Pride Month Activities

TGIF Party is a fundraiser for the March

One of the best monthly parties in Columbus is the TGIF party held the first Friday at Wall Street, 144 North Wall Street. If you haven't been, be sure to be there on Friday, June 5th, when 100% of the door will be donated to Stonewall Union

to help pay expenses for the Gay/Lesbian Pride March. Wall Street does it up right,

with free food, good oldies music, and an atmosphere that makes it easy to meet new

people. You'll also get a chance to meet with some of the Board and staff of

Stonewall Union. For a fun night, and to help a worthy cause, be sure to stop by Wall Street June 5th for their TGIF benefit party!

Vulcans help tie up loose financial ends for Stonewall

Friday, June 5 is Vulcan Bar Night at the Eagle in Exile, 893 North Fourth Street. A $1.00 cover charge will be collected at the door between the hours of 9 PM and 2:30 AM. Proceeds will be forwarded to Stonewall Union to help cover costs of the Lesbian/Gay Freedom March and Gayfest. A leather/Levi dress code is enforced at the Exile on Friday and Saturday nights. The Exile provides play space for safe, sane, and consensual S/M and bondage scenes. Interested parties can call the Exile's info line at 299-5555 for details about the bar.

Gay Men's Chorus presents Spring Concert

The Columbus Gay Men's Chorus will present its spring concert, "There's a Time for Us," on Friday and Saturday, June 19th and 20th. The concert, which will take place at 7:30 PM at Weigel Hall on the OSU campus, will include a performance by Vox Alterna, a smaller vocal group formerly known as the Ensemble. Tickets for the concert are $10. For information about the concert, call

265-7447.

The ASL-interpreted show will feature works by Gay composers, including

"Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Bernard" by Benjamin Britten, "Last Words of David," by Randall Thompson, a Cole Porter medley, and a medley from Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story.

The Chorus will also perform this month at the Columbus Arts Festival. Look for them at the Bicentennial Park stage at 2 PM Saturday, June 13th. Their

is a $5 fee for the workshop; you must pre-register for this workshop, which will be held at the Stonewall Community Center, 47 West Fifth Avenue.

To register, or get more information, contact Brad Lutz at the Task Force office at 488-2437.

Locally filmed documentary on Female Illusionists premieres

Queens of Columbus, a locally filmed 30-minute documentary, will have its first public showing June 12th at ACME Art Co., 737 North High Street Performances by female illusionists will accompany the film, which is being shown as a benefit for AIDS Service Connection. Beer and nono-alcoholic beverages will be sold.

The video, subtitled Performance and the Art of Illusion, was filmed and edited in Columbus over the past year by Tom Baumann, Andy Gardner, and Molly Merryman. It focuses on interviews with local illusionists, including Tracy Allen, Yvonne Allen, Cher Andrea, Jennifer Hart and Chesha Rea' Katz, and includes footage from Stonewall Union's Gay Pride Parade and the Bat 'n' Rouge softball game.

Cher Andrea, the show director, says this is an event that shouldn't be missed. "We are going all out for this. The showing will be pure glamour, with limousines, bright lights and elegant gowns. This video is better quality than what you see on PBS-it was shot like film. This will be the most exciting event of the summer," Andrea said.

The show is $4 per person if reserved in advance, or $5 at the door. PWAs are invited to attend free. Make your reservations by calling 299-4003 before June 12th.

"SM 101:" a beginner's guide to leather

The Columbus Chapter of the National Leather Asosciation will present a workshop, "SM 101," on Friday, June 26th, at the Stonewall Community Center,

47 West Fifth Avenue. The workshop will begin at 7:30 PM, and is free.

Leather and SM are frequently debated and frequently misunderstood topics within the Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual communities. Organizers hope that this workshop will help others better understand what leather and SM are all about.

performance will be ASL-interpreted. The Chorus will have a booth at the Festival, W.O.W. offers assortment of classes in June

which runs from June 5th to the 14th.

Reality revives "Boys in the Band"

As part of Gay/Lesbian Pride Month, The Reality Theatre will present a revival of The Boys in the Band, the Broadway play (later a movie) that announced the Gay movement to theater-goers. While the play will seem dated to some, it's still relevent, and its snapshot photo of where our community was twenty-five years ago makes it all the more valuable to us today. Dee Shephard, artistic director at Reality, told The Dispatch, “Some of the issues it brings up are still pertinent: selfacceptance, discrimination, living and loving despite social taboos."

Boys also marks Reality's move (during the summer months only) to a new airconditioned location, Drake Union's Stadium II Theatre on the OSU campus. Those who have attended Reality's summer performances before will appreciate the move. Boys plays June 18th-20th and 25th-27th. Showtime is 7:30 PM opening night, 8 PM other nights. For more information, call Reality at 294-7541.

Reality's 1992-93 season includes several Gay/Lesbian-themed shows, including Drag Queens in Outer Space, The Best of Tribes, Body and Soul, Larry Kramer's Just Say No, and Coming Soon, described as "a Sapphic Sudsaga."

Task Force offers sex workshop for men

The Columbus AIDS Task Force will offer "Men Meeting Men, a four-hour safer-sex workshop. It will be held Sunday, June 14th, from 1:30 to 4:30 PM. There

Women's Outreach for Women is offering a series of classes on assorted topics for women. On June 13th, Patty Daniels will lead a workshop entitled "Relapse Prevention Co-Dependency," from 12:30-2:30 PM. Mary Lee Stocks will discuss "Relapse Prevention-PMS" on June 18th from at 7-8 PM. And on June 27th, the workshop will be led by Margo Ellis, who will talk about "Lesbian Partners of Incest Survivors" from 10:30 AM to noon.

Women's Outreach for Women is located at 1950-H North High Street. For information about these workshops, call 291-3639.

Hyke for Health for Lesbian Health Fund

The Columbus Lesbian Health Fund will hold a benefit walk-a-thon for Lesbians who are terminally ill on Sunday, June 14th. Registration will be held at Carpe Diem (rear entrance), 3387 North High Street, from 10-11 AM. The site is wheelchair-accessible site, and ASL interpretation will be available. Free childcare will be available, as well as transportation for those who pre-arrange. Those wishing to walk are asked to bring pledge forms or pledge money with them. To help, or to get pledge forms, call 481-7656, or write PO Box 12121, Columbus OH, 43212.

Wexner Center presents film about Brian Epstein

Beatle John Lennon spent a four-day holiday in 1963 in Barcelona with agent Brian Epstein. The Hours and Times fictinalizes this weekend getaway into a what

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