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SWEET EVENING BREEZE - YET MORE HELP SOUGHT gl_s_9 ONLINE:
TRANSGENDERED PIONEER If you are a typesetter/layout person, or Peter: pjtay100@ukcc.uky.edu
aspire to be, Mary Crone is the person you Elizabeth: bee@mis.net
During this, Black History Month, I’d should call. Tammy: sappho@mis.net
like to share a personal reminiscence of what February 1997 makrs the 3rd
was certainly one of my formative experiences anniversary of Elizabeth taking over the THANK YOU
here in Lexington. I hadn’t managed to sneak typesetting, and she needs to retire. On behalf of Ebony Male, I'd like to
into Lexington’s only gay bar more than afew However, she is a graphics trainer and is thank the Lexington community for its
times before I heard about Sweets. She was a offering two free 4—hour training courses, one contributions of toys and games to assist
legend here in the early ‘70’s. She was an in QuarkXPress and the other in Adobe children living with HIV. The toys collected
attractive, and by the time I met her elderly Illustrator (with sidelines into fonts, and also at the Toys for Kiddies Soiree on December
black of rather indeterminate gender. On into Adobe Photoshop) - for any person 1, 1996, helped to make the holidays
Friday or Saturday evening, you could often willing to take over the typesetting of the brighter for 60 children (approximately 25
see Sweets, dressed—up in a Chinese Red GLSO. This is both Macintosh or Windows families).
smock, black slacks and black opera pumps, a versions. The training normally costs $300 These families with children, or
Louise-Brooks styled wig, an umbrella and through Beau Graphics. Call now for more parents, living with HIV are being served by
white gloves making her way downtown to information and to set up training times. the HIV Care Coordinators at the Lexington-
have a drink at the bar. Fayette County Health Department,
She was always most gracious, sitting Call Mary. 266-5904. Willie Thomas Boddie,
proudly at a table downstairs at the bar, (then Chair, Board Of Directors
Called the Living Room) and received we“_ who was anyone in town. She worked as an ...........................................................................
wishers with the dignity of a society matron. I orderly at Good Samaritan Hospital and left a NOTE: Margaret Christopher Cartwright
once had the good fortune to be invited to her sizable amount of money to the Baptist (Everyone’s favorite Church Lady) is
house for an after—the-bar party. She lived ina church she belonged to. According to local convalescing this month from a serious but
small, wood—frame white house off East rumor, she was a genuine hermaphrodite, (thankfully!) not life—threatening illness.
Maxwell. Her living room had several big, abandoned by her parents at Good Samaritan She’ll be back just in time for Easter I’m sure!
overstuffed sofas completely covered with where they had taken her, then a 13—year-old -Ed.
plastic covers and free-standing ashtrays. She “boy" named James for an emergency
took all of us down into her basement rec- appendectomy. the gl_s_,9
room. There was a snack bar, a stereo and a As an early crusader for political rights Sponsor of the Month
black, glossy dance floor. She told us that her around here, I found the case of Sweet
cellar had been excavated by the UK Football Evening Breeze quite tantalizing. At that age, S C 0 rs o n S e
Team in the 1950’s. I had been told repeatedly that “the life of a
She was always very proud of her homosexual is a sad and lonely life” in so
connections with Lexington‘s straight society many ways by so many authoritative sources. & Ra n S d e I I
and her own respectability. She regularly Iwas trying to keep an open mind about my Attorneys at La“!
baked cakes for the local firemen and prospects, but a lot of the people that I met in
policemen and she claimed to know anyone con/inued on page 2