JUNE 1989 @ L5 (36
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LEXINGTON GAY/LESBIAN SERVICES ORGANIZATION, P.O. BOX 11ll71, LEXINGTON, KY 110575
_ GAY PRIDE '89 IN LEXINGTON

Lexington's plans for Gay Pride '89, coinciding with the twentieth anniversary of the
Stonewall Riots which mark the beginning of the modern gay and lesbian freedom movement, have
changed considerably from those announced in last month's issue of GLSO News. The final
schedule for the week is:

Monday June 12 GLSO Forum/Elections, 8:00 pm at Comprehensive Care Center. Free.
Tuesday June 13 Bowling Night, 8:30 pm at Joyland Lanes
Wednesday June “I Safe Sex Presentation, Conference Room B at the new Lexington Public
Library. Presented by AVOL. Free. .
Thursday June 15 Bar Night. Special offerings from the bars to be announced.
Friday June 16 8:00 pm. Pizza and Movies, at the Unitarian Universalist Church,
$3 donation
Saturday June 17 1:00 pm. Picnic, at Jacobson Park, way out Richmond Road. Look for
signs announcing the "Mary" Family Reunion. Free.
Speaker, Greg Fischer, Member of the Board of the National Gay and
Lesbian Task Force. Location to be announced. Free.
Sunday June 18 10:30 am. lnterweave's Annual Service, "A Celebration of our Journey,”
Unitarian Universalist Church. Free.
7:00 pm. Arts Night, at ArtsPlace. Free.

Attention all "art types" people: the Lexington gay pride committee is searching for
interested people to display their art work (pottery, paintings, photography, or anything else you
can think of) and/or themselves for "Arts Night." On Sunday, June 18, from 7 to 9 pm at
ArtsPlace on North Mill, the Pride Committee will present Arts Night, and we need you to help
make it happen. If you or anyone you know, sing, dance, or do anything else that may be
deemed "art" by others, please have them call Teresa at 252-3106. Last year's Art Night was a
huge success and we would really love to repeat that this year. So come "out" and don't be shy.

Last year's picnic, the now annual reunion of the "Mary" Family, proved what we all already
know: We are Everywhere! Members of the "Mary" Family came from all over Kentucky, and
even from outside the state. One of the identifying traits of the "Mary" Clan is that its members,
aside from being gay, all put their family name first, much like the ancient Chinese tradition.
Consequently, at first impression some people who attended might even have been mistaken for
nuns! ("Mary" Catherine, "Mary" Mary, "Mary" Joseph, etc., etc.), Though in each of our cases
they weren't... At any rate, during the course of the afternoon, more than 200 people from
Central and Eastern Kentucky rambled in and out of the picnic, bringing food and games with
them, and ate, dozed in the sun, played volleyball and Gay Trivia and frisbee and softball, and
had a lot of fun.

Greg Fischer, the Pride Week '89 Speaker, should provide an interesting perspective on the
present state of the gay and lesbian movement across the country. A resident of Nashville, Mr.
Fischer is one of those rare examples of just what the religious right fear most: a former
fundamentalist preacher who gave up that life to be his gay self. Mr. Fischer was recently
elected to the Board of NGLTF, and comes with rave reviews from Sue Hyde (Ms. Hyde is familiar
to Central Kentucky's gay men and lesbians, having appeared in Lexington as the Pride Week '87
Speaker and more recently during the Symposium on Gay Equality held by the Unitarian
Universalist Church).

All of the details have not been finalized for Bar Night and the Speaker from the National
Gay and Lesbian Task Force. Look for more details to be announced in a mailing in early June.
J