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Anti-9ay group submits petit1ons to amend ci� c ha rte r of Traverse City

TRNERSE CITY - An anti-gay group has submitted peti­ tions to the City Clerk, seeking to amend the City Charter of Traverse City to legalize discrimination against gay people.

The Midland-based Michigan chapter of the American Fam-

Inside: Updates on Royal Oak and Kalamazoo battles • A look at AFA's Gary Glenn leading the charge against gays in the state

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ily Association led the effort to collect enough signatures to force the issue onto the ballot this November. The petitions were submitted July 26.

The petition asks that Traverse City voters approve an amendment to the City Charter so no local ordinance or law could be passed that protects people on the basis of sexual orientation, such as a non-discrimination ordinance.

"We remain perplexed as to why this group would set out on such a hostile attack against gay people in Traverse City," said Carol Anderson, a spokesperson for the Traverse

11 B T L photo: Jason Michael HRC Executive Director Elizabeth Birch (center) fought the rains and flew in from Washington to attend Saturday's picnic in Palmer Park.

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Cheney selection shows strength of right wing Anti-human rights record solid

BY SHEA HOWELL

PHILADELPHIA - As the Republican Party moves through a show case convention, the selection of Richard B. Cheney for the vice-presidential slot signals a harsh face to George W. Bush's compassionate conservatism. Demo­

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Michigan Briefs Afro-American men target for HIV/AIDS program FLINT- The Centers For Disease Control have awarded $206,250 to Your Center, a joint venture of the Metropoli­

tan Baptist Tabernacle and Wellness AIDS Services (Flint) to implement a faith-based outreach program to African­ American men. The program will fund staff and support for in-home group intervention, training for clergy on HIVI AIDS related issues and an outreach/prevention initiative to the congregations in African-American churches in Flint.

The new program will target African�American men who have sex with men and heterosexual men. By partnering with area churches, the program will seek to reach out to African-American men within their already existing com­ munities of support. For more information contact Willie Smith, project coordinator at 810-789-8637.

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lindsay Stafford and Julia Music were each presented wit_h scholarshi checks for $1,000 the Forum Foundation, at the group's first-ever scholarship presentation ceremony.

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Forum Foundation awards first scholarships

BY JEssicA McCARTNEY

FERNDALE - The Forum Foun­ dation held its first annual educational scholarship check presentation July 30 at George Fadiga Community Center building. The first two recipients, Lind­ say Stafford and Julia Music, were present to accept the $1,000 checks.

The endowment fund was put es­ tablished to help further the education of lgbt students. The Forum was quoted as stating, "The scholarships are in­ tended to promote a positive gay iden­ tity, to encourage continued academic and career progress and to assist in fi­ nancing higher education and post high school graduate educational experi­ ences for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students. It is clearly an opportunity for students to have a posi-· t i v e s upport mechani s m in their struggle for equ ality, dignity and growth opportunities in their pursuit of a strong and developing self-identity."

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ogy major at Michigan State Univer­ sity. She has had active roles in the LGBT Alliance on campus, and also the gender Library at Michigan State.

Lindsay wants to tell other youth, "Keep up with the activism and what the Forum Foundation stands for and it should be a good opportunity to help get you through college."

Music is interested in elementary education pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Language Arts at Oakland Univer­ sity. She has worked to educate groups throughout S outheastern Michigan about HIVIAIDS and has done numer-

ous programs with ECHO, the gay and lesbian program of the Michigan Jewish AIDS Coalition. She hopes other lgbt youth will start becoming more involved. "I think a lot of [young] people are scared that its going to be all old people and there not going to fit in and you just do, people are nice and you make a difference in the community and you just feel good," stated Music Forum Foundation president Lee Holmberg commented, "We are so excited this is actually the first time we are able to see the fruit of our Iabor." Committee member Terry Hagan added, "Its really neat to see this come to fruition. This [the scholarship process] has been back and forth many

times, how we are going to give this away, and how we are going to set up a scho1 arsh'1p, and how we are finally going to present the money to these people. Today it finally made it to the forefront I am very proud .. .its nice to know that these young people are going to come up

and take our places. I am very proud of all this."

For informatibn on applying for next year's scholarship students can check the financial aid office at all Michigan Universities in April · to uch w1· th of next year or can get m the Forum Foundation v i a the i nternet at www.ForumFoundation.aol.

Minority men are stopped, searched at higher rate GRAND RAPIDS - Black and Hispanic men in West Michigan stood a proportionally greater chance of having their vehicles searched by state troopers during traffic stops than white men during the first three months of this year, according to a Michigan State Police report.

It mirrors a statewide finding culled from the state police's new profil­ ing program, which asks troopers to record the gender, race and other de­ tails of each traffic stop they perform, according to a recent Grand Rapids Press report.

Among vehicles that troopers found probable cause to pull over and search statewide, 23 percent were driven by black men. Black men·make up 6.4 percent of the state's population. White men drove about 57 percent of the vehicles they searched. White men make up 40 percent of the popu­ lation.

Kary Moss, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, said the number of black men having their cars searched by troopers is not proportionate to their population numbers.

Michigan AIDS Fund to expand staff GRAND RAPIDS - The board of directors of the Michi­ gan AIDS Fund announced July 11 their plans to hire an executive director, increase the staff and open an indepen­ dent office.

Leonard Smith, chairman of MAF, said the organiza­ tion has developed to the point that it needs its own dedi­ cated leadership and that the group will initiate a national search for a full-time executive director as the first step in the process. The new executive director will then recruit additional staff for the 11-year-old non-profit organization.

The Greystone Group, a Grand Rapids-based consulting firm has staffed MAF since it was founded in 1989.

The executive director search committee expects to fill the position before the end of the year. MAF will then open an independent office, the location of which has not yet been determined.

MAF, a supporting organization of the Council of Michigan Foundations, was created to pool the resources of some of the largest private foundations in Michigan and to coordinate the funding efforts of Michigan's philanthropic community in response to the HIVIAIDS epidemic. MAF has distributed over $6 million to community-based HIVI AIDS prevention and service organizations across the state.

Quakers to host black gay forum ANN ARBOR - The American Friends Service Com­ mittee will host a series of community forums on issues involving the African-American lgbt community in Washtenaw and western Wayne counties. The first forum will be Aug. 5. AFSC invites same-gender loving and transgender loving people of African descent for a gather­ ing of family, friends, food and fun.

"The forum is intended to create a sense of B lack gay community in Washtenaw and western Wayne county. Al­ lies and friends are welcome," stated "Yes" Iman Jihad, the AFSC African American proj ect coordinator, in an open letter to the community dated July 26.

The forum will be from 11 : a.m. to 1 :00 p.m. at the Friends Meeting House, 14 1 6 Hill Street. For more infor­ mation call 734-761-8283.

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Aug. 8 elections 'a must' for lgbt voters

BY JASON MICHAEL ROYAL OAK - Six months after they met for the first time, the committee ap­ pointed to draft a human rights ordinance for the city of Royal Oak is almost ready to make its presentation to the city commission.

"We have completed drafting," said Karla Handley, the lgbt community represen­ tative of the committee. "The first draft of the ordinance done."

The next step, Handley said, is a review by the committee's legal council, attorney Ann Warner.

"Then from there it will go the city at­ torney," she said. "He' ll give it back to us and then we' ll be ready to give it to the city commission."

A s the committee prepares to do so, however, their adversaries are also busily working o n deadline. Royal Oak Citizens Voting Yes for Equal Rights Not Special Rights .]las u ntil Aug. 9 to get a proposed amendment to the city charter, which would prohibit the city from passing any ordinance that recognized sexual orientation as a pro­ tected class, on a fall ballot. If the group is successful, it would effectively render any human rights ordinance talks mute.

"The one thing we really want to avoid at all costs is having the ordinance and the charter amendment on the ballot at the same time," said Handley, who fears that such a ballot would be confusing. "What we ' re shooting for is getting the city commission to pass the human rights ordinance. " The Royal Oak City Commission voted unanimously last December to appoint a com­ mittee to draft the ordinance. Meanwhile, the city of Ferndale, whose city council voted in a human rights ordinance last fall, saw their ordinance overturned by a ballot initiative in February. The Michigan chapter of the AFA led by Gary Glenn, helped to spearhead the narro w defeat by funding $5,000 of fear based hate literature about gays.

DETROIT - As the entire nation focuses what political energy it can muster on Phila­ delphia for the Republican National Conven­ tion, a much more important political event for Michigan 's lgbt community will take place right here. The primary election will be held Aug. 8 at polling places across the state. The biggest challenge, though, will be to get Michigan voters to notice and to get to the polls for these important elections.

Pride PAC has made it easier for lgbt voters by doing most of the leg-work. They polled with questionnaires every candidate for the U.S Senate, the U . S . House of Rep­ resentative, j udicial races and the Michi­ gan House of Representatives. (The Michi­ gan Senate is not up for reelection this year.)

The questionnaire included questions on issues important to the lgbt community such as the candidate's stance on discrimi-

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1 st District, Jamie Fields, Democrat

1 st District, Bart Stupak, Democrat - U pper Peninsula and Northern M l 2nd District, Bob Shrauger, Democrat · Western Ml Shoreline

3rd District, Timothy Steele, Democrat - G rand Rapids, Kent and Ionia Co, 6th District, James Bupp, SW Ml, Kzoo, St. Joseph

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Bth District, Diane Byrum, Democrat - l nghma, livingston, · Washtenaw 9th District, Dale Kildee, Democrat - Flint area . 1 Oth District, David Bonior, Democrat - Macomb, St. Clair 11th District, Matt Frumin, W. Oakland Co.

69th District, Paul Pratt, Democrat 70th District, Mary Lindemann, Democrat

3rd District, Artina Tinsley·Hardman, Democrat

71 st District, Faye Kraus, Democrat

4th District, Dalton A. Roberson, Democrat

72nd District, Christopher Vogt Democrat

4th District, Robert Bruner, Republican

80th District, Art Toy, Democrat

5th District, Ken Daniels, Democrat

84th D istrict J i m H arwood, Republican

6th District, David Points, Democrat

90th District, John O ' B rien, Democrat

7th District, Hansen Clarke, Democrat

92nd D istrict, Julia Dennis, Democrat

8th District, Beida Garza, Democrat

97th District, J oseph Rivet, Democrat

9th District, Kwame Kilpatrick, Democrat 10th District, Democrat

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12th District, Keith Stallworth, Democrat 14th District, Derrick Hale, Democrat

13th District, Lynn Rivers, Ann Arbor, W. Wayne Co.

20th D istrict, Matt Cowles, Republican

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14th District, John Conyers, Jr., Democrat.

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98th District, Rick Shook, Democrat tOOth District, Cheryl Sterling, Democrat 101st District, Nick Krieger, Democrat

1 06th District, Andy Neumann, Democrat 1 08th District, Doug Bovin, Democrat

15th District, Amanda Howe, Democrat 17th District, Bennie Horne, Democrat

1 9th District, M ichael Sullivan, Democrat

22nd District, Raymond Basham, Democrat ·

23rd District, George Mans Democrat 25th District, Gloria Schermesser, Democrat

tSth District, Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, Demo· crat · Southern Detroit

26th District, William J. Callahan, Democrat

1 6th D istrict, John Dingell; Democrat - Dearborn and Downriver

30th District, Irvin Droste, Democrat

27th District, M i chael Switalski, Democrat

31st District, Paul Gieleghem, Democrat

32nd District, G reg Moore, Democrat 34th District, Dave Woodward, Democrat 35th District, Gilda Jacobs, Democrat 36th District, Nancy Quarles, Democrat

37th District, Aldo Vagnozzi, Democrat 40th District, Pan Godchaux, Republican

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65th District, Brenda Abbey, Democrat

66th District, Judith Scranton, Republican

2nd District, Lamar Lemmons, Ill Democrat

12th District, Sander Levin, Democrat · East Oakland & W. Macomb

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68th District, Virg Bernero, Democrat

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nation based on sexual orientation, h crimes, the legality of private sex acts tween consenting adults, same-sex rna riage, domestic partnerships benefits, HI AIDS , problems of lgbt youth. Pride P also asked about a woman's right to choo to give birth and affirmative action.

Here is Pride PAC ' s list of endors candidates. Bold type indicates a strong e dorsement.

43rd District, Jeff Kingzett, Democrat 47th District, Rose Bogardus, Democrat

48th District, Vera Rison, Democrat 48th District, Charles V''illiams, Republican 49th District, Jack Minore, Democrat 50th District, Douglas Weiland, Democrat

5 1 st District, Patricia Lockwood, Democrat 52nd District, John Hansen, Democrat 53rd District, Chris Kolb, Democrat 54th District, Ruth Ann Jamnick, Democrat 60th District, Alexander Lipsey, Democrat 6tst District, Don Jones, Republican

Judicial and other race 3rd Circuit of the Circuit Court, Non-incum� (vote for two) · Peggy Costello and Jane (Wayne County) 6th Circuit of the Circuit Court, Non·incum� (vote for one) · Randall S. Miller (East Oak County) 30th Circuit of Circuit Court, lncul:flbent ( for two) · Laura Baird (Ingham County)

Kent County Probate, Non-incumbent (vote for o Dawn Krupp (Kent County) 41 A District Court, Non-incumbent (vote for one)- J Labuda Szymanski (Sterling Hts.) Non-incum D i strict C o u rt, 74th (vote for one) - Abel Torres (Bay City) Ingham County Christopher Swope

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Kalamazoo Community fights back

BY SARAH MIERAS

KALAMAZOO - A meeting room at the Peoples Church in Kalamazoo was full July 26 as lgbt community leaders gathered to combat a petition drive aimed at changing the cities charter.

The petition drive, lead by Jacob Van Giessen of Kalamazoo Citizens Voting For Equal Rights Not Special Rights and backed by the American Family Association is a re­ action to a recent decision by City Manager, Pat DiGiovanni. DiGiovanni's decision made Kalamazoo the second city in Michigan to provide domestic partnership rights to its workers.

The petition, which has been circulat­ ing for approximately a month asks for "an amendment to the city charter to prohibit the city from enacting, enforcing or administer­ ing any ordinance, regulation, rule or policy which grants special class status based upon sexual orientation, conduct, or relationship."

A clause in the petition also states that "Any ordinance, regulation, rule or policy enacted before this amendment is adopted that vio­ lated the foregoing prohibition shall be null and void and of no force effect."

"It has to be the entire community that takes this on," said Terry Kuseske president of the Kalamazoo Gay and Lesbian Resource Center board. Kuseske and a handful of oth­ ers were instrumental in organizing the meet­ ing, which aimed to bring together estab­ lished lgbt movers and shakers and local churches.

The KLGRC as well as Michigan Equality, Triangle Foundation, CARES, Western Michigan University and local business owners were listed among the at­ tendants at the meet­ ing.

Although it is rumored that Van Giessen's organiza­ tion will fall short of its signature goal be­ BTL photo: Sarah Mieras fore the early August Terry Kuseske and Maze Henderson at the July 26 organizing meet­ filling deadline, ing in Kalamazoo. Kuseske said, -It has to be the entire community Kalamazoo activists that takes this on. aren't banking on it working with the media, begin fundraising and will soon be acting out strategies decided and find a local spokesperson. It is expected at the meeting. that another meeting will be called in the near Under the direction of a steering com­ future. mittee, the members of which have yet to be For Kuseske, who mediated the meet­ announced, the group aims to form a ballot ing, gathering financial support for their anti­ question committee which will encourage discrimination efforts is only half of the those who don't support discrimination of battle. lgbt persons to hit the polls.

