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To Sodomites, We Say Hallelujah
To Sodomites, We Say Hallelujah
To Sodomites, We Say Hallelujah
To Sodomites, We Say Hallelujah
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Gay Community News
Gay Community News
1986-11
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To Sodomites, We Say Hallelujah
To Sodomites, We Say Hallelujah
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II 1111111 1111111111111111111111111111 IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII1 "CCN i~ the most comprehensive national source of news and analysis for the lesbian and gay community." - Barbara Smith �Le b1an Grandma Chine e Workers Victory p. 1 m Vol. 14, No. 19 - - - - - - - - (617) 426-4469 - - - - - - - - - © GCN, 1986 - - - - - - - - - - - November 23-29, 1986 Second Anti-Gay Attack at·Phone Company By Kim Westheimer BOSTON - A gay employee of the New England Telephone Company was assaulted by a co-worker in an incident apparently related to the phone company's handling of another gay man with AIDS. The incident occurred on November 14, inside the company building on Congress Street. According to a number of sources, the assault follows a series of psychological attacks recently sustained by the gay man, a repair technician who asked not to be named. Prior to the assault, other employee[s] put graffiti on phone company boxes in buildings the gay man often serviced, including a Boston University dormitory and a Northeastern . University dor- To Sodomites, We Say Hallelu·ab BOSTON- The United Fruit Co. (above) was the star attraction at a November 8 rally celebrating lesbian/gay sexuality and calling for the repeal of sodomy laws The United Fruits, a gay men's affinity group, played to 100 demonstrators at City Hall Plaza in the event organized by the Progressive Coalition of Lesbians and Gay Men for Civil Rights. A split in organizing strategy divided the original planning committee, leading to a walkout. Many of those who left the planning group were members of the local Gay and Lesbian Defense Committee (GLDC), a group organized to overturn the state's discriminatory foster care policy. The division left members of the All People's Congress as the primary organizers of the event. (See GCN, Vol. 14, No. 16) Speakers at the rally, which was followed by a march, included Sarah Holmes of the Defense Committee, Chris Snow of the All People's Congress and Boston Rainbow Coalition activist Mel King. Among the most memorable moments from your Fruit Co.'s performance were lines delivered by Preacher Screecher (Read Weaver): And to these sodomites, we say "Hallelujah!" We say "Get down!" We say "Boogie-oogie-oogie!, We say "Fuck my sweet ass." ... God encourages sodomy. Let us look in the book of Exodus. "And God said unto Moses, 'Go down Moses. Go down in Egypt land.' " And the Egyptians loved it. In our holy war for sexual liberation, we have a mighty tool . ... We know that sex is good. People!! The day that we stop burning with passion, we will die of the cold. The preacher's timely remarks were punctuated by a solemn hymn from his fruitful followers: I like the feel of the rubber up my ass Especially when there's a cock attached I like it reaching far, I like it pushing hard I like it tugging, like it rubbing, at my hugging crack I'm a glutton for sucking, cock's my food My lips flip out when I'm in the mood I got to lick some dick, I got to gobble up good But I will not swallow that bodily fluid I like to stick my dick, I like to bury it deep I like to dig a hole between cheek and cheek Between nose and chin, I shoot right in To the rubber that I'm wearin' then I toss it in the bin - Stephanie Poggi ••• Note: The photo on the cover of last week's "gender-bender" issue was taken at the anti-sodomy laws rally. The above article had been slated to run in the same issue, but due to logistical problems, had to be held over. Our apologies to our readers. mitory. The graffiti, which included statements such as "Kill Fags," "Kill Queers," "[the gay employee] has AIDS," and "I think I might kill [the gay employee]," appeared in locked boxes and rooms only accessible to phone company employees. "During the last few weeks, no matter where I [was working] in the city, I was seeing the graffiti," said the man who was assaulted. In addition, the man said he has received messages on his phone answering machine which include threats such as, ''When I get my hands on you, I'm going to kill you.'' On the day of the November 14 incident, the gay man had received his work order for the day, which required him to finish a job someone else had begun the day before. He told GCNthat when he found out the job was technically difficult, he said, "Oh, this job will probably be a bomb." The man who had started the job on the previous day asked from across the room, "Hey, are you accusing me of punting that job?" Although the gay man said "no" to his co-worker's question, the other man repeated his question four times, getting louder and more aggravated each time. A number of employees, including a supervisor, passively watched. Ten minutes later, according to the gay man, the accused assailant physically approached him, asked the same question again and punched him three or four times in the head. While punching the gay man, the assailant called him "fag" and said, "Why don't you be a clerk." At this point a couple of people unsuccessfully tried to restrain the man, allowing him to hit the gay man again. The gay man consequently has a swollen black eye and a swollen ear. According to the man who was assaulted, his attacker has been suspended from his job indefinitely. "[The phone company) hasn't decided what to do [to him,]" said the man. "I feel he should be fired." Phone company spokesperson Ellen Boyd told GCN, "We are aware of an incident last Friday between two employees. The incident is under investigation by the company. It is an internal matter that we certainly would not make public." Boyd refused to comment on whether the incident was related to Paul Cronan, another gay employee, who has AIDS. A number of people who are aware of the incident said they believe it may have been fueled by the phone company's handling of Cronan, who had been forced onto medical leave last year. Cronan recently won a highly · publicized out-of-court settlement which entitled him to return to his job. Most of his co-workers refused to go to work on his first day back, a situation which was rectified following an AIDS educational forum for workers and their families. Phone company employees were accused of breaching Cronan's confidentiality when he was diagnosed with ARC in 1985. At that time, one of his supervisors told several other employees that Cronan had AIDS, resulting in the forced medical leave. It was only after an out-of-court settlement of a 1.5 million dollar lawsuit that Cronan was allowed to return to . his job and the phone company made an attempt to educate employees regarding AIDS. The gay phone company employee said he is sure he was "assaulted as a result of the tension building" from Cronan's situation. He said homophobic remarks and AIDS phobia have increased following publicity about Cronan. "I heard statements that they would refuse to work with someone with AIDS," said the man. Co-workers said they were afraid that they might get the disease if they were scratched by a tool held by a gay man. "I think [the assault) is directly related to my situation,'' said Cronan. "For the past few months [the assaulted man has] been at the garage and openly gay. He had no problems till he made some remarks defending me.'' Exit ''ego-dystonic'' homosexuality, Enter ''self-defeating personality disorde~ '' The Politics of Diagnosis By Michael Botkin The "science" of diagnosing mental illness is far from scientific. A set of rules is developed by a small elite of white, male doctors, News Commentary and forced on all professionals. The presence or absence of a diagnostic category, carved in stone in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-III (DSM-lll) produced by the American Psychiatric Association, defines medical reality and directly and indirectly influences social policy, economics, and psychological services to milions of people. The recently emerged lesbian/gay, women's and people of color caucuses in the mental health professions have now spearheaded a challenge to the psychiatrists' monopoly on defining mental illness. In particular, over the past year, debates occurred over DSM-1/Fs inclusion of "ego-dystonic" (or unhappy) homosexuality and over the "sadistic personality disorder" ascribed to battered women. Homosexuality de-patbologized A particularly tense meeting on revision of DSM-III took place this summer between representatives of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychiatric Association. Now in its third edition, DSM-III lists who is mentally ill and who is not; the current edition still officially lists "ego-dystonic" homosexuality as a sickness. It is also used to determine which treatments are covered by insurance. Although psychiatrists comprise only a small percentage of the total mental health work force, they have complete control over DSMlll, which is used by all mental health workers. Currently, the categories of mental illness are decided by a small committee of their association, on the basis of whatever evidence they feel necessary. The meeting between the two associations had been cancelled once and hastily rescheduled, while the psychiatrists debated whether to allow the psychologists any input at all. The monopoly on DSM-Ill has secured considerable material and ideological benefits. Among other things it has allowed the generally conservative opinions of the psychiatrists to overshadow the more liberal views of psychologists, social workers and nurses - groups that are much larger, more racially diverse, mostly female, and generally lower paid. Both sides knew there was going to be disagreement over three diagnoses: "ego-dystonic" homosexuality, ''perilutal phase dysphoric disorder" (depression associated with menstruation), and the ''sadistic personality disorder.'' By the end of the meeting the psychiatrists agreed to remove "ego-dystonic" homosexuality from the new edition, but retained the other diagnoses. The battle to exonerate homosexuals of the charge of mental illness began over 20 years ago. Research disproving the belief that homosexuals are psychologically Continued on page 3 �News Notes....,...