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Lesbian
mom wins
visitation
Susan
Shockey's
two-year
Fayette
County court
battle over
custody of her
three children ends with her getting
visitation rights. PAGE 3
voice
High court
hears
gay case
In its first
major gay
rights case in
a decade, the
U.S. Supreme
Court hears
oral argu
ments in a case challenging Colorado's
anti-gay Amendment 2. PAGE 8
PLEASE RECYCLE
TAKING PRIDE IN OUR CULTURE
OCTOBER 19/1995
Tenants face eviction over
by DON JOHNSTON
Take it down or face eviction.
Jane Estes, manager of the complex, posted
a letter on Messervy and Piwaren's door, dated
Sept 28, asking them to take down the flag be
cause their lease requires "clean and organized"
porches and balconies. After Messervy and
Piwaren did not take down the flag, Estes sent
them a letter dated Oct. 2, informing them they
had until Oct. 31 to vacate the building because
the flag was not removed.
"I've seen people hanging their underwear .
up on the porch, I've seen over six people liv
ing in several apartments, and I've seen what
appears to me as drug dealings out of some of
these apartments, yet they want to evict us over
a flag," Piwaren said.
Estes said she has sent notices to all 150 ten
ants asking them to clean up their porches and
balconies, bringing them up to code, but
Messervy said no one else appears to have com
plied.
"She said she has handed out 150 notices,
but I doubt that she's evicting 150 people,"
Messervy said.
"We're still not sure whether we're moving
out or not," Messervy said. "If we're not mov
ing out, the flag is going up after the first of next
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As the partner of Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart wrote witty, sophisticated
lyrics throughout the '20s and '30s. But his real life as a gay man and an
alcoholic was not so happy. A new show opening at the Alliance Theatre
explores both sides of the songwriter. PAGE 27
ay protests decry pope's politics
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U’s visit tu the Northeast (let 4-8 ljjf|
lauded by ft aisp ^ier-
alert demon-hat)"'ll-, h, ad) jsNi utn, J
on women in church lr<idi'i-lii r andmar
|j|nage for priests
Though the Polish pontiff remains
wildly popular as a public figure, hia re
actionary stand on issues of concern to les-
1 nns uid vi men s gn ups mil
Catholic dissidents drew fue during his
went visit hi yet the-, and homilies ric
liv tied at huge outdoor masses, the ag
mg Catholic leader hammered away at
two ni hia most ronlrnversiAl stands the
church’s bmi on the use of birth control
devices (including condoms) and its con-,
dcmnation of abortion
During a Fifth Avenue parade m New
YorkonOct ”, \ll>s3 l ii\i,isimiui , 'il i
three-story tall banner leading "Condoms
Save Lives" as the popemobile glided
below Crowds cheering the pontiff's
progress toward St Patrick's Cathedral,
where he was to say the rosary, roundly
booed the protesters and their sign
l>ni child in Ml* < n wd •• in-v thr
ruckus, asked, "What s that Dad 7 ' to
which his father replied. Those are bad
it AfpatntU in ii r th c vd
agreed, as the boos turned to cheers for
New York City police who appeared on
the department store ledge and put anend
to the protest They pulled up the banner
and arrested the two men and tour others
on charges ot criminal trespass and reck
less endangerment.
Earlier that day m New York, about
500 supporters of gay and abortion rights
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