"We've got to present a unified face to "The strategy is simple," said Beth the community," said Kuseske. "They are Bashert president of Michigan Equality. "The going to pull and attack anything we do." other side is encouraging discrimination· People wishing to help volunteer and/ against lgbt people." or donate funds can contact Kuseske at the To get it's feet off the ground the ballot Kalamazoo Gay & Lesbian Resource Cen­ question committee plans to first establish a ter at 616-349-4234. checking account, solidify its tactics for n

Why Michigan lgbt residents are being viciously attacked An interview with the Gary Glenn ofthe American Family Association MI chapter

BY SARAH MIERAS

He moved into Michigan unnoticed. He worked on a dying program to provide tax breaks to those sending their children to pri­ vate school. W hen that failed he picked up a fight he thinks he cannot lose. He is innocu­ ous; his seething hatred rarely showing on camera or in newspaper quotes. He believes thousands are backing his efforts.

He is Gary Glenn, president of the American Family Association of Michigan, also known as the For The Children Com­ pany.

On Oct. 1, 1999, Glenn took over the Michigan arm of the AFA. Wasting little time, Glenn began to grab mainstream media head­ lines on issues such as censoring Internet access in schools and public libraries and the

evils of "the homosexual agenda."

Nine months later Glenn's is swinging full force as anti-gay ballot initiatives aim for the November vote in five separate cities throughout Michigan (Grand Rapids, Traverse City, Kalamazoo, Royal Oak and Grand Ledge).

Why Michigan A geographically vast state built upon the shoulders of the automotive industry, Michigan is often categorized as a state com­ mitted to upholding Unions.

Michigan, however, also has another reputation in the national political scene.

"I find Michigan is one of the most pro­ life states in the nation," said Glenn. "It's overwhelming. Especially in comparison to

other states who like to beat their brow about how conservative they are. I don't think there is any question that there is a bedrock of sup­ port in this state for traditional Judeo-Chris­ tian family values such as life and the tradi­ tional definition of family."

According to Glenn, traditional family values aren't hard to define for they have been "the building block for society since history began."

Some scholars would, of course, dis­ agree. Some would also disagree with how Glenn reads Michigan law.

"Homosexual behavior is, number one, illegal in the state of Michigan," said Glenn.

"It is a felony violation of the Michigan crimi­ nal code; a detestable and infamous crime

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City Campaign Against Discrimination, which formed to defeat the anti-gay mea­ sure.

"Traverse City currently provides no protection from discrimination for gay people, and this group now wants our city to take a public vote saying that we should discriminate against gay people."

The AFA's efforts began after the City Commission of Traverse City in February overwhelmingly passed a non-binding reso­ lution that opposes all forms of discrimina­ tion. Although the resolution changes no laws and has no legal effect, the AFA now wants to amend the City Charter because the resolution included sexual orientation as a characteristic deserving protection from dis­ crimination.

'This group thinks it should be okay for gay people to be denied housing and fired from their jobs," said Paul Heaton, another spokesperson for the Campaign Against Dis­ crimination. "We think the vast majority of people in Traverse City believe such dis­ crimination is wrong."

Tranverse City is one of five Michigan municipalities that facing the threat of simi­ lar ballot initiatives. The AFA is involved in gathering signatures in most of these other cities, including Kalamazoo, Royal Oak, Ferndale, and Grand Ledge.

"We've seen the misleading and inflam­ matory rhetoric this group has used else­ where. It's frightening," Anderson said.

"They seem to stop at nothing to pursue their agenda of discrimination."

The all-volunteer Campaign Against Discrimination is working to educate Traverse City voters about the proposed amendment. The Campaign Against Dis­ crimination has a web site, and encour­ ages Traverse City residents to visit the site and register their support. The ad­ dress: www.tccad 2000.org. The campaign also can be reached by phone at 231-922-

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ith the opening of the Republican National Convention, the spin doctors working for the Republican party would

like the world to believe that a Bush presidency will bring us a new era of compassionate conservatism.

Stealing from a substantive issue in the 1996 presidential race, "It's compassion, stupid," is the new mantra of the Republican me­ dia wizards. If it looks good in a photo-op (gay Republicans posing

with George W.) and sounds good in a sound bite (Opportunity with

a purpose. . . leaving no child behind) it will feel good in real life, even though discrimination is still the main course feeding Republi­ cans.

The bottom line is that the Republican party platform is a doc­ trine that will insidiously continue to deny us our civil rights. W hile the tone of the discrimination is served up more "compassionately" than the vitriolic rhetoric heard at the 1996 convention, the lgbt com­ munity remains in the Republican landscape an acceptable group to bash (no Hate Crimes legislation), to deny employment (no ENDA), to refuse basic family rights such as child custody and marriage (uphold DOMA), to refuse inclusion in military service (uphold tht> ban against gays and lesbians in the service).

And if that doesn't scare you, the next President of the United States will appoint as many as five Supreme Court justices in the next four years. The memory of the recent Boy Scouts ought to re­ mind us how important those nine justices are in determining whether the lgbt population will be included or excluded in American life.

Jesse Jackson has called the current apathy among American voters a part of "prosperity fatigue." Perhaps, he says, Americans have had it so good for so long we have forgotten that our civil

rights are grounded in struggle, not comfort. That the good times will probably not last forever and now is the time to secure our basic rights and freedoms. We should not relax, and we cannot wait until an eco­ nomic or political crisis appears. That's when our opposition will be the very least compassionate. They will not want to help us, they will be searching for scapegoats.

A poll of the delegates in Philadelphia (83% of whom are white, middle class males despite the media show on diversity) shows that they are as staunchly conservative as ever. Abortion, gay rights and school vouchers are at the top of their agenda. George W. Bush will try

to gloss over the power of the right wing activists, but they control the destiny of the party and their agenda will permeate American life if

given the power of the W hite House. The American Family Associa­ tion, one of the leaders of the far right, has called for the immediate arrest of Rep. Kolbe (R-Ariz.) after his speech at the convention. The AFA says that because he is openly gay he is a felon under the sodomY, laws of Arizona and should be put in jail. If that is loving, compassion­ ate conservatism, then we should all be very worried.

We will do ourselves a great service by listening carefully to what the Republicans actually say in Philadelphia this week. They will surely want us to believe that they carry no ill will toward lgbt people, that private lives deserve to be kept out of the public spotlight, and that sexuality is nobody's business. But make no mistake. There is a huge gulf between the concepts of privacy and of oppression through silence and exclusion. If the Republicans were actually compassionate, the they would open the American landscape to include lgbt families, em­ ployees, soldiers and maybe even Supreme Court Justices. Instead, ex­ pect strong pressure to stay in the closet and behave according to con servative rules - or else you just might find yourself arrested someday.

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COM M ENTARY

Boy Scout Prayer Book now obsolete !

Friendship and Dating "Teach us to communicate freely and with­ out fear. That we may know the fulfillment of sharing our deep feelings and longings with those who care. Help us, Lord, discover the uniqueness of each person that we meet, and help us learn respect for personality, even when people differ from us greatly. . . " John 1 5 : 1 4 1 5 ·

elow are samples of prayers that "The Church Commission for Civic Youth Serving Agencies" will have to revise in their scouting handbook titled, "When Scouts Pray" so they d o n ' t conflict w i th the B o y S c o u t s of America's shameful victory. This prayer book, complete with the B . S .A . logoon the cover, con­ tains prayers with references to the scriptures that inspired each of them. These prayers, along with the corresponding scriptures, would have to be re­ vised to fit this openly exclusive and bigoted orga­ nization. When reading these particular prayers in­ tended for young scouts, the hypocrisy is obvious and overwhelming. Perhaps the B .S.A. 's leaders should open this prayer book to read for themselves and heed the messages within.

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Fellowship "Sometimes we pretend to be what we are not for fear that our real selves are unacceptable. Yet we can turn to you, 0 God and to Christians in this place and say, Thank you for understanding; help us to be courageous . We thank you, Father, for such a household and such acceptance.Amen. Ephesians 2 : 1 9- 2 1

LEnERS The Republicans can't l eave wel l enough a lone Dear BTL, The Republicans can ' t seem to leave well enough alone. Not being satisfied with an "oil man" from Texas for president, they are now reported to be picking another "oil man" as vice presidential candidate. They want to be sure that all the "goodies" go to oil and other big corporations who are fund­ ing the GOP instead of welfare, healthcare, higher education funding and affordable housing for the ordinary citizen. To make things worse, Cheney, the vice presidential GOP candidate, is moving from the Texas oil fields to Wyoming so that his vote can count in another state.

All this oil and potentially slick corpo­ rate and influence money makes the GOP candidates (on all levels) too suspect for me.

I will be voting for Gore for President (Demo­ crat) as well as Stabenow (another good Democrat) for U.S. Senate and Kolb (Demo­ crat) for state legislature. If I have to choose, I will always take candidates for the people over those candidates beholden to the oil cor­ porations and big housing rather than tax breaks for the rich and the "conservative com­ passion" . Compassionate Conservatism is a cruel j oke by the Republicans at the expense of the rest of us.

Stanley Borenstein Ann Arbor

Reconciliation "Help us, Father, where we are, begin to tear down the walls of our own isolation from people­ our little fears of change, our personal prej udices, our protective natures. Show us how wonderful a view we get of people when the walls come down." Ephesians 2: 1 4 I , Myself " . . . how can w e find our particular place? Do not sell yourself short. God made only one of you .

No one else can have your style, or wear your smile, or think your thoughts, or feel exactly the way you do . . . You are a unique creation among other creatures . . . no one can tell you exactly who you are or where you fit in. You must discover that for yourself.

Psalms 8 :4-5 Where do gay youth and adult leadership fit in? Sadly, nowhere in the Boy Scouts.

BTL missed mark, Cheney no friend Dear BTL, I have to believe that the piece by Bob Roehr about Bush's selection of Dick Cheney was incomplete, inaccurate, and biased.

Roehr masked Cheney 's real feelings, emotions and record on human rights issues and his policies toward gays. Roehr was com­ pletely uncritical of Cheney and portrayed him (irresponsibly and without sufficient proof) as a moderate and potential ally.

Cheney does not support gays serving openly in the military and we will never see leadership from him or Bush on GLBT is­ sues. We would be lucky if they would sup­ port even basic legislation like the Hate Crime Prevention Act. I ' m shocked that BTL would run such a supportive piece of Cheney in an election year. BTL should be grilling the candidates on the issues and not "spinning" a candidate 's record to make he/she more palatable for voters.

Show us the facts. I hope BTL will run another piece exami ning Cheney more closely, so we are better educated about the man who may be the next President of the U . S . Senate and Vice President of this coun­ try.

Yours in Pride Sean Kosofsky,

Dear BTL: I was so dismayed and shocked in the coverage afforded by your publicati o n in the brief column regarding the selection of Ri­ chard Cheney as the GOP VP candidate. My disappointment was not in the reporting of this cam p aign announcement, but in the de­ liberate attempt to influence the readers that Cheney is an acceptable and plausible choice for our next vice president.

The failure and omission of the article to list some of the basic social and political positions and postures Dick Cheney has taken in the past is obscene and an oversight that I believe was a deliberate effort to make Cheney palpable and appealing.

This type of journalistic marketing is never acceptable and insults the integrity of your publication and intelligence of your readers. I hope this marginal effort in report­ ing and this disrespect for the intellectual in­ tegrity of your readers will never occur again.

Greg Thrasher Detroit

Edito r 's No te : D e a dlin e c o n ­ straints on our last edition did n o t al­ low for in depth coverage of Republi­ can VP pick, Dick Cheney.

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Parting Glances .. THEN

and

NOW ...

BY CHARLES ALEXANDER

It ain't necessari ly so so Remembering Peter Me Williams

There are 350,000 people in jail right now for victimless crimes, with an additional 1 .5 million on parole or probation. Four million will be arrested this year, and $50 billion spent to process and punish these offenders . $ 1 50 billion in tax revenue will also be lost.

These statistics on consensual crimes are taken from Peter McWilliams's book, "Ain 't Nobody 's Business If You Do." First published in 1 993, an updated paperback version is avail­ able. (The homosexuality commentary is eye­ opening reading for all concerned with lgbt civil rights.)

McWilliams, who died recently of AIDS­ related causes (and said by some to be a con­ spiracy death due to his marij uana-use advo­ cacy) is one of America's better-known self­ help writers. A #I New York Times best-sell­ ing author, he wrote 32 books, including po­ etry, computer manuals, and the popular "You C an ' t Afford the L u x u ry of A N e g at i v e Thought."

M c Wi l l i am s g u e s � e d freq u e n t l y on "Oprah," "Larry King," "Donah ue," and "Sally Jessy Raphael." He was born in Michi­ gan, and his brother Michael, also gay, was for a time a Detroit News film critic.

In spite of his power of positive thinking bromides, Me Williams had to deal with de­ mons of his own. He spent eight years involved with a gay cult leader named John-Rogers, with whom he co-authored a number of books (Me Williams claimed he did most of the writ­ ing).

Though close at first their relationship turned bitter, and McWilliams broke away from what he felt to be a mind-control experi­ ence. The story is told in "Love 1 02 : What Do You Do When Your Guru Sues You . " (Curi­ ously, now out of print. ) McWilliams believed h e had been spiri­ tually duped. He learned the hard way that true enlightenment comes only by fully accepting oneself (the negative as well as the positive) and using one's special talents to make this crazy world a better place.

There is a saying: When the pupil is ready the teacher will appear. Maybe so; but a story also goes that a truth seeker traveled many miles for enlightenment to the cave of a holy man. As he approached the swami bowed and greeted him. "Thank heavens you ' ve come, my son. Now I can go and pee. " Have a Blessed Day ! Commit a victim­ less crime. (Just don't get caught.)

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Heavy ra1ns fai led to dampen HTJ •

BY JASON MICHAEL

DETROIT - Mother Nature had a field day with the event. She blanketed the city with torrential downpours trap ping confer­ ence participants inside of the Ponchartrain Hotel on Friday afternoon and causing many to stay away from Saturday ' s picnic i n Palmer Park. But organizers o f this year ' s Hotter Than July, Detroit's fifth annual De­ troit B l ack Gay Pride, were not disap­ pointed.

"Not even [with] the rain," said Johnny Jenkins, DBG Pride's president. "I thought that was going to be a downer, but God's been working with us over the years. So I j ust look at it as him purifying the park for us."

And God had a little help from the are a ' s three African-American led lgbt churches, who were the first to welcome participants to the festivities with a lengthy church service in the park on Thursday night.

B ut by Friday the rains had arrived, forcing many others to stay away. Miss Oohzee, for example, the exotic entertainer scheduled to de light the ladies at Friday 's night's ladies ice breaker, was unable to get a flight into the city in time for her show.

"I know a lot of people were stuck in Chicago with flights canceled," said Jenkins.

"Every flight from Chicago got canceled because of the storm."

Saturday's sporadic showers resulted in a low turnout for the traditional picnic in Palmer Park, but other events more than made up for the losses. At this year 's re­ vamped conference, Friday 's Genesis Sum­ mit, Jenkins said attendance doubled. The same was also true for Men of Color's Sun­ day afternoon Jazz B ash at the Detroit Yacht Club with vocalist Kimrnie Horne. The BBC brunch at the Century Club was also a sell­ out and a record 1 ,200 people packed Club One X Saturday night for the White Party, co-sponsored by Ground Level, formerly the Ken Collier Memorial Fund, and Strongarm Productions.

