
Wearing brightly colored T-shirts and waving rainbow flags, nearly 50,000 people lined the downtown
streets to watch leather-clad bikers, costumed dancers
on floats, marching men on stilts, moms with babies in
strollers, bankers, ministers, drag queens, and members of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender
community stru tin the Gay Pride Parade. Police blocked
off streets for four hours as participants marched. The
parade had been scheduled for last month but was
postponed when record-breaking rain hit Boston.

ME - Gay Couples Receive Blessing on
Pride Day
More than a dozen lesbian and gay couples, had their
unions blessed in the sight of God and the disapproving eye of the state of Maine during Portland's Gay
Pride Day. Blessings have been few recently for Maine's
gays and lesbians. The Legislature outlawed marriage
for homosexuals last year, and in February of this year,
voters in a referendum rejected the gay-rights law
approved by legislators and the governor in 1997. Yet
those losses did not drive gays and lesbians to turn
inward, avoid the public and abandon their goal of
acceptance. To the contrary: Gay-rights organizers say
the defeats have burned away complacency among
both gay and heterosexual supporters of gay rights.

August 1998

The mood was upbeat, with Realtors and drag queens flinging candy and other
treats at the crowd. Portland Police Chief Charles Moose marched with a group
of officers near the head of the parade, and Capt. Mike Garvey - an openly gay
officer who is suing Moose and the city for discrimination - marched with
Phoenix Rising, a gay and lesbian social service agency. Both received warm
applause. But the biggest cheers for a police officer were reserved for Lt. Robert
Ball, a reserve officer, who marched with his partner, Jay Clark, and mother,
Marilyn Ball, president of the Bend chapter of Parents, Families and Friends of
Lesbians and Gays. Roman Catholic, Protestant and Jewish congregations that
welcome gays and lesbians joined the march, along with union members,
schoolteachers, political groups and gay-oriented nightclubs.

World Pride
France - 50,000 Join Paris Pride Rally
About 50,000 people marched through Paris in an annual gay rights rally,
dancing atop floats and displaying banners supporting a bill that would give
gays and lesbians new legal recognition. Revelers draped in rainbow-colored
flags danced to techno music, showered passersby with confetti and released
hundreds of multicolored balloons as they made their way from the city's Latin
Quarter to the Place de la Nation in east Paris. But a chief organizer of the march,
the 17th in the French capital, lamented that the day's events had been
undermined by the World Cup. "We had to scrap loads of things because of the
World Cup: not just for security, but also because of a lack of sponsors," the leftwing daily Liberation quoted Charles Myara as saying. Last year, an estimated
300,000 took part in the rally.

Germany - 250,000 March in Berlin Parade
An estimated 250,000 homosexuals took part Saturday in Berlin's annual Gay
Pride parade, more than twice the number of last year, organizers said. ninety
floats were featured in the noisy and colorful demonstration through the streets
of the city before dispersing following a minute's silence in memory of AIDS
victims.

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T ~EWS & VIEWS
National News
Christian Ad Attack on Gays
A coalition of influential Christian groups has launched a national ad campaign attacking homosexuality, igniting a firestorm of protest
as the religious right gears up for the November election. Praising Senator Trent Lott, the Republican majority leader from Mississippi who
recently likened gays and lesbians to alcoholics and kleptomaniacs, the $200,000 ad blitz characterizes homosexuals as sinners in need of
Christian healing. The campaign, widely seen as an effort by the Christian right to provide indirect support for congressional candidates
who promote the movement's agenda, sparked outrage among gay-rights leaders and produced the unintended consequence of exposing
a rift in the Republican Party. Several GOP candidates facing tough elections in key races tried to distance themselves from the campaign.
"I don't see that it serves any useful purpose at all," said Peter Torkildsen, a Republican trying to regain the seat he narrowly lost in 1996.
"It incites fear in people, and it is not the traditional Republican role for the government to intervene in people's private lives."
The ad campaign was funded largely by the Christian Coalition, whose chairman, Pat Robertson, sought the GOP nomination for president
in 1988, and the Family Research Council, whose leader, Gary Bauer, is considered a prospective
Republican contender for the White House in 2000. In full-page ads that appeared in the New York
Times, the Washington Post and USA Today in the middle of July, the coalition promoted the
highly disputed theory that people become homosexual by choice. "Homosexuality is not a sex
issue, it's a heart issue," one ad stated. "There are problems for homosexuals even condoms
can't fix."
Robertson recently met with Lott and other key Republicans in the House and Senate to push for
the religious right's priorities as did James Dobson, who heads the Family Research Council's parent
group, Focus on Family. "Now you're seeing some fruits of the alliance," said Elizabeth Birch, executive director of the Human Rights
Campaign. "They are using these very manipulative ads to throw red meat to the firebrand, extreme-right, grass roots wing of the
Republican Party. It's nothing more than a crass political move in an election year."
Arne Owens, a Christian Coalition spokesman, denied the ad campaign is aimed at providing support for Lott and other congressional
leaders who have stepped up their criticism of homosexuality since Robertson and Dobson visited Capital Hill earlier this year. "This
message is not emanating from the GOP," he said. "It's a nonpartisan message based on the mainstream concern about the decline of
morality in America." Owens said the advertising campaign will continue, although he declined to provide details. He said the impetus
for the campaign was the push for broader gay rights. In the Washington Post the ad displayed a photograph of a large group of people
who say they no longer are gay or lesbian because of" God's healing love." "We' re standing here for the truth that homosexuals can change."
The ad thanks Lott and Reggie White among others," for having the courage to speak the truth about sexual sin."
Representative Barney Frank who is one of two openly gay members of Congress challenged the assertion that people choose their sexual
orientation. He also stated that, "Homophobia is losing the cultural war so they are doing this to try to pump up their side in the political
arena."

HIV Strains That Resist AIDS Drugs

Task Force Receives Grant

Researchers have for the first time identified two people who recently became
infected with strains of HIV that are resistant to most of the drugs available to treat
the AIDS virus. The strains, described at the 12th World AIDS Conference, pose no
immediate threat to public health, experts said. There's no evidence they either
spread more easily or cause a more virulent form of infection than ordinary types
of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Nevertheless, the reports demonstrate
that HIV can mutate to become resistant to many of the powerful new AIDS drugs,
and these strains can be passed from person to person. Both cases, one from San
Francisco and the other from Switzerland, occurred in gay men having unprotected
sex.

The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF)
was recently awarded the Kellogg Foundation's first
ever grant to a gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender
(GLBT) organization. The grant is for $44,500 and
will help fund the Task Force's Youth Leadership
Institute. "We are honored to have our work recognized and supported by the Kellogg Foundation,"
said Kerry Lobel, NGLTF ex_ecutive director.

Many AIDS activists, public health officials and doctors have warned that triple
therapy's miraculous cures might make some people think HIV is merely a
treatable, chronic infection. In fact, Gordon Mansergh of the CDC reported that in
a survey of HIV-negative gay men in three American cities, nearly two-thirds said
they'd had unprotected anal intercourse at least once in the preceeding year and a
half. AIDS researchers had expected that a strain of HIV that is resistant to multiple
anti-HIV drugs eventually would be found. The new treatments can require
patients to take a dozen pills a day on a strict, complicated schedule. If the AIDS
virus is only intermittently exposed to a killing drug, or exposed to a sublethal dose,
the virus will continue to reproduce. Eventually, the virus will mutate in a way

NGLTFls annual Youth Leadership Institute is in its
fourth year and offers a week of intensive leadership
development, grassroots organizing training, and
skills-building workshops to 25 youth selected from
around the country. This year's training will be held
outside of Washington, D.C. on August 5 - 9. When
graduates of the training return home, they will get
follow-up support and assistance from NGLTF's
field department and be paired with an organiza hon
in their community to work on Equality Begins at
Home. Coordinated actions in state capitals across
the country are planned for March 1999.

that makes it resistant. Because HIV reproduces so quickly, this can happen in
months. In both of the new cases, a mulhdrug-resistant strain of virus was
transmitted from someone who had been extensively treated with antiviral medications to someone who was uninfected. Although resistant viruses have been
isolated before from patients during treatment, this is the first evidence they are also
being passed person-to-person.

August 1998

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Frank Lashes Out

A New Way of Being

A gay member of Congress says recent anti-gay comments by House Republican leader Dick Armey and Senate Republican leader Trent Lott were an
attempt to appeal to the right-wing of the GOP. Speaking to the congregation
of the Cathedral of Hope - the nation's largest gay and lesbian church Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Barney Frank said the comments were an
appeal to what he called" the right-wing minority."

The rainbow flag has existed since 1978. That year the San Francisco Gay
Freedom Day Parade's organizing committee was searching for a symbol of
celebration and artist Gilbert Baker proposed his design of a rainbow flag.
Originally the flag had eight horizontal stripes: hot pink stood for sexuality,
red for life, orange for healing, yellow for sun, green for serenity with nature,
turquoise for art, indigo for harmony, and violet for spirit. Two of the eight
colors were later dropped for the sake of mass production and cost-effectiveness. With pink and turquoise gone and royal blue replacing indigo, the flag
became the six-color version we know today.

A bold group of academics, writers and theorists are striding onto fresh intellectual turf with the first major American symposium on "Post Gay," jointly sponsored by Out
magazine and the New School for Social Research in Manhattan. Post-gay is a fledgling somewhat murky idea that
describes a homosexual identity in which sexual behavior
no longer defines one's life. It's not bisexuality. It's not
retreating to the closet. It is a way of saying, "We've come
a long way, so calm down." In a post-gay world, homosexuals have won their battle for acceptance and are now
free to move beyond identity politics. Anne Heche is postgay,
for example. Ellen isn't. "Post-gay isn't ungay," explains
James Collard, Out's editor in chief. "It's about taking a
critical look at gay life and no longer thinking solely in
terms of struggle. It's going to a gay bar and wishing there
were girls there to talk to." The symposium's panel of
theorists hope to bang together a strong framework or a
movement that, at present, lacks critical mass. It doesn't
lack for criticism: politicized homosexuals consider it treasonous. "It's hard to imagine anything profound happening under the label 'post-gay'," says Amy Agigian, a
Brandeis University sociologist who thinks post-gay is
interesting butiffy. "I suspect anyone who suggests we are
past the era where lesbians and gays no longer need to
struggle for basic rights. I would rather see us entering a
different era, she says. "Heterosexuals have all the power.
They got over themselves and became post-straight."

Rep. Frank and Companion Breaking Up

Viagra and Poppers

Frank clashed with Armey three years ago when the Texas Republican
referred to him as "Barney Fag." Armey apologized for the comment, saying
he had inadvertently mispronounced Frank's name. Frank told about 1,000
worshipers" that was a victory against bigotry, not that he said he was sorry
he said it, but that he felt compelled to apologize and explain. Twenty years
ago, no one would have expected an apology." The latest controversy came
after Lott told a television interviewer that homosexuality is an addiction like
alcoholism or kleptomania. A day later, Armey quoted Bible verses that he
said showed homosexuality is a sin. Lott and Armey were invited to attend
the service but they declined. Frank had been invited before the latest dispute.

Rain bow Flag

Representative Barney Frank, a Massachusetts Democrat who is a homosexual and an active supporter of gay rights, has ended his relationship with
Herb Moses, his longtime companion. Frank, who has been candid about his
personal life and often referred to Moses as his "spouse," confirmed reports
of the breakup in an interview in July. "We'll be separating .... We'll be selling
our house in the near future," Frank said. The separation is amicable, Frank
said.
Frank disclosed his homosexuality in 1987, saying, "I have nothing to hide,
nothing to advertise." He and Moses often appeared together at congressional functions and White House social events. They told journalists that
they thought of themselves as married. A lawyer who was elected to the
Massachusetts Legislature in 1973 and to Congress in 1980, Frank has worked
hard to dispel stereotypes about gays. He spoke in public about his 10 1/2year relationship with Moses, and defied criticism from Senator Jesse Helms
of North Carolina and other conservative foes.

