About The Barb. (Atlanta, Ga.) 197?-197? | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1975)
Music City’s Other Side Nashville. Tcnn.. belter known as “Music City USA", home of Vanderbilt University, and the world famous “Grand Ole Opry". attracts thousands each, week. To many, their greatest ambition is to perform on the Opry stage, while others merely have a desire to see and hear the greatest Country talents. For those who are nbt interested in the number one attraction, there is another side. . .the gay scene. Whether it is a fine dinner with your favorite cocktails, dancing or just socializing. Nashville’s gay scene is delightful and the cruising is great. The most popular cruising spot among Nashvillians is “The Other Side”, located at 5th and Lea Streets. This huge club, owned and operated by Aaron Powers, has a spacious dance floor and seats well over 250. The DJ, Michael Stark, plays your favorite tunes Wednesday through Sunday. There is also a separate piano bar where Jerry Pickel and Terry Bowland entertain you Friday through Sunday. The club also features a complete menu of some of the finest cuisine in Nashville, with friendly waiters to serve you. If your taste calls for a succulent steak or shrimp. The Other Side has it. Nashville’s Commerce Street, or the strip as it is commonly referred to is still going strong. There is Juanita's, a beer bar where many people of all ages congregate and enjoy the juke box while sopping up the suds. Since it is located near the bus station there are always new faces from different places every night to join the regulars. Next door to Juanita’s is the ever popular Jungle. Oh yes. for those of you who are familiar with this place, theq? has been a change. Aaron Powers, now the owner, has been replaced at the piano by Phil House, a young versatile pianist that plays your favorites nightly. Phil, just 24 hails from .Bryant Park. Maine. Like many, he began his career in Gospel music at a very early age. playings for various church groups. Two wars ago he decided to come to Music City for his big break. Since then he has -gained a tremendous follow ing, playing a repertoire from Bach to real country. His favorite person ality is Dell Woods. Meeting her was a thrill but playing ducts with her is a treasured memory for Phil. Dell's rendition of “Down Younder" is a favorite of Phil’s and he treats “Jungle” goers to his version of the country favorite with Dell’s special style! Phil, whose greatest ambi tion is to “make it” professional, is certainly on his way to the top. The BARB wishes him well. Whether you want a meal, a drink, or just to hear your favorite tune, make a fun evening at the Jungle. The most recent night spot to spring up in Nashville is “The Embers” a club featuring female impersona tion and catering to the straight tourists. The club, located in the Alley, is owned and operated by Jerry Peek, famous for the Miss Gay America Pageant”, features top talent. Nashville, where country stars are bom is an exciting city. It offers something for everyone. Plan your next holiday or vacation to include Nashville. You'll be glad vou did. CONGRATULATIONS TO PORTLAND In December. Portland. Oregon, became the 16th city to win protections for gav citizens. The law protects the right to employment by the municipal government. Other cities with gay rights protec tions include: East Lansing, Ann Arbor, and Detroit, Michigan; San Francisco, Berkeley. Palo Alto, and San Jose. California; Washington, D.C.; Seattle, Washington; Columbus. Ohio; Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota; Alfred. Ithaca, and New York City, New York (New York City’s represents a Civil Service and city employees' directive— the notorious city council bill has yet to be passed). "You’ve Got To Have Friends” bv Charles St. John As everyone knows hetero sexuality has seen its day. Sure, it had a minor comeback last year, but so did the 50's. Even babies were back, but other than gays marrying straights (Tony and Berry and Carly and James) and becoming breeders, hetero sexuality is out. The love that dare not speak its name, is once again a laughing matter. Really! How buurgeois. passe, decadent even. But one must give them their rights, it would be civil. It will soon be Bye to Bi. and Tri too. Bi will be remember ed. if at all as just one of those flings. Will our rock stars be able to adjust to being neuter? Yes folks, get ready. . .Sex and Sexuality at. Oh yes. masturbation as always is here to stay, tho it will have to go under cover again. At long last, old presistant personality, plus tenderness and warmth are about to win out over bone structure. TAO Closes Miami Headquarters Miami: The headquarters of the Transexual Action Organi zation here has been perma nently closed. All policy-mak ing and other activities will be under the control of itsbritish headquarters in the future, according to TAO founder Angela K. Douglas. 3801 N. Ocean Blvd. Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. 