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Date:         Sat, 11 Apr 1992 16:17:02 -0400
From:         gaynet@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Subject:      GayNet Digest Volume 5 Issue 273

In this issue:
                  More Details on Gay Studies Classes
                              I need info.
                             Looking for...
                        African-American Gay Lit
                                Get Out!

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Date:    Sat, 11 Apr 92 09:04 CDT
From: C60RBR1%NIU.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu
Subject: More Details on Gay Studies Classes

To All Gaynet Members:
     First, thanks to all of you who answered the recent request for
data on gay studies courses- we received several responses, but the
information was not quite complete. The academic affairs committee
( please, no puns ) has asked for more details, and, as the secretary
I get to pass them on to you. We need data on the following aspects
of gay-related courses, if any of you have some: a syllabus and
course outline, details of the curriculum ( a copy if available ),
the origins of the class ( student pressure, etc ), where the class
is housed, nature of the course ( interdisciplinary, etc.),how
often it is given,level offered ( graduate/undergrad ) ,the faculty,
administration and student response to it and what methods of
evaluation are being used/planned.I realize this is quite a pile
of questions, but we would like to be sure we're not missing an
opportunity to learn from other folks experiences-so we can make
our course fly the first time out! Reply to: C60rbr1@niu.edu or
call 815-753-1367 ( voice mail ).Thanks in advance.
                                             Rob Ridinger

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Date: Sat, 11 Apr 92 12:14:55 EST
From: Bill Stanford Pincheon-THE SHANGO PROJECT <PINCHEO@ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: RE: I need info.

James, I'm sending this across the net in case anyone wants this info.


In your packet on Gay men of Color, I'd suggest that you include materials
from the two prominent anthologies, "In the Life: A Black Gay Anthology"
and "Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men."  Both of these
contain poetry and fiction as well as varied essays on life and living.
See especially the introduction to both of these, they are very useful,
and perhaps you could include Joseph Beams eloquent, insightful essay,
"Brother to Brother: Words from the Heart."

The newsletters of Gay Men of African Decent provide some really good
material, also.  You can reach GMAD at (718) 802-0162, ask for Rod
McCoy, who's a friend of mine and who, I presume, is still the secretary
of the organization.  He's also very resourceful and would be happy to
send you a newsletter on GMAD or other groups for GBLs of Color.  Their
address is GMAD, P.O. Box 2519, New York, NY  10185-10013.

Assotto Saint independently (read: non-mainstream) edited and published
"The Road Before Us: 100 Black Gay Poets" which you can order, here is
the citation:

[_The Road Before Us:  100 Gay Black Poets_, edited by Assoto
Saint, Galiens Press, 1991.  $10 paperbk from Galiens Press, Box
4026, 524 W. 23rd Street, NYC,  NY 10011.  -- lc]


Additionally, there have been a number of articles on some of the
problems Black Gay men face in light of a synergistically harsh social
treatment directed by anti-gay and anti-black attitudes, you might want
to include a more rigorus social-science piece, as well.  One of the
best scholars writing from this vantage is Larry Icard, at the University
of Cincinatti.  See his article, "Black Gay Men and Conflicting Social
Identities: Sexual Orientation Versus Racial Identity" in /Social Work
Practice in Sexual Problems/, edited by James Gripton and Mary Valentich.

Other Countries, directed by Robert Reid-Pharr is a collective, (whose
address has already been posted) and Robert is a Ph.D. candidate currently
in residence at Swathmore.  Write me if you need his user-id.

You may include (this is getting long) something from Adrian Stanford's
/Black and Queer/, which is one of the earliest defiantly Gay and Black
volumes to appear. (1977, The Good Gay Poets: Boston).  This volume is
currently out of print, I believe, and if you ever see a copy at a used
book sale, grab it with your life!

Native Americans: /Living the Spirit: A Gay American Indian Anthology/
compiled by Gay American Indians, Will Roscoe Coordinating Editor. 1988,
St. Martin's Press.

