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PAGE 10 Q-Notes July 1994 Open 7 Days A Week Monday-Thursday 9pm - Until You Are Ready To Leave Friday-Sunday 6pm Until... Nightly Drink Speciais Mondays Pool Tournaments - Cash Prizes Tuesdays Dart Tournaments - Cash Prizes Wednesdays 1st Wed. - Live Talent - (No Impersonators) - Cash Prize 2nd Wed. - Talent Show For Impersonators - Cash Prize 3rd Wed. - Monthly Birthday Party - Cake 8^ Presents 4th Wed. - Show Featuring Talent Winners Thursdays Free Country Line Dancing Lessons 9-10:30pm Fridays Variety Entertainment - Contact Rick For Bookings Saturdays Dance, Twist, 8v Shout with music by Astro Sundays Retro/Trash Disco Night 50t Draft 8v $1.00 Well Drinks 975 Peters Creek Parkway Winston-Salem, NC 27103 910/724-3006 Q-Notes awards recognize two exemplary women by David Stout Q-Notes Staff For the first time in their three-year his tory, both of the annual awards given by Q- Notes to recognize outstanding community service, the Mark Drum AIDS Memorial Award and the Q-Notes OUTlBound Award, were presented to women. Rev. Christine Oscar and Tonda Taylor were chosen for their leadership, activism, education and commitment to issues sur rounding HIV/AIDS and gays and lesbians respectively. The presentations were made during the pre-rally to the Gay and Lesbian Pride March on Sunday, June 5. Mark Drum AIDS Memorial Award Rev. Christine Oscar’s ministry at St. Mary’s Metropolitan Community Church in Greensboro has been keenly focused on AIDS for many years. As part of that commitment, she has taught workshops, counseled the sick and the dying, made quilt panels, spent untold hours visiting hospitals and helped start the Piedmont’s leading AIDS service organiza tion, Triad Health Project. The day-long workshop on grief that Chris tine has led for several years is a very power ful source of healing for those who have been through it (including this reporter). And it has been adopted as a model by many other MCC pastors. Christine’s contributions to the Piedmont area, haven’t gone unnoticed in the main stream either. Recently, she was nominated for a position on the North Carolina Council of Church’s Executive Board, and was subse quently elected by the other mainline clergy. The amount of time and energy that Chris tine has expended on HIV-related causes, while leading one of the largest MCC congre gations in the Carolinas, is nothing short of incredible. She says that the reward of her labor is “being able to make a difference in people’s living and dying. Once I got in volved in this work, I knew I would always be involved.” Q-Notes OUTlBound Award Tonda Taylor is the executive director of Time Out Youth, one of the most visible and established organizations for sexual minority youths in the Southeast. She co-founded the group in November 1990 to shatter the invisibility and isolation that surround gay, lesbian and bisexual teens. The first actual support group meeting was held in April 1991, and things have soared since then. Tonda Taylor Christine Oscar Today, members can participate in a wide array of programs, including a speakers bu reau, community outreach, AIDS preven tion, a watchdog group and leadership devel opment. Time Out Youth also hosts a popular “alternative prom.” The important work that Tonda is doing with young gays and lesbians will benefit our entire community in the long run. She will have been the catalyst for a new generation of leaders raised with the esteem, insights and opportunities to take our movement into the next century. Tonda says that her desire to start Time Out Youth stems from her own childhood struggles with internalized oppression. “The reason I have decided to make this work a real commitment is my own life, the negative things I went through, the difficulties I had getting over my own homophobia. Maybe I can help some of these young people avoid some of that. If I can, it’s worth everything.” Some Pride organizers Members of the steering committee that organized the N. C. Lesbian & Gay Pride Parade & Celebration in Charlotte share their most memorable images of the June 3-5 week end: "The parade, the Lea DeLaria concert and probably the dance stick in my mind. I’ve been in Charlotte about ten years and this seemed like a dream come true. The dance showed the entire city that this can be done with no hostility; we need to put on more events like that. At the parade, the unity was just impossible; I couldn’t believe it. And Lea’s coming opened so many doors with her participating in the Friday press conference and the radio show that morning.” —Brad Caldwell, Merchandise Chair “During the Lea DeLaria performance, it really struck me how relaxed people were and how much they were enjoying themselves at an event that was so specifically gay and lesbian. Realizing how at-home those people were brought tears to my eyes. And at the rally, there were all the people sitting up the hill and standing back through the trees, and I remember thinking they stayed there, hot in the sun, and enjoyed the dances and singers and listened to the speakers and soaked in the feeling of community. At that moment, that was exactly where I belonged and what I should be doing; and it was terrific.” —Sue Henry, Co-chair “What’s most vivid for me was being at the front of the parade and seeing all those people behind us and seeing them across the way when we’d pass a cross street. That was awesome and, for me, very empowering. The weekend showed all of us that we can have a wonderful event in our state, that we can have moved to tears of joy events without all the worrying about harass ment, that we can be ourselves and show the general community that we are comfortable about ourselves and they are going to have to accept us. To be involved in this was the chance of a lifetime.” ^ Donna Hilbert, Pride Guide Chair “I’ll never forget how excited the steering committee was after midnight on Friday night. Things went so well that first day, we just wanted to stay there in the headquarters room talking about it together; it was hard to make ourselves leave to get some sleep. -Then on Saturday, I cried when the dancers performed at the Interfaith Service after that big black woman with the big voice did her a capella spiritual. And when the Scorpio float re turned to Marshall Park at the end of the parade, drawing gay men and lesbians to join in the dancing, it was just so joyous, so together.” —Don King, Media Liaison “Just before the parade started, as I was walking from the back to the front, I almost started sobbing because I was so overwhelmed with the number of people waiting to start the parade. There were all those signs for differ ent contingents and behind every one were masses of people.” —Dan Kirsch, Co-chair “The fun and frolic at the rally, the energy, the' number of people who were there; I hadn’t sat down and thought about how excit ing and how energetic the weekend would be. What really struck me was how the weekend was a true picture of North Carolina’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered.” —Jay Williams, Chair of Building Bridges
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