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Two Grooms
By Louie Crew
Our marriage, like our
courtship, has been con
ventional. It was love at first
sight when we met at the
elevator just outside the
sixth-floor tearoom of the
Atlanta YMCA. Ernest was a
fashion coordinator for, a
local department store, I was
a state college professor from
100 miles away, deep in the
peach and pecan orchards.
One of us Black, the other
white; both native
Southerners. We commuted
every weekend for five
months. Our friends weren’t
surprised when we decided to
marry.
We would have wasted our
time to send an an
nouncement to the local
papers. Besides, the bank
employees spread the word
just as effectively when we
took out a joint account. Our
wedding itself was private,
just the two of us and the
Holy Spirit. Parents,
although loving, would not
have welcomed the occasion:
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and even our approving priest
had no Episcopal authority to
officiate. Two apartment
neighbors, historians, sent a
bottle of campagne; a
psychologist friend dropped
in earlier to propose a toast;
others sent welcoming
tokens.
We unloaded the heavier
gear from the car before
beginning the ceremdny.
Then we carried each other
across the threshold into the
dining room, where the table
was set with two wine glasses
from Woolworth’s, one lone
and lighted red candle in
stead of our customary two
green ones, a vase with one
early narcissus, and an open
Book of Common Prayer. We
read the service nervously,
its fearsome bidding and
pledges. The words, woman
and wife translated readily as
spouse, man, husband,
Person. It all took only about
ten minutes.
One could be too quick to
such as our bed, a two-
hundred-year-old four-poster
built by the slave ancestor of
one of us for the free ancestor
of the other. Perhaps we were
fulfilling their dream? Or Dr.
King’s dream ? But we
find day-to-day living too
difficult for us to negotiate
other people’s dreams: we
work at living our own
dream, a dream no different
from the dream of many
other couples, a dream of a
home with much love to
bridge our separateness.
sentimentalize a few details,
MARK SEGAL ELECTED TO PHILADELPHIA JEWISH
COMMUNITY COUNCIL
The Jewish Community
Relation Council (JCRC) of
greater Philadelphia voted
unanimously to have Mark
Segal join their Executive
Committee. The JCRC an
umbrella organization of
most of the Jewish agencies
inthe area. Mark Was elected
because*he showed an in
terest in the organization, and
because he could help with
many of their projects through
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THE FRONT RUNNER
By Patricia Nell Warren
Bantam Books 1974
arrangement with
William Morrow & Co., Inc.
Someone said “Its the gay
answer to “Love Story”.
Not quite.
Ms. Warren shows herself
to be an unusually sensitive
and perceptive author.
the experience he has picked
up lobbying for gay rights. He
was elected because he is a
gay activists. He becomes the
first gay activists elected to a
major post in a jewish
organization. Mark will be a
member of committee’s on
“Civil Rights Legislation,”
“Discrimination in
Employment, Housing, and
Related Matters,” .“Civil
Liberties.’* Not only will he
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doubtly so since she is a
straight woman dealing with
the gay male’s perspective.
She has not, as has been the
case, been judgemental in her
narrative, - neither
proseletysing nor con
demning. Nor has she in
dulged in the morose (self)
pity for the gays’ condition to
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give gay input into the
Philadelphia Jewish Com
munity, but he will write a
proposal on gay rights for the
“National Jewish Community
Relations Advisory Council.”
The National group is made
up of almost all the major
national Jewish organization,
and sets national policy.
“This is a great opportunity
and I hope we all learn from
it” stated Segal.
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prevalent in the bulk of “gay
literature”.
Briefly, the book is the
chronicle of the romance of
Harlan Brown and Billy Sive,
as conventionally told as any
other. But Brown is the track
cogch of Prescott College,
and" Sive is a young front
runner (a track term well
explained in the book) who,
along with two friends, -has
come to Brown for training,
after having been dismissed
from another schools team
for being gay. The novel
traces the rise of both this
romance and Billy’s career
as a tract star, both
culminating in a taut, well-
paced climax at the summer
Olympics in Montreal.
The novel gives a well-
balanced view of the so-called
“gay world”, replete with
unsensationalistic looks at
Billy’s father, also gay with a
penchant for drag queens;
Harlan’s early career as a
hustler in New York City; a
young man called Angel
totally deadened after being i.
the object of sadism; the
tenderness of the couple’s
celebration of love ; and most
especially, the relationships
with others, and alterations
thereof, as the protagonists
publicly come out.
Overall, it is a book well
Worth reading, arid, in the
time-honored, ir cliche,
phrase - You won’t want tp
phtitdown.
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