"I thought it was very successful," said Jenkins, of the weekend as a whole. "I feel like we had more of the community buy in, more community commitment to the event."

Jenkins added that planning for next year 's Pride will begin Sept. 12 with a spe­ cial regrouping meeting at St. Joseph - St. Matthew Church.

"We ' re planning some really innqvative stuff for the next few years," Jenkins said.

"I truly believe that HTJ will evolve into the model that all the other B lack Gay Prides follow."

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DETROIT - "Getting Real with HIV I AIDS" has been the theme of a conference put on by Men of Color before. But unlike last November 's event, the focus audience for the July 26 event was between the ages of 1 8 and 24.

"It's important to reach out to youth," said Brandi Bordono of the Triangle Founda­ tion. "People who are involved when they are young tend to stay involved their whole lives."

Taking place at Wayne State University 's McGregor Conference Center, the conference was open to gay and straight youth alike and played to a very diverse audience.

"This is something that affects black and white people," said 1 9-year-old Dante Gra­ ham. "I j ust want people to live."

And so does Allan Harris , the openly HIV-positive Prevention Program Coordina-

tor for MOC and organizer of last Thursday 's conference. " A I D S pre v e n t i o n is a w o rk i n progress," Harris said, pledging t o continue to create innovative programs to help raise awareness with the youth.

At last week's conference, for instance, several panels from the AIDS Quilt were on hand, as was Rich Long form the Names Project. The day was spangled with work­ shops, seminars, a lavish lunch and a key­ note speech by M:chigan Department of Community Health Director Loretta Davis Satterla.

Throughout the day, MOC 's motto for AIDS prevention was as strong as it's always been. Abstinence is the best policy, but if you can't wait, love yourself enough to protect yourself.

"The key is not what you know," said Long. "But what you do with what you know."

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MONTPELIER, Vt. (GayNet Jul 26) - Vermont's civil union law continues to make news with lawmakers in at least 7 states reportedly exploring similar laws.

News sources report that legislators in California, Connecticut, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York and Rhode I sland are all looking at the Vermont civil unions law as a possible model for legislative proposals they ' re considering.

The Vermont law, which officially took effect July 1, extends to same-sex couples virtually all the state ben­ efits and responsibilities now enjoyed by legally married couples.

Meanwhile, the "Rutland [Vt.] Herald" reports that newspapers throughout the state, including some that op­ posed the civil union law, seem to have no trouble accept­ ing civil union announcements for gay and lesbian couples as they already do for couples getting married.

Jim Fox, editor of the "Lebanon Valley News" said the paper had no trouble deciding to run civil union no­ tices and that it "took about 30 seconds of deep thought" to decide.

Meanwhile, one of the first out-of-state couples Vivienne Armstrong and Louise Young of Dallas - trav­ eled to B rattleboro, Vt., for their own civil union on July 24. The couple said in the "Dallas Voice" that they would consider being a test case back home by filing their Ver­ mont union in Texas.

Several Vermont legislators and town clerks in the state, however, are continuing their court challenge to the state civil union law, although most local clerks appear to be complying with the new law.

Florida cities consider cutting Boy Scout support FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Gay Net Jul 28) - Tim - Smith, vice mayor of Fort Lauderdale, says he will oppose city funding for the B oy Scouts because of the youth group's anti-gay policies.

"I don ' t think gays and lesbians are a danger to our children," Smith told the "Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel" and called the scouting leadership's refusal to admit gays "mean spirited."

"It's divisive, and I don ' t think the city should be a part of it," Smith said. "It's prej udiced and it's discrimina­ tory."

The city commission is slated to take up next fiscal year 's budget - which includes a requested $ 10,000 grant to the B oy Scouts - this September.

Earlier in the week, Wilton Manors council member Gary Resnick is reported to have asked the city attorney there to prepare an ordinance that would bar city funding of organizations that discriminate because of sexual ori­ entation.

Resnick quickly agreed that the point of the proposed new law was mainly the Boy Scouts, following a recent S upreme Court decision that narrowly allowed the youth group the right to exclude any classes of people it wanted to. ·

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Study : Internet a growing venue of risky sex BY

KEITH CLARK

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Accord­ ing to a study j ust published in the "Journal of the American Medical As­ sociation," people who surf the Internet looking for sexual partners may be at greater risk for sexually transmitted dis­ eases (STDs), including HIV. There are a wide variety of ways to meeting potential sex partners on the Internet - chat rooms, bulletin boards, instant messaging systems, electronic mail lists, web pages devoted to per­ sonal ads .

Many o f the people who use these Internet resources say one of the main advantages is that they are more direct, more casual than, say, meeting some­ one at a bar or club.

B ut that's what increasingly has public health officials concerned.

Researchers with the federal Cen­ ters for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta wanted to find out whether the Internet in fact puts people at increased risk for sexually transmit­ ted diseases at they feared.

Investigators led by Mary McFarlane studied the habits of just over 850 clients at an HIV counsel­ ing and testing facility in Denver.

They found that nearly 16 percent of them reported looking online for sexual partners . And of these, 3 3 percent said they had had a n STD and had been exposed to someone with HIV - most of them within the previous six months of testing.

By comparison, the STD rate was 20 percent among those clients who did not use the Internet to find sex partners and only 14 percent of them said they ' d been exposed to a partners with HIV or an STD. The research data also indi­ cated that those who looked online for sexual partners reported more previous STDs and having more anal sex.

McFarlane said a disturbing implication of her findings is that people use the Internet to arrange sexual contacts as part of their va­ cations, business trips or other travel

plans.

"That means sexually transmitte diseases can now travel everywhere McFarlane said. "That you won't see ni geographic pockets as we've seen befo In addition, sexually transmitted diseas put people at higher risk for acquiri HIV, the virus that causes AIDS . So t is an incredibly high-risk activity to picking up sex partners on the Interne An editorial in the "Journal" t accompanied the study said the findin are hardly surprising since the anony ity of the Internet makes it appealing "sexual adventurers." But the "J j oins the CDC researchers in calling more creative ways to warn about potential high risks of meeting partners so casually via the Internet.

Sheana B ull, who co-authored "Journal" article, say s , "One way could take advantage of the ' " •"'r"'"" technology is to program our ,.11,,Prtt � t t in such a way that people who are ing for a particular site would neously see an ad for information STDs and HIV along with a link to site they were seeking.

Cheney seledion con tinued from co ver crats, women 's groups, civil rights or­ ganizations and lgbt leaders have all is­ sued statements expressing concern over Cheney 's record. It is one of the most conservative in Congress, often compared to that of Jesse Helms.

In his years in the I:ord, Reagan and B ush administrations as well as a rep­ resentative from Wyoming, Cheney has amassed a public record of opposition to virtually all human rights concerns.

He is known for voting with a small minority of hard line republicans .

"George W. Bush has flubbed the most important decision of his presiden­ tial campaign," said Elizabeth Toledo, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force executive director. She said his conser­ vatism "holds no compassion whatso­ ever for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans gender community.

Furthermore it sends a chilling sig­ nal to women, to people of color and to those concerned with fairne s s and equality." she said, "This selection dem­ onstrates that right wing, religious ex­ tremists are still a powerful force on the political landscape."

Reports this week that Cheney 's daughter, Mary, is a lesbian fueled some spec ulation that he may indicate a greater receptiveness to lgbt concerns.

His own comments and public record, however, show that Cheney has sepa­ rated his private life from public policy issues. He has voted against hate crimes legislation, endorsed the ban on lgbt

people serving openly in the military and gives no indication of altering these positions.

Richard Tafel, executive director of the Log Cabin Republicans, a na­ tional gay Republican organization, said it was encouraging that the Bush campaign felt Mary Cheney ' s sexual orientation isn't an issue. "For a while, we' ve heard rhetoric about family val­ ues, particularly in our party, portray­ ing gay people as anti-family. To have Dick Cheney embracing his daughter is a good sign," Tafel said.

The B ush campaign had little to say. Cheney "loves his family very much and hopes that their lives will be treated as private," said Mindy Tucker, spokeswoman for the cam­ paign in Austin, Texas.

There is some speculation that concern over his daughter ' s sexual orientation may have played a part in Cheney, s decision to not make a presi­ dential bid in the last election. B ob Woodward, a journalist and political analyst claims concerns about a gay fam i l y member were a part o f Cheney 's moving away from his own campaign.

Cheney ' s opposition to lgbt is­ sues is accompanied by an anti-civil rights record dating back 30 years. He has opposed the Equal Rights Amend­ ment, affirmative action, sanctions against South Africa, resolutions call­ i n g fo r the free d o m o f N e l s o n Mandela, abortion o n any grounds in­ cluding rape and incest, funding for child immunizations and for head

start. He also opposed the safe drink· ing water act and efforts to outlaw wha are called cop killer bullets .

He served in the Nixon and For administrations, was a six term co gressman from Wyoming for 1978 t1 1983 and was Secretary of Defense u der Bush from 1989 to 1993.

His troubling public record on i sues of human rights is further cloude by his ties to conservative think ta and to the oil industry. After leavin p u b l i c s e r v i c e , C h e n e y j o i n e d th American Enterprise Institute, a f right organization, responsible for pu lishing controversial materials, includ ing The Bell Curve. He left there to b come CEO of Halliburton, which su11 plies products and services to the o industry.

The selection of Dick Cheney, w headed up the search for a suitable vi presidential candidate, is the first dec sion with national consequences to made by the B ush campaign. It rais deep concerns within the lgbt comm nity and our allies.

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of two conventions

Gay Republicans struggle with a party that doesn't exactly welcome them

BY KEITH CLARK

PHILADELPHIA - Under the wary eye of far-right conservatives and the skeptical eye of gay and lesbian Demo­ crats, gay Republicans are working hard to assert some lim­ ited influence in the increasingly anti-gay GOP mainstream where in the past they' ve often felt less than welcome.

This year, as the Republican National Convention starts in Philadelphia July 29 through August 3, there are at least 1 8 openly gay and lesbian delegates on the floor - a dramatic increase from just three who attended the 1 996 GOP conven­ tion.

Grumpy conservatives Anti-gay conservatives, for several years used to virtu­ ally dictating GOP social policy issues, recently became con­ cerned that "their" party was getting too cozy with gay and lesbian Republicans and began grumbling. Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson, who chairs the GOP's platform commit­ tee meeting in Philadelphia in advance of the convention it­ self, had met with members of the Log Cabin Republican, a national gay lobbying group with 45 local chapters and a roster of some 1 0,000 members, and anti-gay conservatives didn't like it.

A nervous ad hoc group of far-ri15ht organizations, such as the Family Research Council, the Traditional Values Coa­ lition and others, demanded their own private meeting with Gov. Thompson. After that meeting, Chuck Donovan of the Family Research Council said they had been "reassured" that

the party's national platform would continue to include its anti-gay planks which support a complete ban of homosexu­ als in the armed forces, opposition to same-sex marriage, and their dissatisfaction with extending civil rights protections to gays and lesbians.

Even so, Donovan darkly warned, "There are no guar­ antees in politics. We' ll be in Philadelphia to encourage Re­ publicans to stay put on this one."

They didn' t have to worry. The platform committee kept planks opposed to same-sex marriage, to "special legal pro­ tection" based on sexual orientation, and declaring "homo­ sexuality is incompatible with military service."

Conservatives also grew concerned about reports that Mary Cheney, the 3 1 -year-old daughter of Gov. George Bush's designated vice presidential choice, Dick Cheney, is a lesbian.

In the real world, only time will tell if Mary Cheney will play any role at all in the campaign or have any impact on the election itself. After all , an otherwise obscure daughter of a vice presidential candidate isn' t exactly what most voters think about in deciding whom to vote for.

But in the rarefied ether of the Internet, speculation about her ran rampant.

Netizens posting around various Worldwide Web and bulletin board sites have suggested Ms. Cheney's previous job with the Adloph Coors brewery in Colorado makes her "suspect" because of the Coors family's links to some of the nation's most extreme right-wing groups. Others have sug­ gested the Bush campaign made a point of leaking the infor­ mation about her to the press to bolster support among gay and lesbian Republicans. One discussion even suggested Ms. Cheney might undergo some sort of "reparative therapy"

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The Log Cabin Republicans will decide on whether to · endorse Bush or not during their own meeting in Philadel­ phia following the Republican convention, but most observ­ ers say they are unlikely to withhold their endorsement. Gay Republicans have already begun to rhapsodize about Gov. Bush's willingness to "reach out" to gays and lesbians.

It's a far cry from six months earlier when the Texas governor and undoubted Republican presidential nominee adamantly dismissed the idea of even meeting with Log Cabin as a "huge political nightmare."

Bush of course did in fact meet with several gay and lesbian Republicans, although he refused to meet the Log Cabin leaders as such, mainly because his campaign head­ quarters felt the group had backed his primary opponent, Sen. John McCain of Arizona.

Since then there appears to have been at least some fence­ mending, although critics say it's mainly a matter of the Bush campaign steering their candidate down a fairly centrist road and avoiding any real controversies on either the left or right.

Considering that four years ago the Republican Party leader­ ship seemed unwilling even to accept campaign contributions from gay Republicans, Log Cabin is perhaps understandably pleased with now having some access to the Bush campaign and meeting with Gov. Thompson. Recently, Kevin Ivers of Log Cabin's national office in Washington, D.C., said, "I've got to give Gov. Bush a lot of credit personally for reaching out."

The Log Cabin folks are also heady about a three-minute speech given by Rep. Jim Kolbe (R-Ariz.) during the GOP convention. Like the proverbial elephant at the cocktail party, though, Kolbe, who is the only openly gay Republican mem­ ber of Congress, won't be talking to the delegates about gay rights, however. Instead, he is scheduled to discuss free trade issues and explain why he supports NAFTA. But while gay and lesbian Republicans may be happy about Kolbe's appearance at the convention, far right leaders reacted with dismay. ABC News quoted an unnamed Repub­ lican leader saying he was "shocked" and "flabbergasted" by the decision to allow Kolbe to speak at the convention at all.

He wasn' t alone.

Before the convention even began, Phil Burress, who headed the campaign in Cincinnati for a ballot measure pro­ hibiting the city from enacting any legislation or regulations protecting the civil rights of gays and lesbians, said in a letter to Jim Nicholson, chairman of the Republican National Com­ mittee, that Kolbe "should be arrested when he returns to his home state" for violating Arizona's sodomy statute.

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The reaction among GOP conservatives shouldn 't actu­ ally surprise anyone. Just two years ago Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) equated homosexuals with klep­ tomaniacs and alcoholics. And the state GOP in Bush's home turf in Texas won't even let the local Log Cabin folks have an information booth at its state convention.

All this posturing, of course, is almost automatically part and parcel of national political party conventions these days.

But it also amounts to votes in November, and in a hotly contested election like this presidential race where every vote can be crucial, gay rights issues can be problematic for either candidate.

Voter data since 1992 indicates that gays and lesbians make up at least 5 percent of the total vote ip. presidential elections, about the same as the size of the Hispanic voting bloc in this country. And about a third of that gay vote has gone to the Republican candidate.

Kevin Ivers of Log Cabin says the gay and lesbian vote could be crucial to this year's race, particularly in key battle­ ground states: Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsyl­ vania, New Jersey, Washington and Oregon.

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To clarify his point, Glenn continues.