Oral HIV Test Available in NV
The nation's first oral HIV test approved by Federal Drug Administration will
be available at all three Planned Parenthood of New York City health-care
centers. PPNYC said there has been a 50 percent increase in the number of
people who took the noninvasive test in a pilot program. The use of the
OraSure method also meant health-care workers wouldn't run the risk of
exposing themselves to an infected needle. PPNYC described OraSure as a
safe, simple and painless method that is done orally and does not involve
blood or needles. The test uses a small cotton fiber pad attached to a thin,
straw-like plastic stick that is placed in the mouth between the cheek and the
lower gum and held in place for two minutes. The specially treated pad draws
out a substance, which contains a rich supply of HIV antibodies in infected
individuals.
PPNYC President Alexander Sanger said OraSure has been enormously
popular with hard-to-reach people who often do not receive any health care.
Sanger added: "Since we've been able to offer patients the option of a faster,
easier HIV test, the numbers of individuals willing to be tested has skyrocketed." He says the OraSure test was 99.9 percent accurate.
AUl!USI

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Gay men are being warned not to mix the anti-impotency
drug Viagra with amyl nitrates, which are commonly known
as "poppers." Several people have died after using the
drugs along with crystal methamphetamine (speed). Many
gay men are apparently taking Viagra as a recreational
drug, which can be deadly if mixed with crystal meth and
poppers. Pfizer, which makes Viagra, has warned that the
combination of nitrates and Viagra can lead to "large and
sudden drops in systemic blood pressure," and amyl nitrates combined with Viagra are expected to have the same
effect.

Trivia Question
Answer to July - Francis Bacon - the philosopher is Sir Francis
Bacon.
Question for August - Two northeastern lesbian activists have
(more or less) the same name. One is a Hartford area bisexual
who was the first out gay person on the Hartford city council.
The other, known by a diminutive, is a long-time stalwart of the
Boston lesbian community. Most recently she has organized
Creating Change for the National Lesbian and Gay Task Force.

The Gay Gourmet
lnsalata Di A rancio - (O range Salad)
- 3 large oranges peeled
- course ground pepper
- virgin olive oil
- 10 - 15 calamata olives
Slice oranges into 1/ 4" pieces. Arrange slices on a plate
(preferably with a fruit motif). Drizzle each slice with olive
oil and season with a pinch of pepper. Place the olives in
the spaces between the slices. Chill a few minutes in the
refrigerator and serve as a refreshing summer appetizer.
Serves four.
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AL - Lesbian Loses Child

NJ - Gay Union

The Alabama Supreme Court, overturning an appeals panel, has removed a child from
the custody of her homosexual mother, ruling that the woman exposed her daughter to
a lifestyle that is illegal in Alabama. The 7-0 decision authored by Justice Champ Lyons
found that the child's best interests would be better served in a home with her father and
his new wife. The Alabama Court of Civil Appeals had reversed Ferguson's order,
holding that the father didn't prove the mother's conduct was having a "substantial
detrimental effect" on the child. But the high court said there was no need to prove there
was a substantial detrimental effect, only that the child's interests were better served in
the father's home. A 1975 Alabama statute proclaims all homosexual conduct to be
criminal. Earlier this year, the state enacted a law that banned same-sex marriages.

In Fairlong, New Jersey an Episcopal church ceremony
symbolically set on Father's Day, two gay men whose
lawsuit paved the way for other unmarried couples in the
state to adopt children jointly were united today in a
"holy union" as friends, relatives and television cameras
looked on. While it lacked the legal status of a marriage
ceremony, the event nevertheless marked another passage for the two men, Jon Holden-Galluccio, 3-!, and
Michael Galluccio, 36, of Maywood.

The decision cited testimony from several psychologists, who had differing opinions on
where the child should live, but all agreed the girl had a good home relationship with
her mother and her partner. The Christian Family Association, an Alabama group that
has promoted fundamentalist Christian positions, said that was no substitute for a
traditional family environment.

DC - Oberlin Hires Gay Athletics Director
Oberlin Coilege has announced that it had hired a gay man as its athletics director.
Michael Muska, a former track-and-field coach at Auburn and Northwestern Universities, is believed to be the first openly gay athletics director in college sports. Oberlin,
which prides itself on the diversity and tolerance of its student body, has a substantial
gay population. Alan Moran, Oberlin's vice-president for college relations, said Mr.
Muska had been hired because he had experience coaching and recruiting athletes who
met Oberlin's high admissions standards. Oberlin is a member of Division III of the
National Coilegiate Athletic Association, and competes in the North Coast Athletic
Conference.

FL - Directory Serves Gay Businesses
Yvonne Rohrbacher, a Fort Lauderdale businesswoman started the Out Pages, a free
directory of gay-owned and gay-friendly businesses. She publishes the little yellow
book twice a year for Central and South Florida. Each directo1y has business listings,
community photographs and organizations. The Out Pages began in 1988 in South
Florida with 120 advertisers and expanded to Central Florida, including the Tampa Bay
area and Orlando, three years ago. Now it boasts more than 700 advertisers statewide.
Rohrbacher prints 55,000books eve1y six months, with 10,000 to 12,000 available at local
bookstores, video shops and other businesses in the Bay area. She attributes the
directo1y' s success to small businesses that cater to a segment of the population. They
tend to advertise in products that do the same, she said. The Central Florida directory
has 100 pages of business listings, from Borders Books and Music in Tampa to Wiley
Auto Se1vice in St. Petersburg.

NC - Woman Sues Her Female Boss
A Winston-Salem woman has filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against her female
boss and the Greensboro insurance company where they both worked, marking one of
the first court cases involving same-sex harassment in North Carolina. Millicent Joanne
Allen filed the lawsuit against her former boss, Claudine Bynum, and Key Risk
Management, a workers compensation insurance company on Centreport Drive where
Allen worked as a claims adjustor. Also named as a defendant is the parent company,
W.R. Berkley Corp., which is based in Connecticut.
In most ways, Allen's lawsuit is fairly typical of sexual harassment cases. Allen claims
that her boss touched her thigh, propositioned her for sex and retaliated against her
when she rebuffed the advances during a IO-mo.nth period ending last September. Allen
claims that Bynum said she could help Allen's career if she engaged in sexual activity
with her. When Allen reported the harassment and asked for a transfer, higher-ranking
bosses did not investigate and refused to transfer her, according to the lawsuit. Allen,
who is heterosexual and married, eventually took a medical leave from work because
she suffered from depression and anxiety because of the harassment, the lawsuit says.
Allen claims that she was fired soon after in retaliation for reporting the sexual
harassment. The lawsuit claims that several employees complained about Bynum's
harassing and demeaning treatment. At least seven employees were fired or forced to
quit after Bynum retaliated against them, the lawsuit says.

August 1998

In the course of their successful two-year effort to adopt
a child jointly, they have emerged from the anonymity in
which many gaycouplesfeelcompelled to live. Along the
way to adopting their son, Adam, who is now 3 years old,
they became accidental advocates with a monthly .newsletter sent to 500 subscribers, a World Wide Web page and
an agent who has booked speaking engagements around
the country. Nearly three years ago, the two men became
the foster parents of Adam. When they tried to adopt the
boy formally, New Jersey child welfare officials assented,
as long as .they did it separately in two distinct and costly
legal procedures. Under New Jersey law, same-sex couples
and unmarried heterosexual couples had no legal standing that would allow them to adopt jointly. The couple
challenged the law in court. Last October, Judge Sybil R.
Moses of Superior Court in Bergen County granted the
joint adoption, saying it was in the best interest of the
child. Two months later, all legal barriers to joint adoption by unmarried same-sex and heterosexual couples
were removed in a broader consent decree. New Jersey
became the first state to establish a policy treating gay and
unmarried couples the same way it treatsma □-ied couples
regarding adoptions.

NY - HIV Notification Bill Passes
Doctors must report the names of people who test positive for HIV to public health officials and health workers
would be required to notify sexual and drug use parh1ers
of possible exposure under legislation approved early
this morning. The Democratic-controlled state Assembly
passed the sweeping notification measure 112-34 after
some two hours of heated debate that pitted civil liberties
concerns against public health needs. The state Senate
had already passed the bill, which advocates say is among
the most far-reaching in the nation.
It requires that once municipal health deparhnents are
informed that a patient has tested positive for AIDS or
HIV, health care workers must attempt to have infected
patients identify former sex or drug-use partners. The
health workers would then notify those contacts about
the possibility of infection. Doctors can now tell parh1ers
of HIV-infected patients about the virus in some cases,
but some health workers say they fear lawsuits if they do.
Among the elements added to the notification bill in the
last hours was a provision to continue with anonymous
testing for HIV. Notification would only kick in when an
infected person went to receive treahnent. Also, domestic
violence protections were included for those who test
positive and fear violence when their parmer was notified.

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NV - Domestic Partner Law Passed
Unmarried couples including gays and lesbians in New York City will
be treated the same as those who are married under landmark legislation passed in June. The law, one of the broadest domestic partner
policies in the United States, which gay rights advocates described as
historic, addresses a host of emotional issues and details of everyday life
facing couples regardless of their sexual orientation. It allows bereavement leave for city employees, visitation rights in city-run facilities,
tenancy succession rights and permits partners to be buried together in
a city-owned cemetery. The estimated 8,700 registered domestic partners in New York City will also be required to meet the same civic
responsibilities as married couples. The law was approved overwhelmingly in a City Council vote Wednesday to cheers and applause in the
public galle1y. But before the vote, a group of Hasidic rabbis gathered
in protest outside City Hall, saying Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and city
officials would be cursed and wiped out because of their support for the
legislation.
Responsibilities include disclosure of background information about
domestic parh1ers when seeking certain licenses in some businesses and
the income of the chief wage earner in some city-subsidized housing.
Advocates called the bill "unique" because it would extend rights
beyond city employees. Other cities around the United States have
largely addressed domestic parh1erships in the context of municipal
employee benefits.

NV - Rabbis Cast Curse
A group of Hasidic rabbis have gathered at New York's City Hall to
invoke a biblical curse on any city official who votes for or promotes a
proposed gay marriage bill. The group of about two dozen men used
candles and a ram's horn known as a shofar to invoke the curse. They
also took some ti.me out to pray for the safety of New Yorkers. The
protesters, clad in the hasidic garb of long dark coats and black hats,
carried candles as they walked up the steps of City Hall. The ceremony
continued with the recitation of Psalms in Hebrew and the reading of the
Torah portion about Sodom and Gomorrah from the book of Genesis
and of prayers from the Rosh Hashanah, or Jewish New Year, liturgy.
The se1vice ended when six men each blew a shofar. Rabbi William
Handler of Jews for Morality said city officials, including Mayor Rudolph
Giuliani, who support the domestic partnership bill will be wiped out,
because they "have no desire to repent." He said the group asked "God
to direct His wrath against the guilty parties," and that" our job is to save
people." The form that the curse, which Handler said" definitely" will
materialize, will take has not been pinned down, but he said, "It's
possible that an atomic attack could be made by Russia or China."