-------------:----:-------quote of the week aids in the mormon state quarantine a favorite in gallup poll "Those who think of such people [prostitutes] as 'golden girls' are mistaken; they are simply the victims of materialism, who have forgotten their destinies to be beloved wives and mothers." - Sovietskaya Byelorusslya, a Soviet newspaper, commenting on the ~'problem" of prostitution in the Soviet Union, according to the San Juan Star of Puerto Rico, Oct. 19. The Star notes that many of the female prostitutes in Moscow come to the capital from poorer parts of South and Central Asia and from poorer parts of the Soviet Union. Tourists appear to provide a good deal of business. SALT LAKE CITY - Despite assurances by church leaders in the overwhelmingly Mormon state that AIDS would pass Utah by, there have been 47 recorded cases of the illness since 1983. According to the New York Times, the urging of the state's small visible community of gay men and lesbians has prompted what little AIDS education the state provides. The governor recently proclaimed an "AIDS Awareness Week" and the mayor of Salt Lake City has begun providing some information about the illness. · While Utah's rate of cases is far below that of many other states, health officials expect the number to increase significantly, especially among bisexual men. Because church members found to be gay are forced to marry or be excommunicated and because both men and women are pressured to marry young, there are substantial numbers of married men who also have closeted gay relationships. Sanctions against gay men and lesbians are particularly severe in the Mormon Church. One gay man and a former Mormon said he attempted to commit suicide when he was 12 because he could not accept his homosexuality in light of the church's fierce condemnation of it. A gay leader in Salt Lake City confirmed that incidents of suicide and suicide attempts are frequent among gay men. Another gay man reported that he was excommunicated from the church, fired from his job, and forced by church authorities to disclose other male members of the church with whom he had had sexual relations. - Ben Robbins NEW YORK - Over half (54 percent) of those responding to a recent Gallup poll say they believe people with AIDS should be quarantlnec;t, according to the Associated Press. Conducted for Newsweek, the poll also found that 27 percent would refuse elective surgery if a transfusion were required because they fear contracting AIDS. Forty-eight percent believe everyone's blood should be tested for exposure to the HIV virus and.89 percent said they would voluntarily take suc11 a test. Of those calling for mandatory blood testing, 42 percent said only the person tested should be · informed about the results, while 38 percent said the results should be provided to the government. The poll was conducted by telephone on Nov. 5 and 6, reaching 756 adults. - Stephanie Poggi for clarity's sake JACKSON, MS - Any possible suggestion of protection for lesbians and gay men here has been eliminated from proposed changes in the state's 1890 constitution, according to the Advocate. Concerns had been raised about the implications of including a ban on discrimination based on " sex. " The worries were allayed by changing the proposed wording to discrimination based on "gender." Whew. - Sharon Haase kentucky overturns sodomy ban LEXINGTON, KY- The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) reports that a county judge has declared Kentucky's criminal sodomy statute to be unconstitutional. District :Judge Lewis Paisley ruled that the statute, which explicitly bars oral and anal sex between men, violated an individual's right to privacy under the state constitution. The judge's decision constitutes the first state court ruling to repeal t he sodomy law since the Supreme Court 's decision to uphold the Georgia sodomy law (Hardwick v. Bowers) last June. Nan D. Hunter, director of the national ACLU Lesbian and Gay Rights Project, commented, " We appreciate the courage that was required for a Kentucky state judge to apply the law of privacy in such a principled way. " Referring to the Hardwick decision, Paisley stated, "[T]he authority cited by the Defendant indicates that the right to privacy under the Kentucky Constitution is broader than that provided by the Federal Constitution. " Jeffrey Wasson, the defendant in the Lexington ruling. had been snared by an undercover trap set up by local police detectives who were wired for sound. The detectives planted themselves in a parking lof and struck up conversations with some of the men there. Wasson unwittingly invited home a detective and was consequently arrested. Following the judge's ruling, all charges brought against Wasson and four other defendants were dropped. The prosecutors, however, have indicated that they will appeal the ruling. A District Court's ruling does not hold for the entire state judicial system; in the event of an appeal, the ruling of the higher courts will have jurisdiction throughout the state. - Ben Robbins police brutality CAMBRIDGE, MA - Charges of police brutality have been brought by an Iranian man. Samad Nassirnia said Sgt. Edward Hussey arrested him for posting a handbi II on October 23. Following the arrest, Nassirnia charges that Hussey screamed anti-Iranian epithets, shook him by the throat while he was handcuffed to a desk and threat ened to shoot him in the head. Lt. Calvin Kantor, a police spokesperson, told the Boston Globe that similar complaints have been filed against Hussey in the past. This latest incident is being investigated by the police department, said Kantor. Nassirn ia, who called the Central American Solidari ty Association (CASA) for assistance at the time of t he arrest , rece ived legal counsel from lesbian activi st Jul ie Dow. - Kim Westheimer delay in gay murder case SAN J UAN , Puerto Rico - The trial of a man accused of killi ng two gay men here has been postponed at the request of the key witness for the prosecution. The San Juan district attorney, Andres Rodriguez Elias, denies rum ors that the delay is due to the wavering of the witness in th e tri al of 18-yearold Angel Colon Maldonado. Colon is charged with the murder of denti st Luis Gonzalez and musician Gustavo Faxas in April and May of last year. According to the San Juan Star, Colon is wanted in California as well for the slaying of television writer Willi am Kraft. - Sharon Haase a first for gay mormons HOUSTON - In what Affinity describes as a "first," gay and straight members recently gathered together at a ceremony honoring Mormon author Carol Pearson. Affinity is the official publication of Affirmation, the group for lesbian and gay Mormons. Pearson was on hand to discuss her late husband's homosexuality and his recent death. According to Affirmation member David Martin, who attended the gathering, "It surely was the first time in Houston, Texas that openly gay people had met openly with devout Mormon members in a nonthreatening situation." - Sharon Haase 'show with no name' SYDNEY, Australia- A new gay radio show took off October 25 in the studios of 2RSR-FM. "The Show with No Name" is aimed at lesbian and gay listeners, who have been asked to suggest a name for it. Paul Canning, spokesperson for the new show, said the program from 7-10 p.m. every Saturday night contains news, political commentary, humor, sex, and dance music. Canning said he is enthusiastic about the show's efforts to break down the barriers that currently define radio in Australia. He said producers are working to encourage more gay men and lesbians to become involved in the program, particularly those who traditionally have had little access- young gay men and lesbians, prisoners, and lesbian mothers. "The Show with No Name" joins the other Sydney radio program, "Gay Waves" (2SER-FM), in broadcasting national and international news butletins produced by the Gay Radio Information Service (GRINS.) To contact "The Show with No Name," write: c/o Radio 2RSR-FM, Wentworth Bldg, 174 City Road, Darlington, NSW 2006, Australia. - Kendall Lovett prison guard with aids fired SAN FRANCISCO - A federal prison guard who lost his job because he has AIDS is pressing his suit against the federal government on grounds of discrimination, according to the city's Chronicle. In the latest development in the case, U.S. District Court Judge Eugene Lynch refused 32-yearold Jason Swinney's request for reinstatement at the Federal Corrections Institute at Pleasanton pending the trial. Lynch ruled that while Swinney was entiUed to medical benefits, he could not be rehired because his presence might stir up violence at the prison. Swinney began his job as a prison guard in February of 1986. He told prison officials jn April that he had contracted AIDS. In June, he was demoted to a desk job with the Bureau of Prisons in San Francisco. Swinney refused the new job and was subsequently fired on July 10. In his July 241awsuit, Swinney stated that his job transferral was discriminatory, and that his doctors had explained to him that he posed no health threats whatsoever. A date for the trial has not yet been set. - Ben Robbins harvard buckles to feminists CAMBRIDGE, MA- Feminists have succeeded in pressuring Harvard University to create a women's studies undergraduate degree program. According to the Boston Globe, the new program will include a series of courses focusing "on the role of women throughout history in culture and society." Approximately 450 colleges in the United States have women's studies programs. - Kim Westheimer 'pedophile' ordered to take drugs WATERBURY, CT - A man termed a "sadistic homosexual pedophile" by a state attorney here has beeri sentenced to a year in jail and five years probation, according to the Boston Globe. Roger Niland, a school art teacher who ple~ded guilty to 20 counts of "risk of injury to minors"- apparently based on charges he photographed young boys in the nude- was also ordered to receive a drug intended to stifle his sex drive. In addition, Niland must stay out of the town ·of Wolcott, where he was a teacher; pay all medical expenses of the boys he is convicted of abusing; and write a letter of apology to any boy who requests one. The reduced sentence, handed down by Superior Court Judge Charles Gill was the result of plea bargaining. - Kim Westheimer catholic northerner is new klan head SHELTON, CT An office adorned with photographs of cross