Green Thursday, radio program, May 16, 1974
- (Birds singing)
- BOB CRYSTAL: Green Thursday with Bob Crystal.
- (Music - Michael Cohen, "Bitterfeast"]
- (Singing) My lover Peterson, he called me Goldenmouth,
- and I changed him to a bird.
- And he migrated south.
- My lover Frederick wrote sonnets to my breast,
- and I changed him to a horse.
- And he galloped on west.
- My lover Jonathan, he named me Bitterfeast,
- and I changed him to a serpent.
- And he wriggled east.
- My lover I'd forgotten, the one who named me Death,
- well, I changed him to a catfish.
- And he swam up north.
- My lover I imagined, he cannot form a name,
- and I I will nestle in his fur.
- And never be to blame.
- And never be to blame.
- BOB CRYSTAL: That was Michael Cohen with "Bitterfeast."
- And tonight, this is Green Thursday for the 16th of May.
- Bruce is home in bed, having an affair with a flu virus
- tonight.
- So I'm going to be on alone.
- Tonight, we have the second of three parts on the interview
- about roles and images.
- And I've been asked to talk about the charter bus that
- is going to be going to New York City for the June Gay Pride
- Weekend.
- Every year for the past five years,
- there's been a march to celebrate the Stonewall Riots.
- And we've been going down in individual cars
- and by ourselves.
- This year, the Gay Alliance is organizing a charter bus
- to go down.
- It's going to cost $35 each to get a round-trip.
- And seats are reserved with a $10 check to the GAGV
- treasurer.
- And you can mail those to 713 Monroe Avenue.
- Be sure to address it to the Gay Alliance.
- And $10 will hold the seat, and you
- have to include your name, and address, and phone number.
- Please don't send cash.
- Next, we're going to have Stefan Grossman
- with "Can't Papa Blues."
- [Music - Stefan Grossman, "Can't Papa Blues"]
- (Singing) Well, the wood's running low.
- The windows are frozen.
- I made three dots and saw those eyes and that nose.
- And yes, I'd know them anywhere.
- It's never been more clear.
- Come in, Papa.
- It's chilly out there.
- Well, I've been crying in my tea at the Late, Late Show.
- The station went off about an hour ago.
- Well, if you were in my shoes, it
- wouldn't come as news to have those can't do
- a thing without you Papa blues.
- Come on and take off your watch.
- Have some pecan pie.
- Hold me in a hurry, man, or I'm going to die.
- Come on and take off your shoes 'cause
- I'm planning to lose those can't do a thing without you
- Papa blues.
- Take it, boys.
- Well, today, I went to Welfare to try to get some bread.
- They sent me to their doctor.
- And their doctor said, "Son, your pulse is rather normal.
- Your head is rather clear.
- There's plenty of jobs that you can handle out there."
- I said, "Mister, my corn's in the snow.
- There's ants on my table.
- My bookshelves are falling 'cause I'm just not
- able to tighten the screws."
- Yes, you got to pay your dues to have those can't do
- a thing without you Papa blues.
- Come on and take off your watch.
- Have some pecan pie.
- Hold me in a hurry, man, or I'm going to die.
- Come on and take off your shoes 'cause
- I'm planning to lose those can't do a thing without you
- Papa blues.
- Come on and take off your shoes 'cause
- I'm planning to lose those can't do a thing without,
- won't see another spring without,
- I can't do a thing without you Papa blues.
- All right!
- (Singing scat)
- BOB CRYSTAL: That was Stefan Grossman
- with "Can't Papa Blues."
- Northwestern Bell Telephone Company
- of Minneapolis, Minnesota has ended
- its policy of open discrimination
- against gay people.
- The decision by the Minneapolis-based firm
- is believed to be the first crack
- in the nationwide anti-gay policy of the American
- Telephone and Telegraph system, whose 800,000 employees make
- it the country's largest private employer.