"The behavior that defines those who engage in the ho­ mosexual community are in fact in violation of the law," said Glenn. "We believe an overwhelming majority of the citi­ zens of this state consider homosexual behavior to be immoral."

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According the Glenn his media assault on the lgbt com­ munity is driven by love "It is possible to take the same position we do on the homosexual issue because you love your children," said Glenn. "Homosexual behavior is an extremely high-risk threat to both personal and public health."

The "homosexual agenda," argues Glenn, encourages people to engage in behavior that is risky to their health.

"Those who encourage behavior that makes you 8 .6 times more likely to contact a serious venereal disease, which in tum makes you 2 - 5 times more likely to get HIV," said Glenn. "Who is really showing compassion and love for their fellow man, those who encourage that kind of behavior or those who discourage it?"

When asked if his health concerns were limited to gay men, since the chances of lesbians contracting AIDS from one another is slim, Glenn didn 't falter "Women who have sex with women are at significantly increased risk of bacterial vaginosis and breast cancer," said Glenn. "I am not a doctor so I don't know why. So my point applies to both men and women who engage in homosexual behavior."

Sexual Orientation ?

For Glenn and those who fund the non-profit AFA, if society doesn't take a stand now against the "homosexual agenda" it will be opening the doors for other forms of sexual expression.

"What about those who say their sexual orientation is to have sex with children or animals or dead bodies," asked Glenn. "What does sexual orientation mean? Where do you stop, where do you draw that line? It is gay, lesbian, now it is transgendered. That's the newest one. The movement now claims that men have the right to �orne to work in pink skirts if they want."

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Throughout the state Glenn has garnished much of his support from churches, using them as a vehicle to reach thou­ sands of potential AFA donors. When asked how he views lgbt Christians or churches that welcome them Glenn took a long pause, choosing his words carefully.

"If by Christians you mean someone who believes the Bible to be the word of God," said Glenn. "Then by their own standards presumably they are going to adhere to what

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the B ible says. All Christians are sinners. If you violate B ib­ lical stand.ards regarding homosexuality, then by Biblical stan­ dards that appears to be no different than violating it in terms of theft or lying. "

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The AFA of Michigan's only paid staff person, Glenn has offices in both Midland and Lansing. With only a hand­ ful of volunteers, which Glenn said work part-time on a re­ volving basis, his formula for success in Michigan has been making his minority voice heard loudly in the mainstream press.

"I would submit that we practice what I call the Gideon principal well," said Glenn. "Gideon, from the Old Testa­ ment, had 300 men up against an army of 10,000, so he lit 300 fires. And the 10,000 looked out and saw 300 fires in the night and thought there were men sitting around each fire.

We have been able to make our position widely and loudly known beyond our numbers.

Glenn has provided support to those wishing to pursue anti-gay ballot initiatives in five Michigan communities, de­ spite his limited staffing and resources.

"We are doing everything we can to assist citizens in several communities who are in the process of gathering sig­ natures to place measures on the ballot in November of 2000 or November of 200 1," said Glenn.

Skillful at manipulating the mainstream media, Glenn, who can not legally circulate petitions in a municipality in which he does not live, supports local ballot efforts by grab­ bing headlines.

"The media's role is supposed to inform, to educate and to hold public officials accountable," said Glenn. "Any time we appear in the newspaper free of charge we are able to communicate our stand on the issues to thousands, hundreds of thousands, even millions of people free of charge. To fail to take advantage of that opportunity to inform the citizenry en masse seems to be a failure to take advantage of a maj or way in which we can communicate our stance." ·

What can you do?

Will Glenn lead the AFA t o success? Will pro-discrimi­ nation ordinances and charter amendments be placed before voters in November? Will Glenn walk away from Michigan convinced it is one of the most solidly conservative states in the union?

The answers are up to the lgbt community and its straight allie s . Unfortunately, if Michigan residents don ' t protest Glenn's actions and position on lgbt civil rights it is probable that his efforts will succeed.

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VIRACEPT is not a cure for HIV infection or AIDS. The long-term eflects of VIRACEPT are not known at this time. People taking VIRACEPT may still develop opportunistic infections or other conditions associated with HIV infection. Some of these conditions are pneumonia, herpes virus infections, Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) infections, and Kaposi's sarcoma. � is not known whether VIRACEPT will help you live longer or reduce the number of infections or other illnesses that may occur.

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How should VIRACEPT be taken with other anii-HIV drugs?

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Vldex should be taken without food , on an empty stomach. Therefore, you should take VIRACEPT with food one hour after or more than two hours before you take Videx.

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pharmacist of any known allergies to substances such as other medicines, foods, preservatives, or dyes. unbom babies are not known. If you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant, you should tell your doctor before taking VIRACEPT.

H you are breast-feed ing : You should discuss with your doctor the best way to feed your baby. You should be aware that n your baby does not already have HIV, there is a chance that � can be transmitted through breast-feeding. Women should nol breast-feed H they have HIV. Children: VIRACEPT is available for the treatment of children 2 through 1 3 years of age with HIV. There i s a powder form of VIRACEPT that can be mixed with milk, baby formula, or foods like pudding. Instructions on how to take VIRACEPT powder can be found in a later section that discusses how VIRACEPT Oral Powder should be prepared.

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VIRACEPT may interact with other drugs, including those you take without a prescription. You must discuss with your doctor any drugs that you are taking or are planning to take before you take VIRACEPT.

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Hismanal• (astemizole, for allergies) • Propulsid0 (cisapride. for heartburn) • Cordarone• (amiodarone, for irregular heartbeat) • Quinidine• (for irregular heartbeat), also known as Ouinaglute•, cardioquin•, Ouinidex•, and others • Ergot derivatives (Gafergo.- and others, for migraine headache) • Halcion• (triazolam) • Versed" (midazolam) Taking the above drugs with VIRACEPT may cause serious and/or life­ threatening adverse events.

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Viramune• (nevirapine) The amount of VIRACEPT in your blood may be reduced. Studies are now taking place to leam about the safety of combining VIRACEPT with Viramune.

Sustiva� (efavirenz) The amount of VIRACEPT in your blood may be increased. A dose adjustment is not needed when VIRACEPT is used with Sustiva.

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Other protaaae Inhibitors:

When VIRACEPT is taken together with: Crixivan• (indinavir) The amount of both drugs in your blood may be increased. Currently, there are no safety and efficacy data available from the use of this combination.

Norvir- (ritonavir) The amount of VIRACEPT in your blood may be increased. Currently, there are no safety and efficacy data available from the use of this combination. lnvirase• (saquinavir) The amount of saquinavir in your blood may be increased. Currently, there are no safety and efficacy data available from the use of this combination.

Whit are the side effecla of VIRACEPT?

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Other side effects that occurred in 2% or more of patients receiving VIRACEPT include abdominal pain, asthenia, nausea, flatulence, and rash.

There were other side effects noted in clinical studies that occurred in less than 2% of patients receiving VIRACEPT. However, these side effects may have been due to other drugs that patients were taking or to the illness itself. Except for diarrhea, there were not many differences in side effects in patients who took VIRACEPT along with other drugs compared with those who took only the other drugs. For a complete list of side effects, ask your doctor, nurse, or pharmacist.

How should I take VIRACEPT? VIRACEPT is available only with your doctor's prescription. Your doctor may prescribe the light blue VIRACEPT Tablets either as 1 250 mg (five tablets) taken two times a day or as 750 mg (three tablets) taken three times a day.

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B O ULDER , C O - Health rov iders , acti v i s t s , and others �athered July 1 9-23 for the second bay Men's Health Summit. Over 00 individuals - including two ozen women - came from 37 tates and a handful of countries to articipate in over 1 00 workshops and programs.

"Last year 's Summit had more iscussion of what the issues were," aid Harold Levine, a New York­ ased consultant for S mithKline eecham. " This year had more 'how-to,' more specifics ."

The focus on leadership train­ ng and organizing skills was in anticipation of the regional and lo­ a! gay men ' s health gatherings lanned for next year.

'The rubber really hits the rqad on a local l e v e l , " Levine said, "through physicians, community ba�ed health care organizations, clinic s , AIDS service organiza­ tions."

"People came together last week eager to do some local orga­ nizing, " said author and activist Eric Rofes. "Over the next year, ummit participants will blanket the nation with gay men's health projects like we went coast-to-coast with HIV prevention projects in the mid- 1980s."

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Healthy People 20 1 0, the fed­ eral government's agenda on health and prevention objectives, received particular attention with a plenary session and several related work­ shops.

Marty Rouse, Assistant to De­ partment of Health and Human Ser­ vices Secretary Donna Shalala, said the main reason he came to the Summit was to explain the Health P e o p l e 2 0 1 0 . "The d o c u me n t comes o u t every t e n years as a health prevention plan for America, and this is the first time added sexual orientation has been added to the list." "Being included in this document means that federal and local governments must address our health concerns and alleviate health disparities based upon sexual ori­ entation, said Randall Sell, Assis­ tant Profe s s o r at C o l u m b i a University ' s Mailman School o f Public Health.

During the plenary, members of the audience responded angrily to issues they said were overlooked in the report, citing the absence of needle exchange, condom distribu­ tion in prisons, and the exclusion

of gay men and lesbians from spe­ cific categories such as cancer.

"This is the same Federal Ad­ ministration that insisted on yet more research on needle exchange and then did absolutely nothing when the research was provided.

What makes us think that the late addition of the category of sexual orientation is going to make HHS have any more spine when it comes to politically tricky questions of what we do in bed," asked Richard Elovich, former director of HIV prevention at Gay Men ' s Health Crisis and an organizer of needle exchange in NYC. "Furthermore, the inclusion of sexual orientation alone without a question about sexual practices misses the point when we know tens of thousands of homosexually active people - particularly young Blacks and Latinos - don't iden­ tify as gay."

Rouse defended the document, saying 'This is a long, long process.

I ' ve already traveled to 25 cities, I came to the Gay Men ' s Health Summit, and because of that, the community is more aware of this document than any other commu­ nity. We' ve done that because the Secretary understands this is a new area, and people weren 't ready for it."

"It's easy to point the finger at B ill Clinton or Donna Shalala or their gay representatives at the S ummit," said Rofe s . " B u t i t ' s much harder t o face the facts about gay men's own pathetic health or­ ganizing of the past decade and admit that - while it's so impor­ tant that we' ve built an infrastruc­ ture and lobbying groups to fight HIV - we're tragically unfocused, under-resourced, and unprepared to tackle other health challenges at the federal level.

"If Healthy People 20 1 0 is not the document we want it to be, it's because we have not created the multi - i s s u e , multi-cu ltural gay men's health movement to force the feds to include gay men of all col­ ors in a central way," he said.

Focusing on specifics "The Gay Men's Summit is very valuable," said longtime AIDS researcher Vickie Mays, a psychol­ ogy professor at the University of California, "because it allows you to become very focused on what the issues are for gay men and to move forw ard on a gay men ' s health agenda. I was quite excited by the work that was being done on de­ veloping a black gay male health agenda."

A special all-day intensive for men of color was organized at the

J effrey Montgomery, l eft, of the Tri a n g l e F o u n d a t i o n , Detroit a n d J i m Less e n b e rry of G reater Detro i t, were i n atte n d a nce at he second Gay M e n 's H e a lth S u m m it h e l d i n B o u l d e r, C o o n t h e wee k e n d o f J u ly 2 2 . M o ntgomery, . wh ? h a s been mvolved w1th t h e e m e rgence of the conference s i nce its i nception, reported that, " I t's terrifica l ly . � xc1tmg to see . the confere�ce take the n ext b i g ste p i n putt i n g on reg i o n a l prog r a m s to h e l p b r i n g m o r e p e o p l e m t o the ro.o m 1 n 200 1 . " h i l e H I V/AI D S · ver c h a n g i n g status' w a s u n d e r d i scuss i o n d u r i n g t h e confere n ce, M o nt­ . g 1 ssu es, oth e r STD s a n d me nta l h e a lth i ssues were a l so b e i n g a d d ressed . He a d d e d t h a t it gomery . s ? l d that a g m was exc1tmg to see the a lternative t h e ra p i es a n d h o l i st i c a pproaches that gay m e n 's h e a l t h was b r i n g i n g to t h e ta b l e as we l l .

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Summit b y members o f MOCHA (Men of Color in HIVIAIDS) 2000, a gay men of color project in Chi­ cago, funded by the Office of Mi­ nority Health.

Rashad Burgess, director of MOCHA, said "We did a session around building leadership in gay men of color communities, one on substance use and models of addic­ tion, and one on gay youth."

A coalition of African-Ameri­ can gay men came together during the Summit and drafted a black gay men 's health agenda. "Our objec­ tives are to increase the health and welfare of black gay men, the de­ velopment of health and social in­ dicators, gather data to show com­ parisons and changes in black gay men 's health," Burgess said, "and to raise the quality of health care for black gay men, whereby they receive the best of the best health care."

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"There 's been a tendency to position the gay health discussion as the AIDS dinosaurs vs. the new, holistic thinkers on gay health," said Daniel Wolfe, author of Men Like U s : The GMHC Complete Guide to Gay Men's Sexual, Physi­ cal and Emotional Well Being. " For lots of us, this summit was pow­ erful precisely because it moved beyond ideological posturing to let us talk about a new vision of gay health, to draw on lessons of the women ' s movement, or the pre­ AIDS health movement, as well as the history of HIV organizing."

Wolfe facilitated several work­ shops, including "Never Forget: Me mory, Gay Cultures and the Generation Gap" and "Homespun Health : Reports From The Front As It Was Back Then."

Shane Snowdon, LGBT Re­ sources Coordinator at the Univer­ sity of California, San Francisco, who helped facilitate "What is Our R e l a t i o n s h i p to the Wo me n ' s Health M o v e m e n t a n d W h a t Should it Be?" "It was a pleasure to talk with a group of men so respectful of the women's movement and its accom-

plishments," she said. "As I men­ tioned in the workshop, I heard more praise for the feminist health movement at B oulder than I have at women's meetings, where all too often we focus on how much re­ mains to be done and where we've gone astray."

Other w orkshop topics in­ cluded holistic approaches to health care, substance use and party cul­ ture, gay life and health over 40 and under 30, suicide and eating disor­ ders among gay men, cybersex and its impact on real-life sex, and is­ sues among gay people in rural ar­ eas.

"It was amazing to watch the fi v e d a y s u n fo l d , " Rofe s s a i d .

"Now the hard work o f linking lo­ cal communities and getting them to expand health work with gay men beyond HIV/AIDS begins. I ' m c o n v i nced p e o p l e l e ft B ou l d e r ready t o galvanize activism and program-development work in their local communities."

A national Lesbian, Gay, Bi­ sexual and Transgender Health Summit was discussed for 2003 .

Jim Baxter is editor and pub­ lisher of The Front Page, a lesbian and gay newspaper serving North Carolina since 1979.

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N ew N . A . g r o u p U D i versity" m e ets Tu esdays at 7 p m , at Affi rmations A ff i r m a t i o n s , i n c o n j u n c t i o n w i t h Friends Al l i a nce a n d F i rst Step is p l eased to a n n o u nce H idden Betraya l : Domestic Violence in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Re lationsh ips. This g ro u n d b rea k i n g conference wi l l be h e l d i n Detroit on Octo ber 20, 2000. For i n fo rmation a n d a conference broc h u re, ca l l Amy B l a ke at 248-398-7 1 05 .

Yo uth G ro u p for youth 1 7 a n d u n d e r.

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Soci a l Committee Games N ight, Aug ust 25, 7 p m- 1 2 a m .

