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J5Sf THE BARBAS FLORIDA PERSONALS: WELCOME HOME to the Hungarian Princess, a very Sweet and very popular member of Royalty Congratos to S and M on their very first' anniversary. We wish the little lovebirds many years of happiness together..... .Best of luck to sweetheart B.C.. kind of kooky, but loved by all!!!! Again, it’s time to say not good-bye, but only au revoir until next month. Work and play well with all your little brothers and sisters. Think happiness, flowers, sunshine and love, and every day in every way be thoughtful, kind and loving, and try to im prove yourself every minute of each hour. To think beautiful is to be beautiful! Flossie loves you, one and all. Advertising rates available on request CaM or write Christopher Young 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: Serving all Florida with the best reputation. DREAM BOYS The Ultimate in Male Models and Escorts discretion assured licensed and responsible TELEPHONE COSMOPOLITAN SERVICES (305)583-2383 (305)583-2384 Dream boys in all major cities in Florida. %y*"' IliSCO Diiiiciim tii Dawn/ 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 Courtesy Philadelphia Gay Raiders Newsletter IBooks by 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 By Salo Bernardo 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 813 S.E. 1ST AVE., HALLANDALE FLORIDA 920 - 3404 MMM InMiami, fora Doctor, Lawyer, or Bondsmans you can trust call the A.I.R. Hot line: 448—6849. 3801 N. Ocean Blvd. Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. 33308 PHONE (305) 566-4376 Enjoy the Florida Fun and Sun in a friendly, informal atmosphere. Comfortable rooms and apart ments. Your hosts are Pete and Ed. 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. • M!■ ■' 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. Art students: help the gay community and develope a portfolio, work with THE BARB. Call 874-3232.