Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site bbncca.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!cbosgd!ihnp4!bbncca!sdyer From: sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer) Newsgroups: mod.motss Subject: Re: Required readings Message-ID: <1025@bbncca.ARPA> Date: Sun, 14-Oct-84 16:43:32 EDT Article-I.D.: bbncca.1025 Posted: Sun Oct 14 16:43:32 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 15-Oct-84 02:02:38 EDT References: <1020@bbncca.ARPA> Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 38 Approved: sdyer@bbncca.ARPA Not be forgotten is "Gay Community News", a Boston-based weekly newspaper which provides national coverage of lesbian and gay events and news stories. It is, probably somewhat predictably, editorially left of center on many issues, but without compromise in its coverage of important topics. This week's issue, Oct 13, contains articles on the sentencing of the three Bangor ME youths convicted of manslaughter in the death of a gay man, the upcoming Supreme Court test of the Oklahoma "Helms Law", the Massachusetts Supreme Court's hearing of the case of the Christian Science Monitor versus a lesbian reporter who was fired when her sexual preference was revealed. Nor does the paper deal only in hard news: this week's cover story is an interview with a lesbian, latin painter whose acrylics of female nudes have been attracting favorable critical attention. Accompanying it, on the cover, is a priceless quote from the Boston Globe's review of her work: "The originality award went to Ana Leon's 'Ageless Secrets,' a quartet of huge acrylic rectangles filled with gaint, hazy curves -- blown-up segments of a women's body, fitting together voluptously. The two breasts face each other in profile and pose a visual dilemma: unless this is some kind of Cubist distortion, they can't belong to the same body, yet they seem too close together to belong to different women." (I know that had nothing to do with GCN the newspaper, but I couldn't resist!) A subscription is $29/year, mailed in a discreet brown envelope for those with postmen with "Enquiring Minds." GCN is published by a non-profit organization, and contributions over the subscription amount are always welcome. Its address is: GCN / 167 Tremont St., 5th floor / Boston MA 02111 I have no official connection with GCN, other than being a subscriber, and most recently, volunteering my time as an advisor on computers. -- /Steve Dyer {decvax,linus,ima,ihnp4}!bbncca!sdyer sdyer@bbncca.ARPA