burnings, white-hooded Klansmen puppets and a bumper sticker that reads: "Freedom wasn't won with a registered gun," serves as the office for the newly elected Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. James Ferrands is the first Northerner and the first Catholic to be chosen as a national leader for the 120-year-old Klan . In a recent Boston Globe interview, Ferrands said he sends his white Klan sheet out "to a Jewish laundry" and uses Sterno to get a longer burn on crosses. According to Ferrands, the Klan 's objectives will not change under his leadership. Such objectives include the eradication of affirmative action, homosexuality, abortion, interracial marriage and integrated neighborhoods. " We're mostly against things," acknowledged Ferrands. The Klan pays Ferrands $10,000 a year for telephone, mailing and travel expenses. " Whatever is left I can skim," said Ferrands. - Kim Westheimer hardwick v. bowers chills ORONO, ME - A lesbian student who sued the University of Maine for discrimination has dropped her case following the Hardwick v. Bowers sodomy ruling. Diane Matthews filed suit in August of 1982 claiming that her dismissal was a violation of her right to freedom of expression and privacy. In April 1984, a Federal magistrate ruled that Matthews' riQhts had been violated and that she should be re-enrolled in the ROTC program. The Army appealed her re-enrollment and the case has been tied up in the courts ever since. According to Our Paper, the "privacy issue" was Matthew's strongest argument against the Army. Due to the June 1986 Supreme Court ruling which stated that lesbians and gay men have no rights to sexual privacy, Matthews' lawyer urged that she not pursue the case. If the case continued in the courts, "bad law" could be written, claimed the lawyer. - Kim Westheimer - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - n e w s notes compiled by stephanie poggi �Gay labor activist Howard Wallace speaks in Boston ·Coors Beer Boycott Still Brewing Big By Kim Westheimer BOSTON "The best. organizers of the Coors [beer] boycott are the Coors brothers,, claims gay labor activist Howard Wallace. It is the viciousness of the Coors family's right-wing politics and their open advocacy of discrimination against people of color, lesbians, gay men and workers that has set the stage for a successful boycott, according to Wallace who spoke at a November 13 forum sponsored by a community organizing class at Roxbury Community College. Wallace elaborated on the success of the more than ten-year-old campaign against Coors: • This year in California, where Coors once took 44 percent of beer sales, the company has only garnered 14.5 percent of the market. • In an attempt to improve its image with communities of color and lesbians and gay men, Coors has been forced to spend millions of dollars in donations and advertising. Coors has spent 250 million dollars in the Latino community and 350 million ih the Black community, said Wallace. Nevertheless, the boycott continues to have broad support from people of color. • Coors has been forced to concede on some labor issues, resulting in the creation of an affirmative action program and the dropping of lie detector tests formerly used in hiring procedures. The elimination of lie detector tests is only a partial • the CIA-backed Contras who are trying to overthrow the Sandinista government in Nicaragua. Joseph Coors is also a co-founder of the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing "If you do what's been done by think tank which the Reagan adthe West [to Coors], they'll be in ministration uses for formulation serious trouble,'' asserted of national policy. In addition, Wallace. "It's conceivable they William Coors has been quoted as might come to the bargaining saying to a group of Black business table." Originally marketed only people that "one of the best things on the West Coast, the beer has [slave traders] did for you is drag been available in New England your ancestors over here in chains." The Coors Company, since the spring of 1985. Coors, a company with a long which formerly used asbestos in history of union busting, had its their brewery, has incurred the frrst conflict With organized labor in the mid-'70s. But the first move for a wide-scale boycott of the beer was instigated by the Latino community, due to discriminatory hiring practices. The Coors brewery in Denver had less than 2 percent Latino employees, despite the fact that 20 percent of the population in the Denver area was Latino. By Michael Bronski Wallace said his awareness of SAN FRANCISCO- Thorn the Coors family's politics began WiUenbecher, a writer whose as he was growing up in Colorado. name is well-known in the gay Joe Coors was on the University of press, died unexpectedly at San Colorado Board of Regents in the Francisco General Hospital on late 1950s; he tried to fire proFriday, September 19, after a fessors who opposed the Vietnam sudden attack of pneumocystis War and attempted to eliminate carinii pneumonia. He had Students for a Democratic Society beeil diagnosed with AIDS (SDS) and other anti-war groups earlier this year, but remained from the campus. in relatively good health until It is the Coors family's involvehis death. ment in a wide range of right-wing A native of Allentown, Penpolitical causes that has led to the nsytvani~ and a graduate of formation of some of the coaliPenn. State University. Thom tions working on the boycott. moved to Boston in the late '60s Joseph Coors, often described as where he attended Boston Colthe major political force of the lege and obtained a double Coors' dynasty, is one of the Masters degree in English and largest private financial backers of Philosophy, Phi Beta Kappa. victory, said Wallace, since Coors now screens potential employees by investigating their political background. wrath of environmentalists and activists working against occupational hazards. So many groups of people have been angered by Coors' politics that the San Francisco Coors Boycott Committee, one of the primary movers in the boycott serves more as an informational source than as a centralized boycott organizer. Wallace said representatives from a wide variety of organizations nation-wide frequently contact the "handful of people" who constitute the San Francisco committeee. "It's the biggest network I've ever been inWall ace. volved with," said Those involved in the network include peace groups, lesbian and gay organizations, unions, Black and Latino organizations and feminist groups. The San Francisco Coors Boycott Committee can be reached at 240 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94102. For more information about Boston organizing, contact the Boston Coors Boycott Committee at 104 Charles St., Suite 790, Boston, MA 02114. I ";I GCN, Fag Rag writer dies Thom Willenbecher Chinese Women Workers Win Latet Tbom became an assis· tant professor in Boston Colteae's Philosophy Department. It was while he was at Boston Colteae that Thorn began his career as a free lance writer. · Some of his first pieces appeared in Gay Community News, where he wrote about politics and culture. In addition. he was a member of the Fag Rag collective and his work > also appeared there. As time went on he also wrote for the Boston Globe, the Boston • Phoenix, the Advocate, Christopher Street, Mother Jones, the Progressive and the Baltimore Sun. In the months before his death Thorn was working on a writer's word processing program for home computers. Although he bad a full career as a free lance writer, Thorn was first accepted and nourished in his work by the small gay press. His work with Fag Rag is of particular interest. The collective is, and was then, composed of a r~pantly diverse collection of writers, artists and thinkers with an anarchistic bent and a focus on sex. The trust and elasticity of both Thorn and the group made it possible for them to work together- despite Thorn's traditional academic leanings and his emphasis on moral philosophy. A good example of Thorn's academic/political writing is a piece he produced with another Fag Ragger. Steve Abbot, entitled "For an Unholy Alliance: Gays and Abortion." It appeared in Fag Rag 12 in the spring of 1975, and was one of the first articles to direct connections between the newly grow· ing Gay Liberation Movement and reproductive rights: "Gay rights and abortion rights are founded on the same principle .... , The piece ended with a plea for "Gays, lesbians, feminists, and poor mothers [to) become willing to put their differences into perspective and to recognize that we have a lot more in common than a common enemy.'' After leaving Boston, Thom ' travelled extensively in Europe and Asia before relocating in San Francisco in 1979. He leaves, besides his writing for ' the gay press, his close companion of four years, G. Eric Wright, as well as his mother Frances and his brother Fredric, both of Allentown, Penn. . The Politics of Diagnosis Continuedjrompage I / ..Each day we faced only the sewing machines during the day, the kitchen in the evening, and the pillow at night. We never knew we could do anything other than this grind .... We learned that we are capable of organizing and fighting discrimination. We are not going to be silent anymore. We will fight to get what is our right... - Gok Ying Lee, a laid-off Chinese garment worker, describing a number of battles women ~orkers, won by following mass layoffs in the Chinatown garment worker industry. BOSTON - Chinese w~men garment workers (pictured above) sing as part of a celebration program November 1 at the Quincy School. About 200 people gathered for the bilingual (Chinese/English) victory party, mar;king concessions won from the state in health benefits, retraining, and English language programs for the laid-off garment workers. Among the most significant gains was a provision that workers be the ones to evaluate and control the state-funded programs. In addition to presentations from the garment workers and a slide-show, the garment workers support committee described their politicization around Chinese community needs and their growing awareness of ''the contempt for working people ·in this country." They also spoke of their determination to help build a stronger movement of workers. As one support committee member said, "Some have it in their heads that Chinese are passive and won't fight back .... Well, these Chinese non-English-speaking women workers fought and won!" The Garment Workers Committee