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Pride Community Services Organization publications LGBTQ community--Kentucky LGBTQ culture LGBTQ newspapers Gay men Lesbians Bisexual people Transgender people Sexual minorities Gender identity Drag culture GLSO News, October 1991 text GLSO News, October 1991 1991 2019 true xt747d2q7v8n section xt747d2q7v8n Free at Selected Business Locations Home Delivery at $5 per Year LEXINGTON GAY/LESBIAN SERVICE ORGANIZATION, P.O. BOX 11471, LEXINGTON, KY 40575 _____________—________——~— Gay people across the nation will celebrate the fifth national coming out day October 11. Supporters of the event say that there are several reasons for the national observance. First of all, the day 15 intended to emphaSIZe ' the personal,'soc1al,.and political importance that come With any ind1v1dual coming out. The day also provides ' encouragement to those who are considering coming out, and NATIONAL AIDS ACTIVIST reminds those who are out of theig opportunity to encoura e an support those who are taking the BELINDA MASON DIES step. The Day also suggest that there are usually ways those who Belenda Mason, a woman from the are out can come out even more. mountains of Kentucky, who was a Finally, having a nationally prominent national spokeswoman on observed coming out day serves as ehalf of those suffering from a reminder to the larger society AIDS, died September 9, in CONTINUED ON PAGE 11 Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn. . Ms. Mason was the only member of the National Commission on AIDS who suffered from AIDS, and led several national organizations . concerned with AIDS. She was past president of the National Association of People WIth AIDS. Ms. Mason, contracted HIV, the virus that communicates AIDS, from . me ou a blood transfusion given to her , after complications accompanying the birth of her second child. She and her husband sued the hospital and won an out of court settlement. W erev ‘ r She was quite critical of the Bush administration's AIDS policy. Even after she was appointed to the National Commission on AIDS, Ms. Mason noted her appointment ' reflected a bias of the Bush 1' e administration . , y 0 I 0 AIDS activists had demanded for some time that a person living - with AIDS serve on the panel. Ms. Mason suggests that she was chosen CONTINUED ON PAGE 9 A word from the editor W Closets Are For Clothes 6 S By Chuck Smitg - - Coming out is t e most Pubhshed monthly by the Lenngtnn politically significant action a Gay/Lesbian Services Orginiznfion, gay man. Ctr lesbian can ,takbe-thln , our soc1e eing ga is o a 13.0.1301 11471.1enngt0n.KY40575 threat andy’a political issue. By —_——_ leaving the closet, one refuses Chuck Smithedltor to conform to the gender and , sexual arran ements that define Cf“! Clare. president. GLSO Board and reinfogce the dominant atriarchal heterosexual norms. - P . . . . Hailinglee. Folding and stuffing: bee. Coming out is political precisely Laurie Mark Steve. and lilly. because it defies and critiCizes ' ‘ the majority standards. ———_*_ out “fig”? piicftfiés°§o£§1°°§§§ The Esmerelda's parlour column political influence. Analysis of with news and viewpoints of opinion surveys shows that the ' 'ans in the factor that correlates most interest to lesbi . . , Bluegrass is produced by strongly Wit? a persoan P9511211??? Esmerelda Collective. accep ance 0 gay PeOP e 1.5 a they know a gay man or lesbian who —— is_ open about their sexuality. Views or opinions expressed in GLSO News {Pb-1's means 1-5 that the. StrongeSt are those of the authors and don't lnqlcator that someone 15 Pr°babJ-y necessarily represent those of the GLSO geing to accept gay people 15 Board of Directors. Submissions are that the{ know someone who 18 out welcome. All submissions become the 0f the C oset- Thl's Seems to do property of GLSO and must indicate full more to form pos1tive attitudes name and address of the author. The about_ gays _than a person's age, ‘ staff reserves the right to edit religion! lncome. level! gendelfi submissions and ads to meet publishing leve 0f