- The change followed by only three days
- the enactment by the Minneapolis City Council
- on March 29 of an amendment to the civil rights ordinance
- forbidding discrimination against gays in jobs, housing,
- public accommodations, union membership,
- and public services.
- Quote, "The Council acted on a Friday,
- and on Monday, Bell called the mayor's office
- and said they were capitulating,"
- said Victor Propus, City Director of Civil Rights.
- "We didn't have to call them or anything.
- In fact, the mayor hadn't even signed it into law yet."
- William Stocks, Northwestern Bell's Vice President
- for Personnel, said, "We reconsidered our position
- over the weekend, after the City Council made it illegal."
- Similar gay job rights ordinances
- enacted in Washington D.C., Seattle, Ann Arbor,
- and East Lansing have apparently failed
- to sway other Bell affiliates.
- In Minneapolis, Northwestern Bell
- was under heavy attack for its bias.
- Last October, the Minnesota branch of the American Civil
- Liberties Union filed suit in US District Court
- on behalf of two gay men who were refused jobs, one merely
- because he was truthful in explaining why his draft
- status was 4-F. The ACLU's lawsuit is still
- alive despite the policy change, for the civil liberties
- group seeks to win back wages for the two men
- and to establish a new legal principle in the suit.
- One is that anti-gay bias is outlawed under the US Civil
- Rights Act of 1964 on the basis of sex,
- although sex usually has been interpreted
- to mean gender, not preference.
- In Winnipeg, Manitoba, Richard North, twenty-two,
- and Chris Vogel, twenty-six, were united February 11
- in what is believed to be the first gay marriage
- in that Canadian province.
- Officiating at the Unitarian Church ceremony
- was Reverend Norman Naylor.
- North is a student at the University of Manitoba,
- and Vogel works for the provincial Department of Mines.
- North said there was much uncertainty
- over whether the marriage would be legally recognized,
- but he and Vogel decided they would take the step, partly
- to bring it to the attention of the public
- their belief in the importance and commitment
- of their relationship.
- They did not attempt to obtain a government marriage license,
- but instead took the alternative of having
- the marriage proclaimed by the church publicly.
- "Our commitment to each other is fundamental in our lives,"
- said North.
- "And in our society, formal recognition of such a fact
- is accomplished through the custom of marriage.
- The fact that homosexuals are not permitted to marry legally
- is an attempt by society and government
- to reject the validity of homosexual relationships."
- In a 1,400 page report released in mid-April,
- the Pennsylvania Crime Commission
- has recommended a complete review
- of the necessity of regulating victimless crimes.
- Included in that category are deviant sexual intercourse
- and similar statutes which label the gay citizens
- of Pennsylvania as criminals and are used to prosecute gays.
- The section of the report dealing with anti-gay law
- states, "The present policy of regulating
- sexual conduct between two consenting adults
- should be re-evaluated and revised.
- Using police resources to curb homosexuality not only is
- ineffective and wasteful, it also
- provides a greater moral problem than the one it seeks to curb,
- namely corruption."
- Robert Arner, Director of Intelligence for the Crime
- Commission, said that," There probably
- wasn't much of an underlying desire
- to liberalize the laws just for the sake of liberalizing them,
- but an overwhelming desire of the Crime Commission
- is to minimize corruption in our law enforcement agencies."
- Arner went on to say that laws which
- imply the necessity of public control of homosexuals
- actually cause illegal shakedowns
- and harassments to take place.
- He cited the badgering of owners and customers
- of private gay clubs and bars, the soliciting of payoffs,
- and hassling of gays by police as examples.
- The report will be sent to members of the Pennsylvania
- State government.
- Advocate 137.
- The subway system around the Boston area
- is scheduled to be decorated with advertisements featuring
- lavender rhinoceroses.
- The colorful rhinos are being placed
- on poster ads financed by Boston homosexual organizations.
- The aim of the unusual campaign is
- to achieve public recognition for gays.
