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PAGE 2 Q-Notes ■ August 1986 Unrestricted, Media Cover Vigil For Truth & Decency FSOM PAGE 1 dent oi Charlotte's ACLU chapter; and QCQ president Robert Sheets joined Storch, King and Fleschner as olticial speakers. Sheets paralleled what is happen ing to gay men in America today with Nazi Germany's treatment ot Jews that eventually led to concen tration camps and gas chambers. Interspersed with the briel speeches were Fleschner's singing, sadly, of the National Anthem, God Bless America and America, The Beautiful. Many in attendance sang along as they held candles in the growing darkness of a cloud- shrouded dusk following Charlotte's first hard rain in months. During an open-mike period, sev eral in the crowd spoke, including Diana Travis, who announced work on a monthly television program on public-access cable that could be gin sometime this fall. And Ed Depasquale of Accep tance, who passed through the au dience accepting donations for One Nation Indivisible in an an open umbrella, said that a remarkable $145 had been collected. Toward the end, Fleschner, pastor of Charlotte's New Life MCC, told thfe audience that his church's partici pation in a national AIDS vigil — sponsored by the Universal Fellow ship of Metropolitan Community Churches — will include his writing to churches throughout Charlotte asking them to pray for AIDS pa tients and for a cure to the disease. "We won't be asking them to sup port gay rights,'' he said. "But we'll be asking them for a response to our 30 TAPES FOR 30 DOLLARS We're talking maximum exposure and here's how it works. Buy one tape at full price — usually $64.95 or within a few hairs of that. Then bring it in and trade for a second. Then bring in #2 and trade for a tnird. Then trade #3 for a fourth. And so on. Got the picture? Here's the good part: we're charging only 99 cents per day rental and every bit of it goes to help the gay/Iesbian community — half to QCQ and half to One Nation Indivisible! You can buy that first tape on Aug. 1, then keep trad ing every day for 30 more days! Miss August 1 and you can still participate beginning any day of the month. We get our initial $64.95; QCQ and One Nation Indivisible get the rental fees; and you get to see a bunch of tap«. Figure it out! If you changed tapes every day, you'd have raid, say, $95.95. You'd have seen 31 tapes. That's $3 and a stick of gum for each tape — a deal you can't beat, especially since Joy is just about the only place in the Carolinas with erotic gay tapes! The tape you have at the end of August? Use it for our Silver Club. Come in, or call, for details. BOOKS Supporting The Community T Supporting The People NOW IT'S YOUR TURN! 1310 East Independence Boulevard Open All The Time V 332-8430 request for participation in the na tional AIDS vigil." Then he asked the crowd to douse their candles as a symbol of the darkness falling over America and to join in singing the venerable civil rights song We Shall Overcome. With that, the vigil ended. Just before it ended, a man who had attended Cameron's appear ance handed Fleschner four books and a dozen pamphlets authored ' by Cameron — nearly all with hate-filled titles. Three late arrivals also said they had just come from Cameron's speech. "It looked like a good number of the audience were gay men or les bians," one said. "Several couples of women left together during the speech. And during a question and answer period, two men who seemed to be gay asked questions. The rest of the audience appeared to be people mainly over 50 years old," The Charlotte Observer estimated the Cameron audience at "nearly 100." Television coverage on 11 o'clock news reports was even-handed. The Charlotte Observer's in its July 26 final edition was, too, though it iden tified a picture of Cameron as Fles chner and Fleschner as Cameron. None explained, however, why gay/lesbian community leaders felt a response was needed now after decades of tolerating distortion and untruth about homosexuals. "Concerned Charlotteans," King said, "has opened up a new front. They are trying to add scientific legitimacy to their religious antigay claims, and we can't let that go unanswered." One Nation Indivisible Makes Splashy Debut Charlotte has a new organization, and it started with a resounding media splash by organizing the highly successful July 25 vigil that countered Dr, Paul Cameron's Char lotte appearance the same night. The group is One Nation Indivisi ble, a name symbolizing the hope that Americans will start treating each other with respect and integ rity