NY - Yeshiva University Sued
In what it billed as a landmark case, the ACLU filed a suit Wednesday
against Yeshiva University, accusing it of discrimination for banning
gay people from living in campus housing with their partners. The suit,
filed in New York State Supreme Court, was brought on behalf of Sara
Levin and Maggie Jones, medical students at the Albert Einstein College
of Medicine in the Bronx, which is a division of Yeshiva. The complaint
charges the university with discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and marital status and seeks a reversal of Yeshiva's policy
banning gay graduate students from living with their partners in
campus housing. It also seeks unspecified damages for emotional
distress and extra housing and commuting costs. Levin and Jones were
both denied shared housing with their respective non-student female
parh1ers because they cannot many, the ACLU said.
In 1989 Einstein's student-faculty senate passed a resolution asking for
housing and other benefits for gay couples, but Yeshiva President
Norman Lamm rejected the change. He was quoted in media reports as
saying that "under no circumstances can Judaism permit homosexuality to become respectable."

August 1998

NV - Editorial: Making It Through The Night
It would be hard to find anyone in New York more marginalized in more
ways than Ali Forney. He was homeless, black, gay, 22, and a crack
addict who made money and found shelter through prostitution, often
wearing a dress, heels and a wig. In December he was shot in the head,
the third young transgender prostitute murdered in Harlem in 14
months. All the cases are unsolved. Those who did not know him might
miss the human being under all those labels. But at his memorial, held
at a Times Square church, 70 friends and relatives gathered to remember
a complex man. Six months before his death, he closed the annual talent
show at SafeSpace, a center for homeless youth, with a gospel song and
a prayer, preaching that "God loves everybody for who they are." He
was proudly H.I.V. negative, no mean feat for someone in his line of
work, and spent many nights working with social service organizations
in the gay bars and piers of the West Village and Times Square,
dispensing condoms and talking about safe sex and places young people
could get meals, showers, drug treatment, medical care and counseling.
Many people and institutions failed Ali Forney in his short life, not least
Forney himself. But among them was the city of New York. The city's
quality-of-life initiative and the development of Ti.mes Square have
inadvertently pushed homeless youths out of their traditional haunts.
They now populate a lonelier, and hence more dangerous, diaspora in
areas such as Harlem, and are much harder for the nightly patrols of
outreach workers to find and help.
No one knows how many homeless teen-agers and young adults there
are in New York City, but state and city studies a few years ago said
between 12,000 and 20,000. The vast majority of homeless youths are
from New York, and are black or Hispanic. Many ran away from foster
care. Forty percent are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender. This group
is disproportionately homeless because their families sometimes kick
them out, and they are often unwelcome and even assaulted in their
schools and foster homes.
Although shelter is their most basic need, they do not fit in any city
shelter program. They are scared of the giant, dangerous shelters that
house adults and need smaller group homes with help for people who
may be adults chronologically but not emotionally. But youth programs
will not house anyone over 18. The city has only about400 beds designed
for older youths, 80 percent of them in Covenant House.
New York has shown little interest in solutions. From 1995 to 1997, the
Deparhnent of Youth and Community Development failed to spend
nearly $1 million it had budgeted for housing for homeless youths,
which resulted in a loss of an additional $1.5 million in matching funds
from the state. The deparhnent says it will leave $450,000 unspent in
1998, because shelters are unpopular with neighborhoods. But the new
head of the Youth Committee, Kenneth Fisher, last month held the first
hearing on homeless teen-agers that anyone can remember. That has
prodded the city into beginning talks on a shelter and some of the
bureaucratic hurdles that keep youths on the street. It will require a
sustained commihnent from the city to a group of people invisible until
they get sick, arrested or murdered.

WI - A Sign of Tolerance
A billboard campaign condemning homosexuality backfired on those
organizing it by angering people of all sexual preferences, the head of a
social service agency for gays says. The billboards state: "Homosexuality is not a family value. Homosexuality is a sin." Ralph Ovadal, who
describes himself as director of the Monroe-based Wisconsin Christians
United, said three billboards were being erected in Madison and one
each in Monroe and Beloit. They are to be up for four weeks, he said. But
those billboards have gotten a lot of people in Madison angry. And that
anger has led to a real sense of frustration on the part of wellintentioned citizens who want to respond to what many see as evidence
of hatred and intolerance. How can the great majority of concerned and

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The "connecticuT View", a social and support group for
crossdressers, with over 50 members from Connecticut and other
local states, are planning to expand our membership by inviting
female to male crossdressers to join our group. We realize that
cross dressers in need of a support group are those males who dress
as females and want to be accepted by society. Females, who have
easily assimilated into the male roles, don't get looked at twice
because jeans, boots, floppy tops, short hairdos, and no makeup is
much more acceptable. Society doesn't really know whether the
person before them is a female who just likes male attire, or a
female who is trying to 'be' male. Society, doesn't care. But, we of
the connecticuT View wonder if there are issues the female to male
crossdressers have that might be similar to those of the male to
female crossdressers. Are they stared at? Do they have the 'bathroom problem', crossdressing males have? Are they called 'Sir'?
Do they like it?
The "connecticuT View" is the 'only' open crossdresser club in
Connecticut. There are other clubs, but one admits to screening
potential members, and also does not allow transvestite admirers
to join their group. Another admits to being strictly heterosexual,
and a third is aimed at helping mainly transsexuals. The connecticuT
View invites everyone to join our group, as long as there is some
connection to transvestitism, crossdressing, transsexualism or being a wife, significant other or lover of the tv / cd/ ts. We also want
children of transvestite parents, or parents of TVs to contact us ... for
support. We feel that female crossdressers joining with us, would
be a benefit. Dialogue between us might be very enlightening. And
as one TV who admires women, I would love having the female to
male side of issues aired to see if a better acceptance, union, and
understanding can start between our respective groups, and help
us work together toward having society understand and accept
everyone.

If there are any female to male crossdressers out there reading this,
and wish to discuss this further. .. please contact me, Denise Mason
at masond@aol.com. If anyone wishes a sample newsletter, please
contact "the connecticuT View", P.O. Box 2281, Devon CT. 06460

Sources
200 Celebrate on New Haven Green-New Haven Register, June 20, 1998
CA - Shake, Whistle and Shiver-San Francisco Chronicle, June 29, 1998
CA-Thousands Turn Out For Pride in LA Los Angeles-Daily News, June 29, 1998
Christian Attack on Homosexuality Splits the Party-Boston G lobe, July 15, 1998
CO - 'Biggest Ever' Gay Parade-Rocky Mountain News, June 29, 1998
DC-Oberlin Hires Gay Athletics Director-Chronicle of Higher Education, June 18, 1998
Editorial: Making It Through The Night -New York Times, July 12, 1998
FL - Directory Serves Gay Businesses-Tampa Tribune, June 22, 1998
Gdy Dat at Bristol's Lake Com pounce-New Britain Herald, June 27, 1998
Gay Rights Groups Fault Rowland, Again-Hartford Courant June 16, 1998
Hartford's Mantilla's Re-Election-Hartford Courant,June 20, 1998
HIV Strains That Resist AIDS Drugs-Washington Post, July I, 1998
In Search Of Acceptance in Connecticut-Hartford Courant, July 2, 1998
Italy-Vatican Condemns Lesbian Marriage-Nanda Times, July 11, 1998
MA -50,000 attend Gay Pride-Boston Globe, July 12, 1998
ME -Gay Couples Receive Blessing on Pride Day-Maine Sunday Telegram, June 21, 1998
Monogamy Has a Role in Gay Couple's Life-New Haven Register, June 23, 1998
NC- Woman Sues Her Female Boss-Greensboro News & Record, July 2, 1998
NJ -Gay Union-New York Times, June 22, 1998
NY - Domestic Partner Law Passed-Reuters, June 24, 1998
NY - HIV Notification Bill Passes-Newsday, June 19, 1998
OR -Gay Pride Parade Attracts 20,000 -The Oregonian, June 22, 1998
Rep. Frank and Companion Breaking Up-Boston Globe, July 1, 1998
Shays Blasts Gay Bashing-New Haven Register, Tues., July 7, 1998
WI -A Sign of Tolerance-Capital Times, July 3, 1998

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Telephone Directories
Groups Meeting at or Sponsored by TCC
A.A. - Don 762-9964
Bi Rap Group - Peter 838-2806; Robin 855-8646
Free Association of Fairfield County - John 268-8858 x304
Gay Men's Rap Group - Dave 838-1881 ; John 389-7381
Gmosaic (People of Color) - Nasheed 854-7726
Lesbian Literature Reading Group - Christine, 847-8476
Out & About (20's & 30's) - Heather 924-2930; Ashley 576-1073
or Dan 838-2367
Outspoken (Youth) - Barb 259-8171; Dan 227-1755;
Doug 838-2367
P-FLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians & Gays)
Joan 544-8724; Lester 322-5380; Belinda 855-1203
P-FLAG Spouses & Ex Spouses Group - Joan 544-8724
Triangle Bowling League (Circle Lanes, Fairfield) - Lisa 333-3113;
Roseann 931-8789
Women's Rap Group - Chandra 226-8652; Linda 866-4598;
Michele 438-4465 •
All meetings are held at the Center and in the evening unless
otherwise noted. A $3 donation per person is appreciated with
your participation in activities to help support the Center.

Other Area Groups and Organizations
Bare & Gay (B&G) gay nudists
Bisexually Curious Support Group Bpt
Chiltern Mountain Club
Connecticut Kids and Families
Connecticut Freedom to Marry Coalition
40-Up Club.(Social Grp.-call Dale before 10pm)
Gay Fathers Group
Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Assoc.
Gay Mens Association of Danbury
GEMS (Mature GLBT)
Guideline (gay/lesbian phone info)
Hartford Community Center
Married Men's Bisexual Suppt Grp Htfd
Metropolitan Community Church
Transgendered Resource - Kaylen
The Loft, White Plains NY,
Triangle Bowling League
Triangle Kids
Western Connecticut Gay Men's Group

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We're glad to list your non-profit gay/lesbian/bi/tg group free of
charge . Call (203) 964-1133. Please keep us informed of changes .

WHERE ARE WE? The Triangle Community Center Inc. is
located at 25 Van Zant Street in Norwalk. From 1-95, take
Exit 16 and go south (from Stamford , turn right; from New
Haven , turn left). Continue south under the railroad bridge
and turn right on Van Zant St. (Route 136). 25 Van Zant is a
large condominium office building on the right. TCC is in
Suite 7-C on the ground floor, Tel. (203) 853-0600 .

Deadline for the September Newsletter will be Saturday, August 15. We cannot guarantee that material
received after that date will be included in September
News&Views.
August 1998

Property of the Center

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P.O.BOX 4062, East Norwalk, CT 06855
Tel/Fax: (203) 853-0600
e-mail TCCenter@aol.com
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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P.O. Box 4062, East Norwalk, CT 06855.
N EWS & VI EWS encourages its readers to submit materi als of interest
to our community, including short articles, letters to th e editor, etc. We
cannot respond to, or publish, an onymous letters. We reserve the ri ght
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Connecticut Calendar
Saturday, August 1 - 8 - Gay Games 1998, Amsterdam.
Friday, August 7 - Potluck and Movie Night at the New
Haven Gay and Lesbian Community
Center, 50 Fitch Street, New Haven. The
feature will be: "La Cage Aux Foiles."
Potluck at 6:30 PM, film at 7: 15 PM.
Suggested donation $3.00. For more info
e-mail: FGDMYO@aol.com.
Friday, August 21- Potluck and Movie Night atthe New
Haven Gay and Lesbian Community
Center, 50 Fitch Street, New Haven. The
feature will be: "The Detective." Potluck
at 6:30 PM, film at 7: 15 PM. Suggested
donation $3.00. For more info e-mail:
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(women only), Holiday Inn, East Hartford , 8:30 PM - I :00 AM, $10.00 cover.
Call 860-528-9611 for directions, oremail: chretien l@aol.com.

