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EMERGENCE International
YOU ARE NOT ALONE!
The 5th annual conference sponsored by
Christian Scientists supporting lesbians
and gay men will address the ever present
power of divine Love to fill our lives with
joy and eliminate AIDS, discrimination,
and unhappiness from our experience.
Washington, D.C.
Oct. 7 & 8, 1988
Kate Clinton Delivers!
Kate Clinton is sexy. She's a lesbian.
She's funny. Witty. Sensitive and brillianL
Right to the point Politically correct And
she makes a living at it as a self-proclaimed
"fumorist"...a cross between feminist and
humorist
A "recovering Catholic" and ex-high
school English teacher, she got her start as a
stand-up comedian by performing at women's
music festivals around the country. From that
starting point she went on to be the first stand-
up comedian to perform at the Vancouver
Folk Music Festival in 1985.
Clinton is currently hot on the lesbian and
gay political circuit having appeared
numerous times at fund-raising events for the
Fluman Rights Campaign Fund and the
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
"We need to keep a sense of humor about
what we are doing," says Clinton. "And that
has been particularly difficult during the
Reagan administration. Reagan, being a
master of the one-liner, has simply destroyed
the concept of humor for most people." ‘
Clinton takes on this challenge with an
exuberance and style that is gutsy as well as
empowering. "Within the last two years I've
really seen my work take its place within the
context of a political movement And a lot of
it had to do with the March on
Washington-looking out and seeing all those
people and seeing the AIDS quilt It was like,
all right this isn't just a parade, we are here
marching for our civil rights."
Clinton was in Atlanta for the Democratic
National Convention working with Gay
Cable Network News and hanging out at the
Gay & Lesbian V.O.I.C.E. 88 Headquarters
at the downtown Hilton. At a fundraising
event which she co-hosted with openly gay
Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank,
she admitted that while she was excited about
the upcoming National Coming Out Day on
October 11th, what she was really looking
forward to is "National Coming Onto Day."
She also suggested that a new grass-roots
political organization be formed and that it
could be called GOD, Gay Opportunists for
Dukakis.
So if election year politics are keeping you
asleep at the wheel, you might just need to be
zapped with some feisty and insightful
political satire-and from what I have seen and
heard, Kate's got the goods. You may laugh
til it hurts but you won't go home crying. So
get your smiles out of the closet and come on
out!
-Debra Hiers
Kate Clinton will be performing at Center
Stage Theater (1374 W. Peachtree)
September 24th. 8:00 PM. $1350 General
Admission. Tickets available at the box
office and at all Seats bcations. To charge:
873-2500. Opening Act: Leigh McClelland.
Matlovich Bio Portrays Making
of a Conservative Gay Activist
1890 Cheshire Bridge Road (404) 874-0980
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SECRETS
Rebecca Ranson's new play.
Nexus Theater.
September 29 - October 16
688-2500for reservations.
584-2104for groups and information.
Southeastern
Ai-ts, Media and
Education Project
Leonard Matlovich (right) with Michael Hippier, author of the Leonard
Matlovich biography to be published in the spring of 1989 by Alyson Publications.
In September, 1986, Leonard Matlovich,
the controversial gay rights activist, learned he
had AIDS. Despite his natural optimism,
Matlovich sensed it was time to tell his story,
and began collaborating with writer Michael
Hippier on his biography. The book was
finished shortly before Leonard's death, and
will be published in the spring of 1989 by
Alyson Publications of Boston.
In the book, Hippier details Matlovich's
five-year court case against the U.S. Air Force
which began in 1975 when he was discharged
for acknowledging his homosexuality.
Matlovich's coming out was part of a plan to
force the Air Force to change their policy of
discharging gays and lesbians.
Leonard speaks movingly about his fight
against AIDS and how it changed him. The
political conservative became "radicalized in a
conservative kind of way" by the Reagan
administrations mishandling of the AIDS
crisis. Matlovich was arrested at the June
1987 civil disobedience protest in front of the
White House.
"Several years ago, well before he was
diagnosed with AIDS," remembers Sasha
Alyson, publisher of the Matlovich
biography,"Leonard told me he was sorry
that Harvey Milk had been cremated, because
he thought it was important for future
generations to have a physical grave site at
which to remember Milk.
Matlovich made a committment to create
a permanent memorial in a public cemetery
for Milk and other lesbians and gays, inspired
by visiting the grave of Alice B. Toklas and
Gertrude Stein whose names are on the same
tombstone.
"Never Forget", Matlovich's memorial
project is now located in Congressional
Cemetery in Washington, D.C. Some of
Milk's ashes were placed in an urn, along
with items of importance to Milk and on
Oct 10 as part of the National March on
Washington for Lesbians and Gay Rights,
Milk was laid to rest
By the time he died, Leonard had not only
created a memorial for Harvey Milk, but he
had also created one for himself with his
tombstone and a biography through which
people could remember what he stood for.