- One of the creators of the campaign, Bernard Toale,
- explains that the rhinoceros was chosen, quote,
- "because of its humorous quality and because it
- is a much maligned and misunderstood animal."
- Says Toale, "In actuality, the rhino
- is gentle and peace-loving.
- But don't cross him."
- The group has already mapped out three ads,
- one showing a lavender rhino and five gray rhinos.
- The posters are posed to bring out the idea
- that gays feel different from other people,
- yet simultaneously the same.
- Another advertisement shows a rhino coming out of the closet,
- illustrating what the group says is, "The gays'
- need for self-acceptance."
- Zodiac.
- And now, Evan Pace, "Please Forgive Me."
- (Music - Evan Pace, "Please Forgive Me"]
- (Singing) So I took the ring he wore, the ring his father
- gave to him.
- It was a precious family heirloom
- that I received when I was 10.
- He was proud to be my father, and I was glad to be his son.
- He thought we had an understanding
- till I reached the age of 21.
- Please forgive me, but I must be what I am.
- Please forgive me and try and understand.
- Please forgive me, but I must find my own way,
- and I must try to be my own man.
- I always hated moods of silence, when he and I did not agree.
- And he never sat in conversation in fear of learning I was me.
- Please forgive me, but I must be what I am.
- Please forgive me and try and understand.
- Please forgive me, but I must find my own way.
- I must try to be my own man.
- So I took the ring he wore, the ring his father gave to him.
- I placed it gently on his pillow.
- It's there that family tradition met its end.
- Please forgive me, but I must be what I am.
- Please forgive me and try and understand.
- Please forgive me, but I must find my own way.
- And I must try to be my own man.
- Please forgive me, but I must be what I am.
- Please forgive me and try and understand.
- Please forgive me, but I must find my own way.
- And I must try to be my own man.
- BOB CRYSTAL: That was Evan Pace in "Please Forgive Me."
- The Gay Alliance of the Genesee Valley
- and the Gay Revolution of Women are
- settling into their new residences
- well, new for the GAGV.
- The Gay Revolution of Women has been
- at 713 Monroe Avenue for quite a while now
- and are beginning to explore their new habitat
- and introducing themselves to the neighbors,
- and to the community, and the gay community.
- Sunday, the GAGV is having a coffeehouse
- in the new location, in the restaurant downstairs.
- That's May 19 at 7:30 PM.
- And there will be music and refreshments, rap groups,
- and general good times.
- The Gay Revolution of Women, the Friday night
- before that this coming Friday night is
- having an open house in their office at 7:30 PM also.
- That's Friday night, the 17th.
- And now we'll have the second of three parts of the roles
- and images.
- And it's a consciousness raising session
- at Tolstoy College of the University of Buffalo.
- Tonight, Mike rids himself of his alter ego, Anubis, god
- of death.
- MIKE: Like I was always that image
- of being the most masculine man around,
- being the craziest guy around, doing all the most bizarre,
- sickening things you could, you know,
- to make everybody say, "Oh!
- Look how" You know, be really gross and things like that.
- And I was under the pressure of putting women on a pedestal
- so far above me, you know, the unapproachable woman, you know.
- They say all women are unapproachable, you know,
- but it was like the unapproachable woman,
- like that.
- And it just kept getting more and more frustrating for me.
- I can remember like my mother finding dirty books of mine
- that were around the house.
- "Look at this trash!"
- Trash, trash, trash, all the time, you know,
- It was never like, you know, "So what?" or anything like that.
- It was always, "That's filthy.
- That's no good," you know, or something like that.
- And it just (unintelligible).
- She really implanted in me that really well, you know?
- So I had a lot of trouble like that
- trying to have relations with women like that.
- It was really terrible, you know.
- I really think that's one thing I like I said,
- I don't want to put the blame there totally like that,
- but I don't know if I should or not.
- But that is a lot of pressure that was on me.
- I don't know.
- I feel like the only outlet I had was like to put down
- on paper, was to write.
- That's where I think that came from, like that,
- from inhibitions.