Contact groups: American Indian Gays and Lesbians, P. O. Box 10229,
Minneapolis, MN  55458-3229.  Also, Gay American Indians, 1347 Divisadero
Street, #312, San Francisco, CA  94115.  GAI can be reached at (415)-
621-3485.

The newsletters of WEWAH/BARCHEEAMPE are invaluable, they are produced
by Gay and Lesbian Indigenous People, NY, and are titled "Buffalo Hide".
You can obtain their newsletter for one year for $5.00 by writing to

We Wah & Bar Chee Ampe
Buffalo Hide
Suite 141
Zeckendorf Towers
111 East 14th Street
New York, NY  10003

I have less material at hand on South Asians, Chicano/Chicana, Latin American
Pacific Islander, and other persons of Color--it would take me much longer
to dig up this material because it isn't yet entered in the database and
that work is coming along slowly.  I am working on my dissertation and
trying to finish up, so I can't devote as much time to entering citations
into the database as I'd like.

For gaynetters, please help me to build this database by clipping material
on GLBs of Color and sending it to me at the Shango Project.  I especially
need more info. on contacts of other organizations of GLBs of Color as well
as info. on newsletters, articles, events, etc.

Thanx, and hope this helps,

Bill Pincheon
The Shango Project
National Archives for Black Lesbians and Gay Men
P.O. Box 2341
Bloomington, IN  47402-2341
(812) 334-8860

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Date: Sat, 11 Apr 92 14:11 EDT
From: LAPACHECO@vaxsar.vassar.edu
Subject: Looking for...

About a week ago, a person named John Vore from Notre Dame posted to me
privately wanting to talk about being gay and Republican.  I tried replying
to his message, but my computer told me that his e-mail address was an
"illegal host/domain address."

John, if you're out there, I would like to talk.  Us recovering Republicans
need each other for support (tee hee).  E-mail me if you still wish to
correspond.

Lawrence
lapacheco@vaxsar.vassar.edu

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From: hoffmanf@einstein.susqu.edu
>To: gaynet@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
>From: hoffmanf
Date: Sat Apr 11 14:27:55 EDT 1992
Subject: African-American Gay Lit
Ua-Message-Id: <PMXSTAR-2.2.1a-hoffmanf-000000real-278>

To the person seeking gay-oriented poetry by African-Americans.  You didn't
say whether you wanted published or unpublished material.  If published
material will serve your purposes, try the anthologies entitled IN THE LIFE
and BROTHER TO BROTHER.
                                                 \
                                --Frank Hoffman  /\
                                                /  \

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Date: Sat, 11 Apr 92 13:32:09 -0500
From: Chris Rosebrook <cjrose@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu>
Subject: Get Out!


Grabbed without permission from April  6, 1992, Monday,
FINAL EDITION USA TODAY

SECTION: LIFE; Pg. 1D
HEADLINE: Musicians team for  gay  rights
BYLINE: Edna Gundersen
KEYWORD: GET OUT: GAY  RIGHTS
BODY:
    Lou Reed, David Byrne, k.d. lang and Debbie Harry sing for  gay  rights on
Get Out, a pop CD available only with a new  gay/ lesbian magazine.
   Sire Records and Out are offering the 17-song CD free to callers who sign up
for an $ 11.95, three-issue subscription to the general-interest  gay
quarterly, launching in June.
   Sire got thumbs-up from all 25 artists it approached. The 17 slots went to
those who replied quickest, including Morrissey and the Tom Tom Club.
   ''It's time for more of us to use our visibility to transmit positive
messages to  gay  men and lesbians,'' says Book of Love's Ted Ottaviano. ''For
so long,  gay  people have been a community under siege.''
   Though long active in social causes, the music industry was slow to respond
to the AIDS crisis. Get Out, along with a recent spate of benefit records and
concerts, takes another step toward dispelling rock's homophobic reputation.
   Says Sire's Howard Klein, ''added to the mosaic of efforts the industry is
making, this CD can only help.''
   Starting April 15, fans can order Out and the promotional CD by calling
800-876-1199.

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