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Lesbians
match in
China
More than 300
lesbians
braved the
possibility of
police action
and took to the
streets in Chi
na for a inarch in conjunction with the
U.N. conference on women. PAGE 6
Gender
sports and
paper dolls
"Playing
Games," artist
Jay Critchley's
entry in the
Arts Festival of
Atlanta, uses
the Olympics
as an occasion to look at gender and
anti-gay prejudice. PAGE 35
PLEASE RECYCLE
TAKING P R I D E IN OUR CULTURE
SEPTEMBER 14/1995
Lesbian/
gay teens
gang-
raped,
report finds
Buian Bhockey, fuctuned Ite/ie. with two-
Ueb ioniin 19^0, told hen luatLand afeoi
tfea/ul acfO- that iUe ii a leildan. JlJze many
otk&i leiluan mother, Shockey uotujaceA, an
uneducated and lutUed cou/U inanupJull
to take Stem to her apartment in
Atlanta, keep them with her over
night, or "intentionally expose or
introduce the children to her fe
male companion/s) or any other
known homosexual," or "allow
any of her female companion(s) to
be in the presence of said chil
dren."
The events that led to such
rigid visitation restrictions read
like an outline fur an outlandish
movie of the week. Following a
great deal of agony and therapy
Shockey came out to herself in
1991 and then to Jerry, her hus
band, the following spring.
At that time, he was almost
unbelievably supportive. He en
couraged his wife to accept her
sexuality. He helped convince her
first lover that it' was safe to get
involved with her He co-signed
a lease so that she could move to
an apartment in Candler Park,
and he promised to support her
for seven years. After allj she had
stood by him as his career as a
Delta airline pilot advanced.
"Hetddmelhadbeenagood
wife and mother, that nothing
would change," said Shockey,
whoagreed with her husband that
the children should remain in
Fayetteville where their lives
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‘Dream
Boy’
Playwright and novelist Jim
Grimsley recounts the
terrors and truths of
growing up gay in
the South in his
new novel, "Dream
Boy." PAGE 27
by PAMELA EVANS
Atlanta — like so many gay
and lesbian parents, when Susan
Shockey discovered she was a
lesbian, idle did the right thing,
the honorable thing... the naive
thing. She told her husband of
19 years.
She had beenagood mother,
a faithful wife. Shockey never
believed that by telling the truth
she would becomeembroiled in
a desperate court battle to win
joint custody of her three sons.
But now she is anxiously await-
ingher court date, scheduled for
Oct 2. in Fayette County, a con
servative county just south of
Atlanta.
Shockey has not seen her
oldest child, age 20, in two years.
He threatened to killher if she
came to his high school gradua
tion and today refuses to let her
know where he lives.
Time with her youngest chil
dren, ages 15 and 8, is deter-
; mined by a temporary order,
which does not allow Shockey
by TOM FLINT
Seattle —Gang rapes and se
vere beatings were among 27 in
cidents ofviolence againstSeattle-
area lesbian, gay and transgen-
dered public school students de
tailed in a report released Aug. 30
by a coalition of gay rights groups
and governmental organizations.
At a press conference, Beth Reis,
a member of the Safe Schools Coali
tion and the Seattle-King County
Health Department, said foe group
documented six incidents of gang
rape of sexual minority teens.
"In two of the rapes, the attack
ers urinated on their targets," she
said. "In one inridsit they vomited
on the person. In one they ejaculated
on foe person. In one they broke the
teen's hand.
"We received reports Of five
other physical assaults," Reis said.
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