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KEEP REFRIGERATED DEAR NADISA, Star Gays by Martia Probia Outlooks for March 1-15 If you've been wondering why schedules and communications have been a mess and you tend to trip over everything in your various paths, it's only Mercury who has been retrograde from the 2nd of February until the 23rd. Now that the fleet-footed messenger of the gods is back on the tracks, we can all get on with Spring. PISCES Look for trouble and adventures with friends, especially on the Full Moon of the 3rd. This is your month to be a Sun-fish. Shine on. lay low. ARIES Love should be in focus for you 'til the 7th; make hay while Venus shines. The 12th and 13 th are heavy duty days; TAURUS Grab the bull by the horns after the 9th. You can do no wrong except that your sexual energies may be a little backward on the 7th and 8th. GEMINI Career interests are highlighted. Full Moon on the 3rd may make joint funds or the like a touchy issue. CANCER The 6th is the day to turn friends into lovers. Bring them to your happy home on the 7th and they may not leave. LEO You may fall in love with your work after the 8th and out of love with your lover on the 9th. Chuck it all for an exercise program on the 15th. VIRGO Full Moon in your sign on the 3rd could bring you a proposal, either for a relationship commitment or a business relationship. LIBRA Indecision is once again your fate on the 5th and 6th. Don't mix love and money. SCORPIO Pluto is retrograde in your first house. Your whole life may be running backwards for the next 5 months; however, you'll be so busy expressing yourself you won't notice. your family. SAGITTARIUS The Archer aims for financial success, especially on the 12th. Pay more attention to CAPRICORN Ever ambitious, you have 4 planets in your first house. If ever you wanted to lead, now is the time. AQUARIUS Mercury in your sign makes it more difficult than usual for you to make up your mind. Forgetting the present Memory Board Naid Press, Tallahassee, FL, 1987 $8.95,322 pp. Jane Rule's new novel Memory Board won't hypnoytize you with the sheer beauty of its words; what it will do is make you think about your attitude toward aging, Alzeheimer's disease, and family (with the specific cruelties therein). But this is not a depressing book, rather it is joyful in its message and very lighthearted at times. In an abstract sense it is about the fragility and the power of memory. As the title signals, it is also about the constant process of creating memory. The memory board is a tablet to help Constance know what she's already done in a day-and what comes next. Without it she doesn't know whether she's had her breakfast or if it's time to go to bed. She is sixty-seven, a former landscape gardener, and lives with her sixty-five year old lover, Diana. Since retirement from OB-GYN practice, Diana has been more and more singularly involved with Continued on page 15 Dear Nadisa "DEAR NADISA" arrived on the 2:40 pm southbound train yesterday in search of the Lesbian community. Is there something on your mind? Send her your questions in care of this newsletter (confidentiality assured) and look for your answer each month right here. DEAR NADISA, I am a Lesbian Feminist who is in love with a bisexual woman. We want to have a committed relationship; however, my friends tell me to stay away from her since she may be unfaithful based on her history. What do I do? Sign me Confused Dear Confused: You're asking whether or not you should make a commitment might be an indication that you need to take more time to know this woman. Bisexuality is not PROMISCUITY under a different heading. A bisexual woman can be as loyal as any Lesbian lover. But be honest with yourself when you examine your own feelings over her present or potential intimacy with males. If both of you really care about one another, taking more time to do some honest talking and discovering more of one another's splendor without a "commitment" should not pose a problem. New Men Continued from page 11 reprimanded for his clothes, the chief villains being a stud earring and baggy seersucker trousers. His immediate supervisor, "an avowed racist and sexist", also had problems with the pitch of his telephone voice. "You gotta sound more butch," he was advised. A co-worker's sister, an attorney for the Puerto Rican Legal Defense Fund, urged Harris to file for unemployment insurance on grounds of "constructive discharge" (forced by harrassment to quit one's job) and contact Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund. The resolution was ideal. Harris filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission, charging race and sex discrimination (his firm, located in New York, had no contracts with the City, and therefore was exempt from Mayor Koch's Executive Order 50, prohibiting discrimination on the basis of "sexual orientation or affectional preference", the bill so bitterly opposed by, This problem may seem silly, but I am being driven CRAZY. My lover whistles constantly. She whistles in the mornings during her bath, over breakfast, at the supermarket, in the movie lobby, while driving, during TV commercials, after SEX. None of this would seem so terrible if she would whistle SOFTLY and ON-KEY. When I ask her to stop, she does with a smile, but starts again a few minutes later. I love everything else about this woman, but I am about to resort to drastic means. Is there anything in Feminist theory to cover this one? On Edge Dear On Edge: Yes, there is a massive Lesbian Feminist treatise on just this situation. It states: "Whistling is a radical strategy that originated in the forests of Madagascar among the carnivorous tree women who discovered in 1310 that whistling caused the meeker members of the clan to develop more assertive tendencies that enhanced chances for overall survival." In other words, when she whistles,’you am to open your mouth and "LA-LA-LA" through a different song (preferably one she despises) and in a different key until she realizes that what you are doing to her is what she does to you. If this does not open communication after a few times, suggest she audition for the next whistler's spot on a TV game show...in Greenland. among others, Cardinal John J. O'Connor). In six months, Harris reached a favorable out-of-court settlement, and went on to become a member of Lambda's Public Education Committee. He planned a conference to address the problems of third world gays and lesbians, leading to Lambda program alterations based on some of the special needs gleaned from the meeting. Again and again, New Men, New Minds reminds us that we must stand and intervene on our own behalf, not just intellectually and emotionally, but legally as well. Too often, complacency amounts to nothing more than intimidated acceptance, and the right to justice is not a white heterosexual preserve. Beyond that, these essays vindicate our own instincts that relations between fathers and sons need not be characterized by the fractious air that still hangs over so many families even today. The future lies with other sorts of minds, the book seems to say, and we must be careful not to incline to the wills of those who would leave us unfulfilled. -Terry Francis bit ter Si»eEt by Charles Haver