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ENJOY a relaxing trip across Long Island Sound to the scenic village
of Port Jefferson, Long Island. Sail with the TCC group but return at
your leisure. The ferry will depart from Bridgeport Harbor at 10:30
AM and arrive in PortJefferson at noon. The TCC group rate is $10. 75
(payable in cash on the morning of the trip). Space is limited. CallJohn
for reservations (203) 334-3822.

You'll find Port Jefferson village rich with historical culture, unique shops, excellent restaurants, elegant lodging and an
ambiance that characterizes Main Street, USA. Have breakfast, stroll the waterfront, and walk through the shops. Merchants
will be happy to serve you in this gay friendly environment. Visit the Historical Society, have dinner and take in live theater,
or stay for an evening's entertainment.
PortJefferson's shopping district attests to the diversity of this village. Main Street is lined with shops with names like Harbor
Sounds, Shoeport, Darling Stationery, Alienation, East End Shirt Co., Fetish, Elegant Affairs, Soundview Art Gallery,
Something Special, Irish Elegance, America, Yuppie Puppy, It's a Small World, Stitchin' Time, Common Scents and more.
Harbor Square Mall also offers a welcoming environment. The mall is home to many interesting shops, including Shoetique,
Silk and Lace, Miss Kitty and Friends, Treasure Cache, Out of This World, Shirt Tales, Your Favorite Team, The Bag Lady and
others.

A short stroll to East Main Street, finds many of the shops occupying historic sea captains' homes, and brings a subtle change
in atmosphere as well as in the items being sold. Many of the shops names clearly describe their contents: Scented Cottage
Garden, Cat-In-The-Bag, Magic Hearts, Craftin' Buddies, Reruns, The Red Sled, Port Jefferson Antiques, Good Times
Bookstore, Brave New World, From Near And Far and Maresa's Candlelight Gift Shoppe and many more. This quiet street
allows for leisurely browsing and a chance to savor what life must have been like 100 years ago in the village.
Kella's Home Brew recently opened, a store catering to the home brewer and wine maker. Additionally, for wine lovers, the
Pindar Wine Store is a great source for this prestigious Long Island wine. For somewhat more universal tastes, the village
can satisfy everyone's sweet tooth, with shops such as Chunk-a-Chocolate, The Frigate and La Bon Boulangerie European
pastry shop.
With over 30 restaurants, Port Jefferson caters to every taste and pocketbook. From bouillabaisse to burgers, pasta to paella,
sushi to salad, Port Jefferson offers ethnic and regional specialty dining, as well as more basic culinary delights. Their names
alone will wet your appetite - Pasta Pasta, Elk Street Grille, Hana's, Costa de Espana, Ruby's, Quiet Corner Cafe, Tara's, Billie's
1890 Saloon, Harbor Gates, The Steam Room, Port Jefferson Lobster House and Fish Market, PJ Horsefeathers, and more.
Join us r We guarantee that your time in Port Jefferson will be a most agreeable experience that will leave you with many warm memories.
Remember, space is limited so call John for reservations at (203) 334-3822.

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Facilitator Training Workshop
On Saturday, Sept. 12th , from 9am-1 pm, TCC will be hosting a free interactive leadership training program for those volunteers
who have or will be interested in facilitating support groups for the Triangle and New Haven Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual
Community Centers. Ms. Patty Schein will teach tools for running successful support groups and for increased leader
confidence. The forum will provide an opportunity to improve your skills and/ or to learn new ones; to share your successes
with others, so they may benefit - -- - - - - - -- - - - - - -- - from your learning; and to gain greater
appreciationforyourstyleand those
of others. Through this training, participants will learn how to provide
facilitatorconsistencythroughoutournetwork of support groups. They will
learn how to structure groups; create and
maintain safety within; set appropriate boundaries; handle difficult participants; and manage group emotions. Participants will also learn the differences between therapy and support; the role of the support group leader;
they ways to handle usual and unusual problems that can arise in a group;
howtoenergizeandcalmthegroup;
and create group cohesion. The acquisition of all of these much-needed
skills will be graciously taught, free of
LMFT.
charge, by Patty Schein, M.Ed. La.....~E:
Ms. Schein is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice in Milford, Connecticut. She has been practicing
holistic psychotherapy with individuals, groups, couples and families since 1973. M~. Schein is also an Approved Supervisor
and clinical member of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy, is certified in GestaltTherapy, EMDR, Reiki
Healing, and as an Experiential Therapist. She has trained other mental health professionals both in the United States and Great
Britain; as well as business managers in some of Connecticut's top corporations. In addition, Ms. Schein has led hundreds of
therapy support groups and workshops. She has facilitated the Alzheimer's Association Family Support Group in Milford for
the past five years and the Ingraham Manor Nursing Home Family Suppport Group in Bristol.
Call or e-mail Denny at: (203) 367-3911 or dab86@juno.com for more details .

............AND in OCTOBER, Patty will be leading a UNIQUE and fabulous introductory "YogaRythmics-Kripalu
Dancekinetics" class. This spirit dance experience will be offered free of charge to the community at large. If you want to stretch
your whole self - open up more to yourself and others in body, mind, and spirit, then join us for this fantastic opportunity to
move and grow from the inside out. No talent or skill of any kind is necessary- only the desire to feel good, have fun and
move!! Space may be limited - so registration is required. Don't hesitate - pick up the phone right now and call: Denny 203367-3911 or e-mail: dab86@juno.com.

" Pageant" Produces Prolific Profits
When the "Pageant" played for five nights last January, everyone agreed that the show was a
theatrical knockout! The hit off-Broadway musical beauty contest was artfully directed by Scott
M. Robbins and played to packed houses at the Performing Arts Center in Norwalk. The
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financial success of the show came in the form of a check to TCC for a little more than $21,000!
~ After production costs were subtracted, the profit turned out to be a whopping $13,800!
$4,600
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The money will be evenly divided and distributed to TCC, TCC' s Scholarship Fund and Bread
& Roses. What an achievement! And the gayvine has it, that work has already begun on next
year's theatrical extravaganza. Way to go!

Lesbian Lit Group

* *Hey! Where's the TCC Annual Picnic?**
It's coming on September 20th . Details in the next
issue of News & Views.

August 1998

For their September discussion, the Lesbian Literature
Group has chose the "Penguin Book of Lesbian Short
Stories" edited by Margaret Reynolds. This anthology is
available in paperback at local bookstores and Bloodroot
(203) 576-9168. For more information call Christine at
(203) 847-8476. The Lesbian Literature Group meets the
first Tuesday of each month at TCC starting at 7:30 PM.
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Splinters

The Center's lease expires in 1999. Do you know if we'll
bemoving?TheCenter has a substantial treasury. Do you
know how it will be utilized? TCC has a scholarship fund.
Do you know how it operates? Several activities are
planned for the rest of the year. Do you know how many
people volunteered to help? For the answer to these and
other important questions come to the Triangle Community Center's Annual Town Meeting on October 4th from
3 - 5 PM. More details in the next issue.

As of July 7'", the Triangle women's team has a record of
3 wins and 3 losses .

Jnredible-ewbEraiu,ocit~...liberat~..re.:IH::irlmin~joyous....awesome.
Those are the words that describe my impression of the 1998
Gay Pride Parade in New York City as over 600,000 marchers
and viewers joined in a festive celebration of affirmation,
diversity and recognition. To see the gay community in all our
diversity, from drag queens and pulsating "boy toy" dancers to
a large contingent of New York's finest and state judges and
legislators, with lots of senior citizens, religious groups, ethnic
organizations, community groups, rodeo riders, classic car
collectors, and health advocates in between. The TCC delegation marched for hours down Fifth A venue and through the
incredibly packed streets of Chelsea and Greenwich Village,
where the crowds incessantly cheered every contingent in the
parade. It was FUN day, a positive outpouring of our community, standing strong, standing together, standing proud. Every
group needs their "great day" .. .. for the Irish it's St. Patrick's
Day; for Italians it's Columbus Day; for black Americans it's
Martin Luther King Jr. Day and for our community it's Pride
Day. What an experience!
-John DelVecchio

.. ..and Celebration

Help Wanted

The Triangle Women's Softball team and Sportis (the other
lesbian softball team in Norwalk) would like to ivite all of
their players and supporters to their end-of-the-season
celebration. on August 28 th at 6:30 PM at Shady Beach in
Norwalk. Food and beverages will be supplied. For more
information call Chris at (203) 847-8476.

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR for the LOFT, Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center. Seeking Administrator for Center's
daily operations in White Plains, NY. Must have strong organizational, program, and fiscal management skills plus energy
and vision to strengthen diverse LGBT Community. Need
excellent written/verbal skills; PR, Volunteer Management,
and successful fundraising experience; computer literacy including database management. Strong leadership ability and
knowledge of LGBT issues essential. Salary: $37,500-$40,000
Plus benefits. Master's Degree; Minimum 5 years high level
administrative experience; valid driver's license and reliable
car. Send Maximum 2 page resume to: R.W. Hesse Jr., Chair
LOFT Executive Dir. Srch. Ctte., c/ oMemoryLn.,200Hamilton
Ave., White Plains, NY 10601. No phone Calls.

Softball Benefit ....
In front of an enthusiastic crowd of Bloodroot
and Triangle supporters, the First Annual t>-~>~1);;)\,,.
Women's Softball Game raised $180.00 to
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Bread & Roses. Bo.t h teams played val- ·,,i,t';•,,)
iantly to a final score of Triangle 18 and
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Bloodroot 7. See you next year!

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ATTENTION:
Subscriptions News & Views only is now available to all
TCC non-members for $15 a year. To purchase a subscription (12 issues) write:
News & Views Subscription
Triangle Community Center
PO Box 4062
East Norwalk, CT 06855
or call: (203) 853-0600 and leave a message.
Please make checks payable to: Triangle Community
Center.

Conn Represented at Gay Games
Gay Games Vis slated for August 1st through 8th of this year.
For the first time it will be held outside of the Americas, with
Amsterdam as host city. Twelve athletes will be officially
representing the state of Connecticut, not counting
Ridgefield's Harvey Fierstein who is part of the extensive
cultural festivities going on at the same time. Several members of the Triangle Community Center will be among the
3,000 volunteers and the estimated 150,000 visitors. Those
who had a memorable time four years ago will know that a
great time will be had by all this time around.
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Connecticut News
Westport Bids Good-bye to the Brook Cafe
The Brook h as closed. The last night for this 50-year-old Westport landmark was July 25 th • Citing rising expenses in Westport, the owners
of The Brook Cafe have opened a new club in Norwalk called TownHouse Cafe & Dance Clu b. The Cafe is located at 7 Wall St., Norwalk.
It is opened from 3 pm-1 am, Sunday-Thursday and 3 pm-2 am, Friday and Saturday.
Here's a rundown of other bars in the area:
The Art Bar - 84 West Park Pl., Stamford - (203) 973-0300.
There is a $4 cover and is gay on Sunday nights only from 8pm-1am. The Art Bar, has a large front bar
with pool table; two side bars which provide small seating areas; and a center bar with a dance floor area.
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ught In The Act - 1246 Main St., Bridgeport - (203) 333-9505
Open every day. Weekdays: Noon-lam; Weekends: Noon-2am. Small and cozy bar for men and women. DJ
every night; male strippers on Saturday night. You can even get a bite to eat off their small bar menu
Sandy's Old Homestead - 325 N. Main Street, Port Chester, NY - (914) 939-0758
Open 8am-4am, Monday-Saturday; Noon-4am, Sunday. Sandy's is a neighborhood bar with a jukebox, pool
table, pinball, video games, darts, and bowling. Most of the regulars during the week are straight, but the whole
place is very gay friendly. The End of the Month Party on the last Saturday of every month has a $5 cover and no
men allowed. The jukebox is unplugged and a DJ spins popular dance music. The kitchen is always open and
there's a full menu.

