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Compiled By Jack Nichols
The Great Message of Mardi Gras
Learning to love in a culture of hate takes you on
fast-track journey to riches of intimacy, of trust and self-acceptance,
that I doubt many heterosexual marriages can really understand.
Self-acceptance is the tool of tolerance and pride is the greatest
liberator. This is the great message of Mardi Gras.
Ms. Kimina Lyall—"No place for shame with privates on parade" The Australian newspaper, March 3 Tallullah's Favours She is both a lesbian and immoral with men… It is also said that she 'kept' a negress in America before she came to this country in 1925 and that she 'keeps' a girl in London now. As regards her more natural proclivities, informant tells me that she bestows her favours 'generously' without payment… Informant added that her 'circle' is a centre of vice patronised by at least one of the most pronounced sodomites in London. FHM-- Official identified only by his initials--from government papers compiled in 1928 and released by Great Britain's Home Office (interior ministry) in line with Britain's open government initiative, March 2 A Friend for Little Bear
Fox plans 13 episodes of an as-yet-untitled comedy starring John Goodman
as a loud, beer-guzzling sports fan who is a late-blooming gay,
divorced father…Producers Terry and Bonnie Turner ("That '70s Show" and
"3rd Rock From the Sun") say they want to shake up the stereotypes of gay
male characters.
Walt Belcher—"Goodman Shakes Up Gay Stereotypes"—Tampa Tribune, February 29 Why not Daddy's Roommate? Vice President Al Gore read 'A Friend for Little Bear' to children at P.S. 163 in Manhattan yesterday. Later in the day, he read 'Green Eggs and Ham' to children at a school in District Heights, Md. Photo Caption—New York Times, March 3 His Satanic Majesty Himself Objects
I must in the strongest possible terms repudiate Sen. McCain's unwarranted,
ill-advised and divisive attacks on certain religious leaders. I call on Sen.
McCain to retract his recent statements and apologize to Pat Robertson and
Jerry Falwell, as well as all men and women of faith.
Gary Bauer—Statement released following Senator McCain's reference to Pat Robertson & Jerry Falwell as purveyors of "evil influences." February 29 Printed News is Old News I hate moldy news, long features that tell me things I already know (lesbians are having babies, protease inhibitors keep people alive, the Boy Scouts are homophobic, Atlanta has lots of gays), insipid fashion spreads of skinny boys wearing ridiculous clothes, anything that is a rehash of PC group-think, journalism that ignores the middle of the country, idiotic lists of what's in and what's out, and so much more that the Advocate and Out are guilty of every issue. Rex Wockner—The Wockner Wire, #82 www.planetout.com/wocknerwire/ 
Night of 100 Chers
Come dressed as Cher. NO COVER! Giveaways all night of Cher CDs, videos and posters Legends—Advertisement for the Raleigh, N.C. nightclub—The Front Page, February 18 Naming Ourselves We have so many discussions—some quite heated—about what to call ourselves. Gay? Queer? Men-loving-men? As if we all have to use the same name. Or more broadly, we demand recognition of all our nationalities, ethnicities, spiritual traditions, sexual proclivities, even political affiliations. It could be that we need these identities, at least for a while, in order to explore all the parts of ourselves…We get to choose, you know, and I lobby for wild and weedy gardens instead of lawns. Inside and out there's room for diversity. John Stowe—author of Gay Spirit Warrior—"Herbs, Weeds and the Human Soul"—Visionary February issue Brainwashed and Badgered A gay Mormon man, whose anguish over the conflict between his homosexuality and his faith was intensified by his church's all-out push for Proposition 22, took his own life on the steps of a Mormon church in Los Altos. Carol Ness—"Gay Mormon Kills Self"—San Francisco Examiner, March 2 
BushLooks
His least attractive expressions—the smirk, the nervously darting eyes, that trapped look that always makes Mr. Bush resemble a small mammal in distress. Gail Collins—"A New York Moment"—The New York Times, March 3 |
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