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LESBIAN AND GAY LEADERS Organizations Program. Interweave joins
SPONSOR NATIONAL COMING OUT DAY nearly one hundred other organizations in the
from NCOD program, including Dignity/USA, Integrity,
Inc., National AIDS Network, and the National
The second annual National Coming Out Organization for Women.
Day (NCOD), October 11, is being By joining the program Interweave
cosponsored by a broad base of highly receives monthly news from the Task Force,
respected community leaders and organizations. assistance from Task Force staffers (already
The goal of NCOD is to increase the visibility used during Convocation), discounts to attend
of the more than 20 million gay people in the the Creating Change Conference in November,
United States. Last year's activities received and publicity from the Task Force.
positive media coverage throughout the This year's Creating Change Conference
country, including coverage in USA TODAY, will be held November 10-12 in Bethesda,
CNN, NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO, THIS WAY Maryland. The conference is designed to
OUT, and the Oprah Winfrey Show. build skills for organizing the gay and lesbian
October 11, the day of this annual community. Two Interweave members, Steve
event, commemorates the 1987 March on Savage and Craig Clere, will be attending the
Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights. conference. For more information about the
NCOD organizers invite individuals and conference give them a call at 266-8887.
organizations to become co-sponsors by making Congratulations to Interweave in this
financial contributions to support the central step of helping to develop the lesbian and gay
office and by planning local activities in their community!
communities. "This is a grass roots campaign,
and its success depends on the willingness of
local groups to plan and carry out events that GAYLINE GOES DOWN AGAIN!!!
support people to take their next step in from Craig Clere
coming out" says NCOD co-chair, Dr. Rob
Eichberg. GLSO's Phoneline stopped functioning
As coming out is a process and not a once again during the middle of September.
singular event, individuals are being asked to The Phoneline is, for many lesbians and gay
"take the next step" in their coming out men, the only link with their community. The
process--a step which may be very personal Phoneline staff provides callers with
for some and very public for others. "Our information regarding local and national
power is awesome, and it's time we use it. events, legal and medical referrals,
NCOD is a chance to take the spirit and gay-positive therapists, information for
message of the March on Washington home to newcomers regarding Lexington's gay and
communities throughout the country" says lesbian community, and a friendly person to
NCOD co-chair Jean O'Leary, Executive just talk to. All these functions grind to a
Director of National Gay Rights Advocates. halt when the Phoneline stops functioning.
The problem was (as usual) our
computer system. This time the specific
INTERWEAVE BECOMES MEMBER OF NGLTF'S culprit was the disk drive. Next time, who
COOPERATING ORGANIZATIONS PROGRAM knows. This is why a new system is needed
from GLSO staff to operate the Phoneline as well as other GLSO
services. As long as GLSO uses the current
Interweave, an group within the system we must contend with interruptions in
Unitarian Universalist Church of Lexington, our Phoneline service. So if you couldn't
has become a member of the National Gay 8 reach the Phoneline during part of
Lesbian Task Force's Cooperating September--that's why!

