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c L O s E R COMMUNITY LIAISON ORGANIZATION FOR SUPPORT, EDUCA TION AND REFORM fisheville, NC January, L The Holiday Season is upion us, a time for sharing with t anil ly and loved ones. Many of us will be able to share tins season with non—gay and gay family, together in peaceful harmony. But for others of us in the gay community, the holiday season is a stressful time, a time when we feel pulled in different directions! lovers vs. families. Some will spend it with our parents and married brothers ana sisters, leaving lovers behind. We’11 watch longingly as love is OKpressed openly between legally-married spouses- Others of us will spend the holidays with our lovers, rather than joining our families of birth, because we do not feel welcomed and accepted by family. Yet others currently have no lover, but are alienated from family. Loneliness that is due to the absence of other people i.s painful, and loneliness due to alienation from others is even more painful, but neither is so painful as the loneliness of alleviation from self, find this is at the core of the kind of loneliness felt by many lesbians and gay men, especially at the holiday season. If we are living a life that in some way denies who we are, our denial may be more difficult at this season, when tlie various non—matching parts of our lives come together and clash. For example, if I take my lover home to unenlightened parents and interact with her or him as a "good friend", how does that make both of us feel inside? I have reinforced everyone’s homophobia, including my own, and part of me nates myself for doing that to rne, and to us. I am painfully aware that I have been untrue to myself. This year, let’s love, a'nd self-respect. give ourselves the best present— self— Let’s care about ourselves enough to oe true to ourselves. What a present that wouia be! MOVES Jim and George’ new address 111 Cumberlana, dpt. 1, Rshevilie, NC, £8601. Bill Rllen has moved to Montreat. His new address is P.O.Box 1£4, Montreat, NC, £8757. His street address js 303 Chapman Road, next door td Dan and Joan and Joan’s mother, Carolyn. His phone number is 689—9756. ftnita’s new address Her phone number is: is 36 Lookout £5£-S344. Drive, Asheville, NC, ;8ao4. PLEASE NOTE The CLOSER directory will be updated in February to include members who joined after the October issue was printed, and to make corrections. Additions and corrections deadline: Jan. 31-
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