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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Holy Union Announcement
The parents of James A. Starkweather and Eddie L.
Triplett are astonished to announce that their sons are
in love and will celebrate this love in Holy Union on May
13,1995 @ 2:00 PM. Metropolitan Community Church
of Charlotte Pastor V. Randy Votsch
BUY/SELL
It’s Playtime
Now in the Charlotte area, Adult Products & Entertain
ment in the privacy of your own home. FREE GIFT
WITH EVERY ORDER. Send $3 for catalog to:
PLAYTIME, PO Box 410652, Dept. Q, Charlotte, NC
28241. Must be 18. 695
EMPLOYMENT
Applications now being accepted by Classic Image Hair
Salon. Salary—commission or booth rental. Call Rose
for interview at (704) 375-6234. 495
Administrative Director
for small non-profit social service agency serving gay,
lesbian, bisexual and transgendered youth. Respon
sible for administration of agency, reports to board of
directors, co-equal responsibility with program director.
Must have excellent interpersonal skills, be highly mo
tivated and organized, and computer literate (software
includes Windows, Microsoft Access, WordPerfect 5.2,
and Ami PRO). Non-profit management preferred but
not essential. 30 hours per week, 50 weeks per year.
Health benefits. Position available immediately. Send
letter and resume with salary requirements to: Search
Committee, Time Out Youth, 4037 E. Independence
Blvd., Ste Q33, Charlotte, NC 28205. No phone calls.
495
Sales Opportunity $45,000 First Year
Enthusiastic professional with discipline and self moti
vation needed for sales position with fast growing
publishing and typesetting company. Must be customer
oriented and have good follow-through. Part time or full
time. Newspaper or magazine experience helpful but
not required. Positions open ail over North & South
Carolina. An equal opportunity employer. (We do not
discriminate against non-gay people). Please mail re
sume and cover letter to Pride Publishing & Typeset
ting, Inc., PO Box 221841, Charlotte, NC 28222,
MCC Charlotte is looking for a musician for their Afri
can-American Gospel Choir. Pay negotiable. Call
Paris at (704) 567-1596. 495
MEMORIALS
Charles Alfred Cole, Jr.
AKA David Cole and Erica Taylor Cole. David Cole, 26,
of Charlotte, died peacefully at home after a very
courageous battle with AIDS on March 24,1995. He
was very active in the gay community and also a
performer at Oleens lounge. He was a very strong
individual who truly held his dignity until the end. He is
survived by his former lover and devoted caregiver Phil
Upton who with God’s strength and help, helped him
until the very end, along with his family and many
friends including long time friends Kasey King and
Ashley Jordan. A celebration of his life will be held
Sunday, April 2 at Oleens lounge beginning at 4:30 pm
for anyone with some good memories to share, fol
lowed by a covered dish dinner in his honor. Donations
for his caregivers will be accepted at this time. Every
one please come and feel free to bring items for the
dinner.
ROOMMATES
GWM 33. seeks same (20-35) to seek & share apt by
May 1. Prefer no pets, neat, mature. Call (704) 372-
0024 495
SERVICES
You may have the perfect concept, but without the
perfect words, it can fall flat. So anytime you need some
fresh input, call Word Work Studio. From creative
writing and editing to brainstorming and design con
cepts, Word Work Studio offers services that work for
you. Jonathan at Word Work Studios, (704) 563-1199.
495
Your Own 900# Free
$15,000 monthly earnings possible. Manager - Brokers
wanted. No capital investment, fees, minimums or set
up cost. Free information 800 208-2071 (24 Hrs) 595
All American body rub. Two hands or four hands. Call
Jeff Lewis or Todd Bess any time for rates at (704) 347-
4503 or mobile 351 -5037. 495
Massage
Full body massage by appt. one hr. $40. Call Doug at
1 800 425-3327 595
Enjoy Sensual Pleasure
Let your tired, tense body melt under my strong hands.