education! or ethnic requirements, as well as the right to background. . . . . reject any submission. Placement of “Coming out 13 an lnleldual advertising in the GLSO News does not dEClSlOn; one needs to be ready'to denote a person's sexual orientation nor take the step and Choose the tlme abusiness’s customer preference. . to throw open the closet door. But the gay community must play a role too. We must created a supportive environment for people to come out into. As more and GLSO ENCOURAGES COMING OUT more people come out there is wider acceptance of gay people GLSO sponsors a support group but there are still those who for those gay men and lesbians who discriminate against cgays. We are preparing to or beginning to must help stan up an speak out publicly acknowledge their sexual against such prejudice. orientation. The group provides If you are out of the closet, an opportunity to meet with others be supportive of those who are who are coming out and to learn preparing to or have recently come about area resources for gay out. If you are still in the people. For information call Mary: closet, we are here to support you 266-5900. when you're ready to come out. 2 - GLSO/October V' ' t ———————____________ Testing of Healthcare Providers Isn't Answer to Danger of Transmitting HIV By Ron Jerrell learn more about this disease and HIV testing of healthcare its transmission and if their providers has been a huge topic healthcare provider is not of discussion and often paranoia practicing universal precautions the last few months. I don't -- demand it. Users of the even want to discuss the Florida healthcare system must some dentist case. responsibility for their own The real issue behind all the safety. discussion is whether there is a [Ron Jerrell died of AIDS chance of transmission of HIV related complications August 10. from a healthcare worker to a He had been the executive patient. The answer is "Yes." director of the Kentuckiana But, only if the healthcare People With AIDS Coalition since provider is carelessly ignoring it was founded in 1989.] universal precautions while --------------- performing invasive procedures or is not making sterilization of Caution Suggested in Analysis of equipment a top priority in the Study Linklng Sexual Orientation prOVision of care. With Variation in Brain Structure Testing of healthcare providers is not the answer to this In response to a study problem. We know that testing can released today by Science produce false results including magazine suggesting male sexual alse positives and false orientation could e related to negatives. The level of brain structure, Lambda Legal discrimination against people Defense and Education Fund with HIV is still very high, it welcomed honest scientific is just covered up by other inquiry on issues regarding excuses for dismissal now. In a sexual orientation but cautioned "perfect" world, where against conclusions about the discrimination does not exist, preliminary findings. healthcare who test HIV positive As a matter of historical could simply disclose their HIV perspective, minority groups have status and be reassigned to a often been the object of studies position or work that did not seeking to locate a biological require invasive procedures. explanation for difference. Most It would seem to me to be more of these studies have been fully productive, less costly and far discredited. whether this more humane to concentrate our preliminary stud of the efforts (and dollars) on purported "biofogy" of research, education, prevention, homosexuality will eventually be and services than to implement a confirmed is completely unclear. policy of mandatory healthcare It is therefore probably prudent testing which would definitely be not to draw too many conc usions challenged to the Supreme Court from Dr. Simon LeVay's study. as an invasion of privacy Never-the-less, the findings protected by the Constitution. are intriguing, from a purely I would suggest that the public CONTINUED ON PAGE 5 GLSO/October - 3 The key to HIV Prevention is Through EDUCATION. Spread Facts, not HIV. For more information, call your local health department or the KENTUCKY AIDS HOTLINE 1-800-654-AIDS HIV is the virus that causes AIDS. 4- GLSO/October __.