Triangles - 66 Sugar Hollow Road (Route 7), Danbury - (203) 798-6996. It is opened 7 nights a week. It is
mostly men, but there are more women there than most bars in the area. There are drink specials every night,
with male dancers on Monday, Thursday and Friday. On Friday and Saturday it's a packed house dance party.
They also have two pool tables and video games in a separate room with a video jukebox and bar.

Gay Rights Groups Fault Row land, Again

are sincerely held morally based views.

For the four th year in a row, Gov. John G. Rowland rejected a proclamation seeking to designate June as Gay Pride Month, explaining that he
could not sign a statement that would be inappropriate to read to
second-graders. But schoolchildren visiting the state Capitol got an
earful Monday, as gay rights advocates rallied there in protest of the
governor's decision. About 50 supporters of the proclamation gathered
to hear fiery speech es predicting that Rowland would suffer for his
position in the November election and challenging him to reverse his
stance before the gay PrideFest in Hartforp.

Yet the suspicions and concerns of the gay community are
understandable when one considers the Senate's treatment of
James Hormel's nomination as Ambassador to Luxembourg,
w hich is now being blocked by multiple holds by Members of
this Chamber. If we truly believe in the claim of equality and
the universal principle of fairness of the Declaration of Independence, and if we want to talk more broadly about values
with true credibility in this Chamber, I think we owe Mr.
Hormel a chance to be evaluated by the same standards we
have applied to other nominees. We owe him a chance to be
judged by his career and competence, not by his sexual orientation. We owe him a vote on this floor.

Rowland spokeswoman Nuala Forde said the governor "basically feels
that sexual orientation is not an appropriate topic for an official state
proclamation." Because Rowland has repeatedly rejected the proposed
statement, Forde said," it should come as no surprise" that he refused to
sign it a gain. Speakers at the rally said they were outraged by Row land's
persistent refusal to sign the proclamation, contending that he needs to
"wake up" to a new political reality in which gay, lesbian, bisexual and
transgendered people are part of the mainstream. Jessica Stevens,
director of the state chapter of the National Organization for Women,
said Row land's decision was" an ac t of political violence and will not be
forgotten

Moral Ground by Senator Lieberman (D-CT)
...The conflict over homosexuality's p lace, the place of homosexuals in
our society, I think, offers a contemporary example of this tension that
is very real in our lives and in our discussions and debates. Let's start
with the reality that many Americans continue to believe that homosexuality is immoral and not just because the Bible tells them so. In fact,
Professor Wolfe's research showed that this is one of the few areas where
Americans of all religious inclinations feel so strongly that they are
willing to risk the tag of intolerance to express or hold to their points of
view , although most of the people he interviewed tempered their
disapproval by making clear that they did not support discrimination
against gay men and lesbians. It is unfair, when you think about
Professor Wolfe's research, then, for anyone to automatically conclude
that people who express moral reservations or even disdain about
homosexuality are bigots, or to publicly attack them as hateful. These

August 1998

Shays Blasts Gay Bashing
Rep Christopher Shays, R-4 [Stamford/Norwalk/Bridgeport]
last week blasted Republican leaders for gay bashing to gain
political points with the far right. "Itis disgraceful and wrong,"
Shays said. Several GOP leaders have publicly denounced
homosexuality as sinful and are considering legislation to
overturn an executive order issued by President Clinton last
month to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation in
federal workplaces.
On June 15, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott said homosexuality is a sin and likened it to alcoholism or kleptomania. He
was defended the next day by House Majority Leader Disk
Armey and Assistant Senate Majority Leader Don Nickles who
said Lott was "biblically correct" in his description of gays.
Shays said that the leaders were using the bible as a convenience to pick on a minority group, while ignoring " sins" of the
majority such as divorce or observing the Sabbath.
"They should stop trying to inject themselves into our personal
lives," Shays said. Joseph Grabarz, executive director of the
Connecticut Civil Liberties Union, applauded Shay's rebellion
against his party leaders. "I'm relieved that someone in Congress is finally speaking out against this kind of hate speech,"
said Grabarz, who is gay.

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Connecticut
Richard Goldberg and Ian Grande are pioneers. Eight
years ago, the openly gay couple bought a house in a
quiet corner of the Farmington Valley and settled down
among the subdivisions and soccer moms. Goldberg and
Grande live on their own terms in a place that has
traditionally cultivated conformity. Indeed, generations
of homosexuals once viewed the neatly trimmed hedges
that define the suburban landscape as hurdles on the way
to the freedom, camaraderie and anonymity of big city
life. But that's begi1ming to change. Although official
statistics aren't available, real estate agents and activists
report that more gay men and lesbians are putting down
roots in suburbia. The migration is occurring across the
nation and has accelerated in the past five years, says
Jeffrey Vi tale, chief executive officer of Overlooked Opinions, a Chicago-based market research firm that tracks
the gay population.
In Connecticut, some obs.e rvers say the hub of gay life is
starting to gravitate away from Hartford and New Haven. They point to the swelling number of businesses
catering to homosexuals that have recently sprouted in
suburbia. The list includes a popular coffeeshop in the
Collinsville section of Canton named for writer Gertrude
Stein and her lesbian lover, a new gay- pride store on
Manchester's Main Street and a bar called the Purple
Monkey in Willimantic. One of the state's hippest gay
nightclubs is in East Windsor. One of the region's largest
gay professional groups holds its monthly meetings in
Farmington.
The migration has ignited tensions in some communities, where heterosexuals have been unfriendly, even
hostile, to the newcomers. But in other places, gay men
and lesbians have been welcome, assimilating easily in
their new neighborhoods. Claire Connelly says her sexual
orientation" doesn't seem to be a problem" for her Coventry neighbors. Connelly, who is 62, lives in a complex
for the elderly and disabled. Some of her neighbors make
a point of clipping out articles about gay issues and
handing them to her.
To be sure, homosexuals have always been at home in the
suburbs, though in the past, most kept quiet about their
sexual orientation, leaving the activism to their more
politicized urban counterparts. But as their ranks grow,
gay suburbanites are becoming increasingly visible, demanding the same rights as their heterosexual neighbors. That new assertiveness was evident in West Hartford recently, when dozens of gay men and lesbians-and
many heterosexuals as well - asked the town council to
restructure its recreational fees. Many in the crowd believe a policy prohibiting non-married couples from
qualifying for a family discount at the municipal pool is
discriminatory. After a boisterous debate, the council
voted to deny gay couples the family rate. To many
suburban gays, there was more at stake than a discounted swimming pass. The message was clear: You' re
welcome here as long as you don't stir up trouble. Now
some gay residents of West Hartford are discussing ways
to harness their power, including perhaps fielding an
openly gay candidate for political office.

August 1998

Gay Day at Bristol's Lake Compounce
Hundreds of gay and lesbian Nutrneggers came out on June 25, for the first
organized 'Gay Day' celebration at Lake Compounce in Bristol. The event, put
on by the New Haven Gay and Lesbian Community Center, passed without
much fanfare at the nation's oldest park. John Allen, co-president of the New
Haven center, said about 250 tickets sold. 'Gay Day' organizers said they liked
their day at Lake Compounce so much that the group will have another day at
the park next year. Allen said there is a need for events like the one at Lake
Compounce where people can feel comfortable. Park officials were especially
helpful, he said, working with the group to make the day a success.

Hartford's Mantilla's Re-Election
Evelyn Mantilla studied the letter on her kitchen table one day this week. Then
she forced an uneasy smile and put it aside. It read: "Don't send me any more
[campaign] literature. I do not support the party of homosexuals and neither do
my friends." That can happen when you're one of only two openly gay state
legislators and when you declare your bisexuality at a gay PrideFest, asking
your female partner in the crowd to marry you, daring the spotlight to find you.
That was a year ago. A Democrat, she appears headed for re-election in the
unlikeliest place, Hartford's 4th House District, where Edwin Garcia, a former
Hartford police sergeant, once ruled as state representative with all his toughguy talk and ward-style politics. Mantilla said the hate letter, sent tl1is week by
a former supporter, was her first. Mantilla, 35, proposed to her partner in public
because, she said, if straight people could do so, why couldn't she. If that makes
her some kind of gay celebrity or target, she said, that's fine, but that's not her
cause. 'Tm a legislator - who happens to be gay," she said. 'Tm committed to
all civil rights issues, including gay."

New Britain Agency Dismisses Complaint
The state's human rights agency has dismissed a complaint by a New Britain
teacher who claim she was targeted for discrimination because she is a lesbian.
The Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities recently notified Lynne
Kowalczyk, a physical education teacher, of its decision. Kowalczyk, who was
transferred from her position at Di Loreto Magnet School in late 1997 after an ongoing dispute involving two other teachers, was told there was not sufficient
evidence to prove she was transferred and suspended because of her sexual
orientation. The complaint, filed against the school district three months ago, is
similar to that filed by Kowalczyk's partner and colleague Beth Kavy, who is a
special education teacher.

200 Celebrate on New Haven Green
The historic Green witnessed another first, as more than 200 people gatl1ered to
celebrate gay and lesbian rights. It was the first such rally ever on the Green,
organizers said, and the first gay-themed event of any kind there in more than
340 years. In 1655, Col. John Knight was hanged on the Green for a same-sex
crime."
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How times have changed. Rainbow flags, symbolizing gay rights, flew from the
monument opposite the main stage. Organizers said it was the perfect way to
set the tone for the state's annual Connecticut PRIDE rally, which continues
today with a parade and rally in Hartford.
The rally began with music by Alison Farrel and Cyd Slotoroff, and included
several speeches by politicians. Mayor John DeStefano Jr. was not able to attend
as previously announced, but secretary of state candidates Ellen Scalletar and
Americo Santiago were on hand. Several local people told stories of "coming
out of the closet" in the past year. One of them, Ansonia High School teacher
Patricia Nicolari, said she's been overwhelmed by the supports he's gotten from
colleagues and students. Tj Feldman, who heads the statewide C01mecticut
PRIDE committee said expanding the event beyond Hartford is crucial to its
future effectiveness. "If this is successful, maybe Fairfield County and New
London County will get involved next year."

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CA - Thousands Turn Out For Pride in LA
Officials said more than 350,000 people attended two days of festivities in West Hollywood that featured domestic partnership commihnent
ceremonies as well as a 300-person lesbian march led by a contingency of women on motorcycles. A variety of organizations were
represented at the parade, including churches, AIDS organizations and gay advocacy groups. Political dignitaries could be spotted
throughout the Los Angeles parade, including Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan, Los Angeles City Councilman Mike Hernandez and
L.A. County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky. Police Chief Bernard C. Parks, rode behind the Golden State Peace Officers Association, a gayadvocacy organization composed of police officers and firefighters.

CA - Shake, Whistle and Shiver in SF
Unusually cool weather made for goosebumps beneath the fishnet and chains as more than 200,000 people
turned out to watch the 28th annual gay pride parade thump and toot its irrepressible way up Market Street.
There were gays on motorcycles and tandem bikes. There were gay clarinetists, gay wrestlers, gay parents with
children, gay volleyball players, gay politicians and gay golden retrievers. There were feathers, leather, tutus,
codpieces, lingerie and all the other usual stuff. The theme of this year's parade was "Shakin' It Up" and, while
no one seemed to know what the" it" referred to, a lot of people shook - which can happen if you stand on
Market Street on a cold day in rainbow-colored underwear

CO - 1 Biggest Ever' Gay Parade

OR - Gay Pride Parade Attracts 20,000

An estimated 60,000 to 65,000 attended the 1998
PrideFest Parade, Rally and Festival in Denver. The
event is one of the largest celebrations by the gay and
lesbian community in the country. "This is our biggest
year ever," said Mike Smith, executive director of the
Gay, Lesbian, Bi-Sexual Community Services Center.
"We have 220 vendors and exhibits and had to turn
people away. The parade had more than 100 contingents, and they come from five or six different states.
It is the largest PrideFest in the region and certainly
among the top 10 in the nation." Event manager Carol
Hiller said PrideFest 1998 is officially the eighth annual such celebration in Denver but unofficially it has
been held since the late 1970s.