Professional massage in a quiet, tranquil setting with
warm oil, scented candles and music will relax and
revitalize you. Phone for appointment: (704)559-5992
(Voice Mail). 495
Body Massage
Professional Therapeutic, Swedish & Deep Tissue
massage. One hour session. Discount available to
body builders & others requiring weekly massage.
Treat yourselfl Call Greg at (910) 294-2146. 595
Man-to-man massage. Relaxation. Satisfaction. Treat
yoursetf. (704) 536-4526. 495
by David Prybylo
Q-Notes Staff
Task Force denounces Fulton
County Olympic proposal
ATLANTA—Fulton County Commis
sion Chairman Mitch Skandalalds has his
way, no Olympic athletes who test positive
for HFV will be allowed to compete in the
1996 Olympics in Atlanta. The National Gay
and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) denounced
Skandalakis’ proposal which would codify
discrimination against people with HIV and
AIDS living in Fulton County calling it “de-
moralizirig and unconscionable.”
NGLTF released letters to Chairman
Skandalakis asking that he abandon his pro
posal. The Task Force also called on Georgia
Governor Zell Miller, Rep. John Lewis (D-
GA-5), Sen. Paul Coverdell (R-GA), and Sen.
Sam Nunn (D-GA) to take a public stand
against the proposal.
Skandalakis, responding to the announce
ment that Olympic medalist Greg Louganis
knew he was HIV positive when he competed
in the 1988 Olympics, called for county law
yers to investigate whether the local govern
ment could bar HFV+ amateur athletes from
competing in the Olympic Games or other
sports events in Fulton (Ilounty.
“This proposal is demoralizing and uncon
scionable,” said Task Force spokesperson Beth
Barrett. “Not only must people with HIV and
AIDS cope with the ravages of the disease,
they must face discrimination and violence
from those who misunderstand their condi
tion. If passed, this proposal would codify
AIDS-phobia. [It] would send a clear mes
sage that the Fulton County Commission sup
ports the denial of basic human rights.”
The International Olympic Committee
(IOC) has said they will not conduct HIV
testing for athletes competing in the 1996
Olympics. The IOC medical commission
found that the risk of transmitting the virus
during athletic competition is extremely low.
“Given the position of the IOC and the
findings of its medical commission, it is clear
that this proposal is nothing but a thinly veiled
attack on people living with this honible
epidemic,” said Barrett. “Skandalakis should
be ashamed.”
SD marriage ban fails
PIERRE,SD—In a victory that South Da
kota gay and lesbian activists are calling “mi
raculous” and “history-making,” a bill that
would have banned same-sex marriages has
been defeated in the state legislature.
State Senate sponsors of House Bill 1184,
the ban on same-sex marriages, failed to se
cure enough votes to bring the measure up for
a full floor vote. Seventeen senators voted to
bring the bill forward, 13 voted against, and 5
did not vote. Sponsors of the bill needed at
least 18 votes for a floor vote.
This marks the defeat of the first attempt to
ban gay marriage as a preemptive strike against
a pending Hawaii Supreme Court ruling on
that state’s same-sex marriage issue. Spon
sors of the South Dakota measure, which
would have also banned recognition of same-
sex marriages performed in other states, indi
cated their concern about the Hawaii case as
justification for the local measure.
“Against all odds the gay, lesbian and
bisexual community of South Dakota — and
its newfound allies — managed not only to
defeat the measure and triumph in crisis, but
in the process build the beginnings of a state
wide gay movement,” said Robert Bray, Na
tional Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF)
Fight the Right organizer.
Activists said that one deciding factor in
the bill’s defeat may have been lawmakers’
concern of a tourism and business boycott of
the state should the bill pass. South Dakota’s
Mount Rushmore and Black Hills area draw
tens of thousands of tourists annually. Lob
byists were rush-faxed complete background
information on the Colorado boycott, which
was launched following that state’s passage
of Amendment 2 in 1992.