__.____________________________ STUDY FINDS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BRAINS OF GAYS AND STRAIGHTS An 18 month study of the brains of 41 cadavers, has shown a structural difference in the brains of gay men and those of heterosexual men. The results of the study showed a very different pattern: a segment of the brain that governs --—-----—--------—-- sexual behavior was half the size in gay men as it was in DEFENSE FUND URGES CAUTION heterosexual men. IN VIEWING SCIENTIFIC STUDY * "It tells us that sexual ‘ orientation is an aspect of human CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 ; nature that can be studied by scientific perspective. But it is i biologists; it does not tell us important to remember that, ‘v‘ how sexual orientation is regardless of whether bein gay 1 determined or when," said Simon is biologically baseg or j LeVaty, who carried out the 18 accelerated, a person's sexual j mont study. orientation is an intrinsically ‘ The brains used in the study private matter. were collected after routine Even if being gay were autopsies from peo‘fle who had completely the product of free died in New York an California. choice, there would still be no Nineteen were taken from gay men basis for any criminal, coercive, who died from AIDS assoc1ated or discriminatory penalties causes. The other brains in the against same-sex orientation. 1 study came from persons presumed And regardless of any biological to be heterosexual 16 men and six basis for homosexuality, it is women. difficult to fathom on what During the study the brain moral, ethical, or religious tissue was coded so LeVay never basis one can reasonably knew which ones came from gays of discriminate against people who heterosexuals. are sexually and emotionally LeVay, who is gay, is a oriented toward their own gender. graduate of Cambridge University. Homosexuality, since it . He taught and conducted research clearly occurs with a significant for 12 years at Harvard frequency and regularity in all University's Medical School cultures, is as "natural" as before joining the staff at Salk heterosexuality. This fact Institute, San Diego, Ca.., where remains true whatever the the study was done. "origins" of homosexuality or He undertook this study after heterosexuality. the man who had been his lover ——------ for 21 years died of AIDS. LeVay These reflections are taken from took a year off work to care for a news release of the Lambda his partner, Richard, whom he had Legal Defense and Education Fund, met when they were in college. a gay legal defense organization. LeVay and other scientists warn --------------------------------------------------- that it is too early to assign KentuckyAIDS Count --July3l, 1991 any significance to the such ReportedAIDScases:600 preliminary findings. Persons HIV Infected: 926 GLSO/October - 5 Book Reviews ____________—_________________________ GAYS IN WW II MILITARY BUILT FOUNDATIONS FOR GAY LIBERATION COMING OUT UNDER FIRE, by Allan military should continue its Berube, Free Press, 1990, 377 homophobic policies. It traces the pages. Reviewed by Chuck Smith. haphazard development of the military('s policy about gays in This book takes us back 50 years the ran 5. The book's depiction to a time when the few gay bars of gay men and lesbians in World were well kept secrets an only War II provides documentation for bombardiers wore bomber jackets. making well developed arguments It is a well-written, thoroughly against the military's continuing documented history that tells of discriminatory poliCies. the gay Americans who served in —----—-—------- the military during the Second EIGHTY—SIXED, by David B. Feinberg World War. With insight and viking Penguin Inc. 1889. Review sensitivity, Berube brings to life by Dan Mynear. the heroism, humor, and pathos of these men and women who Have you ever envisioned living contributed to the war effort the 19805 in a