- Like that was my outlet.
- I was on (unintelligible) Magazine's the first year,
- I was on the staff.
- The second year, I was editor.
- So this gave me a lot of prestige.
- I put a lot of work into it, you know.
- And what happened then is all of sudden, you know,
- I found myself as float committee chairman, right?
- And I had to go through all the papers like that and all that.
- And then I was like student government representative
- for my curriculum, you know?
- And so I was doing this like when
- something had to be done, like they'd come to me.
- And I'd accept it because I just loved doing it then, you see.
- I didn't even think about the work and the time that
- had to be put into it.
- INTERVIEWER: You were still into wearing black at that time?
- MIKE: Yeah.
- You see?
- (Laughs) Wow!
- And I really enjoyed doing that, you know?
- I had a beard at that time and everything like that.
- And I was always scrounging the skulls and the vests
- and the cobweb, things like that.
- I would just run around, and, like,
- I was running myself ragged.
- I cracked up one night (unintelligible)
- too, with my mother.
- I broke into tears.
- I don't know if it was a nervous breakdown or what it was.
- INTERVIEWER: Why?
- MIKE: Huh?
- INTERVIEWER: Why don't you explain what happened?
- How did you get to that point?
- MIKE: I was under I was doing like all these things at one
- time.
- I was editing the magazine.
- We had our last issue coming out.
- And I was doing a lot of layout work.
- And we were building the float at that time.
- I was chairman of that, you know?
- And we were filling out the float, and I had school yet.
- And I couldn't let my being myself,
- I couldn't let that drop below the C. That's all I wanted
- was the C, but I couldn't let it go below I
- didn't want to flunk out.
- And I was, you know, at school.
- And then I was playing the image like that.
- I remember like one night I was out.
- We were drinking.
- It was on a Sunday, and I came home.
- And my mom I don't remember exactly what she said.
- She was sitting there.
- It was about midnight.
- And I was half drunk.
- And I remember she said something.
- And I just said, "Well, what the hell do you expect me to do?"
- And I just broke into tears.
- (Laughs)
- And I just like cried for about three hours there, you know?
- So, "Oh, take it easy."
- The whole, you know, coddling me in her arms and everything
- like that.
- I just cried for like three hours.
- I fell apart.
- I guess it just got too much, and so I, you
- know everything just got to me at that one second.
- I (Mike makes explosion noise) and just fell apart.
- Like everything that held together like,
- all the reasons that made me do all these things, all of,
- you know, like that it just like (Mike makes explosion noise).
- INTERVIEWER: Vanished.
- MIKE: Vanished.
- You know (Mike makes winding down noise),
- and I just broke into tears.
- And it's this really strange feeling, too.
- Just you know
- INTERVIEWER: Resolving just to cry?
- Or just
- MIKE: Just in general.
- INTERVIEWER: Had you ever like cried before that?
- Or it was just really strange to have
- to see yourself like break down that much and cry?
- MIKE: No, because I cry I get misty.
- I don't cry outright like that, just cry like that.
- But I get misty.
- That's what I call it, you know.
- Your eyes water like that.
- Like, you know, when I'm heavy into a movie like that,
- I get misty. (Laughs) You know?
- I really like that, too.
- I really feel good like that, you know?
- But that felt like a different kind of crying then, you know?
- It was not like a I just (Mike makes explosion noise)
- collapsed.
- And then I was really depressed for a few days
- after that until I put everything back together
- in place like that.
- And I start doing that again.
- INTERVIEWER: Back what you were doing before?
- Like you were doing a lot of work again
- and (unintelligible)?
- MIKE: Mm-hmm.
- And that was when I was in school.
- Like the women, let's say, in our group,
- in my high school peer group, like that, you know,
- they were out there, too, on the streets being driven like, say,
- out of the home or whatever.
- INTERVIEWER: So because they were more like men,
- they were more human.
- MIKE: Yeah, they were more, you know,
- could relate to them as people like that, you know?
