February 1990 ■ PAGE 11 Q-Notes
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Dancing Good Times
11:00 p.m. Gay Wedding Ceremony of Vickie Bailey and
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Miss Hide-A-Way, Anjdica Bauer, Ihixie Knight and
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Miss Winston-Salem, USA, Shanna Nicole, Ginger St. James
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The Legendary Boom Boom La Tour, Shelia Du Rante, and
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Christina Allen, Deana Nicole and
Stephen Matthews
March
Thurs, 1st
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Miss Winston-Salem, USA, Shanna Nicole,
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Sabrina Starr, Jackie Jade and Leigh Morgan
The Eminent Tina TerreD, TWxle Knight, Anjellca Bauer
Miss Hide-A-Way, Anjdica Bauer, holds her showcase.
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Scorpio
Frank Denies Allegations In
Upcoming Penthouse article
BOSTON (UPI) — Rep. Barney Frank,
D-Mass., called statements made by a former
male prostitute to Penthouse magazine “total
invention” and indicated he already has tes
tified in secret about their relationship before
the House Ethics Committee, a published
report said Wednesday.
The Boston Herald, which obtained an
advance copy of the interview with Stephen
Gobie to be published in the March issue of
Penthouse, said the article contained no
bombshell revelations but detailed several
aspects of their relationship, including their
first sexual encounter in 1985.
According to the Herald, Gobie says in
the Penthouse article that Frank:
- daydreamed about being a paid male
escort and said, ‘“If I’d been 20 years younger,
I would have liked to have tried hustling’”;
- expressed an interest in group sex with a
“threesome, foursome, or more-some”;
- declined to get an AIDS test because he
did not want to be put in a moral dilemma.
“He was hung up on me, but I couldn’t
reciprocate emotionally,” Gobie said.
“I was doing a lot of good things for
Barney besides sex. I built him up. He wasn’t
as nice before he met me. He was mean and
arrogant. He got liposuction after we met. He
felt better and looked better,” Gobie said in
the article.
Asked for comment by the Hereild, Fr£uik
said Gobie’s allegations were “total inven
tion.”
“It’s absolute lies, degrading and untrae,”
Frank said. “It’s a word I hate to use in this
context, but (the article) appears to be anti-
climactic.”
Frank apparently has already testified
before the ethics panel in Secret. He said, “I
wouldn’t disagree with you” when a Herald
reporter said he assumed the five-term con
gressman had already testified.
Frank has admitted paying Gobie $80 for
sex in 1985 after answering an advertisement
in a Washington newspaper for homosexu
als. The Congressman said he then hired
Gobie as his personal assistant, paying him
$20,000 annually out of his own pocket.
Frank said he did not violate House ethics
rules and fired Gobie in 1987 after learning
the man was using the congressman’s Capi
tol Hill apartment for prostitution activities.
Gobie said Frank was aware all along
about the prostitution activities.
The Herald said Gobie, whose record
includes drug and child pornography convic
tions, reportedly was paid $50,000 for the
Penthouse interview and noted “Gobie’s
credibility and motives have been seriously
questioned.”
Gobie appeared before the ethics commit
tee last month and told reporters, “I came to
praise Congressman Frank, not to bury him.”
The Penthouse article, to be published
next month, does not name any other gay
politicians, the Herald said.
In the Penthouse interview, Gobie said
Frank had not had sex with other members of
Congress.
“I asked Barney, ‘Have you ever done it
with another congressman?’ And he said,
‘Certainly not. They don’t want each other,
someone who looks like them. They want
someone who looks like Tom Cruise, ’ ” Gobie
said.
Gobie also said Frank made admiring
remarks about fellow Massachusetts Con
gressman Joseph Kennedy’s physique, an
allegation Frank denied to the Herald.
Lutheran Leader Denounces
Scheduled Ordination of Homosexuals
We Deliver!
By David E. Anderson
UPI Religion Writer
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Friday, Jan.
19. The head of the Evangelical Lutheran
Church in America criticized a planned ordi
nation of three homosexuals to the ministry
and said disciplinary action will be taken
against the two San Francisco congregations
calling them.
Bishop Herbert Chilstrom said the de
nomination “believes and teaches” that the
church is to be in ministry with all people,
including homosexuals.
But, he said, the church also “has stan
dards for ordained ministers” and “among
them is a provision which states that practic
ing homosexual persons may not be on the
roster of ordained ministers of this church.”
“The issue of homosexuality is one where
there is genuine difference of opinion in the
ELCA,” he added. “The immediate incident
underscores this reality. It is our hope that
rather than be divided we wiU give more
careful thought and study to this question.”
He criticized the planned ordination of the
three—Jeff Johnson, Ruth Frost and Phyllis
Zillhart, all graduates of Lutheran seminar
ies —which is scheduled to take place Satur
day afternoon in San Francisco. All three
have graduated from Lutheran seminaries
and been found qualified for ministry except
for their refusal to pledge lifelong celibacy.
The Rev. Joseph Wagner, executive di
rector of the denomination’s Division for
Ministry, said the ordinations will initiate
“an unnecessary chain of events which will
be painful to all concerned.
“It is unfortunate that these two congrega
tions have chosen to engage the issue of
ordination of practicing homosexual persons
in this divisive way,” Wagner said.
“Other avenues exist for dialogue and
healthy confrontation in the church but they
have not been chosen,” he said.
Organizers of the irregular ordination
service said a group of 30 Lutheran clergy
will participate in the liturgy and the tradi
tion^ laying on of hands and the Rev. Carter
Heyward, a lesbian and one of the first women
ordained to the priesthood of the Episcopal
Church, will preach.
The three have been called — in defiance
of church regulations — to be assistant
ministers at two San Francisco congrega
tions and will form a pastoral team for the
recently initiated Lutheran Lesbian and Gay
Ministry in the Bay area.
The constitution of the 5.3-million-mem
ber ELCA states that pastoral calls can only
go to those approved by the church and the
three seminary graduates are not approved
candidates because they have refused to
pledge obedience to recently formulated
celibacy guidelines for homosexuals.
Wagner disputed the claims of those
supporting the ordination that the issues was
“j’ustice” for homosexual persons.
“We do not agree,” he said. “The church
champions the civil rights of all persons. But
ordination is not a civil right; it is a privilege
granted by the church to those who meet its
established standards.”
Bishop Lyle Miller of the Sierra Pacific
Synod said he will initiate the disciplinary
procedures, which could result in their ex
pulsion from the denomination. “There is an
appropriate time for confrontation, but in my
opinion this is not one of them.”
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