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Book C l u b 8/2 1 at 7 p m is d i scuss i n g "The D o u b l e life " by George Cukor.

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w i l l b e meeting for golf o n Saturday afternoons (M ay-September) .

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For more i nformation contact: Mtwn Driver@aol .com or ca l l Steph at 3 1 3-887-2040.The M otown Drivers golf league will be meeting for golf on Saturday afternoons (M ay-September) . Newcomers welcome. For more i nformation contact: MtwnDriver@aol .com or ca l l Steph at 3 1 3 -887-2 040

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Now form ing i n the Eastside metropol itan area for lgbt persons. Join us at our monthly meeting i h a home setting for support and affi rmation i n your spi ritual jou rney.

For more i nformation contact Marge Munger, Fel lowsh ip U n ited Methodist Church, at (248)643-0779 or MargeMunger@cs.com

T h e Gay S p i r i t u a l S u p port A new metro-Detroit area organization created

to improve the quality of life for lesbians, who are differently-abled or have health issues, through assistance by volunteers from the lesbian community. We are looking for VOLUNTEERS to help lesbians with errands, home chores, and companionship. We also need help answering calls from our resource line.

Please call our answering machine and leave your name/number: 248-545 - 1 6 1 1 or 800-542-2447

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Country Fair and Festival Cherry Hill United Methodist August 5

M i l e Rd at Taft} . S h a re yo u r fa ith j o u r n ey w i t h a ff i r m i n g f r i e n d s .

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Contact: j s m i l ey_98@ya h o o . co m o r ca l l 248-349-6 1 43 f o r f u rt h e r

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Open Minds, Open Hearts, Open D oors

Contact these non-profit organizations for i nformation on regular weekly and activites, or go to www.pridesource.com for a complete l isting of M ichigan lgbt n o n-profits.

The fol l owi n g C o m m u n ity C l i p­ board l i st i n g s are provided here a s a q u ick reference, p l ease re­ fer to the M ic h i g a n Pride Sou rce book d i stri buted F R E E , or v i s i t our web s ite at www.o rjdesou rce.com for a com­ p r e h e n s ive l i st.

AIDS/HIV A I D S Partnership o f Michigan, 2 7 5 1 E. J e ffe rson, Ste 30 1 , De­ troit, 3 1 3-446-9800 C o m m u n ity A I D S R e s o u rce a n d E d u c a t i o n S e r v i c e s of Southwest Michigan{CARES) 629 Pioneer Street, K a l a mazoo, 1 (800) 944- 2 4 3 7 , ema i l : caresswm.org.

Michigan AIDS Hot l i nes 800800- 3 3 2 8 7 2 - ATD S ; d e a f 0849; s pa n i s h 800-826-7432 FRIENDS A l l i a n ce, 1419 W.Wa rren Ave, Detroit, 3 1 3-83 1 4400 H I V/A I D S P ro g r a m , D e t r o i t H e a l t h D e pt, 1 1 5 1 Ta y l o r, R m 2 5 3 B , Detroit, 3 1 3-876-0980 H I V/A I D S R e s o u rce Center, 3075 C l a r k Rd, Ste 203, Yps i l a nti, 800-578-2300 H IV/A I D S Services, Inc., 345 State St. S E , # 1 3,Grand Rapids, Ml 4 9 5 0 3 , 6 1 6 - 4 5 6 - 9 0 6 3 , www. i s e rv. n et/- h a s i n cl H I V/AIDS Wel l ness Networks Grand Traverse Area, P.O . Box 1 632, Traverse City, 6 1 6-933-0279 K a l a m a z o o Cou nty H u m a n Services H I V/AI D S Dept. 3299 G u l l R d , Ka l a m a zoo, 6 1 6 - 3 7 3 5208 Kent County H e a l t h D e p t .

A I D S I nformation, 700 F u l l e r Ave N E, G r a n d R a p i d s, 6 1 6-3363602

Lansing Area A I D S N etwork, 4 6 6 0 s. H a g a d o r n , S t e 5 1 0 , E . La n s i ng, 5 f7-3 5 1 -4534

Transgendered Michigan, 6076 M a r s h Rd., Apt. F2, H a s l et, 5 1 7339-5762

Lat i n o F a m i l y S e r v i ces H I V/ A I D S Programs, 3 8 1 5 W. F o rt, Detroit, 3 13-84 1 -7380

Washtenaw R a i n bow Act i o n Project, B r a u n Court, A n n Arbor, 734-995-9867

Men Of Col or, 1 1 50 G r i swo l d , 1 700, Detroit, 3 1 3-964-46 0 1

Zen Buddist Temple, All w e l ­ c o m e at Sunday Services 9:30 a . m . or 5 p . m . 1 2 1 4 Packard, A n n Ar­ bor 734-7 6 1 -6520

M i c h ig a n J e w i s h A I D S Coa l i ­ t i o n (MJAC), 3 0 1 6 1 Southf i e l d R d . , # 1 02, S o u t h f i e l d , 248-594MJAC (6522) M i dwest A I D S Preve n t i o n Project, 429 Livern ois, Ferndale, 248-545- 1 43 5 O a k l a n d County Health D i v i ­ s i o n H IV/AIDS Program, Pontiac 248-858-5220, Souttlfield 248-4247 1 55, Wa l l a d Lake 248-926-3364

All iance of Lesbian, Bi, Gay & Tra n s g e n d e r e d S t u d e n t s , M i c h i g a n State U n ivers ity, 44 1 Student U n ion, East La n s i n g , 5 1 73 53-9795

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Association of Lesbians and Gays, Ferris State U n ivers ity, Box 85 Rankin Center, Big Rapids, 6 1 6592-2606

Tr i a n g l e F o u n d a t i on, 1 9 6 4 1 W.Seven M i l e R d , Detroit, office 3 1 3 - 5 3 7 - 3 3 2 3 or r e p o rt h a t e crimes to 877-7-T R I A N G L E www.tr i . org

Copper Country Gay, Lesbian, B isexual, and Transgender Al­ l iance, M i c h i g a n TeCh n o l o g i c a l U n i v e r s i t y, P. O . B o x 501 , H o u g hton, 906-487-3441

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Gay Lesbian B i sexual U n i on, Wayne State U n ivers ity, R m 2 1 1 Stu il e nt Ctr B l d g , Detroit, 3 1 3 577-3398

Affi rmations Lesbian Gay Com­ munity Center, 1 95 W. N i ne M i l e Rd, F e r n d a l e , 248-398-7 1 0 5 .

H ot l i n e : 800.398-GAYS Karibu House, P.O. B ox 3 5 1 2 8 1 , Detroit, 3 1 3-863-8803

LGBT Resource Center at East­ e r n M i c h i g a n U n i v e r s i ty, K a t h l e e n R u s s e l l , C o o rd i n ator.

209 K i n g H a l l, Yps i . 734-487-4 1 49

Kalamazoo GL Resource 629 Pioneer, K a l a mazoo 49008 6 1 6-349-4234, www. kg l rc.org

M i c h i g a n State U n i ve r s i ty Gay/Lesbian Programs Office, 4'" f i r Student U m o n , E . La n s i n g , 5 1 7-355- 1 85 5

Lansing Association for Human R i g hts, LAH R, P. O . Box 6565, E .

La n s i n g , 5 1 7-332-3 200, www.com�.to/1 a h r.com

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HUISMAN

"I love that scene in the Wizard of Oz, when Dorothy says to Glinda, in so many words, 'Why the fuck didn ' t you tell me that all I had to do to go home was click these damn pumps together ? "' s a y s R u P a u l A n d r e Charles, h i s melodic baritone voice ending in a slap of the thigh for em­ phasis. "And Glinda replies that she couldn't have told Dorothy to j ust click her heels together three times a single moment s o o n e r b e c a u s e Dorothy wouldn 't have believed her.

"Everyone 's life-and I really be­ lieve this, I really have to have faith in this-" Charles continues, "has a differ­ e n t story line. Everyone takes a differ­ ent journey. All you can do is be true to yourself."

It's a tried and true RuPaul man­ tra: Never wait until tomorrow to put on the dress you can put on today.

And this summer Charles is living that ethic in spectacular fashion : Not only does he have roles in two major summer films-Jamie Babbit's "But I ' m A Cheerleader" and Fenton B ailey and Randy Barbato 's "The Eyes of Tammy Faye" -but he 's also steeling himself to watch himself preserved as only a queen can be-in wax from head to toe. Later this year, RuPaul will become a permanent part of New York's Times Square as a figure in the first American branch of the venerated London ce­ lebrity emporium Madame Tussaud's Wax Mu­ seum.

"There's getting waxed and there's getting waxed," Charles l a u g h s . "And I ' v e been waxed." Last year, Charles underwent a series

of lengthy, rigor­ o u s sittings so the wax s c u l p t o r c o u l d measure his "every nook and cranny." There were sketches made of the outfit, hair, nails and other accouter­ ments to which her majesty has become accustomed and, j ust two nights before this interview, his first sneak peak at the work in progress.

"I was only half dressed," Charles dead­ pans, describing the wax outfit designed by Matthew Zaldi, who has outfitted Charles' drag appearances for the last decade. 'T m in this gor­ geous, gorgeous crystal outfit that is j ust beau­ tiful ! " he coos, moving his hand to his temple in mock disbelief. "And I ' m thinking, 'Matthew never made that for me. ! "' Charles pauses a minute, pressing his hands against his chests, where someone else 's breasts would be. "It's also pretty naked, this thing," he smiles. "It's pretty gosh darned naked."

He might be going bare for Times Square, but Charles kept his clothes on for his appear­ ance in Jamie Babbit's wryly observant satire, "But I ' m A Cheerleader", about a high school girl who is a lesbian (but doesn't know it) and is sent to an ex-gay camp by her parents (who do know it) . While the film is the second film­ Red Ribbon B l ues was the first-in which Charles appears out of drag as Mike, a counse­ lor at an ex-gay camp who fancies himself a reformed queer.

"Mike really acts like his idea of how a reformed gay person should act," Charles says.

"While it's really funny to watch, it's also re­ ally sad because he is one of those people who sacrifice how they really feel to make other people happy. It's amazing that people can live with such denial when it's so clear what their gut and their heart are really saying. " Insides are o n e thing, appearances are an­ other. So where on earth did this.Supermodel

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" Loser"

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This documentary tells the life story of Tammy Faye Bakker, from her rise to becoming the country's leading televangelist alongside husband Jim Bakker to their scandalous fall from grace in 1 985. Wh i le exploring unknown facets, such as her pre­ scription drug addiction and bout with colon cancer, the film primarily delves into the deceit of fellow Christian broadcasters who helped destroy the Bakkers' reputation by inflaming the media. Although it definitely has a pro-Tammy bias, she does not always emerge as a saint, often seeming naive, downright pigheaded, rabidly gregarious. slightly ridiculous, and somewhat of a pathetic figure. Still, her tenacity and generosity of spirit are admirable, and this fast-paced, entertaining movie leaves the impression that this is one remarkable lady.

Grade: 8 Kinse Scale: 3 (Narrated by RuPau/, this documentary is being featured at gay & lesbian fi m festivals around the country because Tammy Faye was no closed­ mmded right-winger; she was the first prominent Christian evangelist to publicly em­ brace the gay community and AIDS patients.)

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What Lies Beneath

After seeing h e r daughter o ff t o college, Claire Spencer (Michelle Pf_eiffer) be­ gins experiencing strange phenomena that soon convince her that an unruly ghost haunts her house. Her husband Norman (Harrison Ford), a scientist, is naturally skepti­ cal and arranges therapy sessions, while best friend Jody (Diana Scarwid) thmks it is post-maternal distress. Having established itself as a spooky psychological study of a possibly delusional woman, the film derails in the third act, becoming a routine thriller with several false scares. Director Robert Zemeckis' generally well-crafted film evokes a great sense of eerieness and tension, through measured pacing, moody visuals and set design, but Pfeiffer's terrific nerve-jangled performance provides the real suspense.

Without the predictable ending, this would have been a very creepy ghost story.

Grade: 8 Kinsey Scale: 1 (Scarwid played Christina Crawford in the camp favorite <Mommie Dearest>. )

Loser

Nerdy, country bumpkin Paul Tannek (Jason Biggs) earns a scholarship and goes away to college in the bi� city of New York. He has good manners, studie.s hard and becomes the !<.night in shmmg armor to Dora (Mena Suvan), who IS stuck 1n an affair with a smarmy professor (Greg Kinnear). Therefore, his dorm mates Adam (Zak Orth), Chris (Tom Sadoski) and Noah (Jimmi Simpson) think he's a total jerk. Don't expect the pastry-pumping Big�s of <American Pie>, because director Amy Heckerling is more concerned with mal<mg astute observations on peer pressure. Despite some expected moronic collegiate behavior, this is not another teen jiggle movie with easily identifi­ able stereotypes but a sweet, gentle comedy that does not feel compelled to mdulge in crass gross-out humor.

Grade: 8· Kinsey Scale: 1 (Greg Kinnear earned an Oscar nomination playing a major gay character in <As Good As It Gets>. �ak was one of Ke�m Klme s suppontve students in <In & Out>. Amy Heckerlmg also wrote and d1rected gay-mclus1�e <Clueless>. For supP.osedly straight, chick-chasing guys, the th�ee roo"!mates act m­ credibly fey, dress like nelly fags and seem overly concerned With mamcures, faCials, and hot oil hair treatments. What straight boy gets a mamcure?)

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Guns figure into several interlocking narratives involving a jealous husband (Jeff Daniels), his frightened wife (Joan Allen), his closeted lawyer (Andre Braugher), the lawyer's manic-depressive lover (David Schwimmer), a paranoid billionaire (Gary S!nise) a nd a jail-bait kleptomaniac (Anna Paquin). All are walking around downtown Sh1cag.o just itchin9 to blow each other away. Unfortunately, they don't, so the aud1ence IS forced to s1t through 90 minutes of angry on�-note char�cters being obnoxiously qu!rky.

Featuring no less than five past Oscar nommees, the h1gh-powered cast keeps thmgs interesti ng, though only Allen manages to maintain any kind of dignity throughout.

This comedy is so trite that it never bothers taking a stand, either pro or con, on the serious soc1al problem of gun control.

Grade: C Kinsey Scale: Z (Schwimmer and 8raugher figure prominently in all the sto­ ries, but they have absolutelyzero chemistry together as a severely co-dependent gay couple)

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Previously Reviewed Chicken Run

Jailbirds have little success flying the coop, until circus rooster Rocky (voiced by Mel Gibson) also lands in the pen and agrees to help them escape. Unfortunately, they're chickens and they can't fly! Dreamworks teams up with Aardman Studios and director Nick Parks (creator of <Wallace and Gromit>) for this Claymation farce, which will have audiences clucking hysterically. The script pokes fun at prison movies, as greedy Mrs. Tweedy (Miranda Richardson) turns the egg farm into a poult� factory makin9. chicken pot pies. The performances and comedy are so typ1cally Bnt1sh that 11 plays like an aviary version of <Ab Fab>. Don't thumb your beak at the old-fashioned stop motion animation, because this is one of the funniest movies of the year.

Grade: A Kinsey Scale: 1 (There are a lot of very subtle " * jokes when Rocky and another rooster are forced to bed down together in the all-hen dormitory, and a rack­ eteering field mouse calls his partner-in-crime a "nance · for his fussy ways.)