Portland's gay and lesbian communities and their allies found cause for celebration as an estimated 20,000 people turned out for the city's 23rd annual Gay Pride
Parade and Festival. Crowds filling the sidewalks cheered as contingents from
Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, the Portland Police Bureau
and Portland General Electric Co. marched by. All told, about 110 groups.

MA - 50,000 attend Gay Pride
Wearing brightly colored T-shirts and waving rainbow flags, nearly 50,000 people lined the downtown
streets to watch leather-clad bikers, costumed dancers
on floats, marching men on stilts, moms with babies in
strollers, bankers, ministers, drag queens, and members of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender
community stru tin the Gay Pride Parade. Police blocked
off streets for four hours as participants marched. The
parade had been scheduled for last month but was
postponed when record-breaking rain hit Boston.

ME - Gay Couples Receive Blessing on
Pride Day
More than a dozen lesbian and gay couples, had their
unions blessed in the sight of God and the disapproving eye of the state of Maine during Portland's Gay
Pride Day. Blessings have been few recently for Maine's
gays and lesbians. The Legislature outlawed marriage
for homosexuals last year, and in February of this year,
voters in a referendum rejected the gay-rights law
approved by legislators and the governor in 1997. Yet
those losses did not drive gays and lesbians to turn
inward, avoid the public and abandon their goal of
acceptance. To the contrary: Gay-rights organizers say
the defeats have burned away complacency among
both gay and heterosexual supporters of gay rights.

August 1998

The mood was upbeat, with Realtors and drag queens flinging candy and other
treats at the crowd. Portland Police Chief Charles Moose marched with a group
of officers near the head of the parade, and Capt. Mike Garvey - an openly gay
officer who is suing Moose and the city for discrimination - marched with
Phoenix Rising, a gay and lesbian social service agency. Both received warm
applause. But the biggest cheers for a police officer were reserved for Lt. Robert
Ball, a reserve officer, who marched with his partner, Jay Clark, and mother,
Marilyn Ball, president of the Bend chapter of Parents, Families and Friends of
Lesbians and Gays. Roman Catholic, Protestant and Jewish congregations that
welcome gays and lesbians joined the march, along with union members,
schoolteachers, political groups and gay-oriented nightclubs.

World Pride
France - 50,000 Join Paris Pride Rally
About 50,000 people marched through Paris in an annual gay rights rally,
dancing atop floats and displaying banners supporting a bill that would give
gays and lesbians new legal recognition. Revelers draped in rainbow-colored
flags danced to techno music, showered passersby with confetti and released
hundreds of multicolored balloons as they made their way from the city's Latin
Quarter to the Place de la Nation in east Paris. But a chief organizer of the march,
the 17th in the French capital, lamented that the day's events had been
undermined by the World Cup. "We had to scrap loads of things because of the
World Cup: not just for security, but also because of a lack of sponsors," the leftwing daily Liberation quoted Charles Myara as saying. Last year, an estimated
300,000 took part in the rally.

Germany - 250,000 March in Berlin Parade
An estimated 250,000 homosexuals took part Saturday in Berlin's annual Gay
Pride parade, more than twice the number of last year, organizers said. ninety
floats were featured in the noisy and colorful demonstration through the streets
of the city before dispersing following a minute's silence in memory of AIDS
victims.

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T ~EWS & VIEWS
National News
Christian Ad Attack on Gays
A coalition of influential Christian groups has launched a national ad campaign attacking homosexuality, igniting a firestorm of protest
as the religious right gears up for the November election. Praising Senator Trent Lott, the Republican majority leader from Mississippi who
recently likened gays and lesbians to alcoholics and kleptomaniacs, the $200,000 ad blitz characterizes homosexuals as sinners in need of
Christian healing. The campaign, widely seen as an effort by the Christian right to provide indirect support for congressional candidates
who promote the movement's agenda, sparked outrage among gay-rights leaders and produced the unintended consequence of exposing
a rift in the Republican Party. Several GOP candidates facing tough elections in key races tried to distance themselves from the campaign.
"I don't see that it serves any useful purpose at all," said Peter Torkildsen, a Republican trying to regain the seat he narrowly lost in 1996.
"It incites fear in people, and it is not the traditional Republican role for the government to intervene in people's private lives."
The ad campaign was funded largely by the Christian Coalition, whose chairman, Pat Robertson, sought the GOP nomination for president
in 1988, and the Family Research Council, whose leader, Gary Bauer, is considered a prospective
Republican contender for the White House in 2000. In full-page ads that appeared in the New York
Times, the Washington Post and USA Today in the middle of July, the coalition promoted the
highly disputed theory that people become homosexual by choice. "Homosexuality is not a sex
issue, it's a heart issue," one ad stated. "There are problems for homosexuals even condoms
can't fix."
Robertson recently met with Lott and other key Republicans in the House and Senate to push for
the religious right's priorities as did James Dobson, who heads the Family Research Council's parent
group, Focus on Family. "Now you're seeing some fruits of the alliance," said Elizabeth Birch, executive director of the Human Rights
Campaign. "They are using these very manipulative ads to throw red meat to the firebrand, extreme-right, grass roots wing of the
Republican Party. It's nothing more than a crass political move in an election year."
Arne Owens, a Christian Coalition spokesman, denied the ad campaign is aimed at providing support for Lott and other congressional
leaders who have stepped up their criticism of homosexuality since Robertson and Dobson visited Capital Hill earlier this year. "This
message is not emanating from the GOP," he said. "It's a nonpartisan message based on the mainstream concern about the decline of
morality in America." Owens said the advertising campaign will continue, although he declined to provide details. He said the impetus
for the campaign was the push for broader gay rights. In the Washington Post the ad displayed a photograph of a large group of people
who say they no longer are gay or lesbian because of" God's healing love." "We' re standing here for the truth that homosexuals can change."
The ad thanks Lott and Reggie White among others," for having the courage to speak the truth about sexual sin."
Representative Barney Frank who is one of two openly gay members of Congress challenged the assertion that people choose their sexual
orientation. He also stated that, "Homophobia is losing the cultural war so they are doing this to try to pump up their side in the political
arena."

HIV Strains That Resist AIDS Drugs

Task Force Receives Grant

Researchers have for the first time identified two people who recently became
infected with strains of HIV that are resistant to most of the drugs available to treat
the AIDS virus. The strains, described at the 12th World AIDS Conference, pose no
immediate threat to public health, experts said. There's no evidence they either
spread more easily or cause a more virulent form of infection than ordinary types
of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Nevertheless, the reports demonstrate
that HIV can mutate to become resistant to many of the powerful new AIDS drugs,
and these strains can be passed from person to person. Both cases, one from San
Francisco and the other from Switzerland, occurred in gay men having unprotected
sex.

The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF)
was recently awarded the Kellogg Foundation's first
ever grant to a gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender
(GLBT) organization. The grant is for $44,500 and
will help fund the Task Force's Youth Leadership
Institute. "We are honored to have our work recognized and supported by the Kellogg Foundation,"
said Kerry Lobel, NGLTF ex_ecutive director.

Many AIDS activists, public health officials and doctors have warned that triple
therapy's miraculous cures might make some people think HIV is merely a
treatable, chronic infection. In fact, Gordon Mansergh of the CDC reported that in
a survey of HIV-negative gay men in three American cities, nearly two-thirds said
they'd had unprotected anal intercourse at least once in the preceeding year and a
half. AIDS researchers had expected that a strain of HIV that is resistant to multiple
anti-HIV drugs eventually would be found. The new treatments can require
patients to take a dozen pills a day on a strict, complicated schedule. If the AIDS
virus is only intermittently exposed to a killing drug, or exposed to a sublethal dose,
the virus will continue to reproduce. Eventually, the virus will mutate in a way

NGLTFls annual Youth Leadership Institute is in its
fourth year and offers a week of intensive leadership
development, grassroots organizing training, and
skills-building workshops to 25 youth selected from
around the country. This year's training will be held
outside of Washington, D.C. on August 5 - 9. When
graduates of the training return home, they will get
follow-up support and assistance from NGLTF's
field department and be paired with an organiza hon
in their community to work on Equality Begins at
Home. Coordinated actions in state capitals across
the country are planned for March 1999.

that makes it resistant. Because HIV reproduces so quickly, this can happen in
months. In both of the new cases, a mulhdrug-resistant strain of virus was
transmitted from someone who had been extensively treated with antiviral medications to someone who was uninfected. Although resistant viruses have been
isolated before from patients during treatment, this is the first evidence they are also
being passed person-to-person.

August 1998

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A New Way of Being

A gay member of Congress says recent anti-gay comments by House Republican leader Dick Armey and Senate Republican leader Trent Lott were an
attempt to appeal to the right-wing of the GOP. Speaking to the congregation
of the Cathedral of Hope - the nation's largest gay and lesbian church Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Barney Frank said the comments were an
appeal to what he called" the right-wing minority."

The rainbow flag has existed since 1978. That year the San Francisco Gay
Freedom Day Parade's organizing committee was searching for a symbol of
celebration and artist Gilbert Baker proposed his design of a rainbow flag.
Originally the flag had eight horizontal stripes: hot pink stood for sexuality,
red for life, orange for healing, yellow for sun, green for serenity with nature,
turquoise for art, indigo for harmony, and violet for spirit. Two of the eight
colors were later dropped for the sake of mass production and cost-effectiveness. With pink and turquoise gone and royal blue replacing indigo, the flag
became the six-color version we know today.

A bold group of academics, writers and theorists are striding onto fresh intellectual turf with the first major American symposium on "Post Gay," jointly sponsored by Out
magazine and the New School for Social Research in Manhattan. Post-gay is a fledgling somewhat murky idea that
describes a homosexual identity in which sexual behavior
no longer defines one's life. It's not bisexuality. It's not
retreating to the closet. It is a way of saying, "We've come
a long way, so calm down." In a post-gay world, homosexuals have won their battle for acceptance and are now
free to move beyond identity politics. Anne Heche is postgay,
for example. Ellen isn't. "Post-gay isn't ungay," explains
James Collard, Out's editor in chief. "It's about taking a
critical look at gay life and no longer thinking solely in
terms of struggle. It's going to a gay bar and wishing there
were girls there to talk to." The symposium's panel of
theorists hope to bang together a strong framework or a
movement that, at present, lacks critical mass. It doesn't
lack for criticism: politicized homosexuals consider it treasonous. "It's hard to imagine anything profound happening under the label 'post-gay'," says Amy Agigian, a
Brandeis University sociologist who thinks post-gay is
interesting butiffy. "I suspect anyone who suggests we are
past the era where lesbians and gays no longer need to
struggle for basic rights. I would rather see us entering a
different era, she says. "Heterosexuals have all the power.
They got over themselves and became post-straight."

Rep. Frank and Companion Breaking Up

Viagra and Poppers

Frank clashed with Armey three years ago when the Texas Republican
referred to him as "Barney Fag." Armey apologized for the comment, saying
he had inadvertently mispronounced Frank's name. Frank told about 1,000
worshipers" that was a victory against bigotry, not that he said he was sorry
he said it, but that he felt compelled to apologize and explain. Twenty years
ago, no one would have expected an apology." The latest controversy came
after Lott told a television interviewer that homosexuality is an addiction like
alcoholism or kleptomania. A day later, Armey quoted Bible verses that he
said showed homosexuality is a sin. Lott and Armey were invited to attend
the service but they declined. Frank had been invited before the latest dispute.