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Please send me a free introductory
I: issue of GLSO News and information A SK A U N T MA R Y
on GLSO.
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I'd like to become a voting Member
D of GLSO, including home delivery Dear Aunt Mary,
of the GLSO News and discounts Something is coming up and it's about
at GLSO functions, My Membership coming out and all this coming has me a bit
fee of $10/year is enclosed. frightened. What's coming down?
Sincerely, Turning pale
I:I I don't wish to become a Member but
please send me the GLSO News each Dear Pale Face.
month. l enclose the $5 annual fee, The event is National Coming Out Day
and the date is October 11 and it's an annual
Name: event. But it doesn't mean you have to paint
your fingernails a light shade of lavender and
don your tiara and "Don't Presume I'm
Address: Straight" button at work.
But National Coming Out Day does
provide a handy excuse for bringing up the
City, St, Zip: subject. Clearly, coming out to everyone you
know on a single day is likely to be
Mail to: Newsletter, P.O, Box 11u71 overwhelming, but you might want to consider
Lexington, KY 140575 coming out to one or two individuals who know
you fairly well (but, perhaps, not well
enough). You might start by telling them that
October 11 marks the second anniversary of
GLSO News is published monthly by the the March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay
Lexington Gay Services Organization, Inc. Rights in which over 600,000 marched. And
(d.b.a. Lexington Gay/Lesbian Services that the day has been set aside subsequently
Organization), Box “”71, Lexington, KY l10575 not only in remembrance of the March, but
also in celebration of the lives of the 20 to 25
Craig Clere, Asst Editor million gays and lesbians in this country and
Esmeralda Ink, Asst Editors for Esmerelda (yes, another and - so much for the English
Aunt Mary, Advice Columnist majors who were reading this) that one way to
Additional Contributors: The Advocate, celebrate is for gays and lesbians to come out.
Debbie, Planned Parenthood, Keith, Alan, And then tell them - about yourself.
Angela, Teresa, Craig, CLSO, Interweave, So why bother? It might possibly
NOW, HRCF, ADAM, NGLTF; Typist: Craig; change your relationship with the person to
Equipment: Dave; Layout: Steve; Mailing: whom you come out, but the change may be
Craig; Courier: Kenneth; Folding 8 Stuffing: for the better. Coming out to someone serves
Craig, Barb, Steve, Mark, Jan, Willie, Jim, as an affirmation of who you are and also lets
Steve, Paula. the other person know that you value and
trust his or her friendship enough not to hide
Views or opinions expressed in GLSO News are an important aspect of yourself from him or
those of the authors and do not necessarily her. In addition, the research on
represent those of the Board of Directors. heterosexual attitudes towards gays and
Submissions are welcome. All submissions lesbians insists that the best predictor of
become the property of GLSO and must include positive attitudes is whether or not the person
the full name and address of the author. knows someone who is gay or lesbian. So
Anonymous submissions are not accepted. The consider doing something good for you and
editorial staff reserves the right to alter any your community on October 11.
submissions (including advertising) to meet
publishing requirements, as well as the right
to reject any submissions it deems may be Bluegrass Human Rights Advocates support
offensive or discriminatory to others. NATIONAL COMING OUT DAY
Wednesday, October 11
Placement of advertising in GLSO News does Coming out to a friend or relative
not denote a person's sexual orientation nor a is one of the best things you can do
business's customer preference. for the gay and lesbian community.
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GLSO AC7], WHAT'S WHAT WITH GLSO NEWS?
Here are some answers to frequently
GLSO BOARD HOLDS PLANNING RETREAT asked questions about GLSO News.
from GLSO Staff How can I get something in GLSO News?
The deadline for submissions is the 10th of the
CLSO's Board of Directors met on month. No guarantees your entry will make
September 9 for a planning retreat at the the issue if it arrives after the 10th:
Unitarian Universalist Church. Steve Savage Calendar items can be called in at 266-8887.
conducted the retreat, which focused on the Other entries, whether for Esmerelda's
setting of goals and objectives for the Parlour, Dignity, Classified ads, or display
organization and the Board. Dr. Bill Skinner advertising should be typed and
of the University of Kentucky's Sociology double-spaced, unless other arrangements are
Department also presented a drug study plan previously made. Classifieds ads are $2 for
with which Dr. Skinner hopes to have GLSO's two lines, $1 per line thereafter. Call for
assistance. display advertising rates and an advertising
While the Board was not able to finish contract.
the entire goal/objective process during the How can I get GLSO News delivered to
time allotted, an excellent start was made. my home? Subscriptions to GLSO News are $5
Debbie Currie, vice-president of CLSO, will be per year. Membership in GLSO at $10 per
presenting the findings of the retreat to the year also gets you a subscription plus
September Board Meeting. Work will then discounts at CLSO functions. Remember to let
continue at that meeting to finish the planning us know when you move. We are not notified
process. when subscribers move, even if a forwarding
GLSO would like to thank Steve Savage address is recorded. Third class mail (how
for conducting the retreat and lnterweave for the newsletter is delivered) is not forwarded.
providing the meeting space. Can I get GLSO News if I don't want it
delivered? Yes, GLSO News is available at
selected locations after the Ist of the month,
OPENING IN GLSO NEWS STAFF and after subscribers have been sent their
from Craig Clere copies. Currently, GLSO News is available at
The Bar, Crossings, Great Moments, The Good
With the resignation of Steve Savage as Foods Co-op, Sqecial Media, and Joseph-Beth
GLSO News editor, a gap exists in the Booksellers. GLSO News is free at these
operation of the newsletter. Some of the gap locations.
is being filled in by the already overworked Does GLSO need help with the
president and treasurer. However, a great newsletter? YES!!! Let us know what you
deal more help is needed. The newsletter can do and the staff will put you to work.
content, the size, and indeed the quality is
tied entirely to the efforts of volunteers. The SUBMISSIONS SOUGHT FOR BOOK PROJECT
newsletter provides Lexington's gay and from GLSO staff
lesbian community with local, state and
national news, an events calendar, essays, Submissions are being sought for a book
women's news, poetry, and a forum for on lesbians responding to AIDS, focusing on
expressing differing views. GLSO News the experiences of lesbian carepartners and
serves subscribers throughout Central, those who have lost close friends and/or family
Southern, and Eastern Kentucky. members. The essays: (1) should not exceed
GLSO is looking for individuals with 5000 words. (2) will be edited for grammar,
typing or computer skills and/or persons who and (3) should focus on emotional processes
can assist with layout (getting the newsletter (love, anger, sadness, fear, survivor guilt,
ready to go to the printer). A full-time etc.), day-to-day concrete experiences, and
editor is ultimately what GLSO needs, someone interactions with others close to the PWA. For
who could continue the job our past editor has more informaiton, or to submit a manuscript,
done over the past 2 1/2 years. If you fit please write: Book Project, 11411; 17th Street
the bill for any of these tasks, please call NW, #802, Washington DC, 20036.
Steve or Craig at 266-8887.
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GLSO Oct 3