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Disney's The Kid

On the eve of turning 40, successful image consultant Russell Duritz (Bruce Willis) thinks he has a great career and enviable lifestyle, until the arrival of mysteri­ ous kid Rusty (Spencer Breslin) makes him realize that he is a very unhap y man. The combination of Willis, a kid, and a mystical slant may sound like a rerun o <The S1xth Sense>, but this is a Disney movie with all their usual dreaded formulas. From Marc Shaiman's sentimental music to the occasionally obvious jokes, the mov1e keeps ham­ mering away at the audience's emotional buttons until the viewer finally has to give in. It is calculated, crassly commercial entertamment, but 11 works so well that It ach1eves a curious kind of magic, sweetness and poignancy.

Grade: 8+ Kinsey Scale: 1 (Uiy Tomlin plays Willis ' executive assistant Janet, and Jean Smart of TV's <Designing Women> has a small, pivo!al role as an anchorwoman.

Willis is aging like fine wine, looking very trim and handsome m designer wardrobe.)

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Chuck and Buck Former childhood pals Chuck (Chris Weitz) and Buck (Michael White) are re­ united for the first time in years at the funeral of Buck's mother. Perceiving a casual remark to ·come visit" as an invitation, Buck follows Chuck, now called Charlie, back to Los Angeles, intent on reviving their friendship. Because Buck is portrayed as emo­ tionally stunted rather than deranged, the audience IS not put off by behav1or that amounts to stalking Charlie and his fiancee (Beth Colt). The script, written by White, provides a number of surprising revelations, and his adept performance achiev�s child­ like innocence tinged with a quietude that comes across as sexually aggressive. This movie will make you squirm, because everyone has known at least one person we wished would just disappear.

Grade: 8 Kinsey Scale: 5 (Although the film deals with boyhood experimentation, male fantasies, homoeroticism, and sexual fixation. it is less about Buck's gayness than it is about forgiveness and coming to terms with one's past. Writer-star Mike White is the son of prominent gay religious leader Reverend Mel White, who to change attitudes towards homosexuality within Christian dominations.)

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But I 'm A Cheerleader

High school cheerleader Megan (Natasha Lyonne) eats vegetarian, listens to Melissa Etheridge, and has Q irly photos in her locker, so conservative Mom (Mink Stole) and Dad (Bud Cort) fear she s becoming a lesbian and send her to a homo rehab camp.

Camp director Mary Brown (Cathy Moriarty) teaches the girls such feminine activities as housecleaning and diaper changing, while counselor Mike (RuPa.ul) train.s the boys in auto mechanics and wood chopping. Although such camps do ex1st, th1s IS clearly a satire, evidenced by the broad acting style, gender-specific pink/blue costumes and candy-colored sets. Although the movie is alternately sil ly, poignant, witty, crude, and kind of sweet, social commentary on the stupidity of homophobia would have been better served by a more serious approach.

Grade: 8· Kinsey Scale: 6 (Thoroughly gay content and perfect ca�ting with RuPaul out of drag for a change, John Waters ' regular Mink Stole and lots of young, cute, conflicted homos.)

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The Patriot In this Revolutionary War adventure, farmer Benjamin Martin (�el G i�son) is a pacifist until British redcoats advance � e�r his home and endanger h1s f�mi!Y· �hen his eldest son Gabriel (Heath Ledger) JOi nS the army and a younger child 1s killed, Benjamin once a9ain becomes the lethal weapon he once was as a veteran of the 1 760s French-lnd1an War. This is the kind of movie in which the hero is invincible, and

the bad guy rises from the dead for once last skirmish, despite being shot in the heart, stabbed and trampled upon. Hokey patriotic babble and overwrought emotions are made less silly by Caleb Deschanel's painterly camerawork and exciting l�rge-scale battles. Essentially, this is <Braveheart> with tri-cornered hats and muskets mstead of kilts and broadswords.

Grade: 8· Kinsey Scale: 1 (Gibson may be no friend to gays, but Ledger. is a junior hunk in training, though this film has a lot of contemporary macho posturmg dressed up in period duds.)

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Me, Myself & I rene

Rhode Island State Trooper Charlie (Jim (arrey) has Multiple Personality Disor­ der, and his violent, sexually aggressive alter ego Hank emerges when he forgets to take his medication. As each tries to gain dominance over the other, both compete for the affections of Irene (Renee Zellweger), a woman on the run from the law. The Farrelly Brothers creators of <There's Someth ing About Mary>, provide plenty of sick jokes, involvin sick cows, bratty children, defecating dogs and Charlie's three sons, who couldn't possibly be his kids. The Jekyll and Hyde premise is a great showcase for Carrey, as he does battle with himself while alternately attracting and repelli�g every­ one around him. The rest of the cast wisely gets out of the way and 1ust lets h1m do h1s stuff.

Grade: 8· Kinsey Scale: 1 (In addition to cheap sight gags aimed at gay stereotypes, bad boy Hank abuses himself with a very large sex toy so that good guy Charlie feels the effects next day.)

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X-Men Mutants just want to be loved in director Bryan Si�ger's big-screen �daptation of the cult comic book of the same name. Super-psychic Professor Xav1er (Patrick Stewart) presides over a paramilitary group of superheroes, who hope to provide posi­ tive role models of mutants, while Magneto (lan McKellan) and his band of genetically altered villains seek to rule over humanity. There is little character development or story set-up, so Halle Berry (Storm), Hugh Jackman (Wolverine), Anna Paquin (Rogue) and James Marsden (Cyclops) merely fret with conflicted feelings about their strange powers. The movie is mildly entertaining (though hardly engrossing) and the visual effects are effective, if used sparsely. But the most a mazing thing is that anyone man­ ages to keep a straight face, even without having to wear spandex costumes.

Grade: C+ Kinsey Scale: Z (McKellan is openly gay, and brawny stud Jackman spends much of the movie with his shirt off. Some gay fans of the comic book will identify with the film's heroes as outcasts.)

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Scary Movie Busty college co-eds and horny frat boys do really dumb things, liking walking into darkened garages and staying late in the locker room after everyone else has left while a serial killer is on the loose! The Wayans Brothers' spoof of mad-slasher horror pies has take-offs on such films as <The Exorcist>, <Sixth �ense>, <.M�trix>, and <Blair Witch Project>. There are a few great gags, .like the celebrity guest v1ct1� (Carmen Electra) stripped down to panties and bra as she 1s chased through lawn sprinklers and a loud-mouthed moviegoer's comeuppance from fellow audience members rather t�an the killer. Since <Scream> was already a parody of the genre, th1s m1ldly amusmg movie is entirely pointless, and its derivative nature negates anything truly inventive.

Grade: C+ Kinsey Scale: Z (The sketch comedy format offers tons of gross-out and teach�r t� a glory hole seq'!ence: Al­ gay-related humor, from a �ross-dressing , though professing to be stra1ght, one character s fascmat1on w1th homoerotiCism IS an ongoing joke and sub-plot.)

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The Perfect Storm

On Halloween 1 991 , Captain Billy Tyne (Geor�e Clooney) and six other crew­ men head out on the swordfishing boat Andrea Gail nght into the confluence of three massive storm systems. Based on a true story, the film sticks to the facts for the most part, thou\Jh it plays like a disaster movie from the 1 970s. After a slow start introduc­ Ing many mconsequential characters, the actors become merely props in a non-stop action film. Four terrific actresses, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Cherry Jones, Diane Lane and Karen Allen, are wasted as various damsels-in-distress and the women back home worrying about their men. The spectacular visual effects keep things afloat, but as an engrossing drama about men challenging .the sea, the movie �i�ks like. a rock.

Grade: C+ Kinsey Scale: 1 (Allen and out lesb1an Jones suspiCiously like a gay couple, but nothing is ever learned about them before the machines and sound effects drown out. And we never get to glimpse Mark Wahlberg's hun/cy body under his scruffy fisherman's appearance.)

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THEATER

Lansing Theatre

Company to tackle lesser-known

Shakespearean tragedy Lansing, MI-Lansing's Award-winning theatre company, Outing Productions, will produce a modern adaptation of William S hake s p e are ' s l e s s e r k n o w n trage d y Coriolanus beginning Aug. 3 and running through Aug. 1 3 .

The modern adaptation, b y Outing Pro­ ductions co-founding artistic director Todd A. Heywood, was 6 months in the making.

"I read every single piece of literature criti­ cism I could fmd. Plus after each essay I read, I re-read the script. I read about 8 different versions of the script as well as the First Fo­ l i o and S h akespeare ' s original source, Plutarch."

Heywood said the piece was originally i n spired w h i le he w a s working on a gubenatorial primary election in 1 994 . ''That was when I discovered this play. I read it an d I thought, what do you know ? That sounds j ust like American politics today."

To update it, Heywood has moved the setting to modern America, and placed the play's early war scenes in the Persian Gulf.

The references to ancient Roman theology have been replaced with reference to mod­ em American Judeo-Christian theology.

"When you adapt Shakespeare for a modern audience, I am completely convinced that you have to tell the story in symbols and im­ ages to which they can immediately relate," says Heywood. "Iraq, Judeo-Christian the­ ology and mass media are immediate and ap­ plicable symbols that work well ill the text."

"Don't expect any swords in this play either. Expect AK-47's, M- l 6's and 9 mm semi-automatics," Heywood says with a sly grin. "Deaths from these weapons are so much more dramatic."

The tragedy is the story of a war hero who is eleva� to political iconv However,

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politics are not in his nature, and when the people ask him to do things for him, he is offended. This offense leads two other poli­ ticians to destroy him through banishment.

Coriolanus takes the banishment in stride, swearing to destroy the country he once protected.

B elow the political story lies another story. Coriolanus' relationship w·ith his mother, Volumnia. "I think she has got to be one of the most well-drawn, if not most psychotic, women Shakespeare ever wrote.

Every wprd of hers is used to get some­ thing for her, through her son."

This family crisis is at the heart of the entire story and the tragedy.

Heywood has rated the play PG- 1 3 and strongly recommends against bring­ ing young children to the show. "This play is not for the faint at heart. The guns are used on stage."

The show opens Thurs., Aug. 3 and runs from the 3rd-6th and again Aug. 1 01 3 . It will be performed in Okemos Nancy Moore Park. All performances are at 6:30 p.m. and are free of charge. This is out­ door theatre, so it is recommended that audience members bring a blanket or chair to sit on, as well as bug spray. Audience members are also encouraged to bring a picnic dinner.

The show is generously underwritten

by Hudson's of Okemos and the law firm of Foster, S wift, Collins and Smith. It is sponsored by the Meridian Township Park Commission. For more information con­ tact Sunsets w ith Shakespeare Proj ect Manager Tom Klunzinger at (5 1 7) 3491 200, or e-mail OutingProduction @ aol.com.

Cabin Republicans Annual meeting anconference. Coinsides witht he Naitonal Republican Party Conven­ tion i n P h i l adelphia , Doubletree Hotel, Philadelphia, 202) 347-5306 x1 4.

Tchaikovsky Spectacular with Fireworks, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, 8 p. m . , ti ckets $ 1 8 -

$42, Emmanuel Vi llaume, conductor.

Meadowbrook Music Theater, Roch­ e s t e r, (2 48) 3 7 7 - 0 1 0 0 , http : /1 www.palacenet.com.

Micheal McDonald, 7:30 p. m . ,

$ 1 2 . 5 0 • $24. 50, P i n e Knob Music Theater, Auburn H i l l s, (248) 37701 00, http:llwww.palacenet.com.

Mardis Gras, through 8/6/2000,

Friday Indianapolis DJ Chris Bang, caba ret G i nger Ta m all weekend, Satu rday DJ Chris Rae i ne, Sunday Teadance Chris Racine, The Dunes R e s o rt, 3 3 3 B l u e S t a r H wy, Saugatuck, (61 6) 857-1 401 .

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$42, Emmanuel Vi llaume, conductor.

M eadowbrook M usic Theater. Roch­ e s t e r, ( 2 4 8 ) 3 7 7 - 0 1 0 0 , h tt p : /1 www.palacenet.co m .

Spokes 8r Petals Bike Club, 1 0 a . m . , Harsen's Island Ship 'n' Shore, starts at the Farmer Jack in Algonac, Southfield, (248) 224-7650.

Girlee Detroit Collective Sum· mer Fashion Show, 7 p.m. - 1 2

a . m . , l ive performances, i n sta l l a ­ t i o n s, D J s a n d r u n wa y fa s h i o n shows, Detroit Contempora ry gal­ lery, 5 1 41 Rosa Parks B lvd, Detroit, (3 1 3) 898-4ART.

5un/Aug 6

Eighth Annual Ferndale Air Fair,

1 Oam-9pm, 9 M i l e Rd. at Woodward, Activities include Art Fai r. Mainstage Entertainment, Student Art Exhibit, C h i ldren's Activity Area, Fernda l e Arts Council I n fo r m a t i o n , (248)541 .8554.

The Life of Oscar Wilde, 1 0 a . m . ,

tival with entertainment, children's carnival, beer tent, information and merchandise booths. Free., Riverside Park, G rand Rapids, 61 6-458-3 5 1 1 , 61 6-458-4691 TTY.

Special guest M e r l i n Holland, grand­ son of Oscar Wilde, presents a bio­ g r a p h i c a l p o rtra i t of his fa m o � grandfather. A q uestion and answer session will fol low, Tom Patterson & Avo n T h e a t e rs, S t r a tfo r d S h a kespeare Festiva l , Stratfo rd, Ontario, Canada, (800) 567-1 600, o r d e rs@stratfo rd-festiva I . o n . c a , http:llwww.stratford-festival.on .ca.

E i g hth A n n u a l Fernd a l e Air Fa i r, 1 O a m - 9 p m , 9 M i l e R d . at

Secret Gardens and Pass i n g Landscapes b y Mary Hatch, 1 2

1 3th Annual West M ic h i g a n Pride Celebration, One d a y fes­

Woodward, Activities include Art Fair, Mai nstage Entertai n ment, Stu­ dent Art Exhibit, Children's Activity Area, Ferndale Arts Council Informa­ tion, (248) 541 .8554.

Eighth Annual

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Auburn H i l ls, 2 Championship Auburn H i l ls, (248) 377-01 00, /www. palacenet.com.

Closets are for Clothes, show featuring commentary, a n n o u ncem ents, d i scussion, i views, and news, ava i l a b l e on web or on 88.3 FM, (734) 647-4 closets@umich.edu, http:llwcbn l i sten.htm l .

B o s t o n P o p s c o n d u ct e d Keith Lockhart, 7 : 3 0 p.m.,

$49. 50, P i n e Knob M u s i c The Auburn H i l ls, (2 48) 377-01 00, /www.palacenet.com.

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Sat! Rick Springfield, 8 p.m., $ 1 7 $27.50, Meadowbrook Theater. ' land U niversity, Rochester, (248) 0 1 00, http:llwww.palacenet.co Peter Frampton, 7:30 p.m., $1 - $24. 50, Pine Knob Music Th Auburn H i l ls, (248) 377-01 00, /www. palacenet.com .

Girlee Detroit Collective 2· d Opening, 7 p.m. - 1 2 a . m . ,

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Pamela Schiffer, $22, Detroit Ins of Arts, 5200 Woodward Ave, De ht 8 3 3 -4005, (3 1 3) www. dia.orgf.

Meadowbrook Theater: D · ing A t Lughnasa, through

2000, call for times, Meadowb Theater, Oakland College, Roche ht 3 7 7 - 3 3 00, (248) www. m eadowbrooktheater.co

Peter, Paul 8r Mary 40th versary, 8 p . m . , tickets $ 1 4 $ 3 2 . 5 0 , M e a d ow b r o o k T h e , Rochester, (248) 377-01 00, h www. palacenet.com.

