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MUSEUM OF CULTURE SISTERSOUND LEXINGTON MEN‘S CHORUS
AND DIVERSITY PRESENTS
ONE WORD SEASON'S GREETINGS

There is a group of citizen volunteers SisterSound, Lexington Women‘s
from diverse backgrounds that is working to Chorus, will present One Word, their The Lexington Men‘s Chorus, now
create an “educational and interactive holiday concert. on Saturday, December enjoying its eighth season, presents a
museum dedicated to understanding human 6th at 8 pm at the Singletary Center holiday concert at the Recital Hall of the
diversity and the effects of intolerance and Recital Hall, at the University of University of Kentucky Singletary Center
bigotry.” A member of this group has Kentucky. This will be their first concert for the Arts. The performances are
expressed interest in having a representative presented on a stage and is sure to be an scheduled on Saturday, Dec. 13th at 8
from the gay community on their board. exciting event. pm and Sunday Dec. 14th at 3 pm.

The goals for this museum are to foster The music will include some The men of the chorus will sing
understanding and appreciation for diverse broadway tunes and foik songs, along holiday songs from various cultures,
people and diverse communities; and to with traditional seasonal pieces. including Russian anthems, spirituais and
increase awareness of how intolerance and SisterSound will be conducted by Nancy Hanukkah songs. This will be followed by
bigotry hurt us all. ideas tor programming Ward and Jan Martin will be the a selection of light-hearted seasonal
inciude fixed exhibits, traveling exhibits, accompanist. For an extra treat, come arrangements including a Hanukkah song
performances, speakers, dialogues and early and listen to Nancy and Jan play by Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary,
conversations. One of their ideas is to collect piano duets. and ”Estaciones“ a Southwestern
oral histories from central Kentucky elders. There are now about thirty chorus rendering of the famous text trom

in her visit to Lexington several years members and they have been working Ecclesiastes with flute and marimba
ago, UrvashiVaid enoouragediesbigaytrans hard to put on an ambitious concert. accompaniment.
individuals to become increasingly involved in Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the The quartet, Fourte, will be
progressive community groups. This seems door, $8 tor seniors and students. Tickets performing "Santa Claus is Coming to
like an excellent opportunity to build bridges are avaiiable through the Singletary Town;“ and Brian Throckmorton, LMC‘s
and have our voice heard. Wouldn't it be Center box office (257-4929) and from c'on/flmerlwl/Mgeri amt/mumblllemr
great to have an exhibit on the lite of Sweet chorus members. —"_"'—""'—
Evening Breeze? To have the history of our Come and join us, there is nothing
civil rights movement recorded? like music to lighten your day and to Sponsor of the

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mentions racial and religious diversity. It GLSO ONLINE
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MEN’S CHORUS'CO’VMWM ”a” ”A” I of these meetings. One suggestion is that church service (approximately 12:30 pm) in
composer in residence, has arranged a we meet morereguiarly, every month on a the Fellowship House. Please bring a
mambo version of “We Wish You a Merry speciiic day. Perhaps in January as we potluck dish to share. Join us for good food
Christmas.” begin planning tor Pride Month, a joint and fellowship.

The chorus is in its second season potluck followed by meetings in different lnterweave programs are always open
under the direction of Loren Tice. Tedrin rooms of the Pride Center would be to the larger community. Please call Davina
Blair Lindsay, our accompanist. will play possible. at 271-6174 for more information. é
a solo piano arrangement of “Joy to the We continue to encourage attendance
World.” by group representatives and by MCC CHRISTMAS EVENTS

LMC is a volunteer community individuals who would like to learn more
chorus, organized to provide an about what is going on in Lexington and The Metropolitan Community
opportunity for gay and gay-supportive how they can become a pan of our ‘LBGT Church is planning a special program of
men to sing together. its primary activities. Whether or not we have a large Christmas music, God’s Love Reaching, for
purpose is musical excellence in number of people, we always have good the Dec. 2ist service (11:30 am). On that
performance. It also seeks to provide food and interesting conversation. sameSunday, we will meet for caroling atthe
fellowship and asense of pride and unity l am looking tor a community church at 5 pm. There will also be a
within the gay and lesbian community. organization or business to Christmas Eve Service on Dec. 24th at it :00