and Garment Workers Support Committee can be reached c/o CPA, 27 Beach St., 3rd fl., Boston, MA, 02111. - Stephanie Poggi sick had started in 1957, with the ground-breaking work of Dr. Evelyn Hooker. But the movement clearly peaked in 1973 when lesbian and gay liberationists began "zapping" the psychiatrists' conventions. This direct action, combined with declining anti-gay public sentiment and the gay-affirmative research, influenced the psychiatrists to remove homosexpality per se from DSM111. However, as a compromise between pro-gay forces and the psychoanalytic die-hards, "egodystonic" homosexuality was r~­ tained in the manual. It was an awkward and unsatisfying compromise. Hardcore homophobes like Dr. Irving Bieber and Dr. Soccarides remained convinced that homosexuals were ''necessarily schizophrenic,'' and felt that the association of psychiatrists had caved into pressure tactics. Lesbian/gay-affirmative therapists felt the addition of "ego-dystonic" in front of "homosexual" was a meaningless, cosmetic concession. In 1973, the year of the "zaps" and the revision, the Association of Lesbian and Gay Psychologists (ALGP) was formed; the removal of the diagnosis was one of their chief priorities. By the time of this summer's meeting, considerable pressure had been brought to bear on the psychiatrists. The ALGP coordinated a letter campaign, lesbian and gay psychiatrists within the Association were protesting the diagnosis, and thirteen years of lesbian/ gay-affirmative research made hash of Bieber's accusations of "schizophrenia." The final straw, however, may have been the lesbian and gay activists' alliance with the feminists who were protesting other diagnoses. The psychiatrists' sudden decision to de-pathologize homosexuality may have been an attempt to break the alliance - to pacify lesbians and gay men who appeared to be winning anyway, and thereby isolate the feminists. Ms. Diagnosis But as "ego-dystonic" homosexuality finally exited the scene, the coalition remained intact to fight a new, equally controversial diagnosis. Early in 1986, Dr. Spitzer, head of the· psychiatrists' nomenclature committee, which creates and dissolves diagnoses, announced the creation of the "sadistic personality disorder." This diagnosis · was ~reated to classify female victims of abuse. However, instead of treating the effects of abuse as a fairly normal and temporary response to severe trauma, Spitzer defined these abuse-surviving women as essentially and personally pathological. In other words, they sought out the abuse. This portrayal of abused women as inviting their victimization caused immediate outrage among feminist psychologists. A coalition against "Ms. diagnosis" was quickly formed to oppose the new label. Members of this coalition were present at the summer meeting, but were unable to dissuade Spitzer and his colleagues from implementing the new "disease." The name of the disorder was changed from "sadistic personality disorder" to ''self-defeating personality disorder," and it was moved to an appendix, but the new classification remained. This new "disease" was the topic of a syposium held at the psychologists' annual convention in Washington, D.C., this August. It was co-sponsored by ten (out of 44) divisions of the association, including Division 3S (Psychology of Women) and Division 44 (Society for t)le Psychologi~l Study of Lesbian and Gay Issues). Speakers attacked the questionable scientific methods of the psychiatrists, decried the victim-blaming implicit in the diagnosis, and warned of the effects of such a classification. Renee Garfinkle, chair of the symposium, pointed out that ''there is no evidence that masochistic personality exists, no objective measure of the qualities of masochism, and no treatment. The basis on which this disorder persists is chummy-anecdotal Continued on page 13 �·~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Page4•GayCommuni~New~Novemb~2~~ 19~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ , ... "\., • • ( J~ )· ( c. • • . .. . ' co· munify otces m another aids scam GCN received a copy of this letter sent to Lenny Giteck, editor of the Advocate. To the Advocate: · The September 30, 1986 Advocate contains a disgusting advertisement for Immune Pack pills headlined, "Can You Protect Yourself Against AIDS?" and demanding $39.9S "to pmtect your immune system." We deplore the Advocate's partnership in Immune Pack's cynical attempt to earn a quick buck off high-risk gay men's often desperate fear of contracting AIDS. As articles in the September 22. 1986-San Francisco Examiner noted, "The snake oil salesmen are now churning out AIDS 'cures.' " •'Fear is a powerful marketing tool," one story said. "A month 's supply of 'Immune Pack' pills -containing just vitamins and minerals - costs 39.9S." The Examiner observed, "Doctors say [Immune Pack] tablets have no usefulness." At best, "because the pills contain no biologicallyactive substance, they are not dangerous . •• The Advocate has run ads repeatedly for antiAIDS quack remedies, including the infamous "Viral Aid" electronic device. No publication that wishes to enjoy the lesbian and gay community's respect can continue this practice. Our caucus of forty University of California Jaw students a sks that you stop accepting ads for useless anti-AIDS nostrums forthwith. Sincerely, Tomas Medina, Stephen Matchett, Alissa Friedman Berkeley, CA congrats to california Dear GCN: Congratulations to California' s lesbian and gay community for their work in smashing Proposition 64, the LaRouche Initiative that could have meant mandatory testing and quarantine of AIDS " suspects. " The campaign to defeat Prop 64 holds two lessons for the nation's lesbian and gay community. First, in addition to being a medical reality, AIDS is also a political crisis. The Radical Right does not miss this point - our failure to do so would be tragic. And second, as with the defeat of the anti-gay Briggs Initiative eight years ago, California's gay and lesbian community has demonstrated that only a high profile, grassroots, coalition effort can win and defend our rights . Accommoda. tionism and depending exclusively on our • 'liberal friends" have always been politically stupid approaches - now they are literally lethal. As Ftistory reviews the gay movement the question may be asked of all or us, "What did you do during the epidemic and the witchhunt that followed., Thanks to the dedication and work of those who defeated Prop 64 in California, more of us are likely to be around to answer that question. Again congratulations and thank you to California's lesbian and gay community. Yours truly, David Scondras Boston, MA GayCommunityNews IIIIII....IIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIWIIIIIIIIIIUWIIIIUII.IHIII lniiiMIIIill·--1111----~~~ GCN Job Opening GCN is seeking a CIRCULATION MANAGER/STAFF WRITER. Begin 1/87-3/87. Research and write news stories of interest to nationaJ readership. Coordinate weekly mailing of paper by volunteers, process subs and renewals. Requires writing skills and ability to work with deadlines, interpersonal, organizational and record-keeping skill. Knowledge 'of data entry and/or computers helpful. Position requires familiarity with gay and lesbian community; commitment to gay and lesbian liberation, feminism, anti-racism, and collectiv~ decisionmaking; and awareness of class issues. All GCN staff members receive $180/week plus 4 weeks paid vacation, complete health/life insurance and sick leave. GCN also offers staff members a flexible, non-hierarchical work setting, with room for independence and innovation. Send resumes to GCN Circ/Writer Search, 167 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02111. Lesbians and gay men of color are particualrly encouraged to apply. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIU-UIIIUHIIHHIIIHI.IIHIIIIIIIIIHIIBIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIU- expect and demand. brutal attitude from better media 'security' peopleDearGCN: representation Much criticism is cast at gays in free society, Dear GCN: I would like to refute Marcelle Cook-Daniel's charges that I am extremely young and/or new to this country; 1 was in fact born in Chicago nearly 30 years ago. J acknowledge that my TV ownership has been sporadic, and that my analysis of made-for-TV movies i~nored the two films made in the '70s. However, Cook-Daniel's letter , though a little nasty in tone, does end up supporting my main points. These were: I) made-for-TV gay films ignore the existence of a lesbian/gay community) that they are instead essentially family dramas focusing on how lesbians/gays can re-integrate into heterosexual-style family life, and 3) that these films betray a trend towards increased homophobia. Both films that she mentions, That Certain Summer and A Question of Love, by her own description ignored the lesbian/gay community, dealt with lesbian/gay couples forming families, and portrayed lesbians and gays far more favorably than is possible today. Jf they didn •t portray us as yuppies, that was because this particular stereotype had yet to take root. It has now, and the inclusion of last decade's films in my analysis would have (and should have) illuminated this point. In retrospect I admit that I tend to underplay the positive impact even such distorted images can have for people used to much worse. But it does seem to me that we can and should expect and demand - more than just being represented "as something other than criminals and psychopaths." In the seventies the networks may have been willing to portray us as non-yuppies, or as child-raisers, but they aren't now. ·Welcome Home Bobby features a Catholic priest/psychiatrist rescuing little Bobby from an exploitive, loft· dwelling gay yuppy and reconciling him with his biological family. This film is the only portrayal of "gay lifestyles" that millions of people, none of whom own The Celluloid Closet, have ever seen. Frankly, that scares me. Sincerely yours, Michael Botkin Carbondale, JL Get Your Butt in Gear but those of us who are locked up are subject to an even barsher experience. We are looked upon as sick, deranged and evil. Jobs are not given to us, and work release programs and halfway holJ$es reject us as unfit because we are homosexuals. We are constantly harassed by Security as well as by other prisoners, and what friends we had before coming to prison have long forgotten our existence. Why do gays in prison seem to meet such head· on obstacles