Santana, thro u g h 8/1 4/2 0 0 p . m . , $ 2 5 . 50 - $ 5 9 . 5 0 , P i n e M u s i c Theater, Auburn H i l ls,

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WALHALLA - Women from a l l over the world wil l converge i n west­ ern M ichigan next week for the 2 5th a n n u a l M ic h i g a n Wo myn's M u s i c Festival . U pwards o f 8,000 women are expected to attend throughout the week form Aug. 8 to 1 3 . Festiva l goers w i l l have a chance to see over

Tri be 8, B itch a n d A n i m a l and The B utch ies. " Twenty-five years ago, a l most by accident, we created a space that has become a home to the ideas and

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s hops, a fi l m festival, crafts fa i r and 650 wooded acres that a re home to the a n n u a l womyn 's vil lage.

Head l i n i n g the m a i n stage Sat­ u rday night w i l l be the I ndigo G i rls, appearing for the second time at the MWMF. Other a rtists i nclude H o l l y Near, Ferron, Suzanne Westenhoefer, Tos h i Reagan & B i g Lovely, and the fantasti c women's jazz band from Detroit, Straight Ahead. For the more adventurous l i steners there w i l l be

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BEAR CRUISE 2000, 4 2 : 1 2 a . m . , This is Detroit's to the Big Bear runs. It will lots of food as well as lots fun ! We have planned this to coincide with the Wood­ Dream Cruise - alot of older souped u p cars that would make car enthusiast drool ! Cost is $ 5 5 May 3 1 , 2 000, Troy Hol iday 2537 Rochester Court, Roches2 48-98B-02 2 7 '

House Community Center sponsored monthly rap sessions. the first Sun­ day of each month. For men, women or youth lgbtq people of color, Liberal Arts G a l lery, 3 3 6 1 G ratiot Ave., Detroit. 3 1 3-925-957B.

Michigan Women's Baseball League Work Out 2000, through 8/

1 5/2000, 6 p.m., Want to play hardba l l basebal l Every Monday a n d Thursday c o m e on out. , Marsh a l l Park, Near G rosbeck golf Course, Lan­ sing, 5 1 7-332-B500.

The XIII International AIDS Conference, through 9/1 4/2000, Spon­

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Red Barn Theater: Zara Spook and Other Lures, through B/1 3/ 2000, B p.m., tickets $ 1 7-$ 1 9, Red Bam Playhouse, 2 m i l es north of S a u gatuck o n B l u e Star Hwy, S a ugatuck, (6 1 6) B 5 7 - 7 7 0 7 , http:// www. redbarnplayhouse.co m .

Lambda Car Club Grand lnternational lnvitiational Meet. De­ troit 2000, through 8/5/2000, visit the headquarters and museums of of the B i g Three, car show, a n d awards banquet. regi stration S 1 B9, Vari­ ous locations, Detroit, (248) 3 98-4B54, http://www. 2 1 1 2 .org/d2k.

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Le dership Conference, through 8/612000, Log Cabin Republicans Annual meetin g anconference. Co insides witht he Naitonal Republ ican Party Convention i n Philadelphia, Doubletree Hotel, Phila­ delphia, 202) 347-5306 x1 4.

Mardis Gras, through 8/6/2000, Friday Indianapolis OJ Chris Bang, caba­ ret G i nger Tam a l l weekend, Saturday OJ Chris Rae i n e, Sunday Teadance Chris Racine, The Dunes Resort, 333 Blue Star Hwy, Saugatuck, (61 6) B57-1 401 .

F LU S H I N G - Fa ndangles' w i l l exhibit the work of noted local a rtist Dee Knott, AWS on Aug. 6. To celebrate the open­ ing of this unique col l eciton, the resta urant will host " The Essence of Enterta i n i n g VI I I " from 2 :00 p. m . to 6:00 p. m .

Meadowbrook Theater: Dancing At Lughnasa, through 1 0/B/2000,

S p o k e s & Peta l s B i k e C l u b : Metro Parkway Ride, 1 0 a . m . ,

with hors d'oeuvres, l ive jazz, and a M ichigan w i n e tasti ng. " Th i s special l i m ited exh ibit wi l l exh ibit over 30 new pieces a long with l i m ited edition pri nts of Dee Knott's wa­ terco lors, said Tom Price, co-owner of Fandangles.

The Trials of Oscar Wilde, 7:30

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p.m., Actor Pau l G ross takes the title role i n this dramatic reading of John O s b o r n e ' s p l ay, b a s e d o n O s c a r W i l d e 's c e l e b ra t e d n o v e l , To m Patterson & Avon Theaters, Stratford S h a ke s p e a r e Fest i v a l , Stratfo rd, Ontario, Canada, (BOO) 567-1 600, o rd e rs @ s tr a tfo r d -festiva I . o n . c a , http://www.stratford-festiva l . on.ca.

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workshop, call to pre­ Providence Pa rk M e d i c a l G rand River Ave, Novi,

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25th Annual Michigan Womyn's Music Festival. through B/1 3/

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call for times, M eadowbrook Theater, Oakland College, Rochester, (24B) 377-3300, http://www.m eadowbrooktheater.com.

Santana, through B/1 4/2000, 7 p.m., $ 2 5 . 5 0 - $ 5 9. 50, P i n e Knob M usic Theater, Auburn H i l l s. (248) 377-01 00, http://www.palacenet.co m .

Wed/Aug l6

Red Barn Theater: Ali i Really Need To Know I Learned in Kin­ dergarten, through 9/3/2000, 8 p.m., tickets $ 1 7-$ 1 9, Red Barn P lay­ house, 2 m i l es north of Saugatuck o n B l u e Star Hwy, Saugatuck, (61 6) B57-7707, bttp://www.redbamplayhouse.co m .

Motley Crue, Megadeth, Anthrax, through B/1 4/2000, 6:30 p.m . , $ 1 5 - $ 3 5 , P i n e Knob M usic Theater, Auburn H i l l s. (248) 3 7 7-01 00, http:/ /www.palacenet.com.

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More Ught Presbyterians, through 8120/2000, 1 2 :30 a.m. - 1 2 : 3 0 p . m . , Monthly gatherin� for potluck supper and we will l i sten to taped sermon "Our Organist p reached at G eneral Assembly in Long B each, CA. And we wil share our reflections from the WOW Conference - an ecumenical G lBT gathering. All are i nvited ! I , Southfi e l d Presbyterian C h u rc h , 2 1 5 7 5 West Ten M i l e Rd., Southfi e l d , (248) 446-BB34, ohkayset@aol.com, www. m l p.org.

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Continued from page 1 9 learn t o grab her crotch and spit like Mike does?

"Jamie taught me ! " Charles grins.

"I really thought RuPaul could do the part, because a lot of ex-gay men are former drag queen s , " B abbit explains. "But I knew right away we' d need to work on himjust relaxing and, well, trying to be butch." During a series of rehears­ als, Babbit led Charles and the ac­ tors who play the boy in some im­ provisation about hyper-masculine

attitudes and behavior.

"It's amazing when you have someone like Ru, who is naturally

a little more femme, standing there grabbing his crotch," B abbit ob­ serves. "It does connote something more specifically masculine.

The results are among the film's funniest, especially because even though Mike may be acting the part, his eyes are still occasion­ ally transfixed by the sight of the c amp director ' s hunky, buff son

power tool belt.

"Now that ' s a challenge ! " Charles screams. "I'm supposed to be playing this reformed queer but I've got to watch Eddie [Cibrian, the actor who plays Rock], a boy with an ass so fine you just want to bite it. And he's spread out like a buffet table right before my eyes but my character is trying to remind him­ self he doesn't want that any more.

Excuse me, but I wanted to go right out of character. And into Eddie."

"We wanted to show that while you might be able to teach, say ef­ feminate men to be more butch, you

are never going to change gay de­ sire," says Babbit. "Mike might try

and act the part, but he's never go­ ing to get there. Especially not with Rock in his line of vision."

Charles' other major summer appearance is slightly less visible but every bit as fun: He narrates "The Eyes of Tammy Faye", Bailey and Barbato ' s rauco u sly funny documentary about the evangelist who, like a televised Icarus, soared high in the ratings only to crash and burn when her husband's affair with prostitute was exposed, by none other than their rival for airwave su­ premacy, Jerry Falwell.

"Tammy Faye is the Judy Gar-

land of the Southern Baptists," Charles says with utter seriousness.

"There's this tragic sheen about her, this edge of being ready to fall.over the edge. But she never surrenders to that darkness. She's always will­ ing to move ahead, forge into the light."

The film refers to Bakker and Tammy Faye (who has since remar­ ried and calls herself Tammy Faye Bakker Meissner) as "founders of the electronic pulpit," a monkier in which Charles finds spe.cial mean­ ing.

"People forget that Tammy Faye put people with AIDS on her show and hugged them and valued them way before even mainstream churches had AIDS mini stries," Charles recalls. "You just had to love her for that, because she so clearly cared."

Charles, who first got religion after his family moved to Atlanta when he was a teenager in the mid1 970s, thinks gay people appreci­ ate the never-say-die underdog na­ ture Tammy Faye came to personify, especially after she and Bakker were deposed by Falwell "Most gay people can relate to being up against serious adversity," Charles says. "But few of us have learned as well as Tammy Faye has how to wear those battle scars like badges of honor." Of course, she wears make-up equally unrepentant

fashion. Charles admits to an fasci­ nation with those famous lashes.

"You know, Tammy Faye has done eaby powder lashes for years," Charles says. "She puts on her mas­ cara and then adds baby powder on top. When the powder dries, she puts on more baby powder, then more mascara. And she builds them up and out that way."

"I gave her a product-MAC doesn't make it-a lash thickener and lengthener," Charles says, his hands growing animated as he touches his eyelids with his finger­

tic ! The money I' 11 save on Johnson & Johnson ! ' Charles is

silent for a moment, staring out a nearby window.

"You know, I'm turning forty in November," he says, his voice low and almost serene. "And I've heard it said, by Tammy Faye and a load of other friends, that your twen­ ties are a learning experience, your thirties are learning it better and your forties are letting go of every­ thing you' ve learned. I think that's starting to be true."

"Every so often, I get reminded of the wax figure or I see an ad for Jami e ' s movie or think about Tammy Faye," Charles sighs, his voice trailing off as that familiar,

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t one time i n this country we thought that every disease had one cure, re gardless of the patient. Now with the i ntroduction of alternative and traditional medi­ cine, we're beginning to understand the many factors that make up a healthy life.

Why do different people respond in radi­ cally different ways to identical treatments for AIDS or for cancer? Because we are a l l unique i ndividuals. We may be similar, but we're hardly identica l . This is a lesson that the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender movement viscera l ly understands.

The G a y M e n 's H e a l t h Summit, convening i n Boulder, Colo., J u ly 1 9-23 is the second of two events designed to cre­ ate a n a t i o n a l m o v e m e n t around gay men's hea lth . The organizers u nderstand that gay and bisexua l men have differ­ ent hea lth concerns from their heterosexual counterparts, out­ side of H IVIAI DS. (Summit i nfor­ mation is at o n l i ne www. bc a p . o rg .) O n e of the most cheeri ng developments I 've heard in gay men's health in a long time is a new track added for this year's program­ ming on love, celebration, spiri­ tuality, wel l ness and joy.

N ot only is the I n ternet making it easier for us to coordinate events l i ke the Gay Men's Health Summit, but it is revolu­ tionizing the way we relate to treatment. I n the last few years, doctors have begun to notice patients coming into their offices with handfuls of pages printed from medical web sites. We' re not content to be passive partners in our hea lth anymore, and this is a trend gays and lesbians would be wise to grab onto with both hands.

In recent decades, we've been shy about being out to our doctors and talking about our whole lives. One of the factors that contributes to lesbians' increased risk of fatal breast cancer is the des i re of many lesbians to avo id the doctor's office, until it's too late.

I was shocked when, a couple years ago, my doctor asked "Are you sexually active ? " and casually followed it up with " Men, women or both ? " My jaw hung open and she didn't even have the tongue depressor ready. I had assumed talking about sexual ity i n the doctor's office was always going to be sl ightly awkward, but no more !

Not only are there more doctors avai lable who are understanding and educated about gay and lesbian health, but we now have our own o n l i ne resources to create those printouts we can carry in to show our doctors. For those of us who l ive in smaller towns and may not have the option to be out to our medical professionals, the web is doubly i mportant, creating a l i n k to gay and lesbians doctors who can address our concerns.

One of the best gay health sites on the web today is the aptly named GayHealth .com. Cre­ ated by Dr. Stephen Goldstone author of " The Ins and Outs of Gay Sex - A Medical Hand­ book for Men, " the site covers the spectrum of

gay, lesbian and bisexual health from anxiety disorders to lesbian i nferti l ity to sexually trans­ mitted diseases.

Goldstone is now the site's medical direc­ tor, in addition to being a Fel low of the Ameri­ can College of Surgeons with a surgical practice in New York City, and a member of the teaching faculty at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

Dr. Susan Ball is the site's associate medica l di­ rector and the assistant di rector of the Birnbaum Unit H IV Care Center at New York Presbyterian Hospital. She is also an associate professor at Cornel l U niversity's Wiel l Medical Col lege. resou rce, Anoth e r WebM D.com, the mainstream hea lth site with the cute tagline " Health has a homepage, " is sup­ portive of GayHealth.com and i ncludes gay and lesbian cover­ age on their own s ite. When I clicked on their section " Healthy Sexual ity" recently, one of the top stories announced: " Contrary to popular belief, lesbians can get cervical cancer." (This, by the way, means that if you're lesbian, even if you've never been with a man, you need to get reg u l a r p a p smears-which you' l l b e getti ng anyway if you're not out to your doctor, so there's one benefit of the closet.)

Of course there a re many good sites for people l iving with H IVIAI DS, fore­ most www.thebody.com. That site hosts POZ magazine, (which, for a bit of I nternet gossi p, is currently worki ng on a lawsuit against the H IVI AIDS discussion site GayPOZ.com over whether the term " POZ " is thei r trademark).

For gay and lesbian doctors and their fans, the Gay and Lesbian Medica l Association is online at www. glma.org. They're holding an annual conference i n August focused on fami ly health. The site i ncludes abstracts from the organization's quarterly journal. One of the high­ lights is their pages of links, which I recommend for visitors looking for more specific health groups.

For gays, lesbians and bisexuals health has been an issue that we alternately lead in and ignore. When faced with a crisis, we rise to the occasion. But l i ke much American culture, we also l i ke to believe that we're i nvul nerable and, wh ile we can sti l l bel ieve it, eternally young. For everything there's a time, and now is the time to help create a health movement i n the vision of the Gay Men's Hea lth S u m m i t-a health movement centered not on disease, but on liv­ ing vibrant l ives.

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Advice col u m ns h ave been a sta p l e of newspapers f o r decades. It wasn't un­ til 1 969 at KAB C Los Angeles, however, that radio fi rst got i nto the therapy busi­ ness. The idea was the bra i n c h i l d of rad i o a n n o uncer B i l l B a l a nce.