 GLSO ACTIVITIES
—
AUGUST BOARD MEETING NOTES GLSO's Board of Directors is responsible
from Teresa Reynolds 8 Craig Clere for the overall operations of GLSO. The
Board sets both long and short-term goals and

The August Board Meeting of the Board objectives for the organization. All GLSO
of Directors of GLSO was held August 30. activities and financial decisions are reviewed
Debbie Currie, Vice-president, presented and approved through the Board of Directors.
minutes from the July meeting for the Board‘s Bill Loggins, at-Iarge Board member,
approval. Ms. Currie reported for the has agreed to replace Ms. Stout as director of
Coffeehouse 8 Dance Committee that the Speaker's Bureau. The Speaker's Bureau
advertisements for the Coffeehouse will be provides trained GLSO volunteers for speaking
placed in local publications, the Kentucky engagements in the Lexington area. A typical
Kernel, Herald-Leader, and the radio show, Speaker's Bureau request would be a college
Womensounds, to promote attendance. class presentation. Many times the audience's

The GLSO-sponsored women's softball only known contact with lesbians and gay men
team informed the Board of a garage sale to will be during this presentation from the GLSO
benefit GLSO to be held September ll. volunteer.

A new policy regarding GLSO News A training session for new volunteers
inserts was discussed and approved by the for the Speaker's Bureau will be held within
Board. Non-GLSO advertising, in insert form, the next few months. Consult the Directory
will have a special rate of $25 per issue and for phone numbers to volunteer for the
will require the advertiser to provide Speaker's Bureau or to request a speaker for
assistance during the folding and stuffing your group.
procedure for the newsletter. All advertisers
and contributors to GLSO News must meet GROUPS SUPPORT CONGRESSMAN FRANK .
regular deadlines for submissions (the 10th of from Human Rights Campaign Fund
each month).

Two resignations were presented to the The two largest gay and lesbian
Board. Steve Savage has resigned as editor advocacy and political organizations, the
of GLSO News, and Bobbi Stout resigned from NGLTF and HRCF, are supporting
her at-large Board seat and director of the Congressman Barney Frank's decision to
Speaker's Bureau. Bill Loggins agreed to remain in office and to allow the House ethics
replace Ms. Stout as director of the Speaker's committee to conduct its investigation.

Bureau. After discussion the Board postponed "Barney Frank is a crucial advocate for
any action replacing the editor and board lesbian and gay causes, as well as many other
positions, but will seek applicants from the important issues," said NGLTF executive
membership. Action will be taken at the director Urvashi Vaid.