seeking jobs and housing upon release? I know some of us are insecure, but maybe society has pushed and condemned some of us to that outlook with its "you are the animals and we are your keepers" attitude. Myself, I am a survivor and will never allow prison, or society, to break my beliefs. I would like to see our gay community on the outside to try harder to understand that we are still human beings, we suffer the same, we bleed the same, our love is the same; everyone needs some help to make it "through'"- everyone. Sincerely, John Beard 10260S Rain 1 Box SOO Angie, LA 70426 enjoys gcn more than hometow· rag n DearGCN: ..... I have received my third issue aJready. Thank you. 1 enjoy it $0 much. I use;to ·receive it in 1982 but then something went wrong (the fire) and I haven't received any until now. I enjoy reading GCN more than my hometown neWspaper. Because I find that other gays are going through the same thing I am going through. Both gay and non-gay inmates enjoy reading QCN. A lot of non-gays said 'OCN help them to understand a lot about homosexuals'. I have been gay for (14)ofmy 22yearsandalot of things I was going through I felt 1 was the only one going through it. Right now I am in segregation. I see I am not the only one separated from my lover in which I love him very mtKh. I try to make spre he read GCN too so I can help him understand that we're not the only ones separated. Thanks. Through your rag I learn to love my lover more than anything now. I wish to express my thanks from all the gays in a prison in Alabama. (a poen1 enclosed] To my lover and aU others I'm taking a· chance on caring for you I know it and it scares me because I know the administration will separate us but it won't stop me no matter how long the warden keep us separated . because I see too much in you to just let you slip by. I've learned that only through risks and reaching out for more wiU there ever be a chance for all Sidney I miss you •••and Join GCN ~ Lay-Out Crew on Thursday Nights No experience needed Munchies and music provided 167 Tremont St. Convenient to Park and Boylston T -stops Call Ina or Loie for details: 426-4469 N. Barnes H-2-B-llS 136231 Box 280 Odenville, AL 35120 GCN prints all letters to the editor ucept per onal attack, . Carbon copies of letters sent el ewhere are only printed on a spaceavailable basis. Letters should be TYPED and OO U BLE~ PA CED and limited to five typed page . 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Boston, MA 02111 �. . -. . •(. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~-~~Com~uni~~~~s.~~~~~r2~~.1~·P~S~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~- Speaking Out For Love and For Life, We're Not Going Back By Sarah Holmes Sarah Holmes delivered this speech at the "sodomy rally" at Boston City Hall Plaza, November 8, 1986 (see story in this week's news section). A year-and-a-half ago, when Governor Dukakis instituted his homophobic foster care policy banning lesbians, gay men and single people from caring for children, few people on Beacon Hill expected that it would spark the continuing outraged response from the gay and lesbian community that it did - a year in which we have demonstrated over and over again, in Duke Watches across the state and in large marches through downtown Boston, stating that we won't sit back in the face of such an attack. And the momentum spread. Last night demonstrators marched on Cardninal Bernard Law's house in Brighton, protesting the Vatican's recent statement on homosexuality. What the DSS policy did to reactive gay and lesbian activism in Massachusetts, the Supreme Court's decision in the Georgia Sodomy case is doing to galvanize grassroots activism nationally. In a close 5-4 vote, the judges issued a decision with horrible implications for us all, but the response has been strong and it'sjust beginning to build. Certainly the two dozen or so states with outmoded 19th Centurr sodomy laws on the books, must repeal these repressive statutes, and that includes the allegedly liberal state of Massachusetts. While sodomy laws are rarely enforced, they are used as justification for a whole range of repressive measures against us, from custody cases to discrimination suits. In the foster care lawsuit, Governor Dukakis's brief, in which he tried and failed to have the lawsuit dismissed, the Supreme Court Hardwick v. Bowers decision was cited as part of his attempt to discredit, stigmatize, · and criminalize gay and lesbian sexuality. The Supreme Court justices' sodomy ruling is in . fact just a decision on a portion of our battle for liberation, yet their voices resound with the authority of entrenched tradition. We must take a wider view, and fight for the broader agenda we are entitled to. We're fight~ng for the right to determine how we conduct our sexual relationships and our lives, to not be forced back into the closet, and to exercise the privacy that is rightfuiJy ours when we · choose it, free from unwarranted invasions of our bedrooms by police, whether symbolically or:in actuality. We're fighting for privacy as an option, not a mandated policy or enforced consrraint. It's our right to be public and forthright about who we are, to not feel that we must. keep our sexuality hidden and clandestine. As part of this agenda, we insist on our right to publication of our words and images, free from invasive censorship that denies us information we need. We're fighting with the awareness that police incursions, all levels of violence and harassment directed at us, hits people of color and people without money and the privilege to buy protection harder than it hits others of us. We insist on social and political justice for all. This decision is an affront to us that is part of a wider campaign of intimidation and domestic terrorism by the Right, designed to control people's freedom, and keep us in line. It is part of an attempt to keep us cloistered in traditional nuclear families, where women are contained and oppressed, where sex is for procreation and the production of male heirs, not pleasure. It's and attempt to keep women's lives in line, by bombing abortion clinics and dismantling social programs, starving non-traditional families. It is a campaign of scare tactics around AIDS, where accurate realistic information is denied us, research and services barely supported, quarantines threatened, and fear and homophobia fanned and fostered. Right wing leadership toys with military brinkmanship, creating corrosive fears about our continued survival, and clouds seeing the U.S.'s domineering role in the Third World, as well as attempts to dominate people of difference in the U.S. We're going to fight this misdirected decision by the Supreme Court and the misguided politics of the Right in a lot of ways. By building an affirming gay/lesbian community, in which our differences are respected and discussion of conflicts within our movement strengthens rather than divides us. And by working as part of a progressive and feminist movement in which gay/ lesbian issues are in the forefront, not relegated to the margins where we're seen as not essential. Combatting homophobia is about re-examining how all people live our lives, daily, in small and large ways, but the battle for our full humanity is much more than a "lifestyle" concern. The national response to this decision has been strong and fast. Organizations, gay!lesbian, AIDS-related and progressive, are gathering in New York next weekend to build plans for a 1987 March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights. Hundreds of thousands of us will march on that day, in what will be the largest and broadest lesbian and gay action to date. We will push back the escalating attacks on our community and in organizing this march, build a national grassroots gay and lesbian movement that must be contended with. Watch GCN and Bay Windows for notices of organizing locally - and join with us in building this march. FOR LOVE AND FOR LIFE, WE'RE NOT GOING BACK! Sarah Holmes is a Boston activist and a member of the Gay and Lesbian Defense Committee (GLDC). "Speaking Out" is part of our continuing effort to provide a true forum of opinion for the community. We encourage you to send your ideas, feelings, and comments to us and we encourag~ you to respond to any ideas expressed in this space. Submissions to "Speaking Out" should be TYPED and DOUBLE SPACED, and, if possible, held to under 5 pages in length. The GCN staff collective reserves the right to limit length and number of signatures in "Speaking Out." The opinions ex· pressed in "Speaking Out" do not necessarily reflect the views of the newspaper, the staff, or the a.dvertisers. Write c/o Speaking Out, GCN, 167 Tremont St., 5th Fl., Boston, MA 02111. Community Voices---,----------------Ianger renewed my old lesbians the terrorists in your backyard his own. Dear GCN: Dear GCN: faith The Statement of Purpose for the First West So, here in prison we need help from the outThis is a cry for help! I'm a gay man in the Dear OCN: Thanks for a fine issue (Vol. 14, No. 17). I always read GCN, out of loyalty I guess, but I am often disappointed, even embarrassed by the drek that passes for writing in some of the feature stories,.filrn reviews and .book reviews. But Nancy Langer's review of the film Rate It X renewed my faith. Beautiful compassionate writing allowed me t9 comprehend the perspectives of the filmmakers, and to empathize with the changes they went through as they_ made the film. This was also one of the few pieces of writing on any aspect of the pornography question that came close to addressing the complexity of the subject. Langer's · conclusion - that we need a new approach to issues which continue to confound us - is one I endorse. I hope that approach will include more writing like Langer's; writing that brings intelligepce to the issues instead of tried and tired rhetoric. . In the same issue, I also like the News Notes which seem to reflect a broader range of issues, and .cover more . communities than usual. In "Freedom's Just," Mike Riegle made another valiant attempt to challenge us on the outside to bend· back the bars and reach in to those of us who have been locked away. A final thanks to Homback for her thoughts on lesbian dating. I hope her cynicism about relationships (''you were always either in bed, fighting about what to do, or too bored to think of anything creative") doesn't represent the best of them; but her gentle reminder that we can just have