- But then again, like, those were friends.
- You weren't approaching them in desire instances, you know?
- These were not desire instances.
- You weren't approaching them in situations,
- like at the bar, like that, because you were all friends.
- You just like could go on in any place and say.
- "Hi, Betty.
- Hi, Jim."
- You know?
- They were people.
- INTERVIEWER: Sex was never involved?
- MIKE: No, it wasn't involved with those people,
- like that, no.
- When it would come to the sexual aspect like that, ahh!
- That's really a hard thing to break when, you know,
- like I said, I really think that was plugged into me, you know?
- INTERVIEWER: Well, was it ever mentioned between you
- and, say, you know, these women who were in your group,
- about having sex with them?
- MIKE: No, not that I recall.
- Everybody was like openly you know,
- everybody felt all the women were the same as the men,
- as far as I always liked that.
- But like it seemed to me they just never had sex with us,
- (laugh) you know, like the friends on the street.
- We just like never associated it with them.
- INTERVIEWER: They had sex outside
- and you had sex outside.
- MIKE: Yes.
- The kind of woman I would like now
- would be like someone who like would do this all with me,
- you know, who would come to the men, you know,
- and like, you know, after the men,
- and like all consistent like that.
- That's one thing that frustrates me
- with these guys, my friends who have gotten married, you know?
- You don't see them anymore.
- INTERVIEWER: Right.
- MIKE: And, you know, like I don't see why that happens,
- you know?
- They get married, and, like, they fade away.
- And you never see them again, you know?
- If they drive by, the beep the horn at you. (Laughs) You know?
- And yeah, I used to hang around with them all the time.
- (Unintelligible)
- INTERVIEWER: Well, it's like they don't have the connection
- that you want.
- I mean, there doesn't seem like there
- is a connection of all the guys' thing with the guys
- and them bringing their lovers with them to meet the guys
- and party with the guys.
- It seems like once they find a lover it would be
- MIKE: Yeah.
- INTERVIEWER: the guys.
- MIKE: Unfortunately, at least I feel
- like that would make me even more happier.
- What happened like before with me like that I never
- thought of, that she would be out Saturday night partying,
- too, you know?
- She's waiting for me there, like a puppy dog, you know,
- that was there when I wanted her, you know?
- And at the time, it didn't matter, you know?
- It was just like, word, you know, my girlfriend, you know.
- Just there, you know?
- "What's she doing?"
- "I don't know."
- "I seen her with this guy."
- "No, (Laughs) not her."
- You know?
- It was OK for me to do that, you see?
- INTERVIEWER: Mm-hmm.
- Well, do you feel that way now?
- MIKE: What?
- INTERVIEWER: Is this attitude how you feel now?
- Or, this is the attitude that you had before?
- MIKE: That was an attitude I had then.
- You know, like, girlfriend was there when I wanted her,
- when I needed her, you know, when
- I wanted to be with her, when I wanted
- to go out to a social function, something like that, you know?
- INTERVIEWER: How do you feel about relationships now?
- Or what kind of relationship would you like to have now?
- You know, like you said just you were explaining before how
- the girlfriends would just be there any time,
- and you just want to have her for the night?
- And how have you, like, overcome, say,
- the inhibitions that you said you had before?
- You know, how do you feel about relationships now?
- Or, you know, just going out and meeting people?
- Do you still like really get super drunk at bars?
- MIKE: No, it happens.
- But I don't go out like purposely you
- know I don't need to go out and have ten drinks before I
- can talk to anybody.
- You know?
- I can go out now and like have one or two
- beers for the whole night and have a good time as much
- as I could getting slobbered you know,
- at least not end up like that.
- And, you know, I feel now that I'm
- beginning to realize that I've had
- these inhibitions like that, that they're going away.
- Like when I first realized in the group, when I brought up
- the thing about the alter name, the other name
- that I had for myself
- INTERVIEWER: What was that?
