The new executive director of the Pittsburgh AIDS Task Force has returned to his roots 10 years after serving on the board of directors in the early days of the organization. “That was back when there were no paid staff ...
Anthony “Tony” Silvestre joined the staff of the Pitt Men’s Study in March as the director of community programs. Silvestre comes to Pittsburgh with a wide and varied background: he served as the executive director of Eromin Center in Philadelphia ...
After months of anticipation, Pegasus opened on June 20 to a SRO crowd, followed by the Miss Pittsburgh Pegasus on June 21… both got rave reviews… after being closed the following Tuesday for what was rumored to be a water ...
A new coalition, the National Gay Mobilizing Committee l or A March On Washington, is beginning to grow in some centers of the eastern and midwestern United States. The NGMC is made up of gay people dedicated to the mobilization ...
Chuck Myers and I were the guests on the July 2 WAMO radio program, “Community lceling, Community Talk”, a phone-in talk show. The interviewer, Ruth McClain, was an intelligent, friendly and very open, honest woman who made the show a ...
On Sunday evening, July 8. on the lawn of Carnegie Library in Oakland, a him entitled “The 1 lower Thief” was shown as part of the History of film series. The movie was made in 1961, directed by Ron Rice, ...
The following listing Is a brief day-by-day rundown of scheduled happenings in the gay community. Listings are subject to change, correction or cancellation without notice. Many of the events are described elsewhere in detail in this issue. EVERY SUNDAY—Gay Worship ...
This is the fourth issue of The Gay News. Circulation is continually being expanded in the hopes that it can become a regular source of communication within the gay community locally. Your contribution is solicited for the next and all ...
The various functions GAP sponsors are detailed elsewhere in this issue. These functions are carried on by volunteers concerned with getting the gay community together in every way. If you have some spare time and would like to put it ...
NOTE: The following is a reply to an article by Lawrence Lee in the Sunday, July 1 issue of the Pittsburgh Press editorial section. A similar letter has been sent to the Press as a “letter to the editor”., but ...
A 3-credit course (Women Studies 100) will be offered at the University of Pittsburgh this fall entitled: “Gay Liberation, Marcusean Analysis and the Conspiracy Against Bi Sexuality/Human-Sexuality: A Study In Social Movements.’’ The Women Studies Program at Pitt (one of ...
Gay Alternatives Pittsburgh meets every other Sunday in the First Unitarian Church, Ellsworth at Moeewood in Shadyside. Although much of GAP’s work is accomplished during the week at smaller, less formal open committee meetings, the Sunday meeting provides a forum ...
If it feels good, do it; so some of us masturbate, and some of us have joined the Interstate Gay Pride Marcher set. Marching is mental masturbation. You let off steam, you hold your lover, you feel good. The Feel-Good ...
In its continuing effort to provide social alternatives for gay people and friends, GAP will sponsor a dance at the First Unitarian Church, Ellsworth and Morewood Avenues in Shadyside on Saturday, July 21. GAP now has use of an excellent ...
In the last issue of The Gay News we reported that the location of the Gay Pride Week Lesbian/Feminist Night was a private club. Just for the record, the manager (Shawn) informs us that the 1209 Bar, 1209 Fifth Avenue, ...
GAP has made arrangements with the County Parks Dept, to hold an End-Of-Summer Picnic at South Park for the tri-state area gay community. It will be held on Sunday, September 2 (the day before Labor Day) at the Braddock Grove ...
Persad Center is sponsoring a Consciousness Raising Group for gay men each Monday evening at 9:30. The group meets at Persad and is open to all interested gay men. At the first meeting, the members of the C-R group established ...
Since Sunday, June 24 the beginnings of a gay church has existed in the Pittsburgh area. The Universal Life Church of Celebration has been holding a gay worship service at 10:00 am Sunday mornings on Flagstaff Hill, Schenley Park. The ...
The tragic fire at a gay bar in New Orleans, La. on Sunday, June 24 has demonstrated the emerging consciousness of a NATIONAL gay “community”. Within hours after the first alarm in the fire that claimed at least 22 of ...
