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One Voice offers community
remembrance concert
CHARLOTTE—^Due to the wann response
and healing felt as a result of last year’s
Remembrance concert, One Voice
(Charlotte’s gay, lesbian and gay-affirmative
chorus) will perform “Circle of Life: A Con
cert of Remembrance” on March 12, 1995,
7:00 pm at Myers Park Baptist Church, 1900
Queens Road.
Two new choral pieces will be presented
this year. The first piece, Are You Out There ?,
was composed by J. Breat Roland, a local
performance artist, and arranged for chorus
and orchestra by John C. Quillin, co-conduc
tor of One Voice. Reflecting a very personal
experience of loss. Are You Out There? is a
beautiful and touching piece written in re
sponse to the 1988 death of David Westerfeld
due to complications resulting from AIDS.
The second piece has the working title
Stories of Gifts. Based on a Hebrew text
expressing thanksgiving at being brought to a
particular place and occasion. Stories of Gifts
will replace the usual litany of names so
frequently heard at memorial services.
“Stories of Gifts will be an opportunity for
people to express a particular gift or story of
someone they have loved who has passed
away,” Quillin said. “Through this expres
sion of thanksgiving I hope to encourage
people to move beyond where they might be
now in their mourning and to remember joy
and beauty instead of pain.”
Another selection on the program is Patch-
work Quilt. First recorded by Sweet Honey in
the Rock, this is a soulful tribute to those who
have died of AIDS.
Among other pieces on the program are
selections from the Durufle Requiem and
Circle of Life the concert theme, which ex
presses continuance of life and hope in the
face of adversity.
Qne Voice offers this concert as a gift to
the community of Charlotte. Admission is
fi"ee; however, donations will be accepted,
and any profits over the cost of production
will be shared with various community ser
vice agencies.
For more Information, call John Quillin or
Kathryn Mahan at (704) 371-3303.
LGHP launches two new programs
DURHAM—^The NC Lesbian and Gay
Health Project (LGHP) has announced the
formation of two programs to assist in the
coming out process. Their “Coming Out
Mentor Program” will provide a trained sup
port person, or mentor, for people struggling
with coming out of the closet. Their “Coming
Out Support and Education Group” will focus
on gay men over 30.
The “Coming Out Mentor Program” will
be headed by volunteer coordinator Dr. Elliot
Pack. “It was so important for me to have a
gay friend to help answer questions and just to
be there. We all need someone to help us
through those agonizing days of indecision
and fear. Mentors have been there and under
stand the benefit of having someone to talk
honestly with and spend time with in the gay
community — to learn about the positive
diversity of gay life.”
LGHP’s staff program coordinator Lucy
Harris, who is overseeing the program, be
lieves, “Too many people come out alone
because they think there is no one to turn to,
and sadly, some of them make self-destruc-
tive decisions. With the help and guidance of
a mentor, people can make better choices and
avoid some of the anguish and the ‘pitfalls,’
including unsafe sexual practices, poor fam
ily interaction, job crises, substance abuse
and so forth.”
The Mentor program is a confidential and
individual source of support for people want
ing to come out in a positive and healthy way.
Dr. John Monroe of Iimervisions Counsel
ing Center will coordinate the “Coming Out
Support and Education Group.” This group
will provide men who want to come out a
confidential, informative and non-threaten
ing forum in which to openly discuss their
questions, answers, hopes and fears. In con
junction with the group, LGHP will assign a
volunteer from their “Coming Out Mentor
Program” to assist each group member with
his coming out process.
Each of the ten weekly sessions will pro
vide members time to discuss the many issues
raised by the coming out process. Along with
practical insights. Dr. Monroe, his guest speak
ers and group members will look at the phases
of coming out, historical perspectives, gay
culture, local and national resources and or
ganizations, internal homophobia, the bio
logic basis of sexual orientation, safe sex
concerns, and the development of the skills
needed to form and maintain positive rela
tionships.
Dr. Monroe’s goal is to make the group not
just a supportive environment but also some
thing “like the course that should have been
offered at school: ‘Coming Out 101.’ We
want to give the group useful, real informa
tion about how to come out and how valuable
it is for each individual’s growth.”
For more information on either program,
contact LGHP, PC Box 3203, Durham, NC
27715; (919) 286-4107.
New Triangle AIDS house ready to open
by David Jones '
Q-Notes Staff
CARRBORO, NC—Orange County has a
home for people with HIV who have no place
else to live, located in the town of Canboro,
adjacent to Chapel Hill. The completion of
the residence comes after five years of work,
being rejected by another neighborhood, op
angle built specifically as a group home with
full handicapped accessibility and facilities
(the Blevins House in Durham and Hustead
House in Raleigh were single-family resi
dences before becoming group homes). Built
to model specifications for a group home,
some of the unique facilities include a spe-
. . cialty shower and bathing facilities, a medi-
position from some residents in Carrboro, and cine room and laundry facility. All residents’
a lengthy series of questions from the Town of rooms are located on one wing, adjacent to the
Carrboro that had to be addressed. Plans are personal care areas. The dining, living room
to accept residents after February 15,1995. and den areas are accessible through doors at
The AIDS Service Agency of Orange each end of the residential wing. A large
County (ASAOC), sponsor of the home, held dining room and kitchen sits in the center, rear
an open house for neighbors and supporters of the house, separating the residential wing
on Sunday, January 22,1995. According to firom a caregivers’ room and office. There is
Deb Young, ASAOC’s executive director, a large patio off the dining area,
about 100 people came through during the The rooms include hospital beds and re-
“I was dining chairs that allow guests to sleep, xhe
rest of the house is furnished with normal
residential furnishings except the dining room
table which was custom-made for group-home
settings. It can be arranged in a variety of
uiviuaui,ua5uianK.cisaiiuuiii&niw*i*o. .luiunj.- configurations dependmg on the number of
mous donations have also been left at the door people dining and special needs that some
of the house. Lists of things still needed in may have.
each room were posted for visitors to see The new Orange County home received
during the open house. $302,000 in federal Housing and Urban De-
Two local health care institutions have velopment (HUD) money. HUD will also
already provided substantial contributions of provide some $19,000 in operating cash, with
specialty furniture, Carol Woods retirement the remaining $200,00 annual operating bud-
community and Durham Regional Hospital, get coming from private donations, grants
Local art dealer Joe Rowand donated 22 works and state reimbursement for a portion of resi-
of art from his own collection and artists he dents’ daily costs. The cost of caring for
represents. residents is estimated at $90.00 per day com-
The one-story, brick, ranch-style, six bed- pared to $1,000 per day and up at nearby
room house stmeture is the first in the Tri- hospitals.
three hours the house was open. .
particularly happy to see a lot of our neigh
bors come by,” she told Q-Notes, “since we
had some problems around here at first.”
Many brought donations of supplies with
them such as blankets and other items. Anony