large gay while under the threat of assault metropolis? In Eighty—Sixed David by their own country because of B. Feinberg provi es an extremely their sexual orientation. realistic first person account of The book provides first hand gay life in the Big Apple —- first accounts of how serving in the war in a month by month scenario of helped many gays come to terms free-spirited 1980, followed by a with their sexuality. Then it depiction of the weighty describes the often humorous, responsibilities of 1986. sometimes tragic, ways gays in the The book's protagonist, B.J. military made themselves known to Rosenthall, vows to find himself a each other and developed their own lover in 1980. This is not a communities. It reveals that tens seemingly impossible goal for an of thousands of gay men and energetic young man with a colle e lesbians served ably in every job degree and a body that turns heags in the military. in the gym. A bet with his friend Perhaps the most interesting Dennis, a Catholic priest, as to .part of the book is the who will "couple" first propels description of how the networks neither character toward a match. that developed among gay people in Instead, B.J. plods through the military were the beginnings one-nighters and one-weekers -- of the modern gay movement. of always admitting to himself that particular interest is the leading there is something more out there role played by drag queens in and wondering how to attain it. setting the stage for the Many aspects of the free-— development of a gay political wheeling early eighties come back consciousness. to amuse and haunt the reader. This book is welcome because it B.J. visits the baths in a weak fills in one of the many gaps in moment and ends up with a case of the history of gay people and the clap. He finally find his "Mr. shows their contributions to the Right," only to avow, "I'm sure we war effort. Moreover, this book would have ended up lovers if is especially timely as the public Phillip hadn't given me herpes." debate heats up over whether the CONTINUED ON pm): 11 6 - GLSO/October “M“— ELEVENTH ANNUAL GLSO CAMPOUT SET FOR FARM IN SCOTT COUNTY The Eleventh Annual GLSO Campout is scheduled for the second weekend in October, Saturday 12. Once again Eddie will host the campout at his secluded farm in rural Scott --------------- County. Campers will begin NAMESSUILTDRAWSCROWD arriving at 4 p.m. There is no TO LAB R DAY DISPLAY rain date this year. The event attracts people from More than 1800 people visited the both central Kentuc y and display of more than 500 panels of Louisville. Regulars at the event the Names Project Quilt at say it a great way to meet and Lexington Center Heritage Hall enjoy new friends and old just 30 over Labor Dafy Weekend. The quilt mi es north of Lexington. is made up‘ 0 thousands of panels Campers will "rough it" -— made in memory of people who died there are no facilities. Those of AIDS. attending are to bring your own Local AIDS service organizations supplies: warm clothes, sleeping had information booths at the bags, and food for dinner and display. Donations collected at breakfast. the event will go to local direct Eddie will provide a service AIDS organizations, said comfortable ground to sleep on, a Katie McCormick, head of NAMES campfire and a clear sky. Because Project Kentucky, sponsor of the the campsite is not Visible from display. the road, if you have not attended McCormick said that the success a previous campout, please call of the event was the result of the Eddie at his Lexington home, many volunteers from Kentucky, 259-0878, for detailed directions. Ohio, and Tennessee who assisted The map below provides the basic in planning and carrying out the direction for finding the farm. event. ‘0 :0 Lane JOS-HHNE 5‘2 o. eei . |<— 1,5 m. ->l <--— 1.7 mile --->] “- N 1.9 ' I 0a ' Jose: ne 'nl AVORTER | oods-Ryker a . H arm House §"" .3 ~35 3 Prater .6 Road 136 Coppage . I <---- 2.3 miles —---> I from Lexington take 1-75 north to Sadleville exit ' GLSO/October - 7 short lived publications are cherished along with