September meeting. Frank admitted he paid for sex with a

Final plans for the September Board prostitute, Stephen Gobie. Gobie has also
Retreat were discussed and approved. stated, and Frank denied, that Gobie operated
Following a discussion of GLSO a call boy/call girl service from Frank's
correspondence, the meeting was adjourned. apartment for two years with the
The next Board Meeting was set for Sep. 27. Congressman's knowledge. Charges also have

been raised that Frank used his position to

NEW GLSO BOARD MEMBER SOUGHT withdraw some of Gobie's parking tickets.

from Craig Clere There have been calls, including that of
the Boston Globe. for Frank's resignation.

Bobbi Stout, GLSO at-large Board The Washington Post, unlike the Globe, urged
member and director of the Speaker's Bureau Frank to stay in office. In an editorial, it
resigned as of August 1, 1989. As a result of said that judgments concerning violations of
Ms. Stout's resignation an open position exists House rules should be left to the ethics
on the GLSO Board of Directors. Anyone committee and judgments concerning Frank's
interested in being considered for the Board effectiveness should be left to the voters.
position, which expires on June 30, should call "He has always been there for us, since
266-8887. he came out and before," said Vaid. "The

community owes it to Barney to be with him."
ll Oct GLSO '

 DID YOU KNOW THESE BUSINESSES ARE ANTI-CHOICE???
from Planned Parenthood
The following businesses in the greater Lexington area were contributing sponsors of the
Kentucky Right to Life Association during their Annual Meeting in November of 1988.
Econoprint 390 East Main St Lexington
Houlihan Insurance Agency 337 East High St Lexington
Mr. Steak 2u67 Nicholasville Rd Lexington
Enza's Restaurant [soon to open on Newton Pike) Lexington
Gem-Rock Originals 1:32 Southland Lexington
Thermal Balance, Inc. 152 Burt Road Lexington
Chevy Chase Florist 879 E. High St Lexington
Lynn Blue Print 328 E. Vine St Lexington
Hillenmeyer Nurseries 2370 Sandersville Rd Lexington
KY Fried Chicken 21101 Nicholasville Rd Lexington
Baumann Paper Co. PO Box 13022 Lexington
Jack Kain Ford US 60 Bypass Versailles
Hutchinson's Drugs Broadway 8 Short Lexington
The Learning Rainbow Lexington Green Lexington
Conrad Chevrolet 2800 Richmond Rd Lexington
In a related news item, the owner of Domino's Pizza has announced his intention to sell the
chain in part due to controversy regarding his strong anti-choice stance.
ANNUAL GLSO CAMPOUT SECOND WEEKEND OF OCTOBER
‘ from CLSO staff
You've been looking forward to it and now it's here! Eddie will host the Ninth Annual
GLSO Campout at his secluded farm in rural Scott County beginning after '4 pm on Saturday,
October 111. This annual event attracts people from both central Kentucky and Louisville, so meet
new friends and old just 20 miles north of Lexington.
Campers will ”rough it" (no facilities). Bring your own supplies, warm clothes, and food
for dinner and breakfast. Eddie will provide a comfortable ground to sleep on, a campfire, and a
clear sky. Because the Campsite is not visible from the road, if you have not previously
attended one of these campouts, please call Eddie at his Lexington home, 259-0878, for detailed
directions. In case of rain the campout will be held the weekend of October 21.
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 EDUCATORS. GAY RIGHTS GROUPS PRESENT CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING ON STUDENTS
AND SEXUAL IDENTITY
from the Human Rights Campaign Fund

A coalition of leading lesbian and gay - Many gay youth turn to substance
civil rights groups and education organizations abuse or become homeless, often subjecting
on September 11 presented a special Senate themselves to greater risk of contracting
and House staff briefing on the importance of AIDS;
providing students with positive information - Without proper education and
and counseling concerning their sexual counseling, heterosexual students receive
identity. misinformation concerning sexual identity that

The briefing comes in response to may lead to verbal or physical abuse of gay
attacks in Congress against programs that and lesbian students.
educate and counsel youth on sexual identity, Support of positive programs aimed at
and to a recent Health 8 Human Services student sexual identity is widespread. During
Report that revealed gay and lesbian teenagers its 1988 national convention, the National
are significantly more likely to attempt suicide Education Association passed a resolution
than other youth. stating, "Every school district should provide

Briefing presenters stated that positive counseling for students who are struggling
information to gay and lesbian youth is with their sexual/gender orientation.“
extremely important because: "Bigotry and Congressional gay bashing

- Gay teenagers are two to three have no place in our country, especially the
times more likely to attempt suicide (HHS American school room,II stated Robert Bray,
Report of the Secretary's Task Force on Youth Human Rights Campaign Fund communications
Suicide, 1989); director.