Tickets for "Season’s Greetings" sponsor/provide the entree for our next pm. All are welcome to any of these events.
are available at a cost of $12 for adults, potluck scheduled for January 20th, l998. MCC is located at 387 Waller Ave. Our voice
$10 for seniors or students with lD, and Our previous providers have been Bourbon mail phone number is 255-4016 §
$5 for children under to years of age. Street Restaurant (twice) and the GLSO
They are available from chorus members Board. Contact Mike Taylor at 225-1828. WOMEN'S SPIRITUALITY
or the Singletary Center Box Cities (606 ® The Women‘s Spirituality Group of the
257-4929). P-FLAG Unitarian Church is planning to start a

Season tickets are also available at Parents, Friends, and Family oi curriculum oi study “Rise Up and Call Her
an overall savings of 10 to 15%. Call Lesbians and Gays (P-FLAG) is again Name“ in January. This curriculum is at
(606)266-9175 tor more information. The scheduling regular meetings on the second survey of Goddess spirituality around the
1997-1998 season will also include an Tuesday of each month. We meet at the world. it includes the use of ritual, chants,
On-Broadway Concert and the Annual Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church atthe comer readings, art projects, dialogue, storytelling,
Pride Concert, both of which will also be oi Tates Creek and Armstrong Mill. Contact video, meditation and visualization. We will
held at the Singletary Center. @ Perry ( 502-226-5478) for more information. be making plans for this project at our Dec.

meeting and will announce the starting date
NETWORKING MEETING Interweave in the next newsletter. This group of straight

A small crowd gathered at the Pride lnterweave will attend the World AlDS and lesbian women is open to new members.
Center on Nov. 11th for the ongoing bl- Day Candlelight Vigil and Memorial Service Our Dec. 5th meeting will start with
monthly community gatherings and Monday, December ist at 5:30 pm. in polluckat6230 and program at7zi5. Besides
potluck sponsored by GLSO. Although Triangle Park. After this service, we will walk discussing plans for the curriculum, we will
advertising appeared in GLSO News and to Vertigo for “Miss Daisy's Toys for Kiddies watch a video on women‘s spirituality. On
all known organizations were alerted Party” sponsored by E-Male. Please Dec. 19th we will meet at the home or Mary
directly, attendance dropped by 50% from remember to bring a new toy for admission. Crone for a potluck at 6:30 and a Winter
the previous month. We have purchased one toy, a purple rocking Solstice ritual at 7:30. (For an interesting

lwelcome and encourage community dinosaur, to be from lnterweave. article on Winter Solstice, see page 5.) Call
members to contact me and share your The next lnterweave luncheon will be Mary for information and directions to her
ideas about publicity and the development Sunday. Dec. 7th immediately following the house. (268-5904) @

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 % SOLSCTCG Goddess Holle, who‘s sacred blood is said to switch on holiday lights. or perhaps light a

' BYMARY CRUNE be within the holly berry. This is the blood roaring fire. As you do so, linviie you to think

:' Yes, Christmas is just around the shed in giving birth, the blood of life that is for a moment of the symbolic act you are

I _ corner, but then so is Chanukka, Solstice, honored in the color red used at this solstice performing. Bringing forth light at this time of
, f and Kwanzaa. What are all these holidays season. year is an ancient part Of all OUi spiritual
l and why are they all happening at once? We may also decorate evergreen trees, histories with great power to stir us deeply.

Those of us with pagan tendencies” believe another tradition that is found in many Winter Solstice. a time of joyous celebration

; that the many ancient celebrations at the time cultures. Worship within sacred groves of of the return of the sun. and a reaftlrmation of

i of solstice continue to express themselves in trees or of particular trees is testified to by humankind‘s connection to the universe and

; modern form within all of these holiday hundreds oistorles. myths. and customs. At to each other. Blessed Be.

