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Volume 10, Number 1
AIDS Benefit Set
for Health Project
The specter of AIDS seems to have taken
over, paralyzing many in the gay commun-
"—Ity. But why are we just trembling? We,
:he gay community, can rise above this; we
2an fight back.
This is just what the North Carolina
■esbian and Gay Health Project is doing.
'he Health Project is offering community
‘ducation programs which include a pre
sentation of known facts and theories and
.hen facilitated small group discussion
ibout the effect AIDS is having on our
ifestyle.
Their program will be presented at a
>GA meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 18, at 7:30pm
.n the Carolina Union. All interested
>eople are invited to attend.
The Health Project can direct people to
k.IDS screening clinics, and they plan to
'>et up a health care referral service and
I patient support service. This support
service will strive to see that the needs,
Jiedical and otherwise, of AIDS patients in
Jorth Carolina are met.
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' You can help too. The staff of 42nd
Street and the Dukes Levi-Leather Club are
^.sponsoring a benefit show at 42nd Street
^Dn Sunday, Oct. 2, beginning at 9pm, with
proceeds being donated to the Health Proj-
■~ect. The requested donation is $1 for
members of 42nd Street, and $3 for non
members. There will be a show, brief
speeches, and dancing.
Also, the Capitol Corral in Raleigh
will hold a tea dance the following Sun
day, Oct. 9, from 4-8pm, also to benefit
the Health Project. The door donation is
$3 for members and their guests.
If you miss these events, you can still
help the Health Project by sending a
generous, tax deductible donation to:
NC Lesbian & Gay Health Project
P.O. Box 11013
Durham, NC 27703.
Checks should be drawn to: Citizens
Research Group.
Be assertive — fight back!
October 1983
D’Emilio Lectures
at UNC-CH
John D'Emilio, author of Sexual
Politics, Sexual Communities, will speak
on Friday, Nov. 4, at 8pm in Room 224 of
the Carolina Union. The lecture, spon
sored by CGA, is entitled, "The Making of
a Homosexual Minority," and is open to the
public without charge.
In his book, D'Emilio attempts to find
the origins of the gay liberation movement
among the post-World War II generation.
He asserts that with the present genera
tion, homosexuality has become "less of a
strange, threatening phenomenon and more
like an integral part of the social
fabric." He tries to discern the impact
of pionerring gay organizations, such as
the Daughters of Bilitis and the
Mattachine Society, and to assess the
influence of WWII and the McCarthy era in
helping to create gay communities in
American cities. Before an event like the
Stonewall riot of 1969 becomes possible,
it is necessary for there to exist a foun
dation of political unrest and social
activism. It is with the building of this
foundation that Dr. D’Emilio is
concerned.
In this light, D'Emilio sees Stonewall
as the culmination of thirty years of a
gay activist spirit lying just below the
surface of a burgeoning subculture. By
1969, the Mattachine Society in New York
City had succeeded in ending raids on gay
bars. So the police attack on the Stone
wall Inn on the night of June 29, 1969,
was both a shock and a surprise. Demon
strations against all forms of oppression
and inequality had become everyday occurr
ences; protest and resistance had become
part of the psychology of the people. As
the birth of the modern gay liberation
movement in American, the Stonewall riot
was very much a part of the general spirit
of the times.
D'Emilio's book, subtitled "The Making
of a Homosexual Minority in the United
States, was favorably reviewed in the New
York Times Book Review (5-22-83):
"John D'Emilio provides homosexual politi
cal struggles with something that every
(see D'EMILIO, page 2)