rather than lies and distortion when they disagree. A new group wasn't the primary idea in mind when community lead ers were called together by Joy Adult Bookstore manager Rick Wilds and New Life MCC pastor Art Fles chner. Responding to Cameron's appearance was their first concern. But as the first meeting wore on, it became apparent that a larger is sue than a one-time protest of a bigot's appearance was at stake. It was obvious that the community needed an organization founded specifically to counter antigay rhet oric. Fleschner suggested the name. The group distributed news re leases about the vigil on Sunday, July 20, to WSOC-TV, WBTV, The Charlotte Observer and several ra dio stations. On Monday, July 21, Q-Notes is published monthly by Queen City Quordina- tors, a nonprofit corporation. WARNING. Publication oi a person's picture or name should be taken as no indication ol sexual preference. DISTRIBUTION. Except for file and exchange copies, all 5,000 copies are distributed to goy/lesbian-identitied organi zations and establishments. Twelve-month subscriptions are available for $12, payable in advance. Septembei issue distribution: Wednesday, Aug. 27. ADVERTISING. Display advertising may be rejected for any reason. Rates available on request. September issue deadline: Friday, Aug. 22. Q-Notes c/o Don King, 331 East Blvd. f3. Charlotte, N.C. 28203 Phone 704/332-3834 THEY WANT YOUR BUSINESS Writer/Communications Consultant Designs By Michael Experienced Copywriter □ Advertising Interior And Exterior Renovation Brochures □ Mass Mailing Campaigns Custom Crafted Furniture Quality Special Events □ Parties And Workshops Painting ■ Decks And Patios Convention Planning MICHAEL AMRHEIN Mark Drum, 525-1606 563-7140 YOUR BUSINESS CARD CAN RUN, TOO, IN 5,000 COPIES OF Q-NOTES For details, call Don King, 332-3834. one radio station and one television station attended a press conference to announce the new group. Part of each release was a list of "Paul Cameron's sins." Included were the facts that because of his distortions he has been expelled from the American Psychological Association, and that the Nebraska Psychological Association and the Midwest Sociological Association have both officially disassociated themselves from his writings and statements. A federal district court judge in Texas and a prison official in Con necticut have both gone on record as assailing him for distortions. Na tional gay group have tried to counter his comments wherever they could. Examples of his many comments are these: that a "substantial num ber" of gay men eat feces and that lesbians are 29 times more likely to deliberately infest a sex partner with a disease than nongay women. The lesbian comment is based on a survey that included a sample of seven lesbian or bisexual women, two (29%) of whom said they in the past had had sex knowing they had a venereal disease. Only 1% of the heterosexual women admitted the same thing. Cameron applies this tiny finding to the entire U.S. lesbian population. True scientists would never consider such a small sample as applicable to the general popu lation. Use of "statistics" such as these are Cameron's basic operating pro cedure. One Nation Indivisible feels obli gated to counter such use of "scien tific" data when it appears in the media, and has pledged that it will continue to do so. ■ ■ ■ One Nation Indivisible is search ing for a board of directors and will meet at 8 p.m., Monday, Aug. 18, at New Life MCC. Persons wishing to participate may call Fleschner at 373-1817. PAET-TIUE SALES/TEAVEL POSITION AVAILABLE. Gay man or lesbian woman wanted immediately for part-time sales position. Ideal person would have previous sales experience, already travel the state (or the Carolinas, or part of the state) as part ol a current tuU-Ume |ob, like meeting new people, enjoy nightliie. Mature, responsible, sell-motivaled, well-organized, ambitious individuals only need apply. Paid in commission, excellent second income. Partnership in business eventual possibility. Ability to write and handle a camera a plus, but not at all necessary. For more inlormation, write P.O. Box 344, Chapel Hill 27514-0344. ■ ■■ For a Q-Notas classiSed ad. send prepaid check (payable to Q-Notes) and ad copy to Q-Notes. c/o Don King, 331 East Blvd- /3. Charlotte 28203. Send SI tor each SO characters (including spaces between words, all punctuation marks and nurnbers). Example: 132 characters would cost S3 — SI tor the tirst 50 characters. SI tor the second 50 characters and SI tor the remaining 32.
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