photographs, posters, T-shirts, and jackets. a P Rhinestone pasties donated by a smerelcla 5 81'10 1‘ lesbian stripper rest near a 3., team—autographed softball and a g, lambda-emblazoned hard hat. H" The Archives collects records “c5 of all our lives, not only famous “ or published lesbians. Each of us must realize that our lives deserved to be documented for By Mary Crone ourselves and for future genera- Saturday, Oct. 19, there will tions of lesbians. The Archives be a potluck to inform, celebrate have greatly outgrown it current and support the Lesbian Herstory space. More than $100,000 has Archives. It will start at 5:30 been raised by the Lesbian p.m. in the basement of the St. Herstory Educational Foundation. Augustine Chapel, before the Alix The bui ding fund drive now under Dobkin Concert which will start way is attempting to raise at 8:00 o'clock. Alix be at the $150,000 for a down payment on a potluck. brownstone in Brookl n; to house Women are invited to bring a the ever-growing collection, a photo, poem, or other momento of cultural center with performance your life for the Archives. If and exhibit space, facilities for you belong or have belonged to a photographs and film-making, and esbian group project of any sort more. perhaps you could bring an audio Come together on Oct. 19, or video taped herstory of you learn more about the Archives, work, fliers, etc. make a donation of money if you The Lesbian Herstory Archives can, and add to this wonderful opened in 1974 in the pantry of collection of lesbian herstory. an Upper West side Manhattan "The archives is filled with apartment. The Archives is a voices announcing our autonomy symbolic, active, and engaging and self—possession," wrote Joan resource that inspires and Nestle in the Lesbian Herstory empowers its constituency; in- Archives Newsletter. "The roots sgired by the courage of lesbians of the Archives lie in the w 0 have lived, struggled, and silenced voices, the love letters loved in more difficult times. destroyed, the pronouns changed, The Archives is governed by a the diaries carefully edited, the group of volunteer coordinators pictures never taken, the and sustained by the collective euphemized distortions that passions of women the world over. natriarchy would let pass." Thousands of lesbians have visited the Archives, which is a GLSO Coffeehouse and Dance mixture of a library, museum, and October 26, 9:00 p.m. a. familydalbum.f Thebcollection Unitarian Church gives ev1 ence 0 es ian oppres- . sion as well as liberation. Tens 3564 Clays M111 Road of thousands of books and Tickets:$5,$4GLSOMembers periodicals, medical texts to steamy 1950's pulp novels, to 8-GLSO/October _._______—__——_________ NATIONAL GAY RIGHTS MARCH SET FOR APRIL, 1993 IN WASHINGTON A national march on Washington in su port of lesbian and lg‘ay rights is scheduled for April 25, 1993. It will.3 support passage of t e Gay and Lesbian civil Rights Act and remind the nation that hundreds of thousands gay men and women are out of the closet and are out to stay. The march was called for by . -—--—---------- representatives from 50 regiona discrimination. and local groups in 26 states at Anne Johnson, director of an an August meeting in Chicago. Appalshop documentary film on Ms. A coordinating committee was Mason. she said Mason, "She always elected and charged with believed that AIDS was a kind of a organizing the march. The test or a challenge to Kentuckians committee was given the mandate to on how we're going to deal with ensure 50 percent of the our neighbors or kin or people we leadership be composed of people care about that are living with of color and that women have 50 AIDS." percent parity on all conunittees. "she call on all of us to have a The last gay and lesbian march response that's compassionate." on Washington for civil rights in Governor Wallace Wilkinson, and October, 1989, has over 500,000 several state legislators, participants from around the attended Ms. Mason's funeral. nation. "She was the best example in our nation our president could have NATIONAL AIDS ACTIVIST chosen as a