Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, March 13, 1987 Page: 4 of 28
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Newsbriefs
Pride Week plans
subject of meeting
The Dallas Gay Alliance will host a
Town Hall meeting in the Gay Com-
munity Center on Saturday, March 14
at 11:00 a.m. to discuss plans for the
upcoming Gay Pride Week celebration
to be held in June.
“We want community members and
leaders to come and get involved in this
project,” stated Tony Anthony, DGA
vice-president. “Everybody has an idea
of what events they wart to make possi-
ble: this meeting will give us the oppor-
tunity to make it happen.
Gay Pride Week activities center on
the observance of the day that gays in
New York City rioted at the Stonewall
Inn eighteen years ago on June 27,1969.
Adult children of
alcoholics group set
A 12-week therapy group for adult
children of alcoholics begins Thursday,
March 19 under the direction of William
B. Appleman, A.C.S.W., L.P.C., former
director of the Oak Lawn Counseling
Center.
Appleman says this will be a struc-
tured group focusing on family of origin
issues with exercises to help persons get
Texas officials mull
providing condoms
Texas corrections officials confirm
they are considering a proposal to pro-
vide condoms to prisoners in an effort to
stem the spread of the HIV virus among
inmates.
Fourteen inmates in the state have
died from AIDS, at least five currently
suffer from the disease, and 32 others
have tested positive for antibodies to the
AIDS virus, say Department of Correc-
tions officials.
Officials say they are particularly
concerned that paroled prisoners may
spread the invariably fatal disease
among the general public. “As quick as
the turnover is in the prisons, I have a
hunch we’re releasing a lot of [HIV]
carriers into society,” said Charles Ter-
rell, chairman of the Texas Criminal
Justice Task Force, in an interview with
the Dallas Morning News.
TCJTF medical consultants have
recommended providing the prophylac-
tics, according to Terrell.
Vermont is the only state in the nation
to currently permit condoms in prisons,
although some other states are consider-
ing such a move.
Curran sues college
over his suspension
The Rev. Charles Curran is suing the
Catholic University of America in
Washington, D.C., over his suspension
from teaching in the theology depart-
ment.
Curran claims that school officials
violated his tenure rights when they
suspended him from teaching courses
last January.
The liberal priest ran afoul of church
officials for his writings on homosexual-
ity and other sexual issues.
Discussions on gays
forbidden in school
The California Board of Education
voted in Long Beach to reject a proposal
that would have allowed teachers to
discuss homosexuality, AIDS, and other
sex issues to students 9 and under.
The board approved a statement that
urges abstinence but allows communi-
ties to decide whether to instruct young
students about human reproduction.
Locations for the
young at heart
If ytou like your crowd younger, then
Washington, D.C., may be the place to
live. Dallas and Houston have their
share of younger people, too.
A recent study shows Washington to
be among the youngest and most
“swinging” urban area in the country.
Houston, however, leads the nation’s 10
larges cities with the number of young
adults (described as being between 18
and 44 years old).
Houston had 46.8 percent of its popu-
lation in that category, followed by
Washington at 46.4 percent and Dallas
at 44.6 percent
Nearly half, 49.2 percent, of Wash-
ington’s young adults are unmarried
with Dallas at 40.6 percent and Houston
at 40.3 percent.
Officials at the Greater Washington
Research Council compared datafrom
the 1980 census to conduct the study.
Music Foundation
announces officers
The Board of Directors of the Greater
Dallas Music Foundation (GDMF) an-
nounced new officers for 1987 this week.
Chosen were Kathy Hennig, presi-
dent; Rose Mary Williams, executive
vice-president; Arthur Davidson, vice-
president; Edward Tucker, secretary;
and Carol West, treasurer.
GDMF is an umbrella organization
comprised of the Oak Lawn Symphonic
Band, Dallas Women’s Chorus and
Friends. Dallas on Tap, and new addi-
tion, Majestic Interlude.
“The purpose of our Foundation is to
promote interest and education in
music, to provide a forum for the ex-
change of ideas and information, and to
provide community enrichment
through musical performance,” stated
GDMF president Kathy Hennig. “We
fulfill an important role for our audien-
ces, our supporters and our performing
groups in the greater Dallas area, the
state of Texas and the Southwest.”
Persons interested in any GDMF
member group or in supporting the
Foundation should call 429-8738 or
960-1927.
Pentecostal gays
to organize church
Gay men and women interested in
establishing a Pentecostal church
Organizers say they hope to establish
“a truly old-time Pentecostal worship
service.”
For more information, call 522-0927.
Anti-gay hate
mail sparks
controversy
Anti-gay hate mail at the University
of Chicago has sparked a debate be-
tween the school’s gay community and
college officials on the free-speech
rights of those behind the campaign.
“I and other people on this campus are
feeling haunted,” said Jonathan Katz, a
leader of the Lesbian and Gay Alliance.
The literature included calls for
quarantines and castration of gays.
Christmas cards were sent to students
believed to be gay that included a verse
wishing gay people were dead.
The gay community “is rightly indig-
nant and upset” about the incidents, said
university spokesman David Rosen.
“But expressing ideas that are coun-
ter to the university’s own policies, or
are repugnant to everyone on campus
except a handful of lunatics, is not
enough to prohibit the expression of
those ideas,” he said.
About 200 students and faculty mem-
bers signed an advertisement denounc-
ing the anti-gay activity that appeared
in the student newspaper.
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Vercher, Dennis. Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, March 13, 1987, newspaper, March 13, 1987; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth615862/m1/4/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.