- MIKE: Anubis.
- And I
- INTERVIEWER: You'll have to explain that.
- MIKE: Oh, well, see, the other person, the image,
- had its own name.
- It was Michael Anubis.
- INTERVIEWER: I knew you had another image, but I didn't
- MIKE: Yes, the most masculine man.
- He was Mike Anubis.
- INTERVIEWER: Where did you get the name?
- MIKE: I was going through a book,
- and Anubis is the Egyptian god of death.
- He holds the scales of life and death like that.
- And it sounded good to me.
- Like we were all giving ourselves names at that time,
- you know?
- Denny was Deus.
- So I was Anubis, you know?
- And that was the image's name.
- And when I brought that up to this group like that,
- and I don't exactly remember how we talked about it whatever
- like that, but relating to that name,
- you know when I went home and started
- thinking about that, I was like, felt this other person
- like leaving me, you know?
- And like I was really and all of a sudden, you know,
- I was able to before, I wasn't able to write my name,
- relate to that.
- "That's not me."
- I was Mike Anubis, you know?
- And so now, pfft, I put my name all over the place.
- And I'm really happy with that, you know?
- I'm really conscious of that name.
- That name is my name!
- You know?
- It's not anything else, and it makes me really happy
- when I think about that.
- I was just laying in bed, and I just felt like the energy
- like just leaving me.
- This other person just (Mike makes whooshing sound)
- flowing right out of me and just getting,
- you know and then just seeing the other me standing there,
- you know the image me standing there.
- And
- CREW: Come on up.
- You know where it is?
- MIKE: I was just so relieved after I knew that.
- That was gone.
- So I don't have to be that anymore.
- It was such a relief.
- (Unintelligible)
- I thought of a real good story along with that, you know.
- Someone with the this would be for the story,
- you know, writing the story.
- It would be a person like that energy would flow out of them,
- but the energy would like become real
- and do away with the actual person.
- And the image lives.
- I haven't put it all together.
- Just, you knowit's just like a note
- that I've got written down someplace,
- but I carry it in my head, and if it ever comes out,
- it comes out.
- You can just imagine like the energy just flowing out
- of the person like that.
- You can envision it like on film or something like that,
- you know?
- It's flowing out like that and then
- INTERVIEWER: You say you felt you were Anubis,
- or you wanted to feel that your image wasn't there?
- MIKE: Yeah.
- Well, wait.
- I don't understand what you mean.
- INTERVIEWER: Your image oh, this is just
- a story you're thinking about or is this the image that you felt
- Anubis when you're thinking about a story of him,
- it would be like his energy just flowing out?
- MIKE: No, it would be like me with Anubis' name.
- And Anubis would be leaving, and I would be left.
- And then Anubis would like this is only in the story.
- INTERVIEWER: Right.
- MIKE: This is nothing factual or what I feel, you know?
- The image energy of Anubis would turn on (unintelligible)
- and do away with (unintelligible).
- And the image would continue, and the real person
- wouldn't be there.
- INTERVIEWER: This is just something
- that occurred to you recently.
- MIKE: Yeah, well, it occurred to me like a few
- a few days after I felt Anubis leaving me.
- And as soon as I was conscious that that's what really was,
- you know, I was really playing up to Anubis.
- I was really alien for me to have my own name.
- I'm glad that's gone. (Laughs) I'm really relieved.
- And (Audio cuts out)
- BOB CRYSTAL: That was the second of three parts
- of an interview conducted at Tolstoy College about roles
- and images.
- Next, we have Kraftwerk, "Kristallo."
- (Music - Kraftwerk, "Kristallo")
- That was Kraftwerk, "Kristallo."
- In the past, the only psychological or psychiatric
- help that a gay person could get would
- tend to be from people who were trained
- to think of being gay as a disease or a problem
- to be cured.
