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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 Continued on Page 14 ‘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. 5*- Continued on Page 9