. celebrations. solstice the Druids tied apples to the <—-————-—>

: Scientifically, the Winter Solstice is one branches of oaks and firs to thank the god JEFF JONES

E of two times each year when the earth Odin for blessing them with fruitfulness. . VS

reaches. its. greatest distance from the sun Lighted candles. honoring the sun god HATE CRIMES

‘ and begins its return. The longest night of the Balder, were placed in the boughs. By: Charlie Per/ems

: year, Dec 2ist or so, passes and the days In China, sacred trees were decorated

3. begin to grow longer once again. As you can with red banners with words of praise printed Jeff Jones , head of the GLSO

; imagine, ancient peoples throughout our in black ink. The Mayans adorned the Discrimination Project was interviewed in

i world anticipated and celebrated this event cypress with teeth and locks of hair. In the November 25, 1997 issue of ADVOCATE

with great joy. We have vestiges of their Finland, the Lapps collected samples of all magazine photo and all. The article. written

‘: celebrations within our traditions today. the food at their solstice feast and filled tiny by Lee Condon. also featured simultaneous

{ One of the most common sacred myths birch bark boats that were hung from pine answers to the interview questions from

at Winter Solstice is the birth or rebirth of the trees. Sharon Shaw Johnson, Executive. Director of
sacred sun child by the Virgin Mother There are references to a "Tree of Life" Gay Men and Lesbians Opposing Violence--
Goddess. Mother Earth gives birth to in Judaism, Hinduism. Syrian myth, Persian a Washington based advocacy group, as well

3 Dionnysus; Demeter gives birth to her sacred literature. Aztec creation myth. and on and as from Richard Socarldes, Special Assistant

2 daughter. Persephone. in Egypt, lsls is on. During the Middle Ages. Jesus was to the President of the United States and

: rebirthing Horus. Rhiannon brings iorth her frequently pictured as crucified within a tree. Director of the White House Conference on

. sacred son Pryderi, and Mary gives birth to and a popular legend of the time said that the Hate Crimes. The article is well worth your

: Jesus. The Queen of Heaven in all her cross was carved from the Tree of Life. time.

; incarnations. within many cultures and over The first Christmas tree was probably it YOU or someone you care for and

E the span oi human history, returns the light of the Yule tree of Germany. another pagan love is a hate crime victim, PLEASE call Jeri
the world to Her peoples. Bonfires are built, tradition that was slowly woven into the Jones at (606) 296-4170.---GLSO

candles are lit, songs are sung and homes Christian celebration of Christ’s birth. The Discrimination Project. Your conversation

are decorated Christmas tree spread through Europe and with Jeff will be held in the strictest

Modern day pagans will celebrate the was brought to America by a Unitarian confidence. For far too long, hate crimes

.} solstice in many difierentways. Honoring the minister. John Sears. have gone unreported and therefore

stones of rebirth. some of us will invoke a Some people haVe told me that they unnoticed by the members of the gay

E Goddess who has meaning for us and ask regret not having a Christmas tree to community and society at-large.The pain and

F Her assistance in our personal rebirth. We decorate as they have changed their religious suffering of gay lesbian and transgendered

3 will meditate on new possibilities for beliefs. lsuggest you consider reclaiming a people MUST be reported and addressed.