Rain bow Flag

Representative Barney Frank, a Massachusetts Democrat who is a homosexual and an active supporter of gay rights, has ended his relationship with
Herb Moses, his longtime companion. Frank, who has been candid about his
personal life and often referred to Moses as his "spouse," confirmed reports
of the breakup in an interview in July. "We'll be separating .... We'll be selling
our house in the near future," Frank said. The separation is amicable, Frank
said.
Frank disclosed his homosexuality in 1987, saying, "I have nothing to hide,
nothing to advertise." He and Moses often appeared together at congressional functions and White House social events. They told journalists that
they thought of themselves as married. A lawyer who was elected to the
Massachusetts Legislature in 1973 and to Congress in 1980, Frank has worked
hard to dispel stereotypes about gays. He spoke in public about his 10 1/2year relationship with Moses, and defied criticism from Senator Jesse Helms
of North Carolina and other conservative foes.

Oral HIV Test Available in NV
The nation's first oral HIV test approved by Federal Drug Administration will
be available at all three Planned Parenthood of New York City health-care
centers. PPNYC said there has been a 50 percent increase in the number of
people who took the noninvasive test in a pilot program. The use of the
OraSure method also meant health-care workers wouldn't run the risk of
exposing themselves to an infected needle. PPNYC described OraSure as a
safe, simple and painless method that is done orally and does not involve
blood or needles. The test uses a small cotton fiber pad attached to a thin,
straw-like plastic stick that is placed in the mouth between the cheek and the
lower gum and held in place for two minutes. The specially treated pad draws
out a substance, which contains a rich supply of HIV antibodies in infected
individuals.
PPNYC President Alexander Sanger said OraSure has been enormously
popular with hard-to-reach people who often do not receive any health care.
Sanger added: "Since we've been able to offer patients the option of a faster,
easier HIV test, the numbers of individuals willing to be tested has skyrocketed." He says the OraSure test was 99.9 percent accurate.
AUl!USI

/998

Gay men are being warned not to mix the anti-impotency
drug Viagra with amyl nitrates, which are commonly known
as "poppers." Several people have died after using the
drugs along with crystal methamphetamine (speed). Many
gay men are apparently taking Viagra as a recreational
drug, which can be deadly if mixed with crystal meth and
poppers. Pfizer, which makes Viagra, has warned that the
combination of nitrates and Viagra can lead to "large and
sudden drops in systemic blood pressure," and amyl nitrates combined with Viagra are expected to have the same
effect.

Trivia Question
Answer to July - Francis Bacon - the philosopher is Sir Francis
Bacon.
Question for August - Two northeastern lesbian activists have
(more or less) the same name. One is a Hartford area bisexual
who was the first out gay person on the Hartford city council.
The other, known by a diminutive, is a long-time stalwart of the
Boston lesbian community. Most recently she has organized
Creating Change for the National Lesbian and Gay Task Force.

The Gay Gourmet
lnsalata Di A rancio - (O range Salad)
- 3 large oranges peeled
- course ground pepper
- virgin olive oil
- 10 - 15 calamata olives
Slice oranges into 1/ 4" pieces. Arrange slices on a plate
(preferably with a fruit motif). Drizzle each slice with olive
oil and season with a pinch of pepper. Place the olives in
the spaces between the slices. Chill a few minutes in the
refrigerator and serve as a refreshing summer appetizer.
Serves four.
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State by State News

AL - Lesbian Loses Child

NJ - Gay Union

The Alabama Supreme Court, overturning an appeals panel, has removed a child from
the custody of her homosexual mother, ruling that the woman exposed her daughter to
a lifestyle that is illegal in Alabama. The 7-0 decision authored by Justice Champ Lyons
found that the child's best interests would be better served in a home with her father and
his new wife. The Alabama Court of Civil Appeals had reversed Ferguson's order,
holding that the father didn't prove the mother's conduct was having a "substantial
detrimental effect" on the child. But the high court said there was no need to prove there
was a substantial detrimental effect, only that the child's interests were better served in
the father's home. A 1975 Alabama statute proclaims all homosexual conduct to be
criminal. Earlier this year, the state enacted a law that banned same-sex marriages.

In Fairlong, New Jersey an Episcopal church ceremony
symbolically set on Father's Day, two gay men whose
lawsuit paved the way for other unmarried couples in the
state to adopt children jointly were united today in a
"holy union" as friends, relatives and television cameras
looked on. While it lacked the legal status of a marriage
ceremony, the event nevertheless marked another passage for the two men, Jon Holden-Galluccio, 3-!, and
Michael Galluccio, 36, of Maywood.

The decision cited testimony from several psychologists, who had differing opinions on
where the child should live, but all agreed the girl had a good home relationship with
her mother and her partner. The Christian Family Association, an Alabama group that
has promoted fundamentalist Christian positions, said that was no substitute for a
traditional family environment.

DC - Oberlin Hires Gay Athletics Director
Oberlin Coilege has announced that it had hired a gay man as its athletics director.
Michael Muska, a former track-and-field coach at Auburn and Northwestern Universities, is believed to be the first openly gay athletics director in college sports. Oberlin,
which prides itself on the diversity and tolerance of its student body, has a substantial
gay population. Alan Moran, Oberlin's vice-president for college relations, said Mr.
Muska had been hired because he had experience coaching and recruiting athletes who
met Oberlin's high admissions standards. Oberlin is a member of Division III of the
National Coilegiate Athletic Association, and competes in the North Coast Athletic
Conference.

FL - Directory Serves Gay Businesses
Yvonne Rohrbacher, a Fort Lauderdale businesswoman started the Out Pages, a free
directory of gay-owned and gay-friendly businesses. She publishes the little yellow
book twice a year for Central and South Florida. Each directo1y has business listings,
community photographs and organizations. The Out Pages began in 1988 in South
Florida with 120 advertisers and expanded to Central Florida, including the Tampa Bay
area and Orlando, three years ago. Now it boasts more than 700 advertisers statewide.
Rohrbacher prints 55,000books eve1y six months, with 10,000 to 12,000 available at local
bookstores, video shops and other businesses in the Bay area. She attributes the
directo1y' s success to small businesses that cater to a segment of the population. They
tend to advertise in products that do the same, she said. The Central Florida directory
has 100 pages of business listings, from Borders Books and Music in Tampa to Wiley
Auto Se1vice in St. Petersburg.

NC - Woman Sues Her Female Boss
A Winston-Salem woman has filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against her female
boss and the Greensboro insurance company where they both worked, marking one of
the first court cases involving same-sex harassment in North Carolina. Millicent Joanne
Allen filed the lawsuit against her former boss, Claudine Bynum, and Key Risk
Management, a workers compensation insurance company on Centreport Drive where
Allen worked as a claims adjustor. Also named as a defendant is the parent company,
W.R. Berkley Corp., which is based in Connecticut.
In most ways, Allen's lawsuit is fairly typical of sexual harassment cases. Allen claims
that her boss touched her thigh, propositioned her for sex and retaliated against her
when she rebuffed the advances during a IO-mo.nth period ending last September. Allen
claims that Bynum said she could help Allen's career if she engaged in sexual activity
with her. When Allen reported the harassment and asked for a transfer, higher-ranking
bosses did not investigate and refused to transfer her, according to the lawsuit. Allen,
who is heterosexual and married, eventually took a medical leave from work because
she suffered from depression and anxiety because of the harassment, the lawsuit says.
Allen claims that she was fired soon after in retaliation for reporting the sexual
harassment. The lawsuit claims that several employees complained about Bynum's
harassing and demeaning treatment. At least seven employees were fired or forced to
quit after Bynum retaliated against them, the lawsuit says.

August 1998

In the course of their successful two-year effort to adopt
a child jointly, they have emerged from the anonymity in
which many gaycouplesfeelcompelled to live. Along the
way to adopting their son, Adam, who is now 3 years old,
they became accidental advocates with a monthly .newsletter sent to 500 subscribers, a World Wide Web page and
an agent who has booked speaking engagements around
the country. Nearly three years ago, the two men became
the foster parents of Adam. When they tried to adopt the
boy formally, New Jersey child welfare officials assented,
as long as .they did it separately in two distinct and costly
legal procedures. Under New Jersey law, same-sex couples
and unmarried heterosexual couples had no legal standing that would allow them to adopt jointly. The couple
challenged the law in court. Last October, Judge Sybil R.
Moses of Superior Court in Bergen County granted the
joint adoption, saying it was in the best interest of the
child. Two months later, all legal barriers to joint adoption by unmarried same-sex and heterosexual couples
were removed in a broader consent decree. New Jersey
became the first state to establish a policy treating gay and
unmarried couples the same way it treatsma □-ied couples
regarding adoptions.

NY - HIV Notification Bill Passes
Doctors must report the names of people who test positive for HIV to public health officials and health workers
would be required to notify sexual and drug use parh1ers
of possible exposure under legislation approved early
this morning. The Democratic-controlled state Assembly
passed the sweeping notification measure 112-34 after
some two hours of heated debate that pitted civil liberties
concerns against public health needs. The state Senate
had already passed the bill, which advocates say is among
the most far-reaching in the nation.
It requires that once municipal health deparhnents are
informed that a patient has tested positive for AIDS or
HIV, health care workers must attempt to have infected
patients identify former sex or drug-use partners. The
health workers would then notify those contacts about
the possibility of infection. Doctors can now tell parh1ers
of HIV-infected patients about the virus in some cases,
but some health workers say they fear lawsuits if they do.
Among the elements added to the notification bill in the
last hours was a provision to continue with anonymous
testing for HIV. Notification would only kick in when an
infected person went to receive treahnent. Also, domestic
violence protections were included for those who test
positive and fear violence when their parmer was notified.

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NV - Domestic Partner Law Passed
Unmarried couples including gays and lesbians in New York City will
be treated the same as those who are married under landmark legislation passed in June. The law, one of the broadest domestic partner
policies in the United States, which gay rights advocates described as
historic, addresses a host of emotional issues and details of everyday life
facing couples regardless of their sexual orientation. It allows bereavement leave for city employees, visitation rights in city-run facilities,
tenancy succession rights and permits partners to be buried together in
a city-owned cemetery. The estimated 8,700 registered domestic partners in New York City will also be required to meet the same civic
responsibilities as married couples. The law was approved overwhelmingly in a City Council vote Wednesday to cheers and applause in the
public galle1y. But before the vote, a group of Hasidic rabbis gathered
in protest outside City Hall, saying Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and city
officials would be cursed and wiped out because of their support for the
legislation.
Responsibilities include disclosure of background information about
domestic parh1ers when seeking certain licenses in some businesses and
the income of the chief wage earner in some city-subsidized housing.
Advocates called the bill "unique" because it would extend rights
beyond city employees. Other cities around the United States have
largely addressed domestic parh1erships in the context of municipal
employee benefits.

NV - Rabbis Cast Curse
A group of Hasidic rabbis have gathered at New York's City Hall to
invoke a biblical curse on any city official who votes for or promotes a
proposed gay marriage bill. The group of about two dozen men used
candles and a ram's horn known as a shofar to invoke the curse. They
also took some ti.me out to pray for the safety of New Yorkers. The
protesters, clad in the hasidic garb of long dark coats and black hats,
carried candles as they walked up the steps of City Hall. The ceremony
continued with the recitation of Psalms in Hebrew and the reading of the
Torah portion about Sodom and Gomorrah from the book of Genesis
and of prayers from the Rosh Hashanah, or Jewish New Year, liturgy.
The se1vice ended when six men each blew a shofar. Rabbi William
Handler of Jews for Morality said city officials, including Mayor Rudolph
Giuliani, who support the domestic partnership bill will be wiped out,
because they "have no desire to repent." He said the group asked "God
to direct His wrath against the guilty parties," and that" our job is to save
people." The form that the curse, which Handler said" definitely" will
materialize, will take has not been pinned down, but he said, "It's
possible that an atomic attack could be made by Russia or China."