fun was welcome. Good luck with the forced relocation. Here's some bucks to help out. Tatiana Schreiber Jamaica Plain, MA Coast Conference by and for Old Lesbians was sent out in error, because of miscommunication, under my name. I am the lover of one of the old lesbians on the planning committee and have served as press secretary. However, the statement you printed embodies the goals of the old lesbians on the committee, and while I support those goals, I am not -as a woman in her '50s- included in the "we" of the statement. It seems especially important to correct this mistake, since an essential aspect of the conference is to provide an opportunity for lesbians 60 and over to come together to empower and politicize each other without needing to allow for the ageism of younger women. For this reason, attendance by women under 60 is stnctly limited to lovers and significant personal friends. A copy of the statement "Why 60 and Over for the First West Coast Conference by and for Older Lesbians?" is available from: West Coast Celebration, 2953 Lincoln Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90405. This is also an opportunity to let your readers ' know that the date of the conference has been changed to April 24, 25, 26. Thank you for letting me correct a misimpression. Cynthia Rich Santa Monica, CA attention lovers of • • progreSSIVe mUSIC Dear GCN: split not motivated by racism Dear GCN: I have never believed that the people who left the sodomy coalition (PCLGCR) were motivated by racism. Your reporter asked me this question explicitly, and I explicitly said no. While the wisdom of printing a highly divisive article is open to debate, the number of inaccuracies in detail is truly irresponsible. I hope the fault ·lies with your reporter and not with your policy. . Persons still angry at the Supreme Court's sodomy decision are invited to a meeting on Nobember 19, 7:30p.m. in the Piemonte Room of City HalL Besides a post mortem on PCLGCR's November 8 demonstration, the agenda includes a report on the November 15 meeting in New York to plan a march on Washington. Sincerely, Mimi. Gersten Winthrop, MA During the women in music festival on October 24 through 26, I became aware of an issue involving independent international artists and the trouble that they are experiencing obtaining visas. There is a new regulation that the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) is trying to put into law that will make it all but impossible for these artists to perform in this country. If passed, this regulation will establish a directive by which these performers will not be able to be paid for their work, travel, or accomodation expenses. It will also severely limit their access to this country. This regulation will impact primarily on folk and women's music performers. There is a letter available to send to INS. If.you would like a copy, send a self-addressed stamped envelope to: The International Music Committee, ISS R Summer St., #15, Somerville, MA 02143. One final note. It's very important that we do not specify performers in this action. It can be very damaging to them and to the record companies they work with. If you choose to add anything to this letter, please keep this in mind. Thank you all for your support. Chris Newport Somerville, MA side. It's a known and proven fact that t~e administration can't stand pressure from the outside, for it's you who pay these undercover terrorists. So a letter to the governor or warden showing some interest in what's happening in a 1 prison near you will help stop this kind of 'criminal' unaccountability. Please inform yourself and do something. Yours truly, Charles Stevens 306171 Rt 4 Box 1200 Rosharon, TX 77583 Department of Corruptions and wish to speak out against this institution's SORT (Special Operations Response Team, or Specially Organized Reactionary Terrorists). This team is nothing but a gang of terrorists trained by the American Military. I'm constantly having my personal property confiscated and destroyed. Their 'reason' is that since I'm a homosexual I'm 'dangerous' and shouldn't have anything, and that I need to be taken .out and Shot! 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Becoming a grandmother forced me to a recognition, through no decision of my own, that I am getting older - that I am an "older" lesbian. For me, that recognition was fraught with fearful and mostly-unexamined possibilities. Although age is an issue for all women, I believe it has a different significance for me as a lesbian. Economically it is more threatening since, as a woman without a man, I can expect more than my share of poverty in my old age. As part of a sub-culture which has only in recent years become visible, I have few models of aging lesbians to guide me. The most visible and immediately accessible aspect of lesbian life is still the bar scene, which no longer appeals to me; it reinforces the Faith Reboin associations of lesbianism, youth and alcoholism that I am no grandmother has gray or white longer willing to accept for hair, is plump and matronly, myself. wears aprons and dowdy print BAT Painting Age is one of several issues dresses, and sits by the fire knitwhich have come up for me since ting baby booties and comforters Interior /Exterior becoming a grandmother that while she waits for the children, have specifically challenged my the doers of the family, to return allpaper removal, walls, ceilings, image of myself as a lesbian. to her. In real life grandmother and trim, prepped & repaired. There is a conflict of images in- often looks tired and worn, has a herent in the words "lesbian" and matter-of-fact attitude towards Quality you can depend on. ''grandmother.'' Our culture her children and their offspring defines lesbians as sexual beings, who surround her like weeds popS yrs. experience. Free Estimates which implies youth and activity. ping up here and there, turning to Grandmother means an old her when they are in need, always Call Bob at 445-6293 woman, and aging in this culture tied to her by the bonds of family. connotes asexuality and passivity. It is difficult to reconcile either of Even understanding the those images with me: the grandmisogynist basis of these stereotypes, and struggling torr;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;:;:;;;:;:;;;:;;:;;;;;;:;;:;;;;;:._ _ _ _""!'-_~_...:... create new images of strength and beauty, it has been painful for me couples therapy & sex therapy to discover how many of my feelings about myself as a grandfor lesbians mother were affected by these old andgaymen rigid definitions. Little Golden books say that mother who goes to the bar with my lesbian lover and slow dances with my leg between her thighs, stands up to my boss when he treats me disrespectfully, and changes my own engine oil. It is equally difficult for me to reconcile my images of myself as a grandmother and as a "political" lesbian. Having come out on the wave of the women's movement, I was convinced that this patriarchal world was desperately sick and oppressive. I was always aware of the political implications of lesbianism. I separated myself from men in every way possible; I resolved not to participate in this culture they had created, and worked actively to destroy it through the education and agitation of other women. "Reform" was a dirty :word to me, since I felt that only when men were forced to give up all their power could we women form a sane and egalitarian society. 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Nome ---------- Address_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ City/StDteiZip - - - - - - - - SclenafortMPeople 197 Main St., Cambric:lp, MA 021lt �Elliot Pilshaw T e tate of the Music a esson from history and a look at the current crop f albums from Oln Feels Li~e Home, his first solo album, Elliot Pilshaw sings the lyric "Like a bird outside my window, I will gather up yow bounty." I can't hear it without wishing he was saying "Like a bird outside yow window, I will sing . . . " because Elliot sings with the joy and largesse of a bird. He has a wonderful, warm voice and he has made an outstanding the selection of songs to showcase his talents. Eight of the twelve songs are explicitly gay. Willie Sotdill's "While Walking," a painful song about a man's fear of a homophobic attack, bristles with the truth, humiliation, anger and pain we feel at such momemts. Ray Scantlin's song cuts homophobes down by asking "Who Have You Loved Today?": A lot of people will quote you the rules And tell you they come from above But how can another deny his own brother For something as precious as love? ... And when it's all over What else can we say, but , Who have you loved today? This album succeeds in being romantic while making an affirmation of gayness. Rather than restrain his politics to reach wider audiences, Elliot seems content to carve a niche for himself with a specific lesbian I gay listener in mind . • es tans, gay men and their friends Kay Gardner By Maida Ttlchen Before reviewing some new feminist and gay records, I'd like to comment on a current trend in .vn.m••n '•,• music that I find most unfortunate. Women's music began as a form of protest and a medium for unifying a radicalized community of women created by the "second wave" of feminism and the Stonewall era of lesbian and gay liberation . At the start, women gathered primarily to hear political speeches, and musicians filled in the gaps . Over the years, women's music became the most marketable way of spreading feminist and lesbian ideas, and countless women lent their volunteer support to developing a system for producing records and concerts, and distributing products. Many women involved in these efforts developed musical, technical, and business skills through opportunities not available to them in the sexist mainstream and folk music industries. Along the way, the women's community insisted that the women's music industry honor the values of the feminist movement. Wheelchairs that couldn't fit through doorways, babies who needed attention and the homogenously whi~e . audiences and performers with little appeal to femmiSts of other races were concrete issues that moved feminism and lesbian liberation from theory to practice in concert halls and festival grounds. In response to issues raised at women's music p.roductions, community standards, priorities and commitments were developed that spread to other aspects of the movement. As a result women's music not only