- One of the services of the gay community's action groups
- has been to provide counseling or to arrange
- for counseling from a different viewpoint, that of dealing
- with the problems of a gay person, assuming that being gay
- is alright, and dealing with the problems of living
- as a gay in society and dealing with gay people
- and straight people in a healthy manner.
- To that end, GAGV and the Gay Revolution of Women
- have been developing a peer counseling group, two of them,
- one for each.
- And they have for the past three years
- had a telephone service where, in the evenings,
- people could call for peer counseling.
- GAGV now has a telephone answering service
- excuse me which is operative from 7:30 to 11:00
- every night, where people can get peer counseling
- or arrange for it.
- The number is 244-8640.
- The Gay Revolution of Women and the Gay Youth offer
- peer counseling at the same hours, 7:30
- to 11:00 PM at 244-9030.
- They have also arranged for gay relationship counseling
- with Mrs. Helen Dyke of the Family Services of Rochester.
- You can call her at 232-1840 Tuesday mornings
- to make an appointment for other times in the week.
- That's 232-1840.
- And just recently on the scene is a counseling service
- for gay relationships and dealing
- with the straight world offered by the Catholic Community
- Services.
- And there are two counselors who do that work.
- They are Miss Catherine Wover and Walt Szymanski.
- Their office is on the fifth floor at 50 Chestnut Street,
- or call 546-7220.
- That's 546-7220.
- This is quite an advance over the past and something
- of which the gay community groups can be very, very proud.
- Next, we have Vangelis, with "He-O."
- (Music- Vangelis, "He-O")
- (Singing) He-o he came walking down my street.
- He-o and he stopped in front of my door.
- He-o and he knocked on the door a long while.
- He-o then he turned and he walked away.
- He-o then he turned and he walked away.
- He-o he never came back again.
- He-o I wasn't at home that day.
- He-o and I never found out that he came.
- He-o he came walking down my street.
- He-o and he stopped in front of my door.
- He-o and he knocked on the door a long while.
- He-o then he turned and he walked away.
- He-o then he turned and he walked away.
- He-o he never came back again.
- He-o I wasn't at home that day.
- He-o and I never found out that he came.
- BOB CRYSTAL: If you've ever wondered
- what happened to your knight in shining armor,
- that record might answer the question.
- That was Vangelis with "He-O."
- There are two groups which are holding meetings this week.
- The Gay Youth, which is holding an organizational meeting
- and a rap session this is a new group in Rochester.
- It's open to gay people 18 years and younger.
- They will be meeting in the Gay Alliance office
- on the second floor of 713 Monroe Avenue.
- That's the Genesee Co-Op.
- And they meet Sunday, May 19, at 2:00 PM.
- The Gay Task Force is meeting Thursday the 16th.
- That's today at 7:30 PM at 2 Fuller Place.
- The Gay Task Force is an action-oriented group.
- And some of the projects that they have in the making
- are a coordinated effort to lobby with the Albany people
- to repeal the sodomy statutes and also
- to conduct a series of telephone interviews
- with the voters of New York state
- to assess exactly how much effect and what kind of effect
- the gay activists in the state have had on the voting public.
- That's Thursday the 16th of May at 7:30 PM at 2 Fuller Place.
- This has been quite an experience for me.
- Bruce getting sick sort of threw me in the water
- to see if I could swim.
- And it's sort of like being on the stage in high school
- with all sorts of jitters and lavender butterflies
- floating around in your stomach, making things
- all sort of wavery.
- You
- can tell it's spring because I have a little friend in here
- with me.
- And he's been dive bombing me.
- So the warm weather brings out something.
- I think it's a bluebottle, but I'm not quite sure.
- I don't know what kind of swear words
- to use at it because I'm a liberated person.
- And so as soon as my mic goes dead,
- I'll try to think of something and yell it.
- Next, we have Ravi Shankar's "Love Theme Transformation."
- (Music - Ravi Shankar, "Love Theme Transformation")
- (Birds singing)
- This has been Green Thursday for May 16.
- A week from this past hour, tune in for Lesbian Nation.