33308 PHONE (305) 566-4376 Enjoy the Florida Fun and Sun in a friendly, informal atmosphere. Comfortable rpoms and apart ments. Your hosts are Pete and Ed. Souls will touch souls. Hearts shall bleed freely. All will be oneness. The wave of emotionalism is upon us. Platonic relationships are here to stay! Note to those of you into leather and chains, all of that will have to rot and rust as spiritual bondage Dies. I’m speaking cause . know’. Moral: If you c-a’t fuck friends, fuck them over. Charles The new TAO HQ will be located in the central English city of Birmingham. Current president Colette Goudie. who resides in Miami will retain her office. Both Goudie and Douglas are considering visiting England in the near future. TAO has also dropped all legal action against a New Jersey transexualist group, the United Transvestite and Transexual Society, which TAO had charged with libel. Douglas said “this is not the time to divide the movement any more than it already is." TAO has also cancelled a fund drive to pay legal costs. Inquiries to TAO at its Box 391172 Miami Beach address will automatically be forward ed to England. MCC ATLANTA Has Top Movies Every Sunday hfight TAO CONDEMS By A. K. Douglas Originating in Los Angeles, the National Socialist League appears to have most of its members in San Francisco, and was founded by one Jim Cherry. Cherry was ousted by- Russell Veh. who had previously headed the Nation al Socialist White People’s Party in Ohio. The NSL is the major homosexual nazi group at the moment. Other groups exist in New York, and publish a virulent nazi tract called “Straight to Hell.” The Los Angeles nazis reportedly held meetings last year at a drag bar. which drew some attention from transexual and transvestite organizations, also. (The TAO is the only transexualist group which has condemned Nazism so far.) Shortly after the emergence of gay Nazis in 1974, which was announced by Nazi recruitment ads in gay publications, a few gay groups reacted strongly. Gay news papers in Detroit and other areas denounced the gay Nazis, and reminded their readers that Hitler’s Nazis had used gays to get into power, then killed millions after they consolidated it. Veh, according to an article in “Crusader”, a gay liberation paper in San Francisco, overlooks a state ment by the American Nazi Party that it will stamp out the homosexual Nazi group once the A.N.P. gets into power. (The A.N.P. is also known as the National Socialist White Peoples’ Party.) According to the “Crusad er”, gay Nazis in San Francisco have the support of two “well-known bar owners” and that of the San Francisco editor of a popular gay bar publication. Nazi emblems, flags, pic tures of Hitler and other Nazi paraphernalia are being open ly sold at a number of locations in the San Francisco gay ghetto, according to the “Crusader”. One of the parade monitors in the 1974 San Francisco “gay freedom” parade wore a nazi emblem on his hat. said the newspaper. According to various re ports. some attacks have been made on gay Nazis in San Francisco by gay Leftists, and an occasional gay Nazi or two gets beaten up now and then. Militant gay Jews are reacting in outrage, but one gay Jewish group in San Francisco was refused equal time in a publication which had printed gay Nazi ads. The ads included swastikas and the death camp slogan “arbeit macht frei” (work makes freedom), which mil lions of doomed concentration camp victims read enroute to the gas chambers. The Nazis weren’t taken too seriously when they are continuing to and gain power within u. 1 *' incredibly rich gay business community, as well as support from gays in general. But gay Nazism is nothing new.gay liberation emerged in pre-Hitler Germany, in such groups as the “Committee for the Special”, a homosexual male supremist- group, which U - mAU if? THE BARB - 13 GAY NAZIS welcomed Hitler when he arrived. During the 1930s, there were several gay German males who advocat ed not only gay equality, but gay supremacy’. Perhaps this is how the 1975 Nazis are able to gain the support of gays. . .the concept of “gay is better”, gay is superior to straight. This abhorrent con cept of supremacy is fertile ground for the claws of Nazism, of course. Only a few years ago the American Nazis were counter- demonstrating at California gay liberation protests, but their attitude has apparently changed. Some gays claim that gay Nazis took over control of the Nazi movement from heterosexual Nazis. Others, such as a television newsman, tell us the American Nazis have been a homosexual group for many years and are only now deciding to come out. The cause of concern among many gays is. of course, that attempts to obtain gay equal rights will be set back once the straight world wakes up to the growing menace of gay Nazism, and whatever sym pathy gays may have obtained in the past few decades will quickly erode. Thus, we can expect to see more gay organizations taking a public stand against Nazism on one hand, and on the other, continued development of, this new political trend among homosexuals. “We don’t want to publicize them at all,” said Winston Leyland. editor of “Gay Sunshine” newspaper in San Francisco. Morris Kight, founder of Gay Liberation Front of Los Angeles, and one of the better-known gay liberationists. told Mirage his group was “most concerned” about the gay Nazis, and had assigned one of their people to infiltrate them. “He was converted by them.” said Kight. Editor’s Note: We‘strongly agree with A.K. Douglas and congratu late her and the Transexual Action Organization (TAO) for strongly condemning this group. Few gays are involved in the National Socialist League (NSL) and we are confident that not even a small percentage of gay men and women w-ould ever support in any way much less become a part of such a group. The BARB is disgusted by the existance of NSL and unless forced by law will never accept any advertisement from such a group. Gay liberation - South Florida: (Local) For info on activities in the South Florida Gay Community call Stonewall Committee - 368-0761 or Fox Counseling Services - 392-7823 or s.g.l. - 391-8993. All of these phone numbers are located in South Palm Beach County. If you live in North Palm Beach County, Broward County. Dade County dial 1 first then dial phone number.