- One in four gay male teenagers is ”The lesson we have learned is that
forced prematurely out of their home due to students struggling with their sexual identity .
issues surrounding their sexual orientation need accurate, sensitive information to make
(Male Homosexuality: The Adolescent's responsible decisions about their lives,“ added
Perspective, G. Ramafedi); Bray. "It's difficult enough being a teen, but

gay teens face even more life-threatening
anxieties and obstacles."
NGLTF CHALLENGES DANNEMEYER ON FEDERAL YOUTH SUICIDE REPORT
from the NGLTF

In a letter to President George Bush the Responding to Dannemeyer's letter,
National Gay 8 Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) NGLTF's Urvashi Vaid wrote to President
sharply challenged an attempt by Congressman Bush, urging him to place "moral leadership"
William Dannemeyer (R-CA) to persuade the over "prejudice and moral posturing," and to
White House to repudiate sections of a implement the report's recommendations.
Department of Health and Human Services Noted Vaid, “The HHS report correctly
(HHS) report that addressed lesbian and gay identified the special vulnerability of lesbian
youth suicide issues. and gay youth to suicide. By urging the

In a September 7 letter to President President to ignore this tragic situation,
Bush regarding the Report of the [HHS] Congressman Dannemeyer shows his true colors
Secretary's Task Force on Youth Suicide, Rep. as a cold-blooded bigot who supports the
Dannemeyer asked the President to "affirm senseless destruction of young gay and lesbian
traditional family values by denouncing the lives. We are also outraged by his false and
portion of the Report that deals with pernicious claims about 'homosexual recruitment
homosexuality." Dannemeyer stated in his among youth we at NGLTF believe . . .
letter to the President that he had previously as we hope you do, that suicide and violence
asked Dr. James Mason, Assistant Secretary of are not family values. We believe that when
HHS, to denounce aspects of the report sexual minority youth attempt to --or succeed
dealing with homosexuality. Wrote in--destroying their lives, families are
Dannemeyer, "I suggested to Dr. Mason that undermined rather than strengthened."
he will need to decide whether he will side The NGLTF letter asked the President
with traditional family values or the National for a meeting to discuss the findings of the
Gay and Lesbian Task Force.“ HHS report and "broader issues of