NY - Yeshiva University Sued
In what it billed as a landmark case, the ACLU filed a suit Wednesday
against Yeshiva University, accusing it of discrimination for banning
gay people from living in campus housing with their partners. The suit,
filed in New York State Supreme Court, was brought on behalf of Sara
Levin and Maggie Jones, medical students at the Albert Einstein College
of Medicine in the Bronx, which is a division of Yeshiva. The complaint
charges the university with discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and marital status and seeks a reversal of Yeshiva's policy
banning gay graduate students from living with their partners in
campus housing. It also seeks unspecified damages for emotional
distress and extra housing and commuting costs. Levin and Jones were
both denied shared housing with their respective non-student female
parh1ers because they cannot many, the ACLU said.
In 1989 Einstein's student-faculty senate passed a resolution asking for
housing and other benefits for gay couples, but Yeshiva President
Norman Lamm rejected the change. He was quoted in media reports as
saying that "under no circumstances can Judaism permit homosexuality to become respectable."

August 1998

NV - Editorial: Making It Through The Night
It would be hard to find anyone in New York more marginalized in more
ways than Ali Forney. He was homeless, black, gay, 22, and a crack
addict who made money and found shelter through prostitution, often
wearing a dress, heels and a wig. In December he was shot in the head,
the third young transgender prostitute murdered in Harlem in 14
months. All the cases are unsolved. Those who did not know him might
miss the human being under all those labels. But at his memorial, held
at a Times Square church, 70 friends and relatives gathered to remember
a complex man. Six months before his death, he closed the annual talent
show at SafeSpace, a center for homeless youth, with a gospel song and
a prayer, preaching that "God loves everybody for who they are." He
was proudly H.I.V. negative, no mean feat for someone in his line of
work, and spent many nights working with social service organizations
in the gay bars and piers of the West Village and Times Square,
dispensing condoms and talking about safe sex and places young people
could get meals, showers, drug treatment, medical care and counseling.
Many people and institutions failed Ali Forney in his short life, not least
Forney himself. But among them was the city of New York. The city's
quality-of-life initiative and the development of Ti.mes Square have
inadvertently pushed homeless youths out of their traditional haunts.
They now populate a lonelier, and hence more dangerous, diaspora in
areas such as Harlem, and are much harder for the nightly patrols of
outreach workers to find and help.
No one knows how many homeless teen-agers and young adults there
are in New York City, but state and city studies a few years ago said
between 12,000 and 20,000. The vast majority of homeless youths are
from New York, and are black or Hispanic. Many ran away from foster
care. Forty percent are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender. This group
is disproportionately homeless because their families sometimes kick
them out, and they are often unwelcome and even assaulted in their
schools and foster homes.
Although shelter is their most basic need, they do not fit in any city
shelter program. They are scared of the giant, dangerous shelters that
house adults and need smaller group homes with help for people who
may be adults chronologically but not emotionally. But youth programs
will not house anyone over 18. The city has only about400 beds designed
for older youths, 80 percent of them in Covenant House.
New York has shown little interest in solutions. From 1995 to 1997, the
Deparhnent of Youth and Community Development failed to spend
nearly $1 million it had budgeted for housing for homeless youths,
which resulted in a loss of an additional $1.5 million in matching funds
from the state. The deparhnent says it will leave $450,000 unspent in
1998, because shelters are unpopular with neighborhoods. But the new
head of the Youth Committee, Kenneth Fisher, last month held the first
hearing on homeless teen-agers that anyone can remember. That has
prodded the city into beginning talks on a shelter and some of the
bureaucratic hurdles that keep youths on the street. It will require a
sustained commihnent from the city to a group of people invisible until
they get sick, arrested or murdered.

WI - A Sign of Tolerance
A billboard campaign condemning homosexuality backfired on those
organizing it by angering people of all sexual preferences, the head of a
social service agency for gays says. The billboards state: "Homosexuality is not a family value. Homosexuality is a sin." Ralph Ovadal, who
describes himself as director of the Monroe-based Wisconsin Christians
United, said three billboards were being erected in Madison and one
each in Monroe and Beloit. They are to be up for four weeks, he said. But
those billboards have gotten a lot of people in Madison angry. And that
anger has led to a real sense of frustration on the part of wellintentioned citizens who want to respond to what many see as evidence
of hatred and intolerance. How can the great majority of concerned and

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The "connecticuT View", a social and support group for
crossdressers, with over 50 members from Connecticut and other
local states, are planning to expand our membership by inviting
female to male crossdressers to join our group. We realize that
cross dressers in need of a support group are those males who dress
as females and want to be accepted by society. Females, who have
easily assimilated into the male roles, don't get looked at twice
because jeans, boots, floppy tops, short hairdos, and no makeup is
much more acceptable. Society doesn't really know whether the
person before them is a female who just likes male attire, or a
female who is trying to 'be' male. Society, doesn't care. But, we of
the connecticuT View wonder if there are issues the female to male
crossdressers have that might be similar to those of the male to
female crossdressers. Are they stared at? Do they have the 'bathroom problem', crossdressing males have? Are they called 'Sir'?
Do they like it?
The "connecticuT View" is the 'only' open crossdresser club in
Connecticut. There are other clubs, but one admits to screening
potential members, and also does not allow transvestite admirers
to join their group. Another admits to being strictly heterosexual,
and a third is aimed at helping mainly transsexuals. The connecticuT
View invites everyone to join our group, as long as there is some
connection to transvestitism, crossdressing, transsexualism or being a wife, significant other or lover of the tv / cd/ ts. We also want
children of transvestite parents, or parents of TVs to contact us ... for
support. We feel that female crossdressers joining with us, would
be a benefit. Dialogue between us might be very enlightening. And
as one TV who admires women, I would love having the female to
male side of issues aired to see if a better acceptance, union, and
understanding can start between our respective groups, and help
us work together toward having society understand and accept
everyone.

If there are any female to male crossdressers out there reading this,
and wish to discuss this further. .. please contact me, Denise Mason
at masond@aol.com. If anyone wishes a sample newsletter, please
contact "the connecticuT View", P.O. Box 2281, Devon CT. 06460

Sources
200 Celebrate on New Haven Green-New Haven Register, June 20, 1998
CA - Shake, Whistle and Shiver-San Francisco Chronicle, June 29, 1998
CA-Thousands Turn Out For Pride in LA Los Angeles-Daily News, June 29, 1998
Christian Attack on Homosexuality Splits the Party-Boston G lobe, July 15, 1998
CO - 'Biggest Ever' Gay Parade-Rocky Mountain News, June 29, 1998
DC-Oberlin Hires Gay Athletics Director-Chronicle of Higher Education, June 18, 1998
Editorial: Making It Through The Night -New York Times, July 12, 1998
FL - Directory Serves Gay Businesses-Tampa Tribune, June 22, 1998
Gdy Dat at Bristol's Lake Com pounce-New Britain Herald, June 27, 1998
Gay Rights Groups Fault Rowland, Again-Hartford Courant June 16, 1998
Hartford's Mantilla's Re-Election-Hartford Courant,June 20, 1998
HIV Strains That Resist AIDS Drugs-Washington Post, July I, 1998
In Search Of Acceptance in Connecticut-Hartford Courant, July 2, 1998
Italy-Vatican Condemns Lesbian Marriage-Nanda Times, July 11, 1998
MA -50,000 attend Gay Pride-Boston Globe, July 12, 1998
ME -Gay Couples Receive Blessing on Pride Day-Maine Sunday Telegram, June 21, 1998
Monogamy Has a Role in Gay Couple's Life-New Haven Register, June 23, 1998
NC- Woman Sues Her Female Boss-Greensboro News & Record, July 2, 1998
NJ -Gay Union-New York Times, June 22, 1998
NY - Domestic Partner Law Passed-Reuters, June 24, 1998
NY - HIV Notification Bill Passes-Newsday, June 19, 1998
OR -Gay Pride Parade Attracts 20,000 -The Oregonian, June 22, 1998
Rep. Frank and Companion Breaking Up-Boston Globe, July 1, 1998
Shays Blasts Gay Bashing-New Haven Register, Tues., July 7, 1998
WI -A Sign of Tolerance-Capital Times, July 3, 1998

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"Madison to be a city of tolerance." About 250 people gave aldermen a
standing ovation after the city council unanimously approved the
resolution at the urging of speakers who complained about gay-bashing.
The resolution says" gays and lesbians have been singled out by a recent
billboard campaign questioning the value of contributions made by
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caring people in Madison and Dane County respond? Some folks have
taken to wearing rainbow ribbons as a subtle expression of their support
for a diverse community. But for those who want to meet signs of
intolerance with signs of inclusiveness, Sandy Torkildson has come up
with a fine response. Torkildson decided to initiate a yard sign response
to Ovadal' s billboards. She arranged to have hundreds of blue and white
signs reading "Madison Supports Its Lesbian & Gay Community"
printed and began distributing them from the downtown business she
co-owns and manages. The store is charging $5 per sign to defray costs,
and Madisonians are grabbing them up - placing the signs in yards all
over town and creating a visual presence that Ovadal could never hope
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A.A. - Don 762-9964
Bi Rap Group - Peter 838-2806; Robin 855-8646
Free Association of Fairfield County - John 268-8858 x304
Gay Men's Rap Group - Dave 838-1881 ; John 389-7381
Gmosaic (People of Color) - Nasheed 854-7726
Lesbian Literature Reading Group - Christine, 847-8476
Out & About (20's & 30's) - Heather 924-2930; Ashley 576-1073
or Dan 838-2367
Outspoken (Youth) - Barb 259-8171; Dan 227-1755;
Doug 838-2367
P-FLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians & Gays)
Joan 544-8724; Lester 322-5380; Belinda 855-1203
P-FLAG Spouses & Ex Spouses Group - Joan 544-8724
Triangle Bowling League (Circle Lanes, Fairfield) - Lisa 333-3113;
Roseann 931-8789
Women's Rap Group - Chandra 226-8652; Linda 866-4598;
Michele 438-4465 •
All meetings are held at the Center and in the evening unless
otherwise noted. A $3 donation per person is appreciated with
your participation in activities to help support the Center.

Other Area Groups and Organizations
Bare & Gay (B&G) gay nudists
Bisexually Curious Support Group Bpt
Chiltern Mountain Club
Connecticut Kids and Families
Connecticut Freedom to Marry Coalition
40-Up Club.(Social Grp.-call Dale before 10pm)
Gay Fathers Group
Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Assoc.
Gay Mens Association of Danbury
GEMS (Mature GLBT)
Guideline (gay/lesbian phone info)
Hartford Community Center
Married Men's Bisexual Suppt Grp Htfd
Metropolitan Community Church
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The Loft, White Plains NY,
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Connecticut Calendar
Saturday, August 1 - 8 - Gay Games 1998, Amsterdam.
Friday, August 7 - Potluck and Movie Night at the New
Haven Gay and Lesbian Community
Center, 50 Fitch Street, New Haven. The
feature will be: "La Cage Aux Foiles."
Potluck at 6:30 PM, film at 7: 15 PM.
Suggested donation $3.00. For more info
e-mail: FGDMYO@aol.com.
Friday, August 21- Potluck and Movie Night atthe New
Haven Gay and Lesbian Community
Center, 50 Fitch Street, New Haven. The
feature will be: "The Detective." Potluck
at 6:30 PM, film at 7: 15 PM. Suggested
donation $3.00. For more info e-mail:
FGDMYO@aol.com.

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