By 1 97 5 , B a l a n ce's program was be­ ing synd icated o n 84 major radio stations across the country. A ca l l - i n l i stener was the futu re D r. La u ra S c h l e s s i n g e r. S h e yacked for about 2 0 m i n utes, a n d made such a n " i m pression " on B a l a nce that h e i nvited her t o ca l l i n aga i n . S o o n Dr. La u ra was a reg u l a r, and even sooner she a n d B a l a nce were h a v i n g a n affa i r.

B ut Dr. La u ra proved to be more than B a l a nce could hand le. H e d umped her, but she conti n ued on the air (often with 60 to 70 thousand ca l l s a day) . I n time she mar­ ried her second husband, turni ng his riame i nto fa me, fortune (a recent synd icati on deal netted $ 7 1 .6 m i l l i on), and a q uestion­ able notoriety.

Vickie L. B a ne's book, " Dr. Laura: The U na uthorized B iography " offers g l i m pses of the radio superstar that a re a nything but flattering. Her subj ect proves to be the proverbi a l Jewish Princess, a spo i l ed c h i l d who grows u p t o become a demanding a n d overbearing adu lt.

Bane reports Dr. La u ra engaging in some behaviors that a re questionable for a l i censed counselor: getti ng one of her clients to baby-sit, borrowing money from a c l i en t, and i ns i sti n g that her overly pro­ tected ten-year-ol d son be a l l owed to sit in o n h i g h - l evel board meetings.

Her frequent estrangements from her mother a n d sister are l i kewise no recom­ mendation for Dr. Lau ra as a family val -

ues rol e model .

The public Dr. Laura can b e lack­ i n g in good j u d g m e n t too. S h e is abru pt and sa rcastic with fans. And w h i l e she can turn on the c h a r m when she wa nts to, she n o t i nfre­ quently is discourteous and evasive in answering questions that are not to her l i ki n g . She a l so has a habit of departing abruptly after a speaking engagement without sayi ng a pleas­ ant goodbye.

She can be demandingly flaky.

She cha nged hotels after fa i l i n g to fi nd a su ita b l e su ite fol lowing three n itpicking room i nspections. She fled from a rider's car because of the driver's cologne. Three cabs later she fou n d a taxi that passed the nose test.

D r. La u ra h a s b e c o m e a gay nemesis, but it wasn't a lways quite so bad. Her i nflexible and h a rd- l i n e stand on our issues fol lowed her con­ version to Jewi sh orthodoxy i n 1 998.

(While she has her Ph.D. in physiology, she is l i censed - with 2000 hours of supervised counse l i n g - by the American Association of M a rriage and Fam i l y Thera pists.)

Dr. Laura no longer claims to be ei­ ther a therapist or a psychologist. She cal l s herself a " pop mora l ist. " As s u c h she is free to advocate Reparative Therapy for gays, even though the American Psychi­ atric Association has discredited the thera­ peutic practice as unscientific and dan­ gerous.

Bane quotes Dr. N o rton Kristy, a psy­ c h o t h e ra p i st a n d fri e n d of D r. La u r a : " La u ra was an uncommonly neurotic per-

son when I knew her wel l, twenty years ago.

I ronical ly, she has not, to the best of my k n o w l e d g e, s o u g h t p s y c h o t h e r a p y o r remediation of that h i storica l pa i n . " I believe s h e sti l l carries a good deal of it with her. She has some new th ings in her l ife that seemingly a re i m portant to her.

She has her rel igion now, and a husband and a child and a very great deal of fame and money. Those things act as buffers and aids to coping in a world that otherwise triggers painfu l responses in her.

And, one might add, often-pai nful con­ sequences for those who l i sten to her.

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Boyd's 'Bridge Across the Ocean' breaches barriers of race and age RaRdy B oyd h a s a knack for the con­ trovers i a l . His first novel, " U prisi ng, " dealt with a bla ck, H IV-positive pop sensation who led a n u nderground movement to as­ sassi nate a Jesse H e l ms- l i ke asshole. Aiong the way, he fal l s for a buff, blond under­

Or. more l i kely, w i l l the waves of racism and homophobia wash away a ny chance the couple have at a rea l and long-term friendshi p.

Without a doubt the subject matter

cover cop who, at the l ast m i n ute . . . wel l, on second thought, I won't ruin it for you, i n case you haven't yet checked it out.

M ov i n g on, Boyd's s e c o n d effo rt,

i n i ng the coveted characteristics of the young, undau nted stra i g h t m a l e, their

" B ridge Across the Ocean , " i s l i kewise not yo u r typ ic a l gay fiction fare, but rather a n i n t i m ate l o o k i nto a n other H IV-positive black man who fa l l s for, you guessed it, a n other wh ite dude. This time, though, the dude i s actu a l ly a boy, a beautiful teenager Derek M ayfield, the book's n arrator, en­ counters while on vacation i n Cancun.

The path to fri e n d s h i p for M ayfield a n d you n g Rob Ve l a rde i s not without its obstacles, h owever - the boy's parent's, h i s a n d their prejudices toward b lacks a n d gays, a n d God knows w h a t else - leading one to wonder whether the 'bridge across •

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Cancun serves as lovely backdrop for most of this story, and Mayfield and h i s young cohorts are both, certa inly, quite l i keable. If you ' re looking for a sta ndard romance, search on. But if a tastefu l ta le of i nfatuation is up you r a l l ey, then by a l l mean s, ta ke a wa l k a l o n g t h e " B ridge Across the Ocea n . " F o r f u r t h e r d e t a i l s, c h e c k o u t westbeachbooks.com.

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I nside t h e Fi refly, a h i g h l ight a m o n g m u c h jazz­ era paraphern a l i a is the 1 963 j u kebox, a true W u r l i tzer c o l l ecti b l e, rescued from the back porch of a friend of C hasta i n 's. And it's fi l led with old favorites l i ke Nat King Cole, J i mmy

C hasta i n, who mentioned a s a sidepoint that her o ldest b rother is gay, said that the club attracts a wide range of patrons, a n d that she has always been " very gay-friendly. " The owner, who has spent " thousands of d o l l a rs " on reno­ vations at the former B i rd of p a radise location, said she is p leased with the c l u b 's " wa rehouse­ chic" look, a decor' that immediately evokes a N ew York feel .

Therese Szymanski contributed to this ar­ ticle

Dorsey, Liza M i n n e l i 's " Cabaret, " and of course, Tony Bennett singing " Fi refly. " Owner Chasta i n has b u i l t a 1 0-year fol lowing as a regular singer at the former B i rd of Pa radise. With a back­ ground of church singing and performing at her mother's bar, Chasta i n said she's a big jazz fan these days and is excited to fi n a l ly hqve her own c l u b. " I don't want the Fire­ fly to j ust be a bar, I want it to be a nig ht­ c l u b, " she said.

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ANN ARBOR - You don't need to go south of the border for authentic Mexican cuisine. In .fact, the /aut/ Bar, located on Braun Court in Ann Arbor's charming Kerrytown district, goes a few steps beyond traditional southwest fare, with a menu that also offers sev­ eral notable American and Italian dishes. Plus, where else can you get great food to the fun background sounds of such beats as Melissa or the Village People?

Owned by partners Martin Contreras and Keith Orr, the /aut/ Bar has established a solid reputa­ tion as a friendly, neighborhood bar and restaurant with easy parking (no small feat for Ann Arbor ! ) and a lively, welcoming atmosphere.

Overall, this is a safe place to party with a good mixture of clientele, spanning the range from gay, les­ bian, bi- and trans to the occasional straight patron as well.

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I must admit, I've always been a fan, albeit a secret one, of Tammy Faye Bakker-Messner. My first exposure to this remarkable lady was years ago when she was still named Tammy Faye Bakker. I had heard from friends about a petite girl blessed with a Vegas per­ sona, surreal make-up, abundant cleav­ age, flashy costume jewelry and enor­ mous flamboyant wigs. Tammy Faye was also the evangelist who was deter­ mined to take the real Christian message of "judge not lest you be j udged" to heart. She openly and enthusiastically welcomed everyone within ear shot into her voluptuous bosom: saint, sinner, gay, straight, black, white, male, female, young, old, everyone . She laughed, cried, schmoozed, and shared her tri­ umphs and failings with anyone who would tune into a little Evangelical show called Praise the Lord (PTL), which quickly reached a global audience of millions of television viewers.

The Tammy Faye saga had it all, a rags to riches story where a simple farm girl from Minnesota marries her hand­ some prince (in a twist, a pauper of a prince), invents the electronic pulpit, puts a diverse, glam face on Christian broadcasting and suddenly fmds herself

facing adultery, colon cancer, a runaway daughter and a bloated, smug faced dragon named Reverand Jerry Falwell. After destroying their lives, Rev. Falwell even did the unimaginable for a "Christian" icon. He lied about her husband's sexuality as well, fabricated stories about their financial dealings, and claimed Tammy Faye was a crack­ pot. Who could survive that type of vit­ riol? Perhaps only Tammy Faye Bakker-Messner.

It was my pleasure to have a much too brief visit with this ball of energy, when she was in New York promoting her new film, "The Eyes of Tammy Faye," a powerful documentary that, if there is a movie-loving God, should be around when Oscar(r) does his golden nod. The fllm is a powerful yet very loving look at an icon of pop culture, which was produced by the team of Randy B arbato and Fenton Bailey.

These two cutting edge Brits were able to detach themselves from the very real prejudice against evangelicals and look at the facts objectively. They created a fabulous, visual mosaic of a fllm, a pro­ vocative documentary with heart, drama, wit and most importantly, mas­ cara. Tammy Faye, the ultimate phoe­ nix, rose from the ashes, put on a new

set of war paint and did battle in the only way she knew how: with love, compassion and humor. After meeting this enthusiastic wonder I felt as if I had known her my entire life. After being energized for days and days after the interview, my only comment is, can someone please bottle her up so we can all have a little piece of Tammy Faye?

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Murmurs roar into the Rainbow Room DETROIT - The Murmurs i s one o f the hottest girl bands on the lesbian circuit today.

With five hit albums, they have established themselves on the CD she! ves of the younger lesbian population across the country.

This hip, cool duo will appear at the Rainbow Room Aug. 5. Heather Grody and Leisha Hailey, both 29, will headline the night, with Tamara Bedricky and Ian Blakk as special guests.

The Murmurs latest CD "Blender" kicks off with the single "La-Di-Da." B illboard Singles magazine said of the rock tune, "It's time for rock radio to transform this adorable female twosome into the mega-stars they should have become several years ago. Their giddy vocals and playful lyrics work quite nicely amid a swirl of fluid electric guitars and butt shaking beats. You won ' t be able to

shake the chorus after one listen."

The two have been on a whirlwind tour this year. They ' ve appeared at clubs all over the country including the renowned Pyramid Club in New York.

In describing their appearance at The Garage in Los Angeles, Hailey said, "It was j ust one of those magical nights. This girl was hanging upside down from the rafters on the ceiling. It was amazing ! " Their following in the lesbian commu­ nity loves their music as well as their com­ mitment to social causes including lgbt rights, breast cancer awareness and environmental issues.

So swing from the rafters or just groove to their rock-n-roll of The Murmurs at The Rainbow Room this Saturday.

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The former M rs. Andre Agassi a n d " S ud­ denly Susa n " sta r B rooke S h i e l d s h a s joi ned the cast of the Lifeti me O r i g i n a l pic " What M a kes a Fam i ly " p l aying a les­ bian. ( P e r s o n a l l y, Romeo th i n ks Andre's c urrent squeeze, Steffi G raf, wou l d be a more convmcmg d y ke . ) W h o o p i G o l d b e rg i s starring i n the made­ for-TV pic, whose plot centers on a c h i l d-cus­ tody battl e i nvolvi ng a lesbian couple. The telefl ick h a s none other than Ba rbra Streisand a s its executive producer. " What M a kes a Fam­ i l y " i s expected to a i r later this yea r on the cable n etwork.

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J o h n Ma honey H e l ps F i n d •• At l a nt i s .. " Frasier" father J o h n M a h o n ey has lent h i s voice t o the upcom i n g D i sney a n i m ated film, "Atl antis " . M a h oney p rovides the voca l chords of P reston, an old-time explorer who was friends with a late, g reat adventurer, whose grandson, M i l o (voiced by M ichael J. Fox), has been search­ i n g for Atla ntis his whole l ife. M a h oney's char­ acter g ives M i l o a legendary map book a n d i n ­ s p i res h i m t o go on a s u b m a r i n e adventure and fi nd the lost city. Also len din g their voices to the cast a re James G a rner, Don Nove l l o (the a rtist formerly known as Father G u ido Sarducci) and the l ate Jim Va rney of " Ernest G oes to C a m p " fame. "Atla ntis " is on track to h i t theaters next J une.

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Oscar-wi n n i ng docume nta ry fi l m m a kers Rob Epste i n and Jeff Friedman ( " The Cel l uloid C l oset" a n d " Pa ragraph 1 7 5 " ) recently went undercover i n the C h ristian Exodus movement to i nvestigate the m i n i stry's attempt to " save " a gay man as resea rch for their upcoming fea­ ture fi l m " Save Me " . Writer Alan Pou l joi ned them at the meeting for " born-again recovering homosexuals " i n J u l y. " Save Me" is not a docu­ mentary; it's a ro mantic comedy centering on a gay man who joins a C h ristia n g roup that helps bring homosexuals back to both heterosexual­ ity and Jesus. I n stead of finding " redemption, " he finds a h u n k and fa l l s i n love with a guy who i s sti l l closeted. Something tel l s me this one isn't going to p l ay on a lot of screens i n the B i b l e Belt.

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Private Show i n g A certa i n queer sitcom actor h a s a curious habit. It seems the sta r l i kes to show his erect member to h i s lady friend when he gets aroused i n public. Romeo hears that the chick i n ques­ tion isn't i nterested in the least, but he sti l l of­ fers. Go to West H o l lywood my boy, I ' m sure you ' l l get plenty of takers.

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G E M I N I : M a rs moves i nto your m o n ey sec­ tor in early A u g u st, w h i c h m e a n s that if you push yo u r bosses and contacts a b it, you may actua l ly get more work a n d more d o u g h out of them. New peo p l e in yo u r l i fe w a n t to y o u r c h a r m to r u b off o n t h e m , but be a l itt l e sel ective a bout who you r u b u p a g a i n st, hett i e . A Capricorn i s d ef i n itely worth gett i n g c l o s e r t o .

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L I B RA: You c a n get what you want from a potenti a l lover if you a re wi l l i ng to treat h i m o r her with the respect you'd treat a f r i e n d . Be the o n e to say, " S o m eth i n g i s not r i g ht i n t h i s r e l a t i o n s h i p . " You co u l d t u r n a n i m porta nt r e l a t i o n s h i p a r o u n d i f you've g ot t h e g uts. A Sco r p i o l o n g s t o respect you more.

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have been out of my relationship with "Cheryl" for six months now.

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Needless to say I ' m lonely and would like another relationship. The problem is that every time I go out with someone, I compare that woman with Cheryl. So far, no one lives up to

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I ' m beginning to believe them.

What do you think is my problem? It's been

pened just recently. I got interested in this woman, and she was really interested in me. She has it all and we have things in common, but I started doing it again, comparing her to Cheryl and that made me not interested again ! !

My friends are beginning to lose patience with me because they keep setting me up and I keep throwing them out. They say there is no

dren and their children, to suffer confusion and humiliation for decades. It's not a pleasant pros­ pect.

Stress is supposed to be unhealthy. Is there any hope any of this will change? Does the "T" being added to the name of all these gay rights organizations really mean anything? Is anyone going to help with these issues that affect only trans people?

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