spokesperson to ask people to understan this disease and its causes and efforts." Gov. BELINDA MASON DIES Ms. Mason fought courageously CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 for the day AIDS would be because she was from the American conquered. Unfortunately that day mainstream: white, middle class, came to late for her, as it has heterosexual, and married. for so many others. "I'm very conscious of the fact "We all share the urgency and that, in many ways I am a token the immediacy that we are fighting and that I am being used." she for our lives," she once said 0 said. "With me, they don't have to people living with AIDS. "It's appear to be condoning any just relentless. People are dying a ternative livestyles." all the time." After Bush appalnted her to the National Commission on AIDS, she said, "I was perfect. I was ' Southern, I was white, I was CLASSIFIED ADS articulate and I got AIDS in a 'nice' way." Ms. Mason was a newspaper HOUSEMATE WANTED to share reporter and short story writer. one-thud rent and expensesmsgemous Her father, state Rep. Paul Mason, homemBell Court area. Call233- 223. sponsored and worked for the passage of laws in the Kentucky GAY MALE HOUSEMATE wanted to General Assembly to fight the share furmshed, elefiint town house. spread of AIDS and to protect Eastend. Prlvate be oom and bath. those living with AIDS from $300.00 monthlg plus degosn. Call CONTINUED IN NEXT COLUMN 66-8567, after 6: 0 p.m. As for Will. GLSO/October-Q The march toward civil rights for gay men and lesbians is taking place in several courts around the nation. Advances on behalf of gay rights were made in several cases the past few months. Two of the cases concern lesbians who are fighting -—-—-—----—---— to be reinstated in the military. administrative inconvenience of Each was discharged after she extending the benefits to lesbian disclosed her sexua orientation. and gay employees of the school The Ninth Circuit of the U.S. system justified the policy of Court of Appeals has reinstated excluding their partners from the suit of Dusty Pruitt. The benefits programs. ruling places the burden on the Army to prove that the military's policy of excluding lesbians and ay servicemembers is based on Al' D bk' Eegitimate evidence and not 1x 0 1n founded upon prejudicial stereo- . . types. This is the first time a (a founder of Womyns Music) federal court has not deferred to the military's claim that "homo— _ sexuality is incompatible with m concert military service." Pruitt served 16 years in the Army and Army Reserves before she Saturday, OCtObBI‘ 19 was hforced out iln 1986. 8 00 T e Pruitt ru ing, may favor the ; . . Chief Nurse of the dWashington pm State Nationa Guar Colonel ' Margarethhe Camermeyer'ls fight to St“ Aguatlne Chapel preserve er 25-year career. Cammermeyer faces discharge, 472 Rose Street because she acknowledged being a lesbian. She served in Vietnam, _ . where she was awarded the Bronze Tickets: $81!] advance Star. In 1985 she was named V.A. - ~ Nurse of the Year. at Sqecml Media Cammermeyer was being considered to become Chief Nurse of the _*10_at the door National Guard. Fmancml Problems? "I am being discharged for my - _ honesty and integrity. Had I lied Call Lmda, 266 9748 I might have achieved my ambition, of becoming Chief Nurse," she said. 1 Concert preceded at 5:30 by Meanwhi e in a case in the New - York courts Ia judge recognized the potluck and presentation about right of gay and lesbian employees sb‘ ' . of the city to sue for health Le lan.Herstroy'Archlves Coine insurance benefits for their meet All! and bring your stones. domestic partners. The court rejected the argument by New York city that the cost and 10 - GLSO/October National Coming Out Observance Set CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 that there are gay men and DIRECTORY lesbians in every community. They —— are to be found in every profession, business, and school, GLSO Gayline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231-0335 and are active members and contri- GLSO Board . gamma . . . . . . . . . 