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Runners up in the competition were Gentle is My Name, by Donna Allegra; The Middle Ufe, by Renée Gladman; and Refreshments, by Doris L. Harris. Chrystos’ winning manuscript will be pub lished by the Cleveland Poetry Center at Cleveland State University. The project was sponsored by The W omen’s Community Foundation of Cleveland. Detour Publications, Inc., a publisher of gay and lesbian travel guides, announced it would team up with USAir to offer a discount coupon worth up to $50 on the airline’s flights through the end of 1994. Consumers are eligible for the coupon when they purchase any Detour Guide before June 30, 1994. Detour Guides are written by people who have lived in the cities they cover and include a gay history of the city and walking tours that combine traditional stops with points of interest to gays and lesbians. i * Sil Ö 0f m> Chrystos’ poetry honored Fly the “ gay-friendly” skies W a sh in g to n M u tu a l W ♦ national news wowlOwgoo 97732 503/284-8666 503/786-4907 R es. 503/320-4020 M obile Ally vows equal treatment in academia Gay men and lesbians in academia have a strong friend in the president-elect of the American Association of University Professors, James E. Perley, currently a professor o f biology at the small liberal arts College o f W ooster in Ohio. Perley outlined nine goals for his two-year ten ure as head of the venerable national organization representing college and university faculty mem bers. Among them is “ensuring that gay, lesbian and bisexual faculty members are given full access to equal and fair treatment in the profession.” The issue first arose in the AAUP in the 1970s but, “They didn’t do very much with it,” said Perley. Then, about two years ago in a committee on academic freedom and tenure, he said, “A request was made to revisit it, particularly in light o f the fact that there appeared to be increasing numbers of cases o f sexual harassment being brought against gay and lesbian faculty members.” Perley became that committee’s representative on an ad hoc committee created by AAUP to examine the issue. It invited a cross-section of gay and lesbian members to attend a session on April 24, 1993, the day before the historic March on Washington. “That was truly a startling experience for me,” said Perley. ‘T o listen to the kinds o f stories that came pouring out of people. The feeling of lack of comfort in the academic community. The concern about being able to publish scholarship and not be judged on the basis o f the area in which one chose to work. The fact that there was a social ostracization that occurred.” Alvin Novick was one of those attending the session. He was impressed with the diversity o f the group, which represented all academic disciplines and all types and sizes o f institutions, including religious ones. The attendees spoke of the various stages their individual campuses had reached in the struggle for equality. “That was very reinforc ing,” Novick said. “ I think it made a safe space for all o f us.” At the session, Novick, a doctor and professor o f biology, spoke of his own 36 years at Yale University. He spoke of the reactions of others to the loss o f his lover, a lecturer at Yale, to AIDS, and o f his fight for domestic partner benefits, which have since been granted by the university. “That really touched me significantly,” said Perley. “I could understand what he was saying, because I knew the people and I knew the circum stances.” Perley had done his graduate work in that department at Yale. “W hat struck me in the .conversation was the theme o f civil rig h ts r Perley said. “I am a child of the 1960s and these were the very same issues, couched in different terms, but exactly the same kinds o f pleas.” He decided that “one o f the things I wanted to do, if I were ever elected president [of AAUP], was to convene a m eaningful committee a n d ...to ad dress the problems I was hearing.” Perley included in his goals two other concerns affecting gay and lesbian faculty. One is domestic partnership, which is already “one o f the hot issues around the country.” The other is the A A U P’s central and ongoing concern with freedom o f speech in the classroom. The association has filed an amicus brief focusing on this issue in the case of Joseph Steffan, who was thrown out o f the U.S. Naval Academy for being gay. “ I hope for the world, but believe in progress in m illim eters,” Perley said. Asian American lesbians and gay men to march Over 100 lesbian, gay and bisexual Asian Ameri cans will march for the first time in the San Fran cisco Cherry Blossom Festival Parade with Asian Pacific Sisters, Older Asian Sisters in Solidarity, and the Gay Asian Pacific Alliance. Representa tives from established Japanese American groups are also expected to join these groups in a show of support. The gay, lesbian and bisexual groups will march in traditional hapi coats and festive lavender tenugui (headbands). M archers will also wear pa per cherry blossoms, each one representing an indi vidual who is unable to participate because of con cerns about his or her family, work or community. Also part of the parade will be a lavender Godzilla and a float carrying Mr. and Ms. GAPA 1993. “We are marching for visibility, and also to show others that we are accepted in the Japanese American com m unity,” stated GAPA co-chair Steve Takemura. “We hope that by being a visible part of this cultural celebration other lesbians and gay men will begin to feel more com fortable being open about their own sexuality.” The Cherry Blossom Festival is a two-week celebration o f Japanese culture and community, which draws crowds o f 150,000 from Northern California and Japan. APS is a San Francisco-based organization which sponsors educational, political and social activities and events for lesbians and bisexual women o f Asian and/or Pacific Islander descent. OASIS is a support group for Asian and Pacific Islander lesbians and bisexual women 35 and over. GAPA is dedicated to furthering the interests of lesbian, gay and bisexbal Asians and Pacific Is lander men by creating awareness, developing a positive collective identity and establishing a sup portive community. N .J . governor pledges support Republican Gov. Christine Todd W hitman met in early May with a delegation o f gay and lesbian leaders to discuss her position on civil rights. She pledged to do everything in her power to make the Republican Party a party of inclusion and to em phasize tolerance at all levels o f her administration. New Jersey has a statewide anti-discrimination law which covers sexual orientation, and W hitman said she would take additional steps. She pledged to look into establishing an office for queer youth concerns at the state’s departm ent o f education, modeled on the one established by Republican Govenor W illiam W eld o f M assachusetts. “In her com m itm ent to fight taxes, fight crime, and fight discrimination against any individuals, including gays and lesbians, Gov. W hitman repre sents the future o f the Republican Party, said Rich Tafel, national director o f Log Cabin Republicans, a gay Republican lobby. ------------l- . » i I - « - i I I 1 ) 14 »- j S t i h p i ì è d by h o i 4 k o ehr anû>àhh 'Óifbert '