Advertising is now being solicited for our next issue. Circulation for this issue was slightly over 4,000 … distributed at several dozen key locations in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia that cater to a gay clientele. Additionally, many copies were ...
Excellent slides of both Pittsburgh and New York Gay Pride Week celebrations were shown recently at the Gay Coffeehouse. The slides enabled those who couldn’t participate in the events to get an impression of what they were like, and also ...
Only a year ago who would have believed that an entire week devoted to gay people would exist in Pittsburgh and that Gays would be prominently and positively exploited in over a dozen major publications, many radio stations and all ...
Gay Alternatives Pittsburgh has always worked toward the establishment of a permanent social center and organization headquarters for gay people in Pittsburgh. This long held goal seems to be more attainable now than ever before. However, any center, where Gays ...
The various functions GAP sponsors are detailed elsewhere in this newsletter. These functions are carried on by volunteers concerned with getting the gay community together in every way. If you have some spare time and would like to put it ...
Nowhere publicly has Gay Alternatives Pittsburgh ever had the opportunity to thank the First Unitarian Church for the part it has played in our growth. Although in the past there have been communications problems with the Church as well as ...
In addition to the groups already meeting regularly. 3 new CR groups (Consciousness-Raising) are in the planning. CR groups provide an outlet for Gays from all backgrounds to talk and iron out personal situations in a small group of other ...
At the March 4 GAP community meeting, the wheels were set in motion to form an ad-hoc committee to provide a liason with other friendly organizations in The Pittsburgh area. Mentioned as the organizations originally to be contacted were Federated ...
One of the most important aspects of the gay liberation movement is education – especially the total education of society at large on what gay people are all about. We get one step closer to that goal each time representatives ...
As a native of Philadelphia I will hardly be blamed for maintaining a maximum of ignorance as to a definition of “Cooks Forest”. Does one generally run off on excursions to obscure places of which he knows nothing? You might ...
Saturday February 10 was the date that students of Chatham College were treated to a visit by Sydney Abbot and many other beautiful gay women. The occasion was a colloquy sponsored by the college, featuring numerous workshops concerning women with ...
Gay Alternatives Pittsburgh meets every Sunday at 8 P.M. in the First Unitarian Church, Ellsworth and Morewood, Shadyside. Although much of GAPs’ work is accomplished throughout the week at smaller, open committee meetings, the Sunday meeting provides a forum for ...
Among Pittsburgh’s Saturday nightspots is the gay coffeehouse, held every week at the First Unitarian Church, Ellsworth and Morewood Avenues in Shadyside. Open from 8 P.M. to about 1 A.M., it provides a non-restrictive meeting place where no age cards ...
On March 13, 1972, the idea for GAP began when Jack Baker, Sidney Abbott and Barbara Love spoke at a forum on homosexuality at the University of Pittsburgh. Since that time the gay liberation movement has really taken form in ...
Members of GAP, GSP and L-F confronted a forum on pornography held at the Pittsburgh Catholic Diocesan Building on March 3. Initial reaction to our sisters and brothers was extremely hostile as several porno opponents shouted for them to leave. ...
At the March 18, 1973 GAP community meeting a program for and about the situation of lesbian mothers will take place. Although details are incomplete at this writing, please spread the word that such a program is in the planning. ...
Ms. Bernice Hummert, a candidate on both the Democratic and Republican ballots for Judge of Allegheny County Common Pleas Court, was a guest at the March 4 GAP community meeting. Although Ms. Hummert has had limited dealings with gay people ...
The National Council of Churches was forced to confront the issue of gay liberation at its national convention held in Pittsburgh last week. The confrontation resulted from the efforts of members of Gay Alternatives Pittsburgh, Gay Students at Pitt and ...
The most confounding question a gay activist can be asked today is “Why is there a gay liberation movement?”. The most doubly confounding question is the same one, when a gay person asks the same question, and appends, “Why rock ...
On Friday, March 16 at 6 P.M., GAP will sponsor its First Anniversary Dinner and Dance to celebrate one year in existence. It will be held at the First Unitarian Church, Ellsworth and Morewood Avenues in Shadyside. Tickets for the ...