The Guide, January, 1989; volume 9, number 11
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Table of contents and masthead
Editorial Title: First the good news
Author: French Wall
Summary: Gay rights is a radical concept that fundamentally changes Western society, even if many gay activists have argued it is only a piecemeal reform. A proposed Massachusetts gay rights bill has been defined by homophobic legislators aiming to prevent those changes.
First sentence(s): Massachusetts lesbians and gay men are about to make history this month.
Keywords: Massachusetts gay rights bill, sexual liberation, gay liberation
Letters to the editor Topics: age-of-consent, Am Tikva, B’nai B’rith, Taipei man seeks pen pals
News Notes
Topics: Rochester exposure case; ACT UP urges Burroughs boycott; Barney Frank wins gay support after prostitute disclosure; Gay marriage in Denmark; Pittsburgh gay man murdered by two youths; ‘Next’ magazine folds; and more.
Dirty Dishes
Author: French Wall
Topics: San Francisco earthquake, Catholics against condoms, Cambodians eating dogs in San Francisco, Jesse Helms and obscene art, gay sheep, and more.
Common Sense
Author: John Mitzel
Title: The wrong blond
Summary: Gay marriage can be as stifling as heterosexual marriage, a proposition explored with a number of literary examples, particularly the bond of W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman.
First sentence(s): In Harold Norse’s new book of memoirs he recounts how he and Chester Kallman, 50 years ago, went to hear (and flirt with) Wystan Auden and Christopher Isherwood as these latter two gave their first public reading in New York.
Keywords: gay marriage, W.H. Auden, Chester Kallman, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Gore Vidal
Black and gay with something to say
Article type: main feature
Author: Bill Andriette
Summary: The struggle for racial civil rights in the US was a model for the gay movement, but tensions exist between the politics of racial and homosexual identity, and there is resistance among African-Americans to embrace the gay label.
First sentence(s): If black Americans had not fought for civil rights in the 1950s and 1960s, there would not have been a Stonewall.
Keywords: civil rights movement, gay African-Americans, gay movement, racial identity, sexual identity, on the down-low, Curtis Price, Craig Harris, Joseph Beam, LeBaron Moseby
Homophobic murders outrage Ottawa
Article type: main feature
Author: Jean-Pierre Cloutier
Summary: Several murders of gay men in Ottawa provoke police criticism and community response.
First sentence(s): “All I can remember is hearing yelling, screaming, and moaning.” Keywords: Ottawa gay murders, anti-gay violence, Canada
Baltimore – America’s most homosexy city
Article type: main feature
Author: Tom Reeves
Summary: Baltimore has a reputation as a city gay people flee from, but it supports a robust, indigenous homosexual scene, and has for generations.
First sentence(s): Baltimore is seldom counted among America’s gay cities...
Keywords: Baltimore gay life
Sex in the News
Author: Boyd McDonald
Titles: Marlene ‘don’t want no sissies’; Boys remove clothes, get victimized; Boy, 16, helpless to resist man; Growing up straight; Whore, 12, wears only cut-offs; Cop jailed for ‘abusing’ boy, 15; Man, 39, keeps 10 boys in harem; Coach helps wash youth in shower; Judge: ‘Boy might have enjoyed it’; Nude boys duck-walk, whatever that is; Chess tutor makes move on boys’ groins.