discrimination based on sexual orientation."
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my basically sexist attitude. Just after the
l' ’ baby's birth I experienced the displeasure of a
I 1d 5 P refresher in Freudian psychology as the result
- It, smere a 5 81-10 of one of my anthropology classes. If
g I" anything will screw up your thinking on the
\3‘ sexes Freud will! And yes, late 19th century
Q' 'D\ View on the role of wymyn in society will get
even the most moderate feminist angry.
< / The point is, before I ever saw the
child I had this soup of discontent stirring in
my cranium. My own views on sexual roles in
society, statistics on violence toward wymyn,
and Freudian psychosexual theory mixed in my
AUNTE ANGELA mind to create a hellish world where every
from Angela Martin womyn must don battlewear and fight
breathlessly, seemingly hopelessly for a more
Last August 29th my sister had a baby. womyn-loving world. (I know this is a little
This made me an aunt for the first, and melodramatic, but it was 'that time of the
possibly the last, time. I had thought for month' as well.) This was the state of mind
months about her unborn child; what would it in which I journeyed home to meet the male
be, a girl or a boy? Would she be healthy? child for the first time.
What would this little person grow to become? Needless to say, I felt ambivalent (Freud
What kind of mother would my sister make? created this word) and unsure of my feelings.
How would I deal with the disappointment if How would I really feel when faced with this
the child were a boy? child who, though male, was flesh of my flesh,
The evening of August 29th I came home blood of my blood?
from a hard day at work and two and one-half Well, I have to admit, the first time I
hours in class to find a sign attached to the saw him lying there with his head of dark hair
apartment door. It had a blue ribbon dangling and pleasantly olive skin the only thing that I
from it and announced; "It's a boy!“. I guess definitely remember experiencing was surprise
my dearest love Debbie thought it best she at how tiny he was and how soft. That night
break it to me this way than to wait until I as I fell to sleep in my mother's damp house,
played back the answering machine messages. the child and my sister asleep in the next
I played back the message on the room, I dreamt of Freud. He was a bearded,
machine anyway, in case there had been some pipe-smoking presence in the background of
mistake. But, alas, I hear my grandmother's my dream. I dreamt about sex roles and
voice pronounce eloquently; “Uh, your sister sexual development in cross-cultural
had a baby boy." (No good-bye or even perspective all night long - my ID had a field
details, just a click.) Since this time I have day! And I awoke feeling sick of the whole
been dealing with the fact, which I had felt set of issues.
for months I probably would inevitably have to Later that afternoon I drew my sister
deal with - that the child was male, would be aside into the bathroom in order to have a
raised male and would grow to be a man. clearly out-of-Iine talk about how she would be
Now, I know all of you readers are raising her baby and what obstacles she would
sitting out there thinking; "Angela is terribly have to overcome.
sexistl", but there is more to my reaction "I'm afraid he will be badly influenced
than that. Yes, I am sexist to a certain by Dad and will end up bare-chested out in
degree. I am sexist in that I tend to the yard, throwing back beers, working on
prejudge men, their behavior and attitudes on trucks, gawking at wymynl'I I exclaimed
the basis of what I perceive to be the basic quickly.
male attitude toward wymyn in this society. "Please, just promise me you will read to
An attitude which will lead to the rape of 1 in him, starting now. And that you will enforce
every '4 wymyn. All that a man has to do to on him the importance of education."
gain my respect is open his mouth and say "I am a thinking person. . .", my sister
something, or by his actions imply, that he replied. And I realized over the course of the
has a healthy, non-degrading, non-threatening rest of the day what my sister meant.
attitude toward wymyn. Homosexual men None of the wymyn in our family have
usually by-pass this criteria because most do ever been the blindly-lead sheep-wymyn of
not relate to wymyn on such a sexual basis. society. Not my grandmother, the womyn who
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8 Oct GLSO

 introduced me to National Geographic and the does, so I know that he will start out a step
wonders of the world. Not my mother, the ahead and will have the opportunity to learn
one who gave me all the skills I have in life, many things. He's my nephew after all!
who has stood by me even in my lesbianism. By the time I left to return to Lexington
Not my sister, who has overcome many I had fallen in live with this tiny, dark-haired
difficulties in her life and now is now facing boy. After the feelings, the burpings, the
the challenge of unwed motherhood. And bath all of the Freudian crap and statistics
certainly not myself. were pushed out of the forefront of my mind.
This young man will be raised amongst This little man is not my enemy - this little
wymyn who value themselves more than society man is the beginning of a new world.
ALL MY CHILDREN
by Debbie Currie
"I hurt," It was the proper thing to do
My baby cried to me
And for a time
But I could not hear her They fell silent
Could not know of her pain All my children
0f the many nights she awoke Unwanted and unwelcomed
To the sound of angry voices They left me alone
Frightened by those words
That she did not understand All except one
That is
"l hurt,” Who could not remain silent
My child said to me Her need to be heard
Pleadingly Her very reason for existing
"Please hold me" For she spoke when the others
Would not
But I could not hear her
Could not know of her grief "I hurtII
When her daddy went away My adult child whispered to me
When the new baby came Haltingly
and stayed “Please don't ignore me“
When they made fun of her
at school today But I did not want to hear her
Did not want to experience
"I hurt,ll her grief and anger
My teenager shouted her pain and resentment
Deafeningly
Demanding to be heard Until one day
When I felt so alone
But I could not hear her That I wept like my baby
Could not know of her anger feeling her pain
At being different Cried out to be held
Ugly, she thought to make my fear go away
And never quite good enough Shouted out in anger
Her pain clouded in resentment at the injustice of it all
She slipped ever farther away And whispered
tearfully
I could not hear them timidly
Because I did not expect to "I hurt"
For I had sent them all away
Long ago And I heard.
Sent them packing
With all their baggage
CLSO Oct 9