inspired and entertained, but challenged us to grow in living our ideals. These standards were not merely politely voiced, they were enforcd by a community willing to forego the music if the demands weren't met. Read back issues of GCN or any other feminist paper during the mid-'70s, and you will find endless stories of clashes in cities all over the U.S. Perhaps it was misguided to direct so much energy towards reforming ourselves, but many women felt so strongly about these issues that they used community discussions, protests and boycotts to hold the concert producers accountable to satisfying the needs of the community. In other cases, the radical consciousness of the concert producers led them to initiate changes that the community resisted: for example, child care and interpreters for the deaf are costly services that raised ticket prices. White and ablebodied women had to learn the reasons why they should be willing to travel to theaters that are safely accessible to women of color and disabled women. As a result of the insistence on these political values, women's music concerts and festivals have tried their best to provide child care, accessibility for the disabled, interpreters for the hearing impaired, low ticket prices and work exchange, employment of women in all facets of production and performance, and location of concerts in multi-racial neighborhoods. Women-only and lesbian-only concerts have also been held when the community supported them . All of these accommodations have made the medium accessible to as many women as possible, so that the message of feminism might be spread. Since one of the community's most frequent expectations has been reasonable ticket prices, it often has been the concert producers who have taken a loss in order to pay for child care, interpreters and accessible space . One result of this has been that very few women producers have stayed in business long. Those who produce do it out of commitment to the music and to the community, because producers who honor these values do not make money. Even the rare profits are re-invested to produce new or less popular performers. . I_(ay ~doer's Fishersrlaughter revisits the land of lesbian unagmed past or envisioned future, that place where women "sang the chants/built the fues/danced the circle dance." It's a theme that women's music as well as otherlesbian art forms and politics, were heavily hased on in the early '70s, a genre ~hie~ n_ow seems. l~e either the good old days o~ a lot ?f sunpl~suc romantiCISm, depending on just what kind of 80s lesbian one is. Kay's album took me back to the goo~ old days with a stark sincerity that conjures up neglected 1mages without stirring up cynicism. Her lyrics ~ave a concr~teness to them, embracing eternal issues of life, de~th, buth, ghosts, time, destiny and the earth. Many so_ngwnters run aground by trying to write on these issues Without a sufficient emotional base to carry them, but Kay succeeds. The music and words of Fishersdaughter puncture the balloon of the way I live: urban, intellectualized and-revolving around each day's obsessions. Kay reminds me of the eter~als of life. Clearly in this life for the long haul, Kay provides a model I can learn from in women's music. Lucie Blue Given this history, where do we stand in 1986, with about 17 years growth since Stonewall and the earliest versions of "Still Ain't Satisfied"? The current situation, in Boston, and elsewhere is dismal to those who value women's music as a tool of a political movement. Women's music has been so successful that capitalists have discovered it as one more consumer product, and since the aforementioned values are great drains on profits, they are not part of the slick, new package. The result in Boston this fall is that audiences filled a theater in a white neighborhood for three days of"Women in Music," concerts had no childcare, no interpreters for the deaf and high ticket prices with no sliding scale. The male producer gathered up most of the money that women in the Boston area will spend on concerts by women this fall. The musicians who performed were reportedly paid better than they usually are by women producers, which is not surprisng since the male producer did not have to lay out the costs of accessibility and inclusion. With some exceptions, the techniciariS and backstage workers were male, shutting women out of these roles just as they are in mainstream music. I suspect that many of the women who attended these concerts discovered women's music too recently to know its history, and are so unaware of the qualitative difference between Brand XY and the real thing. Perhaps others trusted the reputations of performers known for their political commitments. But many women stayed away and despaired of the effect this co-optation will have on the music and politics we have nurtured for years. I think I speak for many women in saying that I love the music, but more than that, I love the community that women's music brings together. When I attend or work at concerts, I have the assurance that in this microcosm of the world, women actively try to realize their ideals. I admire the women carrying heavy sound amps and climbing tall scaffolds to install lights high above the stage. I'm inspired by the women directing the stage crew and running the box office. I'm in awe of the producer, who takes financial risks in stride. When the concert is a benefit, I am proud to see the producer and beneficiaries working together to raise community awareness of the organization involved. I'm glad to see the clients of that organization introduced to women's music because of the collaboration. I enjoy ex_ploring the variety of theaters, from old vaudeville houses to high tech modern spaces, that women's music goes into in its efforts to reach women all over the city. I have fun doing volunteer backstage work and being part of a women's crew doing "show biz." I like the music, especially when it tells me it's okay to be me, living my life - and when I can look around and see concrete proof of what the words say. I don't go to women's music to be sung at. I go to celebrate with my community our dreams and our attempts to realize them. The music is more than the melody. I am furious to see all the years, tears, smiles and muscleproducing labor we've shared turned into "product development" for the men to sell back to us. As part of a community, not an audience, I intend to support women-controlled women's music. At the very least, I would hope that audiences insist that male producers meet the same standards as women producers. Ever the lightning rod, women's music is again the proving ground for our values . If we respond as an idealistic community , perhaps women's music will be as much the organizing force of the late '80s as it was in the '70s. We have all changed and nothing will be the same forever, but we don't have to go from all to nothing . As lesbians, we have a particular investment in the future of women's music which has been built on lesbian _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _. . work, t~lents and money. Back around 1974, when several Romanovsky and Phillips Alix Dobkin No musician has stood for lesbian music for lesbiariS names tor this new music were being suggested, the terllf "women's music" was chosen over "lesbian music." One reason for this was that it made it possible to use concert halls without legal battles. Another belief was that outreach to a broad range of women would be hindered by identifying too strongly with lesbianism. So some lesbians let other lesbians and straight women put ow music into a closet. Well, the same legal problems still exist (witness the cancellation of this year's New England Women's Musical Retreat because they could not find a space that would rent to lesbians; Canadian women are still harassed by U.S. immigration when they try to come here to see "wome~' music"). And as for outreach, just what are we reaching pe t* with, when the medium is cqnsumerism, not politics? think the "women's music" strategy has served lesbians t small a retwn for their commitment to this music, and its time we lesbians gave our support to those who support our 'St 7~ ......E.aMUet~~E. ranted and raved myself out, I'd like to focus this record reviews on those recordings that embody many of the above-mentioned ideals. This fall is in fact a banner time for both lesbian and gay men's music, with six new albums just out of the pressing plants and out of the closets. These include albums by two foremothers oflesbian music, Kay Gardner and Alix Dobkin. Their combined first album, Lavenderjane Loves Women (1973), started all this off. One of the newest talents to come to national attention of lesbians, Lucie Blue Tremblay resists current trends by releasing an album of music about lesbian life and women's political issues. Teresa Trull's new album is avowedly aimed at mainstream "top 40" sales, but two songs are unmistakably love songs to women . For many years, lesbian music and gay men's music were separate entities, but more recently women and men have been working together and sharing resources. Two albums that benefit trom this collaboration are Romanovsky and Phillips' Trouble in Paradise and Elliot Pilshaw's Feels Like Home. Women musicians and technicians worked on both albums (as many male musicians have worked on women's albums). I think that gay men will find much to identify with and enjoy on the lesbian albums, and that lesbians may be surprised at how much these men's albums can say to them. •rn,~;u·vuiUu and the band "Witch" back up Alix for some , rap and rock numbers. Still, most of the songs are · -·····r-, Alix with her guitar and some backup vocals by Lucie noJuu, ... v and Debbie Fier, so Alix purists need not dismay . a love song in Yiddish, a tribute to the "Big Girls" that Alix desires, and cover of the Rosalind Russell Broadway showstopper, "One Hundred Easy Ways to Lose a Man.." Several of the songs were recorded live at a studio concert in Boston, with engineer Karen Kane successfully capnt;ing the intimacy of an Alix Dobkin performance. (Available after December 1.) Romanovsky and Phillips are two gay men who are developing their own brand of gay-male-affirming, and feminist, humor. On Trouble in Paradise, their second album, they look at long-term gay male couples; rejection via answering machine {"Why do you bother having it on/when I leave a message you never respond"); and allexpenses-paid