. ourselves, consider the gifts that we have not decorated tree as part of all our heritages. A in the words of Janet Reno, Attorney
yet expressed within our lives. We will dream tree. dressed in whatever finery you favor, is General of the United States: “Every
the dream forward and make plans for the awonderful symbol for the human connection person is diminished when any
new year, as the Wheel of life turns again. to the great, exuberant cycle of life. one of us experiences anything

i We may decorate with holly and lvy, the Weather or not you have a tree this less than the full measure of his

, plant that represents the British Cone December, you will probably light candles. or her dignity as a human being. ”
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question concerning his historic appearance at the Human Rights Campaign Fund’s gala celebration in Washington DC. last month. We
.believe that all of us in the iesbigay community should read and applaud these words. Keep in mind, however, that they were spoken by the
’ same man who signed the Defense of Marriage Act into law when he could have let it pass without his signature or even vetoed it. .
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QUOTE OF THE MONTH .
No DISCRIMINATION AND you OUGHT TO BE PART OF THE ‘AMlLY OF
; THE PRESIDENT: WELL, TIM, YOU KNOW, l GREw UP IN THE r
g . , AMERICA. THAT'S WHAT l BELIEVE. AND lF My PRESENCE THERE
. SECREGATED SOUTH IN THE 40s AND 505. AND ALL My LIFE, FROM .
g TONIGHT ADVANCES THAT GOAL, THEN THAT'S A GOOD THING. »
. THE TIME l WAS A CHILD, l WAS TAUGHT AND i HAVE BELIEVED THAT »
. My EXPERIENCE IN LIFE -- ALL l CAN TELL YOU IS WHAT
_- EVERY PERSON IN THIS COUNTRY -- No MATTER WHAT THEIR
" MY EXPERIENCE IS -- AND l'M NOT TALKING ABOUT AS PRESIDENT, l'M
. DIFFERENCES ARE, IN THEIR LIFESTYLE OR THEIR RACE OR THEIR ,
; TALKING ABOUT AS A CITIZEN, As A PERSON -- Is THAT MOST
' RELIGION, lF THEY OBEY THE LAW, SHOW UP FOR WORK EVERY DAY -
» , PEOPLE'S ATTITUDES ABOUT How HOMOSEXUALS SHOULD BE '-
, OR SHOW UP FOR SCHOOL, IF THEY BE GOOD CITrZENS, THEY OUGHT '
; TREATED REALLY ARE DETERMINED MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE
T To BE TREATED WiTH RESPECT AND DIGNTTY AND EQUALITY. AND
a BASED ON WHETHER THEY HAVE EVER KNOWN SOMEONE WHO Is .
f THEY SHOULD BE SUBJECT T0 N0 DISCRIMINATION IN THE THINGS .
‘, HOMOSEXUAL. Now, WHETHER MOST PEOPLE'S ATTITUDES ABOUT ,
:lTHAT WE ALL HAVE To HAVE ACCESS To, LIKE EDUCATION AND A JOB
3 , , WHETHER THE LIFESTYLE SHOULD BE CONDONED OR CONDEMNED Is .
AND HEALTH CARE. lllIHAT tM TRYING To DO IS To CONTINUE To
r A FUNCTION, PERHAPS, OF THEIR RELIGIOUS TRAINING. BUT WE‘RE
, MOVE THAT FORWARD. '
‘ NOT TALKING ABOUT PEOPLe's RELIGIOUS CONVlCTlONS HERE. '
= i KNOW THIS IS A DIFHCULT ISSUE FOR A LOT OF ;
; , WE'RE TALKING ABOUT How PEOPLE IN THE PUBLIC ARENA, As
. AMERICANS. i KNOW THAT PARTICULARLY FOR AMERICANS WHO VE .
. , CITIZENS, SHOULD BE TREATED IN TERMS OF THEIR RIGHT To ,
4 NEVER KNOWN ANYONE WHO WAS GAY OR LESBIAN PERSONALLY, IT s , :
3, , EDUCATION, TO JOBS, To HOUSING, AND TO BE TREATED FREE OF :
7 AN ISSUE THAT OFTEN AROUSES DISCOMFORT. BUT l THINK ITS THE
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r RIGHT THING To DO. l THINK WE HAVE TO KEEP WORKING UNTIL WE ,
a SAY FOR EVERYBODY, THE ONLY TEST SHOULD BE: ARE YOU A LAW- '
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