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V S M T W T F S
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,5 33 gg 5‘11 25 26 27 28 4 SAT 1n Gay/Lesbian ACA, 5 pm, St.
Joseph Office Park, Room 120
- _ . -—‘ SUN 15 Gay/Lesbian AA, ll pm, Comp
" -‘— ;,~ Care Center; Lesbian 0A,
5:30 pm, St. Joseph Office
Park, Rm. 120; Gayline,
231-0335, 8 - 11 pm
MON 16 Pro-Choice Alliance, 7:30 pm,
Alfalfa's Restaurant
TUE 17 GLSO Rainbow Bowling League,
Contact names and numbers for all events 7:30 pm, Joyland Lanes
listed can be found in the Directory on the WED 18 Interweave, 8 pm, Unitarian
previous page. The Comp Care Center is Universalist Church;
located at 201 Mechanic Street, Lexington. Gay/Lesbian AA, 8 pm, St.
Joseph Office Park, Rm. 120;
SUN 1 GLSO Phoneline Meeting, 1 pm, Gayline, 231-0335, 8 - 11 pm
Comp Care Center; Gay/Lesbian THU 19 H|V+, ARC, AIDS Support Group;
AA, ll pm, Comp Care Center; Lesbian Passion Discussion
Lesbian 0A, 5:30 pm, St. Joseph Group, 7:30 pm; Gayline,
Office Park, Rm. 120; Gayline, 231-0335, 8 - 11 pm
231-0335, 8 - 11 pm; Lucie FRI 20 Dignity Liturgy 8 Potluck,
Blue Tremblay Concert, 7 pm, 7 pm; Gay/Lesbian AA, 8 pm,
Memorial Hall - UK Comp Care Center; Gayline,
TUE 3 GLSO Rainbow Bowling League, 231-0335, 8 - 11 pm
7:30 pm, Joyland Lanes SAT 21 Gay/Lesbian ACA, 5 pm, St.
WED 1% Gay/Lesbian AA, 8 pm, St. Joseph Office Park, Room 120
Joseph Office Park, Rm. 120; SUN 22 Gay/Lesbian AA, ll pm, Comp
Gayline, 231-0335, 8 — 11 pm Care Center; Lesbian OA,
THU 5 HIV+, ARC, AIDS Support Group; 5:30 pm, St. Joseph Office
Gayline, 231-0335, 8 - 11 pm Park, Rm. 120; Gayline,
FRI 6 Gay/Lesbian AA, 8 pm, Comp 231-0335, 8 - 11 pm
Care Center; Gayline, 231-0335, TUE 21% GLSO Rainbow Bowling League,
8 - 11 pm 7:30 pm, Joyland Lanes
SAT 7 Gay/Lesbian ACA, 5 pm, St. WED 25 GLSO Board Meeting, 7:30 pm;
Joseph Office Park, Room 120 Gay/Lesbian AA, 8 pm, St.
SUN 8 Lesbian Potluck, 2 pm; Gay/ Joseph Office Park, Rm. 120:
Lesbian AA, ll pm, Comp Care Gayline, 231-0335. 8 - 11 pm
Center; AVOL, 5:30 pm, Comp THU 26 H|V+, ARC, AIDS Support Group;
Care Center: Lesbian 0A, Dignity Rap Session, 7:30 pm;
5:30 pm, St. Joseph Office GLSO News Layout, 7:30 pm;
Park, Rm. 120; Gayline, Gayline, 231-0335, 8 - 11 pm
231-0335, 8 - 11 pm FRI 27 Gay/Lesbian AA. 8 pm, Comp
MON 9 GLSO Forum, Topic: AIDS, Care Center; Gayline, 231-0335,
8 pm, Comp Care Center 8 - 11 pm; GLSO Coffeehouse 8
TUE 10 GLSO Rainbow Bowling League, Dance/Halloween Happening -
7:30 pm, Joyland Lanes; “Outrageous Acts“, 8:30 pm,
GLSO News Deadline Unitarian Universalist Church
WED 11 Gay/Lesbian AA, 8 pm, St. SAT 28 Gay/Lesbian ACA, 5 pm, St.
Joseph Office Park, Rm. 120; Joseph Office Park, Room 120
Gayline, 231-0335, 8 - 11 pm SUN 29 Gay/Lesbi