guilt trips. Their writing is both clever and politically satisfying. Several songs deal with issues of masculinity and maleness, as in "Don't use your penis for a brain, hard as it must be, you really must refrain." In a song with the rousing chorus of "Ho-ho, homophobia," they tackle the topics of discrimination against gays in teaching, housing, the legal system and health care. Their verse about AIDS is the fust time I have seen this topic appear on a record . This record is very much a men's and women's product, with engineering by Leslie Ann Jones, production by Teresa Trull, and back-up musicians including Barbara Higbie, Vicki.Randle, Bonnie Hayes and Laurie Lewis, in addition to Darol Anger, John Bucchino and many of the other men who have become familiar from their work on women's music recordings. Deuce "' Lucie Blue Tremblay Lucie Blue Tremblay's solo album is bound to become a classic of women's music. This recording introduces a wonderful new talent and also satisfies the ideals of women's music by including a balance of personal and political songs. Lucie is French Canadian, and half of the songs are in French, including her version of Ferron's classic "Ain't Life a - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - · Brook": "Nos Belles Annees." The French sounds so soothing and pleasant I was surprised to discover from more than Alix Dobkin, and her new album, Never Been reading the translations that "Voix d'Enfant" is a very tragic Better, continues to push the cutting edge of lesbian song about incest and child abuse, and "Laissez-Moi Sortie" songwriting. While other writers limit their topics to com("Let Me Out") is about a prisoner who pleads for freedom ing out, romantic love and homophobia, Alix's songs have and the return of her child. been documenting the experiences and changes in attitude In "Mademoiselle," Lucie gives us the perfect women's that the lesbian community has undergone since the early music festival song, one that both captures the festival '70s. In earlier albums, Alix has been painfully honest in "high" and pokes fun: detailing the disillusioning conflicts and separations betThe shooting stars have left us so free ween friends and lovers, and the challenging realities of raisOn the night that we met ing a daughter in a lesbian home. With each of her four Up in chemical-free albums she's shown more acceptance of other women's choices, which may be why she hasn't burned out. On the Just about every album I review contains what I call new album, the song "Crazy Dance" is Alix's current state"generic love songs," tunes that lack pronouns and impact. ment on what she has called "living with contradictions": Lucie is the rare singer/songwriter whose love songs go its verses give her view of lesbians who practice s/m or go straight to the heart and stay there, resisting the disposabilistraight, but its chorus reminds us that "two steps forward, ty of this genre. It is what makes this album stand out from one step back, what a crazy dance we do." On "These many solo women's albums. Women," Alix chronicles what we aging lesbians have been discovering in the last few years, that our lives are far more transitory than we expected them to be, with separations and deaths interrupting ow plans. The album covers a surprising range of styles. Teresa Trull Teresa Trull's new.solo album, A Step Away, is touted in her press material as being intended to attract wide mainstream audiences. While the lyrics are standard love/rejection/ sadder-but-wiser girl platitudes, two songs take more of a risk. "Maria," by Bonnie Hayes and Steve Savage, is about a love affair that isn't going too well, though the spark has yet to die: Oh, Maria and if we can't fight we might as well Just do the things that they all tell us to do And do it all night. "Rosalie," also by Hayes, has an unusual lesbian theme. It's a profile of a live-wire of a woman, "A laughing maniac with her head thrown back," who attracts "all the old boys from miles around," but who also leaves the singer asking, "Oh, Rosalie, do you imagine /When your head hits the pillow at night?" This "crush on a straight(?) woman" theme is prevalent in lesbian fiction, but rare in lesbian music. Trull has been pushing the limits of women's music for some time now, being one of the first white women to break out of the folk mode. She continues to pour on the energetic rhythm and blues energy that best suits her outstanding VOICe. On last spring's Michigan Live '85, an anthology of the most exciting performers of women's music in some of their finest performances, one act that somehow managed to stand out even in this bed of pearls was "Deuce," with their jazzy, brassy instrumental numbers. Deuce features the premier wind players of women's music, Jean Fineberg on tenor sax, flugelhorn, alto sax, and flute; and Ellen Seeling on trumpet and flugelhorn. They also write most of their music and Fineberg presents three songs with lyrics. This is their debut album as a group, but their work can be found as back-up on many women's music albums. Saxaphone, trumpet, and the big band sound have been very much a male province, so "Deuce" represents the fulfillment of the women's music goal to get women into non-traditional roles in music . Their · music is loud, aggressive and very affuming. Backing up Seeling and Fineberg are women's music regulars Juli Homi on piano and Liberty Mata on percussion. Both add much, and often the group seems more like a quartet than a duo. Most of the music has a strong Latin beat and would be great for dance parties. Space limitations force me to give only· the briefest mentions to several albums of interest. Marcia Meyer's Oregon Summer has instrumental pieces and environmental sound effects. She's aided by Mary Watkins and influenced by Meg Christian ... Susan Savell enlisted the aid of Terry Garthwaite, Mary Watkins, Linda Tillery and Rhiannon for her debut album, The Power of My Love for You. Spirituality and death are prominent themes ... Edges ofthe Hearl is a suitable title for Tret Fure's second album. She uses rock and techno-pop styles to sing of subtle and sometimes awkward emotions .. . The Redwood Collection is an anthology by various Redwood artists, including songs by Holly Near, Ferron, Linda TiJlery , Mary Watkins and Judy Small . . . Kristin Lem's new album, Born a Woman, takes a critical look at "Trivial Pursuit": "Don't ask how much money from our taxes go to war/the answer isn't funny and it makes the game a bore." . .. Songs by Ruth Pelham have ben recorded by Holly Near and Ronnie Gilben, now you can hear the writer's versions of them on her debut album, Look to the People. Pelham takes on the themes of aging, children of divorce, and her own Jewish roots . . . Ann Reed has been a strong presence in women's music in the Midwest. On her third album, just Can't Stop, she continues in her pleasant, slightly jazzy style. Song books Two new songbooks may be of interest to GCN readers . Carry It On is a fine collection of songs by and about working men and women in America. The songs are both old and new classics, and the graphics are both historically and artistically fascinating. A detailed text Continued on page 13 �s• , 1 • Page 10 • Gay Community News, November 3 I ·, I I , 23~29, 1 9 8 6 - - - - . . - . - . - - - - - - - - - - -.....- - - Quick Gay Guide BOSTON~AREA LESBIAN AND GAY BusiNEssEs (BARs, BooKsToREs, COUNSELING, MEDICAL, ACCOMODA, TIONS, ETC,) ARE LISTED SEPARATELY WITH THE DISPLAY ADS IN THIS PAPER ' U/Mass!Boston, Lesbian and Gay Ctr .• Br!~~~f~~~c~r?:~~~~~h:;!el:, 1 ~~andeisu.. 9 29-8 276 waltham02254 736-4761 or653-1590 Boston U. Lesbian/Gay Alliance, c/o Prog. 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Call us: 739-7832 25 Huntington Avenue, Room 331, Boston Mass Bay COUNSELING ASSOCIATES �Dear Valiant/Dart owner, Lesbian Rediscovers Joy Continuedfrom page 7 the reality that the vision I have physical and emotional needs of a cherished of a world in which child, much less several children, "women's" values are predomi- it creates for children a model of nant is a goal toward which to human relationships based on struggle; it is not a world which scarcity. With Nathan's birth I will magically appear in my life, or found myself emotionally invested in· just such a family. for which l can afford to wait. Facing my feelings towards Age has not made me any more accepting of the political status men, I have recognized that I am quo. But it has, combined with no longer that powerless child or sobriety and therapy, helped me that frightened wife and I need no to accept my own limits and needs longer fear or hate those men who and to be more willing to live in once dominated me. Letting go of the world that is now, rather than that fear and anger, I can now afford to make room in my life for in a dream of the future. When I learned that my new my grandson, and his father, and grandbaby was a boy, I was sur- to respect them all as the family prised and disappointed. Having my daughter has chosen for decided years before that men herself. With all the adjustments I've were my enemy - the bearers of privilege and the oppressors of all made, the grandmothering part women - it was disturbing to has been surprisingly easy. I am a have this male child suddenly traditionally doting grandmother thrust into the middle of my tidy in a way that I would never have analysis. Becoming a grand- imagined or anticipated, and yet mother, Nathan's grandmother, the role fits like a comfortable forced me to begin re-examining shoe. An entry from my journal my attitudes and feelings about shortly after my first visit after his men. These old fears and resent- birth reminds me how I felt when ments that I had clung to from my Nathan was a newborn baby: When he woke from his nap childhood and my marriage were I beat Debbie up the stairs interfering with this new relationship in my life in very real ways. . . . . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ' My feelings about men and my lesbian political ideology dovetailLOOKING AT ed perfectly to convince me that USED CARS? the nuclear family is an inefficient and unjust social organization Before buying one, bring it to which is particularly oppressive to us for a complete evaluation. women and children and with ~20. for 4 or 6 cylinder cars which I choose not to be $5. extra for V·8, van or A/C associated. It isolates them from (with this ad). 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