“This bill is dead,” said a jubilant Barry
Wick, director of the newly formed South
Dakota Gay, Lesbian & Bisexual Federation
(SDGLBF). “Now we can stop putting out
fires and start building a real movement. This
victory is testimony to the perseverance of
our community and the will of supportive
lawmakers who believe in the spirit of our
state’s motto, ‘The Land of Infinite Variety.’”
Group seeks to keep Olympics
out of Utah
SALT LAKE CITY—Gay and Lesbian
Utah Democrats (GLUD) leaders announced
March 2 their creation of an “Olympics Out of
Utah” project which will encourage the Inter
national Olympic Committee (IOC) to choose
a 2002 Winter Olympics host other than Utah
which is one of four competing international
locations. The project is the group’s response
to the passage of the state’s House Bill 366,
“Recognition of Marriages,” which would
ban recognition of same-sex marriages that
are performed outside the state.
“The International Olympic Committee
and would-be Olympics participants must be
warned that this state is unprepared to offer
equal protection to legally married same-sex
couples including those who would choose to
attend the Games,” GLUD Founder David
Nelson said. “The Olympics deserve to be
hosted by a venue which recognizes and pro
tects the diversity of the world’s athletes and
citizens. The passage of this bill is stark proof
that this state is unprepared to do that.”
Nelson pointed to the 1996 Atlanta Sum
mer Olympics where the adoption last year by
Cobb County, GA commissioners of a con
troversial homophobic resolution prompted
Olympics organizers to move the volleyball
competition from that county in response to a
similar request from gay Georgians.
GLUD leaders also asked Utah Gov.
Michael O. Leavitt to veto the bill, and state
Attorney General Jan Graham to review the
constitutionality of the bill because it was
passed one minute after the midnight legisla
tive deadline.
Rights movement forms in SD
WASHINGTON, DC—Its motto is “The
Land of Infinite Variety,” a slogan that’s
being tested these days as gays, lesbians and
bisexuals come out and come forward in the
state of South Dakota to challenge prejudice
and discrimination.
For the first time in the history of the state,
gays and their allies testified openly before
the state Senate and spoke about the discrimi
nation gays and lesbians face in South Da
kota. The testimony occurred at a hearing on
House Bill 1184, which would ban gay and
lesbian marriages in South Dakota or the
recognition of same-sex marriages that oc
curred in other states. The bill was defeated.
As an unanticipated side-effect of the bill’s
proposal. South Dakota Gay, Lesbian and
Bisexual Federation (SDGLBF) was formed
to battle the bill and build a movement in the
state. Besides working against the marriage
measure, the fledgling SDGLBF aims to or
ganize the gay community — virtually from
scratch — and create a safe environment in
which gay, lesbian and bisexual South Dako
tans can come out.
South Dakota has less than 700,000 citi
zens and ranks 45th in terms of state popula
tions. SDGLBF is the first attempt at organiz
ing the state’s gay community.
Barry Wick, founder of SDGLBF and its
ad hoc director, was one of the activists who
testified at the recent Senate hearings in Pierre,
the state capital.
“House Bill 1184 is a dangerous path filled
with great emotional, social and economic
booby traps that this state must avoid,” said
Wick at the hearing. “This bill will negate,
nullify and ridicule loving unions between
consenting adults...and will fuel harassment
and potential violence against a class of South
Dakotans. Like all good citizens who wish to
change government legally, we have banded
together to form [an] organization dedicated
to education and advocacy for South Dakota’s
gay, lesbian and bisexual community.”
Wick is the great-grandson of former South
Dakota Governor Clarl Gunderson. A picture
of Gunderson hangs in the halls of the Capitol.
At the Senate hearings, Wick displayed an old
black and white photograph of the painting’s
unveiling. There in the photo, next to then-
Govemor Joe Foss and family members, is
Wick as a child witnessing the ceremony.
“Out of this crisis has come a fire and
passion for equality among the gay citizens of
South Dakota, possibly one of the final fron
tiers of gay movement organizing,” said Na
tional Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLT^
Fight the Right organizer Robert Bray. “Win
or lose on individual battles, we are being
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