266-8887 butors to churches, social groups, GLSO News . ( huc . . . . . . . 253—0661 interest grou s, and political GLSO Sgeakers Bureau (Bill). . . . . 266-9175 parties . Furtfiermore, gay people Egg 3 0'10""8 ('1‘le - M - - - ”2265653991035 ' ' l 'tt omn u roup ary .. — 32: 1151151793523 3m?§§%i%%M1an§d :8 Rainbow Bogllng League ERick}. . 275-2127 d . . . . . emand their 33.1.}..53’.“ rights Tri-Staie Gq|y Rodeo Association ( any or Mark) . . . . . .233-7266 REVIEW: Book Depicts 1980's Gay Life NAMES Proieci K niuckv CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6 SKaile . . . . . . . . . . 223—3855 Feinberg does an outstanding job Lesbian Poi Lick Esmeralda) . . . 873—0254 capturing the culture of the 19803 Esmeraldas Parlour (Debbie) . . . 255-3851 — John Lennon's murder, Reagan's Froni Runners "' running Chm assassination attempt, catching a (00") - - - ' ' - - - - - 254—5850 flight on People Express . GLUE (UK Sizflpori Group) kThe sewn? 1ha11f Of the hock Lexington' Mene'ghen rusiéiieib'y). Eff—€356 ma es a pain u eap to 1986 and - ‘ the troubled era of AIDS. It's a (Michael) - - - - - - - - 2334709 sad transition that one almost —— wants to skip. But we know 1986 wasn't a ha time for the a Gay/Lesbian AA (Dove . . . . . . 277—9522 community anfipfiy this time in Eh: Gay/Lesbian AI-Anon (iiobert) . . . 293—0516 bogk, feekl a hstrong tie to B.J. an stic wit him throu h his ' tough times as he agonizes ghether RELlQlOU GROUPS 299 4458 he is or isn't HIV positive, and Dignln " Caiholics DO") ' ' ' ' ' ' — as he gives up part of his in eg ly —- Episcopalans 9m?) . . 277—4584 hedonism to become care provider inierweave - Unilarians ( rag) . . 266—8887 Egg 39:3; fa??? as thffgfi‘ ' fie egg AIDs iNFORMAWRGANIZATiONS 3133. lgaslegggggemgogglrzgd tfinfiafig‘i‘: AVOL (info. & egucaiion) . . . . . . 254-2865 whatever life deals him. He ACT-Lexinglon reieroi) . . . . . . . 281—5151 accepts that he has taken steps HlV+. ARC' AIDS Effigy GMUP_ . 2334““ that he can never ratrace- Keniucky AIos Hoiiine . . . . . aoo-ss4—Ams Lowest Fares . - - . 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TUE 1 Gayline Meeting, 5:30 SAT 5 Financial Recovery in OCTOBER Recovery Workshop, 9:30 a-m- - 5 P-m- for info: I1:3:22:aI:1:Izizi5:42:15:3:M-:I:-:-:mks->143::~:-:-:~:A:~:-:~:-zém;:~:':-:‘:-:-:-:-:-::11:t:-:~:-:~:»:~:~:I:-:~:-£5:-:-:-:-z::~:~:-:~:-:-:-§~:-:—:-z 277-0450, Judy or Skeet ‘ 1 2 3 4 5 SUN 6 Tri—State Gay Rodeo | 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Association, 4 p.m. 1 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 WED 9 NAMES Project Meeting, 1 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 7 p.m., Rosenthal Center, 5 27 28 29 30 31 Transylvania UniverSity THU 10 NAMES Project Panel Making Workshop, 7 p.m., Quilters W E E K L-Y E V E N '1‘ S Square, Regency Road SAT 12 Eleventh Annual GLSO SUNDAY Gay/Lesbian AA, 4 p.m., Campout, see page 8 for Comp Care Center; more information TUESDAY Gay/Lesbian Al-Anon, 7 SUN 13 AVOL meeting, 5:30 p.m. p.m., Comp Care Center 214 W. Maxwell Street Rainbow Bowling League, 8:45 southland Lanes SAT 19 Lesbian Archives Potluck, 5:30 p.m., followed by WEDNESDAY Gay/Lesbian AA, 8 p.m., ALIX DOBKIN Concert, 8:00, St. Joseph Hospita , CCI St. Augustine Chapel, Meeting Room 472 Rose Street THURSDAY HIV+, ARC, AIDS Support SUN 20 Lesbian potluck, 2 p.m. Group: I MON 21 Pro-choice Alliance, 7:30 FRIDAY Gay/Lesbian AA, 8 p.m. p.m., Alfalfa Restaurant Comp Care Center WED 23 GLSO Board Meeting, 7:30 SATURDAY Front Runners, 9 a.m., UK water tower at Alumni SAT 26 GLSO Coffeehouse and Dance Drive 9 p.m, Unitarian Church, -—---—----———--- 3564 Clays Mill Road GAYLINE - 231-0335 Lexington Gay Information Service TUE 29 GLSO News, folding and Operates Between 8 - 11 p.m. stuffing, 6:30 p.m., for Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, info, call Lee,277—9365 and Friday evenings. 12 - GLSO/October g; 1.5 (o’ E ... ' E «a $916“- BE ER 3‘3 ?RE7 Erl 17 NE p I T . \ 1%, LENT! ‘a 1k " , \ WWW 5 VEK E IMF/i lEND NEED WE SAY MORE? . 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